By the way, do you guys, uh...
Does anybody here celebrate Sexiest Man Alive?
(crew chuckles)
Nobody? Oh.
Okay, well, anyway, um, they just announced
that Paul Rudd is the Sexiest Man Alive.
-Yes, Paul Rudd. -(whoops)
I-I mean, yeah, I don't blame them.
The guy doesn't age. He doesn't...
And I've got... I've got nothing against them choosing him,
but at the same time,
does People magazine not know Timothée Chalamet?
Like, how can anybody win anything of sexiness
when Timothée Chalamet exists as a human being?
Also, why does it change so of...
Wasn't it just Idris Elba?
Here-Here's my thing about Sexiest Man Alive
is that, like, why does it only last one year?
What is happening to these men during this time?
(crew laughs)
There's something we need to worry about.
Like, you are only the Sexiest Man Alive for one year,
and it only lasts for 12 months.
There's something weird about that, guys.
Like, I would feel more... Like, I would trust the brand more
if they were like, "You're the Sexiest Man Alive."
And then it lasts for a while. They're like, "You still got it.
"You still got it. Whoa, a few burgers there, buddy.
"Oh, haven't been sleeping.
Oh, it's slipping. All right, you're out."
Then I would trust it more. You know?
And, also, why is it always a celebrity?
Can I ask you that question? Huh?
You don't think it's suspicious that the Sexiest Man Alive
is always a celebrity?
'Cause you guys haven't seen my neighbor Bob.
There's one handsome devil.
ANNOUNCER: Coming to you from the heart of Times Square
in New York City, the only city in America,
it's The Daily Show.
Tonight, best inflation ever,
honoring America's fakest heroes,
and Bad Bunny.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Hey, what's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
Joining me for today's headlines
is our very own Roy Wood Jr.
-How you doing, Roy? -What's up, man? How you been?
-I'm good, man. I'm really good. Nice to see you again. -Yeah.
I'm okay, man. I got on my sweater.
Okay. You said that like a threat.
No, I'm just... You know, sometimes I feel like a sweater.
-I don't always do suits. -All right.
Well, okay. I also wear sweaters sometimes.
Well, yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying.
I'm trying to be like you. That's what I was saying.
We're wear... We're both wearing sw...
Man, do your news.
-Well, it's good to have you, Roy. -I'm happy to be here.
I can tell.
All right, let's kick things off with today's headlines.
♪ ♪
Our first story is about money.
It's the world's number one favorite thing to embezzle.
And as of now, you need a lot more of it
to buy all the stuff you need.
The government just released brand-new numbers
on inflation from October.
They're big.
America's prices surging
more than they have in 30 years,
and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
And unfortunately, the numbers
are all moving in the wrong direction.
Consumer prices were up by 6.2% in October from the year before.
Now, let me walk you through some of the individual items.
Look at computers and smart home assistants,
up more than eight percent.
Televisions up more than ten percent.
Washers and dryers, up nearly 15%.
NEWSWOMAN: We're paying more for energy.
We're paying more to heat our homes.
We're paying more for our housing.
We're... When we go to the grocery store,
we're paying more for beef
and for eggs, for food.
Uh, used cars, new cars. Trucks, as well.
NEWSWOMAN 2: The president taking a harder line,
saying in a statement...
(reading):
Yeah, guys, inflation is becoming a real problem.
I went to a gas station today, and for a gallon of regular,
it just said "kill yourself."
Now, some critics are saying
that America's inflation problems
are President Biden's fault.
But here's the only issue with that argument:
almost every country in the world
is dealing with this issue.
Which means
President Biden is actually screwing up the entire world.
But whether his policies have contributed to inflation
or it was always going to happen
when society emerged from the pandemic,
this is a big danger to Biden politically,
because inflation is one of the economic concepts
that normal people actually care about.
Like, let's be honest. The debt ceiling,
the Federal Reserve, derivatives...
