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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live.
00:04Tonight, Adam Scott and Governor Tim Walz with the Klee Tones.
00:12And now, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:33Hey, I'm Jimmy, I'm the host of Australia.
00:38Very kind, thanks for joining us here in sunny Los Angeles, where we are.
00:44I wouldn't go so far as to say we are celebrating Earth Day, but we're observing it.
00:48It is Earth Day today.
00:49At this point, with all we've done to this planet, humans celebrating Earth Day is like
00:53Kanye celebrating Hanukkah.
00:55It doesn't matter at all.
00:57Republicans in the House today, they were supposed to have a vote on a bill that would
01:01narrow protections for endangered species.
01:04On Earth Day, they were doing this.
01:07Fortunately, the vote was postponed.
01:09We will kill the turtles on the flag day instead, but this planet is home to at least 8 million
01:15different species.
01:16Did you know that, Guillermo?
01:17No, I did not.
01:18And some scientists believe the true number could be more than a trillion.
01:21There is so much to learn about our animal friends, and in studying them, we learn a lot
01:26about ourselves.
01:26For instance, researchers from Australia and Sweden are doing a study about drug pollution
01:32in the water, and they found that salmon that are exposed to cocaine swim nearly twice as
01:37far as those that do not have a cope problem.
01:42The study found that the cocaine salmon swim around 20 percent faster, and also, they never
01:47shut up.
01:53Well, I want to know more about these researchers, because let's see what happens if we give salmon
01:58cocaine is one of the cocaine-iest thoughts I've ever heard.
02:02We are living in a golden age of wild animals being exposed to illicit substances, which
02:07is a nice segue into the case of Kash Patel, our future former director of the FBI, who's
02:14getting hammered this week over a report that says he's been getting hammered on the job.
02:19Patel on Monday filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic for a story they published that alleged,
02:24among other things, that the director's, quote, episodes of excessive drinking have alarmed
02:30his colleagues and is a recurring source of concern across the government.
02:34Patel denies this, and not just categorically, maniacally.
02:38He announced that he is suing The Atlantic for $250 million.
02:43The Atlantic issued a statement responding to that.
02:45They said, we stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic
02:51and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit.
02:54Patel claims the allegations are completely false, a hit piece, but the journalist who
02:59wrote the story, her name is Sarah Fitzpatrick, says she spoke to more than two dozen people,
03:03including current and former FBI officials.
03:06Her version of the story makes it sound like Patel was blacked out more than the president's
03:11name in the Trump-Epstein files.
03:16And this comes the same week that a federal judge dismissed the defamation lawsuit Patel
03:22filed against a former FBI agent who said he has been, quote, visible at nightclubs far
03:27more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building, where they work.
03:31One of the allegations in the story is that Patel has been so worried about losing his job,
03:37around two weeks ago, he had some trouble logging into his computer and freaked out because
03:42he assumed he'd been fired, and they locked him out.
03:45The article said he called at least nine people to tell him he had been let go, then turned
03:50out it was an IT issue, and he got back in.
03:54So Patel angrily denied that story, and he proved that the old adage, the best way to address
04:01rumors of erratic behavior is to hold an even more erratic press conference.
04:05Did you communicate with anyone that you thought you were fired after you were unable
04:10to log in?
04:10The problem with you and your report, don't cut me off, you asked a question.
04:14Straightforward question.
04:14The problem with you and your baseless reporting is that is an absolute lie.
04:18Simple, straightforward question.
04:19Did you talk to anybody about whether you thought you were fired?
04:21The simple answer to your question is, you are lying, I was never locked out of my systems.
04:28Anybody who says...
04:29Your lawsuit says the opposite.
04:30Your lawsuit can...
04:30Anyone that says the opposite is lying.
04:34The lawsuit that you filed says that, correct?
04:35Yes, man, stop.
04:36You're being extraordinarily rude.
04:40You know they don't like that in that administration.
04:43Now, keep in mind, the guy asking the question, that wasn't the reporter who wrote the Atlantic
04:47story.
04:48It was another reporter just asking if the story was true.
04:51And also, there is a specific account of Patel not being able to access his computer in
04:58the lawsuit he filed against the Atlantic.
05:00His own lawyers put it in there.
05:02So that did happen, but you can't ask about that because it's extraordinarily rude.
05:09Can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure
05:14as FBI director?
05:16I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia.
05:20And as when they get louder, it just means I'm doing my job.
05:26So, no, then, is the answer?
05:28No.
05:29He's so wound up.
05:30He's so angry.
05:31If only there were some kind of a bottle of, like, a magic liquid he could, that could,
05:37he could drink.
05:38And it would calm his nerves in some way.
05:41Give him a little buzz or something.
05:46And then we have our secretary of health, RFK Jr., who famously puts everything but alcohol
05:52in his body.
05:53Kennedy testified before two Senate committees today.
05:56He had a grilling from Republicans and Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, who cut him
06:02like a raccoon penis.
