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The legend of Luigi Mangione is growing ... because he's the subject of an upcoming musical, and it's the hottest ticket in San Francisco.

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00:00Too soon?

00:02Yes.

00:02That's the phrase.

00:04Too soon.

00:05But here we go.

00:07There is a new musical that will be opening next month.

00:11It is called Luigi the Musical.

00:13And it is not about Mario Brothers or anything.

00:17It is about Luigi Mangione.

00:19And this play is going to be opening in San Francisco.

00:21No, this is not part of the play.

00:23Well, maybe it is.

00:23I'm sure it has to be part of the play.

00:26Actually, I don't know how it starts.

00:28But the tagline is that it's about love, murder, and hash browns.

00:33Clearly a reference to the fact that he was caught at McDonald's eating hash browns.

00:37Exactly.

00:38So it's sold out.

00:39It opens in San Francisco, I think.

00:41Fifteen days.

00:43Fifteen days.

00:43Sold out.

00:45And I'm assuming they're going to take this on the road and the goal.

00:47Sorry, five days.

00:48It was five days.

00:49Yeah.

00:49And to take it on the road, I'm assuming the goal is ending up in New York on Broadway.

00:55But it is getting attention.

01:00And now the question, is it tasteful?

01:02Does it have to be tasteful?

01:04Is it too soon?

01:04We're going to get into that question.

01:06Here is a little sample of what they're going to be doing in this play.

01:12The chief is from in the glistock in Brownsville and Brown Heights.

01:20It's not inside a warehouse.

01:24Early rehearsals.

01:26I think the tempo's got to be a little more...

01:29They've got to get it a little up.

01:30You know, they've got to work on this.

01:31What's interesting here, Luigi is not the only notorious figure that is featured in this play.

01:40Because I guess it sounds like they're doing part of it set in the prison where he is being detained now.

01:47With another famous prisoner.

01:49A couple of them.

01:50Diddy.

01:51Two.

01:51And Sam Bankman-Fried.

01:53Right.

01:53You brought up Diddy.

01:54The weird thing about the Diddy casting is that a black woman is going to be playing Diddy.

01:59I found that to be very weird given the circumstances of...

02:03Well, it's very Hamilton-esque.

02:05Yes.

02:05Sure.

02:06You don't have to...

02:07It doesn't have to be right on the nose.

02:08It doesn't have to be right on the nose.

02:10But given the reason why Diddy is in prison, I just found it very ironic that a black woman is playing Diddy.

02:15And you guys also mentioned the reaction to this play.

02:19A lot of people online are not happy with this.

02:21I think it's sold out.

02:22But a lot of...

02:23They're getting a lot of backlash.

02:24So much so...

02:25Which they want.

02:26Maybe so.

02:27Maybe so.

02:27Maybe not.

02:28Because they've turned off their comments on social media.

02:30I've been trying to reach out to them all day to see if they want to come on the show.

02:34Have not heard back from them.

02:35And I was feeling like this would be such an easy opportunity...

02:38No kidding.

02:38...to promote this play that's coming out.

02:40Yeah.

02:41I think they maybe underestimated the controversy.

02:45Oh, come on.

02:46I'm sure they wanted some controversy.

02:47Look, that's why they came up with this.

02:49They had to know this was controversial.

02:52I mean, come on.

02:52I mean, anybody would know that.

02:55But it's also not surprising that it sold out.

02:57Because as we've been discussing since the time...

03:00Well, the theater that they're selling out is like 50 seats.

03:02Well, as we've been discussing since this crime happened, the wave of support for Luigi...

03:10Millions of people.

03:11Right.

03:11And especially young people.

03:12And you know what?

03:13There are probably people who are just curious.

03:16How would they do a play like that?

03:18You almost want to go to be offended.

03:20But, you know, there's a thing in comedy where people say there's no such thing as too soon.

03:25You know, comics have said that.

03:26They've said that to us.

03:27Sure.

03:27And especially, you know, when everybody was getting cancelled, we had some of them on

03:32the show and they were saying, screw that.

03:34And I'm sure there are people who will say the same for this.

03:36Absolutely.

03:36It's not too soon.

03:37And, you know, and...

03:38And there's nothing too soon, is what they say.

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