The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Ronny Chieng Covers Dems Slamming JD Vance for "Weird" Cat Lady Comments | Jon M. Chu

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

Ronny Chieng zooms in on the white guys who are fired up for Kamala Harris and finds out why the Democrats are calling Donald Trump & JD Vance "weird." Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt gets the scoop on those childless cat ladies Vance has been trash-talking. In an all-new "Back in Black," Lewis Black takes a look at what climate change is up to now, from soda cans exploding on airplanes to the tourists who are finding out why Death Valley is called that. And director, Jon M. Chu, discusses his new book, “Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen.” They talk about how Jon cast Ronny in “Crazy Rich Asians” after spotting him on The Daily Show, reimagining the American Dream and his advice to young dreamers, and why he was drawn to direct the Wicked Witch’s backstory in the upcoming film adaptation of “Wicked.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 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. 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. I'm Roy Chang. So much to talk about tonight. White dudes are mansplaining their support for Kamala Harris. J.D. Vance gets his own pussy tape, and Louis Black yells at the sun. So much to talk about tonight. White dudes are mansplaining their support for Kamala Harris.

J.D. Vance gets his own pussy tape, and Louis Black yells at the sun.. to to to to to to to the to the the the th. th. to to the th. th. th. to to th. th. th. to th. to th. to th. to to to to to to the. too. the. theck. tooom. tooom. tooes tooes tooes tooes tooes tooes tooes 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 th. I. I. I. th. I. th. th. th. th. th. I. th. th. the. It. It's the. It's toom. It's to. to. to. tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr true.s.s.s.s. Wea. Wea. It's too support for Kamala Harris. J.D. Vance gets his own pussy tape, and Louis Black yells at the sun. But first, let's get into our continuing coverage of Indecision 2024. We are now less than 100 days on the election, and Democrats are super fired up about having a candidate who isn't legally dead. Nearly every night now huge groups are gathering on Zoom to raise money. It started with black women for Harris and then black men for Harris and then white women and last night white dudes took a break from trying to have sex with Asian women to do their Zoom call. Monday nights white dudes for Harris live stream raised more than four million dollars according to organizers more than a hundred and fifty thousand people

were on the call the call included possible Harris running mates actors the labor leaders among the stars were Mark Hamill Josh Grohman Joseph Gordon Leavitt actor Jeff Bridges throwing in his star power like qualified I'm white I'm a dude and I'm for Harry I'm so excited a A woman president, man. How exciting! I mean, it is cool that they got Jeff Bridges, but if anyone was waiting to see who the big Labrosky endorses, I don't think that's the group that's going to remember to vote. But 150,000 white dudes joined the zoom, because nothing says I will do anything for this candidate like clicking on a zoom link from your toilet.

The white dudes did raise a lot of money, although the zoom went off the rails when someone asked if anyone had a favorite Bob Dylan album. And I personally am glad they found a way to make segregation progressive, but I'm just saying historically, it's not great when white people develop racial awareness, okay? It starts out like, hey, let's just hang out. And then soon it's like, hey, this is fun. We should get some uniforms. But even if you want in on the man bun zoom, it's obvious there's a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side. And you can tell by who wants to debate more.

I'm ready to debate Donald Trump. He agreed to that. Previously, now it appears he's back-tuddling. I want to do a debate, but I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am. And now people know who she is. And why not debate her? We'll wait.

But because they already know everything. The answer is yes I'll probably end up debating, but I can also make a case for not doing it. It sounds like Trump just lost a debate with himself. But hey, I don't blame him for having second thoughts okay I mean the last time Trump did a debate he beat Biden so bad they gave him a tougher opponent. That's that's crazy. It's like tru-o'-like. It's like tru-trun so hard. It's like true. It's like true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. I true. true. I true. I true., okay? I mean, the last time Trump did a debate, he beat Biden so bad, they gave him a tougher opponent. That's crazy. It's like Trump won so hard, he might lose the presidency. And no shit, he doesn't want to debate again. I mean, if he debates again, either he loses to Kamala, or he wins and they swap it out. It's like, how many bosses are there in this game? But Democrats aren't waiting for a debate to go on the offense.

They've been subtly field-testing a new line of attack, and see if you can spot it. The way they address people, it is bizarre. And so, it's weird. It is weird. That stuff is weird. They come across weird. They seem obsessed with this. A super weird. They're just weird.

