March 16, 2023 • 24 mins
Kal Penn discusses the news of the day including a seaweed blob approaching the Florida coast, the Pope's potential about-face on celibacy requirements for priests, and the Nebraska lawmaker who filibustered for three weeks to squash anti-trans bills. Chasten Buttigieg discusses the reason he created a young adult version of his bestselling memoir.
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What do you think? What do you think? Should we
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we got a great shuff for you tonight, Chasting Budaja
here everyone, we have a lot to talk about, so
let's get into the headlines. Let's begin with some breaking
news from the Vatican. No, not about you. You're still
going to hell. But there is some good news for priests.
Pope Francis says the Catholic churches thousand year old practice
(01:25):
of celibacy for priests could be changed. He tells an
Argentine publication the ban on priests having sex was only
temporary and that there is no contradiction for a priest
to marry. That's right, Yeah, Pope Francis just stepped out
on his balcony and said I'm proud to announce at
the end off out to know not to millennium with
(01:51):
oh gosh. And then then then a cloud of white
just shot out of the Vatican chimney. Anyway, this is wild, Okay,
the Pope suddenly decided that a thousand year old band
on sex was just temporary the whole time. Does anyone
else feel like the Pope just found out Giselle was single?
(02:11):
She dumped Tom Bredy. Oh look, everybody, I just have
found a new page in the Bible. Lah. Yeah, so
the two pages in least have stuck to get up
this whole time. Oh my gosh, look I gotta say,
I gotta say, I think priests are going to clean
up on dating apps. Have you ever heard of missionary?
(02:33):
I invented that. Now this this could really be a
game changer. I mean, think about it. Now the priests
can knock someone up, it means that they might change
their mind on abortion. You're pregnant? Oh look at this,
two more pages stuck together. Oh my goodness, thank you. Okay, Look,
(02:55):
moving on, We've got some inspiring news out of No Rasca. Yeah.
How often do we get to say that, like in
a lot of places, Republicans are pushing an anti trans
bill through the state legislature. But this time an incredible
state senator is speaking out and speaking and speaking and speaking,
(03:16):
the Democratic lawmaker taking a stand against what she says
is attacks on fundamental human rights. This is out of Nebraska.
A Republican bill is trying to ban what they call
gender affirming care to people who are under nineteen years old. Now,
this Democratic state senator is halting all business in the
chamber and filibustering or avowing a kind of obstruction set
of tactics that work in Nebraska for the last three weeks,
(03:38):
saying she'll burn the session to the ground over this bill.
During her filibuster, she has discussed everything from her favorite
girl Scout Cookie so the plot of the movie Madagascar.
If this legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children
is our priority, that I am going to make it painful,
painful for everyone. Hell yeah, all right, Look at a
(04:04):
time when so many of us are all talked she's
actually okay, well she's all talked to, but in a
useful way. And I'm sure it's hard for Senator Kavanaugh
to come up with stuff to say for three weeks straight.
But it means a lot to so many families that
someone is fighting for them. And it also means a
lot to dream works that someone is still talking about Madagascar.
(04:26):
So it's not their best movie honestly. Anyway, just today
Kavanaugh finally got Republicans to agree to an actual debate
on this bill, which they were trying to avoid. This
is great if you're into civility. I personally would have
just gone nuclear and just been like, kill this bill now,
or I spoil the end of the last of Us.
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And finally, spring break is coming up. If you were
thinking of going to Florida to lie on the beach
and not be surrounded by five thousand miles of seawe, well,
Florida is bracing for a five thousand mile wide seaweed bloom,
almost twice as wide as the entire United States. Enormous
mounds of brown, mucky macroalgae are now floating towards Florida.
(05:12):
The popular shores of South Beach are only speckled with
this kind of seaweed called sargas so far, but in
several weeks that's likely to change, with sightings already this
month in Key West, Antigua and the crowded Mexican resort
of Cliodel Carmen preparing for up to three feet a
build up. The biggest issue with the seaweed a serious
(05:34):
rotten egg smell, not ideal for tourism. Holy shit, that's
a lot of seaweed. It sounds like a plague. God
sends when he's mad, but like, not that mad. Like
I'm not Hurricane angry. I'm just disappointed. And if I
had to guess about what God's mad about, it's probably
(05:58):
that rotten de Santis eats pudding with three fingers. Look,
I'm not a Florida parent, but I'd rather let my
kid watch a drag queen read Goodnight Moon than watch
a grown man in a suit finger of pudding cup.
And the worst part, the worst part about all this
(06:18):
seaweed is there's nothing Florida can do about it. But
it is Florida, so they'll probably just try to shoot it.
For more on the seaweed story, we go Live to
Miami Beach with Roy Wood Junior. Everybody, Roy, what's this
situation over there? Man? It's not the past. It's going on.
