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Hello, and welcome to The Precap, which is a real word.

We're going to make precap happen.

My name is Nicole Conlon, and I'm one of the writers at The Daily Show.

And this is the podcast where we kind of look forward to next week's episode of the show, and we meet next week's host.

We're going to look forward to the big stories.

We're maybe going to talk about a little bit what's happening this week, which is crazy.

And the host that we're going to meet this week is the one and only Jordan Clepper.

Yes.

You know, looking forward, it's such an optimistic term.

Yes.

We are technically looking forward as to what could happen next week.

We are looking forward, but are we looking forward to it?

That's a more complicated question.

Yes, it's hard to say.

So, Jordan, before we get into any of that, we got to address the big thing for our audience, which is you you got hacked.

Yes, this is, yeah, that's the number one thing the audience is thinking about.

That's what they care about the most is your Twitter account that you haven't posted on in six months got hacked.

It did get hacked this week.

You know,

it's the internet providing more misinformation for the internet, which is, again, if you've ever needed a reminder not to believe the things you read,

this provided yet.

Another one.

Yeah.

It was a strange experience, though.

Yeah, I got a bunch of text messages midweek that I had been hacked.

When you get hacked, what is fascinating, it does put a litmus test on which friends of yours, what they expect of you, what voice they expect you to have online.

Jordan's always selling laptops.

Exactly.

So I did have the friends who are like, oh, I can tell on Twitter you've been hacked.

Somebody's saying some horrendous things.

But then there's the other tier of friends who are like, hey man, what's up on Twitter?

Which seems like a kind thing to say.

And in most cases it was.

But against a bunch of other friends who are like, oh, I know for sure this not you.

Yeah, there were a handful of people who were like, Oh, well, is this you?

And to be clear, I'm not probably or usually the kind of person who tweets really revolting things about the news of the day, but that's what happened.

Yeah.

Well, I'm glad that it wasn't you, and I'm glad you're going back to not posting on Twitter for six months at a time, or maybe ever.

Or ever.

I probably never again.

Yeah.

I mean, it does speak to,

I mean, what actually happened was somebody hacked it, and they tried to say terrible things about the Charlie Kirk situation.

And in doing that, I assume trying to get me canceled or some sort of punitive response, which I think speaks to not only the bullshit of the internet and don't trust what you read on Twitter, but beyond that, like the discourse has gotten to a place where like there are people out there who are like, oh, if we can manipulate somebody into having a bad take or a bad opinion, that's the kind of thing that can be met with consequences and silenced or at least fired in some sort of way which seems like a bonkers assumption to be had years ago perhaps maybe even months ago this week but this week makes it seem like a pretty good assumption yeah we've moved now that's now a tactic that is being used yes on a platform that as far as i can recall the whole purpose of that platform was to to be a champion of free speech yes i remember the term was free speech absolutist that's what that was the term wasn't it yes yes a free speech speech absolutist.

So on the very flat platform that was meant to celebrate all opinions,

there was an attempt to weaponize it to take those down.

Yes.

But that's a tiny encapsulation of the wild week in free speech that we've had.

Yes.

And speaking of free speech issues, let's talk about the enormous elephant in our office, which is the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's Thursday right now.

Yes.

So normally we would be we'd be prepping today's show, which is happening right now.

And as host for next week, start thinking about that.

But this news broke last night.

And so we're all sort of here digesting that, trying to craft a show of it, try to craft a point of view around all of that.

But pretty scary slash outrageous news to awaken.

to.

Absolutely.

I saw it right before I went to bed, which is the worst possible time to find out about news that

might throw your own job into jeopardy.

What was your first feeling when you heard about it?

I was like, well,

I thought that maybe they had just like taken down the episode, the one episode in question.

And it took me like a little while of scrolling through stories to be like, oh, no, wait.

His show is off the air indefinitely.

And I have a couple of friends who write there.

