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Jimmy Kimmel Live - Season 24 - Episode 25: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor, Linda Perry
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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, the hosts of Pod Save America,
00:07Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vitor,
00:11plus music from Linda Perry with the Klee Tones!
00:17And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:31Hi, I'm Jimmy Kimmel, thanks for watching,
00:35and thank you for joining us for this special show
00:39following the State of the Union Address.
00:42We are in Hollywood.
00:44We are 2,600 miles away from Washington, D.C.,
00:49where we are still all digesting the Burger King speech tonight.
00:53And what a speech it wasn't, huh?
00:56I can't believe America missed an all-new Will Trent for this one.
01:00It was angry, right?
01:02It was an angry speech.
01:04The theme of tonight's speech was,
01:06all foreigners are murderers.
01:08And Trump just, he said,
01:10zero illegal aliens have been allowed to the United States on his watch,
01:14but the door is always open to those who come in legally to be his next wife.
01:19So that's something.
01:20He bragged about ending DEI.
01:22He bragged about kicking two million people off food stamps.
01:26It was like a Christmas message from the Grinch.
01:28He, uh, Trump applauded the efforts of a World War II vet who liberated an internment camp
01:34at the same time he is building new ones here in the United States.
01:37He claimed gas is down to $1.85 a gallon.
01:41When you ramble mostly incoherently for two hours,
01:44is that technically still a speech,
01:46or does it at some point become a conniption fit?
01:49This, it is amazing.
01:51We put him on all the channels to say this stuff.
01:53Trump told us in advance that the speech was going to be long,
01:56and for once he was telling the truth.
01:58We were waiting for the speech to finish before we started shooting the show.
02:02It went on so long we had to start before we said it.
02:04He's probably still going, right?
02:07Which is a problem because, you know,
02:09Mike Johnson's bedtime is 9 o'clock sharp.
02:12The speech went on so long,
02:14Christine Ohm's dog shot itself.
02:18They really, they do need to hire an orchestra to play him off like the Oscars.
02:25At the stroke of 90 minutes, go straight into YMCA and end it.
02:30Something was off with his hair tonight, too.
02:32Did you notice his hair?
02:33It looked like a cloud on top of a sweet potato or something.
02:37His flop sweat and his makeup combined to form a frothy,
02:41homemade orange Julius on his face.
02:43You know, this event, it's supposed to be a joint session of Congress,
02:46but a bunch of Democrats decided to sit it out in protest.
02:50That had little impact on the pageantry.
02:53For a speech, that has been an annual tradition
02:56since George Washington delivered the first one back in 1790.
03:04Mr. Speaker,
03:06I present the inaugural recipient of the 2026 FIFA Peace Prize,
03:12the rightful winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize,
03:17the undisputed champion of beautiful, clean coal,
03:21the chairman of the Trump-Kennedy Center,
03:24chairman of the Trump Board of Peace,
03:27semi-finalist for the Carl Jr. Presidential Fitness Award,
03:31Captain Kankaroo.
03:33He doesn't wear diapers,
03:34and he had no idea his best friend was a pedophile,
03:38President Donald J. Trump.
03:43There he is.
03:46Oh, well, not everyone loves it.
03:49All the Trump cult members were there,
03:50including Congressman Troy Nels,
03:52who showed up wearing some very festive net wear.
03:55You can see the very warm welcome
03:57that he's getting from his Republican colleagues there in the chamber.
04:01Now, look at this.
04:02Yeah, he's wearing a...
04:04Special thanks to the serial killer on Etsy who made that for him.
04:08In a break from tradition,
04:10the president and first lady invited separate guests.
04:13Usually, the first lady invites guests to support the president's agenda.
04:17She chose to bring her own guests,
04:19so the state of their union is twin beds tonight.
04:22But you know this was a big deal,
04:23because all the president's children were there.
04:25Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, Barron, even Tiffany showed up.
04:29Usually, they only get together like this for his depositions.
04:32But he needed the support.
04:34Trump's popularity is at its lowest point of his second term.
04:37Chlamydia is now more popular than Donald Trump.
04:41So he needed them.
04:42They came.
04:45Seated behind the president were the vice president and the Speaker of the House.
04:48That is not...
04:49Behind the president's not a fun spot to be in,
04:52because everyone's watching you the whole time.
04:54You're right there in the shot.
04:55So every little move you make, it's scrutinized.
04:58Poor J.D. Vance.
04:59All...
