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We'll tell you why you can outrun the police now.
Jordan Klepper heads to a Trump rally.
And the Supreme Court has somehow decided
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Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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Okay. Let's kick things off
with the big news coming out of the Supreme Court,
the only government department
where the dress code is retired Jedi.
You all know how America has been struggling
with gun violence for the past, let's say, uh,
half a century or so?
Well, while everyone is trying to figure out a solution,
the Supreme Court just weighed in
in the most unhelpful way possible.
Breaking news at this hour. The U.S. Supreme Court has just
issued a major ruling in the challenge to a New York gun law.
Now, this is the most significant
Second Amendment ruling in more than a decade.
In a six to three decision, the court struck down New York's
law which places restrictions on concealed handguns.
The law in question in New York said to get
a concealed carry permit, a person had to
go to the county sheriff and show some special need.
Today, the Supreme Court said that's unconstitutional.
So, this will affect New York, and it will affect half a dozen
other states that have similar laws in which you had to
show some heightened need beyond just a general desire
for self-defense to get a concealed carry permit.
This expands the Second Amendment right.
What we don't know is if it completely eliminates
the possibility for any sort of gun-gun regulation.
Oh, I think we do know. I think we do know.
You can see where this is going.
This Supreme Court is feeling themselves, huh?
'Cause you realize they finally have
all the justices they need to do anything they want.
It's like Amy Coney Barrett
was the last Infinity Stone that they needed.
Yeah. They put it in, and now
they're just snapping away at all the laws.
It's like, voting rights. Gun control.
Miranda rights. Abortion. Mm, I love this song.
Yeah.
But, yeah, the Supreme Court has struck down restrictions
on who can carry guns outside of the home,
saying that you can't require people
to meet certain standards in order to get a license.
Which makes complete sense, because that would be
making the militia well-regulated.
I mean, you can't do that, you know?
It's not like it's written anywhere.
Basically, New York had a law for the past 100 years
that said if you want to just carry a gun around with you
wherever you go, you need to prove that you have
a specific reason you need that gun,
you know, for your protection. You have to go to the police,
you have to tell them, you have to explain the whole thing.
Like, maybe someone is making threats against you,
or-or maybe you're Liam Neeson's daughter
and people keep trying to kidnap you, even though
it seems like it would be way easier to kidnap
anyone else's daughter at this point.
And the Supreme Court has said to New York,
"You can't do that anymore." Yeah.
And, you know, in a way, this is exciting, as a New Yorker.
Yeah, 'cause, I don't know about you guys, but whenever I've been
sitting in rush hour traffic in New York with drivers
screaming at each other and-and bikers
cussing out the drivers and pedestrians
wailing at the bikers and the drivers,
the one thing I always think is, "Man, one thing that would
"calm this down is if everyone had a gun right now.
Just a Glock or two would really chill this situation out."
And, I mean, it will switch things up, you know?
Now, when you're on the subway and you see a guy reaching
into his pants, you'll be like, "Aah! Please let it be a dick.
"Please let it be a dick. Please let it be a dick.
"Let it be a dick. Aah!
Please let it be a penis. (crying)"
And it's crazy how this ruling is coming down
at the exact same time that
Congress finally reached a deal on gun reform.
It took 30 years of trying to come up
with these extremely minor gun safety measures,
and then the Supreme Court just swoops in
and moves everything back in the other direction.
Yeah, Congress is like,
"We've reached a bipartisan agreement
"that 18-to-21-year-olds
"can no longer buy guns in leap years
between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 3:15 a.m."
And then the Supreme Court is like, "Hey, check this out!
"Starting now, every time it rains,
"it rains guns. Yeah?
What do you guys think?"
(laughter)
So, this is obviously a big setback for gun safety.
But if you ask me,
New York just needs to get creative.
Yeah. They need to think outside of the box.
The same way that Texas did, right?
Look at what Texas did with banning abortion.
They weren't allowed to ban it,
so they just made a crazy new law
that basically banned it anyway.
That's what New York needs to do with guns.