(06:40):
It's going on, man, how you been. I'm good, But
what is the what is the situation over there? Roy?
You see the situation. It's disgusting cal seaweed everywhere. Man,
this beach there is covered in hand. Look like an
Italian man's back out here, big and this does smell
like a truckful of heartbull age. They're crashing into a
factory that make wet thoughts. It's bad. It's taking say
(07:03):
you have you have smelled the wet fart? You either
you're like you think it's a dry far? Didn't lout?
Juice come out and you can get a due. I
mean the juice far. I know, I get it, I
get it. We've all been there. But but but but
you're why are you cleaning up the beach? That's so
kind of you? What cleaning? But I'm not cleaning. I'm
taking all this home. Hang on, man, the tours of it. Hey,
get your ass back. It's your ass back. I'm not
(07:25):
wanting the oldest ocean vironment is mine. Wait, why are
you taking home the seaweed? Why else I'm gonna sell
it to white folks? What you think about, dude? White
folks are not gonna buy rotting seaweed. No, but white
people will buy it once I call it naturally sourced
organic oceanic sargass. Oh my god, you're right. White people
(07:46):
will buy the shit out of that. Who I'm gonna
be printing money. All I gotta do is stick all
this ship in the classy ten, put a little white
baby face on it, and being whole foods next week.
My working days are over. Brother, Man, my grandkid's gonna
be so spoiled. I hate them already. Okay, but well,
what's it used for? Like? Do you eat it or
wrap yourself in it? Or man, I don't care you
(08:09):
didn't eat it, smoke it, put it in your coffee,
rubb it on your balls. White people to figure it out. Look,
I just gotta get all this done before Gwyneth Paltrow
has the same idea. She's still it, bro, what do yes? Yes,
you let Paltro? I know you. You gotta hurry though
she stole tumeric from us. You know you know the problem,
(08:31):
Oh man, the problem was slowing this down. Was slowing down.
The clean up is all this trash. I gotta pick
all this trash out of this. Why don't you just
leave it in there? Just say it's a rich and bioactive,
up cycled exfoliants. Bitch, get your last down here, Canniba.
We're going into business together. I'm pulling right after the show.
Come on down here, man, Hey, you're smart, you smart shit,
(08:54):
Gwyneth Paltrow, Here, I gotta go. Man back on, pepper Pot,
hold her off, Get out of here, pepper Pot. Come there, right?
What Junior? Everybody all right? When we come back, we'll
find out what scares politicians the most. Don't go away
(09:25):
one back to the day show. You know, there's a
lot that we don't know about the twenty twenty four election,
like who the candidates will be, or which campaign fatal
or work is gonna lose. But as someone who headed
up youth issues at the White House, I can tell
you that if history is any indicator, we already know
what one of the big talking points is going to
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be every election. It's like, oh, the young people are coming,
and people are coming, and usually they don't come. They
just don't show up. Are you hearing me? Nieces? I
was having this conversation to night. So this convention was
not there in their twenties, was not made for us.
I think because vote yeah, because you don't vote, never
ever vote. Why would people cater to you if you
never come out. Sorry not to be annoying, but we're
(10:08):
with NBC News and I'm just trying to figure out
anybody you're going to vote in the election on November sixth, anybody, anybody,
nobody's gonna vote. What can get younger voters to actually
turn out to vote? You know, turn out for what
you got young themes on body. Yeah, well, young people
(10:35):
aren't going to be voting now. The point is the
media loves to whine about young people not voting, but
what gets much less attention is that the establishment feels
so threatened by the power of young voters that they
actually try to get them to not vote. To many
the establishment, low youth turnout is not a problem, it's
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a goal. And that's what I want to talk about
in the latest installment of Long Story Short. Let's say
that a political party wants to suppress the youth vote.
What are some things they might try to do. Their
best bet is to put restrictions on college students, because
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for the most part, they're all young, except for that
one guy who used to sit in the back of
your sociology electure. What was this deal? Was that like
an inspiring thing or like a twenty one Jump Street situation. Anyway,
One thing that they try to do is to target
student IDs. In some states, you can't use a school
idea to vote, even though for a lot of students
it's the only thing showing that they live in the states.
(11:38):
And don't tell me that they aren't legitimate residents. Okay,
college students pay local taxes for four years, and the
dumb ones up to six. One of those states is Texas,
where you can't use your student ID to vote, but
you can use your gun permit, which sure feels like
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a law made by publicans to make it easier for
other Republicans to vote. It's basically like a liberal state
letting you vote if you still wear your COVID mask.
