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00:03From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
00:10This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Kosta.
00:25Yeah, baby, welcome to The Daily Show.
00:28I'm Michael Kosta.
00:29We have got so much to talk about tonight.
00:31Kash Patel drunk-dials his lawyer.
00:34Jordan Klepper talks to young Republicans.
00:36And the Labor Secretary resigns to spend more time with her very weird family.
00:40So let's get into it with another edition of The Worst Wing.
00:50What a bunch of losers.
00:54Let's begin with Kash Patel, FBI director
00:58and man who starts every day by looking in the mirror and saying, freeze, freeze, FBI, freeze.
01:05In his tenor as FBI director, he's almost solved dozens of cases.
01:10But this time, the case is about him.
01:13FBI director Kash Patel is now suing for defamation over a bombshell new article.
01:19Sources told the magazine The Atlantic that Patel, quote, has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
01:26He wants a quarter of a billion dollars in damages.
01:32A quarter of a billion dollars?
01:35An hour?
01:36Kash Patel?
01:38Excessive drinking?
01:40I can't imagine such a thing.
01:43I mean, yeah, he does always have the look of a drunk guy trying to convince you he's sober.
01:52But I've never seen him actually drink.
01:54Although, hmm, now that I think about it, there was that one time.
02:11Ah, yes, I remember my first 10,000th beer.
02:17I guess in retrospect, if a room full of 21-year-old concussed hockey players thinks you're a good hang,
02:23you probably shouldn't be in charge of the FBI.
02:26You probably shouldn't even be in charge of the rental skates at the rink.
02:30By the way, fun fact, Kash was already in there drinking.
02:34He didn't even know the Olympics were happening.
02:36That's why he was so happy when the hockey team showed up.
02:40But so what?
02:42The guy parties when Team USA wins a gold medal.
02:44That's not worth a quarter of a billion dollars.
02:47How bad are these accusations?
02:50On multiple occasions in the past year, members of Patel's security detail had difficulty waking him
02:56because he was seemingly intoxicated.
02:58At one point, the article claims even prompting a request for SWAT-style breaching equipment
03:04because the director had been unreachable behind locked doors.
03:08Okay, I mean, that sounds pretty bad.
03:12Look, I've been hungover, but I've never been so hungover they had to wake me up the same way they
03:17killed bin Laden.
03:22What else you got?
03:23During Patel's tenure as FBI director, the FBI has had to reschedule early meetings as a, quote,
03:29result of his alcohol-fueled nights, adding that Director Patel is often away or unreachable.
03:35The story also goes on to report Patel is a frequent guest of the Poodle Room at the Fountain Blue
03:41Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
03:45It is a little weird that a man whose job is in Washington, D.C. also frequently goes to something
03:50called the Poodle Room in Las Vegas.
03:54But I'm sure the Poodle Room is a distinguished, respectable, hypoallergenic social club
04:00where important men network and exchange ideas.
04:16Oh.
04:18So it's a coke den.
04:21Ladies.
04:24Ladies.
04:25If you want to get an STD on a circular waterbed,
04:28might I recommend meeting a gentleman at the Poodle Room?
04:32Imagine you're this guy at the Poodle Room just having a good time with your shirt unbuttoned all the way
04:38and all of a sudden you're like, is that the FBI director throwing up on himself?
04:46And there's more in this article than just stories about cash drinking.
04:49There's also stories about him being stupid and a little high strung.
04:52Back on April 10th, Patel had trouble logging on to an internal computer system.
04:58It was just a technical glitch, but Patel quickly became convinced he had been locked out and he panicked,
05:05frantically calling aides and allies to announce he had been fired by the White House.
05:09Whoa.
05:10Whoa.
05:12Calm down, Cash.
05:14How paranoid are you if the moment you have trouble logging into your computer, you think you got fired?
05:19Oh, no.
05:20They fired me.
05:20Get me on a plane to China.
05:21I'm going to tell them all my secrets.
05:22I hate this country and everybody in it.
05:24Oh, wait, I just had the caps lock on.
05:29Everything's cool.
05:32God, I need a drink.
05:37But it is concerning that the guy who's supposed to be the country's top investigator
05:41can't crack the case of logging into his own computer.
05:46No wonder he's pissed off.
05:48What else does he have to say about this article?
05:50We are not going to take this laying down.
05:52You want to attack my character?
