1 00:00:11,065 --> 00:00:14,068 Announcer: TONIGHT ON "LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS" -- 2 00:00:14,068 --> 00:00:22,376 MANDY MOORE, CHAT AND MUSIC FROM JEFF TWEEDY, AN ALL-NEW "A CLOSER LOOK. 3 00:00:22,376 --> 00:00:28,949 FEATURING THE 8G BAND WITH FRED ARMISEN AND NOW, SETH MEYERS 4 00:00:28,949 --> 00:00:30,684 Seth: GOOD EVENING. I'M SETH MEYERS AND THIS IS "LATE NIGHT. 5 00:00:30,684 --> 00:00:34,855 HOW'S EVERYBODY DOING TONIGHT? THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR GET TO THE NEWS. 6 00:00:34,855 --> 00:00:38,993 PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN'S TRANSITION TEAM ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE HAS SELECTED LONGTIME 7 00:00:38,993 --> 00:00:43,831 ADVISER AND FOREIGN POLICY VETERAN ANTONY BLINKEN AS HIS SECRETARY OF STATE 8 00:00:43,831 --> 00:00:46,667 YOU KNOW, I THINK I'M A LITTLE SCARRED, BECAUSE MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS, "WHICH SEASON OF 9 00:00:46,667 --> 00:00:51,038 'THE APPRENTICE' WAS HE ON?" PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN ISSUED A STATEMENT LAST NIGHT 10 00:00:51,038 --> 00:00:55,409 DISTANCING ITSELF FROM LAWYER SIDNEY POWELL AFTER SHE'D REPEATEDLY MADE UNSUPPORTED 11 00:00:55,409 --> 00:00:58,679 CLAIMS OF WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD. MAN, YOU'VE GOT TO BE PRETTY 12 00:00:58,679 --> 00:01:04,351 CRAZY IF RUDY GUILIANI THINKS YOU'RE A LIABILITY "SORRY, MS. POWELL, BUT YOU'RE A 13 00:01:04,351 --> 00:01:07,421 LOOSE CANNON NOW IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME, I'M LATE FOR A PRESS CONFERENCE 14 00:01:07,421 --> 00:01:11,459 WHERE I SAY JOE BIDEN IS THE HAMBURGLAR." THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY 15 00:01:11,459 --> 00:01:17,264 ASTRAZENECA ANNOUNCED THAT ONE OF ITS CORONAVIRUS REGIMENS IS UP TO 90% EFFECTIVE. 16 00:01:17,264 --> 00:01:21,969 AND IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HOW UPSIDE-DOWN 2020 IS THAT WE'RE NOW ALL ROOTING FOR 17 00:01:21,969 --> 00:01:25,673 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES "COME ON, ASTRAZENECA! YOU CAN DO THIS. 18 00:01:25,673 --> 00:01:30,945 PFIZER AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON YOU. BUT DON'T YOU GIVE UP, PFIZER. WE'RE COUNTING ON YOU, TOO." 19 00:01:30,945 --> 00:01:35,416 TODAY WAS SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER'S 70TH BIRTHDAY. OR AS THEY CALL IT IN THE 20 00:01:35,416 --> 00:01:41,122 SENATE, "BARELY LEGAL. [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT DOCTOR 21 00:01:41,122 --> 00:01:45,359 DR. ANTHONY FAUCI SAID IN A RECENT INTERVIEW THAT SANTA CLAUS IS IMMUNE TO THE 22 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:49,196 CORONAVIRUS. "OH, GOOD FOR HIM," SAID AN ELF BEING FORCED TO COME INTO THE 23 00:01:49,196 --> 00:01:54,435 WORKSHOP DURING AN OUTBREAK. THE MUSIC STORE GUITAR CENTER HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT'S FILED 24 00:01:54,435 --> 00:01:58,139 FOR BANKRUPTCY TURNS OUT A LOT OF MEN DON'T BUY GUITARS WHEN THEY CAN'T HIT ON 25 00:01:58,139 --> 00:02:03,177 WOMEN ANYMORE. AND FINALLY, ADULT VIDEO WEBSITE PORNHUB HAS RELEASED A NEW LINE 26 00:02:03,177 --> 00:02:09,316 OF HOLIDAY APPAREL, SUCH AS SWEATERS, SCARVES AND YOU GUESSED IT, ONE SOCK 27 00:02:09,316 --> 00:02:16,957 SCOLLINS AND THAT WAS THE MONOLOGUE WE GOT A GREAT SHOW FOR YOU 28 00:02:16,957 --> 00:02:19,794 TONIGHT. YOU KNOW HER FROM "THIS IS US," AND SHE HAS NEW HOLIDAY SONGS 29 00:02:19,794 --> 00:02:25,366 OUT NOW CALLED "HOW COULD THIS BE CHRISTMAS"? MANDY MOORE WILL BE HERE 30 00:02:25,366 --> 00:02:28,335 AND, YOU KNOW, BACK WHEN I WAS AN ACTOR, MANDY AND I WERE IN A MOVIE TOGETHER 31 00:02:28,335 --> 00:02:31,272 I PLAYED HER AGENT IF SHE CAN REMEMBER MY CHARACTER'S NAME OR EVEN THAT I 32 00:02:31,272 --> 00:02:35,543 WAS IN IT, I WILL BE SHOCKED FOR THE RECORD, IT WAS CALLED "AMERICAN DREAMZ," AND I PLAYED 33 00:02:35,543 --> 00:02:38,279 CHET KROGL TRUE STORY, HUGH GRANT WAS ALSO IN THAT MOVIE, AND I SHOWED HIM 34 00:02:38,279 --> 00:02:42,216 A PICTURE OF US ACTING TOGETHER IN A SCENE AND HE HAD ZERO MEMORY OF IT 35 00:02:42,216 --> 00:02:47,254 [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] THAT'S THE KIND OF IMPACT I MAKE ON A MOVIE SET 36 00:02:47,254 --> 00:02:50,858 PLUS, HE IS A GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING MUSICIAN AND THE FRONTMAN OF WILCO. 37 00:02:50,858 --> 00:02:57,398 HIS LATEST SOLO ALBUM "LOVE IS THE KING," ALONG WITH HIS BOOK "HOW TO WRITE ONE SONG," ARE OUT 38 00:02:57,398 --> 00:03:02,069 NOW. BACK ON THE SHOW TO CHAT AND PERFORM FOR US, ONE OF MY 39 00:03:02,069 --> 00:03:06,374 FAVORITES, JEFF TWEEDY IS HERE THRILLED ABOUT THAT. BUT BEFORE WE GET TO ALL OF OUR 40 00:03:06,374 --> 00:03:09,443 GUESTS, PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN IS CONTINUING WITH THE TRANSITION AND ANNOUNCING 41 00:03:09,443 --> 00:03:13,247 CABINET PICKS. MEANWHILE, OUTGOING PRESIDENT SQUATTER'S RIGHTS FIRED ONE OF 42 00:03:13,247 --> 00:03:17,852 HIS LAWYERS, AFTER SHE CLAIMED THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED AS PART OF A VAST CONSPIRACY INVOLVING 43 00:03:17,852 --> 00:03:22,590 THE CIA, THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA, AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, WHO DIED 44 00:03:22,590 --> 00:03:25,493 SEVEN YEARS AGO. FOR MORE ON THIS, IT'S TIME FOR "A CLOSER LOOK." 45 00:03:25,893 --> 00:03:30,965 * Seth: YOU KNOW, I HATE TO JUMP 46 00:03:30,965 --> 00:03:34,101 THE GUN HERE AND PREMATURELY CALL THE ELECTION, BUT IT'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE 47 00:03:34,101 --> 00:03:38,839 DONALD TRUMP LOST BY A LOT JOE BIDEN'S POPULAR VOTE LEAD IS NOW OVER SIX MILLION, AND IN 48 00:03:38,839 --> 00:03:42,543 TOTAL HE HAS MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENT-ELECT IN HISTORY OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER, I DON'T 49 00:03:42,543 --> 00:03:46,914 KNOW, MORE FUN WAY, MORE PEOPLE CAME OUT TO VOTE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP THAN HAVE EVER COME 50 00:03:46,914 --> 00:03:50,418 OUT TO VOTE AGAINST ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 51 00:03:50,418 --> 00:03:54,922 AND DONALD, IF YOU EVER GET MAD WHEN YOU SEE PRESIDENT BIDEN, KNOW THAT IT LIKELY ONLY 52 00:03:54,922 --> 00:03:59,160 HAPPENED BECAUSE OF YOU. JOE BIDEN RAN FOR PRESIDENT A BUNCH OF TIMES BEFORE THIS AND, 53 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,896 LIKE, NEVER FINISHED IN THE TOP TIER BUT AGAINST YOU, IT TURNS OUT HE 54 00:04:01,896 --> 00:04:05,399 WAS THE PERFECT CHOICE BIDEN WAS LIKE THAT WEIRD KID IN SCHOOL THAT NOBODY HUNG OUT WITH 55 00:04:05,399 --> 00:04:11,739 BECAUSE HE SMELLED LIKE GARLIC, AND THEN A VAMPIRE ATTACKED PROM AND EVERYONE SAID, "QUICK, GET 56 00:04:11,739 --> 00:04:16,343 STINKY KEVIN!" AND HE'LL NEVER SAY IT, BUT YOU KNOW WHEN BIDEN TOLD OBAMA HE 57 00:04:16,343 --> 00:04:20,915 WAS GOING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN, OBAMA MUST HAVE THOUGHT, "I'M SORRY, YOU DIDN'T THINK 58 00:04:20,915 --> 00:04:24,652 BEING MY VICE PRESIDENT WAS THE BEST JOB YOU WERE EVER GOING TO HAVE 59 00:04:24,652 --> 00:04:27,922 YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A STEPPING-STONE TO BIGGER THINGS?" 