September 20, 2021 • 38 mins
Nurses experience pandemic burnout in the U.S., Trevor rolls out the second annual Pandemmy Awards, and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman discusses her documentary special "Darkness to Light."
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central. You know, I feel like
I feel like kids are lucky these days, because I mean,
they're always lucky. Kids are the luckiest because they get
like a a lollipop when they get a vaccine shot.
Like just when you get a shot in general, you
get like a you get a lollipop. And then when
you get older, they just stopped giving you the lollipop.
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But I mean we still I mean, why do you
not need a lollipop? I don't understand what that has
to do with anything, because you still got the shop.
There's no need to stop giving people a lollipop, do
you know what I mean? But then if I ask
for a lollipop, then my doctors grow up, Trevor, like
I'm growing up. But I just like lollipops. I just
think it's you know, just whatever. I mean. I could
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buy my own lollipops, yeah, but that's not the point.
Like a free lollipop is very different to like like
a lollipop, Like it's like a reparations lollipop for something
that has happened in your life. Do you know what
I mean? Buying your own lollipop. That's ridiculous because now
I'm just like a guy, a grown man, just going
into store. Can I have a lollipop? Please? Coming to
you from the time, the most important place, it's the
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Daily Here's addition, tonight the nurses are not all right,
COVID's biggest stars. He's the Daily Show with Trevor on.
All right, let's kick things off with the wildfires. They
when climate change says you're gonna learn today in California,
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wildfires have been spreading like uh, what's something that spreads fast?
Like really fast? Anyway, For months now, these wildfires have
been burning down thousands and thousands of trees, which is
bad enough, but now they're threatening to burn down famous trees.
The Associated Press says California firefighters are scrambling to protect
a grove of giant, ancient sequoia trees. Yesterday, flames reached
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one grove, where the trail of one giants sequoias is
a national monument. Firefighters battle to keep the blaze from
driving further into an other grove of two thousand sequoias.
That's where the base of the world's largest tree, known
as the General Sherman, and other trees have been wrapped
and protective foil Yeah, that's right, protective foil. Imagine being
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the scientists who figured this one out. A right. One
minute you're in the cafeteria about to eat a baked potato,
and the next minute you're like, wait a minute. And
it's a great plan too, because even if the foil
doesn't save the tree, well, it's gonna make that tree delicious.
That would is just gonna fall off the bone. And
I know it may seem extreme that they're going to
all these lengths for one tree, but guys, you don't
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get it. This is a celebrity tree. You know. It's
the same way we all shrugged off coronavirus until Tom
Hanks got it. Then we shut the whole planet down.
Tom's got it. Not to mention, General Sherman isn't just
the largest tree in the world. It has also been
around for over two thousand years. Yeah, think about it.
That tree probably knew the crush that Jesus died on.
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It sees a crucifix and it's like, Steve, Steve, mean,
you realize that tree is so old. It was around
during slavery and it did nothing to stop it. You
just stood there and watched us tree. You watched us
then again, I feel like there's something we don't consider right.
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Two thousand years is a long time for anything to
be alive, Like, how do we know that this tree
actually wants to be saved? It might have been happy
to see the fire comings the circle of life. At last,
I can finally be at peace years with no well,
the humans, the wrapping man for us. What are you doing?
You're stupid humans. No, my wife is waiting for me
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in tree having you idiots wait for me, Linda, wait
for me, And don't you be boning Steve up there?
All right, but let's move now from the crisis in
California to the crisis in Afghanistan, a retirement home for
America's most expensive weapons. Since the Taliban took back control
of the country, they've announced that girls cannot go to
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school and that women are allowed to play sports or
hold most jobs. So basically, it's like if Britney's conservative ship,
we're a country and after some hard work restricting women's rights,
it looks like the Taliban are awarding themselves with some
much deserved R and R. That's been three weeks since
the US military left Afghanistan. The Taliban it's apparently taking
advantage of the abandoned luxuries that were left behind. Take
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a look at these photos that were posted by a
journalists that have gone viral. The shows the Taliban fighters
in pedal boats on the lake of an empty park,
militants at the waters in the you know, the summer
shaped like swan or flamingo whatever other bird themed vessels.
Taliban members we've seen pedaling around carrying an arsenal of weapons,
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including one looks to be a rocket launcher in one shot.
Goddamn America only left Afghanistan two weeks ago and the
Taliban already has a navy. And by the way, just
a tip for the Taliban um, I think once you're
peddling inside a swan boat, you can put the rocket
launcher down for a minute. Guys. Yeah, I mean, I'm
sure they have to feel like they have to be
armed in case of skirmish breaks out, but you're still
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in the paddle boat, you know, like it's like a paradox.
Can't be gangster in a paddle boat. It's an infidel.
Let's go them. And you know, honestly, I think Americans
should be happy about the story because for twenty years,
America tried to export its values to Afghanistan and it worked. Yeah.
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Now the Taliban all posing like Instagram influences. Okay, take
one of me with the rock at luncher next to
the swan. What do you think this is going to
get so many likes? All right? And finally a story
about insects. They're having sex in your hair right now.
And now there's also a new one that is terrorizing
the United States. Say hello to the spotted lantern fly.
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While they may look pretty, officials warn these pests are
wreaking havoc on fruit crops, trees, and even lawn furniture
up and down the East Coast. The quick moving pests,
native to Asa and known for their pale, pinkish gray wings,
black dots, and scarlet undercoat, were first documented in Pennsylvania.
While they aren't a threat to humans or pets, they
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feed off seventy types of plants and trees. In the
four years since they first showed up at Vine Crest
Vineyards and Winery in Pennsylvania, they've caused hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of damage. If you see them, we
want you to identify it and we want you to
squish it okay, whoa whoa wa whoa whoa whoa. You
can't just tell untrained civilians to go insect hunting. It's
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gonna end in disaster. People are gonna be out on
the street killing innocent butterflies. I got it, Ah ship,
What have I done? I'll just say it was affiliated
with ISIS. Does that work? I mean, I will say though,
this is a less change of pace. You know, usually
the government's always telling us, Oh, you have to save
this animal, save that animal, and now finally we have
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an animal we're supposed to kill. I think it's good
to have that balance in life. You know, Yeah, you
want to save the spotted owl, but then you're allowed
to squish this little ship. I think all rules should
be like that, Like if we're required to wear masks,
who should be allowed not to wear pants in public?
