Will Forte's Obsession with Walking

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I think he's more of a boond villain. you know, I think he's old finger Like not even close to my favorite joke in the monologue Has it done as well with you as I hoped? Absolutely not Is it still my favorite joke in the monologue? It's his Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers. On today's show, Seth chess with actor and comedian Will Forte. But first, a closer look. The Trump administration backed down on its january sixth a slush fund after national outrage and revolt from both Republican senators and voters. for more on this, It's time for a clloser lookook. There were primaries across the country on Tuesday, which offered an early indication of how the GOP might fare in November. But don't worry, Republicans are confident that everything will be fine. The president has made America safer by taking out virtually the entirety of the Iranian military. Do you think that that will hold in the midterms? meananing that the idea of national security, which I think is where you would argue versus Whatever you think the implication is for inflation, for the price of gas,, all of the I don't know if the unintended consequences of that I don't think National security decisions should be done based on short term political considerations. I don't think it's going to impact the midtermss materially. I've seen no data that suggests that this is having a big impact on the midterms. You don't think people care about high gas prices? Do you not have a dad? because I do And he's not a big textter, but when gas goes over four dollars a gallon, he blows up my phone like an angry girlfriend And by the way, Ted Cruz, I know you have a dad because he helped kill JFK. acccording to Donald Trump, acccording to Donald Trump. That's a real thing Donald Trump said in twenty sixteen that caused the Cruz campaign to issue a statement saying Trump is detached from reality, and his false cheap, meaningless comments every day indicate his desperation to get attention and willingness to say anything to do so, man You read that, you think a lot has changed in the last ten years But one thing that hasn't changed is people care about the price of gas during elections If you need more data on that, just ask Steve Kornacky. You don't even have to call him. You just say Kornacki three times and he appears like Beetlejuice Just FY, he does appear completely naked. So you're gonna want to have some khakis on standby The point is, it's obvious the war and high gas prices are having an impact on the midterms. A new national poll shows President Trump's approval at his lowest point yet, with his worst ratings on the economy, gas prices, and the war with Iran. Trump's approval rating fell to thirty four percent, the lowest level recorded in the survey across both of his terms in office Trump's polling is worse than it was when he left office the first time, and for what is worth, that's more on us than it is on him. It's not like when he lost in twenty twenty, he went through some journey of self discovery or personal improvement. He didn't enroll into an intensive president school. He just ranted and raved for four straight years and this is exactly what we should have known was gonna to happen if he got elected a second time. Some of us might have even said as much Theit has changed so little, he can't even admit he lost in twenty twenty. He's still complaining about it now. The election was rigged. The twenty twenty election was rigged. I used to say that A year and a half ago, the election was rigged and the cameras would literally turn off. And the anchor would say, Sir, you're not allowed to say that it was a rigged election. Biden lost in a landslide. You won two elections. Why you gotta keep bitching about the one you lost ice things you gott to make stuff up to, you were actually times person of the year. Be happy about that. Don't tell us you also won America's sexiest hand But again, he's less popular now than when he left last time. And remember, he left after a riot and during a pandemic, but gas prices were lower. and for some people, that's all that matters. The country could be a post nuclear wasteland ravaged by roaming hordes of mutant zombies, But if gas were under two bucks a gallon, ninety percent of Maga would say they approve of Trump and ten percent would say brains And by the way, it's not just libs and coal elites who disapprove of Trump. even the core elements of his base are starting to buckle. There's even a crack among his main base of supporters, the white working class. His approval rating among white voters who do not have college degrees is down sharply. It was at sixty eight percent at the beginning of his term last year It's now at forty six percent this month, according to CBS News polling. Maail voters are abandoning Donald Trump. Take a look here. This gives the game away. Okay, Trump standing with Mett. in November of twenty twenty four, he beat Kamal Harris among them by thirteen points by thirteen points. Look at where he is now on his net approv rating. downown he goes, It's a twenty point shift away from Donald Trump He is now seven points underwater at this particular point among men Trump is underwater with the white working class and men, who's left? Maha moms who love UFC and crypto? Republicans doing badly with white working class men is like Democrats doing badly with Brooklyn vegan dads who e biked the Kombucha shop Trump's base is shrinking, and he's doing worse with the people who make up that base. And a big reason is that even hardcore Republicans think He's focused on the wrong stuff, like a slush fund for january sixth insurrectionists. New polling shows just how unpopular the Trump slush fund is with Donald Trump's own supporters, including his strongest supporters The economist