Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central coming to you from New
Speaker 1: York City to the only city in America. In the
Speaker 1: Daily Show Tonight fighting what to reshape the economy, more
Speaker 1: voting problems, and ghetto gastro. This is the Daily Show
Speaker 1: with driver Nolot work up to the day show coming off,
Speaker 1: back to show my for tuning in, and people coming
Speaker 1: out in Carston going to see Who's gonna be great,
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be fun? Taken, See taken. Let's do this thing.
Speaker 1: We have got a ready fun show for you. Tonight's
Speaker 1: white people are not white anymore, Bars, I'm not who
Speaker 1: you think they are. And Daisy lad And covers the
Speaker 1: surprising reason that you won't be able to vote. So
Speaker 1: let's do this people. Let's come straight into today's headlines,
Speaker 1: all right, before we get into the big stories, So
Speaker 1: let's catch up on a few other things going on
Speaker 1: in the world. Well, actually, this entertainment news is from
Speaker 1: out of this World. Tom Cruise is planning to shoot
Speaker 1: scenes for a new movie from the International Space Station,
Speaker 1: which good for him. He's finally getting to work a
Speaker 1: little bit closer to his home planet. This is nice,
Speaker 1: This is It's all about that work. Life balance. No,
Speaker 1: but seriously, people, Tom Cruise days winning all right, he's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest movie stars and stuntman's doing things
Speaker 1: that no one has ever done before, just success after success.
Speaker 1: So maybe scientology is right. I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: putting it out there. I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 1: And other of space news. Remember how NASA slammed a
Speaker 1: spaceship into an asteroid to test whether they could change
Speaker 1: its course. Well, yesterday they officially announced that it was
Speaker 1: a success. Yeah. Yeah, the the asteroid wasn't actually headed
Speaker 1: to Earth and they hit it and now it is
Speaker 1: so could work. Everyone, Yeah, you just kept for us dying.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not really sure this is all necessary though,
Speaker 1: like to like sender like a vessel up to hit
Speaker 1: the asteroid, spend all that money, Like if we honest
Speaker 1: one immigrant mother could have done the same thing just
Speaker 1: by holding up a slipper. That's all she needed to do.
Speaker 1: Just be like come to Earth and see what happ
Speaker 1: Come to Earth and see what happens. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Turn around, turned that turn that, turn that after it around.
Speaker 1: In in sports news, NFL star Davante Adams of the
Speaker 1: Raiders has now been charged with misdemeanor assault for shoving
Speaker 1: a sideline photographer on Monday. Luckily, the photographer was attended
Speaker 1: to by NFL doctors, so he'll be fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: he died, but the doctors still hid into play. Next Sunday,
Speaker 1: they said the game must go on. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: move on to some of the biggest stories of the day,
Speaker 1: starting off with a major story about the gig economy.
Speaker 1: You know, the gig economy, the reason you're tended date
Speaker 1: had to make a stop to deliver shake check. Over
Speaker 1: the past decade, more and more people have been making
Speaker 1: a living at jobs with the companies they work for
Speaker 1: are technically not the employers. But now America's most famous
Speaker 1: employee might be changing that a right, a potential game
Speaker 1: changer for millions of gig workers. The Biden administration proposing
Speaker 1: a new rule that would reclassify millions of them as
Speaker 1: company employees. The new rule who could have wide ranging
Speaker 1: impact on profits at Uber, lift, geor Dash and other
Speaker 1: companies that rely on contractors. With that employee label, workers
Speaker 1: would be eligible for protections like a minimum morali wage,
Speaker 1: overtime pay, jobless benefits, and workers com Wow. Biden gets
Speaker 1: this done, it's going to shake up the world of
Speaker 1: apps completely because you realize right now the reason delivery
Speaker 1: and car apps can take in billions of dollars is
Speaker 1: partly because they don't technically have employees, which is great
Speaker 1: for them. It's the same way some people are technically
Speaker 1: in a relationship, but they still get all the benefits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they get the sleepovers, but then they don't have to
Speaker 1: take care of you when you're sick. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just like, I'm sorry you're not feeling well. I guess
Speaker 1: I'll see you when you're ready to smash by What
Speaker 1: what Biden is suggesting is that these companies have to
Speaker 1: give their work as the benefits that employees would get.
Speaker 1: And I know that you'll agree with me. No one
Speaker 1: deserves it more than them because these people are hard workers.
