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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, Josh Johnson.
00:27Welcome to The Daily Show.
00:29I'm Josh Johnson. We've got so much to talk about tonight.
00:32The Voting Rights Act gets sent to a farm upstate.
00:35The race for California governor is more packed than an L.A. freeway.
00:39And we'll tell you which body part Trump has started teasing people about.
00:44It's not the tank, all right?
00:46That was my first guess, too.
00:48So, let's get into the headlines.
00:54Let's start with the latest update on the war in Iran,
00:57which is that there is no update.
01:00It's still happening, you know?
01:01I'm starting to get worried about my river cruise this summer up the Strait of Hormuz.
01:08Man, I booked a balcony room, too.
01:11But don't worry, because Donald Trump is doing everything he can to wrap it up.
01:15We're having talks with him now, and we're not flying anymore with 18-hour flights every time we want to
01:20see a piece of paper.
01:22We're doing it telephonically, and it's very nice.
01:31Telephonically?
01:33Damn, that's an impressive word, you know?
01:36Makes anyone with a phone sound like a wizard.
01:40I order to large meat lovers telephonically.
01:45Now, to be clear, that is a word, but he didn't know that.
01:51He talks the way I play Scrabble, you know?
01:54Just like, oh, wow.
01:55Um, I was just throwing letters together.
01:57How many points is that?
02:00That was from yesterday, during an event Trump did with the Artemis astronauts and the chief of NASA.
02:05And we all know Trump loves space, so he has the utmost respect for these professionals.
02:10Sorry, are you considering relocating NASA's headquarters out of D.C. once the lease is up to states like Texas,
02:18Ohio, and Florida?
02:18Well, the best man to tell you that is a man standing right over here.
02:22You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours?
02:25He's got great hearing on him.
02:27He's got superhero.
02:29Trick of the train, sir.
02:36Wow.
02:38He's just standing there like, good one, sir.
02:43Haven't heard that since grade school, and, uh, I didn't think I'd hear it again, but I did.
02:50In my 40s.
02:52From the president.
02:54Trump just can't resist being a bully.
02:57He's sitting there like, hey, they say in space no one can hear you scream, except for this guy, right?
03:02He can definitely hear it.
03:03Am I right?
03:04Am I right?
03:07And by the way, these astronauts do not look happy to be there.
03:10They're like, this is the most uncomfortable I've ever felt, and two weeks ago, I was pooping in zero gravity.
03:18But let's move on, because while Trump was ear-shaming astronauts, the Supreme Court was busy at work.
03:23This morning, the Supreme Court delivering a major blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act.
03:27The court's conservative majority ruling six to three that Louisiana's current congressional map with two majority African-American districts is
03:36unconstitutional, saying lawmakers allowed race to play a part in government decision-making.
03:41Democrats blasting the ruling, arguing that other majority black districts are now vulnerable to being erased.
03:49That's right.
03:50The Supreme Court saw that Louisiana had two whole black congressmen, and they were like, whoa, what is this, Showtime
03:57at the Apollo?
03:59Let's dial this back.
04:01But now, thanks to the Supreme Court, black districts are going to get erased all across the South, which is
04:06horrible for civil rights, but pretty great for all the new civil rights movies we're going to be making.
04:12So this is fantastic from, like, a Denzel-only perspective.
04:17And obviously, the Supreme Court didn't come right out and say that states can be racist.
04:22Justice Palpatine isn't that dumb, all right?
04:25He played it much smoother.
04:28Justice Samuel Leto writing, race can only be taken into account when there's evidence that a state intentionally drew its
04:34districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.
04:38That's crazy, all right?
04:40So just to be clear, for Alito, the map is not racist unless the guy drawing it finishes it and
04:47goes, man, I'm racist.
04:53Now, if you're watching this whole thing unfold and you're thinking to yourself, this seems pretty racist, Republicans have great
05:00news for you.
05:01I think after 160 years of after the Civil War, it's time that we didn't have a race-based reason
05:08for doing things.
