March 21, 2023 • 29 mins
Al Franken tackles the biggest stories of the day including New York's new slogan and logo, Putin and Xi Jinping shaking hands, France's new retirement age, the Tucker Carlson producer suing Fox News, and the U.N.'s latest catastrophic climate change report. Star of HBO’s Succession, Alan Ruck discusses the show’s widely-anticipated final season
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You're listening to Comedy Central from New York City, the
only city in America gets the shows and intended news.
He's good daily shows with your host raging Welcome, Welcome
(00:34):
to the Welcome to the Daily Shadow. I'm Al Franken
and it's Tuesday, which is the day Trump told us
he was going to be arrested, which it uh, it
turns out didn't happen. So that's the So that's the
last time I believe something that guy said. We've We've
(00:56):
got a great show for you to night, and let's
get right into the headlines. Let's begin right here in
New York City, the greatest city in the world. It's
(01:18):
changing its pronouns. The iconic I Love New York logo
is getting a makeover. The new campaign we Love New
York City, launched by official staff, helped the city we
bound from the pandemic. Designers keeping the big red heart
but switching up the font a little bit. Mayor Adams
and Governor hokel on hand in Times squad to unveiled
the new logo with the help of Broadway stars and
(01:38):
community leaders. No one will ever beat New York is down,
and we took the eye out of I Love New
York and we brought the we when this together. That's right,
it's not I anymore. It's we as in week and
(02:00):
a Ford Rent. Or we just got pushed in front
of the subway, or or we just pushed someone in
front of the subway. But if you're wondering how they
(02:23):
got this incredible new slogan, I actually have some of
the some of the runners up here. Let's see some
of the other options were we love jw York. Okay,
jew York, jew York, start spreading the Jews, and then
(02:53):
they told Kanye to leave the meeting, and that's when
That's when they settled on we love New York City. Now,
let's move on to a story that's very sad for
those of us who love Fox News, because it turns
out that a producer for Tucker Carlson is suing the network,
(03:16):
saying that the network pressured her to lie in the
dominion voting machines lawsuit. And I actually wasn't surprised about
this at all, because all the way back twenty years ago,
I wrote a book about Fox News called Lies and
the Lying Liars Who tell them Lies, Lies and the
(03:41):
Lining Liars who tell them a fair and balance look
at the right, and in fact, I wanted to treat
you guys tonight. So look, all of you, look under
your seats and you'll find directions to a local bookstore
where you can buy you can buy lies for twenty
ninety nine. Okay, let's move on to international news. This week,
(04:05):
Vladimir Putin is hosting Chinese President Shi Jinping for a
three day summit in Moscow, and a lot of people
are upset with she for posing up to Putin after
he's become an international pariah. But you know what, I
think that that is exactly the time when you really
(04:27):
find out who your friends are. We should all be
so lucky to have a friend like President She, who
doesn't judge us for every little crime against humanity. And
other overseas news, there was a big win for workers
(04:49):
in France who will now get to work longer than ever.
Despite weeks of protests from lazy French people who who
wanted to keep the retirement age in sixty two, the
government has now raised the age at which workers can
retire with a pension to sixty four. And this is
(05:13):
terrible news because is leading to a revolution in France.
And last time that happened, we all had to listen
to Russell Crowe saying show tunes. So fix this right now, France.
And I'm sorry, but I have no patience for people
who need to stop working in their early sixties. I'm
(05:35):
I'm seventy one and I'm working and I haven't lost
a step feet. I'm as sharp as I was when
I started on Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live. I
(05:57):
haven't lost a step since then. And that was back
in nineteen seventy five, nearly twenty forty long decades. But
let's get to the story today that makes Let's get
(06:21):
to the story today that makes all the other stories
kind of pointless. According to the UN, We're all going
to die. Just into CNN a dire warning about the
state of the planet. A new UN report warns the
climate time bomb is ticking and the world is running
out of time to avoid disastrophe. This report tells us
(06:41):
we need a quantum leap in climate action, and every
country in the world has to reduce emissions at warp
speed to try to curb the warming of our planet.
We are nowhere close to making that Paris Agreement goal
of curbing warming to one point five degrees celsius from
pre industrial levels. To accomplish all of it, developed and
the richest nations in the world would need to reach
(07:01):
zero by twenty forty. That is going to be nearly impossible. Wow,
that's awful, But I guess a shout out to my
baby boomers. Feels like we got the last chopper out
of Saigon, and that's a reference we baby boomers understand now.
