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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, Nate Bargetsy and Joe Scarborough with the Klee Tones!
00:11And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:15Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:51You know, there's so much going on right now.
00:55There's too much, really.
00:56And then, in other areas, there's not enough going on.
00:58Like, you remember those, um, what do you call, uh, um, Epstein files?
01:03You remember those files Congress voted to legally require the Justice Department to release
01:09by December 19th of last year, and then December 19th came and went, and now it's the end of
01:14January, and we still don't have them?
01:15Well, after dragging this out as long as humanly possible, the Justice Department now says it
01:21plans to release the remaining files in the near term.
01:25They said they've reviewed millions of pages of materials and made substantial progress
01:30deleting the president's name from all of them.
01:33And the sooner, how can this still be unresolved?
01:36They claim they've had agents working around the clock on this since February of last year.
01:41Who's doing the redacting of these files?
01:43This guy?
01:44I mean, it'll be done as soon as he finishes that last Game of Thrones book.
01:49So Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and her flying monkeys told federal judges that the
01:55DOJ could not provide a specific date for the release of the files, like it's the new
02:00Harry Styles album or something.
02:03Think about how crazy this is, though.
02:05These people have blatantly ignored the law for over a month, and nobody's doing anything
02:09about it, because the people who are supposed to do something about it are the people who
02:14are doing it.
02:15They're like, who's going to prosecute us?
02:17Us?
02:18And I'm starting to feel like Linus waiting for the great pumpkin here.
02:22They made us wait so long.
02:25I feel like if they ever do come out, we need to make it extra special, like maybe have
02:29Bad Bunny read them aloud at the Super Bowl.
02:32Pass on.
02:35Meanwhile, this went kind of unreported.
02:38And Epstein's accomplice, Jelaine Maxwell, dropped a quiet little bombshell.
02:43She filed a petition in court that said 29 wealthy men made some kind of settlement deal
02:48in which their names wouldn't be revealed in exchange for paying money.
02:53And you know, a deal's a deal.
02:54You can't go back on it.
02:56I wonder how Trump is going to distract us from this one.
02:58Maybe start an OnlyFans?
03:00Maybe he'll add truck nuts to the Lincoln Memorial?
03:04I cannot wait to find out.
03:05No, these Epstein files are like Melania's movie.
03:09No one's ever going to see them.
03:11At least her movie's going to get released.
03:16This weekend, the long-anticipated documentary Melania will hit theaters.
03:21According to the Wall Street Journal, Melania pocketed $28 million of the licensing fee for
03:27the film.
03:28You know, between this and her marriage, she's probably the highest paid actress in the world.
03:34Melania, the movie, is expected to bring in between $1 and $5 million at the box office,
03:40well behind the horror movie Send Help, which incidentally would have been a much better
03:45title for the documentary.
03:47The first lady has been making the rounds promoting her film debut.
03:51Today, she rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
03:55See, good things do happen to rich people.
03:57Look at that thing.
03:57She got her first and second high-fives of her life, and then Melania treated the finance
04:03bros assembled to her thoughts on the power of storytelling.
04:07Visual storytelling and beautiful music create memories for a lifetime.
04:14What do you remember when you hear Rolling Stones?
04:18Michael Jackson.
04:19I don't know.
04:20Bubbles the Chimp?
04:21I don't know.
04:22What is the point?
04:23Are you really trying to tell us that this dumb vanity project slash corporate bribe is
04:28a work of art?
04:29We're going to remember, like, the music of Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson?
04:33I mean, the only thing to remind me of Michael Jackson is when it's bad, it's bad, you know
04:38it, and it's bad.
04:39I mentioned last night that you know it's bad because two-thirds of the crew that shot the
04:48movie in New York asked to have their names removed from the credits.
04:51Do you have any idea how bad a movie has to be for a crew member to not want a
04:55credit?
04:56Like, remember that weird Cats movie from, like, five or six years ago?
04:59Everyone got their credits on that one.
05:01Everyone.
05:02People keep their credits on Matt Damon movies.
05:05And they don't want it on them.
05:07Donald did not join his wife on Wall Street today.
05:10Francis Ford Gropilo has official business hosting a launch party in Washington for his new
05:16Trump accounts.
05:17These are, the Trump accounts are retirement accounts parents can contribute to so their
05:22kids will have money in savings when AI prevents them from ever having a job.
05:27You know, after his son Barron was born, Trump put $130,000 into an account.
05:34It was a porn star's account to keep her quiet, but still.
05:38And of course, the reason he's doing it, the reason he's now giving every child $1,000 of
05:44our money signed by him is to cover up for all the bad things he's doing.
05:48He's like a deadbeat dad who ignores all the stuff we need, then shows up randomly with
05:53a pair of high tops to try to buy our loves.
05:55There was a lot of star power at this event.
05:57Actress Cheryl Hines was there.
05:59Shark Tank judge Kevin O'Leary was there.
06:01And a very special guest, a woman who has recently emerged as one of the president's most unlikely
06:08fans.
06:09There's a certain person that's here who's the greatest and most successful female rapper
06:14in history, Nicki Minaj.
06:17Come on.
06:18And, you know, there she is.
06:21She's right.
06:22You see her?
06:22The black woman?
06:23The only black woman in the whole room?
06:25That's her.