60 00:04:27,922 --> 00:04:31,625 THAT'S LIKE A WALMART GREETER GETTING HIRED AND SAYING, "ONE DAY I'M GOING TO ONE THIS 61 00:04:31,625 --> 00:04:35,696 PLACE. BUT THANKS TO DONALD TRUMP, IT HAPPENED 62 00:04:35,696 --> 00:04:38,399 BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE CAME OUT TO VOTE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP THAN HAVE EVER COME OUT TO VOTE 63 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:41,102 AGAINST ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 64 00:04:41,102 --> 00:04:44,338 AND, SURE, WE ALL KNOW THAT IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS, THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DID VOTE FOR 65 00:04:44,338 --> 00:04:48,109 DONALD TRUMP, AND THAT SPEAKS TO A GREAT DARKNESS WE CANNOT FULLY HANDLE 66 00:04:48,109 --> 00:04:52,413 BUT THAT THOUGHT ISN'T GOING TO GET YOU UP AND ON THE PELOTON IN THE MORNING, SO LET'S JUST 67 00:04:52,413 --> 00:04:56,117 BOOKMARK IT. ON TOP OF BIDEN'S HISTORIC VOTE TOTALS, GEORGIA JUST CERTIFIED 68 00:04:56,117 --> 00:05:01,155 ITS RESULTS AFTER A VIGOROUS HAND RECOUNT, AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN LOST A MAJOR COURT CASE 69 00:05:01,155 --> 00:05:05,292 IN PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE THE JUDGE, A REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY, DID NOT 70 00:05:05,292 --> 00:05:09,063 HOLD BACK IN HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM'S INCOMPETENCE 71 00:05:09,630 --> 00:05:14,368 A FEDERAL JUDGE IN PENNSYLVANIA COMPLETELY TEARING APART THE TRUMP LEGAL STRATEGY 72 00:05:14,368 --> 00:05:17,872 THAT WAS SPEARHEADED BY RUDY GUILIANI. THE JUDGE IN THIS CASE, 73 00:05:17,872 --> 00:05:23,677 MATTHEW BRANN, TEARING APART THE CLAIMS BY THE TRUMP TEAM THAT THEY WANTED TO INVALIDATE THE 74 00:05:23,677 --> 00:05:29,350 VOTE IN PENNSYLVANIA AND THROW OUT NEARLY SEVEN MILLION VOTES THE JUDGE IN THIS CASE SAYING 75 00:05:29,350 --> 00:05:32,319 THIS - "ONE MIGHT EXPECT THAT, WHEN SEEKING SUCH A STARTLING 76 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:37,892 OUTCOME, A PLAINTIFF WOULD COME FORMIDABLY ARMED WITH COMPELLING LEGAL ARGUMENTS AND FACTUAL 77 00:05:37,892 --> 00:05:42,797 PROOF OF RAMPANT CORRUPTION. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED. INSTEAD, THIS COURT HAS BEEN 78 00:05:42,797 --> 00:05:49,370 PRESENTED WITH STRAINED LEGAL ARGUMENTS WITHOUT MERIT AND SPECULATIVE ACCUSATIONS UNPLED 79 00:05:49,370 --> 00:05:53,841 IN THE OPERATIVE COMPLAINT AND UNSUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE. Seth: THAT'S ABOUT AS HARSH 80 00:05:53,841 --> 00:05:58,879 AS IT GETS FOR A FEDERAL JUDGE THAT'S LIKE HEARING PAUL HOLLYWOOD SAY "UNDERBAKED." 81 00:05:58,879 --> 00:06:03,050 JUST DEVASTATING NETFLIX SHOULD REALLY PUT UP A WARNING AT THE TOP OF THAT SHOW. 82 00:06:03,050 --> 00:06:06,087 I ALSO LIKE THE PART WHERE THE JUDGE SAYS YOU'D EXPECT THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM TO COME ARMED 83 00:06:06,087 --> 00:06:11,792 WITH COMPELLING LEGAL ARGUMENTS AND FACTUAL PROOF. JUDGE, TAKE A HINT WHEN THEY 84 00:06:11,792 --> 00:06:16,630 DON'T COME IN WITH BRIEFCASES. LAWYERS NORMALLY HAVE THINGS WITH THEM, PAPERS AND SUCH, 85 00:06:16,630 --> 00:06:19,667 CALLED EVIDENCE. THEY HAVE YOUNGER LAWYERS BEHIND THEM WITH FILE BOXES 86 00:06:19,667 --> 00:06:24,705 RUDY AND HIS GREASERS WALK IN WITH iPHONES AND CLIFF BARS AND A THERMOS THEY ALL SHARE 87 00:06:24,705 --> 00:06:28,642 THEY THINK THIS IS A HIGH SCHOOL FORENSICS TEAM COMPETITION WHERE THE KID WITH THE WEIRDEST ADULT 88 00:06:28,642 --> 00:06:35,082 ENERGY WINS BY TALKING LONGEST WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT THIS CREW TO ROLL IN WITH PROOF? 89 00:06:35,082 --> 00:06:39,487 IT'S LIKE EXPECTING MY BURNOUT COUSIN TO COME TO THANKSGIVING ON TIME WITH SWEET POTATOES. 90 00:06:39,487 --> 00:06:42,957 YOU KNOW HE'S GONNA SHOW UP AT 10:00 PM WITH METH AND A WOMAN HE MET AT A CASINO 91 00:06:42,957 --> 00:06:46,360 "HEY, THIS IS SAPPHIRE, AND SHE'S GONNA BE A STRIPPER MAGICIAN 92 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,765 SHOW 'EM YOUR STUFF, BABE! BY THE WAY, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW RUDY AND HIS GANG KEEP 93 00:06:50,765 --> 00:06:54,869 GETTING COURT DATES TO EVEN BRING THIS TO A JUDGE. THEY'VE HAD MULTIPLE DAYS IN 94 00:06:54,869 --> 00:06:58,472 COURT AND THE ELECTION WAS, WHAT, THREE WEEKS AGO? DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES 95 00:06:58,472 --> 00:07:02,043 FOR REGULAR PEOPLE TO GET A COURT DATE IN 2017 I WAS DRIVING A ZIP CAR 96 00:07:02,043 --> 00:07:05,479 IN MANHATTAN MY DOG FRISBEE JUMPED IN THE FRONT SEAT AND STARTED SCANNING 97 00:07:05,479 --> 00:07:09,650 RADIO STATIONS AND I WAS STARTLED AND I SWERVED INTO A HALAL CART NEAR THE CURB. 98 00:07:09,650 --> 00:07:13,788 IT WAS THE MOST YELLING EVER HEARD IN NEW YORK CITY THE HALAL VENDOR SUED ME, ZIP 99 00:07:13,788 --> 00:07:18,059 CAR COUNTERSUED BOTH ME AND THE HALAL GUY. MEANWHILE, FRISBEE IS SUING 100 00:07:18,059 --> 00:07:22,129 SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO FOR CHANGING '40s ON 4 TO CHANNEL 73, THE CONFUSION THAT STARTED 101 00:07:22,129 --> 00:07:26,067 THIS WHOLE DEBACLE THIS HAPPENED THREE YEARS AGO, AND WE HAVE A HEARING SCHEDULED 102 00:07:26,067 --> 00:07:32,707 FOR 2025, AND THAT WAS ONLY BECAUSE I PULLED SOME STRINGS. ANYWAY, I THINK I WAS TALKING 103 00:07:32,707 --> 00:07:36,977 ABOUT SOMETHING. OH, RIGHT. AND NOW, PROMINENT REPUBLICANS, 104 00:07:36,977 --> 00:07:40,247 SUCH AS THE GOVERNORS OF ARKANSAS AND OHIO, AND MICHICAN CONGRESSMAN FRED UPTON AND 105 00:07:40,247 --> 00:07:42,683 PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR PAT TOOMEY ARE CALLING JOE BIDEN THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND SAYING THE 106 00:07:42,683 --> 00:07:47,154 TRANSITION SHOULD BEGIN. EVEN LONGTIME TRUMP FRIEND AND ALLY CHRIS CHRISTIE HAD THIS TO 107 00:07:47,154 --> 00:07:50,491 SAY ABOUT THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM'S EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION 108 00:07:51,392 --> 00:07:54,495 I'VE BEEN A SUPPORTER OF THE PRESIDENT'S. I VOTED FOR HIM TWICE. 109 00:07:54,495 --> 00:08:02,336 BUT ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, AND WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO ACT AS IF SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE THAT 110 00:08:02,336 --> 00:08:06,707 DIDN'T HAPPEN. QUITE FRANKLY, THE CONDUCT OF THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM HAS 111 00:08:06,707 --> 00:08:11,078 BEEN A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT. THEY ALLEGE FRAUD OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM, BUT WHEN THEY GO 112 00:08:11,078 --> 00:08:15,049 INSIDE THE COURTROOM, THEY DON'T PLEAD FRAUD AND THEY DON'T ARGUE FRAUD. 