Speaker 1: You're listening to comedy Central State of the Unions vestige
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Speaker 1: needed the president to come and do that. Now we
Speaker 1: don't need it. Like, what's the person's gonna come and
Speaker 1: tell you inflation is high? Yeah, we know, we know
Speaker 1: back in the day that you needed the president to
Speaker 1: come and be like, guys, so there's a new disease
Speaker 1: is called tuberculosis. The ship is coming for you, guys.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, Toberca, what's that too late for you?
Speaker 1: My man? All right, next day of the Union, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it was like a thing.
Speaker 1: Now the president just comes to tell you stuff. It
Speaker 1: seems like the president is reading like Twitter, but like
Speaker 1: like a year late. And the President is like, you know,
Speaker 1: we saw people in the streets protesting. My man, we
Speaker 1: we we we already saw that. It's like, sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: I I print all my tweets and then I read
Speaker 1: them a year later. The state of the Union is strong.
Speaker 1: One year, just one year. The president should see people
Speaker 1: are listening to be like, guys, Oh, the ship is
Speaker 1: the ship is crazy. I mean, like I hope we
Speaker 1: get stronger about this ship is crazy. Man at the
Speaker 1: State of the Union. Yea, yeah, yeah yeah. Have you
Speaker 1: guys seen the press of guests? Have you seen what's
Speaker 1: happening in Russia? I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Instead of the Union, we'll get by, Okay, we'll get by.
Speaker 1: I just want to be honest with you, guys. We're
Speaker 1: a country, right, Let lie about these things. Yeah, guyslet'ta
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Speaker 1: tonight the World boycotts Russia black State of the Union.
Speaker 1: Here by about curve is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah. We are now on day six of Russia
Speaker 1: invading Ukraine for no particular reason. So let's jump straight
Speaker 1: into the latest news in our ongoing coverage of the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. As we all know, Vladimir Putin launched
Speaker 1: his invasion of Ukraine last week. And if you didn't
Speaker 1: know that, then that opening graphics thing must have been
Speaker 1: a really weird way for you to find out. But anyway,
Speaker 1: when Russia first launched this invasion, what seems more and
Speaker 1: more plausible is that they thought Ukrainians would just be
Speaker 1: like Russia. Ukraine, what's the difference, come on in? But
Speaker 1: quite the opposite has happened. Ukrainians have stood strong, They've
Speaker 1: united in their defense, and because of that, Russia has
Speaker 1: really ramped up their attacks. This morning, Russia escalating its attacks,
Speaker 1: striking civilian targets in Ukraine's second largest city, Khaki. An
Speaker 1: administrative building targeted with a massive strike. Multiple social media
Speaker 1: videos from the scenes showing the attack by Krkiv Freedom Square.
Speaker 1: Jude Rights Watch pointing to this video online accusing the
Speaker 1: Russians of using cluster bombs on recision. If verified from
Speaker 1: the tack on civilian areas would be a war crime.
Speaker 1: Now the capitol itself maybe in the crosshairs of an
Speaker 1: all out battle. New satellite images show a massive forty
Speaker 1: mile Russian military convoy on the move from the north.
Speaker 1: Russia's advance is leaving a trail of destruction in its path,
Speaker 1: wrecking villages and suburbs on the way. Holy ship. That
Speaker 1: looks terrifying. You see the bombs dropping on the parking lot,
Speaker 1: the building. You know that just blew it up. Everything,
Speaker 1: Everything blown to smoothly. And this is, by the way,
Speaker 1: is before before the forty mile long convoy gets there,
Speaker 1: the one that's heading to Kiva. Think about that for
Speaker 1: a second, like this is this is so unfair. And
Speaker 1: I mean, we've always known that Russia is unfair. We
Speaker 1: know that they don't play fair. I mean they sent
Speaker 1: an actual steroid to compete in the Olympics. But this
Speaker 1: is beyond unfair. This is a war crime. And if anything,
Speaker 1: it's exposed Russias lies about why they're coming to Ukraine. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're coming to liberate the Ukrainian people from what? From what?
