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Speaker 3: Ronny Say, Hey, welcome to the Daily Show on Ronnie Shank.
Speaker 4: We got so much to talk about tonight, South Korean
Speaker 4: sample martial law and say no thanks. Lewis Black tells
Speaker 4: you how to survive the next four years, and Pete
Speaker 4: Hegseth is on day three of his newsbnder. So let's
Speaker 4: get into another edition of Trump two point zero coming
Speaker 4: for the White House. I'm gonna come. Ronald Trump is
Speaker 4: still constructing his next administration, but he seems to be
Speaker 4: doing it the same way that that Bill and Ned
Speaker 4: built that Titanic submarine. Because it's imploding. Immediately pick in peril.
Speaker 5: Pete heg sat back on the hill with his bid
Speaker 5: for Defense Secretary in doubt?
Speaker 4: Will another Trump nominee be forced out?
Speaker 6: A growing number of Senators to signal they are not
Speaker 6: behind Trump's Defense secretary nominee Pete hegsaf who is the
Speaker 6: president that considering to replace him?
Speaker 5: Will Pete hegsas nomination survive the day?
Speaker 4: It's a real question. Wow, this will be very sobering
Speaker 4: news for Pete Heggsef if he wasn't shitfaced right now,
Speaker 4: I mean, if Hegsef doesn't get confirmed, this is really
Speaker 4: gonna make people question Trump's strategy of giving the most
Speaker 4: unemployable people on Earth the hottest jobs that ever existed.
Speaker 4: And honestly, I kind of feel bad for this guy.
Speaker 4: I mean, he had it made a cushy job on
Speaker 4: Fox News, a side hustle, selling macho garbage on right
Speaker 4: wing Instagram, a loving third and then Trump comes along
Speaker 4: and offers him a job, and now his life is
Speaker 4: kind of fed up. I mean, who could have seen
Speaker 4: that coming other than Matt Gates, Mike Pence, Thruly Giuliani,
Speaker 4: Michael Cohen and everyone else Trump has ever come into
Speaker 4: contact with. Hey, anyone heard from hermann Kin lately? He's dead.
Speaker 4: Google it. And maybe one of the reasons why Pete
Speaker 4: Hegseth can't seem to extinguish this dumpster fire of his
Speaker 4: nomination is because more people keep throwing garbage into the dumpster.
Speaker 7: Yesterday, new allegations of excessive drinking also emerging about the
Speaker 7: decorated combat veteran. NBC newho spoke with ten Current and
Speaker 7: former Fox News employees who worked with Hegseth on one
Speaker 7: of the network's morning shows and say the former co
Speaker 7: host drank in ways that concerned them too, saying on
Speaker 7: more than a dozen occasions they smelled alcohol on Hegseth
Speaker 7: before he went on air.
Speaker 4: Okay, before you judge, yes, his show starts at six
Speaker 4: in the morning, but he was still drinking from the
Speaker 4: night before. Okay, so it's not sad, it's awesome. I
Speaker 4: will say it's weird that we're arguing about the drinking
Speaker 4: because even if he was stone cold sober, he's the
Speaker 4: TV host who ran two veterans organizations into the ground.
Speaker 4: He's not qualified to run the Pentagon anyway. Okay. This
Speaker 4: is like saying, hey, yo, this cat can't be pilot.
Speaker 4: He has a drinking problem. Okay, then maybe this cat
Speaker 4: can be your Pilot's very cute, but you know what
Speaker 4: this might be for the best. The first step to
Speaker 4: the sobriety is your co workers admitting that you have
Speaker 4: a problem. And look, we don't have any hot evidence
Speaker 4: that Peter Hegseth was drinking before work, but if you
Speaker 4: watched his show very carefully, you might have picked up
Speaker 4: some subtle clues that he liked to knock him back.
Speaker 4: I've always wanted to do this. Look at that. I
Speaker 4: will not be abstaining from alcohol. Possession is nine tenths.
Speaker 4: We have more hours.
Speaker 8: Maybe if I do well, I'll get a pint, a
Speaker 8: little bit of champagne.
