Guest Spotlight: Alex Garland & Hanif Abdurraqib

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Michael Kosta sits down with award-winning director and writer, Alex Garland, to discuss his new film, "Civil War," his intentions for inspiring conversation amongst viewers, and journalism's importance to America's checks and balances system. Also, best-selling author, Hanif Abdurraqib, joins Michael to discuss his latest book "There's Always This Year," the parallels between his life and basketball, and his views on re-framing how we look at aging.

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0:16.1	You're listening to Comedy Central. Just tonight is an award-winning writer and director whose new film is called Civil War.
0:32.0	Please welcome Alex Garland.
0:34.0	How you doing buddy?
0:37.0	How you doing buddy?
0:38.0	Wow. Thank you for coming.
0:46.0	I loved your film.
0:48.0	The whole thing is intense.
0:49.0	Okay, good.
0:50.0	There was a lot of assumptions about the film just based on the trailer.
0:55.0	You wrote it, you directed it.
0:58.0	What do you want to tell us about Civil War?
1:01.0	You mean how do I want to sell it?
1:03.0	I...
1:04.0	People heard Civil War and they saw the trailer and they immediately went,
1:09.0	you know, it was... it's this and it's this and...
1:12.0	And... All right. What I wanted... it was
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