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Speaker 4:
[02:24] You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Kosta.

Speaker 5:
[02:53] Hey, baby, welcome to The Daily Show.

Speaker 6:
[02:55] I'm Michael Kosta.

Speaker 5:
[02:56] We have got so much to talk about tonight. Kash Patel drunk dials his lawyer, Jordan Klepper talks to young Republicans, and the Labor Secretary resigns to spend more time with her very weird family. So let's get into it with another edition of The Worst Wing.

Speaker 7:
[03:17] What a bunch of losers.

Speaker 5:
[03:21] Let's begin with Kash Patel, FBI director and man who starts every day by looking in the mirror and saying, Freeze! Freeze!

Speaker 8:
[03:29] FBI! Freeze!

Speaker 5:
[03:32] In his tenor as FBI director, he's almost solved dozens of cases, but this time, the case is about him.

Speaker 9:
[03:41] FBI director Kash Patel is now suing for defamation over a bombshell new article. Sources told the magazine The Atlantic that Patel, quote, has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. He wants a quarter of a billion dollars in damages.

Speaker 5:
[03:59] A quarter of a billion dollars? Our Kash Patel? Excessive drinking? I can't imagine such a thing. I mean, yeah, he does always have the look of a drunk guy trying to convince you he's sober. But I've never seen him actually drink, although now that I think about it, there was that one time. Yes, I remember my first 10,000th beer. I guess in retrospect, if a room full of 21-year-old concussed hockey players thinks you're a good hank, you probably shouldn't be in charge of the FBI. You probably shouldn't even be in charge of the rental skates at the rink. By the way, fun fact, Kash was already in there drinking. He didn't even know the Olympics were happening. That's why he was so happy when the hockey team showed up. But so what? The guy parties when Team USA wins a gold medal. That's not worth a quarter of a billion dollars. How bad are these accusations?

Speaker 10:
[05:17] On multiple occasions in the past year, members of Patel's security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated. At one point, the article claims even prompting a request for SWAT-style breaching equipment because the director had been unreachable behind locked doors.

Speaker 5:
[05:35] Okay. I mean, that sounds pretty bad. Look, I've been hung over, but I've never been so hung over they had to wake me up the same way they killed Bin Laden.

Speaker 8:
[05:48] What else you got? During Patel's tenure as FBI director, the FBI has had to reschedule early meetings as a quote, the result of his alcohol-fueled nights, adding that director Patel is often away or unreachable. The story also goes on to report Patel is a frequent guest of the Poodle Room at the Fountain Blue Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Speaker 5:
[06:10] Okay. It is a little weird that a man whose job is in Washington, DC also frequently goes to something called the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, but I'm sure the Poodle Room is a distinguished, respectable, hypoallergenic social club where important men network and exchange ideas. So it's a coke den. Ladies, ladies, if you want to get an STD on a circular waterbed, might I recommend meeting a gentleman at the poodle room? Imagine you're this guy at the poodle room just having a good time with your shirt unbuttoned all the way, and all of a sudden you're like, is that the FBI director throwing up on himself? And there's more in this article than just stories about Kash drinking. There's also stories about him being stupid and a little high strung.

Speaker 11:
[07:19] Back on April 10th, Patel had trouble logging on to an internal computer system.

Speaker 12:
[07:25] It was just a technical glitch, but Patel quickly became convinced he had been locked out and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce he had been fired by the White House.

Speaker 5:
[07:36] Whoa! Calm down, Kash. How paranoid are you if the moment you have trouble logging into your computer you think you got fired? Oh, no, they fired me. Get me on a plane to China. I'm going to tell them all my secrets. I hate this country and everybody in it. Oh, wait, I just had the caps lock on.

Speaker 13:
[07:56] Everything's cool.

Speaker 5:
[07:59] God, I need a drink. But it is concerning that the guy who's supposed to be the country's top investigator can't crack the case of logging into his own computer. No wonder he's pissed off. What else does he have to say about this article?

Speaker 1:
[08:17] We are not going to take this laying down.

Speaker 12:
[08:18] You want to attack my character?

Speaker 7:
[08:20] Come at me. Bring it on.

