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Speaker 1: talking about the big election in France. It is a
Speaker 1: very important story. But don't worry, I will be doing
Speaker 1: a silly accent to first, let's jump straight into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: All right, let's kick things off with the big media news.
Speaker 1: As you know, as you know, not Neo, there are
Speaker 1: now more streaming services than heart takes about Elon Musk right,
Speaker 1: there's everything. There's there's Netflix, there's Hulu, there's Paramount Plus,
Speaker 1: there's HBO, mans Paramount Plus and of course everyone's favorite
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus and so last month, seeing the gap in
Speaker 1: the market, CNN launched its own streaming service called CNN Plus,
Speaker 1: and this was a big deal. In fact, they said
Speaker 1: it would be the future of news, and if that's
Speaker 1: the case, the future is looking bleak. Quest than a
Speaker 1: month after launching, CNN Plus announced today the streaming services
Speaker 1: shutting down could launch March twenty nine. Warner Brothers Discovery
Speaker 1: Networks made that decision, though, saying it was about quality
Speaker 1: and quote customers will be best served with a simpler
Speaker 1: streaming choice. Last week's CNBC reported that the streaming service
Speaker 1: had less than ten thousand views a day. About three
Speaker 1: million dollars has been invested so far in CNN Plus.
Speaker 1: The plan, according to my sources, was to put a
Speaker 1: billion dollars into it over the course of four years,
Speaker 1: hoping to hit profit after four years. Wow, did they
Speaker 1: say that less than ten thousand views a day? You
Speaker 1: could have just been on TikTok. That's wild. CNN Plus
Speaker 1: was such a disaster they'll have to send Anderson Cooper
Speaker 1: to cover it in a type black T shirt. It's
Speaker 1: a stay say. The craziest part of the story is
Speaker 1: that they said they spent three hundred million dollars on
Speaker 1: this thing, three hundred million dollars. What did you do
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Speaker 1: Because if you did that, I'd actually watch that show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got breaking news, I've got breaking news. But you
Speaker 1: want to know what the worst part about the CNN
Speaker 1: Plus thing is is that I can't make jokes about
Speaker 1: all the shows on it because nobody knows what they are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not fair. It's not like you're gonna understand a
Speaker 1: joke about the CNN Plus show Jake Tapper's book Club
Speaker 1: because you don't even know if that's a real show.
Speaker 1: But it is? Or is it? Now? I'm kidding it's fake.
Speaker 1: It's fake. How you believe me it's actually real? Do
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Speaker 1: real show? What's a real show? All right, But let's
Speaker 1: move on to a different spectacular disaster. Rudy Giuliani, former
Speaker 1: aide to Donald Trump and lawyer who makes all these
Speaker 1: clients look innocent in comparison. Since his role in the
Speaker 1: attempt to overthrow the election, Giuliani has largely disappeared from
Speaker 1: public view like a snail retreating into its shell. But
Speaker 1: way more disgusting. And if there's one thing America loves,
Speaker 1: it's a big comeback. And last night Rudy got his
Speaker 1: a little bit of controversy on the Mass Singer. Last night,
Speaker 1: personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump and former New
Speaker 1: York City Mayor Rudy Giulianni popped out of a giant
Speaker 1: rooster suit while singing a rendition of Bad to the
Speaker 1: Bone the Way. But but as he revealed himself, this
Speaker 1: is what happened. Judge gen Jung stormed off the stage
Speaker 1: apparently didn't like it, saying I'm done. Yeah, Rudy Giuliani
Speaker 1: just got voted off the Mosque Singer, which means he's
Speaker 1: about to spend the next five years claiming that he
Speaker 1: actually won the Mosque Singer. And I guess history history
Speaker 1: was made last nights because for the first time in
Speaker 1: the Mosque Singer's history, a contestant took off their masque
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, no, no, put it back on, put
Speaker 1: it back on, put it on. We don't want to
Speaker 1: get put it back on. It's also weird how Rudy
Speaker 1: has the time to be on a game show, but
Speaker 1: he's too busy to testify in front of Congress, like
Speaker 1: maybe they should have just tricked him, right, Congress should
Speaker 1: have just like made it seem like it was the
Speaker 1: most singer combined the whole thing, pop him in the
Speaker 1: giant cocks room, and then send me in front of
Speaker 1: the giants committee. He too it. Yeah, that's the game
Speaker 1: show American means Bernie Sanders would be sitting there like, oh,
Speaker 1: based on his other disregard for democracy are I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess the rule star is Rudy Juliani. Let's pick up
Speaker 1: the mine sing the world bothering doulf I called yours heaven.