That's balanced. It's yin and yang. So basically, it's up
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to all of us to stop this invasive species from
destroying everything. I don't know how confident I am, guys,
because judging by our current track record on coming together
to stop a deadly threat, I feel like we're only
a few weeks away from the world being covered in
these spotted lantern flies. You can't make me stomp on
the lantern flyer. This is a free country. Are all
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over me? So much freedom? Too much freedom? All right,
But let's move on to our top story, the coronavirus pandemic.
It's the second war. America is losing. This pandemic has
been making life really hard on a lot of people,
restaurant owners, students, horses who just have to get used
to being full of worms now. But perhaps nobody has
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been hit harder than nurses. I mean, you will remember,
early in the pandemic, whenever seven pm rolled around, we
all stopped what we were doing. We would go out
to our windows and we would clap for the nurses.
I mean I did it every night, unless I was
in the middle of a really good show or something
like Tiger King. Oh you guys remember Tiger King. Oh man, damn,
that got us through some of the tough times. Yeah,
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give it up a tiger King as a tiger king,
maybe I love it. But the point is we all
recognized the heroic sacrifices that healthcare workers were making during
the pandemic, and then at some point we all stopped clapping.
But nurses never stopped sacrificing, and right now things are
as bad as ever. A grim picture as the delta
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variant grips the nation. Hospitals across the country overwhelmed by
the unvaccinated. Right now of the people in the hospital
with COVID, and nearly all the COVID deaths being reported
are among the unvaccinated. Exhaustion turning into outright anger. For
some healthcare workers treating unvaccinated COVID patients were frustrated or aggregated.
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This could have been prevented. We could have avoided this
whole wave if more people in our country had gone
and just gotten two shots. When they're all these people
who are dying who didn't get vaccinated, are wishing rank
out to vaccination. It's wearing and it makes us angry. Yeah, people,
I don't blame these healthcare workers one bit for feeling
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fed up. They're being forced to deal with a completely
preventable crisis. That's not what they signed up for. They
signed up to treat people for things that we don't
have vaccines for, and to pretend not to judge you
when you've got weird things stuck up your butt, Like
nurses don't have a problem treating people that were rescued
from a burning building. But I think what would annoy
nurses though, would be treating people who intentionally ran into
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the building because they saw a TikTok that said fire
can't burn you if you in your thirties. I mean,
think about how frustrating this has got to be. This
pandemic could be under control by now, and it should
be under control, but now they have to fight it
all over again. It's like if when World War Two ended,
everybody said hit let's dad, let's go home, and then
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one guy was like, no, wait I fixed them guys. No,
he's not angry than ever. So nurses are understanding me
Pistolf right now, And no matter how dedicated you ought
to a profession, everyone has a breaking point, and nearly
two years into serving on the front lines of this war,
a lot of them are starting to update their LinkedIn's.
Some hospitals experiencing critical staffing shortages, as frontline workers say
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they feel like they're underwater. Survey during the pandemic found
that six of intensive care nurses are burned out burnout
stress grueling hours. There are multiple reasons career nurses are
choosing to leave. Mississippi has at least two thousand fewer
nurses than it did at the beginning of the year.
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In Kentucky, more than twenty hospitals report critical staffing shortages.
In hard hit New York, they was a fo increase
in nurses looking for new jobs. People just still, honestly
do not understand how severe this is, how bad staffing
for nursing is. When tom's are tough and things are
getting rough, they'll have a pizza party. You know, you
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guys are spread really, really thin, and we can't get
new nurses. But here's pizza. Okay. No, people, No, you
cannot solve a nurse shortage with a pizza party. In fact,
it's probably gonna make the problem worse because it's the
lost food you want to feed someone who needs to
stay awake for a double shift. I mean, how many
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times have you had a pizza and then gone on
to run a marathon? Never, that's how many times you
fell asleep on the couch covered in pepperoni grease, using
the empty box as a blanket, which is surprisingly warm.
But obviously, nurses quitting is a huge problem because it's
not like you're filling most of those positions. I mean,
who would want to become a nurse now in the
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middle of a pandemic? So why do you want to
be a nurse? I get to hold the bags of
p Well you're the only person who applied, so congrats
you got the job. Look, man, nobody can blame nurses
who decide that they just can't take this anymore, because
people quit jobs for way less like way less, I
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once quit a job because I forgot my computer password
and I was not in the mood for another wedgie
from it. But for those who do remain, the dwindling
number of nurses means that their job is only getting harder,
and as an extra insult, some of their colleagues are
abandon ship for a much stupider reason at a time
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when they're already staffing shortages. Some nurses are threatening to
quit if forced to get the COVID vaccine. One hospital
in upstate New York will stop delivering babies after workers
resigned over vaccine mandates. Houston Hospital System has fired or
accepted the resignations of more than one hundred and fifteen
nurses and other staff members who refused mandatory COVID vaccinations.
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Show of hands. How many of you have gotten a
COVID vaccine? These are four healthcare workers from different hospitals
in North Carolina. Why not? We don't know what the
long term side effects are. It also hasn't been proven
to be effective. The CDC and many public health experts
say that it's more than affective. I have the right
to question anybody in this country. I want to question.
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You're entitled to her an opinion. But these are facts?
Are they though? Are they fact? Wow? Yo? This nurse
is a genius. Yo. She knows in order to stop
an unvaccinated person, you must first think like an unvaccinated person.
In order to kill COVID, you must first die of COVID.
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It's so obvious now for real, guys, how are you
going to be a nurse and not believe in medicine?
It's like working at home depot and not believing that
you should hide from customers? Hello? Can anybody tell me
where the ladders are? Hello? And you know what blows
my mind about this whole thing is that these are
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healthcare professionals who are falling for this stuff. Like It's
one thing when I'm getting medical advice from a random website,
but I don't want my nurse to also be like,
I'm gonna give you these pills that I heard about
on Reddit. Yeah, they got a ton of up votes.
So in large parts thanks to unvaccinated people, the burden
that has been placed on nurses is almost unimaginable. And maybe,
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for whatever reason, you don't have any sympathy for the nurses,
you know, maybe you're like, uh, I don't know, an asshole.
