Citizen Weiner (2024) Movie Script

1
[ambient music]
[audience applauding]
Here in New York,
there's a big election tomorrow.
The city will be choosing
a new mayor that many...
[audience cheering]
...that many are calling
"Not Bill de Blasio."
[audience laughs]
New York will also be electing
a new city council,
and there's some shocking news
out of that race.
Manhattan candidate
Zack Weiner--
-Weiner?
-"Winer."
-Weiner.
-[chanting] Weiner!
The whole incident
was so humiliating...
I feel kind of, you know, bad
for him that that's published.
[all laughing]
[man]
What the hell am I looking at?
[man] Weiner!
-Who is Zack Weiner?
-Zack Weiner.
-Zack Weiner.
-Zack Weiner.
-His name is Zack Weiner.
-Weiner.
-Weiner.
-Zack Weiner.
Zack Weiner!
[all chanting]
Weiner! Weiner! Weiner!
Weiner! Weiner! Weiner!
[The Place to Be" by Ernest
Ernie & The Sincerities]
Whoo
Yeah
I welcome you,
my little ingenue
To a place
where you can start anew
Where the people
are comin' and goin'
'Cause everywhere you go
is open
Said the city's
the place to be
It's got everything,
everything
And the city's
the place to be, yeah
[Zack whistling]
This is how we do it
Okay, so this is how we do it.
The official due dates
for the next election
have not been set yet,
but petitions are typically due
sometime in mid-April.
Yep.
Then at that point,
we register the committee
with the Campaign Finance Board.
-[Zack grunts]
-So...
-You-- Ooh.
-[cat coughs]
Does-- does he do that a lot?
-Yeah. Yeah.
-[cat coughs]
-That's grotesque.
-I think he's chilling.
-He's all right.
-A hairball?
-Yep. Yep.
-[cat coughs]
[grunts] Can't even--
You can throw him out.
This is really
a beautiful neighborhood.
It has unique architecture.
Everyone's one of a kind.
It's my home.
I've been here
every year of my life
except when I went to college,
and I didn't like college,
and that's why I dropped out
and came right back here.
I think it brings out the good
in you, the Upper West Side.
And there's a-- a kindness.
There's an atmosphere.
There's a warmth.
And it's a beautiful place,
and-- and I-- I just wanna
see it get more beautiful,
and I want this-- the people
to get more beautiful.
Character-wise.
I'm not-- You know.
So what we have here
are the documents
to sign into the Campaign
Finance Board for Zack.
He's gonna sign it
for the camera.
-It's a little ceremony.
-Yeah.
I also have a gift here for you.
Oh, what's this?
[Joe] To make it
a little more official.
That's a quill. Oh, I have to
put the ink in right now?
Wow, Joe. This is very stately.
I kind of wish you had done
the ink ahead of time.
I think that's
the most sturdy one.
-Here you go.
-Take that.
[Joe] Zack and I met
on the set of Pledge,
which is a tremendously
successful horror film
that he wrote and acted in,
and that I acted in as well.
[man] Every year,
we pick a class president.
Uh, who would like to volunteer?
I could do it. I mean,
I was very active
in high school politics.
Leading into the pandemic,
I'd been laid off
from my sales job.
So Zack came over one night
and was trying to cheer me up
and he was talking about how--
um, how cool local government is
and how much can actually be
accomplished at a local level.
-[Sarah] Weiner.
-[Zack] Yeah.
[Sarah] Just make sure
you tell everyone
you're not related
to the other Weiner.
[Zack laughs]
Oh, yeah, we've had to--
we've had to clarify that
with a lot of people.
Thank you, yeah.
No relation whatsoever.
Our strategy is straightforward.
You know,
we're an underdog campaign,
and we don't have
the money for ads
that the other campaigns do.
So instead, what we're
doing is we're saying
we have these ideas,
and instead of trying to explain
or argue for these ideas,
we're gonna prove them
by doing it in real life
and making it happen.
And, you know, this is one of
the most engaged neighborhoods
when it comes to politics
in all of New York City,
so we're very optimistic that
they're gonna pay attention,
they're gonna notice,
and they're gonna buy in
and come over to my side.
-Yeah. All right.
-An awful high five.
-Let's do another.
-Let's do it again.
[Joe] Did you get that?
Maybe pull and turn it.
-Got it.
-[Joe] Circle turn it.
-It's lit.
-[Joe] Okay.
Thank you.
[Cherie] I can't believe
that Daniel is filming.
It makes me
never be able to relax.
[Joe] Yeah, yeah,
he lives with his mom.
You know, some people would
say that she lives with him.
Depends on how you look at it.
A normal person's is like this.
And this is mine.
-And this is Zachary's.
-Ah, don't do that.
[Cherie] Sorry, sorry. Sorry!
[Zack]
You know, people have
talked about me living at
my mother's house and
if that's a deterrent,
and I used to be
insecure about that.
Sometimes I'd bring dates home,
I'd ask my mother
to pretend to be
the Russian housekeeper.
I don't want the box in there.
But I've grown to understand
that many cultures,
that the kids will live--
Into their 30s and 40s,
they'll live at home.
And I don't think that's
any reason to disqualify me,
and I think people
are coming around to that.
I shaved.
You're not looking close enough.
You did. Oh, you look so great.
Except for the mustache.
-Where do you want me to sit?
-[Sarah] Right there.
-I can't be in the light.
-[Sarah] It's fine, just sit.
I'm not gonna be in the light.
All right, how much longer
is this gonna be?
-I'd like a pillow.
-[Sarah] It's weird for you
-to be holding a pillow.
-I know, but I feel more secure.
Cherie Vogelstein.
Um, I'm his mom.
I don't-- You know what, Daniel?
I really--
there's no reason in the world
that I should be on this.
His name is Zachary.
Um, Eric calls him Zack.
I think that says a lot.
Anyway, um,
you can scratch that.
-[Daniel]
-[chuckles] His dad.
His dad who bought
this apartment, actually.
[Daniel]
Oh, he's passed away.
No, God forbid, no.
My dad's alive.
[laughing]
She says that, I don't know why.
He's very alive.
He lives ten blocks away.
[Daniel]
He-- he wrote
a-- a television show.
[Daniel]
This show.
Gullah Gullah Island,
Baby-- Little Einsteins,
uh, you name it.
And then the famous one, Dora.
Dora the Explorer.
[Joe] I think Dora the Explorer
cast a wide shadow
over most of Zack's life.
And I think that, you know,
this campaign has been the start
of Zack stepping out
from the shadow of Dora.
[Joe] We're up. We're on board.
What is it?
Oh, it's Gotham Gazette?
Yep, Gotham Gazette.
Look what they got
in print right here.
-Wow, "Zack Weiner."
-[Joe] It's real now, man.
[Zack] Mine's
alphabetically last.
[Joe] Yeah, yeah.
Is that-- Do you think on
the ballot, is that how it is?
I think-- You know,
I'm gonna put a good word in.
Maybe we'll get it reversed.
-Reversed--
-Put a word with who?
[driving music]
[Dan] You need
an election lawyer, right,
I think, because it's easy to
screw up a little minor thing.
There are risks involved in--
in not having it done right.
And if you're a lawyer,
you can kind of figure it out,
but there are parts
that are confusing
and things you're
not gonna understand
if you haven't done it before.
Would you be able to hear it?
Let me see.
I'm Dan Bright,
and I'm a lawyer.
I was Maya Wiley's
election lawyer
uh, in the race for mayor,
and I was, uh,
Jamaal Bowman's election lawyer
when he ran for Congress
and beat a 32-year incumbent.
And, uh, yeah,
so you're seeing some new stuff.
-[phone ringing]
-Oh, shit.
But at a certain point,
like, when they start
insulting, um, people.
My last conversation with them
involved me telling
one of the lawyers
at this firm to fuck herself
and then slamming
the phone down.
It's a-- it's a language.
You don't even know your
own case, you fucking idiot.
Just die. I laughed
when I found out he died.
Go fuck yourself.
Next time I get a call
from her like that,
the next thing you're gonna know
is you're gonna find
her fucking dead body
in her office
with her brain splattered.
'Cause I'm gonna go in there,
I'm gonna pick up
a fucking chair,
and I'm gonna bash
her fucking head open.
'Cause that's what I'm gonna--
I'm not gonna come and warn you.
You're being warned now.
And if she asks me
to return another call for her,
she's fucking dead.
I'm gonna hang up the phone,
I'm gonna walk into her office,
I'm gonna pick the chair up,
I'm gonna fucking bash her--
I'll go to jail.
You know, it'll be worth it.
But I'm not normally like that.
[Zack] It's actually remarkably
cheap to run a campaign.
We've had to spend $5,500.
We got a lawyer,
we got all the paperwork,
and it was 50 bucks
to get 41,000 emails
of every Democratic voter
in the neighborhood.
They pretend like
it's expensive,
but it's democratized,
it's not expensive,
and people spend money
on consultants.
I don't need a consultant.
Joe's my consultant,
I'm his consultant.
We run on Playbook.
Okay. Let me get this open.
That's how you're gonna do it?
What?
-It's in seven minutes.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm all set. I shaved.
[Joe] Your hair looks awful.
What? No, it looks lush.
-It's like a rat's nest.
-It looks lush.
-It doesn't look lush.
-I like to do it standing up.
I feel like important things
aren't said sitting.
It makes you seem taller, too,
'cause it's kind of
angled up at you.
-It's an illusion.
-It's an illusion.
Well, it's not an illusion.
I'm taller than
almost every woman I meet.
Joe and I,
we have a great dynamic,
but when it comes
to taking orders,
I do prefer for a woman,
generally, to be directing me.
You want people to feel like
you're on an even playing field.
You're looking down at them,
first of all.
Like, this is such
an unappealing angle.
