The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng Tackle the Down Ballot Races | Rosalind Chao

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng report on the Boston Celtics’ record 18th NBA Championship win, which they’ll be celebrating in Miami? Plus, in a special edition of Indecision 2024, Desi and Ronny go behind the campaigns of rage-baiting candidates like Senate hopeful Royce White, who’s turned the race into an episode of “Jerry Springer,” and Valentina Gomez, who hopes to become Secretary of State in Missouri by burning books and yelling at gays. Josh Johnson joins to suggest alternative career opportunities for these out-there candidates. Then ‘Quon (Marlon Wayans) sits down with Nathan Wade on “Choppin’ It Up With ’Quon” to grill the former Trump prosecutor on the affair with Fani Willis that derailed the case. And actor and star of Netflix’s “3 Body Problem,” Rosalind Chao, discusses Ronny’s strange texting habits, Eastern vs. Western sci-fi tropes, “3 Body Problem” as a glimpse into our ill-fated future, and coaching Ronny on how to nail the American accent by repeating “I hate myself.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Survivor 47 is here, which means we're bringing you a brand new season of the only official survivor podcast on fire. And this season we are joined by fan favorite and Survivor 46 runner-up, Charlie, Charlie, I'm excited to do this together. Thanks, Jeff. So excited to be here, and I can't wait to bring you inside the mind of a survivor player for season 47. Listen to On Fire the official Survivor podcast starting September 18th wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central. It's America's only source for news. This is the Daily Show with your host, Desi Lydick and Ronnie Jane.

Welcome to the Daily Show, I'm Dessie Leiter. And I'm Roy Chen. That's right, tonight you get two hosts and that means two times the fun. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of work. How about we each have half as much fun as usual and then we combine it for just a normal amount of fun. Oh yeah, that sounds easier. Let's do that. son't the threats. Let's kick things off with some big sports news. Last night, the Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship. That's right.

Yeah. All right, now they have a record number of championships. 18, which is one more than the Lakers and somehow 25 more than the Clippers. And now they're ready to celebrate with the city of Boston. But first, they're going somewhere fun. According to the Boston Globe, before the Celtxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx the Celts the Celts the Celtics the Celtics the Celtics the Celtics to celebrate with the city of Boston. But first, they're going somewhere fun. According to the Boston Globe, before the Celtics returned to Boston, they will first spend a few days celebrating their win in Miami.

They plan to return to Boston on Friday. Of course the Celtics are going to celebrate in Miami. I mean, you gotta go to where the butts are. And Boston doesn't have any good tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho the tho tho tho their tho tho tho tho tho tho tho their tho they they they they have a tho tho tho their their tho to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be to be to be to to be to be to be to be to too. too. to. to-s. to-s. tol. tol. tol. tol. tol. too-s. too. too. to too go to where the butts are. And Boston doesn't have any good butts, even though they have a ton of assholes. I mean, how do people in Boston celebrate anything? Come on, let's party with Klam Chowder at Matt Warburg House. Ronnie, you know what would be so funny as if you did that joke with a Boston accent. But let's move on to the election.

We've been talking a lot about President Biden and Donald Trump, but the president isn't the only elected official who can ruin your life. There are hundreds of people all over the country who are coming for you. So let's take a look at some of these promising young stars in a special edition of Indecision 2024 going down on the ballot. Let's kick things off in Minnesota where Republicans have endorsed Royce White to run against Democratic Senator Amy Cloverchai in November and he's already turning the race into an episode of Jerry Springer. White has been mired in controversial revelations including failure to pay child support, referring to women as malthy and at one time identifying himself as an anti-semitte on social media

and then there are the questionable campaign expenditures in 2022 when he ran for Congress including $1,200 at a Florida strip club. I'm not paying child support to mildly women because I'm spending it at a strip club? I mean, talk about red flag bingo. He even calls himself an anti-semite on social media, although to be fair to him, declaring you an anti-semit is how you have to log into Twitter now. That's the new capture. By the way, if you're wondering about the accusation that Roy spent campaign funds at a strip

club, listen, he has a very clear explanation for this. It was recently revealed you spent campaign donations at a strip club. Is that true? That's not true. Okay. It was a reference. It was a the the the the the th. It was a th. It was a th. It was a th. It was a to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be. to be. to be. to be. to be. the to be. to be. to be. to be. to be. to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the you spent campaign donations at a strip club. Is that true? That's not true. Okay. It was a reference to a campaign filing, the FEC, that was not done properly. Your claim is there were filings which said you spent campaign funds at a strip club, but they were incorrect filing.

