May 8, 2024 • 28 mins
Jordan Klepper recaps his favorite Met Gala looks, Putin puts on his own night of dictator opulence at his inauguration, and Troy Iwata weighs in on the disturbingly dirty details of Stormy Daniels's testimony during Trump's criminal hush money trial. Desi Lydic joins the “Idle Warriors,” a group focused on reporting idle vehicles for a cash reward. Plus, Lexi Freiman, author of “The Book of Ayn”, sits down with Jordan to discuss writing about narcissism and the benefits of cancel culture.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central is America's
only sorts for new This He's the Daily Show.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
With your Home Jordan Clemper.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Welcome to Daily John, George Flemmer got so much to
talk about tonight. Vladimir Putin somehow wins reelection. New Yorkers
are getting paid to snitch, and we find out if
Donald Trump is good at sex.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
He's not.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So let's get into headlines. Let's kick things off. Last
night's met Gala. Now the magical night when the world's
most fast sable cultural icons try to figure out how
the fuck they're gonna fit their spiky headdress into an
uber pool On fashion's biggest night.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Gordon inspired looks on full display right in Bloom with
this year's dress code the Garden of Times.
Speaker 7 (01:14):
Fans tried to figure out which star was fully covered
head to toe in a floor length beij umbrella.
Speaker 8 (01:21):
Now this is a water singer Tyla. So many people
talking about this. She had to be carried up the
stairs of the net. The dress, which was made of sand,
was simply too heavy.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay, okay, a dress made of sand is super impressive.
Who are you wearing Coney Island? Thank you very much.
I like how she had four people carry her up
the stairs. I bet Joe Biden saw that and turned
to the Secret Service, like, let's just do that from
now on. But the true glam heads weren't paying attention
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to the met gala because the real action last night
was in Moscow. Or Vladimir Putin held an opulent inauguration
that just screamed definitely not a dictator for life.
Speaker 9 (02:07):
We continue to watch live pictures from Moscow, where Vladimir
Putin begins his fifth term as Russian president. The strong
Man has already been in office for nearly a quarter century.
Putin's new term doesn't end until twenty thirty in At
that point he'll be eligible to.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Run for another six years if he wants.
Speaker 9 (02:25):
It has been a lavish and opulent ceremony there in Moscow.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Come on, lad you can't show up to all this
in a suit a lot. They got the wizards and
the golden walls. You're walking in like you're late from
the office. Man, how do you think Merlin over here feels? Huh?
He's like I went full Hogwarts over here. Now I
feel like a dig Flad. You act like you don't
(02:51):
even want to be here, but this is your whole thing.
I mean, I'm not criticizing you. You're the one with
the poison, but still have done this over zoom. Let's
move on to America's Vladimir Putin Donald Trump. It's now
week before of the Trump trial, and boy, time flies
(03:15):
when you're constantly falling asleep in court, doesn't it. But
I can guarantee you Trump didn't nap dr in today's testimony,
which brings us to our latest installment of America's most
tremendously wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The whole thing is a scam.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Today was the biggest day yet in the trial of
Donald Trump because today Stormy Daniels herself took the stand,
and you could tell from the start that the coverage
was going to be delicate.
Speaker 10 (03:48):
Right now in the courtroom, our reporters in there are
sending us notes updates every second that they can, and
mister Trump's defense attorney, Susan Nichols is saying, quote, we're
informed to the second witness today will be Stormy Daniels.
We want to renew our objection to her testifying, particularly
about any details of any sexual acts that is mister
(04:10):
Trump's attorney the prosecutors is also saying, quote, in terms
of the sexual act, it will be very basic. I
can't believe I have to read this on television. It's
not going to involve any discription. It's not going to
involve any descriptions of anything in particular.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So read it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh, come on, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash acting like
you're too good for this, like you've never seen genitalia before.
All right, they're very prudish for people whose names sound
like poor names. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and State
of the Union. Yeah, oh, they're gonna smear Kanish all
(04:53):
over your wolf Blitzer, you know. Now. The crux of
this this case is that Trump allegedly paid Stormy Daniels
hush money to cover up their affair just before the
twenty sixteen election, And today Stormy Daniels told us exactly
what all that money was hushing, starting from the very
beginning of the night Donald Trump invited her for dinner
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in his hotel room.
Speaker 11 (05:17):
Daniels testified that when she first entered Trump's hotel suite,
he greeted her wearing silk pajamas. She says she joked
that he stole Hugh Hefner's pajamas and asked him to change,
which he did. According to Daniels, when she asked Trump
about his wife, he admitted that he and Malania sleep
in separate beds. After speaking with Trump for a while,
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Daniels told Trump he was rude and didn't know how
to have a conversation. Someone should spank you with that magazine,
she told him. She says, Trump then rolled up the
magazine and quote gave me a look, so she took
it from him, told him to turn around, and swatted
him on the butt.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
At poor poor Maggie has in print media suffered enough spanking,
silk pajamas, separate beds. These revelations are so uncomfortably personal
that even Drake is like, oh, sucks to be that guy.
