President Joe Biden on the Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories and Dark Brandon Meme (Extended)

Welcome back everybody we're here with my very good friend Amy Poehler we were talking about the first show back in 2014 your fellow guest he was kind enough to follow you that night Vice President Joe Biden. Yeah that was very special. He was a class act. Yeah. We did try to get him for our 10-year anniversary show obviously he's got a bigger job now so he was unavailable. Oh you couldn't get him? I couldn't get him. Oh I could get him. Hey Mr. President. Welcome back Mr. President. It's good to be back why haven't you invited me earlier? Well you know you were a busy guy did you think when you were here in 2014 this show would make it 10 years? No. Yeah. We appreciate we appreciate the honesty you know. No you guys actually you've been colleagues before you work together you did an episode of Parks and Recreation we talked about it back in 2014. Are you kidding me I bragged about that all for a long long time. That was really fun. That was before president this was the best gig you ever had. Maybe the best gig I ever had period. Yeah. How was Amy how was how was the president as a scene partner? Well it was an awesome time to go to DC because we met with the then Mr. Vice President Mr. President Vice President President. That is right. I don't want to get it wrong but we met people from both sides of the aisle and then if you remember we did that scene together and then you said to me how should I act and I said just act like what is this lady doing here and you nailed it. I have one I want to talk I want to look to the future but one last glance to the past in 2014 you had just called LaGuardia a third world airport and you would had to fly into LaGuardia to come to this show and the only reason I bring it up is LaGuardia much to the chagrin of late-night comics like myself is a beautiful airport now. It's a beautiful airport and it really does speak to what infrastructure spending could do. Sometimes it takes a long time but it's really worth it. Have you been to LaGuardia recently? I have but that didn't take me a hell of a long time. Yeah. The last guy had he had infrastructure week every week. We actually got it done. How can you be the leading country in the world with rank number 13 in terms of infrastructure? It's not good. Not possible. Yeah. Not possible but that's not the only thing we're doing. You're getting a lot of things changed. You got a lot of things changed and I want to ask about that but there's something that I've been very it just speaks to the era we live in now. There's a Dark Brandon conspiracy meeting and this is something that you seem to have a lot of fun with. You've co-opted. You've co-opted Dark Brandon. This is a yard sign and do you enjoy playing around with the Dark Brandon meme? No, I resent the hell out of it. Okay. Now my favorite one recently is there are 18% of Americans according to recent polling have believed that you and Taylor Swift are actually working in cahoots and after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl you you posted this on social media and wrote you wrote just like we drew it up. Now can you, I have you on the hot spot here, can you confirm or deny that there is an active conspiracy between you and Miss Swift? Where are you getting this information? It's classified. But I will tell you she did endorse me in 2020. She did? I bet you might be wondering. You might be wondering. You think it might come around again? I told you it's classified. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you another question because we mentioned Parks and Rec and Parks and Rec was a show that was about how government could actually help people and it was a really optimistic show. Real quick though, well do you believe any conspiracy theories? Oh yeah, I do have one conspiracy. I think that octopus, an octopus is an alien. Okay. And the bottom of the seafloor is actually the top of the He's leaving. He's gonna go. I told you to stop telling people that. So if that's wrong don't spoil it for me. All right so Parks and Rec was about optimism. You I believe are more optimistic about this country than certainly I am, than a lot of people are. Why do you continue to be optimistic about this nation despite everything that's happened recently? Look I tell every world leader and I mean this sincerely, never underestimate the ability of American people. There's nothing beyond our capacity, nothing. Think about it. Every single crisis we've ever ever ever been in, we've come out stronger than we went in. Everyone. And folks, it's because of you, not because of your leaders, because of you really and truly. American people are incredible and we're the best. You know I've told, I asked, I was asked by Xi Jinping about when I was in Tibetan mountains with him and he said can you define America for me? I said yeah. One word. Possibility. America believes anything is possible. By the way, people step up. People here step up and look what's happened. We got the best economy in the world now. We got a long way to go but the best in the world now. We're gonna get it better. To ask you about what's coming up next, you guys, that's President Joe Biden. That's him in Florida. We'll be right back with some President Biden. you