The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Taps Todd Blanche for J6er Slush Fund & Makes Bank After Boosting Stocks | Brendan Fraser

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

Trump taps his acting attorney general and former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to use his $1.8 billion IRS settlement as a slush fund for January 6ers, the president reportedly boosted his stock purchases by heaping praise on companies he invested in, the White House ballroom gets "complex" architecture and favor-hungry corporate donors, and Ronny Chieng uses his law degree to break down what this cascade of corruption means for Trump. Michael Kosta serves up the latest headlines to help you make fat stacks of stinky cash: Ube-flavored coffee drinks put purple yams in high demand, horse piss contaminates a counterfeit perfume, and an aggrieved billionaire says "tax the rich" is hate speech. Actor Brendan Fraser sits down with Ronny to discuss his new film “Pressure” and what it really means to take a creative risk. Fraser opens up about why projects that scare him a little are usually the ones that are worth doing and what it took for him to rebuild his career. Fraser and Ronny go into how the film raises uncomfortable questions about human arrogance, the cost of poor leadership, and what happens when ego overrides judgment in the highest stakes. Plus, Fraser teases the possibility of another Mummy movie! -- To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow -- The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Stream full episodes on Paramount+ Follow TDS: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only sorts for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie. What about tonight? Donald Trump makes his bank account great again, white people find a new food to gentrify, and the new Get Rich Quick scheme is taking a shit on Nancy Pelosi's desk.

And later on, Brandon Fraser will be joining Remy. So first, but first, Donald Trump has found many new. new ways of getting rich. So let's get into it in our new segment, Corrupt Tales. We grab money, money, money, money. I love money. This morning, Donald Trump gave reporters a tour of his upcoming ballroom site that big companies are paying for. And no, they're not just paying for it to get political favors, it's to support his passion for dancing. But since everyone is so skeptical about it, Donald Trump made sure to defend it loud and clear.

Thank you for clearing that. Honestly, just as informative as any of your other press conferences. But once a noise calmed down a bit, Trump did have a chance to explain some of the unique architectural innovations that justify the cost of this ballroom. I think you can see the complexity. All of these columns go directly up to the roof. Up to the roof.

We're not doing any of those columns that stop halfway, okay? Very innovative. Any other incredible breakthroughs we should know about? The glass is approximately four inches thick, and yet it's amazing. You can see through it as though it didn't exist. Wow, glass you can see through. Very cool. It sounds like you're just describing every building.

Can you do something interesting with it? It's all knit together. The roof goes with the ground floor. The ground floor goes with the roof. The roof also goes down into the basement. Okay, wait, now it's too weird, okay? What mean the roof goes into the basement? What MC-exture shit is this?

People inside will be like, am I dancing on the floor or the ceiling? Both. But whatever laws of physics this roof violates, having a giant ballroom built as a favor by your corporate friends, it's hard to think of how things could get more corrupt than that.

Tonight, the Justice Department announcing a new so-called anti-weaponization fund, $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to be given away to allies of President Trump who claim they were unfairly treated by the Biden DOJ. I stand corrected. I think my brain's roof just fell into his basement.

I mean, if you're confused by what's going on here, I went to law school, okay? So let me explain it to you visually. So Donald Trump, the man, is suing the IRS, which happens to be headed by Donald Trump, the president, which then reached a settlement with the Justice Department headed by a man named Donald Trump

to create a slush fund controlled by, you guessed it, Donald Trump. It's so blatant and corrupt that it's actually fine. I mean, I want to be mad, but I'm also kind of impressed. Trump figured out how to be both the Karen and the manager. Like, no one has ever done that before. This guy's playing 5D chess with corruption here. I mean, I bet he's building the ballroom

just so he can do a slip and fall. He'll be dancing in there. He'll hit his head. He's going to leave the office with a fake neck brace and $3 trillion. Now, the settlement says the money is going to go to the victims of the Biden administration, which is pretty broad. I mean, hell, I'm a victim of the Biden administration. I mean, I still have PTSD from watching that guy die slowly on television.

But who does Trump have in mind for this money? Among those who could see payouts, the 1,600 people charge in with the riot at the Capitol on January 6th. Okay, hold on. So our taxpayer money is going to the people who did Jan 6. So effectively, the rest of us are being taxed for not doing Gen 6?