More weird. It's just plain weird. Weird. What about Donald Trump is weird? Yeah, I just don't see it. Uh, yeah, I just don't see it. Uh, now, calling someone weird is a bit of a downgrade from he tried to overthrow democracy. On the other hand, you know, that message didn't really stick. I mean, Democrats spent four years being like, hey, everybody, remember January 6? And most Americans were like, we don't remember and or care. So now Democrats are like, hey, wasn't trying to overthrow the government kind of weird? Like, who even does that? And now people are like, yeah, I guess that is kind of weird.

The best part about this line of attack is that there is no defense to it. I mean, you can't say, guys, guys, I'm not weird. Because that sounds weird. And although Democrats have to be clear about what kind of weird they're referring to, because people could think they mean like cool weird, like David Bowie or Jeff Goldblum, they got to be like, no, we mean weird, like the penguin from Batman. What was up with that guy? Is like, hey, I'm a bad guy, but I'm also into Antarctic wildlife conservation? And one of the weird things that they've been hitting

them on is this comment Vance made in 2021. We're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. Yeah, I mean, if you have friends who've chosen not to have kids, you know how totally miserable they are. Oh, no, I got too much disposable income. My life is so hard. I can fly business class. I still have a sex life. Please kill me. So after getting back last, J.D. Vance tried to do damage control. But it turns out, he didn't misspeak. He's been shit-talking childless people for years. The controversial comments he made, questioning the judgment of people without children,

they were not a one-off. He told a crowd, quote, babies are good because we're not sociopaths. He appealed to donors by mentioning the, quote, radical childless leaders in this country. Cat ladies must be stopped. You go on Twitter and almost always, the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids at home. Yeah, of course they're deranged and psychotic. They're on Twitter. That's where they live. It doesn't matter how many kids you have. The most deranged person on Twitter has 45 kids.

For more... For more analysis on childless cat ladies, let's go live to Grace Coolin' Smith. Grace, Grace, what do you think about J.D. Van saying that childless catlady is bad for America? Hey man, when you're right, you're right. Back to you, Ronnie. Wait, really? What's wrong with childless catlady's? Uh, for starters, their houses are covered in cat hair. Look at what they did to J.D. When he went over to one of their houses once,

and his face still has cat hair all over it. I think that's his beard. Oh, gross. The point is, childless cat ladies are freaks. Okay, I'm I'm sorry but aren't you childless? Yes but I don't have a bunch of cats all over my apartment. I'm a normal adult woman. Grace there's a whole bunch of lizards crawling all behind you. Yeah lizards. Not cats I'm not a freak. Okay, how is that? Okay, how is that this? that's this beard. Okay? that's that? that? that? that's, that's, that's, that's, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's there's a whole bunch of lizards crawling all behind you. Yeah, lizards. Not cats, I'm not a freak.

Okay, how is that better? It's obviously better. I don't spend all day petting my lizards or making an Instagram profile for them. I just give them pedicures and crochet them turtlenecks like a normal pet owner. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How many lizards do you have? I don't know, 40 to 80? Okay, Grace, that's a huge range. What do you mean you don't know? They come and go as they want, Ronnie.

They're not animals. Jasper, stop eating your brother's skin, you're goofful. Okay, Grace, it's not about the animals. J.D Vance was saying that that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's, th, th. G. G. G. th. th. th. that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, th. th. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's about the animals. J.D. Vance was saying that if you don't have human children, you don't care about the future of America. What? No, I deeply care about America, because no other country will let me in with 80 to 100 lizards. Ooh, wow.

Feeding time. Come on, guys. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to jump on Zoom. Lizard ladies for Kamla. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, to to to to me, I have to jump on Zoom. Lizard ladies for Kamala. We're going to talk about how weird the Republicans are. Okay, Grace Poulinsman, everybody. When we come back, Louis Black will be here so don't go away. 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 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. W. New story falls through a cracks. Lewis Black catches it for a segment we call Back in Black. We are officially in the dog days of summer, which means I can finally bust out my slip and slide. It used to belong to the kid next door, but it turns out a lot of kids stuff. You can just walk up and take. But this summer it's so hot, you can't even make it down

the slide without your nuts sticking to the bingle. It's been one of the hottest summers on record across the US. A relentless heat wave smashing records in the Northeast. Monday was the hottest day ever reported on Earth. The previous record, which was set on Sunday only lasted 24 hours. It's hot, really, really hot. The hottest day ever recorded on Earth. Suck on that, dinosaurs. We can destroy the planet ourselves. We don't need an asteroid like you, pussies. Yes, this summer the heat is kicking our ass more than usual.