05:09In 2026, in the United States, the reasons to use race for line drawing deliberately that occurred to remedy discrimination
05:16in the South 50 years ago no longer exist in America.
05:20The court said you have to have modern examples of how voters have been racially discriminated against.
05:25And fortunately, America has come a long way since the 1960s.
05:28It has, fortunately.
05:29It's the end of pretending that this is a racist country.
05:37Racism's over.
05:40Oh, boy, I can finally use my real voice.
05:48What's up, dawg?
05:53I just thought when racism would be over, we'd hear about it from, like, a civil rights leader or something.
05:58Not a guy who looks like a racist version of the dad from Modern Family.
06:04It almost feels like we're going in reverse because the people from the 60s in black and white TV were
06:10like, wow, this country is being pretty racist.
06:12We should pass some legislation, and the people crippling that legislation are from now in 4K.
06:18Just so we're all aware, newscasters who would do reports like, that Jackie Robinson is the best colored player in
06:25the Negro League, believed in voting rights more than our representatives now.
06:29What these people don't get is that to the extent that there's less discrimination now, it's partly because we have
06:36the VRA.
06:36So this is like my uncle, who threw away his medication because he said his heart wasn't bothering him anymore.
06:43And to be fair, he did stop having heart problems because he's dead.
06:52And one of the most brain-breaking things about this ruling is it's literally taking power from black people in
06:58the South, and it was voted for by a black guy from the South.
07:02Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is black.
07:06He might not know it, but he is black.
07:11How could you, of all people, vote for this, Clarence?
07:15You are like an uncle to all of us.
07:18Uncle Clarence Thomas.
07:21Uncle Thomas for short.
07:24Uncle Tom for shorter.
07:35But look, we don't have to pretend here.
07:38At the end of the day, we all know that this decision was not about moving on from race.
07:42This is the Supreme Court majority handing a win to Republicans.
07:47I know that.
07:48You know that.
07:48And the Republicans definitely know that because their leader said it out loud.
07:53Mr. President, I want to go back to the Supreme Court ruling on their Voting Rights Act.
07:56I know you said you haven't seen it.
07:57When did it come out?
07:58Just now?
07:58No, it came out this morning, but basically very much narrows the Voting Rights Act.
08:03Was he considered a win for the Republicans?
08:04A win for the Republicans.
08:05I love it.
08:08You could always count on Trump to get right to the point.
08:11Like, it's a win for Republicans?
08:13Did you guys hear that?
08:14I know this guy did.
08:18For more on the peeling back of the voting rights, we go live to Republican headquarters with Roddy Chang.
08:37Roddy, Roddy, what's the mood like over there?
08:40Uh, it's pretty f***ing lit here, Josh.
08:43Yeah, they're partying like it's 1964.
08:46I'm talking multiple guys snorting cocaine off of Stephen Miller's penis.
08:52Oh, gross.
08:54Roddy, this is going to screw up the whole country.
08:56Oh, no, no, no, no.
08:57I don't think his penis is big enough to affect the whole country, Josh.
09:02No, not Stephen Miller's penis.
09:03I mean the Supreme Court ruling.
09:05Oh, oh, right, right, right.
09:06Hey, hey, guys, guys.
09:08Hey, I'm filing a report here.
09:10Can you take it to the Oval Office?
09:13Okay, thank you.
09:14Jeez.
09:15Sorry, Josh.
09:16Yeah, what were you saying about Stephen Miller's penis?
09:19I wasn't.
09:20Black people are being disenfranchised.
09:22Aren't you worried about Asian people, too?
09:24Uh, no.
09:25So, why the f*** would I want more Asians in Congress?
09:31Congress is basically a nursing home for pedophiles.
09:34Like, what are Asians going to do?
09:36Hang out and get horrible hand jobs from Lauren Boebert?
09:41I can do that myself.
09:44You really think Asians want a slingback Jell-O and applesauce with James Clyburn?
