The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Caves to Tariff Uproar, But Doubles Down on China | Olivia Munn

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

Desi Lydic tracks Trump's "Tariff Day" roller coaster ride, from his shock announcement of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, to slapping even more tariffs on China. Plus, Olivia Munn explains how ...Trump's tariff chaos is all just brushstrokes in the art of his deal. Could resurrecting the woolly mammoth be the fix for modern climate change? Troy Iwata sits down with leading scientists and paleontologists to determine if engineering woolly mammoths could be a problem or a solution. Former Daily Show correspondent and actor Olivia Munn sits down to discuss her new Apple TV+ series "Your Friends & Neighbors." They talk about Munn’s first day as a correspondent 14 years ago, bending gender stereotypes as the “fun mom,” opening up about her struggle with postpartum anxiety, how a health test saved her life from breast cancer, and the role alongside Jon Hamm that brought her back to acting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Desi Lydic. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Trump's tariffs are off, but they're on again, but they're also off. So who f***ing cares? Let's get into it with another installment of Trade Wars. My favorite word. My favorite word.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Tariffs. Last Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that in one week, he was gonna impose the biggest increase in tariffs in 100 years. And after a week of panic buying a year's supply of toilet paper and air fryers, the day has finally arrived. It is 1159 and 48 seconds, which means we are just moments away from the president's new tariffs.
Starting point is 00:01:16 It's President Trump's long-awaited tariff day. It's reciprocal tariff day. Well, the tariffs are here. Alright, it is tariff day. Happy Tariff Day, everyone! Whoo! Oh! It's what Trump is replacing Juneteenth with. Now, Trump is celebrated by putting tariffs on every country in the world,
Starting point is 00:01:40 including 104% on products made in China, which is probably fine. I mean, how% on products made in China, which is probably fine. I mean, how many products are made in China? But Tariffs Day wasn't just celebrated here in America. Other countries got in on the fun, too. Swip retaliation. Both China and the European Union are responding to President Trump's tariffs.
Starting point is 00:02:01 China has announced its own retaliatory tariffs, 84% on all US goods it imports. According to the European Union, almonds, orange juice, poultry, soybeans, steel and aluminum products, tobacco and yachts imported from the United States now will have a 25% levy on them. 25% on yachts? Why do these trade wars always have to screw over the little
Starting point is 00:02:29 guy? I'll be honest, I didn't even know America made yachts. I thought the only thing we made here was nepo babies. But this really feels like it's spiraling out of control. It seems like the smart move is to back off this whole thing. But Trump's team has been adamant that they will stay the course. This is not a negotiation.
Starting point is 00:02:49 It's not the kind of thing you can negotiate away. I don't think there's any chance they're gonna... that President Trump's gonna back off his tariffs. The president made it clear yesterday, this is not a negotiation. Trump posted this morning, my policies will never change. Well, that's it then.
Starting point is 00:03:06 They're in it to win it. Full speed ahead from the window to the walls. Skate, skate, skate motherf**kers. Trump's policy will never, ever change. This is CNN breaking news. The president announced just minutes ago that he's now, quote, authorized a 90 day pause on some of his new tariffs.
Starting point is 00:03:28 What? The trade war's over? But it's Tariff Day. I shaved my legs for this. Now I have to grow it all back. But hey, at least we can buy things from China again, right? I mean, Amazon Prime, here I come. Notably though, the president is raising the tariff applied to China
Starting point is 00:03:52 from the United States to 125% effective immediately. So this pause applies to other countries, not China. Hey Siri, cancel 1,000 air fryers. Trump, I don't understand what happened here. You tanked global stock markets, you put us on the verge of a recession, you told everyone to build factories in America because the tariffs wouldn't go away, and then you took them away. What happened? Did you just get spooked by the markets?
Starting point is 00:04:21 The 90-day call is when there was a recession. Is that because of the wind blasts that we've been seeing across the financial market? No, this was a terrorist. Is that because of the wind blasts that we've been seeing across the financial market? No, this was his strategy all along. Absolutely brilliant move. Brilliant, not only economically, politically, it was good for the American worker.