No, they didn't say that I spent the funds at a strip club, but they were incorrect by the... No, they didn't say that I spent the funds at a strip club. Or no, let's say, they didn't say that I spent the funds on strippers. But it was spent at a strip club? Well, a strip club has, they sell food at the strip club, don't say? So, uh, I'm not sure if this helps his case. Minnesota needs a senator who makes good decisions. So vote for me, the guy who goes to a strip club to eat shrimp. And look, hey, I'm sorry for interrupting him, okay?

I mean, you are busy explaining how you don't know anything about strip clubs? You've spent the money on food at a strip club. Is that more accurate? You seem to be very unfamiliar with strippers and strip clubs and drag strip shows, so I'll inform you, maybe you aren't informed, that they do have food at strip clubs. So what you're saying is the money was spent at a strip club? No, wait, did you know that? Did you know that?

I know strip clubs? Have you clubs to being a strip club expert. Right? I don't know about that place. But go to the second floor as for Tarris. Okay? She'll take you to the champagne room and behind that is the real VIP room, code 2664. Tell them you want therying really hard not to violate campaign

finance law, but also wants to be very clear that he knows his way around strip clubs. Right, which is fine, no judgment. Just say you use the wrong credit card. It wouldn't be the worst accidental insertion in a strip club. This guy's got way more problems than that. Look, and I don't want to sound mouthy, but... Enough is enough. Someone needs to call this guy out for his offensive wine hat, okay? Unacceptable. That is for white women only. My culture is not your costume, asshole. Let's move on to a race in Missouri where a candidate for local office is getting the word out for

the best way that young people know how by shit posting. Valentina Gomez, a Missouri Republican running for Secretary of State has triggered liberals with her campaign videos like this one. In America, you can be anything you want. Don't be wicked gay. Brittany Griner should be running in a Russian prison, not going to the Olympics. Caitlin Clark is the only reason why we even watched women's basketball. She deserves to go to the Olympics, only this unpatriotic lesbian. I love that she's super into women's basketball, but she's angry that there's a lesbian in the WNBA. Is someone going to tell her?

She's not just planning to get gays out of women's sports. She's also deeply committed to getting them out of your library books. This is what I will do to the growing books when I become Secretary of State. Let's go. This book's room is a republic library. When I'm in office, they will burn. Jesus, a flame thrower? Take it easy. This is a book burning, not thurning, thurning, thurning, thurning, thurning, thurning, thiiiiiiiiiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi burn. Jesus, a flame thrower? Take it easy.

This is a book burning, not a gender reveal party. And what's wrong with a match? Was she worried that if she got too close, the books would turn her gay? Just to remind you, she's running for Missouri Secretary of State. Typically not a job where you choose who goes to the Olympics or set fire to anything. But enough of these mean-law human click-bate candidates. Whatever happened to people with substantive,

common-sense legislative ideas, like congressional candidate from Florida, James Judge. I put forth legislation on President Trump's first day in office to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. This will give President Trump the authority to arrest in the the the to the to to to to to to to to to to to to the to's first day in office to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. This will give President Trump the authority to arrest and imprison the treasonist officials and subverses. Wow, pretty casual call for the end of democracy there. I mean you can't demand a suspension of due process in the same tone of voice you used to announce that someone's Toyota has the lights on in the popular. I mean this honestly kind of makes you appreciate Trump even

more because at least he's got some showmanship I mean he's out there shouting on a big stage he's waving his hands around like an alpha chimpanzee to get you riled up you know this guy looked like he interrupted a wedding reception someone's gonna come up after him like okay thanks for that James if we could keep the speeches about bread and Mary that would be great. For more on these down ballot the the the the ballot the ballot th ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot ballot th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the they's they's the's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they're they're they're they're the. the. to that to to thanks to thanks thanks thanks to thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks they're they're they're about bread and merry, that would be great. For more on these down-ballot races and what they say about the state of American democracy, we go live to Josh Johnson.

