Jon Stewart on Wrongful Deportation and How Trump Fails to Deliver | Ramy Youssef

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This is the Daily Show with your host, John Stewart.

Speaker 1 Hey everybody, welcome to the dance show.

Speaker 1 My name is Jon Stewart. We got us a show for you tonight.
The great comedian Rami Youssef will be joining me a little bit later.

Speaker 1 And then afterwards, we will head to space on Blue Origin,

Speaker 1 where I will sing something delightful

Speaker 1 from the Katy Perry oeuvre.

Speaker 1 But first, quick update. As you know, we've been following the case of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, undocumented migrant from El Salvador, married an American woman, has a kid, living the American dream.

Speaker 1 Until the Trump administration sent him to an El Salvadorian mega prison by, and I'm quoting the Justice Department here, if I may, is administrative error.

Speaker 1 If only there was a convenient and timely way that the prisoner could be brought back to the United States, that wouldn't really inconvenience either nation.

Speaker 1 President Bukele, at the moment, flying from El Salvador to Washington, D.C.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Saints be praised! Bukele can just give Garcia a ride!

Speaker 1 You don't even have to give Garcia the middle seat. I'm sure Garcia would just grab the wing and tom cruise it over here if he had to.

Speaker 1 But sadly, Bukeley arrived at the White House with just the Miami Club promoter clothes on his back

Speaker 1 and a pocket full of excuses.

Speaker 1 Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him? How can I dismarble a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States.

Speaker 1 You know?

Speaker 1 Can I honestly tell you, like, this isn't even,

Speaker 1 the thing that's,

Speaker 1 like, they're f ⁇ ing enjoying this. Like, the two of them.

Speaker 1 Our president, their president, okay, boo, I guess we'll just have to let him rot in a f ⁇ ing prison, even though he didn't deserve to be there. I don't, you guys don't care about this guy.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about these two, but somebody else cares about this person. And you just randomly, with no evidence that you'll show anybody, called him a terrorist.

Speaker 1 And one of the weirder parts about this is the thing, the only thing that seems to upset Trump about the entire situation is having to answer a perfectly reasonable question from Caitlin Collins about it.

Speaker 1 You said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed to be returned, that you would abide by that. You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago.
And they said that

Speaker 1 it must be facilitated.

Speaker 1 Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country? Why can't you just say that?

Speaker 1 Why do you go over and over? And that's why nobody watches you anymore.

Speaker 1 Nag, nag, nag. You sound just like the Supreme Court.
Nag, nag! But fear not, America. For every time a lame stream media journalist gets shunned, an ass-kissy one gets its wings.

Speaker 1 Do you have a question, please?

Speaker 1 Mr. President, thank you so much.
Can you scored another major investment win this morning when NVIDIA pledged to build its AI supercomputer for the first time ever right here in the United States.

Speaker 1 That's a question I like.

Speaker 1 It's true. Yeah, that's not a question.

Speaker 1 I guess it's your favorite kind of question, a compliment.

Speaker 1 But rest easy, Americans, if there's one thing we all know, it's that first they come for the undocumented migrants. And as long as nobody speaks out, they stop.

Speaker 1 You mentioned that you're open to deporting individuals that aren't foreign aliens, but are criminals to El Salvador.

Speaker 1 Does that include potentially U.S. citizens fully naturalized in America? If it's a homegrown criminal, I have no problem.
I'm talking about really bad people. Really bad people.

Speaker 1 He's going to do that to U.S. citizens.
I think the hosts of the View are about to get administratively errod.

Speaker 1 I got to tell you, I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't.
I'm sorry. Who could have known?

Speaker 1 Maybe if somebody out there had yelled at me on Blue Sky about this, I would have known.

Speaker 1 But no one did,

Speaker 1 except every day,

Speaker 1 in all caps.

Speaker 1 So I guess the question is: how authoritarian is we?

Speaker 1 I don't accept your pity applause.

Speaker 1 Now luckily for us, the world is full of authoritarian leaders that we can measure Trump against. Your Putins, your Gs, your Anawin Torques.
So

Speaker 1 if Trump can put up a monster authoritarian score, you know what, let's do this Dave Portnor style. One clip.
Everybody knows the rules. By the way, the greatest pizza reviews in the history of pizza.