Last week it was so hot in New York that, and I can't believe I'm going to say this, I ask the hawk to a girl to hit me in the forehead. And this isn't just your classic heat wave that only kills some old people that no one cares about. The heat is so extreme, it's causing shit that's never happened before. Blazing temperatures outdoors can wreak havoc inside airplane. These soda cans all exploded on Southwest flights due to extreme heat exposure. The problem is widespread. Southwest Airlines has reported about 20 employees have been injured by exploding

soda cans this summer alone. What the hell? It's so hot that our soda cans are joining Al-Qaeda. I don't want to die in a plane crash because a cherry coke. I want to die because the Boeing guys forgot to tighten the screws. This is a disaster. What happens if planes have to get rid of soda? What am I supposed to drink on a flight now?

Whiskey? Then another whiskey? What am I supposed to mix the whiskey with another whiskey? Now I haven't had enough? You've had enough. This is clearly a reckoning, but I'm sure Uans will take this as a sign that climate change is a serious threat and not a chance for an idiotic photo op. At Death Valley National Park they actually embraced the heat encouraging tourists to take pictures in front of the park's thermometer right now hovering around 130 degrees. You can definitely feel the heat on your skin. Honestly it's definitely shocking I don't know how anything

can survive out here. Of course, nothing can survive in Death Valley. That's why they call it Death Valley. Guess what they sell it? Burger King, you idiot! Now, you'd think Park Rangers would be warning people about the deadly heat, but instead, they're getting in on the fun. Park rangers have a tasty way to show you just how hot it is inside your car. So rangers at Sikuro National Park by Tucson made banana bread inside their car.

Some other things you can make inside your car, cookies, eggs, and even stuffed bell peppers. Who stuffs a bell pepper? Yes, global warming means you can cook right in your car, which is great news for mine who restaurant, Louis Flax, Hyundai Sonata Chimichangas. The secret ingredient is wiper fluid. So yes, as we've known for a while, every year the earth is getting hotter and hotter like me and Paul Rudd. And that's why we need every single government body working to fix the problem instead of jerking us around with elementary school science projects. The National Weather Service put on a colorful display of the record-setting heat wave

hitting Las Vegas. Check out this time lapse of the extreme temps, turning crayons into colored cream. This interesting experiment really puts in perspective just how hot it is out there. I feel like if you could just sort of freeze that and then, you know, make a little bit of art out of it. I think so too. Right? Yes. Oh, that's cool. But I mean, really, not cool. Hot. It's great. Uh-huh. We're all going to die.

Thanks, National Weather Surface. Now, we all know what it would look like if a pack of skittles got its period. So quick, safety tip, okay? If you're gonna leave your kid in a hot car, remember to grab the crayons first. It's hard to know whether to be more worried about the record heat or the record stupidity. But at least when the earth finally explodes, we'll be eating delicious dashboard banana bread along the way. Ronnie? Thank you, Willis Black, everybody. When we come back, director John Chu will be joining me on the show, so don't go away. to the try to the news.

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My guest tonight is director of Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians. I hope he remembers me. He's the author of Viewfinder, a memoir of Seeing and Being Seen, a memoirs. My guest tonight is director of Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians. I hope he remembers me. He's the author of Viewfinder, a memoir of Seeing and Being Seen. Please welcome Mr. John M. Chu. We're here. We're here. This is so. Woo! Cheers. C'n'er Cheers.

C'n'e. C'n'e. as, they say. So good to see you here. It's great to be here. This is your new book. Yes. I immediately look for where I was mentioned.

And do you mind just reading this out so I have this on video? Perfect. Ronnie Chang. Oh, sorry, look in the camera. Sorry, OK. Ronnie Chang had caught my eye when he did a piece on the Daily show that mocked a racist Fox News segment about Chinatown. I love that he was smart and hilarious and clearly wasn't trying to please anybody. Thank you just for my Instagram.

