Trump Targets Obesity & Threatens Nigeria While Airlines Cut Flights Amid Shutdown | Ethan Hawke

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Speaker 2 Welcome to the daily show of Jordan Club where we got so much to talk about tonight. Trump finds a new country to invade.
You might have to walk home for the holidays. And Dr.

Speaker 2 Oz wants to make you snatched. So, let's get into the headlines.

Speaker 2 Let's start with the big healthcare news.

Speaker 2 Today, Donald Trump announced a major deal to drastically cut the price of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs it's all part of his campaign promise and his one consistent principle of no fatties

Speaker 2 he made the announcement at the oval office today in an event that turned into a major hipa violation

Speaker 6 secretary howard luttnick

Speaker 6 do you take any of this stuff howard i have okay good

Speaker 6 cms administrator mehmen he doesn't take it with steve she here Head of public relations for the White House.

Speaker 6 He's taking it.

Speaker 2 Steve, he's on Ozempic.

Speaker 2 Told his wife he's been doing CrossFit in the garage, but nope, it's Ozempic.

Speaker 2 Steve's got to be careful, though, because I heard Ozempic interacts with C. Alice, which Steve is also on.

Speaker 2 You know what? Joking aside, obesity is a serious issue. So this could be a benefit.
Dr. Oz, you're a doctor.
Theoretically,

Speaker 2 give us a reasonable expectation of success here.

Speaker 5 Mr. President, our estimate, based on the company numbers as well, is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms.

Speaker 8 Whoa!

Speaker 2 135 billion pounds by the midterms. Why the midterms?

Speaker 2 Did they add a swimsuit competition to those?

Speaker 2 Look, I'm no mathematician, but 135 billion pounds divided by 340 million Americans means we each have to lose

Speaker 2 400 pounds by the midterms.

Speaker 2 Look, and I know that sounds like a lot,

Speaker 2 but remember that's just the average. Some people only lose 300 pounds.

Speaker 2 Well, other people will lose 500 pounds. Some of us will lose no pounds at all, which will be offset by everyone losing 800 pounds.

Speaker 2 The point is, regardless of how much you lose, Donald Trump will be tracking it and announcing your personal results at a press conference.

Speaker 2 And by the way, another crazy thing that happened at this health conference is that someone had a health emergency. He passed out.
They attended to him. He's fine.

Speaker 2 But I only bring it up because it resulted in one of the greatest images of the Trump presidency.

Speaker 2 Look at this.

Speaker 2 Everyone is attending to this guy. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is zoned out like he's in

Speaker 2 a marriage counseling session.

Speaker 2 You know what? All kidding aside, Mr. President, I appreciate your war on FUPAS.

Speaker 2 You're the America first president. I'm just glad you're focused on the American people.

Speaker 9 If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria.

Speaker 9 We're going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about and may very well go into that now disgraced country. Guns are blazing.

Speaker 2 Whoa!

Speaker 2 Guns are blazing. I mean, if you say so, President Yosemite Zam.

Speaker 2 You know what?

Speaker 2 Maybe

Speaker 2 try it again, but with a bit more toss.

Speaker 7 I'm hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.

Speaker 9 If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.

Speaker 2 Fast, vicious, and sweet?

Speaker 2 You talking about military action or a new wing sauce on hot ones?

Speaker 2 I don't know where this attack on Nigeria came from, and I'm not the only one. Trump's boys on Newsmax were also a little surprised.

Speaker 10 You know what?

Speaker 5 It's about time someone stood up for Christians, Rob.

Speaker 2 He's doing a lot.

Speaker 2 That's a big one. Nigeria came out of left field.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Even the anchors on Newsmax are like, oh, where the f did Nigeria come from?

Speaker 2 I prepared 20 minutes on Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl. No, I guess

Speaker 2 I'll pivot to Nigerian holy war? Shit.

Speaker 2 You know what? It seems like President Trump has the time to start lowering the price of weight loss, drugs, and fomenting war with Nigeria because turns out there's not much else going on.

Speaker 11 The government shutdown is now the longest in American history.

Speaker 2 Oh yeah!