Josh, why are there so many out-there candidates in this election cycle? Josh, why are there so many out there candidates in this election cycle? Oh, I'll tell you why. We made our democracy too democratic. All right? Anyone thinks they can run for office just because the Constitution says so? Uh, uh, Josh, but the Constitution does say so. Come on. The founding father said that, but they didn't mean it. They were talking about guys named George or Tom, not everybody.

Not like either of you, you know, and definitely not me. Ooh, they'd be mad. Wait, Josh, so you think we should prevent people from running for office? Yeah, it sounds like you're saying that we need less democracy. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying we should bring back all the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old the old saying that. I'm saying we should bring back all the old offices that America used to have for these people, like village idiot. If you fight a book with a flame thrower,

you are qualified for that office. Books are an idiot's natural enemy. And idiots love fire. All right. There's plenty of old jobs, like Lighthousekeeper or Snake Oil salesman, or the guy who screams hear ye, hear ye. Or the dude at a saloon who spits in a bucket and makes that patooey sound. Josh, I think that's only in westerns. Yeah, there's no way that you can find an office for every one of these people.

Watch me. Like, remember that strip club guy, Royce White, he could be the town adulteress. You know, the person who wears an A on their clothes, everybody knew they like to f-f-hawit. Royce White is super qualified. My man is clearly spending campaign funds at the strip club. He took the most boring money in the economy and used it for over-the-pants stuff. Point is, we'll find jobs for the crazy people, then the serious jobs can go to the serious politicians. And how are we defining who's crazy and who's serious?

Oh, that's easy. The crazy politicians will be ranting about space lasers, and the serious politicians will be on the Epstein list. All right. Okay, it makes sense to me. Josh Johnson, everyone. We'll come back with a special interview with Nathan Wade. You don't want to miss it. Hey everybody, John Stewart here.

I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show, it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday we're going to be talking about. the thi thi thii. to all the things that hopefully observes the things that hopefully So exciting, you'll be saying yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me, the election, economics, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches.

And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the daily show. Right now, we're all familiar with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor on the Trump election interference case.

He had to step down when it was revealed that he had a secret relationship with the district attorney Fannie Willis. Lots of people have been wondering how they could have been so reckless with such an important trial. So we had our friend Marlon Wayans and sent his friend, Kwan to sit down with Nathan Wade and figure out just what the hell he was thinking? I got my man, Nathan Wade, looking smooth. What was your first thought when you had the affair with Fannie come public between you and her? I don't label it, uh, it, an affair. Wife or?

D.A. Willis is a respectable mother, a brilliant legal mind. We spent countless hours preparing this case, investigating this. I see how it happened countless hours and I need a foot rub and you know what I mean? She rubbed your foot. No, let me give you massage and all the sudden, pump, we up on this desk. Man. No, not even close. Great question. She liked it in you or you liked it at her? Well, that's a great question, right? So during the course of the investigation, we would meet early mornings, weekends, spend full days. How can you not hit that?

How can you not? We spending that much time together, we doing everything, we might as well. In terms of workplace romances, how many places, thages, thages, thages, thages, thages, thages, thages, thages, thiiiiiii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, not thi, not, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their their their their their their their their their their their their, their, not, not their, not their, not thi, not thi, not even, not even, not even, not even, not even, not even, thi, thi, thi, thooooooooomoomoomorrow, thooomorrow, thoooomorrow, thooomorrow, thi, thi, terms of workplace romances, how many places have you worked? I probably worked like three or four places and everywhere I went, it was a mess. Well, you know. So she your boss. So you on that indecent proposal shit? No. You on that Demi, what's that white girl name that married to the dude from, uh, die hard?

So that's a common misconception. Disclosure. You on that disclosure shit. No, that's a common misconception. She's not my boss. She's never been my boss. You wasn't he-tooed. Right. She ain't he-to you. No. I was a contract attorney. She was more analogous to a client to me. So you say she was a client? Yes. So you served a well. I did my job. Let's talk about some of the successes I did while I was... I think we talking about the success. No, we didn't. We're talking about securing an indictment, talking about getting people to interplease. Right, interplie.

