Transcripts For KNTV Late Night With Seth Meyers 20240712

Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers Elizabeth Banks, host of cosmos, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tyson, from ted lasso, actor brendan hunt featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth welcome to late night. How is everybody doing yeah i feel like after this weekend, even if we did have an audience, thats the response id be getting. Lets get to the news. President trump called into fox and friends this morning and said his list of potential Supreme Court nominees was down to five names. Though, i think thats only because Mitch Mcconnell made him add four more names. The Justice Department has reportedly labeled new york city an anarchist jurisdiction. Are you kidding me nobody has more laws than new york city. You have to have a law degree just to park a car around here you ever heard of a coop board . There are more rules in my buildings lobby than there are in all of wyoming. Those people are out there firing automatic weapons at scarecrows and i have to get five signatures to approve a welcome mat. 2020 primetime emmy awards were broadcast live last night in an allvirtual ceremony and it was kind of nice to see hollywoods biggest stars and influential taste makers also have no idea how to light themselves in a zoom meeting i was there guys i was right there with you, for like five months during a rally on saturday, President Trump said the friendship between late Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia is, quote, a powerful reminder we can disagree on fundamental issues while treating each other with decency, dignity, and respect. Added trump, and somebody needs to tell that to farting joe biden. At a Campaign Rally in North Carolina over the weekend, President Trump suggested that former Vice President joe biden will take performanceenhancing drugs before their first debate. And, quote, for two hours, wil be better than ever before. Man, trump is so worried he is going to lose the debates to a guy hes been calling senile, all year its like when you challenge your nephew to a dance battle and he immediately does the worm and you are a like, oh, what made me think i could win . Also, my knees all messed up from racquetball oh, boy. President trump said on twitter yesterday that next year, quote, will be our best year ever. I dont know 2020s going to be pretty tough to beat, said the ceo of purell retailer foot locker has announced that some of its stores will become Voter Registration sites and as usual, you will leave with something thats not entirely comfortable but eventually youll, you know, youll get used to it. And finally, according to a new report, the u. S. Has an out of control population of socalled superpigs that run up to 30 miles an hour and reproduce quickly. Or at least, thats what the spiderweb said and that was a monologue, everybody. You guys, i played i played wilbur in a very i think like in a second grade production of charlottes web. And the review said i was some pig. [ laughter ] we got a great show tonight. I mean, its going to be downhill from that joke. But emmynominated actor, director, and producer, Elizabeth Banks will be here so happy to see her. He is an author, an astrophysicist, and the host of cosmos, Neil Degrasse tyson will join us plus, i am so excited about this my old friend brendan hunt is a guest tonight. In our youth, we did comedy together in amsterdam, and now he cocreated it and is one of the stars of ted lasso on apple tv plus. It stars our friend Jason Sudeikis as well its one of the best things i have seen in a long time but before we get to all of that, republicans are already rushing to fill the Supreme Court seat left by justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and force through a conservative supermajority that will help them cement minority rule for a generation for more on this, its time for a closer look. Seth so yesterday, a friend of mine gave my youngest son an apple. And he showed him how you could shine it by rubbing it on your shirt like this. And then, my son started doing it but he did it after each bite he took, thus covering himself in apple juice. And each time we tried to explain to him thats not how you are supposed to do it, he just laughed harder and harder my point is, im glad that also happened this weekend because, otherwise, this weekend was the worst. There are few words left to say about Ruth Bader Ginsburgs legacy that havent already been said shes a feminist icon who was already the leading litigator for womens rights in the country before she joined the high court and became one of its most iconic and influential justices and in addition to Everything Else she accomplished, she was also a fierce defender of democracy. For example, she delighted audiences by brandishing the pocket constitution she carried with her wherever she went so if i take out my pocket constitution, which i carry with me wherever i go in the world, so here it is. Seth amazing she was as knowledgeable about the constitution as anyone in history and yet out of reverence for the document, she still carried it around with her watching rbg reaching into her tote bag for her pocket constitution is like watching batman reach into this utility belt for his grappling hook. And, of course, youd never see the latter because no matter where you stand on batman, he clearly lacks the crowdpleasing show and tell