Well, if I knew that, I would have gone there. Wait, I mean, I was there. I just remembered. Didn't you see me? I was the guy in the video doing it. the guy in the video doing this. The election. Anyway, Ben Moimmy.

But look, I don't want to be too cynical here. I'm sure Donald Trump doesn't get to hand the money out to whomever he wants. I'm sure there's someone else who's actually controlling the fund. The fund itself will be controlled by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, who of course was the president's personal lawyer.

Okay, it's his personal lawyer, but that's still a professional relationship. I'm sure he's still objective. I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime. If he chooses to dominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say thank you very much.

I love you, sir. Okay, fine, he's his personal lawyer and he's also in love with him. Whatever. At this point, it's pretty clear that Donald Trump's former personal lawyer is just there to deep throat his corruption boner. But just don't say that to his face.

I'm the acting attorney general, okay? The fact that I used to be President Trump's lawyer is just a fact. So don't say the president's former personal lawyer will do something. The acting attorney general will do something. Okay, okay, geez. I'm sorry. What I meant to say is, if the honorable acting attorney general

could please stop throading Trump's corruption bonus so hard that his corrupt balls tickle your acting attorney general chin, that would be great, my good sir. So the one good thing about the settlement is that it doesn't let Trump get the money personally. So at the very least, it's nice to know that Trump isn't just going to go around trying to make himself rich. New reporting this morning on President Trump's financial disclosure showing he publicly praised companies after buying their stock. Prolific stock trades making 3,700 of them, a cumulative value between $220 million and around $750 million. Holy shit, this guy is grinding.

How does he even find the time to do all of this? I mean, I thought he was falling asleep during meetings, but I think he's just looking down at his e-trade account. I mean, it must have been more subtle than that, right? It's not like he was buying a stock and then going out and telling people to go buy the company's products. President Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million of Dell stock on February 10th. Nine days later, he delivered an economic speech in

Rome, Georgia, where he said this. Dell, go out and buy a Dell computer. Wow, okay, this guy does not give a f*** anymore. They're going to have to start replacing the presidential seal with a hashtag ad. In hindsight, we should have suspected something. I mean, if you're telling people to buy a Dell computer in 2026, you're probably doing something illegal, okay? Because even the people who make Dell computers are like, do they still make Dell computers?

When we look back on it, though, the clues were pretty obvious. Weeks after buying shares of Palantir, Trump touting the stock, posting Palantir Technologies has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies. I mean, he's even putting the stock ticket symbol in his tweet. You know, the way we all drop stock symbols into our everyday conversations. Like, hey, officer, officer, that man stole my iPhone, AAPL. Here's the bottom line.

It's undeniable at this point that Trump has achieved the level of corruption no one has ever imagined before. And if I may be serious for a second. This is unacceptable, Mr. President. You owe it to the public to explain yourself loud and clear. Okay, I can't, I can't hear you. I can't hear what you're saying, fine, I'm sure he's apologizing here, all right?

When we come back, Michael Costa will tell you how to get rich, so don't go away. Honest and rigorous financial news, then go eat a dick. But if you want to get rich, then you want Michael Costa in another installment of Costa doing business. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, my moneymakers and my profit takers. Welcome to Costa doing business. Let's make some fat stacks of that stanky cash. And we better make it quick because I got a hot date tonight. That's right. I'm planning on warming up a single dry date in the microwave

and eating it for dinner. No, I'm just kidding. It's not even a date. It's more just like a big raisin. Anyway, let's talk making green, which these days comes in purple. Hit me. Ube has been finding its way

onto social media feeds as the new must-have drink ingredient. A purple yam native to the Philippines is gaining a reputation as the new macha. Starbucks recently launched an entire line of Ube-flavored lattes. Its appearance on menus across the country has increased by,

230 percent, but Filipino farmers are struggling to keep up with the demand. Oh, Oube, let's make some OU Bucks, okay? And I get all in on drink crazes, pomegranate juice, protein shakes, whatever's left in people's glasses at the end of a wedding. It's like I'm being paid twice to cater. Unfortunately, because of supply chain issues, this Ube got consumers saying,

oh boy, and I haven't been this upset by a Filipino supply. chain issue since my dominatrix, mistress Manila, lost the keys to my genital cage. Now, again, apologies to my locksmith, Mr. Manila. But damn, if people are paying top dollar for purple spud, then I'm putting my money into russet potatoes and purple spray paint. And here's how it works.