Interpolice. We're talking about other jurisdictions even following suits. So let me ask you, when old girl was like, hey, beg, you want to be in charge of this prosecution of the President of the United States, who did this insurrection, did you think like, this could get messy? Or you was like, nah, I'd be alright. We did not have that type of relationship at the outset, and we were interviewing other people for the position. What position was it? It was only a position of special prosecutor.

Did that position look like this? Or did that position look like this? So no. After Wade resigned as special prosecutor, Trump's law dog still try to use the try to use the th like this? So no. After Wade resigned as special prosecutor, Trump's law dogs still try to use their relationship to get the case thrown out. They compelled his ass to testify and grilled this **** hard. Did you go to a cabin with Miss Willis ever?

Both a homie had answers. Ever. Ever. Both a homie had answers. Ever. Ever. Ever. No. He's not the booking a tab. I've booked lots of cabins. My question is, were you booking all these cabins? So, so, how many district attorneys you be smashing in cabins? Zero. Is it Airbnb or Verbo?

Will you be getting all these cabins from? That's what my people want to know. Where do I get them? All right. All right, so some people saying this ordeal might have ruined the best chance to hold Trump accountable for trying to end democracy. Now what would you say to all the haters out there who can't get laid? Well, I don't know what the haters are thinking, but what I will say is, under my leadership, we successfully secured a valid legal indictment, the charging document. All right, young black men need a role model.

What's your advice to kids in the hood that's out there that want to grow up and have their dick potentially in democracy? That's some lethal shit you thus to ask me. We're talking about it. I don't know that I have advice for any young black men to have workplace romances. What I do have advice for young black men is simply this. you can do whatever you put your mind to. I am a black father, was a black husband. I took care of my family.

I took care of my children. My children are young adults now. Black fathers are positive. I take pride in being a black man. That's a t-shirt. I'm gonna put that shit on a t-shirt selling on the corner of Harlem. You know what money you make? You seem like a free-spirited man, you know what I'm saying? Uh, how many ditty parties you went to? No, none. How many did you go to? I went to several, but I left early. This ain't about me. I want to thank you for sitting down with me and answering the real questions for me and my people, all the hundreds or possibly billions of choir fans out there.

It's been a pleasure. So I appreciate you, my man, for real. He hit it. He did it. Thank you, Kwan. When we come back, Rosalind Shao will be joining us on this show, so they'll go away. Thank you. John Stewart here.

Unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, The Weekly Show. We're going to be talking about the election, economics, ingredient-to-bread ratio, on sandwiches. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Hey, welcome back to our daily show. Our guest tonight is an accomplished actor in film, television, and theater who currently stars in the hit Netflix series Three Body Problem.

Please welcome, Rosalind Chan. Thanks for coming on the show. Thanks for coming on the show. We're trying to get you on the show forever. We are so excited to have you on. I don't know if you know this, but Ronnie is only interested in having Asian guests on, and I only am interested in having women on the show, so you were the only guest that we can agree on. Yay. interested in having women on the show so you were the only guess that we can agree on. Yeah! Yeah, bigotry. So yeah I've been watching you forever. I love you in...

Okay, I've been watching you... Careful. I've been watching you... I have so much black, I have so much black male on you. Yeah, we've been talking, we've been talking a while now. So Ross, I saw her enjoy Luck Club and love that movie. What a classic American movie. The only movie I can watch with my mom. Really? We both enjoy it just as much. And so when I moved to America, I think I came about how I reached out to you or... Yeah, you reached out to me first about food recommendations in New Zealand.

In New Zealand, yeah, you didn't use any of mine. We have different taste in food, I realize. Yeah, you like sausages and like really greasy. What? This is slander. I'm known for good food treat. You sent me the list. You sent me... I looked through my text, you sent me your list four times.

I have not liked a single place on that one. Wow. Wow. I'm sensing some conflict in this friendship. Yeah. Yeah, all right. I taste. went back you said really you went back there again what oh in Chelsea yeah but okay anyway yeah okay okay okay okay okay you're skipping a hit it I was I

reached out to you on Instagram I was like oh Ross big fan of yours enjoy a lot of club and then you came back and you called me and you said why don't you have an American accent I didn't say it that way you said you said you said, you said, Ronnie, you, you, your accent, you can, okay, you tell me what you told me. Okay, I'll tell you what I told you. You called me just to yell at me about my accent. No, no, because you asked me about this, the accent coaches I used on three-body problems. And I said, Ronnie, you really should try. Because you could be th you you th th th you th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, you that, you that, tho, you tho, you tho, you tho, you tho, you tho, you th. Okay, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you th. Okay, you th. Okay, you th. Okay, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you tell, you tell, you tell, you tell, tell, you tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, to to tell, tho, you tho, you tho, you tha, you tha, you really should try because you could be a movie star. You could play. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I forgot. I forgot. I kind of already managed to get the movie. I forgot. So I thought I was doing okay in America. You are. I forgot. So I thought I was doing okay in America. You are. No. this is slumming it here. This is slumming it here.