Speaker 1: They're driving everywhere, they're biking there, delivering their taste, testing
Speaker 1: our food before it gets to us. This is hard work.
Speaker 1: So this is a big step for a lot of
Speaker 1: people in the gig economy. But don't forget there are
Speaker 1: drawbacks to being considered an employee. Yeah, like, for instance,
Speaker 1: people singing you happy birthday at work. Yeah, you'll love it. Initially,
Speaker 1: but once they start on the how well you now,
Speaker 1: how you'll be like, I have a health care but
Speaker 1: headward cast. All right, let's move on to some news
Speaker 1: about the midterms. The reason your inbox is now full
Speaker 1: of emails with the subject line send me four dollars
Speaker 1: or I'll kill myself. Let's catch up on some of
Speaker 1: the tightest races in our ongoing coverage of vote Demo.
Speaker 1: Right now, any single Senate race in America could determine
Speaker 1: which party could take control of the Senate, giving them
Speaker 1: the power to get nothing done for the next two years,
Speaker 1: and few races are closer right now than the one
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. On the Republican side you have Doctor Oz,
Speaker 1: famous TV doctor and proof that even Oprah makes mistakes.
Speaker 1: And on the Democratic side you have John Federman, former
Speaker 1: Lieutenant governor, and dude who's just going off in the
Speaker 1: marsh pits. This race has hinged on an of issues
Speaker 1: like crime, abortion, and the fact that Dr Oz has
Speaker 1: only lived in Pennsylvania for less than two years, which
Speaker 1: is that even a real Pennsylvanian. Huh has this dude
Speaker 1: even been in a fist fight in the wah Wah
Speaker 1: parking lot yet? But now another question has begun to
Speaker 1: take sense of stage in the race, John Fetterman's health.
Speaker 1: Back in May, Fetterman suffered a stroke, and even though
Speaker 1: he's been back on the campaign trail, he still hasn't
Speaker 1: fully recovered. And now his first major interview since the
Speaker 1: stroke has everyone talking. Can voter stress that you will
Speaker 1: be able to do this job on day one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Of course. This is Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman's
Speaker 1: first in person sit down interview since a stroke sideline
Speaker 1: him from the campaign trail for months. That auditory processing
Speaker 1: where I'll hear someone speaking, but sometimes will be it
Speaker 1: will be precise and what exactly that they're saying. I
Speaker 1: use captioning. His campaign require that he'd be allowed to
Speaker 1: use a transcription program on his computer during our interview.
Speaker 1: I always thought it was pretty empathetic. Huh emphatic. I
Speaker 1: think I was very excuse me, empathetic. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: that's an example of stroke empathetic. I always thought it
Speaker 1: was very empathetic before having a stroke, But now after
Speaker 1: having that stroke, I really understand, you know, much more
Speaker 1: kind of the challenges that Americans have day in and
Speaker 1: day out. So, yeah, this interview came out, and now
Speaker 1: obviously you've got people on the right saying phedom and
Speaker 1: forgot a word and he can't understand speech, so he's
Speaker 1: not fit for the Senate. And look, this is politics,
Speaker 1: so I get it. People will jump on any weakness
Speaker 1: to give their party an advantage. I understand that, but
Speaker 1: let's be real, people, it's stumbling over a world every
Speaker 1: now and again just qualified you from politics. America wouldn't
Speaker 1: have had a president for the past six years. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go in fast. In fact, at least Peteman acknowledged
Speaker 1: that he messed up the word and he corrected himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Biden wouldn't have noticed, and he would have her negroes
Speaker 1: Man and Trump. Can you imagine Trump? Trump would never
Speaker 1: even acknowledged that all like Trump would have tried to
Speaker 1: convince us that he actually got the word right. He'd
Speaker 1: be like I always knew that I was emphatic, and
Speaker 1: I was and also empathetic. I was emphatically empathetic, and
Speaker 1: so emphatic about being empathetic, emphatic about emphasma. Do we
Speaker 1: love emphasyma, folks, We love it so much? And also
Speaker 1: asked for needing to read captions because he has a
Speaker 1: troubled understanding of speech. Now, I don't know, is that
Speaker 1: really a deal breakup? Huh? In fact, if you ask me,
Speaker 1: I think America needs more people in politics who actually
Speaker 1: know how to read. Maybe that's just how I see it.
Speaker 1: If anything, if anything, needing captions is super relatable these days. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you tried watching House of Dragon without actions? It's impossible.