warmth of rbg. And she something tells me she busted that thing out a lotexcuse me,r here. Let me just take out my pocket constitution. Oh [ bleep ], its rbg run, boys. Ginsburg was an incisive jurist and legal pioneer. As recently as may, she called into the Supreme Courts oral arguments from her hospital bed to advocate for obamacares protections for access to contraception. She kept attending oral arguments, when the arguments went by telephone after the covid pandemic really shut down this court in march. Justice ginsburg continued to participate. In fact, it was in may when she had the gallbladder condition where she went to the hospital she actually participated in the oral arguments from her hospital bed, at that point seth incredible. Not only would i not participate in a Conference Call if i were in the hospital. I know multiple people who have pretended they were in the hospital to get out of Conference Calls, at is, one ofy writers actually has something called blorts disease. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an intellectual titan, a tireless advocate of equality, a relentless guardian of democracy, and a towering figure in the history of american jurist prudence and civil rights and if republicans get their way, her successor, on the court, will be chosen by this guy. Okay. That was the first then, he went, donald trump. Donald trump i love donald prump. I got the nobel preace prize nomination a peace prize, nobel, nomination we will defend the dignity of work and we will defend the sank the sanctity of life america will land the first woman on the moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on nars seth oh, man, dude, i dont think you are going to win the nobel preace prize seriously, whats going on here . Just because your presidency feels like a root canal to the rest of us doesnt mean you have to take the novocain i mean, did he just have dental surgery . Did they take out all of this teeth and did they replace them with gummy bears he sounds like siri after you drop your phone in the toilet. Siri, can you name the planets in the solar system . Nercury benus. Glirth nars seth okay. Okay you know what . But thats right donald prump won the nobel preace prize because he defends the sank of life and will put an astronaut on nars whenever he talks like that, i expect him to turn around that he has leaves in his hair. Remember a few weeks ago when trump insisted he didnt have a series of mini strokes despite the fact that no one claimed that he did . Is that because they were maxi strokes . Im not saying he was lying, but watching that, even i smelled burnt toast. I mean, he cant even say his own name he called himself donald prump that sounds like an offbrand disney character youd find in at a toy store in russia donald prump its fine, its fine come for two for one you get jared bushner. Jared bushner. Tiny, skinny, little doll. It talks to. hi, i want to qualify for my job. Its two for one. Although, i have to say, donald prump is a much more accurate name for him. You know, like a character from one of those old Claymation Christmas specials hey look, its ol donald prump hes on the naughty list because he hangs out by the liquor store and buys beers for underage kids, and this isnt open the first time trump has name wrong i mean, once, he called hims in you know how you get 200 points on the s. A. T. S just for writing down your own name trump might be the First Student in history who got a negative score. But this is how [ bleep ] everything is, the president of the United States cant even say his own name and we cant as a nation, take a few minutes to enjoy that because of, you know, the death of democracy and stuff like that in fact, this weekend, trump went full fascist by celebrating the supposed good genes of his supporters and celebrating Police Violence against a journalist who was covering protests Msnbcs Ali Velshi you have good genes a lot of its about the genes, isnt it dont you believe . The resource theory, you think was so different you have good genes in minnesota. I remember this guy, welshi, he got hit on the knee with a canister of teargas and he went down he didnt he was down my knee. My knee. Nobody cared these guys didnt care they moved him aside and they just walked right through. It was like it was the most beautiful thing. No, because after we take all that crap for weeks and weeks that we take this crap and then, you finally see men get up there wasnt it really a beautiful sight . [ cheers and applause seth okay. First of all, prump, his name is velshi, not welshi second, in addition to being explicitly and apologetically fascist, a call for state violence against journalists, its also absurd to listen to rl violence from one of the biggest physical cowards in the world. I mean, you hid in a bunker because there were protesters outside the white house. And you nearly wet yourself because of a bird. [ bird chirping [ laughter ] seth right after that clip, the eagle gave him two for flinching. The closest youve ever come to a fist fight is sounding like you are answering the referees questions after taking a foot in the head from ronda rousey what year is it . 