(06:16):
But if that stuff made you uncomfortable, hold on, it
gets worse.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Daniels testified that at one point, prior to them having sex,
Trump told her she reminded him of his daughter of Vodka,
saying they were both smart, blonde, beautiful women who people underestimated.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hashtag girl dad Louck.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I know it's old news to us that Donald Trump
wants to mercanish his daughter. But remember, the court worked
hard to find an unbiased jury, which means there's at
least one person on there who was in a coma
for the last ten years. And I bet that guy
is losing his mind. There are you hearing this? Are
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you hearing this? That's the president and his daughter and
a port star. Oh wait, all, my friend Prince hears
about this. You know what, maybe the actually damning part
of all of this is how Trump got Stormy to
have sex with him. According to Daniels, he suggested that
she could be on the Apprentice. Later, he stripped her his
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underwear and told her a quote, this is the only
way you're getting out.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Of the trailer park. Yikes.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So from isn't just a bad lover who thinks talking
about his daughter is an acceptable form of foreplay. He's
a creep who dangles career advancement over women to get
them to have sex with him, because lord knows they're
not in it for the two minutes of thrusting. Personally,
I find it disappointing. I mean, who would have thought
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a man found liable for sexual assault would coerce a
woman into sex? I mean, honestly, It's like you can't
even trust sex offenders these days. We're on today's testimony.
Let's go live to the courthouse with our own Troy Awata. Troy,
what what's the what's the mood down at the courthouse today?
Speaker 12 (08:15):
I would say the mood is uncomfy. Like I was
so perturbed. I made myself feel better by remembering that
time I watched Saltburn with my parents.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's how bad it was today.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But I got to tell.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
You, it's pretty brutal hearing someone's dumb horny man moves
read aloud in the cold light of a courtroom.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm I'm sorry, dumb horny man moves.
Speaker 12 (08:40):
You know the things that you say and do right
before you have sex with someone for the first time,
The sexy stuff that you do in the moment that
no one should ever rehash. You know, the faces and
phrases like your lips look like two big worms.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh okay, Well, I mean some Babel's man moves are
pretty solid. I bet you.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Keep telling yourself that big guy, like, what's your go
to move when you get to the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, I don't know if this is the time or
the plan. One time, uh, one time, I said, oh,
alrighty then just like a Spentura. But it was it
was a good reference because we had both just seen
a Spentura. I mean she hadn't, but I had explained
the movie to her.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
And it was.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It's kind of a sexy moment for both of us.
Speaker 13 (09:37):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Try, what's your point that that testifying about people's man
moves should have no place in the legal system.
Speaker 12 (09:45):
No, No, I actually I think the opposite. I think
every trial should have it. You know, imagine if every
time you committed a crime, the prosecutors could put your
X on the stand and describe your most mediocre hookup
in grave detail, and then a stenographer and a cardigan.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Wrote it all down, and then.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Jake Tapper broadcasted on national television.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, Frankly, okay, I see you. That is a cliff point.
I mean, you put it that way, I would be
the most law abiding citizen in history, exactly.
Speaker 12 (10:20):
Yeah, right now, I'm about fifty to fifty on committing crimes,
like I can see myself counterfeiting stamps.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
But if it meant I'd have to sit through a.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
Retelling of how one night I got on all fours
and I said, tell me you're proud of me. I
wouldn't even get a parking ticket. I wouldn't even own
a car. This might be the greatest crime deterrent in history.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So you're saying we should just air all of Trump's
dirty details in an attempt to lower crime rates.
Speaker 12 (10:55):
No, Jordan, I am asking you to tell me you're
proud of me.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh right, then, Troy, what everybody? We come back, We'll
find out how to make money by snitches.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
We'll go away.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Welcome back to the Daily Show. There are a lot
of annoying problems with living in New York City. But
does he Laidak found some heroes. We're trying to solve
one of them. Take a look in New York.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
You've got to have a side hustle, whether it's being
a naked cowgirl or being an older naked cowgirl. But
I recently learned about a new hustle that's actually helping
the planet.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The way to make some easy money. Get some video
of a trucker idling in New York City.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
There are heavy fines for dirtying the air, and so
called idoh warriors get a share To learn.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
More, I met up with the idle Warriors, a group
of citizen vigilantes who are cashing in on this green gig.
They say, idle hands are the devil's workshop. What made
you decide to use your idle hands to stop idling?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Over seven million people die every year on this planet
due to air.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Pollution, and we can change this if we just turned
our engines off. The anti idling law was created nineteen
seventy one by City of New York, but it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Being enforced at all, So it's kind of like when
white people do drugs.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I thought that if citizens got an opportunity, they would
do it.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
As an environmental attorney, Samara Swanston wrote a law allowing
any Nark Yorker to report an idling vehicle and collect
twenty five percent of the city fine. That's almost eighty
eight bucks a pop. But what if I don't want
a Karen on my Amazon driver?
Speaker 14 (12:55):
The companies are the ones who pay the fine. The
drivers themselves do not pay the fine. It's the the commercial.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Vehicle, So you're actually snitching on the companies.
Speaker 14 (13:03):
What we're actually doing is holding big companies like Amazon, Khan, Ed,
and Verizon accountable for polluting our air and literally killing
people In New York.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yes, so cool.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
See in elementary school, I was always wearing as a tattletale.
But now I'm saying that that was just good training
to be an environmentalist. Okay, so we're taking down the man,
not my actual mailman. Clearly this isn't about the money, but.
Speaker 13 (13:26):
We're all friends here.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
How much how much do you make?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I know gentlemen that have made over one hundred thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
What wow. I'm not a mathematician, but if I take
the sum of my credit card debt added to the
cost of being a woman in America, multiplyed by eighty
four percent of what a man makes, and subtract the
earnings from reporting on a dozen idling vehicles.