04:59I guess all that standing and sitting on the chair
05:01got him kind of worked up.
05:04Now, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.
05:07The hottest.
05:16Down, boy.
05:18Down.
05:18No.
05:19No.
05:20Trump reportedly spent a lot of time rehearsing this speech,
05:24if he can believe it.
05:24Much more than in previous years.
05:27He even had a lectern brought into his private residence
05:30so he could practice, and it paid off.
05:32Hannibal Lectern, really, he knocked this out of the park.
05:38Look, nobody stands up.
05:40These people are crazy, I'm telling you.
05:43They're crazy.
05:48They're crazy.
05:54Amazing.
05:55Boy, oh boy.
05:58We're lucky we have a country.
06:00With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country,
06:03but we've stopped it just in the nick of time, didn't we?
06:08Go ahead.
06:09I have to say, Trump's dementia really makes me miss Joe Biden's dementia.
06:13It was a much friendlier dementia.
06:14Here's the real state of the union, okay?
06:17We have a nutjob wannabe king who's doing everything he can to censor opinions he doesn't want to hear.
06:22He has his goons arresting, incarcerating, and killing American citizens.
06:26He's got funding for cancer research at children's hospitals,
06:30while he rakes in literally billions of dollars for himself and his family.
06:34He's coming after our right to vote.
06:36He's protecting pedophiles and won't explain it.
06:39He's lining the pockets of billionaires, all while neglecting the sick, the poor, the hungry,
06:44in the name of Jesus, by the way, who you can read all about in a Donald Trump edition of
06:48the God Bless the USA Bible
06:50that is made in China and available for $99.99.
06:54That is the state of the union, okay?
06:58Now, there were some positive moments tonight.
07:02The Golden Boys from Team USA Hockey were in the house.
07:05They stopped by the White House this afternoon to give Insane Gretzky yet another medal he did not win.
07:13I'm sure he kept that one, too.
07:16The U.S. women's hockey team declined Trump's disingenuous invitation to the state of the union tonight.
07:23And because they did, they got an even better offer from none other than Flavor Flav,
07:29who wrote, if the USA women's hockey team wants a real celebration,
07:32and invite, I'll host them in Las Vegas, do some nice dinners and shows and good times.
07:38See, that, maybe that should be the new tradition, if you win gold.
07:41Like, you know how you win the Super Bowl, you go to Disneyland, you win gold,
07:44you get a weekend in Vegas with Flavor Flav.
07:46And, by the way, maybe he'll even give you a neck clock, okay?
07:53In his speech tonight, Trump claimed the women's team would be coming to the White House soon,
07:58whether they like it or not.
07:59Meanwhile, there's still a lot of grumbling about Cash Patel, the director of the FBI,
08:04who treated himself to a trip to Italy at taxpayer expense,
08:07after hammering the previous director of the FBI for doing much less.
08:12Many Americans are not comfortable with the idea of the director of the FBI
08:16using a government jet to fly across the world for a locker room bro-out.
08:21But Senator Ted Cruz is not among those people.
08:23Sweaty Teddy, who's had his own travel-related controversy,
08:27says all that matters is what a great job Cash is doing.
08:31I mentioned just a minute ago, murder rates across the country have dropped 20%.
08:35Violent crime is down.
08:37Terrorists are being arrested.
08:39Gang members are being arrested.
08:40Rapists are being arrested.
08:42Child molesters are being molested.
08:43That's a real record of success.
08:47That's how they're punishing them?
08:50Molesters are being molested.
08:52Felons are being fellated.
08:54It's all going according to plan.
08:56You know, one of the fun things about having no laws to speak of anymore
08:59is you could bet now on what Trump might say.
09:02Here is a cross-section of words and phrases people bet on tonight.
09:07Woke, whether you'd say the word woke, I don't think he did.
09:09Mental institution, he did say mental institution.
09:14Discombobulator and Ethereum.
09:16Now, can you imagine being his speechwriter and adding the word discombobulator?
09:20You might as well jump on stage and pull his pants down in front of everybody.
09:23There's a better chance you would hear him say,
09:25I love you, Eric, in his speech than discombobulator.
09:29Some people bet a lot of money on this.
09:31I bet if Trump closed his speech by reading the Emily Dickinson poem,
09:38Hope is the Thing with Feathers, I would have won $25 million.
09:42I lost, Guillermo.
09:43Sorry, I was going to give you half.
09:45Oh, my God.