Speaker 1 If you guys like pizza, for me, it's like watching porn. We already know Trump's done a lot of the standard fare.

Speaker 1 He's attacked the free press, pulled random people off the streets, made law firms and universities bend the knee, announced Department of Justice investigations into an individual whose sole crime was suggesting that the 2020 election had been safe and well-administered.

Speaker 1 You know, the bad, bad people.

Speaker 1 But authoritarianism isn't just policies, it's an aesthetic. The opulence of medieval kings, the excesses of Middle Eastern autocrats.

Speaker 1 It's a Pinterest vibe that speaks to the power of one's position, the riches that are the privilege of the office. Does Trump measure up? Does he have the lack of available wall space?

Speaker 1 You have the mantle, and you have the cherubs.

Speaker 1 Is that from Mar-Anga? Yeah, that's actually their gold, all gold. Look,

Speaker 1 and you know, it's angels.

Speaker 1 They're angels.

Speaker 1 They visited me in the night and asked me to change my ways

Speaker 1 So I held them down and dipped them in gold

Speaker 1 I drowned them in gold liquid gold

Speaker 1 Have you ever heard an angel scream? It is just

Speaker 1 it is erotic

Speaker 1 By the way, if any of you are wondering if the cherubs that are now in the Offile Office are real gold, and I know many of you are wondering that,

Speaker 1 it is real gold. And there's a very good reason for that.
Throughout the years, people have tried to come up with a gold paint that would look like gold, and they've never been able to do it.

Speaker 1 You've never been able to look at that look. You've never been able to match gold with gold paint.
That's why it's gold.

Speaker 1 That dude is so blue-collar.

Speaker 1 Always down at the factory with the boys. Why can't they make a gold paint that looks like gold? It's not illegal.

Speaker 1 I don't mind them canceling pediatric cancer research, but I hope by the end of the term we can come up with a good gold paint substitute because.

Speaker 1 But you know, rooms filled with real gold cherubs are nothing. If those rooms aren't also filled with the echoes of the most embarrassingly sycophantic hosannas,

Speaker 1 one clip, everybody knows the rules. Thank you for your leadership and thank you for everything you're doing.
I want to thank you for standing up to the Chinese Communist Party.

Speaker 1 I want to thank you as well for the shipbuilding. Your vision is a turning point and an inflection point in American history.
Your leadership at the border is absolutely remarkable.

Speaker 1 What you're doing now, I think, is a great service to our country, but ultimately to the world. You are overwhelmingly elected by the biggest majority.

Speaker 1 You know what? I swear to God, that's what.

Speaker 1 Guys, what does she know? She's the Attorney General. She doesn't have the f ⁇ ing.

Speaker 1 When I watch those cabinet meetings, I actually think, are they making fun of him?

Speaker 1 It's so over the top. Mr.
President, oh, thank you so much. Your dick is so big.

Speaker 1 So...

Speaker 1 Your dick is so big. We can barely lift it because

Speaker 1 it's covered in real gold, not the paint. Real gold.

Speaker 1 But you know, any

Speaker 1 run-of-the-mill authoritarian can get the praises from those that fear him, the OGs. The real autocrats extract something much, much weirder and humiliating.
The forced, uncomfortable laughter.

Speaker 1 He had a hat on, and then he puts another hat on, the same hat, but still.

Speaker 1 That's on the North Korean website, funny or you die.

Speaker 1 And as America's dear leader, Donald Trump also has a tight five. We're pulling all that out and putting the money toward the infrastructure, not the social movement from the last administration.

Speaker 1 Good steel, right, as opposed to green paper-mâché.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Great job.

Speaker 1 That made no f ⁇ ing sense, right? Right, yeah.

Speaker 1 Nothing, right? Did that make any sense to you? Didn't make any sense to me. Hey, you better laugh, though, right? Oh, oh, put a hat on, put a hat on.

Speaker 1 It's just so f ⁇ ing weird. But the key to the authoritarian regime is the suspension of the normal processes by which you understand the world.

Speaker 1 The manner by which data and your experiences paint a cohesive, grounded picture of reality.

Speaker 1 The calling card of an authoritarian regime is that you must suspend that reality, that rationality, and then you test people by pushing the limits of that absurdity.