That's all just shit we pretend to understand.
"Oh, yeah, the debt ceiling, the debt ceiling."
But when you hear inflation is rising,
you know it means you're about to be a broke bitch.
The only good part of inflation
is that I-I was always jealous
of those old guys who would be like,
"Back in my day, you could buy a house with a dollar."
It looks like now, if inflation gets bad enough,
we'll get to be those old guys.
"Oh, yeah? Back in my day, a million dollars could buy
a whole lot more than just a haircut."
But look, yes, material goods are increasing in price.
and that is why, people, it's important
to value the things that are always free,
like spending time with your family
or robbing people.
You know? The important things in life, Roy.
The thing with inflation, though, man...
Like, honestly, I think that's why,
like, people appreciate hand-me-downs.
Like, that's-that's where I came from,
was a hand-me-down culture.
So, you know, I ain't really worried about shit
going up in price, 'cause I always knew
that I was gonna get my older brother's shit.
-That's how we lived. -I got-- Yo, my older brother right now--
I got a older brother, Arthur--
he got a Dan Marino jersey--
Chalk Line, throwback, Mitchell & Ness--
and I'm-a get that bitch sooner or later.
Oh, wow. I thought you were gonna tell me that you...
-Well, good for you, Roy. -No, I'm still--
I'm still waiting on it though, man.
I'm still waiting on it. I'm-a get that damn jersey, man.
-Hey, man... -(stammers)
Also, the-the other issue is that, like,
honestly, like,
$20 don't do what it used to do.
So I will give inflation that.
I'm not really panicked about inflation,
but I will admit that $20 don't do what it used to do.
'Cause I remember, back in '93, your mama could drop you off
at the mall with $20, you could live at the mall three days.
(laughs)
And you'd come back to the house with six dollars' change.
Like, that was a good time. $20, you could get
a Bell Biv DeVoe ticket,
you could get a Flintstone push-up,
you could get you two pairs of Jordans,
you could get you a Muggsy Bogues T-shirt
and still have money to go see Boyz n the Hood
at the Midfield 6 Cinema right there in Birmingham.
-You got a fantastic memory. -Oh, yeah.
(chuckles) All right, well, let's move on
to another big story rippling through Washington.
The relationship between Democrats and Republicans
in Congress isn't in a great place right now.
We all know this. Right? Which I guess is what happens
when one side nearly gets the other side killed by a Viking.
But now a Republican from Arizona has sent out a tweet,
and something tells me it's not gonna make things better.
NEWSMAN: Republican Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona
under fire for posting a photoshopped anime video
depicting him attacking and killing
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The video also depicts Gosar's character
attacking President Biden.
NEWSMAN 2: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling
for the House Ethics Committee and law enforcement
to investigate the video.
NEWSMAN 3: Gosar says, in part...
I mean, get the (bleep) out of here.
It's "symbolic"?
"You see, when I put AOC's head on the cartoon,
"that represents AOC.
It's got layers."
Just admit you posted the thing for a laugh.
'Cause, look, I'll be honest with you guys--
I know we're all supposed to put on our concerned faces
and wag our finger at him for threatening violence.
But I-I don't know about you--
it is hard to watch that cartoon
and see it as a real threat.
I mean, forget flying. Look at this dude.
Does he look like he could pick up two swords at once?
It's clearly a fantasy.
On the other hand though,
it's harder to believe that Gosar "didn't intend"
a targeted attack
when he supported a targeted attack on January 6.
Like, here's the thing--
you can do memes
or you can plot an insurrection.
You can't do both.
You got to pick.
And I know it's just a cartoon,
but let's not pretend
that cartoons can't also influence people.
'Cause the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
they made it sound really cool to live in a sewer.
But let me tell you, the pizza you find down there is terrible.
It's not as bad as Papa John's, but, still,
you don't want to eat it.
The bigger issue with that story, bro,
is that that dude is a dentist.
