November 1, 2024 • 37 mins
Ronny Chieng breaks down Trump’s garbage truck photo-op and Kamala Harris’s campaign strategy of reaching women voters through messages in bathroom stalls. John Leguizamo goes undercover with undecided Latino voters to see if recent racist MAGA rallies and Trump’s deportation plans have changed their stance. Journalism icon Connie Chung joins Ronny to discuss her memoir “Connie,” her trailblazing career, and her call for a return to unfiltered, investigative journalism. She also shares why she endorsed Kamala Harris, marking a first in her career.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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host Franny Day. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Ronnie Shang.
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We got so much to talk about Tonight. Trump takes
out the trash, the election turns into agenda war, and
we send John Leguizamo under cover to talk to Latino voters.
So let's get into Indecision twenty twenty four in America
today was the environmental and public health disaster known as Halloween,
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where kids dress up in single use costumes. I need
forty pounds of sugar because five hundred years ago people
were scared of the dock or something. But it's not
just kids dressing up in costumes. It's also grown men climbing.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
A boarder garbage truck in Green Bay that had his
campaign's logo on the side.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How do you like my garbage truck?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This truck is an honor of Kamala.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And Joe Biden. Former President Trump embraced his latest political
cent piece as he amped up his attacks on Democrats.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Two hundred and fifty million people are not garbage.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I could tell you.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The real garbages, but we won't say that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, So you dressed up as a garbage man because
you say Biden called your supporters garbage, and you're saying
they're not garbage, but you're taking out the garbage, which
is someone else, but you won't tell us who it is.
And also, no one should call anyone garbage, but you
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just did because you're the garbage man. So, in other words,
the perfect metaphor. By the way, for anyone thinking of
dressing up as Trump for Halloween, you gotta be really
cared for at this point because it's getting kind of
closed the blackface or.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
What I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But you know what, it doesn't matter how weird you look,
how stupid your metaphor is, or how badly you fucked
it up, as long as you look great getting into
that garbage truck.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Donald Trump actually climbing, I should say, stumbling into a
garbage truck.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Nailed it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And to be fair, if Joe Biden did that, it
would have broken every bone in his body. But look
at how hot Trump is committing to the whole garbage thing.
I mean, if only Joe Biden had been like all
of Trump's supporters are always goggling their own piss, and
he'd be like, is that what you think? I'll show you. Now.
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I'm not a professional expert pundit, but I think it's
very unlikely that this race will be decided by the
war over garbage, because there's a much more important battle
here boobs versus balls.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
This presidential race could be a battle of the sexes
this election cycle. The thirty point gender gap between men
and women is stark, with NBC News polling showing women.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Supporting Vice President.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Harris by a fourteen point margin.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
If Harris wins, because women crawl over broken glass to
break the glass ceiling.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Okay, so there was a glass on the floor before
they broke the glass ceiling. So then whether the broken
glass come from if the ceiling is Why is everyone
in America so bad? A metaphors? Look, I don't know
why Trump does badly with women. Okay, I mean, yeah, sure,
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he shredded their reproductive rights or whatever, but he's only
been accused of groping twenty six of them. Oh what, sorry, sorry,
what's that? That was a new one? Last week? Okay
twenty seven? Oh sorry, what was that? That was a
new one? Yesterday. Okay, well, look, I can't understand why
no one heard about it. Okay, the media had a
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big gobag truck story to cover. But Trump isn't giving up.
He made another pitch to women last night in a
way that wasn't creepy at all.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Right, people told me about four weeks ago, I always say, no,
I want to protect the people.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I want to protect the women of our country.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I want to protect the women. Sir, please don't say that.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Why. They said, we think it's we think it's very
inappropriate for you to say.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I say why.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I said, Well, I'm going to do it, whether the
women like it or not.
Speaker 10 (04:57):
I'm going to protect them.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know, there's a name for when you take care
of a woman who doesn't want you to take care
of her. It's called kidnapping. And there is no situation
where whether you like it or not is a good
sales pitch. Unlimited shrimp, whether you like it or not
would be a pass from me. So Trump's reaching out
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to women as successfully as he reached out to that
Goby's truck door. Meanwhile, Kamala supporters are trying to win
even more female voters with a stealth campaign to sway
hesitant women in conservative areas.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sticky notes reminding women that their voter secret have been
popping up in women's bathrooms all over the country thanks
to a viral grassroots campaign by Kamala Harris supporters.
Speaker 11 (05:47):
This is a campaign to put these post it notes
in the bathrooms, giving women the permission to vote for
who they want to.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
So it says, nobody knows who you vote.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
For, so vote for who you want for.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Vote hairs for women's rights.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
How many of these have you made?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
We've made thousands, thousands and thousands. I saw it online
and all the women in my area, they're all doing it.
Speaker 10 (06:10):
They're literally driving up to Wisconsin to the truck stops
just to do this.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Dan, that is the most wholesome reason to visit a
truck stop bathroom. I mean, just imagine how disappointed you'd
be seeing one of these coming out a glory hall.
But that's right, Kamala support us think there are a
lot of women who would vote for her if they
knew their husbands or neighbors wouldn't find out. So they're
going all the way into women's bathrooms to let them know.
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And you may laugh at that, but polls consistently show
that the most important voting block in Michigan is women
on the road trips who have diarrhea. And I guess
this is an interesting idea, but is there any place
left that we can't be saved from political ads? I mean,
a public bathroom is a sacred place where we're not
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Democrats or Republicans, were just Americans who are hoping a
handicap person doesn't need the handicap stall while I'm in there.
I just don't know if this is gonna work. I've
never seen anything in a bathroom that's changed my opinion
for a good time called Megan, please wash your hands.
I'm not doing any of that. But if you're a
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woman who doesn't go to a bathroom, and I know
some women don't because I've never seen my wife take
a shit ever. Harry supporters have put out TV ads
reminding women with conservative husbands that their votes are secret to.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Your current honey, in the one place in America where
women still have a right to choose, you can vote
any way you want.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
And no one will ever know.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Did you make the right choice?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Shared in honey, Remember what happens in the booth stays
in the booth.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Did that stay in the booth?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean, I don't know if it could be more
obvious that something was going on with those women. I mean,
if I was a husband, I'd be like, wait, okay,
you guys are either voting for Kamala or you're having
an affair. Okay, because there's a lot of electricity here,
and I'm scared, but I'm also turned on. If all
that extra long staring wasn't suspicious enough, there's another ad
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whether women are even more obvious.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You're still voting for him?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Hell yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What about your wife?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
She didn't like him, but she's voting for him.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
Same with mine.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Guys, you gotta stop mouthing Kamala. It's supposed to be
a supposed to be a secret conspiracy. What voting for Kamala?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I said, are we voting for Comela?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes? But we have to keep it a sacred aw sin.