So I texted them and they were like, we're finding out all of this at the same time as you are.

They're obviously not pumped about it.

So it's just so bizarre that it happened so suddenly and everything is so up in the air.

And it's coming off the heels of the Colbert cancellation, which at least had

the fig leaf of it being for business reasons, whereas this one seems to be much more explicitly for political reasons.

It's pretty darn clear.

Even I think the response Trump has had since then has been like, great, one down.

Yeah, on to the next one.

And Jimmy next.

So it's, you know, he's showing his hand right there.

It's not about anything that was said.

You've got to squint pretty hard hard to see what line was crossed, other than being somebody who's outspoken and not standing up for the narrative that the Trump administration wants.

And then you have the FCC flagging people down about how the administration feels about this, and business leaders lacking any kind of spine and kowtowing.

I think

it's shocking.

It's incredibly frustrating.

It's scary to me how spineless so many people are at the higher levels, the CEOs are.

We expect this sort of attitude from the administration.

but you have an entire political party who has based so much of their identity on being free speech absolutists, being anti-cancel culture.

At the very least, you'd hope the parts of the Constitution that uphold the ability to have whatever opinion you want, those things should be protected in many different ways.

And to see this happen,

not completely surprising, but I think the swiftness of it has caught a lot of people off guard.

I spent some time in Hungary.

We did a special in Hungary, and I think we've gone from zero to Budapest faster than a lot of people expected.

Yeah, that means we're going to get some great baths, though.

Budapest, beautiful public baths.

Wonderful baths.

Yeah.

You know, let me tell you.

And like heavy stews.

Oh, thanks.

Yeah.

So, yeah, so get ready.

So, yeah, we are going to have, okay, speech is going to be limited.

There's going to be state-run media.

That's just around the corner.

You know, rights are going to be restricted.

But baths, better.

Stews, thicker.

Yes.

And that seems like a fair trade to me.

I do like a thick stew.

Yeah.

One thing that's been frustrating about this whole thing to me is that both with the Colbert thing and with this new Kimmel thing is like I, as a regular consumer of media, or like me trying to explain like what's going on to my parents or my friends who are not in television or anything at all, is like...

So much of this is motivated by like mergers and businesses.

And then I have to explain like, now it's like, okay, I got to know who the parent company of the local affiliate station in Florida is.

And it's, it, it isn't, it, I think on Trump's level, it is very much about like, I don't like what, I don't like him, I don't like what he said.

But then like explaining it from the business interest side is like, it's, it's stupid in a different way that is much harder to like articulate to people who aren't like, okay, so the way that ABC works is ABC is this, the network, but then there's the affiliates and it's.

I think you got to cut to the chase.

You can be like, here's the deal.

The world is made up of billionaires who are assholes and only care about themselves.

They pretend to have a morality that they speak with and they use their platforms for a certain truth.

But in the end, they're soulless capitalists who only care about a bottom line.

And in the moments where they could stand up for themselves and be a voice for good and reason, they instead retreat, become nameless, faceless beings who only care about their bottom line and will allow a country to disintegrate and democracy to evaporate because they want to buy another beach house.

I'm going to have our editors clip that and then I'm just going to send that out to you.

Send it out to anybody who's like, what's going on with the mergers?

It's like, oh, billionaires want more money, and they don't give a fuck about what people have to say or our democracy being strong anymore.

They just want more money.

Yeah.

So they haven't officially canceled Kimmel.

He's on indefinite hiatus.

And now it seems like if he is ever to get back on air, Sinclair just released a thing that was like he needs to issue a formal apology and donate to Turning Point USA.

And I feel for Kimmel in this situation because he's in the horrible position.

And I don't think he would ever go for for that.

But he now has to decide between standing up for what he believes in and protecting the jobs of 250 people who work at his show.

And that is just an impossible situation to be in.

Yeah.

You know,

I have such respect for all of these folks who are in this late night sphere.

I think

during the strikes, so many hosts took care of their staffs.