Speaker 2 That's right! The shutdown! Nothing's going on because the government is irrevocably broken.

Speaker 2 It's day 37 of the shutdown and there's no end in sight, especially because Trump still refuses to even meet with the Democrats.

Speaker 2 At this rate, by the time the government opens back up, Mike Johnson will have gone through puberty.

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Speaker 2 don't worry, Mike, those hairs are supposed to be there, okay?

Speaker 2 You know what? It's fine if the shutdown stretches on forever.

Speaker 2 It's not like things are falling apart.

Speaker 11 New details about the FAA's plan to make unprecedented reductions to air traffic beginning tomorrow to ensure the safety of the flying public during the government shutdown.

Speaker 11 The list of the 40 airports that will be affected from Hartsville, Jackson in Atlanta to LAX in Los Angeles and from Miami to JFK in New York.

Speaker 2 40 of the top airports? That's all the important airports.

Speaker 2 And don't come at me Buffalo, Lancaster Regional Airports. Your Hudson News is shit.
That New Yorker was from two months ago. Get out of town.

Speaker 2 Like this is going to mess up travel for the holidays for most of the country and the airline's plans for how to avoid this

Speaker 2 not super helpful.

Speaker 11 Frontier CEO making this recommendation: if your flight is canceled, your chances of being stranded are high, so I would simply have a backup ticket on another airline.

Speaker 2 Frontier Airlines wants me to get a backup ticket? Respectfully, you're the backup ticket.

Speaker 2 You've always been the backup tickets. It goes United, then Southwest, then American, then the Goodyear blimp, then a catapult,

Speaker 2 then Frontier Airlines.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 here's what we are.

Speaker 2 Our reality, our reality right now, is that the president is spending his time doting on his pet projects and starting new wars while the country is scrambling to deal with the immediate crises that he is actively ignoring.

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Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 in the meantime,

Speaker 2 if you were hoping to travel to any major city anytime soon, you're shit out of luck. Although, there is one place that's taking advantage.

Speaker 12 The government shutdown is ruining air travel. Flights are canceled in cities around the country.
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Speaker 14 Welcome back to the Daily Show. I think I speak for everyone when I say politics rules and sports rules.

Speaker 2 For a full recap of the biggest stories in the world of jocks and straps, we turn to sports war.

Speaker 10 We're ready for battle. It's time for sports war.

Speaker 2 Brought to you by Gambling. Gambling, it's not just for professional athletes.

Speaker 2 What's up, Numnuts? I'm Ronnie Chang. And I'm Jordan Clepper.
This is Sports War, the show where we are legally not allowed to agree with each other.

Speaker 2 So, if I say college basketball is more exciting than the NBA.

Speaker 10 Well, then I say s college basketball. Who's watching the NBA and thinking, gee, I wish these players also had homework.

Speaker 2 Come on, Ronnie. Homework builds character.

Speaker 10 Yeah, your mom builds character.

Speaker 5 That's right.

Speaker 10 She raised a good boy who grew up into a fine man with compassion and empathy.

Speaker 2 F you, Ronnie.

Speaker 2 Let's kick things off with the Los Angeles Dodgers who continued celebrating their World Series victory this week.

Speaker 10 The Dodgers and their fans basking in the glow of back-to-back World Series titles.

Speaker 11 Will Smith was the hero hitting a game-winning home run in the top of the 11th inning. An estimated 250,000 fans flooding downtown downtown LA.

Speaker 10 Met the World Series after party. Dodger star and newly crowned champion Freddy Freeman doing the worm.

Speaker 2 Wow. Wow.

Speaker 2 Congratulations. Who says white people can't dance like it's 1995?

Speaker 2 My penis hurt just watching that.

Speaker 10 All in all, this World Series reminded me of Jordan's pre-show bathroom routine. It was long, dramatic, and involved multiple Japanese guys.

Speaker 2 Shut up, Ronnie. Everything done by them to them is consensual for me.

Speaker 2 Nothing, nothing, top Dodgers catcher Will Smith hitting that series-winning home run and finally redeeming himself for that time he slapped Chris Rock in the face.