I don't want my dentist making videos.
Go learn some teeth shit
and make sure that my mouth straight.
That's why these politicians
need to just start fighting, man.
Like, I was watching a hockey match.
They just start fighting at the beg--
Like, there's days in hockey where they just go,
"You know we fighting today."
-Yeah, and then they fight. -"There will be no hockey
until we fight."
And then they fight,
and then they get on with their business.
And that's what they need to do.
They need to square it, man. I'm-a be with you in a second.
I'm trying to order these last couple bits of groceries.
Prices starting to go up.
Wait, what-what do you mean? 'Cause of inflation?
I guess so.
It wasn't as cheap as it was this morning.
I guess, like, When you think about it,
I guess the gas prices do have a way of, like,
kind of trickling down a little bit.
-'Cause, like, if-if gas goes up... -Yeah.
...then the truck that delivers the goods needs more gas.
-Uh-huh. -So the goods on the truck cost more.
Which means that everything on the truck costs more.
So that's food and that's, like--
It's-it's no different with the shutdown,
with the-- with the toilet tissue.
Everybody was buying all the toilet tissue.
So that's the same thing that's probably gonna hap--
Matter of fact, man, let me go and order
some paper towels, too, 'cause that's gonna be next.
Oh, yeah. Well, good luck with that. I don't think
it's gonna be, like, a big deal, you know?
I mean, I-I hope you're right.
-I-I-- Don't-don't stress. -I-I hope you're right.
-Order-order a few, but you'll-you'll see. -Okay.
-They might go up, but it's not that bad. -Okay.
Now, uh, Congressman Gosar isn't the only person in the news
who might be regretting what they posted on social media,
because there's another story out of Instagram
that people are talking about,
and it has to do with pet photos.
All right, we all know that people love posting photos
of their pets to Instagram.
It's a great way to tell the world,
"You know how there are millions of identical corgis out there?
-Well, I own one of them!" -(dog barks)
But one account on Instagram
recently gave people even more reasons
to post their pet photos,
and it did not end well.
What started as a social media promise
from a business just spins out of control.
A social media campaign that was launched
a little bit over a week ago, an Instagram appeal
that basically called on people to post a picture of their pet,
and if they did so, well, a tree would supposedly be planted.
Now, many did answer the call, as you say,
more than four million people posting a pet
in the last seven or eight days.
NEWSWOMAN 2: The creator of the post admitted
to deleting it after ten minutes
because he did not have the resources
to plant that many trees.
Ah, man. I actually feel bad for this guy.
I mean, we've all been in a position
where you try to do something nice,
and then, you overextend yourself.
You know? He was like,
"Hey, everybody post pet photos, I'll plant a tree."
Four million people?! Shit.
I've been in that situation, you know?
Like, you agree to be godparents to your friends' kids,
but now, if your friends die,
all of a sudden, you've got to raise them?
I mean, I thought "godparent" just meant, like,
sending them toys on their birthday. (scoffs)
Anyway, if anyone wants some kids, hit me up.
Honestly, if I was this dude, I would have just lied.
Yeah. I would have just said I planted the trees.
Who's gonna know?
Someone calls you out on it, you can just point
to any tree and be like, "That one."
What are they gonna do, check its birth certificate?
Yeah, I planted that tree.
Yeah, I know it looks old. It's an old tree.
You know what old trees are? It's old trees.
They come like that. They're grown.
And you know what this guy's real mistake was,
was asking for pet pictures.
People are gonna do that anyway.
People post pet pictures all the time. It's too easy.
If you want to get people engaged, but make them work,
you got to ask them for a thing
that only a few people would respond with.
Like, you should say, "We'll plant a tree
for every nude pic you send of your grandparents."
Yeah. You make 'em earn that tree.
Get, like, five people tops.
One grandmother sending them herself.
I don't have any grandkids, but I want that tree planted.
Although, should we really be planting more trees?
