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Mother Earth just became a billionaire,
the game of chess is getting dirty,
and there's been a massive outbreak of racism
under the sea.
So, let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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All right!
I'm going to be honest.
With all the news that happened today,
I don't think we have enough space in today's show.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I-I tried everything.
I even went to a junkyard and asked them
to use that machine that crushes the cars.
And now I need a new car.
But there's still too much news and not enough time.
Fortunately, not enough time is just enough time
for a segment we call Ain't Nobody Got Time for That.
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All right, let's kick things off with one of the most amazing
and positive stories involving a billionaire.
You know how most billionaires only seem to want
to get more and more and more billions
so that, I guess, they can afford the new iPhone?
Well, it turns out
not every super-rich person thinks like that.
In an extraordinary act of charity,
the founder of the outdoor gear and clothing brand Patagonia
has given away his $3 billion company.
Ownership has now been transferred
to a specially-created trust that is going
to use any profits not reinvested in the business
to fight climate change.
That's expected to be roughly $100 million a year.
83-year-old Yvon Chouinard,
who started Patagonia roughly a half century ago said,
"We are making Earth our only shareholder."
Wow!
The founder of Patagonia decided being a billionaire
was too much balling for any one person
and so he's decided to give all the money away.
(cheers and applause)
Which...
which, when you think about it,
is actually the most baller move of all time, huh?
Yeah, because who is more of a baller:
the person who has a billion dollars
or the person who literally
uses their billion dollars to make it rain?
That's what he's doing.
'Cause the earth is going through a drought.
He saw it happening in California.
He's like, I'm gonna make it rain.
And who would've thought that a billionaire
could give away his money to help the planet
instead of trying to escape it in a penis rocket.
I didn't even know that was possible.
I didn't know but apparently you can.
And if I'm the earth, this is great news for me.
'Cause I mean, yeah, pollution is killing me
but now I'm rich enough to stunt on other planets?
"Where's your private jet, Pluto?
"Are you even a planet anymore?
Bam, bitch."
I will say it's going to be a little bit awkward
for Yvon Chouinard's kids when they try and explain
why they didn't inherit their dad's billions.
You know, it's like, "So did your father give you the money?"
It's like, "No, he gave it to a polar bear."
(laughter)
It's like, "Damn, you probably suck."
Now, if we had more time, we could talk about
how the founder of Patagonia is showing us
that you can still be super rich and not be a billionaire.
And he's showing that hypercapitalism
isn't the only way a business can run.
And it can still be successful and it can still make money
and it can contribute as much as it gets.
But we don't have the time to talk about all of that
because while the owner of Patagonia
is trying to be the earth's biggest advocate,
Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis,
is trying to be the earth's biggest dick.
Now to that dramatic and controversial twist
in the battle over immigration overnight.
The governor of Florida taking credit
for sending at least two planes filled with migrants
to the wealthy Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard.
MAN: The planes carried 50 migrants from Venezuela.
The island community was given no heads-up about it.
All they did was see some planes and a bunch of people come off.
The group arrived with children and some elderly family members,
all of whom could not speak English.
The community, though, banded together.
They helped them. They set them up in a nearby church overnight.
MAN 2: Now, what's truly bizarre about the situation
is all of these immigrants came from Texas
and it appears only the planes were provided by Florida,
specifically to bring them here.
You know, there's assholes and then there's this guy.
-(laughter) -No, because, you know, sometimes,
you know, someone is so terrible,
the word "asshole" doesn't quite capture
their essence enough. You know?
Yeah, 'cause everyone is an asshole.
Like my neighbor is an asshole, you know?
Drivers in traffic are assholes.
Hell, I'm an asshole.
But Ron DeSantis-- he's like, he's like the-the little edges,
the little ridges around the asshole
that really catch all the shit.
And because I can't show you that on TV,
here's a picture of a star-nosed mole
so you know exactly what I'm trying to say.
Those little...
'Cause here's the thing, remember,
Ron DeSantis is the governor of Florida.
So why is he grabbing refugees in Texas
and shipping them to Massachusetts, huh?
Why, so he can prove
that America's immigration system is broken?
Yeah, everyone knows that,
but instead of pushing lawmakers to actually reform the system,
he's using taxpayer money to, what, go viral?
'Cause this is what he... what he wants to do, right?
And this is what gets to me.
If you told DeSantis to spend the same amount of money helping
these asylum seekers, he'd be like,
"Oh, we don't have the funding for that,"
but to troll the Democrats, suddenly he's like,
"Put it on my card, yeah."