1985. What planet are we on . Nars. Whats your name . Donald prump. Okay okay hes done. Or, you know, if its a republican ref hes good to go. Four more years, champ. Also, you really want to talk about good genes your brain is ricotta cheese and you look like a halloween decoration thats been out on the lawn since last year you should be on the stoop with a orange bucket in your lap and a sign that says one piece per child. So, Senate Republicans who represent 15 million fewer americans and Senate Democrats are pulling out all the stops to help a sun downing fascist who lost the popular vote by three million to fill a Supreme Court seat vacated by a feminist icon six weeks before an election and trump, of course, has signaled that hes fully on board. The president tweeted this out. gop, we were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us. The most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of the United States Supreme Court justices we have this obligation without delay. I have begun work to fulfill my constitutional duty to nominate a justice another justice of the Supreme Court. We have an obligation. We won and we have an obligation as the winners to pick who we want thats not the next president. Hopefully, ill be the next president. Seth even if you win, youre not really going to be the next president. Youre barely the current president. Were at 200,000 deaths and almost seven million covid cases and you spent the weekend golfing at your private club and slurring your way through another rally like a drunk guy at karaoke i want to do bowie is there life on nars . But you heard the president. Republicans should move without delay. To be fair at least its consistent with his position from 2016, when Merrick Garland look i dont need to do this whole fake, sarcastic setup, right you guys just roll the clip and i will think about my son and his apple again. I hope that our senate is going to be able mitch and the entire group, is going to be able to do something about it in times of delay i think its up to Mitch Mcconnell and everybody else to stop it. Its called delay, delay, delay. Seth now, look i get that highlighting their hypocrisy is mostly pointless. Hypocrisy only matters if you have shame they dont Mitch Mcconnell certainly isnt capable of feeling shame he looks like a haunted, wooden doll youd find in an estate sale and has the same level of emotional complexity their badfaith justifications were obvious bull [ bleep ] back then and their bad faith reversals are obvious bull [ bleep ] now. But its still worth taking stock of just how insulting and transparent their lies were, and remembering that for the future. Because its not just hypocrisy, its nihilism. Theyre moral black holes who only care about the raw exercise of political power and plus, we went through all the trouble of gathering the tape so were going to play it and while we do that, im going to past the time by Getting Started on a project i have been meaning to get around to i am going to crochet a blanket. And i will try to get at least a corner done. I mean, how long could this clip package take senator chuck grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee, himself, said it only makes sense that we defer to the American People who will elect a new president to select the next Supreme Court justice. The American People should be afforded the opportunity to weigh in you cant have one rule for democrat president s and another rule for republican president s i believe the next Supreme Court justice ought to be chosen by the American People, through the election of the next president. I think this were too close to the election. The president , who is elected in november, should be the one who makes this decision. The senate will appro in november, the decision theyve already started making today. The American People are perfectly capable of having their say, their say, on this issue. So lets give them a voice lets let the American People decide it has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an Election Year. There is a long tradition that you dont do this in an Election Year this should be a decision for the people, george let the election decide. I dont think we should be moving forward on a nominee. In the last year of this president s term i would say that if it was a republican president the American People need a chance to weigh in on this issue. On who will fill that seat they will have that chance this november and they ought to have that chance. This is about principle not the person the president has nominated. And its why the majority of the senate has chosen to use this unique situation as an opportunity to let the American People have a voice. I want you to use my words against me if theres a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president who whoever it might be make that nomination if an opening comes in the last year of President Trumps term, and the primary process is started. Well wait to the next election. And ive got a pretty good chance being youre on the record. Yeah. All right hold the tape seth [ bleep ] just in time for fall. Jesus. That montage was so long, my hair grew out again and again. I get that the hypocrisy is baked in pointing it out wont change their minds. Its like telling a middle school bully giving me a wedgie, wont make your parents get back together he knows that. He just wants to give you that wedgie still, its worth documenting just how obvious and degrading the lies were. And remembering this the next time they pretend to care about some obvious bull [ bleep ] like cutting the deficit or respecting the courts. Also, its striking just how specific their promises were this is about principle. Id say that