In this time where we are seeing faceless, spineless people who are being threatened and punished by an administration, like continuing to back away.

I think people like Kimmel, like Stephen, like so many people are standing up to

an administration, saying the things that they believe in, taking care of their staffs, and are consistently put in these positions.

I have no doubt that

Jimmy will handle this with an amount of grace and fire, as is his right.

It makes me very proud of the people that we call colleagues in this industry, but really frustrated with the positions positions they get put in.

Yeah.

Well, that's it for the comedy podcast for Asia.

Anyway, yeah, so I have to do that stupid ass job next week, and hopefully we don't get attacked by the FBI.

Oh, God.

I guess we'll see.

What is this?

I just want to do bits again.

Nicole, do you remember when

we just were doing bits?

Bits were so fun.

Bits were so fun.

We went to Chicago last year and we did a whole video about the bean.

That's right.

I hung out with Governor Pritzker and I just drank malort for an afternoon.

Yeah, never again.

Never, never again.

Never again.

They have literally sent the National Guard into Chicago since we've been there.

That was last summer, Nicole.

Yeah, it was less than a year ago.

Oh, my God.

Oh,

boy.

But looking forward to next week.

Forward to next week.

Let's look ahead.

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By the time this comes out, people will have seen our show tonight, which we're currently preparing, which is just we're doing,

it is certainly the most like pure satire that this show has been in a long time, where we're just doing pure North Korean state-run media, but in America.

Yeah.

It's obviously the script's not done or anything yet, but I think it's going to be really fun.

It has certainly been like a...

incredible show to be a part of.

Yeah.

I mean,

I love the pure satire of it all.

It does feel like a fun way to attack this.

I will say, even just getting the call this morning, that it's an all-hands-on-deck type show where everybody's coming in, the other hosts are coming in, correspondents.

John's coming in.

John is coming in.

One of the things I love about working on this show is in the chaos of these days, when you feel scared and upset and frustrated at the news, and you're staring alone at your phone or at your TV, like to be able to go into work and do something with that issue.

I would much rather be here today than not here.

100%.

So I'm excited to craft that.

I think like it is so fun.

I think like a classic way of looking at something.

And quite frankly, something like a show only like the Daily Show can kind of do.

This truly is a new satire.

It can use that parody and the tools of satire to kind of speak to some of these things and hopefully find some bits in this dark, strange time.

It's also an opportunity as a writer, I get to write like new kinds of jokes that are not the typical kinds of jokes that we do on the show.

And so it's, it's a, I don't know, it's the one silver lining of this horrible situation is like, well, at least we get to do like new creative stuff with it.

Yeah.

So I'm excited to see how it turns out.

I'm excited to see if we have shows next week.

Now, as someone who had a separate show for a year, which was completely satirical, taking on the point of view of the show.

Oh, yeah.

Does this feel kind of like you're going back to the opposition a little bit?

Yeah, and what's scary is that show is no longer on television anymore.

Yeah.

So this might be a terrible tactical move by the Daily Show.

I wish they would have consulted me first, but

going full satire, you know, careful guys, you know, there's an appetite for it, sure, but maybe not the appetite that you were once promised for it, but who knows?

Good, good luck, everybody.

Yeah, well, at least I think our merger is already finalized, right?

Is the eighth dry?

I hope so.

Fingers crossed.

I guess we'll see.

It is so fun, though, writing from that perspective, right?

Like, in some ways, I remember working on The Opposition, like,

in some ways it it was so freeing because

you could go to, everything was at 120%.

You could go big, you could go wild, you saw something that made you angry and you were adopting that and taking it to the crazy point, which often became difficult in this era to heighten something that already felt so heightened.

But at the same time, you could get silly in a way that

felt playful and fun.

And then at the same time, you're also trying to make a point by making the opposite point.

So there's a little two-step that could sometimes get complicated, but opened up new

avenues for comedy and playfulness.