09:46Maybe next time.
09:47You know, after every State of the Union,
09:49the opposing party delivers a rebuttal to the speech.
09:52And this year, I'm honored to tell you that the Democrats have chosen to do that on our show.
09:57And here now, with the official response to the president's speech tonight,
10:00please welcome California Governor Gavin Newsom, everybody.
10:06Thank you for joining us, Governor.
10:08Hey, Jim Bone.
10:10Well, where are you now?
10:11I'm hosting a hate watch party at the most exclusive new hotspot, Stolen Land.
10:17Stolen Land?
10:18Why is it called Stolen Land?
10:20Because we stole it from the Pechanga Morongo.
10:23And by we, I mean whites.
10:24Oh, yes, of course.
10:25Well, we were hoping to get your response to the State of the Union speech tonight.
10:29Did you watch?
10:30I'm still watching it.
10:31It's still going?
10:32Yeah, and this little J.D. weirdo's got some mad stamina.
10:36I mean, check this dude out.
10:37He's still going with that.
10:40Respect.
10:41Well, what have you thought of the speech so far?
10:44Oh, speck-tack-a-lack-a.
10:46Oh, really?
10:47Well, for the country, it was no bueno.
10:49But I won $6,500 on Polymarket, betting that Trump would crap his diapy.
10:55Oh, did he crap his diapy?
10:56He did.
10:57He did.
10:58They had to bring him back to one of those koala baby changing tables.
11:01Oh, my gosh.
11:02All right, but what about the speech itself?
11:03What did you think?
11:04The speech itself was whack.
11:06It was divisive.
11:07Most deaf, not my vibe.
11:10I bring people together.
11:11Do you have any idea how many three-ways I've had?
11:16I do not, no.
11:17Thirty-four.
11:18What?
11:19The secret is that no one sits in the cup chair for too long.
11:23It's a free-flowing rotation.
11:25Okay, well, that's a great tip, Governor, but...
11:27Yeah, oh, that's what she said.
11:29Yeah.
11:30If we could get back to the speech, the State of the Union speech.
11:34Oh, right, right, right.
11:34Look, real Americans don't want to be lied to about the economy and immigration.
11:40They want to be lied to about cool s***, like high-speed rail,
11:44and the idea that they could ever own a home.
11:46Keep dreaming, Renterinos.
11:49Now, Len, now, I do want to ask you about something the president mentioned.
11:52What about affordability?
11:54Affordability slaps.
11:56I mean, Americans just want to be able to put s*** on the table.
12:00What is s***?
12:01S***.
12:02She or they, however you identify.
12:06You're a they, right?
12:08No, I'm just a me, but let's focus on the speech, Governor.
12:11What about him giving the goalie from the Winnipeg Jets the Presidential Medal of Freedom
12:15while all those veterans were sitting around?
12:17It's just a distraction from the Epstein Files, which I am proud to say I am not in.
12:23No redactamundo.
12:25That's right.
12:26You never visited Epstein Island.
12:28I know.
12:29Yeah.
12:29I'm as surprised as you are.
12:30Did I mention I've had 34 three-ways?
12:32You did that.
12:33You mentioned that earlier.
12:34Yeah.
12:35Which you can read all about in the Newsome Files, a.k.a.
12:39Fifty Shades of Sleigh, a memoir I've self-published based on my true erotic adventures.
12:45Oh, wow.
12:46Okay.
12:46Chapter one, my campaign manager's wife.
12:49Whoa!
12:50I did that.
12:52Google it.
12:54River, are you worried about the midterm elections?
12:57Like, do you have a plan if Trump is to send ICE agents to our polling places here in California?
13:03If that happens, we are ready with a killer tactical response.
13:07Which is what, exactly?
13:09I ordered 100,000 of these inflatable frog costumes.
13:14Is, and that's all?
13:16Well, I mean, that's most of it.
13:18Okay.
13:19Oh, but also, we're moving every polling place to higher elevation.
13:24Why?
13:25Well, most of those ICE agents are too fat to go uphill.
13:29I mean, have you seen these guys?
13:30Yeah.
13:31Fatty, fatty, two by four.
13:33Can't fit through the kitchen door.
13:35Do you think insulting their weight is really, I mean, it's so-
13:38Oh, hold up, Jimbo, hold up.
13:39Don't get it twisted.
13:40I'm all for body positivity.
13:42And I got 34 three-ways to prove it.
13:45Oh, wait, wait, wait.