First, you eat the potato for energy, then to help you come up with a business idea, you huff the pain. And that's exactly what I did last day. night, and I'm proud to announce the launch of my new Ube delivery business, Ubeyer. All right? It's a great name. Nobody take it.

Moving on. For those of you not making fat stacks of stanky cash right now, you might be doing a little thing the K-dog likes to call struggling to make ends meet. And I'm sorry about that. But if you're thinking of saving some cheddar on cheaper products, you might want to make sure that big deal isn't a big dud. Don't hit me. Don't hit me, don't, don't hit.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. You can hit me now. Fake products rapidly being sold around the world, and they're getting harder to catch. One disturbing case in particular involves counterfeit perfume being sold online that was contaminated with horse urine. We've had some tested that I've actually had horse urine in them,

so you don't want to be putting that on your skin. Look, I know, I know you guys got a lot of questions. Why use specifically horse urine? Couldn't you use dog urine or human urine? Maybe why even no urine, maybe. Look, I don't have all the answers. I'm not a horse piss whisperer. But the real shame here is this counterfeiting hurts everyone.

Not just the people buying perfume contaminated with horse piss, but also the people buying horse piss contaminated with perfume. Gross. But hey, where some people smell horse piss, Costa smells a pissness opportunity. Hit me with my new ad. In the wild, The alpha always leaves his scent.

Capture it. Every last drop. La Jardin Descheva. The new fragrance from a horse that Michael Costa chased until it stopped to pee. Would you accept anything less? Neh. Le Aririn Desheva. Oh, come on.

Seamen again. Wow. Wow. That came out way better than I expected. Now, let me tell you, this stuff is great. But warning, do not wear it around police horses. They will bite you in our immune from prosecution. Moving on, if I may for a moment, be serious with all my moneymakers and profit takers.

Come here. Come on. Hey, hey. Bring it in. Come on. You know, there's a lot of... I don't think anything happened. Come on. Come on a little closer. There's a lot of economic injustice in this world. And it's important to remember, we all have to take a stand against it. That's why I was so happy to see this.

In New York, the mayoral push to Tax the Rich has one billionaire firing back. Real estate titan Stephen Roth is sounding off saying, I consider the phrase tax the rich when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs. Amen. brother from another bank account number. Look, I'll say it, rich people are not just some economic class. We're a race.

I don't think that's a controversial thing to say. I didn't choose to be rich. I was born this way. My great-great-grandfather came to this country with nothing more than the silk shirt on his back. A shitload of money in several more suitcases filled with silk shirts and money. So this doesn't just hit home to me. It hits my vacation home as well. And despite all the hate, I still remain hopeful for all my fellow affluent Americans.

Because let me tell you, I have been to the mountaintop. Yes, it was to go hell-a-skiing with the Winklevoss twins, but the view was so sick, which inspired me to start my first not-profit organization to combat anti-rich hate, introducing the National Association for the Advancement of Chiching, people, or as I call it, the N-W-A-C-P. It's a great name. Nobody take it. All right, that's it for me.

I can hear the clip clap of angry and aroused police horses. Thank you, Michael. When we come back, Brendan Fraser will be joined me on the show, so don't go away. If something has been off in the bedroom, there is no reason to wait. Millions of men deal with erectile dysfunction at some point, but now taking control of the situation is easier than ever. HIMS provides a straightforward path to legitimate care. By using the HIMS platform, men can avoid the pharmacy lines and the awkwardness of waiting rooms.

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slash daily show. Prescription required. See website for details and important safety information. Sildenafil is a generic version of Viagra. Viagra is a registered trademark of Vietra's specialty LLC. Hymes is not affiliated with or endorsed by Vietris. Daily show. My guest tonight is an Academy Award winning actor who stars in the new film pressure. Please welcome.

Brendan Fraser. This was the longest standing ovation. Anyone's ever gotten as deservedly so. Mr. Brandon Fraser. I love you. You're the best, man. I love you so much. I've been loving you since I was a kid. Ronnie, I'm old.