06:26I think Trump's looking for a Nicki Minaj a trois because she really seems to dig him.
06:31This is one of his strangest bedfellows yet.
06:33I mean, where is Cardi B with a fistful of shoes when you need her?
06:38Again, this is an event about savings accounts.
06:42Nicki Minaj just made a last minute midnight payment to avoid losing her house.
06:47She's at a savings account event with Donald Trump.
06:50And then just to make it weirder, Nicki had a moment with the squeaker of the house, Mike
06:55Johnson, her fellow elf.
06:58They were embracing and somebody got Mike's porno accountability partner on the phone and
07:04it's going to be OK.
07:05I guess the good news is maybe Trump can get somebody other than Vanilla Ice to rap at the
07:08Mar-a-Lago New Year's party this year.
07:10Meanwhile, tensions are still high in Minneapolis where one of Trump's favorite targets, Minnesota
07:16Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, was attacked with a mystery liquid last night during a town hall.
07:22Christine Noem must resign or face impeachment.
07:32Look at her.
07:34She's like she's about to throw a punch there, right?
07:39I mean, I understand why they tackled him.
07:42But they should have let her beat his ass.
07:44That would have been the best.
07:46You know, it's scary to get sprayed with something.
07:48You don't know what you don't know if it's poison or acid or bodily fluids or if you're
07:53Greg Kelly from Newsmax.
07:55Just a bit of party favorite fun.
07:57It looked to me like silly string, which we used to play with back in the day.
08:01Yeah, back before silly string went woke, you know the day.
08:05It turns out the liquid that he sprayed on her was apple cider vinegar.
08:09But it really is amazing how quickly these people jump to whatever conclusion they want
08:13to be true.
08:13One of Omar's colleagues in the house, this guy Randy Fine from Florida, had a take on
08:19it that could possibly win him MAGA of the year.
08:22Well, I've got two thoughts.
08:23First, look, I want Ilhan Omar to be deported and denaturalized, but I don't want her to
08:27be attacked or hurt and people shouldn't do this sort of thing.
08:30But I also blame Ilhan Omar for what happened.
08:33That makes sense.
08:35You know, she didn't want to be attacked by a psycho.
08:37She should have made the president lie about her.
08:39In many ways, she sprayed herself.
08:41Trump also had a disgusting reaction to this.
08:45He told ABC News that he hadn't seen the video.
08:47He wouldn't bother.
08:49And knowing her, she probably had herself sprayed, which not only is that just a ridiculous
08:54thing to say, it also sets him up for maybe the easiest joke of all time.
08:59She had herself sprayed.
09:00Who's doing this to you?
09:03I mean, you've got to think the Trump has been doing a lot of Ilhan Omar material at
09:11his rallies.
09:12She's a great foil for him.
09:14He loves bringing up this lie that she married her own brother, which sounds very random and
09:20deranged until you remember how jealous he is that he can't marry a member of his own
09:24family.
09:25I think they call that projection.
09:27You know, the other night I said the only way that this nightmare and this gaslighting
09:32in Minnesota is going to end is if prominent figures on the right stand up.
09:36And we did get a couple, including Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
09:40When people watch that video and the government tells them, well, he was assaulting the police
09:45officers, nobody with any objectivity watches that video and believes that's what's happening.
09:50As the man retreats with each altercation, he retreats.
09:54And then the woman is thrown violently to the ground.
09:57He's thrown to the ground.
09:58No American believes that he was assaulting the officers.
10:02In fact, the opposite appears to be true.
10:04OK, that's good.
10:06Thank you, Rand Paul.
10:07Well, it's reasonable and and I think the perm looks really good.
10:12I really do.
10:13It's weird when you see him tell the truth.
10:15It's like when you see like a Muppet's legs, you know, and then we have another senator,
10:20Tom Tillis of North Carolina, who is not a fan of Homeland Security Chief Christy Noem.
10:25Senator, do you have confidence in Secretary Noem?
10:28None at all.
10:29No, to give you an idea of how incompetent I think she is, she actually thought FEMA should
10:33be eliminated.
10:33These are like amateurish assistant manager sort of thought processes going into somebody
10:39who's a secretary in a cabinet level position.
10:42It's unacceptable.
10:43All right.
10:43Now do the rest of the cabinet and the guy who stalked it.
10:47Tom Tillis is retiring, by the way.
10:49He doesn't have to run for office in case you're wondering why he spontaneously grew a backbone.
10:53But it is nice to see some of these Republicans standing up while the president does his best
10:58to change the subject.
10:59This morning, he wrote about the NFL Hall of Fame announcements that excluded former Patriots
11:04coach Bill Belichick.
11:06He wrote, it is the same mindset that gave pro football the new and unwatchable sissy kickoff
11:11rule that made it possible for Bill Belichick to not be elected into the Pro Football Hall
11:16of Fame.
11:17Both are ridiculous and should be overturned.
11:19This is what bothers him when he wakes up in the morning.
11:22This is what he thinks our problem is.
11:24But I actually, I actually agree with Trump.
11:27Bill Belichick is a jerk and a bit of a cheater, but he absolutely should have been voted in
11:32the Hall of Fame.
11:33The guy's been winning Super Bowls longer than his girlfriend has been alive.