I thought he could be a box office star. Yeah. So we- This is very Asian mom, by the way. This is like, I know, I know you're hosting a daily show. You know, you're hosting the daily show. You're embarrassing me from the co-workers, mom. I said, you should, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, okay. Yes, very political. We can't talk about this. Okay. You're embarrassing me from the cool work coach, mom. Sorry. No, keep going. Keep going. I like it. Bring out the black male.

No, but the accent. And then we worked on the accent a little bit. I turned you on to these accent coaches. You never called them. Yeah. And now you're here. He wanted it free from me. And so he would record himself saying I hate myself. I hate myself over and over text. All different versions of it. Southern accent. Not just that. Not just to hate myself. I also said, make America great again. Oh yeah. Great. great my American accent. Okay, that's here. Has it improved? I heard a couple missteps earlier on.

Okay, fine. But the Boston accent is black. Just killing. Killap. I got a party with Clam Chowd. Oh, God. Okay, here's my American accent. I hate myself.

I hate myself. You're back to the eithet version of yourself. It's very feminine. Okay, well, coach me. Coach me. I hate myself. I hate myself. I hate myself.

I hate myself. What? What? What? ? I hate myself. Better. Better, better. I hate myself. I hate myself. There you go. Thank you. Let's go.

Thank you. It's not good. This is. I'm just making him feel good. Thank you for all the encouragement. It's never getting better. I just give it up. Okay, let's talk about your fucking project.

What is what are you, what are you, what are you trying to promote now? Just go. Ronnie. He's, he's mad at me now. No, I'm not mad. No, this, I just talk in caps. Yes. I'm not mad.

He talked, oh, that's the other thing. His texts are all caps. And it's very stressful. Yeah. When you get it, Rosalind, all caps. Heart palpitations. Heart palpitations. And then also the other thing that happens is once he starts texting, he doesn't stop. No. No, it's incessant.

It's incestant. For a good 45 minutes. Okay, stop bonding. Stop bonding. Stop bonding. Let's talk about what is what? What is it? Well, you have a three body problem.

Three body problem. Yeah, great. On Netflix. Yes, it's amazing. You love it. I love it. I love it. I love it.

You love it. It's fantastic. Isn't it great? It is so good. I love it. I know. There are so many incredible twists and turns. You're at the edge of your seat the entire time when you're watching it. How would you describe the show to someone who hasn't seen it without spoilers? If you haven't seen it yet, I'm very disappointed in you.

And I might ruin it for you, but you're still going to have to watch it. So it's about, oh Ronnie, I can tell, I can feel you judging me. Okay, you do it. What? No, no, in my head I'm just thinking, wow, you are such an Asian mom. You're like, you literally told the audience they're disappointed in them, but not is what happens. Please describe the people. Okay, but don't judge me. Okay, so it's what happens. And you can interrupt.

Okay. He will. It's what happens. It's what happens. So basically my character makes a decision early in her life. That changes the course of humanity. And the decision is made through trauma, extreme trauma. Am I allowed to say what the trauma is?

It's a daily show. I'm not the boss of Netflix. Oh, okay. I'm not Ted Sarandos. You can talk about anyone. But you took a sip, so I thought that was a judgment. OK. So, I I I I I I I I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, my my my my my my my my my my my my my mom. My my mom. My my mom. My my mom. My. My. My mom. My mom. My mom. My mom. My mom. My mom. My mom. My. My. the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the the the the the the decision. I. the decision. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm. I. I. I. I. I. I. the decision. I. the decision. I. the decision. I. I. I. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the the th. th. My. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the............................................. sip, so I thought that was a judgment. Okay. So, no, I think you can do. I think you can do it.