06:04He claims that Trump RX has reduced prices by as much as 600 percent, 600 percent, which
06:13I think means companies should be paying you to take their drugs.
06:18President Trump has a different way of calculating.
06:20If there's two ways of calculating percentage, if you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to
06:2610, that's a 600 percent reduction.
06:29You have to understand, President Trump has a different way of calculating from the rest.
06:33Who are you going to believe?
06:35Him or math?
06:37Have you ever bankrupted a casino?
06:39I don't think so.
06:42Now, the actual math is 98 percent, not 600 percent.
06:47But let's not get caught up in semantics.
06:49Let's just be quiet and listen to Robert Kennedy breathe.
06:53Among the many that you've described in your testimony, in that context, in your testimony,
07:00you identified nutrition as a bedrock of health.
07:04And one of the primary levers for treating and preventing chronic disease.
07:09Education is an incredible start.
07:13I don't think it was very long ago that there was probably very little nutrition taught in
07:17medical school.
07:18And now we are encouraging that to be a focal point.
07:26You understand, our Secretary of Health is dying before our eyes.
07:32And no one is doing anything about it.
07:35We are on day nine now of Trump's blockade of the blockade at the Strait of Hormuz.
07:41Every day this goes on, the prices go up, and not just on oil and gas.
07:45Carex, the world's largest manufacturer of condoms, may have to raise their prices by 20
07:52to 30 percent because of supply chain issues caused by the war.
07:56The price of condoms will affect the Strait of Hormuz and the gaze of Hormuz, too.
08:04Carex said, there are vessels filled with condoms that cannot get to their destinations
08:12where they are desperately needed.
08:15Specifically, Nick Cannon's house.
08:18But is there any metaphor more fitting that Donald Trump screwing us without condoms?
08:25Because he won't pull out.
08:27I mean, yesterday, Trump added an extension to the ceasefire.
08:34And then today he said there's no time frame on a deal with Iran.
08:38Which is interesting because from day one, some guy has been telling us over and over that
08:43it's over.
08:44We have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks.
08:48I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion.
08:51We're going to have a much safer world as soon as it's finished, and it's going to be finished
08:54pretty quickly.
08:55Most people say it's already been won.
08:57You know, you never like to say too early you won.
08:59We won.
09:00We won the bet.
09:00In the first hour, it was over.
09:02When are you going to know when it's over?
09:04When I feel it.
09:05Okay.
09:06I feel it in my bones.
09:07A couple of weeks, and it won't be much longer.
09:09You know, I don't like to say this.
09:11We've won this.
09:12This war has been won.
09:13We've already won the war.
09:15Militarily, we've totally won the war.
09:16I do see a deal in Iran.
09:19Mr. President.
09:19Could be soon.
09:20I would say that within two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three, we are on track to complete
09:27all of America's military objectives shortly.
09:30Very shortly.
09:31It could end very quickly, the war.
09:33We win regardless.
09:34We've defeated them militarily.
09:36Well, you keep saying was, is this war over?
09:39I think it's close to over, yeah.
09:41I mean, I view it as very close to over.
09:44I think what he's trying to say is, the war might not be over, but he is over the war.
09:53You know, speaking of over, the New York Mets have the second highest payroll in, I think,
10:00the history of baseball, and they've also now, as of the time we are taping this show, lost
10:0612 games in a row.
10:07It's their longest losing streak in more than 40 years.
10:10The last time the Mets were this bad, half the team had jerry curls and the other half
10:14had mullets.
10:15Okay?
10:16I am a Mets fan, and stupidly, I, once again, I stupidly had high hopes for this season,
10:21as did many fans.
10:22Steve Gelbs, the Mets field reporter, did his best last night to reverse the curse,
10:27but I have to say, sorry, Steve.
10:30I don't care how big a joint you roll for those children, it's not going to help.
10:35And this is interesting.
10:39Follow along with this, because on April 9th, the mayor of New York, Mom Donnie, showed
10:43up at Citi Field, he hugged Mr. Met and Mrs. Met, and since then, they've done nothing
10:47but lose, and many in the right-wing media are now blaming him.
10:51The New York Mets, they are on an 11-game losing streak, including, oh, right after the
10:58mayor met and hugged the team mascot, Mr. Met.
11:02Socialist Mayor Zoran Mom Donnie can't do anything right.
11:06Do you blame Mandani for the losing streak?
11:09Yes.
11:10Absolutely.
11:10He's got a lot of New Yorkers that are really upset.
11:13New Yorkers are calling it the curse of Mayor Mambino.
11:16We need an exorcism in sports.
11:18The only way to reverse this, Sean, is President Trump has to come to a Mets game.
11:22That's right.
11:22The only way to stop a loser is with an even bigger loser.
11:27I looked into this.
11:29I think I might have it figured out.
11:30I think this has nothing to do with the mayor.
11:32Something changed at Citi Field this season.
11:35Now, for the first time in Mets history, they installed partitions between the urinals.
11:39They used to have a trough.
11:41You just line up.
11:41But now there are dividers, as if we weren't already divided enough.