05:53Come at me.
05:54Bring it on.
05:55Yeah, that's right.
05:57He's not going to take this laying down.
05:59Because then they'd have to get the SWAT team in to wake him up.
06:05Now, as a part of his lawsuit, Cash argues that under his leadership, the FBI has achieved
06:10historic law enforcement results, which, even if that were true, doesn't prove anything.
06:16People can accomplish incredible things when they're drunk.
06:20If Tiger Woods can successfully park in a ditch, then Cash Patel can be like,
06:24Hey, go arrest some bad guys.
06:26Hell, I'm a little drunk right now, and I think we all agree I'm f***ing nailing it.
06:31You see?
06:40Moving on.
06:41I'm really glad, really glad you responded that way.
06:44It would have been awkward otherwise.
06:46And moving on, let's say hello to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez de Riemer.
06:51She's one of the more obscure cabinet secretaries, but it's never too late to get to know her.
06:56Lori Chavez de Riemer has resigned.
06:59Damn it!
07:01Not you, too, Lori.
07:03It's always the ones you never heard of.
07:06But that's right.
07:07Secretary Lori has resigned over a scandal.
07:10And if you're wondering which scandal, the answer is yes.
07:12Her departure comes amid multiple scandals and investigations, including drinking on the job,
07:18allegedly taking staff to a strip club, and using department resources for personal trips.
07:24Chavez de Riemer is also accused of having an affair with a member of her security team.
07:29What the hell?
07:31Was she going through her workplace anti-harassment training like challenge accepted?
07:45But taking your staff to strip clubs, really?
07:48I can't think of a more inappropriate place for a government official to be spending their time.
07:56Well, maybe a strip club isn't so bad after all.
07:59But before you jackals in the media go tearing Lori down just because she knows how to party,
08:05don't forget, this woman has a family.
08:07Have a little respect for what her husband is going through.
08:10Her husband, also in hot water, he was banned from the department's headquarters earlier this year
08:16after two women accused him of sexual misconduct.
08:20What?
08:22My boy was banned from his wife's office for sexual harassment?
08:27I've heard of men cheating while their wives were at work.
08:29I've never heard of a man cheating at his wife's work.
08:34This guy's unreal.
08:35And to do it all with resting, I'm-gonna-sniff-your-neck face?
08:39That's so impressive.
08:44Well, this cannot get worse for Lori.
08:46I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than your staff being sexually harassed at work by your husband.
08:53The New York Times reports that the secretary's husband, quote,
08:57exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father.
09:01Holy shit!
09:05Her dad?
09:07They're saying her dad is trying to tag-team his daughter's staff with his son-in-law?
09:14Well, no wonder she's drinking at work.
09:18You better not know.
09:23This must be a misunderstanding.
09:26In an April 2025 exchange,
09:29Richard Chavez wrote to a young female staff member, quote,
09:44Don't worry, buddy.
09:45No one's ever gonna see this.
09:49Lori's probably like,
09:50God damn it, Dad, now you know how to use your phone?
09:55This is creepy and disgusting and also such a classic parent text.
09:59Even when they're being perverts, they're like,
10:01Well, it would have been nice for you to give me a heads up.
10:03You're coming to town.
10:05But this is crazy.
10:06There's no way Lori knew about her husband and her dad, right?
10:11Right?
10:13Right?
10:14Some of the young women were instructed by the labor secretary herself to, quote,
10:20pay attention to her husband and father.
10:23Wow.
10:24Wow.
10:25The labor secretary heard Kash Patel had a scandal and she's like,
10:29Hold my beer.
10:31And my wine.
10:32And my stack of dollar bills.
10:34And my dad's penis.
10:40Now, look, I'm as surprised as you are that an upstanding businessman like Donald Trump
10:46only seems to hire corrupt perverts and messy drunks.
10:50But until more Americans come to realize that Donald Trump is the human equivalent of the poodle room,
10:57we're going to be stuck with this type of representation.
11:00And until then, the Department of Labor is going to need to make some big updates
11:04to their HR training video, which luckily, we have an advanced copy of.
11:10If you've reached this part of the video, then you've completed HR training.
11:14Congratulations, new cabinet secretary.
11:16And now, it's time, thanks to recent stupid f***ing events, to bring in your husband.
11:26Let's start with rule number one.
11:28No one wants to f*** you.