It's gonna make you
look disgusting.
-Gentle person.
-All right, good call.
-All right. Good luck.
-Oh, thank you.
All right, let's do it.
Let's do it.
I am a TikToker.
Uh, that's-- that's basically
my career in a nutshell.
[upbeat music]
I think Zack is
really trying to do things
to make the community
a better place,
trying to do things
to serve the community.
Are you actually
gonna wear that mask?
-I've come to reclaim the mask.
-All right, stop filming.
-We gotta go.
-Do you want people to think--
You live in America.
We gotta reclaim this thing.
I disagree.
It just gives off
a Republican vibe. Am I wrong?
Doesn't the American flag
give off a Republican vibe?
-[Cherie] Definitely.
-Thank you.
[Cherie] Not just Republican.
It's like the Confederate flag.
It feels like
a Confederate flag.
[Cherie]
Thank you. I agree.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I don't
completely agree, but mostly.
[Joe] All right,
11 minutes left.
[fast-paced music]
Hi, thank you.
-[Joe] Hey.
-Hi.
Wanted to pick up
some petition prints.
You wanna have a seat
in the conference room, guys?
[Zack] This is it.
-Right here, the Weiner camp.
-[Zack] Hi, that's me.
-The whole campaign is here.
-[Joe] His whole staff. [laughs]
-You're paying by check?
-[Joe] Yes, we are, yeah.
[Alan] I've been doing this
50 years, since 1970.
-[Zack] Wow!
-Printing petitions.
I mean,
printing campaign materials.
-[Zack] That's fantastic.
-About-- since 1970.
I'm retiring this year.
This is my last shot.
[Joe] Oh, my God, it's, like--
this is like a legendary place.
[Alan] Everybody here.
You know, we've done
almost every president.
-[Zack] Wow.
-Mayors, we did Bloomberg.
-Koch?
-[Alan] And Koch, I did.
-Mayor Lindsay, John Lindsay.
-You did John Lindsay?
I'm dying of kidney disease.
I need a kidney.
So if you know of anybody
who wants to--
Thank you.
Let me get rid of them.
[Zack] You coming back? Okay.
Oh, I don't know.
Like, power move.
I mean, yeah,
that's like the power of God.
[Alan] I saw you--
Now I know where I saw you.
I saw you, I think,
without the mask, on the Zoom
when you did
the West Side Dem Zoom.
-[Zack] Yeah, I did.
-That's my club.
-[Zack] Oh, that's great.
-[Joe] Are you a West Side Dem?
[Zack] You're a West Side Dem.
No way.
[Joe] Are you local to
-the Upper West Side?
-I am.
What do you think the chances
are that Zack beats Gallagher?
-That Zack wins?
-[Joe] Yeah.
-Zero to 10%.
-[Zack] Zero to ten.
So you're saying
there's a chance.
You remember that
from Dumb and Dumber?
People will tell you zero.
I say there's always 10% chance.
Thank you so much, Alan.
It was fantastic to meet you.
-And I'll email you soon.
-[Alan] We'll talk again.
Thank you for agreeing
to look for a kidney for me.
[Zack] Totally, of course.
-I only have one, so.
-Yeah, you...
Alan is a major
power broker, frankly.
So getting him a kidney would be
getting me a lot of things.
-[indistinct]
-I will be there.
I'm gonna get up early.
[overlapping chatter]
[Aaron] My name is Aaron. I--
-[Daniel]
-Uh...
I don't reveal my last name.
My job on the campaign, um,
like, I'm the security
of the campaign,
but I just kind of do
whatever is necessary.
So you can consider me
the fixer.
Um, whatever it is
that needs to get done,
I just kind of get it done.
[Joe] All right, everybody,
if we can gather around.
Uh, I'd like to
introduce you to Dan Bright.
-He's our lawyer.
-Hey, how you doing?
He's gonna walk us through
the petitioning process.
Uh, Dan,
we have your whiteboard here.
Whiteboard.
Oh, wait, the petition.
There's two aspects
to legal practice,
or two emotions
you normally feel,
or [indistinct] states of mind.
One is extreme boredom,
and the other is intense,
unbearable pressure.
You know,
I always try to talk people
out of going to law school.
[James] Hi, I'm James Watson,
and I am the finance director.
I just woke up one day,
and I was like,
"I got to change my life."
So I went online, and I applied
for every single candidate
in the district.
They all didn't hit me back up.
You know, I applied to Zack,
and he's the only one
that replied.
He didn't even interview me.
Like, he was just like,
"Boom, you're hired."
I was like, "Okay." [laughs]
[Dan] The usual rule of thumb
that everybody follows
is that you, uh, need to get
at least three times the number
of required signatures,
because a lot of the people
will turn out
not to actually be
registered voters,
or not living in the district,
and there's people
sitting in their cars.
Almost all of them
live in the district.
They're vulnerable.
[Dan] Well, it's not
that they're vulnerable.
-You're not threatening them.
-[Aaron] They're in their cars.
They're more comfortable,
that's right.
Well, no,
"vulnerable" is a weird word.
-I would say they're--
-They're not vulnerable.
-They're easy pickings.
-[Zack] Easy pickings.
Well, even now,
it's been really fast.
Before we continue, we met a
really excellent man yesterday.
His name's Alan,
and he has kidney disease.
Unfortunately, he's very sick.
So what we're gonna wanna do
is we're gonna wanna
ally our petition-seeking
with us get--
trying to get him a kidney.
And I'm not gonna give the
kidney, but what I'm thinking
is that we can print out
some flyers to give them--
[James] I feel like we're
getting overhead of ourselves
because we're
trying to get people
to put their signature
on a ballot.
We're not trying to get people
to put their signature
on a kidney.
[Zack] Uh, do you think
we could expand the petition
so that we could add
on the kidney clause--
-[Dan] No.
-No?
That someone's interested.
Just as an interest?
Uh, they're not your traditional
political, uh,
operatives or candidates.
They didn't come in
saying the usual things
from people who run for office
and the same talking points.
It's all sort of
generic bullshit.
Because in politics,
most people are
completely full of shit
and don't really mean what
they say or what they promise.
And, uh,
when you think about Zack
as a political candidate,
it-- it just does come across
a little nerdy, I guess.
But he's articulate,
he's intelligent.
He's kind of likable, too.
Let's get the Weiner up.
All right!
[all] Let's get the Weiner up!
[cheering]
If I win the election, then
the first thing I wanna do is
I wanna rent
a couple ice cream trucks
with the budget that I'll get.
And I wanna have those
ice cream trucks driving around
giving out free ice cream
to the neighborhood.
It's not just free ice cream,
it's also free community.
Because when you have
ice cream trucks,
you'll probably notice
there's crowds that gather.
And it's the kind of thing
we wanna bring back, you know?
We've been in--
we're in quarantine,
but by the time I would win,
uh, things should be better,
and-- and there should be
an opportunity for us
to get used to being...
tight again.
[fast-paced music]
Hi, my name's Zack Weiner.
I'm running for City Council
District 6 at Upper West Side.
And I'm announcing
my candidacy today.
This is my team.
Guys, um...

[overlapping chatter]
You guys are
registered Democrats?
[Sarah] Do you live
on the Upper West Side?
[Zack] 40,000 people.
I thought
it was like 100 people!
[Joe] I was wondering
if you could sign.
Um, my name's Zack Weiner,
I'm running for--
[Sarah] Yeah, so just sign here.
[Joe] And then just
a signature right here.
Zack-- Zack Weiner.
[dog barking]
[Sarah] Thank you so much.
[Cherie laughs] Oh, God.
-Vote for Zack Weiner!
-Zack Weiner.
And we're asking everybody
if they-- they have
a kidney list connection
or can pull a string.

[Cherie] Oh, shit, this one
didn't write her address.
Should I just make up
her address?
[Joe] That's fraud.
[Zack] Part of my childhood was,
uh, my parents getting divorced.
I feel like
the neighborhood's been divorced
and they've d-- divided.
And, you know, kids say, uh,
"Oh, I feel responsible for
my parents getting divorced."
I feel responsible for them
almost staying together
because I was
the mastermind of that.
And now here, I'm gonna bring
the neighborhood together
in much the same way,
except even more successfully
because they did,
in the end, divorce.
Oh, I know!
Sign your mother's name.
Or your father's name.
Who do you like better,
your mother or your father?
All right.
-Uh, ready for what?
-Registered Democrat.
-No.
-Motherfucker.
[Joe] Hi, excuse me, sir.
Sir.
Sir.
-You believe in Jesus?
-Who doesn't?
Does he believe in Jesus?
I don't know
what he believes in.
Well, he had to believe
in Jesus. Then I'll sign.
I think he does believe
in Jesus, actually.
[James] That is the fattest dog
I have ever seen in my life.
You can tell
he doesn't eat at Whole Foods.
[Joe] Excuse me, ma'am.
-[woman] Here, come on.
-[Joe] Oh, you were--
-[woman] Zack like working out?
-[Joe] Sure.
Yeah, I see
you're a guitar player, bro,
you know, so this--
off the record, like, you good?
Yeah, I play and record.
No, no, you do, like, you know,
because I know some people,
like, musicians and stuff,
they use stuff
to get into the zone.
-You know what I'm saying?
-What do you mean?
They use, like,
substances and stuff.
-Yeah?
-Like, you good on that?
-Yeah. Yeah, why, you sell weed?
-Yeah, what you need, man?
No, I got a dealer already, man.
-Okay, all right.
-Thank you, though.
Yeah, zackweiner.com.
My name is Harriet Hines.
I'm running for City Council.
It's great to meet
a fellow candidate
that I'd love to hear your ideas
for this neighborhood.
Maybe I could steal some
for mine.
You're trying to find someone
to kidney donor as well?
-Yeah, yeah.
-Yo, the line is crazy.
