Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Things go down all the time,
Speaker 1: like social media. But when Spotify went down today, it
Speaker 1: made me realize how cloud dependent we've come as people.
Speaker 1: You realize everything of yours is on the cloud, right
Speaker 1: like everything social media goes down. It's fine today. I
Speaker 1: had no music, like I just I had no music.
Speaker 1: Where's the music? It's on the cloud. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: the Internet didn't affect my music, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You could do whatever he wants with the Internet. I
Speaker 1: still had my Casey and Jojo CD, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: the worst that could happen was that it could get
Speaker 1: a scratch. That was like the worst thing that could
Speaker 1: happen to you. And no, my ma, ma, Ma, mama.
Speaker 1: And then just skip if you're really good. When your
Speaker 1: your CD skiped, you knew when to skip, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, you knew like you knew it would
Speaker 1: happen at one thirty four, And so if you'd have
Speaker 1: people over at one three, you'd like pause and then
Speaker 1: say something you guys liking listen and skip over to
Speaker 1: one thirty seven. All right, I'll carry on. That's why
Speaker 1: I think you should have a fast split some physical
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, some virtual not everything in
Speaker 1: the cloud. I'm gonna go back and buy some CDs now,
Speaker 1: just to get back in the game. Only the ship.
Speaker 1: I really listened to mix tapes coming back. I actually
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Speaker 1: It's The Daily Show. Here's edition tonight. The World has
Speaker 1: a gas problem. Badass, Women of War. Inside Guru is
Speaker 1: The Daily Show with Trevor no Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining
Speaker 1: me for today's headlines is my good friend Roy what Jr?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Roy? I'm good man. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about none of that Spotify the cloud. No, I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lose none of my I printed every email I
Speaker 1: ever got in life. I got them all at the house.
Speaker 1: So you're not worried because you've basically just physicalized everything
Speaker 1: in your life, everything, everything and every picture, all all
Speaker 1: that ship in a box at the career bro. That
Speaker 1: is a miserable way to live. But at least your
Speaker 1: email me if I got every email you do. You
Speaker 1: have every email I do, like every email I've ever
Speaker 1: seen you. You never catch me slacking. Bro Well, I
Speaker 1: hope you're happy, even the spam. I print that too,
Speaker 1: because you never know. Good to see you, right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's jump into today's headlines. We kick things off with
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Yesterday, the official global death toll from COVID
Speaker 1: past six million, which according to the US, means the
Speaker 1: pandemic is over. Congratulations everybody, we did it, and yes,
Speaker 1: things are getting better as the O macron wave receipts.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, because cases and hospitalizations are falling.
Speaker 1: You know, most places are ending mask mandates and other
Speaker 1: anti virus measures, which means you can now legally push
Speaker 1: the elevator buttons with your tongue. Again. We're back, baby,
Speaker 1: But don't forget this. Around four hundred Americans are still
Speaker 1: dying from COVID every single day, right, the vast majority
Speaker 1: of them unvaccinated, which is why the one measure that
Speaker 1: all experts are pushing harder than ever is vaccinations and boosters.
Speaker 1: But it turns out it's not all experts. Florida's head
Speaker 1: doctor says the state will be the first in the
Speaker 1: nation to recommend that healthy kids should not get vaccinated
Speaker 1: for COVID. State surgeon general made the announcement yesterday during
Speaker 1: a round table discussion organized by Republican Governor Ronda Santis.
Speaker 1: It included doctors who criticized coronavirus lockdowns and mandates. The
Speaker 1: CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics do recommend the
Speaker 1: COVID vaccine be administered to all children five or older.
Speaker 1: The Florida Department of Health is going to be a
Speaker 1: first state to officially recommend against the COVID nineteen vaccines
Speaker 1: for healthy children. Okay, first of all, let me just
Speaker 1: say that it is shocking to find out that Florida
Speaker 1: has a surgeon general. Yeah, I didn't know they had that.
Speaker 1: It's like finding out that t J Max actually has
Speaker 1: someone who organizes the clothes. What do you do all day?