Like, yeah, they should say, okay,
anyone can buy a gun if they want,
but the gun stores are only open
on the nights that the Knicks win.
(laughter and applause)
All right, let's move on...
Let's move on from the people... (chuckles)
(laughter)
You know what's funny is, like,
whenever I'm at Madison Square Garden
and I see the players, they're like, "Did you...?"
I'm like... (babbles)
"I don't make these jokes."
All right, let's move on from the people
who are about to cause havoc with all their guns
to the people who are already causing havoc
with all their guns: the police.
Over the last year, the city of Chicago
has been rocked by incidents
where police saw a civilian running away,
they decided to chase after them,
and somehow, they ended up killing them.
So now the police department has a new plan
to stop those types of killings before they start.
Chicago police officers will no longer be allowed
to chase people on foot simply because they run away
or give chase over minor offenses.
NEWSMAN: The new policy requires enhanced supervision.
Officers must file a report if they start a chase,
foot chases will be reviewed
and officers must weigh the seriousness of the offense
against the need to make an arrest.
Officers can't start a chase if they're hurt,
unaware of their location, unable to communicate
or lose their radio or gun.
Well, yeah.
(laughter)
I mean, if you're a cop who's lost your radio and gun
and you don't know where you are...
(laughter)
...you are in no position to be chasing anyone.
Yeah, maybe just throw in the towel, my man.
Today's not your day.
(laughter)
But I think this policy actually makes sense,
because people used to assume
that if you're running from a police officer,
you must have done something wrong,
and you need to be chased down, but there are many reasons
why someone might want to run from the police.
Maybe they're scared of the police.
Or maybe the cop is their ex,
and they were just walking around in sweats,
and they don't want their ex to see them and be like,
"Oh, looks like I made the right choice."
And even if the person is a legitimate suspect,
you want to make sure that the crime
is worth the chase, right?
Because when police chase a suspect,
it is way more likely to end in violence.
Think about it. Once somebody makes you sprint
across half the city, you're way more likely
to want to beat their ass when you catch them.
Yeah, nobody's happy when they're forced to run.
Even people running marathons are like,
"As soon as I get to the finish line,
I'm gonna choke somebody."
All right, finally,
let's move on to some international news.
Right now, inflation is out of control.
And, I mean, we all know this,
except probably Jeff Bezos, you know?
Yeah, he probably treats bank accounts
the same way the rest of us treat closet space.
Just like, "Oh, where do I keep my winter dollars?
There's no more space."
But for everyone else, inflation hurts.
Prices are skyrocketing, wages aren't keeping up,
and it turns out it's not just America.
This is happening all over the world.
Which is weird, because Fox News told me
that Joe Biden is the only reason we have inflation.
So that means he's also causing it in Denmark?
Damn you, Joe!
(laughter)
Now, one country in particular that's been struggling
is the United Kingdom,
right, where railway workers have been demanding
an increase in their pay to help deal with inflation.
But their demands have been ignored,
so this week, they took action.
Britain faces its biggest rail strikes
in three decades after last-minute talks
between the union and train companies
failed to agree on pay.
Up to 40,000 staffers staged a walkout
in a protest over pay and job security.
Good morning from a quieter-than-normal
Paddington Station,
where just one in five services will be running,
as indeed they are around the country.
NEWSMAN: The prime minister has told his cabinet
these strikes are wrong and unnecessary.
I want to say something about the rail strikes
that are today causing significant disruption
and inconvenience up and down the country,
making it more difficult for people to get to work,
uh, risking, uh, people's appointments,
making it more difficult for kids to sit exams--
all sorts of unnecessary,
uh, aggravation this is gonna cause.
"Yes, it's preposterous. I...
"I mean, I-I need those trains
"to get to my illegal work parties.
"How else am I supposed to spread COVID?
"I mean, think about it. (stammers)
"This is really ridiculous. This is absolutely disgusting.
-(stammers) Absolutely." -(cheering and applause)
Yes. British railway workers are on strike.
