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we got a fun show for you. San Francisco is using tech to fight crime, herschel Walker is using gibberish to solve immigration, and Elon Musk is using free speech to try and kill us all so let's do those people. Let's come straight into today's headlines, all right. Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting with the fact that today is Spotify Wrapped Day. Yeah, the day that Spotify looks at our music and reminds us
that we're all a basic bitch? Are you're not thinking? Thank god Tender doesn't do a year and wrap up just to remind you of all the terrible decisions you made on desperate nights. It's like, wow, I did a lot of people with pet snakes this year. In international news, the United Nations has officially added the French baguette to the UNESCO World Heritage List, which is cool, but it's another reminder that the United Nations really needs to eat
lunch before making big decisions. It's like, should we give Chinese food a seats on the Security Council? I'm so hungry, and you would think that this is great. He has some of you clapping, Oh yeah, I love bag atts, but remember now it's protected by the U n. Yeah. So now every time you're trying to take a bite out of the bag atte a, peacekeepers gonna jump out
and kick your ass, like stop that ship. Meanwhile, in presidential news, Joe Biden's secret Service detail had a bit of a scare recently when five cars they had rented suddenly burst into flames after they were returned to her rent a car. Yeah. Now, the good news is Biden
has got full coverage insurance. The bad news is Senator Republicans blocked it, so he's gonna need to borrow some money from Kamala Now, but my question is why is the why is the Secret Service even renting cars from hurts my nether person who was thrown by that with like, like, what happens if the suv they want isn't there? What now the president is rocking up to a state dinner in a hunt day? Is that how it's gonna work?
Oh and while we're talking about things exploding, experts say the United States is now facing a shortage of bomb sniffing dogs. Yeah, which probably explains how Morbius made it into theaters. And it makes sense, you know when you think about it. Of course, this is always gonna happen. If you had the choice of being a bomb sniffing dog or a drug sniffing dog, what would you choose? Huh? What would you choose? So simple? Option A? You might explode?
Option be freaklecame? I mean it is. It is hard for us humans, though, you know, because now you know what this means. We're gonna have to resort to bomb sniffing cats. And then those are good. They can figure out where the bombs are, but they just won't tell us about it. The cat will be there. Life. I have nine lives, bitch, not my problem all right, let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day,
starting with the two mid terms. And I know what you're saying right now, you like for Trevor, the mid terms are over. I killed them. I watched them die. Well, you thought you did, but you never took a head shot. And after you left, the mid terms busted out of
the dirt. And now they're back because down in Georgia, they're just a few days away from a runoff between incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock and the reason you're pulling your soln out of football, her Shaw Walker, And we're gonna tell you all about the latest updates and other installments of Vote Demick. There is now less than one week to go until the Georgia runoff election, and once again Herschel Walker is battling controversies. First of all, he might
not even live in the state that he's trying to represent. Yeah, according to new reports, the Georgia home that he's claimed as the residents has actually been rented out for years. Yeah, and apparently Walker even admits it in a speech earlier this year that he lives in Texas, which I was shocked about because I did not think herschel Walker knew
the names of two different states. This sort really impressive, and I know, I know this might piss some people off, but when you think about it, this just proves that herschel Walker views Georgians as family because he's never around them. And of course, of course there's the other problem for herschel Walker, which is that every time he speaks, things
go wrong. For instance, Walker was recently had a campaign stop giving his views on the border and any speech, he's trying to explain why he will build Donald Trump's border wall, but in a way that only herschel Walker can. He goes on to debunk his own argument about a war and then takes us on a wild ride that somehow involves his dog. He border. How are you gonna do that? I said, way I can do it. Then you didn't put up a wall to wall new World
wall working around your house? Where you gotta wall around your house. They can get in, but you know what they get in to BeO hard to get out because I got a dog. Get my dog rid of the bite when he put vad anyway, But anyway, I'm sorry, what did this man just win an argument with himself? Because he's like, I think his plan is to what build a border wall so that he can trap immigrants inside America? Is that what he's doing? You see? He
