May 23, 2024 • 32 mins
Michael Kosta reports on a new poll from "The Guardian," showing that Americans believe the economy is shrinking, the stock market is down, and unemployment is at a 50-year-high. Also, RJK Jr. issues an appeal to amateur traders on Reddit, and Trump claims that Joe Biden tried to assassinate him during the Mar-a-Lago raid two years ago. Thankfully, Josh Johnson joins to explain what’s really going on behind the scenes at Biden HQ. Then, Troy Iwata meets Biden's (only?) superfan and gets his advice for pumping up Biden supporters, and maybe pumping up Biden, himself. And comedian/actor, JB Smoove, talks about the final season of the hit series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” They discuss the differences between him and his character, Leon Black, making Larry David laugh, and how stand-up comedians are like therapists.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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only source for news. This is The Daily Show with
your host Michael Costa.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Welcome to The Daily Show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My God, I'm Michael Costa.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We have so much to talk about.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Joe Biden has a new fan, Donald Trump is afraid
for his life, and RFK Junior is reaching out to
only people weirder than he is. So let's get into
all of it with our continuing coverage of Indecision twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Let's kick things off with polls.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
There's a new one every fifteen minutes, even though none
of us have ever met a single person who's participated
in one, but whatever, someone's doing them. But a new
poll was out today that reminds us that no matter
how dumb our leaders are, we the people are even dumber.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
The Guardian did like a commissioned Harris poll for Americans
and how they feel about the economy. Fifty five percent
say the economy is shrinking. Fifty six percent say the
economy is in recession, which you know we know on
SANBC is not the case.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Forty nine percent believe the SMP is down for the year,
which seems incredible, which.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
It's up about thirteen percent and twenty three percent last year.
Forty nine percent also say unemployment is at a fifty
year high. In fact, unemployment is at a fifty year
low or near there, under four percent.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Right, all right, So just to summarize, we think the
economy is shrinking when it's actually growing, that the stock
market is down when it's actually up, and that unemployment
is that a fifty year high when it's actually near
a fifty year low. But we do know that benefits
on the rocks, so we're not completely pathetic.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, it might just be me, but maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
As a society we shouldn't have replaced newspapers with dudes
ranting in cars. I don't know, and look, in a way,
I get it. People don't judge the economy based on data.
They're like, you say, the GDP is up, but I say,
I used to be on my cousin's Netflix account and
now I have to get my own. So yeah, Jerome Powell,
(02:35):
we're in a recession, okay, But you have to remember, Yeah,
these are not surveys of Americas.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
These are not surveys of Americas.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
These are surveys of Americans who are willing to talk
to a stranger who cold calls them in the middle
of a work day. What I'm saying is these people
are not normal. I mean I ignore phone calls from
my own mother. That's normal, you get it. Sometimes I'll
get three, four or five calls in a row. You know,
there's a bunch of texts, like the cars filling up
(03:06):
with water. I don't have time for this, mom. I'll
see you at Thanksgiving. That's normal either way. Clearly Joe
Biden needs to do a better job of getting word
out about the healthy economy. Maybe he needs a hype man, right,
you know how like Notorious Big Had P Diddy. P
Diddy could do it. What's he up to?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
What is he?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I guess he's not available right now?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
While Biden has his work cut out for him trying
to win over people who aren't fully informed about the
stock market, one of his rivals is going after a
much smaller group of people who are obsessed with it.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior is now trying
to appeal to amateur traders on Reddit who call themselves
apes and intentionally invest in distressed companies like game Stop.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
The politician going on to say that he personally invested
twenty four thousand dollars in game Stop between a company.
But is our new campaign poster showing Kennedy and an
actual ape, each holding what appears to be a falcon?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Wait, wait forget game Stop, but why does this picture
look like he's on a honeymoon with that falcon?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Are they in love?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Or is the falcon just trying to get a better
angle on that worm.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
In his brain.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Now you might think it's weird for RFK Junior to
be going after this tiny little specific group, but don't
forget America is just a bunch of tiny little specific groups.
First he gets the redded Apes, Then he gets the Furries,
then the tradwives, cottage, core, TikTok, Disney Adults, Jet Blue
frequent flyers with Mosaic Elite status, and the next thing
(04:42):
you know, it's January and he's.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Giving his State of the Union from burning Man.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Let's move on to Republican candidate Donald Trump. Recently he
took over the Recently he took over the Republican National Committee,
and today someone sent him a housewarming gift.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
We begin with breaking news from the Republican National Committee
headquarters in Washington, d C. It was placed on lockdown
this morning after vials of blood were set to the building.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
According to multiple.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Sources, we've learned that package was addressed to former President
Donald Trump and it contained two vials of blood.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What the fuck is going on? Someone sent blood to
the RNC. I guess that could just be Rudy Giuliani's
lunch order. I mean, but even so, why is anyone
sending blood through the mail? It's twenty twenty four people
fax it, but seriously, don't send blood to the RNC.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's reckless. Not eve going to end up on their
mailing list.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
But you can see why Donald Trump might be freaked
out by this, because, as you may have heard, someone
is trying to assassinate him.
Speaker 11 (05:54):
Donald Trump is now claiming that the FBI raid on
mar A Lago two years ago was actually Joe BI
attempt to assassinate him. He pointed to wording in the
search warrant that allowed the FBI to use lethal force
if necessary, which the FBI says is standard protocol in
any search.
Speaker 12 (06:10):
But in a fundraising email to supporters, Trump wrote they
were authorized to shoot me, and you know they're just
itching to do the unthinkable. Joe Biden was locked and loaded,
ready to take me out. Holy shit, locked.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And loaded, ready to take me out.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I've never heard Joe Biden sound so fucking cool in
my life. I always thought of him as a doddering
old man. Yeah, I always thought of Biden as a
doddering old man. But Donald Trump makes them look like
one of the expendables.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The rest of you, the rest of you take.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
What you want, believe the Orange Man to me, can
you takee wheel of fortune?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
This might take a little while.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Personally, I think it would be very difficult to assassinate
Donald Trump, mostly because he would never get that close
to a book depository. But regardless, I don't think Trump
actually fears getting assassinated by Joe Biden. And the reason
is because he announced it in a fundraising email. If
you're dodging bullets, you don't stop to wave your venmo
QR code, you know, Please somebody send money. For more
(07:22):
on this so called assassination conspiracy, we go live to
Josh Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
God, Josh, what's the latest?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Hi, Michael, I'm at Joe Biden's campaign headquarters. In the
Donald Trump assassination room, and the mood here is frustrating.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Wait, Joe Biden actually is trying to assassinate Donald Trump.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Oh of course Trump is one hundred percent correct, all right,
Bibe's been trying to take him out for years.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
The entire FBI RA was their best chance. They were
gonna roll into mar Alacco corner Trump in his office,
surround him like Scarf Race, and then be like and
the Secret Service is gonna be like.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Stoo still stoooo.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
And then Trump was gonna be lit up like mission accomplished.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I mean, I don't don't.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't think that's how guns sound.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
That's because you're not from the streets.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Okay, okay, fine, But if they were trying to assassinate Trump,
why would they raid his house on the day that
he wasn't even there.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Look, they're trying to find Trump. But the guys like
the win. When was the last time you saw him?
