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My name is John Stewart.
We have a nice quarter for tonight. Very got it. Our guest tonight.
Guest tonight from the new movie Filhmina, Steve Coogan, the Great Steve Coogan is.
Gonna be joining us right here in our studio. We'll be talking to him.
But top story tonight, I'm about to roll a clip. Chances are when you hear this clip, when you see this clip, you will applaud two reasons. One, it will be a feeble attempt to keep yourselves warm, which, uh, let's face facts.
Not gonna happen.
Seriously, Even inside here, I see the audience looking around to see which one of them to eat first. And two, you will applaud because you people are moral degenerates.
Roll the clip.
In Colorado today the start of a brand new industry, as that state became the first in the country to make it legal for most people to buy marijuana.
You're saying something.
Right here, right now, I know my audience, recreational pot is now legal in Colorado, which will, according to Lester Holt, create a brand new industry in that state, A pot selling industry, brand news. I guess Lucky for Colorado, it's stores selling water pipes for tobacco and black light posters. Infrastructure can easily be repurposed for this new pot industry. But I imagine you know it's not gonna be like the Wild West out there in Colorado.
There's gonna be some stringent limits on this new law.
Pot purchases must be at least twenty one years old.
Check rules out the kiddies.
You can't light up in public and police warn you still can't drive high.
What well, then riddle me this, batman. Why does Taco Bell have a drive through that?
My friends, that's a trap. Can't drive hi, that is entrapman? All right?
Getting restrict to here any restrictions on the sale of marijuana.
Pot shops cannot open until eight am and must close by midnight.
You know, given your clientele, I'm pretty sure you could have gone with noon till midnight.
It would have been fine.
But sixteen hours a day's pretty good window of opportunity for recreational users to head down to their local pot ateria, their local pottery barn, if you will get a little bit of a sweet buzz on any restriction on how much they can have.
An individual can have one ounce of marijuana in their possession.
So no restrictions.
Holy, an ounce that is a lot of pot? Is that for recreational use or industrial use? An ounce was a lot of the low grade pot I used to smoke. I can't even imagine how far an educated pot consumer could stretch an ounce of today's hydroponic non nineteen eighties Jersey schwag pot. Of course, like in most instances where America is slightly changing, the interesting take came from our friend Bill O'Reilly's the old timey Americana Restoration Hour, Crack.
Up the Grumpllodian.
If you use any intoxicating agent, your goal is to leave reality. You're not satisfied with your current state of mind. You want to get high, buzz, blasted whatever. Some adults can handle that on occasion. Oh, this cannot. So it's literally Russian roulette.
Literally Russian roulette? Well, what are you talking about?
Literally?
In fact, I think the only difference between a bong hint and pointing a loaded.
Gun at your own skull is that the gun can kill.
You instantly and must never be criminalized or restricted in any way, ever, ever.
But then.
Other way, I just want to point out to the audience at home, they are plotting ironically. But then the just say no part of the program took a bit of a hairpin turn.
Now more bad news. Combine the drug aspect with the Internet. According to report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, seventy twelve to seventeen year olds in the USA of cell phones and virtually all of them text.
What the hell just happened? How do we go from just say no?
To and what's what? Ought?
To beat?
People?
Boo boo machines and with the lol and the dd y K and the music and the dancing, with the pelvision what have you.
But you should not.
Well, you wouldn't happen to have a surprising exemplar of a society and a culture that's getting it right here that perhaps undercuts the inherent message and everything else you and your colleagues at Fox have ever said.
And China, young people are encouraged to compete, be disciplined, to live in the real world, not here.
Why can't America be more like the People's Republic of China. And well, the truth is the Chinese used text messaging more than anybody.
Else in the world.
I guess the thought behind this is you could keep kids from texting so much by restricting the size of their families through central planning. My favorite part, however, was watching a Columbia professor, an expert on drug policy, taking this new drug and texting phenomenon.
Kids in pot. You don't recommend that, right, I.
Don't recommend kid taking alcohol or smoking.
All right, thank you, and I appreciate that.
Texting.
You know it's an addiction. It's going crazy. Are you aware of that?
Right?
No, I'm not aware that it's an addiction.
Wait wait, smart black guy with dreads disagrees with me.
I will do the opposite. Get me a bald white idiot.
Texting, the incessant use of Facebook, the use of marijuana.
Now you'll do just fine.
I'm sorry I interrupted you.
You were railing against the marijuana texting industrial complex. And by the way, for extra bonus pleasure, watch the guest reaction to doctor Ablow's expertise.