if a republican was president. Use my words against me. Im shocked Lindsey Graham didnt get up there and say mark my words if 45 days before the l election, an iconic liberal justice passes away and requests as her dying wish that she not be replaced until after the election, which is taking place during a onceinacentury pandemic just two weeks after its announced that keeping up with the kardashians is ending, then you could use my words against me. I promise i will not vote on a justice nominated by president donald prump. Seth seriously, though, when you watch a montage like that, and then, see all the same people scurrying as quickly as possible to reverse themselves, four years later its almost like the lying and the hypocrisy are the point. Like, they are trying to rub our noses in just how shameless and unaccountable they are that they dont care about democracy. That they can do whatever they want for example, when ted cruz was asked about his comments from 2016, he dismissed them as meaningless. Look. We had this fight at the end of the barack obama term. And at the time, all the democrats were saying confirm the nominee. Confirm the nominee. And all the republicans were saying were not going to confirm the nominee. And so, we have got a situation. You just played a quote from me in 2016. We can play that game all day long seth if you want to play clips of me lying through my weird, little teeth, while condescending like a french waiter at disneyland, we can play that game all day long. Democrats have to internalize the fact that this is not about principle. This is about raw, political power. And they need to use every tool at their disposal to stop it the Senate Majority that won fewer votes than the Senate Minority wants to help a corrupt autocrat install an unprecedented conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, appointed largely by president s who lost the popular vote including, of course, the current president donald prump. This has been a closer look. Well be right back with Elizabeth Banks. For more of seths closer looks, be sure to subscribe on youtube. I like big jeans. Ittybitty jeans. Feelin trendy yall, with the straight jeans showin off those curves, cause you the queen everyone go slay in your Old Navy Jeans welcome to denim america. With fits for the whole fam. Only at old navy and oldnavy. Com brushing only reaches 25 of your mouth. Listerine® cleans virtually 100 . Helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. Never settle for 25 . 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Our first guest tonight is an emmynominated actress, director, and producer you know from Pitch Perfect, the hunger games franchise and 30 rock. She hosts press your luck, which returns september 24th on abc. Please welcome to the show, Elizabeth Banks, everyone. Hello elizabeth, how are you i am so happy to be here. How you guys doing seth well, im very excited to talk about the show but i also am very excited about this you are joining us right after your first dentist appointment in in months. And thats right. Seth and we are just dying to know how it went. I have a temporary crown. I i had three cracks in a back tooth that have sort of been aching for like six months and i finally thought, i better go get it handled. I can actually smile, mostly like, you can see its a little off still. And i had a really hard time putting my lipstick on, but i think i did all right. I dont know i cant tell seth i bet if we hadnt brought it up, no one wouldve noticed. Thank you so thank you for that then seth i meant every word of it this is i want to ask about press your luck. This is a game show from the 80s first of all, it looks like a lot of fun to host second, is it weird looking at old episodes where you are not ju but an audience of people having yeah. Yeah, i actually i read a tweet, recently, from a press your luck fan that said elizabeth is always yelling. Thank you for that judgment. One. Two, its because the audience loves this show. They are raucous i mean, you know, theyre theyre so happy when someone wins a car, as am i. And theyre so happy to see the whammy, as am i. And so, its really, really loud and the idea of making the show in the future, i mean, i know that we can get contestants in there. But, you know, i will definitely miss the live, instudio audience, as i imagine you do as well getting through your jokes every night. Seth i do. I feel like a lot of my jokes are getting whammies [ laughter ] based on not having an audience here. Was this a show you watched growing up because i have a lot of memories of press your luck. Oh. It was the after school, like, special that me and my sibs needed to watch every day. Presented it to me, i was like, wait. Gog to bring back this show that was my favorite thing in the world . And then, also, the whammies we we kept a lot of the old animation style. So its got this really kitschy whammy to it that just brings back so many memories. It was one of those things where we just piled onto the couch we ate lucky charms, which we were not allowed that was, like, our saturday morning but wed sneak it. And we would pick out all of the marshmallows out of the lucky charms and watch press your luck. That is like those are like gold memories in my brain. Seth it seems like it must be a joy to do this job now. But of course, you did not set out to be a gameshow host its sort of a nice byproduct of being an actor was that something