Speaker 5:
[08:22] Yeah, that's right. He's not going to take this laying down, because then they'd have to get the SWAT team in to wake him up. Now as a part of his lawsuit, Kash argues that under his leadership, the FBI has achieved historic law enforcement results, which even if that were true, doesn't prove anything. People can accomplish incredible things when they're drunk. If Tiger Woods can successfully park in a ditch, then Kash Patel can be like, hey, go arrest some bad guys. Hell, I'm a little drunk right now, and I think we all agree, I'm f***ing nailing it. You see? Moving on, I'm really glad, really glad you responded that way. It would have been awkward otherwise. And moving on, let's say hello to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. She's one of the more obscure cabinet secretaries, but it's never too late to get to know her.

Speaker 14:
[09:23] Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned.

Speaker 5:
[09:25] Damn it! Not you too, Lori! It's always the ones you never heard of. That's right, Secretary Lori has resigned over a scandal. And if you're wondering which scandal, the answer is yes.

Speaker 15:
[09:40] Her departure comes amid multiple scandals and investigations, including drinking on the job, allegedly taking staff to a strip club, and using department resources for personal trips. Chavez-DeRemer is also accused of having an affair with a member of her security team.

Speaker 2:
[09:55] What the hell?

Speaker 5:
[09:58] Was she going through her workplace anti-harassment training like challenge accepted? Taking your staff to strip clubs, really? I can't think of a more inappropriate place for a government official to be spending their time. Well, maybe a strip club isn't so bad after all, but before you jackals in the media go tearing Lori down just because she knows how to party, don't forget, this woman has a family. Have a little respect for what her husband is going through.

Speaker 15:
[10:37] Her husband, also in hot water, he was banned from the department's headquarters earlier this year after two women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Speaker 5:
[10:47] What? My boy was banned from his wife's office for sexual harassment? I've heard of men cheating while their wives were at work. I've never heard of a man cheating at his wife's work. This guy's unreal. And to do it all with resting, I'm going to sniff your neck face, that's so impressive. Well, this cannot get worse for Lori. I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than your staff being sexually harassed at work by your husband.

Speaker 6:
[11:20] The New York Times reports that the secretary's husband, quote, exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father.

Speaker 5:
[11:28] Holy shit!

Speaker 8:
[11:32] Her dad?

Speaker 5:
[11:34] They're saying her dad is trying to tag-team his daughter's staff with his son-in-law? Well, no wonder she's drinking at work. This must be a misunderstanding.

Speaker 6:
[11:53] In an April 2025 exchange, Richard Chavez wrote to a young female staff member, quote, hearing you are in town, wishing you would let me know, I could have made some excuses to get out and show you around. Please keep this private.

Speaker 5:
[12:11] Don't worry, buddy, no one's ever gonna see this. Lori's probably like, God damn it, dad, now you know how to use your phone? This is creepy and disgusting and also such a classic parent text. Even when they're being perverts, they're like, well, it would have been nice for you to give me a heads up you're coming to town. But this is crazy. There's no way Lori knew about her husband and her dad, right?

Speaker 14:
[12:38] Right? Some of the young women were instructed by the labor secretary herself to, quote, pay attention to her husband and father. Wow.

Speaker 5:
[12:52] The labor secretary heard Kash Patel had a scandal and she's like, hold my beer and my wine and my stack of dollar bills and my dad's penis. Now, look, I'm as surprised as you are that an upstanding businessman like Donald Trump only seems to hire corrupt perverts and messy drunks. But until more Americans come to realize that Donald Trump is the human equivalent of the poodle room, we're gonna be stuck with this type of representation. And until then, the Department of Labor is gonna need to make some big updates to their HR training video, which luckily, we have an advanced copy of.

Speaker 16:
[13:37] If you've reached this part of the video, then you've completed HR training. Congratulations, new Cabinet Secretary. And now, it's time, thanks to recent stupid f***ing events, to bring in your husband. Let's start with rule number one. No one wants to f*** you. No one's going to the cabinet job thinking, oh, you know what? I hope I see my boss's husband's gross dick today. If you can't help yourself, there are over 20,000 bathrooms in federal buildings. Go jack off in the mint, you f***ing psycho. Okay? Now send in a father. Okay, fathers, rule number one. No one wants to f*** you. How much porn do you have to watch to think, oh yeah, I have a real shot at my daughter's coworkers. Maybe one of them will get stuck in the copy machine and need me to bang them out of it. Let's do some role play. I'm you at your daughter's office. Hi, nice to meet you. Wrong. You should not have even been there in the first place. Why are you at your daughter's office? Last time I checked, there's no take your horny father to work day. If you have to s*** off, do it at the mint with your son-in-law. Now please, send in your pets. Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, but no one wants to f*** you.