Speaker 1 The White House released the results of President Trump's physical exam. His doctors say President Trump exhibits excellent physical health.
The report says he's 6'3, 224 pounds.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna say no to either of those numbers.

Speaker 1 I don't want to be that guy, but

Speaker 1 he has a front butt.

Speaker 1 I mean, we all get there.

Speaker 1 It's fine.

Speaker 1 You can have it.

Speaker 1 But what's with... He is forged by Hephaestus.
No!

Speaker 1 And by the way, that medical exam did not only confirm that Trump is physically perfect, his brain is also totally jacked. I took a cognitive test,

Speaker 1 and I don't know

Speaker 1 what to tell you other than I got every answer right. Can you tell us about the cognitive test? Is that bad, the person camera, TV? It's a...

Speaker 1 I think it's a pretty well-known test.

Speaker 1 Whatever it is, I got everyone, I got it all right.

Speaker 1 I think we all know what cognitive test we're talking about.

Speaker 1 But I would like to know, do you know what cognitive testing?

Speaker 1 It's just bullshitting. I took a cognitive test about my memory.
What was it? It was a test.

Speaker 1 Trump is such a medical marvel. What's the secret to his good health and youthful appearance? Sense of humor decreases stress that he has.
Everyone that knows the president knows how funny he is.

Speaker 1 That decreases stress,

Speaker 1 does it?

Speaker 1 Sense of humor decreases stress.

Speaker 1 Keeps you young looking.

Speaker 1 Is that what I hear you saying?

Speaker 1 May I, if I may,

Speaker 1 just for schnicks, offer the counter-argument.

Speaker 1 Do I look less stressed?

Speaker 1 No, don't look. I'm hideous.

Speaker 1 But you know what? He's got a good sense of humor and he's in pretty good shape. May work for your run-of-the-mill authoritarians, your Lukashenkos, your Maduros.
Surely Trump is above that C-tier.

Speaker 1 Donald Trump is a genius. Very different in the best possible way.
The president has an athlete's mindset. Accessible, freewheeling, refreshing.
It is like Christmas every day with President Trump.

Speaker 1 He's like that Marvel superhero. A mythic figure, almost like the various Scandinavian Beowulfs.

Speaker 1 I'm obviously not a scholar in Viking lore. I don't remember there being Beowulfs.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't it also then be Beowulves?

Speaker 1 But those are still just reaching for superlatives. Is there anyone else who wants to place him not on Mount Rushmore, but maybe Mount Sinai? Can Trump be the biblical Moses? No!

Speaker 1 I'm not the most observant Jew. I mean, this weekend, I think I celebrated Purim, but...

Speaker 1 Isn't Moses the biblical Moses? And by the way,

Speaker 1 if you were Moses, I do think there were some thou shalt nots that he might want to take a look at. By the way, Moses 6-4-218, 48-inch article.

Speaker 1 But you know what? Even a superhero or a Viking or a mythic figure or a biblical prophet pales in comparison to the genius that we are witnessing.

Speaker 1 Zelensky's playing checkers and Trump is playing chess. Trump's 3D chess move.
He is actually playing 4D chess. President Trump's 5D chess.

Speaker 1 That's not a dimension.

Speaker 1 With length, width, depth, four is time. There's no five.
There's no five. He is a God who has created a whole other dimension

Speaker 1 through which he plays board games.

Speaker 1 Let me even see how do you play five-dimensional Trump chess? Let me see how we do this. So here's how he would probably do it.

Speaker 1 We lose them for DEI. Okay.

Speaker 1 Trust me.

Speaker 1 I guess that's it. I guess that is 5G.
You know, for an authoritarian that awesome, I guess words are not enough. Tributes to a great leader must show, not tell.

Speaker 1 A new proposal by House Republicans to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Donald Trump. Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, was seen wearing a gold pin of Trump's face.

Speaker 1 A congresswoman introduced a bill to add President Trump to Mount Rushmore. That would make President Trump's birthday a national holiday.

Speaker 1 Put President Trump's likeness on the $100 bill, a brand new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump's face. He's going to be on all our money and all our finging mountains.

Speaker 1 So Trump's got it all.

