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ANNOUNCER: Coming to you from New
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Tonight, Britain's prime minister
is in trouble, the end of free return, and Brandi Carlile.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
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Welcome, everybody. welcome to The Daily Show.
I'm Trevor Noah.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you for coming out in person.
Thank you for being here.
Look at this, wow!
Oh, it's just amazing.
Take a seat.
Let's do this, everybody.
Oh, I can feel it.
We're going to have a great show tonight.
Slapping is going professional.
The Girl Scouts are balling out,
and England is having buyer's remorse.
Plus, here to talk about her new album
and perform a song from it, Brandi Carlile is joining us
on the show, everybody.
[cheering]
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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All right, before we get into the big stories,
let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world,
starting with big news coming out of the world of sports.
The NFL has announced that for the first time ever,
the league will schedule a game on the day
after Thanksgiving, a.k.a.
Black Friday. [laughter]
Yeah.
And I'm surprised that they're doing this because I thought
that the NFL would be busy on Black Friday,
scouting Walmart for new talent, you know?
[laughter]
If that grandma would just tackle that kid.
let's get her a two-year deal.
Also, I love how the league made this big announcement
like it's a genius idea.
Wow, football on a Friday.
Yeah, it's football. Put it on any day.
It works.
It's football.
It's like, ooh, sex on a Tuesday, yeah, brilliant idea.
It's good whenever.
Don't overthink it.
In money news, the US Mint is about to release new quarters
featuring 1930s actress Anna May
Wong, the first Asian-American to ever
appear on American currency.
Yeah.
[cheering and applause]
Which-- which is great news for representation
and great news for bad tippers.
It's going to be like, you only tipped me a quarter?
It's like, wow, OK.
I didn't know I was dealing with a racist.
[laughter]
Which quarter?
In international news, British Prime Minister Liz Truss
is now officially the lowest polling prime minister
in British history and is now in danger of losing
her job after only six weeks.
Yeah.
When asked for comments, she said, any woman
can break the glass ceiling.
I'm proud to have shattered the glass floor.
[laughter]
All right, let's move on to some of the biggest stories
of the day, starting with the Girl
Scouts of the USA, the Sinaloa Cartel of baked goods.
After years of struggling with falling membership and sinking
revenues, one Girl Scout has stepped in
with the ultimate good deed.
The Girl Scouts of the USA just
received their largest donation ever by a single person.
Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott
just donated $84.5 million to the organization.
The Girl Scouts leadership says that the money will
help them recover from the pandemic,
which drove down membership.
Scott has donated some $12 billion
to charities since 2019.
Wow.
Thanks to Mackenzie Scott, the Girl Scouts
are now balling out of control, which is great.
It really is great.
Because the Girl Scouts do an amazing job of training
a new generation of leaders, providing a community.
Although, I will say they've got
to be careful because this kind of money
could easily change your vibe.
Yeah, this year, they're earning badges for computer
coding and rock climbing.
Next year, it's going to be badges for Cristal
popping and tax evasion.
This will be like, Meredith, for discovering
that the Cayman Islands are superior to Panama,
we award you this.
Obviously, I'm joking. I'm joking.
All right?
The girls are still going to be selling cookies.
They're just going to be doing it out
of the back of a Bentley now.
[laughter]
Just like, buy them or not.
We don't carry either way, you broke ass bitch!
[laughter and applause]
And as for Mackenzie Scott, how can
you not love this woman, huh?
Because she's exposing what billionaires don't want you
to realize, that billionaires are always like,
if you raise my taxes even a little bit,
how will I have the money to feed
all of my private jets, huh?
But think about it.
Mackenzie Scott has only been a billionaire for three years,
and she's already given away $10 billion,
more than her ex Jeff Bezos has given away
his entire life, his entire life.
[cheering and applause]
And get this.
She's still a billionaire.
Don't forget that.
Yeah, it just goes to show how much good you can do when
your main priority isn't going to space
in a giant metal penis.
There are things you can do.
[laughter and applause]
Anyway, let's move on.
Let's move on to some big sports news.
For decades, boxing dominated the world of prizefighting.
Then MMA came along with a roundhouse kick
and became a worldwide phenomenon.
And now we might be witnessing the birth of a new era.
Slap fighting, it's become a viral sensation
over the past few years.
And now UFC President Dana White is starting a league.
He got approval yesterday for it
to be a licensed athletic competition in Nevada.