And now British people have no way to travel
to their silly-sounding towns.
Yeah, there's no way
someone from Barton in the Beans
can travel to Giggleswick
or to Upton Snodsbury
or even to Nether Wallop.
How will they get to Nether Wallop?!
But for real though, for real, for real,
the truth is
a railway strike is actually really serious, right?
Because it is crippling for the U.K.
So many of its people depend on the trains.
You know? And I-I know you guys think
British people just get around on flying umbrellas,
but that's just the nannies.
The people need the trains.
And, please, don't get me wrong.
I also understand that this train strike
inconveniences countless people in the U.K.
But you know who's also inconvenienced, right?
'Cause people are complaining. In the U.K., they're like,
"Oh, these people need to get back to work.
This is terrible. Just get back to work."
But the train workers are inconvenienced.
You realize, train workers in the U.K. can't afford
to make ends meet anymore,
and there's many of them who haven't gotten a pay increase
in ten years.
So, if now's not the time to get a wage increase
and ten years ago wasn't the time
and then nothing in between was the time,
then when-when is the time? Right?
Because I don't care what anybody says-- I really don't--
it's not fair for somebody to work a full-time job
but not be able to make ends meet,
especially when your bosses make millions in profits.
-(assenting, whooping) -Like, if you...
(cheering and applause)
If you can't afford to live...
...then what's even the point of working?
You only work so that you can live.
That's why it's called "making a living," right?
Working without living is like being a parent
but there's no kid.
Yeah. Think about it.
Like, parents, every parent knows
that being a parent is miserable,
but then your kid, they just-- they smile at you
or they do something for the first time and you're like,
"Oh, it's all worth it. Oh, it's so ador..."
But imagine if there was no child, huh?
Imagine if there was no child but you still got woken up
in the middle of the night by screams out of no...
(loud crying)
There's nothing. Or just, every now and again,
there's just diapers filled with shit
everywhere in your house and you just got to--
You'd just be like, "There's no child.
What am I doing this for?!"
What's the point?
And that's what these workers are going through.
So this train strike is a big deal.
It is affecting customers.
It's affecting employees.
It's affecting the British economy.
But, you know, a lot of people don't realize--
you know who this also affects?
The British trains.
♪ ♪
Boop, boop!
Now that I've stopped working,
I've had a lot of time alone with my thoughts.
And I've realized,
what the hell am I?
I'm a train.
I'm Thomas the Train, but I have a human face,
but where's the rest of my body?
Do I have arms somewhere?
Do I have a penis?
Is it a human penis?
Or is it a train penis?
Help me, somebody!
-Help me find my train penis! -(whistle blows)
Aah...!
(applause)
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to a quick break,
let's check in on the stock market with our finance expert
Michael Kosta, everybody.
(cheering and applause)
What's going on, Mike?
Yeah.
Good to see you again.
-So, uh, what's happening in the market today? -Yeah.
I'm crushing it.
I mean, I know I always say this,
-but I am actually really crushing it today. -Yeah,
-you-you are, but you never tell us how. -Okay, well,
I-I got a hot tip. I got a hot tip for how you can crush it
in the market, and, uh, I'll share that
-with you, okay? But... -Okay, cool.
But obviously, the big news today, uh,
Kellogg's-- America's food staple--
their stock is moving big as they announced
that they're actually separating into three separate companies.
-Yeah. -Yeah, I saw that because they do snacks,
-and they do cereals, and they... -Yeah.
But I don't understand.
They're splitting into three companies.
-Yeah. -Like, how is that going to work?
Easy, it's going to be Snap, Crackle and Pop.
(laughter, applause)
You want to...?
You want to get to the chart? Let's get to the chart.
-Let's get to the chart. -Let's get to the chart. So, look.
Look, to a nonexpert, such as yourself,
such as yourself, Trevor, this looks like
the Kellogg's chart, okay?
But what it actually is, is
this is a chart measuring
how good a bowl of cereal is over time, okay?
Now, when you pour that first bowl of cereal,
it is right here, it is dry, it is lifeless.