Hugo Poll found that fifty two percent of Republicans and forty five percent of megA supporters said they oppose the Trump slush fund, only thirty two percent of mega Republicans support Donald Trump's slush fund. Even Republicans were against the fund, and these are people who love Donald Trump so much, they dress up like him By the way, no one ever did this for Democrats. I don't remember anyone showing up to rallies wearing Joe Biden teeth Mostly because the glare off those bad boys was so bright that on sunny days planes would crash Seriously, check those out. Whatever you think of that dude, he had some sparkling chompers. That's what made the debate so unsettling. His beautiful teeth were gone We just turned into Grandpa Simpson The point is, even Republicans were mad at Trump over the fund, which boiled over into a shouting match with Republican senators last month. We start this hour with breaking developments from Capitol Hill, where Senate Republicans are revolting over the Trump administration's new anti weaponization Fund. Ted Cruz himself, He was on his podcast last week. He said Todd Blanche was at a meeting with Senate Republicans of about the forty five who were in there At least twenty were passed. He said it was one of the most fery meetings that he's seen. There were fireworks at an epic level And I got to say, it's one of the roughest meetings I've seen in my entire time in the Senate There were a lot of Republican senators who were just pissed. My guess is there are probably forty five senators in the room att least half of them bllasting the attorney general and they were pissed. They were pissed. They were almost as pissed as I was when I found out my dad killed JFK. allegedly Allegedly, this is how bad things are. Not only is the president's own party in open revolt over a slush fund for criminals who attack the Capitol, but I have to listen to Ted Cruz's podcast to find out about it You know what an ordeal that is? It's like two hours of listening to a sarcastic mosquito. Hey, this is Ted. Wlcome to the podcast So Republican voters and senators were furious about the slush fund, which is why, in a rare admission of defeat The Trump administration decided to scrap it, announcing on Tuesday they would not move forward with the fund, but it's important to point out that the slush fund wasn't the only scandalous part of the supposed settlement Trump reached with his own justice deepartment. The settlement agreement between the Department of Justice and the president that established that fund also provides the president his family and his family owned businesses with sweeping permanent immunity Fr prosecution for tax related crimes. I'm sorry, what? He gets permanent immunity for tax crimes. I've never heard of that. Even if you're acquitted in a murder trial, the jury doesn't say, you're free to go and you'll never be tried again for any murder. Wink, wink It's especially insane when you consider what we already know. For years, Trump did not pay any federal income taxes in twenty sixteen In twenty seventeen, he paid only seven hundred and fifty dollars in income tax. according To a twenty twenty four report, he may owe more than one hundred million dollars in back taxes. Now, you might be wondering why Trump owes one hundred million in back taxes. The answer is actually very complex. You see, it has to do with long term depreciation of assets and capital expenditures carried over multiple fiscal years and itemized deductions from adjusted gross income, and I'm just with you, he cheated. He cheated on his taxes It's not more complicated than that with Trump, it never is. If he doesn't want tona do something, he just doesn't do it. He doesn't even give you a good excuse. It's like when he skipped his son's wedding last month and said he was busy with circumstances pertaining to government So in other words, just being the president Your whole job is circumstances pertaining to government. That's like me saying I couldn't go to my son's tuber recital because of circumstances pertaining to getting faced with pop stars Anyway the real story with Trumps unpaid taxes has to do with the tower he built in Chicago that embrace yourselves for a shock, lost money An IRS investigation found that he allegedly double dipped on tax breaks and that When Trump sought to reap tax benefits from his losses, he went too far and in effect wrote off the same losses twice. With sales lagging far behind projections, he claimed that his investment in the condo Hotel tower met the tax code definition of worthless Because his debt on the project meant he would never see a profit. And if you're surprised Donald Trump could be a part of a real estate project with a legal definition of worthless, have you seen the current state of the White House? I'm not saying it's bad, but I just saw it described on Zillow as Needs TLC Which is Zillowies for B A few years later, Trump allegedly tried to double dip on those tax breaks. First he shifted the company that owned the tower into a new partnership because he controlled both companies. It was like moving coins from one pocket to another. And that's definitely something I believe Donald Trump would do, probablyably when his sons asked him for ice cream money. Hold on, Eric, let me check my left pocket There's nothing in there. Now let me check my right pocket Oh, so over two. now go like an ice cube Thene point is Trump's deal with his own DOJ seemed to have wiped out a potential one hundred million dollars tax bill and given him permanent immunity from future audits, although the acting attorney general, who was also Trump's former personal attorney, was very cagey about it with Congress. So the blanket immunity is not something that you're going to moveote back on. It's a blanket immunity That's not true It is. No it's not Okay, United States releases waves, quits