Speaker 1: Have you seen that ship? But I mean, of course,
Speaker 1: the Florida Surgeon General is going to have some weird opinions.
Speaker 1: He's the surgeon General of Florida. Come on. His other
Speaker 1: healthy recommendations are like, alligators can't hurt you if you're drunk.
Speaker 1: What did we expect? It's Florida people. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I I do get I do get where
Speaker 1: some people are coming from on this issue. It is
Speaker 1: true that with a few rare exceptions, COVID is not
Speaker 1: a problem for kids. I understand that completely, especially since
Speaker 1: kids a little germ factories all the time. Yeah, coronavirus
Speaker 1: doesn't make them more sick than they already are the
Speaker 1: three under sixty days of the year anyway, I get it.
Speaker 1: But don't forget how vaccines work. The more everybody gets them,
Speaker 1: even people who are not vulnerable, the less the virus
Speaker 1: can spread, which protects people who are vulnerable, and it
Speaker 1: helps prevent new variants from emerging. That's the main thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because what you thought was gonna be the last variant, No,
Speaker 1: not the way the ship is still spreading. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, the new variants is probably gonna have legs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna infect your lungs and kick you in the nuts. Here. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. No, man, this is what people not considering. Trevor.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some strong kids coming out of Florida
Speaker 1: over the next two decades, because like, look at what
Speaker 1: they up against. Man, you're up against COVID. You're up
Speaker 1: against the toxic algae down there. The water is all
Speaker 1: crazy down there tooth. I'm telling you, man, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be some strong alligators. You gotta run from gators. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be some strong kids. That's what they're doing, strong
Speaker 1: old mutants. That's that also means strong. Mutant is another
Speaker 1: word for strong. Some strong, unvaccinated children. I might move
Speaker 1: my boy down there and teach them some football. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the other pandemic that people keep
Speaker 1: insisting is behind us. Racism. And I know, I know
Speaker 1: there are all sorts of things that make people go, oh,
Speaker 1: is that rarely racist? Though? Is it rarely racist to
Speaker 1: touch a black person's hair or say the N word
Speaker 1: during karaoke? I mean, yeah, you were singing Sweet Caroline.
Speaker 1: There was no need for it. But there is one
Speaker 1: thing that absolutely everyone can agree is racist, and that's lynching.
Speaker 1: And now that is finally official. The U. S. Senate
Speaker 1: has just now passed a bill making lynching a federal
Speaker 1: hate crime, the Mutil Anti Lynching Act, who has passed
Speaker 1: unanimously last night. That bill is named for the fourteen
Speaker 1: year old whose brutal torture and murder helped to spark
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement, and it designates lynching as a
Speaker 1: hate crime punishable. But after thirty years in prison, Congress
Speaker 1: had previously failed to pass anti lynching legislation despite over
Speaker 1: two hundred attempts since night. You see, people, this just
Speaker 1: goes to show that both political parties can come together
Speaker 1: and post common sense legislation. They just need a hundred
Speaker 1: and four years to do it. You just gotta be patient, ships,
Speaker 1: and you know what that means. Prescription drugs, You better
Speaker 1: watch out because your price is going down in the year.
Speaker 1: Will be alive, will be alive, but this will be alive. Well,
Speaker 1: the prices will then they'll definitely be down. You know,
Speaker 1: if you ask me, it's actually no coincidence that they
Speaker 1: couldn't pass this slow for a hundred years and then
Speaker 1: Mike Pants almost gets lynched and suddenly lynching is a
Speaker 1: hate crime. Yeah, it's a bit of a coincidence. Don't
Speaker 1: you think maybe maybe that's how black people can solve
Speaker 1: all their problems. Like I'm not saying I want Mike
Speaker 1: Pens to get beaten up by the police. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying if they taste him once or twice. It will
Speaker 1: probably helps speed things along. And look, I know it's
Speaker 1: slightly disappointing knowing that this law only got past in
Speaker 1: two but all you gotta do, all you've got to
Speaker 1: do is treat the footage a little a little bit,
Speaker 1: just to make it feel like it happened ages ago
Speaker 1: when it actually should have. The U. S. Senate has
Speaker 1: just now passed a bill making lynching a federal hate crime.