Starting point is 00:04:37 He's negotiator in chief, he's landing the plane, he's the master of the deal. I mean, you're watching the art of the deal in real time here. Many of you in the media clearly missed the master of the deal. I mean, you're watching the art of the deal in real time here. Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal. Yes, the art of the deal. Create a global crisis and then dig yourself halfway out. It's truly masterful, Donald.
Starting point is 00:05:01 I'm starting to think that the art of the deal is art in the way that Jackson Pollock is art. Like, it looks like someone just threw a bunch of shit at the wall, but now I have to pretend like it's genius and it's going to cost millions of dollars. Come at me, abstract expressionism hives. You know I'm right. Come on, Trump. Just admit that you started a game of chicken and you got too scared to
Starting point is 00:05:28 finish it. Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid. Oh, okay. It's our fault. We got too scared. Sorry. I tend to get a little yippy when my retirement plan starts
Starting point is 00:05:48 to look like the elevator from The Shining. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Yes. Yes. Straight down in heavy flow. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be dramatic, but this is the worst tariff day ever. This whole trade war was launched on incoherent arguments.
Starting point is 00:06:16 You stuck to your guns for incoherent reasons, and now you're pulling back for incoherent reasons. Is there anything you can say that actually makes sense? No other president would have done what I did. No other president. Well, you got me there. I do agree with that. Still, though, I just wish that someone
Starting point is 00:06:39 could explain what the strategy is going forward with these tariffs. I mean, is there anyone who can tell me? Desi, Desi, hi. I can tell you. Hey. Over here. Hi. Oh, my God! Olivia Munn! What are you doing here? I'm a correspondent on The Daily Show.
Starting point is 00:07:00 I thought you left in 2011. Oh, no. You know how John comes in one day a week? Yeah, I have the same deal. I just come in once every 14 years. My dad's a cicada. Oh, okay. I see. Well, I'd ask what you've been up to, but I have the Internet.
Starting point is 00:07:17 That's fair. So, break it down for us. What is Trump's strategy here with these tariffs? Everyone's scared. There's so much uncertainty, and there's no, this is no way that you can actually run an economy. Desi, be cool. Okay. Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
Starting point is 00:07:33 He put tariffs that destroyed the global economy. So then he took them off and now it's only mostly destroyed. Now to avoid tariffs coming back, other countries will cut deals with us for better trade terms and our deficit drops to zero. Problem solved. Okay, I see. And that's when we drop all the tariffs. No, bitch.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Then... we hit them even harder. 400% tariffs. We bomb their factories. We catch those penguins on that island, and we eat them. Then the other countries will really come begging, we can get whatever we want baby. IKEA furniture comes assembled. Honda cords, trunks full of Nike sneakers. We'll get to pee on their
Starting point is 00:08:14 currency while they watch. Then we've won. Gross, but fine then the trade war ends. Yes, then it makes sense for the trade war to end. But psych, bitch, 4 billion percent tariffs. You're in our house now. The new iPhone, $3. Nike sneakers, comes with a Honda Accord. Then we pee on their currency again. They're not even watching. It's just the only way we can pee anymore.
Starting point is 00:08:40 I see. Olivia, why? How does any of this make up the trade deficit? Does he? Baby girl. It's not the trade deficit. This is all to make up for Donald Trump's enormous deficit of attention and love. He said as much last night. I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They are. They are dying to make a deal. Please, please, sir, make a deal. See?
Starting point is 00:09:11 He's just a boy. Standing in front of the world, asking to have his ass kissed. And once the world fills the aching hole in his heart, the tariffs will end. But that will never happen. There's not enough attention in the world fills the aching hole in his heart, the tariffs will end. But that will never happen. There's not enough attention in the world to make him feel like a human again.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Exactly, bitch. Oh, now I get it. Wow, that was really enlightening. Thanks, bitch. Who are you calling bitch? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I thought we were... Having a thing? Yeah. Yeah, we're not.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Oh, okay. Well, thank you for your analysis. No problem. I'll see you in 2039. Oh, Olivia. Olivia. Well, she's gone. Olivia Munn, everyone! When we come back, you'll find out which prehistoric animal has been found. Where is she? Oh!