Speaker 1: I mean, half the characters have the same name. Here, Gonen,
Speaker 1: tell a mon to get Rania to warn Ranarious about
Speaker 1: eagles drave, but don't tell for Sarius. He'll tell you, Sarius.
Speaker 1: Did you get that? No? I didn't. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that was. So look, go look, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not vouching for feedoment over doctor Os or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I do think this whole debate is veering into
Speaker 1: the territory of saying that people with disabilities cannot be lawmakers,
Speaker 1: which is trash, all right, especially since America already has
Speaker 1: disabled lawmakers serving right now. It shouldn't be the squatifier, right,
Speaker 1: Dan Cramshaw is missing an eye, Tammy Duckworth lost both
Speaker 1: her legs, right, and Mitch McConnell, he's literally melting all
Speaker 1: the time. But has he let that hold him back? No,
Speaker 1: he gets up every day and he vows to keep
Speaker 1: on working until the moment his face slides right off
Speaker 1: of his skull. Worrow. That's right, however, Now I tire
Speaker 1: my skirt and to opponent to ma now. Even though
Speaker 1: the sentence is getting the most attention, there's also a
Speaker 1: heated race for mayor of Los Angeles where Congresswoman Karen
Speaker 1: Bass is facing off against real estate tycoon Rick Crusoe,
Speaker 1: and in their final debate last nights, there was one
Speaker 1: moment that got everyone's attention, and it's when the moderator
Speaker 1: mentioned that Karen Bass is a person of color, and
Speaker 1: then Rick Caruso said, uh, me too. And this question
Speaker 1: goes for the both of you. The next mayor of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles will be either an African American woman for
Speaker 1: a white man. I'm Italian Italian Americans, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: You're not white, You're Latin? What is that? What is that?
Speaker 1: We all know what this is about, right, this guy
Speaker 1: is running in Los Angeles. So now he's saying I'm Italian,
Speaker 1: which is a Latin language, So I'm basically Latino, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not claiming should be an expert, but
Speaker 1: if you tell someone you're grabbing Latin food, I think
Speaker 1: that'll be pretty piste off when you come back with
Speaker 1: olive garden. Right, we cannot agree on America, so I
Speaker 1: think we can all agree that Rick Caruso was just
Speaker 1: bullshitting here, because I promise you when he gets pulled
Speaker 1: over by the cops, he's not like all the officer.
Speaker 1: What is the problem, Senor what's funny about this whole
Speaker 1: thing is that when they came to America, Italians weren't
Speaker 1: considered white, but then they fought for like a hundred
Speaker 1: years to change that. Yeah, and let's be honest, any
Speaker 1: debate was definitely over by the time the Mario trailer
Speaker 1: came out last week. Yeah, because Chris Pratts is out
Speaker 1: here like it is I Mario. So the Senate races
Speaker 1: are heating up, the mayoral races are heating up. But
Speaker 1: it turns out even in the Animal Kingdom, my friends,
Speaker 1: elections are being fought tooth and nail. Then update on
Speaker 1: fat and Bear a week. It's the popular bracket that
Speaker 1: has been rocked by a big cheating scandal. So each
Speaker 1: year people vote on the beefiest bear in Alaska's Cat
Speaker 1: made cat My National Park before hibernation season. Well, the
Speaker 1: National Park tweeted quote like bear stuff there faced with fish.
Speaker 1: Our ballot box too, has been stuffed. There were thousands
Speaker 1: of fake votes for Bear seven four seven, But even
Speaker 1: with the fake votes removed, seven four seven weighed in
Speaker 1: at four hundred pounds and still want to semifinal round.
Speaker 1: Now seven will face off against Bear nine oh one
Speaker 1: for the final round. Voting start this morning. Yes, my friends,
Speaker 1: it appears that a voting scandal has tainted the dignity
Speaker 1: of fat Bear a week and don't you dead laugh?
Speaker 1: Don't you laugh? If we cannot trust the same to
Speaker 1: see of the fat bare vote, then what can't we trust?
Speaker 1: I honestly don't understand this. Who would even care enough
Speaker 1: about a fat by election to try and cheat and
Speaker 1: stuff the battle box? Who is this person who's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got to ring? This is it? Why the fattest
Speaker 1: bear doesn't get any power if it wins. It isn't
Speaker 1: like a bear is gonna win the election and then
Speaker 1: cut taxas, right, right, I use my clause to cut
Speaker 1: the taxas. And now for those zoning laws, what are
Speaker 1: you doing. And by the way, I feel like the
Speaker 1: story is almost the perfect encapsulation of American culture, all right,
Speaker 1: because when other countries engaged with nature, there's a reverence,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like the mighty brown bear, weary of
Speaker 1: the coming choo how goes down for the winter months.