It's the husbands will murder us.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Hey, is it weird that they're like fifty years older
than us. Seriously, look at those husbands, like, you don't
have to mouth it. I'm pretty sure they won't listen
to you even if you talk at full volume. Okay,
And maybe I'm just being a heroic feminist here as usual.
But isn't it a little sexist for these asks to
suggest that women are morons who don't know how to vote?
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But you know, I guess it's okay because they're also
saying that men are morons who don't know how to vote.
Come on, boys, let's make America great.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Care sure turn buddy.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
Before you cast your vote in this election, think about
how it'll impact the people you care about the most. Remember,
you can vote any way you want and no one
will ever know.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Do your patriotic duty.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
You better have been What happens in the booth stays
in the booth.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Okay, So the women are secretly voting for Kamalaw, but
the men who are threatening them are also voting for Kamalaws.
It's gonna be so romantic when they all find out.
It's gonna be like that stupid Peanut Colada song. And
by the way, why is everybody in these ads voting
in groups? I've never seen a group of bros just
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vote together like that heading to the tailgate. And also,
this guy walked into the voting room with his bros,
but then walked out with his family I mean, what
the happening. I get the woman ad, but this ad
is ridiculous. Okay, no real man is gonna prioritize his
wife and daughter over a guy with his own customized
garbage truck. Okay, you can't now coo that is, you
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can't be that now. If you're worried that trying to
secretly coordinate votes with eye contact might be too confusing,
well here's a new ad that will clarify absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
All right, everyone, time to vote.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Let's all vote the right way if you know what
I mean, of course.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Honey, Remember that this election you can vote for whoever
you want, and no one has to know, no one
at all. Your vote is secret from everyone, which means
the choice is totally up to you. This election, let's
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celebrate our power to choose. So cast your ballot with confidence,
because this ballot is all yours. The secret ballot is
what makes America America. It's as American as apple pie.
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So this election day, remember don't get distracted by nodding.
Focus on making your voice heard.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Ready turning your ballot, honey, sure am, polls are closed.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You've been standing there nodding for thirteen hours.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Stop it okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Will come back, John Wizamo. We'll find out what Latino votes. Nothing,
don't go.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Away, he welcome back to the Dawn Show.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Dal Trope is doing surprisingly well with Latino voters and
the polls this year. But why, John Leguizamo decides to
find out.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Election days almost upon US and Democrats are concerned about
Donald Trump's surprising support in the Latino community. A new
poll has Trump gaining ground with Latino voters.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Vice President Harris struggling to hold on to let voters.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
So I assembled a panel of undecided and Trump curious
Latino voters to see why they haven't been turned off
by inflammatory statements.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Like Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang
members and migrant criminals from prisons and jails.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Trump's rhetoric about Latinos is darker than a twelve hour
chocolate moley, but does that matter to these voters. To
get the unvarnished truth, I disguised myself as a representative
of pro Trump super Pack the plan tell them.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I was trying to better understand.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
How Trump could appeal to Latino voters while confronting them
with Trump's racism firsthand.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Can I see everybody's.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
ID real quick and see if you're real citizens?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
No?
Speaker 10 (13:42):
No, I was born in California, But where are you
really from?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Come on?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Parents are not born from Losalvador.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Salvador, Mexico. Okay, what do you like about Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He's not evasive, it's it's pretty clear. I mean, this
is someone that's been at the forefront for a very
long time speaking his mind.
Speaker 13 (14:02):
When he was on the government, the economy was better
than we have it right now.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
That's the part, the only part that I like.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
On the surface, they seem to like Trump, but as
we went deeper, I gave them the tools to express
themselves in a more nuanced manner. And when I'm naming
the issue, and you're going to raise either one or
two or three chilies to signify how spicy the issue.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Is for you.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Okay, the economy, wow, damn three chilies.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's spices.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Spies as spicy. Okay, healthcare not as spicy, but still spicy.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Arming janitors meaning arming giving weapons to janitors to protect
the schools, you know, like what if a shooter comes in?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, No, Chili's on that.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Now that I knew the issues they cared about.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It was time to see if there were any Latino
celebrity endorsements that might capture their vote. You guys are tough,
bad buddy, Come on, bad buddy, ever swear it would
get you all right, John Leguismeo, I guess I mean
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Well you two then Okay, Now it's time for the
moment of truth.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Let's see if witnessing Donald Trump's rhetoric firsthand makes them
want to vote for him more or less.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
On my first day back in the White House, I
will terminate every open border's policy of the Biden administration,
stop the invasion of our southern border, and begin the
largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's an excellent way to fix a very, very severe problem.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
What do you love about deportation?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You have criminals, They should all be removed.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Now do you think they should deport American criminals too?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
The poor American criminals to wear.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
What's your least favorite South American country, man, Cuba?
Speaker 13 (15:53):
If he's saying integration of the problem, it's like you
have a leak in your house, you gotta turn it off.
The water supply. Fix it then ton it on. Maybe
that's what he's trying to do. Like, let's closed on
the border for a while.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
But who would you call to fiction leak if all
the Latinos are gone? Nasty portation didn't seem to turn
them off, Let's try something else.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
No control whatsoever. Nobody has any idea where these people
are coming from. And we know they come from prisons,
we know they come from mental institutions and san as islands,
we know they are terrorists. It's poisoning the blood of
our country.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So what do you think of the language that he's using.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's poison. That's the last word that we're using.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
So you're saying he's a little too hitlerish, Maybe you
can soften the language a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
That a poison the blood.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Maybe what about spraining the ankle of America, giving America
gastro intestinal discomfort? Any worse about if he said ruining
the testicles of America. Great, So people don't seem to
love the hitler stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now what about this clip?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
How about allowing people to come to an open border thirteen.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Which we're murderers and they are now happily living in
the United States.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
You know now a murderer.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I believe this.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
It's in their gens, and we got a lot of
bad gens in our country right now.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I think, uh, maybe there's better words that can be used.
We all misspeak sometimes.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I mean all about Trump is that he misspeaks from
the heart.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
He missed setia hearts because he's got a lot and
he maybe has a good heart.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Well said, Well said.