once they get in, they can't get out. Then they got a good job and read the family settles down, and that's how we get him. Yeah, it's it's almost like it's so it's like it's always like Walker started out talking about border security and then ended up telling everyone how to break into his house. And personally, I don't think he needs a wall, you know, because the hottest part about breaking into hertual Walker's house is figuring out which state it's in. Jokes on, You've actually live
in Kansas, Hawaii. Yeah, but let's move on to some news from social media. Ever since Elon Musk pranked himself into buying Twitter forty four billion dollars, he has been trying to reshape the entire website according to what he likes. He's brought back thousands of suspended accounts, He's made it easier to get a blue check mark, and now any number you tweets automatically changed to sixty nine. Yeah, you post that your dad only has three days left, Now
he has sixty nine. Nice resting peace, but nice. But Elon's biggest promise is that under his leadership, Twitter is completely open for free speech, no matter how wrong that speech might be potentially dangerous. New change on Twitter, the social media side, is no longer enforcing its policy against
COVID misinformation. Twitter suspended more than eleven thousand accounts for breaking the policy and removed almost one hundred thous and pieces of content between January in September, and Musk is promising to restore many previously Bay and Twitter accounts as soon as this week. Health experts are concerned that it could diminish efforts to stop the spread of the virus
and could discourage vaccinations. Okay, look, maybe this is my vaccine microchip talking, But I don't think it's responsible for Twitter to bring back the people who are spreading COVID misinformation. But but on the other hand, on the other hand, it is like, how can you still be misinformed about COVID? You know, we're just running around like I heard the vaccine churns you into It's been three years. Do you see any lizards? You see any lisztens here? You probably
had it. I forget COVID for a second. It's crazy that anyone would go to Twitter for any medical information. You know, people should be going to the doctor for this stuff, but because no one can afford a doctor and am America, people are out here searching hashtag bump on my dick and hoping to find the cure for like cocaine on my penis. That's not what I was looking for anyway. Let's move on to some news coming out of San Francisco. Like many big city, San Francisco
has been struggling to get crime under control. And if you're thinking, oh, it's San Francisco, what are they doing prescribing all the criminals CBD oil? No? I mean yes, but not just that. They also have more hardcore solution here. This morning, San Francisco officials voted to allow city police to have remote controlled robots that could use deadly force
in extreme situations. Critics of the decision say it militarizes San Francisco's police, but city Supervisor Raphael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the robots, said that the killer machines would only be used if lives are at stake. A SFPD said they don't have pre armed robots and they don't plan to arm the ones they do have with guns. Assistant Chief David Lasar said they could deploy robots they
quid with explosives. Wait wait, wait, what what They're not gonna on the robots, They're just gonna give them explosive. That is much worse. Who who came up with that pr state? But don't worry, people, the robots aren't gonna have guns. They're just gonna be suicide bombers. Okay, calm down, everyone's going this is such a bad idea. Do you know how often robots make mistakes? Can you imagine if Siri had a bomb? It was like, hey, Siri played
twenty one savage now killing your family? No, no, wait, which which members of my family? But still know? But let's talk about it now. To be clear, just so we're on the same page, the robots will not actually be deciding when to use deadly force, all right. They will still be trained human police officers on the remote control triggers, So don't worry. It's still gonna be mostly black people that get killed. And it's wild. It's wild how since these can always find money for high tech
gadgets for cops. But when it comes to investigat sing or like investing in long term solutions that might actually fix the problems, then they pockets are empty. If you even noticed that. Yeah, they're like, oh yeah, robots, money, we got that, we got that. People ask things. You're like, wait, you're building robots that a police with bombs? Can we do something about like the homeless people. They're like, oh yeah, the robosts can blow them off too, Yeah, we can
handle that. It makes no sense. But that's it for the headlines before we go. That's checking on the traffic without very own right with Junior, everybody, what's happening out praying with a little bit. It's all a lover's time, tragic. Ye, what's happening in the traffic? Man? You see the traffic. Some people out there and some people at home. They ain't out there. That's how it is here. They need to get a robot to do this ship. This would need to be automated. Also, Man, I don't know why
everybody's so worried about these robot cops. Man, because truth be told, this ain't the first time that this happened. There was a robot cop program in in Detroit back in the late eighties, and it was a robot officer.