that you always thought you were going to do is pursue acting . Oh, no, i didnt decide to be an actor really, i didnt decide to be an actor until i was halfway through college. And i thought i would be diane sawyer or barbara walters. I wanted to be i wanted to be or be you. I wanted to do that job. And then, i got to play to great effect on 30 rock and in many other roles. Now, i have played a newscaster. I thought i would do, like, broadcast news seth you are very good as a comedy newscaster. I maybe, means you wouldnt have been perfect for the real thing. But you are as good at comedy. You are the diane sawyer of comedy newscasters thank you yeah, i was very happy with tina fey sent me to north korea to do the news there [ laughter ] seth and you actually went a lot of people thought that was green screen, but you did actually people dont realize. I was in yeah, i actually went there seth you youve also have made quite a career as a producer you have a Production Company called brownstone that, among other things, the Pitch Perfect franchise has tried really hard to give voice to, you know, especially women and people who have less of a voice in this industry you know, still do but i was wondering how much youve seen it change, in the last ten years that youve been doing it i actually think, in the last ive been doing it, yeah, a little more than a decade now and i think, actually, weve made a lot of incredible progress i think that the amount of television and content thats being created is really incredible, in this moment in time, anyway but making, especially, feature films that feature large casts of women is still very, very rare and so, to have made Pitch Perfect and charlies angels. If thats my legacy of creating things and telling womens stories, femalefronted stories. We also have shrill starring aidy bryant. And i just think i will be very happy if thats my legacy in hollywood. Seth its a pretty good legacy and its really welldeserved. Before you go, i want to ask, because we both are parents of two boys yours are a little older how is how is school going as we now are in the fall well, i am still having trouble getting them to wear pants. Seth yep and and my son wore a ninja costume last week for school just i just walked in and he was in a full ninja. And the best part about it, seth, was i sat there for a minute to be like, is this okay that hes in a ninja costume . And then, they went around the room and another kid was wearing a ninja costume. [ laughter ] like, full like cobra kai with the red and everything and my son was like, what . Like, looked at me, like, thats my thing. It turns out, he wasnt the only one. Seth as they get older, theyll realize ninjas shouldnt really present themselves on zoom like that you know you have to be a little bit more secretive. Little more secretive yeah he was in the full black ninja costume. The fact that this other kid was also wearing a ninja costume just broke me in that moment seth yeah. I walked in the other day and my son was, like, sitting on his side, like, on his elbow wearing a straw hat. And he looked like a carly simon record album so were all everybodys getting good looks at their kids that we wouldnt get on a Normal School day were really delving into some, like, psyche, you know its its like what they wished school was actually like. You know seth absolutely. Hey. All the best to your family. Congrats on the show its always lovely to talk to you, elizabeth thank you press your luck on thursday, everybody. Seth press your luck returns thursday on abc. Well be right back with Neil Degrasse tyson. I browsed eight sites for divorce attorneys today. I browsed eight sites for divorce attorneys today. I love working with you. Me too. Red heart emoji. Blue heart emoji. I hate lee though. Puke emoji. 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Now, we are coming up on an election and it just feels like anything might happen and now, im hearing tell that there might be an asteroid heading towards earth on election day true or false, neil . Its true its true. Its about its a refrigeratorsized asteroid. Seth okay. And given the uncertainty in this orbit, there is a small sliver of that uncertainty that includes colliding with earth on november 2nd seth and what would be the fallout of a refrigeratorsize meteor hitting us . Yeah. I mean, you would see it if you were anywhere in sight line of when it hit. Its going, you know, 10 or 20 miles per second. When you hit air, even though air feels like you can just move through it if youre going really fast, its like you are hitting a brick wall so, it would explode on impact you would see it all around. There would be a tremendous meteor shower. But, no, its not going to harm anyone, no but just the idea. You know, hit, take that it feels seth the first ive heard, in months, its not going to harm anyone. Vindictive, yes seth this must be a very strange time to be a scientist and to see how people, particularly American People, are reacting to data is it as frustrating as i imagine it is as you watch the response to covid . [ laughter ] thats a yes it looks like the clenched fists are a classic yes from neil. Yeah. Thats my miming of how it feels. You know, i keep wondering, what am i doing and all these others who are on this landscape of science education. They have Youtube Channels and books and video. And and then, i have to tell myself, maybe, without all of this, it would be much