B.J. Novak | Trumpism Rejected in Major Landslide as Newsom Wins California Recall: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Trumpism losing badly in California when Governor Gavin Newsom easily beat back a GOP-led recall effort.
Then, B. J. Novak talks about The Premise, shares his opinion about short movies vs. short films and discusses his experience working with Ed Asner.
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| 0:00.0 | According to a new survey more than half of Americans said that they have never been |
| 0:07.0 | in a physical fight, but what if someone slightly inconveniences you, asked Boston? |
| 0:13.7 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late |
| 0:22.0 | Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:23.6 | On today's show, Seth Chats with actor and writer BJ Novak, but first, a closer look. |
| 0:36.6 | Trumpism lost badly last night in California when Governor Gavin Newsom easily beat back |
| 0:42.1 | a GOP-led recall effort, but Trumpism is still very much the core of the modern GOP as evidence |
| 0:48.0 | by how many Republicans still refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election for more |
| 0:51.9 | than this. |
| 0:52.9 | It's time for a closer look. |
| 0:58.0 | If you weren't really following the California recall election because it was too dumb and |
| 1:02.0 | confusing, you're not alone. |
| 1:03.3 | In fact, there were three options on the ballot that said, yes, no, and this is a bigger |
| 1:08.2 | waste of time than driving to LAX. |
| 1:09.8 | Seriously, why is getting into LAX such a nightmare? |
| 1:12.2 | Most airports, you have to get there two hours before your flight, but at LAX, you have to |
| 1:15.8 | get to the entrance of the airport two hours before you need to be inside the airport. |
| 1:20.1 | You could drive to LAX or you could just drive back to New York in the same amount of |
| 1:24.4 | time. |
| 1:25.4 | Once I was stuck in traffic, waiting to get to departures and I looked over at the driver |
| 1:28.7 | next to me and he was a skeleton. |
| 1:30.8 | Of course, in LA, they don't call that a skeleton. |
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