Speaker 10 That was a different Will Smith, you moron. This one is a white guy.

Speaker 2 I know, Ronnie, and I'm talking about a white Chris Rock that white Will Smith slapped. There's a lot of people named Chris Rock and Will Smith out there, and they all fing hate each other.

Speaker 2 Point is, the Dodger Championship was straight out of a baseball movie. A true Hollywood ending.

Speaker 10 Oh, did someone break a bat over your giant head? This was another boring Hollywood reboot, okay? The Dodgers won. Hooray!

Speaker 10 Yeah, they won it last year and spent more money to do it again this year.

Speaker 5 Big deal.

Speaker 10 If you want to see a true Hollywood underdog story, imagine a team of grandmas winning the World Series, all played by me, Ronnie Chang, in nine different old fat suits.

Speaker 10 I call it Grand Slam, and it's filled with hardcore nudity.

Speaker 2 Which brings us to our fat suit, Fat Cat, Better the Night, which British actor will play Show AO Tatty in a Netflix original series about the Dodgers. Brought to you by Gambling.

Speaker 2 Gambling, you lose 100% of the bets you don't make with your wife's credit card.

Speaker 10 Speak up gambling, it's been a tough month for America's favorite new pastime.

Speaker 11 A new fallout in the gambling scandal in the NBA authorities accused Miami Heat player Terry Rozier of faking an injury and feeding that information to betters.

Speaker 16 Commissioner Adam Silver speaking up there's nothing more important to the league and its fans and the integrity of the competition.

Speaker 10 That's right.

Speaker 2 That half man, half lizard is right.

Speaker 10 This affects not only the integrity of the NBA, but it puts the entire sports gambling ecosystem in jeopardy, which is why it's time for a rare sports war war ceasefire sports war ceasefire activated

Speaker 2 we here at sports war have prepared a joint statement thank you Ronald to whom it may concern if you're the kind of depraved low-life scum that would throw a game to win a bet for your friends then we have one thing to say to you hit us up bro

Speaker 10 seriously Terry what the f I love having inside information hey anyone planning on tearing the AC out tonight well slide into my my DMs. I'll put you in my parlay.

Speaker 10 Don't worry, I can be trusted. Okay, you wouldn't believe the stuff Jordan has told me in confidence.
Like how he's the Hymns.com customer of the year.

Speaker 2 Okay, you know what?

Speaker 2 You only know that because you were the runner-up.

Speaker 10 Which brings us to our rock heart better tonight. How many months until Jordan flies to Thailand for penile rejuvenation?

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Speaker 2 If she changes it, just say, what?

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Speaker 2 Turning now to sports for people who can't play sports, big news in professional darts.

Speaker 17 Aussie darts player has been banned from using his nickname at the upcoming World Championships.

Speaker 17 Tim Poosi, magnet, as fans refer to him, is not allowed to use his moniker for the December event after the governing body deemed it, well, vulgar.

Speaker 10 Hey, chill out, Professional Darts League. Let him use his nickname, the magnets.

Speaker 10 Why are these officials being such a dick to pussy, all right?

Speaker 10 The only reason a dot league should have a governing body is to make sure you're drunk and fat enough to play.

Speaker 2 Ronna, you know less about darts than you do about pussy. The darts governing body is right on the money here.
First of all, this guy stole my nickname from college.

Speaker 10 There is no chance your nickname in college was pussy magnet.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I know. It was Tim.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 10 Your name is Jordan.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Back in college, let's just say I was a real Tim.

Speaker 2 So I say, good for the darts leg. When I'm watching darts, I'm not trying to think about Tim Pussy getting laid.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to think about what went wrong in my life that I'm watching a professional darts game.

Speaker 2 Which brings us to our Vajjay parlay, Better the Knights. What will Tim Pussy's new nickname be? Brought to you by Gambling.
Gambling, your wife's birthday's coming up. Buy her a nice necklace.

Speaker 2 So the credit card statement says K-Jewelers. Then return that necklace for cash and buy a much cheaper necklace.
Use the leftover cash on a seven-way parlay on North Korean Cornhole.