Speaker 1: Having a place to stay. There's no wonder that the
Speaker 1: entire world no longer wants anything to do with Russia.
Speaker 1: And the more Putin escalates, the more the world backs away,
Speaker 1: backlash against Russia from the business sector and beyond local
Speaker 1: and national businesses, sports and even the arts pushing back.
Speaker 1: Just seconds ago, we got word that Apple is now
Speaker 1: officially banning all products sales in Russia. Meanwhile, ICE skating's
Speaker 1: world governing body has suspended Russian and Belarussian skaters from
Speaker 1: participating in international competition, effective immediately. As for entertainment, Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers has halted the release of The Batman in Russia.
Speaker 1: Disney and Sony also announced that they would pause film
Speaker 1: releases in Russia. Finally, Netflix will not plan to add
Speaker 1: Russian state TV channels to its service, despite a new
Speaker 1: law in the country that requires that they do so. Yep.
Speaker 1: In addition to cutting off Russia's banking and let's travel,
Speaker 1: the world is now cutting off its access to technology
Speaker 1: and entertainment. And Honestly, as much as I agree with
Speaker 1: movie companies cutting off the Russians, I don't think they've
Speaker 1: gone far enough. Like, if you really want to punish Russia,
Speaker 1: you should just block new movies. They should rerelease old movies,
Speaker 1: but without any of the good parts, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should just be like now showing in Moscow theaters,
Speaker 1: It's Star Wars, but just jarge Our binks the Matrix
Speaker 1: but Neo never leaves the office and m Night Shamalan's old.
Speaker 1: They don't have to change anything for that one. They
Speaker 1: just leave it the way it does and send it
Speaker 1: to Russia. But between getting kicked out of international sports
Speaker 1: and losing access to Western products, Russians are going to
Speaker 1: start noticing that the life that they used to has
Speaker 1: changed because of Vladimir Putin's decision, although Putin he's trying
Speaker 1: to fill that void himself. What are you worried about
Speaker 1: the movie not pulling in Russia? We will do not worry,
Speaker 1: but we throw you in jails. Now. Russia have mainly
Speaker 1: great TV and movie to watch thanks to new streaming
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Speaker 1: Talk number one show about Putin talking at big table.
Speaker 1: So what the Russia band from World Cup? We don't care.
Speaker 1: You watch more exciting sport. Put In play hockey is
Speaker 1: beast watching player in the world. If you're not think
Speaker 1: that will throw you in jail. And who need Western
Speaker 1: batman when we have Russian batman? Leave the mere Putin?
Speaker 1: You watch in practicing Judo is same as Vietna. Sign
Speaker 1: up for Neatflix today or else you can watch in
Speaker 1: jail now. Despite all of the destruction that Russia is
Speaker 1: inflicting on Ukraine, the President of Ukraine is still standing strong. Today.
Speaker 1: He delivered a speech via satellite to the European Union
Speaker 1: where he vowed that Ukraine would never surrender its freedom,
Speaker 1: and he received a standing ovation from the speech. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Foreign Minister of Russia gave a speech to United
Speaker 1: Nations Human Rights Counsel, and most of the diplomats stood
Speaker 1: up and walked out of the speech in protest, which
Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, nobody wants to hear a
Speaker 1: speech about respecting human rights from someone who's currently bombing civilians.
Speaker 1: It's like the guys from Jackass giving a lecture about
Speaker 1: testicle safety. In fact, the way things are going these days,
Speaker 1: there's a decent chance that any speech by Russia is
Speaker 1: just gonna end with And so in conclusion, look the
Speaker 1: doors released the poison. Thank you for sending my thought.
Speaker 1: Now that's for the people of Ukraine. Everyone around the
Speaker 1: world has been inspired by the resistance that they've put
Speaker 1: up so far, you know, and their ability to tell
Speaker 1: Russia to go fun itself in so many different ways.