113 00:08:15,049 --> 00:08:17,852 IF YOU'RE UNWILLING TO COME FORWARD AND PRESENT THE EVIDENCE, IT MUST MEAN THE 114 00:08:17,852 --> 00:08:22,289 EVIDENCE DOESN'T EXIST Seth: YOU KNOW IT'S BAD WHEN CHRIS CHRISTIE, WHOSE MAIN JOB 115 00:08:22,289 --> 00:08:26,827 FOR YEARS WAS STANDING BEHIND TRUMP AT PRESS CONFERENCES LIKE BOBBY BACCALA WAITING FOR HIS 116 00:08:26,827 --> 00:08:30,765 NEXT HUMILIATING ERRAND, CALLS YOU A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT BUT CHRISTIE'S OTHER POINT IS 117 00:08:30,765 --> 00:08:33,934 IMPORTANT, TOO TRUMP'S LAWYERS ONLY CLAIM THERE'S FRAUD WHEN THEY'RE 118 00:08:33,934 --> 00:08:37,104 OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM, NEVER WHEN THEY'RE INSIDE THE COURTROOM, BECAUSE COURT IS 119 00:08:37,104 --> 00:08:41,142 DIFFERENT FROM TV. IN COURT, YOU GET IN REAL TROUBLE FOR LYING, BUT WHEN 120 00:08:41,142 --> 00:08:45,846 THEY'RE IN FRONT OF TV CAMERAS, YOU HEAR ALL OF THESE TRUMP LAWYERS SAY CRAZY, AMBIGUOUS, 121 00:08:45,846 --> 00:08:50,885 DEBUNKED STUFF ABOUT DEAD VOTERS, AND ELECTION SOFTWARE AND AFFIDAVITS OR WHATEVER 122 00:08:50,885 --> 00:08:54,388 IN FACT, IN THAT VERY HEARING RUDY GUILIANI ULTIMATELY LOST, HE SEEMED CONFUSED ABOUT BASIC 123 00:08:54,388 --> 00:08:59,093 LEGAL TERMS LIKE "STRICT SCRUTINY," AND ADMITTED IN COURT THAT THE CAMPAIGN WAS NOT 124 00:08:59,093 --> 00:09:04,565 ACTUALLY ALLEGING THAT FRAUD HAD TAKEN PLACE. WHICH, IT SHOULD BE NOTED, IS 125 00:09:04,565 --> 00:09:07,635 LIKE SAYING IN A MURDER TRIAL, "HI, I'M THE ALLEGED VICTIM AND I'M STILL ALIVE. 126 00:09:08,903 --> 00:09:14,275 PROSECUTOR, REVIEW SHOULD I APPLY IN THIS CASE - A MOTION TO DISMISS 127 00:09:14,275 --> 00:09:17,111 WELL, I MEAN, I THINK THE NORMAL ONE. ARE YOU ARGUING THEN THAT 128 00:09:17,111 --> 00:09:20,181 STRICT SCRUTINY SHOULD APPLY HERE NO, THE NORMAL SCRUTINY 129 00:09:20,181 --> 00:09:26,954 SHOULD APPLY HERE. IF WE HAD ALLEGED FRAUD, YES BUT THIS IS NOT A FRAUD CASE 130 00:09:26,954 --> 00:09:30,691 Seth: ACTUALLY IT IS A FRAUD CASE, IN THE SENSE THAT IT'S A CASE BROUGHT BY FRAUDS 131 00:09:30,691 --> 00:09:35,596 LIKE WHEN SOMEONE BRING A GUITAR CASE, THEY ARE ALSO PROBABLY A FRAUD. 132 00:09:35,596 --> 00:09:39,066 IF THIS WASN'T A FRAUD CASE, THEN WHAT'S WAS IT YOU GUYS KEEP SAYING THERE'S 133 00:09:39,066 --> 00:09:42,737 VOTER FRAUD IN PUBLIC BUT THEN NOT ARGUING THERE'S VOTER FRAUD IN COURT 134 00:09:42,737 --> 00:09:45,906 IT'S LIKE HOW YOU SAY IN FRONT OF YOUR KIDS, "BETTER BE GOOD THIS YEAR OR SANTA A MIGHT NOT 135 00:09:45,906 --> 00:09:49,310 COME." AND THEN AT 3:00 A.M., YOU'RE ON THE FLOOR IN YOUR LIVING ROOM 136 00:09:49,310 --> 00:09:53,347 DRINKING SCOTCH TRYING TO TIE A BOW AROUND A LIGHT SABER, SCREAMING, "[ BLEEP ] PAPER 137 00:09:53,347 --> 00:09:57,084 KEEPS RIPPING! OH HEY, WHY DON'T WE JUST HAVE IT, 138 00:09:57,084 --> 00:10:01,088 LIKE, PEEKING OUT FROM BEHIND THE COUCH? JUST LIKE A LITTLE PIECE OF 139 00:10:01,088 --> 00:10:08,529 LIGHT SA -- ALL RIGHT! I'LL WRAP IT I JUST THINK IT WOULD -- THE 140 00:10:08,529 --> 00:10:14,869 THING IS THEY GET IT AS A GIFT OKAY!" IN FACT THEY HAVEN'T ALLEGED ANY 141 00:10:14,869 --> 00:10:18,939 ACTUAL VOTER FRAUD AT ALL BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST INSTEAD THEY RESORTED TO BAT 142 00:10:18,939 --> 00:10:23,744 [ BLEEP ] CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT ELECTION SOFTWARE AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISTS 143 00:10:23,744 --> 00:10:26,947 AND YOU KNOW, ONE THING I'M DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO MISS ABOUT THE TRUMP ERA IS THE MAD 144 00:10:26,947 --> 00:10:31,085 LIB STYLE NEWS REPORTING EVERY TIME YOU HEAR ABOUT SOMETHING THE TRUMP TEAM SAID 145 00:10:31,085 --> 00:10:36,657 IT'S LIKE AN OLD DENNIS MILLER JOKE FROM THE '80s "BRIAN KEMP AND HUGO CHAVEZ ARE 146 00:10:36,657 --> 00:10:41,028 TEAMING UP TO STEAL THIS ELECTION LIKE KITTY AND PETER CARRUTHERS GOING FOR THE 147 00:10:41,028 --> 00:10:48,369 GOLD IN SARAJEVO 'KAY, BABE?" [ LAUGHTER ] 148 00:10:48,369 --> 00:10:51,405 ANOTHER THING I WON'T MISS IS TRYING TO FOLLOW THE ROTATING CAST OF FRINGE RIGHT-WING 149 00:10:51,405 --> 00:10:54,909 WEIRDOS THAT COME IN AND OUT OF THE TRUMP WORLD. LIKE, DO YOU REMEMBER THIS GUY, 150 00:10:54,909 --> 00:10:59,613 JOSEPH diGENOVA? THE TRUMP LAWYER AND RIGHT WING LUNATIC WHO LOOKS LIKE HE GOT 151 00:10:59,613 --> 00:11:03,884 BUSTED FOR TRYING TO SNEAK HIS OWN PASTA SAUCE ON TO A PAN AM FLIGHT 152 00:11:03,884 --> 00:11:08,089 "WHAT YOU GUYS GOT IS NO BETTER THAN KETCHUP!" HE BASICALLY GOT BANNED -- HE 153 00:11:08,089 --> 00:11:12,827 GOT BANNED FROM FOX NEWS FOR ANTI-SEMITISM. THAT'S LIKE GETTING KICKED OFF 154 00:11:12,827 --> 00:11:16,430 BRAVO FOR DRINKING WINE IN A HOT TUB. diGENOVA WAS BRIEFLY ONE OF 155 00:11:16,430 --> 00:11:20,501 TRUMP'S LAWYERS DURING THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION AND THEN GOT DUMPED LIKE A WEEK LATER, 156 00:11:20,501 --> 00:11:25,740 EVEN THOUGH HE'S THE ONLY QUESTION HE'S EVER HE ANSWERED IS, "WHAT IF DENNIS FRANZ WASN'T 157 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:28,609 SO SEXY? HE WAS STANDING ALONGSIDE RUDY GUILIANI AT THAT INSANE 158 00:11:28,609 --> 00:11:33,314 PRESS CONFERENCE THEY HELD LAST WEEK WHERE RUDY RE-ENACTED A SCENE FROM "MY COUSIN VINNY," 159 00:11:33,314 --> 00:11:37,551 CALLED THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES A BASKETBALL TEAM, AND HAD WHAT LOOKED LIKE DROPLETS OF 160 00:11:37,551 --> 00:11:40,955 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAKING FROM HIS BRAIN. I GUESS RUDY DYED HIS HAIR 161 00:11:40,955 --> 00:11:45,226 FRANTICALLY IN A GAS STATION BATHROOM LIKE RICHARD KIMBALL IN "THE FUGITIVE. 162 00:11:45,226 --> 00:11:49,463 I MEAN, IF I SAW THAT COMING OUT OF MY RADIATOR I WOULD BE POUNDING ON MY SUPER'S DOOR. 163 00:11:49,463 --> 00:11:53,501 ANYWAY, THESE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE TRUMP HAS LEFT, BECAUSE NO LEGITIMATE LAWYER WANTS TO BE 164 00:11:53,501 --> 00:11:57,772 A PART OF THIS UNHINGED ASSAULT ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. IN FACT, LAST WEEK THE TRUMP 165 00:11:57,772 --> 00:12:01,709 LEGAL TEAM TRIED TO DELAY THAT HEARING IN FEDERAL COURT TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION BECAUSE IN 166 00:12:01,709 --> 00:12:07,181 PENNSYLVANIA, AS REUTERS REPORTED, MOST OF HIS LAWYERS QUIT 167 00:12:07,181 --> 00:12:11,085 AT THIS POINT THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM IS LIKE CVS AT MIDNIGHT SURE, THEY'RE OPEN, BUT NOBODY 168 00:12:11,085 --> 00:12:15,156 ACTUALLY WORKS THERE AND TRUMP IS LIKE THE GUY TRYING TO PAY FOR ARIZONA ICED TEA AT 169 00:12:15,156 --> 00:12:18,893 THE PHOTO STATION REGISTER, WHO WILL WAIT FOR ETERNITY AND DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND 170 00:12:18,893 --> 00:12:23,564 BUT BY FAR THE CRAZIEST ADDITION TO THE TRUMP CINEMATIC UNIVERSE, HAS BEEN A LAWYER NAMED 171 00:12:23,564 --> 00:12:28,169 SIDNEY POWELL. AND IF YOU THOUGHT RUDY WAS BONKERS, THIS LADY IS CRAZIER 172 00:12:28,169 --> 00:12:32,440 THAN A CEREAL MASCOT SHE WAS ALSO AT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN'S PRESS CONFERENCE LAST 173 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,243 WEEK AND HAS BEEN ALL OVER RIGHT-RING MEDIA CLAIMING NOT JUST THAT THE ELECTION WAS 174 00:12:36,243 --> 00:12:41,115 RIGGED, BUT THAT MILLIONS OF BALLOTS WERE SOMEHOW FAKED OR STOLEN, OR WHATEVER, AS PART OF 175 00:12:41,115 --> 00:12:45,553 AN ELABORATE CONSPIRACY INVOLVING THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA, THE CIA, 176 00:12:45,553 --> 00:12:50,591 AND THE LATE VENEZUELAN LEADER HUGO CHAVEZ, WHO DIED IN 2013. UNTIL NOW, POWELL MIGHT HAVE 177 00:12:50,591 --> 00:12:55,830 BEEN BEST KNOWN FOR PLAYING THE UPTIGHT TEACHER IN EVERY HEAVY METAL VIDEO, OR FOR GOING ON 178 00:12:55,830 --> 00:13:01,402 LOU DOBBS' SHOW AND MAKING CLAIMS ABOUT DESPEATE MIGRANTS FLEEING POVERTY AND VIOLENCE 179 00:13:01,402 --> 00:13:02,737 FLEEING POVERTY AND VIOLENCE THAT WERE TOO INSANE EVEN FOR LOU DOBBS. 