worse see, thats why otherwise, nothing is working right . So i dont know how else to to feel good about any of this but, yeah, its frustrating. And we went into that with a whole flatearth people. You know, i i dont understand i think science needs to be taught, not as a satchel of facts, but as a way of understanding what is objectively true in nature and then, you know, as evidence comes and goes, okay, theyre good thats good evidence and then, you can sort of ride the surf into the future of our understanding of how the universe works and thats the only way to assure that civilization will survive, ourselves seth well, that speaks to the fact that this is fluid. Obviously, were learning more about this pandemic, every day and its very unfair to ask people, on day one, to know all the answers they would have on day 200. You have described, as sort of akin to an alien invasion. Can you explain that analogy yeah, sure. I mean, think about it suppose aliens came and they were just going to be the enemies of all humans, right wed band together, wouldnt we . We would say lets put down our differences because we have a common enemy that we must defeat well, the coronavirus, covid, is exactly that right . It doesnt care what your skin color is, what country youre born in, who you worship, who you sleep with it doesnt distinguish it doesnt care. And all the things that tribally divide us, it only cares if youre human and so, this is a test its a test. How do we, as a species, react to a Common Threat and i rate us a cminus in in how we have collectively reacted to this. To have one state open up its its restrictions while another state doesnt, thats adjacent to it. And i think to myself, thats like designating a peeing section of a Swimming Pool thats exactly what thats like, so, i dont know what to say seth well, i think youve said it pretty well, right there. You this season of cosmos is about possible worlds this is sort of other worlds that might exist, which i think probably sounds pretty attractive to people tell us a little bit about it. Yeah. Yeah thanks for asking. I mean, possible worlds, the obvious interpretation is theyre exoplanets that we might visit or populate just to escape earth. But, i think more on on a deeper level, a possible world is think of the possible futures of earth that we have control over each of those different paths is a different world. So, possible worlds is very broadly interpreted, in terms of how in terms of how we can harness the power, the awesome power, of the methods and tools of science and technology and engineering, to shape a future that where we will not only survive, but thrive. And its a future of earth where our descendants will be proud for what we have done, rather than embarrassed for what we didnt do, or for the want and neglect that we have expressed on trying to sustain our relationship with the ecosystem that has sustained us. Seth well, thank you for always being a voice for science. I know, at times, it sounds like or seems like no ones listening, but i assure you a lot of people are and its always a pleasure to see you, neil thanks for making time for us. Well, thank you and cosmos is all about hope you know, every episode, we could say, youre all going to die. But we pose the problem and we give a thread of hope and thats what we all need right now seth i am a little worried that next season is going to be cosmos, were all the going to die. But the third season, the optimistic season, of cosmos premieres tuesday on fox well be right back with brendan hunt another bundle in the books. Got to hand it to you, jamie. 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I thought of a joke this morning in the shower. What does a british owl say . Coach, what does a british owl i was saying you act like im chasing you with a booger or something. Okay all right. I see whats going on here its about roy, aint it so youre going to give me the Cold Shoulder and the silent treatment. Thats a combo does it come with a medium drink . Seth please, welcome to the show, brendan hunt how are you, buddy im good how are you . Seth good. I want to make it clear that you guys sent the clip over. You do have lines on this show that wasnt us trying to make it seem like you never speak. Yes but i im proud of myself, as a physical artist, seth, and that was the most important thing to present, at this time seth very physical the beard sort of speaks volumes, i think let the beard do the work seth we have known each other for two decades, now and i want to talk about our shared history but i, also, want to congratulate you for the fact that you and your girlfriend, youre going to have a baby. Congrats, buddy. Thanks very much. Yeah we picked the most fun and exciting time to do it so, we nailed that seth just where the future is just bright and theres not a single hurdle ahead. Now, we we worked at the worldfamous improv comedy theater, boom chicago, in amsterdam. And we both were in chicago before that. And we moved to amsterdam and we spent some time over there and one thing that was true of us, after we moved there, that was not true of us before we went, is we both fell in love with soccer. Yeah. 100 because that was you know, going there as sports fans and not having access to streaming or satellite or whatever to see how bad the bulls or bears are yeah, just gravitated toward soccer and having been told that soccer was lame my whole life and finding out i had