13:46I just realized something.
13:48If I've had 34 three-ways with two people, that's 68.
13:51Do you know what that makes me?
13:53No.
13:5469.
13:55Ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:56Yeah.
13:57That's my guy.
13:58Okay.
13:59Governor, what did you think about Trump's claim that the economy's going great?
14:02Well, I don't know about the rest of the country, but in Cali, the economy is booming.
14:08Did you know that we have a 100% employment rate among Adam Sandler's friends?
14:13No, I didn't know that.
14:15It only takes one overall deal with Netflix to feed and house a fully grown Rob Schneider
14:20for a whole year.
14:22I was not.
14:23I didn't know they could even get to fully grown.
14:25Okay, so since you're here giving the rebuttal, should we assume that your plan is to run
14:30for president?
14:32Whoa, what?
14:33Me?
14:34Yeah.
14:34What?
14:35President?
14:36I mean, whoa, whoa, Jimmy, Jimmy.
14:39Kaboom.
14:40You're literally blowing my mind right now.
14:41I'm sorry.
14:42I didn't mean to blow your mind.
14:43No, no, no.
14:44But I mean, look, if you say so.
14:46Well, you know, I'm not sure I make the decision.
14:49Well, it sounds like you do, Jimmy.
14:50I don't know that I do.
14:51I mean, after all, I relate to real Americans.
14:54Yeah, uh-huh.
14:55You're your cruelty-free tofu croquettes, governor.
14:57Oh, sick!
14:59These are fully vegan?
15:01Uh-huh.
15:02No actual animals have been hurt?
15:04Okay, great.
15:04Yeah.
15:05Can I say a brief blessing?
15:06Yes.
15:07No, no.
15:07I don't know.
15:08No, no, no, no, no.
15:09Don't worry.
15:09It's non-denomination.
15:10Okay.
15:11Gracias for your sacrifice, you small little bean curds.
15:15And thank you for pairing so well with this stone-cold, bone-chilled chard.
15:21Okay.
15:21Is that it?
15:22It's nice.
15:22You made a selfie?
15:23Oh, yeah, yeah.
15:24Oh, come on.
15:25Yeah.
15:25Come on in here.
15:27Get two tickets on the GovTrain.
15:29Hey, do you ladies like sushi?
15:32Oh, well, here we go, then.
15:34Here's to numero 350 in the three-way train.
15:37All right.
15:38Thank you, governor.
15:39Thank you for that thoughtful response.
15:43We've got a very good show tonight.
15:45We have music from Linda Perry, and we will be right back with the hosts of Pod Save America.
15:49Stick around.
15:54Well, here we go.
16:15her new album and also she has a new documentary both are called let it die here music from linda
16:20perry tonight tomorrow night we will be joined by jason bateman and olympic snowboarder chloe
16:26kim so join us for uh that on this stately night of the union it is fitting to welcome four
16:31guests
16:32who spend much of their time examining the orange oddity who's doing his darndest to decimate the
16:37white house in more ways than one please say hello to the hosts of pod save america john favreau
16:43john lovett dan pfeiffer and tommy vitor
17:01hello man how are you good how are you doing i'm grateful for you uh to you guys for being
17:05here
17:06tonight i know this is a big thing you know and also you know the two of you were speech
17:10writers
17:11for president obama boy that seems like a long time ago doesn't it yeah a lifetime ago yeah
17:18what'd you think of tonight's speech i mean it set a record that was good it'll go down in history
17:23as the longest speech it was the longest the longest always something you want to achieve with the
17:27state of the union it beat the previous record held by him all right also him well you know he'll
17:35take
17:35any record he can get i guess yes he will nobel pizza prizes he'll just steal it right from you
17:39were you surprised by anything there's are we allowed even to be surprised anymore
17:46it was largely kind of a paint by numbers state of the union there wasn't a big moment i mean
17:50i think
17:50the medal of honor presentations were emotional and powerful and like good on those service members
17:55for their heroism but i mean i think the discussion will probably be the hockey team right i mean that
18:01like there wasn't a big moment not he was kind of like fascist oprah out there like you get a
18:06medal
18:07you get a medal you know yeah not one of the hockey players kissed another hockey player i these are
18:16all these are all gay guys these are all closeted gay guys i think you're confusing that with a
18:23television show on every team they didn't kiss at all not even any light petting or anything
18:29and they're all gay they're gay to a one one of them's jewish so he's jewish and gay
18:38no i think you have it all wrong i think you're confusing i don't know what was going on back
18:42there but you're you're confused um did you bet on did you guys do you take because it seems like
18:49you might be experts in this you do you bet on any of the words like discombobulate uh and
18:55really how much would a speechwriter have to hate the president to put that word in there
19:00yeah i don't really get the betting on things some people already know the answer that's the real
19:04problem the cool thing about betting in a game is you don't know who's going to win but if you're
19:08betting on something where someone in a room somewhere who has no scruples knows the answer
19:12seems like a stupid bet wait a minute you're not insinuating that anyone in the trump administration