09:49No, thank you.
09:51But we need to get people in Congress.
09:53Congress is where the people have the power to change things.
09:56The power to change things?
09:58Oh, look, everybody.
10:00Well, Congress, we're going to pass bills and fix problems.
10:03What the f*** is this?
10:04A Schoolhouse Rock episode?
10:07Dude, Congress doesn't do s***, okay?
10:10They don't pass laws.
10:12They don't stop Trump from starting wars.
10:13Congress couldn't even pass the funds to scoop that turd off of Nancy Pelosi's desk.
10:19Okay, but we have to do something.
10:21How do we push back if we can't get into Congress?
10:23Money!
10:25Duh!
10:26Josh, you ever heard of it?
10:27It's called moolah.
10:29It's the most powerful branch of government.
10:32You want your voice heard?
10:33Just get super rich, and you can buy whatever politician you want.
10:36You can even make them do stuff.
10:38You can probably get Ted Cruz to vote on your bill or punch his own dick.
10:44Okay, I'm listening.
10:47But how do we get rich enough to buy the politicians?
10:49Okay, look, one simple way is to insider trade, okay?
10:54And the easiest way to do that is to get elected to Congress.
11:01Oh, f***.
11:02All right, well.
11:03Ronnie Chang, everybody.
11:07When we come back, we check in on the midterm, so don't go away.
11:28Welcome back to The Daily Show.
11:30The midterm elections are just a few months away,
11:32so to analyze all the campaign stories,
11:35we turn to Jordan Klepper,
11:36who is in our new indecision analyzone.
11:45I'm Jordan Klepper, and this is the Anal A-Zone.
11:51I'm 70% sure that's how you pronounce it.
11:54Tonight, we're talking about the election for governor in California.
11:58And after frontrunner Eric Swalwell dropped out
12:00to spend more time with his lawsuits,
12:02this race is wide open.
12:05For the first time in 20 years,
12:07a Republican could win statewide office...
12:09And because of California's jungle primary,
12:12Democrats could wind up shut out of the general election
12:14if none of them make it to those top two slots.
12:17Okay, sure, a Republican could win,
12:21but this is California.
12:22All the Democrats have to do is find a candidate
12:24with the slightest bit of charisma.
12:26And this thing is just over.
12:28How about former HHS Secretary Javier Becerra?
12:32Just finished a session to talk about the governor's race.
12:36I'm at the theater.
12:38Finished my session.
12:40I deserve a little treat.
12:49Yikes.
12:51This feels like running into your math teacher at the mall.
12:55Wow, great to see you out, Mr. Becerra.
12:59Cool drink.
13:00Okay, fine, fine.
13:01How about you, billionaire Tom Snyder?
13:04Let's see if, uh, if that, you have that, that, that California cool.
13:11Hello?
13:12Shh.
13:24Ho, ho!
13:26I never thought I'd say this,
13:28but I think I prefer the real love, actually.
13:32Okay, you know what?
13:33We're looking for someone with a little more energy here.
13:36How about Katie Porter?
13:37I don't want to keep doing this.
13:38I'm going to call it.
13:42You're not going to do the interview with us?
13:44Nope, not like this.
13:45I'm not.
13:46Okay, all right.
13:48Maybe not that kind of energy.
13:49I just, I just want a real human being.
13:53How about you, Matt Mahan?
13:54You know, some mayors have photos at the airport in the cities they represent.
13:59Others have plaques.
14:01Here in the capital of Silicon Valley, I have a hologram.
14:04Digital mayor, what are your thoughts on giving me a race this year?
14:09I'm focused on welcoming visitors and sharing hands with me.
14:12Ho, ho, ho, man.
14:15It's going to be really strange when a new mom goes into that pod to breastfeed before her flights.
14:21Hi, I'm digital mayor, Matt Mahan.
14:23It looks like you're whipping out your bazongas to nurture your child.
14:27Can I help you with that?
14:29I mean, you see the problem?