Even the people who can identify this as a huge problem are using texting. It deposits them in a versetual world where their feelings don't need to have integrity, where their intentions can be the same as a potsmoker's, non motivational looking for the next high.
And you say to that, well, I don't know what to say.
I guess I could say you're ape idiot.
But of course many establishment figures are wringing their hands, even former potsmokers, like The New York Times David.
Brooks, most of us age out of marijuana use because it's not that exciting when you find more severe, more serious, and more uplifting pleasures. I think the state, through its laws, should encourage a culture that discourages the use of marijuana on both moral grounds and health grounds.
Now that I no longer use it, you just don't get it, Brooks. You don't understand the exuberance of the field East. You know, I read a great thing recently. This guy wrote happily about having an orgy of excess. His head fogged with wine and bourbon made him realize how much he hates living in the age of the lily livered quote lily livered when everything is a pallid parody of itself gone. He wrote, sadly is the exuberance of the feast. Gone is the grand and pointless gesture.
I believe that's stirring.
Tribute to hedonism was written by David Brooks.
How weird is that? That's so weird? I wonder, I wonder how we forgot about that?
Probably a little bit of oll right back.
So you got your recreational marijuana. It's not legal in Colorado. You know, we've heard how potuse has recently combined with texting to devastating consequence. But there's another reason why America should reconsider this liberalization of pot law.
Pot just makes you dumb. It just makes you dumb.
It just does in the same way that Santa Claus just is white, unassailable truth.
And that's not all that pot does.
Most people that do smoke pot, I watch their ambition being curtailed steadily, and they never reach their potential.
I know on pot because I believe it is addictive and it leads to more serious drugs.
What's to keep somebody from getting old potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?
Right?
Nothing, No, No, that is just too tasty. Hit me again.
What's to keep somebody from getting old potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel.
Nothing sample that audio Beyoncey. That is okay.
There's no question that pot, like everything else, can have its downside. But you know a recent you see San Diego study found that alcohol appears the harm of the teenage brain even more than and I'm using clinical terminology here getting potted up on wheaton. So your argument against marijuana, it would carry a lot more weight if these same individuals had a similar perspective on America's alcohol usage and go.
It's Windesday Wednesday, best.
Day of the week.
Great job getting as drunk. You can all use a stiff drink, fantastic margarita day. You're not gonna drink it, pass it around.
Damn had a beer and ever would make a Beers New Year's Eve.
I'm gonna get real drunk.
Yeah, I'm gonna get real drunk.
I just hope I don't see it in loser podtheads while I'm getting off up, because that would kill my totally socially acceptable alcohol buzz. So we clearly know that marijuana is a deadly gateway drug from which you know sane person can never.
Hope to escape.
But our view of alcohol is not even benign indifference but celebratory, where marijuana always leads.
You to a dark path. How do we view the effect of beer?
Coarse light?
Holy beer is matchic.
It turns an overcrowded, sweltering cityescape into a beach party where skateboards become surfboards and.
Business suits become bikinis.
But rest assured, our children will never be exposed to this potentially overstated fantasy world that glorifies alcoholic consumption, unless unless they watch TV.
It's not just a good time, it's millery time, cross glod cores, light, the world's most refreshing beer, make a love all trades.
That's a perior like beer.
But light here we go.
That's one afternoon of watching football. It gives me cirrhosis of the eyeballs. I can't sit down with my kid for a pleasant afternoon watching grown men give each other concussions without being bombarded by the Harry Potter esque transformative power of fermented hops. Not that they aren't looking out for the kids.
Please drink responsibly.
What I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the snowing bikini party. Maybe if pod had as many commercials as beer. We wouldn't let it worry us so much. Honestly, it wouldn't even be that hard. You could use the same commercials. Most of them barely even need to be changed. You know that Doseki's guy.
He is the most interesting man in the world.
Actually he is just an actor, but you get high, he will become the most interesting man in the world. That's the beauty of marijuana.
And if I may say so, at.
The same time, your couch will become the most interesting couch. Most beer commercials could easily be retrofitted.
Bud smoke, bud.
That actually, even that even makes more sense, because you might buy beer if a frog tells you to, but only.
Weed really makes you believe the frog. We'll be right back, old boy.
I guess tonight.
An actor a comedian in his new film, which he produced, co wrote and stars.
In, is called Filmina. Please walk with Steve Coogan. Thank you very much for being here.
Got to get here now.