Speaker 14 (13:45):
I'm rich.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
How many people know about this? Am I getting in
on the ground floor? Or is this like Bitcoin where
I'm going to have to cut my losses by selling
my beanie babies.
Speaker 14 (13:55):
It's only about maybe twenty to thirty of us who
are submitting the bulk of the complaints.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
I think we should just keep it between us. It's
like an orgy.
Speaker 13 (14:05):
You don't want to advertise it to everybody.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
You want a small, dedicated group and hopefully Jake Jillen.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Hall with an orgy, you would think the more than
marry I think, you know. We hope that everybody participates.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
Our ultimate goal is for an idling to end. The
best pain that we can get is clean.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Air, money, clean air, actually clean air.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
There's so much island going on that as long as
you're in the right place, you can really get.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
One after another.
Speaker 13 (14:32):
Let's snitch.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
We are a group of vigilant workers looking out for
the best pictures of our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I wrote the bill because I wanted to see a
change in the future.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
I have a Nordstrom credit card that hasn't been paid
off in seven years.
Speaker 11 (14:49):
Are they even in business anymore?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
What do I do?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I'm ready to make some money a difference, make a
difference to keep.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Your ears tuned to the sound of engines listening ears yep.
Then you use your iPhone to capture the headquarters address
and the license plate. See these blinking lights here, I'm
this truck man. Yes, that's a good signal that they're idly.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
So you're so when I see these blinking lights, there's
good here.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Just like that.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
And then how long do we do this for?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
With three minutes and ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yeah, it's a long period of time.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
But then I do this for three minutes.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
If you want to get paid, you have to do
it right.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Turns out activism is really boring, Andy hydrating. I'm just
gonna pop in for a quick mark Mark Confronting truckers
takes balls. Luckily, George and I have those balls.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I'm gonna go and tell that driver that he's breaking
the law.
Speaker 13 (15:42):
George.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yes, I just want you to know, Yes, I'm right
here with you. I am right behind you.
Speaker 13 (15:49):
I got your back.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Do you know why why? Because we're partners for life.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
Love it right behind you?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Can we shut the engine off so you compliant with
the law.
Speaker 13 (15:57):
I'm not with him?
Speaker 9 (15:59):
What a great?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So you think you've learned enough to go out on
your own totally all right. I'm going to welcome you
to become an idle warrior, George.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
You can count on me. After a full day of
saving the Earth, it was time to celebrate with my
fellow warriors. This rounds on me here to the real
superheroes protecting this planet.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
So when do we get paid?
Speaker 14 (16:28):
It takes about two years.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Okay, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Thank you, Devid, we come back. Novelist Lexi free Bad,
We'll be joining me on the show Don't Go Away.
(16:58):
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Guest today is an author who's laid.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
This book is the Book of Iron. Please welcome Lexi Freeman.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Welcome, Welcome, Thank you, Thank you so.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Much, Lexi. Yes, I love this book. This book is
so funny and searing. Do you like Syring?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (17:31):
I love Sirius. You love Syring?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You want a seering novel. It gets into the ship.
It makes fun of a little bit of everything and
reveals something about yourself. I mean, it reveals nothing about me.
I don't see myself at any kind of literature. But
I love this book. I think this book starts it
follows somebody who gets canceled. Yes, and then one of
her first moves is she finds the writings of ein Rand.
Speaker 13 (17:56):
Yes, and you.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Describe her initial her initial thoughts about Iran as the
character says and the main characters, I had always considered
her the gateway drug for bad husbands to quit their
jobs and start online stock trading.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
What is a compelling about iinran for you and starting
a novel like this?
Speaker 15 (18:18):
I mean, to me, she was you know, basically the
worst person I could write a book about, which really
appealed to me. She's so contentious within the culture. But
I had recently watched a documentary about her when I
started thinking about this, and to be honest, I mean,
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her ideas are provocative and difficult, but she also just
had like a crazy sex life, which I found.
Speaker 13 (18:48):
You know, she was essentially in an open relationship at.
Speaker 15 (18:50):
The end of her you know, in her sixties, she
was having an affair with like a man twenty five
years younger than her. So like Inrand was basically a polyamorous,
Like she had a polycule, which I think people sort
of like don't know about her, and it kind of
destroyed her in the end. She ended up sort of
(19:10):
like having a nervous breakdown when he was cheating on her.
It kind of undermined her whole philosophy of selfishness in
a way, and I found that incredibly interesting and funny.
Speaker 13 (19:24):
She's just funny funny.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
If there's one thing that's gonna take Iran down, who
thought it was going to be polyamorous.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It was polyamory.
Speaker 15 (19:30):
It was polyamoring that did it in the end, which
I just find delicious.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I think it's fount I think your book sort of
looks at what it means to be selfish. It sort
of examines narcissism, Like what to you is interesting about
the idea of narcissism and if you can make it
about me, well.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 15 (19:50):
I mean, you know, I'm not the first person to
say this, but the culture is pretty narcissistic, and so
you know, wanting to write a satire about the culture,
you know, you want to write something that's going to
speak to all sides. And I kind of felt, like,
you know, narcissism is also, uh, something that speaks to
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the nature of the artist, which this book is about
someone who's grappling with this idea of selfishness and wanting
to be the best and wanting to be interesting and
special and have, you know, contrarian opinions. But then there's
also this desire to be empathetic and to do good
in the world. And it's it's the kind of the
conflict between selfishness and altruism that is ain Rand's whole
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philosophy that I feel is kind of distilled in the
artistic temperament and in the artist's personality that feels like
this really interesting kind of paradox to me, and narcissism
plays into that really beautifully is and is also funny.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It starts, it starts to unpack, start to unpack this
idea of cancel culture, Like, how do you see that?