And by the way, America actually has a history of doing this.
Yeah, in the 1960s, racist organizations in the South
shipped Black people up to Northern states
to make liberals uncomfortable,
but Ron DeSantis obviously doesn't know about that
because the pages in his history books were torn out
in his state, so I get it.
Now, if we had more time we could delve into a long history
of how American lawmakers are all too happy
to pour tons of resources into destabilizing
Central and South American countries, but when the effects
of that destabilization are felt in America,
suddenly they don't have the money to pay
for the consequences of their actions,
but we don't have the time to get into that
because while American lawmakers are arguing
about what's happening at land borders,
Americans on the Internet are at war
about what's happening under the sea.
The new trailer for the live-action remake
of The Little Mermaid already has more than 100 million views.
While it's got a lot of fans, it is also being attacked
by some Internet trolls.
Actress Halle Bailey stars as Ariel
in Disney's new live-action film,
and she looks nothing like the animated Little Mermaid
with red hair from the original 1989 classic.
The trailer has received more than 1.5 million dislikes
on YouTube.
Then there are the ugly, racist tweets.
"The Little Mermaid is white, not Black."
Really, people, we're doing this again, huh?
"She looks nothing like the ori..."
Nothing like? They both have the tail, huh?
They both have the red... "She looks nothing like her.
How do I even know this is a mermaid?"
Once again, a bunch of Internet racists are upset
that a fictional character is being played by a Black person,
and, honestly, I don't know what the big deal is.
You guys realize that Nemo was Black, too, right?
Yeah, yeah, that whole movie was about a fish
who can't find his dad, yeah.
-(audience groans) -Oh, calm down, calm down.
I can say that because my dad left and he's white.
So who's racist now?
This is so ridiculous.
First of all, of course the Little Mermaid is Black.
All right? Everyone whose name starts with Lil is Black.
Lil Wayne, Lil Nas X, Lil' Kim.
Honestly, if you heard that there was a woman
named Little Mermaid, you'd just assume that
she's on a track with Cardi B., you know?
♪ With my wet-ass flippers. ♪
So, look...
So, look, stop being ridiculous.
It's imaginary.
You know, I hope this scandal
doesn't overshadow the rest of the movie.
The Little Mermaid is a beautiful story
about a young woman changing her core identity to please a man.
Let's not forget about that, people.
Well, look, if we had more time, we could talk about
how Disney already created a Black mermaid 30 years ago
and nobody cared or how there's still plenty of white princesses
for little girls whose dream it is to be in a monarchy.
And let's not forget you can still watch
the original Little Mermaid. It's not like
if you try and turn it on, Mickey's gonna
jump out of the screen and be like, "You're racist! Ha-ha!"
But we don't have time for that.
Because racism isn't just on Twitter.
It turns out it's also ruining the NBA.
This evening, the major headline out of the NBA.
They have now suspended Phoenix Suns
and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for a year.
They have fined him ten million dollars
after a nearly year-long investigation that detailed
inappropriate behavior during his 18 years with the team.
NEWSMAN: The league says Sarver, whose teams
are mostly Black, repeated the N-word five times,
bullied employees, and sent pornographic material,
including a video, to staffers.
Sarver also allegedly made jokes frequently to employees in large
and small settings about sex and sex-related anatomy.
Whew.
They say this guy was using the N-word,
he was bullying people and there was sexual harassment.
That's a triple-double in HR violations.
I mean, how do you justify
sending porn to your employees?
What are you doing, huh? What-What's the rationale?
Just be like, "Did you see that gang bang video
"that I e-mailed you? Well, that's the kind of teamwork
"I want to see on the court tonight, people!
Come on, get out there!"
Now, to be fair, to be fair,
Sarver wasn't calling Black people the N-word, all right?
He was just allegedly repeating Black people's use
of the N-word, and then complaining about
why he couldn't say it but they could.
But he was saying it.
So he isn't necessarily racist, but he's definitely a moron.
And here's what I don't get, here's what I don't get.
If you're someone who wants to walk around saying the N-word,
then pretty much the worst place in the world for you
is the NBA.
He's like, "I love saying the N-word
and I hate the sound of squeaky shoes."
Well, my man, you chose the wrong field.
Now, if we had more time,
we could talk about whether or not a one-year suspension
is enough of a punishment for what this owner has done.
Because if you can't learn in five minutes
that you shouldn't be saying the N-word,
I'm not sure that a year is gonna help.
But we don't have the time for that.