Well guess what when they aren't enough nurses to go
around and the ones who are there are burnt out,
well you might be the one who ends up paying
the price. Across the United States and nursing shortages are
causing glazing care and they increase the risk of medical error. Normally,
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critical care nurses or one to one or one to two,
so one nurse for every two patients. Right now they're
seeing one to three, one to four, one to five nurses,
some hospitals caring for as many as ten patients. Every
patient added to a nurse's workload is associated with a
seven percent increase in the odds of patient will die
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just after common surgical procedures. Health Care advocates warned nurse
burnout can lead to life or death. Medical mistakes, including
chart errors, administering incorrect doses of medication, even applying medical
treatments to the wrong patient. A burned out nurse is
a dangerous nurse. An exhausted nurse is not a safe nurse. Yeah, guys,
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this should be obvious, but nurses are the lost people
you want making mistakes on the job. If someone working
at Taco Bell is burnt out in distracted, the worst
thing that happens is you walk out of there with
a tortilla wrapped in cheese instead of cheese wrapped in
a tortilla. But the mistakes that nurses can make are
much more serious, and this is something that should scare
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even the anti vax is out there. Like you might
think you'll never get sick from COVID, but don't forget.
Selfish pricks can end up in the hospital for lots
of reasons. I mean, what if you bust your larynx
from screaming out of waiter. Now you're in the hospital
and your voice is too hoarsed to tell the burnt
out nurse that they accidentally hooked up your ivy to
a bag of pea. No, wait, that's my pa I
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know now, Look. The good news is, whether you're someone
who cares about nurses or you're just someone who doesn't
want to die from a bad paper cup, there is
something that you can do to show your gratitude to
the nurses and make their lives less miserable. Take a look.
Nurses need our help now more than ever, and it's
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time for us all to do our part. I agree.
That's why I'm going to start clapping again every night
at seven. No, nurses don't want that. They want you
to get vaccinated. Oh, I'm still gathering research. Shut up
and go get vaccinated. Okay, all right, I'm supporting our
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nurses with Facebook posts. Did you get the vaccine? Yeah?
I will. I've just been too busy to schedule it.
You know, why not schedule it now? Sure, go ahead,
I'll watch nurses need nothings get vaccinated. Okay, I'm going
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I'm going. Okay, drop the damn weapins, go up the door.
Let's go. So come on, America, let's do our part.
Do our part means get vaccinated just one time? Are
you just kidding me? All right, when we come back,
we'll look at the big winners of the COVID pandemic
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stick around, Welcome back to the Daily Show. As you know,
last night was the seven third Annual Emmy Awards a
k a. Television's birthday party, and I was actually at
the ceremony in Los Angeles just last night. But as
fun as the Emmys are, I'm even more excited about
the second Annual Pandemi Awards. You see, last year, at
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this time, we thought it would be fun to honor
some of the most outstanding performances of the coronavirus pandemic,
and we really blew it out because we were all like, well,
we definitely won't be doing this more than once. I mean,
it's not like COVID will still be a thing in September.
Remember when we had hope you guys remember that. So yeah,
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the Pandemics are back, and once again, you guys at
home are going to be voting for the winners. So focus.
We've got ten categories this year and they're all extremely competitive.
For instance, there were a lot of people who compared
Present Biden's anti COVID efforts to various events from the past.
But these nominees for Best Historical Adaptation, well they read
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really reached for the stars. The nominees for Best historical
Adaptation are Tucker Carlson, Jim Crow Medical Jim Crow has
come to America. If we still had water fountains, the
unvaccinated would have separate ones. Steve Hilton apartheid, Fauci wants mosque,
Apartheide in our schools. Candice Owens segregation. We have an
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administration that is reintroducing segregation again in this country under
the guise of medical safety. Marjorie Taylor Green Nazi Germany.
You know, we can look back in a time and
history where people were told to wear a gold star
and they were definitely treated like second class of citizens,
so much so that they were putting trains and taken
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to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly
the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
Who that's a tough category. I mean, as a South
African night, I think the Apotheide comparison was easily the best.
You know, like being forced to wear masks is a
lot like apartite. And we all remember how Nelson Mandela said,
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I referrals to wear a first diaper like some liptodd
cock famous words man, because that's what apartite was you know,
if you didn't choose to be white, then you were oppressed,
And this is the exact same thing. And you know,
one of the reasons I love this category so much
is that all of these people are making wild historical
analogies when there's already an actual history of pandemics and
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vaccine mandates, like they could be comparing it to today.
They don't need to make up a new thing. You know.
It's like if tomorrow an enormous passenger ship crashed into
an iceberg, and then some pundit was like, I'll tell
you what, this is exactly like the Japanese internment camps.
Or it's like the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, what revenuant? Yeah, yeah,
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I guess it's like that's like a bear attack too,
I guess. Now. It's always exciting to cheer on the
politicians and the pundits, but at the pandemis some of
the highlights are the show stopping turns from people who
aren't famous. Phenominees for outstanding dramatic performance by a concerned
citizen on vaccine made me magnetic. Explain to me why
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the key sticks to me? Yeah, so if somebody can
explain this, it would be great. Black light two point os? Yes,
what else? You take a black light flashlight and then
shining on your base and you're now gonna glow in
the black light because guess what, you're no longer human,
You're two point os and we are afraid of you.
Bio weapon jab. This is a plandemic, fake virus, bio
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weapon jab Trump one. Good guys, bad things, yes, hal coming,
and I'm not doing it to clotting anybody. But there's
a lot of good guys out there ready to do
bad things. So Hail fauci love. We asked how many
vaccines have you had? Little bit God little not saying
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by I'll say, okay. I want that guy to win. Yeah,
just because of how incredible his acceptance speech will be.
I want to dug so many people. Oh, my agent,
Arii Gold, Hell, my whole team at the hell, my
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wife and kids. Hi love you, guys, go to bed.
Don't you play that music for me? I'll kill you.
I'll kill you. Stop that music right now, I'll kill you.
Although I do think the black Light Lady also deserves
an award to I mean, just for everything that she's
been through you know, pandemic aside, that's somebody who has
accidentally seen a lot of sperm. Now, as exciting as
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this category is, it's one thing to turn in an
epic performance at a public hearing. I mean that's basically
like being on stage with the script. What I really
admire is people who can think on their feet and
improvise a scene where you don't expect one like these
nominates for best mile high Meltdown. The nominees for best
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mile high Meltdown are You're a liar, a flyar, You're
a liar? Southwest flight attendant telling this passenger to get
off the plane after apparently refusing to wear her masks.
The flight attendant even does a dance. This is tyranny.
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We don't stand up and all I gonna get work.
You guys suck. I'm don't you really one sucking morning
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morning one warning? Okay, I know the guy eating his
mosque seems like a shoeing, but you never know, you know,
maybe that was just a better meal option and those
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dry ass plain meals. And I do hope whoever wins
this award offers to share the award with the one
person in particular who helped them all achieve this honor,
the bartender at Terminal four, although they probably won't be
able to accept the award in person since they're all
on the no fly list now, which is why this
category is probably brought to you by Hurts rent a car. Hurts.