Speaker 1: And this just in I there's now a telephone in Europe.
Speaker 1: Exciting times happened so long ago. Roy, it feels good.
Speaker 1: It did happen so long ago. Should we still focus
Speaker 1: on old racism or at this point we should I
Speaker 1: just think we should just be proactive and just look
Speaker 1: at future racism and just start passing the laws now
Speaker 1: so that by the time we need the law, the
Speaker 1: law being place like right now on the books should
Speaker 1: be the Anti Mars the Mars Desegregation Act should be
Speaker 1: on the books now. We should start discussing the desegregation
Speaker 1: of Mars. Well, you're assuming that black people are gonna
Speaker 1: make it to Mars. They never will if we don't
Speaker 1: pass the legislation. Travel That's why we have to now
Speaker 1: focus on making sure that it's legal for black people
Speaker 1: to go to Mars. What if they say, like they're
Speaker 1: just gonna send all the black people to Mars only,
Speaker 1: you know, let me call my congressman and discussed that,
Speaker 1: because I hadn't considered that option. All right, let's move on,
Speaker 1: because our main story today it's about the continuing war
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. So let's catch up on all the latest
Speaker 1: in our ongoing coverage of the war in Ukraine. It
Speaker 1: is now day thirteen of Russia's plan to liberate Ukrainians
Speaker 1: by bombing all of their cities, and things don't look
Speaker 1: like they'll be getting better anytime soon. A third round
Speaker 1: of peace talks has ended with no resolution. Two million
Speaker 1: Ukrainians have now fled the country, and the Russians are
Speaker 1: reportedly trying to pay Syrians to come fight with them
Speaker 1: against Ukraine. And I don't know, man, I feel like
Speaker 1: Syrians must be pretty conflicted about this, because on the
Speaker 1: one hand, Russia's asking them to fight in another war,
Speaker 1: but on the other hand, there's finally one European country
Speaker 1: happen to have Syrians come over. And you know, if
Speaker 1: you ask me, I think this is a pretty smart
Speaker 1: strategy from Putin. He's probably thinking that if he can
Speaker 1: turn this into a Middle East conflict, then the West
Speaker 1: we'll stop caring about it. Meanwhile, in the battle to
Speaker 1: isolate Russia, McDonald's and Starbucks have become the latest Western
Speaker 1: corporations to cut ties with Russia, with both announcing that
Speaker 1: they would temporarily close all locations in the country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no Starbucks, no McDonald's. That's a sad life to live.
Speaker 1: And no pick me up in the morning, No happy meals,
Speaker 1: or as they call them in Russia, meals. I don't
Speaker 1: think they have a word for happy, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just like go to the drive through and then
Speaker 1: give the kid the food, just like looking meal. Dmitri.
Speaker 1: There is great toy of wheelbarrow to remind you the
Speaker 1: purpose of life is work. Do you see is your birthday?
Speaker 1: This is your birthday. You were born on this day.
Speaker 1: This is your birthday. Now, as the situation in Ukraine
Speaker 1: gets more dire, the economic fallout of the war is
Speaker 1: spreading to the rest of the world. This morning, gas
Speaker 1: prices story to the highest average ever recorded, four dollars
Speaker 1: in seventeen cents a gallon. I just spelled up right now,
Speaker 1: and it cost me fifty dollars versus normally. It costs
Speaker 1: met up ten cents in just one day, and fifty
Speaker 1: five cents since last week, eclipsing the previous record of
Speaker 1: four ten a gallon set fourteen years ago in California.
Speaker 1: Four dollars a gallon would be a relief the average
Speaker 1: There is five prices at this shell station in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles hitting nearly seven dollars. Oh my god, gas prices
Speaker 1: shocking drivers at the pump. It's a hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: it's not even a full tank. Yeah, if you thought
Speaker 1: gas prices were already high. Russia invading Ukraine has only
Speaker 1: made things worse, which sucks for everybody. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: sucks for parents who needs to drive kids to school.