I mean, with the state of climate change right now,
all you're really doing is giving wildfires
an all-you-can-eat buffet.
In my opinion, we should be starving these fires.
That's why I'm launching a new campaign of my own.
For every brunch photo you post on Instagram,
I will destroy one tree!
This one's for you, Mother Earth.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What, you think it's the wrong...? It was a joke.
I'm not gonna actually, like, not...
No, no, no, no, no. Out of stock.
-Out of stock. Out of stock. -Roy, what's going on?
-Roy? -It's happening, dawg.
-What's happening? -It's happening.
(bleep) You just... It's happening!
What is happening?
Bro, you just read the story!
-There's no more trees. -No, the guy...
If there's no more trees,
then there's no more paper towels,
and that means paper towels are going up,
and I got to order these paper towels.
I'm ordering 'em right now.
No, that's not... Just because there's no...
-You want some paper towels? -No, Roy, I don't need paper...
-Do you want some paper towels? -Roy, I don't need...
Now you... Some people's fighting over toilet tissue.
What you think they gonna do over paper towels?
There's no shortage of paper towels.
-The guy just couldn't plant... -If there's a shortage of trees,
there is a shortage of paper, which means,
eventually, there will be a shortage
of ways to wipe your ass!
-It's... -I don't wipe my ass with paper towels, first of all.
You will when there's no more toilet tissue...
You need to calm down. You need to calm down.
-We're supposed to be having fun here with... -It's inflation.
-Man, it's inflation. -We're supposed to be having fun
with the thing. You're stressing my...
Anyway, let's make like teenagers
and move from Instagram to TikTok.
There are a lot of things you can learn on TikTok, you know?
How to cook a gourmet meal in ten seconds,
how to harmonize with yourself,
what features every other social media company
will have in six months. You can learn everything.
And one girl learned something
that just might have saved her life.
Investigators say a hand signal seen on many TikTok videos
on social media helped lead to the rescue
of a missing 16-year-old girl from North Carolina.
Sheriff's deputies in Kentucky say a driver called 911,
reporting a girl in a nearby car made these hand gestures
to warn she wasn't safe.
And you tuck your thumb in,
and all four fingers over that thumb,
-and back and forth. -DAVID MUIR: Incredible.
They found the car, arrested this 61-year-old man.
He now faces charges, including unlawful imprisonment.
Man, this is amazing.
And it's a good thing about perverts being old men,
because there was no chance
of that 61-year-old man seeing that hand signal
and going, "Yo, yo, yo, that's that thing from TikTok! Hype!"
But this is impressive, man. You just... you just do this,
and it means you are in danger.
The only thing about secret signals is, they only work
if the right amount of people know about them.
Like, I'll be honest.
I hadn't heard of this signal before this story.
So I'm glad I wasn't the person in the car.
Because if I was in my car, and that girl had driven by me
and made that sign, I would have just been like,
"Right on, sister. Black power."
(horn toots, tires squeal)
I, for one, am really excited about this,
because I-I think we... we're long overdue
a hand signal that means you're in danger.
You know, we have... we have so many other
hand signals for other things.
You know, I'm choking. I'm gonna kill you.
Can I put my leftover hot dog in your empty Pringles can?
-(mumbles) Go... -It's not enough. Come on! Come on!
-Shh. Damn! -Roy. Roy?
What's-what's going on, man?
I'm preparing for the inflation.
I'm getting the paper towels now before the prices get too crazy.
'Cause everybody is going to try and buy all of this shit, bro.
-What are you talking about? -Hey, man, this website...
Can I get your password real quick for your Amazon?
'Cause this Amazon is... they sold out.
Yeah, but my Amazon is the same as your Amazon.
-What do you mean, "My Amazon"? -You don't have, like,
an African Amazon or something that you use? Like a separate...
No, why would there be an African Amazon?
-That's where the Amazon is. -No, that's South America.