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At least the only person going insane will be you. Anyway.
That's just a preview of the awards that you can
vote on right now. All you have to do is
go to Pandemi Awards dot com to watch all the
videos and vote for your favorites, and then follow us
online to find out who wins. I'm just kidding, we
all lose, all right. When we come back, Olympic superstar
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Allie Risman will talk to me about her documentary that's
shaken gymnastics to its call, So don't go away. Welcome
back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a
gymnast and a six time Olympic medalist, Allie Riceman. She's
here to talk about shining light on sexual abuse and
advocating for survivors in her new documentary special Darkness to Light.
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Welcome to the Daily Show. Hi, how are you? Thanks
for having me? I'm doing fantastic. Thank you so much
for being on. Most people who know you, you know,
whether they know you from being an Olympic champion or
whether they know you're from being like the face of
Team USA, know you because you evoke a positive emotion
in them. They know you because you know, we've cheered
for you, we've celebrated your victories, and and we've been
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there when things have been tough. But over the past
few years, some of the tough has been tougher than
it has to be for any human being out there.
You know, recently we saw yourself and your teammates testifying
in front of Congress talking about one of the most
harrowing stories in American gymnastics history and an abuse case
that really should never have gotten to the point that
it got to. You have a special that is talking
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about this where you delve into the subject and I
know it's really sensitive. So so let's start with that.
As a survivor, as somebody who is is dealing with
the story every single day, were you not afraid that
as Ali riceman you would trigger yourself and being a
place whereas a person you might you might bring up
so many of the issues that you've been trying to
work on since, you know, since the deal. You know,
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when I first shared my story publicly, I never imagined
all support that I would get. And I'm continually blown
away by the support that myself and my teammates and
UM fellow survivors, the support that we get, and I
want people to know how much that has personally helped
me and it helps me get out of bed on
the toughest days. UM. What people, what I didn't realize
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when I first came forward is like I hadn't processed
it on my own. So I think what I am
realizing over the last few years as I'm dealing with
the abuse personally but also publicly at the same time.
So I never thought about that because everything kind of
happened so fast, and it was more of a decision
of I can't sit back and watch these organizations do nothing.
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So I think the way that I can compare it
to is sometimes it feels like an open wound that
won't heal. And you know, what people also don't often
realize is abuse isn't something that you just suffer in
the moment and unfortunately can carry on with you for
a really long time and the way a survivor heals
is linked to how their abuse is handled, and so
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the power of one adult supporting a survivor and doing
the right thing is is so important. And so I
think our case has been so public and while I'm
so grateful for the support that we have um from
people all over the world, it's incredible, the organizations and
people and positions of power, you know, continue to cover
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it up, gaslight us, and treat us so horribly. So
I'm trying now in my everyday moments to focus on
the support that I feel from strangers and people in
my family, because I know that most survivors don't get
the support that I get. So I do feel very
lucky when when you were making this the special, you
had to relive a lot of your trauma, You had
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to speak to fellow survivors and I mean talk through
some of the worst experiences that they had. From your
perspective alone, what do you think justice looks like? What
do you think the changes need to be in order
for people to feel more protected in the world that
clearly hasn't protected them for so long? Yeah, it was
really interesting. So, but for I filmed the show Darkness
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to light with lifetime. I used to think that justice
to me was accountability, and I still think that it
does in some capacity. UM and I also think that
it means that we need to be looking at a
full and independent investigation of the FBI, USA, Gymnastics in
the United States, Olympic and Paralympic Committee and looking at
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the interplay among all three organizations going back decades. Nobody's
off limits. Nothing's off limits, access to text, messages, data,
everything and anything. So we understand who knew what when,
and there's no guesswork or no speculation. In my opinion,
that's the only way we can believe in a safer future.
But there is When I was filming the show, we
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had UM a bunch of different survivors on, and one
of the survivors had mentioned that to her, justice meant
that it never happened. And that is something that has
stuck with me. That is really UM really has stuck
with me. UM and I've thought a lot about and
you know, it was it was not surprising, unfortunately, with
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the world that we live in, where you know, my
abuser is in jail. But there were many survivors that
I met with that didn't feel safe going to law enforcement,
and so it was. I am grateful that they gave
me the time to share their stories with me and
to hear everyone's different perspective on what justice meant to them.
UM was really eye opening to me and has really
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actually changed the way that I viewed justice because I
recognized that it's such a privilege that my abuser is
in jail. And just even the fact that I felt
comfortable going to law enforcement, UM, I know so many
other survivors don't have that, and I don't want to
live in a world like that. For yourself, as an individual,
as Addie Riceman, what do you do that helps you heal? Like,
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where have you found your healing comes from? Beyond just
bearing it, beyond trying to forget about it? How do
you work on healing those wounds? M I've thought about
this a lot, and you know, I think about this
in the sense of, for example, with the last couple
of days, if Maggie, Michaela or Simone came to me
and said that they were struggling, I would listen to them.
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I would try to be a good friend to them.
I would tell them that however they feel is valid
and take time for themselves today. For example, before um
this interview, was having a little bit of a tougher
day since I had since I testified, and I was
starting to be a little bit hard on myself because
I think often we can be our own biggest critics.
And I thought to myself, if Simone was calling me
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right now, I would be nicer to her than I'm
being to myself. And so I think the biggest thing
in my healing is recognizing I need to have self
compassion and be nice to myself, and coming from the
sport of gymnastics, where it's all about trying to be perfect,
that's hard for me to do and to be kind
to myself and um, you know, even when I do interviews,
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I watched them back and I'm hard on myself if
I feel like I didn't say the right thing, because
I know that so many survivors don't have the platform
that I have, and I take that very seriously. So
the biggest thing for me has been being nice to
myself and treating myself the way that I would treat
a loved one or someone that I care about. But
it's definitely something that I work on and it's a
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struggle sometimes. Well, I'll tell you this much. You inspire
everyone who's been through a similar circumstance, and uh, I
think you inspire the rest of us to try and
make the world a little bit better and to hopefully
not as be as hard in ourselves as we live
our daily lives. So I'm Alie, thank you so much
for taking the time. Thank you for um, I think
you know, creating a special that's really going to resonate
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with a lot of people and hopefully this won't be
something that happens to so many others out there. Thank
you so much of the time, Alie, thank you. Don't
forget Ali Riceman. Darkness to Light premiere September on Lifetime.