I saw him yesterday.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
He's been at the New York Courthouse every day for
two months. And when he's not there, he's at a
rally that he promotes on his website.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Damn, how'd you know that.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
You should join the ta, you can stand right next
to me hit him with some of thatty.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Ugh, Josh, Josh, Josh. I'm positive that's not how guns sound.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Wow, suburban white boy gonna tell me about guns?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, Oh you're laugh at that.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Like you ever caught a body?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Cost Look, hold on, hold on, let's get back to
the story. This is huge news. Is Biden still trying
to take Trump out?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Yeah, Everything in Donald Trump's life is a Joe Biden
plot against him, even the poison poison? Yeah, what do
you think, KFC is you think that's just a business. No, No,
it's a seventy seven year long plan to clog up
Trump's arteries. All right, and that's not all. Did you
ever notice that Trump has been aging one day every
(09:56):
single day that Biden's been president. You think that just
happens to people? Wake up, Michael, It's a secret plot
to kill Trump with natural causes. This is diabolical.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean, isn't that just how time works? Why would
Biden do something that complicated? Trump said a president has
total immunity to take.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Out his rivals. Why can't Biden just use a drone?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Ooh, Costa, you smart?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
You sure?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
You don't want to be on the assassination tape, like,
because the drones will be coming down like cuckoo.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Drones don't sound like birds. I know that, then why
they in the sky?
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Okay, country Club, Costa is gonna tell me a man
from the streets what a military grave predator drones sounds like?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's not important.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Look, Biden is wasting so much time trying to take
out Trump, he's gonna end up losing the election to.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Him, exactly, And the stress of that job will kill
Trump for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
No, but Trump was already president and he's fine.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah for one term, but give him three or four
more terms and he's done for Okay, and that's the
Biden brain baby.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Wow, that's the perfect plot, Josh Johnson.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Everyone, I mean, when we come back, we actually find
some fans of Joe Biden. Don't go away. That's the party.
(11:32):
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There's plenty of endangered species out there, but in American politics,
there's one species more endangered than most.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Troya Wata has more in this election.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
Republicans have their writer die candidate who they want to
be president forever, and Democrats they also have a guy
so the.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Best way to get something done if you hold near
and dear to you that you.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Like to be able to.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Anyway four more years.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Joe Biden has an enthusiasm problem.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
The polling shows that Democrats are not enthused Joe Biden.
Speaker 14 (12:09):
Democrats are not excited.
Speaker 13 (12:10):
But maybe we in the media are out of touch.
I hit the streets to ask what do voters really
think of Joe Biden?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Not the most excited?
Speaker 13 (12:18):
I mean it's okay, I wish I was more excited
on a scale of one to ten, probably somewhere arount
of two or three. How would you compare that to say,
seeing some really beautiful latte art? I would put that
maybe as a five. Could you point on this graph
how you feel about voting for Joe Biden? Okay, some pain,
(12:39):
But if you couldn't tell by the stick and pok
tattoos and Warby Parker glasses, these people were all Democrats.
There must be something they like about Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
He's big ice cream guy. Hm, you can't vote against that.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
What do you think his favorite flavor is vanilla?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh god, it's got to be a superman.
Speaker 15 (12:54):
You know, he's our president.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
He's our president.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, slap that on a T shirt.
Speaker 13 (13:00):
It I expect him to kind of behave like a
president as opposed to like this child.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
He definitely is not a child.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
But then I found one person whose passion whelmed me
on a scale of one to ten. How excited are
you about voting for Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Eleven? Eleven? Oh my god? Is this Joe Joe Biden?
Speaker 13 (13:20):
Or is this like the famous coryon Instagram named Joe
Biden that I'm not aware.
Speaker 14 (13:24):
Of Joe sniph Robin and Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I didn't even know there was this full name Junior.
Oh my god, there's an older one.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
Who was this guy? Against my better judgment, I followed
him to his car.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Oh my god.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Oh okay, it's a cardboard cutout.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Before I get your.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Car, I have to ask, this isn't a sex thing, right?
Speaker 14 (13:43):
It is not?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Okay? Good? Yeah?
Speaker 14 (13:45):
I didn't think so.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (13:47):
Oh oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You have Kamala too?
Speaker 14 (13:51):
Do you have the whole cabinet in there?
Speaker 13 (13:52):
Where's your cutout of acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue Julie
Julie Meet Dakota Galvin, Joe Biden's biggest and only super fan.
Could he hold the key to helping Biden defeat Donald
Trump and his maga army. Trump has this huge fan
club of tens of thousands of really intense weirdos, and
(14:14):
Biden has you.
Speaker 14 (14:18):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 15 (14:19):
There's sort of like a cult mentality going on there.
I think they have an unnatural devotion to a single person, right, cult.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Like devotion to one man?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Am I right? Okay?
Speaker 14 (14:30):
Let's talk about the cardboard cutout? Why do you keep
him in your trunk?
Speaker 13 (14:34):
Don't you want to just see him in the morning
and say, what's up?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Joe?
Speaker 14 (14:36):
Well, my boyfriend isn't his He's less enthusiastic. Oh my god,
having him watch us at all times? Oh my god,
you have a boyfriend, I do?
Speaker 13 (14:46):
Okay, Setting aside the question of whether the boyfriend was
also a cardboard cutout, when did Dakota first realize he
was Biden curious?
Speaker 15 (14:54):
I was a senior in high school in twenty twelve,
and I had just come out of the closet and
Joe Biden has announced his support for marriage equality, and
you thought.
Speaker 13 (15:03):
To yourself, he's a little young right now to be president,
but maybe in eight years he'll be ready.