Speaker 14 (17:25):
This is you know, it's gonna h stereotyping Latinos, the
stereotyping immigrants, and the more that you demonize people, it
doesn't bring us together.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
So yeah, you sir, you definitely don't have the murder gene. Okay,
don't speak Spanish because it's not nice. Which presidential candidate
do you think treats Latinos most like caricatures. I'm going
to say a name, and if you agree, scream arriba
Donald Trump? Okay, So you clearly think that Trump portrays
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the Latino population in an accurate and nuanced manner.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
No, why didn't just geme about a revote?
Speaker 10 (18:06):
Well, if your questions and the questions that I'm listening
to you are about as you see this, what do
you think I'd rather not see that.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
So I bet if we don't show these clips of
him because they make you not want to vote for him.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
That's exactly the reason why many who will tell you
that they don't like him is because of what he says.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Now I understand the only way Trump is acceptable is
if you never.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
See or hear him.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
It seems like some of these people were finally coming around,
but there was something that was still bugging me. Do
you want to change your answer for any one of
the celebrity endorsements?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Maybe to John lewisoma, you guys never saw a spawn?
Speaker 13 (18:50):
And did you see that his last special?
Speaker 11 (18:52):
It was good?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What did you like most about his last special?
Speaker 13 (18:55):
The setting? He did it like a school setting?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well that was real, clever, real.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Already two, finally feeling like we made some progress, it
was time to come clean.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I want to thank you for being here and for
being so honest with me, but I have not been
so honestly. My name is not really Ron Kuzmano.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But no, oh know that did.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Now that I've shown you all these awful things about Trump,
does that change your vote?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Democracy, thank your job.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Let me come back.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
The legendary Kanie Chung will be joining on me on.
Speaker 15 (19:46):
The shelves and don't go well, hey, welcome back, go
there on the show.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
My guest tonight is a trailblazing, award winning television journalist
whose new memoir is called Connie. I used to watch
her growing up as a kid. It's a huge honor
for me to welcome to the stage. Is Connie charm Wow, Wow,
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thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you,
it's a huge honor to me. You. No, I can't
believe you know who I am.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Well, I don't really.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Fair enough.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
No, no, no, I've watched you and I can believe
I'm sitting here with you too.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
That's very kind you grow I spent when I was
a kid. I grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and
we would turn on TV and watch you as a kid.
So really, yeah, I can't believe that you're from me.
Right now, I can tell people.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Is it real?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And I read your book because I got so scared
of you that I actually I actually read this book
for the first time in Daily So history.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I read the Book of the Guests. And I'm not
just saying this is a great book.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's very well written and as for me as a
American history and television nerd, this is like the perfect book.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, because it goes through.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
All these characters and that you were like in the
middle of everything in the eighties and nineties to the
point where I think you caused the most of the
damage in the world because you seem to be at
a you seem to be at the center of all
of them.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Honestly, I didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And not just the events, but like the characters in
the book. You know, all these legendary figures, Larry Grossman
on route.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You know Larry Grossman. You mean an NBC was the president.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, all these figures that we only know about. It's
twenty twenty four. These are people like you were.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
In They've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I know, but you've been surprised.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You guys know who Larry Grossman. They might just say yes,
just say yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, say so so.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
And then the line detector tests to determine that was
a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
No, But Connie, Connie, these are mostly Americans. They don't
learn their history. I'm not American. Therefore, I read this
and I guess my point is, like you are around
at the peak of network TV around all these titans,
Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Walter, Cronkite, you know, mixed elbows
with presidents vice presidents. I guess now that you're retired,
(22:55):
how happy are you that you don't have to cover
the trash sheet?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
It's uh, I'm actually glad I'm not in television news now, seriously,
because it's it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Sure, Like, how can you give us some perspective of
how it's kind of different? Because when you started, well
you started with typewriters and now in freaking now in
freaking AI creating virtual cryptocurrency. Yes, crazy, yeah, all of it.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Well, we believed back in those days it was the truth,
credibility and honesty and all of that, and it seems
to have kind of evporated.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, you cheered too loud many some guy was sharing that.
But yeah, I mean is there you know, because I
read your book and even even in your time when
you were active, there was still misinformation and you are
the victim of some fake news so to speak. People
would spread rumors about it. So it wasn't like there
were no problems, no.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
But it wasn't as rampant as it is right now.
In other words, there are a lot of good reporters,
there a lot of good investigative reporting, but there's a
lot of misinformation too.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So why do you think it is that, like trust
in the media has, you know, just decreased ever since
you left news, because.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
It's not it was an era in which news was trustworthy,
but I think there was there had been a sort
of creeping negativism in which people began to not believe
not only government but news reporters. And they didn't trust
Congress or the White House for good reason because back
(24:43):
in the day when the government was lying to them
about Vietnam and they just didn't know, they couldn't feel
like they could trust Congress and the rest. And it's
gotten worse now, so we're even below Congress's level, which
is pretty low.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, if the news is worse than Congress.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
You were going to ask me a question in the beginning,
did Jesus side not?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I decided not to because it's too vulgar. I just really, yeah,
you came out. You came out. It's like I was
talking to my mom. I didn't want to ask the
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right, Yeah, you are.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, you the source of truth can't take the truth, like, yeah,
I'll go seventy eight.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I'm not. I'm like, I'm thirty nine, So no.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Way, funny you don't look thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
How old I look.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Twenty five?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
That's good Asian? Asian, don't raising? Yeah, but do you
want me to ask you that first question? It's so
awkward now now that we set it up and everyone
wants to know what it is now.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Yeah, I think you're going to have to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh okay, Well if Connie wants to ask a question, Okay, Connie.
Uh sorry, mister, I don't want to call it legend.
Don't call you legend or go, don't call you go.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Did you give Korey anything you want to go?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Uh? Uh mom, Mom? Uh sorry, sorry, just got it. Uh.
So you've been retired from journalism now and during your
time as a very professional trust movie source. I think
it was your opinion from your book that you shouldn't
give your personal opinions. You are not here to give
personal opinions. You're here to deliver the news. But now
(26:32):
that you're retired, you're unleashed. You can give your hard opinions.
Right now, let's ask the tough questions, Okay, Mary Kill,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Colson. I'm sorry, mom.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Well, I don't know if you know this, but I
actually just thought I was so nervous about the election,
I decided to come out in favor of Kamala. So
so you can well imagine my answer to your question.
Two out of the three.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Please, for the record, you got it.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't got it.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Of these are terrible. You're not married, I am married.