19:21would do something like that would you would they yeah it was like someone bet like uh nicholas
19:25maduro will be deposed by close of business thursday and won like a hundred thousand dollars
19:30off of that bet yeah i think this is a little bit rigged interesting but if people are dumb enough
19:34to
19:34want to bet on it i guess they should take the money should be taken i guess that's one way
19:40to run a
19:40country yeah are we the hottest country in the world hottest country in the world i mean it was
19:46like uh watching an alternate reality uh watching the speech because he like he's got 70 of the
19:54country thinking that it's going in the wrong direction he's got like a 35 40 approval rating
19:59uh most people think the economy's in the wrong going in the wrong direction most people are upset
20:03over inflation and he didn't say a word the entire speech acknowledging that anyone was having any
20:11struggles anywhere in the country which is my practice yeah absolutely my practice like the
20:16republicans in the room were cheering but the ones who are on the ballot in the fall were crying on
20:20the
20:21inside because he did everything he did made their problems worse right he said it was the greatest
20:25economy in the world no one believes that he said prices were down everyone knows that's not true he
20:29said tariffs everyone hates the tariffs it's just like really was a speech for by himself for himself
20:34and for no one else but hasn't his strategy of bsing all the time 24 hours a day sometimes more
20:43worked for him i mean isn't this something that is actually effective for this guy and the people who
20:49believe everything he says not when he's in office right he lost the 2017 elections the 2018 elections
20:54the 2020 elections and this this does not work for him and there has been a i think a fundamental
20:59breaking of the trust since he was since he won 60 of the country thinks that things are worse off
21:05since he was elected right so that's a that's a tough pill for for donald trump to swallow that
21:09people think things were better off under joe biden than him and so that's not working right now for
21:12him he's got a 38 approval rating is this from all the many things we have to be concerned about
21:18the
21:18things that we heard tonight um is the idea is this idea this save america act as he calls it
21:24this um
21:25brazen uh attempt to control the elections is that the one we should be most worried about
21:32i don't know most worried about it but like republicans should actually be worried about it because
21:37it would require a passport uh to vote and like 50 of americans don't have passports um and like
21:45one in four voters who don't have a college education uh don't have passports and that's
21:51mainly donald trump's coalition people under 50 that make it under 50 000 i think like one in five don't
21:56have a passport there either so like millions of americans would not be able to vote because they
22:01don't have a passport and that's what this would require or a birth certificate because everyone knows
22:05where their birth certificate so if you know this i assume they know this why are they pushing this
22:11i mean part of it is trump is obsessed with relitigating the 2020 election and trying to
22:16prove to people that he did not lose an election he clearly lost some of it is muscle memory like
22:21republicans love voter id laws they love voter suppression laws they can't help but push them
22:27even to their detriment it sounds fine when they describe it they're like hey look you need an id to
22:31buy
22:32beer why wouldn't you need an id to but it's much obviously much more complicated than that yes
22:36yeah look they it should be alarming that you would need a passport or your birth certificate to vote
22:41and the trump administration would be in charge of renewing people's passports like i don't love
22:46that if it does sound reasonable right that people should have an id to vote but if the government
22:52is going to be in charge of deciding who gets an id or not suddenly the government is in charge
22:55of
22:56who gets to vote or not so they want to do something where everyone gets a national id which
22:59republicans used to oppose used to think was a federal takeover the elections if they want to
23:03do something like that where everybody would have something that would give them the ability to vote
23:07maybe in trying to write to vote sure we could do that we could do but that's not what they
23:10want
23:11they want to stop people that they don't like from voting and they want to delegitimize the elections
23:15that we've already had that they've lost there was a time where he was super popular in his party
23:20and everyone kind of had to follow in lockstep because he wasn't because he's so vicious he will you
23:26single you out and destroy you why haven't they what are is that it are why are they still doing
23:33that
23:33why are they still so scared of him why hasn't the tie i mean it's happened with a couple of
23:38people
23:38we've seen marjorie taylor green change her tune we've seen a little bit of it but why haven't we seen
23:43more of it because even though he is less popular with republicans than he used to be he still has
23:46an 82
23:47percent approval rating with republicans and if he endorses your opponent in a primary then you're going to lose
