The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Breaks Up With MAGA Over “Boring” Epstein Files, New Yorkers RSVP to Elon's Third Party | Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

Jordan Klepper follows MAGA's continued frustration with Trump for not releasing the Epstein files, and Trump's continued frustration with MAGA for not shutting up about it. Plus, Lauren Boebert sugge...sts the GOP's own underage-sex-trafficking expert, Matt Gaetz, should lead a special counsel investigation into the hidden files, but The Daily Show's Grace Kuhlenschmidt already has all the evidence Trump's supporters could ever need. There are currently over 400 political third parties in the U.S., and Elon Musk is adding a new one to the list: the "America Party." Michael Kosta talks to New Yorkers to see which of Elon’s party platforms speak to voters: antisemitism, white supremacy, or ketamine. Writer and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson sits down with Jordan to discuss her theatrical feature debut, “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” They talk about the '90s movies that inspired a love of filmmaking, the character death brainstorms that led to a questionable search history, and how they masked disturbing props during filming for nearby ferrygoers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:51 -♪ -♪ Welcome to the day on the show. Jordan Klepper, we got so much to talk about tonight. The Unabomber gets some weird-ass Google alerts. MAGA gets a breakup text. And bad news, Elon Musk has invited us all to a party. So let's get into headlines. -♪ Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop Donald Trump. He was at a conference in Pennsylvania yesterday to discuss AI, his go-to technology
Starting point is 00:02:27 for giving Jessica Rabbit three giant boobs. And if you're curious what the commander-in-chief's thoughts were about the technology that will change our future, too bad. He decided to weave. When I first heard about AI, you know, it's not my thing. Although my uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, 51 years whatever,
Starting point is 00:02:50 who was the longest-serving professor in the history of MIT, three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math. That's a smart man. That's pause right there. Uh, I hate to be nitpicky, but I'm a stickler for facts. Yes, Trump's uncle was a famous MIT professor, but he wasn't the longest-serving professor in MIT history, and he didn't have a degree in nuclear
Starting point is 00:03:18 or chemical or math. Again, sorry to nitpick. You were saying about your genius uncle. Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference between a madman and a genius. Wow! We went from zero to Unabomber like that.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Okay, I don't want to be that guy, but it's unlikely that the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was a student of Trump's uncle at MIT, because Kaczynski never went to MIT. No, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Trump just misspoke, made a slip. I mean, who among us hasn't accidentally told people that her uncle taught the Unabomber?
Starting point is 00:04:03 I once told people my nana gave piano lessons to John Wayne Gacy. Not sure why. I don't know. It just came out. I was probably nervous. But the problem, the problem with this little fib is that it was the cornerstone of an entire fantasy conversation Trump had with his uncle. What kind of a student was he, Uncle John,
Starting point is 00:04:23 Dr. John Trump? He said, what kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr. John Trump? He said, what kind of a student? Man, he said, seriously good. He said he'd go around correcting everybody, but it didn't work out too well for him. Didn't work out too well. Wow. Wow.
Starting point is 00:04:40 An amazing story that, once again, absolutely never happened. Because nobody knew who Kaczynski was until 1996, and Trump's uncle died in 1985. What I'm saying is, isn't it great that we finally have a president whose brain works perfectly? But it's not surprising that Trump would want to escape into a fantastical world of Unabomber fan fiction right now.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Because back in the real world, he's still got all his supporters breathing down his neck to release the Epstein files. And no matter what Trump does, he just can't get them to shut up about it. I know you've urged people to move on, but I'm curious, why do you think your supporters in particular have been so interested in the Epstein story?
Starting point is 00:05:30 I don't understand. Tell us about how it's been handled. I don't understand why they would be so interested. He's dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life. I don't understand. I don't understand why they would be so interested. He's dead for a long time. of life. Not the guy you call to give a eulogy. Also, you don't have to like Epstein, but he clearly was a big factor in terms of life.