Is there an upside to cancel culture?
Speaker 15 (21:00):
I mean, yes, sure, there's you know things, it moves
the needle, there's cultural change in a way that can
be good. And then there's also just you know, I
had a conversation about this with a canceled person, and
the conversation when in the sort of direction of you know,
what being canceled kind of affords you the opportunity to
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do is to kind of kill your ego and not
give a shit anymore about like what people think, and
because the ego is all about reputation and trying to succeed,
and when that's not a possibility for you anymore, then
you get to pursue enlightenment, which I think is the
other thing we could all be doing with our lives
if we want.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So, you're saying, in order for me to get enlightened,
I have to first get canceled. Is that what I
need to do Tonight tonight maybe. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I'm
gonna hold off. I want to hold on to that
ego just a little bit longer. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:56):
I think enlightenment is good for you know, as you
get older, and you know, we are all supposed to
be sort of shedding our egos and not caring about
these things that preoccupy us.
Speaker 13 (22:06):
In our youth. So I feel like getting enlightened is.
Speaker 15 (22:09):
Something you could put off time, you know, retirement slash
enlightenment and that that seems like a thing.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, working at Walmart, Mart, go go go work at enlightenment, right,
that's the time.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yes, Now this is a sattire. I think it's I
think it's it's fascinating how you're so specific in this
book and you're able to satirize the left and the
right as you move this character through these spaces. I
guess I'm curious. I always view satire and the Daily Show.
We dabble in it here and there, but more other
(22:39):
than me, it seems like satire is a broad sword.
It's rarely uh, it's scalpel.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It seems as if you find complexity in it. How
do you find complexity and satire?
Speaker 13 (22:50):
I think you just have to be really specific.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
You have to be really generous, like the reader is smart.
You can't try to trick them with easy kind of
ideas and jokes.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I can. I mean sometimes it can be very rewarding.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
Yes, and a lot of people will fall for it.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
But if you want to kind of if you want
the reader to really come on side with you, and
especially with your most transgressive material, then you've got to
really not take them for granted, and you've really.
Speaker 13 (23:22):
I edit the crap out of my books.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
I go in there, I try to see it from
all different sides, and I really try to get as
specific as possible, you know, so that the reader feels
like I respect their intelligence and I you know, I'm
thinking of the thing they might argue back with me about,
and I get specific. You know, there's a scene in
the book, a sex scene where the character is pretending
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to do the locker room scene from Jerry Maguire.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Do you remember that bit? Yeah?
Speaker 15 (23:52):
So you know, I watched that scene a lot, and
I really got very specific about how you might perform
form certain sexual acts while doing the Jerry Maguire lock
a scene. So you know, you just you do it,
You just you you commit and you and you really
go all the way with it.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
If obsessing and thinking about sex scenes from movies could
make you a great author, I think I would be
a great author. I'm curious. I'm curious what you say
about the editor. That's all it is, right, I'm curious
when you talk about editing too, like are you are
you having a conversation with yourself as you're writing that
with like more extreme points of view than you don't
(24:33):
know if you fully believe and you're writing that thing out,
and then your editing process is a chance to essentially
see if it if it holds water exactly.
Speaker 13 (24:40):
That's it.
Speaker 15 (24:41):
I'm always, in a sense trying to cancel myself as
I'm writing. I'm thinking of like what would someone who
thinks the opposite of this say? And then what would
the counter argument be? And like how would I destroy
myself if I wanted to?
Speaker 13 (25:00):
That's how I write.
Speaker 15 (25:01):
I'm just constantly thinking of of these other arguments, and
in a sense, it just makes your writing better and better,
and in a weird, corny way, it makes you better
because the more you think about what the other side
might think and try to make your argument better, you know,
the smarter and the more kind of compassionate you become.
(25:21):
And I think that's why I get away with saying
some of the things I say in the book, because
because it's done with, you know, I'm not I think
I'm respecting these characters and their complexity and their wholeness
and understanding why they think what they think, and and
looking for the funny, funny parts really and the absurd parts, which,
(25:45):
you know.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Who do you imagine your audiences when you're writing?
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Oh God, I.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
Mean I think it's just like this mean voice in
my own quiet. Yeah, it's literally just me being as
mean as I can to myself.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
I don't know, there's probably a few.
Speaker 15 (26:05):
I think there's a couple of critics I think about
a little bit. Ones I respect and ones I don't.
They're in my head, some of my friends who are
writers that are kind of in my head. But yeah,
and yes, definitely like these people I imagine holding really
(26:26):
different opinions to me. I feel like there's like an
avatar of that person that's sort of they're saying, but
what about you know this? And why aren't you thinking
about this? And I'm like okay, okay, And then you know,
you go back in so, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
It's a whole there's a whole.
Speaker 15 (26:45):
Parliament of people in there telling me that I'm getting
it wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Well, I would say, I think you got to write
that. I find this book hilarious, fantastic. Congratulations. I hope at
least one of those voices in your head is happy
with the product. The bulk of ID is available now,
Lexi Freeman, We're going to take a quick break right
back after that.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
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Speaker 5 (27:21):
Now Here it is.
Speaker 16 (27:24):
Who directed you to the bathroom? How's that question? Hoffinger
to Stormy Daniels. I went out of the dining area,
through a room, through a bedroom to the master bathroom.