It is undervalued.
Now, here's where the value goes up.
When you add milk, bang, okay?
Cereal reaches its most valuable point when you add milk.
Now, if you don't eat it right away,
that cereal starts to get soggy.
This whole thing starts to depreciate.
Now, I've identified a very important part of this timeline.
I call this the "S.M.B.B.,"
the sugar, milk, bowl bounce, bang, right there.
You know what this is.
That's that special mix of milk with sugar,
with yellow number 5, with corn syrup, okay?
Right here, Trevor, you are sitting
on a lot of liquidity, all right?
And that liquid is delicious milk, so...
-So, it... -Yeah, yeah. -(applause and cheering)
You get it. You get it.
-Yeah, I think I get it. -So... Yeah.
This is a difficult market to understand.
That's why I'm an expert.
Is this a bear market? Is this a bull market?
This is a tiger market, okay?
Because if you're Kellogg's right now,
you're seeing this, and you're thinking,
things are going gr-reat. Okay?
Now, now, Trevor, I made a fortune on this.
I got a buddy who works at Kellogg's,
and he told me from the inside
that they were going to split up into three companies,
so I bought a bunch of stock the day before.
Oh, K-Kosta, that-that's... that's insider trading.
Well, that makes sense because I have a shitload of money
inside my bank account, okay? So, uh...
-Oh, the U.K. train strike. -Yes.
Yeah, that's that story. You know, I'm sorry.
When I hear Boris Johnson talking about that,
I'm thinking, I don't give a (bleep), okay?
Because, look, as an American,
we're dealing with too much shit right now, okay?
The Supreme Court just announced that everybody
in this audience can have a loaded gun in their pocket,
and I'm supposed to be worried
about Britain's little choo-choo train problem? Okay?
Here's a problem, Trevor.
(British accent): If you get on a train in Brixton,
and you're going to Newcastle, and it's 100 k,
and it costs ten quid,
and your buddy's 30 stone, how many...?
(no accent): I don't give a (bleep), okay?
That's your biggest problem, Britain?
That some of you are going to have
to take a free ambulance to work?
(laughter)
I can put a... I can put a semiautomatic rifle
in my backpack as I walk my daughter to daycare, okay?
Okay, uh, do you have a hot tip there, Michael?
You seem a little stressed, man. What's the tip?
Yeah, yeah, I already told you. Get a buddy
who works at the cereal store.
He tells you when the value's gonna go up, and buy the stock.
No. Michael, no, that's illegal.
-We need a tip that we can use. -Okay, okay.
All right, all right, so you want to save some money.
All right? You don't need to buy the cereal
to get the toy inside, all right?
You go to the store, you rip open the box, search around,
you find the toy, you walk out of there, it's free. Boom.
-(cheers and applause) -You know what?
I'm so glad we have you for this expert advice.
Michael Kosta, everybody.
All right, don't go away, 'cause when we come back,
Jordan Klepper is going to ask Trump supporters
what they think about January 6. You don't want to miss it.
(cheers and applause)
(cheering, applause)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
For the past few weeks, people around the country
have been riveted
by the Congressional hearings about January 6,
the day Trump supporters and Mike Pence
played a very intense game of hide-and-seek.
Now, today's hearing focused
on how President Trump tried to use the Justice Department
to overturn the election. And according
to the acting deputy attorney general,
even though the Justice Department told Trump
the election wasn't stolen,
Trump was pretty explicit about what he needed done.
Let's now put up the notes, uh, where you-where you
quote the president, uh, as you're speaking to that.
He said, the president-- the president said
"Just say the election was corrupt
and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen."
So, Mr. Donoghue, that's a direct quote
from President Trump, correct?
That's an exact quote from the president, yes.
Wow.
"Just say what I need you to say
and leave the rest to me and my boys."
That's shady as hell.
Yeah. And I believe Trump said that.
Because it's also what he said
to the doctor when Eric was born.
"Just say it's not mine and leave the rest to me.
I got it. I got it from here."