Speaker 14 (15:07):
At the time not so much.
Speaker 15 (15:09):
But this man literally came out of retirement to save
our country from white supremacists and fascism.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
So you like him more now than when it was
just Obama's white friend. Absolutely.
Speaker 13 (15:21):
Oh that's a strong endorsement at a time when Joe
Biden is so unpopular that somehow hating him is uniting
pro Israel.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
And pro Palestine protesters.
Speaker 13 (15:34):
So what does Dakota see in this guy is his swag,
his whispery voice, what's left at his hair?
Speaker 14 (15:40):
Mostly his policies. There's so manyit chips from really wow.
See I can't even think of any so go up.
I would think.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
When he came into office, he immediately got to work
with the American Rescue Plan. He followed it up with
a bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the Chips and Science Act, the.
Speaker 14 (15:56):
Chips and Salsa Act, Chips and Science. Oh, you know,
maybe to policy more, but I think you're right.
Speaker 15 (16:02):
There was his eightieth birthday when he had old candles
on his cade.
Speaker 13 (16:06):
Yeah, I guess we can have fun with glaring reminders
of his age. Turns out the things they get Dakota
excited are different from other voters.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
What did he think their problem.
Speaker 15 (16:16):
Was, well, he is an older, straight white gentleman, and
in Democratic circles that's usually not what gets us excited.
Speaker 13 (16:25):
You know, I don't think there's anything we can do
about his oldness or his whiteness. But do you think
he would consider exploring his sexuality?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (16:32):
Rash sure, Joe Biden tumbler fan fiction aside. Could Dakota
get Democrats fired up about Biden?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Not like that.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
I'm going to pretend to be someone who's not overly
enthused to vote for Joe Biden, and they want you
to convince me.
Speaker 14 (16:46):
All right, yeah, okay, I'm ready. Do you love living
in a democracy?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (16:51):
Oh my gosh, I've got the perfect candidate for you
to vote for. Who is it? It's the current president,
Joe Biden.
Speaker 15 (16:58):
Oh well, you know it's a vote for normalcy, insanity,
and you know, keeping the institutions that have built our
constitutional republic for centuries.
Speaker 14 (17:08):
Keeping things the same as they are now, with minor improvements,
with minor improvements.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
I mean, I guess one thing that's good about Biden
is he doesn't have the baggage you know, say that
Hillary has.
Speaker 14 (17:20):
You know, I love Hillary.
Speaker 13 (17:23):
Come on, maybe I've been focusing on the wrong thing.
Maybe it isn't the voters that need the pep talk,
it's Joe Biden and Dakota has some advice that will
shake the political landscape forever.
Speaker 14 (17:35):
I would say, keep doing what you're doing, but do
it better.
Speaker 13 (17:40):
Yeah, way to pump them up. Well, there's always twenty
twenty eight especially.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
Can I please sit in the front. No, I'm sorry,
I can try and we come back.
Speaker 16 (17:56):
Jab Smow will be drunning on the show. If you
don't go, well, welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Back to Dary show.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
My guest tonight is an Emmy winning actor and comedian
who plays Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Please welcome j V Smooth. Oh shit, Oh that's great.
Speaker 17 (18:48):
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (18:49):
What hey?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's dop rad and baby. Let me tell
you something. Yeah. No two words have ever been spoken
man than that. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
You and that car, right, you will be assassinated. You
know how you were ruined, big big oil?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What right? What I liked about that clip was the
dick hole for the car. You still had to get
out and walk to it. I was thinking, you to it?
Speaker 17 (19:24):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
What's hey?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Whatever?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
He set up perfect, man.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I set you up perfect.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
So was that in the script dick in the hole
in the coffee or is that just JB doing JB
like just check you a dick hole?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
You know?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Curb Kurb has no no script, you know, it's only
an outline based on the idea for the for the episode.
But that changes also based on where you go. It's
just like branches. It's branches everywhere right forking road.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And you got a tooth, but you want to go.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It's fun in particular to watch you because everyone's playing
a little bit of an exaggerated version of themselves, but
it seems like you're playing a completely different character.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Is that? Is that? Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
You?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
You know what I have to say?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
What Leon would say, right, you know.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
And it's one of those things where I get caught
up in this guy's world. I truly do ye where
I just I'm not myself right, I'm a compassionate heart
woman guy. Of course, we got we share some cadence
maybe little things here, yeah, delivery.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
He swears a lot, and you haven't even sworn.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I'll get to that, but anyway, Yeah, he swears a lot.
Speaker 13 (20:44):
You know.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
One time, you know, I was driving home from set okay,
and I call my wife Artie calling, how was your day?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
You know that was great? Well, she says all the time,
what did Leon say today? What did Leon say?
Speaker 10 (20:59):
But that's that's that's what curb is, man, it is
truly you are creating on the fly, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, that's what's a wonderful wife. I mean, I called
my wife in the way home and.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
She's like, here's what needs to happen tonight. We got
lunches to make.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
We got this and I love that it's full updated
what went down today.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
When people meet you, do they want JB, do they
want Leon?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Do you give them Leon?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
They call me Leon all the time. It depends who
they are. And you know, but I got a lot
of Leon.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You see that as a compliment.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
It's a compliment, you know.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
I always say life is like a series of checkpoints.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I like that you find out.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
What they love about you in the moment. Okay, okay,
and maybe something that will come along there. People won't
forget about Leon, but maybe y'all charter a new path.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Man, Yeah, some other amazing character will pop up.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean, you debuted in Curb in season six.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Man, it's seventeen years later, you're here talking to me
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Was crazy that trout somebody I was.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I was two years old when you debuted, can't.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I mean, you know this business. You don't get a
job thinking I'll be doing this for cemetery.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Get it.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Sometimes you get a job and you don't want to
know if you are gonna be.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
On the next season. Yo.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So I truly.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Gues It's not even a joke, Joe. It's real. It's real.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Sometimes you gotta take a job. You gotta take a friend,
you gotta take somebody's lady.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Sometimes you gotta take stuff. I get it.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
But that's how you get there, and you do a
great job, and you just be in the moment and
you do exactly what they're looking for, and you give
them more of what the want.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Talking about I mean, I love it.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
And then that you know, but there is.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I mean, there are terms of the screw that you
got to figure out what your character like. Like on Curb,
I decide in the moment, you know, I don't decide
before I get there. I don't decide based on what's written.