His power slap league will be regulated by the Nevada
State Athletic Commission.
And as you can guess, slap fighting
features to competitors across from one
another throwing slaps with open hands
to each other's faces.
Ah, the sport has been around for several years,
but never regulated until now.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
Slapping is about to become an official sport.
And those big dudes might be the champs for now,
but it's only a matter of time before the sport
is dominated by immigrant moms-- feet on the couch!
Feet on the couch!
Aah!
Ah.
[laughter and applause]
And I don't know about you.
I don't know about you, but I am
excited to see how the Nevada Athletic
Commission plans to regulate the rules of the sport.
Are you allowed to flinch?
Can I use my moves from school?
Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.
Is Will Smith the reigning champ?
Is that how it works?
[laughter and applause]
You know what I would propose,
I would propose to make the sport more exciting?
You know how in wrestling, they trash
talk to get people going?
And then in boxing, they do the weigh in, where they challenge
each other and say things.
What they should do for slap fighting
is they should have each fight to say
something first that warrants them getting slapped.
Just like, I never liked your mother's cooking.
Oh.
Bop!
And by the way, by the way, I like
that there are more and more sports that
divorced men can excel at--
getting slapped, eating 100 hot dogs.
You realize we're basically two weeks away from there being
a sport that's just sleeping on your friend's pullout
couch, right?
It's just four days, and he's still on the couch, people.
This is why he's the GOAT.
Can you see this?
And before, you were one of those people who's like,
"you know, this is a bizarre idea for a sport.
Is it really a sport?"
Every sport sounds ridiculous when you first
hear about it, all right?
I mean, it's not a real sport.
Every sport is not a real sport.
Pick any sport, any sport, like NASCAR, huh?
Imagine that first conversation.
"So we're all going to drive really fast in a big circle?"
[laughter]
Yeah.
But what if I lose control and crash into the wall?
Well, that's what we're all hoping for.
[laughter]
All right, and finally, everyone
knows that the internet has made
shopping easier than ever.
You know, sometimes I get packages
without even ordering.
Yeah.
I mean, sure, they accidentally put the boxes on my neighbor's
stoop, but hey, it's free. I can't complain.
But this year, this year, it looks
like online shopping will be a little less easy than before.
Well, as holiday shopping season approaches,
you might need to find something a little bit
different this year.
Returning gifts may not be so easy or cheap anymore.
Buyers beware.
Free returns may soon be a thing of the past.
The cost of returns is becoming
so astronomical for retailers.
Right now, they have no choice but to pass
that cost on to the consumer.
NEWS REPORTER: One reason for the new return fees
is an increase in what's called bracketing.
That's when a consumer buys the same clothes
in several different sizes and colors with plans
to return what they no longer want.
The National Retail Federation reports $218 billion
worth of online purchases were returned in 2021.
That is more than double the amount in 2020.
As a result, some major retailers
are now adjusting their return policies,
including H&M, which is now testing a return
fee in certain places.
No.
No, no, no, no.
AUDIENCE: No.
No.
How are you going to charge people for returns?
If I want to make a rash decision on a whim
and then change my mind, I shouldn't
have to pay a price for it.
That's the whole point of America, huh?
[cheering and applause]
That's what this great nation is about.
You can make decisions.
I think I'd look good in this jacket.
You know what? Never mind.
I think I'd look good in Iraq.
You know what?
Never mind.
And you know who I blame for this?
I blame the Democrats.
Yeah.
They should have codified the right to free returns
when they had a supermajority.
You could have done it, Nancy.
[cheering and applause]
I don't want to lose free internet returns.
Because you realize what that means.
That means you're going to have to go back to the old way.
Now, you remember the old way, where if you wanted to return
a shirt, you'd have to drive all the way to the store,
and to wait in line, and then to look the cashier in the eye
and try to convince them that the shirt was already
burnt when you bought it.
[laughter]
Balenciaga made it like this.
Actually, you know what?
I blame the clothing stores for all these returns,
in the first place. WOMAN: Yup, yeah.
Yeah.
We wouldn't be forced to order all these different sizes
if each clothing store didn't choose to have
their own sizing system.
[cheering and applause]
In some stores, oh, you're a medium.
Then you go to another store. Now you're a 6.
Then in some stores, they're like, if you're
usually a medium, you probably want to go with a large.
Then just call it a large!
Our sizes run small.
Then why don't you make that a medium?