Speaker 1: But with America, it's like, look at this chunky boy.
Speaker 1: Look at him. He's so chunky. I just want to dude,
Speaker 1: Tell my god, he just ate my arm. Take a venture.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we
Speaker 1: go to a quick break, let's check it on the
Speaker 1: stock market. Finance expert Michael Cost to everybody hardphone, what
Speaker 1: is happening on the market today? Well, like a fat
Speaker 1: bear on a scale, I'm crushing at everybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I got a hot tip for you, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta tip creaking a hot tip for you. But
Speaker 1: before we get into this fat bear week, you know,
Speaker 1: here's a question. Why are people voting and we have
Speaker 1: the information from the scale. Doesn't that tell us who
Speaker 1: the fattest bear is? Am I the only one watching
Speaker 1: this story? We have a scale, The scale tells us
Speaker 1: who the fattest bear is. There's no need to vote.
Speaker 1: Okayh officer, Officer, I know your radar gun says I
Speaker 1: was going a hundred, but can we just take a
Speaker 1: vote on this first. I'm like, come on, let's call
Speaker 1: it what it is, Trevor. These bears they're depressed. Think
Speaker 1: about it. They over eat, they sleep for months. They
Speaker 1: always seem upset. They freak out when you point a
Speaker 1: hunting rifle at their cub. I mean, they're unhinged, dude.
Speaker 1: All right, that's an interesting way to see bad. Let's
Speaker 1: talk let's talk about not talk about money. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: talk about money forever. Uber and Lift. Now I'm an
Speaker 1: expert on this topic. I actually use Uber black, Trevor,
Speaker 1: because I'm an ally. So that's for you. But it's
Speaker 1: not a joe. It's not a joe. Look, okay, let's look.
Speaker 1: As you can see on this chart. After President Biden
Speaker 1: announced that gig workers should be considered employees, Uber and
Speaker 1: Lift shares have taken a ride of their own. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: this chart also perfectly demonstrates my enjoyment of making conversation
Speaker 1: with my Uber driver. Okay, at the beginning, it's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, offers me a man, gives me a bottle,
Speaker 1: of water for a baby. But look, it starts to
Speaker 1: drop right here when he asked me to come sit
Speaker 1: up front. Oh god right, And another big drop in
Speaker 1: value again when he finds out I work at the
Speaker 1: Daily Show and asked me if I'm the guy that
Speaker 1: goes to the Trump rallies. But look, his value increases
Speaker 1: when I learned used to be a doctor and I
Speaker 1: can ask him free medical questions. But it turns out
Speaker 1: he's actly just a chiropractor, so he loses all his value.
Speaker 1: But then I find out that he has prescription meds
Speaker 1: in his trunk for me, so it goes back up.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mikey like, okay, so no, thank you.
Speaker 1: I offered you a hot tip, and it's usually a
Speaker 1: financial tip. But I feel like I have to explain
Speaker 1: this because it keeps happening to me. If you're my
Speaker 1: uber driver and I fall asleep in the back seat,
Speaker 1: do not try to wake me up. I will bite you. Okay,
Speaker 1: Back to you, Trevor, my brother Michael cost everybody when
Speaker 1: we come back. Cantylic discovers yet another thing that is
Speaker 1: wrong with American's indection. So don't go away, yea. With
Speaker 1: all the recent accusations, of ballot rigging and fat bear fraud.
Speaker 1: It is no surprise that Americans have become less confident
Speaker 1: in their elections. But as Daisy Latic discovers in her
Speaker 1: new series, America's election infrastructure maybe an even worse shape
Speaker 1: than you think. Hi, I'm Peabody Award wanting investigative journalist
Speaker 1: Daisy Ladik. Elections. They're the bedrock of democracy and the
Speaker 1: only thing preventing us from not having elections. But is
Speaker 1: America's election system reliable or we won glitchy voting machine
Speaker 1: away from a total collapse. All investigate in our new
Speaker 1: segment Vote Demic are crumbling election infrastructure. After our nation's
Speaker 1: last elections went super smooth, dozens of voters were locked
Speaker 1: out of the one single polling place for all of
Speaker 1: Louisville for ports of hours of longlines, voting machine malfunctions,
Speaker 1: provisional ballot shortages. Officials are looking at calling in the
Speaker 1: National guard. I wanted to find out how ready we
Speaker 1: are for the mid terms, so I'm headed to our
Speaker 1: nation's capital to talk with election advocates at the Democracy Fund.