So I think that's something that I think will be a gift to the show, to be able to write in a voice like that.

Totally.

When

wonderful senior writer Lauren Sarver-Means was walking us through the show today, she was like, the first act is going to be fun.

We're not approaching it from a like, how dare you, sir, perspective.

It's like, we're going to, I mean, it's horrifying, but we're going to try to have as much fun with this kind of show as possible.

Yeah.

And I think it's also, we haven't seen the set or anything, but I've heard they're like going to redo the set and they're going to make it like all gold and stuff.

And so I think it also like speaks to the technical prowess of our crew to like be able to completely turn that around in.

Three, four hours before the audience comes in.

It is it is amazing.

I'm always shocked at what the show can do that quickly.

Yeah, in one day.

And I think like it speaks to like this moment.

We've had to get better at responding to news that breaks constantly, but that you can show up in the morning and decide something completely different than everybody is in there, like, all right, we're gonna make this.

These are the points we want to make.

This is the world we want to create.

We have a couple hours.

Let's make that thing happen.

Yeah.

And then I go home and I stare at the pile of laundry that I haven't done for two months.

And it's like, how can we do all this in one day?

And it takes me this long to get through my little chores at home.

It's a lot harder.

I think you need a staff of 150 people to make that happen.

I think so.

Well, I'll tell you what, if the show's canceled, we can all come to my apartment and finally do my laundry.

You know what?

I think that's the silver lighting, right?

We're going to live in a land with plenty of thick, hearty stews and a roving band of 150 people doing laundry from house to house.

Yes, perfect.

Let's talk a little bit about what next week looks like, assuming that we're still on the air next week.

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What are some things you want to talk about?

Well, we talked about

there's a lot happening at the UN next week,

which means traffic is going to be bad.

So

I'm sure I'm just going to be upset about traffic for most of this.

Mostly be a traffic report.

Yeah, I think if you're watching this, you're like, I think they're talking about important climate change issues, but all this show does is bitch about how difficult it was to get to work today.

So I'm imagining there's a lot of anti-traffic bits all week.

Yes, that'll be fun to be had.

One of the Ben and Jerry's founders has departed from Ben and Jerry's.

It's sort of like when, I mean, you can't have Holland Oates without Oats.

Can't have Ben and Jerry without Jerry?

Was it Jerry who quit?

I think it was Jerry.

Was it Jerry?

Yeah.

Well, it's interesting thinking about next week.

We've learned at this show that you can't pre-plan too far ahead because the world shifts.

Yes.

I'm sure

we're going to be covering whatever the fallout of

the decision around Jimmy Kimmel is.

I think there's a big conversation about free speech in America right now.

Trump is over in England right now touting our free speech wares.

It seems like it's ripe for irony.

Yeah.

So I wouldn't be surprised if that carries over into the weekend.

And so we're always going to keep our eyes on that.

I think the UN week will be fascinating.

It's always compelling when all eyes are on the UN, or at least the people who follow those kinds of things.

So a few eyes are on the UN.

I didn't realize that they have the, so it's the UN General Debate, and I didn't realize that they have themes for the debates.

And this year's theme is Better Together, 80 Years and More for Peace, Development, and Human Rights.

See, now, Better Together sounds like a slogan.

The Kamala campaign came out.

I know, I know.

Next year's theme, Under the Sea.

You know what?

I think that one, I think that's a good one for the climate change.

Yeah, yeah, there you go.

Yeah, Under the Sea is perfect.

Yeah, 2080, Under the Sea.

Yeah, but I don't know what Better Together, 80 years and more for Peace, Development, and Human Rights is going to be.

Well,

it's optimistic.

Yeah.

I like the idea.

If we could work as a globe to become better.

Great.

Lovely idea.

I'd like to hear how that's communicated.

I think whenever it is UN week, you know, it sort of puts the U.S.

up against what other countries are doing.