Another thing they try to do is move voting booths
off campuses. Now, this is a big deal for college students,
since they're less likely to have a car. If they
do know someone with a car, it's usually that like
(12:19):
kinda hop a sort of sketch dude with a two
thousand and seven Subaru that like reeks of weed and
all the seatbelts are missing and It's just like, is
voting for state Assembly really worth getting car herpies? When
it comes to trying to make polling places inaccessible, the
state of Texas is also at the forefront. Texas Republicans
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are pushing a bill that would ban voting booths from
every campus across the state. Voting rights advocates are slamming,
and Texas lawmakers plan to remove polling places from college campuses.
A young voters favored Democrats by nearly a thirty point
margin in the midterms, but the Republican who is behind
this proposal tells ABC thirteen of Brianna Connor, it is
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not about that. Republican state Representative Kerrie Isaac says, it's
a matter of school safety. I don't believe it's wise
that we invite people onto our campuses that would not
otherwise be there. Texas Southern University freshman Jordan Jones points
out that public universities like TSU already have open campuses.
Our library that's literally right there is also public. Anybody
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can go in there and use it, so I feel
like there shouldn't be much of a difference whenever it
comes to voting. She has a good point. The libraries
already open to the public, although knowing Texas Republicans that
other ladies just going to be like, this student is right,
we should also ban libraries. I realize, Spikes you. I
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realize that so far I've given you Republican examples. But
to be fair, that doesn't mean all voter suppression is
committed by Republicans, just like ninety eight percent of it.
But there are Democrats who do engage in voter suppression,
and I know this from personal experience. During the Democratic
primary in two thousand and seven, I lobbied a local
election board in North Carolina that wanted to remove voting
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machines from a campus where there were a lot of
Obama Democrats and send those machines to a wealthy suburb
where there were a lot of non Obama Democrats. Although
that's obviously not how they put it. They were just like, Okay,
we're doing this because college students are just less likely
to vote than people in the suburbs. And then I
was like, oh, well, maybe college students don't vote because
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you keep taking their voting machines away, and then I lost. Sorry.
While those are some of the more common obstacles that
you might encounter as a young voter, it can get
a lot more creative. Welcome to North Carolina and T.
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It's the largest historically black college in the country and
a big Democratic voting block. But when you look at
a congressional map, A and T looks like two separate colleges.
It's split between District six and District thirteen. So if
you move from this dorm over to that dorm, you're
in a different district with different representatives and a different
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polling place. By splitting the campus into two separate congressional districts,
it diluted the power of A and t's collective voice.
So what was once one congressional district with an African
American representative, it is now two congressional districts with two
white Republican legislators. Have you seen people discourage from voting
because of this? Not only do you get discouragement, there's
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also not wanting to register at all. It validates and
affirms what young folks are saying when they say that
their votes don't count. Yeah, that's a bummer. And honestly,
I haven't seen college students that disappointed since they saw
me in Van Wilder two in my defense, in my defense,
that movie paid very well. Yeah, but look, this is
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the point of it. All of this is meant to
freeze you out of the process and discourage you from participating.
And I get it. It's easy as a young person
to get demoralized and super high. I'm not sure why
I mentioned that. Sorry, to be more clear, things are
not hopeless. You know that jerrymandering at A and T, Well,
it sparked a student revolt and after a court order
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reunified the school. Students there are now voting in record numbers.
Now pretty great, And it's not just that. It's not
just that despite all of those barriers, young voters have
shown up big in recent elections. In fact, last year
they may have made all the difference the gen Zers millennials.
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They're now voting in record numbers. Gen Z voters, people
born in nineteen ninety seven and later are lapping their
older millennial counterparts. And I know a lot of people
talk about young people talking about being engaged, but not
being engaged. We are seeing engagement to the energy from
these young folks is real. They all but canceled out
the votes of their grandparents of senior citizens who are
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some of the most reliable voters out there and also
some of the most Republican voters out there. If not
for young people, we have a starkly different result. We
saw not a red wave, we didn't see a blue wave,
but we certainly saw a young voter a gen Z wave,
a gen Z wave, not a red wave, not a
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blue wave, not a millennial pink wave. So remember when
I said the establishment feels threatened by you. Well, that's
because when you vote, you often get a lot of
the things to happen, marriage equality, climate action, and yes
we decriminalization. It's young people who overwhelmingly pushed to get
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this stuff done. So keep it up. Don't let them
make you feel complacent, because long story short, you're powerful
and that's why they're scared of you. So go make
them scared. All right, where do we come back, Chaston
Buddha Jedge, We'll be joining me. Stay tuned, Welcome back
(18:21):
to the Daily Show. My guest Tonight is an author,
teacher and advocate. His latest book is based on his
New York Times bestselling memoir It's called I Have Something
to Tell You For Young adults. Please welcome Chaston Buddha
Jedge o d h hi Man. Okay, I'm really excited
(18:52):
to talk about your book, but this is sort of
just newsy because of the week that this has been.