11:46They've added dividers to the men's room.
11:48We did some research, and I think I found the source of why this happened.
11:52Two years ago, February 1st, 2024, the Mets posted,
11:56We are proud to celebrate Black History Month throughout the month of February.
11:59And the top comment under that post was from a James70889886.
12:06He wrote, Please put walls between the urinals in the men's bathrooms at Citi Field.
12:11This is 2024.
12:12Men feel uncomfortable and don't pee next to men urinating.
12:18Fights can happen when men look at the penis of other men.
12:22Do you find that to be true, Guillermo?
12:24I don't think so.
12:26Well, I guess they...
12:28Anyway, they listened to James, and they put in his precious wiener shields,
12:31and now we lost 12 games in a row.
12:33So I'm calling on Mets team owner Steve Cohen to tear down those urinal walls.
12:41And until they do, I know maybe it can't happen immediately,
12:44but Mets fans, when you're at the game, I want you to squeeze between those dividers,
12:49double up, triple up, whatever you have to do.
12:52Hopefully the Mets broke the streak tonight against the twins.
12:56The Mets hosted Minnesota.
12:57We're hosting the Minnesota governor tonight, Tim Walls.
13:01And Tim Walls is a very regular guy,
13:06but Minnesota, when it comes to politics, is a colorful state.
13:09They had Jesse the Body Ventura as governor,
13:11Al the Body Franken was their senator,
13:14and now one of their candidates to succeed Tim Walls is our old friend,
13:18the MyPillow man, Mike Lindell.
13:20Into our country, most of them break a law within the first three months.
13:25Most of them...
13:26We're on TV here, please.
13:27We're on TV, please.
13:28We're on TV, please.
13:30We're on TV, please.
13:31We're on TV, please.
13:32We're on TV, please.
13:33We're on TV, please.
13:34We're on TV, please.
13:35We're on TV, please.
13:36We're on TV, please.
13:37What are you serving him with?
13:39I'm not accepting him...
13:40We're on TV, please.
13:43We're on TV, please.
13:46We're on TV, please.
13:48We're on TV, please.
13:48Okay.
13:48We're on TV, please.
13:50So somehow, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference,
13:54endorsed Mike Lindell as their candidate,
13:57who is a, if you don't know, a former crack addict,
14:00a self-made pillow millionaire, turned soon-to-be-bankrupt election denier.
14:04But despite his many legal, financial, and perhaps mental issues,
14:09Mike managed to secure an endorsement not just from CPAC, but also from himself.
14:16Hello there. It's Mike Lindell.
14:18You know who. I got thousands of pillows and a gun under each one.
14:22Next year, Minnesotans face the most important election
14:25since the 97 Lake Hiawatha Wet Sweatshirt Contest.
14:29I voted for Pudgy Peggy.
14:32But in 20-06, we got to get a new governor.
14:36And that's why I'm endorsing a great American
14:39who overcame a whole lot of hardships and head injuries.
14:43Me, Mike Lindell, for governor.
14:46Nobody knows Mike Lindell better than me because I am him.
14:51I know how he thinks. I know what makes him tick.
14:54It's a pacemaker on account of a bungee accident
14:57where Mike's organs got all mumbo-jumbo.
14:59I even know where Mike hides his stash of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine
15:05for when the bovine herpes flares up.
15:08And Mike wants me to tell you that for a limited time,
15:11everything in his medicine cabinet is buy two, get one free.
15:15Use promo code hydroxychloroquine...
15:20hydroxychloroquine...
15:21pills!
15:22Don't just take my word about me for it.
15:25I got plenty of endorsements like my sleep paralysis demon
15:29and four out of five of the voices in my head.
15:33Number five tells me to start fires at the River Hills Mall.
15:36Watch it burn!
15:37Burn it down!
15:38Like now, voice on my TV!
15:41And this election, no crooked voting machines.
15:45You want to vote for me?
15:46You got to snowshoe to an old bar.
15:48Tell a joke to a goat.
15:51Then, drop a pinecone in the voting bucket.
15:54The way the founding fathers meant for us to.
15:56So, vote for me!
15:58Let Neil Akem...
16:00Who the hell painted this upside-down so wrong?
16:02Ah!
16:03Hey!
16:03Wrong house again.
16:05Get out!
16:05Wrong house!
16:06Who are you?
16:07Paid for by me, even though I ain't got no money left.
16:11Ah!
16:11My jangly...
16:13They got stagged!
16:16They got my vote.
16:18We got a good show for you tonight.
16:19Governor Tim Walz is here with us tonight.
16:22From Las Vegas, Frankie Perez is sitting in with the Cleetones.
16:26And we'll be right back with Adam Scott.
16:37Let's do it over.
16:44Let's do it.
16:48Good job.
16:49All right.
16:50Tonight on our show, he is a former candidate for vice president and current governor of Minnesota.
16:56Tim Walz is with us.
16:57Tomorrow night, Ray Romano and Tracy Morgan will join us.