Speaker 4: There you go, I'm gonna get another refill.
Speaker 9: Hold on Champagne is my problem when it comes to hangovers.
Speaker 4: It just but it.
Speaker 2: Fixes the problem in the morning because then you have
Speaker 2: a little bit more champagne and then your problem goes away.
Speaker 4: Again. The show as at six am, but as Pete
Speaker 4: heggsas always says, he eleven am somewhere. So HeiG Seth
Speaker 4: is losing the president, He's losing the senators, He's losing
Speaker 4: his coworkers. I mean, does he have anyone left on
Speaker 4: his side?
Speaker 5: This just in Pete Hegsays's mother just sitting down for
Speaker 5: an interview.
Speaker 10: He's very smart, he loves his country. He's a good dad.
Speaker 10: He's an amazing son and father. I wouldn't be sitting
Speaker 10: here if I didn't believe he's the man for the job.
Speaker 4: What kind of parent teacher conference are we watching right now?
Speaker 4: Because the future Secretary of Defense needs his mom to
Speaker 4: come out and defend him. I thought you were against
Speaker 4: women in combat roles. And besides, I never saw Donald
Speaker 4: Rumsfeld be like, hey, I have a warning for the Taliban. Mom,
Speaker 4: you tell him now. The reason Pete's mom is part
Speaker 4: of the story is because a few years ago, during
Speaker 4: his second divorce, his mom sent him an email where
Speaker 4: she called him her own son, an habitual cheater, liar,
Speaker 4: and abuser of women. But now she's saying, eh, don't
Speaker 4: worry about it.
Speaker 10: Let's go back seven years. Which if we all went
Speaker 10: back seven years, we would we would see that maybe
Speaker 10: we're not the people we are today. I want people
Speaker 10: to look at Pete understanding for who he is today
Speaker 10: and to disregard the media that was seven years ago,
Speaker 10: and most of it is this information.
Speaker 4: What misinformation. You wrote the email. You're the one who
Speaker 4: told us he's a piece of shit. And by the way,
Speaker 4: seven years ago wasn't ancient history. Okay, we we still
Speaker 4: have the same spider man like. Overall, things don't look
Speaker 4: good for Ptesef, But the good news is he has
Speaker 4: the perfect solution, because then you have a little bit
Speaker 4: more champagne, and then your partment goes away. Okay, but
Speaker 4: thank Buddha. Let's move on to a story that doesn't
Speaker 4: involve Trump right now. Yesterday, out of nowhere, the incredibly
Speaker 4: unpopular president of South Korea declared martial law, and then
Speaker 4: a few hours later, after everyone got mad, he was like,
Speaker 4: you know what, I forget it. That was a stupid idea.
Speaker 4: How about how about that Rose song? But how about that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: To me, the craziest thing about this whole episode is
Speaker 4: what happened in South Korea during the few hours of
Speaker 4: my law, the announcement sparking massive protests and soul.
Speaker 8: This woman's confrontation with an armed soldier going viral as
Speaker 8: she screams, aren't you embarrassed?
Speaker 1: At him?
Speaker 4: Holy shit? She knows that's a gun, right, She's grabbing
Speaker 4: it like it's a thing that doesn't shoot bullets. She's like,
Speaker 4: this is this a vacuum clean up? What's this button?
Speaker 4: Do I want to see it? This wasn't the only
Speaker 4: time a protest to shoot up to the military in
Speaker 4: South Korea. Check out this dude when a soldier tries
Speaker 4: to take his phoney. I know everyone thinks all Asians
Speaker 4: no martial arts, and let me be clear, stereotypes are harmful.
Speaker 4: But did you see that that shit? That dude single
Speaker 4: handedly a Keno the soldier into surrendering. I mean that
Speaker 4: uncle is either really protective of democracy or very concerned
Speaker 4: about what people are gonna see on his phone. By
Speaker 4: the way, Trump, if you're paying attention, can we get
Speaker 4: that guy a section of defense? I mean, his defense
Speaker 4: is incredible. He just did that. For more on the
Speaker 4: fallout in South Korea, let's go live outside the South
Speaker 4: Korean Parliament with Josh Johnson. Josh Jush Juss what's going
Speaker 4: on over there?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Look, you seriously asking me?