Speaker 1: We've seen powerful images posted to social media showcasing the
Speaker 1: courage of ordinary Ukrainian people. We are seeing Ukrainians coming
Speaker 1: out manning checkpoints, taking their hunting rifles shotguns, standing next
Speaker 1: to Ukrainian troops. They are cutting down road signs by
Speaker 1: the roadside in an attempt to confuse advancing Russian troops
Speaker 1: it's a popular sentiment on the streets. This man's sign
Speaker 1: is too vulgar to translate. Schmatko is a grandmother and
Speaker 1: a retired economists. These are the only weapons she has,
Speaker 1: but she says she's ready to fight. Let those Russian
Speaker 1: ships come here, she says, we are ready to greet them.
Speaker 1: This shows what is purported to be a Ukrainian farmer
Speaker 1: attempting to tell a Russian tank off his land with
Speaker 1: his tractor. Do you have a message for President putin
Speaker 1: geogas will find out event of the You know what
Speaker 1: I love about the bleep sound is that no matter
Speaker 1: what language you speak around the world, you always know
Speaker 1: what it means. Yeah, because if I tell you to river,
Speaker 1: you can safely assume that I wasn't wishing you a
Speaker 1: happy birthday, and yo that she was crazy. Did you
Speaker 1: see that this is the middle of the war. That
Speaker 1: farmer told a Russian tank away with his tractor. That
Speaker 1: is the most gangst thing on the farmer's side and
Speaker 1: is the most embarrassing thing for the Russian soldier. I mean,
Speaker 1: especially the way like he's chasing off of them, like
Speaker 1: the cops just Tody's called, oh come on, that was
Speaker 1: about to feed them meat, and despite the overwhelming odds,
Speaker 1: you have to respect the fight man. You have to
Speaker 1: respect the fight that the Ukrainian people are putting up.
Speaker 1: Civilians are grabbing shotguns, farmers are towing tanks like. One
Speaker 1: thing we're learning from this war is if you're gonna
Speaker 1: invade a country, maybe don't pick the one where the
Speaker 1: grandmas know how to turn their knitting into a firebomb.
Speaker 1: Or you look thirsty, how about the drink. But as
Speaker 1: brave as these people are, everyone is still terrified about
Speaker 1: the potential outcome of this war, and that's mainly because
Speaker 1: the madman who has launched it is really, really, really unpredictable.
Speaker 1: Growing fears about the mental stability of Vladimir Putin as
Speaker 1: Russia pushes ahead with its invasion of Ukraine. One American
Speaker 1: familiar with the intelligence telling san end quote Putin has
Speaker 1: been completely isolated, partly because of COVID. He's now just
Speaker 1: basically by himself, completely cut off from most of his advisers,
Speaker 1: isolated geographically. The only people talking to him were secon
Speaker 1: fans who are just feeding his resentment. We saw new
Speaker 1: images that show the lengths Putin has gone in recent
Speaker 1: weeks to isolate and socially distanced himself from others, even
Speaker 1: his closest advisors and cabinet members. We're seeing him sitting
Speaker 1: at the end of a very long table. Those long
Speaker 1: tables have become his trademark, and his aids are clustered altogether.
Speaker 1: On one end, he sits by himself on the other.
Speaker 1: U S Intelligence has learned that Putin has has exploded
Speaker 1: in anger at people in his inner circle, expressing frustration
Speaker 1: over the state of the military campaign in Ukraine and
Speaker 1: the worldwide condemnation of his actions. That's unusual, they say,
Speaker 1: because as a former intelligence officer, Putin usually keeps his
Speaker 1: emotions in check. Yeah, apparently Putin is really piste off
Speaker 1: because this invasion is not going how he planned. And
Speaker 1: this is a big deal because usually Vladimir Putin doesn't
Speaker 1: show any emotions. Like if you've ever seen him, he's
Speaker 1: always got this weird combination of being super calm and
Speaker 1: also super dangerous, like a cobra that took too many edibles.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just like, s how do you do
Speaker 1: a colebron weed? And you know, it actually makes sense.
Speaker 1: It makes sense that people haven't seen Putin show his
Speaker 1: emotions before, because remember Vladimir Putin is a trained spy.