Because while the NBA's dealing with one bad owner,
there's a scandal in the chess world right now
that is shaking the entire sport.
NEWSMAN: A cheating scandal's rocking the world of chess
like never before.
After world chess champion Magnus Carlsen
recently lost a match to young up-and-comer Hans Niemann,
Carlsen abruptly quit the tournament
and then posted a cryptic tweet that many interpreted
as an accusation that Niemann had cheated.
Since then, speculation has run wild
about how Niemann could have cheated,
with some people suggesting
that some kind of wearable vibrating device
could have been feeding him moves.
A world champion has never withdrawn
from a chess tournament before this,
in this history of the game of chess.
So it's really unprecedented.
Yeah. You're damn right this is unprecedented.
A chess grandmaster might have been cheating?
That is disgusting!
The game of chess is sacred.
It's an ancient game of skill and strategy.
(baby voice): With the little horseys that you play with.
(neighs) L-shape!
Now, even though lots of people
are accusing Niemann of cheating,
nobody can say exactly how he did it.
Although, you may have heard them say "vibrating."
Yeah. The one theory
which the Internet is running wild with is that he used
vibrating anal beads
to tell him what moves to make.
Which I know sounds nuts, but...
I get why someone would use vibrating anal beads to cheat.
You know? Because even if you lose,
you still kind of win, you know?
(laughter, gasping)
(applause)
And let's be clear. Let us be clear.
There is absolutely no place for sex toys
in the game of chess.
Except for the pawns.
And the bishop, if you nasty.
Now, if only we had more time,
we could have so much fun joking about
which vibrations equal which moves.
Or we could even talk about the real scandal in chess,
which is how are all the pieces the same size?
Huh? So is the giant horse the size of a castle?
Or is it a tiny castle the size of a horse?
Either way, protecting your king is the least of your problems!
But we just don't have the time for that.
Because I'm being told through my... vibrating beads
that we need to go to a commercial break.
So, don't go away. 'Cause when we come back,
we're gonna find out what you know about the news.
You don't want to miss it.
(cheering and applause)
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Welcome back to The Daily Show.
You know, here at the show, we pay a lot of attention
to what's going on in the news.
But how much are the people
outside our studio following along?
Well, we sent Michael Kosta to find out
for another edition of Fill Me In.
Welcome to...
-Coming up blank. -Welcome to...
-Answer the question? -Answer the question?!
-With Michael. Uh... -Fill Me In.
KOASTA: Time to find out how much New Yorkers know
about today's most trending quotes.
-Taylor Swift-- her new album's called Midnights. -WOMAN: Oh.
It's for people who lie awake at night,
"Hoping that just maybe,
when the clock strikes 12:00, we will..."
Fall asleep?
-Party. -Turn into a pumpkin.
Okay, so you think Taylor Swift's new album Midnights
is an homage to Cinderella?
-Something like that. -Kate,
-why does your dumb husband say things like this? -(laughter)
Greet one another.
What's another word for greet
that has most of the same letters in it but isn't greet?
Meet yourself?
"Meet yourself" is the right answer!
Ooh! Big reaction!
-All right, who's this? -WOMAN: That's my man.
-That's my man. -That's my man.
Timothée Chalamet.
-No! No, sir! -What? Is it...?
-That is Harry Styles. -Oh, it's Harry Styles.
All right, he just said this about his new film.
"My favorite thing about the movie is that
it feels like 'blank.'"
-Real. -That is good, and it's wrong.
What does a movie feel like?
-Entertainment. -Entertainment.
How is a movie supposed to feel?
Is it supposed to feel like a book?
-No. -No. Is it supposed to feel like a TV show?
-No. -No. Is it supposed to feel like
-a Broadway musical? -No.
No. So, a movie's supposed to feel like a...
-Entertainment? -No, Shut up, you already said that.
-A movie feels like a... -A movie.
A movie! Yes!
Timothée Chalamet said at the premiere of his newest movie,
"It's tough to be alive right now,
'blank' is in the air."
-Um, love is in the air? -You smell love?
-Not really. -Around here?
Kind of smells like shit.
It's something that happened in Rome.
-Ash. -Ash. Let me see if that works.
It's tough to be alive right now, ash is in the air.
What happened to Rome? Eventually it...
-Fell. -Collapsed. -Whoa, now we're getting somewhere.
It's too late. Really, we should just be packing a go bag.
-You know what I'm saying? -I-- -Society collapsed?
-You got it right! (whoops) -(exclaiming)
Kim Kardashian, when asked
what her talent is, says,
"I can give you a million (bleep) talents.