11:37I mean, now I don't know if Coach Belichick is in the market for a new water boy, but if
11:44he is, man, our secretary of state, Marco Rubio, he was testifying before the Senate Foreign
11:48Relations Committee this morning, and he put on quite a display of hydration.
11:53This military action was incredibly brief, targeted, and successful.
11:57Secretary Rubio, we'll now do a, your description of the fact.
12:02Oh, careful.
12:03I'm pleased that we are looking at a diplomatic presence when the prices were already too high.
12:09Goalposts didn't move.
12:11Mary Rubio, good to be with you again.
12:13It is critical that you consult with Congress.
12:15The industry of, of, of taking their oil at gunpoint.
12:18It's not land well in the Americas.
12:21Um, Secretary Rubio.
12:23Oil.
12:24President Trump had been refocusing.
12:26Savannah should be concerned about the Maduro.
12:28Their influence.
12:29Influence.
12:29Right into it, because I want to bet.
12:31I just wanted to clarify.
12:32Secretary, thank you, and we hope to have that discussion next week at the secondary level.
12:35It's Rubio!
12:40How is, how is that even possible?
12:44Who drinks that many times?
12:46And where did it all go?
12:48Did he wear a diaper to the hearing?
12:50You know the little kitty urinal at the men's room?
12:53Oh, I bet he ran in and killed that.
12:55I bet they had to replace it.
12:57Marco has a big headache on his hands when it comes to our relationships with other countries.
13:01Germany has issued a travel advisory warning their citizens that it is dangerous to come to the United States.
13:08Their federal foreign office yesterday issued an alert saying German citizens should be aware of demonstrations and clashes with American
13:15migration and security authorities.
13:17Now, when Germany tells you your government is becoming too authoritarian, you might want to listen to that.
13:24This is, like, the, this is the, um, international equivalent of Charlie Sheen showing up at your intervention, okay?
13:36This is what, just to give you an idea of what these people are working on, the Secretary of the
13:41Interior, this guy Doug Burgum, um, there's Doug, desperately fighting erectile dysfunction.
13:46Uh, we don't see Doug much because he's been working on a PR campaign to push what they call beautiful,
13:53clean coal with the help of an adorable new mascot.
13:56The mascot's name is Coley.
13:58Now, this is a real thing.
13:59We did not make this up.
14:01They did.
14:02And I guess the goal is to get children excited about coal mining?
14:06I don't know.
14:08But Coley is, is on the job spreading the good word about coal.
14:12You can see there he is in front of a puddle of mud.
14:16You got him, uh, helping to plan a new coal mine.
14:19Coley's very busy.
14:20But still, he managed to make time for us tonight.
14:22And now, uh, appearing for the first time on Charlie Sheen, please welcome Haley, everybody.
14:29Hi, Coley.
14:32There he is.
14:34Welcome, welcome.
14:36How you doing?
14:37Hey, everybody.
14:38It's me, Coley.
14:40Here to tell you about the benefits of a healthy, clean, environmentally friendly coal.
14:48Well, welcome, Coley.
14:50It's a pleasure to have you here.
14:51Thank you, Jimmy.
14:52Under our president, Donald Trump, coal is back.
14:59Providing clean, affordable energy and jobs.
15:03Isn't that...
15:06You okay?
15:07Wait.
15:08You all right?
15:09Yeah.
15:12I mean, yeah, I guess, you know, it is...
15:14It would be great, Coley, but none of what you just said about coal being clean and affordable
15:20is true.
15:21Ha, ha, ha, ha.
15:21Ah, that's a good one, Jimmy.
15:23Wasn't that a great joke, folks?
15:26Well, no, that wasn't a joke.
15:27I mean, coal is not clean.
15:29No offense.
15:29But it's dirty and it's environmentally destructive and it's not even cheap.
15:34It's actually more expensive than wind and solar.
15:37That's not true.
15:38Doug Burgum says I'm the cheapest and cleanest.
15:43Doug Burgum says you're the cleanest?
15:45Yes, I am.
15:46Really?
15:47Yeah.
15:47Okay.
15:48What's this?
15:50What is this then?
15:52Mascara?
15:53I got it from J.D. Vance.
15:58And what...
15:59Is that a cough?
16:02I don't know.
16:02It sounds like you have black lung disease or something.
16:05Wait.
16:06What are you telling Coley?
16:08Coley's gonna die?
16:11Yeah, I am, Coley.
16:12You're gonna die from black lung disease.
16:15They told me it was post-nasal drip.
16:20You don't even have a nose, Coley.
16:22How could that be true?
16:25Oh, God.
16:26What am I gonna tell my wife and kids?
16:30Oh, you have a family.
16:31Well, yes.
16:34That's my wife, Colette, and my two sons, Coley Jr. and Cole, spelled C-O-L-E.
16:44Oh, I love them so much.
16:49I need a hug.
16:52This is a new suit, so...
16:54But, um, I'm sorry that's happening to you.
16:57Right.
16:58It's because I'm dirty!
17:00I'm dirty and I'm gonna die!
17:02You dropped your children, Coley.
17:05Aw, come on, Coley.
17:07Don't get down on yourself.
17:09Well, so long, everybody.
17:12And remember,
17:13don't believe a word these motherfuckers tell you!
17:18They're murderers!
17:19They're motherfucking murderers!
17:22Wake up, America!
17:23Come on, come on, let's go!
17:24Get down it!