Speaker 1: Spies have to keep their emotions in check. Like even
Speaker 1: if a spy goes to a party and at that
Speaker 1: party they're serving pigs in a blanket, you can't freak
Speaker 1: out and get all excited like normal people come be like,
Speaker 1: oh ship, they got pigs in a blanket. No, you
Speaker 1: can't do that. You've gotta be like pigs and blanket.
Speaker 1: It's okay, I guess, give me like seven. But you know,
Speaker 1: it does make sense. It makes complete sense that he's
Speaker 1: lashing out. Now, remember this, Putin doesn't know what it's
Speaker 1: like to lose. He wins every re election without campaigning.
Speaker 1: He wins judo matches against world champions. Now suddenly he's
Speaker 1: having trouble beating a country that's a fraction of the
Speaker 1: size of his No wonder he's mad. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this war shows you the big difference between a guy
Speaker 1: like Trump and a man like Putin, because like as
Speaker 1: bad as Trump was, he never had the vision and
Speaker 1: the focus that Putin has. You know, Putin's dreams to
Speaker 1: reunite the Soviet Union and turn Russia back into the
Speaker 1: superpower that it was the only dream Trump ever had
Speaker 1: was to combine a big mac with the bucket of KFC. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably what he made the Area fifty one work on.
Speaker 1: Forget the alien autopsies. This is more important. We need
Speaker 1: to get the chicken inside them, meet deep in a gender.
Speaker 1: The point is this. The point is that anyone in
Speaker 1: the world can be a madman. But once you add
Speaker 1: power and vision, that's where ship gets real. But please, please,
Speaker 1: I beg you don't confuse Putin with Russia because although
Speaker 1: he's in charge, there are a lot of people in
Speaker 1: Russia who don't like their president or his war, and
Speaker 1: they have also been displaying some extraordinary courage. Resistance to
Speaker 1: Russia's attack on Ukraine is growing, and not just around
Speaker 1: the world, but also within its own board anti war
Speaker 1: protesters risking their safety here in St. Petersburg. It's one
Speaker 1: of many protests across the country as Russian authorities have
Speaker 1: detained nearly six thousand people, grandmothers, teenagers, women, you name it,
Speaker 1: some saying they'd rather risk arrest than live with guilt. Women.
Speaker 1: I want the whole world to see that we don't
Speaker 1: want it, this woman says. Powerful signals of an awakening
Speaker 1: to aggression and injustice. No war please. This is what
Speaker 1: a number of athletes and celebrities are advocating for. Russian
Speaker 1: tennis star Andre Ruble asking for peace after his win Friday,
Speaker 1: hundreds of journalists signing a petition at the director of
Speaker 1: the Bullshoi Ballet signing a petition, even the children of
Speaker 1: onogochues and of Kreminine officials speaking out on social media
Speaker 1: against the war, and the Russian lawmaker who voted with
Speaker 1: President Putin just this week now saying I didn't vote
Speaker 1: for Kiev to be bombed. Man, You've got to give
Speaker 1: credits to people protest in this war, because you know
Speaker 1: how brave it is speak up against Russia inside Russia,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even in Russia, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: test my coffee for poison after this show, Like you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's always funny how people in America, I think
Speaker 1: the world has ended when they get banned from Twitter,
Speaker 1: But think about it. In Russia. They don't delete your Twitter,
Speaker 1: they delete your life. And it's not just many Russian
Speaker 1: civilians who are against the war. No. One reason the
Speaker 1: invasion might not go as well as Russia has hoped
Speaker 1: is that even some of its own soldiers reportedly don't
Speaker 1: want to be there. Many of them thought that were
Speaker 1: just doing military exercises and they weren't even told that
Speaker 1: they were being sent into war. Just think about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we can all agree that war
Speaker 1: is the worst kind of surprise there is. I mean,
Speaker 1: well that and the reveal on love is blind. Oh
Speaker 1: you have a face tattoo in the shape of a
Speaker 1: goatee and so happy. So even within Russia, people are
Speaker 1: standing up and risking their lives to stop an unjust war,
Speaker 1: which is probably why Putin is sorting to things like this.