But with all this damning evidence,
the big question is are these hearings
changing the minds of Trump supporters?
Well, our very own Jordan Klepper
went to a Trump rally in Mississippi to find out
for another episode of
Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse.
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KLEPPER: Last weekend, the Trump freedom tour--
comprised of Don, his son, and a caravan of folks
looking for book deals-- headed to Mississippi.
And I was curious who was shelling out
the $9,000 to $4,000 for a ticket to see the show.
Much of the country was watching the revelations
coming out of the January 6 hearings.
And surely these politically engaged folks
were also tuned in.
Have you guys been watching the January 6 hearings?
-Oh. -Uh, no.
Have you watched any of the January 6 hearings?
Not really. I had a barp and change in phones.
-But, uh... -You had to what?
I b-- I changed phones.
-Are you watching them? -No, sir.
-No. Why not? -Well, A: time.
You don't have time to watch a two-hour hearing.
-Yeah. -No. -How long are you here today?
-Until 5:00. -Until 5:00. Which is--
-You got here at? -I got here at 7:00.
-7:00, which makes it ten hours. -Right.
But the two-hour hearing-- who's got time for that shit?
Most were paying no attention,
and yet there were some paying even less attention.
What about what happened on January 6th?
What do you think? What happened there?
January 6th, the...
Election Day?
No, Election Day was back in November.
-Do you... -I don't even know what.
-Do you know about January 6th? -No.
So when I say "January 6th," that means...
-Just... -Nothing. I don't know.
-That's just a day to you. -Yeah.
Did you hear about the-the insurrection attempt
at the Capitol?
-No. -No.
KLEPPER: For almost everyone here,
insurrectioning was a nonissue.
It was the hearings themselves that were the problem.
I think it's an abomination.
It's just McCarthyism. It's a witch trial.
It's a witch hunt.
-Uh, it is. -KLEPPER: Yeah.
-It absolutely is. -A mob of people
-coming together with pitchforks. -Yeah.
Saying... And we can't have that.
Yeah. Wi-With a... With an agenda.
"Here's the narrative we're pushing,
and that's all we're pushing is our narrative."
A mob of people with an agenda pushing an agenda.
-Yes. -That can't stand in America.
-No. -We should... We should have an investigation
about a mob of people.
-That's something... -We should.
-Everybody would watch that. Yeah. -Yeah, absolutely.
Oh! Nancy Pelosi.
She sta... Is very responsible for what went on then.
-She planned it. -KLEPPER: She...
-She planned what happened? -I believe so.
Why did she plan to get attacked by a mob of Trump supporters?
Because she wanted to be able to blame it on the Trump supporters
and have something bad to say about them.
-Shouldn't we investigate that? -Uh, yes.
So you must be watching the January 6th committee.
(scoffs) No.
KLEPPER: So, what was it people were watching?
2000 Mules came out, and it showed a lot of stuff.
Uh, you've got 2000 Mules.
And then this movie ca... Uh, 2000 Mules.
-2000 Mules. -Yes.
KLEPPER: 2000 Mules is a documentary
by Dinesh D'Souza claiming massive voter fraud
based on some cell phone data and surveillance footage
that's been lauded by Trump, laughed at by Bill Barr,
discredited by fact-checkers
and banned from even right-wing media
because of its unfounded claims.
You know, if you turn on Fox News,
they have never mentioned that movie once.
-Somebody's pulling the strings. -Who do you think it is?
-Uh, I... It may be Obama. -(laughs): You think Obama's
-pulling the strings? -Or it could be, uh...
-George Soros. -Obama...
You think it's possible
that Fox News doesn't mention 2000 Mules.
Your theory, there's a giant conspiracy
up on top in which they don't do it,
or the second theory is that movie's not credible.
I know the movie's credible.
KLEPPER: Maybe sharing some of the committee's findings
would break through this MAGA bubble.
Rudy Giuliani was drunk the night of the election,
and it was partially his idea to deny the election results.
Buy it?
I haven't seen that.
You're the first source I've gotten on that.