We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
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This has been a Comedy Central podcast. W
You're listening to Comedy Central. You know, I feel like
I feel like kids are lucky these days, because I mean,
they're always lucky. Kids are the luckiest because they get
like a a lollipop when they get a vaccine shot.
Like just when you get a shot in general, you
get like a you get a lollipop. And then when
you get older, they just stopped giving you the lollipop.
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But I mean we still I mean, why do you
not need a lollipop? I don't understand what that has
to do with anything, because you still got the shop.
There's no need to stop giving people a lollipop, do
you know what I mean? But then if I ask
for a lollipop, then my doctors grow up, Trevor, like
I'm growing up. But I just like lollipops. I just
think it's you know, just whatever. I mean. I could
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buy my own lollipops, yeah, but that's not the point.
Like a free lollipop is very different to like like
a lollipop, Like it's like a reparations lollipop for something
that has happened in your life. Do you know what
I mean? Buying your own lollipop. That's ridiculous because now
I'm just like a guy, a grown man, just going
into store. Can I have a lollipop? Please? Coming to
you from the time, the most important place, it's the
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Daily Here's addition, tonight the nurses are not all right,
COVID's biggest stars. He's the Daily Show with Trevor on.
All right, let's kick things off with the wildfires. They
when climate change says you're gonna learn today in California,
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wildfires have been spreading like uh, what's something that spreads fast?
Like really fast? Anyway, For months now, these wildfires have
been burning down thousands and thousands of trees, which is
bad enough, but now they're threatening to burn down famous trees.
The Associated Press says California firefighters are scrambling to protect
a grove of giant, ancient sequoia trees. Yesterday, flames reached
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one grove, where the trail of one giants sequoias is
a national monument. Firefighters battle to keep the blaze from
driving further into an other grove of two thousand sequoias.
That's where the base of the world's largest tree, known
as the General Sherman, and other trees have been wrapped
and protective foil Yeah, that's right, protective foil. Imagine being
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the scientists who figured this one out. A right. One
minute you're in the cafeteria about to eat a baked potato,
and the next minute you're like, wait a minute. And
it's a great plan too, because even if the foil
doesn't save the tree, well, it's gonna make that tree delicious.
That would is just gonna fall off the bone. And
I know it may seem extreme that they're going to
all these lengths for one tree, but guys, you don't
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get it. This is a celebrity tree. You know. It's
the same way we all shrugged off coronavirus until Tom
Hanks got it. Then we shut the whole planet down.
Tom's got it. Not to mention, General Sherman isn't just
the largest tree in the world. It has also been
around for over two thousand years. Yeah, think about it.
That tree probably knew the crush that Jesus died on.
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It sees a crucifix and it's like, Steve, Steve, mean,
you realize that tree is so old. It was around
during slavery and it did nothing to stop it. You
just stood there and watched us tree. You watched us
then again, I feel like there's something we don't consider right.
(03:17):
Two thousand years is a long time for anything to
be alive, Like, how do we know that this tree
actually wants to be saved? It might have been happy
to see the fire comings the circle of life. At last,
I can finally be at peace years with no well,
the humans, the wrapping man for us. What are you doing?
You're stupid humans. No, my wife is waiting for me
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in tree having you idiots wait for me, Linda, wait
for me, And don't you be boning Steve up there?
All right, but let's move now from the crisis in
California to the crisis in Afghanistan, a retirement home for
America's most expensive weapons. Since the Taliban took back control
of the country, they've announced that girls cannot go to
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school and that women are allowed to play sports or
hold most jobs. So basically, it's like if Britney's conservative ship,
we're a country and after some hard work restricting women's rights,
it looks like the Taliban are awarding themselves with some
much deserved R and R. That's been three weeks since
the US military left Afghanistan. The Taliban it's apparently taking
advantage of the abandoned luxuries that were left behind. Take
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a look at these photos that were posted by a
journalists that have gone viral. The shows the Taliban fighters
in pedal boats on the lake of an empty park,
militants at the waters in the you know, the summer
shaped like swan or flamingo whatever other bird themed vessels.
Taliban members we've seen pedaling around carrying an arsenal of weapons,
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including one looks to be a rocket launcher in one shot.
Goddamn America only left Afghanistan two weeks ago and the
Taliban already has a navy. And by the way, just
a tip for the Taliban um, I think once you're
peddling inside a swan boat, you can put the rocket
launcher down for a minute. Guys. Yeah, I mean, I'm
sure they have to feel like they have to be
armed in case of skirmish breaks out, but you're still
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in the paddle boat, you know, like it's like a paradox.
Can't be gangster in a paddle boat. It's an infidel.
Let's go them. And you know, honestly, I think Americans
should be happy about the story because for twenty years,
America tried to export its values to Afghanistan and it worked. Yeah.
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Now the Taliban all posing like Instagram influences. Okay, take
one of me with the rock at luncher next to
the swan. What do you think this is going to
get so many likes? All right? And finally a story
about insects. They're having sex in your hair right now.
And now there's also a new one that is terrorizing
the United States. Say hello to the spotted lantern fly.
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While they may look pretty, officials warn these pests are
wreaking havoc on fruit crops, trees, and even lawn furniture
up and down the East Coast. The quick moving pests,
native to Asa and known for their pale, pinkish gray wings,
black dots, and scarlet undercoat, were first documented in Pennsylvania.
While they aren't a threat to humans or pets, they
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feed off seventy types of plants and trees. In the
four years since they first showed up at Vine Crest
Vineyards and Winery in Pennsylvania, they've caused hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of damage. If you see them, we
want you to identify it and we want you to
squish it okay, whoa whoa wa whoa whoa whoa. You
can't just tell untrained civilians to go insect hunting. It's
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gonna end in disaster. People are gonna be out on
the street killing innocent butterflies. I got it, Ah ship,
What have I done? I'll just say it was affiliated
with ISIS. Does that work? I mean, I will say though,
this is a less change of pace. You know, usually
the government's always telling us, Oh, you have to save
this animal, save that animal, and now finally we have
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an animal we're supposed to kill. I think it's good
to have that balance in life. You know, Yeah, you
want to save the spotted owl, but then you're allowed
to squish this little ship. I think all rules should
be like that, Like if we're required to wear masks,
who should be allowed not to wear pants in public?
That's balanced. It's yin and yang. So basically, it's up
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to all of us to stop this invasive species from
destroying everything. I don't know how confident I am, guys,
because judging by our current track record on coming together
to stop a deadly threat, I feel like we're only
a few weeks away from the world being covered in
these spotted lantern flies. You can't make me stomp on
the lantern flyer. This is a free country. Are all
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over me? So much freedom? Too much freedom? All right,
But let's move on to our top story, the coronavirus pandemic.