Speaker 4: I feel like you might know more about this than me.
Speaker 4: Why come on, Ronnie? You know why? Well, because I'm
Speaker 4: the host. No, because I'm more well read than you.
Speaker 4: That's not it. Because I've been a looking No.
Speaker 8: Because it's a Korea story and you're uh eh from
Speaker 8: around there.
Speaker 4: What the man? I'm not Korean? You okay, I'm I'm Malaysia.
Speaker 4: That's a totally different country.
Speaker 8: Calm down, Malaysian has Asian in it.
Speaker 4: It's closer than me. I'm clearly out of my depth here.
Speaker 8: The politics, the language, even the food they offer me,
Speaker 8: some of their soul food and not one candid yam
Speaker 8: or collar brand.
Speaker 4: Josh. I don't expect you to just know what's going
Speaker 4: on there. We send you there to do a report. Okay,
Speaker 4: So just do your job and ask around. And what
Speaker 4: do you think I'm doing.
Speaker 8: I found an Asian person and I am asking around
Speaker 8: right now.
Speaker 4: That's racist, dude, all right, what you're black? So what
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to ask you about? What's going on in Zimbabwe? Oh?
Speaker 4: Zimbabwe going through it, Ronnie?
Speaker 8: All right, they just had to raise interest rates to
Speaker 8: thirty six percent to keep the currency from an inflation
Speaker 8: crisis which could collapse President Monogua's government.
Speaker 4: Okay, well that's a lucky that's a lucky guess. Okay,
Speaker 4: economies collapsing in Africa, that's all of that's racist. You're racists. Look,
Speaker 4: just give me your best analysis of what's going on
Speaker 4: in Korea right now? All right?
Speaker 8: Well, frankly, I'm not surprised at all. We've all known
Speaker 8: for years that Kim Jong ung is crazy. Of course
Speaker 8: he's gonna pull some shit like this.
Speaker 4: John, that's North Korea. Okay, you're in South Korea. It's
Speaker 4: a different country.
Speaker 8: Damn, Ronnie. The Asian guy seems to know a lot
Speaker 8: about Asia.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm racist and right, God damn it, forget it,
Speaker 4: Josh Johnson, everybody. When we come back, Louis Black, walk
Speaker 4: your jove the election, so don't go away, Welcome back
Speaker 4: to the Daily Show. When the news story falls through
Speaker 4: a cracks, Lewis Black catches it for a segment we
Speaker 4: call back in Black.
Speaker 12: It's already been a month since the election. I guess
Speaker 12: time flies when I'm not ripping out what's left my
Speaker 12: tubes since Trump's victory. Half the country excited in the
Speaker 12: other half is still at home in the fetal position.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 12: I'm coping by shutting off the news for a while
Speaker 12: and watching something a little cozier like who killed John
Speaker 12: Benet Ramsey?
Speaker 10: Baby?
Speaker 12: It's cold outside and so is this case. But for
Speaker 12: o those Democrats able to leave the house, this is
Speaker 12: what they're doing.
Speaker 9: An art installation on the walls of a Fourteenth Street
Speaker 9: subway stop is encouraging people to put their thoughts on
Speaker 9: post it notes. It invites everyone to leave their feelings
Speaker 9: about this week's presidential election.
Speaker 13: But things like I'm so scared, but I love this
Speaker 13: life more than I fear darkness.
Speaker 4: What the is this.
Speaker 12: Call me old fashioned, but if you have a breakdown
Speaker 12: on the subway, you're supposed to jump in front of it.
Speaker 12: Subway walls are for only two things, mysterious piss stains
Speaker 12: and adds for shen Yuni. Sure it's a cult, but
Speaker 12: those concubines sure can boogie.
Speaker 1: And who are.
Speaker 12: These people writing their deepest feelings on a train platform.