-You haven't heard that at all? -No.
That Rudy was drunk that night?
It's an election night.
-I wouldn't be surprised if anybody was, so... -Yeah.
You trust a drunk Rudy Giuliani?
I'm not saying I trust a drunk Yiuli--
-Giu-- Rudy Giuliani. -Okay.
Question is, have you trusted yourself
or other individuals that you're with
under the influence of alcohol?
I totally have.
Then what's the difference?
I am not the commander in chief
-in charge of the United States of America. -Doesn't matter.
Well, I think that's a-- I think that's an important detail.
If no one was willing to turn on the hearing,
I decided to bring the hearing to them.
I first shared testimony
from Trump's own acting attorney general
dismissing Trump's claims of voter fraud.
(exhales)
Like I said...
...you just can't be up 300,000 votes and then lose.
-No, but that's Trump's attorney general. -I know.
-Does that sway you at all? -I know.
He's turned on him.
He's been-- he's been paid by somebody to shut his mouth.
Everybody knows the election was fraud.
No, no, he's saying the opposite.
-He's saying... -He's saying the opposite?
Yeah, he's saying there wasn't fraud... -Wow.
-...that that's bullshit. -Wow.
Does it make you kind of change your perspective
-and your assumptions? Yeah. -It does.
-You're not gonna go in there right now? -Oh, yes, sir, I am.
You are going in there right now to see Donald Trump speak?
-Yes, sir. -Okay, cool. Well...
good, productive chat.
What's your response there?
I think it's true.
You think Bill Barr is right?
-Yeah. -'Cause he's talking about the fact
-that the election was stolen is bullshit. -Yeah.
-Yeah, for sure. -Yeah. -He says it wasn't stolen.
-WOMAN: Oh. Then no. It was stolen. -No. Oh, no.
KLEPPER: You-you don't believe that?
No.
-Yeah. -So who-who do you trust? Like, Trump?
Trump's family?
I trust... I trust Trump.
You trust Ivanka?
-Yeah. -Yeah, I do. I think she's very smart
and very intelligent.
Let me show you. This is what she said.
How do I know that's not... edited in any way?
You don't believe she actually said that?
Did she say it on Twitter?
No. It don't even look like her.
-You don't think that... -It could not be her.
It might be one of those...
What do they got? Clones out there these days?
-You think that... you think that was a...? -(laughing)
It might be a clone, yeah.
-It might be an Ivanka clone. -Yeah.
-Hot take, my friend. -(laughs)
It's almost like you're confronted with it,
and your brain does somersaults to figure out
there must be some other... some other reason.
She looks... she look frightened.
She does look scared, almost like she's...
-Yeah, she does. She's really scared. -...she's been caught.
What do you think?
I'm... confused.
A little bit.
-So, Ivanka... -His-his daughter. -Daughter.
...his daughter, says she accepts
what the attorney general said, which is
that the election wasn't stolen, that Trump lost.
Well, is it a lie?
I mean, if you listen to these people, yeah, it's a big lie.
And I'm fearful you're going to go inside there,
and he's going to keep telling you that lie.
-We should go. -Yeah. (laughs)
I think we're ready to cut this off.
KLEPPER: Being confronted with uncomfortable information
isn't easy to swallow,
but this crowd chooses to live by the immortal words
of the bard, Rudy Giuliani, who said,
"We've got lots of theories,
We just don't have the evidence,"
especially when it comes to Donald Trump.
I believe him and the military are running the country,
and that idiot that's up there is a puppet,
-and Obama is in the basement telling him what to do. -Wait.
That sounds so crazy, it's probably not true.
You probably don't even want to ask me
-what I think about 9/11, so... -Ah, you got
-theories for miles. Uh... -Oh, yeah, and I read a lot of stuff,
but I know probably not all of it is true,
but enough of it is true to know
that we need change in this country.
Yeah, a little bit of shit in the pool
-doesn't mean you can't swim in it. -Right.
Jordan Klepper, everybody. All right, when we come back,
Elliot Page will be joining us on the show.
