Epstein Bill Has Trump & Co. Freaking Out & Melania Delivers AI War Cry | Sebastian Maniscalco

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Ronny Chieng dives into Trump’s signing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Pam Bondi’s shell-shocked statements about a new Epstein investigation aimed at Democrats, U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s monumental screwup in the Comey case, Grok's ego-stroking of Elon Musk, and Melania Trump’s unlikely speech to Marines about AI warfare. Plus, Michael Kosta looks into Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy’s current problem with air travel: bad manners.

America might be getting sick of RFK Jr. as health secretary, but much like the worm in his brain, he doesn't appear to be going anywhere. While you won't find his brand of non-professional medical advice on "Grey's Anatomy" or "The Pitt," you can find it on a bold new medical drama: RFK Hospital.

Record-breaking comedian, actor, and podcast host Sebastian Maniscalco sits down with Ronny to discuss his latest Hulu special, "It Ain't Right." They delve into the experience of playing arenas versus intimate theaters, conveying jokes with tone and physicality, the intention behind ending the special with his family, and the evolution of stand-up marketing from recruiting audiences with flyers to promoting on social media.
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Speaker 6 Welcome to Daily Show. I'm Ron Shang.

Speaker 7 We got so much to talk about tonight. Melania tells AI to be best.
The Epstein files cause Pam Bondi to glitch. And Sean Duffy thinks your airport outfit looks like shit.

Speaker 7 And he's not wrong. Let's get into all of it with another installment of the worst wing.

Speaker 5 What a bunch of losers.

Speaker 7 Last night, Trump signed the Epstein-File Transparency Act into law. It was the first step towards proving that there's no connection between him and Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 7 Unfortunately, he signed the bill like this.

Speaker 7 Not again.

Speaker 7 So now this bill is a law. It's fully legal, or as Megan Kelly would probably call it, 16.

Speaker 7 In the meantime, Pam Bondi has opened a new investigation into Epstein's relationships with Democrats. And it's not just because Trump ordered her to on Twitter for the whole world to see.

Speaker 7 No, that's not why. She had a perfectly good explanation for that that she's not nervous about at all.

Speaker 6 What changed since then that you launched this investigation?

Speaker 8 Information that has come for information.

Speaker 8 There's information that new information, additional information.

Speaker 7 Perfect answer.

Speaker 7 It was perfect.

Speaker 7 What part of information in the information?

Speaker 7 Do you not understand?

Speaker 7 Also at the briefing was FBI chief podcaster Cash Patel, who

Speaker 7 seems to think that if he stands still long enough, we won't notice that he's a part of this whole thing.

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 7 I've heard of a thousand-yard stare, but this dude looks like he could see to China right now.

Speaker 7 Hey, Cash, could you check in on my family in Malaysia while you're at it? I mean, what's my mom doing?

Speaker 7 Actually, no, don't look at my mom.

Speaker 7 But Pam Bondi isn't the only Trump official investigating Democrats and f ⁇ ing it up.

Speaker 7 We also got Lindsay Halligan, whom Trump made his personal lawyer after he saw her on a golf course in a suit, which sounds like a joke, but it's not. She's now a U.S.

Speaker 7 attorney leading his crusade against James Comey, and she's crushing it.

Speaker 10 The case against former FBI director James Comey may be in jeopardy.

Speaker 10 Lindsay Halligan, the inexperienced prosecutor President Trump handpicked for the job, but who has never tried a criminal case, admitted she never showed the entire grand jury the indictment it was supposed to have approved.

Speaker 12 It's a mistake that could end up getting the case thrown out entirely.

Speaker 7 It turns out the the unqualified lawyer fed up the case. I mean

Speaker 7 this is how legally blonde would have gone if it was real.

Speaker 7 It's like,

Speaker 7 well I've never tried the case before but I'm gonna do my best. Case dismissed, you are disbarred.
Roll credits.

Speaker 7 In her defense, how is she supposed to know she has to show the indictment to the whole grand jury? Okay? They almost never show that part on suits.

Speaker 7 But let's move on to one of Trump's friends who never gets anything wrong, Elon Musk. He's been away for a while, but this week he was back at the White House for a state dinner.

Speaker 7 And I'm glad Trump and Elon made up because love him or hate him, Elon is the richest guy in the world, so you have to love him. And if you doubt Elon's greatness, just ask his own AI.

Speaker 13 After some apparent reprogramming, Elon Musk's Grok AI is now telling users that Musk ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling Da Vinci or Newton.