How you doing, fellow?
[James] Are you a registered
Democrat in the city?
Excuse me,
are you a registered Democrat?
Oh, thank you.
-[Joe] Hello.
-[woman] Hi.
-Nice to meet you, I'm Zachary.
-[Joe] Okay, no problem.
[James] Are you a registered
Democrat, ma'am?
-[woman]
-[James] Okay, I got you.
[woman]
-[James] Right on, sister.
-[woman] Good luck to you.
-[James] Thank you.
-[car horn honking]
[Zack] All right,
let's get out of here.
Come on,
let's go to Duane Reade.
[hypnotic music]
Well, here, the Primary
is basically like
the general election
because, like, 90% of
the district is Democratic.
So whoever wins the Primary
becomes the Democratic candidate
and is pretty much guaranteed
to win the election.
I need you
to fix something here.
-[Joe] Okay.
-Okay.
I want you-- this date here
where you scribbled over it.
Okay, just a cross, just a line.
[Dan] Yeah, cross it out,
and then we'll
write [indistinct],
like three, 22,
and-- and make that line
a little longer
so it's below the three.
And then just-- and then
put your initials next to it.
[Zack] Yeah,
I always write kind of big.
[Dan] Well, I mean,
do you have, like, a--
like, a motor skill issue?
[Zack]
Yeah, well, the thing was,
my mom didn't realize
I needed glasses until late.
[Dan] So you're gonna go down
to 32 Broadway, seventh floor.
You're gonna file
this and this.
[Zack] Awesome.
You know, now you go out there
and get people
to know who you are,
try to get votes.
People are open
to new candidates now.
Uh, there have been
a lot of surprises
here the last few years
in terms of people
coming out of nowhere,
you know, getting elected.
And, uh, there is change
in the air, you know.
[car horn honking]
I feel as though
this was a culmination
of many weeks of hard work.
This was the close
of one chapter,
which was about
getting out on the pavement,
hitting the streets,
and getting signatures.
-Now the campaign starts.
-[Zack] Yeah.
We're very confident.
We really feel good.
You know, I got upstairs.
You couldn't see it.
They wouldn't let you in,
which is classic
establishment tactics.
But we collected
close to 1,000 signatures,
and we talked to many more.
And we're very confident,
based on these conversations,
that we're gonna do very well.
I'm the bull in this race,
and they just don't know it yet.
They're in for a shock.
They're about to feel my horns.
Hi, I'm Gale Brewer,
and I'm here because
the last year has been
very hard on New York,
and these times call
for thoughtful, bold
leadership,
and I'm running for
the City Council in District 6.
[man] Time to sail with Gale.
Time to sail with Gale.
Time to sail with Gale.
We need Gale's voice
on the City Council.
They need to vote
Gale Brewer number one.
[Sarah] Gale, Gale, Gale.
She is old reliable.
She's been doing this
for, like, 100 years.
[Joe] She's sort of a political,
uh, landmark.
If you drive in
through any tunnel
or bridge in New York City,
you'll see a sign
with Bill de Blasio's name
and Gale Brewer's name.
But because she's term-limited
as borough president,
she's coming back
and running as city council.
Her campaign slogan
is literally, "Again!"
Exclamation point.
Again, what? Again, a pandemic?
Gale is a very close--
I must tell you, she--
uh, she was at my wedding,
so we're very close.
So people ask me all the time,
"Am I running against Gale?"
And I said,
"No, I'm not that foolish.
I would never do such a thing."
[James] She's the Queen Bee.
She runs Upper West Side.
She's like frickin', uh,
what's that girl
from Mean Girls?
-[Daniel] Regina George.
-Regina George.
That's who she's like.
She got all her little minions
running around.
You know,
she got this city on lock.
And with a name
like Gale Brewer,
you gotta wonder, like...
what is she brewing?
[upbeat music]
Hello and welcome to
Represent NYC:
Election Coverage.
Today we're pleased
to bring you a debate
in the Democratic Primary
for City Council District 6.
I'll soon introduce you
to six Democrats
competing in the primary.
David Gold, Maria Danzilo,
Sara Lind, Jeffrey Omura,
Zack Weiner, and Gale Brewer.
[Gale] As borough president
for the last eight years,
I think we can see
what the opportunities there
have given me to help
with this god-awful pandemic
and coming out of it.
Unfortunately,
people are not talking about
what you're concerned about,
and when they do,
they make it very vague.
All of you, the voters,
you know what you want.
You know your priorities,
and I speak to you,
and I'm acting on it now.
Don't donate to me,
go to zackweiner.com,
and please invest in
the pilot programs
that we've started.
And I know the specific names
of the specific players
involved all throughout
the neighborhood,
and that's where my focus is.
And I think
that's where a council person
can make the biggest impact.
And you can do a lot that way.
Uh, a lot less by gabbing.
Too much gabbing,
not enough doing.
[laughs] Fantastic.
[Zack]
Politicians and people in power,
everything they say is always,
"We need to do this,
we have to do--"
-Who are you talking to?
-Yeah.
You're the one who does it.
What do you mean?
You're already--
We elected. Now you go do it.
Homelessness is in large part
a mental illness crisis,
it's a drug addiction crisis,
and we can afford
to have people on the street
that are helping
with public safety
and making sure
people don't die.
We are taking
direct action immediately
through a number of programs
to enhance
the neighborhood around us.
Um, right now, live.
Uh, so Alan Handell,
he's a main--
he's a pillar of the community,
he's been working for
the Democratic Party 50 years.
So we think, I mean,
if we can get him a kidney,
you know, what better evidence
of our direct action
working, so.
I'd rather ten soldiers
in the right place
than 10,000 in the wrong.
And, uh, I think
that really applies here,
and especially
in local politics here.
You can pass any law you want,
but if you're not interfacing
with the different
shareholders,
it-- it won't materialize.
This is gonna be a good time.
We're gonna have
a really good race,
and, uh, I'm honored
to be a part of it.
I'd like to thank my guest,
Zack Weiner,
who's about to win the election.
And thank you for watching
Represent NYC:
Election Coverage.
See you next time.
-[computer beeps]
-All right.
[all cheering]
[overlapping shouting]
[Sarah] That was good.
You nailed it.
-I am a shark among minnows.
-Yes!
To commemorate
Black Solidarity Day,
Brooklyn residents
are holding a prayer vigil
at the sacred
African burial ground.
They want to highlight
the importance
of preserving the grounds.
In the past, the
city considered
developing the area
for affordable housing,
activists processed
it for weeks
to have the site recognized
as a sacred space.
[Harriet]
Those ancestors inside
the dirt,
those ancestors that could
not fight for themselves,
we're here fighting for them.
We're here fighting for them.
Follow me.
Follow me.
Follow me.
African Graves Matter.
African Graves Matter.
[all] African Graves Matter.
[Harriet] African Graves Matter.
[all] African Graves Matter.
[Harriet]
I say "Black," you say "love."
-Black.
-[all] Love.
-[Harriet] Black.
-[all] Love.
Yeah, District 40 is
far away from District 6,
but that doesn't mean
that someone there
wouldn't leave with a positive
impression of Zack Weiner.
Hi, my name is Zack Weiner,
and I'm here representing
the Upper West Side.
African Graves Matter fight
for a memorial at
this sacred burial ground
is being heard
throughout the nation.
The fact is that
the enslaved ancestors
b-- buried in this soil
right below us
were brought to this country
to build and support
a capitalist society,
a society that they
nor their descendants
ever got their fair share of.
I wanna thank Harriet Hines
for giving me
the opportunity to speak here,
and I commend you, Harriet,
and all of you for
the incredible achievement
that is creating
this sacred memorial.
Uh, may the monument we build
be as beautiful as
the cause it represents.
-Yes, thank you.
-Thank you so much.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
[indistinct] candidate,
the next District 6
City Councilman
Zack Weiner!
Thank you. Thank you very much.
This is a big day
for the campaign.
We recently got on the ballot.
[audience cheering]
Um, we are here
because we're trying to
take direct action.
You know, all politics is local,
and-- and really,
what's more local
than-- uh, than a mainstay of
the community's kidney?
'Cause, uh,
this guy Alan Handell,
he really needs a kidney,
and he sort of brings up--
Whatever you guys wanna hear,
if I know the song,
I'll sing it for you.
[man 1]
No, definitely not that.
Lemonade, lemonade,
lemonade Lemonade, lemonade
Am I right?
[Joe] Free lemonade,
right over here.
If you're gonna take
some lemonade and a sticker,
we need you to try
to find a kidney.
We got
some good leads on the kidney.
Obviously,
we didn't come through with one,
but, um,
we're still working on it.
[man 2] What's your platform?
[man 3]
Yeah, YouTube. Right, yeah.
What's your platform?
Is the question too long?
No, I'm happy to tell you.
We're trying to tackle
empty storefronts.
There's like 70
empty storefronts on Broadway.
I'm part of the campaign,
I'm Sarah.
-[Zack] Sarah.
-I'll talk to you.
Yeah, fuck that guy.
I wanna talk about
-personal issues.
-[Sarah] Personal stuff.
-Changing things in my life.
-Yeah, we like changing things.
Getting rid of my fourth wife.
Your fourth?
What about the third
and the second and the first?
-They're dead.
-Oh, they died?
-Yeah.
-All of them?
Yeah, man,
it worked out pretty well.
[Eric scatting]
Aaron, cut--
cut it-- cut it out.
Cut it out, Aaron. Geez Louise.
-[woman] Sorry, sorry.
-No, he's--
he's really losing it.
After the rally,
there was a deep concern
about the turnout
and our standing in the race.
So Sarah,
using some of her TikTok savvy,
said how you try to get
other influencers involved
in your posts and it boosts it.
So maybe we can do something
with the same, you know,
idea in politics.