At the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, DC, that's a dinner
where politicians are known to make humorous speeches. Vice tresident
they try, they try. Yes, Vice President Mike Pence made
a joke about your husband taking paternity leave, and he
referred to it as maternity leave. And when I saw that,
(19:13):
my biggest reaction was, really, you're just going to recycle
at nineteen ninety eight joke that's like been around forever.
But what was your reaction? I mean, I didn't think
joke is being generous there? Yeah, especially at the Daily Show.
Yeah yeah, yeah. You know, it's a it's a sad
trend of people on the other side, you know, using
(19:33):
homophobia misogyny to try to make a point. I mean,
he's trying to launch a presidential campaign, and you know,
from my experience in presidential politics, it's about who you
bring into the fold, right, what you inspire people to believe,
believe in a better version of America, especially in those
early days. So I guess that's how he wants to
start his campaign, which I don't think is surprising to
any of us. Okay, so that case he's using us
to be relevant, we're going to move on exact not
(19:55):
give him, Not give him that time. Yeah, the this
is the this is the young adult version of your
New York Times bestseller, which I assume is just going
to get banned as soon as it comes out. So
congratulate it to Mike Pency, you might exactly, but why
did you why did you write a young adult version?
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You know, I'm very proud of this one. It's the
book that I wish I would have had when I
was in eighth grade. You know, I grew up in
in uh conservative, rural northern Michigan, where I did not
know any out people. I thought that I had a
sort of disease. I thought something was wrong with me.
And this book is an opportunity to tell young people
that there is nothing wrong with you. There are millions
of people out here who love you, who will support you,
(20:38):
you know, and that that's the best part about projects
like this is you get an opportunity to go out
there and do good with that platform. So we're going
to take this book on tour and we're going to
go to some of these red places like Texas, Florida, Utah, Missouri,
and you know, we're gonna have those conversations with kids
about how there's there's nothing wrong with who you are
and there are a lot of people out here backing
you up. That's awesome, fair enough, you are not jaded
(21:06):
from what I gather if you're if you're saying things
like that and you're actually going to those places. How
long have you guys lived in DC? No? Two years,
I guess. Okay, So what was the expectation of DC
versus the reality of Well, I mean, it is a
tremendous opportunity for our family to have, you know, that
chance to be part of something big. I certainly thought
(21:26):
that people were elected into office to go and make
change in this country. And then I got there and
realized that there are incredible people who are focused on
improving people's lives, and there are also people who use
Washington just to audition to be on Tucker Carlson, you know,
or it. DC has kind of become this content farm
for some people where they go into hearings and they
(21:48):
say something lambastic or offensive because they know it'll get
people outraged, and then they can cut that and put
it on their podcast. And so that experience of Washington.
You know, the district is beautiful, people are great, and
then there's Washington. I try to keep as much of
a distance as I can from it, Focus on my family,
focus on the good, and you know, allow the other
stuff to fall off the shoulder. Okay, you mentioned Tucker Crosson.
(22:09):
He's like kind of obsessed within you. Well, my question
is like, how do you deal with I remember there
was something you did, like is Pete Botajag gay? And
I'm like, how do you even? Like why are they
so obsessed with you? I think they just him. You know,
it's easier to focus on really weird shit, you know,
(22:30):
and that gets people fired up, and it gets people
talking about you online. People make a lot of money.
People make a lot of money about by you being mad,
and so like, I wish this guy would like send
us some diaper money or something the amount of money
that he's raising off our family. Yeah, exactly, he's making
money off of you. You know, you see people like
the state senator in Nebraska who uses their platform to
do good things. You see the Elliott Larson civil Rights
(22:52):
Act passing Michigan today, extending civil rights protections. Yeah, the
people of Michigan. So that's the stuff we stay focused on,
you know, and and let people on late night television
talk about the things they want. All right, So as
we wrap up, how do you stay that hopeful? How
do you like, how do you go from people idiots
like me asking you about tuck Ra Carlson and then
you're like, here's the things that I actually find hopeful.
How do you do that? Well? I mean, my draft
(23:14):
folder is long, but I'm trying to say, you have
the good stuff out there. But it's my kids, you know,
they they've changed everything. At the end of the day,
you've got to You've got two screaming twins who just
want their dinner and they and they want their bathtime.
And that grounds me because that's the good work. You know,
you're you're raising the next generation. You're focused on the good,
You're focused on the opportunity to make this a better country.
(23:35):
And you let the weird people on television talk about
whatever they want to do, because I know that we
are all part of something much bigger than ourselves. Well,
Chaps and boads, everyone, thank you. So much for being here.
You are incredible. I have something to tell you for adults.
It's available for pre honor. Thanks man. All right, we're
gonna take a quick break, but we'll do right back
after this. Well, that's our show for tonight, and that's
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Then welcome to the Daily Show. Her that I have
(00:40):
had so much fun. I wish I could stay forever. Honestly, Like, now,
I understand why Trump refused to leave the White House.