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Speaker 5:
[16:34] Welcome back to The Daily Show. Last week, President Trump hit the Turning Point USA Conference to sell young voters on his wars with Iran and the Pope. So we sent Jordan Klepper to find out how it went.

Speaker 17:
[16:52] In the midst of an unpopular war with Iran and a heated Pope fight, President Trump dropped into a turning point rally in Phoenix, and he brought his creepy uncle energy. So I traveled to the Grand Canyon State to see if the crowd outside was still on board the Trump train. What stuff has he done that you're proud of?

Speaker 18:
[17:09] Everything. Like, America is free. Right now, this is the best the country's ever been.

Speaker 17:
[17:14] Talk to me about the accomplishments.

Speaker 7:
[17:16] Venezuela, big. Border, big. He originally brought gas prices down, and he's going to do that again.

Speaker 17:
[17:22] He gets to do it twice. Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 7:
[17:24] Yeah.

Speaker 17:
[17:24] Some goals have been achieved.

Speaker 19:
[17:26] Yeah, some have.

Speaker 17:
[17:27] Ballroom, face on money.

Speaker 19:
[17:29] Well, the ballroom is something different, and Obama put in a basketball court, so who complained about that? Nobody.

Speaker 17:
[17:36] Which wing did Obama knock down to put up that basketball court?

Speaker 19:
[17:39] I don't know.

Speaker 17:
[17:40] Probably the East Wing. Probably the East Wing.

Speaker 18:
[17:41] He goes in, gets done what he says he's going to do, and he does what he says.

Speaker 17:
[17:46] Promises made, promises kept.

Speaker 18:
[17:47] Absolutely.

Speaker 17:
[17:48] No new wars.

Speaker 18:
[17:49] Yes. Nobody wants to go to war.

Speaker 17:
[17:51] Nobody does, of course. What do you think about the war with Iran?

Speaker 18:
[17:55] I don't want to pay attention to it, so.

Speaker 17:
[17:57] Yeah, so still, no new wars. This particular rally was located at a megachurch in the heart of God's country, and Trump's holiness was on everyone's mind.

Speaker 20:
[18:06] When Trump made his acceptance speech in 2015, I swear I saw the hand of God reach out and touch Trump.

Speaker 17:
[18:12] Was Trump touched sort of like this? Recently, Trump caused a stir when he posted this AI picture.

Speaker 11:
[18:17] The image appearing to depict the president as Jesus, drawing backlash from many of his own supporters, some calling it blasphemy.

Speaker 21:
[18:24] I can see a lot of people being offended by Trump. Trump's not perfect?

Speaker 17:
[18:28] He's not perfect. He's just literally breaking the very first commandment.

Speaker 8:
[18:33] I don't think Trump thinks he's Jesus or anything like that.

Speaker 22:
[18:37] I think he posted it thinking it was a beautiful picture.

Speaker 17:
[18:40] Turns out Trump also denied the Jesus comparison.

Speaker 7:
[18:43] It was me. I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor.

Speaker 17:
[18:47] He posted it because he thought he looked like a doctor.

Speaker 6:
[18:49] I see a healer.

Speaker 2:
[18:50] He's here to heal the sick.

Speaker 16:
[18:52] He's beautiful. He looks like a doctor.

Speaker 2:
[18:54] Look it.

Speaker 16:
[18:56] He's got his magic hand.

Speaker 17:
[18:58] Do doctors traditionally have magic hands?

Speaker 20:
[19:00] Well, to you and I, they do. Do you know how to carve somebody up in the stomach and cure whatever, if they have like an intestinal ailment? Can you do that?

Speaker 17:
[19:07] I'm poor with a scalpel. You're correct. Fair enough. Point maga. But Trump's brush with organized religion didn't end there.

Speaker 6:
[19:14] POTUS vs.

Speaker 17:
[19:15] The Pope.

Speaker 7:
[19:16] I'm not a big fan of public.

Speaker 8:
[19:18] Blasting Leo for opposing America's war on Iran.

Speaker 19:
[19:21] Pope needs to stay, just stay religion. Keep politics out.

Speaker 17:
[19:23] Pope should stay out of politics.

Speaker 19:
[19:25] I believe so, yeah.

Speaker 17:
[19:26] Should politics stay out of religion?

Speaker 19:
[19:28] Yeah.

