The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Jersey Drones, Person of the Year, and an Anti-Holiday Rom-Com | Peter Sarsgaard

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

Michael Kosta covers Time Magazine's half-hearted Person of the Year, Donald Trump, and New Jersey drone conspiracy theories. The Daily Show Movie Networks presents the rom-com we deserve for survivin...g 2024. Actor Peter Sarsgaard joins to discuss his new film "September 5," about the ABC Sports broadcast team at the center of the 1972 Munich Olympic terrorist attack.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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 Davis, to bring you even further inside the action. 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, 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.
Starting point is 00:00:44 This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Kosta. Welcome. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Kosta. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Time Magazine reveals the person of the day. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Kosta. We've got so much to talk about tonight.
Starting point is 00:01:08 Time Magazine reveals the person of the year. We reveal America's hottest Christmas movie. And drones turn out to be annoying. Who saw that coming? Let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off with Time Magazine. Every December they reveal their Person of the Year so that people can remember that Time Magazine still exists.
Starting point is 00:01:33 Print media is dying, you know? Not like cable. We're doing great. Thank you. So this morning, the editor of Time Magazine came on TV to reveal who this year's person was, even though the moment you see the editor's face, you know right away it's Donald Trump. And here to make the announcement,
Starting point is 00:01:54 Time's editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs. I'm so... I'm super excited to be here. Please don't be mad when it's the person we had to pick. Who is it going to be? The person of the year who, for better or for worse, had the most influence on the news in 2024 is Donald Trump. Okay, there it is. Donald Trump, 2024 person of the year.
Starting point is 00:02:22 That's the most unenthusiastic reveal I've ever seen. Trump 2024 person of the year. That's the most unenthusiastic reveal I've ever seen. That's how I act when my sister gives me scented lotion for Christmas OK there it is pomegranate dream, thank you. Now obviously Donald Trump is the person of the year at this point he's basically America's main character. So him winning is not surprising. What was surprising were the finalists.
Starting point is 00:02:51 These were the five finalists here in no particular order, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Princess of Wales, Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President-elect Donald Trump. Okay, look, no disrespect, but Kate Middleton was a finalist over Joe Biden. Joe Biden is the president of the United States. I mean, sure, Kate Middleton is the leader of Hamas,
Starting point is 00:03:15 but still, it should be the sitting president as a finalist. But I guess once again, time has not been kind to Joe Biden. But I guess once again, time has not been kind to Joe Biden. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Starting point is 00:03:30 But also, but also, why did they put Kamala Harris on the list? I know they're trying to pay her some respect, but all they did was just make her lose to Donald Trump again. Kamala, we just entered you in a golf tournament at Mar-a-Lago. Oh, guess you lost again. Longest tie contest. Oh, lost again. Anyway, Donald Trump was happy to win,
Starting point is 00:03:52 and he accepted his award with a speech at the New York Stock Exchange. Although, because he's the people's president, he made sure to highlight the very real stories of real Americans who are really suffering for real. I tell the story about a woman who an old woman old woman no money went to a grocery store had 3 apples she put down on the counter and she looked and she
Starting point is 00:04:19 saw the price and she said would you excuse me and she walked one of the apples back to the refrigerator and came back to pay for the 2 apples and she left with 2 apples and the woman at the counter said that was so sad. Yeah. You know, never in America should an old woman be forced to return an apple to the refrigerator at the grocery store, where they always keep the apples. Now, that poor old woman can't afford her three-apple lunch. She can only buy two apples.
Starting point is 00:04:47 And if she's anything like the old women I see at my grocery store and her carton of cigarettes and scratch-off tickets. But by the way, that old woman's name? Granny Smith. Really makes you think. Really makes you think. Seriously. Seriously, that was the worst story I've ever heard.