Speaker 2 If your wife calls you out and says, wait, this cheap-ass necklace caught $10,000, you didn't buy an expensive necklace, return it for cash, and then buy a cheaper necklace so you could bet the leftover cash on North Korean Cornhole, did you?

Speaker 2 You just start crying and say, how dare you? Then head straight to the airport and beg them for a job.

Speaker 2 After a few months, they'll promote you to baggage handler so you can rifle through people's luggage until you find a decent necklace. Then bring it home to your wife and say, found it, honey.

Speaker 2 It's gambling. It's just that easy.

Speaker 10 Well,

Speaker 10 that's all the time we have for Sports War. Join us next time where we debate if hockey would be better if it had a ball, court, and black people.

Speaker 2 That's basketball.

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah, that's a great name for it. I was going to call it black hockey.

Speaker 2 I mean, you can play it.

Speaker 2 I don't know. It's kind of a swim.

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Speaker 11 I turned off news altogether.

Speaker 19 I hate to say it, but I don't trust much of anything.

Speaker 16 It's the rage bait.

Speaker 17 It feels like it's trying to divide people.

Speaker 15 We got clear facts. Maybe we could calm down a little.

Speaker 20 NBC News brings you clear reporting. Let's meet at the facts.
Let's move forward from there. NBC News, reporting for America.

Speaker 20 Welcome back to The Daily Show.

Speaker 2 My guest tonight is an Academy Award-nominated actor, writer, and director who currently stars in the film Blue Moon. Please welcome Ethan Hawke.

Speaker 2 King of the world over here.

Speaker 2 King of the world. Just feeling good.

Speaker 21 Just you guys made me feel good.

Speaker 2 Right? They love it.

Speaker 2 I gotta tell you,

Speaker 2 Ethan Hawk, I have heard stories about Hollywood contracting and getting smaller, and then I see you are in Black Phone 2. You are in Blue Moon.
I turn on the TV. You are in the lowdown.

Speaker 2 Like, are we experiencing a hawk as

Speaker 2 right now?

Speaker 2 Like, I'm not worried about AI taking my job. I'm worried about Ethan Hawk taking my job.

Speaker 5 You should be worried because I've been watching you, and I've got some ideas.

Speaker 2 You can do it, right? Yeah, yeah, I got some ideas. I could do that sports center thing you guys got going on.

Speaker 2 I could take Ronnie on.

Speaker 2 It's harder than it looks.

Speaker 2 It didn't look very hard. Okay.

Speaker 2 Just leave some jobs for the rest of the day. Yeah, you got it, you got it, you got it.
It's so funny in that clip. You hear everybody gasp when they see you.

Speaker 2 You're a five-foot-tall man who has a comb over here. Like, there's Ethan.
Oh, God, he's let himself go. He's let himself go.
I know.

Speaker 21 My wife came to set when she's watching the monitor and she's like,

Speaker 2 I think I'm going going to go home.

Speaker 21 This is not doing anything for me.

Speaker 2 What's harder? Playing a five-foot person or a comb over person? Oh, comb-over. Comb-over is, right?

Speaker 21 You're like, yeah, it's just not sexy, you know.

Speaker 21 So I had to shave the middle of my head and leave it wrong and comb it over and I dyed the hair. You really realize that you work on the comb over.

Speaker 21 And when you're in the mirror, it looks fantastic.

Speaker 2 It's just any other angle from the back.

Speaker 21 It's just the direct on looks kind of fun.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 21 And I see why guys, I mean, you know, Trump does it pretty good.

Speaker 2 He does.

Speaker 2 Give him the hair. The one thing we can all agree on is his hair looks fantastic, right? God.
God, it does. The envy of his generation.
Everybody loves it.

Speaker 2 This movie is fantastic. Blue Moon is wonderful.

Speaker 2 It takes place in a night. at Sardi's after the premiere of Oklahoma.
Right.

Speaker 2 And it's a theater movie. It's very much, it's a true story-based.

Speaker 21 Yeah, but that makes it sound not good. Oh, shit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no.