It's the second war. America is losing. This pandemic has
been making life really hard on a lot of people,
restaurant owners, students, horses who just have to get used
to being full of worms now. But perhaps nobody has
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been hit harder than nurses. I mean, you will remember,
early in the pandemic, whenever seven pm rolled around, we
all stopped what we were doing. We would go out
to our windows and we would clap for the nurses.
I mean I did it every night, unless I was
in the middle of a really good show or something
like Tiger King. Oh you guys remember Tiger King. Oh man, damn,
that got us through some of the tough times. Yeah,
(08:19):
give it up a tiger King as a tiger king,
maybe I love it. But the point is we all
recognized the heroic sacrifices that healthcare workers were making during
the pandemic, and then at some point we all stopped clapping.
But nurses never stopped sacrificing, and right now things are
as bad as ever. A grim picture as the delta
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variant grips the nation. Hospitals across the country overwhelmed by
the unvaccinated. Right now of the people in the hospital
with COVID, and nearly all the COVID deaths being reported
are among the unvaccinated. Exhaustion turning into outright anger. For
some healthcare workers treating unvaccinated COVID patients were frustrated or aggregated.
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This could have been prevented. We could have avoided this
whole wave if more people in our country had gone
and just gotten two shots. When they're all these people
who are dying who didn't get vaccinated, are wishing rank
out to vaccination. It's wearing and it makes us angry. Yeah, people,
I don't blame these healthcare workers one bit for feeling
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fed up. They're being forced to deal with a completely
preventable crisis. That's not what they signed up for. They
signed up to treat people for things that we don't
have vaccines for, and to pretend not to judge you
when you've got weird things stuck up your butt, Like
nurses don't have a problem treating people that were rescued
from a burning building. But I think what would annoy
nurses though, would be treating people who intentionally ran into
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the building because they saw a TikTok that said fire
can't burn you if you in your thirties. I mean,
think about how frustrating this has got to be. This
pandemic could be under control by now, and it should
be under control, but now they have to fight it
all over again. It's like if when World War Two ended,
everybody said hit let's dad, let's go home, and then
(10:10):
one guy was like, no, wait I fixed them guys. No,
he's not angry than ever. So nurses are understanding me
Pistolf right now, And no matter how dedicated you ought
to a profession, everyone has a breaking point, and nearly
two years into serving on the front lines of this war,
a lot of them are starting to update their LinkedIn's.
Some hospitals experiencing critical staffing shortages, as frontline workers say
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they feel like they're underwater. Survey during the pandemic found
that six of intensive care nurses are burned out burnout
stress grueling hours. There are multiple reasons career nurses are
choosing to leave. Mississippi has at least two thousand fewer
nurses than it did at the beginning of the year.
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In Kentucky, more than twenty hospitals report critical staffing shortages.
In hard hit New York, they was a fo increase
in nurses looking for new jobs. People just still, honestly
do not understand how severe this is, how bad staffing
for nursing is. When tom's are tough and things are
getting rough, they'll have a pizza party. You know, you
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guys are spread really, really thin, and we can't get
new nurses. But here's pizza. Okay. No, people, No, you
cannot solve a nurse shortage with a pizza party. In fact,
it's probably gonna make the problem worse because it's the
lost food you want to feed someone who needs to
stay awake for a double shift. I mean, how many
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times have you had a pizza and then gone on
to run a marathon? Never, that's how many times you
fell asleep on the couch covered in pepperoni grease, using
the empty box as a blanket, which is surprisingly warm.
But obviously, nurses quitting is a huge problem because it's
not like you're filling most of those positions. I mean,
who would want to become a nurse now in the
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middle of a pandemic? So why do you want to
be a nurse? I get to hold the bags of
p Well you're the only person who applied, so congrats
you got the job. Look, man, nobody can blame nurses
who decide that they just can't take this anymore, because
people quit jobs for way less like way less, I
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once quit a job because I forgot my computer password
and I was not in the mood for another wedgie
from it. But for those who do remain, the dwindling
number of nurses means that their job is only getting harder,
and as an extra insult, some of their colleagues are
abandon ship for a much stupider reason at a time
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when they're already staffing shortages. Some nurses are threatening to
quit if forced to get the COVID vaccine. One hospital
in upstate New York will stop delivering babies after workers
resigned over vaccine mandates. Houston Hospital System has fired or
accepted the resignations of more than one hundred and fifteen
nurses and other staff members who refused mandatory COVID vaccinations.
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Show of hands. How many of you have gotten a
COVID vaccine? These are four healthcare workers from different hospitals
in North Carolina. Why not? We don't know what the
long term side effects are. It also hasn't been proven
to be effective. The CDC and many public health experts
say that it's more than affective. I have the right
to question anybody in this country. I want to question.
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You're entitled to her an opinion. But these are facts?
Are they though? Are they fact? Wow? Yo? This nurse
is a genius. Yo. She knows in order to stop
an unvaccinated person, you must first think like an unvaccinated person.
In order to kill COVID, you must first die of COVID.
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It's so obvious now for real, guys, how are you
going to be a nurse and not believe in medicine?
It's like working at home depot and not believing that
you should hide from customers? Hello? Can anybody tell me
where the ladders are? Hello? And you know what blows
my mind about this whole thing is that these are
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healthcare professionals who are falling for this stuff. Like It's
one thing when I'm getting medical advice from a random website,
but I don't want my nurse to also be like,
I'm gonna give you these pills that I heard about
on Reddit. Yeah, they got a ton of up votes.
So in large parts thanks to unvaccinated people, the burden
that has been placed on nurses is almost unimaginable. And maybe,
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for whatever reason, you don't have any sympathy for the nurses,
you know, maybe you're like, uh, I don't know, an asshole.