Speaker 13 Grock also claims that Musk's lean and wiry physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons and that he edges out LeBron James in, quote, holistic fitness.

Speaker 13 That's right.

Speaker 7 Elon Musk is in better shape than LeBron James.

Speaker 7 And that shape is trapezoid.

Speaker 7 I mean, AI is everywhere. When it came time this week to speak to the troops about AI warfare, Trump sent the obvious choice from the White House to do it.

Speaker 12 First Lady, Melania Trump, offering a warning about the impacts of AI on the battlefield.

Speaker 7 Melania Trump.

Speaker 7 What is the First Lady doing talking about AI and warfare? I mean, she should be doing normal first lady things like calling kids fat or calling kids druggies or calling kids stupid.

Speaker 7 But, okay, let's see what she has to say about this.

Speaker 15 AI will alter war more profoundly than any technology since nuclear weapons. The shift from soldiers to machines is already underway.

Speaker 15 Autonomous helicopters, swarming drones, and recon aircraft are here now.

Speaker 15 Fighterless jets and autonomous bombers are on the way. Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 Thank you.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 7 The new Terminator movie is weird as hell.

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 6 I...

Speaker 7 I can't even tell if she's for or against this future

Speaker 7 that she's describing. Like, maybe she's just waiting to see who wins and then declare her allegiance.
She's like, the robots will destroy us and that good or bad.

Speaker 6 We'll see.

Speaker 7 And finally, big news from the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy. The FAA has had a lot of problems recently.
Worker shortages, system failures, mixing up the sky and the ground.

Speaker 7 But luckily, Sean's got a solution that will fix everything.

Speaker 16 The Department of Transportation is urging airline passengers to be on our best behavior.

Speaker 6 Let's bring civility and manners back.

Speaker 17 Ask yourself, are you helping a pregnant woman put her bag in the overhead bin?

Speaker 18 Are you dressing with respect?

Speaker 19 Are you saying thank you to your flight attendants and your pilots? Are you saying please and thank you in general?

Speaker 7 Are manners the most important thing for the FAA to be dealing with right now?

Speaker 7 This would be like if in the middle of Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, hey everyone, just here to say chew with your mouth closed.

Speaker 7 But Duffy's right, we should all be more civilized, including the president who just today posted, hang the Democrats. Does that sound polite to you? No.

Speaker 20 It should be please hang the Democrats.

Speaker 6 Thank you.

Speaker 7 But they are really committing to this civility campaign. They even released a whole video about how they want to take air travel back to the golden age.

Speaker 6 Come fly with me. Let's fly.
Let's fly away.

Speaker 6 Air travel is a miracle of American ingenuity. We respected the dignity of air travel and the men and women who made the dream possible.
Flying was a bastion of civility. But today.

Speaker 7 Yeah, get him, f him up.

Speaker 7 Hey, I mean, it's nice to see Americans being physically active.

Speaker 7 I know flying isn't as classy as it was in the 1950s, but at least with these passengers, 9-11 is not going to happen again.

Speaker 7 Alright, because no way a bunch of terrorists can defeat four angry Karens in their pajamas.

Speaker 7 They're going to be like, I got a box cutter too, bitch.

Speaker 7 For more on the new airline civility efforts, we go live to Reagan National Airport with Michael Costa.

Speaker 7 Michael.

Speaker 6 Michael, what's the mood over there? Oh, man, it is great, Ronnie.

Speaker 17 I'm glad Sean Duffy's taking air travel back to the 1950s. Everything was better back then.
More men wore hats, women's boobs looked like torpedoes, and cigars didn't cause cancer yet.

Speaker 17 It was the best.

Speaker 7 Okay, well, the 1950s weren't good for everyone.

Speaker 17 Obviously, I don't mean the racial stuff. We're not going to go back to that, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 17 Sean Duffy only wants the classy airplane stuff from the 50s, like dressing up and sitting in huge seats with lots of legroom while you eat a steak dinner with old school Coca-Cola that has cocaine in it.

Speaker 7 Wait, where do you get Coca-Cola with cocaine?

Speaker 17 Well, this one was kind of a DIY situation.

Speaker 17 Woo! Huh? Brian!

Speaker 17 This fat cat is zooted! Woo!