Speaker 1: It sucks for small businesses who have to spend more
Speaker 1: money to move things around. It sucks for everyone because
Speaker 1: the price of gas affects the price of everything. Like,
Speaker 1: if this keeps up, the next Fast and Furious movie
Speaker 1: is going to take place on public supportation. It's all
Speaker 1: about saving gas, and I feel so bad for everyone
Speaker 1: who gets surprised when they fill up their tank. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about it. Yesterday you had enough money and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden today you don't your salary didn't
Speaker 1: go up a right, nothing in your life change. You
Speaker 1: just don't have enough money, which, by the way, is weird.
Speaker 1: Can we agree on this as a concept. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It's weird that the price of gas changes, but like
Speaker 1: instantly at the pump, do you get what I'm saying? Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like the change should only affect the gas
Speaker 1: that's on its way, not the gas that's already there,
Speaker 1: Like this gas has been here for a week, so
Speaker 1: technically that's the four dollar gas. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Give me the four dollar gas. In fact, give me
Speaker 1: the guess at the bottom of the tank, there's like
Speaker 1: the two dollars ship. It's been there for a while.
Speaker 1: I don't charge the five dollar ship's still coming. The
Speaker 1: price change, that price change. I want the stuff that's
Speaker 1: here now. And can we spare a moment for this
Speaker 1: woman who was surprised there? Let me just think about
Speaker 1: a camera crew comes up to and they're like, can
Speaker 1: we film you while you fill up your tank? She
Speaker 1: was probably like, oh boy, I'm on a secret game show.
Speaker 1: Oh he's gonna finally propose. And then they're just like
Speaker 1: we showed you don't have enough money on the news,
Speaker 1: have a good day, and you know you've already got
Speaker 1: to hand it to corporations when you think about it, man,
Speaker 1: because you hear people all the time going like, ah,
Speaker 1: the price of oil has gone up, so everything costs more.
Speaker 1: But they've done a great job of tricking all of
Speaker 1: us into thinking that prices are these magical things that
Speaker 1: nobody has control over. Because you understand, as consumers, we
Speaker 1: understand it. We go the price of oil went up,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to pay more. But who made
Speaker 1: that rule? Right? Oil companies are making windfall profits right now,
Speaker 1: over a hundred billion dollars a year. Why can't they
Speaker 1: take a hit, just a tiny hit? Yeah, because when
Speaker 1: prices go up, you know, the oil companies are there
Speaker 1: and they're just making the money. They're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I wish there was something we could do, well, you
Speaker 1: could make a little less profit. No, No, something else,
Speaker 1: something else, something else we could do that wouldn't affect us.
Speaker 1: What would it be? The question is, now, why are
Speaker 1: gas prices surging the way they are. Well, as you heard,
Speaker 1: Russia supplies a lot of oil to the to the world.
Speaker 1: And even though America and Europe have passed loads of
Speaker 1: sanctions against Russia. They've cut off its banks, and they've
Speaker 1: kicked it out of the U N. Book Club. They're
Speaker 1: still paying Russia five hundred million dollars every day for
Speaker 1: oil and gas, which I mean, let's be honest, doesn't
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. You're sending money to a
Speaker 1: country that you basically at war with. Like if you
Speaker 1: were in a bar fight, wouldn't it be strange to
Speaker 1: buy the other guy a bottle of bud lights so
Speaker 1: that he can smash you over the head with it.
Speaker 1: In fact, that such a weird arrangement that many countries
Speaker 1: have been talking about boycotting Russian oil, which then created
Speaker 1: fears of an oil shortage that sent oil prices skyrocketing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and apparently those fears were well founded, because today America
Speaker 1: did this Today more consequences from the United States. President
Speaker 1: Biden announced a ban on all Russian oil, natural gas,
Speaker 1: and coal imports to the US. Today, I'm announcing the
Speaker 1: United States is targeting the main artery of Russian's economy.
Speaker 1: We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.