What are you doing?
Can you imagine if I owned a pizza store,
and you order a large pie, and then
I came out with one slice.
And I was like, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you,
our pie is run small.
[laughter and applause]
I bet you now that conversation would
end with a championship slap fight, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to break, let's
check in on traffic with our very
own Roy Wood, Jr., everybody.
[cheering and applause]
Come on, cow, come on, come on, come on.
Get out of there.
Get out of there, cow.
Get!
Dip. Dip.
There you go. There you go, cow.
Get up out of that.
Get up out of that, boy.
Get up out of that, roughing up folks.
There you go. There you go.
Dip, dog, yeah.
Roy, what-- what are you doing?
Oh, there's the traffic.
It was-- that's some of the traffic that was happening.
No, no, no.
TREVOR NOAH: I feel like you're watching a cow.
Is that cow being chased by the cops?
What's happening there?
I don't know, but I'm rooting for him.
[laughter]
He be running, but we'll do-- we'll
do the rest of your traffic.
But before I get to the rest of the traffic,
man, let's just talk a little bit about this whole giving
the money to the Girl Scouts.
It's an amazing story, right?
Mackenzie-- that $86 million.
Yes, it's good to give away $86 million.
But to the Girl Scouts?
I've-- they've been making money pimping them cookies.
They're good.
[laughter]
You need to get the money to the Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts the one need the money.
They've been selling popcorn for decades,
and they still broke.
They broke.
The Boy Scouts need some money.
They need some money for R&D, do the research,
some new shit to sell.
I bet they can make some money.
The Boy Scouts, they need to start
selling them e-cigarettes.
That'll make them money.
Oh, or-- or if the Boy Scouts sold e-cigs
in Girl Scout cookie flavors--
[audience groans]
Bitch.
A Do-Si-Do flavored JUUL?
Come on, dawg.
Everybody love a thin mint.
If you could smoke a thin mint, you telling me
you wouldn't smoke a thin mint?
[laughter]
But that's cool.
That's cool.
Mackenzie-- Mackenzie Scott want to give
the money to the Girl Scouts. That's cool.
They'll be giving money to all the little individual troops,
millions of dollars. That's the new lick.
I started me a Girl Scout troop.
TREVOR NOAH: Do you mean, like, you have one?
Yeah, she going to give them boys some more money,
and I'm going to be right there ready.
I'm going to be registering.
I did the paperwork all right.
Let me talk to her real quick.
Just to camera right there.
Madam Mackenzie, how you doing?
I'm Roy Wood, Jr., Girl Scout Troop Leader 6235J9.
[laughter]
Now, my Venmo-- my Venmo is supposed
to be up here, if you see me.
They'll add it later. I guess they didn't post it.
TREVOR NOAH: No, we're not going to add it.
Roy, just do the traffic, please.
Stop asking-- - OK, OK.
TREVOR NOAH: --MacKenzie Scott for money on the show.
I'm going to do-- I'm going to do the traffic.
You know what, man?
Also, shout out to Anna May Wong.
Shout out to Anna May Wong, man.
There's an--
[cheering and applause]
--Asian on the money.
Asia's on the money, right?
It's an Asian on the money, which is cool.
That's a nice place to start.
But why would you put them on a quarter?
Put them on $1 bill.
Put somebody on $1 bill.
Let's be real.
Let's be real about this shit.
When the last time you used a quarter?
Soda machine? Payphone?
Only time people use the quarter is a laundromat
and the strip club. Everybody know that.
That's when you-- [laughter]
This should be easy.
No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I get the laundry. Why would you use--
Don't ask me none about that on TV.
What I'm saying is, good for Anna May Wong
because finally, we got some more minority
representation on American money
just in time for Apple Pay.
[laughter]
- I see what you did there. - Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, speaking of money, speaking of money, also,
this whole return fee nonsense for the clothes
and all of that.
TREVOR NOAH: The shipping thing, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't think people should be having
to pay these return fees-- TREVOR NOAH: Thank you, Roy.
--to take something back.
Them fees add up.
I've been returning clothes for years.
That's everything I perform in TV.
That should go right back.
[laughter]
Look, I'm not even lying to you right now.
Like, '02, '03, '04, bro', I was starving, dawg.
I would do Conan.
Every time I did Conan O'Brien, I would take that
shit right back to Macy's.
And it was perfect. It was perfect.
It's perfect, too.