180 00:13:03,504 --> 00:13:04,772 WE SIMPLY CANNOT TOLERATE THE 181 00:13:04,772 --> 00:13:10,811 CONTINUED INVASION OF THIS COUNTRY WHEN AMERICANS ARE SUFFERING EVERY DAY, THE 182 00:13:10,811 --> 00:13:15,182 NATIONAL DEBT IS EXPLODING WE HAVE DISEASES SPREADING ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT ARE 183 00:13:15,182 --> 00:13:20,087 CAUSING POLIO-LIKE PARALYSIS OF OUR CHILDREN IT'S ONE THING AFTER THE OTHER 184 00:13:20,087 --> 00:13:24,258 SIDNEY, YOU CAN'T VERY WELL BLAME THAT DISEASE ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 185 00:13:24,258 --> 00:13:29,096 WE DON'T KNOW THE CAUSE OF IT. I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S -- I DON'T THINK THAT'S FAIR. 186 00:13:29,096 --> 00:13:37,104 A LOT OF, YOU KNOW -- BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY SECURE, 187 00:13:37,104 --> 00:13:41,509 INCLUDING -- INCLUDING MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE IS HEALTHY WHEN THEY 188 00:13:41,509 --> 00:13:44,578 ARE BROUGHT IN TO THE COUNTRY, WITHOUT QUESTION RIGHT? 189 00:13:44,578 --> 00:13:48,616 IS THAT FAIR THAT IS FAIR, BUT THAT IS PART OF THE PROBLEM -- WE DON'T 190 00:13:48,616 --> 00:13:53,220 KNOW WHERE THE DISEASES ARE COMING FROM. WELL, THAT'S -- YOU KNOW 191 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:57,591 WHAT I THINK THAT WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT. 192 00:13:57,591 --> 00:14:01,295 Seth: IT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING TO WATCH THESE PEOPLE HAVE A BRIEF MOMENT OF SELF-AWARENESS 193 00:14:01,295 --> 00:14:04,699 YOU'D THINK AFTER THAT INTERVIEW LOU DOBBS WOULD HAVE MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW, PULLED IT BACK A 194 00:14:04,699 --> 00:14:07,535 LITTLE IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU'RE AT A PARTY AND EVERYONE'S FEELING GOOD, 195 00:14:07,535 --> 00:14:11,138 THEN IT GETS LATE AND SOMEONE SAYS, "LET'S GET ON THE ROOF AND JUMP IN THE POOL!" 196 00:14:11,138 --> 00:14:14,975 AND EVERYBODY ELSE SAYS, "YEAH!" BUT THEN YOU REMEMBER THE APARTMENT IS 12 STORIES HIGH, 197 00:14:14,975 --> 00:14:19,213 AND THERE'S NOT A POOL, SO YOU QUIETLY SNEAK OUT THE BACK BUT THEN, THE NEXT NIGHT, 198 00:14:19,213 --> 00:14:22,383 THEY'RE LIKE, "WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER PARTY!" AND YOU'RE LIKE, "ALL RIGHT." 199 00:14:22,383 --> 00:14:26,220 ANYWAY, THAT'S A PSYCHO WHO SHOWED UP TO THE OFFICIAL TRUMP LEGAL TEAM'S PRESS CONFERENCE ON 200 00:14:26,220 --> 00:14:31,158 THURSDAY AND CLAIMED NOT JUST THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE FRAUDULENT OR THAT DEAD PEOPLE 201 00:14:31,158 --> 00:14:37,365 HAD VOTED, BUT THAT THERE WAS A VAST INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY INVOLVING A DEAD 202 00:14:37,365 --> 00:14:39,300 CONSPIRACY INVOLVING A DEAD VENEZUELAN LEADER TO SUBVERT THE ELECTION 203 00:14:40,368 --> 00:14:41,969 WHAT WE ARE REALLY DEALING 204 00:14:41,969 --> 00:14:50,177 WITH HERE AND UNCOVERING MORE BY THE DAY IS THE MASSIVE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNIST MONEY THROUGH 205 00:14:50,177 --> 00:14:58,352 VENEZUELA, CUBA, AND LIKELY CHINA, IN THE INTERFERENCE WITH OUR ELECTIONS HERE IN THE UNITED 206 00:14:58,352 --> 00:15:04,258 STATES THE DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, THE SMARTMATIC TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE, 207 00:15:04,258 --> 00:15:09,630 AND THE SOFTWARE THAT GOES IN OTHER COMPUTERIZED VOTING SYSTEMS HERE AS WELL -- NOT JUST 208 00:15:09,630 --> 00:15:17,805 DOMINION -- WERE CREATED IN VENEZUELA AT THE DIRECTION OF HUGO CHAVEZ. 209 00:15:17,805 --> 00:15:21,108 Seth: YOU KNOW, SHE DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE, BUT AT LEAST SHE HAS THE SAME VOICE AS 210 00:15:21,108 --> 00:15:27,548 AN ORPHANAGE HEADMISTRESS WHOSE CATCH PHRASE IS, "YOU AIN'T NEVER GETTING ADOPTED. 211 00:15:27,548 --> 00:15:31,585 STILL NICE TO KNOW THAT DEAD PEOPLE WHO ARE VOTING ARE -- HUGO CHAVEZ? 212 00:15:31,585 --> 00:15:37,925 WHO ELSE VOTED IN THIS ELECTION? BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI? SO POWELL ALLEGED A VAST 213 00:15:37,925 --> 00:15:42,863 CONSPIRACY INVOLVING HUGO CHAVEZ TO HELP JOE BIDEN WIN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND YET 214 00:15:42,863 --> 00:15:49,537 CURIOUSLY, SHE KEPT REFUSING TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF THIS VAST SCHEME WHEN PRESSED, EVEN BY 215 00:15:49,537 --> 00:15:55,109 FRIENDLY FOX NEWS HOSTS WHO WERE BASICALLY DESPERATE TO AGREE WITH HER, AS LONG AS SHE COULD 216 00:15:55,109 --> 00:15:55,643 BASICALLY DESPERATE TO AGREE WITH HER, AS LONG AS SHE COULD PROVIDE A SHRED OF EVIDENCE. 217 00:15:56,243 --> 00:16:00,114 SO SIDNEY, YOU FEEL THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PROVE THIS 218 00:16:00,114 --> 00:16:05,686 DO YOU HAVE THE SOFTWARE IN YOUR POSSESSION, DO YOU HAVE THE HARDWARE IN YOUR POSSESSION? 219 00:16:05,686 --> 00:16:09,757 HOW WILL YOU PROVE THIS, SIDNEY? WELL, I'VE GOT LOTS OF WAYS TO PROVE IT, MARIA. 220 00:16:09,757 --> 00:16:14,562 BUT I'M NOT GOING TO TELL ON NATIONAL TV WHAT ALL WE HAVE SO WE INVITED SIDNEY POWELL 221 00:16:14,562 --> 00:16:16,630 ON THE SHOW. WE WOULD HAVE GIVEN HER THE WHOLE HOUR 222 00:16:16,630 --> 00:16:21,068 WE WOULD HAVE GIVEN HER THE ENTIRE WEEK, ACTUALLY, AND LISTENED QUIETLY THE WHOLE TIME 223 00:16:21,068 --> 00:16:25,940 AT RAPT ATTENTION. THAT'S A BIG STORY BUT SHE NEVER SENT US ANY 224 00:16:25,940 --> 00:16:30,077 EVIDENCE, DESPITE A LOT OF REQUESTS, POLITE REQUESTS. NOT A PAGE 225 00:16:30,077 --> 00:16:34,148 WHEN WE KEPT PRESSING, SHE GOT ANGRY AND TOLD US TO STOP CONTACTING HER 226 00:16:34,148 --> 00:16:37,618 Seth: WOW, YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN FULL LOONY TERRITORY WHEN EVEN TUCKER CARLSON WON'T GO ALONG 227 00:16:37,618 --> 00:16:41,122 WITH WHAT YOU'RE SELLING HE WAS BEGGING HER TO COME ON HIS SHOW 228 00:16:41,122 --> 00:16:44,959 GOOD LORD, IT'S EASY TO GET ON TELEVISION THESE DAYS. UNHINGED PEOPLE USED TO HAVE TO 229 00:16:44,959 --> 00:16:49,230 STAND BEHIND A REPORTER ON LOCATION AND JUMP UP AND DOWN YELLING, "BABA BOOEY." 230 00:16:49,230 --> 00:16:53,601 ANYWAY, THE POINT IS SIDNEY POWELL WAS SOMEHOW EVEN TOO INSANE FOR THE TRUMP LEGAL 231 00:16:53,601 --> 00:16:57,872 TEAM, WHICH, BY THE WAY, REPEATEDLY TOLD EVERYONE THEY CONSIDERED HER A MEMBER OF THAT 232 00:16:57,872 --> 00:17:01,475 LEGAL TEAM THEY TWEETED MANY TIMES THAT SHE WAS WORKING WITH RUDY IN AN 233 00:17:01,475 --> 00:17:06,047 OFFICIAL CAPACITY FOR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN THE OFFICIAL GOP ACCOUNT TWEETED 234 00:17:06,047 --> 00:17:10,351 OUT A CLIP OF HER REMARKS, AND SHE APPEARED AT THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY. 235 00:17:10,351 --> 00:17:14,922 BUT I GUESS SHE WENT TOO FAR EVEN FOR TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND, WHEN SHE WENT ON THE FAR RIGHT 236 00:17:14,922 --> 00:17:19,627 NEWSMAX CHANNEL AND CLAIMED THAT THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR'S GEORGIA, A STAUNCH TRUMP ALLY, 237 00:17:19,627 --> 00:17:22,596 WAS SOMEHOW PART OF THE PLOT, ALONG WITH HUGO CHAVEZ AND ALSO THE CIA. 238 00:17:24,732 --> 00:17:29,070 BE THE FIRST STATE I'M GOING TO BLOW UP, AND MR. KEMP AND THE 239 00:17:29,070 --> 00:17:34,942 SECRETARY OF STATE NEED TO GO WITH IT, BECAUSE THEY'RE IN ON THE DOMINION SCAM, WITH THEIR 240 00:17:34,942 --> 00:17:40,314 LAST-MINUTE PURCHASE, REWARD OF A CONTRACT TO DOMINION OF $100 MILLION. 