Speaker 1: My name is Tammy Patrick. I'm a senior advisor to
Speaker 1: the elections team at the Democracy Fund, which seeks to
Speaker 1: ensure that we have an open and just democracy that
Speaker 1: is inclusive and trustworthy for all of our citizens. Sounds
Speaker 1: like you got your work cut out for you. We
Speaker 1: do in this moment. There's a lot of work to
Speaker 1: be done, but it may not be in the areas
Speaker 1: that necessarily think it is. All right. What are all
Speaker 1: the problems for this upcoming election? So we continue to
Speaker 1: see a shortage of poll workers, the global supply chain issues,
Speaker 1: underfunding of our election infrastructure, tammy, tammy, tammy. Let's let's
Speaker 1: start with the most pressing issue. Well, one of the
Speaker 1: most pressing issues that at this moment, because of where
Speaker 1: we are in the election cycle, is a paper shortage.
Speaker 1: Paper paper, Tammy. It's two who's using paper to vote?
Speaker 1: So the vast majority of Americans actually cast a paper ballot? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I knew that. I vote every election. I got the
Speaker 1: stickers to prove it. Well, that's great, but election offices
Speaker 1: all around this country have ordered their ballots, they've ordered envelopes,
Speaker 1: they've ordered paper materials that they need, and they may
Speaker 1: not get them in time for the upcoming election. Who's
Speaker 1: going to be affected by this paper shortage? Most what
Speaker 1: it looks like is going to happen, will be those
Speaker 1: small election offices serving rural communities where they don't have
Speaker 1: a large service provider that's helping them take care of
Speaker 1: this issue. Are you saying that the rural community and
Speaker 1: might rural rural? Am I saying that right? Rural? The rural? Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. As I learned about this
Speaker 1: large swath of Americans rural, very rural, I realized this
Speaker 1: paper shortage could affect a lot of people. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess I gotta go find some paper people. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: there's more to talk about, can it Tammy? We can
Speaker 1: America just sneaks in printer paper home from work like
Speaker 1: the rest of us. I went to run Back Election Services,
Speaker 1: one of the largest ballot printing facilities, to get an
Speaker 1: inside look at how dire the paper shortage is. We
Speaker 1: print ballots for several states and counties across the nation.
Speaker 1: We're in twenty three states plus Washington, d C. With
Speaker 1: some some of our products. Wow, so you're a huge
Speaker 1: part of the voting process. Yeah, we touched roughly voters
Speaker 1: around the country. Touch a lot of voters, but with
Speaker 1: consent absolutely, So what's going on with this paper shortage
Speaker 1: started during COVID when the paper mill shut down. They
Speaker 1: couldn't generate more paper, so they sold through all their inventory,
Speaker 1: and then when they started going back to work, they
Speaker 1: converted to liner board for cardboard boxes. Right, Amazon still
Speaker 1: needs to ship things, bezos man, and now we don't
Speaker 1: have the inventory any longer, and so they're trying to
Speaker 1: play catch up. And you're saying there's a paper shortage
Speaker 1: happening right now. Jeff, I don't know how to tell
Speaker 1: you this, but I see a ton of paper around here.
Speaker 1: So what you see here on our production floor is
Speaker 1: a fraction of what we need for the whole year.
Speaker 1: Every day we'll go through sixty five of those roles.
Speaker 1: Of these roles, Jesus Christ. Historically we could order paper
Speaker 1: in two to three weeks, we would have what we need.
Speaker 1: Now it's three to four months or more. And that's
Speaker 1: been the problem this year. How bad are we talking
Speaker 1: like we might need to start printing double sided bad
Speaker 1: or the majority of Americans won't get to choose their president. Bad.
Speaker 1: Let's hope it doesn't get to that. Everybody is working
Speaker 1: to avoid that very problem. But we already do print
Speaker 1: double sided balance, So there is we already print on
Speaker 1: both sides of the paper. Jeff. That means it's bad.