I'm South Africa.
That's my bad. You gonna give me your password or not, though?
No, I'm not gonna give you... Roy, you don't need...
Dude, we're doing the jokes. You're stressing...
Look how much paper towels you've got.
This is not enough!
Bro, inflation is all around us.
I've been thinking about this, man, I've been thinking.
Everything is expanding.
It's not just the price of gas and milk and food.
Everything's expanding. Tweets are longer.
Movies are longer.
This show is 45 minutes!
The next Spider-Man has three Spider-Men in it.
Multiverse. We need enough paper towel
to wipe our ass in three different universes.
It's not enough.
Why are you wiping your ass with paper towels?
What happened to tissues?
'Cause all the toilet tissue's been sold out!
-Okay. -Do you want some paper towel?
-No, Roy, I don't need... -Do you want any paper towel?
Roy, relax. This is crazy.
-Just relax. -(mumbles)
I'm just... you're just being crazy right now.
All right, finally, let's talk about working from home.
More and more people are working from home,
and it definitely has its benefits, right?
There's no commuting.
You don't have to share a bathroom.
You can watch your kids grow up into losers
right in front of your eyes.
But there are drawbacks, too, and one of them
that a lot of people have noticed during the pandemic
is that when you don't actually leave the office
at the end of the day, the workday never really ends.
Which is why one country has had enough.
NEWSMAN: Portugal is not playing around
with work-life balance this morning.
The Portuguese parliament has just passed a new labor law
making it illegal for employers to contact
their employees when they are off the clock.
Under this new rule, employers could be penalized
for contacting employees after work hours
and will be forced to pay for increased expenses
as a result of working from home.
Things like the employee's gas, even their electricity bill.
Wow! Portugal!
This is so gangsta.
Making it illegal to contact employees out of work.
You realize that means
now when your boss calls you during dinner,
you can just pick up the phone and be like,
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, sir.
"Uh, yes, let me put you on a conference call...
"with the police, bitch!
Ha-ha!"
And this law will have effects beyond Portugal,
you understand that, because if Portugal
is going to be working less,
that means they're gonna be producing less,
and then that means that the rest of the world
isn't going to get as much of, um...
They're not gonna... What do they make in Portugal?
They're not going to get as much...
What do they make in Portugal?
By the way, this really shows you the difference
between Portugal and America.
Like, a labor victory in Portugal and most of Europe
is outlawing your boss contacting you after 5:00 p.m.
That's a victory.
Meanwhile in America, a major labor victory is, like:
Now Amazon workers get a choice
of plastic or glass bottles to pee in!
We did it, guys!
What about you, Roy? You don't mind getting
the occasional work call... Roy, what the hell?
...13, 14...
-Roy. -31...
Roy, come on, this is crazy, man.
No, it's not crazy. It's not crazy.
Inflation's serious. We got enough, we got enough.
I think we got enough. I think we're covered.
-I think we're covered. -Oh, man, it looks like
you've bought all the paper towels.
I did. That's exactly what I did.
Yes, but you understand you're creating inflation,
-because you're panicking about inflation. -No.
You're buying a lot of things now,
which is making more inflation, because now you're buying...
If I don't buy it, somebody else is gonna buy it.
Therefore I have to be the one to buy it, so that I have it
-(phone buzzing) -when everybody else needs it...
-No. The prob... -Hey, hang on a minute.
Yeah, man, I can get you three rolls, $80 a pop.
You gonna pay it or not?
All right, meet me... meet me at the train station. 42nd.
Roy, you're selling paper towels now?
So you're part of the problem.
-I'm not part of the problem. -You're part of...
I sell paper towels.
Now there's no paper... I can't believe...
-Do you have paper towels. -No, I didn't think I would need...
Well, luckily, I know you. Let me just get...
let me get one of... I'll just get one of the top ones, then.
It's $80.
$80 a roll?
A sheet.
You just said $80 a roll on the phone now.