Speaker 1: Putin is ramping up efforts to control the narrative at home,
Speaker 1: banning media from characterizing Russia's attack on Ukraine as an assault, invasion,
Speaker 1: or declaration of war. Instead, state run media propaganda paints
Speaker 1: Ukraine as Nazi aggressors and Putin as Russia's defender. The
Speaker 1: Russian state TV has not been showing a Russian forces
Speaker 1: attacking Kiev or attacking Harkiv. Russians who watch TV don't
Speaker 1: really see all the things that are going on in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: We have seen crackdowns on social media over the last
Speaker 1: couple of days. Twitter has been operating at an absolutely
Speaker 1: sluggish face. The Russian government has said it will censor
Speaker 1: parts of Facebook. Wow, So not only is Putin cracking
Speaker 1: down on descent, but he's lying about what's actually happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's even banning the media from calling it an assault,
Speaker 1: an invasion, or a war, all of the things that
Speaker 1: it is. By the way, she means, Russian news costs
Speaker 1: must be like deepen the the sours. How do you
Speaker 1: even describe this? Now to our ongoing coverage of the
Speaker 1: international bullet exchange taking place in Ukraine right now? What's
Speaker 1: crazy about this whole thing is how Russia isn't banning Twitter.
Speaker 1: Did you see that? They said, they're just slowing it down,
Speaker 1: like really slowing it down, which I feel like it's
Speaker 1: somehow worse, you know. I mean, if you banned Twitter, fine,
Speaker 1: you've banned it at least that way people get, you know, time,
Speaker 1: you'll be more productive. You're non productive, I would be
Speaker 1: Twitter suddenly disappeared, so much more time to watch TikTok.
Speaker 1: So look, people, there's really no sugarcoating the situation right now.
Speaker 1: Despite the bravery of Ukraine and the efforts around the
Speaker 1: world to punish Russia. This invasion might get a lot
Speaker 1: worse before it gets better, and if Putin is as
Speaker 1: crazy as he seems, our only hope at this point
Speaker 1: is that, like some hero, Ukrainian farmer will come to
Speaker 1: him and his giant as table away as far as possible.
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta take a quick break, but when
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll hear Roywood Jor's address on the
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Speaker 1: finished his State of the Union speech tonight, and we
Speaker 1: didn't see it because I couldn't find the remote until
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Speaker 1: it tomorrow. But as always when the President talks about
Speaker 1: the State of the Union, were at the Daily Show
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Speaker 1: black people, African Americans, and the new and improved brown emminim.
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Speaker 1: But tonight, Black people, we are gathered to once again
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Speaker 1: been an interesting one for our community. Black people got
Speaker 1: a lot of what we've been fighting for, just not
Speaker 1: in the way we had hoped. New York City has
Speaker 1: got a black mayor, but he's a cop. Black athletes
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Speaker 1: Let's learn not. Of course, was the year of Black Progress,
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Speaker 1: our fair share of triumphs over the past year. Obama's
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Speaker 1: say to you, we are on our way to a
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Speaker 1: Roy All right. When we come back, the star of
Speaker 1: Better Call Shure, Bob Odenkirk will be joining me on
Speaker 1: the show, So don't go away. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. My guest tonight is actor, director, and writer
Speaker 1: Bob Odenkirk. He's gonna talk about his new memoir Comedy Comedy, Comedy, drama.