I'm married. Okay, that doesn't answer anything.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It does.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
It's two out of the three.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
What you gave me three?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Two kind of evading right now and.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Not evasive. It's totally on target. Do you get it?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
No, that's why I don't want to ask that dumb
ass question. But as some serious questions, yeah, the only
one who asked me that. Okay, okay, alright, So do
you feel like uh Asian people in America are kind
of uniquely suited to kind of ask the tough questions
because we're not seen as participating in this ongoing race
(28:08):
war between white and black people, and so when we
come in it's almost like we can get in there
and get the real story. No, okay, no to the
Race war or no to the art, no to getting married? Okay,
(28:32):
so you okay, uh so you uh in this book
you went to warm Beadi's house and a lot of
people that were taking cocaine. What are the who else
was taking drugs in Hollywood in the seventies. Now you
got some really interesting stories here, like, yeah, you talk
about Dan Rather being a real dick right in this book.
(28:53):
That's not yeah, that's in her book.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
I didn't. You're not quoting Race.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm not quoting you.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
But Dan Rather was a bit of a dick to you.
I mean, is that was he a mean dude or.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
No? Not not on the surface. I mean he was
very h uh. He was unhappy that I was sitting
next to him. He didn't want me there, you know
kind of you know why why because he had been
doing it by himself for a long time. He replaced
Walter Cronkite and then he, uh, he became His ratings
(29:24):
started to tank, and so they decided to add me
to the program. So I sat in half of Uncle
Walter's chair and I was it was like a dream job.
But it didn't the ratings weren't moving so much, and
he really didn't want me there. It was very much
like Barbara Walters when she began co anchoring with here,
(29:48):
Let's go, when when she began co anchoring with a
man who did more to her there.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Either, right, And so, how did you navigate the politics
of you know, the seventies newsrooms, of the huge, towering
figures of media, and you were often only the only
normally the only Asian. You're the only woman in the room.
A lot of times, think all of you right here,
This is the four of you as the only Asian
person in this room full of smelly guys. And this
is exactly how I felt the Daily Show to me. Yeah,
(30:18):
but how did you navigate the politics?
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Well? It was it was kind of hard in many
ways because I saw all around me were men, and
I kind of just decided I would be a guy too.
I would walk like them, talk like them, have their bravado,
have moxie, have you know, even use their the party
(30:42):
mouth that they use. And I so convinced myself that
I was a guy that when I'd walk past the mirror,
I'd go because I.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Was exactly I thought the white man.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I really was convinced, right, so.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
You would just start swinging, you swear the guys you say,
I did.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You want to say?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You want to say to anybody on TV? Right now?
We got this basic cable No, not really, don't mean
to say it for you, rather thank you. So, I
mean I could talk to you forever about this. I
honestly I did my research because I know how much
you value people who do their homework. I do, And
I want to ask, how why is it that there's
no other Walter Concast that can rise out of this
(31:31):
cesspool of American news media right now?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
The whole thing has changed. I mean, television news isn't
what it used to be. Digital taken overse so it's
it's just not going to happen. Television is a dinosaur.
I mean not your.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
No, that's fine, down with that.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
I think people get the news, you know, from all
sorts of sources, even I mean the Daily Show. They
used to always they.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Shouldn't they really shouldn't get from this show. I'm trying
to get Connie, trying to say, why are you? Why
are you watching this for news? But you know, it's
kind of disheartening because I was hoping you could give
me perspective and say, like, all these all these people
who are saying this is the worst ever time for America,
they're exaggerating. Used to be we had the same problems
in the sixties, And you're saying, no, this is the
(32:25):
worst time. And and I don't know if there's a
way through.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
I have hope for the news, you know, and that
we can swing that penculum right back and it'll be
more responsible.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well, can you give some tips on how to swing
that pendulum back or any ideas if you were in
charge of.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
News, Well, I think one, one newspaper at a time,
one television station at a time, and I think as
long as we do investigative work, we're on the right track.
The hard part is filling all those hours on cable.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
And that's where we come in to talk a bunch
of shit. So we're doing right now, feeling some hours
in between important stuff, just feeling the hours.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
No, but it is it's really hard to it's it's
hard to fill that many hours.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh, tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's very difficult.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So you're saying that if we can start with this idea,
if we have to fill up all this time, we
probably help.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
The news, but but do serious work and don't express
opinions on the news. It's just that, I mean, do
you really want opinion? No, I mean on the news
not no.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Right, mom said no, say no, plansays no, don't say
yeah no no no opinion. Yeah no, I agree. If
you need a source that's trustbility, that's not biased, and no,
I get it. So Unfortunately that's not where the money
is anymore. The money isn't saying than Rather that's.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Well, then that should sell.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, this should sell is in the book. And the
last thing I just want to say it is like
the hope for the future I have is in the
last chapter of this book, other than talking about the
weed strain that's named after you, yea, which everybody that
you should check it out. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Have you tried.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
No, I don't. I don't. I don't smell weed. Yeah, don't,
I don't smell weed.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
H If you go, if you go online, you'll see website. Yes, no,
it's not my website. It's somebody started it. And I
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, yeah, we all have no idea who we don't know?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
For tax purblisons, we have no idea who's selling this moment?
Speaker 6 (34:52):
But what it is is I'm easy to grow and
low maintenance. Yes, I'm low maintenance.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Read your book and you did.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
I did, and I don't give the scaries too much.
And you can get a two pack pre World for
twenty two dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, you have.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
A I just saw that. But I have to tell
you one other thing. You were you were talking about
the last chapter I.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Was about to get to. Okay, go ahead, Okay, I
think I'm I understand you guys, right, Meldon, Yeah, what's
really call about the future is this idea of that
there is a generation of Connie Chan of Connie's in America,
Asian American girls who are the children of Asian parents,
Asian parents who grew up in your generation, who admired
(35:45):
you and named their children Kanye and so it's a
whole amazing And she got the meet up with that.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
There are untold numbers of babies that were named after me.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
How does it make you feel all these people stole
your name?
Speaker 6 (36:02):
I just flower gastaid and honored. What happened was there
was this girl named Connie Wong, and she she cold
emailed me and said that she was named after me.
I couldn't believe it, she said. When she moved with
her parents from communist China to the Midwest, she was
only three years old, and her parents said, we need
(36:25):
to give you an American name. And she only knew
what she saw on television, and she said Connie or Elmo.