Speaker 1: I could see the melting through the mask. I say it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna take you to the very inferences. They're like
Speaker 1: little days, welcome back to the day to show you
Speaker 1: may or may not know this, but right now Europe
Speaker 1: is experiencing one of its most uncertain periods in a
Speaker 1: long time, with a lot of questions that they have
Speaker 1: yet to answer. You know, how involved should they get
Speaker 1: in the war in Ukraine? Should NATO continue to expand?
Speaker 1: Is Harland the same place as the Netherlands? And if so,
Speaker 1: why do they have two different names? And with Angelo
Speaker 1: Merkel no longer holding everything together like Europe's later Hosen,
Speaker 1: all eyes have now turned to France, and it turns
Speaker 1: up before France can figure out what to do with Europe,
Speaker 1: they've got to figure out what to do with themselves,
Speaker 1: as will learn in another installment of other Countries have
Speaker 1: news too. For decades now, France has been one of
Speaker 1: the few countries in Europe you didn't have to worry about, right,
Speaker 1: They didn't make Nazis, They didn't go bankrupt, they didn't
Speaker 1: hire a wet teletubby as their prime minister. But this weekend,
Speaker 1: this coming weekend, as the French people get up for
Speaker 1: a national election, everyone is wondering if this is the
Speaker 1: moment when France goes off the deep end. A rematch
Speaker 1: runoff in the battle for the most powerful politician in
Speaker 1: France current President Emmanuel McCrone and far right candidate Marine Lapin.
Speaker 1: The two will face off on April as a repeat
Speaker 1: of their two thousand and seventeen election. This is the
Speaker 1: far right leaders third and final attempt at the French presidency,
Speaker 1: and if you go by the polls, she's never got
Speaker 1: as close as this. With the very latest polls suggesting
Speaker 1: more support for Marine Lapin, more people are asking whether
Speaker 1: France is on the verge of its own Brexit moments
Speaker 1: or Trump moments. There's a possibility of a French Trump. Jesus,
Speaker 1: if you thought Donald Trump was Herni horny before. I
Speaker 1: don't think the world is ready for what this election
Speaker 1: could bring. Can you imagine that? My fellow bellegians, then
Speaker 1: Mona Lisa, but she needs to smell more. If I win,
Speaker 1: We're gonna make Mona Lisa smell again, so much smelling,
Speaker 1: sut malling. But yeah, France's current president's Emmanuel mccron is
Speaker 1: going up against far right candidates Marine le Pan right
Speaker 1: in an election that is happening this Sunday. And yesterday
Speaker 1: they sat down for their first and only debate of
Speaker 1: the campaign, and throughout the night you could tell that
Speaker 1: these two do not get along. French President Emmanuel mccron
Speaker 1: is barring with his far right rival Marine le Pen
Speaker 1: in a fiery, high stakes TV debate last night, two
Speaker 1: politicians who clearly don't like or respect each other. The
Speaker 1: longer it went on, the worst the atmosphere. I find
Speaker 1: it so hard to follow you, as you have made
Speaker 1: so many false accusations. Stop mixing things up. Do not
Speaker 1: give me a lesson. I'm not giving you a lesson.
Speaker 1: Do not give me a lesson on how to finance
Speaker 1: my plan. You know, I know this fight was considered
Speaker 1: intense by French media, but by American standards, that was
Speaker 1: pretty true. Everyone stayed in their seats, no one screaming.
Speaker 1: If anything, it looked less like a debate and more
Speaker 1: like a stressed couple arguing at a restaurant. You know,
Speaker 1: it was like, no, Brian, I told you my parents
Speaker 1: gave me that money. I don't want to spend it
Speaker 1: on cryptole. I told you, babe, it's not crypto, it's
Speaker 1: an n f G. I would difference. What's the difference? Oh?
Speaker 1: That was missing from that debate was that moment you know,
Speaker 1: when you're having done any fighting as a couple, and
Speaker 1: then the way it comes over and makes it super awkward.
Speaker 1: That's that's all. This mystic was just the way to
Speaker 1: coming in in the middle of that whole fight, you know,
Speaker 1: just being like okay, everybody, so um, the specials of
Speaker 1: the day are Oh, I feel like I walked into
Speaker 1: something here, did I I'm feeling a little tension. Did
Speaker 1: he Did he say something to you? Is that? Is that?
Speaker 1: What it is? Yeah? You know what I feel like,
Speaker 1: you guys need to work something out. I'll come back.