11:31No one's going to the cabinet job thinking,
11:33Oh, you know what?
11:34I hope I see my boss's husband's gross dick today.
11:36If you can't help yourself, there are over 20,000 bathrooms in federal buildings.
11:41Go jack off in the mint, you f***ing psycho.
11:44Okay?
11:44Now, send in a father.
11:49Okay, fathers.
11:51Rule number one.
11:53No one wants to f*** you.
11:55How much porn do you have to watch to think,
11:57Oh, yeah, I have a real shot at my daughter's co-workers.
12:00Maybe one of them will get stuck in the copy machine and need me to bang them out of it.
12:03Let's do some role play.
12:04I'm you at your daughter's office.
12:07Hi.
12:08Nice to meet you.
12:09Wrong.
12:10You should not have even been there in the first place.
12:12Why are you at your daughter's office?
12:14Last time I checked, there's no take your horny father to work day.
12:16If you have to f*** off, do it at the mint with your son-in-law.
12:21Now, please send in your pets.
12:28Who's a good boy?
12:29You're a good boy.
12:31But no one wants to f*** you.
12:37When we come back, Jordan Klepper hits the rally trail again.
12:40Don't go away.
12:54Welcome back to The Daily Show.
12:55Last week, President Trump hit the Turning Point USA conference
12:59to sell young voters on his wars with Iran and the Pope.
13:02So we sent Jordan Klepper to find out how it went.
13:12In the midst of an unpopular war with Iran and a heated Pope fight,
13:16President Trump dropped into a Turning Point rally in Phoenix
13:19and he brought his creepy uncle energy.
13:22So I traveled to the Grand Canyon State
13:23to see if the crowd outside was still on board the Trump train.
13:27What stuff has he done that you're proud of?
13:29Everything.
13:30Like, America's f***ing free.
13:32Right now, this is the best the country's ever been.
13:35Talk to me about the accomplishments.
13:36Venezuela, big.
13:37Big.
13:38Border, big.
13:39He originally brought gas prices down
13:41and he's going to do that again.
13:43He gets to do it twice. Isn't that amazing?
13:44Yeah.
13:44Some goals have been achieved.
13:46Yeah, some have.
13:48Ballrooms.
13:48Face on money.
13:50Well, the ballroom is something different
13:52and Obama put in a basketball court,
13:54so who complained about that?
13:56Nobody.
13:56Which wing did Obama knock down
13:58to put up that basketball court?
13:59I don't know.
14:00Probably the East wing.
14:01Probably the East wing.
14:02He goes in, gets done what he says he's going to do
14:04and he does what he says.
14:06Promises made, promises kept.
14:07Absolutely.
14:08No new wars.
14:09Yes.
14:10Nobody wants to go to war.
14:11Nobody does.
14:12Yeah.
14:13What do you think about the war with Iran?
14:14Uh, I don't want to pay attention to it, so.
14:17Yeah, yeah.
14:17All right?
14:18Yeah, so still, no new wars.
14:19This particular rally was located at a megachurch
14:22in the heart of God's country,
14:24and Trump's holiness was on everyone's mind.
14:26When Trump made his acceptance speech in 2015,
14:29I swear I saw the hand of God reach out and touch Trump.
14:32Was Trump touched sort of like this?
14:33Recently, Trump caused a stir when he posted this AI picture.
14:37The image appearing to depict the president as Jesus,
14:40drawing backlash from many of his own supporters,
14:42some calling it blasphemy.
14:44I can see a lot of people being offended by Trump.
14:47Trump's not perfect.
14:48He's not perfect.
14:49He's just literally breaking the very first commandment.
14:53I don't think Trump thinks he's Jesus or anything like that.
14:57I think he posted it thinking it was a beautiful picture.
15:00Turns out Trump also denied the Jesus comparison.
15:03It was me.
15:04I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor.
15:07He posted it because he thought he looked like a doctor.
15:09I see a healer.
15:11He's here to heal the sick.
15:12He's beautiful.
15:13He looks like a doctor.
15:14Look at him.
15:15He's got his magic.
15:15Our country's been sick for a long time.
15:16He's got his magic hand.
15:18Do doctors traditionally have magic hands?
15:21Well, to you and I, they do.
15:22Do you know how to carve somebody up in the stomach
15:24and cure whatever, if they have like an intestinal ailment?