Speaker 1: Welcomes to the Day Show. Hello Trevor, um to see you. Good,
Speaker 1: to see you here. Good, Yeah, good to be in
Speaker 1: the Space round table. Thank you so much for joining me,
Speaker 1: especially to talk about a book that I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like part memoir, but really it's I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a how to guide for anybody who wants to
Speaker 1: just work and grind through life. I hope. So that
Speaker 1: would be great if it had more than one use. No,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one of the biggest uses. That's
Speaker 1: when we hold the door open to stick it under
Speaker 1: the door. Please. But it's a really good book about
Speaker 1: your life but comedy. It's about show biz, it's about
Speaker 1: hanging in there. It's about a lot of dead ends,
Speaker 1: which uh, I only included about I'm gonna say a
Speaker 1: third of the dead ends because it's very hard to
Speaker 1: write about shows and things that no one's ever gonna
Speaker 1: see or can see. I I wrote the book for
Speaker 1: a number of reasons. One, you know, pop culture moves
Speaker 1: so fast these days, and a lot of the things
Speaker 1: I did are smaller, cultish things. I'm still very proud
Speaker 1: of them. Mr Show I was part of Get a Life,
Speaker 1: helping with Tenacious D and Tim and Eric and and
Speaker 1: But these things are all going to get covered over
Speaker 1: by lots more gloppy comedy and stuff. All of these
Speaker 1: feel like the stepping stones that got you to the
Speaker 1: world that we see you, and now that the person
Speaker 1: that we see today, I like, I fell in love
Speaker 1: with you obviously, like many people from Breaking Back, you know,
Speaker 1: that's where I went, Like, this guy is I've never
Speaker 1: loved a lawyer who's sneezy, who's you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I feel like you changed how we even see lawyers
Speaker 1: for some reason. Love this guy guys he's a bad
Speaker 1: you think way, you think he's a bad guy. No, No,
Speaker 1: I think he's a good guy. But his guys, his
Speaker 1: choice to be Saul good Man, uh to put on
Speaker 1: this front to you know, embrace situational ethics. I think
Speaker 1: it's a bad choice. I don't like. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: it's people like that. But in the end, in the end,
Speaker 1: because I know the end. Now, we finished two weeks
Speaker 1: ago tomorrow, we finished shooting. This is long away to
Speaker 1: in the end, I like where it goes. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we'll see you will see when when when you read
Speaker 1: this book? I mean the titles is a comedy, comedy, comedy, drama.
Speaker 1: I don't know your story. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know your story. They just see a person on TV.
Speaker 1: They like, this person is amazing. Then we see you
Speaker 1: somewhere else. This person is even more amazing. We assume
Speaker 1: life has always been amazing. Then we see the grind.
Speaker 1: We see, like you said, it's failure, failure, failure, did
Speaker 1: end didn't, didn't, didn't moment of success, no failure, failure,
Speaker 1: didn't did it moment again. And it feels like throughout
Speaker 1: your life, like Saul Goodman, you've been just trying to
Speaker 1: get that grip on on this world, in this career.
Speaker 1: Are you happy with where your life has gotten to?
Speaker 1: Is this a celebration of that now? Very much so? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I mean, look, I've had unbelievable
Speaker 1: success in the last few years with better call Saul
Speaker 1: in this film. Action film Nobody played really well around
Speaker 1: the world, and uh, of course that informs it. But
Speaker 1: I'm very happy with where I'm at. But I also
Speaker 1: I am happy with all the variety of things that
Speaker 1: I did and have gotten to do. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's a great quality to show businesses is the
Speaker 1: different avenues you can go down over time, because this
Speaker 1: business loves people reinventing themselves. It does feed on the injured.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're trailing blood, you will get eaten
Speaker 1: and spit out. But if you can just regenerate yourself
Speaker 1: quickly and go I'm back, the business is like, oh great,
Speaker 1: he's back, and and that's pretty neat. I was really
Speaker 1: touched by you sharing parts of your story and how
Speaker 1: you know you grew up as one of seven than siblings, right,
Speaker 1: you know, and your dad was struggling with alcoholism, walked
Speaker 1: out on the family, et cetera. It feels like that
Speaker 1: really changed a lot of how you wanted to be
Speaker 1: a dad. Like in the books, there's a really beautiful
Speaker 1: part where you go, I don't want to do a
Speaker 1: bit of Coal Soul because I want to be a
Speaker 1: better dad. I want to be at home. And then
Speaker 1: it's your kids who say, no, you gotta go do
Speaker 1: the show. Did you manage to call the kids? How
Speaker 1: did this? I don't wonder too much about it, but
Speaker 1: that does seem a little magical because my kids were
Speaker 1: thirteen and fifteen at the time, and then when they
Speaker 1: first came to me and said we are going to
Speaker 1: do we want to do better Call Soul. It was
Speaker 1: a joke at first. The first scene I did with
Speaker 1: Brian Cranson on the set of Breaking Bad in the office.