17:01And sitting with the Clitos tonight,
17:03a very talented man from Las Vegas.
17:05He's got a new album.
17:06It's called Domolo.
17:07Frankie Perez is here.
17:09And you sound great, Frankie.
17:11Thank you, brother. Thank you.
17:12Frankie, what is, uh, excuse my ignorance,
17:15but what does Domolo mean?
17:17Give it to me.
17:18Oh.
17:19Oh, well, I will then.
17:22If you are in Las Vegas, and you should be,
17:24you can see Frankie and his band, The All-Nighters,
17:26live at the Red Rock and Mandalay Bay.
17:29Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-nominated actor
17:32for his work on the show Severance.
17:34Next, his plan is to scare the bejesus out of you
17:37in the horror movie, Hocum.
17:38It opens in theaters a week from Friday.
17:41Please welcome Adam Scott.
18:01Hey, everybody.
18:03It's very good to see you.
18:03Hey, man, good to see you.
18:04Can I just, uh, share an observation I just made with my nose?
18:07It seems like you swallowed a whole packet
18:09of Listerine breath strips right before you came out here.
18:11I did, and it hurts.
18:12You did, yeah, yeah.
18:13It's all I've eaten today are Listerine breath strips.
18:16Are you on the Listerine breath strip diet?
18:18I am, and it really works.
18:21Yesterday, I was 300 pounds.
18:23Well, you look great, and you smell great,
18:26which are the two most important things there are.
18:28And also, I want to thank you, because you did something.
18:30You and your wife, Naomi, did something very kind.
18:33Yeah?
18:33When we were briefly off the air, you jumped into action.
18:37You brought the whole staff donuts.
18:40You didn't just send the donuts, which you could have.
18:42You came, you set the whole deal up.
18:44That's right.
18:45We ate the donuts.
18:46Good.
18:46And thank you for the donuts.
18:47Oh, yeah, absolutely.
18:51Well, it's an incredible group of people here,
18:53incredible crew and cast.
18:55It's just a great place.
18:59How's the family doing?
19:00Everybody all right?
19:00They're good.
19:01Yeah?
19:01They're good.
19:02What are the kids up to?
19:04Well, our daughter, Frankie, she's 17 years old.
19:07She just somehow, and I don't remember when and how,
19:13convinced Naomi and I to bring she and four of her friends to Coachella.
19:20Oh, really?
19:21I literally don't.
19:22She never asked us.
19:24It just became a thing we were doing.
19:27And so we did it.
19:29We brought she and her friends to Coachella.
19:32Now, for people who don't know, this is a big music festival in the middle of the desert, kind of
19:36in the middle of nowhere.
19:37Yeah.
19:38All these famous bands and singers show up.
19:40Yeah.
19:41And then people, and I'm sure your daughter and her friends who are not included in this,
19:45they all just take a ton of drugs.
19:48Right.
19:50And they walk around basically topless.
19:53Yes.
19:53Yeah.
19:54Yes.
19:54And you did not enjoy it, I'm getting, getting from you?
19:58Well, I, it's, it was terrible.
20:05Okay.
20:08I hated it.
20:11Have you, do you go to like music festivals?
20:14You guys, I know you love music.
20:16I do.
20:17Sure.
20:17But you still hated it.
20:18But that has nothing to do with it.
20:19I see.
20:21No, I had gone, I'd gone to Coachella like a long time ago and it's very, I think it's
20:26probably exactly the same, I just now hate it.
20:32Was anything good?
20:33It was, well, we were there, the, the night we went, I really wanted to see the Strokes.
20:38Yeah?
20:38And yeah.
20:39And so I, you know, we went and saw them and that was great.
20:42But then that ends and there's nowhere to go, like there's nowhere to lay down.
20:50And relax while you wait.
20:52Because then we wanted to see someone else and, and Justin Bieber was performing.
20:56So we were going to stay.
21:02Justin Bieber is here?
21:05Wow.
21:05His spirit.
21:06Yeah.
21:06His spirit is always, there's a, still Bieber fever.
21:08We've never really gotten over it.
21:10No, no.
21:10It has COVID, but the Bieber fever is still here.
21:13There's, there's absolutely no vaccine for that, I know.
21:16Did you, did you stay for Justin Bieber?
21:18We did, which was terrific.
21:20And then when that ended, it took us, it took us an hour just to find Frankie and her friends.
21:26We find them, we get them in the cars.
21:28And then we were in the parking lot for two and a half hours, just, and just to get out
21:35of the parking lot.
21:36And like, we went to bed at like 5 a.m.
21:38Oh my God.
21:40Yeah.
21:40Which for everyone else at Coachella is awesome.
21:44Like, they, they love, but for, for me.
21:46I don't think the two and a half hours in the parking lot is good for anyone.
21:49Did Frankie and her friends like that two and a half hours in the parking lot?
21:52They were having a great time.
21:54They did.
21:54All right.
21:55Um, it's been 13 months since the season two finale of Severance.
22:01Yeah.
22:02Which is a long time.