Did notice that someone had used the restroom because there
was a leather looking toiletry bag on the counter with
products in it, and there was old Spice.
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
Welcome to Daily John, George Flemmer got so much to
talk about tonight. Vladimir Putin somehow wins reelection. New Yorkers
are getting paid to snitch, and we find out if
Donald Trump is good at sex.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
He's not.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So let's get into headlines. Let's kick things off. Last
night's met Gala. Now the magical night when the world's
most fast sable cultural icons try to figure out how
the fuck they're gonna fit their spiky headdress into an
uber pool On fashion's biggest night.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Gordon inspired looks on full display right in Bloom with
this year's dress code the Garden of Times.
Speaker 7 (01:14):
Fans tried to figure out which star was fully covered
head to toe in a floor length beij umbrella.
Speaker 8 (01:21):
Now this is a water singer Tyla. So many people
talking about this. She had to be carried up the
stairs of the net. The dress, which was made of sand,
was simply too heavy.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay, okay, a dress made of sand is super impressive.
Who are you wearing Coney Island? Thank you very much.
I like how she had four people carry her up
the stairs. I bet Joe Biden saw that and turned
to the Secret Service, like, let's just do that from
now on. But the true glam heads weren't paying attention
(01:57):
to the met gala because the real action last night
was in Moscow. Or Vladimir Putin held an opulent inauguration
that just screamed definitely not a dictator for life.
Speaker 9 (02:07):
We continue to watch live pictures from Moscow, where Vladimir
Putin begins his fifth term as Russian president. The strong
Man has already been in office for nearly a quarter century.
Putin's new term doesn't end until twenty thirty in At
that point he'll be eligible to.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Run for another six years if he wants.
Speaker 9 (02:25):
It has been a lavish and opulent ceremony there in Moscow.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Come on, lad you can't show up to all this
in a suit a lot. They got the wizards and
the golden walls. You're walking in like you're late from
the office. Man, how do you think Merlin over here feels? Huh?
He's like I went full Hogwarts over here. Now I
feel like a dig Flad. You act like you don't
(02:51):
even want to be here, but this is your whole thing.
I mean, I'm not criticizing you. You're the one with
the poison, but still have done this over zoom. Let's
move on to America's Vladimir Putin Donald Trump. It's now
week before of the Trump trial, and boy, time flies
(03:15):
when you're constantly falling asleep in court, doesn't it. But
I can guarantee you Trump didn't nap dr in today's testimony,
which brings us to our latest installment of America's most
tremendously wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The whole thing is a scam.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Today was the biggest day yet in the trial of
Donald Trump because today Stormy Daniels herself took the stand,
and you could tell from the start that the coverage
was going to be delicate.
Speaker 10 (03:48):
Right now in the courtroom, our reporters in there are
sending us notes updates every second that they can, and
mister Trump's defense attorney, Susan Nichols is saying, quote, we're
informed to the second witness today will be Stormy Daniels.
We want to renew our objection to her testifying, particularly
about any details of any sexual acts that is mister
(04:10):
Trump's attorney the prosecutors is also saying, quote, in terms
of the sexual act, it will be very basic. I
can't believe I have to read this on television. It's
not going to involve any discription. It's not going to
involve any descriptions of anything in particular.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So read it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh, come on, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash acting like
you're too good for this, like you've never seen genitalia before.
All right, they're very prudish for people whose names sound
like poor names. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and State
of the Union. Yeah, oh, they're gonna smear Kanish all
(04:53):
over your wolf Blitzer, you know. Now. The crux of
this this case is that Trump allegedly paid Stormy Daniels
hush money to cover up their affair just before the
twenty sixteen election, And today Stormy Daniels told us exactly
what all that money was hushing, starting from the very
beginning of the night Donald Trump invited her for dinner
(05:15):
in his hotel room.
Speaker 11 (05:17):
Daniels testified that when she first entered Trump's hotel suite,
he greeted her wearing silk pajamas. She says she joked
that he stole Hugh Hefner's pajamas and asked him to change,
which he did. According to Daniels, when she asked Trump
about his wife, he admitted that he and Malania sleep
in separate beds. After speaking with Trump for a while,
(05:37):
Daniels told Trump he was rude and didn't know how
to have a conversation. Someone should spank you with that magazine,
she told him. She says, Trump then rolled up the
magazine and quote gave me a look, so she took
it from him, told him to turn around, and swatted
him on the butt.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
At poor poor Maggie has in print media suffered enough spanking,
silk pajamas, separate beds. These revelations are so uncomfortably personal
that even Drake is like, oh, sucks to be that guy.
(06:16):
But if that stuff made you uncomfortable, hold on, it
gets worse.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Daniels testified that at one point, prior to them having sex,
Trump told her she reminded him of his daughter of Vodka,
saying they were both smart, blonde, beautiful women who people underestimated.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hashtag girl dad Louck.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I know it's old news to us that Donald Trump
wants to mercanish his daughter. But remember, the court worked
hard to find an unbiased jury, which means there's at
least one person on there who was in a coma
for the last ten years. And I bet that guy
is losing his mind. There are you hearing this? Are
(06:58):
you hearing this? That's the president and his daughter and
a port star. Oh wait, all, my friend Prince hears
about this. You know what, maybe the actually damning part
of all of this is how Trump got Stormy to
have sex with him. According to Daniels, he suggested that
she could be on the Apprentice. Later, he stripped her his
(07:21):
underwear and told her a quote, this is the only
way you're getting out.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Of the trailer park. Yikes.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So from isn't just a bad lover who thinks talking
about his daughter is an acceptable form of foreplay. He's
a creep who dangles career advancement over women to get
them to have sex with him, because lord knows they're
not in it for the two minutes of thrusting. Personally,
I find it disappointing. I mean, who would have thought
(07:49):
a man found liable for sexual assault would coerce a
woman into sex? I mean, honestly, It's like you can't
even trust sex offenders these days. We're on today's testimony.