14:30All these Dems are riz-less.
14:32And it's left the door open for Republicans.
14:34Like this guy, Sheriff Chad Bianco.
14:37Now, his vibe is kind of all the village people at once.
14:43And I will admit, Chad Bianco is a very strong name.
14:47It's the kind of name that gives you permission to speak about yourself in the third person.
14:53Chad Bianco will have the sea bass.
14:55Thank you very much.
14:56So, you know what?
14:57Let's hear it from this macho man himself.
14:59Chad Bianco, what are you bringing to the table?
15:02I am the antithesis to California state government.
15:06Oh, you whiffed on that antithesis there, Chad.
15:12You know what?
15:13I guess that's why this primary is somehow being led by Republican Steve Hilton.
15:19Who, despite what you might think, isn't part of the hotel family or the Moby family.
15:24No.
15:26Hilton is a former Fox News host, and he's got Donald Trump's endorsement,
15:30which would put him at odds with most California voters.
15:33So, he must have a background that resonates with them.
15:36It all started with freedom.
15:39I was born in England.
15:40My earliest political memory was Mrs. Thatcher.
15:43Oh.
15:45Okay.
15:45He was born in England.
15:47But I'm assuming he came to America as a young boy.
15:51My parents were so proud when I made it to Oxford University.
15:54And then when I got a job with the Conservative Party, working for Margaret Thatcher.
16:01Okay.
16:03Still in England, through college, worked for Margaret Thatcher, et cetera, et cetera.
16:07Okay.
16:07But then, then it was time to move to America.
16:11I started a business, even a couple of restaurants.
16:14Later, I helped elect a prime minister.
16:16Worked in 10 Downing Street.
16:18When the f*** did this guy move to America?
16:22Is he running for governor or govna, huh?
16:27Did he decide to enter the race on the flight over?
16:31Do you have anything to clear at customs?
16:34Uh, yeah.
16:34My candidacy for govna in California.
16:38Okay.
16:38So, when did this guy finally move here?
16:42In 2012, we moved to America, to California.
16:462012?
16:48The office came to America before he did.
16:52And on behalf of the Comedy Central Programming Department, we thank you.
16:58All right, Stevie, enough about merry old England.
17:00What's your vision for California?
17:02Great jobs, great homes, great kids.
17:05Great jobs, great homes, great kids.
17:07Great jobs, great homes, great kids.
17:09Great kids?
17:11This British guy just fell out of the sky, and now he's gonna tell you how to raise your kids?
17:16He's like bald Mary Poppins over here.
17:19Hello, hello, I'll fix up your wanker kids.
17:23Cheerio, innit?
17:24Look, you might not care which of these freaks or duds gets elected as governor, but you should.
17:30Because of California's size and economic might, their laws often affect the rest of us.
17:35And handing that power to the wrong person is simply the...
17:39The...
17:40What's the word?
17:41The antithesis.
17:43Yes.
17:45It's the antithesis of what we want.
17:51Thank you, Jordan.
17:52When we come back, Rizzo will be joining me on the show.
17:55Don't go wrong.
18:07Welcome back to The Daily Show.
18:09My guest tonight is a legendary rapper, producer, and founder of the Wu-Tang Clan.
18:14He wrote and directed the new film One Spoon of Chocolate.
18:18I'm telling you this, because if you want to live, I suggest you leave this town immediately.
18:33I came to Ohio because I have nowhere else to go, man.
18:38You can stand here.
18:42Or you can leave.
18:45I can stand here and fight for what's mine.
18:49Please welcome Rizzo.
19:12You're really here.
19:16Thank you so much for coming.
19:18My pleasure.
19:19I appreciate you.
19:19Oh, and congratulations to you and all the Wu-Tang getting inducted into the Rock and
19:24Roll Hall of Fame.
19:25Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
19:27How you gonna do that?
19:29I know.
19:30That was, uh...
19:32That made me feel like a kid again, you know?