(07:24):
Part of the problem is the UN's expectation of collective action.
It's just easy to shirk your part when everybody has
to chip in. So the solution here is to call
out people individually. The next UN report shouldn't say we
all must lower our emissions. It should say, Gary, stop
(07:46):
driving your car so much. You don't You don't need
to visit your wife's grave every day. She's not keeping track.
The fact is, on our current path, we're in for
a grim future. And find out just how grim. Let's
(08:06):
go to the future to talk to dasilidik Hi. Oh, yes,
I am reporting from the year twenty seventy five. Can
you believe it? This space is ninety three? Take that,
Paul Rod, I'm afraid to ask, but how is the
(08:33):
climate crisis going sixty years from now? Climate crisis? We
sold that years ago. Look, the entire world looks like
a leaf of frank folder. Hold on, we fix climate change.
How did how did that happen? Well, it started when
the UN issued its report on March twentieth, twenty twenty three,
(08:56):
warning that we had to radically reduce carbon emissions by
twenty four party. So we read the report and we
made all the changes and saved the world. Back to you, Ala,
you're talking about the report from yesterday. Yeah, yeah, it
laid out exactly what we needed to do. So everyone
just came together and did it. Why wouldn't we Well,
(09:24):
what wasn't doing all that really expensive? Oh? Yeah, definitely was.
But the alternative was the destruction of the planet, So
of course we just spent the money. Obviously. Back to you, Al,
I can't believe it. Everything sounds so great in the future.
Oh it sure is. A little guy a grassland sparrow.
(09:51):
I thought those were going to extinct. Oh they were,
but we turned it around. We reforested the Amazon, We
got all the plastic out of the ocean and up
cycled it into friendship bracelets. That we all wear un ironically,
plus all the children in the world joined hands and
(10:13):
saying in a harmony so beautiful it ended war forever. Wow,
holy crap, Really all that happened? Oh my god, No,
you're dumb, dumb, I'm being sarcastic. You think that for
some reason, we're gonna suddenly start listening to un climate reports. No, Ell,
(10:35):
I'm not from the future. This is all fake. I
am literally in the same room as you right now.
I'm so I'm so stupid. I did. I just didn't
(10:58):
realize that. Yeah. I hate to say it, but we're
just going to keep on driving forward expeditions and burning
fossil fuels until the ocean swallows this whole. Oh well,
I guess you're right, Daisy, And you know that's our
our satirical point. If only satire had the power to
(11:21):
change the future for the better. Yeah, well, al, I
mean the good news is there's still a chance that
our sharp witted satire will inspire people to make the
necessary changes to save our planet. Wow. Really, No, were
(11:44):
you really a seditor? Yes, yes, I was, Daisy Light
like everyone. All right, when we come back, I'm going
(12:05):
to dig around in your trash, So don't go away.
(12:32):
Welcome back, Welcome back to the Daily Show, Coming to
you from fabulous New York City. New York is a
city of superlative's biggest, tallest, richest, most duane edist. But
because so many people live in New York, it's also
the trashiest city in the US. So recently I decided
(12:54):
to try and answer a very basic question. Do you
ever wonder where your garbage actually goes? As a New Yorker,
I've always kind of assumed I was taken away by
some garbage ferry after I put it outside my apartment. Well,
it turns out that's not the case. In fact, I
(13:15):
don't know what happens to it. So I'm here at
the ninety first Street transfer station to find out a
commission My guide is Jessica Tish, new York's forty first
Commissioner of Sanitation. A lifelong New Yorker with only three
Harvard degrees, Tish formerly held high ranking positions in both
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the city administration and the Police Department, and all that
has led her to this. Wow, that is that's a
lot of trash. Yeah, no, this isn't a lot of
trash for us it's probably in less than five hundred
thousand count ements. This is what you wanted to do. Yeah,
girl can dream there. It is desperate run sanitation. Why
(13:59):
did you want this? Because sanitation is the essential service.
Every day New Yorkers live twenty four million pounds of
trash and recycling. If a million pounds we don't do
our job for one day. Yeah, everyone in New York
City notices. If we don't do our jobs for two
or three days, that's a public health crisis. Commissioner Tish
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has already been a dynamo of innovation, bringing new ideas
and a breath of fresh air the Gotham's piles of garbage.
