The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Billionaires Intervene in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race | Bill Murray
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
Ronny Chieng covers the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election, including Elon Musk’s $20 million intervention in Republican Brad Schimel’s campaign, attack ads against the wrong Susan Crawford, and alternating pro-pedophilia smear campaigns. Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt sees how billionaires are turning elections into games. Ronny Chieng on JD and Usha Vance’s big trip to Greenland, where native protestors are chanting "MAGA: Make America Go Away." Bill Murray sits down to discuss his latest film, “The Friend,” as well as his legendary career in TV and film. Murray talks about his philosophy of trying to stay in the moment, why he moved to France with his family after starring in a string of comedy blockbusters like “Ghostbusters,” his pivot to working with independent filmmakers like Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, and Sofia Coppola, and what he gained from being a part of comedy institutions at The Second City and “Saturday Night Live.” He also praises Naomi Watts’s performance in “The Friend,” and the extraordinary Great Dane who is so good in the film, people speculate it’s AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the controversy surrounding the Wisconsin Supreme Court election?
And the whole time I was on the plane with you, you were so generous, you were so kind, you were very considerate. You were trying to time the flight so I wouldn't hit traffic in New York. And I couldn't believe you were talking to me. And the whole time I was like, oh my God, I'm living... one of these legendary Bill Murray stories right now. Like I'm in the story that I keep hearing about.
And so there's all these stories about you kind of popping up around America. And I just want to ask, like, is this kind of philosophy of life, of this live in the moment randomness, is that something you kind of carry into your self-expression?
Well, I think most of our lives are accidental, as much as we think we're in charge. Most of it's accidental, and it's just how you are able to live with the accidents that you create, that you're part of. Right. I kind of like the excitement of the unknown and figuring, oh, now look what I've done. You know, so it's been fun.
Yeah, but it is a conscious choice, right, to be present, because not many people can do it. I mean, you've said yourself you try to make yourself more available.
Well, the conscious choices come and go. They come and go. But, yeah, sometimes they are. So that's why there's sometimes a through line that looks like there's a plan.
Yeah, so I guess just in terms of Hollywood, applying that philosophy to this crazy thing we call show business Hollywood. And your approach to it has always really intrigued me because you're someone who I feel is, even though you're an icon in the Hollywood system, you still feel like you purposely take yourself outside the system. I mean, is that a conscious choice for you to be
Well, I don't think I'm any good to anyone if I'm just in the system all the time. If you're not going out in the world and coming back with something, you're not doing any good to your family or your world. You've got to go out there and do it.
I agree with that. But you acknowledge that's not a common thing for most of these guys in Hollywood. I despise the rest of them.
No, you know, you get excited. You know, you get excited making a career, and you start getting busy. And, you know, it's hard. Everything's a distraction. So everything can take you away from, you know, trying to, like, try to remember yourself and try to, you know, keep it together.
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Chapter 2: How are billionaires influencing local elections?
It's an extraordinary thing. So it's a great Dane, and it's an amazing animal.
Okay, wow. Okay.
All right. Yeah, and how do you stop them? How do you control them?
No, you can't.
They love you. Don't stop the love. Let the love come in. And I know you're going to, I know you didn't plan this, but one of the themes I noticed in your career is that you have this kind of, there's these animals that pop up in a lot of your films a lot in a cool way, you know, like Groundhog Day and The Friend, the dog, there's an elephant, there's, you know, gophers. Gopher problems, yeah.
Yeah. So I don't know, do you think there's something, I know you're not thinking about that, but is there something, what is it about these animals?
It has something to do with, there's a lot of actors that just don't want to work with me. So I've got to find, I've got to go into the animal kingdom to get a co-star. But it works out okay for me. I don't know. It is funny that it keeps coming up like that. I should be worried. I don't know. I don't know. But the animals are the real ones. I mean, I got bit by the gopher in Groundhog Day.
The gopher in Caddyshack blew the place up. This dog is really great. I rode an elephant in a movie that was fantastic. I'm not one of those guys, but this dog is smarter than many people that I've ever met. And the elephant I worked with was smarter than virtually everyone I've ever met. So their intelligence is, you know, it's a mystery to us.
And it's probably sort of, for me, it's entry-level dealing. They say, you know, before you try to have children, you should have a pet to see if you can care for someone, take care of something, another creature. So, probably.
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