I decide in the moment. If I want to have
Larry's back, we'll go against him, which is a fascinating way.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I trying to find out what's going to be the
best path.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
What the what am I gonna get the most funny
out of having his back or fighting with him?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
You know what I mean, good fight, it's always great.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But there's also takes of you deciding and it doesn't
work right or is just JB always I mean because
it is fun watching because you see Larry sometimes crack
or even see in his eyes he goes, I don't
know what's happening to this?
Speaker 10 (23:38):
Ye yeah, yeah, but yeah, that's where the stand up
part comes in.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm just gonna ask you about stand up.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
That's when it comes in there, because we we as
stand ups, we we have to be able to read people.
I could be in a room full of two thousand
people in the audience. I have to find that one
who's not left. I know, right, he's just like, I know, yeah,
I see you man, you know, but I think.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And you don't think, oh I'm making one thousand, nine
and nine of people laugh.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You think, what's wrong with this?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Mother? Yeah exactly? Yeah, yeah, but that's what I do.
That's why it's that's that's what we do.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Not just improv people, but stand up comedians have a
unique we can feel.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
We're like we call the impath.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
We're like empathpath.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
We we like we can feel your energy. We feel it.
We know when to move on to the next bit.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
The dicilots in our ear goes up and comes back
down to a certain level, and we know to move on.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Not even we got a little opening for the next bit.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
But we gotta read people, and we gotta I gotta
read him because I'm trying to honestly make a snop
bubble come out his.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
But also when you do.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
A good slife, you make somebody app and it makes
a slop bubble come out.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That's that's the ultimate.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
But what's what's interesting about that too, is he's also
your boss. He's on walls, so you gotta think about
that too.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
But but but you gotta keep people on your toes too, man. Yeah,
because look, man.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Yeahs are dems are Like you said, I came on
in season six, this train was already moving. Have you
ever jumped on a moving subway train?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
I have not.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
No ship is daring and fascinating. It's fascinating and depth defying.
It's depth defying.
Speaker 17 (25:32):
Right.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
But because you almost lateful work already late for work, right,
you jumped between cars. I gotta be a work at
a certain time we get fired. But anyway, I don't
recommend you're doing that. But the train was already moving, right,
So I had to sit there and figure out, jump
on the train that's already moving. That's already amazing successful show.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You know that.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
I was a big fan of the show, and my
wife manifested me being on the show.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I read that.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
I told me I was gonna be on that damn show.
I said, I love this show so much, I'd love
to be on this show one day. I said, you're
going to be on that show one day. I love
that lo and behold that sweet lady. Seventeen years later,
lady man she told me I was gonna be on
that show. But yeah, I go even back further. The
first thing I ever did was I took an improv class,
oh before I even started doing stand up, because I
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wanted to find out who I wanted to do stand up.
I wanted to find out who I want to be
on that stage and off that stage because you once
you create your character, you're writing off stage, which also
writing on stage because now you're listening to what people
love about you.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I mean, I've read that you you you have said
stand up has been a vehicle for you that you
get on it, you get off it, you take it somewhere.
And that fascinates me because there's definitely a compulsion of
stand ups that like I always do stand up, I'm
a stand up.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I'm a stand up.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But have explain to me, elaborate what you mean by
stand up is a vehicle for you?
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Stand up is your vehicle because you got to take
care of it.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
You got to maintain it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yep, you gotta love to drive it.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
You gotta love to drive it.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
Man, that's your vehicle to get to any place you
want to get to. Stand up stand up comics also
take the drama of the world and we convert that
drama because we have a different filtration system. We are
deep minded. We are we are we've been through a lot.
We can take everything we've been through and rearrange it
to make you laugh about it.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Yeah. We are also therapists. We touch on things. We
touch on things that.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Only we can touch on it in that way. Yeah,
if you look, man, if you get rid of the comedian,
you might as well just die. I'm telling you, because
there's no way in hell you could take the brunt
of the real world every day without somebody who's able
(27:55):
to take that world, filtrate it, put it through their
body and give it.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
Back to you in a manageable form. I love. No
one can do that but a comedian. I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Last question for you, Urb Curb is done.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
JB.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Smooth is not done. No, what's next for you?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
What do you got going on? Man?
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Look, this is this is the time where you know.
The cool thing about what I have accomplished throughout my
career is people don't understand this, but a lot of
times I gotta make time for curb, okay, and not
the other way around, because you know, commercial campaigns, TV shows, movies,
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you know, shitting every time.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Every time I'm Frank the plant, every time I look
on there's.
Speaker 10 (28:42):
You dress a Caesar, there's Season, there's white Claw, There's
all these amazing things that I do.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
I am an amazing spokesperson. I truly do. I believe.
I believe, I believe I got to sell anything that
I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I like it's genuine.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
It feels it has to be genuine. So that's the power.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
And people out there, please don't be afraid of the
power of no. Do not be ever afraid of the
power of no, because another opportunity is gonna come around.
Right So now it's time for curbas one. It's one show.
I don't shoot Curb three hundred and sixty five days
a year. Curb is one show that takes a few
two or three months to shoot, and I'm done the
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rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I gotta be. I gotta be on the go. I am.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
I am a big hustle man, I truly do. But
I find a way that remain grounded. I found a
way to also figure out what's next for me, you know. Therefore,
I gotta sell a brand. I believe I have a brand.
I have a unique voice. I believe. I believe people
believe in me. Everyone they think I'm around with them.
But I take time for people number one, because I
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know that what I have you can they need.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Sometimes I connect, you cannot.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
You know how many times I miss flights for somebody
there for.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
They stopped me, they talking to me, you.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Know, but we have our our our production company that
we started, Alternate Side Productions.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
This is going. And I used Alternate Side because I
got a whole lot of tickets growing up.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
Austin said, they speak parking regulations here in New York City, So.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
I use that Austin aside, just to have my.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
New York roots and my manager and my partner Miles.
We are going to do some amazing things man, in
TV and film and keep the brand going because I
truly believe you're selling something amazing. You're able to drive
that vehicle, you know, to the next plateau.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Man, You've always made me laugh on Curb your stand up.
Thank you for coming and hanging out with us.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Congratulations on Curb. I finally season up Curve here things
you have in the bad on.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
The stream my Max JB smooth Baby, click breaking right
back after the vehicles.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's our show for tonight.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Here it is your moment of that look.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
I'll just be very plain and simple.
Speaker 17 (31:12):
I was in the State of the Union address and
Joe Biden must have been jacked up on something that day.