Get other politicians
on a panel with me...
raise all ships.
[dramatic music]
[Sarah]
Just, like, focus, like,
this is your time to shine.
My concern is my mother
has been really high strung
and really running around.
[Sarah] Yeah.
And I'm nervous about that
because it's not the best look.
I had hoped
she would not be here at all.
Mom, don't touch any--
-It's not someone who's a guest.
-[Zack] It is. Don't--
-No, it isn't.
-Chill out, relax.
-So what are you running for?
-For mayor.
For mayor? And how's that going?
Not bad.
Do you know what S-- Simlish is?
So Simlish is a language
spoken by the Sims.
-Do you know what The Sims is?
-No.
It's a video game.
[Elliot] Say De Blasio!
De Blasio!
And the home
Of the brave
[cheering and applause]
[woman]
-No, we're not doing questions.
-[woman] Oh, okay.
My first question
for you guys is, um,
"More and more people
have joined the conversation
around fair policing.
What, in your opinion,
do we need to keep in mind
as we work together?"
This question
is about fair treatment.
Um, and I think
fair treatment under the law
almost presupposes--
[DJ Elf 7]
Wait, before you jump--
can I just jump in
just for a second?
-[Ira] Yeah.
-I'm so sorry.
-Can I get that mic?
-It's mine.
-That's your mic.
-[indistinct] Yeah.
Yo, check it out right here.
This is your boy DJ Elf 7.
I got something to say.
Motherfuckers wanna talk about
seeing if they can fix welfare,
they never fucking experienced
welfare a day in their lives
how the fuck
are they gonna fix it?
Because they heard about it
from some motherfucker?
You ever work a job?
Get the fuck out of here.
The panel was really
our first introduction
to the maniacs of local politics
that populate, uh, the city.
What have they actually done
to help your cause?
All John's gotta do
is come here and talk to me,
but he won't.
Bye, John. Bye, John.
Run away, bro, run away.
[announcer] DJ Elf 7.
I'll tell you that right now,
I represent the streets.
I'm a true street activist.
Props out to my people
right there.
Not sure how many people
is on right now,
but you know
we're going national.
Sarah right here, right, yeah?
You-- what do you do?
You-- you're, um--
-I'm a TikTok star.
-You're a TikTok star, right?
-Yeah?
-[man] A star.
Right now
there's people in Congress,
89 years old, barely
can turn on their computer,
and they're about to pass
legislation on you.
How do you feel about that?
We need your help.
We need you to listen to us.
[Zack] You know what I mean?
We need you
to fucking listen to us.
And we're fucking here,
and I-- fucking goddammit,
you know what I mean?
-We're-- right? Yeah.
-That's good.
I don't wanna laugh--
I don't give a fuck.
I don't give a fuck.
[cheering]
I don't give a fuck.
I'm staying here until I'm done.
There's been hate going on
in this country and bigotry,
racism, uh,
all across the board,
and everyone seems to ignore it.
When you pass an exam,
first of all,
you have to pass
a polygraph test.
An important
but simple question,
"Are you racist?"
-Well, I don't know if it's--
-That's an interesting idea.
A polygraph-- you can't trust
a polygraph test.
[Zack]
You can trust a polygraph.
[Vitaly] Unless you try to do
something better for people.
[Sarah] But also,
a lot of racist people
don't think that they're racist.
[Elliot] I mean,
Zack's mom, unfortunately,
at some point, you can see,
just went and sat
next to DJ Elf 7's, uh, setup,
and she, you know,
hit a wire or something,
but DJ Elf 7
just snapped at her.
He gets up,
and goes right into my face.
"Did you-- what are you doing?
I put my camera--"
The part that I wanna convey
is how no one helped me.
No one interceded in any way,
not verbally, nothing!
We've organized this panel today
because we wanted to have
a conversation
that was productive,
so please come to my website,
contact me, I love to talk,
I love to talk anytime,
and, uh, I look forward,
it's an honor.
Thank you.
-[gong clangs]
-[Vitaly] There you go.
[Zack] Why in the world
would you do that?
[laughter]
[Sarah] There's still
a lot of tension in the room.
-Resetting the chakras.
-Why would you ever do that?
[musette music]
So, with 70% of the vote,
we've got Gale Brewer.
What does that mean,
with seven--
with-- she got 70%.
-70% of the vote, yep.
-Okay, she got 70.
-Then Sarah Lind, 14%.
-[man] Mm-hmm.
Well, that's higher
than I would think.
[Joe]
David Gold came in at seven.
-[Zack] Seven?
-[Joe] Jeffrey O'Mura with 5%.
Am I in this poll,
or was I on the poll?
Sorry, two-- 1% for Zack Weiner.
-1%.
-[James] Yeah.
[Joe] Uh, this is from
the Three Parks
Endorsement City Council.
-[Aaron] Who gives a shit?
-[Sarah] Who is being polled?
-Don't care about that.
-[Sarah] Let me see.
I don't think
you should care about it.
[Sarah] 92 people.
This is not accurate at all.
-[James] Oh, right.
-How do you mean by that?
[Joe] So, uh, "no endorsement"
got 3% on this poll.
[Zack] What do you mean--
what do you mean by that?
People who abstained from--
from picking a candidate.
It means that they would rather
no one be in government
than Zack be in government.
-[man] Who are these people?
-Great question.
This is their group
of supporters.
[Aaron] Then why do you care?
They are Democrats in
the district, mostly elderly.
It does seem suspicious
that she would get that much.
-[Joe] Mostly elderly.
-[Zack] 1%, I'll admit
that I didn't expect
a huge score.
But 1%, or I guess
it's one vote even.
-[Joe] One-- one-- one vote.
-It's just one vote.
Maybe we could find-- do we know
the name of that person?
So, as you know,
we're struggling
to break through
marketing-wise,
but it turns out
it's very affordable
to put ads on the kiosks
around this neighborhood.
-Very affordable.
-[Sarah] Hmm.
So I'm thinking,
"Let's take
a little campaign money,
throw it at the ads, right?
Throw it on the kiosk,"
bad news.
You can't do political ads
on the kiosks.
We had a thought.
We're gonna advertise
for the movie Pledge,
which I'm in.
-[Aaron] I love it.
-Available on Hulu.
-Available on Hulu.
-[Aaron] Do it.
-In the kiosks.
-I like that idea.
-And then I'll wear my suit...
-[James] I love it.
...in a political fashion.
[Cherie] What about
the idea from the--
You're not supposed
to be here today.
-[James] She lives here?
-It's not--
She does not live here.
I-- I don't live here,
but I am here.
So why can't I just be
a part of things?
[Zack] I'm sorry,
what did you wanna say?
Um, we have an agreement that
whenever somebody that needs to
respect him is here,
we pretend it's his apartment.
If he needs that to, uh,
get his team, you know,
behind him...
I'm all for his constant
and habitual lies.
I need you to go
get coffee, um, creamer.
All right, head out.
Head on out, Mom.
Go back to your home.
All right,
we're gonna table this.
Second ruse, which I think
we're gonna have more
productive suggestions for.
Why don't you introduce
this one about Obocho?
-Obocho Peters.
-Is that his name?
-Obocho Peters, yeah.
-Obocho.
-Obocho Peters.
-[Aaron] Who is that?
You might remember Devon
from the other night.
[Sarah] I do remember Devon.
He was great.
So Devon Nash introduced us
to a child
that he used
to teach math class to.
My name is Obocho Peters.
11-year-old entrepreneur.
After realizing the challenges
that his mother was facing
trying to make ends meet,
Obocho Peters launched
an online thrift shop.
[anchor] Where he accepts
donated kids' clothing
and shoes
and then sells them
never for more than ten bucks.
Obocho's single mom
and young sister
are his biggest supporters.
Obocho means "I am love"
and that's exactly
what my son is.
[Zack] It's pretty remarkable.
It might be a national story.
He lost his store.
He's gonna get it in Manhattan.
Busy district. We have a store.
Everything's set up.
So that's a pretty big deal
that our campaign got.
I think we've got to set it up.
We've got to paint
the walls nice.
Make it an experience for
the person who's coming,
you know?
How am I gonna get
a violinist, Mom?
I don't know how you get that.
You go online.
-Get out of here. All right.
-Go on the dark web
-like you usually do.
-[Zack] Mom...
[Joe] Yeah, that's nice.
Yeah. Uh, maybe give, um...
[James] Maybe do one of these.
[Joe] Um,
that was pretty up your ass.
[James] Yeah, just not like...
[Zack]
I don't think I look ugly.
[Elliot] You look so charming.
[Joe]
Well, let's make a still image.
[Cherie]
Why can't you openly admit that
it's Zachary the candidate?
[Elliot] Because that's illegal.
We're trying to
find a way around it.
I know, but seeing that
doesn't make me think,
"Oh, that guy, yeah,
I should vote for him."
It's mostly, though, about
most people aren't thinking
about city council at all.
So if they see
his name everywhere,
then when they go to the ballot,
they'll remember the name.
-They'll be like, "Yeah, yeah."
-They'll remember the name
that's attached
with that weirdo idiot.
["The Doubletake" by
Ernest Ernie & The Sincerities]
[indistinct] place in the world.
Yeah. Oh, there I am.
[Joe] Oh, how about that?
There I am.
[Cherie] Oh, very good.
Wow, can you believe it?
The flowers are blooming,
we'll be looking for fun
Victory Day.
This is the day
I broke the system.
We have a month now.
Every three minutes, 12 screens
over by Lincoln Center
all the way to 96th Street.
Oh, my God. It really is alive.
[Joe] Hey, how you doing?
Vote Zack Weiner
for District 6 City Council.
[Aaron] Zack Weiner,
District 6 City Council.
Thank you very much.
Happy going.
We're having
a discussion about just...
There are a lot of empty
storefronts.