You don't want to miss it.
(cheers and applause)
(cheering)
welcome back to The Daily Show, everybody.
My guest tonight is Oscar- nominated actor Elliot Page.
He's here to talk about the new season
of his hit Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy.
Hey, what's up?
Luther wants to throw you a big, stupid party
so you feel loved.
-Oh. -Do you feel loved?
Yeah, I-I do.
Good. You are.
Can we all get back to saving the world now?
(indistinct conversations)
I really like the hair.
Thanks.
Please welcome Elliot Page!
-♪ ♪ -(cheering, applause)
Hey. Hey. Hello.
Whoa. Wow.
Hi, everybody.
-Elliot Page. -Hey.
Welcome back to the show.
Thank you, thanks so much for having me again.
Um, let's start with the most important thing.
Congratulations, your show, number one
on Netflix as we speak.
(cheering, applause)
Pretty amazing.
I-I'd love to know-- when you start a project,
do you have any inclination-- do you go like,
"This is gonna be a hit"? Do you have an idea
that it's gonna be a hit or just go with it
-and hope for the best? -No, yeah, you got to just
go with it, hope for the best, 'cause
I've definitely been in things that you think
are gonna be hits and they're not.
Um, and I've had the opposite.
And I think mostly it's about, you know, being present
and enjoying the process, 'cause
we never know whatever's gonna happen about anything.
What I think a lot of people have enjoyed is how the writers
incorporated your personal story into the story on the show.
Because both yourself and the character have transitioned,
and it's just, like, this beautiful moment
where we're seeing, like, families and acceptance
and people not understanding.
What did you enjoy about, like,
that part of the storytelling?
Uh, well, I really enjoyed the collaboration.
Our wonderful showrunner, Steve Blackman,
really was excited about incorporating it.
And an incredible writer, journalist,
Thomas Page McBee, um, who I've known
since he wrote on a miniseries I did years ago.
And he came on board to really help craft,
um, the story and-and the journey.
And I'm-I'm proud of it.
And, you know, it's just an aspect of Viktor,
-and he's with his family that loves him. -Yes. Yes.
And like they said, we have to get back to saving the world.
-"We have to get back to saving the world." -You know. Yeah.
-I like that. -Yeah. -(cheering and applause)
My, uh...
My brother sent me a-a text message the other day
which I felt was, like, pertinent to this conversation.
'Cause we were talking about superheroes,
and we were talking about superpowers.
And then my younger brother was like,
"If you had any power in the world...
"Like, if everyone was getting a power at the same time,
what would yours be?"
If you could choose any power in real life,
what would you... what would you choose?
You know, I really, um...
In the show, the character Allison,
uh, and she has a power with a rumor.
-Um, "I heard a rumor," and then... Right? -Yes.
I don't... I think you could do a lot of good stuff with that,
-you know? (chuckles) -Ooh.
And it's-it's... You're just, you know, speaking,
and-and maybe you could help share
some positive seeds of thought that could...
-I love that. -Yeah, that's...
I love it. Just going around, like, making people's days.
-Right. Yeah. -(laughs) -(applause)
(chuckles) Right?
I like that...
It's, like, maybe, like, a testament to you as a person,
'cause if you said to me, "Trevor, you have the power
to just go up to people and convince them of anything,"
I don't know that my answer would be as wholesome.
You're like, "I'm gonna use my power
to, like, make them feel good about themselves."
I'd be like, "I heard a rumor that you like me,
-and, uh..." (laughs) -I'm not saying
-you don't get to have those selfish moments. -Okay.
-Okay, great. Some selfishness. -Yeah.
-We're allowed. We're allowed. -Um...
You-You've been on a great journey.
Esquire magazine. I think it's somewhere.
We have... We have a picture of that.
Uh, pretty, uh, impressive, uh, shot of you.
Uh, pretty...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, it's, uh...
Like, you-you got pretty jacked for that. It's like, uh...
-(cheering and applause) -I mean...
That's, uh...
What's your-- what's your secret?