I absolutely believe that from a medical viewpoint.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
What do you mean when you say it was jacked
up at the State.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Of the Union.
Speaker 17 (31:24):
I believe they gave him something to help him sustain
the lights and sustain the vigor that he had that
was not Joe Biden. I was in there. He screamed
for two hours. He screamed for two hours. And you know,
maybe we can talk offline and I'll show you something.
And I think that proves.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
That you'll show me.
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
We have so much to talk about.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Joe Biden has a new fan, Donald Trump is afraid
for his life, and RFK Junior is reaching out to
only people weirder than he is. So let's get into
all of it with our continuing coverage of Indecision twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Let's kick things off with polls.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
There's a new one every fifteen minutes, even though none
of us have ever met a single person who's participated
in one, but whatever, someone's doing them. But a new
poll was out today that reminds us that no matter
how dumb our leaders are, we the people are even dumber.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
The Guardian did like a commissioned Harris poll for Americans
and how they feel about the economy. Fifty five percent
say the economy is shrinking. Fifty six percent say the
economy is in recession, which you know we know on
SANBC is not the case.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Forty nine percent believe the SMP is down for the year,
which seems incredible, which.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
It's up about thirteen percent and twenty three percent last year.
Forty nine percent also say unemployment is at a fifty
year high. In fact, unemployment is at a fifty year
low or near there, under four percent.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Right, all right, So just to summarize, we think the
economy is shrinking when it's actually growing, that the stock
market is down when it's actually up, and that unemployment
is that a fifty year high when it's actually near
a fifty year low. But we do know that benefits
on the rocks, so we're not completely pathetic.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, it might just be me, but maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
As a society we shouldn't have replaced newspapers with dudes
ranting in cars. I don't know, and look, in a way,
I get it. People don't judge the economy based on data.
They're like, you say, the GDP is up, but I say,
I used to be on my cousin's Netflix account and
now I have to get my own. So yeah, Jerome Powell,
(02:35):
we're in a recession, okay, But you have to remember, Yeah,
these are not surveys of Americas.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
These are not surveys of Americas.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
These are surveys of Americans who are willing to talk
to a stranger who cold calls them in the middle
of a work day. What I'm saying is these people
are not normal. I mean I ignore phone calls from
my own mother. That's normal, you get it. Sometimes I'll
get three, four or five calls in a row. You know,
there's a bunch of texts, like the cars filling up
(03:06):
with water. I don't have time for this, mom. I'll
see you at Thanksgiving. That's normal either way. Clearly Joe
Biden needs to do a better job of getting word
out about the healthy economy. Maybe he needs a hype man, right,
you know how like Notorious Big Had P Diddy. P
Diddy could do it. What's he up to?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
What is he?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I guess he's not available right now?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
While Biden has his work cut out for him trying
to win over people who aren't fully informed about the
stock market, one of his rivals is going after a
much smaller group of people who are obsessed with it.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior is now trying
to appeal to amateur traders on Reddit who call themselves
apes and intentionally invest in distressed companies like game Stop.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
The politician going on to say that he personally invested
twenty four thousand dollars in game Stop between a company.
But is our new campaign poster showing Kennedy and an
actual ape, each holding what appears to be a falcon?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Wait, wait forget game Stop, but why does this picture
look like he's on a honeymoon with that falcon?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Are they in love?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Or is the falcon just trying to get a better
angle on that worm.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
In his brain.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Now you might think it's weird for RFK Junior to
be going after this tiny little specific group, but don't
forget America is just a bunch of tiny little specific groups.
First he gets the redded Apes, Then he gets the Furries,
then the tradwives, cottage, core, TikTok, Disney Adults, Jet Blue
frequent flyers with Mosaic Elite status, and the next thing
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you know, it's January and he's.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Giving his State of the Union from burning Man.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Let's move on to Republican candidate Donald Trump. Recently he
took over the Recently he took over the Republican National Committee,
and today someone sent him a housewarming gift.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
We begin with breaking news from the Republican National Committee
headquarters in Washington, d C. It was placed on lockdown
this morning after vials of blood were set to the building.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
According to multiple.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Sources, we've learned that package was addressed to former President
Donald Trump and it contained two vials of blood.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What the fuck is going on? Someone sent blood to
the RNC. I guess that could just be Rudy Giuliani's
lunch order. I mean, but even so, why is anyone
sending blood through the mail? It's twenty twenty four people
fax it, but seriously, don't send blood to the RNC.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's reckless. Not eve going to end up on their
mailing list.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
But you can see why Donald Trump might be freaked
out by this, because, as you may have heard, someone
is trying to assassinate him.
Speaker 11 (05:54):
Donald Trump is now claiming that the FBI raid on
mar A Lago two years ago was actually Joe BI
attempt to assassinate him. He pointed to wording in the
search warrant that allowed the FBI to use lethal force
if necessary, which the FBI says is standard protocol in
any search.
Speaker 12 (06:10):
But in a fundraising email to supporters, Trump wrote they
were authorized to shoot me, and you know they're just
itching to do the unthinkable. Joe Biden was locked and loaded,
ready to take me out. Holy shit, locked.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And loaded, ready to take me out.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I've never heard Joe Biden sound so fucking cool in
my life. I always thought of him as a doddering
old man. Yeah, I always thought of Biden as a
doddering old man. But Donald Trump makes them look like
one of the expendables.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The rest of you, the rest of you take.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
What you want, believe the Orange Man to me, can
you takee wheel of fortune?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
This might take a little while.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Personally, I think it would be very difficult to assassinate
Donald Trump, mostly because he would never get that close
to a book depository. But regardless, I don't think Trump
actually fears getting assassinated by Joe Biden. And the reason
is because he announced it in a fundraising email. If
you're dodging bullets, you don't stop to wave your venmo
QR code, you know, Please somebody send money. For more
(07:22):
on this so called assassination conspiracy, we go live to
Josh Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
God, Josh, what's the latest?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Hi, Michael, I'm at Joe Biden's campaign headquarters. In the
Donald Trump assassination room, and the mood here is frustrating.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Wait, Joe Biden actually is trying to assassinate Donald Trump.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Oh of course Trump is one hundred percent correct, all right,
Bibe's been trying to take him out for years.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
The entire FBI RA was their best chance. They were
gonna roll into mar Alacco corner Trump in his office,
surround him like Scarf Race, and then be like and
the Secret Service is gonna be like.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Stoo still stoooo.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
And then Trump was gonna be lit up like mission accomplished.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I mean, I don't don't.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't think that's how guns sound.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
That's because you're not from the streets.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Okay, okay, fine, But if they were trying to assassinate Trump,
why would they raid his house on the day that
he wasn't even there.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Look, they're trying to find Trump. But the guys like
the win. When was the last time you saw him?