17:25Get down it!
17:27You're fucking murderers!
17:29Hold on!
17:30Oh, we forgot our words.
17:31Oh, God!
17:34All right, we got a good show tonight from MSNOW.
17:37Joe Scarborough is here,
17:38and we'll be right back with Nate Bargetts.
17:46I'm a fit.
17:47I'm about to see you.
17:51I won't stop.
17:53I won't stop.
17:55I won't stop.
17:56Hi there, welcome back.
17:57Tonight, he is the Joe in Morning Joe.
18:00Joe Scarborough is with us.
18:02Tomorrow night,
18:03Kaylee Cuoco and Kermit the Frog will join us
18:05with music from the format.
18:07Our first guest tonight has been an Emmy host,
18:09a podcast host,
18:10and next month,
18:10he takes on the most important hosting job of all,
18:14game show host.
18:15The Greatest Average American premieres February 25th
18:18right here on ABC and the day after on Hulu.
18:20Please welcome Nate Bargettsy.
18:38Thanks for coming all the way out.
18:40I know you live in Nashville.
18:42Did you get snowed in out there?
18:44I did not.
18:45It was,
18:46I was in Toledo
18:49doing shows.
18:50And then I was supposed to go home,
18:54but we couldn't because of the snow.
18:56And so my wife and daughter got snowed in.
19:01So they're there.
19:02They're by themselves in the house.
19:04Yeah.
19:05I've had a pretty good time.
19:07They, I did,
19:09it's,
19:10it's kind of happened
19:11because this is a bad one in Nashville.
19:13Yeah.
19:13It happened too
19:14when I moved from New York to LA.
19:17I had to drive the car.
19:18And so our daughter was two months old
19:19and my wife,
19:21we're living in New York at the time.
19:22And so Hurricane Sandy was coming.
19:25Oh, wow.
19:26Oh, that was then.
19:26Yes.
19:27Okay, yeah.
19:27So I was like,
19:28all right,
19:28I got to go.
19:29She went to the airport.
19:30Her dad came up to help.
19:32And so she went to the airport
19:34and to try to fly out
19:36and I started driving.
19:37Cancelled flights,
19:38canceled everything.
19:39So they had to get a hotel.
19:40And so then I left her there
19:42for Hurricane Sandy.
19:45And I didn't mean to,
19:46because it's just funny
19:48to leave her with,
19:49you know,
19:49the main thing
19:50in all,
19:51in all natural disasters
19:53are like,
19:55keep an eye on babies
19:56and elderly people.
19:57And I left my wife
19:58with both of those things.
20:01It just drove.
20:03She's got to be used
20:04to you being away though,
20:05right?
20:05I mean,
20:06you're away a lot.
20:07Yeah,
20:07she handles it.
20:08She handles it.
20:09She does great.
20:09You had a goal
20:10that I really,
20:11I think this is a fun goal
20:12to have,
20:13which was to do shows
20:15to perform in all 50 states.
20:17Yes.
20:18And you recently achieved that.
20:19I just did it
20:21a couple weeks ago
20:22in Missoula
20:24and Billings, Montana.
20:25Montana was the last state
20:27I got to perform in.
20:29It started,
20:30thank you,
20:33thank you.
20:34This is the most
20:35I've gotten out of it.
20:37No,
20:38I mean,
20:38nobody really cares.
20:41Is this just a you thing?
20:43It's just a me
20:44and I mean,
20:44I really appreciate
20:45what you guys gave me.
20:48It's true.
20:49It is a weird thing
20:50about having a personal goal
20:51is there's nobody
20:52to celebrate.
20:53I remember
20:54when I started,
20:55I did a show
20:56in like West Virginia
20:57and it was like,
20:59we're not,
20:59you know,
20:59I'm doing,
21:00I'm four years in a comedy,
21:01I'm nobody like,
21:02and so me and the guy
21:03doing the show,
21:04you know,
21:04you say before you go,
21:06what credit
21:06you may tell the audience.
21:08So like,
21:09you know,
21:09you'd be like,
21:09hey,
21:10I've been on Jimmy Kimmel,
21:11please welcome,
21:11Nabar gets me.
21:12So,
21:12but back then,
21:13none of us have TV credits.
21:15Right.
21:15And I asked the guy
21:16on the show,
21:17I go,
21:17what are you going to say?
21:18He goes,
21:19tell him I've performed
21:20in almost all 50 states.
21:21And I just thought
21:22that was like,
21:23I mean,
21:24I guess I could say that too.
21:25Almost like,
21:27I've almost performed
21:28all over the world.
21:29I mean,
21:30like it's like,
21:30who's,
21:31and it just stuck with me
21:33and I,
21:34so I was like,
21:35that moment I knew,
21:37I kind of was like,
21:38I want to do all 50 states
21:39because I honestly thought
21:40if I can perform
21:41in all 50 states,
21:42that means I should be
21:43a working comedian.
21:44Whether,
21:44wherever I'm at,
21:46that means I'm at least
21:47made it to that.
21:48Yeah,
21:49you're like a Johnny Appleseed type
21:50in a lot of ways.
21:51Yeah,
21:51I've hit all,
21:52I've been to everywhere.
21:53Next week,
21:54you're going out to sea.
21:56You've got a cruise.
21:57Yes.
21:57A themed cruise.