And so she was she who discovered that all these
Connie's were named after me. When I went on this
book tour, I met she thinks they're untold hundreds. I
(36:47):
don't know how many. But I met six more. And
I met a Connie Chung in drag Oh, there you go,
and she or he said that he can. It takes
him four hours to put his make up on, and
I said, dude, I can do mine in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I can talk to you about this book. It's a
great book. Thank you, Thank you so much for all
that you do.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
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We got so much to talk about Tonight. Trump takes
out the trash, the election turns into agenda war, and
we send John Leguizamo under cover to talk to Latino voters.
So let's get into Indecision twenty twenty four in America
today was the environmental and public health disaster known as Halloween,
(01:00):
where kids dress up in single use costumes. I need
forty pounds of sugar because five hundred years ago people
were scared of the dock or something. But it's not
just kids dressing up in costumes. It's also grown men climbing.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
A boarder garbage truck in Green Bay that had his
campaign's logo on the side.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How do you like my garbage truck?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This truck is an honor of Kamala.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And Joe Biden. Former President Trump embraced his latest political
cent piece as he amped up his attacks on Democrats.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Two hundred and fifty million people are not garbage.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I could tell you.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The real garbages, but we won't say that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, So you dressed up as a garbage man because
you say Biden called your supporters garbage, and you're saying
they're not garbage, but you're taking out the garbage, which
is someone else, but you won't tell us who it is.
And also, no one should call anyone garbage, but you
(02:06):
just did because you're the garbage man. So, in other words,
the perfect metaphor. By the way, for anyone thinking of
dressing up as Trump for Halloween, you gotta be really
cared for at this point because it's getting kind of
closed the blackface or.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
What I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But you know what, it doesn't matter how weird you look,
how stupid your metaphor is, or how badly you fucked
it up, as long as you look great getting into
that garbage truck.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Donald Trump actually climbing, I should say, stumbling into a
garbage truck.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Nailed it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And to be fair, if Joe Biden did that, it
would have broken every bone in his body. But look
at how hot Trump is committing to the whole garbage thing.
I mean, if only Joe Biden had been like all
of Trump's supporters are always goggling their own piss, and
he'd be like, is that what you think? I'll show you. Now.
(03:14):
I'm not a professional expert pundit, but I think it's
very unlikely that this race will be decided by the
war over garbage, because there's a much more important battle
here boobs versus balls.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
This presidential race could be a battle of the sexes
this election cycle. The thirty point gender gap between men
and women is stark, with NBC News polling showing women.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Supporting Vice President.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Harris by a fourteen point margin.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
If Harris wins, because women crawl over broken glass to
break the glass ceiling.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Okay, so there was a glass on the floor before
they broke the glass ceiling. So then whether the broken
glass come from if the ceiling is Why is everyone
in America so bad? A metaphors? Look, I don't know
why Trump does badly with women. Okay, I mean, yeah, sure,
(04:08):
he shredded their reproductive rights or whatever, but he's only
been accused of groping twenty six of them. Oh what, sorry, sorry,
what's that? That was a new one? Last week? Okay
twenty seven? Oh sorry, what was that? That was a
new one? Yesterday. Okay, well, look, I can't understand why
no one heard about it. Okay, the media had a
(04:29):
big gobag truck story to cover. But Trump isn't giving up.
He made another pitch to women last night in a
way that wasn't creepy at all.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Right, people told me about four weeks ago, I always say, no,
I want to protect the people.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I want to protect the women of our country.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I want to protect the women. Sir, please don't say that.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Why. They said, we think it's we think it's very
inappropriate for you to say.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I say why.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I said, Well, I'm going to do it, whether the
women like it or not.
Speaker 10 (04:57):
I'm going to protect them.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know, there's a name for when you take care
of a woman who doesn't want you to take care
of her. It's called kidnapping. And there is no situation
where whether you like it or not is a good
sales pitch. Unlimited shrimp, whether you like it or not
would be a pass from me. So Trump's reaching out
(05:25):
to women as successfully as he reached out to that
Goby's truck door. Meanwhile, Kamala supporters are trying to win
even more female voters with a stealth campaign to sway
hesitant women in conservative areas.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sticky notes reminding women that their voter secret have been
popping up in women's bathrooms all over the country thanks
to a viral grassroots campaign by Kamala Harris supporters.
Speaker 11 (05:47):
This is a campaign to put these post it notes
in the bathrooms, giving women the permission to vote for
who they want to.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
So it says, nobody knows who you vote.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
For, so vote for who you want for.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Vote hairs for women's rights.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
How many of these have you made?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
We've made thousands, thousands and thousands. I saw it online
and all the women in my area, they're all doing it.
Speaker 10 (06:10):
They're literally driving up to Wisconsin to the truck stops
just to do this.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Dan, that is the most wholesome reason to visit a
truck stop bathroom. I mean, just imagine how disappointed you'd
be seeing one of these coming out a glory hall.
But that's right, Kamala support us think there are a
lot of women who would vote for her if they
knew their husbands or neighbors wouldn't find out. So they're
going all the way into women's bathrooms to let them know.
(06:37):
And you may laugh at that, but polls consistently show
that the most important voting block in Michigan is women
on the road trips who have diarrhea. And I guess
this is an interesting idea, but is there any place
left that we can't be saved from political ads? I mean,
a public bathroom is a sacred place where we're not
(07:00):
Democrats or Republicans, were just Americans who are hoping a
handicap person doesn't need the handicap stall while I'm in there.
I just don't know if this is gonna work. I've
never seen anything in a bathroom that's changed my opinion
for a good time called Megan, please wash your hands.
I'm not doing any of that. But if you're a
(07:20):
woman who doesn't go to a bathroom, and I know
some women don't because I've never seen my wife take
a shit ever. Harry supporters have put out TV ads
reminding women with conservative husbands that their votes are secret to.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Your current honey, in the one place in America where
women still have a right to choose, you can vote
any way you want.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
And no one will ever know.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Did you make the right choice?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Shared in honey, Remember what happens in the booth stays
in the booth.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Did that stay in the booth?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean, I don't know if it could be more
obvious that something was going on with those women. I mean,
if I was a husband, I'd be like, wait, okay,
you guys are either voting for Kamala or you're having
an affair. Okay, because there's a lot of electricity here,
and I'm scared, but I'm also turned on. If all
that extra long staring wasn't suspicious enough, there's another ad
(08:25):
whether women are even more obvious.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You're still voting for him?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Hell yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What about your wife?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
She didn't like him, but she's voting for him.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
Same with mine.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Guys, you gotta stop mouthing Kamala. It's supposed to be
a supposed to be a secret conspiracy. What voting for Kamala?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I said, are we voting for Comela?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes? But we have to keep it a sacred aw sin.