We don't tend to stand up as well as I think we could, perhaps, stand up.

And this year, especially, I think maybe not.

Boy, but you know what?

I think we'll probably cover

Donald Trump realizing that he's a member of the global community and that we are better together, kind of coming to his wits and therefore articulating off the cuff in a very robust and articulate way, like the ways in which we can bind ourselves together as a human community and move past our differences and and become a better world.

That's what a leader does.

And so I can only assume that's the type of thing we would be covering next week.

He's going to say the words that will heal the nation.

I think so, yes.

I think so.

Unless he wants to attack Rosie O'Donnell again.

In which case, perhaps that will take up all of the energy.

Well, I can't see that happening.

No.

Next week is also Climate Week in New York City.

Wow, UN Week and Climate Week.

You're a climate fan, right?

I love the climate.

Big into climate.

Big into climate.

And I'm actually doing two events at Climate Week.

I'm doing one at the Solutions House on Tuesday night.

That's like a panel of late-night writers to talk about how we talk about climate change.

And I'm also doing on Wednesday night at Caveat, the Climate Town Live Town Hall with my podcast co-host and host of the show Climate Town, Raleigh Williams.

And I would love to see people at one or both.

Do you still have faith that we could turn this thing around?

I think we do.

Yeah.

I am less confident.

Look, this is a whole other podcast, but I'm less confident that the United States is going to do anything and more confident that the entire rest of the world is just absolutely lapping us on climate action.

So

I'm putting my faith in that.

See, you know what?

That's when suddenly we become jealous of what other people do.

I think that's America at its best.

Where we feel like, oh, are we being embarrassed by other people?

The French are doing something better.

I guess we better get our shit together.

We're not so good at being leaders, but we are good at being jealous and therefore using our jealousy to get better.

Maybe that's a path forward.

I do feel like in my career, spite has been my strongest motivator.

If I see somebody who I'm like, that fucking gang at this job is not funny at all, then I work 10 times harder.

So if we could do that, but for climate change, I think we'll be in a really good position.

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Now, if there's one thing that we have seen the past week, it's that our incredibly competent FBI leaders are right on the pulse of the Crime Happening in America, and they know exactly how to handle it.

And I feel like so much has been assassination news that we missed another example of the FBI doing a really good job, which is that in Montana, yeah, in Montana,

they found a bunch of methamphetamine.

And I believe they found it at a local animal shelter.

And they were like, great, meth is bad.

We must destroy this.

Let's set it all on fire.

And so they just set it on fire.

inside of this animal shelter and they had to evacuate all of the FBI personnel, all of the staff of the animal shelter and all of the animals because they were all explosive.

Now, are we sure this is FBI?

This is not a Christy Gnome project?

I mean, it might be.

It feels like taking out

an entire animal shelter is

spot on right there.

I just don't know that she's.

Well, maybe she was smoking them out to give her a clearer line of sight.

That's all.

Oh, you think she likes the sport of it?

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, perhaps you're right.

I think that's smoke them out with a bunch of fentanyl fires.

No, no, no, it's methamphetamine.

Because here's the thing: famously, if the FBI is in contact with a grain of fentanyl, they immediately overdose and die.

That's the thing that they have promoted happening to them.

And so I guess they decided it was much safer to be exposed to methamphetamine gas in an enclosed space.

God bless.

At least we have the best people.

They have the best people.

They have the best people.

So I'm glad they're smoking something out.

Yes.

Where's the ATF at all of this?

I don't know.

This feels like this is classic ATF.

Yeah.

Like

I get lost in the acronyms at times, but it feels like this is an ATF joint.

Yeah.

Is the ATF part of the FBI?

I have no idea.

Oh, boy, I got to Google that.

And then there's also the DEA.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, the DEA should be in there, too.

Yeah.

Eventually we'll get the whole alphabet.

Get everybody there around this animal shelter and keep the flames away, for God's sakes.

Yeah.