Speaker 1: Kind of walk me through everything that would be a
Speaker 1: acted if the election community runs out of paper. If
Speaker 1: there's no paper, it's hard to mail balance envelopes. I
Speaker 1: voted stickers and instructures, voting stickers. Voting stickers could be gone,
Speaker 1: could be but the stickers the best part of voting,
Speaker 1: the only reason I vote. Could also do digital stickers.
Speaker 1: Instead of getting the physical sticker, you get a digital
Speaker 1: sticker when you vote. Jeff, that's the dumbest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever heard. Fair enough, Okay, I just have a few
Speaker 1: more questions. It's good m hm. Yes, what can Americans
Speaker 1: do to help with the paper shortage? Um? Stop wasting paper? Yes? Cursive?
Speaker 1: Why am I writing in cursive? Stop in sting paper? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, you wanna take me on a tour. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go to work. All right, let's go. You're
Speaker 1: gonna wear a hard hat. Yeah, that's what you do. Right.
Speaker 1: It was time to roll up my sleeves so I
Speaker 1: didn't get ink on them. Ross this paper palace was pumping.
Speaker 1: And it turns out there's a lot more to printing
Speaker 1: than just hitting control p So this where it all starts.
Speaker 1: We get the files from the county, the pds, so
Speaker 1: we can start the print process. Ah, let me ask
Speaker 1: you a question. Does PDF really Standford? Please don't know.
Speaker 1: I could see how crucial paper was to this process.
Speaker 1: So every roll of paper will generate about a thousand ballots.
Speaker 1: Where we're running in an election, we'll be running twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day, seven days a week. He's runs
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day. Wait, what's happening? This machine
Speaker 1: just ran out of paper? Happening already. I even presented
Speaker 1: Jeff some of my own solutions to stopping shortage. So
Speaker 1: this is the inserter. This where the balance, the I
Speaker 1: voted sticker, the instructions all going to the envelope to
Speaker 1: be nailed out of the voter. Say the stickers voted stickers? Yes,
Speaker 1: these ones right here? Yes now now. So even if
Speaker 1: the paper shortage does ruin America's democracy, at least don't
Speaker 1: be able to participate in the most important part of
Speaker 1: the voting process. Thank you so much. True, Because when
Speaker 1: we come back, I'll be talking to a trio chefs.
Speaker 1: We're making bourmet food ghett over, so don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guests to night
Speaker 1: are the founders of the brunch based calinary collective Ghetto Gastro.
Speaker 1: They're here to talk about their new book, Black Power Kitchen,
Speaker 1: which comes out on October. Is available for pre order
Speaker 1: right now. Please welcome. Let's the walker, John Gray and
Speaker 1: Pierre Serrau book Welcome. Yeah, you are definitely out here.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Gentlemen. You know this. It feels
Speaker 1: like it's been too long. I remember meeting you and
Speaker 1: my mind was blown, not just by the food you cooked,
Speaker 1: but by the stories that you told, the way you
Speaker 1: encapsulated people's cultures, the identities, everything into something we take
Speaker 1: from granted every day, which is food. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the like the very beginning, the inception of it all,
Speaker 1: Ghetto Gastro. So many people have a negative connotation when
Speaker 1: it comes to ghetto, be like, oh that's ghetto, you know.
Speaker 1: And then Gastro has this this culinary idea behind it.
Speaker 1: But you took it and you flipped it. I'd love
Speaker 1: to know why you chose that name. Well, we know
Speaker 1: opposites attract, and as a multidisciplinary business, we want to
Speaker 1: use food as a vehicle to tell stories, you know
Speaker 1: about culture, politics, empowerment, you know, mainly we're using our
Speaker 1: creative energy to uplift black and brown communities. That yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. And the way you do it, the
Speaker 1: way you do it is by is by leveling up.
Speaker 1: I mean food from all over the world. I've I've
Speaker 1: eaten your food, and I mean not even guessing you up.
Speaker 1: You remember this. I ate the food and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: New York has the best food in the world. And
Speaker 1: then I stumble on a few places like these guys
Speaker 1: tricked me because that food was the best food in
Speaker 1: the world. New York has great food. But you, you, you,
Speaker 1: you really take it up to another level. You've created
Speaker 1: something that's truly special. And everyone that talks about your
Speaker 1: collective talks about it with the level of excitement, pride,
Speaker 1: and joy because that's what you encapsulate. You know. You
Speaker 1: you take food and you create a story from it.