Speaker 21 Theater movie, like, it's, all right, it's about the whole.

Speaker 2 Can I sound like a- You know what? Yo, you're gonna be here. You're talking everybody's a night in the middle.
Is that what this is?

Speaker 2 Set it up. What do you got?

Speaker 2 It's a night in the life. It's 1943, the middle of the war.

Speaker 21 Rogers and Hart, greatest songwriting team of their generation, cover of Time magazine, that the Lennon and McCartney of their day.

Speaker 21 Except, this is the first time Rogers has written with anyone else, a young man by the name of Oscar Hammerstein. They're about to change musical theater history.

Speaker 21 Larry Hart is about to be sent off to Antarctica to death.

Speaker 21 It's literally as if you're with Lennon McCartney, the day the Beatles are gonna break up, one of them's gonna be in a band five times bigger than the Beatles, and the other one is gonna be dead.

Speaker 21 That's what we're talking about.

Speaker 2 Real time, you're at the party.

Speaker 5 It's a good movie.

Speaker 2 Did I tell you?

Speaker 2 That is.

Speaker 2 It's a great movie. Thank you.

Speaker 2 I think, honestly, you get to sit, this movie has such great great conversations about about art the world about love like it's all in there and also it's directed by a Richard Linkletter who you've worked with many times before and he loves you

Speaker 2 in a way that you see he does not he there are no tricks they sit on you you have long long monologues and it's there's no tricks around it we're sitting with Ethan Hawk and we're watching him act and That has to be intimidating as all get out.

Speaker 21 It was the hardest job I've ever had.

Speaker 14 Is that right?

Speaker 21 Partly because you say Rick loves me and I imagine some part of that is true. I don't know.
He's never said that.

Speaker 21 And I feel the same way about him. And we were taking a big dare together and he's directed me, and this is our ninth film together.

Speaker 21 So he's seen, he spent years of his life editing my performances and he just basically said to me, I don't want to see you.

Speaker 21 And so anytime we'd be shooting the movie and I'd do a take, he'd go, I saw you there in the third line. You know when you picked up that, I saw that that was you.

Speaker 2 That scenes that I know.

Speaker 21 He wanted me to disappear. So I had to come on that set, five feet tall, comb over, terrible skin, alcoholic, shaking, nervous wreck.
And I tried to disappear into it.

Speaker 21 And, you know, he basically said to me, you've been talking about acting for the 30 years I've known you. Why don't you show me if you can do it?

Speaker 2 Hot damn. And I was like, I'll show you.

Speaker 21 And then I got really nervous.

Speaker 2 I mean, the cast is amazing, though.

Speaker 21 Yeah, yeah, Margaret Qualey, Andrew Scott, Bobby Canavali, a lot of great people.

Speaker 2 You guys are dancing with each other up there the whole time.

Speaker 21 Well, Bobby and I have known each other, you know, for a long time. We've done plays together, and he really came over there and supported me.

Speaker 21 He's a great actor, and I just needed, he's the barkeep, and I'm the drunk at the bar stool, can't stop talking. And so I needed him, and Andrew Scott, I didn't know before.

Speaker 21 I'd seen him play Hamlet years ago in London. I wrote his name down in a journal.
I was like, I got to work with that guy.

Speaker 5 Margaret Qualey's friends with my daughter.

Speaker 21 So that worked out well.

Speaker 21 I gotta use my daughter to make connections.

Speaker 2 Use whatever connections you have, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's an interesting conversation that happens in the movie. It's about Oklahoma, and your character kind of articulates an artistic vision for theater in a way that he leads in the satire.

Speaker 2 He wants theater to be used as a commentary on what's happening right there.

Speaker 2 mixed with

Speaker 2 Rogers' view of sincerity in the theater and sort of reaching towards that. Where do you land on that divide?

Speaker 21 Where do I land on my judgment of the musical Oklahoma?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 2 Whose rights? He's critical of it. That thing goes on to be the biggest musical ever, and yet he thinks this thing doesn't deserve the praise it's getting.