I can cook well, use my 'blank' for anything."
-You got that one. -It's not what you think.
-Perverts. -Brain, brain. -Her brain.
Well, guess what, brain is wrong.
Let me give you a hint. It's one part of her body
that we've seen the least of.
-I was gonna say feet. -You were gonna say feet.
-What's on the feet? -Shoes.
Shoes. What's in the shoes?
-Socks. -Socks.
What's in the socks?
-Feet. -Feet.
What is in the feet?
-Toes. -Her DNA. -Uh, uh!
-Toes? -Her toes!
-(whoops) -And, no, not all of today's quotes
are from movie stars.
Okay, AOC. Quote,
"It's really important for people to feel like
their elected officials blank."
-Care? -She didn't say "care."
She gave it a little more New York sass.
Give a (bleep).
Ooh, that's too much sass.
It's caring but using a word for poop.
-Give a shit. -Oh! Now put it together!
-Oh! -"It's really important for people to feel like
their elected officials..."
-Give a shit! -Three times!
One, two, three!
Give a shit!
Do you feel like your elected official gives a shit about you?
70?
You know who does give a shit about you?
Harry Styles.
-No. -♪ ♪ -(cheering and applause)
Thank you so much for that, Michael.
All right, stay tuned. Because when we come back,
George Stephanopoulos will be joining me
right here on the show. You don't want to miss it.
(cheering and applause)
(applause and cheering)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is the host
of Good Morning America and This Week.
He's here to talk about his new weekly political docuseries
for Hulu called Power Trip, which premieres September 25.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Uh, we're going to run you ragged.
You're going to have to cover policy, politics,
and do it in a very polarized environment
where you're going to have to gain trust from all sides.
Let me hear you! (shouting)
CROWD: Shut it down!
This is just the beginning. You ain't seen nothing yet.
-Thank you. -(applause and cheering)
You guys are fake news. Fake, fake news.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I think our democracy is on a knife edge.
There's so much at stake.
Please welcome George Stephanopoulos!
(applause and cheering)
How's it going?
George Stephanopoulos, welcome to The Daily Show.
This is... It's great to be here. Thank you.
This is... this is so amazing having you here
because, I mean, like, I feel like this is your world.
You know, you're one of the-the most familiar faces.
You're one of the names
that is most synonymous with all things news.
And now you're taking us behind the scenes in this docuseries
where ABC is going to be, um, embedding journalists.
Yeah, we've got seven young journalists.
-They're in their twenties. -Right.
They're all ambitious, passionate, smart kids.
They don't have a lot of experience,
but they're going to go out on the campaign trail,
basically a zone defense, covering the country
and cover all these campaigns.
We're doing it for the first time
for these midterm elections because, I said it in that clip,
I think our democracy is at stake in the midterms.
We've never seen anything like it before
and we want to make sure we get it in as real a way as we can.
It feels like these midterms are going to be different.
And, you know, and people often say that.
I've seen, you know, American news try and drum up interest,
but it feels like these ones
are going to be particularly different.
This is the first time, I think, in a midterm election--
we saw a little bit of it in 2020, a lot of it in 2020--
where the very way we debate and decide elections
-Mm-hmm. -is under assault.
I mean, you've got 40% of the country
who still doesn't believe the last election is over.
40% of the country who is determined...
who doesn't accept facts
-Right. -in a debate.
And, you know, our whole system is premised on the ideas,
both sides can argue out, based on a common set of facts.
Whoever wins, wins, and you go on to fight another day.
This is different because that has not been
settled after the last election.
Let me ask you this.
As somebody who's been covering the news for so long,
somebody's who's been involved in campaigns,
you've seen the tide shift, you've seen the attitude change.
Did you see this coming? Is it new?
And if you did see it coming, what was the moment?
There's got to be one moment where you noticed
that something had shifted?
I can't say I ever saw this coming to this degree.
I never believed... I mean, I still well up
when I think of the Capitol under assault
on January 6 after an election.
Our whole system is premised on the idea
-of a peaceful transfer of power. -Mm-hmm.
But the change that started to happen...
I-I'm... You make it sound like I'm very old-- I guess I am--
but when I first worked in campaign...
No, I-I just said you've been doing it for a long time.
-Yeah, long time. -Yeah, you could be a news child star.
-I didn't say you were old, George. -(laughs)
When I first worked in campaigns,
we used to footnote our commercials
'cause we were so concerned
about being called out for not telling the truth.