It's the husbands will murder us.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Hey, is it weird that they're like fifty years older
than us. Seriously, look at those husbands, like, you don't
have to mouth it. I'm pretty sure they won't listen
to you even if you talk at full volume. Okay,
And maybe I'm just being a heroic feminist here as usual.
But isn't it a little sexist for these asks to
suggest that women are morons who don't know how to vote?
(09:31):
But you know, I guess it's okay because they're also
saying that men are morons who don't know how to vote.
Come on, boys, let's make America great.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Care sure turn buddy.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
Before you cast your vote in this election, think about
how it'll impact the people you care about the most. Remember,
you can vote any way you want and no one
will ever know.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Do your patriotic duty.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
You better have been What happens in the booth stays
in the booth.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Okay, So the women are secretly voting for Kamalaw, but
the men who are threatening them are also voting for Kamalaws.
It's gonna be so romantic when they all find out.
It's gonna be like that stupid Peanut Colada song. And
by the way, why is everybody in these ads voting
in groups? I've never seen a group of bros just
(10:25):
vote together like that heading to the tailgate. And also,
this guy walked into the voting room with his bros,
but then walked out with his family I mean, what
the happening. I get the woman ad, but this ad
is ridiculous. Okay, no real man is gonna prioritize his
wife and daughter over a guy with his own customized
garbage truck. Okay, you can't now coo that is, you
(10:47):
can't be that now. If you're worried that trying to
secretly coordinate votes with eye contact might be too confusing,
well here's a new ad that will clarify absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
All right, everyone, time to vote.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Let's all vote the right way if you know what
I mean, of course.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Honey, Remember that this election you can vote for whoever
you want, and no one has to know, no one
at all. Your vote is secret from everyone, which means
the choice is totally up to you. This election, let's
(11:31):
celebrate our power to choose. So cast your ballot with confidence,
because this ballot is all yours. The secret ballot is
what makes America America. It's as American as apple pie.
(11:54):
So this election day, remember don't get distracted by nodding.
Focus on making your voice heard.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Ready turning your ballot, honey, sure am, polls are closed.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You've been standing there nodding for thirteen hours.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Stop it okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Will come back, John Wizamo. We'll find out what Latino votes. Nothing,
don't go.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Away, he welcome back to the Dawn Show.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Dal Trope is doing surprisingly well with Latino voters and
the polls this year. But why, John Leguizamo decides to
find out.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Election days almost upon US and Democrats are concerned about
Donald Trump's surprising support in the Latino community. A new
poll has Trump gaining ground with Latino voters.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Vice President Harris struggling to hold on to let voters.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
So I assembled a panel of undecided and Trump curious
Latino voters to see why they haven't been turned off
by inflammatory statements.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Like Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang
members and migrant criminals from prisons and jails.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Trump's rhetoric about Latinos is darker than a twelve hour
chocolate moley, but does that matter to these voters. To
get the unvarnished truth, I disguised myself as a representative
of pro Trump super Pack the plan tell them.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I was trying to better understand.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
How Trump could appeal to Latino voters while confronting them
with Trump's racism firsthand.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Can I see everybody's.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
ID real quick and see if you're real citizens?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
No?
Speaker 10 (13:42):
No, I was born in California, But where are you
really from?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Come on?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Parents are not born from Losalvador.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Salvador, Mexico. Okay, what do you like about Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He's not evasive, it's it's pretty clear. I mean, this
is someone that's been at the forefront for a very
long time speaking his mind.
Speaker 13 (14:02):
When he was on the government, the economy was better
than we have it right now.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
That's the part, the only part that I like.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
On the surface, they seem to like Trump, but as
we went deeper, I gave them the tools to express
themselves in a more nuanced manner. And when I'm naming
the issue, and you're going to raise either one or
two or three chilies to signify how spicy the issue.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Is for you.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Okay, the economy, wow, damn three chilies.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's spices.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Spies as spicy. Okay, healthcare not as spicy, but still spicy.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Arming janitors meaning arming giving weapons to janitors to protect
the schools, you know, like what if a shooter comes in?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, No, Chili's on that.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Now that I knew the issues they cared about.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It was time to see if there were any Latino
celebrity endorsements that might capture their vote. You guys are tough,
bad buddy, Come on, bad buddy, ever swear it would
get you all right, John Leguismeo, I guess I mean
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Well you two then Okay, Now it's time for the
moment of truth.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Let's see if witnessing Donald Trump's rhetoric firsthand makes them
want to vote for him more or less.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
On my first day back in the White House, I
will terminate every open border's policy of the Biden administration,
stop the invasion of our southern border, and begin the
largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's an excellent way to fix a very, very severe problem.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
What do you love about deportation?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You have criminals, They should all be removed.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Now do you think they should deport American criminals too?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
The poor American criminals to wear.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
What's your least favorite South American country, man, Cuba?
Speaker 13 (15:53):
If he's saying integration of the problem, it's like you
have a leak in your house, you gotta turn it off.
The water supply. Fix it then ton it on. Maybe
that's what he's trying to do. Like, let's closed on
the border for a while.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
But who would you call to fiction leak if all
the Latinos are gone? Nasty portation didn't seem to turn
them off, Let's try something else.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
No control whatsoever. Nobody has any idea where these people
are coming from. And we know they come from prisons,
we know they come from mental institutions and san as islands,
we know they are terrorists. It's poisoning the blood of
our country.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So what do you think of the language that he's using.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's poison. That's the last word that we're using.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
So you're saying he's a little too hitlerish, Maybe you
can soften the language a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
That a poison the blood.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Maybe what about spraining the ankle of America, giving America
gastro intestinal discomfort? Any worse about if he said ruining
the testicles of America. Great, So people don't seem to
love the hitler stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now what about this clip?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
How about allowing people to come to an open border thirteen.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Which we're murderers and they are now happily living in
the United States.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
You know now a murderer.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I believe this.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
It's in their gens, and we got a lot of
bad gens in our country right now.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I think, uh, maybe there's better words that can be used.
We all misspeak sometimes.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I mean all about Trump is that he misspeaks from
the heart.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
He missed setia hearts because he's got a lot and
he maybe has a good heart.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Well said, Well said.
Speaker 14 (17:25):
This is you know, it's gonna h stereotyping Latinos, the
stereotyping immigrants, and the more that you demonize people, it
doesn't bring us together.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
So yeah, you sir, you definitely don't have the murder gene. Okay,
don't speak Spanish because it's not nice. Which presidential candidate
do you think treats Latinos most like caricatures. I'm going
to say a name, and if you agree, scream arriba
Donald Trump? Okay, So you clearly think that Trump portrays
(17:58):
the Latino population in an accurate and nuanced manner.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
No, why didn't just geme about a revote?