We announced this week that we're changing to set out
times for trash to eight pm. This week, the Department
of Sanitation launched its first all borro composting program. A
gift swing that you can take at cleaning up our
streets is to shut down the all night, all you
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can eat rat buffet. Tell me about you. I've been
associated with the word rat and rats because you said
something that went by the rats don't run this city.
We do. Rats don't run the city. Rats don't run
the city. We just like a mom. I think I
(15:06):
went viral. Jesse Tish took it to the rats. The
idea is one third of the material in these black
bags is food. As we're trying to take the food
a hump, post it and create soil. Now the rats
won't like that. The rats will hate that. But the
rats don't run the city. We did. Yeah, all right,
(15:29):
look out, trucks coming. I think you know what? Really,
I don't know. We have to go. This is mine? Okay,
trash here, I'm stepping in cabbage, isn't it? Oh? From here,
(15:51):
the trash is loaded into containers and put on barges.
Then makes a stop at Staten Island. What are you?
Good goots? But not even trash want us to stay there.
So then it shovels off the Buffalo by rail where
it's burned to generate electricco What what's that? Thanks scrapping
our composting mascot? Can you come over here? I got
(16:17):
a bone to pick with you. You clearly models scrappy
after me? The glasses, Dave, be kind of the jew
fro What about the eyebrows? Those are my eyebrows? Exactly?
You should be flattered. It's our composting mascot. I'm my monitor.
Thank you, thank you scrapping. Okay, go away. So far,
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I've learned that I'm a composting bin, that trash travels
more than I do, and that I don't have to
bring my own garbage bag to the transfer station. And
that's thanks to New York's unsung heroes, the track collectors
like the next let me ride along his night shift
through Manhattan's Westville. All right, all right, let's get ready
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to roll the quicker. We get it done the quicker.
The rats don't have to want to know something. The
rats don't run the city. That's true, Yes, correct, they don't.
We run the city. What about this thing about the
just the trash not being out that that is a
very smart idea, because you know what, I guess scitation
(17:22):
has been doing it for seventy eighty years. Putting it
out at four pm sits off for sixteen hours. Yeah,
it doesn't make sense to put it out at a PM,
less time on the street, less rots. It was gonna
be a long night. I wondered if I was ever
gonna make it as a garbage Hey, I'm more okaid here,
especially with the bang we're picking up garbage here. We're
(17:45):
picking up garbage here. Okay, we're gonna move, but we're
picking up garbage here. Turns out it was a natural.
You're doing it wrong. Okay, that you're back, Gonna go out,
Jesus Christ, Hey, this is easy. You ever spend three
(18:06):
hours trying to write a joke and not be able
to him? Okay, No, this is nothing. Letting you talk
another time? Blocks to go. Okay, you know, I think
you guys are fine without me, and so can you
give me a lift home? I'm on the Upper West Side.
You want to go on the back home. Even though
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Nick refused to give me a ride home, I knew
it was because he has something much more important to do.
Keep our streets clean. After all, this is New York City.
We all need to work together with mutual respect to
do it. A big thank you, A big thank you
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to Commissioner Jessica Tish, Nick and Tommy and everyone at
the Department of Sanitation. You people are amazing. We'll be
right back with succession is Alan Rock right after that.
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Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is
a wonderful actor who plays Connor Roy on the Emmy
award winning the HBO series Succession. Please welcome Alan Rock. Hello,
(19:54):
Senator Hello, somehow you got a bigger welcome than Lindsey
Graham last night. I don't know how that happened. I
love the show. My wife and I watch it every
Sunday night, and we're looking forward to Sunday for the premiere. Um. Now,
this is the saga of the roy family. Uh yeah,
(20:16):
and Connor is the oldest son, and uh, you are
maybe the least accomplished. It's sick to say that. Yeah, okay,
and I know this is going to be the last season, right,
yeah it is, So how does it end? I can't
(20:37):
do it, not even for you. I'm sorry, I can't. Okay.
Well you're you're seeing that that clip you're running for president? Yes,
I am. Okay, So you can't tell us whether or
not you win. No, but I'm working that one percent. Man.