23:51your primary unless these people are in safe republican districts and the only election they
23:54can ever possibly lose is against a donald trump endorsed primary opponent he just rescinded his
23:59endorsement from a republican who voted against him on tariffs and so he's trying to send a signal
24:04on that when these primary filing deadlines pass in a couple months here maybe some of them will be
24:08more brave i'm not counting on it but he still has that power within his party do you think that
24:14we
24:14are going to forget about what i call the trump epstein files and i would love it if you guys
24:18would pick
24:19that up too um we've even trademarked it do you think that they are going to be successful
24:27um installing and just doing a bunch of crazy stuff and and just kind of running out the clock on
24:35this
24:35thing i i genuinely don't i mean they released what three million files which means reporters are
24:41pouring through those they're pulling threads investigative journalists are digging deeper and
24:45deeper over in the uk they just are rent arrested prince andrew but the the creep formerly known as
24:50prince andrew for uh for information that came out as part of the epstein files more information will
24:57come out during that investigation i mean like this is just metastasizing for donald trump and anyone
25:02who is part of the epstein inner circle we also found out today story in npr that the fbi interviewed
25:08a victim uh three times in 2019 and then again in 2025 and it was a underage girl who accused
25:18donald trump
25:18of sexually assaulting her when she was underage who they deemed to be a credible witness yes and now
25:24those have disappeared from the website all those fbi interviews so that is a pretty big deal
25:28yeah they can't make this go away without our permission you had a bunch of democrats uh bring
25:35people that have been victims of jeffrey epstein or related to victims of jeffrey epstein to the
25:40state of the union he was confronted by many of these people for the first or perhaps second time
25:44and
25:52i like when the joke is just for you
25:57but uh i think it's incumbent upon us to not just keep this in focus but also make it part
26:03of the
26:04story of this being the most corrupt and corrupted administration we have ever had by far no comparison
26:11that is both in terms of how they are profiting off of of the white house and also how they
26:15have
26:16taken over the department of justice including putting his face on the front of it to make sure
26:20he doesn't face accountability his friends don't face accountability anybody that sounds like him
26:24that has money like him that has connections like him doesn't face accountability like that is what
26:28is happening and i think that's why it doesn't go away because people really do care about them
26:31all right we're going to take a break again from pod save america's with us we'll be right back
26:47now we're back with the hosts of pod save america you guys um how many how many state of the
26:54union
26:54speeches were you involved in you guys uh i did five five yeah hated them all did you yeah it
27:02is the
27:02worst speech to do uh because it's the longest speech the president delivers and it probably
27:08matters in long term the least because it's like a laundry list of policies and applause lines no
27:14matter how much you try to cut it down it just like it doesn't it doesn't really sing ever did
27:19president obama like doing them he hated them oh he hated he hated them really hated doing them
27:24hated writing them hated practicing them uh he was happy when they were over uh-huh like that how much
27:29would he practice them we would do like one run through yeah once and then and then everyone
27:34would try to get him to do a second run through and he'd say no yeah say i'm going to
27:38have dinner
27:38i don't want to do the same i see um looking back do you feel like it was a waste
27:42of time to fact
27:43check any of that stuff i mean to really like god yes turns out it's not that doesn't matter
27:50yeah the the lawyer the the lawyerly care that was taken with every word that the president used to
27:56say it used to be there was all teams and phalanxes of people pouring over the language to
28:01make sure it was legally accurate to make sure every fact was checked and it turns out that was
28:06not necessary at all you could just skip it completely you could just say inflation zero
28:12prescriptions down 1500 percent i can do anything without congress the kennedy center has my name on it
28:20now and it's closed but that i think people have forgotten that it closed it's no longer in business
28:30yeah that was it quite a run
28:35you um president obama uh like a week maybe not even a week ago well i wonder if you guys
28:42were upset
28:43that he didn't say this on your podcast but he said that uh that he was asked about aliens which
28:48i've
28:48asked him here on this show it's usually the first question i ask any president who's on the show
28:53and he said that uh he said that he believes that alien that it is likely that aliens exist but
29:00then
29:01clarified saying he doesn't have any specific knowledge um that they exist um do you guys know
29:07anything about this stuff we can't we we can't talk about it yeah no i wish i mean look i