-Interesting. -Inter... But what-what has changed
over time is that, as-as each side basically just tries
to get out their own voters
rather than trying to persuade others,
they care less about whether they're called out
by the media on telling the truth or not.
You know, it's-it's interesting you say that
because I've noticed on-on the news shows,
you'll be talking to politicians,
and back in the day it felt like a politician was so afraid
to-to-to contradict themselves, to be a hypocrite,
to have any moment where there was a discrepancy,
and now it feels like just having the platform
to come on your news show and say something
-is more important than whether, whether or not you... -1,000%.
-You know? -And, and what they love...
Often you'll have someone come on, and you can show
and it can be footnoted, you can go to the dictionary,
you can go to 8,000 reference books and say,
"You're just not telling the truth,"
and they say, "Well, you're lying."
And they don't care because to the-the-the group of voters
they're trying to appeal to, calling us out,
whether we're right or wrong, works for them.
So, do you, do you ever get to a point
where, as a news organization, you say,
-"We can't have certain people on"? -Absolutely.
No, no, right now, I mean, I will not put anybody on my show
who will not accept the results of the last election.
-Just-- They don't come on. -Wow.
(cheering, applause)
Um... So, you have--
you have new issues coming up all the time.
I had an interview with a-a senator a weeks back,
which I still can't believe. And remember
how when Hillary Clinton had her emails
-that were classified, -Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
how Trump said, "lock her up."
Republicans wanted investigation after investigation.
This senator would not even say that Trump
having all of those documents in his house was wrong.
Four questions, four times,
would not say it was wrong.
So you're in an interesting position.
For a long time, America had an agreed idea
of what was happening on the news, for the most part.
-Supposed to, yeah. -Right. Cable news came
and then it became, you know, really partisan.
You could have it this way and you could have it that way
and your facts could almost be à la carte now.
-You still occupy a position-- -Trying to.
Yeah, but you still occupy this position where most people
think of it as, "Okay, this is the-the middle. This is--"
But the Overton window of middle is shifting.
How do you now respond? Do-do you try and--
do you have to cater to some of these politicians?
Here's what you don't do. I mean,
I think there is a risk when you're talking
to certain, uh, politicians if-- if-if you're willing to say,
-"What you're saying is not true." -Mm-hmm.
And sometimes you have to risk looking partisan by doing that.
But I think we can't bow to that threat.
-Mm. -I mean, as long as-as
I'm confident when I am that we're arguing about facts,
undisputable facts, I have no problem saying,
"You're not telling the truth."
Even if that's gonna cause somebody to say,
"Oh, you know, you're just being, uh, a political hack."
You have to do that. That's what we have to stand up for
as journalists-- right and wrong,
-fact, not fiction. -Mm-hmm.
You, um... You-you are now
sending these journalists as embeds, you know?
They're-they're on the ground.
They're getting information on the ground from these people.
What we see, even in that clip-- and-and I think the docuseries
-really-really gets into it... -"You're fake news," right?
...is people say, "Well, you're fake news."
Do you think we're moving towards a world
where the news is what you want to hear
and then what you do essentially almost falls away?
It's-it's the grea-- I think it's one of the greatest dangers
our democracy faces right now.
I think there's no question about that.
You see it right there.
By definition,
there's gonna be certain people who,
no matter what the facts are,
if I'm saying it, you're a liar.
It's fake news.
If their-- if their candidate is saying he's right,
not wrong-- And-and you're right.
People just end up
going to the places where they know
the view that they already have is gonna be reinforced,
whether or not it's true.
Have you found any way to break through?
On the ground? On your show?
-In-in any of the journalism? -Well, we're gonna try to do it
with this new show.
I-I think what we're gonna try to do
is show the process
of these young reporters trying to get the truth.
Show them doing it in the right way.
Showing them doing it, we hope, with integrity.
So-- Showing the risks they take to do it.
And if-- I think if people have--
If-if we have some transparency on the process,
I hope the people will trust what they're hearing.
-Well, I wish you the best of luck. -Thank you.
-Thank you so much for joining me on the show. -Thank you.
It's a really, really fascinating docuseries.
Make sure to check it out.
George Stephanopoulos, everybody.
We're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
Thank you very much.
Yeah. Best of luck.
(cheering and applause)
Well, that's our show for tonight!
Charlamagne is coming up next.
Now here it is, Your Moment of Zen.
The FBI came after me and took my phone.
They surrounded me at a Hardee's.
And they told me not to tell anybody.
Here's an order not to-- "Don't tell anybody."
Okay, I won't. (chuckles)
Well, I am.