Speaker 17:
[19:29] Should there be the Ten Commandments in schools?

Speaker 19:
[19:31] Yes. There should be Pledge of Allegiance in school. There should be... Prayer? There should be prayer.

Speaker 17:
[19:38] But going back to the whole thing about Pope, stay away from politics. Politics, stay away from religion. Yes. Ten Commandments, put it in school. Yes. You see what I'm seeing?

Speaker 19:
[19:46] Yes, I know what you're saying.

Speaker 17:
[19:47] Okay, just... It makes me feel...

Speaker 19:
[19:50] I know what you're saying.

Speaker 17:
[19:50] It makes me feel crazy. So while they might not be devoted to the Establishment Clause, it was clear they remained faithful to Trump's America First policies. How do you feel about this war with Iran?

Speaker 19:
[20:01] I think if it needs to be done, it needs to be done, and Trump will get it done.

Speaker 9:
[20:04] You think it needs to be done?

Speaker 18:
[20:06] If Trump does, I do.

Speaker 17:
[20:08] How do you feel about the war with Iran?

Speaker 19:
[20:09] I'd say bomb the shit out of them and get it over with.

Speaker 17:
[20:14] Wasn't the whole thing, though, no new wars?

Speaker 19:
[20:18] It's a conflict. It's not a war.

Speaker 17:
[20:20] Not a war.

Speaker 14:
[20:20] It's a conflict.

Speaker 17:
[20:22] Now, who says conflict? I know Trump calls it a war.

Speaker 19:
[20:25] Well, they say it's a conflict because a war would be, you'd have to declare war.

Speaker 7:
[20:31] Right.

Speaker 19:
[20:32] He would not declare war.

Speaker 17:
[20:33] Right, right.

Speaker 7:
[20:34] Yes.

Speaker 19:
[20:34] It's a conflict.

Speaker 17:
[20:34] If you go illegally around it, you can have a war and call it a conflict.

Speaker 19:
[20:37] Right. Exactly.

Speaker 15:
[20:38] I don't count this as a war.

Speaker 20:
[20:40] Even if you do count it, it's a necessary war.

Speaker 22:
[20:42] This is taking out the trash.

Speaker 17:
[20:45] Have we won the war? Are we winning the war?

Speaker 1:
[20:48] Yes. Yes.

Speaker 17:
[20:49] Which one?

Speaker 21:
[20:50] The Iran war.

Speaker 17:
[20:51] You're confident about this war?

Speaker 13:
[20:53] I'm confident, yes.

Speaker 17:
[20:54] Once we win this war with Iran, where is Israel going to have us invade next?

Speaker 21:
[20:59] That I can't answer.

Speaker 13:
[21:00] I don't know that.

Speaker 17:
[21:01] But what Magha does know is that this war is actually very close to home. In fact, Iran might be up to no good even in suburban Phoenix.

Speaker 13:
[21:10] Those people standing right there, they're all getting paid from the Iranian regime.

Speaker 17:
[21:17] The protesters playing musical instruments out here are getting paid by Iran?

Speaker 13:
[21:20] They're getting paid by sources from Iranian regime. Look at them. You have to go look at them. They do not have teeth, they don't have a right dress, on a welfare, because they don't work.

Speaker 17:
[21:34] How does a toothless person get money from Iran?

Speaker 13:
[21:37] They have connection.

Speaker 17:
[21:39] Do they have a Venmo situation? Yes. These toothless Iranian sleeper cells were out in full force with their comfortable hokas and tasteful sun hats. But then, big news hit on the day of the rally.

Speaker 7:
[21:50] The Strait of Hormuz is fully open and ready for business.

Speaker 21:
[21:55] Strait is open as of this morning.

Speaker 17:
[21:57] Who do we have to thank for that?

Speaker 14:
[21:58] We have to thank President Trump for that.

Speaker 17:
[22:00] Joe Biden wasn't trying to open the Strait.

Speaker 14:
[22:01] Exactly. He had the balls to do this.

Speaker 17:
[22:04] To open the Strait?

Speaker 14:
[22:04] Yeah. I mean, to do all this, what other president would have done this? Nobody else before him has done it.

Speaker 17:
[22:09] Biden wouldn't open the Strait?

Speaker 13:
[22:10] No.

Speaker 17:
[22:10] Well, Bobba wouldn't open the Strait?

Speaker 13:
[22:11] He wouldn't do it.

