The Daily Show: Ears Edition - MTG Claps Back at Trump as House Votes to Release Epstein Files | Hikari
Episode Date: November 19, 2025An (almost) unanimous vote in the House to release the Epstein files has Trump reversing his opposition to save face, Marjorie Taylor Greene looking like she’s severed from MAGA, and Saudi Arabia's ...visiting crown prince getting a pass for murder. Ronny Chieng reflects on the road to releasing the Epstein files and Trump’s key to uncovering the elite sex trafficking scandal: “Don’t talk about it.” You thought holiday travel was miserable? Try being an air traffic controller. Leslie Jones breaks down how the people with one of the most important jobs in America are being treated with Spirit Airlines-level disrespect, and asks airlines to quit thinking so much about luxury perks and to start supporting these vital employees with better technology, better pay, and maybe some of that TSA-confiscated cocaine. Writer, producer, and director Hikari joins Ronny Chieng to discuss her new movie, “Rental Family.” The award-winning filmmaker talks about discovering her love for American media while growing up in Japan, moving to the United States to follow her dreams, and what inspired her to make this film, which follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) living in Tokyo who struggles to find purpose until a Japanese “rental family” agency hires him to play stand-in roles for strangers. She offers a peek into how this business is used in Japan to combat the loneliness epidemic and what it was like directing one of her childhood acting heroes, Akira Emoto. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit http://hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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I'm Roy Chegg.
We've got so much to talk about tonight.
The House throws an Epstein release party.
Leslie Jones starts by to Rose Air Travel.
And American politics has finally gotten too crazy
for even Marjorie Taylor Green.
So let's kick things off with another installment
of the very normal and not shady handling of the Epstein Files.
It's pretty boring stuff.
We've learned a lot in the last week about the monsters that Jeffrey Epstein surrounded himself with.
But let's not forget, he also surrounded himself with total f***ing losers.
Harvard professor and former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, Larry Summers.
On Monday night, Summers said he is stepping back from public commitments.
After messages between him and Epstein were released,
where he asked the sex offender for advice about pursuing a young woman,
he described as his mentee.
And Epstein described himself as Summers,
wingman. Wow, really. I can't believe this guy needed help getting laid.
Why are you asking Jeffrey Epstein to be your wingman? You were the president of Harvard,
Larry Summers. Just ask Harvard to do a study on how to make you f***ble. And by the way,
Larry Summers is married, but he's all over these emails asking Epstein about girls like he just
got his first pub. On March 16th, 20th,
In 2019, Summers wrote,
We talked on phone.
I said, what are you up to?
She said, I'm busy.
I said awfully coy you are.
Tone was not of good feeling.
Tone was not of good feeling.
Awfully coy, you are.
Here's a tip on girls.
They don't like guys who talk like Yoda.
And if you're wondering,
when did Larry Summers stop emailing Jeffrey Epstein?
women. The answer is up until he couldn't. In June of 2019, Summers asked Epstein about the chances
of getting, quote, horizontal with a woman. Epstein responded that Summers needed to play the
long game. Epstein was arrested soon after. Yeah, I kind of actually feel a little bad for
Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, the walls are closing in on him at this point, and he still has to teach
this f*** dog game.
It's like texting,
it's hot to talk,
hiding from feds,
keep nagging.
But Epstein emails
are just a gross appetizer here.
Everyone is still waiting for the disgusting main course.
The DOJ's Epstein files.
For months, Trump has done everything he can
to prevent the release of these files.
He's tried persuading Republicans not to vote for it.
Then he tried threatening them.
Then he tried pointing up at the sky,
and going, whoa, what's over there?
What is that?
But nobody looked, except for Tommy Tuberville,
who is actually still looking.
But when it became clear that the House was going to ignore Trump
and vote to release the Epstein Files anyway,
Trump backtracked and said,
oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, do that.
That's also what I want.
Which is why today, the vote passed unanimously.
Almost.
In a rare show of unity,
the vote was 427 to 1.
Louisiana Republican Congressman Clay Higgins,
the only member voting against this bill.
Okay, does Clay Higgins represent
the third congressional district of Epstein Island?
Who even is this guy?
Oh.
Okay, that makes sense.
Now I believe this is a guy who would vote to block the Epstein files.