and forever discharges each of the plaintiffs from and is hereby forever barred and precluded from prosecuting or pursuing any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of actions, appeals, request for any reliefs. I mean This is this is a this is an order. from you Simply put, you just gave the president and his family a tax immunity to the tune of about one hundred million dollars. Not true. Well, yes, you have, my friends. That's not true All right, so if it's not true, then when we get in that Hyundo mill? Is Trump gonna to write a check? Oh, no, don't tell me he's gonna pay in crypto. I've agreed to pay the IRS one hundred million dollars in my new Trump coin, which is right here in my left pocket. Oh no Oh, this is so what anog. It must be in my Oh no Even Republicans disapprove of Trump's priorities, and that's because his priorities seem to be organized around one principle enriching himself. Meanwhile, prices for everything else are soaring. and that's why if the polling is accurate, we might look back on the twenty twenty six midters and say the GOP lost in a landslide This has been a closer look. Hey, it's Jimmy F and K K keep home. Don't miss passwords. Last season had hilarious moments like this. U well Lter What? And this season Kicked the password is. Fun with your favorite celebrities. Yeah, but the password is ourur bad season yet. Right, but the single password is. amazing. Amazing was my name. it was great though. That was great. Yeah. Password is back. Don't miss an all new episode, Tuesday on NBC He's an Eemmy nominated actor and writer who you know from his work on SNL, McGruber in Nebraska, the L man on Earth and Bodkin. He's back for his second season of the four seasons, which is streaming now in Netflix. Please welcome back to the show. One of our favorites, My very good friend, Will Forte everybody So very handsome tonight. like a million bucks. And you know I'm always impressed when anybody can look so put together with young children. You have young children. I do have young children. two beautiful girls, five and three. Five and three, Zoe and Cecilia. This is actually these socks are Zoe's work. This is a self portrait. Okay. Oh wow. Drew. My wife had them made into socks. That's fantastic. Very artistic. Yeah. Oh yeah. and I've heard maybe they've started dabbling and this is, you know, in makeup. Yes, yes, they have. So I was packing to come here Yeah and I'm scrambling because I'm late to get in the car. Yeah. And you're always for I feel like that's maybe very fore to be a little bit late getting in the car. A little bit late. I just there' I have time optimism. Yeah. I can do. ye So anyway, it was not going my way and I'm scrambling to throw stuff in the bag. My five year old comes in kind of sneaks around, goes into the bathroom, gets into M's makeup drawer and says, Daddy, can I put ons mom's lipstick? And I said Yeah, sure, sure. And so she she comes out like two minutes later and says, what do you think? And she did a pretty good job. She kind of nailed it. a five year old. Yeah five year.ood for her. So I'm like, great, great, Oh I gotta keep packing. So I'm packing and unbeknownst to me, the three year old kind of sneaks back there and takes a stab at it. And no same same genetics, so I'd imagine also nailed it She did not. Okay So you brought a photo This is your three year old after she applied her own lipstick. Yes. Okay obbviously goes without saying this is the scariest thing I've ever seen I her head it exploded. But wa, look at this. The funniest thing to me is that she put lipstick everywhere except her lips. Yeah. Like if you see rightning there? That's like a very younger sister thing, which is like, I'm gonna do the oppositeite. This is really this is she Jon Bveied lipstick. She definitely did. And of course, I'm like, I do this. My wife is already gone. so I had to go down and like and go go to grandma and just like, ye, here you go bye. Oh wow. L she had to deal with. Well this is I would imagine this is a time consuming removal I don't know. I was gone. I was on a plane U your incredible wife, Olivia had a birthday Yes, she did. And the cake. You did a very sweet thing. You guys made the cake? Yeah, so my daughters, you know to be very creative, we decided to make a cake together. We did like a little homemade cake Yeah. And I just said, you can w put frosting on anything but the cake? Y. So so they just sprinkles everywhere and these like weird candy pebbles. It was a monstrosity. It was just like It's just nuts. And then we decided together, they said like, why don't we put all the candles in the center, like just all together.. And I had never heard that. so I'm like, Oh that's probably a reason you' never heard that right. Well yes, I heard later that you're not supposed to do that. Yeah. And I didn't find out until I presented it to my wife. Got it. And it was it's a real fire hazard. Yeah. And I feel like when we watch this video, I think Olivia is clocking that this is maybe more dangerous than celebratory Oh, everybody is in like hair protection. Yeah. like Yeah. I mean, this is there's really no time for her to clock how sweet it was that the girls made the cake. Yes 'cause it's just terror Let's take a look at what this looks like when you put all the candles together Yeah That's life in the partorte household. the parte househ. And look, you know, I think Olivia, to some degree, all of our wives in the way that we know what we signed up for, they know what they signed up for. She' a very patient woman. She's very patient.. And you guys had a moment that I think tested her patience recently. Yes, we did. It's so funny because this was when I started season two of the four seasons I had to be away for a while because she's got to stay in L.A with the kids. Yeah She's got stuff to do in September, October. So these faceetimes