Starting point is 00:10:12 There she is! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god!
Starting point is 00:10:20 Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Welcome back to The Daily Show. This week, scientists announced that they had produced three cubs with the DNA of the prehistoric dire wolf. Then two days later, a white woman tried to bring one on an airplane as her emotional
Starting point is 00:10:37 support animal. But the question is, what animal is next in line for de-extinction? Troy Iwata found out. Climate change. It could kill us any day now if we're lucky. But one scientist has a solution. Meet Dr. George Church. He knows exactly how to curb climate change and the answer is so simple.
Starting point is 00:10:56 We're engineering cold tolerant elements using DNA from ancient extinct woolly mammoths to help us with climate change. You're going to bring back the woolly mammoth? Something like that. From the ice age? Around that era, yeah. Voiced by Ray Romano? Yeah, that's the theme.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Oh yeah, that's good. So while some think they're doing their part with their electric cars, George and his company were making Jurassic Park a reality. Colossus Biosciences is a genetic engineering firm working to resurrect the woolly mammoth. This process will save animals on the brink of extinction and even improve the environment. You know, I never thought about the woolly mammoth angle. I almost feel stupid for not thinking about it. Because it was right there in front of me. I just have one silly question. How exactly is a woolly mammoth going to combat climate change? Are we going to provide them with a canvas tote and metal straws?
Starting point is 00:11:52 There aren't that many solutions that address the gigantic amount of carbon that could be released in the form of methane from the Arctic. We're concerned about both keeping that carbon in the ground frozen, which means it would be nice to have cold resistant elephants stomp down the snow and allow the minus 40 winter wind to come in and cool down the permafrost and knock down the trees. And elephants are one of the few animals in the world that will knock down trees. Got it. They love knocking down trees.
Starting point is 00:12:28 So a big part of this is about knocking down trees? And restoring the grasslands and the vibrant ecosystem that came along with them. Right, right. Have you considered monster trucks? I feel like with the right combination of monster trucks, monster truck drivers, and meth you could really knock down a lot of trees. We haven't discussed that yet. That's out of the box.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Well, I am on board. Not because I'm pretending to understand everything that you're saying or comprehend the science behind it. But I would love a pet wooly mammoth. I think that would be fun. I, OK. Just me and my pet, Willie Nelson. This is the best idea ever.
Starting point is 00:13:04 I think it's a bad idea. Extinct species are extinct. Bringing them back to influence climate change, it's a non-starter. There's always a buzzkill. Meet Dr. Ross McPhee from the American Museum of Natural History. I've spent most of my career on ice age paleontology,
Starting point is 00:13:21 on mammoths, on saber-toothed cats, you name it, I've been there. Wait, so you're a paleontologist who works at the American Museum of Natural History and your name is Dr. Ross? I know where you're going with this. I didn't think today could get any better, but oh my god. Okay Troy, here it is. This is the mammoth.
Starting point is 00:13:42 This is what they want to bring back? They want to bring this back in all of its glory. Wow. Well, it seems easy enough. The bones are all there. Right, but it's a little matter of the soft tissues that we need as well. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Kleenex. Yeah. So how would they even resurrect an extinct species? The woolly mammoth and the Asian elephant are very closely related. We can engineer them to be compatible with genetic engineering tools. Right.
Starting point is 00:14:10 So in a way, you're making sort of an Asian hybrid? Correct. OK, well now I know why they asked me to do this interview. But here's the problem. Money that's going to be spent would be much better spent on endangered species that are still with us. But can you imagine a beautiful world where humans and woolly mammoths play together on Earth? We're talking about an animal that is eating 300 pounds of food a day.