He's gonna handus drug dealer named Clarence Body. But ultily the program got scrapped because the robot thought he was a real person on some Pinocchio ship today and stopped that roy that that was robocr Yes, it's that was RoboCop whose real name was Officer Alex J. Murphy who was shot in the line of duty and they turned him into the robot copy. That's not a true story. That was a movie new bullshit for the movie. Okay,
well if you say so, man. But anyway, I don't know why everybody's assuming that the robots are gonna be bad. Why do you assume that the robot cops are gonna be bad? If anything, the robot cops would get all of the messed up cops off the street. I ain't scared no robot up. You're scared. You're scared of the robots. You're scared of a robot cor No, I'm not scared of no robot cop. Man. Half of these robots don't even recognize black people. I can't get the same Fox
and turn on. What are you talking about? Robots don't recognize black thin. I can't get wored out the sink, the facial recognition, don't see me. Bring on the robot cops, because maybe now black people will finally be invisible to the police. I'm winning a perfectly father with that, black people invisible to the police, and now finally we can commit our crimes in peace. Just like like, but you want the traffic dog, you know, the traffic His thing with with the with the with the bomb dogs is
this is the question. I feel like nobody's asking about the bomb dogs. If there is a shortage, if there is a shortage of bomb sniffing dogs, shouldn't you shut your asks up about it and not telling anybody? Shouldn't you not telling any about it? Just just you just can't let everybody know you ain't got enough bomb sniffing dogs. Ice at home watching CBS, like, yes, now is the time. Plus, you don't need a bomb sniffing dog. You just need people to think you got a bomb sniffing dog. Just
put regular dogs in the airport. That's all you have to do. All these dogs up for doctor, put them in the airport. It's just in yes, all the illusion of security. That's all you got to do is make people think of stuff. I got a car and they've
got no car. Long people walk pass my car, make a noise for my mop Plus Win got a wing here out of really worry about bomb sniffing dogs because, let you tell it, the bomb sniffing dogs will eventually be replaced by robot dogs, right probably, and then robot dogs will be operated by fully robot cops. And eventually one of those robot cops will go haywhi and kill
a bunch of people because it needed drugs. And the only way to stop a crazy robot cop is to get a brave robot cop to jump on the back of that robot cop and it off his access panel, get into the newal cortex, pull out the brain, and bash the brain on the ground. That's how you stopped crazy road dot com. I feel like that's the plot of RoboCop two. Yes, based on the life of Officer Alex Jane Murphy. Robo cop to was a brave biopick. How do you not know this ship? Man? I thought
you was educated. Man, Let me just do the traffic. You know what, we don't have the top row he's gonna time. We don't have the top. He got time, you gotta robot to do that. Let me said, all right, don't go away, because when we come back, we're gonna tell you how you can kill yourself legally at Gabrielle Union. This SHOs right up on myself. Let's go away, RoboCop the Top Pop Welcome back to the Day the Show.