15:26Can you do that?
15:27I'm poor with a scalpel.
15:29You're correct.
15:29Fair enough.
15:30Point maga.
15:31But Trump's brush with organized religion didn't end there.
15:35POTUS versus the Pope.
15:36I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo.
15:38Blasting Leo for opposing America's war in Iran.
15:41Pope needs to stay, just stay religion.
15:43Keep politics out.
15:44Pope should stay out of politics?
15:45I believe so, yeah.
15:46Should politics stay out of religion?
15:48Uh, yeah.
15:49Should there be the Ten Commandments in schools?
15:51Yes.
15:52Mm-hmm.
15:53There should be Pledge of Allegiance in school.
15:56There should be...
15:57Prayer?
15:58There should be prayer.
15:58But going back to that whole thing about, Pope, stay away from politics.
16:02Politics, yeah.
16:02Politics, stay away from religion.
16:03Yes.
16:04Ten Commandments, put it in school.
16:05Yes.
16:05Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
16:07Yes, I know what you're saying.
16:08Okay, just...
16:08I know what you're saying.
16:09I feel...
16:09I feel...
16:10I feel...
16:10I know what you're saying.
16:11It makes me feel crazy.
16:12So while they might not be devoted to the establishment clause, it was clear they remained faithful to Trump's America
16:18First policies.
16:19How do you feel about this war with Iran?
16:21I think if it needs to be done, it needs to be done, and Trump will get it done.
16:25Do you think it needs to be done?
16:27If Trump does, I do.
16:28How do you feel about the war in Iran?
16:29I'd say bomb the shit out of them and get it over with.
16:35Wasn't the whole thing, though, no new wars?
16:38It's a conflict.
16:39It's not a war.
16:40Not a war.
16:41It's a conflict.
16:42Now, who says...
16:43I know Trump calls it a war.
16:45Well, they say it's a conflict, because a war would be...
16:48You'd have to...
16:48You'd have to, um, declare war.
16:51Right.
16:52He was not...
16:53Declare war.
16:54Right, right, yes.
16:54It's a conflict.
16:55If you go illegally around it, you can have a war and call it a conflict.
16:58Exactly.
16:58I don't count this as a war.
17:00What is it?
17:00Even if you do count it, it's a necessary war.
17:02This is...
17:03This is, uh, what...
17:04Skirmish.
17:04Taking out the trash.
17:06Have we won the war?
17:07Are we winning the war?
17:08Yes.
17:09Yes.
17:09Which one?
17:10The Iran war.
17:12You're confident about this war?
17:13I'm confident, yes.
17:14Once we win this war with Iran, where is Israel going to have us invade next?
17:19That I can't answer.
17:20I don't know that.
17:21But what Maga does know is that this war is actually very close to home.
17:26In fact, Iran might be up to no good, even in suburban Phoenix.
17:31Those people standing right there, they're all getting paid from the Iranian regime.
17:37The protesters playing musical instruments out here are getting paid by Iran?
17:40Iran?
17:41They're getting paid by sources from Iranian regime.
17:46Look at them.
17:47You have to go look at them.
17:48They do not have teeth.
17:50They don't have the right dress.
17:52On a welfare, because they don't work.
17:54How does a toothless person get money from Iran?
17:58They have connection.
17:59Do they have a Venmo situation?
18:00Yes, these toothless Iranian sleeper cells were out in full force with their comfortable
18:06hokas and tasteful sun hats.
18:08But then big news hit on the day of the rally.
18:11The Strait of Hormuz is fully open and ready for business.
18:15Strait is open as of this morning.
18:17Who do we have to thank for that?
18:19Well, we have to thank President Trump for that.
18:20Yeah, Joe Biden wasn't trying to open the Strait.
18:22Exactly.
18:22He had the balls to do this.
18:24To open the Strait?
18:25Yeah.
18:25I mean, to do all this, what other president would have done this?
18:28Nobody else before him has done it.
18:29Biden wouldn't open the Strait.
18:30No, Biden wouldn't.
18:31Obama wouldn't open the Strait.
18:32He wouldn't do it.
18:32Clinton wouldn't open the Strait.
18:33Exactly.
18:34All because the Strait was already open until Donald Trump became president.
18:37So now...
18:38Is that the genius?