My mom literally criticizes everything. I gave me drink water without being in talking. I can tell, see, that's judgment. Yeah. It's my drinking water accent okay enough? Is this American enough? Can you drink and say I hate myself? I hate myself. Tell people about the f-fib-the- TV show. So three-body problem, if you haven't watched it yet, is about basically what happens

when someone makes a decision, stop breathing so heavy. What the- What the- You do breathe very. You're breathing, I can feel you like when I said so. Come on. You go. You go. I got this. Okay, so basically my character makes a decision early in her life that changes the course of humanity. And it starts a whole... Stop! It starts a whole sequence of events that involves people from Oxford, this young group of people from Oxford, involves basically bringing an end to life as we know it. Let's put it that. It's a light comedy. I'll tell you what, it's not sci-fi. I'm so not

into sci-fi. And this is into sci-fi and this is really about how people react under extreme circumstances, which we are enduring right now, right? I mean, it does feel that way. It feels like, stop, stop, behave yourself. Yeah, we have a three-body problem right here. No, but I want you to talk about it because I love the project. It's based on a book. Yes, I'm sorry. For like eight years now, people have been telling, white people have been telling me to read this book.

And when people tell you to read a book, you go, whatever, I'll read it when I'm dead or whatever. And then, and then last year I finally, because you were, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that you, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, I, I, I, I that, I, I, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, I that, that, that, that, that, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I want, I want, I want, I want, th. We, I want, th. No, I want, I want, I want, thi, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want you to read a book, you go, whatever, I'll read it when I'm dead or whatever. And then last year, I finally, because you were, you announced that you're in the project, I was like, oh, I love Ross, I want to see what this is about. So I started reading the first book of three books. First, first. Okay, keep going. Correcting my pronounce. I'm trying to plug. th. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to p. to p. to p. to p. Yeah. I. I. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was. Yeah. Yeah. I was. I was. I was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was. I was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. I. I. Yeah. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I th. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. Keep talk. And then I read the first of three books. That was good. And I couldn't stop reading it. I finished all three in like a month because it was, like I don't say it's lightly.

It's probably one of the best books I ever read in my life. Yeah, you remembered every detail. I was telling you about it. Yes, well because I read the first one. I haven't I th I th I haven't th I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I there. I th. I th. I th. I thi. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thed. I thed. I thed. I thed. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thed. I thed. I thed. I thed. I thed. I to to to to to to to to to to to to to to told. to to to to to to to the. the. I the. I the. the first one. I still haven't finished two and three. Don't admit down on TV. OK, OK. Are you a media rookie? Don't say you don't read the project. Say, yeah, I love everything. But Ronnie remembered every detail of the books and was texting me parallels of each item. But you in all caps.

But you forgot some major storyline a point points and I went back and I said Ronnie you need to watch it again so you watched it twice right yeah I guess yeah yeah and now you get it sure it took you a what yeah it is it's fascinating and it it's a little dark you know it does feel like are we potentially getting a glimpse into our extremely dark apocalyptic future. Yeah. But at the end of the day underneath and all it feels like it's really about humanity and what human beings do in times of crisis. Exactly.

See, why couldn't you said that? No, but that's exactly true and and there's a love story intertwined, there's a mother-daughter relationship that if I start to talk about it right now I might get a little flimped. But yes there's there's so much drama so many surprises in there that if you had watched you would know about. It deals with a lot of big concepts. Big concept, environment. You know, and people are going to think I'm saying this to be all wokely woke and whatever,

but like when I read the book, it, most, I didn't realize that all the sci-fi I've watched and read my whole life has come from Westerners, because I don't even associate sci-fi as the Eastern or Western thing. I just think of sci-fi as sci-fi. But I didn't realize it was all, everything I've ever consumed from sci-fi is from Western point of view. Oh, that's interesting. And the Western point of view is very individual hero, is going to save the day. And this was like, oh,. You know and it takes that it's it's global. Yes. So it basically it takes place around the world. It's not one country or

another country against another. We all are joining together to save humanity. Okay great. So well I'm sure I'm sure you deeply regret coming on but we are there. I so appreciate you here. Thank you for having. Oh, Ron. You can see Rosalind in Three Body Problem and Sweet Tooth. Both are streaming on Netflix. Rosalind, chow!

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