been lied to soccers great seth you, in fact, and i loved soccer so much, we did a show with the Edinburgh Fringe festival called ironic yanks. And there is a picture of us both looking very young. You can tell this is a show we were very angry, based on that photo that we took and i believe the central basis of that show was that the United States will win the world cup before england does. We are not wrong, yet. Seth and now, we know that the world will end before either of those things happen its a tie. Its a push. Seth we can also speak of the fact that not that were obviously both fans of the u. S. Team. But youre also huge we both are still huge fans of the dutch team, as evidence by this outfit you wore during some i mean, thats, very clearly, a man who supports the orange. Yeah. I think that was a wednesday seth there was no game ted lasso is so wonderful. This was originally, this character was a commercial for nbc sports them getting the premiere league and jason got you involved, our friend, Jason Sudeikis what was your initial involvement in it . And and what was the main role that that you were there to play . Yes, i was playing coach beard from the beginning and then, i was one of the writers. Me, jason, and our buddy joe kelly. And when we were at boom, i mean, i really became a soccer lunatic. And particularly, there was one day where, like, jason and i, by ourselves, took mushrooms as you do yeah. Yeah sure walked through the city for like two hours and for some reason, jason let me just babble about soccer and monologize for, like, two hours. And, i guess, i made some kind of impression, as knowing something about soccer and so, then i ended up with the gig. And now, here we are, doing it for real seth i love this show, for so many reasons. I knew id love it and i didnt know all the ways i would love it and one is, its such a great sports show. It really i genuinely mean like i feel the same investment in the games as i did with a show like friday night lights. And another thing is its really accurate because i think you guys know, that soccer fans, even soccer players, are watching it. And if you got the details wrong, they would be the first to let you know. How important is it to be uniquely specific to to what actually soccer is when you make the show yeah. I mean, we we want to get it right. We dont want to worry too much about it as Bill Lawrence said, when he came along, this is not a soccer show its a workplace comedy that takes place in soccer. But, i feel the responsibility to like, you know, soccer twitter. We cant worry about it too much because if we are trying to replicate soccer, it will fail soccer it its own thing and its better but, if there are soccer fans watching, and hopefully there are some, there are, at the very least, tiny easter eggs that are really only just for you to show you that we care seth you know, a lot of people went to amsterdam you know, you mention, for example, partaking mushrooms i am guessing you hadnt done that before you went to amsterdam. No, that was the only time i ever did it in my life was that one time with jason that one time seth then, jason came back and told the rest of us, dont do mushrooms with brando he will talk for two hours about soccer. Yeah, that tracks seth but, another thing that happened is, i think a lot of us came from chicago and we had a very late 90s chicago style lot of khaki pants lot of vneck sweaters and some of us maintained that style. And some of us, i would say you, were at the forefront of maybe developing an amsterdam style. Would you say, brendan, based on this photo that, that is accurate again, it was a wednesday and i had to go buy bread. Its europe, man seth its europe you made the most of it and i will say, like, one of my, you know, again, you know, we talk all the time those of us that lived in amsterdam together and one thing that we got from those years were the friendships. And another thing is this love of soccer that you guys have spun into, you and joe and jason, have spun into really just a terrific show im so happy for all you guys. Congratulations. Its so great to see you, brando thanks, buddy to see you, too. Thanks for having me seth ted lasso is available on apple tv plus well be right back with more late night. Imagine the places well go. Together. Expedia its just that its. Lavender, yes it is. Old spice, its for men. But i like the smell of it. 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Rush to work, grab a drink, hurry home. [cell phone beeps] stop dont be on your phone. Let someone else take the wheel. Make a little eye contact. Make a plan. Its a busy world out there. Were all in it together. Go safely, california. Kids continue to learnnoion, xfinmatter where they are. Lping were providing affordable Internet Access to lowincome families through our internet essentials program. Its why were working 24 7 to keep our network fast, reliable and secure. And helping College Students study and stay connected through our university program. Were committed to helping all families stay connected. Learn more at xfinity. Com education. A drink with friends can turn into two, and a prescription can be stronger than you thought. Stop there are a lot of ways to get a dui. And a lot of ways to go text a friend, call a cab, share a ride. Whatever you choose to do, go safely, california. Seth come back tomorrow for an all new show. 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