-District 6 City Council--
-[woman] No, sorry.
Zack Weiner, what's up?
[Sarah] Zack Weiner
is running for City Council.
Zack Weiner 2021!
Yo, you look like this guy.
If they would make
a movie about Zack Weiner,
you would play him.
City Councilman.
Upper West Side.
Beautiful!
Hey, here we go!
Big fan of the police,
District 6 City Council.
What time is it?
-[Joe] Vote time!
-[Aaron] Vote time!
We don't want your money,
we want your vote.
Zack Weiner,
District 6 City Council.
I see a pigeon.
I'm like, "What the fuck?"
I want to watch you get
down on the floor
I gotta see you do it
[Jerry] So it's important
that everyone get out
and tell all their neighbors
and all your neighbors,
uh, everyone you know,
to vote for Gale Brewer.
That's the way
these things work.
That's the way-- that's the way
campaigns succeed.
That's right.
It's all the question of
how many people you talk to.
So with-- with good luck
and with enough work,
-we'll elect Gale.
-[crowd cheering]
[woman] [indistinct]
[woman chanting]
She's number one.
[crowd chanting]
She's number one.
She's number one.
She's number one.
[Gale] You're number one.
Every single person here
is number one.
And I just
can't thank you enough.
[Zack]
Harder, harder. More muscle.
I'm telling you, it's closed.
Oh, my God. Thank you.
-Come on! Hi!
-[Sasha] Hi!
How are you?
[Zack] Oh, nice to meet you.
-Hey.
-[Sasha] Good to meet you.
Great job, nice to meet you.
-[Zack] Awesome. Look at this.
-[Sasha] Yes.
Basically the problem
landlords are running into
is that
if they lower their rent,
uh, the banks can foreclose
on the building...
-[woman] Right.
-[Zack] Because it's baked into
how much the bank thinks
the building is worth.
So they're left with
these empty stores for years.
Pop-Up's-- gets around that.
I was-- I used to be
in that store,
but I had to downsize
to here because of COVID.
[Zack]
Yeah, the less foot traffic?
-Yes.
-[Sasha] Right.
So, it's right on--
it's off Broad--
it's, like,
between Broadway and West End,
so it's a really prime location.
-[Sasha] Okay.
-[Zack] We're gonna try to
make it a really big event
and get as many people
as possible.
-This is perfect.
-[Zack] Okay, great.
It looks like a family area.
My name is Obocho Peters.
I'm a 12-year-old CEO,
and I sell affordable
clothes and shoes
from ages newborns
to 12 years old
to help families
save money on fashion
and spend it
on what they need it most.
Excellent. Exactly.
I couldn't have put it
better myself.
In fact, I didn't.
I'm part of a wave of change
in this neighborhood where
they're making it friendlier,
they're making it greener,
and I'm not directly
responsible,
but I certainly am influential,
and I'm certainly at least
indicative of the times.
You know,
we're all about direct action.
I probably would have put
this grass down if they hadn't.
Um, and we're
putting stores down.
We're filling Broadway.
-Jeff over phone] Jeff Coltin.
-[Zack] Hey, Jeff.
This is Zack Weiner.
I'm here with, uh,
my campaign manager, Joe.
-[Joe] How you doing, Jeff?
-[Jeff] Hey.
[Zack] Uh, yes.
[Joe] We got a big call
with this political reporter,
Jeff Coltin.
And Jeff, uh, I guess,
saw one of the LinkNYC ads
uh, when he was walking
down the street.
And he reached out,
he wants to speak to Zack.
Yeah, Jeff Coltin.
I'm a senior reporter
at City & State New York,
and I've been tracking
all the candidates,
and I'd known that
somebody named Zack Weiner
had been running for months.
And I saw a LinkNYC ad
with Zack's face,
and then below that, in, like,
really small type,
it was like,
"Watch this movie on Hulu."
It immediately, like,
raised my eyebrows,
because I know that
this guy named Zack Weiner
was running for City Council,
and yet this was an ad
that was for his movie.
It just seemed like he was, uh,
probably exploiting a loophole
in campaign advertising.
This is-- this is a film ad,
because, uh, I'm not--
as you might know, um,
political ads are,
of course, banned.
I called
the City Campaign Finance Board,
the regulatory body
for these campaigns,
because, I guess, to be clear,
campaign ads are not allowed
on these LinkNYC kiosks.
I reached out.
I told them the details.
I said, "Is this, you know,
is this legal?
Is this a loophole?
What's going on here?"
Never heard back.
What-- what is-- what could be
illegal about a loophole?
I don't think
it's an illegal loophole.
Um, if you wanted to do
a, um, uh,
a sit-down discussion,
you know, we're so close by,
uh, we're going to be
available next week.
[Jeff]
Right, because there's
so much more to the,
to the-- to the, you know,
to the story.
Lots-- lots going on here.
[clicks tongue]
I have no fear
of getting in trouble.
I know that what we did
is perfectly above board.
[slurping]
You get all the salt off.
And then you bite down on it.
Hi, my name is Obocho Peters,
I'm a 12-year-old CEO,
and today
I'm in the Upper West Side
selling my clothes and shoes
for families
all around the world.
Come through,
all the information's
gonna be in the caption.
There was a place,
and there was a time
Oh!
Back in my prime
Ooh. Yeah, those look good.
Beautiful day, all right?
["Can't Stay Falling In Love" by
Ernest Ernie & The Sincerities]
It was sublime
But everything changed,
baby, lately
[crowd cheering]
Sometimes it kind of
feels like you hate me
[chuckles] Come on in.
[Joe]
Welcome to Obocho's closet.
I've seen your TikToks.
-[Sarah] You have? Obocho!
-Yeah.
You just can't stay
falling in love
They say the fire
just keeps on burning
The more you grow...
This is the event, right
in here. This is our store.
Nice to meet you.
[woman] Is that with your
sandwiches?
It's all about confidence.
Love it. Pose.
I can watch the crowd, so they
don't do anything to you.
-That's perfect.
-I was John Gotti's bodyguard.
[Zack]
[crowd chanting]
Obocho, Obocho, Obocho!
Let's go to Obocho's Closet!
-And you're 12?
-Yes, I am.
[all laugh]
Good to meet you. Hi, everybody.
Yeah, I'm ready
for City Council.
I wanted to put this together.
We've got
some great clothes in here.
A new, limited edition--
first edition of these shirts.
They're just 20 bucks,
and a portion of that
will go to the soup kitchen.
And he wants to open
a store like you.
[Obocho] Thank you.
You've been an inspiration
to him, right?
I mean, I've always loved
helping people all my life.
Landlord gets to fill
their spaces.
And they don't have to worry
about a complicated lease.
[reporter] His name is Obocho,
which means, "I am love."
With the support
of his mom, Sasha,
he opened Obocho's Closet,
selling gently worn,
donated clothing
at a discounted price.
Now the Brooklyn entrepreneur
is taking his business
to new heights by teaming up
with Upper West Side
City Council Candidate,
Zack Weiner.
We have 66 vacancies
on Broadway,
on the Upper West Side.
We're just facing such a crisis
in my neighborhood
with empty storefronts,
and Obocho's a huge first step.
It's only gonna be
here for a few days.
If all goes well, he has a shot
of taking his shop to Broadway.
-[Sasha] Wow!
-Beautiful. Beautiful.
Oh, it's great.
It's really fantastic
what he's doing,
it's really a moving story.
It sets an example
for a lot of other young people
who have the same determination,
and passion,
and ambition
to go after their dreams.
All you ever hear about in the
news anymore is bad, bad, bad.
And this is the kind of stuff,
I think,
the world needs
to hear more about.
A lot of people are coming in.
We're getting a lot of sales.
And a lot of--
basically, a lot
of things going are--
are going very great.
And what do you guys
think about Zack Weiner?
If this is what
he was able to do,
-then he has my support.
-I would,
I think Zack Weiner's
got some good ideas.
No clue who that is.
[Daniel] The guy behind you.
[laughter]
[lively jazz music]
Okay, ready, now. Ready, man.
-You'd like to be on her, huh?
-She's Cheesecake.
-Cheesecake?
-Yeah.
-[kid] Cheesecake.
-[man] Cheesecake.
Oh, this is something
you can't get on Amazon,
and that's why retail's
gonna come back, and uh--
-[Cheesecake neighing]
-[woman] Oh, my God.
It sucked!
All right, get in a line.
Whoever wants to pet
the pony, we'll make a line,
and then we're going
to let Cheesecake go.
-[Cheesecake neighing]
-Ho, all right.
I want to ride on the pony.
[Zack]
We're not doing that right now.
Do you think it'd
be possible if I could, um,
ride on-- on--
on Cheesecake, and wave?
I don't think so.
[Zack] No?
Tell your parents
to vote for Zack Weiner.
If they don't,
you're not gonna see
any more ponies in New York.
[playing classical music]
[Zack]
I think Obocho's Closet, uh,
might have been our campaign's
greatest achievement.
Obocho's a phenomenal
entrepreneur.
The storefront
was a massive success,
and Eric Adams, our--
our presumptive mayor, uh,
re-posted about it.
-[Joe] Obocho.
-[all] One, two, three,
Team Obocho!
-[cheering] Yeah!
-[applause]
Come back, come back, come back!
Come back, come back, come back!
-Team Weiner!
-Team Weiner? Oh, yeah!
[all]
One, two, three, Team Weiner!
-Yeah!
-[all cheering]
["Don Giovanni Overture"
by WA Mozart plays]
[Joe whistles]

You gotta wake up.
[Zack] Why? What's up?
You gotta see this.
I'm in the nude.
Don't pull the blanket.
Come on, get up.
It's one o'clock.
I'm awake.
[sucks teeth] What's this?
[Zack groans]
-What?
-You tell me.