Starting point is 00:05:08 That's like when my daughter is refusing to go to bed and she asks me to make up a story. Oh, yeah, once there was an old woman. She tried to buy three apples, then she ended up buying two. Okay, sweetie, dad has to go watch Shogun. Good night. Let's move on to another story that's been gathering steam for a few days in the big question
Starting point is 00:05:30 that's on everybody's mind. What is going on in New Jersey? Yeah, beats me. I don't know. Beats me, buddy. But what's actually going on is pretty bizarre. People in New Jersey are concerned and demanding information after a wave of mysterious drone sightings.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Since last month, dozens of drones mysteriously hovering in the skies at night. A New Jersey legislator posting on X that the drones appear much larger than typical hobby drones, in some cases up to six feet. They often fly with their lights off, making them harder to detect. That's right, UFOs over New Jersey, or as they call them in New Jersey, unidentified f***ing objects, oh! Oh!
Starting point is 00:06:13 Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Starting point is 00:06:19 Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! And they raise a lot of questions, like, could they shoot me? You know? And after the year, this has been, could they please shoot me? And now the people of New Jersey
Starting point is 00:06:29 are pointing their phones at the sky. That is not an airplane. It looks like a spaceship. Not a plane. That is a drone in the airspace. Definitely not planes. And there were too many of them. There's no way planes could fly that close together.
Starting point is 00:06:43 You can hear that one. That is definitely a plane. Don't worry, guys. New Jersey's on the case. And this drone looks a lot like my finger. Now, there might be a simple explanation for all this, but this is America. And we pride ourselves on doing our own research.
Starting point is 00:07:08 So cue the X-Files. What's going on in America? Why doesn't our government tell us what's going on in these skies? The other night there was right here over Picatinny, there was a drone just hanging out. I put my drone up in the air and went towards it. I had full battery life, not three minutes into the flight. I lost control of the drone.
Starting point is 00:07:24 One family claims they followed a drone in their car, and while it hovered above them, the clock in their car changed times. Then they say the clock went back to normal after they drove off. You know, Americans aren't allowed to look up anymore. And this all sounds like the world's most boring Steven Spielberg movie.
Starting point is 00:07:43 No, no, I wasn't abducted, but my clock was slightly off for one minute. People are so dramatic, but I'm sure the New Jersey cops can clear all this up. New Jersey State Police and the state's office of Homeland Security say that the state has no information about who is behind the drones and why they're flying them. Authorities in Tombs River, New Jersey,
Starting point is 00:08:05 launching their own drone offensive for a closer look. I think I know what's going on here. We spotted a drone in the sky, so we're gonna launch a drone to find out, well, holy shit, now there's two drones up there. We should put another drone. Holy shit, there's three drones up there. But you know what, Forget the local police. If we want answers, we should ask New Jersey's elected officials. They were
Starting point is 00:08:31 elected for a reason, and they can provide us with sane, informed explanation. New Jersey representative Jeff Van Drew on cable news claiming he's been privy to top secret information about the drones. From very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources, I'm going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones. That mothership is off, I'm going to tell you the deal. It's off the East Coast of the United States of America. Look, I know some of you are like, hey's off the East Coast of the United States of America.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Look, I know some of you are like, hey, can you stop making fun of New Jersey? You elected this guy. No. Holy shit, there's an Iranian mothership launching drones off the East Coast? You know what? Probably to gather intelligence on New Jersey's rich tapestry of shopping malls.
Starting point is 00:09:22 This is huge, though. This is a national emergency, and a congress congressman said it so it's definitely true. The Pentagon Wednesday striking down claims that Iran is behind those drones. There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States and there's no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States. No mothership? So you're telling me is that Iran doesn't have Independence Day technology?
Starting point is 00:09:49 Can I still blame Iran for all my other problems? Because that was going to be my defense on all those reckless driving tickets. But this is progress, actually, because clearly the federal government knows what these things are. And all we got to do is ask them. Tony Gonzalez, the congressman, I had this question for the assistant FBI director. Watch.