Speaker 1: Why do you think it's so important to do that? Well,
Speaker 1: we break bread to to build bridges, you know, and
Speaker 1: I let pet yeah, yeah, what John said. You know,
Speaker 1: we break bread to build bridges, and for us, it's
Speaker 1: really important for our people to understand that the food
Speaker 1: that we that we eat and how important it is
Speaker 1: what we put into our bodies. So we're making conscious food,
Speaker 1: high vibrational food, you know, like food that's a life force,
Speaker 1: you know, straight from the source. You know, plants, you know,
Speaker 1: actually love the flavor from the soil to the oil. Man,
Speaker 1: I like that a lot, You don't. You know what
Speaker 1: I love most about it is what I what I
Speaker 1: love about this, this this cookbook, and I love about
Speaker 1: the stories. It's first of all, it's more than just that,
Speaker 1: you know, ten million dollars worth, and you know what,
Speaker 1: it deserves a different name because it contains every you
Speaker 1: you expect the recipes, right, you don't expect what they'll be,
Speaker 1: but you expect recipes. But this book contains arts. You
Speaker 1: have beautiful images by artists shaped you know, hip hop
Speaker 1: and communities around America in the world. It feels like
Speaker 1: you've infused more than just the food, but the people
Speaker 1: that would engage around the food. And that that, in
Speaker 1: and in and of itself, was an interesting choice. Why
Speaker 1: involve others in your arts? I mean, when you when
Speaker 1: you think about food, think about nourishments, and it's really
Speaker 1: about nourishing the mind, body and the soul. So that
Speaker 1: we have to we have to combine these arts, the music,
Speaker 1: the design aspect, you know, the fashion flee for us,
Speaker 1: as you know, it's community builds immunity. So we like
Speaker 1: to work with, you know, our peers and people that
Speaker 1: we love and that we trust to create like pieces
Speaker 1: of art like this that will you know, last and
Speaker 1: standard test of time. You do that with your food
Speaker 1: as well. You know, you've never been afraid of sparking conversation.
Speaker 1: You've never been afraid of using your food to comment
Speaker 1: on what's happening in society. For instance, there was a
Speaker 1: dish that I remember hearing about. It was American as
Speaker 1: apple pie, right? Was America KK right? And and the
Speaker 1: it was a deconstructed apple pie and it had a
Speaker 1: choke outline on the plate. There was a graphic image
Speaker 1: you know, to think about when you're having a dessert,
Speaker 1: and yet it was a commentary on what people oftentimes
Speaker 1: ignore about America. Yeah, food is you know, food is
Speaker 1: the vehicle for us as an artistic expression, you know,
Speaker 1: for us to you know, express our feelings and our thoughts,
Speaker 1: and we do it on a on a plate and
Speaker 1: sometimes it might make people uncomfortable, but like that's what
Speaker 1: art is. You know, We're supposed to spark conversation and
Speaker 1: make me think deeper into all of the things that
Speaker 1: are happened. And it's just not eating. It's you know,
Speaker 1: food for the food for the mind is right right.
Speaker 1: You've also not been afraid to challenge some of the ideas.
Speaker 1: You know, people love soul food. People have these ideas
Speaker 1: of how black people eat. We talked about this many
Speaker 1: years ago, but a lot of how black people eat
Speaker 1: has been defined by necessity as opposed to choice. And
Speaker 1: what you've done is you've come and you said, we're
Speaker 1: not scrapping these ideas. We're not We're not getting rid
Speaker 1: of what black people have created in a culture. But
Speaker 1: what we want to do is improve on it. We
Speaker 1: want to we want to create worlds where the food
Speaker 1: deserts don't define our diets. You know, you you you've,
Speaker 1: you've you've chosen to go with health, You've chosen to
Speaker 1: go with a lot of um, you know, vegetable based diets.
Speaker 1: You've you've, you've really chosen to speak to something. I'd
Speaker 1: love to know why those recipes have vibration cuisine like
Speaker 1: he mentioned earlier. And we don't call it a food desert.
Speaker 1: We call it food apartheid because it's not a natural occurrence.
Speaker 1: You know, this is social engineering areas that have been underestimated,
Speaker 1: underinvested in, and exploited. So it's the reason why people
Speaker 1: don't have access to fresh food. But we want to
Speaker 1: show examples of how we can make it culturally relevant,
Speaker 1: push it forward and making nutritions and delicious stealth health
Speaker 1: as well. Do you find do you find you're able
Speaker 1: to break through? You know that there's this, um, there's
Speaker 1: this idea sometimes of what a black man should eat.