Whose computer is this?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
What's going on?
-[muffled moaning over video]
-[woman] Oh! Oh my God.
-[muffled moaning]
-[woman] Very good, Weiner.
[sounds of slapping
and moaning on video]
[Joe] Did you know about this?
-[muffled moaning on video]
-[woman] Don't be a baby.
I mean, I-- I--
I recall faintly...
uh, the-- the recording.
[Joe] Why?
[Zack] I...
Well, this is--
this is my laptop.
No, that's my laptop.
-It's your laptop.
-It's my laptop, yeah.
In fact,
it's on anybody's laptop
who has a Twitter.
[muffled moaning on video]
[woman] Oh, it doesn't
hurt that bad.
-Don't be a baby.
-Oh.
-[woman] Don't be a baby.
- [Zack in video] Oh!
[both moaning in video]
Zack is on a table,
with, a gag ball
stuffed into his mouth.
Uh, he has a girl behind him
who hits him with a crop whip,
then pours hot wax on him,
then rips a few clothespins
off his nipples.
My favorite part is, like,
when Zack,
when she goes,
"Stay still, stay still!"
And he just did this.
I was very upset, obviously.
He had no skin tan, kind of--
he-- he looked pale.
[woman] Look at
Mr. Tough Guy over here.
[Zack growling on video]
[woman] I have to tie you up.
But this is not someone
you paid to do this, right?
This is just someone that--
-[Zack] No, just someone I--
-Someone you knew.
[Zack] I-- I knew.
-So, what's the point?
-[Zack] Who I reached out to.
Yeah, it's not-- this is just--
All right, well.
Uh...
-[woman over video] Sit still!
Don't move!
[Zack over video] More!
[muffled groaning on video]
-[woman] I'll tie you up.
-[Zack growls over video]
[woman] Do I have to tie you up?
[Zack growls over video]
[Zack] All right, you can--
you can bring the view back.
Do you think
that there is something to us
threatening a lawsuit
on the woman in the video?
[lawyer]
That'll just get more attention.
So you don't want to do that.
Those always backfire.
[Zack] If anything,
I don't think that she--
I'm just worried people aren't
gonna take him seriously with
the nipple clamps, and the ball
gag, and everything like that.
Uh...
No, you know,
people who vote
are generally not looking at
stuff on Twitter right now.
I mean, you know, unless
someone's calling you nonstop
or confronting you on the street
and asking for your comment,
don't say anything.
Don't do anything that's
going to draw attention to it.
Right now, the only thing
anyone's paying attention to,
and they're barely paying
attention to that,
is the mayor's race, no one's
really paying attention
to City Council, uh,
candidates and what
they're doing.
Uh-- uh, I've had
seven City Council candidates
I helped with
their election law,
and-- and you barely can find
a news story
-about any of them, ever.
-[Joe] Hmm.
So, it could be worse.
You always see people getting
arrested in southern states
for having sex
with horses, and stuff.
You know, my father,
he used to joke about
how when he was in the army
there was
some redneck from Texas
and he used to talk about
farm animals that he had fucked.
And he even said
he fucked a turkey.
How do you fuck a turkey?
Sneak up behind 'em,
and you grab 'em
by the throat from behind.
And then you fuck 'em.
I-- I-- why do I enjoy BDSM?
For me, personally,
I'm interested in one thing
and it's women
telling me, uh, what to do.
Um, and going to great lengths
to-- to do what they ask,
and-- and...
I think
it's just part and parcel
of my desire to be
a public servant in general.
Some hot--
hot stuff going on for him.
Pretty bad for--
pretty bad for us, probably.
[Maria over phone]
Joe, is that thing real?
Well, um, we're
definitely evaluating it, uh--
[Maria] It's none of my--
it's not my business.
I mean,
I have no judgment here.
-Whatever.
-Well, thank you.
But I just thought
I would let you know
that I couldn't care less,
I mean, that's your
private life
and people have
some freaking nerve
to try to exploit that.
But I think
it's gonna blow over.
[Zack] Yeah, thank you.
I'm really glad.
[Maria] Tomorrow might be
a little rough.
Tomorrow might be
a little rough.
You'll have a day--
a day or two
where it's rough, and then,
like, it's over.
Because this world is insane.
Did it seem like me?
Is it obvious that it's me?
[Maria] I can't look at it.
-Okay.
-[Maria] I'm sorry.
Well, when the, uh,
when the video hit,
we just-- we just assumed
it would be best
to get out
of the eye of the storm.
So we headed down to Miami,
and we spent a couple days,
and went out clubbing.
[dance music plays]
We went to the beach.
We spent a lot of time
strategizing
about what
our next move could be,
and how we'd bounce back.
And then
when we got back to New York,
we found that
nobody had tweeted about it
or was talking about it
or had even heard about him,
really, at all.
[sighs]
Wanna talk about it?
Could you stop filming?
Mom?
Mom, I asked you
to stay in your room.
[Cherie] Oh, fuck off.
-Can you make me a sandwich?
-[Cherie] No.
All right.
-Tuna?
-Can I get a tuna sandwich?
[loud rustling]
It's okay to live
at home with your mom,
and it's okay
to have a sex tape.
But you can't do both.
[Sarah] How long
has it been released for?
It appears maybe a few days.
-[Joe] 30 hours. Yes.
-30 hours. 30 hours?
[Sarah] And It hasn't even made
any news on Twitter or anything?
[James] Sarah,
423 views and counting.
[Zack] Damn, we lost 423 votes.
[James] One quoted tweet,
one like.
[Joe and Sarah] Who quoted it?
-[James] Uh...
-Oh, her,
-the same girl who posted it.
-[James] Her.
"Smart Mistress."
Well, okay, I guess
that's technically a good thing.
It's just surprising.
I feel like we don't
have to do damage control.
Like, the video's out there,
and nobody's seen it.
James, the real damage
is far beyond this video, okay?
I have a lascivious sex tape
loose on the internet.
Debbie Walsh,
from the New York Post,
doesn't care to follow up.
Carol Tannenhauser,
from the West Side Rag,
doesn't care to follow up.
Sam Straus,
from West Side Spirit,
doesn't care to follow up.
No one cares to follow up.
PIX11, who--
-I was on PIX11. You were there.
-[James] Yeah, I was on it.
-You're on it, too.
-[James] Yeah.
[Sarah] A little bit
more than you, actually.
-[James] I was, right?
-He was in it a lot,
and I wasn't asked by them
a single question.
No one cares to inquire.
There's been no point
in this entire campaign
except that brief moment
with PIX11 where any institution
has really cared that
I existed or that I'm running.
Really, a year-plus of my life
has just been a case
of documenting failures
at getting votes,
and getting attention.
[James]
Did you want people to see this?
I don't want people to--
No, I don't want people
to see this in particular,
but if no one's looking at this,
there's no better proof that
no one's looking at anything.
If Gale Brewer had a sex tape,
everyone would be
-all over that.
-[James] I'll watch it.
-That's what I'm trying to say.
-Me first.
-That's what I'm saying is--
-[James] I'll watch it.
[Zack] That's what I'm saying,
is that
I've been at this--
this since before COVID.
A good campaign manager's job
is to see to it
that his candidate is reported
on, by any means necessary.
So, I created
an anonymous email account
called henryrobertson1
at ProtonMail,
and I populated the "sent" box
with every New York Post
reporter, every single one.
I'm gonna send it
to all of them.
My hope is they think
it's a colleague,
of some sort, of the mistress.
Hey.
Hey. Look at this.
Look at that. Read it.
[Jon Levin over phone] So,
I'm going to get right to this.
-Um.
-[Joe] Please do.
What the hell am I looking at
in that video?
-[Joe] Uh...
-[Jon] I just need to know
exactly what's going on,
and I need to reach out
to this woman.
-So--
-Sure. Why-- why don't--
Why don't we do this?
Why don't we-- I'm--
I'm five minutes out
from seeing Zack face-to-face.
Why don't we do
a three-way call, um,
and hop on, and then
we can bring him in the mix
and we can talk to you
a little bit more, and see
-what we can--
-Okay.
-Okay? So, I'll call you back...
-Yeah.
-in about five minutes?
-Five. Thank you.
Great. Thanks, Jon.
[call ending beep]
It being a dungeon,
does that-- does it--
that doesn't tie anything
legality-wise, right?
Like, dungeons themselves
are legal?
-[Zack] Dungeons are legal.
-They are?
-Yeah.
-You're certain of that?
I've been to many.
You-- you've been
to many dungeons?
-[Zack] Yeah.
-And they're legal?
I don't think
that confirms that it's legal.
I think that whether
or not it's legal--
[Zack] All right, all right.
Whatever.
Should I not say dungeon,
or should I say dungeon or not?
I'll say an establishment
that's perfectly legal.
[phone ringing]
-This is Jon.
-[Joe] John, I got Zack here.
-Hey, John.
-Hi. Will you--
Hold on-- Hold on a second.
-Hold on.
-Okay.
All right, there's
too many things happening.
So, you're-- you're a BDSM guy.
You like BDSM.
Are you a proud BDSM-er?
-I would say-- I'm--
-[Joe] Yes.
When I'm asked--
Well, okay, Joe.
All right, I would say
when I-- when--
when I'm on discussion, yes.
[Jon] This was emailed
to much of the New York Post
on Wednesday...
Geez.
...um, this video.
Um, and I actually
didn't look into it,
because I assumed
someone else would.
Uh, do you know who emailed it
to the New York Post
on Wednesday?
Uh, we've id-- I mean, I don't--
I don't know about
any emails at--
[Jon] It was a Proton
email address.
I know the Twitter.
I've seen the Twitter account.
-So that's--
-[Jon] Henry Robertson.
Is that a name you know?
I don't know a Henry--
I'm not-- It's not--
No, I don't know
the men in that, no.