Speaker 21 What I see the movie as about is it's a moment in American history where we're right in the middle of the war, we're winning the war, and we start this process of self-mythologizing ourselves as a country.

Speaker 21 This musical is called Oklahoma. That is not the story of the Oklahoma Territory.

Speaker 21 Girls in Gingham dresses saying, I can't say no, is not the story of America.

Speaker 21 And we start doing this thing where we believe our own narrative about us as a hero. And it does a lot of good.
And it makes a lot of people really happy, and it feels really good.

Speaker 21 And it's what my character sees as the start of a lie of being nostalgic for a world that never existed.

Speaker 21 And so the movie's kind of spinning around. It's not just, it is a night in the life, but it's an important night in art history.
Jazz Age is ending. Something else is starting.

Speaker 21 I think it was Hitchcock who said,

Speaker 21 sound of music set cinema back 20 years.

Speaker 5 Do you ever hear this quote?

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 21 Well, and that's a Rogers and Hammerstein musical, too. And it's,

Speaker 21 it's, we love it so much.

Speaker 21 I don't even know what Hitchcock meant, but I kind of know what he means. Because it's just, you just believe in this myth of everything being sunny and, you know, my favorite things.
And

Speaker 2 Hitchcock was asking more of an audience than he knew then oh we're never gonna be able to sell it yeah I mean American exceptionalism is a comfortable lie but is inherently perhaps you tell it every night I do right thank you and I deliver it even I deliver it

Speaker 2 with compassion right

Speaker 2 I've heard you talk about the cast in Blue Moon. You talk about it being like a symphony and different instruments.

Speaker 2 Look to what's happening on F FX with the lowdown, which is a totally different experience. It's a fun,

Speaker 2 it's gnorish, it's gritty, it's Tulsa. It's not giving into this narrative of American exceptionalism.
It's showing some fun, moneyed sides.

Speaker 21 Have you seen Reservation Dogs?

Speaker 2 I have, very much.

Speaker 21 Well, the guy who makes the lowdown, Sterling Hard Joe, is a great filmmaker. And I fell in love with that show, Reservation Dogs.

Speaker 21 I went down, I did a little cameo in the show, and it was just the most exciting time I'd had on a set since, you know, working with Link Letter, really.

Speaker 21 The whole city of Tulsa is alive with all these young artists, and they really have something to say, and they feel like, I don't know, there's something in the whole spirit and energy of what they're doing.

Speaker 21 I just wanted, I wanted to join their band. And Sterling invited me down there.
We made the show, The Lowdown, and the season finale aired like yesterday, I think. So it's out.
Check it out.

Speaker 21 It's very good. Not a waste of your time.

Speaker 2 It's fantastic. I will say.

Speaker 2 I have not only such a fan of your work, but the algorithm sends me so many Ethan Hawk videos of you talking about art. In my clothes,

Speaker 2 some of them.

Speaker 2 I asked ChatGPT to take it off, so I get the whole picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I keep you with the comb over. It's just a weird thing I have.

Speaker 2 The nude stuff with the comb over is my best.

Speaker 7 That is, I really think.

Speaker 2 You're so vulnerable there, Ethan. I appreciate it.

Speaker 9 But I think you have great taste.

Speaker 2 You did a movie called Blaze, which I loved and got me way into Blaze Foley. I told you this backstage.

Speaker 2 For the Criterion Collection, you suggested a movie called The Blues According to Lightning Hopkins. I see it.
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 Which was an amazing documentary that I'd never heard of and it blew my mind.

Speaker 2 Before I let you go, what are you passionate about now? Give me something to get interested in myself. Make me love something.

Speaker 21 Yeah. To get interested in yourself, you want me to get, you want to get interested in you?

Speaker 2 No, I'm already, I'm way too fascinated. I was going to say now, I was going to say something.
You seem fine on that. Oh, I love it.

Speaker 2 In fact, I can give you stuff about me if you want to get more interested.

Speaker 7 It's just first thought, best thought.

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Speaker 21 It's A, a level of artistic excellence that we really haven't seen very much of, and B, male friendship.

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I haven't seen a performance like that since John Derrimo.

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