Speaker 1 Authoritarian-wise, the looks, the attitude, the relentless dissent-crushing, all the ingredients to be a top-tier authoritarian. All he needs now is to bring it home with his ruthless competence.

Speaker 1 Chaos and confusion from Wall Street. The markets lost more than six and a half trillion dollars.
They've wiped out $11 trillion.

Speaker 1 Turning now to yet another plane crash, the worst measles outbreak of this century. 100,000 federal workers have been fired.
The Trump administration unfiring some of the federal workers.

Speaker 1 President Trump's tariff train escalates the global trade war. The president hits pause on his global trade war.
The president made it clear yesterday this is not a negotiation.

Speaker 1 Donald Trump says it is a negotiation. The president exempted smartphones, computers, and other devices from his new reciprocal tariffs.

Speaker 1 The president later posting there was no tariff exception announced on Friday.

Speaker 1 So close.

Speaker 1 So frustrating to see someone just on the precipice of illiberal leadership, but he just can't put it all together. Is Trump Putin or G? Not yet.
But there's no question that he's a young upstart.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of potential. But if he can't bump his numbers in the getting shit done category, he's going to hit the ceiling pretty quick.
You know what? Let me, let me.

Speaker 1 Donald, look,

Speaker 1 look,

Speaker 1 let me have a word.

Speaker 1 President Trump.

Speaker 1 Generalissimo.

Speaker 1 Oh, great Moses.

Speaker 1 I don't know what your advisors advisors have told you about the authoritarian bargain, but the basic deal is this.

Speaker 1 The American people look the other way while you disappear undesirables, knuckle under the elites, ban all seven trans athletes from our nation's beloved NCAA fencing tournaments, you know, all the people that are holding us back, and then you in turn make shit work.

Speaker 1 You want to ignore the Supreme Court and all the other courts and take away people's licenses to broadcast? Fine.

Speaker 1 But when the planes go up, you're going to kill them

Speaker 1 and not on fire.

Speaker 1 You don't even have to have them be on time.

Speaker 1 You can take over Greenland, demonize Canada, dominate the golfing pro circuit, but in return, our children should be somewhat safe from most Victorian-era diseases. We love our children.

Speaker 1 We love them.

Speaker 1 We love our children, especially the Rizzler.

Speaker 1 You want to destroy NPR and PBS, the voice of America, sell the naming rights of the Washington Monument to hymns.com, use the R word, the P word, the C word, make up your own slurs, have the United States Naval Academy remove Maya Angelou from its bookshelves, but for some reason keep mine comp,

Speaker 1 which is a real fing thing that they did. We'll be fine.

Speaker 1 We weren't that crazy about this system of government in the first place.

Speaker 1 But you keep fing this up, and some of these lawyers in universities and corporate leaders are going to start to think about suggesting, respectfully, to each other in a very tightly controlled text chat.

Speaker 1 That someone should reach out to someone who knows someone in your administration to express mild dissatisfaction.

Speaker 1 Because injustice anywhere is not something we mostly think about.

Speaker 1 And remember, you don't have that much time to get it right because it's not like your vice authoritarian butterfingers is inspiring any confidence. Look at the size of that trophy next to JD Vance.

Speaker 1 I know. Those are some big young gentlemen and a big trophy as well.
Big dudes, yeah. Oh, and it looks like the trophy fell.
That's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 Oopsie.

Speaker 1 Administrative error. When we come back, Rami Youssef will be joining us.
Don't go away.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to the show at my guest tonight.

Speaker 1 The best award-winning actor comedian co-created the new animated series, number one, Happy Family USA. Hey, Dad, I think this jersey might be too big.
Yes, Rumi. It will fit you forever.

Speaker 1 We didn't come to this country to buy new clothes every year yet. You guys see Rumi's boobs? You gotta get his hormones checked.
No, no money for hormone checks.

Speaker 1 Everybody checks their own hormones. Maybe we could return it for something smaller.
Uncle Jamal doesn't do returns. He's very under the table.
And no more new stuff. Bossiawed, here.

Speaker 1 Terrible month, Ya Rumi. But I use less toilet paper.
I only use the Shetafa now. Your butt is clean, but your energy usage isn't.
Look where you are on the cousin leaderboard.