22:05You, the internet says that you guys are going to start shooting in April, which is right
22:10now, which is this month.
22:11Right.
22:11Yes.
22:11Is that correct?
22:13Well, we're going to start shooting very soon.
22:16Very soon.
22:17Yes.
22:17Like, next month soon or in six months soon?
22:21Just very, very soon.
22:23Very soon.
22:24Okay.
22:25Um, you, since then, I feel like you've entered our collective subconscious in some ways.
22:30And I'm going to give you a reason why.
22:31Sure.
22:32This is from Reddit.
22:33This is, uh, a popular, uh, group on Reddit, and it says, um, Adam Scott's chin in my laundry
22:40pile.
22:42Have you seen this?
22:44Are you familiar with this?
22:48I, I have to say, I, I kind of see it.
22:53You know, when you do that, have you been compared to laundry before or is this the first?
23:00No, but I am flat.
23:03You should be.
23:04I mean, that's a little, uh...
23:05I mean, it's a good looking pile of laundry.
23:07It is.
23:07Let's just say that.
23:07It's a great looking pile of laundry.
23:10It's a kind, it looks like it's been eaten nothing but Listerine strips for a month.
23:13This is great smelling laundry.
23:15All right.
23:16We're going to take a break.
23:16Adam Scott is here.
23:17He's got a scary new movie.
23:19It's called Hocum.
23:20It is in theaters a week from Friday.
23:22We'll be right back with Adam.
24:00And that is Adam Scott in Hocum, his new movie, which opens in theaters a week from Friday.
24:08Um, that was, uh, did you hang out with that lady?
24:11Yeah.
24:11Yeah.
24:12We're best friends.
24:14What is Hocum?
24:15Hocum's like, uh, poppycock, basically, right?
24:18It's a, it's a, it's a word that means, like, nonsense.
24:22It's actually, um, they think the origins are it's a mixture between hocus pocus and bunkum,
24:28which is an old fashioned word for, like, bull , so it's kind of...
24:32It's where we get bunk, maybe.
24:34Probably.
24:35Oh, okay.
24:35All right.
24:36So you learn so much.
24:37Yeah, we're learning a lot here tonight.
24:39Um, and this is, uh, you play, uh, like a writer, a novelist, right?
24:44Yeah, like a Stephen King type, like, suspense horror novelist who's, I'm, uh, at an Irish
24:51hotel where my parents used to go, and I'm there to spread their ashes.
24:55And I get kind of caught up in, um, in the goings on there and the eccentric characters
25:01that hang out at this hotel and get kind of ensnared and, uh, scary, like, ghosty, witchy
25:08things that happen there.
25:09The ghosty, witchy things.
25:10Yeah.
25:10Yeah, you know, those, those things that happen.
25:12Oh, especially in Ireland.
25:13A lot of ghosty and witchy things.
25:15Yeah.
25:15Did you stay in the hotel where you shot the movie?
25:17I didn't stay in that hotel, but I did stay in another very old, like, manor out in the
25:22middle of the, uh, West Cork countryside.
25:25How old?
25:26So beautiful.
25:27Must have been, like, 400 years old.
25:29Oh, really?
25:29Okay.
25:29It was really beautiful, the Lissard estate.
25:33Um, but it, it's, it's gorgeous.
25:34And people would come there either for, like, honeymoons or anniversaries.
25:39There were only, like, ten rooms there, and I was in one of them.
25:43So all these people would be coming there in, like, the most romantic couple of days of their
25:47lives, and then I was the, like, eccentric bachelor living upstairs.
25:51Um, so people would, I would be in the restaurant just having my dinner, and people were like,
25:58what, what is the Parks and Rec guy doing here?
26:02While we're trying to have an intimate mind.
26:04They know you from Parks and Rec more than Severance, or is it?
26:08No, there were Severance.
26:09Yeah, people were, yeah, we were, Severance was, like, season two was, like, airing then.
26:14So, yeah, people were, yeah.
26:15Oh, it was during the middle of the season.
26:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:17Right.
26:17Now, are people now, I would imagine, when you do a movie about ghosts, asking you about
26:22your personal beliefs when it comes to ghosts.
26:26What are your beliefs?
26:27About, about ghosts?
26:28Yeah, about ghosts.
26:29Um, I don't, I don't believe in ghosts, but a lot of people do.
26:35I find lots of people believe in ghosts, so it's just a matter of not judging anyone who
26:41does, but I don't believe in anything.
26:44It does feel to me like you are judging those people.
26:48What are you talking about?
26:49It's just a matter of not maybe judging those people aloud.
26:52I feel like you're judging those people.
26:54Oh.
26:55Yes, I am.
26:56Okay.
26:56Make no mistake about it.
26:57Okay.
26:58Yeah.
26:58Well, are you constantly surprised that, like, grown-up friends of yours believe in ghosts?
27:06Yes, I am.
27:07And I will also admit that sometimes when they tell me their ghost story, I get caught up
27:12in it.
27:13Of course!