21:59Yes.
21:59And the theme is you.
22:00The theme is me.
22:01Yeah.
22:02It's a lot of me.
22:03It's,
22:04it's this on a boat.
22:05You will be with everyone
22:06for how long?
22:07Like three days.
22:09Okay,
22:09three solid days.
22:10And is this when the,
22:11during the Super Bowl?
22:12It's during the Super Bowl.
22:13So we're going to watch
22:15the Super Bowl,
22:16like on the top deck
22:18and so you can screen it.
22:20But like,
22:20I don't think you can,
22:21I don't know if you can
22:21watch commercials
22:22and I don't know
22:23if we get the halftime show.
22:25Really?
22:26Yeah,
22:26because it's like,
22:27you're out there
22:27for some reason
22:28and.
22:29What?
22:29Yeah,
22:30I thought you're in
22:32pirate land,
22:33pirate ocean,
22:34like you can do
22:34whatever you want.
22:36Like I was,
22:37pirates,
22:38I'd imagine they're not like,
22:39oh,
22:39I can't watch,
22:40you know,
22:41the halftime show.
22:42No,
22:42I'd imagine they go
22:43around the system.
22:45So.
22:45Yeah,
22:46we grew up our whole lives
22:47hearing about the
22:48international waters
22:49and how anything goes out there.
22:50Anything goes out there.
22:51There are no laws
22:52and you're like,
22:52you are not going to be able
22:53to see the Bud Light.
22:54That's how big the NFL is.
22:56The NFL has gotten
22:57so much bigger
22:58than international.
22:59I see no,
23:00we will see no Bad Bunny.
23:02We will just see
23:02the bad.
23:04That's just,
23:06it's just that part of it.
23:07I want you to know
23:08that,
23:08well,
23:09first of all,
23:10you know,
23:10this is Garden
23:11and Gunn Magazine.
23:12You're on the cover
23:12this morning.
23:13Yeah.
23:15This morning.
23:16We had a little meeting.
23:18We're talking about the show
23:18and they're like,
23:19and Nate's on the cover
23:20of Garden and Gunn Magazine.
23:21I was like,
23:21yeah,
23:21I know,
23:22I get that magazine
23:22and everybody laughed
23:23and I was like,
23:24no,
23:24I really get this magazine.
23:26Yeah.
23:26Are you thinking about,
23:27more about the garden
23:28or the gun
23:29in this photograph?
23:31You don't know,
23:31you don't know
23:31what I got on my back
23:32right there.
23:34We should have done it
23:35where the backside
23:36is a gun.
23:37Yeah,
23:37no,
23:38the back's an advertisement.
23:38But it was,
23:39yeah,
23:40we were heavy guarding
23:41right there.
23:41Yeah,
23:42because there's a lot
23:42of fishing stuff in this
23:44and it mentions on the cover
23:45your theme park
23:46that you're planning.
23:47Yes.
23:47Is that still in the works?
23:49It is still in the works.
23:50Is that really going to happen?
23:51I would say,
23:53because I think about it a lot,
23:55I don't think I could get
23:56out of it now.
24:01It's like you're strapped
24:02in on the roller coaster?
24:03It's like we're just
24:04to the point
24:05where you go like,
24:06you know,
24:07you're first,
24:07you're like,
24:08hey,
24:08people are into this.
24:09Let's do it.
24:10And then you get to a point
24:11where you're like,
24:11dude,
24:11am I,
24:12are we building a theme park?
24:14And so we're in it
24:16pretty deep
24:17that it would,
24:17it would be a problem
24:19if I said,
24:21I don't want to do this now.
24:22So it's happening.
24:23So it's happening.
24:25So it's happening.
24:26So,
24:27Do you think,
24:28like,
24:29I mean,
24:29there are only a few,
24:30a very handful of people
24:31who have their own theme parks,
24:33like Dolly Parton's got a,
24:34Dollywood.
24:34Dollywood,
24:35which is amazing.
24:36Number one park,
24:36you know,
24:37it was rated the number one park,
24:38out of all theme parks.
24:40And Dollywood is its own
24:41separates in Pigeon Forge,
24:43great,
24:43it's like two hours,
24:44or three hours away
24:45or something.
24:45So it's like,
24:46we're not trying to be that,
24:48needs to be that.
24:49And then,
24:50we had a theme park
24:51in Nashville,
24:52Opryland.
24:53I was a sweeper at it,
24:54it was my first job.
24:55And I wanted to be
24:57a rollercoaster person,
24:58but then I also worked
24:59in the dog kennel
24:59and let a dog out.
25:00So then that kind of like,
25:03I didn't mean to let it,
25:04you know,
25:05but it got out.
25:06They saw that as a test
25:08and,
25:08oh,
25:09maybe he shouldn't be
25:09operating the rollercoaster.
25:11People would have like,
25:11they would have like birds
25:12they would bring
25:14and you'd have to watch a bird.
25:16Really?
25:16Yeah,
25:16like a German shepherd
25:17and then a bird.
25:19And then you're like,
25:20why would your bird be with you?
25:22Are pets going to be welcome
25:23at Nate Land?
25:24Yes.
25:25Yes,
25:25we have to,
25:26I think.
25:26But you can't guarantee
25:28that they will be there
25:29when they leave the park.