It's

smoking meth is the main way of doing it.

Yeah.

Which you'd think they would have realized before they set it on fire.

It's the main thing.

It's more like a party that it does sort of a crackdown.

Yeah.

I mean, maybe they maybe they just hotboxed the animal shelter and they were like, oh, we burned it because we hated it.

Because Because we didn't want it.

We're soaking it in our jobs.

That's why.

We're soaking at our jobs.

Yeah, so that is one funny, but also horrifying story that happened this week.

Isn't that sort of all of them now?

Yeah.

It's no longer like, we found a water skiing squirrel.

It's like the water skiing squirrel was exposed to methamphetamines

by our corrupt FBI.

It's like, all right, well,

so much for human interest stories.

And one final note from our producer who's just informed me that actually the FBI found found the meth somewhere else and they brought it to the animal shelter to use their crematorium at the animal shelter,

which I guess is the easiest way

to destroy the meth.

Boy, I want to unpack that.

Okay, that's, I mean, I guess if you need a crematorium to burn methane, which it does seem like there has to be a better way.

There must be.

We got a whole,

I know you love the oceans.

I know you love climate, but we got a big plastic island out there.

You can't throw a little meth in that island.

Is Is that a bad thing?

Let's throw it there.

It's probably fine.

But I guess better to go to an animal shelter crematorium than like a human crematorium.

I don't know.

I don't know why the animal shelter crematorium.

Maybe it was closer.

Is Miss Manners still a thing?

Is she answering questions?

This is a query for her.

Where do we burn a mass quantities of meth?

Yeah.

Well, hopefully we'll cover that next week.

Yeah, okay, we'll look into it.

Okay, now we're going to do a segment called the Daily Show Show and Tell, which is just where we talk about something that is not political, that we've watched or read or listened to or argued about or just been on our minds, sort of a palate cleanser from what has been sort of a frightful week.

Yes, it has.

Yes.

Have you been watching or reading or anything non-political that you'd like to talk about?

You know what?

We were back and forth in Los Angeles for the Emmys recently, so I've watched a lot of movies on the plane.

And I watched The Ballad of Wallace Island.

Do you know this?

I have seen the posters.

I haven't seen it.

It is wonderful.

Really?

Tim Key is so funny.

I have loved it.

Ryan Gosling is in it.

No, it's.

Cut that out.

There's no Ryan Gosling.

Whether you're pro or con, he's not in this.

Don't expect Gosling.

Kerry Mulligan is in it.

Okay, maybe that's who I was thinking.

Yeah,

I'm sure.

That's yes, yeah.

Some of those classics.

I get them mixed up all the time.

Everybody gets Gosling and Mulligan confused.

This is, it's a lovely small British film starring Tim Key, who is in a bunch of the Alan Partridge Steve Coogan projects.

It's so funny, and it's essentially about

a rock star who comes to play a private show for one guy.

Okay.

Um and and then also he brings his

former uh uh collaborator and wife to the island as well.

And it's lovely and charming and funny.

And when I get so cynical about the world, I put that on.

I was like, oh my god, this has all of the beautiful, lovely things that British comedians can do.

And it made me, it made me, it made me, I mean, I was on a plane, so crying on a plane happens almost all the time.

Well, you were on a Spirit Airlines flight.

Most of that was because, yeah,

we were going,

there was certain death on

every shake.

Yeah.

But two big thumbs up on the Ballad of Wallace Island.

Ballad of Wallace Island.

Okay, I'll watch it.

What about you?

My thing is

there's a guy on Instagram named Evan Mulrooney.

I think his Instagram handle is like Mulrooney first of his name or something.

And he

is

a

comedian, and he's just a big, strong, buff guy.

He's like,

what?

Are you familiar with the character of Putty from Seinfeld?

Of course.

He's like, I think if Putty, you yes-anded everything he did.

Or like

also Patrick Orburton character like Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove, but if he were like a big gay idiot on Instagram.