18:39That, like, you can't open the Strait unless you close the Strait, create global pandemonium,
18:44raise gas prices, and then open the Strait, and still no one's talking about
18:48the Epstein files.
18:49Well, that is true.
18:50Sadly, the Strait was closed again just a few hours later.
18:54But hopefully we're near the end of this terrible war.
18:58I mean, conflict.
19:01Thank you, Jordan.
19:02When we come back, Noah Wiley will be joining me on the show.
19:04Don't go away.
19:21Welcome back to The Daily Show.
19:22My guest tonight is an award-winning actor, writer, and director who stars in the HBO Max series The Pit.
19:29The most important things I've ever done in my life have been in this hospital.
19:35Nothing will ever matter more than what I've done in this hospital.
19:38But it is killing me.
19:42You know how they say that a part of you dies when you lose someone you love?
19:46I'm not convinced that a part of you doesn't die every time you see a fellow human pass.
19:50And I've seen so many people die that I feel like it's leeching something for my soul.
19:58Please welcome Noah Wiley.
20:16Wow, wow, wow.
20:18Huh?
20:19Wow.
20:20Wow.
20:21Wow, wow, wow.
20:22Thank you, man.
20:23Thank you for coming.
20:24Thank you for making The Pit.
20:25It is, wow.
20:27I just, I feel everything.
20:29I feel everything when I watch this show.
20:31And more than other shows, you know, there's a pit in my stomach, and I can't think that's why you
20:37named it this.
20:39But that was the intention, yeah?
20:41It was intended to hit you specifically in your heart.
20:45That's true.
20:46And you and you and you and hit everybody in their collective heart to show that we're not as different
20:51as we pretend to be sometimes.
20:54And then we all end up in certain arenas, like hospital emergency rooms, where it really doesn't matter those lines
21:00of division that we all play under outside that arena.
21:03Right then and there, you just want someone to take care of you.
21:05And it is so true.
21:06When you're sick or injured or hurt, that's all you can think about.
21:11And that is very true.
21:12It's a great point.
21:13One of the things I've noticed, there's no music.
21:16No, we early on wanted this to feel as immersive as possible.
21:21So a couple of things.
21:22Take the music out.
21:23Take all those cinematic, artificial sort of techniques out.
21:28You know, we tried to not do any trick photography.
21:30Everything is shot from almost a human eye level.
21:32Really to make you feel like you're a participant, that you're at the same vantage point as the characters.
21:38You don't have the objectivity of looking down on it from outside the pit.
21:42You're in it with us.
21:43I mean, I'm sometimes watching TV.
21:45Then I go to the kitchen.
21:47And then I hear strings or drums.
21:50And I go, oh, I better watch this scene.
21:52But when I watch the pit, don't go to the kitchen.
21:55No.
21:57Because you've got to watch.
21:58And even the phone, I'm like, this is pit time.
22:00Put the phone over there.
22:02And because it plays in real time over 15 hours, there's all sorts of little details embedded into the narrative
22:08to make it more rewarding viewing.
22:10The more closely you pay attention.
22:13You can follow a whole storyline that's taking place just in the background of you.
22:16I feel like so many shows are dumbing it down for us.
22:20And I feel one of the things I want to thank you and all the producers and writers for is
22:24you're actually honoring our viewers.
22:26Intellectual capability.
22:28I think something changed after COVID.
22:29People started watching content differently, more intensely.
22:32And it started to have more relevance and meaning in their lives.
22:35And so, you know, that old adage of dumb it down doesn't apply anymore.
22:40People are extremely sophisticated in their viewing habits and in their tastes.
22:43And they really are.
22:44And that water cooler conversation is back.
22:46People are banding storyline ideas and plot twists around.
22:50It's cool.
22:50Anyone that watched my act one knows that we don't dumb it down.
22:54No.
22:55This is a particularly good episode, by the way.
22:58This thought did cross my mind.
23:00Forgive me if this is insulting.
23:02But is the pit good or is it just that I'm so happy to see people that are good at
23:06their jobs?
23:07You realize all day...
23:14All day I'm watching clips of our FBI director pound beers.
23:18So it's just there is a beauty in watching competent professionals.
23:23I think that's true.
23:24I think it's both kind of a wish fulfillment, exposure therapy.
23:28If you get there, you want to make sure that those guys are going to be good.
23:31But I think there's also an aspect of watching people do work that has real meaning and makes a difference
23:36in the world.