Let's go live to the courthouse with our own Troy Awata. Troy,
what what's the what's the mood down at the courthouse today?
Speaker 12 (08:15):
I would say the mood is uncomfy. Like I was
so perturbed. I made myself feel better by remembering that
time I watched Saltburn with my parents.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's how bad it was today.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But I got to tell.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
You, it's pretty brutal hearing someone's dumb horny man moves
read aloud in the cold light of a courtroom.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm I'm sorry, dumb horny man moves.
Speaker 12 (08:40):
You know the things that you say and do right
before you have sex with someone for the first time,
The sexy stuff that you do in the moment that
no one should ever rehash. You know, the faces and
phrases like your lips look like two big worms.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh okay, Well, I mean some Babel's man moves are
pretty solid. I bet you.
Speaker 12 (09:03):
Keep telling yourself that big guy, like, what's your go
to move when you get to the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, I don't know if this is the time or
the plan. One time, uh, one time, I said, oh,
alrighty then just like a Spentura. But it was it
was a good reference because we had both just seen
a Spentura. I mean she hadn't, but I had explained
the movie to her.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
And it was.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It's kind of a sexy moment for both of us.
Speaker 13 (09:37):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Try, what's your point that that testifying about people's man
moves should have no place in the legal system.
Speaker 12 (09:45):
No, No, I actually I think the opposite. I think
every trial should have it. You know, imagine if every
time you committed a crime, the prosecutors could put your
X on the stand and describe your most mediocre hookup
in grave detail, and then a stenographer and a cardigan.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Wrote it all down, and then.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Jake Tapper broadcasted on national television.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, Frankly, okay, I see you. That is a cliff point.
I mean, you put it that way, I would be
the most law abiding citizen in history, exactly.
Speaker 12 (10:20):
Yeah, right now, I'm about fifty to fifty on committing crimes,
like I can see myself counterfeiting stamps.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
But if it meant I'd have to sit through a.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
Retelling of how one night I got on all fours
and I said, tell me you're proud of me. I
wouldn't even get a parking ticket. I wouldn't even own
a car. This might be the greatest crime deterrent in history.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So you're saying we should just air all of Trump's
dirty details in an attempt to lower crime rates.
Speaker 12 (10:55):
No, Jordan, I am asking you to tell me you're
proud of me.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh right, then, Troy, what everybody? We come back, We'll
find out how to make money by snitches.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
We'll go away.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Welcome back to the Daily Show. There are a lot
of annoying problems with living in New York City. But
does he Laidak found some heroes. We're trying to solve
one of them. Take a look in New York.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
You've got to have a side hustle, whether it's being
a naked cowgirl or being an older naked cowgirl. But
I recently learned about a new hustle that's actually helping
the planet.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The way to make some easy money. Get some video
of a trucker idling in New York City.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
There are heavy fines for dirtying the air, and so
called idoh warriors get a share To learn.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
More, I met up with the idle Warriors, a group
of citizen vigilantes who are cashing in on this green gig.
They say, idle hands are the devil's workshop. What made
you decide to use your idle hands to stop idling?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Over seven million people die every year on this planet
due to air.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Pollution, and we can change this if we just turned
our engines off. The anti idling law was created nineteen
seventy one by City of New York, but it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Being enforced at all, So it's kind of like when
white people do drugs.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I thought that if citizens got an opportunity, they would
do it.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
As an environmental attorney, Samara Swanston wrote a law allowing
any Nark Yorker to report an idling vehicle and collect
twenty five percent of the city fine. That's almost eighty
eight bucks a pop. But what if I don't want
a Karen on my Amazon driver?
Speaker 14 (12:55):
The companies are the ones who pay the fine. The
drivers themselves do not pay the fine. It's the the commercial.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Vehicle, So you're actually snitching on the companies.
Speaker 14 (13:03):
What we're actually doing is holding big companies like Amazon, Khan, Ed,
and Verizon accountable for polluting our air and literally killing
people In New York.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yes, so cool.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
See in elementary school, I was always wearing as a tattletale.
But now I'm saying that that was just good training
to be an environmentalist. Okay, so we're taking down the man,
not my actual mailman. Clearly this isn't about the money, but.
Speaker 13 (13:26):
We're all friends here.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
How much how much do you make?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I know gentlemen that have made over one hundred thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
What wow. I'm not a mathematician, but if I take
the sum of my credit card debt added to the
cost of being a woman in America, multiplyed by eighty
four percent of what a man makes, and subtract the
earnings from reporting on a dozen idling vehicles.
Speaker 14 (13:45):
I'm rich.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
How many people know about this? Am I getting in
on the ground floor? Or is this like Bitcoin where
I'm going to have to cut my losses by selling
my beanie babies.
Speaker 14 (13:55):
It's only about maybe twenty to thirty of us who
are submitting the bulk of the complaints.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
I think we should just keep it between us. It's
like an orgy.