Speaker 1: America's of rally support have rally to support their Ukrainian
Speaker 1: people and made it clear we will not be part
Speaker 1: of subsidizing Putent's war. This is a step that we're
Speaker 1: taking to inflict further pain on Putinent, but there will
Speaker 1: be cost as well here in the United States. Since
Speaker 1: Prudent began as military build up in Ukrainian borders, just
Speaker 1: since then, the price of the gas of the pump
Speaker 1: in America and up seventy five cents. And with this action,
Speaker 1: it's going to go up further. I'm going to do
Speaker 1: everything I can to minimize Prudent's price ike here at home. Yes,
Speaker 1: you heard the President's Russian oil is now banned from
Speaker 1: the United States. But don't get it twisted. America isn't
Speaker 1: just gonna stop riding bikes everywhere, all right. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get that well from somewhere. And luckily America produces a
Speaker 1: lot of its own oil. There's Texas, there's Alaska, there's
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. But it's a lot enough. It's still not
Speaker 1: enough oil. So America has also been reaching out to
Speaker 1: countries that it's not exactly on great terms with, you know,
Speaker 1: like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to try and get them
Speaker 1: to pump more oil to get the prices back down,
Speaker 1: which you have to admit is a bit of an
Speaker 1: awkward situation to be in, you know, because Yeah, America
Speaker 1: is basically like, these countries are immoral and we will
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with them. You guys have any
Speaker 1: gas money Saudi Arabia, I said that ship to you
Speaker 1: before I was home. Yeah, it wouldn't it be funny
Speaker 1: those countries turned around and and flipped it on America.
Speaker 1: If they were like America, we would love to sell
Speaker 1: you oil, but we cannot do business with a country
Speaker 1: that drowns civilians in the Middle East. Our conscience will
Speaker 1: not allow it. Now, we're just kidding. We'll take your money.
Speaker 1: You should have seen their face that you're so scared.
Speaker 1: He imagine we don't take your money. For all, America
Speaker 1: is able to go cold Turkey on Russian oil. Europe
Speaker 1: is hooked. They're completely hooked for now, and like completely hooked.
Speaker 1: The EU gets of its gas and a quarter of
Speaker 1: its oil from Russia, which is why they couldn't join
Speaker 1: this boycott even if they wanted to. Yeah, without Russia's energy,
Speaker 1: Europe wouldn't have enough heat for their homes, or fuel
Speaker 1: for their cause, or oil for their weird Christmas black
Speaker 1: face celebrations, which means that Russia has a lot of
Speaker 1: leverage in that relationship, and it turns out that they
Speaker 1: know it. As the way of crippling sanctions falls on Russia,
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is now threatening to cut off Europe's gas supply.
Speaker 1: In an address on state television on Monday, Russia's deputy
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Alexander Novak warned that Russia has every right
Speaker 1: to shut off its gas deliveries to Europe. He added,
Speaker 1: so far we are not taking such a decision, but
Speaker 1: European politicians, with their statements and accusations against Russia, push
Speaker 1: us towards that. Yeah. You see, you can't go too
Speaker 1: hard after the country that makes it possible for you
Speaker 1: to survive winter. That's why Europe always has to pepper
Speaker 1: its denunciations of Russia with like the occasional compliments. These
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine is as inexcusable as Chaikowski's music is unforgettable. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, this is a two way streets. Sure, Europe
Speaker 1: needs Russian oil, Russia needs Europe's money. I mean, what
Speaker 1: else do they have to offer? It's not like they're
Speaker 1: going to fund a war by selling cabbage soup. So
Speaker 1: both sides of this relationship are in a game of chicken,
Speaker 1: and nobody knows who's gonna give. But one thing we
Speaker 1: do know is this, it would definitely be better for
Speaker 1: Europe and America to not be in this situation in
Speaker 1: the first place, because Putin has shined a spotlight on
Speaker 1: the trade offs that dependency on fossil fuels creates. If
Speaker 1: countries want to move to renewable energy or safe nuclear power,
Speaker 1: they can no longer afford to make that, Like item
Speaker 1: number ten on the agenda, Yeah, because not only will
Speaker 1: the planet suffer, but you'll find yourself constantly having to