Starting point is 00:06:00 He's America's most famous sex criminal, which is quite a competitive category. That really highlights Trump's dilemma. He's desperate to tamp down the drama, but his entire career has only taught him to heighten the drama. You can't spend your whole life as the messy bitch from a reality show and then suddenly say, can we have some decorum here, please?
Starting point is 00:06:27 Because this does not sound like Donald Trump. But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring. It's boring! Oh, yeah, what's interesting about a global pedophile sex ring that involves the richest people in the world
Starting point is 00:06:45 that I might be covering up in my own involvement in? Snooze Alerts! Anyway, who wants to hear about my copper tariffs? That's juicy. So, Magaday Hards, you've heard your dear leader. Epstein's just a boring dead guy who no one cares about. I'm sure you'll join him in saying, it's time to move on. Nothing more to see here.
Starting point is 00:07:06 You should put everything out there and let the people decide it. I think that the American people need to see what's in there. And that's not hard to understand. I do think there needs to be more transparency. You don't believe what the Justice Department is saying? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:21 You know, I don't. I don't. I think I don't. I don't. I don't trust him. I don't. I don't. I don't trust him. Oh, man. That guy is flat-out broken. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't trust, I don't trust nothing.
Starting point is 00:07:36 No more. I'm gonna go just fill my pocket with rocks and walk into the sea. Tell Manu Raju I love him. I mean, things are so bad, even Lauren Boebert is demanding answers. Although being Lauren Boebert, she has a particular way of putting it. Of course we want answers.
Starting point is 00:07:55 No one is satisfied with what has been received or lack thereof. No one is satisfied with the rollout of this. Yes, Mr. President. If Lauren Boebert was in charge, you'd better believe she would leave people satisfied. She... She would not be jerking everyone around
Starting point is 00:08:17 and then leaving them frustrated like you. No, sir, with her, there would be a complete finish. This is a shocking turn of events for Donald Trump. His own sycophants are breaking ranks with her, there would be a complete finish. Oh! This is a shocking turn of events for Donald Trump. His own sycophants are breaking ranks with him, and even worse, they are demanding accountability. I think moving forward, we need a special counsel. That has got to happen. I want answers,
Starting point is 00:08:38 and maybe that takes that special counsel to do so. Maybe Matt Gaetz can lead the special counsel. Oh! Oh! Oh! You want Matt Gaetz to investigate underage sex trafficking? Because it makes sense in a sort of game-recognized game way.
Starting point is 00:08:59 I can see Matt Gaetz pulling up to R. Kelly's house saying, I'm putting together a team. Also, legally, I have to introduce myself. And this special counsel thing might have been the last straw because, by this morning, Trump had absolutely lost it on his supporters. He posted this morning. He said, my past supporters have bought into this quote, bullshit hook line and sinker.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success because I don't want their support anymore. God damn, he went, he went, full messy bitch. If you can't handle me at my sex crimes cover-up, you don't deserve me at my alligator concentration camp, you sluts. Oh.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Oh. Oh. Okay. All right. So, Trump is in a brutal spot right now, but like any good reality show producer knows, always leave room for reconciliation. And Trump might have done that today. Mr. President, will you ask Attorney General Pan-Ban
Starting point is 00:10:11 to release more documents to finally put this controversy to bed? Whatever's credible, she can release it. If a document is credible, if a document's there that is credible, she can release it. You hear that? Those documents are coming, or Donald Trump's uncle wasn't Ted Kaczynski's favorite teacher Yes
Starting point is 00:10:35 For more on the continuing Epstein scandal we go to the Department of Justice and our senior pedophile correspondent Grace Kuhlenschmitt senior pedophile correspondent Grace Coolidge-Schmidt. Yeah! Wait. Senior pedophile correspondent? I didn't know I got a title bump. You're doing great work, Grace. So what?