My first guest Tonight is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker whose latest film is about her father, who chose to die at the age of ninety two on the California's End of Life Option Act. The film is called Last Flights Home and it's streaming on Paramount Plus. Please welcome, Andy, Tomonaco and Tomora. Welcome to the Day Show. Thank you for having me. Um. You know the clip that we play from the movie, we can only play a clip because we can't play the whole movie. Makes it seem
like this is a sad story. It even sounds like a sad story. If you tell anybody that somebody made a film about their father choosing to end their own life, you would go this is a sad story that no one might even want to watch. Why would I want you? And yet I feel like it's an firing story. It's a beautiful story, it's a funny story. It's made me see life in a completely different way. So let's talk a little bit about your dad. I mean, he has
lived quite the life. There are a few human beings who can say that they have personally known kings and princesses who somebody who started their own airline. Essentially, you know, somebody's running an airline, getting low cost airlines for people to fly around, wanting everybody's able to travel, having this infectious attitude that that lits up every single room. We see you chronicling this life. We see you telling us the story, and we we also see how quickly it
can change. Your father was fifty howe and then had a stroke and everything changed. Yeah, he went in for a massage and his neck was manipulated and uh and ten minutes later he was in perfect health. I mean, he had run six miles that morning. And at the height of his career. Um, he had the fastest growing airline in the history of the world. And uh, he led with love, he led with loving kindness, and the airline and just was really at its height, and uh,
and then he was ousted. There were no you know, rights for the disabled from that point and lost everything financially and all the social standing. But the greatest thing about Dad is he never complained. He just rooted for all of us. He was paralyzed for forty years, um, but he he suffered with such grace, you know. So when he said he needed to die at the end, it was something we all had to get behind, you know,
and thank God for that law. The law was a gift. Um. We didn't know there was a right to die with a medically assisted death in in California, and it's it's only in nine states in America. You know. We expected Dad to be there forever. I don't know, we just never thought about it. Um. He always said he'd be there forever. And suddenly he was not going to walk again.
He had been put in the hospital for breathing issues and not to do with COVID, but he was isolated in there and he was terrified and he wanted to go, and he needed to go. And my brother found this law and it was a gift. I mean, having these fifteen days, it allowed us to really celebrate his life and to really look at his achievements and also to
help him through a shame that he deeply held. My sister of his, a rabbi, came with these age old rituals, and um, we all kind of came together, you know, like Dad was an exemplary human being, and he showed us how to love and how to live and um, and so yeah, it was. It was terrifying, but also the most beautiful and sacred space any of us had
ever been in. It really is a story that touches on everything, because, as you said, you know, one part of the story gets into how much people with disabilities lose not just their income, but their access to a life of dignity. You know, your father experienced that when he pushed out of a company that he was running successfully because they didn't like the optics of a person in a wheelchair running this company, even though he could.
We see him lose everything. We we we get into that conversation, then we get into the conversations around the morality and and you know, it's interesting that you bring up the fact that your sister is a rabbi and how so many of us have these ideas of how your life should end or shouldn't end. It's not your decision, but there's a line in the film and someone says what they say, none of us chooses how to come into this world, but we should be allowed to choose
how and when we leave. And for many people that's a controversial state. I know that the family was on a journey, and I'd love to know what changed some people's minds about your dad being able to make that choice. You know, it was Dad's spirit that was just so uplifted by finally having agency and power to make a determination over his own body. Um, and what would happen
with his own life. It was just an incredible shift that happened and we all saw it, and I I mean, I am very passionate now and our whole family is that this law be past in every state where it's being because I think it's in front of twenty two state legislatures right now. It's not a law here in New York, but it's a basic human right, you know, it's a it's a basic human right. Who who should
make that determination? And um, even when the film, I was terrified sharing my family at this at this you know, their most row vulnerable, but especially for my sister who's the rabbi, because it was against Jewish Jewish law for the millennia. You know, you can't you can't end your life. Um. They've since reversed that decision. Yeah, they've reversed that law. Yeah. Wow,
reform Judism has law. Um. And the reason they say a law without tenderness is wickedness, and that when the rabbis wrote that law, suffering lasted maybe five days with your terminal illness. But now there are thousands, tens of thousands of terminally patients who need and their families who should have this right. It's compassionate, it's it's a it's a really powerful storm. And like I can see, you know when you when you watch it, when you watch you can see why the film is getting Oscar buzz
because it's made so well. Congratulations honestly, because you bring us into a world where you really you bring us into a world that's that's really gripping. It feels like we've there with your family. I feel like I know your family. Your dad seems like the wisest human being. There's like no moment where he goes like I don't really know. He just he says, he just says things.