'Cause he got ahead of the curve. You didn't.
Yo, this is some... All right, when we come back,
we're gonna honor America's greatest heroes.
You don't want to miss it. Don't go anywhere.
Roy, come on, you got to give me more than one paper towel.
-No, no, no. No, no, no. -Come on. Come on, Roy.
No. Get back.
Get back! Get back!
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
Tomorrow is Veterans Day,
when America takes a day to honor
those who served in its armed forces.
But there's another often-forgotten group
of Americans who deserve just as much recognition.
So today, we at The Daily Show are going to honor them.
ANNOUNCER: Every Veterans Day,
we honor the brave Americans who served.
But it's time we also recognized
the almost-brave Americans who didn't serve
but want everyone to think they did.
That's why this November 10th
is Almost Veterans Day.
♪ ♪
You're the man who goes to the grocery store
dressed like you're ready to assault Fallujah.
You're the man who brings the SEAL Team 6 lingo
to paintball.
Contact, two tangos on the south ridge.
Lay down a suppressing fire.
I am black on ammo!
What?
I said I'm... Ow! Ow! Ow!
Oh, my God! Oh, God. Aah.
You got to learn the lingo!
ANNOUNCER: You've got all the gear
you think veterans wear:
wraparound tactical sunglasses,
an operator beard you saw on John Krasinski,
a patriotic T-shirt with way too many words on it,
cargo pants filled with every kind of army knife,
even though you only use 'em to clean out your vape.
Hey, Alexa,
-play Expendables 3. -(chime)
Incoming!
-(shouting) -(chuckles)
ANNOUNCER: And, of course,
camo, camo,
camo.
Camo that you heroically wore to the Capitol on January 6
with your band of brothers,
who you bravely turned in to the FBI
two weeks later.
And when you're asked why you never enlisted,
you have a good excuse.
You know, I would've served,
but I'm just not good at following orders. (chuckles)
We don't care. Nobody cares.
-10-4. -Ugh.
We don't even say that in the military.
Roger that.
ANNOUNCER: Discipline, dignity,
self-awareness--
these are all things you don't have.
But what you do have is Almost Veterans Day,
the day your nation thanks you for almost serving.
Oh. Oh, my God! Oh, my shin splints! Oh. Ow!
Oh, damn it! Ow! Oh!
Semper fi, boys.
All right, when we come back,
Bad Bunny will be joining me
right here, on the show, so don't go away.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest is Grammy Award-winning global superstar Bad Bunny.
He's here to talk about making his acting debut
on the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico.
(laughs)
(chuckles) Oh, Bad Bunny.
-Welcome to The Daily Show. -Thank you, thank you.
It's so good to have you here, my dude. This has, uh,
this has been quite the whirlwind for you in life.
I-I feel like people don't even know
how amazing your story is.
Even when I was telling it to some of...
some of the people I work with, I was saying,
"Yo, did you know that in 2016,
Bad Bunny was still working at a grocery store?"
-Yeah. -Bagging groceries.
-That's crazy. -Right?
-Yeah. -And we fast-forward to now.
The biggest streaming artist on Spotify.
You know, Grammy in the U.S. Latin Grammys.
I mean, 2016.
Do you pinch yourself sometimes
-and go like, "I-I mean, this is life now"? -(laughs)
No. Sometimes I can't believe it, yeah.
You know? But, uh, I work for it.
-Right. -And I'm so grateful
with the life I've got.
It's crazy for me, um, being here,
uh, living my dream.
But it's...
it's what I wanted, you know?
2020 came around.
The pandemic shut everything down.
Most of us couldn't do most of the work we wanted to do.
Bad Bunny comes out.
He releases not one, not two
-but three projects. -(chuckles)
Like, how are you doing this?
And wh-what is your mentality?
-Why do you work so hard? -It's what I love.
It's-it's my work, and it's my hobby, also.