I saw him yesterday.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
He's been at the New York Courthouse every day for
two months. And when he's not there, he's at a
rally that he promotes on his website.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Damn, how'd you know that.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
You should join the ta, you can stand right next
to me hit him with some of thatty.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Ugh, Josh, Josh, Josh. I'm positive that's not how guns sound.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Wow, suburban white boy gonna tell me about guns?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, Oh you're laugh at that.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Like you ever caught a body?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Cost Look, hold on, hold on, let's get back to
the story. This is huge news. Is Biden still trying
to take Trump out?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Yeah, Everything in Donald Trump's life is a Joe Biden
plot against him, even the poison poison? Yeah, what do
you think, KFC is you think that's just a business. No, No,
it's a seventy seven year long plan to clog up
Trump's arteries. All right, and that's not all. Did you
ever notice that Trump has been aging one day every
(09:56):
single day that Biden's been president. You think that just
happens to people? Wake up, Michael, It's a secret plot
to kill Trump with natural causes. This is diabolical.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean, isn't that just how time works? Why would
Biden do something that complicated? Trump said a president has
total immunity to take.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Out his rivals. Why can't Biden just use a drone?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Ooh, Costa, you smart?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
You sure?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
You don't want to be on the assassination tape, like,
because the drones will be coming down like cuckoo.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Drones don't sound like birds. I know that, then why
they in the sky?
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Okay, country Club, Costa is gonna tell me a man
from the streets what a military grave predator drones sounds like?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's not important.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Look, Biden is wasting so much time trying to take
out Trump, he's gonna end up losing the election to.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Him, exactly, And the stress of that job will kill
Trump for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
No, but Trump was already president and he's fine.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah for one term, but give him three or four
more terms and he's done for Okay, and that's the
Biden brain baby.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Wow, that's the perfect plot, Josh Johnson.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Everyone, I mean, when we come back, we actually find
some fans of Joe Biden. Don't go away. That's the party.
(11:32):
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There's plenty of endangered species out there, but in American politics,
there's one species more endangered than most.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Troya Wata has more in this election.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
Republicans have their writer die candidate who they want to
be president forever, and Democrats they also have a guy
so the.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Best way to get something done if you hold near
and dear to you that you.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Like to be able to.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Anyway four more years.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Joe Biden has an enthusiasm problem.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
The polling shows that Democrats are not enthused Joe Biden.
Speaker 14 (12:09):
Democrats are not excited.
Speaker 13 (12:10):
But maybe we in the media are out of touch.
I hit the streets to ask what do voters really
think of Joe Biden?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Not the most excited?
Speaker 13 (12:18):
I mean it's okay, I wish I was more excited
on a scale of one to ten, probably somewhere arount
of two or three. How would you compare that to say,
seeing some really beautiful latte art? I would put that
maybe as a five. Could you point on this graph
how you feel about voting for Joe Biden? Okay, some pain,
(12:39):
But if you couldn't tell by the stick and pok
tattoos and Warby Parker glasses, these people were all Democrats.
There must be something they like about Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
He's big ice cream guy. Hm, you can't vote against that.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
What do you think his favorite flavor is vanilla?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh god, it's got to be a superman.
Speaker 15 (12:54):
You know, he's our president.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
He's our president.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, slap that on a T shirt.
Speaker 13 (13:00):
It I expect him to kind of behave like a
president as opposed to like this child.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
He definitely is not a child.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
But then I found one person whose passion whelmed me
on a scale of one to ten. How excited are
you about voting for Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Eleven? Eleven? Oh my god? Is this Joe Joe Biden?
Speaker 13 (13:20):
Or is this like the famous coryon Instagram named Joe
Biden that I'm not aware.
Speaker 14 (13:24):
Of Joe sniph Robin and Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I didn't even know there was this full name Junior.
Oh my god, there's an older one.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
Who was this guy? Against my better judgment, I followed
him to his car.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Oh my god.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Oh okay, it's a cardboard cutout.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Before I get your.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Car, I have to ask, this isn't a sex thing, right?
Speaker 14 (13:43):
It is not?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Okay? Good? Yeah?
Speaker 14 (13:45):
I didn't think so.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (13:47):
Oh oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You have Kamala too?
Speaker 14 (13:51):
Do you have the whole cabinet in there?
Speaker 13 (13:52):
Where's your cutout of acting Labor Secretary Julie Sue Julie
Julie Meet Dakota Galvin, Joe Biden's biggest and only super fan.
Could he hold the key to helping Biden defeat Donald
Trump and his maga army. Trump has this huge fan
club of tens of thousands of really intense weirdos, and
(14:14):
Biden has you.
Speaker 14 (14:18):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 15 (14:19):
There's sort of like a cult mentality going on there.
I think they have an unnatural devotion to a single person, right, cult.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
Like devotion to one man?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Am I right? Okay?
Speaker 14 (14:30):
Let's talk about the cardboard cutout? Why do you keep
him in your trunk?
Speaker 13 (14:34):
Don't you want to just see him in the morning
and say, what's up?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Joe?
Speaker 14 (14:36):
Well, my boyfriend isn't his He's less enthusiastic. Oh my god,
having him watch us at all times? Oh my god,
you have a boyfriend, I do?
Speaker 13 (14:46):
Okay, Setting aside the question of whether the boyfriend was
also a cardboard cutout, when did Dakota first realize he
was Biden curious?
Speaker 15 (14:54):
I was a senior in high school in twenty twelve,
and I had just come out of the closet and
Joe Biden has announced his support for marriage equality, and
you thought.
Speaker 13 (15:03):
To yourself, he's a little young right now to be president,
but maybe in eight years he'll be ready.
Speaker 14 (15:07):
At the time not so much.
Speaker 15 (15:09):
But this man literally came out of retirement to save
our country from white supremacists and fascism.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
So you like him more now than when it was
just Obama's white friend. Absolutely.
Speaker 13 (15:21):
Oh that's a strong endorsement at a time when Joe
Biden is so unpopular that somehow hating him is uniting
pro Israel.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
And pro Palestine protesters.
Speaker 13 (15:34):
So what does Dakota see in this guy is his swag,
his whispery voice, what's left at his hair?