23:37You know, I think that's something we all kind of want in our lives is to know that the labor
23:42that we're doing is not irreplaceable, that it does have some meaning.
23:47And the pit sort of identifies that.
23:49How do you balance the really awful, sad realities of what happens in an ER with the inspiring and hopeful
23:56things that happen in ER but also happen on TV?
23:58I mean, I, you know, I've seen some things in the pit that have had me take a second before
24:04clicking on the next episode.
24:06That's not good for TV business.
24:08But also in ER, sad and bad shit happens sometimes.
24:12Yeah.
24:13Yeah, as do really amazingly heroic and comical things too.
24:18You find the whole human experience in there.
24:20And we try to take scenes positive, negative, so it's not just a drumbeat of misery.
24:24We try to show those quirkier aspects and mostly those resilient aspects of the human character that refuse to take
24:30in and on everything that they're seeing and choose to sort of retain a sense of humor and a sense
24:36of humanity in the face of it.
24:39How did you approach playing Dr. Robbie this year?
24:42Because it's so clear that mental health was a major theme in this season.
24:47And really, who is helping the people who help people?
24:51Was there, and, and as it kind of went on, you, you, Dr. Robbie, you know who I'm talking about,
24:56right?
24:56Yeah.
24:56Your character.
24:57He's the guy with the beard, right?
24:58He's the guy with the beard, yeah.
24:59He's really good.
25:00He's really good.
25:01But he was, he was being shittier to people as time went on.
25:05True, true story.
25:07Um, you know, we don't always act in our most graceful when we're at our most desperate.
25:12Right.
25:12And we wanted to show what it looks like to go through a mental health crisis honestly.
25:17Yeah.
25:17And there are a lot of telltale signs, and they're not all things that would immediately trigger your empathy.
25:23Sometimes they may trigger your curiosity, and they may even trigger your distaste.
25:28But those are calls for help that just take a different form.
25:31And so, yeah, Robbie was going through a tough time even before we met him in season one.
25:36And it's sort of been a revealing process to himself that he is in trouble and that he needs to
25:42find some help.
25:43I also love the balance of the character Joy, who leaves the ER.
25:49And they say, well, what about your patients?
25:51And she goes, I'm gone.
25:52And in some ways, healthy people don't just create but enforce boundaries.
26:00That was a very small detail that was given to that character.
26:03And that little bit of self-care has resonated so loudly with people as they realize, no, it's okay to
26:09put a boundary up.
26:10It's okay to not have to give your all all the time to everybody, but take a little back for
26:15yourself.
26:15I think that's healthy.
26:16I love riding motorcycles.
26:17I own a Triumph Bonneville.
26:19No, you don't.
26:19Your character has a Bonneville.
26:21And so, during this whole season, you keep saying, oh, I got to go on the motorcycle trip.
26:26I'm sitting there going, go on your trip, man.
26:28The bike is rent.
26:29The bike wants you to ride it.
26:32Anyways.
26:33Fun bike.
26:34Fun bike.
26:35You were, do you ride motorcycles?
26:36I had to learn for a TV show I did up in Canada called Falling Skies where we were all
26:40riding dirt bikes around in the apocalypse.
26:42My mother was an orthopedic nurse, so she raised us, calling them donor cycles, and forbade all of us ever
26:49to get on one.
26:49So, every time I ride, I hear my mother's voice in my head saying, you know, I'm going to do
26:54a total hip on you.
26:55Were you, were you riding the bike in that first show?
26:59That was you.
26:59That was me.
27:00I had to take an actual training course to do that.
27:03Right.
27:03That four seconds of film was eight weeks of weekend courses in a parking lot with a lot of cones.
27:10But it was super fun to learn.
27:11And that bike is really fun.
27:12It's a fun bike.
27:14Wear a helmet, everybody.
27:15Wear a helmet.
27:16I think one of the things that I'm responding to so much in the pit also is just so refreshing
27:21to see a big TV production.
27:26Fifteen episodes?
27:27Fifteen episodes.
27:28Elaborate cast, set.
27:30I mean, it, you know, I'm just so thankful that it's being made.
27:36And coming back on an annual, coming, not having to wait two or three years between seasons.
27:40And you're working already on season three.
27:42We're back to work in the writing room on season three.
27:44Wow.
27:44We started shooting it in June.
27:45Let's go.