Speaker 1: I'll give you some time. I'll be back in about
Speaker 1: ten seconds. Okay, okay, bye bye bye. Not The stakes
Speaker 1: for this debates were probably the highest that France has
Speaker 1: ever seen because this election has gotten a lot closer
Speaker 1: than people expected. You see, when these two faced off
Speaker 1: in mccron beat lapin By, but with only a few
Speaker 1: days left in this election. Recent polls have showed Lapin
Speaker 1: within single digits, right, So she's not leading in the polls,
Speaker 1: but remember neither was Donald Trump in Yeah, my point is,
Speaker 1: hopefully mcrown visits whatever France's Wisconsin is. And there's a
Speaker 1: number of reasons. There's a number of reasons that the
Speaker 1: pen is catching up to mcron. Right. The country has
Speaker 1: experienced a refugee crisis, there's obviously been a pandemic, and
Speaker 1: of course there's rising inflation, which is why a lot
Speaker 1: of French voters are angry at mccron and saying things
Speaker 1: like this. In fact that everyone talks about the taxes,
Speaker 1: the taxes, the taxes, this woman said, we have no
Speaker 1: spending power. We just work and buy groceries to eat,
Speaker 1: We go out to restaurants less, we do less Otherwise,
Speaker 1: it's really tough. At the end of the month, I
Speaker 1: think Frances collapsing from the inside. You know, every time
Speaker 1: you think pre stereotypes are exaggerated, you see something like that,
Speaker 1: because no, because using your cuisine to comment on the
Speaker 1: dire state of your politics, that's the most French thing
Speaker 1: you could do. You don't have a country is collapsing
Speaker 1: from the inside. No, because think about I've never seen
Speaker 1: people in any other country make a metaphor like that
Speaker 1: on the news. Not once have I seen someone being
Speaker 1: interviewed in the streets of Nigeria being like, our problems
Speaker 1: run deeper than the flavors. That's not a thing. It's
Speaker 1: not a thing. But of course, elections are about choices.
Speaker 1: A lot of French people are thrilled with mccron's presidency,
Speaker 1: but they'll still take him compared to the person that
Speaker 1: he's running against, the notorious Marine le pan because you see,
Speaker 1: she has a long history of being Islamophobic, of being xenophobic, agoraphobic. Basically,
Speaker 1: she doesn't like a lot of ship is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, the people that she does
Speaker 1: like tell you a lot about the type of leader
Speaker 1: that she would be. Lapin is a NATO skeptic. She
Speaker 1: wants to leave the EU and has modeled her campaign
Speaker 1: on President Trump. Lapin has a hit story of closing
Speaker 1: up to President Putin, even putting a picture of them
Speaker 1: together in one of her campaign pamphlets. The policies I
Speaker 1: represent are the policies represented by Mr Trump. They're represented
Speaker 1: by Mr Putin at a that take didn't age well,
Speaker 1: and she likes Putin. I mean to be fair to her.
Speaker 1: They asked her about Putin in twenties seventeen, and back
Speaker 1: then Putin was just undermining elections and poisoning people. It
Speaker 1: was still too soon to tell. She was like, I'm
Speaker 1: on the fence. You never know, but you see its
Speaker 1: views like these that led to Lepen getting crushed when
Speaker 1: she ran in seventeen. But here's what's dangerous about her.
Speaker 1: Just like a terminator, she gets smarter with each sequel. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you see, after the last election, she started to rebrand
Speaker 1: as a kind of gentler racist, you know. Yeah, may
Speaker 1: I take you back to where you came from? And
Speaker 1: the way she did that? She did it but not
Speaker 1: abandoning her extremist views. No, she just doesn't men shoo
Speaker 1: them as much anymore. It's basically like when you do
Speaker 1: a zoom meeting and then you point the camera at
Speaker 1: that one team corner of your apartments. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Now, all of the sudden things seem
Speaker 1: under control, but you've still got a family of raccoons
Speaker 1: eating leftover Chinese food on your couch. It still the
Speaker 1: same world. And Lapan hasn't stopped at just moderating her words. No,
Speaker 1: she's trying to revamp her image to cultivate a more
Speaker 1: cuddly version of herself. Marine Lapan has wrapped herself in
Speaker 1: nice words and her cats. She's become a cat breeder.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves that. This kitten is so beautiful, that her
Speaker 1: name is her majesty, so endurable. That's how you know
Speaker 1: Lapin had the worst possible image before because her pr
Speaker 1: people were like, you know, it will make you more relatable,
Speaker 1: becoming a cat lady. It's going to help. So that's
Speaker 1: where France stands headed into the election this Sunday, Moderate
Speaker 1: incumbents with weak approval numbers, hoping to hold off a
Speaker 1: xenophobic Putin ally who's coming back for one last shot
Speaker 1: at the presidency. And you know, that's what I love
Speaker 1: about French politics. It's just so different from the USA.
Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back, Alexander scars Gard is
Speaker 1: gonna be joining on the show talking about to heavy show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is Golden Gold and Emmy Award winning
Speaker 1: actor Alexander scars Gard. He's here to talk about his
Speaker 1: latest role in the Viking epic The Northman, Please welcome
Speaker 1: Alexander Scott god on the man himself, Alexander Scot Sweden
Speaker 1: sexiest man five years yeah, five times over twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show, Frank Things. First, Um, you
Speaker 1: were on you what you're on? Stephen Colbert showed yesterday?
Speaker 1: Weren't you? Yeah? Huh yeah? And Stephen Colbert tested He
Speaker 1: said today he tested positive for COVID. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: he did. Um, so we may or may not have
Speaker 1: made out. I thank thanks God blurry after the show. Um, no,
Speaker 1: I yes, I was on on Stephen Colbert Show last night,
Speaker 1: and uh I've tested potton. M h. You're saying I've
Speaker 1: tested on negative extremely negative three times today, so I
Speaker 1: should be fine. But this is probably a good idea.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because we make this a very awkward first date.
Speaker 1: This is ah, this is my first time being in
Speaker 1: this situation. Yeah, this is not This is like Putin's
Speaker 1: table when he talks to people. That's what this is.
Speaker 1: Let's figure off what we're doing, what we can do,
Speaker 1: we can We've got basically as intimidated as his advisor.
Speaker 1: But this is like long range. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having This is my first socially distanced interview.
Speaker 1: I like this, this is you know, we got the
Speaker 1: vibe going on. Congratulations on the movie. I like, first
Speaker 1: of all, I love Vikings. I love no, really, I
Speaker 1: grew up loving Vikings, just like the mythology, like the
Speaker 1: you know, the dragons of stories that every thing, because
Speaker 1: you know you'll you'll you'll you'll watch stories or you'll
Speaker 1: read stories as a kid, right, but Viking stories always
Speaker 1: seemed like it was like the best combination of everything.
Speaker 1: And you took what ten years to get this movie going?
Speaker 1: Pretty much? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: pretty It's like your herit said, you are like a
Speaker 1: Viking essentially. Well, I was born in Sweden and from
Speaker 1: and I'm from a Sweden family. And my last name
Speaker 1: scar Scart actually means scar as a Viking name, Gored
Speaker 1: means farm and it's a allegedly a place in on
Speaker 1: one of the islands outside of Sweden, So you're Viking.
Speaker 1: Who knows it was a thousand years ago, but according
Speaker 1: to my grandfather where direct descendants of scar Let. Me
Speaker 1: say something, if I have any name, if like my
Speaker 1: last name was Trevor Giant Slayer, I'd be like yo,
Speaker 1: I slay giants. I'm related to people's slaves. Just just
Speaker 1: claim it. So, so let's talk about the film a
Speaker 1: little bit. Man. It's I was actually it's funny. I
Speaker 1: was in the movie. I was watching everything everywhere all
Speaker 1: at once, and that's when I saw the first trailer
Speaker 1: four your film, and it was epic, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's there's this one scene where you grabbed, like someone
Speaker 1: throws a spear at you, and then like your character
Speaker 1: grabs a spear throws it like that was the moment,
Speaker 1: you know when you watch your trailer. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm in, I'm buying, I'm I'm buying my tickets. No,
Speaker 1: it's one of the most epic looking movies every well
Speaker 1: we want. That was kind of the reason I wanted
Speaker 1: to make the movie because I've never seen a big,
Speaker 1: epic Viking movie that took on the mythology seriously or
Speaker 1: really went in deep into the mythology and where you
Speaker 1: could experience on the fantastical world, the mythology the spirits
Speaker 1: through the eyes of someone a thousand years ago. So
Speaker 1: that was kind of the goal. And starting you've done it, Man,
Speaker 1: it looks amazing. You look amazing in it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, like when the state is getting better and better. Actually,
Speaker 1: if if Steven didn't have COVID, we would probably be
Speaker 1: making out as well. Thank you so much for being
Speaker 1: on the show. Thank you for being Thiop being negative
Speaker 1: and be so positive and joining as star has got
Speaker 1: everybody Themochman alpens Old Kids. April twenty second, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break, will be right back off of this.
Speaker 1: We'll about to keep cutching because Shorlan Up Offenders the
Speaker 1: Blood of Hungary or Democracy is coming up next until
Speaker 1: tomorrow there and for the French elections this weekend. Mary
Speaker 1: and Leapin. May you be a successful at CNN Plus.
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