Speaker 7 Okay, hey, Costa, I think you misunderstood this campaign. Alright, you're not getting extra legroom and you're not getting a steak dinner.
Well, if we're at a steak, lobster is fine. No,

Speaker 7 there's no lobster. You get nothing.
Sean Duffy just wants travelers to be more civil. He's not doing anything about the actual airplanes.
Okay, that's fine, I guess.

Speaker 17 As long as I can still walk up to the gate 10 minutes before a flight and pay cash for a one-way ticket for me and my gun,

Speaker 17 that will still be nice.

Speaker 7 No, the airports aren't changing either, okay? You still gotta do TSA and all that security shit.

Speaker 17 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So I have to be in the 1950s, but the airlines get to be in 2025?

Speaker 7 Yes. I'm sorry.

Speaker 21 Well, can I still call the stewardess toots?

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 17 Can I call her dame? No.

Speaker 6 Doll face? No. Kitten? No.

Speaker 7 Sugar tits?

Speaker 7 No. Sugar breasts?

Speaker 7 No. Toots? You said that one already.
You can't call them any of the many, many derogatory yet somehow commonly used terms of women in the 1950s.

Speaker 14 You know, this makes me so...

Speaker 17 Makes me so mad.

Speaker 7 That's it.

Speaker 17 I'm going to go change into Crocs and punch a baggage handler.

Speaker 7 Michael, you can't do that either.

Speaker 17 You're right. You're right.
Right. This is 2025.
I'm going to save it for the plane.

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Speaker 7 For the Matter Daily Show, we've been talking a lot about Trump cabinet members, but one we haven't mentioned yet is RFK Jr., Secretary of Health, and Harriet Tubman of Measles.

Speaker 7 Back when he was trying to get confirmed, he made a lot of promises to Senator and actual medical doctor, Bill Cassidy.

Speaker 23 Mr. Kennedy and the administration reached out seeking to reassure me me regarding their commitment to protecting the public health benefit of vaccination.

Speaker 23 CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.

Speaker 7 Well, that's a relief. You definitely don't want people reading unverified conspiracies about vaccines on the official CDC government website.
So, as Lars RFK is a man of his word, we should be fine.

Speaker 11 The CDC, walking back its previous guidance on vaccines, updating its website to say claims that vaccines do not cause autism are not evidence-based.

Speaker 3 The webpage now reads: Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.

Speaker 7 Okay,

Speaker 7 no,

Speaker 7 no, it is true that RFK promised to not do that, but his friend the brain worm didn't promise shit.

Speaker 7 Just to be clear for everyone watching, vaccines don't cause autism, but eating the needle does cause RFK voice.

Speaker 7 Either way, we seem to be stuck with RFK as health secretary, even though his medical advice is not something you're ever going to see on Gray's Anatomy or The Pit.

Speaker 7 Although, they did just announce one new hospital show that's going in a different direction.

Speaker 6 This fall.

Speaker 7 We got another one.

Speaker 7 He's bleeding out.

Speaker 6 We're losing him.

Speaker 7 I decide when we're losing him.

Speaker 6 The groundbreaking new medical drama.

Speaker 7 We lost him.

Speaker 17 Time of death, 522.

Speaker 7 Cause of death?

Speaker 7 The COVID vaccine.

Speaker 6 RFK Hospital. Sick of this! The only hospital brave enough to follow the medical advice of America's health secretary.

Speaker 17 Sorry, trying to squeeze in lunch.

Speaker 6 What are you looking at?

Speaker 25 We have a patient with a strange virus that's weakening his immune system.

Speaker 14 Interesting. Has he been swimming any raw sewage? Not that I know of.

Speaker 18 That's your problem right there. Haven't spent a few hours in Fecal Matter Creek.
He'll be better in no time.

Speaker 6 Led by a doctor who knows that medical science doesn't have to be based on anything in particular.

Speaker 6 Come on.

Speaker 7 I told you never interrupt me when I do pull-ups and jeans.

Speaker 25 Sorry, but we have a patient with a fractured clavicle.

Speaker 11 Should I administer painkillers?

Speaker 7 And give the patient autism? No, thank you.

Speaker 11 Well, should I take an x-ray?

Speaker 7 And give the patient more autism? Give him 20 cc's of raw milk and get the fluoride out of his water.

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Speaker 6 And so do I.

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Speaker 6 How long ago?

Speaker 25 35 minutes.

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Speaker 6 Come on, let's go.

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Speaker 7 welcome back to the daily show My guest tonight is a record-breaking comedian, actor, and podcast host. His latest special for Hulu is called It Ain't Right.