27:45Let's go.
27:49Let's go.
27:49Um, you've been on two huge medical dramas.
27:53It was E.R. back in the 90s.
28:10Yes, sir.
28:11More of a fractured, sort of a siloed audience as opposed to the old network days when everybody was watching
28:16the same three channels.
28:17Yeah.
28:18More people were watching those channels then.
28:20Yeah.
28:20But people watch more intensely now.
28:22I think that, uh, the fan bases is, it's, you know, the internet has tied what used to be a
28:27very small silo to the small silo in Italy and in Germany and the Philippines that also exists.
28:32So, now you can scale your club globally, which is very exciting.
28:37Right.
28:38But, uh, I'm just amazed that the show can still break through and still command popular attention because there's so
28:44many choices, there's so many channels, that to be on something that really doesn't rely on a lot of special
28:49effects is a very human story.
28:50To have that connect right now feels extremely gratifying.
28:53In E.R., you play Dr. John Carter.
28:56Yes, sir.
28:57And, uh, here's a picture of Dr. John Carter.
28:59Oh, no.
29:00And, um, you know...
29:02Oh, my God.
29:06What, um...
29:07Where is the little boy I knew?
29:12What's...
29:13What advice...
29:14A couple of Fiddler fans out there.
29:16What would you say to that man now?
29:21Uh...
29:22What advice would you have?
29:25Talk less, listen more, worry less, uh, um, relax.
29:31It's gonna be okay.
29:32Oh, so much wasted energy worrying and obsessing about things that don't really matter.
29:36I've had a really incredible year, but I had some less than incredible years to give me a really healthy
29:41perspective on this year.
29:43And so I'm just, uh, I look back at versions of myself that I just want to go, it's okay.
29:49Like, where you are right now is good.
29:51You don't have to try so hard.
29:53Were you...
29:53Were you trying to advance your...
29:56You were younger then?
29:58Was it...
29:58Was that what you mean?
29:59Is, like, kind of an...
30:00Well, you just think...
30:01You're always thinking in terms of trajectory.
30:03And sometimes you don't really realize where you are is as good as it gets or is as good as
30:08it's going to be for the next 30 years of your life.
30:10Uh, so, uh, you want to take time out and smell the roses.
30:15You also want to appreciate something that's working when it's working and not necessarily want to use it as a
30:20stepping stone to get to someplace else.
30:22You know, I used an analogy with this ensemble when we first started.
30:27I said, don't think of this as a springboard.
30:28Think of this as a surfboard.
30:30And if we stay on the board, this wave's going to carry us as far as it possibly can.
30:34But if we jump off thinking that we could get higher or find better, we'll probably fall.
30:39You shared that with the cast on The Pit.
30:41Yeah.
30:42That's amazing.
30:42Yeah.
30:43I mean...
30:43Does anybody listen to you?
30:44Because I, I mean, that's always the problem is you get hit with great advice and you don't always listen
30:49to it.
30:49But how do you have perspective unless you have the life experience?
30:52So it's, you know, it's that old adage that, you know, youth is wasted on the young.
30:56You have to go through the road in order to appreciate the journey.
30:59And, you know, everybody's on this cast extremely emotionally mature for their age and experience.
31:04And they don't need a lot of advice from me.
31:06They're doing fine.
31:07But, um...
31:08I love that.
31:08I hope that they realize how special it is.
31:10I think they do.
31:11I think I'm going to just think about that.
31:14Out of my life as springboard versus surfboard.
31:16Let's go surfing.
31:17This is a pretty good gig you got in, man.
31:19Hey, hey.
31:21Let's go surfing.
31:23Let's go surfing.
31:24You guys, all episodes of The Pit, season two, are streaming now on HBO Max.
31:28Noah Wiley.
31:29With a quick break, we'll be right back after this.
31:31Thank you, my man.
31:32Thank you, sir.
31:43That's our show for tonight.
31:44Now, here it is, your moment of sound.
31:46Professor, what's a sock puppet?
31:48Uh, I heard the reference from Senator Warren earlier.
31:52Yeah, what is it?
31:52I'm not sure I know.
31:54I think it's that thing you stick your hand in.
31:56Yeah, kind of like this?
31:58Yes.
31:58Are you going to be the president's human sock puppet?
32:01Uh, Senator, absolutely not.
32:03Sorry.
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