Starting point is 00:10:09 You're telling me we don't know what the hell these drones are in New Jersey are? Is that correct? That's right. Wait a minute, the federal government, despite the bazillion dollars it spends every year on surveillance, doesn't know what's going on here? I texted the word vacation once to my wife three weeks ago and Google's still serving me ads for Airbnbs, but there's an invasion of sky robots right now
Starting point is 00:10:36 above our heads, and the FBI's like, Oh, no. You know, this tells me two things. One, we need to devote way more resources to our oppressive surveillance state. And two, there's some really good deals on Airbnbs in Slovenia, so pack your bags. To find out the truth about these drones,
Starting point is 00:10:55 we go live to New Jersey with Troy Iwata. Troy. Troy. Troy. Troy. Please. Troy, Troy, please, tell me you learned something out in New Jersey. Sure, I came to New Jersey and learned something. That's hilarious, Michael, back to you.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Wait, no, no, Troy, we sent you out there to find out about the drones. This is important, tell us about the drones. Yes, well, I asked some questions and I realized I shouldn't have been asking questions. So let's just mind our own business and move on. Merry Christmas, Kosta. No. No, no, no. I don't accept that. People are freaking out about the drones, and if you know something about it, you should tell us.
Starting point is 00:11:39 You should tell... Right, everybody? Tell us! Tell us! Tell us! Tell us! Tell us. Tell us. Tell us. Tell us. Okay, fine. Fine. Shut up.
Starting point is 00:11:53 It's Santa, okay? They're Santa Claus's drones. Santa? No, great. Now look, he's pulling them away and then Christmas is canceled. You're not gonna get your precious Wicked dolls anymore. I hope you're happy. I hope you're happy now.
Starting point is 00:12:08 You nosy bitch. That's impossible. Santa Claus has a magic sleigh. He comes down the chimney. Santa's getting old. Okay, you try shimmying down a chimney with hypertension and a hernia. All right?
Starting point is 00:12:20 So now he uses drones to get gifts across the world and to spy on people's bedrooms to watch them cheat on their spouses. Oh. So he can put them on his naughty list. Sure. Yeah, yeah, it's not a power-and-control thing. But I... Oh, man, I had no idea.
Starting point is 00:12:35 Now I'm embarrassed. We were thinking it was the Iranians gathering information. Oh, no, no. Although Santa is selling some of that information to Iranians, yes. But why would Santa do that? Santa has bills to pay, Michael. OK, do you think he can cover his rent with the two Chips Ahoy cookies you put out for him?
Starting point is 00:12:53 That's super generous. Like most of us, Santa sells a few state secrets to Iran. And they get along because they're both Muslim. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Santa's not Muslim. He has a long whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Santa's not Muslim. He has a long beard, and he works on Christmas, Costa. Or at least he did, but now that the secret's out, it's all canceled.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Oh, man. I'm sorry, Troy. I feel like I ruined Christmas. No, you don't have to say that. Remember, Michael, this is New Jersey. No one deserves to have joy here. And that is the true meaning of Christmas. You know what? You're right.
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Starting point is 00:14:53 It's time for a brand new season of Survivor. And you know what that means. It means it's also a brand new season of the only official Survivor podcast on fire. Here's our goal with this podcast. We bring you inside the how and the why of what we do on the show. And we do it from three different points of view.
Starting point is 00:15:10 You have the producer in me, you have the fan in Jay, who also happens to be our executive producer of this podcast. And then we bring you the insight from a former player and this season it is Survivor 46 runner up, Charlie Davis. Welcome to the team, Charlie.
Starting point is 00:15:24 Well, Jeff, I know firsthand that playing from the couch and playing on the island, completely different. So I hope you tune in. Every single week, we're going to dissect the strategy, the misfires and mistakes that change the game. If you want more Survivor than just 90 minutes, this is where you get it. On Fire, the only official Survivor podcast.