Speaker 7 Please welcome Comedy Legends Sebastian and Escalco.

Speaker 7 Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me.
Appreciate it. First time on the show.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Thanks for coming.

Speaker 7 Thanks for coming on when I'm hosting. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Appreciate it. You look great.
Thank you. The suit is tight.

Speaker 6 If I move,

Speaker 6 I could split something open.

Speaker 7 What do you mean? It looks great. In the special, you're so self-deprecating about your looks, but you look great for like a 75-year-old.

Speaker 6 I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you're so

Speaker 7 healthy. You call me so physical.
You know, it's such a big part of it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I like to be physical on stage. I not only like to explain the joke with my voice, but my body.
So I kind of grew up talking with my hands and moving my body all around.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you're best in the business at it. That's crazy.
And this is the first, you've done quite a few specials, but this is the first one you've done in an arena.

Speaker 7 Back in hometown Chicago, you did the United Center. That's crazy.

Speaker 6 That's crazy.

Speaker 7 The opening to the special looks insane. It's like the whole thing.

Speaker 7 And you, sometimes when, you know, comics, when they do arenas, they cut it in half and then they go we did the arena but you did half an arena you did the whole goddamn arena you did it in a round yeah so i did it in a round and you sold more tickets than the chicago bulls the night before

Speaker 6 it was crazy yeah it was uh it was really special to do it in my hometown of chicago and i like the way you pay attention to detail in production yeah uh i did it in like a triangle stage it took a lot to figure out how are we going to make this look different yes end of the day you just want to go home and say he was funny, right?

Speaker 6 But I like to make it an experience for people and put some money into production, whether it be lighting, stage, what have you, to make it look like it's

Speaker 6 a show business.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 7 A show business.

Speaker 7 And also, I mean, there's a difference, as you are well aware, between the live show experience and then the tape. thing and I feel like you executed great on both.
Well, thanks.

Speaker 6 It's difficult in an arena to have it be intimate. There's 18,000 people there.

Speaker 6 Comedy is best enjoyed in a comedy club, in my opinion. But you know, for me, having it in an arena for the first time, it was a challenge, but the way it came out, I thought it was really good.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I'm so sorry you're selling so many tickets.

Speaker 7 That you have to do it in the goddamn basketball arena.

Speaker 7 And you did a great job capturing it. And were you like looking to, what was kind of like your visual theme for this one? Because your last one was in Las Vegas, I think.

Speaker 7 Yes, we'll get to that, but this one. This one,

Speaker 6 it's funny. The last one I did in Las Vegas, I was in pain.
I had sciatic pain ripping down my right leg. I couldn't move.
I was in a tuxedo, which I never performed in a tuxedo before.

Speaker 6 I tried to do something different in Las Vegas. I said, we're going to do a throwback to the 60s.
I want the crowd, similar to the airplane bit, right?

Speaker 6 I want the crowd to dress up like it's 1960s, Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 Did they?

Speaker 6 Did they dress up? 22 people.

Speaker 7 It's hard to get those guys to dress up because they're in the shot.

Speaker 6 It's hard to get anybody today to dress up to do anything. I mean, just take a look around.
It looks like.

Speaker 6 Let me all.

Speaker 6 Take a look.

Speaker 7 No, it's a well-dressed audience. A well-dressed audience.

Speaker 7 No, but.

Speaker 6 What's he talking about you?

Speaker 7 You can't even tell me what dress up without everyone taking a person.

Speaker 6 Yeah, look at how upset everybody got.

Speaker 6 Listen, I'm just saying, in general, we're talking backstage about this. Show business.
Like, I like the fact that you did your special and you wore a suit.

Speaker 6 Now, I noticed the next time around, you had like a collared shirt on and short sleeves.

Speaker 6 So,

Speaker 6 why the change?

Speaker 7 Oh, for me. Wow, we're throwing spotlight on me.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I. Come on, we're talking about dressing up.

Speaker 7 Yeah, well, I agree that show business, you should

Speaker 7 dress up and look nice for it. And I was always inspired by classic American showbiz.

Speaker 7 So for the last special I did, first of all, I wanted people to look at the new special and know that it was a new one. And I was worried.

Speaker 7 I was worried if I just wear a suit, people would be like, we've seen this one before.

Speaker 6 But even you, you changed the drapery. You had red and then green.

Speaker 7 I changed red to green, huge.

Speaker 7 Which no one cares except for us.