What do you think? What do you think? Should we
do an interaction? Just stay forever? Oh, I was I
was joking. You guys are stop. I love it. Okay,
(01:02):
we got a great shuff for you tonight, Chasting Budaja
here everyone, we have a lot to talk about, so
let's get into the headlines. Let's begin with some breaking
news from the Vatican. No, not about you. You're still
going to hell. But there is some good news for priests.
Pope Francis says the Catholic churches thousand year old practice
(01:25):
of celibacy for priests could be changed. He tells an
Argentine publication the ban on priests having sex was only
temporary and that there is no contradiction for a priest
to marry. That's right, Yeah, Pope Francis just stepped out
on his balcony and said I'm proud to announce at
the end off out to know not to millennium with
(01:51):
oh gosh. And then then then a cloud of white
just shot out of the Vatican chimney. Anyway, this is wild, Okay,
the Pope suddenly decided that a thousand year old band
on sex was just temporary the whole time. Does anyone
else feel like the Pope just found out Giselle was single?
(02:11):
She dumped Tom Bredy. Oh look, everybody, I just have
found a new page in the Bible. Lah. Yeah, so
the two pages in least have stuck to get up
this whole time. Oh my gosh, look I gotta say,
I gotta say, I think priests are going to clean
up on dating apps. Have you ever heard of missionary?
(02:33):
I invented that. Now this this could really be a
game changer. I mean, think about it. Now the priests
can knock someone up, it means that they might change
their mind on abortion. You're pregnant? Oh look at this,
two more pages stuck together. Oh my goodness, thank you. Okay, Look,
(02:55):
moving on, We've got some inspiring news out of No Rasca. Yeah.
How often do we get to say that, like in
a lot of places, Republicans are pushing an anti trans
bill through the state legislature. But this time an incredible
state senator is speaking out and speaking and speaking and speaking,
(03:16):
the Democratic lawmaker taking a stand against what she says
is attacks on fundamental human rights. This is out of Nebraska.
A Republican bill is trying to ban what they call
gender affirming care to people who are under nineteen years old. Now,
this Democratic state senator is halting all business in the
chamber and filibustering or avowing a kind of obstruction set
of tactics that work in Nebraska for the last three weeks,
(03:38):
saying she'll burn the session to the ground over this bill.
During her filibuster, she has discussed everything from her favorite
girl Scout Cookie so the plot of the movie Madagascar.
If this legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children
is our priority, that I am going to make it painful,
painful for everyone. Hell yeah, all right, Look at a
(04:04):
time when so many of us are all talked she's
actually okay, well she's all talked to, but in a
useful way. And I'm sure it's hard for Senator Kavanaugh
to come up with stuff to say for three weeks straight.
But it means a lot to so many families that
someone is fighting for them. And it also means a
lot to dream works that someone is still talking about Madagascar.
(04:26):
So it's not their best movie honestly. Anyway, just today
Kavanaugh finally got Republicans to agree to an actual debate
on this bill, which they were trying to avoid. This
is great if you're into civility. I personally would have
just gone nuclear and just been like, kill this bill now,
or I spoil the end of the last of Us.
(04:49):
And finally, spring break is coming up. If you were
thinking of going to Florida to lie on the beach
and not be surrounded by five thousand miles of seawe, well,
Florida is bracing for a five thousand mile wide seaweed bloom,
almost twice as wide as the entire United States. Enormous
mounds of brown, mucky macroalgae are now floating towards Florida.
(05:12):
The popular shores of South Beach are only speckled with
this kind of seaweed called sargas so far, but in
several weeks that's likely to change, with sightings already this
month in Key West, Antigua and the crowded Mexican resort
of Cliodel Carmen preparing for up to three feet a
build up. The biggest issue with the seaweed a serious
(05:34):
rotten egg smell, not ideal for tourism. Holy shit, that's
a lot of seaweed. It sounds like a plague. God
sends when he's mad, but like, not that mad. Like
I'm not Hurricane angry. I'm just disappointed. And if I
had to guess about what God's mad about, it's probably
(05:58):
that rotten de Santis eats pudding with three fingers. Look,
I'm not a Florida parent, but I'd rather let my
kid watch a drag queen read Goodnight Moon than watch
a grown man in a suit finger of pudding cup.
And the worst part, the worst part about all this
(06:18):
seaweed is there's nothing Florida can do about it. But
it is Florida, so they'll probably just try to shoot it.
For more on the seaweed story, we go Live to
Miami Beach with Roy Wood Junior. Everybody, Roy, what's this
situation over there? Man? It's not the past. It's going on.
(06:40):
It's going on, man, how you been. I'm good, But
what is the what is the situation over there? Roy?