Let's talk about this project. So I love this fantasy World War II movie where white people join forces to fight Nazis. I wish we actually still did that. What leadership once looked like, right? Why we did that in the first? It moves pressure. It's a period piece in World War II. You play General Eisenhower? I am Ike. I didn't know a lot about him as a historical figure, apart from the lapel pen.

I like Ike. His war years, I learned that he never fired a shot in anger. I was never fired at his entire career. He intended to fight the First World War, but he concluded, you know, inconveniently for him. But for the next Successive four years so years he kept getting promoted as an excellent strategist and diplomat and So when we meet the Ike in the world of this film it's on the eve of D-Day and That was originally set for Monday June 5th 1944 and I did not know when the project came my way that it was postponed from inclement weather that was inbound that they really only learned about that weekend before at the Initiative and insistence of James Crick who Skaggs I should know this

played by Andrew Scott and He was the meteorologist. He worked with the home office for a number of weeks before then and He was I guess I guess I the one who had the temerity to rely on science and facts for how to determine the weather when it was an age when looking up the window was kind of the way it was done. Yeah. And I've never seen a more tension-filled weather report than this movie. I watched the whole thing, and the whole time I was like engaged, it was like, is this going to rain or not? Like, I didn't know what was going to happen.

I followed this movie more than I was following the weather for my outdoor wedding. You know what I mean? Like, the stakes were extremely high in this, and you see the, literally the pressure building of the, you know, that's not just barometric pressure. Yeah. We're concerned about in this world. Yeah, and you're right. So, I mean, the story of this brave weather man who basically delayed allied invasion

of Normandy to defeat the Nazis, and he called, he made the call. And as you said, it was back in the day when, you know, now we get weather sent to our phones while we're taking a shit on the toilet. But these guys had to deal with, like, paper charts and some guy letting off a balloon, and then someone had to call from Ireland. That was science, you know. But prior to that, it was relying on analogs,

like the farmer's al-Mack, you know. Well, it didn't snow in 1888. It won't today. Analogs being kind of historical charts, which is going off. Records and records of records. And that's not good enough when you've got 300,000 troops standing by in relative secrecy.

And the fate of the free world. In the balance. In the balance. And to delay that or even, you know, turn it around is really quite near impossible. And when the Joint Chiefs of Staff received the report, it was conflicting because they couldn't just say, oh, we'll do it next week very easily. Although they would have had to wait a considerable amount of time because the phases of the moon would go through, the tides. Yeah, in the movie, General Montgomery says that the paratroopers can only land when there's a full moon, and the next full moon would be the next week.

The 18th. And then everyone's like, well, now the Nazis are going to find out we're invading because we can't, no one can shut the fuck up for two weeks. But for the courage of the weatherman who came forward and said, if you're going to go, there is going to be a break in the storm following day, which is Tuesday, June 6th, which we all know is D-Day. If they were to attack, there was a window of opportunity. It would have been that morning. It wasn't ideal, but the chop was lessed on the ocean.

Air Force could hit targets through the cloud cover. Did it work? Well, you'll have to see the film. The fate of the man. I hope it works, yeah. And the other theme of the movie is this idea, as you were kind of alluding to it, was this idea of, Back in the good old days, when leaders met with scientists to make informed decisions that benefited most of them.

Gave them that forum, had the courage to believe in them. Listen to them. Didn't just hear them. And that's the kind of leader that my big takeaway in my research was with who Ike was. He was a diplomat. And apparently, at all accounts, he was a lot of fun at dinner parties, where he probably did some

of his best diplomatic work. I don't know, like magic tricks with napkins or something? I don't know. He was a personable guy, and he cared intensely for the troops. And that kind of respect is earned. It's not commanded. And in my view, I think that that in itself becomes almost like a secret asset weapon of sort, that we show respect for one another.

And it goes a long way to understanding why they're even doing that in the first place. Yeah. Again, it's a great takeaway from this movie, you know, the lessons we can learn, weirdly enough, from history of how to defeat Nazis. The scourge of tyranny and fascism. Yeah. Right. Read a book. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're playing Eisenhower in this. Like, how much of this, just if I could talk technique a little bit, acting technique, like, how much of this were you, were you trying to, like, When you're playing a historical figure, obviously, there's so much footage and materials available. And were you trying to, you know, how much of that were you trying to do? It was a first for me.