241 00:17:40,314 --> 00:17:43,484 THE STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FOR GEORGIA OUGHT TO BE LOOKING INTO FINANCIAL 242 00:17:43,484 --> 00:17:51,325 BENEFITS RECEIVED BY MR. KEMP AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S FAMILY ABOUT THAT TIME 243 00:17:51,325 --> 00:17:57,231 AND ANOTHER BENEFIT DOMINION WAS CREATED TO REWARD IS WHAT I WOULD CALL ELECTION INSURANCE. 244 00:17:57,231 --> 00:18:01,936 THAT'S WHY HUGO CHAVEZ HAD IT CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE BUT I ALSO WONDER WHERE HE GOT 245 00:18:01,936 --> 00:18:07,842 THE TECHNOLOGY, WHERE IT ACTUALLY CAME FROM BECAUSE I THINK IT'S HAMMER AND 246 00:18:07,842 --> 00:18:10,678 SCORE CARD FROM THE CIA. CAN YOU TELL US ANYTHING? CAN YOU MAKE SOME NEWS WITH US 247 00:18:10,678 --> 00:18:13,848 HERE TONIGHT TELL US ANYTHING NEW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO PRESENT IN THAT FILING 248 00:18:13,848 --> 00:18:21,722 IN GEORGIA WELL, I CAN'T SAY THAT YET. BUT HOPEFULLY THIS WEEK WE WILL 249 00:18:21,722 --> 00:18:29,296 GET IT READY TO FILE SIDNEY, WHAT'S -- IT WILL BE BIBLICAL 250 00:18:29,296 --> 00:18:32,566 Seth: OKAY, WOW SO THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA IS BEING BRIBED BY AN ELECTION 251 00:18:32,566 --> 00:18:38,906 SOFTWARE COMPANY CREATED BY HUGO CHAVEZ AS PART OF A VAST PLOT INVOLVING THE CIA TO SPREAD 252 00:18:38,906 --> 00:18:42,943 COMMUNISM ACROSS THE GLOBE BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, THE CIA LOVES HELPING OUT COMMUNISTS 253 00:18:42,943 --> 00:18:47,648 WE ALL REMEMBER WHEN THE CIA HELPED INSTALL FIDEL CASTRO IN THE FAMOUSLY SUCCESSFUL BAY OF 254 00:18:47,648 --> 00:18:50,151 PIGS INVASION. SECOND OF ALL -- WAIT, WHY AM I SAYING SECOND? 255 00:18:50,151 --> 00:18:53,454 WHY AM I BREAKING THIS DOWN POINT-BY-POINT, LIKE ANYONE WATCHING THIS IS STILL ON THE 256 00:18:53,454 --> 00:18:57,491 FENCE THINKING, "OKAY. ALL RIGHT, BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR NEXT POINT?" 257 00:18:57,491 --> 00:19:00,561 AND APPARENTLY I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY, BECAUSE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ISSUED A 258 00:19:00,561 --> 00:19:03,898 THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ISSUED A STATEMENT YESTERDAY SUDDENLY DISTANCING ITSELF FROM POWELL. 259 00:19:04,865 --> 00:19:05,700 JUST OVER A WEEK AFTER 260 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:09,937 PRESIDENT TRUMP NAMED ATTORNEY SIDNEY POWELL TO HIS LEGAL TEAM IN HIS EFFORT TO OVERTURN 261 00:19:09,937 --> 00:19:14,542 RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION, THE PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM NOW SAYS THAT SIDNEY POWELL IS NOT A 262 00:19:14,542 --> 00:19:19,447 MEMBER OF HIS LEGAL TEAM RUDY GUILIANI AND JENNA ELLIS, TWO OF THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE 263 00:19:19,447 --> 00:19:24,385 PRESIDENT'S EFFORT, SAYING IN A STATEMENT, QUOTE, "SIDNEY POWELL IS PRACTICING LAW ON HER OWN 264 00:19:24,385 --> 00:19:27,655 SHE IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM SHE IS ALSO NOT A LAWYER FOR THE 265 00:19:27,655 --> 00:19:31,926 PRESIDENT IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY." Seth: IT'S BOTH INSANE THAT 266 00:19:31,926 --> 00:19:35,296 THEY'RE TRYING TO PRETEND THAT SHE WAS NEVER PART OF THE LEGAL TEAM WHEN SHE WAS LITERALLY 267 00:19:35,296 --> 00:19:40,134 STANDING AT AN OFFICIAL TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCE, AND ALSO BELIEVABLE THAT SOMEONE COULD 268 00:19:40,134 --> 00:19:44,805 WANDER INTO A TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCE AND SAY THEY'RE HIS LAWYER 269 00:19:44,805 --> 00:19:48,642 I MEAN, SHE WAS IDENTIFIED ON TV AS HIS LAWYER, SO THERE'S NO GETTING OUT OF THAT ONE. 270 00:19:48,642 --> 00:19:52,680 WHAT ABOUT diGENOVA? I'D BUY HE HEARD THERE WAS A THING WHERE YOU DON'T NEED A 271 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:59,353 MASK AND SHOWED UP "HEY, BROUGHT MY OWN SAUCE OKAY 272 00:19:59,353 --> 00:20:03,958 JUST IF YOU NEED IT. BY THE WAY, AS A SIDE NOTE, YOU DON'T NEED TO ANNOUNCE WHO'S 273 00:20:03,958 --> 00:20:06,994 JOINING AND LEAVING THE LEGAL TEAM A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE SHOW UP TO 274 00:20:06,994 --> 00:20:10,831 COURT, AND THE LAWYERS ARE THERE, AND THEN YOU KNOW NOT EVERYONE TWEETS "I'VE 275 00:20:10,831 --> 00:20:15,436 RETAINED JANUZZI AND JANUZZI IN MY WRONGFUL ARREST FOR A DUI LOOK FORWARD TO PLEADING DOWN TO 276 00:20:15,436 --> 00:20:18,806 TIME SERVED. PERSONALLY, I'M JUST DIAPPOINTED BECAUSE POWELL KEPT PROMISING 277 00:20:18,806 --> 00:20:23,077 BLOCKBUSTER EVIDENCE OF FRAUD, AND NOW I GUESS WE'LL NEVER SEE IT 278 00:20:23,077 --> 00:20:25,012 IT SHE EVEN USED AN ESPECIALLY MEMORABLE PHRASE 279 00:20:27,048 --> 00:20:30,084 TO -- TO CARRY OUT AN ENDGAME IN 280 00:20:30,084 --> 00:20:36,490 THE EFFORT AGAINST HIM DO YOU CONCUR? OH, ABSOLUTELY. 281 00:20:36,490 --> 00:20:43,197 AND IT'S BEEN ORGANIZED AND CONDUCTED WITH THE HELP OF SILICON VALLEY PEOPLE. 282 00:20:43,197 --> 00:20:48,869 THE BIG TECH COMPANIES, THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES AND EVEN THE MEDIA COMPANIES. 283 00:20:48,869 --> 00:20:52,473 AND I'M GOING TO RELEASE THE KRAKEN Seth: I GUESS THE ONLY 284 00:20:52,473 --> 00:20:56,310 CRACKIN' WE ENDED UP SEEING WAS IN RUDY GUILIANI'S HAIR DYE. THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE, WHICH IS 285 00:20:56,310 --> 00:21:00,147 WHY LAWYERING KEEP QUITTING OR GETTING FIRED OR LAUGHED OUT OF COURT BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING 286 00:21:00,147 --> 00:21:03,951 ISN'T ACTUALLY ABOUT EVIDENCE. IT'S ABOUT MANUFACTURING A CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT WILL 287 00:21:03,951 --> 00:21:08,322 ANIMATE TRUMP'S BASE FOR YEARS TO COME. IT'S JUST ANOTHER SCAM, LIKE 288 00:21:08,322 --> 00:21:13,594 TRUMP'S MANY PREVIOUS SCAMS. IN TERMS OF ACTUAL LEGAL ARGUMENTS, THE TRUMP'S TEAM CASE 289 00:21:13,594 --> 00:21:16,630 IS DEADER THAN - HUGO CHAVEZ Seth: THIS HAS BEEN "A CLOSER 290 00:21:16,630 --> 00:21:22,670 LOOK." * WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH 291 00:21:22,670 --> 00:21:34,682 MANDY MOORE. * * 292 00:21:52,233 --> 00:21:55,736 Seth: WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE FRED ARMISEN BACK LEADING THE 8G BAND THIS WEEK. 293 00:21:55,736 --> 00:22:01,308 I HOPE YOU'RE CHECKING OUT FRED'S LATEST SHOW "MOONBASE 8" SUNDAYS ON SHOWTIME. 294 00:22:01,308 --> 00:22:08,315 GIVE US A WAVE, FRED AND FRED, I REALLY DO ENJOY THE SHOW, BUT I ALSO THINK YOU KNOW 295 00:22:08,315 --> 00:22:12,553 THE NORMAL SIZE OF HOLDUPS HERE AND I THINK IT'S A LITTLE AGGRESSIVE THAT YOU SENT ONE 296 00:22:12,553 --> 00:22:16,290 THIS BIG FOR YOUR SHOW AND I WOULD JUST WONDER IF YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPLAIN 297 00:22:16,290 --> 00:22:22,196 THAT I SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, FRED, AND I DON'T REALLY APPRECIATE 298 00:22:22,196 --> 00:22:25,599 IT OUR NEXT GUEST TONIGHT IS EMMY AND GOLDEN GLOBE-NOMINATED 299 00:22:25,599 --> 00:22:30,404 ACTRESS FOR HER WORK ON NBC'S "THIS IS US," WHICH RETURNS WITH NEW SHOWS IN JANUARY 300 00:22:30,404 --> 00:22:35,743 HER NEW HOLIDAY SONGS RELEASED IS A TWO-TRACK SINGLE, "HOW COULD THIS BE CHRISTMAS," ARE 301 00:22:35,743 --> 00:22:38,112 AVAILABLE NOW. PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW OUR FRIEND MANDY MOORE 302 00:22:38,112 --> 00:22:41,649 HI, MANDY. HOW ARE YOU? I'M WELL. 303 00:22:41,649 --> 00:22:46,454 HOW ARE YOU? Seth: I'M DOING WONDERFULLY THIS HAS BEEN A WEIRD TIME IN 304 00:22:46,454 --> 00:22:51,592 BETWEEN YOUR VISITS TO THE SHOW. THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE WAS IN SEPTEMBER 2016. 