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Speaker 1: a rarely fun show for you tonight. Dominoes is dying
Speaker 1: in Italy. Donald Trump has taken a vow of silence.
Speaker 1: And if you love Jordan Clapper Trump rallies, you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to see this one because it is probably the
Speaker 1: wildest one yet. So let's do this people. Let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. All right. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the big stories, let's catch up on a few other
Speaker 1: things going on in the world. First up, Domino's Pizza
Speaker 1: has announced that it is closing the lost of its
Speaker 1: restaurants in Italy. And yes, yes, they had Dominoes in Italy.
Speaker 1: Italy has drawn people too, you know, if you ask
Speaker 1: me them going out of business in Italy was actually
Speaker 1: the best thing that could have happened to them, because
Speaker 1: think about it, they came to the land of pizza
Speaker 1: and then they injected cheese into the crust. Are They're
Speaker 1: lucky didn't get the death penalty here? You know, those
Speaker 1: are challenges, like, Mom, what have you done to do
Speaker 1: the pizza? How can you do this? Meanwhile? In international news,
Speaker 1: Cuban firefighters have successfully extinguished the largest fire in Cuba's history,
Speaker 1: which burns for five days off the lightning struck an
Speaker 1: oil depot that generates powerful basically the entire country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I was just surprised to learn that America
Speaker 1: knows how to make lightning now. Oh and then uh?
Speaker 1: In tech news. In tech News, WhatsApp, the world's largest
Speaker 1: messaging app, has announced that is launching a new privacy
Speaker 1: feature that will allow users to leave group chats without
Speaker 1: everyone in the group knowing. Yeah, which is a much
Speaker 1: better system than the one before death because before this
Speaker 1: you have to text everyone in the group that you
Speaker 1: were going out for a pack of cigarettes and they
Speaker 1: just never come back. And I know, I know, for
Speaker 1: most Americans, WhatsApp is like Celsius, you sort of know
Speaker 1: what it is. But you don't use it. But for
Speaker 1: the rest of the world, this is huge news. You
Speaker 1: gotta understand almost everyone in the world uses WhatsApp. The
Speaker 1: problem is anyone can add anyone else to a group chat.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have consent from them. You may
Speaker 1: not even know these people. This morning, I spent an
Speaker 1: hour arguing with and forty two other Africans about where
Speaker 1: the cold stoves are better than wood barning stoves. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Here's the thing. I don't own a
Speaker 1: cold stove. I don't know a wooden bending stones and
Speaker 1: watch the whole I don't even know who Ade is.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But I can't leave the group chap
Speaker 1: because every time I try what that notifies them and
Speaker 1: then I'll do whether it's like we had to do
Speaker 1: back in that chap we saw you left up. Something
Speaker 1: must have happened. So I'm not saying if they would
Speaker 1: bend the No, I'm just gonna creep out. It's gonna
Speaker 1: slowly creep out, just disappear from the group. All right.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the story that is still rocking
Speaker 1: these here United States, and it's about Donald jam making
Speaker 1: me crazy. Trump America's wildest form of presidents is being
Speaker 1: hit with multiple criminal investigations for no reason except for
Speaker 1: all the crimes he probably committed. So try and keep
Speaker 1: up with all the latest persecutions. It's time for a
Speaker 1: brand new segment we call America's most tremendously one did
Speaker 1: All right, let's start in New York States, which is
Speaker 1: currently investigating Trump's businesses for tax fraud. Yeah, because apparently
Speaker 1: when he was trying to get loans from the bank,
Speaker 1: he was all like, I'm balling out of control. But
Speaker 1: then when he was reporting his taxes to the I
Speaker 1: R S, suddenly he was like, hey, I ain't got
Speaker 1: no movies. Huh. And as part of this investigation, the
Speaker 1: New York Attorney General has already questioned Trump's beloved children
Speaker 1: and also Eric. But today, today it was the Donald's
Speaker 1: turn to go on the oath. And I'll give credit
Speaker 1: to the man. You know, he could have bitched out,
Speaker 1: but no, he stood tall and he walked into that
Speaker 1: interrogation room and then bitched out. Former President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: says he hasn't voked his Fifth Amendment right against of incrimination,
Speaker 1: refusing to answer any questions in his deposition before New
Speaker 1: York Attorney General Leticia James. In a statement, Trump says
Speaker 1: he had no choice because he and his family are
Speaker 1: the targets of what he called an unfounded, politically motivated
Speaker 1: witch hunt. Trump was set to testify under oath about
Speaker 1: his business practices, but faced with those questions, He's decided
Speaker 1: not to talk. What Trump decided not to talk? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, now we know something shade he's going on, right,
Speaker 1: because when has Donald Trump ever refused to talk? We
Speaker 1: can't get the man to stop talking. Donald Trump not talking.