Speaker 13 (14:05):
You don't want to advertise it to everybody.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
You want a small, dedicated group and hopefully Jake Jillen.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Hall with an orgy, you would think the more than
marry I think, you know. We hope that everybody participates.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
Our ultimate goal is for an idling to end. The
best pain that we can get is clean.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Air, money, clean air, actually clean air.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
There's so much island going on that as long as
you're in the right place, you can really get.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
One after another.
Speaker 13 (14:32):
Let's snitch.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
We are a group of vigilant workers looking out for
the best pictures of our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I wrote the bill because I wanted to see a
change in the future.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
I have a Nordstrom credit card that hasn't been paid
off in seven years.
Speaker 11 (14:49):
Are they even in business anymore?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
What do I do?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I'm ready to make some money a difference, make a
difference to keep.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Your ears tuned to the sound of engines listening ears yep.
Then you use your iPhone to capture the headquarters address
and the license plate. See these blinking lights here, I'm
this truck man. Yes, that's a good signal that they're idly.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
So you're so when I see these blinking lights, there's
good here.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Just like that.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
And then how long do we do this for?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
With three minutes and ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yeah, it's a long period of time.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
But then I do this for three minutes.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
If you want to get paid, you have to do
it right.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Turns out activism is really boring, Andy hydrating. I'm just
gonna pop in for a quick mark Mark Confronting truckers
takes balls. Luckily, George and I have those balls.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I'm gonna go and tell that driver that he's breaking
the law.
Speaker 13 (15:42):
George.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yes, I just want you to know, Yes, I'm right
here with you. I am right behind you.
Speaker 13 (15:49):
I got your back.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Do you know why why? Because we're partners for life.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
Love it right behind you?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Can we shut the engine off so you compliant with
the law.
Speaker 13 (15:57):
I'm not with him?
Speaker 9 (15:59):
What a great?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
So you think you've learned enough to go out on
your own totally all right. I'm going to welcome you
to become an idle warrior, George.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
You can count on me. After a full day of
saving the Earth, it was time to celebrate with my
fellow warriors. This rounds on me here to the real
superheroes protecting this planet.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
So when do we get paid?
Speaker 14 (16:28):
It takes about two years.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Okay, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Thank you, Devid, we come back. Novelist Lexi free Bad,
We'll be joining me on the show Don't Go Away.
(16:58):
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Guest today is an author who's laid.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
This book is the Book of Iron. Please welcome Lexi Freeman.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Welcome, Welcome, Thank you, Thank you so.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Much, Lexi. Yes, I love this book. This book is
so funny and searing. Do you like Syring?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (17:31):
I love Sirius. You love Syring?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You want a seering novel. It gets into the ship.
It makes fun of a little bit of everything and
reveals something about yourself. I mean, it reveals nothing about me.
I don't see myself at any kind of literature. But
I love this book. I think this book starts it
follows somebody who gets canceled. Yes, and then one of
her first moves is she finds the writings of ein Rand.
Speaker 13 (17:56):
Yes, and you.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Describe her initial her initial thoughts about Iran as the
character says and the main characters, I had always considered
her the gateway drug for bad husbands to quit their
jobs and start online stock trading.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
What is a compelling about iinran for you and starting
a novel like this?
Speaker 15 (18:18):
I mean, to me, she was you know, basically the
worst person I could write a book about, which really
appealed to me. She's so contentious within the culture. But
I had recently watched a documentary about her when I
started thinking about this, and to be honest, I mean,
(18:39):
her ideas are provocative and difficult, but she also just
had like a crazy sex life, which I found.
Speaker 13 (18:48):
You know, she was essentially in an open relationship at.
Speaker 15 (18:50):
The end of her you know, in her sixties, she
was having an affair with like a man twenty five
years younger than her. So like Inrand was basically a polyamorous,
Like she had a polycule, which I think people sort
of like don't know about her, and it kind of
destroyed her in the end. She ended up sort of
(19:10):
like having a nervous breakdown when he was cheating on her.
It kind of undermined her whole philosophy of selfishness in
a way, and I found that incredibly interesting and funny.
Speaker 13 (19:24):
She's just funny funny.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
If there's one thing that's gonna take Iran down, who
thought it was going to be polyamorous.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It was polyamory.
Speaker 15 (19:30):
It was polyamoring that did it in the end, which
I just find delicious.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I think it's fount I think your book sort of
looks at what it means to be selfish. It sort
of examines narcissism, Like what to you is interesting about
the idea of narcissism and if you can make it
about me, well.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
Yes exactly.
Speaker 15 (19:50):
I mean, you know, I'm not the first person to
say this, but the culture is pretty narcissistic, and so
you know, wanting to write a satire about the culture,
you know, you want to write something that's going to
speak to all sides. And I kind of felt, like,
you know, narcissism is also, uh, something that speaks to
(20:11):
the nature of the artist, which this book is about
someone who's grappling with this idea of selfishness and wanting
to be the best and wanting to be interesting and
special and have, you know, contrarian opinions. But then there's
also this desire to be empathetic and to do good
in the world. And it's it's the kind of the
conflict between selfishness and altruism that is ain Rand's whole
(20:36):
philosophy that I feel is kind of distilled in the
artistic temperament and in the artist's personality that feels like
this really interesting kind of paradox to me, and narcissism
plays into that really beautifully is and is also funny.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It starts, it starts to unpack, start to unpack this
idea of cancel culture, Like, how do you see that?