You see the situation. It's disgusting cal seaweed everywhere. Man,
this beach there is covered in hand. Look like an
Italian man's back out here, big and this does smell
like a truckful of heartbull age. They're crashing into a
factory that make wet thoughts. It's bad. It's taking say
(07:03):
you have you have smelled the wet fart? You either
you're like you think it's a dry far? Didn't lout?
Juice come out and you can get a due. I
mean the juice far. I know, I get it, I
get it. We've all been there. But but but but
you're why are you cleaning up the beach? That's so
kind of you? What cleaning? But I'm not cleaning. I'm
taking all this home. Hang on, man, the tours of it. Hey,
get your ass back. It's your ass back. I'm not
(07:25):
wanting the oldest ocean vironment is mine. Wait, why are
you taking home the seaweed? Why else I'm gonna sell
it to white folks? What you think about, dude? White
folks are not gonna buy rotting seaweed. No, but white
people will buy it once I call it naturally sourced
organic oceanic sargass. Oh my god, you're right. White people
(07:46):
will buy the shit out of that. Who I'm gonna
be printing money. All I gotta do is stick all
this ship in the classy ten, put a little white
baby face on it, and being whole foods next week.
My working days are over. Brother, Man, my grandkid's gonna
be so spoiled. I hate them already. Okay, but well,
what's it used for? Like? Do you eat it or
wrap yourself in it? Or man, I don't care you
(08:09):
didn't eat it, smoke it, put it in your coffee,
rubb it on your balls. White people to figure it out. Look,
I just gotta get all this done before Gwyneth Paltrow
has the same idea. She's still it, bro, what do yes? Yes,
you let Paltro? I know you. You gotta hurry though
she stole tumeric from us. You know you know the problem,
(08:31):
Oh man, the problem was slowing this down. Was slowing down.
The clean up is all this trash. I gotta pick
all this trash out of this. Why don't you just
leave it in there? Just say it's a rich and bioactive,
up cycled exfoliants. Bitch, get your last down here, Canniba.
We're going into business together. I'm pulling right after the show.
Come on down here, man, Hey, you're smart, you smart shit,
(08:54):
Gwyneth Paltrow, Here, I gotta go. Man back on, pepper Pot,
hold her off, Get out of here, pepper Pot. Come there, right?
What Junior? Everybody all right? When we come back, we'll
find out what scares politicians the most. Don't go away
(09:25):
one back to the day show. You know, there's a
lot that we don't know about the twenty twenty four election,
like who the candidates will be, or which campaign fatal
or work is gonna lose. But as someone who headed
up youth issues at the White House, I can tell
you that if history is any indicator, we already know
what one of the big talking points is going to
(09:47):
be every election. It's like, oh, the young people are coming,
and people are coming, and usually they don't come. They
just don't show up. Are you hearing me? Nieces? I
was having this conversation to night. So this convention was
not there in their twenties, was not made for us.
I think because vote yeah, because you don't vote, never
ever vote. Why would people cater to you if you
never come out. Sorry not to be annoying, but we're
(10:08):
with NBC News and I'm just trying to figure out
anybody you're going to vote in the election on November sixth, anybody, anybody,
nobody's gonna vote. What can get younger voters to actually
turn out to vote? You know, turn out for what
you got young themes on body. Yeah, well, young people
(10:35):
aren't going to be voting now. The point is the
media loves to whine about young people not voting, but
what gets much less attention is that the establishment feels
so threatened by the power of young voters that they
actually try to get them to not vote. To many
the establishment, low youth turnout is not a problem, it's
(10:55):
a goal. And that's what I want to talk about
in the latest installment of Long Story Short. Let's say
that a political party wants to suppress the youth vote.
What are some things they might try to do. Their
best bet is to put restrictions on college students, because
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for the most part, they're all young, except for that
one guy who used to sit in the back of
your sociology electure. What was this deal? Was that like
an inspiring thing or like a twenty one Jump Street situation. Anyway,
One thing that they try to do is to target
student IDs. In some states, you can't use a school
idea to vote, even though for a lot of students
it's the only thing showing that they live in the states.
(11:38):
And don't tell me that they aren't legitimate residents. Okay,
college students pay local taxes for four years, and the
dumb ones up to six. One of those states is Texas,
where you can't use your student ID to vote, but
you can use your gun permit, which sure feels like
(11:58):
a law made by publicans to make it easier for
other Republicans to vote. It's basically like a liberal state
letting you vote if you still wear your COVID mask.
Another thing they try to do is move voting booths
off campuses. Now, this is a big deal for college students,
since they're less likely to have a car. If they
do know someone with a car, it's usually that like
(12:19):
kinda hop a sort of sketch dude with a two
thousand and seven Subaru that like reeks of weed and
all the seatbelts are missing and It's just like, is
voting for state Assembly really worth getting car herpies? When
it comes to trying to make polling places inaccessible, the
state of Texas is also at the forefront. Texas Republicans
(12:40):
are pushing a bill that would ban voting booths from
every campus across the state. Voting rights advocates are slamming,
and Texas lawmakers plan to remove polling places from college campuses.