I mean, he doesn't need the DOJ to release them.
He's just going to steal them from Indian
Jones later.
But aside from him, all the House Republicans voted against Trump.
Even his most ardent supporter, Marjorie Taylor Green, Georgia representative and woman who
just started taking her meds, Trump was so mad he called her a traitor this weekend.
And I bet that got her back in line.
I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five, no, actually six years for.
Let me tell you what a traitor is.
A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
Okay, what the f*** is happening with Marjorie Taylor Green?
Did she get the severance surgery?
Was she bit by a radioactive Rachel Maddow?
She's getting so liberal that,
a month from now, she's going to be performing on NPR's tiny desk.
I mean, and how dare she?
How dare she imply that Trump serves foreign countries?
Okay?
The president is out here every day thinking about America first.
President Trump rolled out the red carpet for Saudi crown prince
Mohammed bin Salman.
Okay, look.
Sometimes America first means Saudi Arabia first.
But so what?
He wrote out a red carpet for MBS.
It's not like Trump is endorsing everything he's done.
Your Royal Midas, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist.
You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.
A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about.
Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happened.
But he knew nothing about it.
And we can leave it at that.
You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.
Yeah.
Hey, hey, shut up.
A little etiquette, please.
This man is a guest in our country.
Why are you asking him about the journalist he bonesawed?
It's like no one has manners anymore.
Trump is dealing with a lot of shit right now.
He lost the Epstein vote.
They're being mean to his best friend.
One more reasonable question, and he's going to f***ing lose it.
Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files?
Why not just do it now?
It's not the question that I mind.
It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter.
It's the way you ask these questions.
You start off with a man who's highly respected,
asking him a horrible, insubordinate,
and just a terrible question.
And you could even ask that same exact question nicely.
You're all psyched.
Somebody psyched you over at ABC.
You're going to psych it.
You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
Well, I hope you guys are happy.
Would they have killed you to ask MBS about the murder nicely?
Just a little like, excuse me, Crown Prince,
will you be so kind as to stop murdering my colleagues?
Pretty, please.
Please.
And as for releasing the Epstein files,
Donald Trump's position has been very clear, kind of.
I just want to be super clear at your position.
Do you want to see that past the Senate?
Would you sign that bill if it gets to your doctor?
Sure, I would. Let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it. But don't talk about it too much, because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us. It's really a Democrat problem.
It's a Democrat problem, so you don't want to talk about it to help them? That's nice.
For more on the release of these files, we go live to Washington, D.C.
Josh Johnson.
Josh,
seems like Trump
can't figure out his position on the Epstein Files.
Wrong again, Ronnie.
All right.
I've been talking to President Trump,
and he's always had one position.
The Epstein Files will expose the sex crimes
of the Democratic Party.
It's the most explosive story of the century.
So shut up, and let's move on.
Okay, but you just said
it's the most explosive story of the century.
You better believe it is.
This shit is going to blow your mind.
They got photos of Bill Clinton and Larry Summers
double teaming a goat.
All right?
So take a quick look and then forget about it.
So we can talk about how Trump's
getting rid of pennies.
Whoa, wait, are you serious?
Yeah, you heard me. No more pennies.
No more pennies.
No more penny. Why aren't y'all clapping?
Okay, wait, wait, wait. Stop.
Wait, stop.
Stop. Wait, go back to the Clinton
and Larry Summers fucking a goat thing.
What was that?
Well, Bill Clinton was, but Larry Summers
couldn't close the deal with the goat.
This man has no game.
It was sad to watch.
More sad than gross, even.
Okay, but still, this is juicy stuff.
Oh, the juiciest.
There's also 4K video of Chuck Schumer
and Bill Clinton double teaming a goat.
All right?
Clinton had to get Larry Summers out there.
He was killing the whole vibe.
Okay.
Oh, my God. This is all insane.
I know. No goat is safe.
But what's most...
What's more insane.
What's more insane is grocery prices.
Did you know that under Donald Trump, free samples are now free?
You're welcome, America.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
If that's video of these sex crimes, can't Trump just release it?
Hell yeah.
He can't.
He wants it out there now.
Okay, then why doesn't he just release it now?
He is.
Right after the House signs the petition, so the Senate can sign the petition so that he can sign the
petition to get it out there in like eight months.