Speaker 1: As soon as we were done with the take, one
Speaker 1: of the camera crew said, can I get a job
Speaker 1: on the sequel? And everyone laughed, and then it became
Speaker 1: this kind of running joke. There's got be a sequel,
Speaker 1: they should do a show about Saul. And then Vince
Speaker 1: Gilligan came to me more than once. You think there's
Speaker 1: a show in that about Saul. I think there is.
Speaker 1: But when they said, you know it's shot in Albuquerque,
Speaker 1: I looked at my kids and I thought about our life,
Speaker 1: and I did think of all my own dad, and
Speaker 1: he did not prioritize his family at all. And I
Speaker 1: just said, I can't do it. I can't leave yet.
Speaker 1: There's too much work here at the house. And U.
Speaker 1: The kids overheard that, and I hung up the phone
Speaker 1: and my son was standing there across the room and
Speaker 1: he he goes, so you're not gonna do that show? Huh?
Speaker 1: And I go, no, no, it's not it's not time.
Speaker 1: And he goes, well, you're gonna disappoint a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and uh. And then we carried on talking and he said,
Speaker 1: we'll help out at the house, Dad, We'll make it work.
Speaker 1: So I let it go. And then my daughter came
Speaker 1: to me and she had talked to my son, and uh.
Speaker 1: And my daughter was more like a kid who grew
Speaker 1: up in Hollywood with questions, Uh, what would it be like?
Speaker 1: Would it be hard to do? Do you think people
Speaker 1: would like it. And then she said if it's bad,
Speaker 1: how bad would it be? Real manager type year old? Yes,
Speaker 1: And I go, it wouldn't be bad. It would be
Speaker 1: an interesting experiment. That's the worst it would be. And
Speaker 1: she goes, well you should do it. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that. Before I let you go, how's your hearts?
Speaker 1: But I'm great at I did? I did you just
Speaker 1: have a you know, I finished the book long before
Speaker 1: I had the heart attack. Um, I did. I had
Speaker 1: a heart attack. And I was very lucky to have
Speaker 1: it on the set and there were some pros around
Speaker 1: who immediately gave me CPR and everybody listening take a
Speaker 1: CPR class, brush up on it. They saved my life.
Speaker 1: You you don't remember any of that. I don't remember
Speaker 1: any of it. The next day after the surgery, I
Speaker 1: woke up. My family was there and I was like hey.
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta go back to work, and
Speaker 1: they were I'm in a hospital gown and and they go, um, no,
Speaker 1: you don't you have an heart attack. I'm like, well, no, no,
Speaker 1: what no? I was. I was at work And then
Speaker 1: they go, how did you get here? And I go
Speaker 1: and my brain did this all on its own. I
Speaker 1: d I drove here and I parked on level two,
Speaker 1: and then because I knew you guys were here, and
Speaker 1: and then I came in here, and my wife goes,
Speaker 1: so you came in here, and you got in that
Speaker 1: bed and you put that gown on. And I looked
Speaker 1: down and I'm like, yeah, like my brain made up
Speaker 1: a little story about how I had gotten there. Totally weird.
Speaker 1: But I'm great. I'm glad man, I'm glad. I'm glad,
Speaker 1: you're great. I'm glad we get to celebrate the final
Speaker 1: season with you. I'm glad we said we get to
Speaker 1: celebrate the book with you. Um, congratulations, thanks and say
Speaker 1: heights of the kids will thank them for all of
Speaker 1: us as the fans will. We really do appreciate them,
Speaker 1: all right, people. Bob's book Comedy Comedy, Comedy, Drama is
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