A young voters favored Democrats by nearly a thirty point
margin in the midterms, but the Republican who is behind
this proposal tells ABC thirteen of Brianna Connor, it is
(13:01):
not about that. Republican state Representative Kerrie Isaac says, it's
a matter of school safety. I don't believe it's wise
that we invite people onto our campuses that would not
otherwise be there. Texas Southern University freshman Jordan Jones points
out that public universities like TSU already have open campuses.
Our library that's literally right there is also public. Anybody
(13:25):
can go in there and use it, so I feel
like there shouldn't be much of a difference whenever it
comes to voting. She has a good point. The libraries
already open to the public, although knowing Texas Republicans that
other ladies just going to be like, this student is right,
we should also ban libraries. I realize, Spikes you. I
(13:48):
realize that so far I've given you Republican examples. But
to be fair, that doesn't mean all voter suppression is
committed by Republicans, just like ninety eight percent of it.
But there are Democrats who do engage in voter suppression,
and I know this from personal experience. During the Democratic
primary in two thousand and seven, I lobbied a local
election board in North Carolina that wanted to remove voting
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machines from a campus where there were a lot of
Obama Democrats and send those machines to a wealthy suburb
where there were a lot of non Obama Democrats. Although
that's obviously not how they put it. They were just like, Okay,
we're doing this because college students are just less likely
to vote than people in the suburbs. And then I
was like, oh, well, maybe college students don't vote because
(14:34):
you keep taking their voting machines away, and then I lost. Sorry.
While those are some of the more common obstacles that
you might encounter as a young voter, it can get
a lot more creative. Welcome to North Carolina and T.
(14:57):
It's the largest historically black college in the country and
a big Democratic voting block. But when you look at
a congressional map, A and T looks like two separate colleges.
It's split between District six and District thirteen. So if
you move from this dorm over to that dorm, you're
in a different district with different representatives and a different
(15:18):
polling place. By splitting the campus into two separate congressional districts,
it diluted the power of A and t's collective voice.
So what was once one congressional district with an African
American representative, it is now two congressional districts with two
white Republican legislators. Have you seen people discourage from voting
because of this? Not only do you get discouragement, there's
(15:40):
also not wanting to register at all. It validates and
affirms what young folks are saying when they say that
their votes don't count. Yeah, that's a bummer. And honestly,
I haven't seen college students that disappointed since they saw
me in Van Wilder two in my defense, in my defense,
that movie paid very well. Yeah, but look, this is
(16:03):
the point of it. All of this is meant to
freeze you out of the process and discourage you from participating.
And I get it. It's easy as a young person
to get demoralized and super high. I'm not sure why
I mentioned that. Sorry, to be more clear, things are
not hopeless. You know that jerrymandering at A and T, Well,
it sparked a student revolt and after a court order
(16:26):
reunified the school. Students there are now voting in record numbers.
Now pretty great, And it's not just that. It's not
just that despite all of those barriers, young voters have
shown up big in recent elections. In fact, last year
they may have made all the difference the gen Zers millennials.
(16:46):
They're now voting in record numbers. Gen Z voters, people
born in nineteen ninety seven and later are lapping their
older millennial counterparts. And I know a lot of people
talk about young people talking about being engaged, but not
being engaged. We are seeing engagement to the energy from
these young folks is real. They all but canceled out
the votes of their grandparents of senior citizens who are
(17:09):
some of the most reliable voters out there and also
some of the most Republican voters out there. If not
for young people, we have a starkly different result. We
saw not a red wave, we didn't see a blue wave,
but we certainly saw a young voter a gen Z wave,
a gen Z wave, not a red wave, not a
(17:29):
blue wave, not a millennial pink wave. So remember when
I said the establishment feels threatened by you. Well, that's
because when you vote, you often get a lot of
the things to happen, marriage equality, climate action, and yes
we decriminalization. It's young people who overwhelmingly pushed to get
(17:49):
this stuff done. So keep it up. Don't let them
make you feel complacent, because long story short, you're powerful
and that's why they're scared of you. So go make
them scared. All right, where do we come back, Chaston
Buddha Jedge, We'll be joining me. Stay tuned, Welcome back
(18:21):
to the Daily Show. My guest Tonight is an author,
teacher and advocate. His latest book is based on his
New York Times bestselling memoir It's called I Have Something
to Tell You For Young adults. Please welcome Chaston Buddha
Jedge o d h hi Man. Okay, I'm really excited
(18:52):
to talk about your book, but this is sort of
just newsy because of the week that this has been.