He answers so confidently and also so so earnestly as well, and so honestly, and you know, one of the one of the most amazing aspects in it for me is him talking to his wife and they're having this conversation and and it's so it's so fascinating to see what happens when people also have the chance to say goodbye, you know, where people have the chance to say this is how I wish for it to end. I wish to still have this dignity and to have this moment.
But taught me through that, you know, before you go, just that part of their love story and and and witnessing that, you know, which many children never get to see. This is a double happiness heart that mom bought for dad. Um and further one year anniversary and they broke it in half and each war one half. Yeah, so I wear it for good luck and just to keep them close. Yeah. Yeah. She's a fell mom and a woman. Um, she's a phenomenal woman. You know, fifty four years they were together.
Seventeen of those he was able bodied and she was jet setting and the rest she was caregiving and um and she you know, we were just doing a Q and A together last Night's four years old. Such a firecracker. She really is. Um. But you know, the film, the filmmaking wasn't really the main event. The main event was getting Mom to face the fact that her partner of this many years was going to be gone and to
really spend time with him. And it was hard with all the hospice workers around and everyone around, you know, to kind of get her to zero in. But she finally did face it at the end, and she's seen the film. She watched the film every day for a year. First year he was Yeah, she watched it. She watched it like a few times a week, just to spend time with him. Now I can see why, Yeah, I can see what you Honestly, you have captured a human being in a way that few films have captured anybody.
You've told a story that I think millions of people, not just in America but around the world will will connect with. And congratulations, Thank you so much. Thank it wonderful. Have more of boform. Make sure to catch the film. It is chilling, spectacular on camera. Plus well, I think show because when we come back, Gabrielle Union will be joining me right now on the show. Don't go away. That's a bad. Welcome back to Good Day to Show. My next guest is an actor, a producer, and a
best selling author. She was just nominated for an Independent Spirits Award for her role in the new film The Inspection, which is now in select theaters and opens nationwide December two. Please welcome Gabrielle Union. Thank you, Thank you guys, as I live and breathe one of my favorite people in the wall. Gabriel Union, Welcome back to the Daily Show. I've been wonderful. I've been wonderful. Is that is that? Is that Africa? I smell on you? What is that?
What is that? What? It is familiar to me? Now? What is happening here? How was your trip? You just go back? It was amazing? It was amazing, you know, of course I had I had called Trevor as one does when you when you go to the Motherland, and I was like, tell me where to goes one does, Like everyone just called Trevor. I'm going to Africa. I feel like you pick up I do I do? You do you actually pick up the phone? I do, like, yeah,
let me give you some suggestions. But we started off in Tanzania, then went to Ghana, then Namibia and then to your home countries. That's amazing. Yeah, but this was this was a different trip. This was a big trip because you were learning, you were exploring. You also celebrating. They wrote fiftieth birthday, but that's not right though, Yeah, yeah, fiftieth Yeah. Yeah. As you've seen me drop it low and you see how long it takes me to get back.
You know, you know, are like yo's please please. I don't think so. I feel like you are one of those people who is eternally young. You are. You're You're so curious about life. You know everything you do, whether it's in the writing of your books, whether it's in you know, how you travel the world, what projects you engage yourself in, you know, in Broadway productions. I mean, this film is another example of that. We've seen Garriel
Union in so many different types of movies. Forgive me if if if I'm wrong in saying this, but I've never seen you like this. I've never seen you in a role like this. I can see why people are saying, oh, man, if the Oscars are not watching this movie, then they're
not watching movies. Because you play a character in a movie that is so touching, painful and brilliant, and it's it's the story of a young black man, as we saw just in that in that preview, whose mother basically says, because you are gay, I'm going to disown you, and he goes off to join the Marines, and her hope
is that this will this will turn him straight. Talk me through you know how you even get into this project and everything that the story was because it has a lot more do with real life than most people would think, way too much to do with real life than I like, Um, elegants Bratton are director, writer, other producer. He came to me, sent me this scripts him along with Effie Brown, and they're like, what do you think of the script? I was like, this is a winner.