Speaker 12: The only subway thoughts I have are is that guy shitting?
Speaker 4: And why am I being stabbed? In that order?
Speaker 12: But if writing postage is a little too subtle, you
Speaker 12: can react to the election loss the American way.
Speaker 1: Violence.
Speaker 4: Rage rooms are seen a spike in business since the election.
Speaker 4: It's a place where you can go in smash plates
Speaker 4: and televisions, anything else you can find to let off steams.
Speaker 8: In fact, in the immediate days after the election, they
Speaker 8: say the number of reservations have tripled, a unique way
Speaker 8: to smash away that stress.
Speaker 12: Look out, everyone, the Libs are pissed and they're coming
Speaker 12: for Grandma's fine China. Democrats can't even get mad correctly,
Speaker 12: Conservative storm the capitol. Meanwhile, Democrats are like, are these
Speaker 12: crowbars ethically sourced? When shit gets bad, you don't smash
Speaker 12: things like a toddler.
Speaker 4: You let it eat.
Speaker 12: Away at you from the inside, like a big boy
Speaker 12: with stretch related hemorrhoids, which reminds me this segment is
Speaker 12: brought to you by preparation age.
Speaker 4: Preparation.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 12: I'm old, I'm angry, and.
Speaker 4: I'd like some free preparation.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 12: But if you'd like to be sad without getting a
Speaker 12: shard of glass and your retina, you could always venture
Speaker 12: outdoors and get in touch with your inner coyote.
Speaker 10: Liberal women are holding what they call primal scream events
Speaker 10: to release their fury, screeching at the top of their
Speaker 10: lungs at Lake Michigan.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me get this straight.
Speaker 12: Plan A for the Democrats was to vote, and Plan
Speaker 12: B is to scare the puck out of sturgeon. I
Speaker 12: don't know about you, but I'm feeling optimistic about twenty
Speaker 12: twenty eight. Trust me, screaming doesn't change anything. I've been
Speaker 12: doing it for forty years and I'm still at the
Speaker 12: same Dutch God, I've wasted my life. But if screaming
Speaker 12: beside a lake doesn't cure your election blues, maybe riding
Speaker 12: on a boat.
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Speaker 5: really bad, well there's a three year everywhere but home
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Speaker 1: Ooh, a four year cruise Sign me up.
Speaker 12: What better cure for an election hangover than half a
Speaker 12: decade of pinatcladas and freeze dried scallops. Trump's gonna slash
Speaker 12: Medicaid just in time for me to get super herpes
Speaker 12: from a Swiss widow. Now that every country in the
Speaker 12: world can see that liberals are terrified, the smart ones
Speaker 12: are cashing in.
Speaker 11: Well, a small Italian village is offering cheap homes to
Speaker 11: Americans who want to leave the US.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so the town of Olol has moved in ready homes.
Speaker 9: We're up to ten thousand bucks homes that need a
Speaker 9: little TLC.
Speaker 4: They're available for just over a dollar.
Speaker 11: Village officials hope this will revive it after its population decline.
Speaker 12: Oh great, an Italian village whose population disappeared. That doesn't
Speaker 12: sound ominous at all. I'm happy to buy an abandoned
Speaker 12: home and find out what disemboweled all the cattle. Listen America, maybe,
Speaker 12: but that doesn't mean I moving into Luigi's haunted mansion.
Speaker 12: Bus Plus America already has a creepy Italian shithole. It's
Speaker 12: called New Jersey. But wow, not what I expected. But hey,
Speaker 12: if you're willing to spend good money to avoid these
Speaker 12: next four years, I'm willing to take it to you. Okay,
Speaker 12: take it from you. That's why I'm offering a product
Speaker 12: of my own.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: I call it the Forever Sleepy Time Brick hauh.
Speaker 12: Just shackle it to your foot and find the nearest
Speaker 12: body of water. Screaming optional.
Speaker 4: Ronnie, all right, thank you, war I's black. Everyone won't
Speaker 4: come back. Tom Polk, Oh.