Starting point is 00:10:59 What's the latest? Huge news, Jordan. Pam Bondi has just found some brand newnew recordings, just like Donald Trump asks. And not only are they credible, they're incredible. Well, that's huge. Do you have any insight as to where they found them? In between the DOJ's couch cushions. Always the last place you look.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Let's take a listen. Hi. I'm Donald Trump. Hi. I'm Jeffrey Epstein. Nice to meet you for the first time." -"Likewise. What are you up to today on this, the first day we've ever met?" -"I'm gonna go kill myself." -"Okay. Bye."
Starting point is 00:11:38 Laughter and applause Wow! Case closed. Credibility accredited. Grace, there's, I mean, there's no way that was real. Trump and Epstein have known each other for years. There's plenty of pictures of them together. You mean, like, these credible pictures that Pam Bondi just found in the Department of Justice's
Starting point is 00:11:59 lost and found box? See? That is an undocked photo where Epstein is asking if Trump wants to do pedo stuff and Trump clearly says, no, thank you. Trump exonerated credibility, credem. Okay, Grace, of course it was doctored. There are speech bubbles. It doesn't seem suspicious that all this so-called evidence makes Trump look good.
Starting point is 00:12:27 That's not true. Some of the evidence makes other people look bad. Remember that missing minute from the prison camera the night Epstein died? Pam Bondi just found the footage at the DOJ in a DVD case for shallow health. And it is damning. Time to murder Epstein.
Starting point is 00:12:48 I knew it. I knew Hillary was a witch. Even when I voted for her, I said, this witch is gonna kill Jeffrey Epstein in prison. Grace, Grace, that's clearly fake. Her legs didn't even bend. Stop policing women's bodies. What would convince you, you misogynist, if she smiled more?
Starting point is 00:13:12 I just don't want fake files. Okay, fine. This next one's file name was labeled real Epstein audio underscore real underscore not fake. Can you give this one a chance? Hey, Donald. I know you've said repeatedly that you don't want to come to my sex crime island because you love your current wife but I'll be there all week check out who's with me it's me
Starting point is 00:13:33 future Fed chair Jerome Powell the only thing I love more than sex crimes is not lowering interest rates and I'm so wrongnie. I suck. You want to apologize to me now, Klepper? No. No, no, no. None of that was real. I guess no amount of evidence will convince you. You sound crazy. Hold on. Sorry. I'm getting a call. Yello? It's Jeffrey Epstein.
Starting point is 00:13:59 No. No, it's not. Jeffrey Epstein is very much dead. Jordan, I'm on the phone. Okay. Let me talk to him. Put him on speakerphone. Okay, okay. Jeffrey, he just told me he killed himself again. Thanks a lot, Jordan. Senior pedophile correspondent Grace Coolidgeman, everyone.
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Starting point is 00:15:13 Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. Welcome back to the Daily Show. The MAGA Coalition is in danger of splintering, so Michael Kosta hit the streets to find out if New Yorkers are interested in a new option. Recently, genius tech billionaire Elon Musk dropped another political bombshell. Elon Musk wants to start a new political party. A new political party dubbed the America Party. So I asked New Yorkers how they felt about Elon's latest project.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Have you heard the news that Elon Musk is creating a third party? How excited are you? Not at all. That's terrifying. There are currently over 400 third political parties. What would attract you to Elon Musk's America Party? Nothing. How excited, Helen, are you about Elon Musk's third party, America party?
Starting point is 00:16:10 I'm not excited that it's Elon Musk. I don't like Elon Musk. I don't think people relate to him. How excited are you about Elon Musk's America party? I'm ecstatic for it. I love it. Tell me why. Honestly, I haven't really looked into it very much.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Which party platform of Elon Musk do you support the most? Wait, sorry, can you repeat that? Give me some options of Elon Musk's platform. Anti-Semitism. I do not support anti-Semitism. White Supremacy. I don't support white supremacy. Inseminating random women through the mail.