I mean that's leverage. Okay, it might have been a
(20:58):
tip off. Maybe you don't, but you never know. Things
get weird, right, it's a crazy show. It's surprising. Yeah,
you can't out guess Jesse Armstrunk. So yeah, he's the
he's our creator and head writer. Yes, yeah, And I
heard him interviewed and he said that that your father
(21:19):
in the series, Logan Roy has said that that he
loves all his children, right, Brian Cox has said that. Right. Really,
I mean that's amazing to me. I think as much
as Logan is capable of loving anything, he does love
(21:41):
his children. He's just bitterly disappointed in all of them.
I think, so especially you don't you think, well, yeah,
they just they make me stand to the back of
the picture whenever there's the oldest son and yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's a sad little history. You know. He probably divorced
my mother when I was about eight, and I lived
(22:04):
with her for ten years, and she was in and
out of mental institutions, and I was in and out
of boarding schools, and I didn't see my father for
three or four years. So it wasn't it was like Dickens,
I think, you know, sorry, yeah, so okay, got it? Man?
(22:25):
So so in the campaign and so do you so
in the campaign you're running for president? There is a
something interesting about your marriage? Oh yes, specifically something you
(22:48):
want to talk about. Not if you don't, what's your sure? Yes,
my Willa was at one point a professional escort and
then I convinced that no, I mean, you know, you
got to make a living, and I convinced her to
have me be her exclusive client. Um and maybe against
(23:11):
her better judgment, she's actually developed some affection for me.
I wouldn't say she's in love, but she's become protective
of me over these uh and her. You produced a
play for her that she wrote, Sands. It was called Sands,
about a woman who's trapped in the desert by an
evil king. That that sounds like it could be really good. Yeah,
(23:40):
evidently not. It didn't get good reviews. I no, no,
I remember the scene where she throws the iPad off
the off the yacht. Yeah, yeah, she was, she was
having a day. Yeah. So okay, So uh, the show
it's it's it's going off the air. Yeah, that must say,
(24:04):
you must. It looks like you guys love each other,
that you guys love working with each other. I've never
seen it looks it looks like a tremendous amount of fun.
It's a brutal, brutal, emotional yeah show. But it's also
quite funny. Yeah it is. It's wickedly funny. And I
think something that helps it along is that all the
actors are wonderfully They're just wonderful, intelligent, kind hearted people
(24:28):
that are playing all these bastards, you know, so it
adds something to it that you can't help it like them,
even though they're miserable human beings. And I I am
going to miss everybody terribly, but I think Jesse's smart
to end it on this high note. Yeah. Well, sometimes
things run their course. But I just I'm going to
(24:50):
miss saying it. But I can't wait. It's Sunday is
when it starts, So it starts this Sunday coming up.
Does somebody end up getting the leadership of the company
because a lot of this has been all about one
of the six las? Yeah, succession? Yeah, nice Jack Eddy,
(25:17):
of course, of course. Yeah, I can just say that
someone does. Wow. Okay, that's that's good to know. Yeah. Now,
having gone through this, do you have any have you
developed any kind of sympathy for like Rupert Murdoc's family.
(25:38):
I guess I would be the Prudence. I guess that's
his oldest. His eldest is Prudence. Isn't that right? I
think so? Yes, don't ask me, But I don't really
feel sorry for these people at the very top of
the food chain. But they do have to do things
that we don't like. If you fall in love with somebody,
(25:59):
you just get to marry them or be with them.
You know, these people need to be vetted by the family,
and if you pick the wrong person, they just say no, no,
I can't have her. So your wife, the call girl
was vetted a sort of Yeah, they were brutally, they
were vicious toward her. But since I am dismissive, so
(26:21):
is she. You know, they don't. They didn't care about
that too much. If it was Kendall or Roman or
Chavon had married a questionable person and they would have
something because you didn't count enough. I don't count not
enough anyway. Um how many more shows, Well, there would
(26:43):
be ten. It's ten ten shows. I just can't wait
to see it. And it's just been a masterful show.
My congratulations to everyone, Frank Rich the cold producer, and
just everybody, a bunch of people we'll congratulation. Has been
the best bunch I've ever worked with, truly so and
(27:04):
I've been doing this a long time out and I
know some of the other people you've worked with, and
they're going to be really sorry to hear you know,
some of us go on a publicity tour and then
blow it. There's a lot of their old friends. But
(27:28):
but they're old friends out. Yeah. Yeah, they're not the
new They're not the new crop, which is that's who
counts everybody. New friends who can do you some good?