Is there an upside to cancel culture?
Speaker 15 (21:00):
I mean, yes, sure, there's you know things, it moves
the needle, there's cultural change in a way that can
be good. And then there's also just you know, I
had a conversation about this with a canceled person, and
the conversation when in the sort of direction of you know,
what being canceled kind of affords you the opportunity to
(21:24):
do is to kind of kill your ego and not
give a shit anymore about like what people think, and
because the ego is all about reputation and trying to succeed,
and when that's not a possibility for you anymore, then
you get to pursue enlightenment, which I think is the
other thing we could all be doing with our lives
if we want.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So, you're saying, in order for me to get enlightened,
I have to first get canceled. Is that what I
need to do Tonight tonight maybe. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I'm
gonna hold off. I want to hold on to that
ego just a little bit longer. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:56):
I think enlightenment is good for you know, as you
get older, and you know, we are all supposed to
be sort of shedding our egos and not caring about
these things that preoccupy us.
Speaker 13 (22:06):
In our youth. So I feel like getting enlightened is.
Speaker 15 (22:09):
Something you could put off time, you know, retirement slash
enlightenment and that that seems like a thing.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, working at Walmart, Mart, go go go work at enlightenment, right,
that's the time.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yes, Now this is a sattire. I think it's I
think it's it's fascinating how you're so specific in this
book and you're able to satirize the left and the
right as you move this character through these spaces. I
guess I'm curious. I always view satire and the Daily Show.
We dabble in it here and there, but more other
(22:39):
than me, it seems like satire is a broad sword.
It's rarely uh, it's scalpel.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It seems as if you find complexity in it. How
do you find complexity and satire?
Speaker 13 (22:50):
I think you just have to be really specific.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
You have to be really generous, like the reader is smart.
You can't try to trick them with easy kind of
ideas and jokes.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I can. I mean sometimes it can be very rewarding.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
Yes, and a lot of people will fall for it.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
But if you want to kind of if you want
the reader to really come on side with you, and
especially with your most transgressive material, then you've got to
really not take them for granted, and you've really.
Speaker 13 (23:22):
I edit the crap out of my books.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
I go in there, I try to see it from
all different sides, and I really try to get as
specific as possible, you know, so that the reader feels
like I respect their intelligence and I you know, I'm
thinking of the thing they might argue back with me about,
and I get specific. You know, there's a scene in
the book, a sex scene where the character is pretending
(23:48):
to do the locker room scene from Jerry Maguire.
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Do you remember that bit? Yeah?
Speaker 15 (23:52):
So you know, I watched that scene a lot, and
I really got very specific about how you might perform
form certain sexual acts while doing the Jerry Maguire lock
a scene. So you know, you just you do it,
You just you you commit and you and you really
go all the way with it.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
If obsessing and thinking about sex scenes from movies could
make you a great author, I think I would be
a great author. I'm curious. I'm curious what you say
about the editor. That's all it is, right, I'm curious
when you talk about editing too, like are you are
you having a conversation with yourself as you're writing that
with like more extreme points of view than you don't
(24:33):
know if you fully believe and you're writing that thing out,
and then your editing process is a chance to essentially
see if it if it holds water exactly.
Speaker 13 (24:40):
That's it.
Speaker 15 (24:41):
I'm always, in a sense trying to cancel myself as
I'm writing. I'm thinking of like what would someone who
thinks the opposite of this say? And then what would
the counter argument be? And like how would I destroy
myself if I wanted to?
Speaker 13 (25:00):
That's how I write.
Speaker 15 (25:01):
I'm just constantly thinking of of these other arguments, and
in a sense, it just makes your writing better and better,
and in a weird, corny way, it makes you better
because the more you think about what the other side
might think and try to make your argument better, you know,
the smarter and the more kind of compassionate you become.
(25:21):
And I think that's why I get away with saying
some of the things I say in the book, because
because it's done with, you know, I'm not I think
I'm respecting these characters and their complexity and their wholeness
and understanding why they think what they think, and and
looking for the funny, funny parts really and the absurd parts, which,
(25:45):
you know.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Who do you imagine your audiences when you're writing?
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Oh God, I.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
Mean I think it's just like this mean voice in
my own quiet. Yeah, it's literally just me being as
mean as I can to myself.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
I don't know, there's probably a few.
Speaker 15 (26:05):
I think there's a couple of critics I think about
a little bit. Ones I respect and ones I don't.
They're in my head, some of my friends who are
writers that are kind of in my head. But yeah,
and yes, definitely like these people I imagine holding really
(26:26):
different opinions to me. I feel like there's like an
avatar of that person that's sort of they're saying, but
what about you know this? And why aren't you thinking
about this? And I'm like okay, okay, And then you know,
you go back in so, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
It's a whole there's a whole.
Speaker 15 (26:45):
Parliament of people in there telling me that I'm getting
it wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Well, I would say, I think you got to write
that. I find this book hilarious, fantastic. Congratulations. I hope at
least one of those voices in your head is happy
with the product. The bulk of ID is available now,
Lexi Freeman, We're going to take a quick break right
back after that.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That's our show for tonight.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Now Here it is.
Speaker 16 (27:24):
Who directed you to the bathroom? How's that question? Hoffinger
to Stormy Daniels. I went out of the dining area,
through a room, through a bedroom to the master bathroom.
Did notice that someone had used the restroom because there
was a leather looking toiletry bag on the counter with
products in it, and there was old Spice.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
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