Speaker 1 Your cousins are beating you in every category. Be more like Kareem.

Speaker 1 Please welcome. Remy Houston!

Speaker 1 Look at you!

Speaker 1 What's happening? I'm so happy to be here with you. I'm so happy to have you here with me.
Thanks for having me. I'm so happy.
You know, the show, they send me the screeners. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I get them in advance. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 You've got that kind of

Speaker 1 connection. Yeah.
Oh, I get, I don't even have to log in. I just, I touch my computer.
It comes right up.

Speaker 1 I didn't know what it, the animated series, I'm watching it. I'm trying to think here, wait, what's happening? And then all of a sudden, it's September 10th,

Speaker 1 2001. And I'm like, what the f ⁇ is about to happen?

Speaker 1 And it did, and you made it hilarious. The show's hilarious.
Thank you. No, I, you know, it was something that we felt was only possible to do in animation.
And it's actually,

Speaker 1 it's really wild too because we've been making the show for so many years.

Speaker 1 And I don't think there's ever been a week in America's history where immigrants feel the need to say, hey, we are number one happy family USA. Right.

Speaker 1 And that is what this family feels compelled to do in 2001. And we kind of have this show coming out in this moment where it's all colliding in this wild way.

Speaker 1 Oh is there something going on in the uh in the government? Yeah, a little bit. How many years you said you've been making this for many years before 9-11 were you making it?

Speaker 1 What did you know, Rami?

Speaker 1 We started making it during, we pitched it during Trump 1.

Speaker 1 And then it's coming out now in the sequel. Isn't it wild that we're in eras now? Like Trump won.
I remember Trump won. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was so quaint and simple back then. You know, this is going to sound crazy.
He seemed happier back then, yeah? He did? He did. He was like smiling more.
Like he seems really stressed now.

Speaker 1 Like all the clips you were showing, I was like,

Speaker 1 you know, you're like, oh man, he looks kind of sad. Like I don't think he likes what he's doing either.

Speaker 1 That may be the most charitable thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 I always try to see it from the other point of view, even if it is, and I'm like, he looks stressed, like he doesn't look good. He's like lying.
He's great.

Speaker 1 He's got such a good sense of humor that it keeps him young.

Speaker 1 I wonder,

Speaker 1 I mean, do you think

Speaker 1 when you're surrounded by that, like

Speaker 1 with, like, imagine being in a room with all your cabinet secretaries, and they're kissing your ass so hard? that it does seem sarcastic.

Speaker 1 Like, do you think he goes back into like the bathroom afterwards and be like, do they really think I'm bringing a new era?

Speaker 1 I think he might. I mean they're kissing his ass and he obviously has like body image issues.
He's lying about the weight and the height.

Speaker 1 And then like no!

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 and then like

Speaker 1 you know Jon Stewart's over here talking about a front button stuff. I mean the guy

Speaker 1 no I don't think he did and he's going through

Speaker 1 I believe he's going through something physical and he happens to be the president of the United States and I think we got to just kind of look at it from it from every angle can I ask you a question

Speaker 1 do you think Instagram is with his self-image and that's why

Speaker 1 like because he looks at all these Instagram shots of all these other leaders and he's like they look ripped dude I think I mean that Putin shot it's got to hurt

Speaker 1 I think there's a reason he got off X and created his own social media platform right where he could you know control how people are seeing just say are you are you on truth

Speaker 1 yo yeah, I got at Rami from the beginning. That's an extra name.

Speaker 1 And you actually, any Arab name you can just get on Truth. It's really easy.

Speaker 1 Like, as of,

Speaker 1 like, it's available. Like, you could.

Speaker 1 Oh, like. Cheap.
Like, it's cheap. You could get at Muhammad right now.
I could.

Speaker 1 100%. Every spelling is available on Truth.
Yeah. It's pretty.

Speaker 1 It's a very limited audience base that's on there.