It's called suspense.
Okay, but why wait if it will ruin the Democrats forever?
Because that would be too fast.
You ever bite into ice cream too quick and then you get a brain freeze?
Do you want that to happen to the whole country?
I see you, Ronnie.
Okay, Josh, I'm more confused now than when we started.
Then my work here is done.
In fact, I got to head out.
Larry Summers needs my help.
He's at a petting zoo striking out right now.
Help is on the way, Larry.
More than I need it to know.
Josh Johnson, everybody.
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We all know I've got great opinions,
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Studies show that other people also have opinions.
So here with another installment of, in my opinion,
is our good friend, the one and only, Leslie Jones.
Yes!
What's up?
Happy Thanksgiving, a miracle.
Gobble, gobble,
that's not a turkey.
how Donald Trump sounded going down on Bubba Clinton.
Oh, personally, I don't know why people like Thanksgiving.
It's just a meal where families argue over which race should be deported next.
Ronnie, for the last time, albinos is not a race.
But Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving isn't just about racism.
It's also the worst travel weekend of the year.
Just look at the goofy shit people are doing to make flying 1% less miserable.
It's the travel hack that's supposed to make taking a snooze on a plane a lot easier.
Fasten your seatbelt around your feet and you will sleep like an angel, says one passenger.
Flying has never been this comfortable before, says another.
Get your goddamn toes off the seat.
Before I put your ass under the plane with the
Pets
That hack is dangerous as shit
And also it only works for tiny people
I can't do that
Why the fuck you even on the plane
Just mail yourself
But hey
I sympathize
Flying Economy sucks
So I got a real travel hack for you
be rich
bitch
because if you fly in first class
like your girl
you get treated like a queen
okay now
it really makes me feel bad
when I say stuff like that
but it's true
they treat you so nice
in first class
hot towel ma'am
may I take your coat ma'am
can you put that blunt out
Mell, just so classy.
And first class is getting nicer and nicer every day.
Airlines are ordering more caviar and champagne,
hiring Michelin chefs to design their menus
and teaming up with luxury designers
to make custom in-flight pajamas.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
Champagne and caviar on a flight farts.
But the flart,
The farts are immediately vacuum back to the economy class.
Where do you think they get that air from the nozzle y'all be twisting on?
Those are rich people farts.
So classic.
What else you got?
New premium seats with doors, privacy wings, wireless charging, even showers to win over customer.
Who takes a shower on the plane?
And why is that okay?
But when I take a whole bath on the sea train,
all of a sudden it's a felony.
But the rest of that stuff looks amazing.
The only thing missing is the wireless vibrator charger
that I'm going to need.
Yes, I bring my emotional support vibrator on the flight.
on the flight.
Everybody knows
the most important thing on the plane
is the right
box.
But while
it's fun to experience
America's wealth gap in the
sky, there's
one thing missing that would really
help me sleep better on the plane.
knowing the guy in the tower is away.
A dire nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers
is creating an increasingly dangerous situation in the skies.
One big problem, controller fatigue.
We're tired of work in six days a week.
We're tired of work in 10-hour days.
Give these people some rest.
This isn't an ordinary job.
They up at the Wendy's.
All you get is the wrong drink.
They up at air traffic control,
and I'm in the Emmys Memorial.
real.
And I better be in it.
And when my name
come up, you motherfuck
vater clap.
You bet not, you bet not
treat me like some old editor
from the 80s.
If you
can't give them time to sleep,
at least give them some of the cocaine
that the TSA finds.
They won't be tired,
and no cocaine gets wasted.
Recycling.
And even if the workers are okay,
the technology they're working with is not.
The FAA is running on a copper wire system.
I mean, it's crazy.
Every American home's got fiber into it now,
and the FAA is running on 1950s technology.
What you've ended up with is a system that was built, essentially in the 1950s, with spitting radars and people talking on radios, VHF radios, that really hasn't moved in to an age of the internet, to an age of computers, to an age of satellites.
1950s technology, bitch, my Tamagotchi is newer than that.
Oh, shit, my Tamagotchi.
Oh, oh, Lord, it's dead, Lord.
I forgot to feed his father.
I'm so sorry.
Oh, well.
None of this needs to be happening.