At the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, DC, that's a dinner
where politicians are known to make humorous speeches. Vice tresident
they try, they try. Yes, Vice President Mike Pence made
a joke about your husband taking paternity leave, and he
referred to it as maternity leave. And when I saw that,
(19:13):
my biggest reaction was, really, you're just going to recycle
at nineteen ninety eight joke that's like been around forever.
But what was your reaction? I mean, I didn't think
joke is being generous there? Yeah, especially at the Daily Show.
Yeah yeah, yeah. You know, it's a it's a sad
trend of people on the other side, you know, using
(19:33):
homophobia misogyny to try to make a point. I mean,
he's trying to launch a presidential campaign, and you know,
from my experience in presidential politics, it's about who you
bring into the fold, right, what you inspire people to believe,
believe in a better version of America, especially in those
early days. So I guess that's how he wants to
start his campaign, which I don't think is surprising to
any of us. Okay, so that case he's using us
to be relevant, we're going to move on exact not
(19:55):
give him, Not give him that time. Yeah, the this
is the this is the young adult version of your
New York Times bestseller, which I assume is just going
to get banned as soon as it comes out. So
congratulate it to Mike Pency, you might exactly, but why
did you why did you write a young adult version?
(20:16):
You know, I'm very proud of this one. It's the
book that I wish I would have had when I
was in eighth grade. You know, I grew up in
in uh conservative, rural northern Michigan, where I did not
know any out people. I thought that I had a
sort of disease. I thought something was wrong with me.
And this book is an opportunity to tell young people
that there is nothing wrong with you. There are millions
of people out here who love you, who will support you,
(20:38):
you know, and that that's the best part about projects
like this is you get an opportunity to go out
there and do good with that platform. So we're going
to take this book on tour and we're going to
go to some of these red places like Texas, Florida, Utah, Missouri,
and you know, we're gonna have those conversations with kids
about how there's there's nothing wrong with who you are
and there are a lot of people out here backing
you up. That's awesome, fair enough, you are not jaded
(21:06):
from what I gather if you're if you're saying things
like that and you're actually going to those places. How
long have you guys lived in DC? No? Two years,
I guess. Okay, So what was the expectation of DC
versus the reality of Well, I mean, it is a
tremendous opportunity for our family to have, you know, that
chance to be part of something big. I certainly thought
(21:26):
that people were elected into office to go and make
change in this country. And then I got there and
realized that there are incredible people who are focused on
improving people's lives, and there are also people who use
Washington just to audition to be on Tucker Carlson, you know,
or it. DC has kind of become this content farm
for some people where they go into hearings and they
(21:48):
say something lambastic or offensive because they know it'll get
people outraged, and then they can cut that and put
it on their podcast. And so that experience of Washington.
You know, the district is beautiful, people are great, and
then there's Washington. I try to keep as much of
a distance as I can from it, Focus on my family,
focus on the good, and you know, allow the other
stuff to fall off the shoulder. Okay, you mentioned Tucker Crosson.
(22:09):
He's like kind of obsessed within you. Well, my question
is like, how do you deal with I remember there
was something you did, like is Pete Botajag gay? And
I'm like, how do you even? Like why are they
so obsessed with you? I think they just him. You know,
it's easier to focus on really weird shit, you know,
(22:30):
and that gets people fired up, and it gets people
talking about you online. People make a lot of money.
People make a lot of money about by you being mad,
and so like, I wish this guy would like send
us some diaper money or something the amount of money
that he's raising off our family. Yeah, exactly, he's making
money off of you. You know, you see people like
the state senator in Nebraska who uses their platform to
do good things. You see the Elliott Larson civil Rights
(22:52):
Act passing Michigan today, extending civil rights protections. Yeah, the
people of Michigan. So that's the stuff we stay focused on,
you know, and and let people on late night television
talk about the things they want. All right, So as
we wrap up, how do you stay that hopeful? How
do you like, how do you go from people idiots
like me asking you about tuck Ra Carlson and then
you're like, here's the things that I actually find hopeful.
How do you do that? Well? I mean, my draft
(23:14):
folder is long, but I'm trying to say, you have
the good stuff out there. But it's my kids, you know,
they they've changed everything. At the end of the day,
you've got to You've got two screaming twins who just
want their dinner and they and they want their bathtime.
And that grounds me because that's the good work. You know,
you're you're raising the next generation. You're focused on the good,
You're focused on the opportunity to make this a better country.
(23:35):
And you let the weird people on television talk about
whatever they want to do, because I know that we
are all part of something much bigger than ourselves. Well,
Chaps and boads, everyone, thank you. So much for being here.
You are incredible. I have something to tell you for adults.
It's available for pre honor. Thanks man. All right, we're
gonna take a quick break, but we'll do right back
after this. Well, that's our show for tonight, and that's
(24:07):
my time. That's guest host. But stay tuned for next
week where your host will be Al Franking. And if
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