Speaker 1: He's like Taitus was taking the bus. That's not a thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know this guy was capable of not talking.
Speaker 1: He must have been shocked when he found out that
Speaker 1: not speaking was something that was allowed. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: you mean, this thing doesn't have to be moving twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I could just close my mouth and keep
Speaker 1: it close and everything where they're trying so fining, such
Speaker 1: a beautiful idea. Total silence, more silence than anyone in
Speaker 1: the history of silence. And here I go, folks, chilence.
Speaker 1: You're not hearing a thing. Wonderful silence. It's so quiet,
Speaker 1: you can't hear anything. Nobody's ever been this quiet. Hill quiet. Now,
Speaker 1: A lot of people, a lot of people, A lot
Speaker 1: of people believe that when you plead the fifth it
Speaker 1: means that you're guilty. But no, look, I don't believe that,
Speaker 1: all right, I know people do, but I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: You might just not want to incriminate yourself, but I
Speaker 1: get it. There are some people who truly believe that
Speaker 1: if you plead the fifth, you are guilty. And one
Speaker 1: of those boo is Donald J. Trump taking the fifth?
Speaker 1: I think it's disgraceful. Fifth Amendment? Fifth amendment, fifth amendment, horrible, horrible,
Speaker 1: the mob takes a fifth. If you're innocent, why are
Speaker 1: you taking the fifth amendment? Yes, Donald, if you're innocent,
Speaker 1: why are you taking the fifth Amendment? Why are you
Speaker 1: taking the fifth Amendment? It's really amazing how of all
Speaker 1: of Trump's enemies, his worst enemy is just him from
Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, that that guy's relentless. Present day Trump
Speaker 1: is probably like, why won't this guy just shut up?
Speaker 1: It's so easy, just watch totally silent, not a sound.
Speaker 1: So when anyone else please the fifth, Trump says, it
Speaker 1: proves that they were criminal. But now now that Trump
Speaker 1: is in the hot seat, suddenly he sees it in
Speaker 1: a different way, you know. And maybe maybe it's because
Speaker 1: his lawyer is explained it to him in a way
Speaker 1: that he would understand, and like, c sir, it's like
Speaker 1: signing an NDA, but it yourself, you know. Oh so
Speaker 1: I'm the porn star. But it turns out, it turns
Speaker 1: out New York's investigation might be the least of Trump's
Speaker 1: worries because you remember this two days ago, right the
Speaker 1: FBI raided Trump's house to look for classified documents that
Speaker 1: he illegally took from the White House. And remember remember this,
Speaker 1: We do not know what those documents are, all right.
Speaker 1: They could be anything. They could be nuclear codes, they
Speaker 1: could be battle plans or or Ivanka's job description. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was so top secret even she didn't know what
Speaker 1: it was. Or even worse, he could have taken the
Speaker 1: instructions to the White House TV remote. Now, Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has no idea how to change the channel? Is that?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I just want to watch Happy Days?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, change the channel please. And I know
Speaker 1: I know some of you are wondering right now. Some
Speaker 1: of you are thinking, Trevor is a former president keeping
Speaker 1: documents that they have already had in their position, is
Speaker 1: that that's serious of a crime. You know, I mean
Speaker 1: Trump didn't look at the documents when he was president,
Speaker 1: so you think he's looking at them now. And look,
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you, probably, honest I didn't
Speaker 1: think it was that serious of a matter. But my
Speaker 1: opinion doesn't count. The reason this is the way it
Speaker 1: is is because there was once an American president who
Speaker 1: believed that this crime was so serious he increased the
Speaker 1: penalty from one year to five years in prison. Who
Speaker 1: was that, President, Donald? Just look at him now, Trump.