Well guess what when they aren't enough nurses to go
around and the ones who are there are burnt out,
well you might be the one who ends up paying
the price. Across the United States and nursing shortages are
causing glazing care and they increase the risk of medical error. Normally,
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critical care nurses or one to one or one to two,
so one nurse for every two patients. Right now they're
seeing one to three, one to four, one to five nurses,
some hospitals caring for as many as ten patients. Every
patient added to a nurse's workload is associated with a
seven percent increase in the odds of patient will die
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just after common surgical procedures. Health Care advocates warned nurse
burnout can lead to life or death. Medical mistakes, including
chart errors, administering incorrect doses of medication, even applying medical
treatments to the wrong patient. A burned out nurse is
a dangerous nurse. An exhausted nurse is not a safe nurse. Yeah, guys,
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this should be obvious, but nurses are the lost people
you want making mistakes on the job. If someone working
at Taco Bell is burnt out in distracted, the worst
thing that happens is you walk out of there with
a tortilla wrapped in cheese instead of cheese wrapped in
a tortilla. But the mistakes that nurses can make are
much more serious, and this is something that should scare
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even the anti vax is out there. Like you might
think you'll never get sick from COVID, but don't forget.
Selfish pricks can end up in the hospital for lots
of reasons. I mean, what if you bust your larynx
from screaming out of waiter. Now you're in the hospital
and your voice is too hoarsed to tell the burnt
out nurse that they accidentally hooked up your ivy to
a bag of pea. No, wait, that's my pa I
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know now, Look. The good news is, whether you're someone
who cares about nurses or you're just someone who doesn't
want to die from a bad paper cup, there is
something that you can do to show your gratitude to
the nurses and make their lives less miserable. Take a look.
Nurses need our help now more than ever, and it's
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time for us all to do our part. I agree.
That's why I'm going to start clapping again every night
at seven. No, nurses don't want that. They want you
to get vaccinated. Oh, I'm still gathering research. Shut up
and go get vaccinated. Okay, all right, I'm supporting our
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nurses with Facebook posts. Did you get the vaccine? Yeah?
I will. I've just been too busy to schedule it.
You know, why not schedule it now? Sure, go ahead,
I'll watch nurses need nothings get vaccinated. Okay, I'm going
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I'm going. Okay, drop the damn weapins, go up the door.
Let's go. So come on, America, let's do our part.
Do our part means get vaccinated just one time? Are
you just kidding me? All right, when we come back,
we'll look at the big winners of the COVID pandemic
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stick around, Welcome back to the Daily Show. As you know,
last night was the seven third Annual Emmy Awards a
k a. Television's birthday party, and I was actually at
the ceremony in Los Angeles just last night. But as
fun as the Emmys are, I'm even more excited about
the second Annual Pandemi Awards. You see, last year, at
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this time, we thought it would be fun to honor
some of the most outstanding performances of the coronavirus pandemic,
and we really blew it out because we were all like, well,
we definitely won't be doing this more than once. I mean,
it's not like COVID will still be a thing in September.
Remember when we had hope you guys remember that. So yeah,
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the Pandemics are back, and once again, you guys at
home are going to be voting for the winners. So focus.
We've got ten categories this year and they're all extremely competitive.
For instance, there were a lot of people who compared
Present Biden's anti COVID efforts to various events from the past.
But these nominees for Best Historical Adaptation, well they read
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really reached for the stars. The nominees for Best historical
Adaptation are Tucker Carlson, Jim Crow Medical Jim Crow has
come to America. If we still had water fountains, the
unvaccinated would have separate ones. Steve Hilton apartheid, Fauci wants mosque,
Apartheide in our schools. Candice Owens segregation. We have an
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administration that is reintroducing segregation again in this country under
the guise of medical safety. Marjorie Taylor Green Nazi Germany.
You know, we can look back in a time and
history where people were told to wear a gold star
and they were definitely treated like second class of citizens,
so much so that they were putting trains and taken
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to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly
the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
Who that's a tough category. I mean, as a South
African night, I think the Apotheide comparison was easily the best.
You know, like being forced to wear masks is a
lot like apartite. And we all remember how Nelson Mandela said,
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I referrals to wear a first diaper like some liptodd
cock famous words man, because that's what apartite was you know,
if you didn't choose to be white, then you were oppressed,
And this is the exact same thing. And you know,
one of the reasons I love this category so much
is that all of these people are making wild historical
analogies when there's already an actual history of pandemics and
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vaccine mandates, like they could be comparing it to today.
They don't need to make up a new thing. You know.
It's like if tomorrow an enormous passenger ship crashed into
an iceberg, and then some pundit was like, I'll tell
you what, this is exactly like the Japanese internment camps.
Or it's like the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, what revenuant? Yeah, yeah,
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I guess it's like that's like a bear attack too,
I guess. Now. It's always exciting to cheer on the
politicians and the pundits, but at the pandemis some of
the highlights are the show stopping turns from people who
aren't famous. Phenominees for outstanding dramatic performance by a concerned
citizen on vaccine made me magnetic. Explain to me why
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the key sticks to me? Yeah, so if somebody can
explain this, it would be great. Black light two point os? Yes,
what else? You take a black light flashlight and then
shining on your base and you're now gonna glow in
the black light because guess what, you're no longer human,
You're two point os and we are afraid of you.
Bio weapon jab. This is a plandemic, fake virus, bio
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weapon jab Trump one. Good guys, bad things, yes, hal coming,
and I'm not doing it to clotting anybody. But there's
a lot of good guys out there ready to do
bad things. So Hail fauci love. We asked how many
vaccines have you had? Little bit God little not saying
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by I'll say, okay. I want that guy to win. Yeah,
just because of how incredible his acceptance speech will be.
I want to dug so many people. Oh, my agent,
Arii Gold, Hell, my whole team at the hell, my
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wife and kids. Hi love you, guys, go to bed.
Don't you play that music for me? I'll kill you.
I'll kill you. Stop that music right now, I'll kill you.
Although I do think the black Light Lady also deserves
an award to I mean, just for everything that she's
been through you know, pandemic aside, that's somebody who has
accidentally seen a lot of sperm. Now, as exciting as
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this category is, it's one thing to turn in an
epic performance at a public hearing. I mean that's basically
like being on stage with the script. What I really
admire is people who can think on their feet and
improvise a scene where you don't expect one like these
nominates for best mile high Meltdown. The nominees for best
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mile high Meltdown are You're a liar, a flyar, You're
a liar? Southwest flight attendant telling this passenger to get
off the plane after apparently refusing to wear her masks.
The flight attendant even does a dance. This is tyranny.
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We don't stand up and all I gonna get work.
You guys suck. I'm don't you really one sucking morning
(24:14):
morning one warning? Okay, I know the guy eating his
mosque seems like a shoeing, but you never know, you know,
maybe that was just a better meal option and those
(24:36):
dry ass plain meals. And I do hope whoever wins
this award offers to share the award with the one
person in particular who helped them all achieve this honor,
the bartender at Terminal four, although they probably won't be
able to accept the award in person since they're all
on the no fly list now, which is why this
category is probably brought to you by Hurts rent a car. Hurts.