Speaker 6: We join you on the Shaws Don't go well.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to day Show. I guess as an eighth
Speaker 4: time James Beard Award winning chef restaurant here and head
Speaker 4: judge on Bravo's hit series Top Chef. He's the author
Speaker 4: of a new cookbook memoir called Why I Cook. Please
Speaker 4: welcome the Great Tom colickya the most respected chefs in America.
Speaker 4: Thanks for coming on the show. Great to me, you
Speaker 4: great person as well. I uh, your book, cookbook and memoir.
Speaker 4: You've managed to trick us into reading about your story
Speaker 4: in between you you kind of hide it in between
Speaker 4: these recipes. Yea and very It's well written. I encourage
Speaker 4: everyone to go read it. You know, for a chef,
Speaker 4: the stereotype is everyone's very angry, but you write this
Speaker 4: with so much love. What is the real you?
Speaker 5: This is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's because on this there's I know this is
Speaker 4: kind of like a hacky uh question, but I just
Speaker 4: got to ask it because you also bring up in
Speaker 4: the in the memoir when you are up and coming
Speaker 4: you're being trained by these legendary chefs. The training in
Speaker 4: the kitchen was pretty hardcore. And yeah it was people
Speaker 4: yelling at you.
Speaker 14: And people were yelling, but I know, I think there's
Speaker 14: a reason for that. Especially when I was in France working,
Speaker 14: I got a sense that they couldn't communicate any other way.
Speaker 14: That's the only way they can actually like get get
Speaker 14: get a point across, right, yelling and screaming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you got used to it, right.
Speaker 4: But I mean even in America, you're training Americans, the
Speaker 4: American chef. Same thing though, So I guess my question
Speaker 4: to you is like.
Speaker 1: Two different languages.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because because I feel like I don't know enough
Speaker 4: about cooking at all. But with comedy, I feel like
Speaker 4: there is a certain amount of toxicity that you need
Speaker 4: to endure to get good at this, you know, And
Speaker 4: so do you feel the same way with cooking? You know?
Speaker 4: I guess what would you say to all these woke
Speaker 4: sissies who complaining all being mistreated in the kitchen, like like, really,
Speaker 4: are you, like, hey, like tough enough or are you,
Speaker 4: like hey, something not anymore?
Speaker 14: No, we don't do that anymore. No, no, we can't
Speaker 14: do that. No, things have changed this and this when
Speaker 14: I when I was coming up, was forty years ago.
Speaker 14: It was a very different world that we lived in.
Speaker 14: And it was you know, there wasn't a whole lot
Speaker 14: of you know, in your face screaming, yelling, but it
Speaker 14: was a lot of hard, long hours and there was
Speaker 14: a lot expected of you. But it wasn't the the
Speaker 14: the yelling and screaming that you think about. But the
Speaker 14: misogyny was obviously there, the sort of machismo, you know,
Speaker 14: the kitchen. You know, you know, you burnt yourself, that
Speaker 14: was a badge of honor. How sometimes you burnt your
Speaker 14: arms and things like that and so, but I think
Speaker 14: that's a lot of that's going away, right.
Speaker 4: But I guess the question against you is like, is
Speaker 4: that is it going away for the is it good
Speaker 4: that is going away? Or do you feel like something's
Speaker 4: missing in the transfer of knowledge or No.
Speaker 14: I don't think that thing's missing in the transfer knowledge.
Speaker 14: I think that it's going away for the right reasons.
Speaker 14: You know, the idea of getting to do something through
Speaker 14: intimidation doesn't really work.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe maybe it works in the military.
Speaker 14: I have no idea, but it's certainly it's certainly isn't
Speaker 14: isn't necessary to get your point across. And I think
Speaker 14: also if you look back to you know, chefs that
Speaker 14: we were running kitchen in.
Speaker 4: Trump, you actually actually I spoke to a military guy
Speaker 4: about this because I'm as a as a Asian buzzler
Speaker 4: who grew up in simple Malaysia. I've been yelled at
Speaker 4: my whole life to where learning was being yelled at,
Speaker 4: and I asked the military guys about this. In the US,
Speaker 4: I mean small sample size but one of the US
Speaker 4: military guys said that when you're yelling, you you've already lost.