Speaker 1: Trump's removal of documents might violate at eighteen acts that
Speaker 1: he himself signed into law, increasing the penalty for improper
Speaker 1: handling of documents to five years in prison. Trump signed
Speaker 1: the law after he spent years accusing Hillary Clinton of
Speaker 1: illegally storing classified documents on a private email server. Looks
Speaker 1: like he did it again. Oh I love this. How
Speaker 1: can you not? After spending years saying lock her up,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump signed the law that might get him locked
Speaker 1: up instead. This guy is basically a real life widely coyote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he leaves traps for all these enemies, but somehow he's
Speaker 1: the one who keeps on getting switched on the road.
Speaker 1: It's just him every single time. So thanks for Trump.
Speaker 1: This crime is a big deal, which is why the
Speaker 1: red hat brigade has come out in full force to
Speaker 1: defend him, and they're throwing everything at the wall, everything
Speaker 1: now that the Biden administration is just out to get Trump. Oh,
Speaker 1: the judge who approved the raid is antire Trump. The
Speaker 1: mishandling the class of our documents isn't a big deal
Speaker 1: unless you Hillary Clinton. But today today's really interesting. They
Speaker 1: seem to be coalescing around a new talking point, and
Speaker 1: it's that the FBI wasn't at Mara Alago to take evidence.
Speaker 1: They were there to plant evidence. Donald Trump, writing on
Speaker 1: truth Social Today, quote, everyone was asked to leave the premises.
Speaker 1: They wanted to be left alone without any witnesses to
Speaker 1: see what they were doing taking or hopefully not planting.
Speaker 1: Quite honestly, I'm concerned that they may have planted something.
Speaker 1: You know, at this point, who knows the evidence we
Speaker 1: know they plant evidence. Do I know that the boxes
Speaker 1: of material they took from our lago that they won't
Speaker 1: put things in those boxes to entrap him? How do
Speaker 1: we know that this lawyers said they brought in backpacks.
Speaker 1: What what was in those backpacks was? Did they bring
Speaker 1: those in to fill them up or did they have
Speaker 1: something in there? Yeah? What was in those backpacks? Trump World?
Speaker 1: Everyone's doing this. They're trying to get ahead of everything,
Speaker 1: all right, They're trying to get ahead of everyone hearing
Speaker 1: what the FBI found in this house by basically suggesting
Speaker 1: that whatever it is, they put it there themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the FBI is gonna say they found all these secret
Speaker 1: documents and a bunch of pictures of Brad Pitt with
Speaker 1: my fish glued on it. Sure it looks like my face.
Speaker 1: It's kid saying Brad BID's face. But that's all blandet, folks,
Speaker 1: is not real. This is a classic move. We've seen
Speaker 1: this before, right, Yeah, at some point every kid has
Speaker 1: tried to pull this move with their parents when they're
Speaker 1: about to get busted. Its like, before you search my
Speaker 1: room for we you should just know that there have
Speaker 1: been like a lot of burglars breaking into people's houses
Speaker 1: and putting half some no joints inside old sneakers so
Speaker 1: I can find something that's probably them. What is amazing
Speaker 1: to me is how totally united every single conservative has
Speaker 1: been in defending Trump. When we still have no idea
Speaker 1: what the FBI found at Mara Lago. No one, no
Speaker 1: conservative being like, well, wait, let's let's wait and see. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think Senator Scott said that the rest of them,
Speaker 1: they're just like I know, I do know this. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen one person on Fox who's even open to
Speaker 1: the idea that Trump may have done something wrong. Not
Speaker 1: even one. It feels like it's someone that Fox even
Speaker 1: suggested that Trump might be wrong. Trapped all would open, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they just fall into a pit of pronouns. Ah,
Speaker 1: they them, he me, I don't care it, I don't
Speaker 1: get it. Sorry. In forty eight hours, conservatives have decided
Speaker 1: the FBI is corrupt, Trump is being framed, and the
Speaker 1: only crime he could be guilty of is looking so
Speaker 1: damn good in that suits. That's for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna have to wait and see how the
Speaker 1: story unfolds. All right, that's it for today's headlines. But
Speaker 1: let's move on to something that everybody loves it. Time
Speaker 1: to check in on today's lots or numbers with our
Speaker 1: very own dusday. Slow and everybody see, oh don't happen back,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come look today. So don't say are you
Speaker 1: are you excited to do the lots of the people?