Speaker 17:
[22:12] Clinton wouldn't open the Strait?

Speaker 13:
[22:13] Exactly.

Speaker 17:
[22:13] All because the Strait was already open until Donald Trump became president.

Speaker 13:
[22:17] So now...

Speaker 17:
[22:18] Is that the genius that you can't open the Strait unless you close the Strait, create global pandemonium, raise gas prices and then open the Strait and still, no one's talking about the Epstein files.

Speaker 13:
[22:29] Well, that is true.

Speaker 17:
[22:30] Sadly, the Strait was closed again just a few hours later. But hopefully we're near the end of this terrible war. I mean, conflict.

Speaker 5:
[22:41] Thank you, Jordan. When we come back, Noah Wyle will be joining me on the show. Don't go away.

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Speaker 10:
[23:53] K-pop demon hunters, Saja Boys Breakfast Meal and Huntrix Meal have just dropped at McDonald's. They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi?

Speaker 22:
[24:02] It's not a battle.

Speaker 23:
[24:03] So glad the Saja Boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.

Speaker 1:
[24:07] It is an honor to share.

Speaker 2:
[24:09] No, it's our honor.

Speaker 23:
[24:11] It is our larger honor.

Speaker 15:
[24:13] No, really, stop.

Speaker 14:
[24:15] You can really feel the respect in this battle.

Speaker 10:
[24:18] Pick a meal to pick a side.

Speaker 22:
[24:21] I participate in McDonald's while supplies last.

Speaker 5:
[24:29] Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is an award-winning actor, writer and director who stars in the HBO Max series, The Pitt. Please welcome Noah Wyle. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Thank you, man. Thank you for coming. Thank you for making The Pitt. It is... wow. I just... I feel everything. I feel everything when I watch this show, and more than other shows. You know, there's a pit in my stomach, and I can't think that's why you named it this. But that was the intention, yeah?

Speaker 24:
[25:19] It was intended to hit you specifically in their hearts. That's true. And you, and you, and you, and hit everybody in their collective heart, to show that we're not as different as we pretend to be sometimes, and that we all end up in certain arenas, like hospital emergency rooms, where it really doesn't matter those lines of division that we all play under outside that arena. Right then and there, you just want someone to take care of you.

Speaker 5:
[25:43] And it is so true, when you're sick, or injured, or hurt, that's all you can think about. And that is very... it's a great point. One of the things I've noticed, there's no music.

Speaker 24:
[25:54] No, we early on wanted this to feel as immersive as possible. So, a couple of things, take the music out, take all those cinematic, artificial sort of techniques out. We tried to not do any trick photography, everything is shot from almost a human eye level. Really to make you feel like you're a participant, that you're at the same vantage point as the characters, you don't have the objectivity of looking down on it from outside the pit. You're in it with us.

Speaker 5:
[26:21] I mean, I'm sometimes watching TV, then I go to the kitchen, and then I hear strings or drums, and I go, oh, I better watch this scene. But when I watch The Pitt, don't go to the kitchen.

Speaker 24:
[26:33] No, no.

Speaker 5:
[26:35] Because you gotta watch, and even the phone, I'm like, this is Pitt time, put the phone over there.

Speaker 24:
[26:39] And because it plays in real time over 15 hours, there's all sorts of little details embedded into the narrative to make it more rewarding viewing, the more closely you pay attention. You can follow a whole storyline that's taking place just in the background of you.

Speaker 5:
[26:54] I feel like so many shows are dumbing it down for us, and I feel one of the things I want to thank you and all the producers and writers for is you're actually honoring our viewers' intellectual capability.

Speaker 24:
[27:05] I think something changed after COVID. People started watching content differently, more intensely, and it started to have more relevance and meaning in their lives. And so, you know, that old adage of dumb it down doesn't apply anymore. People are extremely sophisticated in their viewing habits and in their tastes. And they really are. And that water cooler conversation is back. People are banding storyline ideas and plot twists around. It's cool.

Speaker 5:
[27:28] Anyone that watched my Act One knows that we don't dumb it down.

Speaker 24:
[27:32] No. This is a particularly good episode, by the way.

Speaker 5:
[27:36] This thought did cross my mind. Forgive me if this is insulting. But is The Pitt good or is it just that I'm so happy to see people that are good at their jobs? You realize, all day, all day, I'm watching clips of our FBI Director, Pound Beers. So it's just, there is a beauty in watching competent professionals.