Speaker 1 I am hoping that our audience at home right now is rushing out you can sign up today to register those domain names have you do you do any of that do you do you social media do you uh very sparingly yeah i mean it's really hard i mean you know like being creative and we've talked about this with like stand-up and stuff it's like i love being in rooms with people and so being online can feel yeah really crazy and so no i like i go on to look at like sports stuff like lebron stuff but that's pretty much it yeah that's where i'm at that's kind of i used to

Speaker 1 what was so interesting to me is like we've all had this experience as stand-ups you'll like you'll do a room and like there'll always be like a table or like a couple of tables who like aren't digging it yeah and you're like okay and sometimes you'll register it and like maybe it'll get on your nerves a little bit or whatever but then you go home yeah social media is like those people that thought you sucked you have to ride in the cab with them home

Speaker 1 and like the whole time they're just like you suck yeah

Speaker 1 And you're a Jew.

Speaker 1 You know what's crazy is that I get called a Jew. Do you really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like I put, I had this like New York Times thing and like it was like the thing and there's stuff where people are like, oh, why do you have and then someone just writes another Jew.

Speaker 1 And I was like, whoa.

Speaker 1 That's how much Jews control show business.

Speaker 1 They're like,

Speaker 1 yeah, he's like an undercut. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And now I'm here with you.

Speaker 1 But if that isn't a sign that I'm a CBA agent,

Speaker 1 it is so wild though. You know, there's all these things, and Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are such brethren in like different moments, you know?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but we got like a really bad end with our, like, Islamophobia is so weak. Like, it's

Speaker 1 arachophobia. Well, yeah, because it's like arachnophobia or like, it just sounds like, oh, yeah, you had a weird Islamic experience as a kid, huh?

Speaker 1 You got a little Islamophobia. You don't like fans or Muslims.
No, no, but but no, no, you can get over it. Just like try some halal meat.
And then, like, you'll get over, like,

Speaker 1 you know, like, Islamophobia, it's like a shellfish allergy. It's like, oh, yeah, no, like, no, he doesn't want any.
He has Islamophobia. Like, it sounds so benign.

Speaker 1 Anti-Semitism is like, whoa, like, dude, like, what do you want about it? You know, so I think even from just on a real word language level, we're at an incredible disadvantage.

Speaker 1 I never thought of it that way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that's because you're Islamophobic. And I think

Speaker 1 that's

Speaker 1 and that's like wild.

Speaker 1 The timing of it. That's wild.

Speaker 1 The timing of it. It's just wild because we know each other.
Yeah. I know we're both from Germany.
He is.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to go through our text chains and find out how subtle my Islamophobia has been here. It's there.
Yeah. But they'll hit me.
I generally, no matter what I'll put on

Speaker 1 the web and I try not to do it much. Third comment is always, you changed your name, Jew.
And you're always like, really?

Speaker 1 I'm fooling people is that look at this face like you see this maybe on a Yentel poster

Speaker 1 who am I kidding for all these things now are you still you still the clubs are still your favorite yeah I mean go in the club yeah yeah going out I mean it's the best it's so fun and then it becomes you know we made this animated show that's like filled with you know those like thoughts you have in a notebook when you're going to do stand-up and you're like maybe this will work maybe it won't and then we get to make this incredible show with so many characters that get to say all this stuff that you know you don't need, like,

Speaker 1 the rate is so fast, and that's what's been so fun. Just joke, joke, joke.
And you're, can I tell you my favorite? This is going to sound like a crazy thing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the show's great, and it's just layered with so many jokes and yet, and the subject matter can get dark, but it's really clever. It's not cloying.
Like, it's really good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But there's a pool scene. where you go, I don't want to say you, it's roomy, but it's like a kid your age in 2001 dealing with his

Speaker 1 friends in a town in New Jersey after 9-11. And there's a pool party.

Speaker 1 And my favorite part of it is it's like a Peanuts thing as they're doing a pan across the pool. And there's one blonde dude in the pool with floaties on and he's just doing this.

Speaker 1 And it's the every Peanuts character dance to music that it's just anime dancing. How about?

Speaker 1 it? Such a great detail.

Speaker 1 It's like loaded with so many little details and music and kind of the ability to like, you know, do things that, you know, when I grew up, my grandmother was always watching TV.

Speaker 1 Like you try to talk to her and she's just at the TV watching her shows.

Speaker 1 And then you go to make an animated show and it's like, okay, so the grandmother is always going to have her TV with her everywhere.