Speaker 1: I plead the fifth Trevor. But let's get started. Okay,
Speaker 1: you loto alto head. Okay, what the letter can't do? Say?
Speaker 1: That's not how the lots of works? Come on? Oh no,
Speaker 1: we're not doing numbers. We're doing letters today because you
Speaker 1: know what else doesn't work? You're lotto? What are we
Speaker 1: giving out? Every time I do this? Nobody wins? But
Speaker 1: most people don't win the lot the Lotser's not about winning.
Speaker 1: It's just about the numbers. And you shouldn't hold me
Speaker 1: like I would have picked those numbers. And then you
Speaker 1: try and get the numbers. That's all it is. You
Speaker 1: don't win the billion. I didn't win the billion, but
Speaker 1: we had fun with the billion. But at some point
Speaker 1: somebody was gonna win in this lotto. Nobody wins name
Speaker 1: one person has one yo lotto. Okay, that's not the point.
Speaker 1: At the point e you see today, I'm not picking
Speaker 1: numbers because you didn't give anybody a paper with numbers.
Speaker 1: Does anybody in here have a slip of some sort
Speaker 1: of thing? No? Me, Nick, So why why what I
Speaker 1: pick numbers I'm picking a name. You know why, because
Speaker 1: everybody has a name. Listen, listen, I mean, what's your name, Trevor? Right? See,
Speaker 1: you got the e you're filling it, okay, listen. By
Speaker 1: the way, Domino's pizza clothes in the Italy, that's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Do you know how bad something has to be to close?
Speaker 1: In Rome? The Colosseum, it's still open and it's in ruins.
Speaker 1: It's not getting renovated or nothing. House Hunters is not coming.
Speaker 1: Them funny looking twin boys. It look like they murder people.
Speaker 1: They're not coming, but the calls in still open. That's true.
Speaker 1: Domino Jesus, listen, Jesus headlined there two thousand years ago,
Speaker 1: and they're still lining up to get in the Dominoes.
Speaker 1: They were like, this ship's gotta close. But I get
Speaker 1: it because you can you imagine being a beautiful Italian
Speaker 1: tomato and you end up in a Domino's p girl.
Speaker 1: I know what are what? I don't know why you're
Speaker 1: t s By the way, what's up letting you sneak
Speaker 1: out a group chats? I want you to know I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: I need you to know. You know why I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: Because this chat is dry. I'm talking forty days in
Speaker 1: the desert, sucking on sweaters dry chock and your eyeballs dry.
Speaker 1: The only reason people leave group chats is because it's boring.
Speaker 1: Y'all are talking about socks. I don't even like shoes.
Speaker 1: I'm down. But you know what, you know we need
Speaker 1: to bring back to really let people know we left
Speaker 1: this chat that A O L door slam. Y'all remember
Speaker 1: the A O L door slam? You left that chat
Speaker 1: and it was like, bam, I want that sound for everything.
Speaker 1: When you want follow somebody, bam, you unfront somebody, bam.