19:34Like, out of all things of this year, when I got that news, the little kid in me just
19:38bubbled up and just came in.
19:40I had the biggest Kool-Aid smile you could see, y'all.
19:42That was a big moment for me.
19:44I'm so glad.
19:44Like, it just seems like when you have such a, like, a legendary story career and you rack
19:50up all these achievements over a catalog, it's like, sometimes you wonder if people just
19:55get used to the, to, like, that love and that recognition, but it's nice that as soon
20:00as you...
20:01Yeah, no.
20:01Certain accolades just really hit you harder, you know what I mean?
20:03Yeah.
20:04This is one of those, yeah.
20:05That's awesome.
20:06That's awesome.
20:06Congratulations again.
20:07Before we go forward, let me take a moment, too, and say, uh, congratulations to you.
20:11I've been watching this show.
20:12You're doing a great job, man.
20:14I just want to say bon, bon.
20:15Oh, great.
20:17You're so cool.
20:18You're so cool.
20:19You're so cool.
20:21You're so cool.
20:22You're so cool.
20:24I honestly don't know if we're gonna top that.
20:26I think maybe we should.
20:27I have so much that I want to talk to you about.
20:30Um, your, your movie, A Spoon, One Spoon of Chocolate, the way that you constructed
20:37this movie, the way that you built it together, you've been working on this since 2012.
20:40Yes.
20:41Yes.
20:41And I'm, I'm curious how many times something changes and, and, and something evolves over
20:47that much time.
20:48Because it's one thing if you take, take this much time for a first draft, but like, you're
20:53shooting and you're, you're, you're probably reshooting.
20:56Like, what changed about the story as you started to tell it?
20:59Um, I mean, the story evolved, but you know, times have changed.
21:03Um, and by the time we got to set in 2024, I think, when we finally got to set to
21:11shoot
21:11it, uh, I've just felt like the story had become pure.
21:18Like when, as an artist, you gotta let yourself become a vessel.
21:21And sometimes you try to force the music out and it's a bad note.
21:24But if you sit there and wait for it to come through, it comes out as a beautiful song
21:30or for this, this particular thing, a beautiful movie, yo.
21:33And thanks to Shamik Moore, uh, Paris Jackson, uh, Blair Underwood, and a great cast of others,
21:40man, I think I got something that, uh, is timely and on time at the same time.
21:46Yeah.
21:47Yeah.
21:47Absolutely.
21:48Absolutely.
21:49Yeah.
21:53The other thing that I'm really interested about when it comes to the process is that,
21:57you know, for your music, you're taking so many different things, so many different influences.
22:02You've got, like, New York grit, you've got jazz, you've got, like, Asian film culture mixing
22:06it all together.
22:07I like how you do it.
22:08Yeah.
22:09And I'm wondering if for the movie, you almost make it the same way where you take a bunch
22:13of these influences and you wrap it up into something new.
22:16That's, that's, that is how I do it.
22:18Um, and that's a great way to do it.
22:19You know, a story could be told like a song.
22:22You can write a song, you can make it acoustic, you can make it, uh, with, with a bass and
22:27drum,
22:27or you can make it with a hip hop beat.
22:29So with a film, the story that I created remained the same, but the style to tell it.
22:34So I went and pulled ideas or cinematography ideas from classic movies in the 70s, movies
22:40in the 80s.
22:42Um, there's a, there's a shot in my movie that is inspired by a movie called Christine.
22:48All right.
22:48So that's a, um, horror film about a car.
22:51Now my movie is not about that, right?
22:56But, you know what I'm saying, but the way the headlights were in that movie when I saw
22:59it as a kid, I wanted my film to have that same headlight effect.
23:03So when the audience is watching it, and this truck that's kind of going through the town,
23:08when they see those lights, they go, uh-oh, something about that happening now.
23:11You know what I mean?
23:12So, so that's the beauty of, of cinema.
23:15I like to call myself a hip hop director, because in hip hop, I sample, sample, sample.