27:13And then for that, like, for the next hour, I believe in ghosts.
27:16Yeah, that's right.
27:16But then I wake up in the morning and I no longer believe in ghosts.
27:20Like, no, there's no ghosts.
27:20Yeah, and I still find, like, ghost story, like, movies and stuff super scary, but...
27:25Yeah, me too.
27:26Yeah.
27:26Very scary.
27:26Yeah.
27:27I'll never see this.
27:28Too scary for me.
27:30That's right.
27:30I get too scared.
27:31Right.
27:31Even though I don't believe in ghosts, it scares me.
27:34I don't know why.
27:35But I, and I've shared this before, but I have a very specific reason why I don't believe
27:39in ghosts.
27:39Why is that?
27:39I never believed in the ghosts, but this hit me and I thought, oh, yeah, of course.
27:43Because, you know, the ghosts are always in the house where they died or, you know,
27:46whatever.
27:46Sure.
27:47Okay.
27:47So every hospital should have thousands of ghosts in it.
27:52Yes.
27:52Like, the hospital should be teeming with ghosts.
27:55Yeah.
27:55Lousy with ghosts.
27:55You should not be able to get into the elevator.
27:58Because there's so many ghosts in there.
27:59So crowded.
27:59But you don't believe in them.
28:01You know what?
28:01Now I believe.
28:04Well, it's very good to see you.
28:05You too, man.
28:05The movie is called Hocum.
28:07It's in theaters a week from Friday.
28:09Adam Scott, everybody.
28:11We'll be back with Governor Tim Ferrara.
28:25Hey, welcome back.
28:26Governor Tim Ferrara is still to come, but first, if you are like me, you are constantly
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28:49Hold it right there, Jimmy!
28:55Oh my goodness.
29:01It's star of stage and screen, Keegan-Michael Key, everybody.
29:05Good job, everybody.
29:06Good evening.
29:07What in the name of Moses brings you here tonight?
29:11Jimmy, I am here to save you from inferior tots, my friend.
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29:45Wow.
29:46That's so interesting, Mr. Keegan-Michael Key.
29:48Thank you for explaining that to me, Jimmy Kimmel.
30:01Guillermo, I know that's you.
30:04Don't be a jimitator.
30:07How do you know?
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30:11Yeah, he's so good.
30:13Thank you, Keegan.
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30:22And remember, don't be an imitator.
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30:30Anyone else is just an imitator.
30:36And I said.
30:37Even long as I can.
30:39See, I can.
30:41That is Frankie Perez sitting in with a clean tone and a couple of the all-nighters.
30:47Uh, President Trump has called our next guest a loser, whacked out, and grossly incompetent,
30:53which are all strong indicators that he must be doing something right.
30:56From the land of 10,000 lakes, please welcome Governor Tim Walz.
31:17I have to tell you, you look so much healthier than you did the last time you were here.
31:22Well, thank you.
31:22The last time you seemed shaken.
31:24I think that's a compliment.
31:25Did I look that bad?
31:26It is a compliment.
31:26No, because at that time, you'd just been like, they just fired you out of the chute,
31:31and you were kind of like, oh, I don't know what's going on, right?
31:33Yeah, I didn't know what was going on.
31:34Yeah, I was hoping you would be the vice president the next time you came.
31:37Ah, thank you.
31:38Do you regret not wearing eyeliner?
31:39I suggested it.
31:42No.
31:43No.
31:45You know, your state, it seems to me, and correct me if I have any of this wrong,
31:51it seems to me that your state has been a target of the Trump administration ever since you ran against
31:57them.
31:57Do you believe that that is a coincidence?
31:59No, it's not a coincidence.
32:01And I don't think it's just me.
32:03I think he hates Minnesota because we take care of our people.
32:06We invest in people.
32:07We feed our people.
32:09I think that's what it is.
32:11You, um, did you get any, like, heads up or warning before they sent that huge ice force into your
32:18state?
32:18Not really.
32:19A Thanksgiving night tweet and all that, and then all of a sudden it was there and, you know,
32:23and it just intensified over those, you know, over the winter.
32:26Do you think they wanted to surprise you, or was that just a general lack of courtesy?
32:30Yeah, I think they wanted to roll this out.
32:32I'm convinced they were going to pick a state.
32:34They wanted one.
32:35I think they thought Chicago, they tried it there.
32:38Because they had 500 in Chicago at Metro, uh, what they call that Midway Blitz.
32:43And they came to Minneapolis, it was about 3,500.
32:45No, I think they wanted to roll this out.
32:47And I think they wanted to get a response from people that, uh, created violence so that
32:51they could use the Insurrection Act.
32:52I mean, this, this guy's an authoritarian and that was his goal.
32:55And, boy, so much credit to the people of your state for the way that they responded to them.
33:01It really was.
33:04They couldn't have handled it better than they did.
33:08No problem.
33:08Now, uh, of course, what happened, we all know what happened.
33:12Uh, two Minnesotans were killed by ICE officers.
33:16Um, are those officers, are, are, where do we stand on the investigation?