Because, like, in LA, you could go to Macy's at 10:00
in the morning and get your outfit for Conan.
Conan rehearse at 2:00.
They shoot at 5:00.
You're done by 6:00.
You're back in Macy's by 7:30, return your shit, then--
[cheering and applause]
--you at the house, watching yourself
perform in the clothes you don't even own no more.
That's the move, man.
Because also, these return fees add up.
And I don't think we understand, like, how unfair
it is to charge somebody money to get
back some of their money.
You can't do that to people.
Circuit City, Circuit City used to do that shit to me
back in the day with cameras, back
in the day with Circuit City.
Because, like, I would buy a camera for $50.
I'd keep it for a couple of days,
use it for a couple of shows.
And then you go back, and they want a $50 restocking
fee, which I didn't have, because two of the shows
canceled. So now I'm broke.
So now I got to go out and donate plasma four days
in a row just to make back the food, which is illegal,
by the way.
You're only supposed to donate plasma twice a week.
Supposed to take a day off in between, drink fluids.
But I had time for that shit because I
had to pay the restocking fee.
So I would do all of that just to get
the $50 to return the camera.
Roy, Roy, Roy--
[laughter and applause]
- You never-- - Wait.
They sold their body for money.
They understand what I'm talking about.
Why did you need a camera for so badly
that you were willing to do all of that?
I had to make the audition tape to get on Conan O'Brien.
Oh, OK.
That seems dead-- are you healthy now?
Does that affect you?
No, man, I feel pretty good for the most part.
TREVOR NOAH: All right, well, let's get to the traffic then.
OK, I mean, I would get to the traffic.
But I'm going to be honest with you, dawg.
I got to get to Macy's right quick.
[laughter]
[cheering and applause]
I got to get--
I got to get up to 57th Street.
Roy Woo, Jr., everybody.
74th Street.
I got to go to--
All right, when we come back, I'll
be talking to the legendary Brandi Carlile.
So don't go away.
[cheering and applause]
Let me just start with this whole thing about woke.
We all know what woke means.
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Being woke means never having to say you're sorry.
Woke means never letting anyone say they're sorry.
Woke is racist.
Big woke means equity, diversification, gender,
and racial disparities.
This wokeness is happening at Madison's house
and Jefferson's house, where all they do
is talk about slavery.
Wokeism is about murdering fun.
You know what woke means?
It means you're a loser.
Woke madness, now it's drag queens
and children and church.
The woke is the new religion of the left.
The new hip woke is to not like the Jews.
What does it mean to be woke?
I have-- I mean, I don't know what the definition
of woke so much is.
I do know that I think most people don't want
to be lectured by companies.
I can't get paint.
It's taken six weeks to get a sample.
It's terrible.
We used to get it in two weeks.
What do attribute a lot of this to?
Woke.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is a Grammy Award-winning singer,
songwriter, and musician.
She's here to talk about her new deluxe album,
In the Canyon Haze, which is available right now.
Please welcome Brandi Carlile.
[cheering, applause]
How's it going?
Good to see you, yeah.
[laughs]
I don't think I've--
Yes, I've--
[cheering, applause]
Welcome to the show.
Hi, well, thank you for having me.
Wow, look at this!
"Wow, look at this" is us looking at you.
Yeah.
That's what the "Wow, look at this" is.
Because I never got to tell you this in person.
We were all working at the Grammys.
But you put on, hands down, one of the greatest
live performances human beings have ever witnessed.
It was phenomenal.
I hope everybody told you this just,
like, everywhere you went.
[cheering, applause]
Thank you.
Because-- no, because here's the thing.
You're a legend.
You've been nominated for countless Grammys.
You've won tons of Grammys.
But you are a consummate performer.
And it feels like every performer wants to perform
with you for that reason.
Everybody, from Elton John, all the way
through to Joni Mitchell-- legends
go, oh, Brandi Carlile.
I'd love to know what that feels like for you.
Well, it all comes from them, you know.
It does.
And they've sort of taught me through the years,
pretty much, everything I know about performing.
And the cool thing with the Grammys
is that it didn't happen to me when
I was so young, that I wouldn't be able to really
seize the moment.
I felt really ready for that moment.
TREVOR NOAH: Interesting.
And-- and I knew.
I was like, man, I'm nearly 40.
Like, I just-- I've got--
I've got to do this right now, you know.
I've got to take this moment and make
it mean something in my life, for me and my family.