Starting point is 00:14:33 300 pounds? Someone call TLC. Yeah, I know. Nobody wants something that's five to six thousand pounds marching around in their yard. Oh my god, have you been reading my journal? In my childhood dream journal, I wrote, I want something that's five to six thousand pounds marching around my yard. It's a big mistake. Well, I was a kid.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Both of these geniuses made good points, but only one of them had a secret lab full of prehistoric creatures. And I couldn't believe I was finally going to meet one of these majestic mammoths. Wow, this is amazing. And I couldn't believe I was finally going to meet one of these majestic mammoths. Wow, this is amazing. So where are the mammoths? Are they in the back? Even a simple engineered elephant is a little shorter than a mammoth. Probably 2028 at the earliest.
Starting point is 00:15:20 2028? Are you f***ing kidding me? We can show you some elephant cells. Alright, let's see some elephant cells. Fun. These are very precious cells. It took us years to develop. Oh, interesting. It's very sterile. It was sterile. Very rich growth media. So you're going to turn this water into a wooly mammoth?
Starting point is 00:15:45 Well, the cells conceivably contribute to changing the genome of an elephant. Oh, no, no, what? Okay, bringing back a wooly mammoth to curb climate change might seem bonkers, but it's either that or carpooling with coworkers we hate. At least this guy will be here when we're all gone. Thank you, Troy.
Starting point is 00:16:04 When we come back, Olivia Munn will be joining me on the show, so don't go away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:16:14 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is a former Daily Show correspondent, an actor who stars in the new Apple TV Plus series, Your Friends and Neighbors. Please welcome back Olivia Munn. Hello. Welcome home. Thank you. It is so nice to be here. I love it here. Do you like that we invite you to come on as a guest and then we immediately put you
Starting point is 00:16:46 to work? I love it. This was when I got the call to be on The Daily Show. It was like, I was like, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 00:16:54 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 00:17:02 I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so we immediately put you to work. I love it. This was when I got the call to be on The Daily Show. It was like, I mean, at that time it was like Jon Stewart is, was, will always be the king of comedy. But to get that call to come on. Oh yeah. It was, I mean, I remember I was standing right over there. It was my first time. I was in the dark and I just was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And just remember I couldn't and I just was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And just remember, I couldn't breathe. It's like, oh my god, I'm forgetting to breathe.
Starting point is 00:17:27 So I was so nervous. Yes. It was just the best time of my life. And it was probably a whirlwind, right? Did you get hired and then immediately put on the show? I got hired, and then we knew that they're like, we're gonna have you on in two weeks. So there was like a two week of writing process
Starting point is 00:17:42 behind the scenes, yeah. Oh my god. And this was 2011, when you were on? 2010. 2010. 2010 to 2012. Okay, I was meaning to ask you, do you mind if I finish that go-gurt
Starting point is 00:17:54 that you left in the fridge? Ah! I did already, do you think that's? Ah! I'll hope for the best. You know what, they do have a lot of great snacks here. They do. Although, you guys wouldn't know if you guys
Starting point is 00:18:05 wouldn't know because you're not inside the building like that. But you guys, Trevor did something to the inside of your offices. And it's not good. You guys, it used to be all open. And everybody could look over their desks and talk to each other. Now it's like you're inside of a train car.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Right? It's all compartmentalized. Well, they tried to give everyone their individual space. But we're in really tight little spaces now so it just feels like you're working inside of a shoebox. Yeah yeah and it was already like, my office back then was already really shitty. Yeah. Now they made them shittier. They're even shittier. Yeah. They really are. You know, paramount cuts, what do you do? I'm, we don't have Apple TV money. Is it during crazy political times like this, are you just
Starting point is 00:18:53 like, oh, thank God I don't have to cover news anymore? I, yeah. I don't think I could keep up with it. And honestly, I just, I hear things. You know, I hear some things like today I heard something about the tariffs and I was like oh yeah there's tariffs and I knew I was coming on so I learned more because I was coming on here yeah but I I kind of go through life kind of like like I have two babies
Starting point is 00:19:16 got a lot of other stuff happening so it's really hard to to think about digesting all of the news oh god that to. God, that sounds so nice. You know? Just a day of that. Although you have been tapped in because you've been hosting, co-hosting The Today Show with Jenna in the last week. You've been fantastic.