Speaker 10 (18:06):
Well, if your questions and the questions that I'm listening
to you are about as you see this, what do
you think I'd rather not see that.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
So I bet if we don't show these clips of
him because they make you not want to vote for him.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
That's exactly the reason why many who will tell you
that they don't like him is because of what he says.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Now I understand the only way Trump is acceptable is
if you never.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
See or hear him.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
It seems like some of these people were finally coming around,
but there was something that was still bugging me. Do
you want to change your answer for any one of
the celebrity endorsements?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Maybe to John lewisoma, you guys never saw a spawn?
Speaker 13 (18:50):
And did you see that his last special?
Speaker 11 (18:52):
It was good?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What did you like most about his last special?
Speaker 13 (18:55):
The setting? He did it like a school setting?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well that was real, clever, real.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Already two, finally feeling like we made some progress, it
was time to come clean.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I want to thank you for being here and for
being so honest with me, but I have not been
so honestly. My name is not really Ron Kuzmano.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But no, oh know that did.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Now that I've shown you all these awful things about Trump,
does that change your vote?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Democracy, thank your job.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Let me come back.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
The legendary Kanie Chung will be joining on me on.
Speaker 15 (19:46):
The shelves and don't go well, hey, welcome back, go
there on the show.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
My guest tonight is a trailblazing, award winning television journalist
whose new memoir is called Connie. I used to watch
her growing up as a kid. It's a huge honor
for me to welcome to the stage. Is Connie charm Wow, Wow,
(20:49):
thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you,
it's a huge honor to me. You. No, I can't
believe you know who I am.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Well, I don't really.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Fair enough.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
No, no, no, I've watched you and I can believe
I'm sitting here with you too.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
That's very kind you grow I spent when I was
a kid. I grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and
we would turn on TV and watch you as a kid.
So really, yeah, I can't believe that you're from me.
Right now, I can tell people.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Is it real?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And I read your book because I got so scared
of you that I actually I actually read this book
for the first time in Daily So history.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I read the Book of the Guests. And I'm not
just saying this is a great book.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's very well written and as for me as a
American history and television nerd, this is like the perfect book.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, because it goes through.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
All these characters and that you were like in the
middle of everything in the eighties and nineties to the
point where I think you caused the most of the
damage in the world because you seem to be at
a you seem to be at the center of all
of them.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Honestly, I didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And not just the events, but like the characters in
the book. You know, all these legendary figures, Larry Grossman
on route.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You know Larry Grossman. You mean an NBC was the president.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, all these figures that we only know about. It's
twenty twenty four. These are people like you were.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
In They've never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I know, but you've been surprised.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You guys know who Larry Grossman. They might just say yes,
just say yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, say so so.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
And then the line detector tests to determine that was
a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
No, But Connie, Connie, these are mostly Americans. They don't
learn their history. I'm not American. Therefore, I read this
and I guess my point is, like you are around
at the peak of network TV around all these titans,
Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Walter, Cronkite, you know, mixed elbows
with presidents vice presidents. I guess now that you're retired,
(22:55):
how happy are you that you don't have to cover
the trash sheet?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
It's uh, I'm actually glad I'm not in television news now, seriously,
because it's it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Sure, Like, how can you give us some perspective of
how it's kind of different? Because when you started, well
you started with typewriters and now in freaking now in
freaking AI creating virtual cryptocurrency. Yes, crazy, yeah, all of it.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Well, we believed back in those days it was the truth,
credibility and honesty and all of that, and it seems
to have kind of evporated.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, you cheered too loud many some guy was sharing that.
But yeah, I mean is there you know, because I
read your book and even even in your time when
you were active, there was still misinformation and you are
the victim of some fake news so to speak. People
would spread rumors about it. So it wasn't like there
were no problems, no.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
But it wasn't as rampant as it is right now.
In other words, there are a lot of good reporters,
there a lot of good investigative reporting, but there's a
lot of misinformation too.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So why do you think it is that, like trust
in the media has, you know, just decreased ever since
you left news, because.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
It's not it was an era in which news was trustworthy,
but I think there was there had been a sort
of creeping negativism in which people began to not believe
not only government but news reporters. And they didn't trust
Congress or the White House for good reason because back
(24:43):
in the day when the government was lying to them
about Vietnam and they just didn't know, they couldn't feel
like they could trust Congress and the rest. And it's
gotten worse now, so we're even below Congress's level, which
is pretty low.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, if the news is worse than Congress.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
You were going to ask me a question in the beginning,
did Jesus side not?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I decided not to because it's too vulgar. I just really, yeah,
you came out. You came out. It's like I was
talking to my mom. I didn't want to ask the
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right, Yeah, you are.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, you the source of truth can't take the truth, like, yeah,
I'll go seventy eight.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I'm not. I'm like, I'm thirty nine, So no.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Way, funny you don't look thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
How old I look.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Twenty five?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
That's good Asian? Asian, don't raising? Yeah, but do you
want me to ask you that first question? It's so
awkward now now that we set it up and everyone
wants to know what it is now.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Yeah, I think you're going to have to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh okay, Well if Connie wants to ask a question, Okay, Connie.
Uh sorry, mister, I don't want to call it legend.
Don't call you legend or go, don't call you go.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Did you give Korey anything you want to go?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Uh? Uh mom, Mom? Uh sorry, sorry, just got it. Uh.
So you've been retired from journalism now and during your
time as a very professional trust movie source. I think
it was your opinion from your book that you shouldn't
give your personal opinions. You are not here to give
personal opinions. You're here to deliver the news. But now
(26:32):
that you're retired, you're unleashed. You can give your hard opinions.
Right now, let's ask the tough questions, Okay, Mary Kill,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Colson. I'm sorry, mom.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Well, I don't know if you know this, but I
actually just thought I was so nervous about the election,
I decided to come out in favor of Kamala. So
so you can well imagine my answer to your question.
Two out of the three.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Please, for the record, you got it.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't got it.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Of these are terrible. You're not married, I am married.