Speaker 1: Come across them exactly, you know, the meaning you.
Speaker 4: Shouldn't be in that situation of this place.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be.
Speaker 14: I think it's a matter of forty years ago. The
Speaker 14: chefs that were working in kitchens, they weren't able to
Speaker 14: communicate exactly what they were looking for, and so they
Speaker 14: were running around and screaming the whole day because that
Speaker 14: they thought that was the way that you had to
Speaker 14: motivate people, because that's the way they were motivated. And
Speaker 14: it's somewhat along the lines, I mean for me, and
Speaker 14: I think I mentioned this in a.
Speaker 4: Book with Tom ms Kelly.
Speaker 1: You know, well that was that was different. That was.
Speaker 14: That was more psychological nonsense that he was playing. He
Speaker 14: played a lot of games. I mean, he's a great chef,
Speaker 14: but I just had an issue with the way he
Speaker 14: was talking to me, you know, I I you know,
Speaker 14: I promised myself at a certain point if I got
Speaker 14: a restaurant that I wasn't gonna sort of the things
Speaker 14: that that the way I was treated, I was gonna
Speaker 14: break that. I was gonna do something different and and
Speaker 14: you know, did I lose my temperate times? Absolutely, but
Speaker 14: but nowadays you kind of walk away pretty lose your
Speaker 14: temporary walk away.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, No, I'm genuinely interested in this because you're
Speaker 4: arguably the most respected chef in America. If you're saying that, hey, hey,
Speaker 4: we don't need to be yelling in kitchens, and I
Speaker 4: guess everything that's happening in the Bear is completely unnecessary
Speaker 4: because those guys, you know what I'm saying, he's going on,
Speaker 4: what are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but but I don't know.
Speaker 14: If I don't know, if you saw the third season,
Speaker 14: I want the whole lot of yelling in the third seeson.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that good.
Speaker 4: Okay. I mean that's I get that's something I can
Speaker 4: speak to, but you speak to the kitchen stuff.
Speaker 14: But I think there's a lot of people who think
Speaker 14: that the third season was a little Kay.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not gonna I that. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: That I means the critics say that what I'm.
Speaker 4: Still available for guessappearances. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Take my cookok I have a cookbook on the shelf there.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take it off now.
Speaker 4: No, they walk Season four bis you see you you
Speaker 4: don't yell at it anymore. You just say that they
Speaker 4: suck quietly, very very the kitchen, going you suck. You're
Speaker 4: on the Daily show, going you suck? Like I came.
Speaker 4: I moved to New York City when I was thirty
Speaker 4: years old from Australia. I was living austral at the time.
Speaker 4: When I moved here. I was just kind of what
Speaker 4: struck me about the food in America was that it
Speaker 4: tastes like ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, is.
Speaker 4: That is that a reason?
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 4: I was eating out of toilets most No, I was
Speaker 4: like it was No. I mean like in general, I
Speaker 4: do feel like there's something in the American psyche that
Speaker 4: like when for most people the junk food is a
Speaker 4: norm and right you that I deal nutrition is very
Speaker 4: skewed and the produce is weird. And so I don't
Speaker 4: know if you am I being Am I being a
Speaker 4: stuck up asshole? Or is that something to this?
Speaker 1: No, No, you're not.
Speaker 14: But but I think I think with you're experiencing experiencing
Speaker 14: in this country, nutrition is expensive, calories are cheap, yes,
Speaker 14: So so you can go out and buy a bunch
Speaker 14: of junk and it's cheap, but it's not nutritious. But
Speaker 14: you try to, you know, go to the farmer's market
Speaker 14: and and and buy great produce and stuff. It's very expensive, right,
Speaker 14: and so that that's part of the problem here with
Speaker 14: this kind.
Speaker 4: Of a way to overcome that kind of financial access
Speaker 4: to nutrition.