25:30No,
25:31no,
25:32obviously,
25:33that's,
25:34you know,
25:35you're going to,
25:36you're going to,
25:36yeah,
25:36we're going to like,
25:37ease you into it
25:38to go,
25:39just a heads up,
25:41very loosey-goosey
25:43on keeping an eye
25:44on your pets.
25:45All right.
25:46Yeah,
25:46and I think that's fair.
25:47You got this all worked out.
25:48I'm a,
25:49I'm a business.
25:50Nate Bargetsy is here.
25:51His new game show
25:52is called
25:52The Greatest Average American.
25:54We will be right back.
25:58Portions of Jimmy Kimmel Live
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26:08We asked 100 average Americans
26:10who work from home,
26:11where do you spend
26:12the most time looking
26:14while on a Zoom call?
26:16At whoever's talking,
26:18B, at myself,
26:20C, at the clock,
26:22D, at my phone.
26:24You have 10 seconds.
26:27Greg?
26:28If, uh,
26:30Julian and I get fired,
26:31do you think that's gonna be
26:31on Zoom or in person?
26:33It's in person.
26:34You're fired.
26:35All right.
26:36That is Nate Bargetsy,
26:38The Greatest Average American.
26:41The new game show,
26:42this is an idea you have.
26:43This is another one
26:46that we're deep in.
26:48And look,
26:49look,
26:49we're already here.
26:50This is,
26:51but I came up with this idea
26:52on the road
26:52because I would,
26:54I always say I'm the
26:55greatest average American
26:57because I just have
26:58very average taste.
26:59It was the name of your special,
27:00right?
27:00The name of my special.
27:01So I thought of a game show
27:02where it was called that,
27:05become the greatest
27:06average American.
27:07I wanted it to be fun.
27:08I really wanted the audience
27:09to,
27:10when they come,
27:10I want people to want to come,
27:12we taped it in Nashville,
27:13want to come tape it,
27:14want to be at the tapings
27:15and make it a real event.
27:17So the first one is that
27:19where we poll American audiences.
27:21The second challenge is
27:23one for me
27:24that they gotta do,
27:26like how many state capitals
27:27can Nate name?
27:28And I won't know
27:29what I'm gonna get asked.
27:31But the question is,
27:32so then I just have to,
27:33on TV,
27:34just go through
27:35the state capitals.
27:36And that could be insulting
27:37in a way
27:37because if they say,
27:38oh,
27:38he's only gonna be able
27:39to name four of them.
27:40Oh,
27:41it's,
27:41yeah,
27:42it's real bad,
27:43dude.
27:43And also,
27:44there's one,
27:45it gets embarrassing.
27:46It gets embarrassing.
27:48And the last one
27:48is you do the audience.
27:50So it's like,
27:50we look at this audience
27:52and say,
27:52we polled this audience.
27:54So I like the idea
27:55that everybody gets
27:56to look at the audience
27:57and basically judge them
27:58and guess,
27:59and guess like
28:00how they would like,
28:01you know,
28:01who,
28:02how many people
28:02wake up early
28:03versus late,
28:04whatever.
28:05And then they go through that.
28:06And if they win,
28:07they win the average
28:07American salary
28:08of $67,920.
28:13And the other thing
28:14I wanted to do,
28:15because you always hear
28:15at game shows
28:16when they win,
28:17they got to pay taxes
28:18and all this stuff.
28:18Yeah.
28:19We give you a little,
28:20we give you extra
28:21to help cover your taxes.
28:23You still got to pay them.
28:26But I wanted,
28:28I wanted people
28:29to go home
28:30with what we're telling them
28:31they're going to go home with.
28:32Should we try a round
28:33of the game?
28:34So I want to try a round
28:36with you.
28:36Okay.
28:36So this is,
28:37so you can,
28:38You brought some props.
28:38I brought some props.
28:39This?
28:39This is,
28:41so you can feel the pressure.
28:42And this.
28:43Because it's like,
28:44you know,
28:45you think you know everything,
28:46but when,
28:48even when it's your show
28:49and you're standing there
28:50and you have to guess this stuff,
28:52it gets very nerve wracking.
28:53Okay.
28:53So what we,
28:54what we do
28:55is we would have
28:56one person
28:57writes a number.
28:58So I,
28:59so I picked something
29:00and you got to see
29:01how many you can name
29:02in 60 seconds.
29:03Now,
29:03you don't know what I picked,
29:04but I picked something
29:05that I,
29:06I know you're a fan of.
29:08Okay.
29:08And so I think
29:09it's giving you
29:09a little bit extra help,
29:10but I,
29:11I want to see it
29:12under the pressure.
29:13So what I picked
29:14is how many
29:15Huey Lewis songs
29:16can you name?
29:17Oh,
29:18all of them.
29:19Is there an all of them
29:20as the answer?
29:21Well,
29:22there is one.
29:22I probably shouldn't
29:23have given you that clue.
29:24Oh,
29:24but you do know,
29:25okay,
29:25I know.
29:25I do know you're,
29:26I do know you're
29:27a big fan of this.
29:28All right.
29:29So I'm going to write
29:30how many I think
29:30you can name
29:31in 60 seconds.
29:3360 seconds.
29:33All right.
29:34I'm going to show Guillermo
29:36because he is going to,
29:38this is a part of the game.