Starting point is 00:16:45 Impregnating women through the mail. Yay or nay? Sex? Yeah, sex through the mail. I know you like sex, bro. What do you think an Elon Musk party would stand for? Tax cuts for billionaires. Eliminating some government institutions
Starting point is 00:17:01 that have done some really good in our society that... And you're against that? I am against that. Do you think Elon has enough support? I mean, it seems like he has a lot of support, especially from the youth. I'd say most of America's kind of turned on him at this point. He's got about 50 kids scattered all around the country. He probably has at least half of them that support him.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Maybe 10. Well, the one that he uses as a human shield. Yeah. I mean, from his own loins, I guess you could say he's probably got a few supporters. Tesla! You excited about Elon's new third party? Let me show you some potential logos for this party. What do you think works here?
Starting point is 00:17:37 Would that be a good logo? No. No? Elon's showing his belly? What about that one? No, that's just fascist. OK. It's him wearing two different hats. That's just... That's not about that one? No, that's just fascist. Okay. This is him wearing two different hats. That's just...
Starting point is 00:17:47 That's not working for you? ...idiotic. Yeah. Here's a SpaceX rocket exploding, a bag of ketamine, and a Tesla running over a child. Which do you think is the best logo? I think we'd go with the bag of ketamine.
Starting point is 00:17:58 Hell yeah, bro. You like to party too, huh? Finally, a third-party symbol everyone can get behind. I'm in for psychedelics, expanding our consciousness. I'm in favor of psychedelic legalization. Unsurprisingly, I guess. It's going to be a hell of a trip. Thank you, Michael. We come back.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Jennifer and Kate Robinson will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a writer and director who's making her theatrical feature debut with I Know What You Did Last Summer. Please welcome Jennifer Caton Robinson. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:19:07 I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:19:15 I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:19:23 I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm very excited. I'm like slightly nervous. Yes. Because box office and you gotta like do well. You're already thinking about that. Of course I'm thinking about it. You're thinking about what is my number, what's my bottom line? No, enjoy this. Oh my God, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:19:33 It's not what's my bottom line. It's just that you just want people to love it. You work so hard on it. We all work so hard on it. So I hope that people go out to the theaters and enjoy it. I love it. Well, this is, I mean, there's a lot of love around this franchise, right?
Starting point is 00:19:46 Yeah. I think, like, you started your first film, Due Revenge, was sort of a... It's actually my second film. Second film. Congratulations. Your second film, Due Revenge, sort of an homage to 90s films, Cruel Intentions.
Starting point is 00:19:58 What is it about the 90s that interests you so much? I mean, I feel like my love of film was forged in the blanket forts of middle school sleepovers. You know what I mean? It's like I could lie and go into the Criterion closet and look at more urban films, but I just watched Clueless 100 times
Starting point is 00:20:17 and I was like, God, I wanna make movies. That's what it is. There's not enough of that happening inside the Criterion closet, right? Everybody becomes their most particular. I actually think Clueless is in the Criterion closet. Is that right? I think it is. Yeah, who's picking it though? Me. Youion closet, right? Everybody becomes their most pretentious. I don't think Clueless is in the Criterion closet. Is that right? I think it is.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Yeah, who's picking it though? Me. You need to, right? Yeah, screw you Michael Shannon being all pretentious walking in there. Yeah, it's me. Pick out Clueless like a badass. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:36 How did you get involved with, I know what you did last summer? Sony came to me and they said. Is that a person? Sony, yes. It was Mr. Sony. Mr. It was Mr. Sony. Mr. Sony. Mr. Sony.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Wow, I've been trying to get a meeting with Mr. Paramount for years. Yes, yes. I understand, he's hard to get ahold of. He's very hard to get ahold of. He's never called me. Mr. Sony called me. Nice.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Actually, Maya Eyre at the Sony Corporation called me and said, would you like to reboot? I know what you did last summer. And I think before she finished the title, I said yes. Yeah. Because you were already a fan. Yeah. Huge fan. Did you? I mean, I don't want to get into age. You know, you shouldn't ask somebody who's your age.