Speaker 1: I have half of my friends will if I give
Speaker 1: them a plate of salad or something to be like
Speaker 1: Sata Barry if there's no meat, I'm not eating that.
Speaker 1: It's just a bullshit. Do you find that your your
Speaker 1: your recipes breakthrough? Well, the future of food is planned.
Speaker 1: It's conscious cuisine, you know, it's taking accountable calories and um,
Speaker 1: we really want to highlight that, especially in the neighborhoods
Speaker 1: that we're from that is suffering from that are that
Speaker 1: are just in desperation of healthy food. Right, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: want to change you know the sort of connotations and
Speaker 1: the context around the food in our communities and what
Speaker 1: we eat, so that you're talking about what black men
Speaker 1: should be eating, and we want to show, you know,
Speaker 1: our community what we should be eating. If you want
Speaker 1: to perform at a high level, you gotta take things in.
Speaker 1: They're gonna help you do that. So, like we keep saying,
Speaker 1: high vibrational food, No, no low vibrations over here. You know,
Speaker 1: it's always high vibes. So nutrient dense. You know, plants
Speaker 1: like they're the primary source of protein. So you want
Speaker 1: to talk about protein, you know, eat some kale, some
Speaker 1: keen water, some sweet potatoes, you know, some chickpeas, come
Speaker 1: and talk to me. And we've still got some twerk
Speaker 1: and jerk chicken man that so it's the balance. It's
Speaker 1: like twerk and jerk. You got the black power wild right,
Speaker 1: using African grain sort gum milled and rent. So we
Speaker 1: really want to have this continental cultural collision looking at
Speaker 1: the ingredients of the America's, the ingredients of Africa, the
Speaker 1: ingredients of Asia, and creating this combustion of something brand new.
Speaker 1: You've also taken it to another level because you're not
Speaker 1: just creating on the streets. You're not just creating in communities.
Speaker 1: You you're you're also infiltrating areas that haven't generally been
Speaker 1: infiltrated by faces like yours. You know, you have a
Speaker 1: line of cookware that's out there and some you know,
Speaker 1: some of the biggest brands you make. You've got waffle makers,
Speaker 1: You've got it. I'd love to know waffle mixer as well.
Speaker 1: On the drill. Actually, I think you guys would come on.
Speaker 1: You're giving everyone in the audience waffle mixer. I was
Speaker 1: watching the between the scene you all right, so for real,
Speaker 1: you do you're watching it between the scenes. We're open,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1: We can't let the big old just you get inside
Speaker 1: and when you leave, so everybody got in Mercedes outside.
Speaker 1: Now we just joke. You got some waving waffle mix
Speaker 1: So get your fix. You know. This is what I'm
Speaker 1: talking every guest that might need to bring something for
Speaker 1: the people who can. I just say, it has been
Speaker 1: a joy knowing you. It's been enjoy seeing the journey.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on every moment, every success. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for journey on the show. We got to do a
Speaker 1: little thank you so much. Thank you so much. You
Speaker 1: gotta gift the kid and a little a little different
Speaker 1: Silk City, Little Silky, You're gonna be a crown. Let
Speaker 1: me let me crown you, let me crown. You got,
Speaker 1: you got, you got my do rag, everything and everything.
Speaker 1: Let's go to night. I'm away tonight. Don't let the
Speaker 1: gotta get a graded back. Let on, everybody, make sure
Speaker 1: you get it. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back off with this. Nu everybody is this,
Speaker 1: don't know what it's all right? Everybody, Well, that's our
Speaker 1: show for tonight. Before we go, I wanted to remind
Speaker 1: you the Daily Shows official vote dem two much has
Speaker 1: just dropped. Proceeds from select items will benefit head count
Speaker 1: A Nonprofits non parts as an organization that promotes vote
Speaker 1: A registration. So if you want to support Headcounts and
Speaker 1: look fresh on election day, scan the QR code or
Speaker 1: head to the link below. Until next time, stay safe
Speaker 1: out there, and remember, if you think a bear is cheating,
Speaker 1: just let it slide. It's not worth it. Watch The
Speaker 1: Daily Show weeknights at eleven ten Central on Comedy Central
Speaker 1: and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has
Speaker 1: been a Comedy Central podcast wo