-You're making me blush. Um... (laughs) -(laughs)
Um, what's my... secret?
-I... -Yeah, because-- So, here's my thing.
Whenever people ask me to take a picture for, like, a magazine,
then I-I... There's many days I stand in front of the mirror,
and then I go, "How do you get this part to not show?"
Because they always tell you, like, when it's--
You know what I mean. At the photo shoot, they'll be like,
"Just be yourself." And then I'm like, "But if I'm myself,
this part does this."
-So it's like, how do you do this? -Got it.
But there you're just, like, doing the casual thing,
but it's just, like, you know what I mean,
straight, like, washboard abs and the whole thing.
Is there, like, a-- is there a secret behind this? Is...
Well, you know what? This is...
my workout... (laughs) that I do,
which I did this morning in my living room
is all with V.R.
(murmuring)
-Wait. -(applause)
-Right? It's... -Wait, like virtual reality?
Yeah, it feels so weird that this is now what I'm--
-what we're talking about, but it's... -No, no, no, no, no.
-I w-- This-- I want to talk about this. -Um...
Yeah, it's called Supernatural.
(laughs) This is-- I do not have anything to do
-with this. -You're talking about V.R. V.R.
-V.R. Yeah, like a-- And it's a certain... -Okay. Okay.
...fitness app.
And I can do it in my living room,
and I can do it...
You know, if you're traveling, I bring it
-and... -What are you-- what are you doing inside--
-Are you in a gym on the inside? Are you... -No.
You'll, um... All of a sudden... (laughs)
(laughs)
All of a sudden, you, um...
you're in some... (stammers) just extraordinary landscape.
-Okay, okay. -And you...
-(chuckles) This is so funny. -(laughs)
And then a trainer pops up for a moment.
They warm you up.
There's a thing called Flow and Boxing.
-Okay. -I-I prefer the Flow, personally.
-Okay. -You have these, like, two large...
kind of, bats. Like, a white one and a black one.
-And then... -This is inside the world though, right?
-This is in the world. -Okay, okay.
-So you're holding those little... -Then, ahead of you,
-sort of, on the horizon, this portal emerges. -Yeah. Uh-huh.
And out comes, like, these orbs,
-like, a-- white and black orbs. -Yeah.
And they're in this sort of... triangle thing.
And then you are hitting the corresponding things
with your bats.
Also, simultaneously, triangles are coming out at you.
And those are for, like, squats and side squats.
And it's also to fantastic music.
-You know? -Oh, okay. I think
I've played something similar, but not at... No, no, no.
I have. There's, like, one where you're trying to, like, do...
-Like, "Beat Saber." I think that's what it's called. -Yes.
-Like, "Beat Saber, but this is... -So similar...
-But now there's squats. -But this is, like,
specifically for fitness, and it's amazing.
Like, I finish it, and I'm just...
I will safely say,
I don't think I've ever had a conversation
involving squats, triangles, squares,
VR and stick thingies.
-Well... Yeah. -Thank you.
I'm going to go try this now.
I'm genuinely going to go try this thing.
-Congratulations on the show. -Thanks, Trevor.
-Thank you so much for being here again. -Appreciate it.
Season three of The Umbrella Academy
is streaming now on Netflix. We're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
Thank you very much.
-No. Have you played "Beat Saber"? -Yeah, I have.
(applause and cheering)
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Now, here it is-- Your Moment of Zen.
I don't think you want to have the water in the picture, right?
-You can take it out. -MAN: Yeah, yeah.
-Do you want? Yeah. -Yeah.
Yeah, put it over there, Nick.
-Sir. -Kind of this table, as well?
Yeah, might as well take the table.
-How are you now? -Really good. Very good, thank you.
-You know what you can do, Nick? -Sir?
-Put the table back. -Yes, sir.
'Cause it's missing something.
Put the table back, and put the water on the table
-without the thing on top of it. -Yes, sir.
(panting)
Okay.
How does that look?
Go ahead, take it out.
Yeah. All right.
-Yeah, good. -Right? Let's go.