Speaker 1: Oh when you block somebody, I want but tumble to
Speaker 1: pop up and be like nothing my phone. H oh
Speaker 1: wait wait is that hey? Oh wow? Kiss just gives
Speaker 1: you one a lot out. Don't say it's long. Everybody,
Speaker 1: congratulations Keisha. When wein, when we come back, Jordan Clapper
Speaker 1: AND's gonna be back on the campaign troups, So don't
Speaker 1: go away. It's the final. It's Mark Finer. I like
Speaker 1: this Congregulations teacher talk about to day show. Even if
Speaker 1: Conald Trump survives all the legal troubles, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: live forever. So the question is what does the future
Speaker 1: hold for this movement? While Jordan Clapper went back on
Speaker 1: the road to a Trump rally to find out it's
Speaker 1: primary election season when Republicans picked the direction of the
Speaker 1: GOP heading into the mid terms and to see what
Speaker 1: ideas and candidates the Marga crowd are most excited about.
Speaker 1: I went to a good old cheese and brock Field
Speaker 1: Trump rally and Wauka Show Wisconsin. We got abe, Ronnie.
Speaker 1: You guys gonna rob some banks and go surfing later.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the plan, but it has a war gone on,
Speaker 1: Okay in Russia, Ukraine. Now there's a war going on
Speaker 1: for our minds. It's gonna be a great rally today.
Speaker 1: Get beautiful people, that's pretty spot up. Who would Donald
Speaker 1: Trump try to impersonate weightlifters? Yeah, yeah, you know that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah Mussolini. No, you've never tried to impersonate him. Never remember.
Speaker 1: President Trump was in town to lend his support to
Speaker 1: incumbent Senator and treason buddy ron Johnson. Trump was also
Speaker 1: throwing his weight behind candidate for governor Tim Michaels, a
Speaker 1: local businessman who's proudly not a politician. Michaels for Governor
Speaker 1: Is it important to find an outsider too to support
Speaker 1: your ideas. That's what tanks instead of having somebody that's
Speaker 1: been in there for years and years and years and
Speaker 1: make a change. Ron Johnson is also running in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: first third term. You're voting for him. Yeah, it's important
Speaker 1: to keep that kind of steady, steady Washingtonian vibe in there, right,
Speaker 1: because without that, you just have a bunch of change
Speaker 1: that's happening. I like Ron john We're trying to get
Speaker 1: election integrity. You wouldn't bring fake electors in and shove
Speaker 1: that on somebody to try to affect election. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: vote for somebody like that, right. Ron Johnson did that.
Speaker 1: We want people that believe in the constitution. He did
Speaker 1: try to bring fake electors to Mike Pence. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Mugga crowd is celebrating their Scot is ruly turning back
Speaker 1: the clock on women's rights half a century. But is
Speaker 1: that far enough to think about the future of the GOP.
Speaker 1: What decade from the past doesn't look like I would
Speaker 1: I would say fifties, Okay, so nifties, not slavery eighteen fifties,
Speaker 1: but pre civil rights nineteen sixties. Yeah, that's like the
Speaker 1: sweet spots a happy media. It's a happy media. Things
Speaker 1: are separate. But yeah, I had hoped this crowd would
Speaker 1: want to keep discussing real issues and not get distracted
Speaker 1: by conspiracies. But people had some thoughts. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be a conspiracist or anything like that. But I
Speaker 1: just watched the movie last week with Robin Williams in it.
Speaker 1: It was called Man of Man of the Year, and
Speaker 1: he guess what they had election fraud back then? The
Speaker 1: machines that are switching to doing electronically and they were
Speaker 1: counting wrong. Because this is a documentary. No, it's just
Speaker 1: a movie. Are there any lessons we can take from
Speaker 1: more than Mindy? Who do you guys see as the
Speaker 1: current legitimate president? I don't think we currently have one.
Speaker 1: If we do, maybe hopefully Trump's running behind the scenes
Speaker 1: keeping the military on our side. The recent attack that
Speaker 1: took out the leader of al Qaeda, who ordered that attack,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't read a whole lot of that.
Speaker 1: I try to stay out of the media as much
Speaker 1: as possible because it's all a bunch of theatrics anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you're you're not You're not somebody who
Speaker 1: gives into theatrics. Right right, there's a huge push for
Speaker 1: normalizing pedophilia. How do they normalize and are they making
Speaker 1: pedophiles look cool? If you go online, there's a whole
Speaker 1: list of pedophile symbols. Yes, they're they're like circular symbols.