Speaker 14 (15:40):
Mostly his policies. There's so manyit chips from really wow.
See I can't even think of any so go up.
I would think.
Speaker 15 (15:46):
When he came into office, he immediately got to work
with the American Rescue Plan. He followed it up with
a bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the Chips and Science Act, the.
Speaker 14 (15:56):
Chips and Salsa Act, Chips and Science. Oh, you know,
maybe to policy more, but I think you're right.
Speaker 15 (16:02):
There was his eightieth birthday when he had old candles
on his cade.
Speaker 13 (16:06):
Yeah, I guess we can have fun with glaring reminders
of his age. Turns out the things they get Dakota
excited are different from other voters.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
What did he think their problem.
Speaker 15 (16:16):
Was, well, he is an older, straight white gentleman, and
in Democratic circles that's usually not what gets us excited.
Speaker 13 (16:25):
You know, I don't think there's anything we can do
about his oldness or his whiteness. But do you think
he would consider exploring his sexuality?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (16:32):
Rash sure, Joe Biden tumbler fan fiction aside. Could Dakota
get Democrats fired up about Biden?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Not like that.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
I'm going to pretend to be someone who's not overly
enthused to vote for Joe Biden, and they want you
to convince me.
Speaker 14 (16:46):
All right, yeah, okay, I'm ready. Do you love living
in a democracy?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (16:51):
Oh my gosh, I've got the perfect candidate for you
to vote for. Who is it? It's the current president,
Joe Biden.
Speaker 15 (16:58):
Oh well, you know it's a vote for normalcy, insanity,
and you know, keeping the institutions that have built our
constitutional republic for centuries.
Speaker 14 (17:08):
Keeping things the same as they are now, with minor improvements,
with minor improvements.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
I mean, I guess one thing that's good about Biden
is he doesn't have the baggage you know, say that
Hillary has.
Speaker 14 (17:20):
You know, I love Hillary.
Speaker 13 (17:23):
Come on, maybe I've been focusing on the wrong thing.
Maybe it isn't the voters that need the pep talk,
it's Joe Biden and Dakota has some advice that will
shake the political landscape forever.
Speaker 14 (17:35):
I would say, keep doing what you're doing, but do
it better.
Speaker 13 (17:40):
Yeah, way to pump them up. Well, there's always twenty
twenty eight especially.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
Can I please sit in the front. No, I'm sorry,
I can try and we come back.
Speaker 16 (17:56):
Jab Smow will be drunning on the show. If you
don't go, well, welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Back to Dary show.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
My guest tonight is an Emmy winning actor and comedian
who plays Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Please welcome j V Smooth. Oh shit, Oh that's great.
Speaker 17 (18:48):
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (18:49):
What hey?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's dop rad and baby. Let me tell
you something. Yeah. No two words have ever been spoken
man than that. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
You and that car, right, you will be assassinated. You
know how you were ruined, big big oil?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What right? What I liked about that clip was the
dick hole for the car. You still had to get
out and walk to it. I was thinking, you to it?
Speaker 17 (19:24):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
What's hey?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Whatever?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
He set up perfect, man.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I set you up perfect.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
So was that in the script dick in the hole
in the coffee or is that just JB doing JB
like just check you a dick hole?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
You know?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Curb Kurb has no no script, you know, it's only
an outline based on the idea for the for the episode.
But that changes also based on where you go. It's
just like branches. It's branches everywhere right forking road.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And you got a tooth, but you want to go.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It's fun in particular to watch you because everyone's playing
a little bit of an exaggerated version of themselves, but
it seems like you're playing a completely different character.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Is that? Is that? Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
You?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
You know what I have to say?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
What Leon would say, right, you know.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
And it's one of those things where I get caught
up in this guy's world. I truly do ye where
I just I'm not myself right, I'm a compassionate heart
woman guy. Of course, we got we share some cadence
maybe little things here, yeah, delivery.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
He swears a lot, and you haven't even sworn.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I'll get to that, but anyway, Yeah, he swears a lot.
Speaker 13 (20:44):
You know.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
One time, you know, I was driving home from set okay,
and I call my wife Artie calling, how was your day?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
You know that was great? Well, she says all the time,
what did Leon say today? What did Leon say?
Speaker 10 (20:59):
But that's that's that's what curb is, man, it is
truly you are creating on the fly, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, that's what's a wonderful wife. I mean, I called
my wife in the way home and.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
She's like, here's what needs to happen tonight. We got
lunches to make.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
We got this and I love that it's full updated
what went down today.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
When people meet you, do they want JB, do they
want Leon?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Do you give them Leon?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
They call me Leon all the time. It depends who
they are. And you know, but I got a lot
of Leon.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You see that as a compliment.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
It's a compliment, you know.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
I always say life is like a series of checkpoints.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I like that you find out.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
What they love about you in the moment. Okay, okay,
and maybe something that will come along there. People won't
forget about Leon, but maybe y'all charter a new path.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Man, Yeah, some other amazing character will pop up.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean, you debuted in Curb in season six.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Man, it's seventeen years later, you're here talking to me
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Was crazy that trout somebody I was.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I was two years old when you debuted, can't.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I mean, you know this business. You don't get a
job thinking I'll be doing this for cemetery.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Get it.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Sometimes you get a job and you don't want to
know if you are gonna be.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
On the next season. Yo.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So I truly.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Gues It's not even a joke, Joe. It's real. It's real.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Sometimes you gotta take a job. You gotta take a friend,
you gotta take somebody's lady.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Sometimes you gotta take stuff. I get it.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
But that's how you get there, and you do a
great job, and you just be in the moment and
you do exactly what they're looking for, and you give
them more of what the want.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Talking about I mean, I love it.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
And then that you know, but there is.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I mean, there are terms of the screw that you
got to figure out what your character like. Like on Curb,
I decide in the moment, you know, I don't decide
before I get there. I don't decide based on what's written.
I decide in the moment. If I want to have
Larry's back, we'll go against him, which is a fascinating way.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I trying to find out what's going to be the
best path.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
What the what am I gonna get the most funny
out of having his back or fighting with him?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
You know what I mean, good fight, it's always great.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But there's also takes of you deciding and it doesn't
work right or is just JB always I mean because
it is fun watching because you see Larry sometimes crack
or even see in his eyes he goes, I don't
know what's happening to this?
Speaker 10 (23:38):
Ye yeah, yeah, but yeah, that's where the stand up
part comes in.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm just gonna ask you about stand up.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
That's when it comes in there, because we we as
stand ups, we we have to be able to read people.