Starting point is 00:21:13 I wasn't alive when the first movie came out. You weren't alive when the first. I didn't want to say that, but you were an embryo at the time. I guessed that it was a good title. So what was your relationship with the movie before that? I mean, I watched it 1,000 times. Did you not go to school when you were young?
Starting point is 00:21:29 No, I just, it was sleepovers and movies. That was it. Just constantly watching those movies over and over again. Yeah, that was it. That was it. That's all I did. So they bring you this film, which you also co-wrote as well. I did. Yes, I'm fascinated with a film like this.
Starting point is 00:21:43 It feels like part of what our audience wants and part of what is being asked with a film like this. It feels like part of what our audience wants and part of what is being asked about a film like this is give us some brutal, scary deaths. 100%. How do you brainstorm brutal, scary deaths? It's crazy. Yeah, I would hope so. It's like a crazy exercise.
Starting point is 00:22:00 Do you have to get yourself into, like, a... You do. You gotta get yourself into it. And I feel like so as my co-writer and I Sam Lansky were really thinking about like how can we kill this person and how can we kill this person? And how can we get crazy? Can I tell you something? Is that like a morning conversation or do you have to wait? It's an all day, very long text thread that I hope no one from the government ever looked at. And the search engines that you're using, you start, you're like, how would a body decompose?
Starting point is 00:22:29 What would that look like? How would you get rid of body? And then you're just kind of like, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete. Oh yeah, I'm sure that takes care of everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're like, uh, erase search history, it's fine. But yeah, no, it's crazy. And it really, like, it kind of, like, gets into your psyche.
Starting point is 00:22:48 So there was one night where I got home kind of late at night during the writing process, and I thought I heard a noise downstairs in my house. That's right. I heard somebody gasping. It's coming from within the house. And in my head, I was like, I'm gonna die. And so I did what anyone would do who's writing a slasher movie.
Starting point is 00:23:07 I went into my kitchen and grabbed a butcher knife. Yeah. And I did it. And, like, I really did it. I, like, grabbed it. Yeah. And then I went into every room downstairs and, like, opened the closet, like, butcher knife. And then, as I realized that Noah was in my house, I was like,
Starting point is 00:23:27 bitch, what was the plan? What did you think you were gonna do? Like, a stab? Like, a multiple stab situation? Yeah, like, if a guy was in the house, I was gonna drop the knife and run. Yeah. Like, there's no way. I can do a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:23:44 I don't see myself stabbed. You're gonna have to repeatedly stab. You know this. It would be a repeated stab situation. And then, yeah, I just didn't think it through. But thankfully, no one was in my house. Thank God. Yeah, sure. I always looked at those films and thought there was more of a love of baseball
Starting point is 00:23:59 than I thought there really existed across the nation. Like, everybody had a baseball bat to go protect their loved ones. I'm like, really? Does everybody have a baseball bat in their house? An ex-boyfriend of, everybody had a baseball bat to go protect their loved ones. I'm like, really? Does everybody have a baseball bat in their house? An ex-boyfriend of mine slept with a baseball bat next to the bed, and I kept being like, what are you gonna do with that? What are you gonna do?
Starting point is 00:24:12 Yeah, yeah. What are you gonna do with that? When does that happen in a relationship? Just like, I need you to know something. It was like, oh, you're like, you don't want to have kids? It's like, no, I sleep with a baseball bat next to my bed. No, it was just always there. Always there?
Starting point is 00:24:23 And he was like, he was like, just in case. And I was like, for sure. Fair enough. Yeah. Honestly, with him, I was just like, I kind of hope somebody comes, because I'd love to see that played out. Really?
Starting point is 00:24:33 Yeah. This is what makes you a writer of Slasherfield. I would really love to watch him bash somebody's head in so I can be perfectly disturbed for the rest of my life and use it for my art. That's not how it was going to go. You thought he would die. No, I just like, you know, you're just like,
Starting point is 00:24:49 you just know that there are certain people that are just like, it's just gonna be kind of funny if they try and attack somebody with a baseball bat. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that would have been humorous. Yeah, yeah. The person trying to murder you would have also found it funny.