The FAA has a budget of $21 billion.
And if that's not enough, I know where they can get more.
Because right now, almost all of it comes from the ticket fees and taxes.
That stuff we, the consumer, are paying.
What we need is the airlines to chip in more.
They're focusing so much on luxury.
They're forgetting the most important part of luxury,
getting from A to B in one piece.
It doesn't matter how much my seat reclines
if I'm using it as a flotation device.
And if you're not,
You still want to splurge on luxury shit?
Don't put it on the plane.
Give it to the people in the tower.
They should get the showers and the massage chair.
Not us, airlines.
That's right.
Yeah.
Airlines should be sending them caviar, champagne, and blow jobs every morning.
Send Trump's ass over there so they can get a little bit of that gubble gum.
But that's just right.
opinion!
Listen, Jones, everyone.
What is the whole back?
When we come back,
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Oh.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is an award-winning writer-diretor.
and producer whose latest film is called Rental Family.
So, what do you think we do?
You, if I have to guess, you, um, you sell people.
No.
No.
We sell emotion.
Oh, how?
We play roles in the client's lives.
Oh, thanks.
But you can't just, you know, replace someone in your life.
life yes and no but people are willing to take a leap please welcome hikari
Thank you guys. Thank you so much for having me.
Thanks for coming on the show.
Thank you.
Filmmaker extraordinaire.
Let's go.
What a triumph.
The film is.
I know.
Thank you.
So you moved to America.
Yeah.
When you were 17, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You moved to Utah.
Yep.
Right.
Why?
I was the only, you know,
I told my counselor, she asked me where I wanted to go.
I said, I want to go to a place where I don't see my people.
And they said, I have a perfect place for you.
Oh.
And I love it in Utah.
Right.
Yes.
So I'm very lucky to visit Japan once a year.
My wife and I love it.
Oh, wow, once a year.
We love it.
Yeah, it's clean.
Everyone's polite.
Trains on time.
Everything tastes amazing.
Why the f*** would you leave?
Why did you leave?
Well, I left for American dream.
Go back.
Well, now I feel like I should go back.
But no, I moved because I wanted to get on these
school, yellow school bus. You know, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies, and I wanted to come
to America and then just see what that was like. You watched the movies, you didn't watch the news.
I did not. I did not. I did not watch a movie. I just watched all the heartwarming, good, feeling,
good movies. No, that's why, that's what made me come here. Yeah? Yeah. Oh my God. It was back to the future.
Yeah, back to the future at Goonies and, yeah, it was Robocop. Yeah, Robocop, yep.
One and two. One and two. One and two. And three. Terminator. Terminator. Terminator.
One or two.
Die hard.
Die hard.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I saw die hard.
I got to go there.
So you moved to Utah.
And then you didn't, you came for show business, not filmmaking.
No, yeah.
I was doing a theater.
You know, that was kind of my passion back then.
I just became a photographer.
I started shooting rap artist and the musician.
And then next thing I know was at the film school.
You're a film school at USC.
Oh, at USC.
So you came in for the arts.
Yeah, I did.
Essentially, American arts.
Yeah.
Americans don't understand that outside of America
when you grow up, you do come here for the arts.
Yes.
You know, and we don't think of it, when you live here,
you don't think of it as the arts.
You think of it as, you know, Tick-Tock.
Tick-Tock.
That's right, right.
That was the arts, yeah.
And so my question is, why didn't,
why was it something that you wanted to come here
for instead of pursuing it in Japan?
Well, I, I felt like, you know,
like as a kid, like my parents had a dislike factory
and it was doing the press work,
like, you know, metal pressing metals,
and it felt like their life have to be better
them pressing metals. I mean, you know, child labor didn't exist back then. So, you know,
you're doing whatever their parents tells you, my grandparents. And I just wanted to, I don't know,
see the world. What else is out there? I felt like, I just felt like in my gut, just felt like
I had to get out of there. So I find an opportunity, and I moved to Utah. Right. You just
followed something inside. And it looks like it paid off because you did. Yeah, I did.
The first movie, the rental family. Yes, I did. I did. My, yeah, my second movie.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I mean, I appreciate that you guys understand how hard, like, making a movie is cool, but
I don't think you fully understand how hard it is to make a movie, the number of hoops you
have to go through.