I'm married. Okay, that doesn't answer anything.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It does.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
It's two out of the three.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
What you gave me three?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Two kind of evading right now and.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Not evasive. It's totally on target. Do you get it?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
No, that's why I don't want to ask that dumb
ass question. But as some serious questions, yeah, the only
one who asked me that. Okay, okay, alright, So do
you feel like uh Asian people in America are kind
of uniquely suited to kind of ask the tough questions
because we're not seen as participating in this ongoing race
(28:08):
war between white and black people, and so when we
come in it's almost like we can get in there
and get the real story. No, okay, no to the
Race war or no to the art, no to getting married? Okay,
(28:32):
so you okay, uh so you uh in this book
you went to warm Beadi's house and a lot of
people that were taking cocaine. What are the who else
was taking drugs in Hollywood in the seventies. Now you
got some really interesting stories here, like, yeah, you talk
about Dan Rather being a real dick right in this book.
(28:53):
That's not yeah, that's in her book.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
I didn't. You're not quoting Race.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm not quoting you.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
But Dan Rather was a bit of a dick to you.
I mean, is that was he a mean dude or.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
No? Not not on the surface. I mean he was
very h uh. He was unhappy that I was sitting
next to him. He didn't want me there, you know
kind of you know why why because he had been
doing it by himself for a long time. He replaced
Walter Cronkite and then he, uh, he became His ratings
(29:24):
started to tank, and so they decided to add me
to the program. So I sat in half of Uncle
Walter's chair and I was it was like a dream job.
But it didn't the ratings weren't moving so much, and
he really didn't want me there. It was very much
like Barbara Walters when she began co anchoring with here,
(29:48):
Let's go, when when she began co anchoring with a
man who did more to her there.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Either, right, And so, how did you navigate the politics
of you know, the seventies newsrooms, of the huge, towering
figures of media, and you were often only the only
normally the only Asian. You're the only woman in the room.
A lot of times, think all of you right here,
This is the four of you as the only Asian
person in this room full of smelly guys. And this
is exactly how I felt the Daily Show to me. Yeah,
(30:18):
but how did you navigate the politics?
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Well? It was it was kind of hard in many
ways because I saw all around me were men, and
I kind of just decided I would be a guy too.
I would walk like them, talk like them, have their bravado,
have moxie, have you know, even use their the party
(30:42):
mouth that they use. And I so convinced myself that
I was a guy that when I'd walk past the mirror,
I'd go because I.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Was exactly I thought the white man.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I really was convinced, right, so.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
You would just start swinging, you swear the guys you say,
I did.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You want to say?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You want to say to anybody on TV? Right now?
We got this basic cable No, not really, don't mean
to say it for you, rather thank you. So, I
mean I could talk to you forever about this. I
honestly I did my research because I know how much
you value people who do their homework. I do, And
I want to ask, how why is it that there's
no other Walter Concast that can rise out of this
(31:31):
cesspool of American news media right now?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
The whole thing has changed. I mean, television news isn't
what it used to be. Digital taken overse so it's
it's just not going to happen. Television is a dinosaur.
I mean not your.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
No, that's fine, down with that.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
I think people get the news, you know, from all
sorts of sources, even I mean the Daily Show. They
used to always they.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Shouldn't they really shouldn't get from this show. I'm trying
to get Connie, trying to say, why are you? Why
are you watching this for news? But you know, it's
kind of disheartening because I was hoping you could give
me perspective and say, like, all these all these people
who are saying this is the worst ever time for America,
they're exaggerating. Used to be we had the same problems
in the sixties, And you're saying, no, this is the
(32:25):
worst time. And and I don't know if there's a
way through.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
I have hope for the news, you know, and that
we can swing that penculum right back and it'll be
more responsible.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well, can you give some tips on how to swing
that pendulum back or any ideas if you were in
charge of.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
News, Well, I think one, one newspaper at a time,
one television station at a time, and I think as
long as we do investigative work, we're on the right track.
The hard part is filling all those hours on cable.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
And that's where we come in to talk a bunch
of shit. So we're doing right now, feeling some hours
in between important stuff, just feeling the hours.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
No, but it is it's really hard to it's it's
hard to fill that many hours.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh, tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's very difficult.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So you're saying that if we can start with this idea,
if we have to fill up all this time, we
probably help.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
The news, but but do serious work and don't express
opinions on the news. It's just that, I mean, do
you really want opinion? No, I mean on the news
not no.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Right, mom said no, say no, plansays no, don't say
yeah no no no opinion. Yeah no, I agree. If
you need a source that's trustbility, that's not biased, and no,
I get it. So Unfortunately that's not where the money
is anymore. The money isn't saying than Rather that's.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Well, then that should sell.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, this should sell is in the book. And the
last thing I just want to say it is like
the hope for the future I have is in the
last chapter of this book, other than talking about the
weed strain that's named after you, yea, which everybody that
you should check it out. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Have you tried.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
No, I don't. I don't. I don't smell weed. Yeah, don't,
I don't smell weed.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
H If you go, if you go online, you'll see website. Yes, no,
it's not my website. It's somebody started it. And I
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, yeah, we all have no idea who we don't know?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
For tax purblisons, we have no idea who's selling this moment?
Speaker 6 (34:52):
But what it is is I'm easy to grow and
low maintenance. Yes, I'm low maintenance.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Read your book and you did.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
I did, and I don't give the scaries too much.
And you can get a two pack pre World for
twenty two dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yeah, you have.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
A I just saw that. But I have to tell
you one other thing. You were you were talking about
the last chapter I.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Was about to get to. Okay, go ahead, Okay, I
think I'm I understand you guys, right, Meldon, Yeah, what's
really call about the future is this idea of that
there is a generation of Connie Chan of Connie's in America,
Asian American girls who are the children of Asian parents,
Asian parents who grew up in your generation, who admired
(35:45):
you and named their children Kanye and so it's a
whole amazing And she got the meet up with that.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
There are untold numbers of babies that were named after me.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
How does it make you feel all these people stole
your name?
Speaker 6 (36:02):
I just flower gastaid and honored. What happened was there
was this girl named Connie Wong, and she she cold
emailed me and said that she was named after me.
I couldn't believe it, she said. When she moved with
her parents from communist China to the Midwest, she was
only three years old, and her parents said, we need
(36:25):
to give you an American name. And she only knew
what she saw on television, and she said Connie or Elmo.
And so she was she who discovered that all these
Connie's were named after me. When I went on this
book tour, I met she thinks they're untold hundreds. I
(36:47):
don't know how many. But I met six more. And
I met a Connie Chung in drag Oh, there you go,
and she or he said that he can. It takes
him four hours to put his make up on, and
I said, dude, I can do mine in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I can talk to you about this book. It's a
great book. Thank you, Thank you so much for all
that you do.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Thank you so much for all that you've done, all
that you other.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Bess Haney is available now.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
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