Isn't that right? Welcome to show business. Yeah, if we
have any advice for anyone, not just here in the
audience tonight, but anyone watching on television, new friends who
(27:49):
can help you out, helen out up. Season four Succeection
will premiere March twenty six on HBO and HBO MAC. Okay,
we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right
back after this. That's our that's our show for tonight.
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You're listening to Comedy Central from New York City, the
only city in America gets the shows and intended news.
He's good daily shows with your host raging Welcome, Welcome
(00:34):
to the Welcome to the Daily Shadow. I'm Al Franken
and it's Tuesday, which is the day Trump told us
he was going to be arrested, which it uh, it
turns out didn't happen. So that's the So that's the
last time I believe something that guy said. We've We've
(00:56):
got a great show for you to night, and let's
get right into the headlines. Let's begin right here in
New York City, the greatest city in the world. It's
(01:18):
changing its pronouns. The iconic I Love New York logo
is getting a makeover. The new campaign we Love New
York City, launched by official staff, helped the city we
bound from the pandemic. Designers keeping the big red heart
but switching up the font a little bit. Mayor Adams
and Governor hokel on hand in Times squad to unveiled
the new logo with the help of Broadway stars and
(01:38):
community leaders. No one will ever beat New York is down,
and we took the eye out of I Love New
York and we brought the we when this together. That's right,
it's not I anymore. It's we as in week and
(02:00):
a Ford Rent. Or we just got pushed in front
of the subway, or or we just pushed someone in
front of the subway. But if you're wondering how they
(02:23):
got this incredible new slogan, I actually have some of
the some of the runners up here. Let's see some
of the other options were we love jw York. Okay,
jew York, jew York, start spreading the Jews, and then
(02:53):
they told Kanye to leave the meeting, and that's when
That's when they settled on we love New York City. Now,
let's move on to a story that's very sad for
those of us who love Fox News, because it turns
out that a producer for Tucker Carlson is suing the network,
(03:16):
saying that the network pressured her to lie in the
dominion voting machines lawsuit. And I actually wasn't surprised about
this at all, because all the way back twenty years ago,
I wrote a book about Fox News called Lies and
the Lying Liars Who tell them Lies, Lies and the
(03:41):
Lining Liars who tell them a fair and balance look
at the right, and in fact, I wanted to treat
you guys tonight. So look, all of you, look under
your seats and you'll find directions to a local bookstore
where you can buy you can buy lies for twenty
ninety nine. Okay, let's move on to international news. This week,
(04:05):
Vladimir Putin is hosting Chinese President Shi Jinping for a
three day summit in Moscow, and a lot of people
are upset with she for posing up to Putin after
he's become an international pariah. But you know what, I
think that that is exactly the time when you really
(04:27):
find out who your friends are. We should all be
so lucky to have a friend like President She, who
doesn't judge us for every little crime against humanity. And
other overseas news, there was a big win for workers
(04:49):
in France who will now get to work longer than ever.
Despite weeks of protests from lazy French people who who
wanted to keep the retirement age in sixty two, the
government has now raised the age at which workers can
retire with a pension to sixty four. And this is
(05:13):
terrible news because is leading to a revolution in France.
And last time that happened, we all had to listen
to Russell Crowe saying show tunes. So fix this right now, France.
And I'm sorry, but I have no patience for people
who need to stop working in their early sixties. I'm
(05:35):
I'm seventy one and I'm working and I haven't lost
a step feet. I'm as sharp as I was when
I started on Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live. I
(05:57):
haven't lost a step since then. And that was back
in nineteen seventy five, nearly twenty forty long decades. But
let's get to the story today that makes Let's get
(06:21):
to the story today that makes all the other stories
kind of pointless. According to the UN, We're all going
to die. Just into CNN a dire warning about the
state of the planet. A new UN report warns the
climate time bomb is ticking and the world is running
out of time to avoid disastrophe. This report tells us
(06:41):
we need a quantum leap in climate action, and every
country in the world has to reduce emissions at warp
speed to try to curb the warming of our planet.
We are nowhere close to making that Paris Agreement goal
of curbing warming to one point five degrees celsius from
pre industrial levels. To accomplish all of it, developed and
the richest nations in the world would need to reach
(07:01):
zero by twenty forty. That is going to be nearly impossible. Wow,
that's awful, But I guess a shout out to my
baby boomers. Feels like we got the last chopper out
of Saigon, and that's a reference we baby boomers understand now.
(07:24):
Part of the problem is the UN's expectation of collective action.