I could be in a room full of two thousand
people in the audience. I have to find that one
who's not left. I know, right, he's just like, I know, yeah,
I see you man, you know, but I think.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And you don't think, oh I'm making one thousand, nine
and nine of people laugh.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You think, what's wrong with this?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Mother? Yeah exactly? Yeah, yeah, but that's what I do.
That's why it's that's that's what we do.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Not just improv people, but stand up comedians have a
unique we can feel.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
We're like we call the impath.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
We're like empathpath.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
We we like we can feel your energy. We feel it.
We know when to move on to the next bit.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
The dicilots in our ear goes up and comes back
down to a certain level, and we know to move on.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Not even we got a little opening for the next bit.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
But we gotta read people, and we gotta I gotta
read him because I'm trying to honestly make a snop
bubble come out his.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
But also when you do.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
A good slife, you make somebody app and it makes
a slop bubble come out.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That's that's the ultimate.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
But what's what's interesting about that too, is he's also
your boss. He's on walls, so you gotta think about
that too.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
But but but you gotta keep people on your toes too, man. Yeah,
because look, man.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Yeahs are dems are Like you said, I came on
in season six, this train was already moving. Have you
ever jumped on a moving subway train?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
I have not.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
No ship is daring and fascinating. It's fascinating and depth defying.
It's depth defying.
Speaker 17 (25:32):
Right.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
But because you almost lateful work already late for work, right,
you jumped between cars. I gotta be a work at
a certain time we get fired. But anyway, I don't
recommend you're doing that. But the train was already moving, right,
So I had to sit there and figure out, jump
on the train that's already moving. That's already amazing successful show.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You know that.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
I was a big fan of the show, and my
wife manifested me being on the show.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I read that.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
I told me I was gonna be on that damn show.
I said, I love this show so much, I'd love
to be on this show one day. I said, you're
going to be on that show one day. I love
that lo and behold that sweet lady. Seventeen years later,
lady man she told me I was gonna be on
that show. But yeah, I go even back further. The
first thing I ever did was I took an improv class,
oh before I even started doing stand up, because I
(26:20):
wanted to find out who I wanted to do stand up.
I wanted to find out who I want to be
on that stage and off that stage because you once
you create your character, you're writing off stage, which also
writing on stage because now you're listening to what people
love about you.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I mean, I've read that you you you have said
stand up has been a vehicle for you that you
get on it, you get off it, you take it somewhere.
And that fascinates me because there's definitely a compulsion of
stand ups that like I always do stand up, I'm
a stand up.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I'm a stand up.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But have explain to me, elaborate what you mean by
stand up is a vehicle for you?
Speaker 10 (26:56):
Stand up is your vehicle because you got to take
care of it.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
You got to maintain it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yep, you gotta love to drive it.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
You gotta love to drive it.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
Man, that's your vehicle to get to any place you
want to get to. Stand up stand up comics also
take the drama of the world and we convert that
drama because we have a different filtration system. We are
deep minded. We are we are we've been through a lot.
We can take everything we've been through and rearrange it
to make you laugh about it.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Yeah. We are also therapists. We touch on things. We
touch on things that.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Only we can touch on it in that way. Yeah,
if you look, man, if you get rid of the comedian,
you might as well just die. I'm telling you, because
there's no way in hell you could take the brunt
of the real world every day without somebody who's able
(27:55):
to take that world, filtrate it, put it through their
body and give it.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
Back to you in a manageable form. I love. No
one can do that but a comedian. I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Last question for you, Urb Curb is done.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
JB.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Smooth is not done. No, what's next for you?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
What do you got going on? Man?
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Look, this is this is the time where you know.
The cool thing about what I have accomplished throughout my
career is people don't understand this, but a lot of
times I gotta make time for curb, okay, and not
the other way around, because you know, commercial campaigns, TV shows, movies,
(28:36):
you know, shitting every time.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Every time I'm Frank the plant, every time I look
on there's.
Speaker 10 (28:42):
You dress a Caesar, there's Season, there's white Claw, There's
all these amazing things that I do.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
I am an amazing spokesperson. I truly do. I believe.
I believe, I believe I got to sell anything that
I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I like it's genuine.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
It feels it has to be genuine. So that's the power.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
And people out there, please don't be afraid of the
power of no. Do not be ever afraid of the
power of no, because another opportunity is gonna come around.
Right So now it's time for curbas one. It's one show.
I don't shoot Curb three hundred and sixty five days
a year. Curb is one show that takes a few
two or three months to shoot, and I'm done the
(29:25):
rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I gotta be. I gotta be on the go. I am.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
I am a big hustle man, I truly do. But
I find a way that remain grounded. I found a
way to also figure out what's next for me, you know. Therefore,
I gotta sell a brand. I believe I have a brand.
I have a unique voice. I believe. I believe people
believe in me. Everyone they think I'm around with them.
But I take time for people number one, because I
(29:52):
know that what I have you can they need.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Sometimes I connect, you cannot.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
You know how many times I miss flights for somebody
there for.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
They stopped me, they talking to me, you.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Know, but we have our our our production company that
we started, Alternate Side Productions.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
This is going. And I used Alternate Side because I
got a whole lot of tickets growing up.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
Austin said, they speak parking regulations here in New York City, So.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
I use that Austin aside, just to have my.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
New York roots and my manager and my partner Miles.
We are going to do some amazing things man, in
TV and film and keep the brand going because I
truly believe you're selling something amazing. You're able to drive
that vehicle, you know, to the next plateau.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Man, You've always made me laugh on Curb your stand up.
Thank you for coming and hanging out with us.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Congratulations on Curb. I finally season up Curve here things
you have in the bad on.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
The stream my Max JB smooth Baby, click breaking right
back after the vehicles.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
That's our show for tonight.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Here it is your moment of that look.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
I'll just be very plain and simple.
Speaker 17 (31:12):
I was in the State of the Union address and
Joe Biden must have been jacked up on something that day.
I absolutely believe that from a medical viewpoint.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
What do you mean when you say it was jacked
up at the State.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Of the Union.
Speaker 17 (31:24):
I believe they gave him something to help him sustain
the lights and sustain the vigor that he had that
was not Joe Biden. I was in there. He screamed
for two hours. He screamed for two hours. And you know,
maybe we can talk offline and I'll show you something.
And I think that proves.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
That you'll show me.
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