Speaker 1: There's trying, there's a lot of triangles, there's colors. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are pizza pizza related with like ping
Speaker 1: pong pizza, for example, and that's a pedophile pizza. Yes,
Speaker 1: what if I were repizza? What images should I be
Speaker 1: on the lookout for? A triangle with me with a circle?
Speaker 1: Pedophile made that pizza? From Pizza Gate to Robin Williams Gate,
Speaker 1: Israeli had everything because they're followers of this guy. But
Speaker 1: nobody's gotten to the bottom of nine eleven. Unfortunately. What
Speaker 1: don't we know about nine eleven? I think it was
Speaker 1: all planned. I think that it came down on their explosives.
Speaker 1: It's an inside job, Yes, I think so, But I
Speaker 1: think Bush knew what was happening. Really, is Biden just
Speaker 1: wasting time there? S Biden doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He recently just killed the hell of al Qaeda. I
Speaker 1: don't believe it. Do you think that's just a made
Speaker 1: up news story? Just like bin Laden with Obama clarify,
Speaker 1: who's still alive? Jr? Is? JFK Jr Is still alive?
Speaker 1: JFK Jr. Still alive? So I think JFK Jr. Is
Speaker 1: going to try and expose globalist because they killed his father.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a magazine magnet who lived in
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, I don't think. So what do you
Speaker 1: think of the state of education in America? Could we
Speaker 1: be doing better? We absolutely could be doing better. These
Speaker 1: kids could grow up and they could go on to
Speaker 1: believe crazy things. Everything's coded, and I've been learning Jamatria.
Speaker 1: So what can I put my phone out for a second? Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's called the Jamatrian. It's a calculator. Jamatria is
Speaker 1: a mystic numerological key and an app which allows believers
Speaker 1: to type in words and get back meaningful numbers. The
Speaker 1: type of in the calculator you get these numbers. And
Speaker 1: so Michael Jackson's last concert was this is it comes
Speaker 1: to one? You know what that means? Do you? I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. So one through thirteen means
Speaker 1: not true. So Michael Jackson. That wasn't his last concert.
Speaker 1: And he's alive. Michael Jackson. People who are talking it's
Speaker 1: been Latin, still alive, tim Um, are you doing math
Speaker 1: right now? No? I'm trying to remember his real name,
Speaker 1: Tim Osama Osama bin Laden. Yeah, Tim, Tim, someone forgot
Speaker 1: his last name. He's him is not the most saughty
Speaker 1: name and he wasn't Sawty from the c I A.
Speaker 1: How does mag and Trump fit into all this? Well?
Speaker 1: Trump Jake Kennedy, So they're the same person. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's what Chamatia says, type of type. This America is
Speaker 1: in a bad place. What Let's go Brandon? Right? That
Speaker 1: means go Brandon's one. Let's go Brandon? And so is
Speaker 1: America is in a bad place? Yes, let's go Brandon.
Speaker 1: Do we want to connect those two? Well, we are
Speaker 1: connecting it. That is connected. It does feel connected. It
Speaker 1: feel good. Do you have goose bumps yet? I'm getting
Speaker 1: goosebumps right now. So those gods of maga it Ites
Speaker 1: were turning the conspiracy talk up to letter K, which
Speaker 1: is eleven. But all that talk made me hungry. Hello good,
Speaker 1: I'd like to get a slice of pizza, just to
Speaker 1: just a slice of pizza. No, no symbolism in that,
Speaker 1: just a regular old slice of pizza. Do you have
Speaker 1: any of like in us? Like square slices? You get
Speaker 1: rid of the triangular corner, that'd be great. See you
Speaker 1: at the mid terms of got goose bumps already? I
Speaker 1: can assure you this is my lunch that has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with pedophilia. So much I stay true because
Speaker 1: when we come back, so well were joining us on
Speaker 1: the show. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Day Show. My guest tonight is director a
Speaker 1: Keen Omotos So he's going to talk about his new
Speaker 1: film that tells the story of Janis Compo and his
Speaker 1: family and how their determination helped launch the career of
Speaker 1: three NBA champions. Rise is streaming right now on Disney
Speaker 1: Plus and we'll be available on Hulu and ESPN Plus
Speaker 1: beginning August. Please welcome, Oh Moby Keens, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Thank you. We say like we're enemies, but
Speaker 1: we actually are very very old friends. Can I tell
Speaker 1: you what a pleasure it was for me to discover
Speaker 1: this so, I mean, everybody in the world loves Janis.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember the first time I went to Greece.