I absolutely want to be a part of this. I will come on as an executive producer. I know how I can be additive. And he's like, great, Um, I want you to play my mother. Oh. I tend to you know, when when I come across people who behave and speak like this, I tend to read them for filth Um. I tend to not be inspired to want to play them in a film. Uh. And I just didn't think that I was the right fit, and he said, no, it has to be you. It can only be you.
And later I come to I came to find out that, you know, him and his mom had been estranged for about eighteen years. Uh. And he knew that I was one of his mom's favorites, and he knew that if I played her, she couldn't deny him and she would she would reconnect. Unfortunately, we got greenlit February. His mom passed February, so I'm not only playing a real person. I'm playing my director and writer's mother who has passed
and they've had, you know, a pretty fraught relationship. And I just wasn't I just wasn't sure this was the right time for any of us. And he assured me. He said, no, we we have to tell this story. We have to tell the story, and and we know that you can do this. I was like, and he was like, you know, the black community has known that you've had the range to do this. Uh. And I had to admit to myself that I had put myself in a in a cage in a box and decided
what I could do and couldn't do. You would type cost yourself and the rules that you could play because of the roles that were afforded to you. Absolutely right, Yeah, so I had to break out and give myself the opportunity to try to, I don't know, to try to grow creative. It's terrifying, It's absolutely terrifying. I don't want to ruin this man's story, you know, with you know,
pulling like an isis from bring it on. You know, I don't know what he's expecting yet, and yet I feel like, I feel like, you know, it seems so perfect and it seems so obvious now because because when you see you in the film, I can see I can see what he saw like you know, And it's interesting.
I would love to know how your your opinion of his mom changed in hearing his story and his side of it, because to your point, there are many scripts, and there are many stories that are told of people that give us an idea of them, and then once we're forced to be them in some way, once we're forced to empathize and get into their lives, our opinion of them changes. Taught me through that change, because you don't play her like somebody that you hate. You don't
play her like somebody that we even hate. So I'd love to know what you understand differently about her. That doesn't condone her views on her son being gay, but in some way, empathy, you know, creates empathy in us. For her, I had to find her humanity and I had to figure out how to keep the love not just on the set as a producer, but the love
between these characters. And the more I talk to parents who struggle in the way that she struggles, they none of them deny that they love their children deeply, and a lot of them truly believe that by rejecting their child or denying their identity, which unfortunately denies their humanity, is the way to love them properly, is the way to protect them, is the way to save them, which sounds very backwards, right, but that's firmly in their hearts.
They believe that. And the more I started asking about her background, she was orphaned at ten. She was a top student, she was a top athlete, and she just wanted people to think that she was good and worthy and deserving. And I was like, now that's where I
can relate. You know. We we have these conversations often where all the shape shifting that you will do to get someone to say, oh, yeah, you right, whether it's a relationship or a business opportunity, or just how you move through the world surviving as a person of color in this In this world, you will minimize yourself. You will barter with anything to try to get this much
closer to the power structures or opportunities or whatever. And that we had in common, because I've bartered with many things, just not my kids, but I've bartered with my soul plenty of times. You know. We talk about soul sacrifices and those those moments that you will never get back, that that that live in your memory, that you that you're ashamed of. And I have those as well. And I was like, Okay, now I figured out how I
can get in. How do I keep the love in this space but still show that this is the most unhealthy way of showing your love for your child, And hopefully I can be a mirror to some parents. I don't think. I don't think to hope for me. I think he would be. I think it's it's it's brilliant. I mean, it's access. The film is phenomenal. The story that you tell is phenomenal. It is everything and as I say, if if the Oscars people don't come knocking, I'm I'm gonna be free in like a few weeks.
I'm just gonna go chase them. You you call me and you let me know, you know, I answer the phone. I'm gonna chase the people. You're a phenomenal Thank you so much for joining on the show. The Wall. I thank the Goat Real Union. Everybody. Make sure to catch the film. I promise you you will not regret. We're gonna take a quick break. Well we're like that. We'll
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