Speaker 24:
[28:01] I think that's true. I think it's both kind of a wish-fulfillment, exposure therapy. When you get there, you want to make sure that those guys are going to be good. But I think there's also an aspect of watching people do work that has real meaning and makes a difference in the world. I think that's something we all kind of want in our lives, is to know that the labor that we're doing is not irreplaceable, that it does have some meaning, and The Pitt sort of identifies that.

Speaker 5:
[28:27] How do you balance the really awful, sad realities of what happens in an ER with the inspiring and hopeful things that happen in ER, but also happen on TV? I mean, I've seen some things in The Pitt have had me take a second before clicking on the next episode. That's not good for TV business. But also, in ER, sad and bad shit happens sometimes.

Speaker 24:
[28:50] Yeah. Yeah. As do really amazingly heroic and comical things, too. You find the whole human experience in there. And we try to take scenes positive, negative, so it's not just a drumbeat of misery. We try to show those quirkier aspects, and mostly those resilient aspects of the human character that refuse to take in and on everything that they're seeing and choose to sort of retain a sense of humor and a sense of humanity in the face of it.

Speaker 5:
[29:17] How did you approach playing Dr. Robbie this year? Because it's so clear that mental health was a major theme in this season, and really, who is helping the people who help people? Was there... And as it kind of went on, you, Dr. Robbie, you know who I'm talking about, right? Your character.

Speaker 24:
[29:35] He's the guy with the beard, right?

Speaker 5:
[29:36] The guy with the beard, yeah.

Speaker 24:
[29:37] He's really good.

Speaker 5:
[29:38] He's really good. But he was being shittier to people as time went on.

Speaker 24:
[29:43] True, true story. You know, we don't always act in our most graceful when we're at our most desperate. And we wanted to show what it looks like to go through a mental health crisis honestly. And there are a lot of telltale signs, and they're not all things that would immediately trigger your empathy. Sometimes they may trigger your curiosity, and they may even trigger your distaste. But those are calls for help that just take a different form. And so, yeah, Robbie was going through a tough time even before we met him in Season 1. And it's sort of been a revealing process to himself that he is in trouble and that he needs to find some help.

Speaker 5:
[30:21] I also love the balance of the character Joy, who leaves the ER. And they say, well, what about your patients? And she goes, I'm gone. And in some ways, healthy people that don't just create but enforce boundaries.

Speaker 24:
[30:37] That was a very small detail that was given to that character. And that little bit of self-care has resonated so loudly with people as they realized, no, it's OK to put a boundary up. It's OK to not have to give your all all the time to everybody, but take a little back for yourself. I think that's healthy.

Speaker 5:
[30:54] I love riding motorcycles. I own a Triumph Bonneville.

Speaker 24:
[30:56] No, you don't.

Speaker 5:
[30:57] Your character has a Bonneville. And so during this whole season, you keep saying, oh, I got to go on the motorcycle trip. I'm sitting there going, go on your trip, man. The bike is red. The bike wants you to ride it. Anyways.

Speaker 24:
[31:11] Fun bike.

Speaker 5:
[31:12] Fun bike. You ride motorcycles?

Speaker 24:
[31:14] I had to learn for a TV show I did up in Canada called Falling Skies, where we were all riding dirt bikes around in the apocalypse. My mother was an orthopedic nurse, so she raised us, calling them donor cycles, and forbade all of us ever to get on one. So every time I ride, I hear my mother's voice in my head, saying, you know, I'm going to do a total hip on you.

Speaker 5:
[31:33] Were you riding the bike in that first show? Yeah. That was you? That was me.

Speaker 24:
[31:38] I had to take an actual training course to do that. That four seconds of film was eight weeks of weekend courses in a parking lot with a lot of cones, but it was super fun to learn, and that bike is really fun.

Speaker 5:
[31:50] It's a fun bike.

Speaker 24:
[31:52] Wear a helmet, everybody.

Speaker 5:
[31:53] Wear a helmet. I think one of the things that I'm responding to so much in The Pitt also is just so refreshing to see a big TV production. Fifteen episodes?

Speaker 24:
[32:05] Fifteen episodes.

Speaker 5:
[32:06] Elaborate cast, set. I mean, you know, I'm just so thankful that it's being made.

Speaker 24:
[32:13] And coming back on an annual. I have to wait two or three years between seasons.

Speaker 5:
[32:18] You're working already on season three.