Starting point is 00:15:47 Listen to On Fire, the official Survivor podcast wherever you get it. On Fire, the only official survivor podcast. Listen to On Fire, the official survivor podcast wherever you get your podcast. -♪ Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh Welcome back to The Daily Show. It's December, the time of year when TV networks drop dozens of holiday movies where people fall in love thanks to the power of Christmas. But even though this year might not have left people feeling very romantic, that hasn't stopped our holiday movie from trying. She was a big-city career gal in the big city with a career. And she was sparkling with holiday spirit.
Starting point is 00:16:27 This year's stuck. I just can't wait to go home and hide from the world. But to fully embrace this Christmas season, she had to leave the cold heartless city and head to her charming small hometown. Oh my god. Oh my god. Hey, dad.
Starting point is 00:16:44 So what do you wanna to do kiddo? I want to move to Canada dad. I'm not kidding. After all, tis the season to fall in love. F*** me. Christine. Dad? You're back in small towns, Bill. Would you want to go ice skating with me later today?
Starting point is 00:17:12 No. I'm not doing this whole thing. Not this year. Bye. Sometimes the thing you need the most is waiting for you back home. The one you need the most is waiting for you back home. Hey, it's in the neighborhood. It got me thinking that the cosmos is complicated. I'll take this, though. It might not be the Christmas she expected, but magic is in the air. Yum. The secret ingredient to all my pies is love.
Starting point is 00:17:46 You know, Christmas time is the best time to fall in love. Not this year. Not this year. Sometimes you need good friends to point out what's been right in front of you all along. Guess who's here? It's Scott from high school. He's become quite the handsome widower. I think he likes you.
Starting point is 00:18:09 How many times do I have to tell you people, I am not down for a rom-com right now. And for the last time, I'm not joining your MLM. Christmas is when wishes come true, and this year she's wishing for true love. No I'm not. But it's Christmas. Don't care. And you're home for the holidays, where the magic of Christmas romance takes hold.
Starting point is 00:18:32 You know what? Read the room, buddy. Did you not see the election? I only exist in Christmas movies. What's an election? Christine, there's someone here to see you. Christine, I know it's Christmas Eve, and I'm just a single dad with three adorable kids. Will you be our mommy?
Starting point is 00:18:52 This is literally the first time we met. And I know you're a big city Christmas journalist, and I'm a rugged man who works at every small business in town. But Christine, Christmas is about being with the people you love. That's what I keep telling her. That's what I told her too. Oh my god. All right, enough, all of you. Wait, why do I even have to go home for the
Starting point is 00:19:14 holidays? It's not even my real mom, it's just some Canadian actress. Hey, are you single? We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. No thank you. No thank you. No thank you. No thank you. So get cozy with the one you love. Because this holiday season,
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Starting point is 00:21:23 We bring you inside the how and the why of what we do on the show. And we do it from three different points of view. You have the producer in me, you have the fan in Jay, who also happens to be our executive producer of this podcast, and then we bring you the insight from a former player and this season it is Survivor 46 runner-up, Charlie Davis. Welcome to the team, Charlie. Well, Jeff, I know firsthand that playing from the couch and playing on the island, completely different. So I hope you tune in. Every single week we're going to dissect the strategy, the misfires, and mistakes that change the game. If you
Starting point is 00:21:57 want more Survivor than just 90 minutes, this is where you get it. On Fire, the only official Survivor podcast. Listen to On Fire, the official Survivor podcast wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to The Dairy Show. My guest tonight is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominated actor whose new film is called September 5. Please welcome Peter Sarsgaard. Peter! -♪ -♪
Starting point is 00:22:31 -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ Wow. Great film. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Is this film gonna make me respect sports reporters because I don't want to? You know, I always loved Jim McKay, who's in this movie. You know, and a lot. I was a huge sports fan growing up. I still am, I guess. Some of my favorite people, sports reporters.