It's just easy to shirk your part when everybody has
to chip in. So the solution here is to call
out people individually. The next UN report shouldn't say we
all must lower our emissions. It should say, Gary, stop
(07:46):
driving your car so much. You don't You don't need
to visit your wife's grave every day. She's not keeping track.
The fact is, on our current path, we're in for
a grim future. And find out just how grim. Let's
(08:06):
go to the future to talk to dasilidik Hi. Oh, yes,
I am reporting from the year twenty seventy five. Can
you believe it? This space is ninety three? Take that,
Paul Rod, I'm afraid to ask, but how is the
(08:33):
climate crisis going sixty years from now? Climate crisis? We
sold that years ago. Look, the entire world looks like
a leaf of frank folder. Hold on, we fix climate change.
How did how did that happen? Well, it started when
the UN issued its report on March twentieth, twenty twenty three,
(08:56):
warning that we had to radically reduce carbon emissions by
twenty four party. So we read the report and we
made all the changes and saved the world. Back to you, Ala,
you're talking about the report from yesterday. Yeah, yeah, it
laid out exactly what we needed to do. So everyone
just came together and did it. Why wouldn't we Well,
(09:24):
what wasn't doing all that really expensive? Oh? Yeah, definitely was.
But the alternative was the destruction of the planet, So
of course we just spent the money. Obviously. Back to you, Al,
I can't believe it. Everything sounds so great in the future.
Oh it sure is. A little guy a grassland sparrow.
(09:51):
I thought those were going to extinct. Oh they were,
but we turned it around. We reforested the Amazon, We
got all the plastic out of the ocean and up
cycled it into friendship bracelets. That we all wear un ironically,
plus all the children in the world joined hands and
(10:13):
saying in a harmony so beautiful it ended war forever. Wow,
holy crap, Really all that happened? Oh my god, No,
you're dumb, dumb, I'm being sarcastic. You think that for
some reason, we're gonna suddenly start listening to un climate reports. No, Ell,
(10:35):
I'm not from the future. This is all fake. I
am literally in the same room as you right now.
I'm so I'm so stupid. I did. I just didn't
(10:58):
realize that. Yeah. I hate to say it, but we're
just going to keep on driving forward expeditions and burning
fossil fuels until the ocean swallows this whole. Oh well,
I guess you're right, Daisy, And you know that's our
our satirical point. If only satire had the power to
(11:21):
change the future for the better. Yeah, well, al, I
mean the good news is there's still a chance that
our sharp witted satire will inspire people to make the
necessary changes to save our planet. Wow. Really, No, were
(11:44):
you really a seditor? Yes, yes, I was, Daisy Light
like everyone. All right, when we come back, I'm going
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to dig around in your trash, So don't go away.
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Welcome back, Welcome back to the Daily Show, Coming to
you from fabulous New York City. New York is a
city of superlative's biggest, tallest, richest, most duane edist. But
because so many people live in New York, it's also
the trashiest city in the US. So recently I decided
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to try and answer a very basic question. Do you
ever wonder where your garbage actually goes? As a New Yorker,
I've always kind of assumed I was taken away by
some garbage ferry after I put it outside my apartment. Well,
it turns out that's not the case. In fact, I
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don't know what happens to it. So I'm here at
the ninety first Street transfer station to find out a
commission My guide is Jessica Tish, new York's forty first
Commissioner of Sanitation. A lifelong New Yorker with only three
Harvard degrees, Tish formerly held high ranking positions in both
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the city administration and the Police Department, and all that
has led her to this. Wow, that is that's a
lot of trash. Yeah, no, this isn't a lot of
trash for us it's probably in less than five hundred
thousand count ements. This is what you wanted to do. Yeah,
girl can dream there. It is desperate run sanitation. Why
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did you want this? Because sanitation is the essential service.
Every day New Yorkers live twenty four million pounds of
trash and recycling. If a million pounds we don't do
our job for one day. Yeah, everyone in New York
City notices. If we don't do our jobs for two
or three days, that's a public health crisis. Commissioner Tish
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has already been a dynamo of innovation, bringing new ideas
and a breath of fresh air the Gotham's piles of garbage.
We announced this week that we're changing to set out
times for trash to eight pm. This week, the Department
of Sanitation launched its first all borro composting program. A
gift swing that you can take at cleaning up our
streets is to shut down the all night, all you
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can eat rat buffet. Tell me about you. I've been
associated with the word rat and rats because you said
something that went by the rats don't run this city.