33:21Well, they whisked them out of Minnesota.
33:23I, I assume they're working somewhere else and there's countless other examples.
33:26They lied about the gentleman who was shot in the leg and thank God for video.
33:30Um, I used my executive authority to launch here a, a few weeks ago, a truth commission
33:36where we're gathering all of this.
33:38We're gonna bring them back and hold them accountable for what they did.
33:40Do you even know who they are?
33:41Yeah.
33:42That's, I don't know.
33:44Do you, do you know their names?
33:47Do you even know?
33:47Some of them.
33:48Some of them we do not.
33:49And I think what you saw, you saw the most egregious examples.
33:51There were hundreds of examples of this.
33:53We had, uh, we had 60 of our children gone.
33:55It took weeks.
33:56We didn't know where they were at and just countless from, you know, little microaggressions
34:00to, uh, this week, the Hennepin County attorney charged two of them.
34:04They just pulled somebody over by gunpoint randomly on the street, decided they didn't
34:07want to do anything and drove away.
34:09Thank goodness.
34:09I think that person had a dash cam, but we don't, we don't know yet.
34:12But the good news is we'll capture all that.
34:15Attorney General Ellison will go after it, but, uh, no cooperation from the federal government
34:20whatsoever.
34:20Unbelievable.
34:21Not sharing information.
34:22And that is so unusual for any of these types of situations.
34:25We always share information, but.
34:27And what a terrible message it sends to the, the, the ice force.
34:32It's almost as if you can do anything you want and nothing's going to happen.
34:36Well, that's what they were told.
34:37And that's what they were hearing.
34:38And the minute after it happened, the DHS, uh, Secretary Noem was, you know, you saw it
34:43with your own eyes, calling the folks terrorists, saying you could do whatever.
34:46And then they whisk them out of there and nothing happened.
34:48This is a very dangerous situation where the federal government, uh, weaponized, literally
34:52weaponized against, uh, citizens and, and nothing would happen.
34:56And I said this whole time, where are the don't tread on me people?
34:59Because we were sure the hell getting tread on in Minnesota.
35:01And, uh, you know, um, and mixed into all of this is this, um, this, uh, these multiple
35:11cases of benefits fraud.
35:13Yeah.
35:13That were happening.
35:14Now, I want to ask you, what, did it take, did it take an extraordinary long time for
35:20you to know that that was happening?
35:22No.
35:22Is that just something that, that has been spread?
35:26Right.
35:26It happens in other states.
35:27We were going back to, many of these people were prosecuted in 2021.
35:30He used it as an excuse because it was a perfect thing to do to say there was fraud.
35:33Imagine that, you know, coming from this guy, he would know fraud where it was at.
35:37Yeah.
35:37So, uh, used it to, uh...
35:39He's like Sigmund fraud.
35:40Yeah.
35:42Demonized, demonized immigrant community, especially the Somali community.
35:45And I said, what he was doing was, is the programs in Minnesota, look, we are a generous
35:49state.
35:49We're also like California, we're a payer state.
35:51We pay more in than we get back to support red states that don't support their people.
35:55But, um, they came in to try and destroy those programs.
35:58And, you know, that's, that's again rich, destroy programs that don't help them by billionaires
36:03who, who commit this fraud.
36:04But no, it was an excuse for them to do it.
36:06Um, thank goodness the people of Minnesota showed the courage, stood up and pushed back.
36:10Is the fallout from that situation though, why you decided that you would not run for reelection?
36:16No.
36:17And I think for me, look, two terms is probably enough.
36:19I think we get enough of people making careers out of this.
36:22Just candidly, Minnesota had a pretty tough year.
36:25It, uh, in June of last year, we finished a legislative session.
36:28We're evenly divided.
36:2967, 67 in the House, 35, 34 in the Senate.
36:32But the most extraordinary politician and person I ever worked with was Melissa Hortman,
36:36who was gunned down in June of last year.
36:38And she and I were, we were partners in doing this work or whatever.
36:42And then the annunciation shooting.
36:43And I think it just kind of got to the point, the fraud stuff on that.
36:46Republicans run it up.
36:47They put money in it.
36:48I, I just, it was most important for me that we hold the seat with a progressive Democrat.
36:53And, uh, which we will do now.
36:55And so a lot of things went into it.
36:57And I, I got other things I think I can add.
36:59What will you do now?
37:00What is your plan?
37:00Well, I want to help elect people who are out there, good people.
37:03I was 40 and never went to a political meeting at all.
37:06Never did anything.
37:07Minnesota happened to have the infrastructure to do this.
37:09The late Senator Paul Wellstone put together something called, uh, Wellstone Action.
37:13And it trained people how to be candidates, how to get into this.
37:16And so on Monday, I, I launched a PAC.
37:18And I want to go out and find teachers, nurses, small business owners.
37:21Because look, uh, I know I can go find people who are better than the clowns and fools we have
37:27doing this right now.
37:28And help them if they want to come in.
37:32You, um, teach school?