I know I'm not a carbon copy to look like Eisenhower. I got about... You guys are both white guys? It's in the ballpark. Yeah. But I know that with an audience's generational perspective, I think we can go back and look at, you know, who the essence of it is. And remember, this is a film. We all kind of know the conclusion, but the compelling part is how we're on the edge of our seat watching this film.

And we still wonder if we humans are arrogant enough to shake our fist at the sky and expect a different result. And you're going to get it wrong if you do that. So it's a film that I know will mean a great deal to our veterans, and it will certainly mean a... a great deal towards understanding what went into the operation in the first place. It was news to me that only six weeks earlier, Ike Eisenhower had given the order to use live fire on a training exercise called Operation Tiger, and that was in late April, the 28th and 29th, wherein American troops were rehearsing, charging a beach in the southern beach in England.

And there was confusion at sea with frequencies. German e-boats were harassing landing craft, and in the exercise, an hour was lost, and the first wave in the exercise attacked the beach. Unbeknownst them, they walked right into Eisenhower's live fire, And sadly, 749 Army and Navy lost their lives that day. And it wasn't until the late 70s, a man called Burns, who lived on that beach, was wondering why did the fishing nets keep getting stuck at the same part in the surf?

So somebody went down with a mask and came up and said, tank. And what, oil, water? No, Sherman tank. They had forgotten that that was the beach that was used for the exercise. So sad as that is, to answer your question, I took that as a springboard to understanding who Eisenhower was and that he could not have had seen his own son's eyes when he wished them well and greeted them. You need only look at the file photos of the 101st.

And you can tell that there's such concern there. And it wasn't just because he was talking about fly fishing and your mom and how bad the food is and it was that he was even told by them that, sir, don't worry, we'll take care of this. And I think it gave him some sort of sense of consolation knowing that he was sending these guys into a bare-knuckle fight with a chainsaw to begin with, but he's going to do it now in the eye of a storm. And this is all news to me. I gotta ask, anybody know any of this historical perspective?

No, nor I, so you, I read a book. Come see the film and you'll see your film. You're asking the wrong crowd. These are TikTokers over here. Yeah, so, I mean, again, great movie. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, you know, great portrayal. And again, I didn't know about this, and I think I'm a little perspective. It gives you into perspective and appreciation, doesn't it?

I felt the same way. And, hey, I'm glad to work with Andrew Scott. He's like a boulder in the stream. He plays The Weatherman, who brings this... Well, the cast is all-star cast, I would say. You know, you've got who's who. Damien Lewis, Montgomery. You got Kay, I think.

Kerry Condon. Yeah. And, Andrew Scott. Andrew Scott. And you'll likely recognize a lot of faces from really great British television that populated the rest of the cast. And the Keynes Observers,

we'll see that the location we used was actually also used in the second Mommy movie. Oh. And I learned that because walking on it went, I think I jumped out of that window. It's weird. The universe is so weird. Weird.

Well, it was a body double of me, but it looked like you. Right, it looked like you. And this brings me back to you, I guess. I mean, you are one of the few beloved people in Hollywood. Seriously, everybody hates everybody. Look, it's only like four people. It's like you, Kiana Reeves, Randall Park, and me. You know, everyone else just hates everyone else.

So how did, I mean, maybe it's too general a question, but how did you manage that? Bribery. Well, how much? Let us know so we can, you know. You're genuinely one of the most beloved people. And you know, you've, you've had this really wide-ranging career, man. You've done it all. You've done, you did an insane.

casino men, comedies, you did school ties, you did crash, you did Oscar, you got wailed, you did the, you want Oscar for the whale, you did the rental family. Like, it's thing, everything. I've been really lucky. Is there a method to this? I just want a job, man. You know, keep working, repeat if I can, you know. And it's not always like that.

There are ups and downs and it is a corkscrew, you know. Well, I guess, more specifically, it's that your career, you've done a lot of different job. genres and tones, is what I'm asking. Is that, I mean, is that... I've seen a lot of change, a lot of trends in the way films are made in my time. And, you know, last century in the early 90s. You mean the last millennium, yeah, when you were...