You have to get the script, you have to get the actors, you have to get the financing, you
have to get the cameras, you got to get food, you got coffee, people.
Yeah, everything.
You got people, you got to deal with all this.
Yeah.
So, and you managed to make this.
Can you tell us a little bit about what rental families are there?
Sure. The rental family follows this American, token, white guy.
Mr. Brandon Fraser.
And he's amazing in it.
And, yeah, he's an actor who's not really quite working actor.
And we just follow him how he navigates through Tokyo, but he run into this rental family business, the owner.
And what are rental families?
This is a real thing.
It's a real thing.
Yeah.
So there's about, so rental family is where people who basically rent out, well, the agency that rent out actors, or people who wants to be the surrogate of the people who needs, to just be mom, dad, sister, brothers, whatever you want.
You just walk in and they're going to play exactly what you ask them to do.
And it's just kind of fulfilling the voice of, you know, emotional needs to sometimes take people deal with the trauma or, you know, without any license because they're not licensed therapist.
but that's what they kind of do.
So you could literally go into the shop
and go, I want to hire a dad who likes me.
Yeah, exactly.
And they'll find someone.
Exactly.
And they were like, and you can go through the pictures
like, you know, going through the extra agency, right?
And he was like, ooh, he looked like dad.
He was like, I'm going to pick him.
Tell him, like, as he walked in,
just grab my shoulder or just say, I love you.
And then...
Yeah, and he'll do exactly just exactly how you...
But there's no...
Like, when you hire someone and this is all...
Again, this is a real thing.
When you hire a fake dad, when they enter, the illusion starts.
There's no pre-discussion.
There's no like, okay, I want you to come in here and then.
You can do that too.
You can order exactly.
You can talk to him directly or you can talk through the agency.
But they'll do walk in as if.
So there's an option.
There's no broken characters whatsoever.
Don't break character.
Just come in, just be a dad.
And is this very, is this?
Okay.
So how fringe is it?
this in Japan?
Well, what do you mean French?
Like...
Sorry, I'm a foreign.
No, no.
I meant like, you know, we obviously, it's a very kind of out there concept in America.
How much do Japanese people also think this is an out there concept?
I think a lot of people.
I mean, I'm Japanese and when I find out about this business, I was just like, what the...
Yeah, you can say .
You can say .
Yeah, okay, cool.
So, yeah, I was just like, what the f*** is happening?
I have to stop.
No, you're too polite.
I'm Japanese, so...
Yeah, but you're American now.
Just say it.
So...
No, seriously, say it.
Say it.
Okay.
Yeah.
I love this.
I love you all.
Wait to break barriers.
I was told not to say it for.
It's on many things.
No, who do you say that?
Okay, well, my...
I'm gonna fuck up.
Okay.
Yeah, so...
So, yeah.
Even in Japan, this is kind of like, whoa, what is this?
Yeah, what is this?
And I'm Japanese, and I was just like,
what the fuck is this?
Yeah.
OK, I said it.
And then I found out why this business exists, right?
I just started on why.
Like, what kind of people use services?
Like, who gives the services?
And as we just went through really intensive research,
I found that those are really people who
needs to feeling lonely.
And it's kind of like epidemic loneliness.
People are needing somebody to be there for you.
And happened to be in Japan.
There's a lot of people need that.
So people are hiring like grandmothers and hiring brothers and sisters and you can do you can literally hire anybody
There's like a now grandma. There's a group of grandmother goes into some random people's house and make lunch
Oh, yeah, and then they're like happy because they eat lunch together and she's like okay. I'll see you tomorrow and they walk away
Oh, and they have business like that and then there's a guy called mr. do nothing. He doesn't he absolutely do nothing
Like crazy he and his job is just sit next to you and just like eat ramen with you
You need salt, he was like, puts the salt next to you.
Oh, that's doing something.
Yeah, well, yeah.
You can ask.
If you don't, you can just eat ramen.
You can hire a useless man to come in.
Exactly.
It's like, what, 30 bucks an hour?
Oh, you should come out.
Japanese people looking for that.
Come to America, you can get that for free.
And so this, you made a movie about it instead of a documentary.
Like, why do you choose a scripted narrative for this?
I mean, I love cinema.