You know, um, in the pandemic,
it's the only thing that I had to do,
-um, to-to escape from the reality. -Right, right, right.
So it was easy to make music.
When-when someone looks at your life,
you know, it-it seems like the kind of life
where one minute, everything changed overnight.
But-but it seems like, you know, Bad Bunny that we know
was inspired by Benito who grew up in life going...
-Yeah, of course. -"You know, I do the things
"that I want to do.
I believe in certain things and I aim for them."
And that-that's what got you to where you are today.
Beyond just the music you make,
what do you think it is about you
that makes you so successful?
Um, I think that...
there's a very important, um,
detail, and it's that I-I'm...
I'm the same guy.
I'm real, you know?
I-I don't want to be like a...
like a... character.
-Oh, right, right, right, yeah. -You know? For that is Narcos,
you know? So, in-in my music,
it's-it's Benito. It's-- Bad Bunny is Benito.
There-There's no difference
between-between Benito and Bad Bunny.
So I think that people can, um,
feel, uh...
-conectarse. (speaks Spanish) Con-con mi música. -Yeah, yeah.
So that's the...
the key of my...
-what I think, you know? -Like, they connect
-to the authenticity in your music. -Yeah.
-They feel who you are and... -Yeah. They feel me.
-They feel my feeling. They feel my-- what I'm saying. -Right.
And... it's-it's my magic,
what I think.
Yeah, I-I think it's--
I think it's the fact that you're not just real
but you're not afraid of being real.
And-and even in your music, in your style,
we've seen so much of that.
Like, you've broken the idea of what machismo even is, you know?
Bad Bunny comes out, is like, "Yo, I'll paint my nails.
"I'll wear whatever fashion I want to wear.
I'll-I'll break and make trends."
You know, the way-- the way you've treated women,
the way you've spoken about women,
the way you-you've spoken about people from the LGBTQ community,
whether it's gay, trans, whatever,
Bad Bunny goes like, "Hey, man, these are my views,
and this is my music."
And I think it's broken a lot of what people think
music should or wouldn't be.
Like, where did that come from?
Yeah, especially from-from my music,
from my genre, the reggaetón.
Uh, it's like rap, hip-hop is so...
-machistas, like you say. -Yeah.
Um, I just trying to-to unify, you know?
Every people,
like, every...
person, every-everybody can, uh,
-feel comfortable with my music... -Definitely.
...with my... in-- with my videos,
can feel comf-comfortable in-in the concerts.
You know?
Like, create a space
when-- uh, where everyone can feel comfortable
-with the music. -I love that.
It's-it's what I... what I try.
You've won Latin Grammys, and you won an American Grammy.
-You know? The gringo Grammy. -The gringo Grammy.
-Right. -(laughs) Right.
-And you didn't change anything. -No.
What do you think it is about your music that is able
to cross the boundaries of language that people thought
would stop an artist like you becoming successful?
I think it's what I told you that people can feel me.
You know, I... If-if...
-I'm Latino, I'm Puerto Rican. -Yeah.
-(speaking Spanish) -Uh-huh.
People can feel that, you know.
And no where... no-no matter where-where you are...
(speaking Spanish)
Why I...? Why... I have to change? You know?
-I know exactly what you mean. -It's... It...
You... Um...
You don't...
(speaking Spanish)
Like, you know, no one's asked to a gringo...
To switch over the other way.
-"You have to change to..." -Right, right, right.
-No, you-you... -Yeah.
People love your music because...
-And it has traveled the world in English... -Yeah.
-...it looks like it. -Yeah, so...
Now Bad Bunny's doing it the other way around.
This is who I am. This is my music. This is my culture.
If you don't like it, don't listen to me.
If you like it, you know.
You also do what you love.
I think that's-that's one of the things I admire about you.
You work hard, you speak out,
and you show up for the causes that you believe in.
And then, you take three months off of making music
to go and prepare to be a wrestler in the WWE.