Starting point is 00:25:02 It would have been me on my phone, like. So you would have been texting about this? I would have been videoing it. You would have been videoing the attempted murder of your boyfriend. Yeah, no, I don't know if it's a murder. Maybe it's just, like, a light burgle. A light burgle, yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:13 In that case, yes, you kind of want somebody to go through a comedic light burgle. Yeah. Wait, I heard you have a picture for us from the set. I do, I do. That goes along with the clip that you guys saw. What picture do we have here? Okay, so the story behind this clip. a picture for us from the set. I do, I do. That goes along with the clip that you guys saw. What picture do we have here?
Starting point is 00:25:25 OK, so the story behind this clip. So what we didn't show you in that scene is that Madeline Klein is discovering the hanging bodies of two characters in the movie on a very busy street in Southport. We did not shoot this in Southport. We shot this in Sydney, Australia. And where were we? Spoiler We shot this in Sydney, Australia. And where we were...
Starting point is 00:25:45 Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert, sorry. And where we shot this scene, we... It was, like, near a ferry port. And we had money for this movie, but we did not have shut down the ferry money. Right. So, we...
Starting point is 00:25:59 Every, like, 30, 40 minutes, we had to just, like, kind of cover the hate, the casual hanging bodies, who were dummies. They were dummies. They were not human people. Good. I was going to say. Just a distinction. It was not actors. After hearing your story about that ex-boyfriend,
Starting point is 00:26:14 I was like, is she actually hanging real people here? Yes. You know what? I'm going to be honest. I don't sound great. You're coming off great. You sound like an auteur. Okay, great. Yes, yes, I'm an auteur. Um, uh, and so every, like, 30, 40 minutes, we were just like, okay, we know the fairy's coming covering the bodies.
Starting point is 00:26:32 We're about to roll cameras, and I just see all of the A.D.s and the production people, like, freaking out, scrambling. And this is the picture that we showed, like, umbrellas. Like, that wasn't happening before. So I was like, what's going on? What's going on? Is everything okay? And they're like, what's going on? What's going on? Is everything okay? And they're like, the fairy is full of children.
Starting point is 00:26:49 And it was a fairy full of elementary school children. Coming in watching two human bodies dangling. Yes, well they did not see them as the crew did a very, very, very good job shielding them. But I definitely immediately was like, oh, I'm gonna be some kid's core memory. Like, some kid's never gonna get... Some Australian child is never gonna get on a ferry again
Starting point is 00:27:17 because he got off a ferry at five years old and saw two horrific hanging bodies. I see that kid, that's a core memory. 20 years later, that kid reboots the Scream franchise. Yeah, I'm so sorry. Can I say... That's what I think. That's what I think happens. He's gonna be on this show talking about... He's gonna be talking about that.
Starting point is 00:27:35 100%. 100%. One of the big things in horror films is this trope of the final girl. Yes. And I'm curious. I think a lot of fans come to this and they're curious who's going to be the final girl who their Favorite final girl is I mean I know I know my I'm wondering who your favorite final girl is mine's Melania. I'm but I just I'm curious Everybody has a favorite
Starting point is 00:28:02 Everybody has a favorite. I'm curious if you as a fan of the genre if you have a favorite. Everybody has a favorite. I'm curious, as a fan of the genre, if you have a favorite. I mean, I have two favorites. Julie James and Carla Wilson. There you go. From the film. Yeah. From the original film. From the original. From the original. From I Know and I Still Know.
Starting point is 00:28:14 And you know what? I think I've added some to the list in this one. So you'll have to go see it July 18th and find out who those favorite finalists are. Oh, look at that. You're leaving us out of cliffhanger? Yeah. Very well done. I know what you did last summer is exclusively in theaters July 18th.
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