Starting point is 00:23:06 So deal with it. OK. But you were acting along with real... Doc footage. Doc footage, because you mentioned Jim McKay. You actually are showing him in this pivotal moment on September 5, 1972. Yeah, I mean, actually, when they were first talking to me
Starting point is 00:23:21 about doing the movie, and I saw the Jim McKay footage from that day, that was really one of the things that pushed me over the edge. It's like hearing, you know, your favorite actor is going to do it. I was like, my favorite commentator is going to do it. What drew you to the film besides that? Because we've had a movie about, you know, Munich.
Starting point is 00:23:39 We've had a movie about that event. We've had a lot of footage. Yeah, great documentary. There's a Visions of eight, day in September. I think it was the point of view. In some ways, it was almost like a submarine movie or something to me, all these guys in front of controls, and the periscope is the camera.
Starting point is 00:23:59 And I think the live camera, the birth of the live camera, turning it from sports, which is what it was kind of meant for, and then turning it onto this hostage crisis in Laos. We have this rolling 24-hour coverage that's live, and I don't think it's been a great thing. So I think this is sort of the dawn of something that we kind of need to think about. A lot of the issues that are in the film from 1972
Starting point is 00:24:24 are still the same issues we need to be thinking about. That blew me away how relevant so much of the journalistic stuff. I mean now I can go live right now on this. Boom. By the way, I'm live right now. No. And the amount of respect that was given to live in 1972 because it hadn't been done before? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:43 I mean, you know, what is it to have live news coverage? Why is that good? Is, you know, having your face right up to something like this and make it more understandable? In some ways, they had this new toy, which, you know, Rune Allridge, who I play, was known for really making the best seat for the sporting event be at home in your living room.
Starting point is 00:25:06 You were gonna know more, you were gonna see more, you were gonna have the background story, you had the on-field camera, but is that really important for like a hostage crisis or a school shooting or something like that? Why do we do that? It's so true now with sports where I go, you know, I'd rather sit at home.
Starting point is 00:25:23 I'm gonna get the speed of the ball. I'm going to see the revolutions. But I don't know if I'm a better person for that necessarily. And maybe in sport it's perfect because the stakes are low. Yeah. I mean, the interesting thing is at first, you know, with Rune and all these ideas, they were afraid that they weren't going to be able to sell tickets. They didn't want the best seat to be at home.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Right. It didn't stop people from trying to see it live. The attention to detail in this film, shooting a TV show 50 years ago, I mean, it's real tape. It's film. And then they had to do the graphics. They're actually putting typeface. It blew me away.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Yeah, and the way that they slow down the film to do the, you know. Was that bullshit? No, that's the way they did it. Slow motion was a guy who just moved his hand slower. Well, we had our director, Tim Feldbaum, was just obsessive. When I met him, he was showing... I remember one of the first things he did is he said, I'm thinking you'll shave at some point in the film.
Starting point is 00:26:23 Look at this period-correct shaver that I have. And I was like, this guy's clearly meant to do this. It's very helpful to have all of that real stuff in front of you. A lot of times, speaking of submarine movies, I've done submarine movies where it was like, it looks really cool if you flick this thing and pull this thing this way and then go like that.
Starting point is 00:26:44 And you're like, what does that do? We have no idea. It looks really cool if you flick this thing and pull this thing this way and then go like that. You're like, what does that do? We have no idea. No, this is real. But Tim would say first you have to hit this, then you have to point at that, then he's going to flick this thing. It was all accurate. That's the control room.
Starting point is 00:26:56 And your character is pretty much in his office or control room the entire time. What was it shot over many, days obviously but I mean that was felt claustrophobic almost like a submarine movie but I guess that was the intended purpose. We're filming in Munich at Bavaria studios and technically they should be able to make more on a soundstage so they should be able to make the walls fly away. Right. But he didn't want that he wanted it to feel very tight we had two cameras three people on each camera, maybe eight actors in the room.