I mean, that's always different.
always the bottom line. I love watching, growing up, watching Hollywood movies and behind my
grandmother's tea shop. And, you know, it just always felt like that's something that I, maybe
I didn't think about it then. But now, looking back, that was kind of my practicing of learning
what kind of movie I want to make. So, yeah.
Jay, and I watched the film, and it's beautifully made.
Thank you. The editing is perfect. The story's perfect. The acting is great. Everything
feels very considered. And it's one of those movies where, um,
even though you don't know, it's character-driven, right?
There's no big action set piece.
But it's one of those movies that catches you from the start,
and you can't stop watching it.
Every scene is very entertaining.
Do you have any commentary on like this,
you know, there's kind of like this back,
Hollywood's kind of like in a little bit of a mess right now
in terms of everyone stuck either between big blockbusters
that maybe I'm making money
and small indie films that, you know, no one's watching.
But then, you know,
So I guess I'm saying everyone's bitching
about these big blockbusters,
but when you make something small
and character-driven that's good,
no one comes out to watch it anyway.
Yeah, that's true.
So what the f*** people want?
I mean, seriously.
Yeah, what the fuck?
It's a good movie.
You don't watch you or stop bitching about it.
So.
I mean, you know, you just kind of,
I mean, you hope that people come,
and I hope you guys will come for this one.
Yeah, but this, really, this movie talks about connection, you know, I feel like in just, in general, people are like always constantly talking through phones or computer.
There's always something between us, but this movie talks about the importance of having this true connection, even you're hiring people or, you know, whatever the circumstances is.
So, yeah, talks about even though you're not related, you know, it's a found family that they create.
And then Ben and Fraser does incredible job navigating individual character and then finding
who he is really eventually.
No, the message and theme is so relevant it comes through to it.
And one of the beautiful things about the film I feel was that I guess technically
it's a foreign film, but when I was watching it didn't feel like a foreign film at all.
It just felt like a well-made movie.
How much did you consider, how much thought did you put into Japanese dialogue versus English
dialogue or did you just let it be what it was?
I just kind of let it be.
Like, once I find who Philip was, and, you know, Brandon being the Philip, I just kind of, you know, just wanted to be equal, but then what is it like to be in Japan if you're the Phillips character, you know, being there for seven years? It's like a half and half. But I also wanted to make this movie for the world, you know? If it's just all Japanese, it'll be a little bit difficult to understand. So, yeah, we kind of find a fine balance in between.
No, I think you've got the balance right. Like when they speak English, it doesn't feel weird.
And it feels like it fits in the,
and when they speak Japanese also obviously feels correct
because they're in Japan.
And you got a chance to direct one of your acting heroes.
Yes, yes, Akiraemoto.
And yeah, he's like a girl, yeah, childhood dream.
Sure, he's Japanese acting legend.
And it was weird, how did you direct him?
Was it weird to give him direction?
Well, at first I was so nervous.
I mean, he came into audition because he had to speak English.
And then like-
Oh shit, you auditioned him?
Oh, man.
I was like, yeah, he was like, he was like,
And he was like, he's 77.
He just turned 77.
No, that's awful only.
Yeah, he never, and he never auditioned ever in his life.
Right, and you made your 77, you're a hero auditioned for your indie film.
Yeah, and so I was like, all of us are like shitting my pants.
And I was like, hey, excuse me, can you do this?
And he's like, what do you want?
And I feel like, oh, okay.
But anyway, working with him was great.
We did a lot of new conversation.
You just told him to shut up and do it the way I tell you to do it.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
No, he's great in the movies.
Thank you.
You see these actors who are at the top of their game.
Yeah, totally.
So thanks so much for making a movie.
It's a beautiful movie.
Thank you.
It's telling a real human story, and I hope everyone out there
and go watch it.
Yeah, totally.
Rental family will be in theaters everywhere, November 21st.
Dicarisad.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back after this.
All right, I see me.
Hey, that's our show over the night.
Now here it is, your moment of Zen.
We work with all presidents.
Does Trump blow him all away?
Oh, you, a son of the league, Mr. President.
Mr. President.
And Trump doesn't give a fist pump.
I grabbed that hand.
I don't give a hell where that hand's been.
I grabbed that hand.
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