So I was ready for it.
Yeah, you have had a journey that many of your fans
have said is long overdue.
They've gone, why isn't Brandi getting her credit?
Why isn't she more successful?
We love her so much.
The industry has definitely caught up.
You know, the world has definitely caught up.
But you do talk about this-- how you achieved fame
a little later than some musicians, who were
at 16, 17, whatever it may be.
Do you feel like that prepared you better for the place
that you're in now?
Yeah, I do.
I'm really grateful for that.
And it's funny.
It's like, I mean, it literally is singing for a living,
so it's probably the greatest job in the world
at whatever level you're at.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
And I think I always felt like I was making it,
and like I was making an impact.
But it's definitely taken a turn, you know,
that I am emotionally prepared for, because I'm
old enough to handle it.
But it's happened for some of my heroes, too.
Bonnie Raitt's career was kind of that way,
and she's somebody I really look up to,
just how she's conducted herself throughout her career
and life.
Yeah.
When you blow up at a certain stage in art,
there's always the balance between maintaining how
your fans knew you and loved you,
and then catering to the masses who
now want to enjoy in the art that you're creating.
Do you find that you've been able to create
that balance for yourself?
Do you still have the intimate Brandi Carlile,
and then like the giant--
the giant shows?
I mean, I'm so obsessive.
I don't really even know how to cater to the fans
that love me, you know?
Like, my desires are still so strong to pursue
my own heroes and--
I really love that.
--my love of entertainment, that I just am, like,
a little too obsessive to be able
to see outside of that, to really know how to cater,
you know.
But not in a way that I'm saying,
like, I'm too much of an artist for that,
because I care what people think.
No.
I just don't know how to do it.
[laughter]
That's fascinating.
Because I think it was David Bowie
who said something similar.
He said something to the effect of, don't play to the rafters.
Remember why you started playing, essentially.
And it's the idea of creating for yourself,
for the joy that you first had, and then that's--
I mean, that's essentially why the people became fans.
You've got a new album that is out now,
and you've done something that few artists would dare to do.
And that is, you've remade an album
that was critically acclaimed, many regarded
as one of the more perfect albums.
I'd love to know why.
I mean, there's like-- there are so many different versions
of a song that can exist.
And when you're an artist, they exist in your head,
whether you get a chance to record them or not,
like, at any given time. But you've got an album.
You've got one shot.
That song is going to have one life,
and it's going to be heard one way.
And I wanted to do this album as a revision of, like, well,
what would "In These Silent Days"
have sounded like if it was in Laurel
Canyon in the early 1970s?
Like, what would we do?
Would there be four-, five-, six-part harmony?
Would we have strings and lushness and mellotrons
and steel guitars?
And you know, we just did this.
We did this at home, for the love of it, for--
as a labor of love.
Because we wanted to hear what our album would sound
like in that way.
I mean, I still think that "In These Silent Days"
is the right-- that's the right thing.
That's the album I wanted to make.
But I loved making that one.
You tell very personal stories in the album.
Some of them feel like they happened to you,
or they feel like everyone feels
like they happened to them.
You know, you connect with people in the storytelling
of your music.
And yet, every time I've seen you talk about your music,
it feels like you don't take credit for it,
but you give credit to this larger idea of artists who've
inspired you and what they've created,
and you're part of it.
And it's this beautiful humble attitude that you
have about music itself.
It's almost like you treat it like
it's magic that just comes down and is infused within you.
I'd love to-- when you talk about mimicking
and the artists that inspire you, how do you see music,
that maybe other people don't?
Well, I mean, I do see myself as an artist,
and I'm proud of myself as a songwriter,
and especially as a singer.
So it's not like a humblebrag or anything.
But I am like a fan.
Like, so I'm the kind of fan, like,
I waited outside your tour bus for an autograph.
TREVOR NOAH: I love that. - You know what I mean?
Like, I kind of knew where you lived.
Like, I--
[laughter]
I had--
We're going from stalker to--
OK, OK.
I know what school you went to, what year you were born.
Like, I'm that kind of fan.
But you wouldn't go to the house.
No, I wouldn't go to the house.
- OK, OK. - I would stop short of that.
Right. Fan knows the information.
Because I didn't get my driver's
license till I was 20, but--
[laughter]
But I know artists.
Like, molecularly, I'm interested, that it goes
beyond just music, you know.
And so I just never grew out of that.