Starting point is 00:19:34 Has it been so much fun? It's so much fun. It is. Thank you. Yeah. She's great on there. It's a very fun show to be on. It's just very easy.
Starting point is 00:19:45 Do they still give you copious amounts of Chardonnay? No, they didn't this time. They've let up. Yeah, I think that was, yeah. Maybe that's a Kathie Lee thing. But anyways, no, it's just very nice and pleasant. You weighed in on the all-female space mission. Yes.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Blue Origin. Blue Origin. Were you surprised by the response that you got from that? You know, I was actually very happy to hear so many people feel the same way. They think it's ridiculous. Yeah. We'll tell them what you said.
Starting point is 00:20:14 Yeah. Yeah. Well, do you guys know what we're talking about? Good thing you don't. But they are going on this press. It's like, I can't, who all is in it? There's a group of women, Jeff Bezos' wife, Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry, Gail King, they're going to space, they're calling it this whole, like a female exploration, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:20:38 They were on the cover of Elle magazine as if they were like making history. Yeah. And oh my gosh, the thing that threw me was that they said they're going to put the ass in astronaut. Did they say that? They said it out loud. Who said that? I think Katy Perry said that. And they all talked about going in full glam.
Starting point is 00:20:58 And I think it was Gail King talking about my eyelash glue. I couldn't take it. I just was so annoyed by that. Here's my biggest issue with that. This big press push feels like they think they are shattering some outer space glass ceiling. But I think it's just a girls trip. I'm pretty sure that's all it is. Women will stop at nothing for just a good old just a girls trip. Like, I'm pretty sure that's all it is.
Starting point is 00:21:25 Women will stop at nothing for just a good old fashioned girls trip. I will say, though, as a woman on this planet in this moment in time, I do love the idea of launching myself into outer space. Well, can I just tell you this? I will say that. I will.
Starting point is 00:21:45 If this was all about feminism for them, they wouldn't be putting themselves on that rocket. Right. There are so many female astronauts who have been training their whole lives to go into space and haven't gotten that call. That's like, give them your seat. Let them have that seat. These are the least qualified people to be in space.
Starting point is 00:22:04 And by the way, it's not even space. We can see them right now. Like, it's that easy. Like, they're not going up very far. I think it's an 11-minute mission, right? You're calling it a mission? She's calling it a mission. What's the mission?
Starting point is 00:22:18 What's their mission? Tell me. Hey, to put the ass in astronaut, I guess. I guess. Well, now they're done training, I heard. Well, there's so much to I'm. Now you've got me invested in this story. Well, I only had to get invested because they forced it onto us
Starting point is 00:22:35 by telling us in the press all about it. And we were such a big press push. Oh my god. I have more to say. I want to do an hour podcast on it. All right. Well, we'll do that. We'll put out an extended cut. Oh my God. I have more to say, I wanna do an hour podcast on it. All right, well we'll do, we'll put out an extended cut.
Starting point is 00:22:45 Oh my gosh, I'm so happy. Congratulations on marrying your love, the brilliant John Mulaney. Thank you very much. Last year. Thank you. Thank you. I have two beautiful babies, Malcolm and May.
Starting point is 00:22:59 I follow you on Instagram. And your baby content is very impressive. Those kids. That makes me so happy because that's pretty much all the content I have. That's all I have. What has it been like being at home? Who's the fun parent of the two of you? You know, funny you ask, because people would think John,
Starting point is 00:23:16 because like, you know, of his history. But he is the strict parent. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it does become like a little bit of an issue. John will say, like the other day, he was like, Malcolm, no throwing balls in the house. And then he leaves and I said, Malcolm,
Starting point is 00:23:34 do you want to throw the ball in the house? You are bad. Well, you know, I grew up in a family of five. John grew up in a family of four. So similar, but the difference is like, we were like in martial arts as kids. We were like really physical. We fought. I do not think there, like, we were like in martial arts as kids. We were like really physical. We fought.