305 00:22:51,592 --> 00:22:57,164 SO YOU HAVE WAITED FOR THE ENTIRE TRUMP PRESIDENCY UNTIL YOU CAME BACK. 306 00:22:57,164 --> 00:23:00,801 I KNOW! I JUST COMPLETELY, LIKE, WANTED TO BOYCOTT THE SHOW, I GUESS, 307 00:23:00,801 --> 00:23:05,473 DURING THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY. Seth: YOU WERE LIKE, "I DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANY PART OF THAT. 308 00:23:05,473 --> 00:23:06,874 NO. Seth: IT'S LOVELY TO SEE YOU AGAIN AND CONGRATULATIONS. 309 00:23:06,874 --> 00:23:12,480 YOU'RE ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY. HOW FAR ALONG ARE YOU? I AM SEVEN MONTHS 310 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,248 Seth: OH, MY GOODNESS YEAH. I'M GETTING -- GETTING TOWARDS 311 00:23:14,248 --> 00:23:17,852 THE END HERE, BUT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Seth: AND YOU'RE HAVING A 312 00:23:17,852 --> 00:23:21,555 BOY, WHICH I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE IS A WONDERFUL THING. AND I KNOW WHEN YOU WERE HERE, 313 00:23:21,555 --> 00:23:27,128 YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW YOU WATCHED YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF PEOPLE GOING THROUGH LABOR TO 314 00:23:27,128 --> 00:23:31,832 HAVE TRIPLETS, BECAUSE OF YOUR SHOW DOES THAT MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT 315 00:23:31,832 --> 00:23:35,669 EASIER KNOWING THAT YOU'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE THE ONE? IS THAT NOT NORMAL? 316 00:23:35,669 --> 00:23:38,939 TO WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF PEOPLE HAVING TRIPLETS Seth: WELL, AT LEAST YOU HAD 317 00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:43,544 A REASON IT WOULD BE WEIRD IF YOU HAD NO REASON TO DO IT. 318 00:23:43,544 --> 00:23:49,350 YES I'VE TRIED TO ACTUALLY FORGET THE TRAUMA THAT I ENDURED 319 00:23:49,350 --> 00:23:51,619 WATCHING THOSE VIDEOS, BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE JUST DOWNRIGHT TERRIFYING 320 00:23:51,619 --> 00:23:58,125 SO, YES, I'M VERY GRATEFUL THAT I'M JUST HAVING ONE CHILD AT A TIME 321 00:23:58,125 --> 00:24:03,130 Seth: YOU GUYS ARE BACK TO FILMING AGAIN, AND YOU'VE DECIDED TO SORT OF TAKE HEAD-ON 322 00:24:03,130 --> 00:24:07,268 THE TIMES WE'RE LIVING IN FROM THINGS LIKE THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS TO LIVING UNDER 323 00:24:07,268 --> 00:24:11,872 QUARANTINE IS IT SURREAL TO BE DOING A SHOW THAT IS ALSO, YOU KNOW, ART 324 00:24:11,872 --> 00:24:18,212 IMITATING LIFE, I GUESS? I MEAN, I KIND OF WOULD EXPECT NOTHING LESS FROM "THIS 325 00:24:18,212 --> 00:24:23,451 IS US. LIKE, WE ARE A MODERN SHOW, AND SO MUCH OF OUR SHOW SORT OF 326 00:24:23,451 --> 00:24:28,089 TAKES PLACE IN, YOU KNOW, MODERN TIMES. AND SO, IT WOULD FEEL WEIRD, I 327 00:24:28,089 --> 00:24:34,095 THINK TO LEAVE SUCH PRESSING ISSUES UNADDRESSED IT CERTAINLY IS WEIRD BECAUSE, 328 00:24:34,095 --> 00:24:37,465 YEAH I MEAN, WE'RE LIVING THROUGH COVID, AS EVERYBODY ELSE IS AND 329 00:24:37,465 --> 00:24:40,401 WE'RE SHOOTING IN THE MIDST OF COVID. AND WE HAVE ALL OF THESE, LIKE, 330 00:24:40,401 --> 00:24:45,539 CRAZY COVID PROTOCOLS, WHICH I'M SURE YOU DO AS WELL AT YOUR SHOW 331 00:24:45,539 --> 00:24:50,911 SO IT'S CERTAINLY STRANGE TO, LIKE, HAVE TO INITIALLY, I THINK WE'RE SORT OF PAST THIS POINT 332 00:24:50,911 --> 00:24:54,181 NOW, BUT LIKE AS AN ACTOR WHEN YOU'RE IN A SCENE AND YOU'RE LOOKING ALL AROUND YOU AND THE 333 00:24:54,181 --> 00:24:59,854 ENTIRE CREW IS NOT ONLY IN MASKS, BUT ALSO IN FACE SHIELDS AND OTHER PPE, TO JUST SORT OF 334 00:24:59,854 --> 00:25:05,760 LET THAT GO AND TO KIND OF BE IN THE MOMENT IT WAS DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, A 335 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:12,099 BIT STRANGE AT FIRST, BUT NOW, IT FEELS, IT FEELS LIKE, YOU KNOW, SECOND NATURE. 336 00:25:12,099 --> 00:25:14,602 Seth: I ALSO, I KNOW EARLY ON OBVIOUSLY, IN THE FIRST SEASON OF THE SHOW, YOU HAD TO WEAR A 337 00:25:14,602 --> 00:25:19,974 FAKE PREGNANCY BELLY ARE YOU A LITTLE UPSET NOW THAT THEY HAVE NOT WRITTEN YOUR REAL 338 00:25:19,974 --> 00:25:22,810 ONE INTO THE SHOW? I KNOW. IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE 339 00:25:22,810 --> 00:25:28,616 TRAJECTORY OF OUR SHOW IS WE SORT OF JUMP AROUND ALL THE TIME 340 00:25:28,616 --> 00:25:32,987 SO I AM CONSTANTLY -- IN FACT, THE VERY FIRST EPISODE I WAS IN -- WE SORT OF LIKE TOOK IT 341 00:25:32,987 --> 00:25:37,358 BACK TO GOING TO THE HOSPITAL TO GIVE BIRTH TO THE TRIPLETS THAT DAY. 342 00:25:37,358 --> 00:25:43,898 SO I WAS IN, LIKE, THE FULL, HEAVY, LIKE, EIGHT-MONTH PROSTHETIC TRIPLET BELLY AND 343 00:25:43,898 --> 00:25:48,402 BOOBS AND LIKE THE WHOLE THING AND I'M LIKE, GEEZ, LOUISE, COULD WE NOT LIKE POSTPONE THIS 344 00:25:48,402 --> 00:25:54,842 FOR JUST A FEW MORE MONTHS AND I COULD, YOU KNOW, HELP OUT A LITTLE MYSELF WITH MY OWN BODY 345 00:25:54,842 --> 00:25:59,313 BUT, OF COURSE, I THINK, LIKE, TRUE TO FORM BY THE TIME I AM, LIKE, WADDLING 346 00:25:59,313 --> 00:26:02,283 AROUND AT NINE MONTHS PREGNANT, WE'D PROBABLY BE SHOOTING SOMETHING WHERE I'M SUPPOSED TO 347 00:26:02,283 --> 00:26:07,755 BE LIKE 25 AND GETTING MARRIED OR SOMETHING RIDICULOUS. Seth: RIGHT 348 00:26:07,755 --> 00:26:12,126 SO, JUST -- JUST WHAT I SORT OF, COME TO EXPECT FROM THIS JOB. 349 00:26:12,126 --> 00:26:15,963 Seth: SO YOU DECIDED TO RECORD A COUPLE OF HOLIDAY SONGS. 350 00:26:15,963 --> 00:26:20,334 HOW DID THIS COME ABOUT? THE DECISION TO WANT TO DO THIS? SO I PUT OUT A RECORD CALLED 351 00:26:20,334 --> 00:26:26,140 "SILVER LANDINGS" EARLIER THIS YEAR AND WE WERE LITERALLY FOUR DAYS FROM GOING ON THE ROAD. 352 00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:31,479 MY FIRST TIME TOURING IN 13 YEARS AND COVID HIT AND OBVIOUSLY, THE WORLD SORT OF HAD 353 00:26:31,479 --> 00:26:36,183 TO SHIFT AND SO, I'VE BEEN HOME WITH MY HUSBAND, OBVIOUSLY, LIKE MOST 354 00:26:36,183 --> 00:26:39,987 PEOPLE QUARANTINING FOR THE LAST EIGHT OR NINE MONTHS AND A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, IT JUST 355 00:26:39,987 --> 00:26:45,793 SORT OF STRUCK ME THAT IN ORDER TO EXPEND SORT OF THIS LIKE PENT UP CREATIVE ENERGY, IT MIGHT BE 356 00:26:45,793 --> 00:26:51,465 FUN TO NOT ONLY RECORD A COVER OF LIKE A CLASSIC CHRISTMAS SONG, BUT THEN, TRY OUR HAND AT 357 00:26:51,465 --> 00:26:57,705 WRITING ONE, AND I THINK "HOW COULD THIS BE CHRISTMAS" WAS THE ORIGINAL THAT WE WROTE, AND IT'S 358 00:26:57,705 --> 00:27:02,309 SORT OF REALLY REFLECTS ON, LIKE, THIS VERY SPECIFIC AND STRANGE HOLIDAY THAT WE'RE ALL 359 00:27:02,309 --> 00:27:06,881 GOING TO BE LIVING THROUGH AND SORT OF ROOTED IN THE IDEA THAT, REALLY, IT'S ABOUT 360 00:27:06,881 --> 00:27:12,686 TOGETHERNESS AND CONNECTION AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS 361 00:27:12,686 --> 00:27:15,623 YEAR YOU KNOW Seth: WHEN YOU DECIDED A 362 00:27:15,623 --> 00:27:19,560 COVER, LIKE, DID YOU HAVE A LOT OF CHOICES IN FRONT OF YOU OR WAS IT OBVIOUS 363 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,296 [ LAUGHTER ] SURE. YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING THAT WE 364 00:27:22,296 --> 00:27:25,900 WERE GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT THIS HOLIDAY WAS, SPECIFICALLY IN 2020 WITH "HOW COULD THIS BE 365 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:30,738 CHRISTMAS," WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE LIKE A PERFECT BOOK END TO "THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE 366 00:27:30,738 --> 00:27:35,543 YEAR." LIKE -- BY ANDY WILLIAMS JUST, I MEAN, I FELT IT COVERED 367 00:27:35,543 --> 00:27:40,448 LIKE THE SPECTRUM OF EMOTIONS THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE FEELING DURING THE HOLIDAYS. 