Speaker 24:
[32:19] We're back to work in the writing room on season three. We start shooting it in June.

Speaker 5:
[32:29] You've been on two huge medical dramas, ER, back in the 90s. Yes, sir. The Pitt, now. How do you see audiences absorbing the shows differently? If you see them absorbing it differently or reacting to it differently all these years later?

Speaker 24:
[32:49] More of a fractured, sort of a siloed audience as opposed to the old network days when everybody was watching the same three channels. More people were watching those channels then, but people watch more intensely now. I think that the fan base is, it's, you know, the Internet is tied, what used to be a very small silo to the small silo in Italy and in Germany and the Philippines that also exists. So now you can scale your club globally, which is very exciting. But I'm just amazed that the show can still break through and still command popular attention because there's so many choices, there's so many channels, that to be on something that really doesn't rely on a lot of special effects, it's a very human story. To have that connect right now feels extremely gratifying.

Speaker 5:
[33:31] In ER, you play Dr. John Carter.

Speaker 24:
[33:34] Yes, sir.

Speaker 5:
[33:34] And here's a picture of Dr. John Carter.

Speaker 24:
[33:37] Oh, no.

Speaker 5:
[33:37] And, you know. What's... What advice...

Speaker 24:
[33:52] A couple of Fiddler fans out there.

Speaker 5:
[33:54] What would you say to that man now? What advice would you have?

Speaker 24:
[34:02] Talk less. Listen more. Worry less. It's going to be okay. So much wasted energy. Worrying and obsessing about things that don't really matter. I've had a really incredible year, but I had some less than incredible years to give me a really healthy perspective on this year. And so I'm just... I look back at versions of myself that I just want to go, it's okay. Like, where you are right now is good. You don't have to try so hard.

Speaker 5:
[34:31] Were you trying to advance your career? Was that what you mean?

Speaker 24:
[34:38] Well, you're always thinking in terms of trajectory, and sometimes you don't really realize where you are is as good as it gets or is as good as it's going to be for the next 30 years of your life. So you want to take time out and smell the roses. You also want to appreciate something that's working when it's working and not necessarily want to use it as a stepping stone to get to someplace else. You know, I used an analogy with this ensemble when we first started. I said, don't think of this as a springboard, think of this as a surfboard. And if we stay on the board, this wave is going to carry us as far as it possibly can. But if we jump off thinking that we can get higher or find better, we'll probably fall.

Speaker 5:
[35:16] You shared that with the cast on The Pitt. Yeah. That's amazing. Does anybody listen to you? Because I mean, that's always the problem is you get hit with great advice and you don't always listen to it.

Speaker 24:
[35:27] How do you have perspective unless you have the life experience? So it's that old adage that youth is wasted on the young. You have to go through the road in order to appreciate the journey. And everybody is, on this cast, extremely emotionally mature for their age and experience. And they don't need a lot of advice from me. They're doing fine. But I love that. I hope that they realize how special it is. I think they do.

Speaker 5:
[35:49] I think I'm going to just think about that in my life as springboard versus surfboard. Let's go surf.

Speaker 24:
[35:55] This is a pretty good gig you guys are doing, man.

Speaker 5:
[35:59] Let's go surfing. Let's go surfing. You guys, all of us took to the pit, season two.

Speaker 4:
[36:04] We're streaming now on HBO Max.

Speaker 5:
[36:05] Noah Wyle.

Speaker 4:
[36:07] We'll be right back after this. Thank you, my man.

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Speaker 21:
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Speaker 10:
[36:54] Anywhere.

Speaker 21:
[36:55] What about fancy places like the Canopy in Paris?

Speaker 10:
[36:58] Yeah, Hilton Honors, baby.

Speaker 21:
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Speaker 10:
[37:03] Hilton Honors, baby.

Speaker 21:
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Speaker 5:
[37:21] That's our show for tonight. Now here it is, the moment of death.

Speaker 17:
[37:24] Professor, what's a sock puppet?

Speaker 11:
[37:28] I heard the reference from Senator Warren.

Speaker 20:
[37:30] Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 18:
[37:31] I'm not sure I know.

Speaker 2:
[37:32] I think it's that thing you stick your hand in.

Speaker 8:
[37:34] Yeah, kind of like this.

Speaker 2:
[37:36] Yes.

Speaker 20:
[37:36] Are you going to be the president's human sock puppet?

Speaker 2:
[37:40] Senator, absolutely not.

Speaker 4:
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