When I was a whippersnapper. Yeah. The films that were made were, you know, for one thing, they were shot on film. And... What's that? It's this stuff that... You gotta get it wet.

The long shit that you have to like... If you turn the light on, Right, right. Charlie Chaplin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good times. No, but how did you pick these projects? I mean, you know, sorry, you're actually explaining your perspective on industry. No, I'm just going to say that I think early on I had a sort of personal creed kind of like, you know, one for them, two for them, one for me, you know.

Sequel culture was, I think, really sort of coming into its own in maybe around the 1980s. I don't remember really getting excited as a phone goer for a sequel since the Empire Strikes Back, you know? This is an easy crowd. Easy, totally. But then films, you know, if it worked once, why don't I make it again? And then when I first came to town,

I can remember there was a three Musketeers movie getting made, but there were nine Musketeers running around Hollywood trying to get a Muscatore. movie made. So it's sort of like monkey see monkey do. If it worked once, then keep doing, do it, do it. Now, I don't know if there's so much mimicry in how we approach, which is going to be done. There's more of a penchant to look for the next event film to get people to come to the theaters again. COVID changed everything for us. And you sink or swim if you decide. oh, I'm just going to wait and hope that your audience

doesn't stay at home and look at their phone. The toilet taking shit. That too. Looking at the window, see if it's going to rain. But, I mean, to ask you specifically, I guess we have this kind of vibe right now. Everyone likes to kind of shit on movies these days, and you're one of the few guys who has a perspective on this.

So how much truth is there to this idea that, you know, we used to make things better back then? Was it always a problem? We can make crappy movies back then, too. Don't worry. You're guilty. What you mean? That's not true at all.

Everything you made was great. But your perspective, as in your perspective, so is this kind of rose-tinted glasses, we kind of look back and... 50-50. I think that there's a whole generation now who really feel not empowered, but, you know, yeah, TikTok generation,

but everyone has an image-rendering device in their pocket. And what it can do is, pretty remarkable. And you can, you know, you can shake your fist at it. Like, you can try to shake your fist at the sky, but... That's what I do. You're not... Yeah. You're not always going to get your way.

So I think it's just a matter of accepting, you know, what the technology is, where it is now. And, hey, if it worked once or twice, try it again. Like, maybe I'll make another Mommy movie. All right. My last question is, you've been making some really cool indie movies lately. You did The Whale, you did rental family. I just wanted to ask, it's great. You worked with for Kauru.

We had her on the show. She spoke very highly of you. I watched the movie. Your Japanese is, I don't know. Can you speak Japanese? You look like you can speak Japanese in that movie. Oh, hey. Suggest.

Yeah, so I guess my question is. I just told them you owe me 50 bucks. Well, sure. I just want to know how did you go about picking these indie movies, you know? Because it's not a... You're talking about the struggles, the injuries are having right now, the industry is having right now, and, you know, you managed to pick these really cool kind of,

I would say, diamonds in the rough. I look for what the content is in the story. Has it really been done before, as some kind of sequel or not? Is it an idea that, you know, scares me a little bit? I think it's good to take. you know, creative calculated risks. That's where the most growth can come from, you know, creatively speaking.

And I also honestly look to see what do people really want to see. We want to be taken somewhere. We want to be shown something new. We want to feel like we've learned something. So, I mean, I feel like pressure. I did not know that there was an operation that went horribly wrong that influenced the mind of one of our great leaders. one of our great leaders, and certainly I had no idea

that the weather almost caused this catastrophic delay that would have put us in, I don't know, what kind of science fiction world we would be living now if they had attacked on that day. Yeah, it would be in a fascist dictator's state. Thank God that didn't happen. Yeah. Great job.

Yeah, thanks. Anyway, Reverend Frazier. Amazing. That's what coming on the show. Pressure. It's in theater. That's how many tonight. nice, the special Steve previews nationwide of a Memorial Day weekend.

Brendan Fraser. We're right back after this. The filings, the president's been trading some intel in the quarter. Yeah. Yeah. You trade. Got nothing to say that? But, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Don't worry.

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