Speaker 7 And we do care. But the other reason, my other reason for dressing in short sleeves is because I have good great arms

Speaker 7 It's it's because I was I was trying to capture for that last special I did in Hawaii and I was trying to capture this vintage Elvis in Hawaii feel and so he performed in that kind of with a lay and all that so you know but and and I mean were you thinking of you know

Speaker 6 homage to anyone when you were doing this this one visually or no you're making your own thing I mean I wore a red and black jacket just to pay homage to the Chicago Bulls because I'm a huge Bulls fan.

Speaker 6 But other than that, no, I just wanted to get back to kind of what I do best

Speaker 6 is the physicality and the facial expressions. And yeah, I'm really excited for this to come out tomorrow.
So

Speaker 7 and what was really cool is if you watch till the end,

Speaker 26 you will

Speaker 6 look for that.

Speaker 7 No, hear me out.

Speaker 6 I'm saying,

Speaker 7 no, I'm not telling people watch to the end because there's this thing where you go off stage and you walk backstage and the camera follows you and then you go and then you

Speaker 7 don't give it away, but you.

Speaker 6 Well, my family is there. I have two kids, an eight-year-old, a six-year-old, my wife.
So they all kind of greeted me offstage and you kind of see us walking into the sunset.

Speaker 6 So it was, it's nice to have them there to experience all that. I have my mother, my father there.
So it was.

Speaker 7 No, but it's cool. It's cool.
And it's something that, and by the way, it's not like you say goodnight, everybody, and then you walk off stage and they're there.

Speaker 7 You have to really watch the credits play a bit before they get and then we see you walk backstage, the doors closed and it's just you and your kids and your wife.

Speaker 7 You kiss and you hug and you go off and I thought that's really nice and sweet and it's proof that I watched your whole special.

Speaker 7 No, you know what? No,

Speaker 7 it's these little things that make it cool. Like for my first special, I put a photo of my dad who passed away.
And he passed away before I filmed it.

Speaker 7 And so I put a photo of him in it, just a photo of me and him when we were kids. And the problem is I put it after the credits.
Being like, here's my homage to my dad.

Speaker 7 But now fing Netflix, as soon as the credits roll, it minimizes into.

Speaker 6 And so no one's going to be able to do it. I'm going to

Speaker 6 go.

Speaker 7 Everyone's like, well, no one, you have to. It's actually hard to watch, see my dad's photo at the end of the credits.
It's hard to watch the credits in Netflix. It's just technologically.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you can't. They don't let you watch it.
Yeah, but you are smart. You made it so that it wasn't all the way at the end.

Speaker 6 Well, I haven't seen it on broadcast yet, so they might cut that.

Speaker 7 They might cut all things. But that's cool, but would you, I mean, would you film it in an arena again, or would you want to go back to

Speaker 6 the theater? Yeah, no, I think I do a theater next time. The arena kind of did their.

Speaker 7 What was the challenge of it?

Speaker 6 It was,

Speaker 6 well, I mean, for me, it's not really a challenge. I like to move around a lot.

Speaker 6 And that's why I did the triangle stage because you got the three points and you could kind of go to those three points throughout the show. In a circle,

Speaker 6 you kind of like go around. Someone's looking at your ass? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, they're looking at my ass regardless.

Speaker 6 I really have none. You saw the joke where it kind of bleeds into my legs now.
But

Speaker 6 other than that, I didn't really have a problem doing it in this triangle setting. And I really, really like doing it in the round just because it's as intimate as you possibly can get it in an arena.

Speaker 6 Sure.

Speaker 7 But why is it that you wouldn't do arena for taping again?

Speaker 6 Because I'd like to do, like you said, something different.

Speaker 7 You want to do the same old thing.

Speaker 6 Yeah, the same old thing. And you know what? Right now, I'm not even looking at what's next in regards to specials.
So I'm just taking some time off. Yeah.
Relax with my family.

Speaker 7 And by the way, that's a very kind of, dare I say, old school mentality with stand-up in that you film it, you put it out there, and then you know, you go away for a bit. Well,

Speaker 6 you try to.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you try to go away.

Speaker 6 But with social media now, and I'm 52 years old, so I didn't kind of grow up with the whole social media thing.

Speaker 6 You know, if you're not on social media, people don't even think you exist anymore, right?