37:34You will teach again?
37:36I'm going to go teach again.
37:37Really?
37:37I think that's, that's my skill.
37:39What grade are you thinking about teaching?
37:40I don't know.
37:40I was a sixth grade teacher for a while.
37:45I've been, I've been dealing with the Trump administration.
37:47So it's a flat thing in here.
37:49So.
37:53You speak, how often do you speak to Kamala Harris?
37:56Every, every month or so.
37:58And when you guys talk, do you just get on the phone and go,
38:01Oh, man.
38:03Yes.
38:03Kind of.
38:04That's beginning each conversation.
38:05I said, last time I was here, we were very hopeful.
38:07A lot has happened since then.
38:08And so, look, I'm grateful.
38:09She's out there.
38:10She's working it.
38:11And I, I have this theory that Donald Trump sucks up so much oxygen.
38:15We need to fill every single lane with good people who want to make sure people are fed,
38:19that we have health care, we don't fight stupid wars.
38:21And so.
38:22Yeah.
38:23Glad she's out there.
38:24You had, at the No Kings rally, Bruce Springsteen showed up in your state.
38:30And put on quite a show.
38:32Greatest day of my life.
38:33Was it?
38:33After my marriage, greatest day of my life.
38:36Was it, huh?
38:37Yeah.
38:37It was amazing.
38:38It was amazing.
38:38I'm glad he came out there.
38:39And, you know, he and Tom Morello were out there.
38:41They, uh, they went to First Avenue.
38:43We're all missing Prince.
38:44It was 10 years ago this week.
38:45And, uh, music speaks to the soul.
38:48We're home of Bob Dylan and the protest songs.
38:50So we had Joan Baez.
38:51And then, of course, Bruce comes out and sings Streets of Minneapolis.
38:54And, uh, he said that was one of the largest crowd he ever played him from.
38:58He played in front of the Berlin Wall in 88.
38:59And we had 200,000 people in Minneapolis on the streets protesting back.
39:04So...
39:04Wow.
39:05That's something else.
39:05Now, you mentioned Prince.
39:10Since you did mention Prince, I'm wondering if you...
39:12We always mention Prince.
39:13If...
39:13Yeah, right.
39:14If you believe in ghosts.
39:17Well, I will say this.
39:19Former Governor Ventura, when I first moved in, my son was a sixth grader.
39:22And we were at inauguration.
39:23I saw my son over talking to the governor.
39:25My son came home traumatized because he said,
39:27Dad, there's a ghost in the attic of the residence.
39:29And so, I guess I do now, so...
39:32You, uh, will you be supporting the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell, in his run?
39:38I will be supporting him in the Republican primary.
39:40You will?
39:41Okay.
39:42Look, for all of you here, he's the leading money winner right now.
39:45He very well could get the nomination.
39:47Um, yeah.
39:48Minnesota's a land of contrast, as you might see, so...
39:52Have you ever met Mike?
39:54No.
39:55Well, you haven't.
39:56Not personally.
39:57That surprises me.
39:58Have you ordered one of his pillows, or perhaps slippers?
40:00I have not ordered his pillows.
40:02Using a promo code, liberty, freedom...
40:05No.
40:05...and justice for all?
40:06None of those things.
40:07No, I feel like I should apologize.
40:08You should.
40:09You should.
40:09You've got to support your state.
40:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:11You're the governor, for God's sake.
40:12No, he's...
40:13He's, uh, he's...
40:14He might legitimately be their nominee.
40:17Yeah.
40:18He might.
40:18He might.
40:19Well, the rest of them, I mean, you're running for governor of Minnesota, and you're telling
40:23people that you're perfectly fine with what happened with the ice, you know, what happened
40:27there.
40:28Pretty much shows you they'll go about to any extreme.
40:30Yeah, yeah.
40:31Well, it's great to have you here, and it's good to see you, and I'm glad...
40:35I like your plan.
40:36I like this idea of finding people...
40:38Help them out.
40:39...who are not just qualified to run for office, but who care to run for office.
40:45That's right.
40:47Give them the tools.
40:56So, tens of thousands of people out there delivering food to their neighbors, blowing
41:00whistles to protect kids so they could get on the bus.
41:02That tells you what the heart of this country is, and more of us than them.
41:06Governor Tim Lawrence will be right back.
41:10Oh, yeah.
41:11What is it good for?
41:13Absolutely nothing.
41:15Say it again.
41:16Wow.
41:18Good God, y'all.
41:20What is it good for?
41:22Absolutely nothing.
41:23Say it again.
41:24Wow.
41:26I want to thank Adam Scott and Governor Tim Walz and Frankie Perez.
41:30Thank you very much.
41:31This is Frankie's new album.
41:32It's called Domilo.
41:34Go see him in Las Vegas.
41:36Apologies to Matt Damon.
41:37We ran out of time for him.
41:38Please join us tomorrow with Ray Romano and Tracy Morgan.
41:41Nightline is next.
41:42Thanks for watching.
41:43Good night.
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