We do. Rats don't run the city. Rats don't run
the city. We just like a mom. I think I
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went viral. Jesse Tish took it to the rats. The
idea is one third of the material in these black
bags is food. As we're trying to take the food
a hump, post it and create soil. Now the rats
won't like that. The rats will hate that. But the
rats don't run the city. We did. Yeah, all right,
(15:29):
look out, trucks coming. I think you know what? Really,
I don't know. We have to go. This is mine? Okay,
trash here, I'm stepping in cabbage, isn't it? Oh? From here,
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the trash is loaded into containers and put on barges.
Then makes a stop at Staten Island. What are you?
Good goots? But not even trash want us to stay there.
So then it shovels off the Buffalo by rail where
it's burned to generate electricco What what's that? Thanks scrapping
our composting mascot? Can you come over here? I got
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a bone to pick with you. You clearly models scrappy
after me? The glasses, Dave, be kind of the jew
fro What about the eyebrows? Those are my eyebrows? Exactly?
You should be flattered. It's our composting mascot. I'm my monitor.
Thank you, thank you scrapping. Okay, go away. So far,
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I've learned that I'm a composting bin, that trash travels
more than I do, and that I don't have to
bring my own garbage bag to the transfer station. And
that's thanks to New York's unsung heroes, the track collectors
like the next let me ride along his night shift
through Manhattan's Westville. All right, all right, let's get ready
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to roll the quicker. We get it done the quicker.
The rats don't have to want to know something. The
rats don't run the city. That's true, Yes, correct, they don't.
We run the city. What about this thing about the
just the trash not being out that that is a
very smart idea, because you know what, I guess scitation
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has been doing it for seventy eighty years. Putting it
out at four pm sits off for sixteen hours. Yeah,
it doesn't make sense to put it out at a PM,
less time on the street, less rots. It was gonna
be a long night. I wondered if I was ever
gonna make it as a garbage Hey, I'm more okaid here,
especially with the bang we're picking up garbage here. We're
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picking up garbage here. Okay, we're gonna move, but we're
picking up garbage here. Turns out it was a natural.
You're doing it wrong. Okay, that you're back, Gonna go out,
Jesus Christ, Hey, this is easy. You ever spend three
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hours trying to write a joke and not be able
to him? Okay, No, this is nothing. Letting you talk
another time? Blocks to go. Okay, you know, I think
you guys are fine without me, and so can you
give me a lift home? I'm on the Upper West Side.
You want to go on the back home. Even though
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Nick refused to give me a ride home, I knew
it was because he has something much more important to do.
Keep our streets clean. After all, this is New York City.
We all need to work together with mutual respect to
do it. A big thank you, A big thank you
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to Commissioner Jessica Tish, Nick and Tommy and everyone at
the Department of Sanitation. You people are amazing. We'll be
right back with succession is Alan Rock right after that.
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Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is
a wonderful actor who plays Connor Roy on the Emmy
award winning the HBO series Succession. Please welcome Alan Rock. Hello,
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Senator Hello, somehow you got a bigger welcome than Lindsey
Graham last night. I don't know how that happened. I
love the show. My wife and I watch it every
Sunday night, and we're looking forward to Sunday for the premiere. Um. Now,
this is the saga of the roy family. Uh yeah,
(20:16):
and Connor is the oldest son, and uh, you are
maybe the least accomplished. It's sick to say that. Yeah, okay,
and I know this is going to be the last season, right,
yeah it is, So how does it end? I can't
(20:37):
do it, not even for you. I'm sorry, I can't. Okay.
Well you're you're seeing that that clip you're running for president? Yes,
I am. Okay, So you can't tell us whether or
not you win. No, but I'm working that one percent. Man.
I mean that's leverage. Okay, it might have been a
(20:58):
tip off. Maybe you don't, but you never know. Things
get weird, right, it's a crazy show. It's surprising. Yeah,
you can't out guess Jesse Armstrunk. So yeah, he's the
he's our creator and head writer. Yes, yeah, And I
heard him interviewed and he said that that your father
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in the series, Logan Roy has said that that he
loves all his children, right, Brian Cox has said that. Right. Really,
I mean that's amazing to me. I think as much
as Logan is capable of loving anything, he does love
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his children. He's just bitterly disappointed in all of them.