23:20So in cinema, I can do the same thing, sample different elements to tell my story.
23:24Got you.
23:25Got you.
23:25Got you.
23:26That's amazing.
23:29And, you know, this thing seems like such a, I mean, you already said pure, like such
23:36a, a holy passion project.
23:38You know, you directed, you produced, you did the music.
23:42Like, this, so much went into this one project, right?
23:46Yeah.
23:47Well, well, well, first of all, I had a great team.
23:50All right?
23:51It's executive produced by Quentin Tarantino.
23:53All right?
23:53Um, I went and got a legendary producer, Paul Hall, who did movies like, um, Higher Learning
24:00and Schaaf and some Tyler Perrys.
24:03And what I, what I wanted to do was, was to surround myself with people that could let
24:09me do my thing.
24:11But if I went on the guardrails, they could be like, yo, hold on, bro, push a little to
24:14the left, push a little to the right.
24:16So writing is one thing and directing is another.
24:19But most directors, when they get stuck on a, on a scene or a script, they go, hold
24:24on, let me call the writer.
24:25So I was like, okay, let me just talk to myself.
24:28You know what I mean?
24:29So hold on, let me figure this out.
24:31Uh, yeah, we could do it this way.
24:33Yeah.
24:34Um, so that was the benefit.
24:35And then one of the beauties of this, Josh, is that, um, my wife is a producer.
24:41And so my office is right here.
24:43Her office is right there.
24:45Her office is much nicer than my office.
24:47She had flowers and all that.
24:50But, but, um, but when there was something that I personally felt challenged with, I
24:55could go knock on the producer's door, go sit in her office and sneak a kiss.
25:00Yeah.
25:01And then go back to work.
25:02Yeah.
25:04And you, when you were directing this, you had to direct, uh, white people to be very,
25:10very racist.
25:14Was that awkward to like, be like, I'm not feeling it from your heart?
25:20You know what?
25:21No, no.
25:22There's some scenes in this movie where, you know, when you do a film, you get H&R, right?
25:27Human resources.
25:27And you gotta have these speeches.
25:29And there are scenes and times where we had to have meetings.
25:33Uh, my cast, my, my main villain is played by, uh, Harry Goodwins.
25:38And he plays a very dangerous racist white guy in this film.
25:43And, uh, he's married to a black woman with two children.
25:46And he's from London.
25:47Yeah.
25:48Okay.
25:48So, so he had to, you know, really act out some of this stuff.
25:52And he's one of the nicest guys I ever met.
25:54So when you're an actor, you have to take on that role.
25:58And there's one scene in the film where, uh, my buddy James Thompson, uh, James Thomas,
26:04who plays like one of the most ruthless guys in the film.
26:07And he, he, you know, he just seemed like he got lost a little into it.
26:11He's, you know, he was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
26:14Ah!
26:15Did he say anything that wasn't in the script?
26:18Yeah.
26:18It was, there was one word that wasn't in, well, it wasn't that it wasn't in the script.
26:22It was like, okay, I had two of those in there.
26:25Yeah.
26:26He's did three of them.
26:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:28It's like, where'd that extra one come from?
26:31Yeah.
26:33But, but it, but it made the, it made Shamik Moore.
26:37Cause Shamik Moore is such a gentle soul.
26:39You know, he's a special guy and this is my third project with him.
26:42And I just love the fact that, that, um, you know, he's now evolving to a, uh, I call
26:48him a man actor versus being a, a young adult or a child actor.
26:53But when that energy came at him and he, it's the scene where he holds this basketball,
26:57he's going to pop this guy in the face with it.
27:00Uh, on one take, the ball slipped out a little early, you know what I mean?
27:05But don't worry.
27:06The ball is plastic.
27:07It's not, it's not real.
27:08Right.
27:09But, um, but the point was that the energy that, that was starting to, um, build up,
27:13it caused this visceral reaction.
27:16And for the cameras, that's what I want.
27:18Um, you know, I know it's, I know it's delicate.