Well, thanks for your time, Jon.
-Thank you.
-Uh, all right, thanks Jon.
-[Joe] Appreciate it.
-All right, bye.
[Jon] All right, bye.
New York City history.
History time.
Time for some history.
[Zack humming a tune]
I never doubted you,
not for one second.
[Jon] We-- we'll be
covering the story.
With, uh, certainly
bigger interest.
And we just wanted
to reach out and--
[Joe] Yeah, like I said, Jon,
thank you so much
for your time.
"Can you confirm that you are,
in fact, the person
depicted in the video,
and provide CBS News
with a statement, please?"
[rock music playing
over speaker]
New York will also be
electing a new city council.
And there's some
shocking news out of that race,
because Manhattan candidate
Zach Weiner was caught
with a dominatrix
who put wax on him,
and clipped his nipples
with clothespins.
[laughter on video]
Reached for comment,
the candidate said...
[unintelligible mumbling]
[laughing]
-I like that.
-That's great.

Famous people are, like,
coming out of the woodworks.
Someone tagged Adrian Greniere.
[Zack shouts]
This hot girl commented
something mean about me.
Everyone is seeing this.
Oh, my God, [indistinct]
is in for a surprise.
New York City Council candidate
is receiving attention online.
Don't worry, Mom,
it's still the same me.
[reporter] There he is,
the man of the hour.
[speaking other language]
[man] Is there anything
you want to plug specifically?
[Zack] Alan Handell,
this democratic hero.
He's worked for
the party for 50 years.
This would be
just such a great thing.
He has two grandkids on the way
and he's a fantastic guy.
Teenagers are very impulsive.
I can see one giving a kidney,
no-- no question.
No, this was a rented space.
There was nothing
about my ideas in there.
That's very fucking annoying.
Zack isn't hiding
or even apologizing,
saying, quote,
"I am a proud BDSM-er.
I like BDSM."
Which, as you know, probably
means he's not doing it right.
[laughter]
There's got to be some kind of,
like, Epstein-type situation.
You handcuff yourself to
Gale Brewer and you make her
-watch you take dumps.
-Yep.
I's good, bad, or sweet
-[Zack exclaiming]
-I have to tie you up!
[Zack exclaims in pain]
The whole incident
was so humiliating,
he gave the dominatrix
an extra thousand dollars.
[man] Why do they
always look like exactly
how you think
they're going to look?
-[indistinct] little soy boy.
-[Colbert] Yeah.
You know,
a failed feminist sort.
Just because you look smart
doesn't mean
that you're a soy boy.
[man speaking other language]
I like to see this
out in the open because
all these politicians are creepy
weirdos behind closed doors.
Oh.
Your political
career is over, yo,
I can promise you,
he ain't going to get elected.
Dominatrix in leaked video.
[laughing]
What is wrong with Zack?
[newscaster] Weiner responded...
"I am not ashamed of
the private video
circulating of me on Twitter."
It's like my mom used to say,
"When life gives you lemons,
you inject them with rat poison
and feed them to
the neighbor's children."
Oh, no.
Look at Mr. Tough Guy over here.
Bad candidate.
-[audience cheering]
-Oh, naughty boy.
Now, you may not have heard
of Zack before,
but his father is
a co-creator of the popular
children's television show
Dora the Explorer.
Whereas his son created
the less popular spinoff,
Marion the Disciplinarian.
[audience cheering and laughing]
You get a great show
for you tonight.
I loved you all along
Wondering why

[street din]
[door latch clicks]
-[Alan] Oh, my God.
-Al. How are you.
-[Alan] How are you?
-How have you been? A hug?
-[Alan] Good to see you.
-[Zack] Good to see you.
-Good to see you.
-Great to see you.
-You look great.
-I'm feeling better.
Good.
How're you doing, man?
Good to see you.
You did an unbelievable event
to try to get a kidney donor,
-and that's unbelievable.
-[Zack] Oh.
That really touched me.
I mean, that was really--
It made me cry.
That was something.
Every campaign for
the last 40 years,
I pick a candidate or two that
I want to stay with and follow.
So, you-- you're--
you're it this year, Zack.
You're my...
my new friend in life.
-It turns out--
-[phone ringing]
I feel similarly.
I really appreciate that.
Let me just [indistinct]
The old isn't working
as well as we hoped, obviously.
The city is not doing
as well as I hoped.
Um, I would like to see it
come back strong.
The only way
that's going to happen
is to have some new faces
in our government.
Whatever happens in this race,
let's say you don't win,
unfortunately.
What are you going to do next?
Where are you going to go
to make a difference,
to make an impact?
How can you best do that?
That's what we have to
all figure out.
People like you,
you're so young.
How many people run
for public office at your age
and have your drive
and your enthusiasm for it?
Let's do something with that.
The final rally, I wasn't sure
what was going to happen.
Obviously,
we were in the news a lot.
I fired up a tweet
that just said
we were going to have
a rally at 6:00 p.m.
at Verdi Square,
72nd and Broadway.
Uh, and, you know,
that was it.
I-- I-- I just didn't know
what was going to happen.
I-- I hoped
people would show up.
Um, obviously,
not a lot of people
have shown up to some of
our other events,
but this time...
[crowed chanting]
Weiner, Weiner, Weiner.
Weiner, Weiner.
Weiner, Weiner, Weiner.
Weiner, Weiner.
Weiner, Weiner, Weiner.
[indistinct]
That's my favorite.
I've been
voting for her for years,
and I'm going to continue
voting for her.
And what changed in New York?
I'm not going to vote
for this dude.
Who's the dude
we're talking about?
One, two, three!
[crowed shouting] Weiner!
Boo, forget about him.
-Weiner!
-[indistinct]
[indistinct chattering]
Joe. Gale Brewer's here.
She's trying to crash the rally.
[Sarah] Guys, everyone
in politics is serious
and they have to have,
like, a perfect image
and they have to, like,
not experiment sexually.
Like, that's why we're here
today because we're young,
we all do things,
we all dress interesting,
and we love to just
be ourselves
and that's what Zack
represents.
And I'm very excited
to announce
that the man is in
the building.
[crowd screaming]
[Joe] I'll keep you waiting
for one more sec, actually.
I'm sorry about that.
We've got a very special
guest address
from a candidate in District 40
who's been
a longtime Weiner ally.
Her name is Harriet Hines.
All right.
Okay, I came up here
in support of Zack,
so just please, you know,
bear with me
a couple of minutes.
I wrote something
special for him.
As you can see,
that I am a person
with a physical disability
due to chronic diabetes
that has affected my mobility.
Zack supports me
and does not judge me.
I can only do the same for him.
Zack understands my passion
because Zack has empathy.
A quality that many
of those in office lack
and that many of those running
for office can't relate to.
-[man in crowd] Yeah!
-He cares about
his local community
and cares about all of you.
-[crowd cheering]
-A vote for Zack
will be a vote well casted.
Vote Zack Weiner
as your number one choice
-[loud cheering]
-for City Council
in District 6.
[Joe shouting]
Are you ready for Zack Weiner?
[crowd cheering]
[Harriet speaking
other language]
Weiner, Weiner,
Weiner, Weiner
Vote for Weiner
He's a super duper
high achiever
Vamonos! Grab your backpacks!
Weiner! Whoo!
Vote for Weiner!
No brewing, no, no, no
Weiner, Weiner, Weiner
Vote for Weiner
He's a super duper
high achiever
Vote for Weiner!
Hi everybody! How we doing?
[crowd cheering]
A lot of times you hear
from politicians you hear,
"We should, we need, we will."
What about, what are we doing?
What has been done?
What's been done?
-[woman in crowd] Yes, yes!
-[indistinct] what're we doing?
Now I know some of you
might have heard
there's been
a little unusual attention
in the last few days
to my campaign.
Some of you might be aware.
But we're going to keep going.
We're going to keep
moving ahead, we're hyper-local.
We're not concerned
with the outside world.
They took a year
to pay attention to us.
We've been doing a lot
in that year to get
things done.
And that's going to keep going.
Tonight, tomorrow,
and for the next year.
-Thank you so much.
-[crowd cheering]
-Thank you.
-[crowd chanting] Weiner,
Weiner, Weiner...
[Joe] You know, I don't know
if that was something
that it felt like one of those
things where I dreamt it before.
You know, it felt like something
that couldn't have been real.
And there it was.
[crowd chanting] Weiner, Weiner.
Weiner, Weiner, Weiner.
Weiner, Weiner, Weiner, Weiner.
-Weiner.
-[loud cheering]
It's been a--
It's been a win today.
And tomorrow's,
it's the election.
How are you feeling about that?
Incredibly confident.
I dwarf everyone else in terms
of support and engagement
through every facet
of online and in the press.
Gale, yes,
she's still formidable.
She still has many, many people
following her on Twitter.
She's-- Her name,
when you enter the city
from any direction,
when you drive in, you see
Gale Brewer, Bill de Blasio.
But that's
when you're driving in.
That means you don't live here.
For the people that are here,
for the people
in the neighborhood,
if they read the Jerusalem Post,
if they read the New York Post,
if they listen to NPR
or read the PBS,
they're going to see
that there's one candidate
and one candidate only
that is leading this race,
shaping the narrative,
dominating the election.
His name is Zack Weiner,
and he's going to win tomorrow.
I'm going to win tomorrow.
[newscaster] Polls are now
open on this primary day.
Many races are on the ballot,
including the one for mayor.
[reporter] Voting locations
are now officially open.
They opened up
at 6 o'clock this morning
and they will remain open
until 9 o'clock tonight.
Candidates were spending
the last final moments
pushing for votes
ahead of the primary,
each taking
a different approach.
[Sarah] It's, what time is it?
It's 4:30.
It's like prime voting time.
People just got out of work.