I think, so especially you don't you think, well, yeah,
they just they make me stand to the back of
the picture whenever there's the oldest son and yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's a sad little history. You know. He probably divorced
my mother when I was about eight, and I lived
(22:04):
with her for ten years, and she was in and
out of mental institutions, and I was in and out
of boarding schools, and I didn't see my father for
three or four years. So it wasn't it was like Dickens,
I think, you know, sorry, yeah, so okay, got it? Man?
(22:25):
So so in the campaign and so do you so
in the campaign you're running for president? There is a
something interesting about your marriage? Oh yes, specifically something you
(22:48):
want to talk about. Not if you don't, what's your sure? Yes,
my Willa was at one point a professional escort and
then I convinced that no, I mean, you know, you
got to make a living, and I convinced her to
have me be her exclusive client. Um and maybe against
(23:11):
her better judgment, she's actually developed some affection for me.
I wouldn't say she's in love, but she's become protective
of me over these uh and her. You produced a
play for her that she wrote, Sands. It was called Sands,
about a woman who's trapped in the desert by an
evil king. That that sounds like it could be really good. Yeah,
(23:40):
evidently not. It didn't get good reviews. I no, no,
I remember the scene where she throws the iPad off
the off the yacht. Yeah, yeah, she was, she was
having a day. Yeah. So okay, So uh, the show
it's it's it's going off the air. Yeah, that must say,
(24:04):
you must. It looks like you guys love each other,
that you guys love working with each other. I've never
seen it looks it looks like a tremendous amount of fun.
It's a brutal, brutal, emotional yeah show. But it's also
quite funny. Yeah it is. It's wickedly funny. And I
think something that helps it along is that all the
actors are wonderfully They're just wonderful, intelligent, kind hearted people
(24:28):
that are playing all these bastards, you know, so it
adds something to it that you can't help it like them,
even though they're miserable human beings. And I I am
going to miss everybody terribly, but I think Jesse's smart
to end it on this high note. Yeah. Well, sometimes
things run their course. But I just I'm going to
(24:50):
miss saying it. But I can't wait. It's Sunday is
when it starts, So it starts this Sunday coming up.
Does somebody end up getting the leadership of the company
because a lot of this has been all about one
of the six las? Yeah, succession? Yeah, nice Jack Eddy,
(25:17):
of course, of course. Yeah, I can just say that
someone does. Wow. Okay, that's that's good to know. Yeah. Now,
having gone through this, do you have any have you
developed any kind of sympathy for like Rupert Murdoc's family.
(25:38):
I guess I would be the Prudence. I guess that's
his oldest. His eldest is Prudence. Isn't that right? I
think so? Yes, don't ask me, But I don't really
feel sorry for these people at the very top of
the food chain. But they do have to do things
that we don't like. If you fall in love with somebody,
(25:59):
you just get to marry them or be with them.
You know, these people need to be vetted by the family,
and if you pick the wrong person, they just say no, no,
I can't have her. So your wife, the call girl
was vetted a sort of Yeah, they were brutally, they
were vicious toward her. But since I am dismissive, so
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is she. You know, they don't. They didn't care about
that too much. If it was Kendall or Roman or
Chavon had married a questionable person and they would have
something because you didn't count enough. I don't count not
enough anyway. Um how many more shows, Well, there would
(26:43):
be ten. It's ten ten shows. I just can't wait
to see it. And it's just been a masterful show.
My congratulations to everyone, Frank Rich the cold producer, and
just everybody, a bunch of people we'll congratulation. Has been
the best bunch I've ever worked with, truly so and
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I've been doing this a long time out and I
know some of the other people you've worked with, and
they're going to be really sorry to hear you know,
some of us go on a publicity tour and then
blow it. There's a lot of their old friends. But
(27:28):
but they're old friends out. Yeah. Yeah, they're not the
new They're not the new crop, which is that's who
counts everybody. New friends who can do you some good?
Isn't that right? Welcome to show business. Yeah, if we
have any advice for anyone, not just here in the
audience tonight, but anyone watching on television, new friends who
(27:49):
can help you out, helen out up. Season four Succeection
will premiere March twenty six on HBO and HBO MAC. Okay,
we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right
back after this. That's our that's our show for tonight.
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But before we go. When I was in the Senate,
one of my favorite pieces of legislation was matching service
dogs with veterans with PTSD. The organization Hero Dogs raises,
trains and places wonderful in life changing service dogs with veterans.
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