He's so funny.

It's my friend Andrew Farmer showed his page to me and was like, It's always interesting when you discover a gay guy in a new font.

That's what he feels like.

He's so funny.

I think his content's really, really good.

What is the handle?

The handle, I think, is Mulrooney first of his name, but we'll have producer Alan double check.

Look up Evan Mulrooney.

And his handle is Rune Dog First of His Name.

R-O-O-N-D-A-W-G.

Oh, I love it.

It's really funny.

Check out the new font.

I have to ask, we lost a great one this week.

Robert Redford passed away.

Do you have a favorite Robert Redford film?

You know,

I don't know if it's my favorite, but the one that I think about the most is later in his career, I want to say I saw it in like 2015, somewhere around that era, he did a film called All is Lost, which is, the screenplay for it is like 45 pages or something because

it's just him in the movie on a boat.

And the boat capsizes, it gets hit by a Maersk shipping container that has fallen.

And then the movie is just about him surviving the horrors of...

the ocean.

And it's just, there's almost no dialogue in that film.

I think none.

I think he might say, ah, shit, or something at one point, but there's no dialogue.

It's just him.

And one of the things that I think is so interesting about it is

you get almost no backstory on this guy at all.

You can kind of pick up little pieces from like set decoration, but he's clearly a guy who has been at sea in a sailboat for a while

and he just has to survive.

And that's all you need to know.

It's like, yeah, he's in the ocean and he's trying not to drown.

That's it.

And it's really good and it's like masterfully acted by him.

It's great.

And I don't, I mean, he has such a incredible oeuvre that it's impossible to pick one.

But that is the one that I saw most recently that I was like, wow, this is amazing.

That guy, that guy, he's a movie star.

It was funny.

You get asked the question, I'm sure you get asked a lot when you're in this industry and in this world of like, what do you do to

rinse off?

How do you step outside some of the chaos of politics?

And I found over this last year, I've gone back to some Paul Newman and Robert Redford films.

There's just like a comfort, just a love.

I love Butch Casting the Sundance Kids is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Unbelievable.

It has kind of everything in it.

It's so funny.

It's so sweet.

The chemistry is great.

Musical sequences, tragic, it's smart.

It's a little bit more.

They're the two hottest men who've ever lived.

I love, let me say, two hot men talking for a while.

I could, you know,

and the sting.

I could watch those two go.

The sting is amazing.

That might be my favorite.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that is so utterly watchable, so fun.

It is true.

Like, I'm like, oh, as I get older, I get more cynical about

the trappings of Hollywood or the clichés you fall into, but there's still something about that classic movie star energy where you just watch some people up there on screen who are just so captivating.

Yeah.

It does take you out of things.

I feel like Redford was definitely one of those, especially those Newman movies.

They're lovely.

Redford also,

in addition to being the handsomest man who ever lived and

a prodigious actor,

was a big climate guy.

He was a big climate activist.

And part of that is because when he was younger, before he became a movie star, he worked in oil fields and he was like, oh, this is awful.

Like, it's awful for the people who work here and it's awful for the planet.

And so this climate week, I'm dedicating to Robert Redford.

I love it.

Thank you.

Nobody put me in charge of climate week, but I'm going to do it.

It is dedicated.

Be better, be best.

Is that this week in climate?

Yeah, be best.

Be best.

Thank you, Robert Redford.

Okay, I think that's it.

That is this week precapped.

Next week, pre-capped, I guess.

Either way, I would like to thank our host for next week, Jordan Clepper.

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your actual, authentic, non-hacked thoughts with this audience.

As far as I know, we haven't been hacked in this room.

I don't think, yeah, something felt weird halfway through, but I think I stand by all these words.

Okay, great, wonderful.

And if you would like to watch Jordan Clepper host the show next week, if we're still on the air, you can catch us on Comedy Central or Paramount Plus.

Thanks, Nicole.

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