29:40You write,
29:41I wrote that.
29:42That's my number.
29:43Okay.
29:44And then you write
29:45over,
29:46under.
29:46Okay.
29:47All right.
29:48If you think he's going
29:48to go over that number
29:50or under that number.
29:51Can you,
29:51can I show the camera?
29:52Guillermo,
29:52is real tired today.
29:53He and his wife
29:54were making love
29:54until late at night.
29:55Yeah.
29:56No, no.
29:56But I have a lot
29:58of energy to give,
29:59so don't worry.
29:59He has a lot of love.
30:00Yeah.
30:00Yeah.
30:01Start the clock.
30:0260 seconds.
30:03Huey Lewis songs.
30:33Okay.
30:34Let me go through the album.
30:35There you go.
30:35There you go.
30:35Um, Small World.
30:37Take time to get 25 seconds.
30:38Perfect World.
30:39Um.
30:40I don't even.
30:42All right.
30:44Eh.
30:46I know there's some big hits.
30:47Oh, Stuck With You.
30:48Um.
30:50Hmm.
30:51Uh.
30:52Let's see.
30:54Oh, Naturally.
30:56Um.
30:58Five.
30:59Oh, Cruisin' with, uh,
31:00Gwyneth Paltrow.
31:01Two.
31:02And one.
31:03And that's pretty good, right?
31:05Uh.
31:06All right.
31:0712.
31:08That's pretty good.
31:09All right.
31:10You got, you got 12.
31:13What did Guillermo think I was going to do?
31:14Well, so I will show you my number.
31:16Okay.
31:16Uh, I owe, I can tell you, it's not good for what I chose.
31:21Oh, what'd you choose?
31:22I, I, I was pretty, I believed in you and said 24.
31:25Oh, 24.
31:26Yeah, that's true.
31:27Which is, uh, which is high.
31:28I got, but, I mean, I kept hearing you're this, you, and then you're like all of it.
31:34But again, the pressure.
31:35I don't think there are 24 hits, but yeah, okay.
31:40That was way too high.
31:41Guillermo, what'd you have?
31:42Did you go over or under?
31:44Over.
31:44He went over 24.
31:46So I would move on to the final round, and obviously, Guillermo, we would, uh, he would
31:51be out of the game.
31:52Well, we do, um, congratulations.
31:54We've got a prize for you.
31:56Yeah.
31:56Uh, we're sending you all 50 states.
31:58Hey!
32:00On the ship.
32:00Yeah.
32:01On the ship.
32:02Yeah.
32:03Dave Varghese, everybody.
32:04The greatest talent in America.
32:06February 25th, right here on ABC.
32:09And after that, I believe we'll be back with Joe Scarborough.
32:18Tomorrow on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Hayley Cuoco, Kermit the Frog, and music from The Format.
32:26Join us next week with guests Milo Ventimulo, Ted Danson, and Kate Hudson.
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32:41So you can walk in line, walk in line.
32:46Hi there.
32:46Welcome back.
32:47Our guest guest journeyed from Republican congressman representing the weird state of Florida
32:53to host of a show The President Hates.
32:55From Morning Joe on MSNOW, please welcome Joe Scarborough.
33:11All right.
33:13Joe, is Trump still watching your show, or is he disgusted with you?
33:16Yeah, I think so.
33:16He is.
33:17I think so.
33:18You hear that from the people?
33:19Probably watches you, you know, too.
33:21I hope not.
33:22I would prefer that he did not.
33:23Well, you know, it's funny.
33:24He would watch the show, and in his first term, and he would always get upset, and then he'd
33:31tweet things.
33:32And back when I tweeted back, I said, please, Mr. President, for the good of your mental
33:37health and the good for America, stop watching my show.
33:42So I think in the second term, he's probably watching a good bit.
33:45And Joe Biden watched your show, because he would call into the show sometimes, right?
33:49He would, and I would hear from the chief of staffs that worked for him, be nice to
33:56the president, because when you're critical, well, it kind of screws up our day.
34:00Does that affect how you approach doing your show?
34:02No.
34:03It doesn't.
34:04No, it doesn't.
34:04I mean, you know, the thing is, whether I was talking about Joe Biden or whether I'm
34:08talking about what Donald Trump's doing, the goal, my goal is your goal, which I think
34:12is everybody's goal.
34:13We want a better country.
34:14And so, you know, you had one of your producers today say, man, you really went after Chrissy
34:24Noem, and you were saying she was lying, and you weren't going to...
34:27Yeah.
34:27Yeah.
34:27Well, yeah, but we don't really...
34:30It's a great thing about my show is I don't have to think about it.
34:33I just say what I believe, and, you know, sometimes I get it right, sometimes I don't.
34:38But it's all, again, the goal is help the country come together.
34:43And if she doesn't like it, she should stop lying.
34:46Well, I actually think because, like you said, I was a Republican congressman.
34:54I grew up in the Baptist church.
34:56My friends, probably 90% of them, probably voted for Donald Trump.
35:01And something happened this past week where even they would see what the DHS was saying,
35:08what Chrissy Noem was saying about, you know, a 37-year-old man who got, looked like an execution
35:15to me, executed in the streets of America a few weeks ago, a 37-year-old woman whose final
35:21words were, I'm not mad at you, trying to calm the guy down.