Speaker 1: People in the streets just chanting his name, loving. The
Speaker 1: NBA is blowing up in Europe because of him, you know,
Speaker 1: all around Africa. You know, the NBA is getting bigger
Speaker 1: because of him. And then I heard that Disney was
Speaker 1: gonna be making a movie. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be phenomenal. I was like, Who's going to direct it?
Speaker 1: I was like, where do you get somebody who understands
Speaker 1: Nigeria but understands being an immigrants around the world, but
Speaker 1: understands the world of basketball. You can't find a person
Speaker 1: who knows all of this. And then I found out
Speaker 1: it was you, a Keino Motoso and Nigerian who lived
Speaker 1: in South Africa, then moved to Los Angeles who loves basketball.
Speaker 1: Perfect for congratulations, All right, congratulations Confey. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just start at the beginning. What you you've directed? You
Speaker 1: know many movies, you you you've told many stories. But
Speaker 1: what made you think this is a story I have
Speaker 1: to tell? Well, I've always been a big basketball fan,
Speaker 1: Like anyone who knows me knows basketball. I'm the guy.
Speaker 1: And then I became really obsessed with African players in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Yeah, so every time there's the draft, I'll check, well,
Speaker 1: who's what are the names that resemble the ones that
Speaker 1: we recognize, right, and what's their story to get to
Speaker 1: the draft? So when when Janice was drafted and I
Speaker 1: read his story, he hasn't bounced the ball, this is
Speaker 1: before being a two time m v P and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. I read his story and I said, if
Speaker 1: ever I make a basketball movie, is this gentleman story
Speaker 1: I want to tell? It? Really is a story worth
Speaker 1: telling because people see him now, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: a star, the Greek freak, and it seems obvious, but man,
Speaker 1: when you watch the movie, you realize what a journey
Speaker 1: he was on. You went to those locations and you
Speaker 1: made the story in the real place. You could have
Speaker 1: done it anywhere, you could have faked it. Why did
Speaker 1: you go to the actual land where it happened? For me,
Speaker 1: that authenticity was important, like you had to. You know
Speaker 1: in the movie, the basketball court where they're on, that's
Speaker 1: the basketball court he started playing. When when he's sleeping
Speaker 1: in the gym, that's the gym he slept in. You
Speaker 1: know where they're selling, that's where they that's where they're sold.
Speaker 1: So that that authenticity for me was just important. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk about him sleep being in a gym, you
Speaker 1: talk you know, we saw the clip with the shoes.
Speaker 1: People really don't understand how hard Jannest and his family
Speaker 1: worked to get here. And what was interesting was in
Speaker 1: the making of the movie. You know, we saw, for instance,
Speaker 1: with the Williams sisters, they were heavily involved in the
Speaker 1: telling of the story because they wanted their story to
Speaker 1: be told accurately. He understaid the same thing, he said,
Speaker 1: I do not want this to be about me, because
Speaker 1: this is about what the family did to get me here.
Speaker 1: So how did you gain his trust? How did how
Speaker 1: did he say, no, you know what you are, you
Speaker 1: are the right guy, and you get it. What was
Speaker 1: that connection like? So the thing is like, firstly, what
Speaker 1: a generous gift the family. Like as you see him
Speaker 1: with the family, that's how it was, like he he
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that the sacrifices of his mom
Speaker 1: and dad came through that it's a love letter to
Speaker 1: his parents. Um. He has that beautiful speech in his
Speaker 1: m VPC way he says, you know, when you're a
Speaker 1: little kid, you don't see the future, but your parents
Speaker 1: see the future for you. And they had parents that
Speaker 1: saw the future for them. So every meeting with them
Speaker 1: is a family meeting. It's your honest, it's Anka Tanasis
Speaker 1: cost us an Alex producer, Bernie Goldman, and the folks
Speaker 1: on Disney. We all gathered around to discuss the film
Speaker 1: like it's a family affair, you know, um, and they
Speaker 1: were so generous. I mean, his mom gave us access
Speaker 1: today who plays his mom so beautifully. She had Veronica's number,
Speaker 1: we could call on them, you know. It was it
Speaker 1: was a real family affair. And I think that that
Speaker 1: was so open to us having access and getting the
Speaker 1: story right. And for me, I wanted to get it right.