Starting point is 00:23:47 I do not think there was like, you know, hand-to-hand combat in John's family growing up. It's a very different Irish Catholic kind of upbringing. So I like things to be a little bit more rowdy. And the other day, Malcolm said, mama, can we throw the beach ball up to the fan in the ceiling? And I said, yeah, should we turn it on first? And then we do that. The ball goes flying. It breaks a glass, obviously.
Starting point is 00:24:11 And then John comes in. He's like, Olivia, what are you thinking? That's what he says to me a lot. And it's true. And then he said, you know what I realized? The kind of parent that you are, he told me that I'm like drop dead Fred as a parent. You guys know drop dead?
Starting point is 00:24:26 Does any- Oh, great movie. Does any- you guys too young? Some people are not, some people are old enough like that. Yes, thank you. Look up drop dead Fred. I mean, I was like, oh yeah, that's, yeah, I am drop dead Fred as a parent. You're the imaginary best friend.
Starting point is 00:24:38 I'm the imaginary best friend that's like, do whatever. Let's like make mud pies in the living room, who cares? I think you're flipping gender stereotypes. I fully support this because you know all about the fun dads and then moms have to come in. No, you're a fun mom. I think you own that. Yeah, I am.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Thank you. We should be proud of that. Are you having fun doing this? Are you kidding me? No. I'm just waiting for them to pull the rug out from underneath. No, you guys are doing so great. It's so fun to watch you guys.
Starting point is 00:25:08 I remember when I came out, I see you guys on the banners outside. When I was here for two years, I never got a banner. You never got a banner? Never got one, never got. I asked John a few times, can I get the banner? We gotta get you a banner. Oh my gosh, give me a banner now?
Starting point is 00:25:21 Just an honorary banner. That would be nice. And maybe next time I come, you can put one up for the day. We will absolutely present you. Yeah and then you can take it back down. Yeah and then we'll take it back down. It'll be an 11-minute mission. It'll be fine. You have, you actually took quite a bit of time away from acting to spend the time with your family. You had Malcolm and you were very open about experiencing postpartum depression. Yeah, postpartum anxiety. Anxiety.
Starting point is 00:25:46 Yeah, so I had been prepared for postpartum depression because we hear so much about it. But postpartum anxiety came on. And it was, I don't know if anyone here has gone through that or their partners have, but it is one of the worst experiences of my life. It came on like a month or two after I had Malcolm, and I woke up at 4 a.m.
Starting point is 00:26:10 My eyes just popped open, and I started going, -"Ugh!" And I keep breathing like that all day long, and I keep waking up like that every day at 4 a.m. for a year. For a full year. I just couldn't breathe. I just had so much anxiety. And there was no actual thoughts.
Starting point is 00:26:27 And thank God I didn't have any thoughts of self-harm or harming others. I have so much compassion and sympathy for mothers who are going through that. I think that people don't understand it enough. And we're not compassionate enough about what it's like to be a mother and to birth a baby and everything that happens to your body and the hormones,
Starting point is 00:26:45 but it was incredibly difficult, but I did make it through to the other side. Oh, well... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE The fact that you're so openly discussing it is so helpful to so many other women who have experienced it. You've also been incredibly open about your breast cancer
Starting point is 00:27:06 diagnosis, which is not just courageous, but an incredibly generous thing to do. I can't even imagine deciding that in that moment in time, everything you were going through. What made you want to share your story? Well, there was a few reasons, but the biggest is that I was looking back on photos with myself and my son. And I, I, there was this one video I had of me and him and I was laughing and we were
Starting point is 00:27:35 playing and I had had a clear mammogram, like just around that same time. But I had cancer and I didn't know it. And the way that my cancer was found was because my doctor did the lifetime risk assessment test. It's this free online test, takes a few minutes to take, and I link it in my Instagram bio just because there's a very specific one that does the best calculation.