It's you know, for everybody that that that that knows you and and your great comedy. This is a surprising project for you to take on. What just briefly, what is the story of this, and how did you even.
Get involved in this?
I read an article in the Guardian newspaper and I was here in New York doing making a movie called The Other Guys with Will Ferrell, and and my downtime between my scenes playing a.
British as.
Quite good at I saw this article in the newspaper about this old lady. The article was entitled the Catholic Church Stole My Child and it was about her being and being adopted and forcibly and taken to America and her search to find her son.
And that sounded like a full of.
Laughs to me, a good sequel, Yeah, sure.
But it was. It's quite a harrying story.
But alongside the article was a photograph of Philamina and Martin Sixsmith, the journalists I play, and they were laughing in the photograph, and I thought, well, if I can get some of the laughs into this tragic story, maybe I can get some something that's worth watching.
That was I thought the incredible because it is man is, it's a moving story, it's a dark story at times, it's powerful.
There are a ton of laughs in it.
Yeah, well, I mean it's great.
Well, the thing is, if you I was you know this you know, if you if you want to talk about serious topics and you want to win over an argument or make your point, if you get people laughing, then they let the guard down and then more open to the argument you're putting. So uh so, putting laughs into serious topics is a good thing.
How hard was it for you?
Because there's moments in the film where I'm watching you be serious and earnest, and there is the comedian in me.
My heart just wants to reach out and go do.
A dick joke And why don't you fart? Yeah, well I was tempted. I was tempt you know.
And and uh and there are there are plenty of jokes in that. But sometimes you got the balls to say, okay, no jokes.
Now, you know you should practice that.
Sometimes I won't be I won't. I'm uncomfortable. No, I'm I'm a typical repressed brand. It's how I am.
It's what uh this Now, obviously you do something about this.
It's it's about this woman's story. The Catholic Church. There's there's been controversy now about this whole.
Thing, uh, that it's anti Catholic. You had said that you felt like the Pope would like it.
Well, I think listen, I think I think as popes go, uh, you know that's that he seems pretty good, you know, as popes.
Go, he does, he's out top of the pope less.
Yeah, well, you know, we we we we hope he'll he'll take a look at it, because you know it's not it's not untitled, just because you know it's also about forgiveness. I mean, I I play the kind of smug, conceited liberal. I don't know if you know any of those.
No, I don't, not not here in New York, maybe out in the Midwest, not here.
So and he kind of gets his come up and at the end of the movie, so it's it's there's a bit of balance in there.
And she retains faith even even under it seemed like not a story necessarily of of the church, but of the times of a of an error. When this was viewed very differently than it is now.
It's it is about that, it's about how things have changed, but it's also about the nature of of of faith. And it's it's what it says is no one has a monopoly on wisdom. You know that we can all learn from each other and Mike, Mike, that Martin you know, is secular in the movie, he's non religious, and Filomena is religious right to the end, and he doesn't unders undergo a Damascene conversion and find God, and.
She continues to believe in God.
But they love each other and respect each other, and you know, that's that's the way forward.
Did she has has she seen it? Was she able to see it?
The real Filomena? Yes, yeah, she's seen.
She's been out on the on the publicity trail with us. In fact, sometimes you can't shut her up.
Oh have you have you ever just tried just leaning in and going shut.
I have, but it didn't work. What yeah?
I know?
What did she?
Because you must feel incredible burden when you're telling someone's story like that, to be the caretaker of that story.
Did you watch it with her? Were you in the room?
Oh?
No, I wouldn't do that, you no, no, no, But you know, she she she she was at first, she was a little nervous about it because we kind of poke fun at her, you know, and her kind of little old conservative, blue collar ways. But in the end she emerges heroically, so so you know, she gets a free pass and and and you know, I mean for some of the criticisms, some of it came from the New York Post.
I'm not familiar with that.
No, no, no, it's it's a highly intelligent newspaper.
Okay, I'm gonna take a look at it.
Yeah, sometimes owned by I assume a brilliant media magnet.
I love. I love the guy called Rupert Murdoch. He's not familiar. Oh he's a lovely man.
He's so kind, and he's about people and and and good values.
Yeah, sounds like a good Christian fella.
Yeah, yeah, so, but no, I think if you get criticized by the New York Post, then you're doing something right.
Or you're in a tub, topless sucking on someone's toes.
That's the most recent, that's right.
Yeah, well, yeah, that's next on my list.
No, well, welcome to the city.
Then to well filmingas in theaters now it's doing gang busses and it's great and you're great in it.
Steve Coogan Go sick.
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