368 00:27:40,448 --> 00:27:46,454 Seth: I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE WILL SLOWLY BE ROTATING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THOSE TWO OF, 369 00:27:46,454 --> 00:27:48,322 "THIS IS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR. OH, MY GOD 370 00:27:48,322 --> 00:27:51,092 THIS IS HELL I DON'T CARE HOW MANY ORNAMENTS ARE ON A TREE. 371 00:27:51,092 --> 00:27:56,864 I MENTIONED, IN THE TEASE, YOU PROBABLY WEREN'T ON YET, BUT WE WERE IN A FILM TOGETHER. 372 00:27:56,864 --> 00:28:00,134 YOU REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE FILM, RIGHT? "AMERICAN DREAMZ," YEAH 373 00:28:00,134 --> 00:28:03,037 Seth: YEAH, WELL GUESS WHAT HUGH GRANT WAS ON THE SHOW AND HE HAD NO MEMORY THAT HE EVER 374 00:28:03,037 --> 00:28:08,109 WORKED WITH ME OH, THAT IS SO DEFLATING AND DISAPPOINTING. 375 00:28:08,109 --> 00:28:11,712 [ LAUGHTER ] BUT I GUARANTEE, BY THE WAY, HE PROBABLY HAS NO IDEA THAT HE 376 00:28:11,712 --> 00:28:13,681 WORKED WITH ME EITHER. Seth: NO. WHEN I TOLD HIM THE NAME OF IT, 377 00:28:13,681 --> 00:28:16,317 HE'S LIKE, "OH, WITH MANDY MOORE. SHE WAS WONDERFUL. 378 00:28:16,317 --> 00:28:18,719 [ LAUGHTER ] NO, REALLY? Seth: NO, BUT STILL 379 00:28:18,719 --> 00:28:21,222 YEAH, SEE EXACTLY. I SWEAR, I CROSSED PATHS WITH 380 00:28:21,222 --> 00:28:26,360 HIM AT AN AWARD SHOWS, I WAS LIKE, HI, AND HE LOOKED AT ME LIKE I HAD FOUR HEADS. 381 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:31,399 Seth: WOW HE'S A LOVELY MAN, BUT YOU KNOW, HE DOES A TON OF MOVIES. 382 00:28:31,399 --> 00:28:36,103 I DON'T KNOW, BUT I WILL NEVER FORGET I HAD THE BEST TIME WITH YOU 383 00:28:36,103 --> 00:28:39,573 Seth: WE HAD A GREAT TIME I CAME OUT OF THAT PROJECT GOING, LIKE, SETH MEYERS IS 384 00:28:39,573 --> 00:28:45,379 PROBABLY THE FUNNIEST PERSON I'D EVER MET IN MY LIFE. Seth: RIGHT 385 00:28:45,379 --> 00:28:48,582 YOU WERE LIKE, NOT THE BEST ACTOR -- [ LAUGHTER ] 386 00:28:48,582 --> 00:28:55,122 LIKE, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THIS WAS ONE OF HIS LAST MOVIES. [ LAUGHTER ] 387 00:28:55,122 --> 00:28:59,160 MANDY, I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF THAT AND IT IS ALWAYS JUST SO LOVELY TO SEE YOU. 388 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,696 THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME GOOD TO SEE YOU. 389 00:29:01,696 --> 00:29:06,400 Seth: HER NEW HOLIDAY MUSIC, "HOW COULD THIS BE CHRISTMAS," IS AVAILABLE NOW 390 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:20,181 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH JEFF TWEEDY. * 391 00:29:20,181 --> 00:29:23,584 Seth: OUR NEXT GUEST IS A GRAMMY-WINNING MUSICIAN AND FRONT MAN OF THE BAND "WILCO." 392 00:29:23,584 --> 00:29:27,521 HIS BOOK, "HOW TO WRITE ONE SONG," IN HIS LATEST SOLO ALBUM, 393 00:29:27,521 --> 00:29:30,691 "LOVE IS THE KING," ARE BOTH AVAILABLE NOW. PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW, 394 00:29:30,691 --> 00:29:34,929 OUR FRIEND, JEFF TWEEDY. HOW ARE YOU, JEFF? I'M GOOD. 395 00:29:34,929 --> 00:29:37,565 HOW ARE YOU? GOOD TO SEE YOU. Seth: I'M DOING VERY WELL 396 00:29:37,565 --> 00:29:41,869 WE TALKED IN THE PAST. AS YOU KNOW, I'M A LONGTIME FAN OF YOURS AND OF "WILCO" AND I 397 00:29:41,869 --> 00:29:47,441 HAD THIS GREAT HONOR YOU ASKED A BUNCH OF FRIENDS OF YOURS TO BE IN THE VIDEO FOR 398 00:29:47,441 --> 00:29:51,379 YOUR NEW SONG, "GWENDOLYN," AND I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE 399 00:29:51,379 --> 00:29:55,683 HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS IDEA HERE I AM, IT'S BASICALLY THE 400 00:29:55,683 --> 00:30:00,021 BOTTOM HALF OF MY FACE, TOP HALF OF YOURS HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE 401 00:30:00,021 --> 00:30:05,693 IDEA I SAW A POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA FROM STEVE MARTIN, WHERE HE WAS 402 00:30:05,693 --> 00:30:11,799 JOKING THAT NOBODY -- SOMETHING WAS WEIRDING A GUY OUT IN PUBLIC, SO HE MADE A SIGN TO 403 00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:17,738 WEAR OVER HIS HEAD THAT SAID, "THIS IS STEVE MARTIN. AND IT MADE ME THINK THAT I HAVE 404 00:30:17,738 --> 00:30:25,279 A LOT OF FRIENDS THAT ARE SORT OF CELEBRITIES, AND -- AND THEY DON'T GET TO USE THAT PART OF 405 00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:30,751 THEIR FACE VERY MUCH ANYMORE SO I THOUGHT MAYBE I COULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT AND GET 406 00:30:30,751 --> 00:30:36,891 EVERYBODY TO DONATE THEIR FACE TO MY VIDEO. PLUS, JUST MASKS JUST WORK 407 00:30:36,891 --> 00:30:43,764 REALLY WELL AS A GREEN SCREEN. SO I JUST THOUGHT I'D TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR MOMENT IN THAT 408 00:30:43,764 --> 00:30:46,934 WAY. Seth: WELL, I REALLY APPRECIATE BEING A PART OF THAT 409 00:30:46,934 --> 00:30:51,639 MOMENT YOU RECORDED THIS ALBUM WITH YOUR FAMILY, AND I IMAGINE AT 410 00:30:51,639 --> 00:30:58,713 THIS POINT "WILCO" MUST FEEL LIKE FAMILY WHEN YOU RECORD SONGS, BUT IT MUST ALSO STILL BE 411 00:30:58,713 --> 00:31:01,348 SO DIFFERENT TO DO WITH YOUR ACTUAL FAMILY. WHAT'S THAT LIKE 412 00:31:01,348 --> 00:31:08,789 IT'S -- PLAYING MUSIC WITH YOUR FAMILY IS JUST THE MOST AMAZING GIFT I CAN, I CAN EVER 413 00:31:08,789 --> 00:31:15,563 IMAGINE BEING GIVEN. IT'S -- YOU KNOW, MUSIC RELIES UPON TRUST AND, YOU KNOW, JUST 414 00:31:15,563 --> 00:31:22,603 FAITH THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE THERE IN A SUPPORTIVE ROLE FOR EACH OTHER, AND MUSICIANS WORK 415 00:31:22,603 --> 00:31:30,644 LONG -- I DON'T KNOW THEY WORK FOR A LONG TIME USUALLY. 416 00:31:30,644 --> 00:31:37,118 A BAND HAS TO BE TOGETHER FOR YEARS TO DEVELOP ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF TRUSTS. 417 00:31:37,118 --> 00:31:42,456 AND A FAMILY JUST KIND OF HAS IT AS A -- AS A STARTING POINT, A BASE YOU KNOW, LEVEL OF TRUST 418 00:31:42,456 --> 00:31:47,928 THAT IS, I DON'T KNOW. IT JUST FEELS LIKE YOU JUST HAVE SO MUCH MORE ROOM TO GET 419 00:31:47,928 --> 00:31:53,934 INTIMATE FROM THERE. SO IT'S -- IT'S THE BEST THING I CAN THINK OF TO DO 420 00:31:53,934 --> 00:31:58,539 Seth: HEY, CONGRATS ON THE BOOK THIS IS BASICALLY, YOU'RE TRYING 421 00:31:58,539 --> 00:32:05,212 TO GIVE PEOPLE ADVICE ON HOW TO WRITE ONE SONG, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SORT OF STRESS 422 00:32:05,212 --> 00:32:11,118 IS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO -- TO LET INSPIRATION IN TO INVITE IT IN. 423 00:32:11,118 --> 00:32:16,891 CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT? WELL, EVERYBODY -- I THINK, 424 00:32:16,891 --> 00:32:29,236 IMAGINES THAT ARTISTIC PROCESSES REQUIRE LIKE A BOLT OF LIGHTNING, AN INSPIRATION. 