Starting point is 00:27:28 It's hot. It's smelly. It's smoky. But I guess that's the way it was. He was very into making us uncomfortable. Um... It comes across, and it's very entertaining to watch. And I thought, holy shit, I want to make TV in 1972. But instead, I make it in 2024. And I'm a piece of shit.
Starting point is 00:27:52 And I wish I could be in 1972. Sports journalists, to me, it's just, what do you do in the second half, coach? And I was watching this thinking, wow, these sports journals handled real journalism so well. And it made me think if ESPN-plus could pull this off today. If we have, you know, there's so many channels. Could they handle a hostage crisis so eloquently?
Starting point is 00:28:19 Jim McCain looked like he was meant for it. Well, it was a different time. I mean, these guys were real storytellers. That was the thing, and they were, you know... What happened at this moment, because Ruhn went on to do news. He was head of news at the time. And he actually did news and sports at the same time
Starting point is 00:28:38 at one point. And so this idea of making sports entertaining for even people who don't follow sports. Like, remember, my Aunt Mary would watch the Olympics. She never watched anything else sports-related. But the Olympics was like, we learned he came from Nebraska. He's shooting boops in his backyard. She's weeping after he has...
Starting point is 00:29:00 Her father slipped on the steps when she was in eighth grade. Right. But then he took that into news, and now we do have news that, you know, tries to be entertaining, tries to compete with other news stations. I don't know what you're talking about. And, uh, and for better or worse, we need, like, tidy endings and, you know, beginnings, middles, and ends, and I think that that's become a problem.
Starting point is 00:29:25 Live audiences and audience warm-up guys. I don't know. I mean, are we better for this? I don't know. I think what's good for you is that you acknowledge that you are both.
Starting point is 00:29:37 It's the illusion that they are the other stations that we won't talk about. Man, you've played so many wonderful characters, characters that I love. that they are the other stations that we won't talk about. Man, you've played so many wonderful characters, characters that I love. The Apple Show presumed innocent. You played the kind of dickhead lawyer.
Starting point is 00:29:55 You played a serial killer in Boys Don't Cry. You were the villain in Green Lantern. You had this enormous forehead. Do we have a picture of this green? I mean, what? I'm sorry. You've played so many characters, but this costume, how did you lose the forehead weight? How did you gain the forehead weight?
Starting point is 00:30:15 I'm gonna tell you something. I didn't know about the prosthetics until after I said yes. Right. I actually arrived on set, and they were like, oh, and you're gonna go meet the prosthetics team. And I was like, oh, what prosthetics? And then they went, poof.
Starting point is 00:30:30 That is crazy. And it was New Orleans, and it was summer. Oh, man. Yeah. Which is why in many scenes in that movie, I'm not wearing trousers, because it's from here up. That's the secret, actually, to that guy. Don't wear trousers.
Starting point is 00:30:44 No. I should to that guy. Don't wear trousers. No. I should try that here. Do you like playing bad boys? Peter, Peter, Peter. Sorry. You know, I stood up. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:59 Yeah. Do I like playing bad boys? Was he trying to look at my dick? Peter, are you a bad boy, Peter? Um, I don't like the responsibility of playing a good boy, I guess. I don't believe in them. Whenever I've met them in my life, I think they have some ulterior motive.
Starting point is 00:31:21 Yeah. I really appreciate the honesty of somebody that just wears their sins on their sleeve. Yeah. I really appreciate the honesty of somebody that just wears their sins on their sleeve. Yeah. You know comedians that are always like, I'm clean, I'm clean. They're always the most fucked up.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Blah. Yeah. It's so true. Look, this film is excellent. Thank you. It's nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama. That, it's gonna get even more. September 5th is in select select theaters starting December 13th.
Starting point is 00:31:48 It'll be nationwide on January 17th. Peter Sarsgaard. We're gonna take a quick break, we'll be right back after this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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