Even though it's my job now, and I
know there are people that feel that way about me,
it doesn't scare me.
I still feel that way about my heroes.
They're just kind of letting me hang out with them,
for some reason.
And it's probably the greatest honor of my life.
Don't tell my kids.
[laughter]
[cheering, applause]
I really love that.
I really, really love that.
Because it comes across.
And what's amazing is that your heroes are fans of you.
One of the most amazing moments people have ever
seen in their lives was when Joni Mitchell, one
of the greatest of all time, just
truly one of the greatest of all time, came out on stage.
You surprised people with her performance.
Everyone thought Joni wasn't going to perform anymore.
We know that she almost lost her life,
and she's fought to come back.
And then, here she was, on stage, performing,
and it was with you.
I mean, that is history being made.
Do you ever pinch yourself and go like, I'm part of this?
I still can't believe that happened.
It was just a few months ago, you know.
And the fact that it was at Newport
Folk Festival, which is such a monumental
and historic place--
she always has a plan.
She knows what she wants to do, even if she doesn't say it.
We didn't know if she was going to do that.
We thought it was a jam.
We didn't know that she was going to sing
all the leads on those songs.
She just started singing.
We rehearsed the songs ourselves.
And we didn't know whether we should stop
or what we should do, you know, so we just sang with her.
And then, it turns out, she completely took over the show
and became the performer that we all know that she is.
And I mean, it was-- she didn't go-- we
didn't go to sleep that night.
We stayed up till the sun came up, just--
just loving-- - That's phenomenal.
--loving what happened.
And Joni, flat out, loves to perform,
and she's awesome at it.
She's every good at it--
good at it now as she ever was. [applause]
Right. Right.
Yeah.
So you know what?
When those types of moments--
when those types of moments happen,
everyone goes, oh, you should have been there,
you'll never get to see it again.
But I've heard a little whisper, that maybe
something might happen?
Yeah, we're going to-- we get to talk about this right now.
So after Newport, Joni said, I want to do another show.
She said, I want to play again.
And we got to thinking about it,
and we decided on a venue, which is the Gorge,
out in Washington State. TREVOR NOAH: No way.
George Washington-- the Gorge, yes.
We want to play there.
It's one of the most beautiful venues in the world.
It's like-- it's called "Echoes Through The Canyon."
I'm going to play the first night.
Joni and the Joni Jam are going to play the second.
TREVOR NOAH: No way. - I'm gonna open up.
Yeah.
And it's June 9 and 10, out of The Gorge.
Joni Mitchell is going to play.
You'll be able to buy a ticket.
[cheering, applause]
No one's been able to buy a ticket to see Joni
Mitchell play in 20 years.
So this is enormous.
And she's so excited, because it's close to Canada, and some
of her Canadian fans--
TREVOR NOAH: Right, right, right.
So it's just--
I can't believe it's happening, but it's happening,
and she is going to crush it.
So if you can get there, get that.
Yeah.
I mean, if you can get the tickets--
wow.
That's going to be-- that's going to be intense.
After the break, we're going to have a performance of yours
from the new album.
And it's interesting, because the title of the track
really hit home for me.
You know, it's "You and Me on the Rock."
And it reminded me of just Bible study with my mom.
There's always the rock, the foundation that you build
a house on, versus the sand.
Mm-hmm
And you grew up in a very religious
household, didn't you?
BRANDI CARLILE: Well, I don't know if it was the household,
but I found religion around me, you know.
It was kind of in the extremities of my family,
and some a bit in my household.
And then, I sort of found it later on in life
in my own way, and I sort of came up with my own way
to practice my faith.
But the concept of "You and Me on the Rock"
has been with me since I was about six years old,
going to Sunday school, singing "Build Your House on a Rock."
TREVOR NOAH: I love that you say,
"practice it in my own way."
Because you've talked a little bit about this, but one
of the many aspects of you that makes you so inspiring
and phenomenal in many people's eyes is that you have--
you've blazed a trail.
You know, you grew up, as you say,
in a religious environment.
You know, and you are proudly gay,
you know, and people go, wait, Brandi, but it's religion.
And then, country music has also
had its issues with that, just like some other genres,
like rap, et cetera.
Sure, sure.
When you're performing, and when you're putting your heart
out there and you're putting your life out there,
are you doing that as catharsis?
Or are you doing that to help so many
of the other people who've had the journey
that you've had in your life?
Definitely both.
I can't not do it.