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, no, no, no, okay, it's it's no, it
Speaker 14: can it's it's what it's complicated because it's you know,
Speaker 14: the average person who doesn't really quite understand what, say, well,
Speaker 14: subsidize subsidized fruits and vegetables, you really can't do that.
Speaker 1: There's really no.
Speaker 14: Subsidies for fruit and vegetables. There's substies for corn and soy.
Speaker 14: That's about it. And the subsidies are are in they're
Speaker 14: about crop in shorts and not in shurance the way
Speaker 14: we know in shorts just it's just guarantees a price. Sure,
Speaker 14: But so so some people say that maybe maybe what
Speaker 14: we can do is if you put enough research into
Speaker 14: helpment behind figuring out ways to grow more fruits and
Speaker 14: vegetables on the same acreage, then you actually you'll have
Speaker 14: more in the system and prices will come down.
Speaker 1: But that's not happening.
Speaker 4: That's not happening now.
Speaker 14: The government looks at fruits and vegetables and they're actually
Speaker 14: labeled specialty crops.
Speaker 1: They don't play attention to them at all.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we we do eat like shit, and there's
Speaker 4: no way to change this in the new food.
Speaker 1: But what is America? But what is American food?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Because when you came to America, you thought you were
Speaker 1: eating American food, But what were you You were eating a.
Speaker 4: Eating food by the pounddue. Well, I was amazed that
Speaker 4: you could the Americans eat when I came. I was like,
Speaker 4: all New York, is American cheese for you? Right? And
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, these guys eat food by
Speaker 4: the pound. They measured by the pound, no respect for
Speaker 4: how they cook it. They just dumped that.
Speaker 1: But in restaurants to find something different, So you know,
Speaker 1: it depends.
Speaker 4: I agree. I mean, obviously I've been more educated in
Speaker 4: American food now and and like I said, but I
Speaker 4: guess the thing is, I'm on TV, I can go
Speaker 4: to a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm saying. You're economic.
Speaker 14: But if you're economics change, you started coming to better
Speaker 14: restaurants and also the food got better, right, Yeah, so
Speaker 14: the system works exactly the way it's set up to work.
Speaker 14: I'm not saying this is a good system, but it's
Speaker 14: set up where if you have money, it works. If
Speaker 14: you don't, you struggle. It's the same food. It's it's
Speaker 14: a bad system that we have.
Speaker 4: And someone was like the system, but it's not a
Speaker 4: good system, but it works the way it's set.
Speaker 1: Up to work.
Speaker 4: So unfortunately, what is I don't know enough about this,
Speaker 4: and that's why I want to ask you about it.
Speaker 4: From what you're saying, it sounds like the only way
Speaker 4: kind of people who are less financially successful can eat
Speaker 4: well is they have to make choices in their life
Speaker 4: to go, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna buy you know,
Speaker 4: less iPads and I'm gonna eat I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't know what.
Speaker 14: But also part of it is cooking. If you can
Speaker 14: cook for yourself, you can probably do a lot more
Speaker 14: for your family. If you're relying on fast food and
Speaker 14: you're relying on someone making the food for you and
Speaker 14: be delivered to your house, that's a different story. And
Speaker 14: then also learning how to stretch that food, you know,
Speaker 14: learning how to use it all, learning how to use
Speaker 14: lefto and so you can you cant. I mean I
Speaker 14: think I think the numbers now roughly a quarter of
Speaker 14: what is purchased at home gets wasted. Twenty five percent
Speaker 14: of what you purchase at home goes in the garbage. Okay,
Speaker 14: And so that's a good start. So we're talking about
Speaker 14: food waste, which is another big problem.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a bad thing, and it's a good
Speaker 4: place to Stott is.
Speaker 1: A good place to start, right right.
Speaker 14: I mean, listen, I think if they started teaching whome
Speaker 14: economics in school again, that would be great.
Speaker 4: Okay, it would be great. Oh did they stop doing that? No?
Speaker 1: No, In fact, they're gonna get rid of the whole
Speaker 1: education system.