No, but this is a crazy full-soto moment. It is. Because I guess you, I never heard the story from you, but you apparently saw me on the Daily Show and that's how you cast me on it. Yeah, now here we are. Yeah. We're just talking on the Daily Show and that's how you cast me on it. Yeah. Now here we are. Here we are. Yeah. We're just talking on the Daily Show and you're the guest and I'm hosting. It's nuts. It's nice. It's nice. Everything is nice. When we were casting, I just wanted to be like or had the confidence to be like and you had all of it. Oh no that's just. And we were casting an asshole. So it's 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 the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. We're just just. We're just. We're just. We're just. th. th. th. th. 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 the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. th. t. to. te. te. te. th. the. th. the. th. th. th. th. the confidence to be like. And you had all of it. Oh, that's great. And we were casting an asshole, so it was perfect. I take it. Yeah.

Yeah, the story was, for me was, I saw you making the movie. And then at that time, I just moved to America. Hollywood was such a far away thing. I didn't even, even my wildestest dreams would I be in a movie. I was just some asshole comic like running from bar to bar telling dig jokes. And so I didn't even think about it. I just thought, oh it's cool that John Chu is doing a story set in Singapore. I was like, oh that's cool, I can't wait to watch this movie. And then I did the

most Hollywood thing ever I just called my agent and I was like yo I will never do this I told my agent I'll never pull this card but if you get me an audition I promise you I promise you and then he was he got me on a to send an audition in I taped it I sent it in a few weeks later got cast come on I mean the reality is you already on our list. Yeah, I know. So, that's insane. And then I meet you on set and you're like, oh yeah, you were always on our pitch deck.

Literally my pitch deck. I would like flip around and we're gonna get Ronnie Chang, that's gonna of the Marvel Universe. Wow! This is crazy. That's great, but then that word never got back to me. No one told me I was on the pitch text, I was auditioning. I was like, we got to make you work for it. Yeah. It was great. I was happy to audition for it. And the first thing you told me, when I got on set was just, I loved how positive, I to, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I loved, I, I, I, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved, I loved how, I loved how, I loved how, I loved how, I to, I loved how, I to, I to, I the, I loved how, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I was to, I was to, I was to, I was, I was, I was the, I was, I was to, I was the to, I was to, I was to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to and I didn't, you know, I wasn't trying to make it about me at all, but you were so positive.

He didn't at all. Never, never. And you came up to me and the first thing you said was like, hey man, you know I see auras. And I don't know how you saw that. And I don't want to know how to know my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my to know my to know my to know my to know my to know my to know my to know my to know my to to to to know my to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to told. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. to. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to tell. tell. t. tell. tell. to t. to tell. the the to to to the to. the to to the the the the got pink dots on your arm and and that arm like I have an injured right arm and so I don't know how you saw that well you shouldn't be on edibles when you meet your actor for the first time but if you're outing me as a spiritualist then you know I don't I don't know if I believe in all that stuff but I do see colors you do yeah so I've never said that publicly I'm try I'm to to to th I th I th I th I th I'm th th th you th th you th th you th th th th you th you th th th you th th th th th th you have you have th. you have you have th. I thi thi th. I'm th. I'm 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 th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I you don't you don't th. I you don't you don't you don't you tell. I'm tell. I'm you tell. I'm you tell. I'm you you you tell. I'm you you don't you don't you don't thi you don'tthat publicly. Just to, to my kids. I'm trying to get you say stuff you didn't say on Colbert.

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And I mean, when you were making it, did you, did you know that it was going to become where it was? No, I don't think any of us could have known. I think when we were there and we're all together, we're talking about our experiences of being an Asian person in entertainment from all around the world where anyone came from. I think we shared something and that was really powerful that, hey, this is actually really important. Whether people see it or not, we didn't know, we didn't really care. It was like for us to show off what we could do, we could make fun of ourselves and

our culture and our people. And we could show them as beautiful and as heroes and as villains, and any way we wanted and I think it was when we were making it is when I felt like if people get a load of this they're not even ready. Right. So you could feel it on set. I could feel it on set but you don't know until the audience shows up in that first weekend when people brought their grandmothers and people who hadn't gone in the movies for all these years and and were crying outside and would just to throwne. you just felt that like we were part of something, something, something bigger than us. And I guess I want to talk about this relentless positivity that I felt back then and I still feel now. And I guess I don't know if you have any words of how to stay positive in these times.