I don't know how to not do it.
Since I can remember, I have to do that.
I have to be in front of an audience and create,
whether they like it or not, and to exist, you know.
But also, I do know how impactful it is.
Because like I told you, I'm the girl
that waits outside your tour bus,
because I was so impacted.
I needed that.
Particularly, I needed queer icons, as
a rural, queer, religious kid.
[cheering, applause]
So you know, when I sing "You and Me on the Rock,"
it's a take on a Sunday school lesson.
And I know that it's about me marrying
the love of my life, my wife, Catherine,
and having these two little girls.
And I know that that's not exactly
what Sunday school had in mind for me,
but I do think it's what--
I do think it's what god had in mind for me, and--
TREVOR NOAH: I love that.
[cheering, applause]
I cannot wait to hear this.
Thank you so much for joining on the show.
Thank you for being here.
I really, really appreciate you.
Everybody, Brandi Carlile.
In the Canyon Haze is available now,
but stick around, because after the break,
we're going to get an exclusive performance
from Brandi Carlile and her wife for the first time.
You don't want to miss it.
[cheering]
NOAH TREVOR: Welcome back to today's show
now to perform "You And Me On The Rock," from her new album
In the Canyon Haze, please welcome
back Brandi Carlile featuring her wife, Catherine Carlile.
[applause]
[MUSIC PLAYING - BRANDI CARLISLE,
"YOU AND ME ON THE ROCK"]
BRANDI CARLILE: (SINGING) They build
wooden houses on frozen ponds in the summertime,
when the water's gone.
Diagonal lines in the rolled-out lawns, and the sage
always smells so pretty.
But nobody cares where the birds have gone when the rain
comes down on Babylon.
The stonemason's phone rings all day long,
and you got to get back to the city.
[harmonizing]
BRANDI AND CATHERINE CARLILE: I build
my house up on this rock, baby, every day with you.
There's nothing in that town I need after everything we've
been through.
Me out in my garden and you out on your walk
is all the distance this poor girl can take
without listening to you talk.
I don't need their money, baby.
BRANDI CARLILE: Just you and me on the rock.
I built paper planes when I learned to fly,
like a 747 falling out of the sky.
I folded them crooked and now I'm wondering why I could
always end up in the water.
But nobody's asking why is she looking so thin?
Was she laughing too hard while she's drinking again?
A fall in store, she's a paper plane,
and she was going down when you caught her.
[harmonizing]
BRANDI AND CATHERINE CARLILE: I build
my house up on this rock, baby, every day with you.
There's nothing in that town I need after everything we've
been through.
Me out in my garden and you out on your walk
is all the distance this poor girl can take
without listening to you talk.
I don't need their money, baby.
BRANDI CARLILE: Just and you me on the rock.
It's an earthquake.
It's a hard wind It's a record-breaking tide
and it is a rolling in.
It's a big scene, but it can't hurt you and me.
It's just a water view, water view.
I don't need their money, baby.
CATHERINE CARLILE: I don't need their money, baby.
BRANDI CARLILE: It's you and me on the rock.
CATHERINE CARLILE: It's you and me.
BRANDI CARLILE: It's you and me.
[harmonizing]
BRANDI AND CATHERINE CARLILE: You and me on the rock.
I built my house up on this rock, baby, every day
with you.
There's nothing in that town I need after everything we've
been through.
Me out in my garden and you out on your walk
is all the distance this old girl can take
without listening to you talk.
I don't need their money, baby.
BRANDI CARLILE: Just you and me on the rock.
Just you and me on the rock.
I don't need their money, baby.
CATHERINE CARLILE: I don't need their money, baby.
BRANDI CARLILE: It's you and me on the rock.
CATHERINE CARLILE: It's you and me.
BRANDI CARLILE: Oh, it's you and me.
[harmonizing]
Yout and me on the rock.
You and me on the rock.
[applause]
Well, that's our show for tonight, everybody.
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Now, here it is, your moment of zen.
[applause]
I have the New York nose.
Maybe I have a New York nose.
Listen, someone has used this as a urinal, because I can--
I can clearly smell it.
You're tired of the smell. Come here.
I want you to smell this.
You smell that fragrance?
You know that?
See that?
[laughs]
The number one thing I smell right now is pot.
Because I smell some weed.
Someone is smoking-- [laughs] someone is smoking some--
[laughs]
You smell that?
You smell that, Marsha?