are big point of connection like you you really they all countount all these space times So I really stepped in it with one of them stepped in it so hard that I actually wrote down What happened because I knew I would want to relive it with you? Okay, great So I facetime her She picks up the faceetime And She has freshly cut bangs She has never had bangs before since I've known her. You didn't know She was getting bangs. Did not know she was getting bangs No words were spoken until I said What happened to you Not a great start. No. And then she said, what? And then I said Is that a wig And look, in fairness to me, the way the bangs were presented She was like hunched over a little bit. So it wasn't like Bridget Bardoig bags Yeah. It was more like sppock And it was also right around like Halloween. So like maybe she was going to dress as spock for Halloween and it was a wig. Yeah, yeah. no, I mean, this is what a lot of people would think, I'm sure. yeah. It did not take long No words were spoken, but it didn't take long to figure out that it was not a wig. Yep And then I'm like, how do I turn this in my head? It's like, how do I turn this around and make it seem like I think they're beautiful And And then I kind of realized we were in the middle of rehearsal And and everyone was like What are you doing on your phone? So I said, Oh, I gotta go. So now that was how it was left. Is that a wig was the final thing I said? Yeah And It was not good For like a half hour I couldn't call her back for a half hour. and these are the texts I got. Yeah. So this these texts lead you to believe that this did not, this was not water off her back. I think your response to her kind of kind of stayed. So do you want to just read through what you texted She said, Is that a wig? B Worst possible thing to hear after cutting bain And I was like ha And then she said J you got back, we got past We'll be right back. I got a libard to talkking about with my friend G Borer Welcome back little more dan in the four seasons. sure the best Italian accent that you're a man of many accents. Y. And this is such a lovely cast and the best. Ver funny people who are also very kind, very loving people.. The show is great. There's a text chain, which makes sense of all the lovely people on this show You're not I'm surprised. You're not good on the text chain. Yeah I what do you think it is It's like it's stressful because have we have two text chains. So there was season one text chain. and then spoiler for anybody who hasn't watched season one, shame on you. Yeah. Steve Carll does. Yeah And so his character. his character. Yeah. Yes Thank you Let me see And so season two, we took him we have the first text chain intact, and then we have one with Adam just so he doesn't have to seeal all the tiicky tack things like Yeahah, hey, I forgot laundry detergent. Anybody have detergent right stuff. Yeah. So and then I caught fllack for not but it's like it's very stressful because there are all these like very talented, I mean, Tina Fairy, one of the funniest people on the earth. I know about you having seen your phone. you also like you have So many unread emails texts in the eight hundreds. Yeah. And that is because and again, this is one of the great things about you. you are someone who wants to always write the perfect thing And so when I text you, I know that I have put an incredible burden on your time That's why you never text me. That's why I text almost everyone else I know. because like with everybody else, I feel like I'm playing tennis, but with you I don't know, I feel like I'm throwing the racket at you I'm telling you, I have gotten way better like that. How down from twelve hundred unread? Like I'm whittling it down. That's great. What is the oldest text you feel like you haven't responded to? I mean twenty years Yeah They're going to be really excited when they hear back from you Ca I'm a caller. You're a caller, yeah. Now, I wanted to ask, you're also a walker I am You care about your steps. I do. I got fitbit on right now. I wear it on my ankle and that is legit. You can When on the website, it is it's allowed. Yes. because a lot of what are the fitbit purists would say wrist? A a lot of people just go to the wristk ' they don't do the research. Yeah, okay, God. Yeah. So ankle sign. you would think ankle would make more sense than wrist for st. Be if you're carrying something, maybe you don't get those, you know, because you know, so Yeah you can't like So okay, great. You can't carry stuff with your. So what do I can carry stuff with my legs and while you're walking, I don't think so. Anyway Yeah what do you aim for today I did a thing a couple years ago where I tried to get twenty thousand steps a day. All right. And I did it for a whole year. A whole year, every day. Okay. ye you recently set a record. I wish my whole family was that. They This bugs them so much. Oh yeah. Yeah. When they're like, Hey, your daughter has lipstick all over your face and you're like, I'm out from a step. Yeah, I gotta get. All right, so you set a new record. and Will, I love you so much. I don't think this number is healthy or good This was in one day Believe it or not, I got that number. I was in Hawaii working on Andy Sandberg and Jason MMoa's movieitten by Solomon and Robbert of the bestest. And had an off day and I was like, I was shooting for more than this. and I was disappointed in this number, believe it or not. So this is a one day That's eighty one thousand And for anybody who's wondering how long that is, you walked thirty six miles. Yeah And so a man who walks thirty six miles can't respond all his texts It doesn't make sense to me. I don't So wait now was this like the most beautiful walk you've ever been on. I mean, you're in Hawaii, so Id imagine there's something to that. I mean, I walked from Waikiki Beach around Diamond Head