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At least the only person going insane will be you. Anyway.
That's just a preview of the awards that you can
vote on right now. All you have to do is
go to Pandemi Awards dot com to watch all the
videos and vote for your favorites, and then follow us
online to find out who wins. I'm just kidding, we
all lose, all right. When we come back, Olympic superstar
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Allie Risman will talk to me about her documentary that's
shaken gymnastics to its call, So don't go away. Welcome
back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a
gymnast and a six time Olympic medalist, Allie Riceman. She's
here to talk about shining light on sexual abuse and
advocating for survivors in her new documentary special Darkness to Light.
(25:49):
Welcome to the Daily Show. Hi, how are you? Thanks
for having me? I'm doing fantastic. Thank you so much
for being on. Most people who know you, you know,
whether they know you from being an Olympic champion or
whether they know you're from being like the face of
Team USA, know you because you evoke a positive emotion
in them. They know you because you know, we've cheered
for you, we've celebrated your victories, and and we've been
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there when things have been tough. But over the past
few years, some of the tough has been tougher than
it has to be for any human being out there.
You know, recently we saw yourself and your teammates testifying
in front of Congress talking about one of the most
harrowing stories in American gymnastics history and an abuse case
that really should never have gotten to the point that
it got to. You have a special that is talking
(26:34):
about this where you delve into the subject and I
know it's really sensitive. So so let's start with that.
As a survivor, as somebody who is is dealing with
the story every single day, were you not afraid that
as Ali riceman you would trigger yourself and being a
place whereas a person you might you might bring up
so many of the issues that you've been trying to
work on since, you know, since the deal. You know,
(26:56):
when I first shared my story publicly, I never imagined
all support that I would get. And I'm continually blown
away by the support that myself and my teammates and
UM fellow survivors, the support that we get, and I
want people to know how much that has personally helped
me and it helps me get out of bed on
the toughest days. UM. What people, what I didn't realize
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when I first came forward is like I hadn't processed
it on my own. So I think what I am
realizing over the last few years as I'm dealing with
the abuse personally but also publicly at the same time.
So I never thought about that because everything kind of
happened so fast, and it was more of a decision
of I can't sit back and watch these organizations do nothing.
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So I think the way that I can compare it
to is sometimes it feels like an open wound that
won't heal. And you know, what people also don't often
realize is abuse isn't something that you just suffer in
the moment and unfortunately can carry on with you for
a really long time and the way a survivor heals
is linked to how their abuse is handled, and so
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the power of one adult supporting a survivor and doing
the right thing is is so important. And so I
think our case has been so public and while I'm
so grateful for the support that we have um from
people all over the world, it's incredible, the organizations and
people and positions of power, you know, continue to cover
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it up, gaslight us, and treat us so horribly. So
I'm trying now in my everyday moments to focus on
the support that I feel from strangers and people in
my family, because I know that most survivors don't get
the support that I get. So I do feel very
lucky when when you were making this the special, you
had to relive a lot of your trauma, You had
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to speak to fellow survivors and I mean talk through
some of the worst experiences that they had. From your
perspective alone, what do you think justice looks like? What
do you think the changes need to be in order
for people to feel more protected in the world that
clearly hasn't protected them for so long? Yeah, it was
really interesting. So, but for I filmed the show Darkness
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to light with lifetime. I used to think that justice
to me was accountability, and I still think that it
does in some capacity. UM and I also think that
it means that we need to be looking at a
full and independent investigation of the FBI, USA, Gymnastics in
the United States, Olympic and Paralympic Committee and looking at
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the interplay among all three organizations going back decades. Nobody's
off limits. Nothing's off limits, access to text, messages, data,
everything and anything. So we understand who knew what when,
and there's no guesswork or no speculation. In my opinion,
that's the only way we can believe in a safer future.
But there is When I was filming the show, we
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had UM a bunch of different survivors on, and one
of the survivors had mentioned that to her, justice meant
that it never happened. And that is something that has
stuck with me. That is really UM really has stuck
with me. UM and I've thought a lot about and
you know, it was it was not surprising, unfortunately, with
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the world that we live in, where you know, my
abuser is in jail. But there were many survivors that
I met with that didn't feel safe going to law enforcement,
and so it was. I am grateful that they gave
me the time to share their stories with me and
to hear everyone's different perspective on what justice meant to them.
UM was really eye opening to me and has really
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actually changed the way that I viewed justice because I
recognized that it's such a privilege that my abuser is
in jail. And just even the fact that I felt
comfortable going to law enforcement, UM, I know so many
other survivors don't have that, and I don't want to
live in a world like that. For yourself, as an individual,
as Addie Riceman, what do you do that helps you heal? Like,
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where have you found your healing comes from? Beyond just
bearing it, beyond trying to forget about it? How do
you work on healing those wounds? M I've thought about
this a lot, and you know, I think about this
in the sense of, for example, with the last couple
of days, if Maggie, Michaela or Simone came to me
and said that they were struggling, I would listen to them.
(31:13):
I would try to be a good friend to them.
I would tell them that however they feel is valid
and take time for themselves today. For example, before um
this interview, was having a little bit of a tougher
day since I had since I testified, and I was
starting to be a little bit hard on myself because
I think often we can be our own biggest critics.
And I thought to myself, if Simone was calling me
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right now, I would be nicer to her than I'm
being to myself. And so I think the biggest thing
in my healing is recognizing I need to have self
compassion and be nice to myself, and coming from the
sport of gymnastics, where it's all about trying to be perfect,
that's hard for me to do and to be kind
to myself and um, you know, even when I do interviews,
(31:55):
I watched them back and I'm hard on myself if
I feel like I didn't say the right thing, because
I know that so many survivors don't have the platform
that I have, and I take that very seriously. So
the biggest thing for me has been being nice to
myself and treating myself the way that I would treat
a loved one or someone that I care about. But
it's definitely something that I work on and it's a
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struggle sometimes. Well, I'll tell you this much. You inspire
everyone who's been through a similar circumstance, and uh, I
think you inspire the rest of us to try and
make the world a little bit better and to hopefully
not as be as hard in ourselves as we live
our daily lives. So I'm Alie, thank you so much
for taking the time. Thank you for um, I think
you know, creating a special that's really going to resonate
(32:36):
with a lot of people and hopefully this won't be
something that happens to so many others out there. Thank
you so much of the time, Alie, thank you. Don't
forget Ali Riceman. Darkness to Light premiere September on Lifetime.
We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
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