27:20I know that, um, certain words, certain languages are trigger points.
27:25Uh, but this film is made to make you feel uncomfortable at times.
27:29It's made to feel, make you feel, uh, warm and relaxed when you see how young people can
27:35relate to each other and how the older generation is holding on to old school shit that, uh,
27:40I can say that?
27:40Yeah.
27:41Yeah.
27:43Yeah.
27:51Okay.
27:53This is cable.
27:54I can, I can let this a little bit.
27:55Right.
27:56But holding on to old school, old school crap.
27:58I'm going to say that, that, that, that, uh, that, that's past, bro.
28:02Um, the film is like, let go of that.
28:05You know what I mean?
28:06And, and then there's moments in the film where no matter who you are, you're going to root for the
28:10hero because the insidious things that is happening in this film, if you see yourself
28:16on the screen with some of the people that's doing the evil, you need to check yourself.
28:20Okay.
28:21And if you don't feel the, the, you know, there's a scene with Paris Jackson and Shamik
28:26Moore kind of like put their two hands together and then, you know, they kind of embrace each
28:32other and then a tear comes out of her eyes.
28:35I didn't tell her to cry, but the, the character, I know that she felt the weight of like, yo,
28:40what's
28:40going to happen to our town?
28:42What's going to happen to him?
28:43What's going to happen to me?
28:44When is the world going to wake up and realize that all men are created equal?
28:52Self-evident is self-evident.
28:54As our forefathers wrote, it said, it's self-evident that all men are created equal.
28:58Black, white, red, brown, yellow man, and woman, all created equal.
29:04Mm-hmm.
29:06That's, that's amazing.
29:10There is, there is also something on my mind.
29:13You created distribution for this film.
29:17Like, you, you have what I would say is one of the, like, four most creative minds in doing deals.
29:25Like, whether, whether it was with Wu-Tang back in the day or it's what you're doing now, you always
29:30really think artist-forward and, and like, the way that the artist can, can work without getting lost in sort
29:38of,
29:38but whether it's jargon or legalese, what, whatever the thing is.
29:42And I see you making this distribution for yourself for the film.
29:45Is that something you want to do more broadly?
29:47Or did you feel like it was the only vehicle that you could get into theaters the way you wanted?
29:52Well, it's a similar, it's a little bit of both.
29:54I wanted to make sure that, if I could go through the funnel first, I can wire it up a
29:59little bit, make it a little wider,
30:01and then get other artists to come through.
30:04You know, look, it's not easy making a movie.
30:05It's a 30 hurdle jump, all right?
30:08To get it in cinema, there's another 30 hurdle jump.
30:11I formed 36 cinema and 36 distribution to maybe make it a 12 hurdle jump.
30:16You got to jump something, all right?
30:17Yeah.
30:18But if I could simplify it a little bit and get more stories into the system and get more artists
30:24that chance to kind of be artists
30:26and not be caught up because of budget or because of even some gatekeeping.
30:32You know, some stereotypes of what a character can be.
30:37You know, I'm trying to like at least crack that door a little more so a little more could get
30:43in.
30:43You know what I mean?
30:43Absolutely.
30:44You are an incredible legend.
30:47And this film and all the things you're doing, the deals that you make, the people you uplift, just add
30:53to your legend.
30:54So thank you so much for being here.
30:56Good seeing you.
31:01One Spoon of Chocolate will be in theaters May 1st.
31:04RZA!
31:05We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.
31:20That's our show for tonight.
31:21Now, here it is.
31:22Your moment is in.
31:23Thank you, Chair.
31:24Howard Schneider with Reuters.
31:25You mentioned that staying on as a governor, you intend to keep a low profile.
31:30I'm just wondering if you could give us a little more detail on what that looks like and how you
31:34can.
31:36Touche.
31:39What that.
31:40Yeah.
31:40Walk down the steps.
31:42Sorry.
31:43I'm sorry.
31:43I missed you.
31:45You
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