29:13worked on
29:14the national security staff unfortunately there's not like a vault you walk into with like all the
29:17secrets and you get to kind of rifle through them but i i think it was very funny to see
29:21the media
29:22run with that so fast because i was like do they think obama was confirming the existence of aliens
29:28in the 44th minute of a 47 minute youtube interview in the lightning rounds like i don't know that that's
29:34when it comes out maybe i'm wrong because if he's gonna do it he's gonna do it on our podcast
29:37yeah he
29:38is gonna you're gonna follow up there a block and now they are saying they are going to the trump
29:43administration is going to release the alien files another obama accomplishment
29:49yeah unfortunately several of the cabinet members will also be implicated in those files
29:55when a line you write for uh presidential speech becomes like part of american history
30:06a line like ask not what you can do for your country weren't your country something like that
30:10and then it gets credited to that president for all of time is does that bother you
30:15i mean tell me the line i'll tell you
30:23i don't work for him anymore so are there lines that you um wished that you you hadn't pitched uh
30:32not of one but that there was a moment in the state of the union where uh president obama was
30:38talking about how complicated the government was and that was before we shut it down so back then
30:43we had a government it worked but it was complicated and so uh there was a line about how
30:49the interior department regulates the salmon when they're in fresh water the epa regulates the salmon
30:55when they're in salt water and we added a joke uh and you won't believe how complicated it gets
30:59once they're smoked and it did like that and it did like that
31:07the commerce secretary nearly quit uh before the speech trying to get that out of the out of the
31:14state of the union oh so they get they were so upset they were like no we need the commerce
31:19department to regulate it in fresh water and we need the interior department to regulate it when it's
31:23what's in seawater and like we cannot have regulation in just one uh department for salmon
31:29this is what got the commerce oh things were so much more innocent back then
31:34so that joke was uh i got the kind of reaction you got here a kind of tepid
31:40milk toast reaction from members of congress yeah now the commerce secretary is fishing on epstein
31:46island with the friend family dining al fresco is it hard to pitch a joke to the president because
31:52you do have to be super careful right i mean think we when we pitched him all the jokes about
31:59donald trump for that correspondence dinner yeah he loved them oh those he liked yeah and that worked
32:04out well for all of us yeah yeah no i'm in in like a state of the union type situation
32:09and also do you
32:11hear it when a joke falls flat like that joke do you afterwards you get roasted by the president
32:17or does he take responsibility for choosing it oh no he i think he takes responsibility for the stuff
32:22that goes the best that's that's why you're president you don't take you're not president
32:27because you take credit for the lines that don't work but uh yeah there was a line in there once
32:32about uh um uh the regulations around milk spills and the fact that uh uh farmers had to spend a
32:40lot
32:40of money uh cleaning up a milk spill because it was regulated like oil and so there was a line
32:46uh we included that says now there really is a reason to cry over spilled milk
32:52that also got a bigger last year or that in the chamber it aged well yeah that was like an
32:57incident
32:58right like we didn't weren't we like attacked on cnn for like bad jokes yeah yeah yeah it was a
33:03bit of
33:03a scandal yeah he was very nice about it though he never said he like made a joke about it
33:07a week
33:07later and that was it oh really yeah yeah all right that one yeah yeah yeah that's not i don't
33:11know if
33:11that would uh yeah that one i think i would have probably passed on huh well you do comedy for
33:16a
33:16living for him comedy is sort of like a hobby president barack obama yeah but he's annoyingly
33:22good at it he's so good at it all right we're gonna take a break the hosts of pod save
33:25america
33:26here uh one more segment with you guys when we come back we'll be right back
33:40months ago i am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great vice president jd vance
33:56do you think jd we're back with the gang from pod save america is jd vance a good choice to
34:01lead
34:01the war on fraud uh considering that the guy who appointed him was convicted on 34 counts of it
34:07he doesn't body the mission he's like no i mean if he he knows a lot of the people committing
34:13crimes
34:14i mean he could investigate the trump family who sold their cryptocurrency company 49 percent of it
34:19to an emirati-backed uh organization before trump took office and did a secret deal that no one
34:24disclosed that'd be a good thing to check on yeah i sort of i feel bad calling trump the most
34:29corrupt
34:29president in history because it's a bit like saying john wayne gacy is the worst clown in history it's an