Every other candidate is,
like, out on the street...
[Zack] I'm doing
a third article...
-...getting voters.
-...about the rally.
-We're going to win.
-We're going to win.
And evidently, going outside
doesn't really matter that much.
Did you not hear
about the emails?
-What emails?
-We've gotten, like, 45 emails
saying they voted for
me number one
and a lot of them are former
Gale voters that quit,
that are older people and saying
their friends are doing it.
No fucking way.
I need to figure out pants.
And don't worry, I'm not judging
you on your socks, by the way.
Do you have two Dick Wolf hats?
Uh, yeah, I have my backup.
[street din]
Hi, Scott. Joe Gallagher.
I'm the campaign manager
for Zack.
-Oh, nice to meet you.
-Pleasure to meet you.
-Good luck to you.
-Wait, Zack Weiner?
-That's right.
-Zack, dominatrix...
In the press,
that's what's going on, yeah.
-[man] Hello.
-It's an unfortunate leak.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
I appreciate that, Scott.
-Thank you.
-Yeah, that-- Thanks. Thank you.
Alright, here we are.
Morning lineup, grade four.
-So, wait.
-That-- That's weird, though.
It's also
for handicapped people.
-I'm going to go over there.
-Yeah, but it's handicapped--
-[indistinct mumbling]
-We go-- let's go
to where it says
"Vote [indistinct].
Yeah. Great, thank you.
-[Sarah] Yeah.
-[Zack] I'm kidding.
This is a very important moment.
He is voting for himself
in an election
in the neighborhood
that he grew up in
his entire life
and that he's trying
to represent.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[overlapping chatter]
[people cheering]
[overlapping conversations]
-This man is the highest...
-[overlapping chatter]
[man] If you're in line,
stay in line.
You have a right to vote.
[overlapping chatter]
That was great.
[Zack] The data results
we're getting indicate
-that we're going to win.
-What? What?
[Zack] Local indicators,
uh, early voting
-indicate that we're gonna win.
-[Sarah] No way.
[Zack]
How are you seeing the results?
Where are you
seeing the results?
Where are you seeing
the results?
What's he saying?
207 votes.
How much does Gale have?
207 votes?
[bar din]
Gale's about
15,000 it looks like.
207 votes?
Ask him how many that is--
Andy, where's are the--
Where is this website?
-Okay, 6th District.
-Oh.
You're in last place.
You have 2.5%.
Son of a bitch.
I-- I think I'm ready,
not to declare victory,
but to declare
an exploratory--
fuck, I don't even know
what the movie's--
I'm gonna look like the biggest
asshole in the world.
I think we get out
in front of it.
I want them to release the twos.
I got all the twos and threes
that actually
come across right now.
And-- uh--
[Sarah] You need to see
the twos and the threes.
New York One.
It's on New York One.
They don't have it here?
I gotta ask Dan what this is.
I'm gonna bring Dan over.
-Joe, Joe.
-I voted for you.
Your second choice
will go to someone else.
I want to give a speech.
[overlapping conversation]
Declaring a possibility
the route to victory's emerged.
I'm so glad everyone's here.
This is a momentous occasion.
This is an exciting moment.
Uh, We're looking
at the results.
They're confusing.
This is a new system.
People are adapting.
If you go on newyorktimes.com,
we'll kick you out of the party.
Don't go on-- the word
or even speak about it.
Um, thank you, Dan,
and I think that's clear
to every single person here.
There's a path to victory.
We're not gonna know the answer.
We're gonna be getting
more information.
If you look at these stats,
you'll be a little confused,
but that's been the nature
of the whole race.
So give us a little more time,
let the enthusiasm seep in.
Let our strategy work,
and thank you for being here.
-[man shouting] Let's go, Dan!
-[crowd cheering]
Oh, my God,
what do we tell the public?
Once they do start
adding in absentee ballots?
But as long as you're not--
Well, the truth is, real--
the real counting
doesn't happen until the end,
when they-- when-- when--
when they've scanned
all the affidavit ballots,
or absentee ballots--
or both, actually, uh,
and that's not until July 12th.
So there's gonna be a lot
of talk on TV about she won,
-this one won, that one won.
-[Alan] Hey.
-Oh, fantastic.
-Alan.
Alan, this is amazing
to see you.
-Alan, thank you for coming.
-Thank you so much for coming.
-Pleasure to see you.
-This is terrific.
-I had to say hello.
-Ah.
How proud I am of, uh...
all you've done
for this campaign.
To establish a new,
young, dynamic force,
I hope, on the West Side.
-I really appreciate that.
-I'm gonna watch you.
I hope I live long enough.
-God willing.
-God willing.
We'll see you just a stepping
stone, just the beginning.
He's a great guy, too,
here.
-Joe was--
-Yeah, they were fun.
I had seven city council
candidates as clients this year
and one mayoral, but these guys
were the most fun.
Oh, I appreciate that a lot.
Thank you.
Unfortunately the losingist.
They were certainly the most
interesting campaign that I did.
-You're Zack's mom?
-Yeah, and we've--
-Alan--
-I know, we have your poster.
-You're responsible for him.
-I created him, you know?
You did a damn good job.
No, I had nothing
to do with that, actually.
I always want to meet
one young,
interesting,
dynamic person every year
that I work in this business
of politics.
Do you meet one
or do you want to meet one?
I want one, and I did.
Your son is the one, I told you.
Thank you so much.
[indistinct shouting]
[Sarah] Hold on, hold on.
[loud cheering]
-You almost-- almost--
-[Zack] 742.
-You almost got 1,000!
-You got 742, man.
[man] Zack.
[James] No, 742, dude.
That's not nothing. That's good.
-That's-- that's--
-[James] That's a base.
That's a base to build from.
[man] Hi, Zack Weiner,
good to meet you.
Hey, what's up, man?
It was good to see you.
Mazel tov. Congratulations.
Well done.
Congratulations.
I'm Sarah. So nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.
-Congratulations.
Nice to see you again.
Listen, listen,
I know I'll push you off.
Listen,
I know I'll push you off.
-You're over it. [laughing]
-Listen, listen,
I know I'll push you off.
Zack doesn't need to support me
and believe in me,
but he does,
and he makes point of it.
And, um...
he's one of my favorite
people I've ever met.
Don't tell him-- I feel like
he's going to get so annoying.
Being a finance minister, like,
I thought I couldn't do it.
Just by that word alone,
I was, like, scared.
But when Zack gave me a shot
and a chance
to be a part of his campaign,
you know,
I took advantage of that.
You know, and I'm proud.
Now when I go to parties,
people always ask me,
like, "Hey, you work
for that Weiner dude?"
And I'm like, "Yeah.
I work for the Weiner dude."
What do you want me to--
I was, like, barely,
you know, I was like a gopher.
I-- I didn't think
that Zack was going to win
in the first place, you know.
I was doing this
to help out a friend.
I looked
at Gale Brewer's website,
and logically I'm like,
"Oh, she's backed by everyone."
People, yeah, the people
console me all the time.
That I have a freak for a son.
Uh, since the campaign,
there's been some changes.
I moved in here.
Uh, this is my new workspace.
Uh, some of my friends will be
living here, possibly Joe.
I'm still not, um,
residing here myself at night.
I'm staying at my mom's still
because I just prefer
the accommodations there
for sleeping.
But it's going
to help a lot, I think,
with my relationship
with my mother working here.
He, uh, he asked me to stay on
as his campaign manager,
which I accepted,
even though there's no campaign
to run right now.
Um, for me, I'm-- I'm shutting
down the bank account.
I'm liquidating our assets.
Um, some of the leftover
funds, you know,
if it was up to me, I would--
I would use to, you know...
push back on some of these
legal battles we have ahead.
But Zack's adamant
he wants to use
the campaign funds
on one thing and one thing only.
["Sky on Fire"
by Handsome Poets]
Wheels keep rolling
sirens howling
In the desert,
n the desert
You're on the backseat
of my car
In a dream we're gonna
watch the stars
In a new place,
in a new place
We lost track,
it doesn't matter
'Cause we are
on this road together
Let's start a fire, a fire
New kids coming into town
Lets get together
We take over now
A fire, a fire
New kids coming into town
Lets get together
We take over now

[woman] How is it?
Nice and tight?
-[Zack] Uh-huh.
-[woman] Uh-huh,
-you're not going to escape.
-[Zack groans]
You don't have to
tighten it anymore.
[Zack grunts and moans]
-I don't know what else to do.
-[muffled] Do you want help?
-Huh?
-[muffled] Do you want help?
[Zack mumbling]
Here, I can loosen you up.
["Fun City" by Ernest Ernie
& The Sincerities]
Oh, well I remember
A day his was the town
Broke as can be
but free and proud
I can't hide my temper
I can't take
what's going down now
This soulless greed
that's creeping around
Yeah
It's plain to see
that times are changing
Times are changing
These ain't the streets
that I was raised in
Yeah
They put a toll on everything
but on the whole
Well, I still think
I still think
That it's a fun city!
Once she was hated
Forsaken by the hive
Left her for dead
yet she survived
Now she wants a payment
For raising up the five
Never forget she sacrificed
And now they're lining up,
driving up the prices
Yeah, free trade done
raised the rent
But at least
we're seeing crime decline
And yet in spite of it,
we wind up in a crisis
Yes, yes,
greed made us great again
But that beast
needs feeding all the time
Yeah
It's plain to see
that times are ...
[playful music playing]
[exclaiming]
[Harriet speaking
other language]
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Weiner, Weiner
Vote for Weiner
He's a super duper
high cheater
Vamonos! Grab your Vapas!
Weiner, whoo!
Vote for Weiner.
No Brewing, no, no, no
Weiner, Weiner,
Weiner, Weiner
Vote for Weiner
He's a super duper
high cheater
Vote for Weiner