35:26And he shot her at point-blank range through her window twice and killed her.
35:33I think 20 years from now, our children and grandchildren are going to be looking back,
35:40and this is going to be a defining moment.
35:42And I will say, you know, I hope and I pray that the president and the people around him
35:48use this moment to understand that things have been pushed too far.
35:54They need to start bringing this country together.
35:56Do you think that the president is fearful right now, is scared, that maybe he's lost it?
36:06No, I don't think, so I've known Donald Trump for 20, 25 years, and I don't know that fear
36:14ever comes into it.
36:15I mean, what's interesting is Maggie Haberman, a reporter for The Times, once said to Donald
36:21Trump that he lives every day to survive the next five minutes.
36:28And that's really how he spent most of his life.
36:31He was constantly, you know, he grew up in a tabloid culture.
36:33He was constantly fighting to stay one step out of the New York Post, the Daily News,
36:37everybody else that was slamming him.
36:38What's been different this year is everybody's bowed down to him.
36:43You've had a Republican Congress that has forgotten that Article 1 is Article 1 by our framers
36:50for a reason, because it's supposed to be, you know, really the most powerful of three
36:56equal branches.
36:57You have the Supreme Court that has just delayed and delayed and delayed on making rules.
37:03You know, you send Marines to the streets of L.A. to police to do domestic policing.
37:10It's just unconstitutional.
37:12And it's illegal.
37:13You don't have to wait until the last day of the year to actually rule that way, which
37:19the court did.
37:20And that's just temporary.
37:21So this has been the first year that Donald Trump hasn't been fighting to survive the next
37:27five minutes, because he's had most people sort of capitulate to him.
37:31And my issue is more with the people that have capitulated to him and haven't pushed back,
37:39because he said, I'm going to try to expand the powers of the presidency.
37:42I'm going to try to expand Article 2 powers.
37:46OK, well, he said he was going to try to do that.
37:49Nixon tried to do that.
37:51Others tried to do that.
37:52The question is, when's Congress going to understand that they have a say in this government,
37:58too?
37:58When's the Supreme Court going to say?
38:00Because Madisonian democracy is centered on checks and balances.
38:06And when you have the first branch of government scared to check and balance and the third branch
38:13of government scared to check and balance, things are going to become pretty unbalanced
38:19pretty quickly.
38:20I will say, though, there are a million different places, a million different checks and balances.
38:25And it's not just in the government.
38:28Look, and I can't say enough about them.
38:31Look at the people of Minnesota.
38:33Yeah.
38:36I mean, they drew the light.
38:40It is amazing that you had a man who was a nurse at a VA hospital and was a good
38:50Samaritan,
38:51dared to be a good Samaritan, and he got shot and killed for it.
38:59But I think he would have tried to help that lady up again
39:03if he had a chance to do it again.
39:06And Rene Good trying to calm this untrained, scared ICE officer down going, dude, I'm not mad.
39:17You know?
39:19It's really been remarkable what we've seen coming out of Minnesota.
39:24Yeah.
39:24And their courage.
39:25It's been inspiring, but also horrible.
39:26And they shouldn't even have to be going through this.
39:28And then, of course, you know, I mean, just here in L.A., I don't think people, you don't see
39:34it on the news,
39:35but one of our staff members, ICE was outside his child's school today waiting for parents to come out.
39:42And this is going on.
39:44And we're saying to each other, what are we going to do about this?
39:47And I wonder when you talk to your friends who are Republicans, if they're saying this, if they're...
39:53And it's unfortunate that only a couple of them are saying it publicly.
39:56Right, right.
39:57But does this seem to be the sentiment in general?
40:00That's why I said, I think this past week especially, I think things have changed.
40:05There's been a massive shift.
40:07I think the president understands it.
40:09I think people inside the White House understand it.
40:11They've pushed it.
40:14And right now, if you look at the poll numbers, they're lower than they've been.
40:18If you look at his numbers on immigration, which has always been his strongest suit,
40:24his immigration numbers are upside down.
40:27So I think there's a real recognition that, again, the people of Minnesota, the American people have pushed back.
40:33And I think they're going to have to respond to that.
40:35When is the last time you spoke to Donald Trump?
40:37So I spoke to him after he announced that he had called Tim Waltz and the mayor of Minneapolis.
40:50And I just...
40:50You did?
40:51I did.
40:51I did.
40:51I said, listen, and I don't usually do this, but I just called him up.
40:55I said, if you don't mind, off the record, tell me about the call.
40:58And he told me about the call.
40:59And I said, you know, Mr. President, I think it's a good thing for Americans to see you and Tim
41:06Waltz and the mayor of Minneapolis talking to each other.
41:08We need more of that.
41:12Do you have his, like, personal telephone number?
41:15Yeah.
41:16Can I have that?
41:17Yeah.
41:17Okay.
41:18Joe Scarborough, everybody.
41:20I'll tell you so much.
41:21Morning, Joe.
41:22Weekdays, 6 a.m. Eastern on MSI now.
41:25And Joe's daily newsletter is called The T.
41:35Thanks to Nate Bargetti and Joe Scarborough.
41:38Apologies to Matt Damon.
41:39Tomorrow night, we'll be joined by Kaley Cuoco and Kermit the Frog with music from the format Nightline is next.
41:45Thanks for watching.
41:45Good night.
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