Speaker 4: Now they education exactly.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: So nothing matters anyway. I guess everyone's gonna be everyone's
Speaker 4: gonna be dumb and unhealthy, exactly in how long do
Speaker 4: you think? Four years? You have four years before? I
Speaker 4: mean you touched upon this just now. But like, is
Speaker 4: there any you know? Like I like eleven Madison, one
Speaker 4: of the most famous restaurants in the world, and your
Speaker 4: friend vegan restaurant. Yeah it became vegan.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I think they're not just vegan, but they also
Speaker 4: push sustainability in food and restaurants and commercially. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: why do you think the future of sustainability, you know,
Speaker 4: of food in America is going. Do you think it's
Speaker 4: trending in a good place? I'll be in a listen.
Speaker 14: There's plenty of people talking about it. There's plenty of
Speaker 14: work that has to be done. I mean, I know,
Speaker 14: for years, I did a lot of work up on
Speaker 14: Capitol Hill. I've co found an organization called Food Policy Action.
Speaker 14: I spent a good amount of time on the Hill
Speaker 14: looking at issues about sustainability and and you know, it's
Speaker 14: it's a complicated problem, but it almost is if it's
Speaker 14: such a non issue for our government to try to
Speaker 14: figure out that this stuff has to happen through grassroots
Speaker 14: and sort of in your own communities. And it starts
Speaker 14: at home, it really does. If you want better food
Speaker 14: at home, learn how to cook. And you don't have
Speaker 14: to learn how to cook fancy food.
Speaker 1: You have to just just learn the basics.
Speaker 14: Learn the basics so you can actually cook for your family.
Speaker 14: And that's that's sustainable because you're you're buying produce that
Speaker 14: is sustainable. You're not relying on food that's overprocessed with
Speaker 14: too much sugar, too much salt, too much fat in it,
Speaker 14: and you can end up with a healthy America too
Speaker 14: and so so. Yeah, but it's a complex problem because
Speaker 14: our our system isn't set up to actually get fresh
Speaker 14: food to the masses, is set up to get processed
Speaker 14: food to the masses.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's bad. It is bad.
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, yeah, but you can but you can. I
Speaker 14: don't I don't know if the if the governance can
Speaker 14: fix this problem. I think this has to happen in
Speaker 14: communities and in your homes, in your actual homes. And
Speaker 14: I think a great place would be school lunch. I mean,
Speaker 14: that's one place that I think we could do a
Speaker 14: lot better.
Speaker 4: Uh huh uh.
Speaker 14: And there are some there are some great chefs that
Speaker 14: I mean, the chef had one of the most famous
Speaker 14: restaurants in the world in Copenhagen, Nomah. One of the
Speaker 14: chefs there decided that he didn't want to cook in
Speaker 14: fancy restaurants anymore and started cooking in school lunch programs
Speaker 14: and started a whole program called Brigade where he's trying
Speaker 14: to get professional chefs into schools. I mean, right now,
Speaker 14: everything that's in school is all mass produced, and so
Speaker 14: I think we need to start there. Also, I think
Speaker 14: school lunch should be universally free across the board.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah at all. And that's that's that guy's not
Speaker 4: doing in America. Right, he's doing it? And what is
Speaker 4: he doing it? No, in America. Oh, he's doing it. Ye,
Speaker 4: what you're doing. I want to go to school.
Speaker 1: I believe, I believe. I believe he's start in Connecticut,
Speaker 1: but then he's branching out.
Speaker 4: Okay, free lunch in Connecticut. I got head down there
Speaker 4: and I got enrolled. But chef, listen, I really appreciate
Speaker 4: you coming on show your American legend. Thanks for trying
Speaker 4: to help everyone eat properly. I'm sorry no one's listening
Speaker 4: to you. I wish we could all eat better.
Speaker 1: It's gonna change up tonight.
Speaker 4: Ok yeah, thank you for all that you do. Hey, everybody, wakey.
Speaker 4: Coke is available now. Chef Tom Haliki, y'all, everybody, Oh,
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