Because I feel like if anything, like the world has gotten less positive after we made this movie, but you never stop with the positivity. So I don't know if you have any perspective on that. That's part of the reason why I wrote the book is you know I grew up in an America where people believed in their dreams that you could achieve these things. My parents have a Chinese restaurant I grew up as a restaurant yeah you go there all the time and chef chef chute Paulo that's the the the th. the the the th. the the the th. I I I I I I I I 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 the the the the the the the the the the 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 their their their their their their their their their their their their 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 they. I I I they. I they. at the bar. Yeah, you go there all the time. And, Chef Chu, follow Alto. That's right, that's right. Hello, uncle. And I feel like, you know, the American dream still exists. Yes, it wasn't maybe not what our parents said it was, and maybe not what we hoped it would

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I was the whole time. It's already at the end, so I had to read the whole book before I could find out what you said about me. But no, this book is a very positive book. I feel like, I almost feel like you wrote it for kids to read almost in a way, for them to read and see, you know, how to navigate kind of dream chasing. I also think like everyone has a camera now. Everyone's a creator, everyone has a, you know, on their phones or editing for Tick-Tock

or whatever it may be. And there's, that's power. That is a very powerful thing in your hand. And I, you know, when I started making videos, it was for weddings and bar mitzvahs in high school, and I was like the only kid doing it. And now everyone does it. So I think there's like a responsibility when you realize the power that you have. And I think there is, I think there's understanding what that grammar is of audio visual storytelling and what you want to say. to the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, their, thi, thi, to, to, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, th. And, thin, thr-and, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, and the only thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thi's, thin, thin, thi's thi's th. That's why it's called Viewfinder, is to find who you are and how you want to express that. And you may have mistakes that you make along the way, but that's okay. It's a constant, it's a it's a routine, chasing your dreams a routine, it isn't a goal or destination. And I do want to talk about this next project project you're doing. So you've helped Asian representation in film and you've

helped Latino representation in film and now you're helping green people. Yeah. So this next movie project, Wicked. Yeah. When is it coming out? It's coming out November 22nd and we have Arana Grande, Cynthia Arivo playing the two witches. Yeah. And I mean just set it up? What made you want to choose to work on Wiccid? Well, the next the the neu the the the the the the the the the the the the the next the the next the ne........ ne. ne. ne. 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. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.................................................................................................. 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 playing the two witches. And I mean, just set it up. What made you want to choose to work on Wicked? Well, it's about the back story of the Wicked Witch of the West. So Cynthia Arrivo plays Elphabah, who, in the story of the Wizard of Oz, which is probably one of the greatest American fairy tales out there, she is seen as the wicked witch. But there's a deeper the, the, the, the, thiiii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, what thi, what thi, what thi, what thi, what thi, what thi, what thi, what thi, what 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 thi, what thi, what thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to to to to to to thiiiiiiiiiiiiwooooomi, what tooomi, what to thi, but there's a deeper plan, a darker plan

that has made her the Wicked Witch. And when you get to meet her as a young dreamer, that you find out that she's more than meets the eye. And seeing that story in a totally different point of view, is fascinating, interesting, and you get to almost like take apart the American story, and I loved it. So that had a lot of meeting to me in terms of, you know, anyone who feels different

and what does it feel like to come through? And also for Goliinda, who's Glinda the Good and in Wizard of Oz, that she goes through a transition, that she could live in a bubble her whole life and never have to fight for anything because she has to pop her own bubble and I think that is as much bravery as anyone else to get off your privilege for a moment to confront some of the things that we have to confront these days. So yeah, it's the way you talk about all your projects. It's all like that.

That's how he talks about everything on set. He's always, it's real. It's real, it's real for him. It's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real, it's real. It's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real, it's real. It's real, it's real, it's real. It's real, it's real. It's real. It's in here. And I just want to say, you know, thanks so much for believing in me on your project. I love you so much. You changed my life by putting me on. And thanks for trusting me. And thanks for making all these really great films. Don Chu, everybody. Judge Mamlard, you fight is available now. We'll be going to take a quick break and we'll be right back after this. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show coming out every Thursday. We're going to be talking about the election. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be

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