Rian Johnson | Greene Embarrasses Herself at Hearing; DeSantis Tries to Out-MAGA Trump: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Trump and DeSantis competing to see who can be more extreme on culture war nonsense in their appeals to the MAGA base and Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming elementary schools are spending billions on critical race theory.
Then, Rian Johnson talks about how being bad at solving murder mysteries helps him to write, discusses the differences between Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Poker Face and shares his experience working with Natasha Lyonne.
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| 0:00.0 | After facing criticism from Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the college board yesterday released |
| 0:07.7 | a revised framework for its new AP African-American studies course which no longer features sections |
| 0:13.6 | on reparations, prison abolition, and black queer studies. |
| 0:18.1 | Instead, students will just watch friends. |
| 0:21.5 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late |
| 0:31.2 | Night with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:33.0 | On today's show, Seth Chats with writer and director Ryan Johnson, but first, a closer |
| 0:37.3 | look. |
| 0:38.3 | Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are competing with each other to see who can be more extreme |
| 0:49.7 | on culture war nonsense in their appeals to the MAGA base. |
| 0:52.9 | With DeSantis going so far as to ban books and schools and give out tax breaks for gas |
| 0:57.1 | stoves, and Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed in a committee hearing that elementary schools |
| 1:01.0 | are spending billions of dollars on critical race theory for more in this is time for a |
| 1:04.3 | closer look. |
| 1:09.2 | A central thing that Donald Trump revealed about the modern Republican parties, they don't |
| 1:12.7 | have a coherent worldview or agenda. |
| 1:14.9 | They're completely directionless. |
| 1:16.5 | They're basically rumbers when they bump into something they don't understand, they just |
| 1:20.6 | had the opposite way. |
| 1:23.0 | You can see that anytime Trump opens his mouth. |
| 1:25.4 | He doesn't talk about policies or issues. |
| 1:27.4 | He talks about manufactured right-wing grievances. |
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