Talk me through that process.
How do you go from making music to going,
"No, I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna fight in the WWE"?
-(laughs) -And you trained for real, by the way.
This is real training.
Yeah, real training. Work hard. Yeah.
I always been a wrestling fan...
wrestling fan. Uh, I...
Who was your favorite wrestler growing up?
-Uh, I have a couple, you know. -Okay.
-Triple H, Undertaker. -All right.
Um, but, also, I have been collaborating
with-with wrestle in my videos,
-like Stone Cold, Ric Flair, um... -Oh, got it, got it.
So I think that they start to-to watch that
and say, "Who this guy that is working with...?" You know?
Um, in the end, they-they make me the invitation.
And I say...
Like, they asked me, like,
"what you gonna do?" And I said, like,
-"I want to fight. I want to go to..."-That's crazy.
-"Are you sure? Are you sure?" -That's crazy. Muy loco.
And I said, "Oh, I want to, I want to.
"I'm gonna... I'm gonna do
whatever I have to do, you know," so...
-Did you enjoy it? -Yeah, yeah.
It was hard, but I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the whole process.
'Cause, um, I think that...
(speaks Spanish) I need it, you know?
-Yeah. -'Cause with...
-with the pandemic and all the stuff... -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
'Cause I, um, I dropped three albums, but, uh...
(speaks Spanish)
You know, don't... I don't...
You had no performances. No performances at the concerts.
You weren't doing... you weren't feeling the crowd.
-Yeah. -You weren't getting that energy.
I wanted something, you know, adrenalina, adrenaline.
-Yeah, yeah. -Yeah.
Before I let you go,
I want to talk about the next journey in Benito's life.
You know, you've really dominated music,
and it's really beautiful to see what you've done.
-Thank you. -Um, acting is the next foray.
We saw the clip, Narcos: Mexico, one of my favorite shows
-of all time. -Oh, yeah?
Yeah. I'm trying to learn Spanish,
because I want to watch the show without subtitles.
-That's me. Yeah. -(laughs)
Um, you know? And so... and so we see you in Narcos.
I mean, you're in a movie with Brad Pitt.
I mean, this is... you know...
-That's crazy. -Are you enjoying the acting journey?
Is this... is this a new challenge for you?
-It's a new challenge, -Yeah?
Yeah, it is. Um, I always liked to act,
and now I got the opportunity.
So I'm so glad. Um...
I'm enjoying the...
this process.
I enjoy the music.
Um, it's...
it's different, but have a lot of things in common, you know?
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
-Work hard, be responsible, you know, focus, -Right.
respect the others, you know, it's the same,
so it's great, it's great.
Uh, not just Narcos, but you have inspired me.
I'm learning Spanish with my team.
-Great. -And then next time you come on the show,
I'm gonna do the interview in Spanish,
and then we'll see how good I am.
-We'll flip things around. -(speaks Spanish)
-Yeah? We'll do it. -Yeah!
Thank you so much for being here, man.
-Thank you. -I appreciate you.
All right, Narcos: Mexico is available right now on Netflix.
You know where you can find the music.
It's on Spotify, people.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
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Now, here it is, Your Moment of Zen.
People magazine named their new Sexiest Man Alive yesterday.
-Who was it? -Who was it?
Paul Rudd.
-Really? -Really?
He's a good-looking guy, but Sexiest Man Alive?
-You have to... -What?!
I guess Henry Golding and Idris Elba and Brad Pitt
were not available that day...
-(laughter) -so they got Paul Rudd.
He proves that all of us have a chance.
I can see George Clooney, but color me surprised.
It just proves that anybody can be Sexiest Man Alive.
-So maybe, Gary, you and I have a chance. -Yes.
It doesn't seem like these sexiest people age.
I think they have some kind of agreement
with an evil entity of sorts.
He's obviously coloring that hair. He's cheating.
He's still sexy, though, I'm sure.