Speaker 1: There was no like I was very happy to like,
Speaker 1: be honest, is this high went down and he and
Speaker 1: they were so generous like that, So it was great.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Janis himself, you know. I like that
Speaker 1: you said he gave a motivational speech, you know when
Speaker 1: he was the m v P. It seems like this
Speaker 1: is how he sees the world. Every press conference I've
Speaker 1: seen of his he says something inspirational. You know, people
Speaker 1: go like, oh you you you had a great game.
Speaker 1: What does this mean for the future. He's like, the
Speaker 1: game has passed. I'm only looking to what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do next. You know, you're only as good as your
Speaker 1: last game. But he seems like he lives in dissecting
Speaker 1: his story. Did you find where the magic came from?
Speaker 1: What is it that managed? You know, where a family
Speaker 1: managed to create three NBA champions? Like? How is that possible? Well?
Speaker 1: I think, like I said, you know, the first time
Speaker 1: you hear the story, you go, this is amazing, this
Speaker 1: is amazing story. How is this possible? And then you
Speaker 1: meet them and they're so authentic and I think, is
Speaker 1: that humility? And you understand? I mean the other day, um,
Speaker 1: they were ask him about the Greek team, How is
Speaker 1: the team going to adjust to you? And he's like, no,
Speaker 1: I adjust to the team. Wow, you know. And so
Speaker 1: that's the mantra And I think that's that's the thing
Speaker 1: that everybody responds to. You know, you're a director, You're
Speaker 1: you're capturing the story. You want us to feel the
Speaker 1: pain that you're honest and his people felt, but you
Speaker 1: also want us to, you know, sort of like not
Speaker 1: villainize the Greek people he grew up with. How do
Speaker 1: you how do you find that balance and storytelling. Well,
Speaker 1: I think, like everyone who travels somewhere and comes into
Speaker 1: another place, you're coming to a place with expectations. So
Speaker 1: for me, you're honest the story of Charles and Veronica
Speaker 1: leaving Nigeria coming to Greece, similar to my grandparents who
Speaker 1: left Barbados and went to London, or my father and
Speaker 1: my late mom rest the soul who moved to South Africa.
Speaker 1: It's within our story. And so for me, apart from
Speaker 1: the warmth of the idea to combos and how they
Speaker 1: approached those things, I tapped into my grandparents and my grandparents,
Speaker 1: you know, as immigrants in Barbada, from Barbados to London.
Speaker 1: That house is full of laughter. That house was full
Speaker 1: of of of of joy. These are people who are
Speaker 1: not allowing the circumstances to dictate who they are as people.
Speaker 1: Some piece of paper says I'm not a Greek, whatever
Speaker 1: that is, But that's not my pro you know what
Speaker 1: I mean that that piece of paper is something else.
Speaker 1: I can be a human being and I can transcend
Speaker 1: all these things. And I think that's the story of
Speaker 1: the Damps. They didn't allow their circumstance to dictate for them.
Speaker 1: And I think for someone like myself who has all
Speaker 1: these multiple heritages, that's what that's what identified it. When
Speaker 1: I first read the story, It's like, this is my story.
Speaker 1: I love that. You know what I mean, don't let
Speaker 1: the circumstances means I think stat having you on the show,
Speaker 1: congratulations right now, We're gonna see your guys on the
Speaker 1: next movie. We're gonna take a cook right over right
Speaker 1: back off, he does. I can't want folks for everybody.
Speaker 1: Let's try to pack the movie that he be so good. Well,
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