Speaker 1 And we build this show where everywhere she goes, she's dragging this cart that has her television. Like she's at a funeral,

Speaker 1 and she's watching her shows.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that's the kind of stuff you can't do in live action. I love that the halal cart turned into a piano.
Oh, yeah. I mean like I always had this fascination.
My dad grew up in the city.

Speaker 1 I grew up with my dad working in the city.

Speaker 1 And it was so funny to me when you go through Midtown and you see the news ticker on the Fox News building and it's saying all these horrible headlines about Muslim countries and Muslim people.

Speaker 1 And then you kind of look right down and there's the halal cart right on the corner.

Speaker 1 And you see all the guys with the fox badges buying food from the halal cart guy and i was like man this guy's got the best hustle

Speaker 1 because he knows like they're in there and they're saying all this stuff about muslim people but then there's that like guilty part of them on their lunch break that's like let me try a little halal you know and he's right there to make the buck and so when we started making this show i had always been so fascinated by that guy there and and that becomes the dad in the show he is the guy who's selling halal and you're the dad too i play the dad as well yeah yeah and And the music.

Speaker 1 Are you? Do you? Yeah,

Speaker 1 I write these songs. When did the music go? Have you been, are you music?

Speaker 1 I am music. Are you music? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I think that's, you know. When did that start?

Speaker 1 In high school, I played guitar, but I never really. Dude, you've known each other for a long time.

Speaker 1 I play drums, man. Dude.
We could kick it. We would be crazy.

Speaker 1 We could call it kosher halal.

Speaker 1 We could do that. Why aren't we doing this?

Speaker 1 I'm open.

Speaker 1 We could do it.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 I have a van. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm a terrible drummer, but I can bring our shit to wherever we play.

Speaker 1 I do not sing. I've never...

Speaker 1 But the singing and the music is great. There's some really funny songs in it.
It's really, it was so much fun. Yeah, it is like one of my favorite parts of the show.

Speaker 1 And what else is next?

Speaker 1 What's next?

Speaker 1 We got the show coming out this week. I got to do this crazy cool movie, Mountain Head, that's coming out next month, written by Jesse Armstrong who did succession.
So fun. Yeah, it's very, very fun.

Speaker 1 It's a very...

Speaker 1 It's really exciting. And

Speaker 1 yeah, our friend Steve Krell's in it, and he's honestly such a joy. Yeah.
He really. Yeah, he told me he likes so many stories about you that, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did any of them mention Mountain Head?

Speaker 1 That Terrible. I don't know what.
No, that was really good. No, thank you very much.
I appreciate that. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I went immediately to that. No, I loved it.

Speaker 1 How much fun that was working with Corell. Like, he is, and the deadpan is what will get you.
No, and it's like, he's just, yeah, he's so inspiring.

Speaker 1 And he's like, the way he kind of picks up a character, and he's like such a true film actor, too. Like, you get to bounce off him, and it's just unbelievable.
I miss all those.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's so good to see you. Dude, thanks for having me.
You're the man.

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Remember, you said, Quick break right out the way.

Speaker 1 I didn't know you were using that.

Speaker 1 Hey, that's our show.

Speaker 1 But before we go, we're going to check in with your host for the rest of the week, Ronnie Chang. What's happening, Ronnie Chang? Thank you.

Speaker 1 What do you got for the people next week? Well, big news for me personally, John.

Speaker 1 I'm going to space. Oh, wow.
Yeah, the all-women mission went so well today that Jeff Bezos asked me to be part of the all-Asian one.

Speaker 1 No offense, Ronnie, but like...

Speaker 1 Your top five? I mean,

Speaker 1 I just, just Ali Wong, Lisa from White Lotus, Boen Yang. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 But that's the point, John, okay? I'm the perfect mix of famous and disposable.

Speaker 1 It's known in the aerospace industry as the Katy Perry curve.

Speaker 1 Enough fame for news coverage, but, you know, worst case scenario,

Speaker 1 the world can move on.

Speaker 1 Also, I have no problems peeing in a bottle.

Speaker 1 Peeing in a bottle? It's an 11-minute ride. Yeah, I got a thing.
I got a thing with my. All right.
Well, hope you get back to it. Ronnie Chang, everybody.
Here it is.

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Speaker 1 Four and three men.

Speaker 1 Look at what we have.

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