34:34insult to the other clowns they're not in the same conversation speaking of clowns do you think
34:42cash patel will suffer any real consequences for you know after making such a point uh how
34:48inappropriate it is for the fbi director to be flying around on the government jet for doing it
34:53himself in such a visible way and not just at the olympics in many situations i mean will trump fire
35:00him who knows right trump probably is excited because he thinks gives cash patel credit for
35:04bringing the olympic team to the speech tonight but he's already lost the workforce the fbi agents are
35:09leaking all these things about him we learned today several from a whistleblower that several uh
35:14fbi response units could not get to scenes on time because cash patel had the private plane elsewhere
35:20because he's going to every hockey event every mma event country music festivals yeah what can
35:27americans do do you have any suggestions any any answers what can we what can we do i mean i
35:35know we
35:35can march i know we can make signs i know we can make phone calls what else i mean people
35:41can still
35:42run for office right now ahead of the midterms we have a very good chance of taking back the house
35:47in
35:47the midterms we have a chance of taking back the senate at this point and so i think over the
35:51next
35:51nine months people need to get people to register to vote talk to everyone you know in your life who
35:56may vote or may not vote try to get them out try to get them organized and again i think
36:00if people
36:00um are really feeling angry about this go out and run for office yourself i mean the problems are so
36:05big that they can feel paralyzing right and you're like or even people who aren't well can't run for
36:10office and think about that there's some very basic things you can do like john mentioned which you can
36:13just talk to the people in your life right you know people who either have never voted before or got
36:18very involved the first time trump ran and then have sort of checked out from politics and talk to
36:22them about getting back in the process about why their voice matters that they can register to vote and
36:26they can if they do that if we take the house donald trump will never pass another piece of
36:30legislation again without democrats say so if we take the senate we control who goes on the supreme
36:34court and that and that there are a lot of like there is a like the majority of this country
36:39does
36:39not agree with trump they are mad about what he's doing they're upset about what's happening in
36:43minnesota they are mad about the corruption and if we talk to those people we get them activated then
36:48a message will be sent and put and things can change in this country very quickly you guys are doing
36:52a podcast you're taping a podcast tonight yep specifically about the state of the union speech
36:57you have your thoughts organized you know what you know what you're going to say i've been kind
37:01of riffing on it here i guess this is a good drive ron thank you very helpful thank you
37:05test out all our stuff here on jimmy kimball and then we bring it back to our podcast
37:12all right yeah just repeat all the same stuff yeah linda perry knows who we are linda perry yeah
37:17we could just go back and ask her if you want yeah might hurt our feelings are you excited about
37:22linda perry yeah oh well stick around forget the podcast thank you for being here you can watch
37:28or listen to new episodes of pod save america tuesdays fridays and sundays thank you fellas for
37:33being here we'll be back with linda perry
37:47this is our album called let it die here it comes out on may 8th here with the song beautiful
37:53linda perry
38:10every day is so wonderful suddenly it's hard to breathe
38:24now and then i get insecure from all the pain
38:31i'm so ashamed
38:37i am beautiful no matter what they say words can't bring me down
38:50i am beautiful and every single way words can't bring me down
39:04so don't you bring me down today
39:19to all your friends
39:22to all your friends you're delirious
39:24so consumed
39:26and all your friends you're doing
39:33trying hard to fill the emptiness the peace is gone
39:40left the puzzle undone ain't that the way it is
39:45but you are beautiful no matter what they say words can't bring you down
39:58you are beautiful and every single way words can't bring you down oh no no
40:10so don't you bring me down today
40:14no matter what we say
40:17no matter what we do no matter what we say
40:20whether song inside the tune will look beautiful and say
40:26And everywhere we go
40:29The sun will always shine
40:33But tomorrow we might wait
40:36On the other side
40:39We are beautiful
40:41No matter what they say
40:44Words can't bring us down
40:48Oh no, no
40:50We are beautiful
40:53And every single way
40:56Words can't bring us down
41:01Yeah, yeah, yeah
41:04Don't you bring me down today
41:10Don't you bring me down
41:37Many thanks to Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Fiker, Tommy Veeder, Lynda Perry, and Josh Myers too
41:44Apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time for him
41:47Nightline is dead
41:48Tomorrow night Jason Bateman will be with us
41:50Thanks for watching
41:51Good night
41:53Thank you
41:54Thank you
41:57You
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