425 00:32:29,236 --> 00:32:35,576 AND THAT -- MY ARGUMENT IS THAT NOBODY THAT, NOBODY'S JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND HAS 426 00:32:35,576 --> 00:32:39,113 NO INTENTION TO WRITE A SONG IS GOING TO GET HIT BY A BOLT OF LIGHTNING AND DECIDE TO WRITE A 427 00:32:39,113 --> 00:32:43,350 SONG YOU BASICALLY HAVE TO PUT YOURSELF IN THE PATH OF THAT 428 00:32:43,350 --> 00:32:51,225 KIND OF INSPIRATION, AND I THINK YOU DO THAT BY JUST WORKING AT IT WHEN YOU'RE NOT INSPIRED. 429 00:32:51,225 --> 00:32:58,666 WORKING AT IT AS A DAILY -- YOU KNOW -- JUST A PRACTICE THAT YOU HAVE 430 00:32:58,666 --> 00:33:03,371 A HABIT THAT YOU HAVE. TO REMIND YOURSELF TO JUST KIND OF BE OPEN TO THINGS, AND THEN 431 00:33:03,371 --> 00:33:08,809 IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. IT TENDS TO HAPPEN ALMOST EVERY -- EVERY DAY FOR ME THAT I 432 00:33:08,809 --> 00:33:14,382 GET A LITTLE BIT INSPIRED AND SOMETIMES I GET A LOT INSPIRED, BUT IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN AT ALL IF 433 00:33:14,382 --> 00:33:20,287 I DIDN'T PICK UP THE PENCIL OR PICK UP A GUITAR, AND THAT'S -- THAT'S WHAT I JUST THINK 434 00:33:20,287 --> 00:33:23,591 EVERYBODY SHOULD DO. Seth: YOU MENTIONED IT'S IMPORTANT TO, YOU KNOW, BUILD IT 435 00:33:23,591 --> 00:33:29,096 AS A SKILL AND MAKE IT WORK AND SIT DOWN AND DO IT WITH THAT SAID, ARE THERE STILL 436 00:33:29,096 --> 00:33:35,603 TIMES, AND WHEN YOU THINK OF A LYRIC AND YOU JUST KNOW RIGHT AWAY, OH, THAT'S REALLY -- 437 00:33:35,603 --> 00:33:41,942 THAT'S REALLY GOOD [ LAUGHTER ] SOMETIMES, YEAH 438 00:33:41,942 --> 00:33:45,980 I WAS DRIVING ON, OUT ON THE TOLL WAY THE OTHER DAY, AND THERE WAS A HEARSE STUCK AT A 439 00:33:45,980 --> 00:33:53,187 TOLL PLAZA LIKE, THE GUY DRIVING THE HEARSE DIDN'T HAVE CHANGE AND HE DIDN'T 440 00:33:53,187 --> 00:33:59,527 HAVE AN E-ZPASS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND I JUST FELT I WAS HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH THE WORLD'S 441 00:33:59,527 --> 00:34:03,264 GREATEST METAPHOR. [ LAUGHTER ] AND I -- I SANG IT INTO MY 442 00:34:03,264 --> 00:34:07,068 PHONE. BEFORE I EVEN PULLED OVER. YOU KNOW 443 00:34:07,068 --> 00:34:09,804 Seth: WELL, A CLASSIC CASE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S LOSS IS YOUR GAIN 444 00:34:09,804 --> 00:34:15,843 [ LAUGHTER ] LIKE WHAT A WAY TO GO Seth: HEY, ONE OF THE THINGS 445 00:34:15,843 --> 00:34:20,214 THAT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING TO ME ABOUT THE GRAMMYS MORE THAN ANY OTHER AWARDS SHOW IS JUST THE 446 00:34:20,214 --> 00:34:25,786 BREADTH OF THE KIND OF ARTISTS YOU HAVE AT A GRAMMYS VERSUS, YOU KNOW, JUST DIFFERENT KIND OF 447 00:34:25,786 --> 00:34:31,092 ACTORS OR, YOU KNOW, A COMIC AND DRAMATIC ACTOR YOUR FIRST GRAMMYS IS A PERFECT 448 00:34:31,092 --> 00:34:36,097 EXAMPLE OF THIS. SOME OF THE PEOPLE YOU BUMPED INTO 449 00:34:36,097 --> 00:34:42,503 YEAH. I THINK -- MY MOST NOTABLE ENCOUNTER WAS I WAS WITH A BIG 450 00:34:42,503 --> 00:34:51,779 GROUP OF PEOPLE, THE "WILCO" GUYS, AND WIVES AND GIRLFRIENDS, AND SOMEHOW I ENDED UP OUTSIDE 451 00:34:51,779 --> 00:34:56,283 ONE OF THE BATHROOMS AT THE STAPLES CENTER HOLDING EVERYONE'S PROGRAM FOR THE 452 00:34:56,283 --> 00:35:03,491 GRAMMYS. I JUST HAD A STACK OF, OF GRAMMY PROGRAMS, AND P DIDDY WALKED UP 453 00:35:03,491 --> 00:35:12,666 TO ME, AND HE THOUGHT I WAS AN USHER HANDING OUT PROGRAMS HE TAPPED THE PROGRAMS IN MY, 454 00:35:12,666 --> 00:35:17,271 THAT I WAS HOLDING WITH A CANE - [ LAUGHTER ] 455 00:35:17,271 --> 00:35:21,642 HE SAID, "GIVE ME ONE OF THOSE." I SAID, "NO. THEY'RE MINE." 456 00:35:21,642 --> 00:35:28,182 IT DIDN'T -- IT DIDN'T BECOME -- IT DIDN'T ESCALATE, THANK GOODNESS 457 00:35:28,182 --> 00:35:36,624 BUT -- I WAS ALSO MISTAKEN, EVERY TIME I'VE EVER GONE TO THE GRAMMYS, I'VE BEEN MISTAKEN FOR 458 00:35:36,624 --> 00:35:41,195 A SEAT FILLER. [ LAUGHTER ] GO 459 00:35:41,195 --> 00:35:47,001 GET OUT! Seth: WHAT I LIKE TO THINK IS THAT P DIDDY THOUGHT YOU WERE 460 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:51,972 HANDING OUT PROGRAMS AND ALSO RECOGNIZED YOU AND THEN SAID, "YOU KNOW THAT 461 00:35:51,972 --> 00:35:55,743 LEAD SINGER OF WILCO IS ALSO AN USHER. [ LAUGHTER ] 462 00:35:55,743 --> 00:35:59,213 YEAH, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN JUST AS PLAUSIBLE. Seth: HEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH 463 00:35:59,213 --> 00:36:03,184 FOR BEING HERE THANKS FOR STICKING AROUND TO DO SOME MUSIC FOR US. 464 00:36:03,184 --> 00:36:06,787 AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BOOK. MY PLEASURE GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN 465 00:36:06,787 --> 00:36:09,290 Seth: GREAT TO SEE YOU, TOO "HOW TO WRITE ONE SONG" AND "LOVE IS THE KING" ARE BOTH OUT 466 00:36:09,290 --> 00:36:12,560 NOW. JEFF WILL BE PERFORMING A SONG OFF HIS NEW ALBUM AFTER THE 467 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:22,236 BREAK. 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Seth: PERFORMING "GWENDOLYN" OFF HIS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED 473 00:36:54,368 --> 00:36:57,304 OFF HIS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SOLO ALBUM "LOVE IS THE KING," HERE IS JEFF TWEEDY. 474 00:37:08,082 --> 00:37:17,858 * 475 00:37:17,858 --> 00:37:39,513 * * I DON'T THINK I CAN TAK ANOTHER DA 476 00:37:39,513 --> 00:37:57,665 OH I DON'T KNO HOW I COULD EVER SAY * * I'M OKAY BEING SO FAR AWA 477 00:37:57,665 --> 00:38:08,275 OH I DON'T THINK THAT I CAN TAKE ANOTHER DA AND GWENDOLYN * 478 00:38:08,275 --> 00:38:16,283 * WHEN SHE STARTS TO SPEA TO A COUNTY POLICE WITH A PLASTIC CUP 479 00:38:16,283 --> 00:38:31,665 BETWEEN HER TEETH * * THE SUN BEATING DOW LIKE A BIG TROMBON 480 00:38:31,665 --> 00:38:41,642 THAT'S RIGHT WHEN I START MISSING HOME * * SHE HOLDS MY HAND 481 00:38:41,642 --> 00:38:54,655 BETWEEN HER KNEE IT'S LIKE A DREA I NEVER KNOW WHAT IT MEANS * 482 00:38:54,655 --> 00:39:04,498 * I ONLY KNOW I'M FEELING ALON THAT'S RIGHT 483 00:39:04,498 --> 00:39:21,949 I'M FEELING ALON THAT'S RIGHT WHEN I START MISSING HOME * 484 00:39:27,588 --> 00:39:34,228 * HONESTLY GWEN I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY 485 00:39:34,228 --> 00:39:41,969 BETWEEN YOU AND ME I'M RELIEVED * * THEY PUT YOU AWAY 486 00:39:41,969 --> 00:39:54,081 SUN COMING U LIKE A PIECE OF TOAS THAT'S RIGHT WHEN I * 487 00:39:54,081 --> 00:40:09,730 * STARTED HEADING HOM THAT'S RIGHT WHE I STARTED HEADING HOME 488 00:40:09,730 --> 00:40:12,600 THAT'S RIGHT WHE I STARTED HEADING HOME WELL THAT'S RIGHT WHEN * 489 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:19,573 * I STARTED HEADING HOME * Seth: MY THANKS TO JEFF TWEEDY. 490 00:40:19,573 --> 00:40:24,278 HIS ALBUM "LOVE IS THE KING" IS OUT NOW. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 491 00:40:24,278 --> 00:40:38,759 * Seth: MY THANKS TO MANDY MOORE AND JEFF TWEEDY. 492 00:40:38,759 --> 00:40:41,495 I WANT TO THANK FRED ARMISEN AND THE 8G BAND. STAY TUNED FOR LILY SINGH. 493 00:40:41,495 --> 00:40:47,935 STAY SAFE. WASH YOUR HANDS. WEAR A MASK.