Speaker 6 So you get a social media team calling, you got something for us to post today? I'm like, no,

Speaker 6 I'm hanging out with my wife, you know? Well, can you get like a photo of where you're at? It's like constant, you know? So

Speaker 6 I get it, I get the game, but I also, you know, Chris Rock said to me, if you never leave the room, it's hard to make an entrance, right? So it's kind of

Speaker 6 what I'm trying to do, but it's hard. It's hard to kind of stay away.

Speaker 7 Yeah. And so how do you, you know, again, I kind of feel like you've got this old school sensibilities with everything, including marketing comedy, where I guess, you know, when I started,

Speaker 7 I only started in 2009, so you've got, you know, five decades on me in that.

Speaker 7 But like when I started,

Speaker 7 we were just selling live tickets. We weren't trying to get famous on the internet because you couldn't really, or at least I wasn't smart enough to figure it out.

Speaker 7 And so we would try to sell live tickets live and not worry about the internet. And I feel like you kind of have that mentality too.
You're not too worried about social media.

Speaker 7 You kind of, you know, and I guess do you have a,

Speaker 7 you know, what is your view on kind of using social media these days to try to...

Speaker 6 Well, I mean, listen, you have to use it. I mean, you have to get the word out there, right? But I come from an era where after shows, I was passing out flyers, right?

Speaker 6 And I was asking people to sign a notebook with their email address

Speaker 6 so I could so I could email the next time I was coming into town. Right.

Speaker 6 And it's very heartbreaking to pass out all these flyers after the show and then go to your car and see the flyers on the ground

Speaker 6 at the parking lot. So yeah, but with social media, it's like, you know, you need to do it, but you don't need to do it, in my opinion, as much.
You don't need to see everything that I'm doing.

Speaker 6 Look at Tom Cruise. I mean, Tom Cruise is a major star.
He has a movie, he comes out, he promotes it, and he disappears.

Speaker 6 You don't see Tom Cruise in his living room watching anything.

Speaker 7 That's because Scientology kidnaps him afterwards.

Speaker 7 But I take your point. I take your point.
He gets.

Speaker 6 I love that.

Speaker 7 Get the fing away so people can miss you.

Speaker 7 Give people a chance to miss you. And also, I love that sensibility, you know, that kind of,

Speaker 7 like you were saying, dressing up now. And people don't really dress up for show business anymore.
I mean, that's the show business that attracted me to America.

Speaker 7 It was, you know, Johnny Carson, it was Elvis, it was people who put in some fing effort.

Speaker 7 Not these goddamn amateur hour podcasters in their wife beaters

Speaker 7 Podcasting from a basement. That's like, I...

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 I grew up on Johnny Carson too, and I used to watch the guests come out, whether it be Sinatra or Rickles or whatnot.

Speaker 6 And you're in suits. I'm not saying you have to wear a suit everywhere you go.
I don't, right? I do podcasting. Do I wear a suit when I do podcasting? No.

Speaker 6 But I just, I just say, just, like you said, have like a standard

Speaker 6 of something. It just seems like whatever you feel like doing now, you show up, you know? And it's like, oh, this is me.
Well, we might not want to see you.

Speaker 6 I don't know.

Speaker 6 Listen.

Speaker 6 Again, I grew up with Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson. When they got on stage, you knew who was the performer, right? Just because they didn't look like anybody else in the audience.

Speaker 6 You know what I'm saying? They took their time and curated.

Speaker 6 I mean, everybody's looking at me like, well, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 6 I'm just saying, when Prince came out, it was like, you never seen anybody that looked like that with the hair and then the mittens.

Speaker 7 He looked like he was ready to perform.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Yes.
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 7 You dress better than your audience.

Speaker 6 Yeah, have a costume.

Speaker 7 Yeah, have something. Yeah.
And I agree. I agree completely.
Like, now you go on a flight. If I wear a suit on a flight now, people think I'm going to fly the plane.

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 7 They're like, what are you doing? Whose wedding did you go to?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I don't know how to fix this, though.

Speaker 6 It's not gonna be fixed. It's not gonna be fixed.
I mean, you're trying, we're trying. Hey, look, we're doing this.

Speaker 7 But we're losing the audience, the more we ask people to dress up, everyone.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, this audience is not into it. It's not into it.

Speaker 6 They're like offended. I could feel it.

Speaker 6 I'm just saying, take some time.

Speaker 6 When you leave your house, we don't want to see you in your pajamas.

Speaker 6 That's it.

Speaker 6 That's all.

Speaker 7 And all right, we'll be available on Movie starting November 21st. It's Sebastian Man's Galaxy, everybody.
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