Starting point is 00:27:58 It's the Tyra Cusick test, and she took it and she said, your score is 37.3%. Anything above 20 percent is considered high risk. She sent me to get an MRI and after that I was diagnosed with multifocal, multi-quadrant bilateral breast cancer, stage one. Yeah. With a clear mammogram? Clear mammogram, clear ultrasound, clear genetic testing for any genetic cancer, so no BRCA or anything like that.
Starting point is 00:28:26 I was doing everything I thought I had to do to take care of myself. This test has been around for a very long time. It's just not something people have heard about a lot, so that's why I wanted to talk about it. I said, if I could, I told John, if every woman just knew that they could have their own score right there and take it to their doctor, it could just change their life and save their life.
Starting point is 00:28:49 And that's why I made the decision to talk about it. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Mm. Such a generous thing for you to do. And you've had women come up to you and say thank you so much for sharing that. You've impacted other women's lives by sharing that. That's the thing that I was not expecting. Because when I was diagnosed, the first thing I said to John was like, don't tell anybody.
Starting point is 00:29:16 We're not telling anybody. And it wasn't that I was embarrassed or ashamed. I couldn't deal with other people's worry. I didn't want to tell my mom. I didn't want to hear my sister worry and know, I didn't want to tell my mom. I didn't want to hear my sister worry and panic. I didn't want my mom to cry. And then I realized very soon that he needs support as well. So I said, you know, let's just tell whoever we need to tell.
Starting point is 00:29:37 But the sisterhood of women who have gone through this, it's so beautiful and so amazing. And every time someone comes up and says something to me or wants to talk and talk to me about their own journey or their mother or sister or their wives, it's just, it sounds a little cheesy, but I do get healed a little bit more every single time. And it's a strange thing to say it, but, and I can only say it
Starting point is 00:30:02 because I've made it through to this side, but I would happily go through cancer all over again if it meant that I could reach out to this many people and save this many people's lives. A million percent, I would do it all over again. I'm so grateful that you're on the other side of it now, and you're healthy, and now you have this, you're back to work, you have this incredible new show yeah thanks and you took some time off but tell us what was
Starting point is 00:30:30 so enticing about this project was it John Hamm's penis it doesn't just star John Hamm's penis Olivia's also in it and Amanda Amanda Peete, great cast. Amanda Peete, yes. Well, it was Apple TV, which I think that they do the coolest content. And then Jon Hamm, Jonathan Tropper. And it was, I love that we're meeting these people, Jon Hamm and myself, specifically at this time in their life where their lives are crumbling.
Starting point is 00:31:01 It's about the one percenters in the country, and these people who are born into wealth and have everything that you think that you could ever want or need. And John Hamm's character loses everything and starts to steal from his rich friends and neighbors to keep up his facade. And my character is the only one in the world
Starting point is 00:31:20 that wasn't born into wealth. She has a blue-collar upbringing, and she married into this. So we meet my character in the middle of a divorce on the precipice of losing everything. And I really, I find it fascinating to watch people who have so much lose it all. It's a great poem. I mean, there's a ton of conflict. It's, you're phenomenal in it. The two of you have such great chemistry. There's like a fun banter to there's a ton of conflict. It's, you're phenomenal in it. The two of you have such great chemistry. There's like a fun banter. There's like a fun rhythm to the show. Yeah, that's Jonathan Tropper's dialogue.
Starting point is 00:31:52 He's a fantastic novelist and writer. And John Hamm is an executive producer on this, so he had his hand on everything as well. That's great. And your scenes with Amanda Peet are phenomenal. I mean, so far, that's my favorite episode. She's so good in it. The two of you together are very, very good. Yeah, I love her so much.
Starting point is 00:32:08 And it just got picked up for a second season. So congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I adore you. Thank you so much for being here. Congratulations on everything.
Starting point is 00:32:18 Thank you for having so much fun with us. We miss you dearly. But we're so happy for all of your success. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Your friends and neighbors, come here to see April 11th on Apple TV Plus. Olivia Munn!
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