Speaker 1: make deals with the devil. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll take a look at the women who are helping
Speaker 1: to fight the Russian invasion. You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. When Russia invaded Ukraine,
Speaker 1: most of the world thought that they were just going
Speaker 1: to roll their tanks in and have the whole country
Speaker 1: in a few days. But as it turns out, the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian resistance has been so effective that after two weeks,
Speaker 1: the Russians have barely captured any of the cities that
Speaker 1: they've been attacking, and considering that the Russian army is
Speaker 1: eight times the size of Ukraine's, this has been humiliating
Speaker 1: for Russia. Right It's like Godzilla getting his ass whipped
Speaker 1: by the Geico Geko. And a major part of Ukraine's
Speaker 1: resistance has been thanks to Ukrainian women. And I'm not
Speaker 1: just talking about the Ukrainian women who protected their children
Speaker 1: while on the run, or helped lead others into bomb shelters,
Speaker 1: or even gave birth in subway stations while Russian missiles
Speaker 1: rained down on them. No, I'm talking about all the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian women who have actively joined the fight itself. As
Speaker 1: the fighting in Ukraine continues, thousands of women of all ages,
Speaker 1: some even without milt Harry training, are taking up weapons
Speaker 1: and heading to the front lines to defend their country.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women have stayed behind to
Speaker 1: fight on the front lines. They are Ukraine's mother's daughters, teachers,
Speaker 1: politicians now on the front lines defending their country under siege.
Speaker 1: Men are required by martial law to stay back and
Speaker 1: fight the Russian invasion, but many women are foregoing the
Speaker 1: chance to leave. I was helping my husband to pack
Speaker 1: for a war, you know, like t shorts, underwear, weapons, um.
Speaker 1: And then I thought, okay, he's going to war. I'm
Speaker 1: going to I want to fight also because this is
Speaker 1: my country, this is my home. We are the women
Speaker 1: of Ukraine. We will destroy the enemy on every inch
Speaker 1: of Ukrainian land. We will shoot you like rabbit dogs.
Speaker 1: God damn the women of Ukraine. And around and how
Speaker 1: about that woman who went to war to be with
Speaker 1: her husband? I mean people, The phrase relationship goals gets
Speaker 1: thrown around a lot nowadays, but that's next level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not even in wedding vows. You realize the priest
Speaker 1: is like, you've got to stay together in sickness and
Speaker 1: in health. But if Russia and age you do you Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously not every Ukrainian woman is on the front lines, right,
Speaker 1: but even the women who aren't fighting are just waiting
Speaker 1: at home hoping for the best, no then joining the resistance.
Speaker 1: In other ways, from making protective gear like camouflage nets
Speaker 1: and bulletproof vests to building homemade weapons, Ukrainian women are
Speaker 1: mobilizing no matter how old or how young. You know,
Speaker 1: Volunteer Center in Leviv moms gather supplause for those fighting
Speaker 1: further east. Do we understand we need to hold strong
Speaker 1: like a fist like this. Since military age men can't
Speaker 1: leave Ukraine, women are acting as couriers. Twenty nine year
Speaker 1: old Christina came to this border crossing with a mission
Speaker 1: to pick up and deliver this car to the front.
Speaker 1: Women of old ages are now helping to defend the
Speaker 1: besiege nation making Molotov cocktails. How did you learn how
Speaker 1: to make Molotov cocktails? Google helps, She tells me. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's amazing that grandmother learned how to make Molotov cocktails
Speaker 1: from Google. I didn't even know you could do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, she is going to pay the price now though,
Speaker 1: because every website she goes to is gonna give her
Speaker 1: ads for Molotov cocktails now, and then she's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I don't need to see these ads already made. The
Speaker 1: monotovs aren't so annoying. I wish there was a way
Speaker 1: to tell the ads to stop popping up. You want
Speaker 1: to leave me alone. I bought the thing you told
Speaker 1: me to buy. And by the way, if a grandmother
Speaker 1: is making Molotov cocktails, this is probably gonna be the
Speaker 1: best tasting cocktails around. Yeah, because I don't know about yours,
Speaker 1: but my grandmother can make anything taste good. Russian soldiers
Speaker 1: are gonna be on fire like so tasty. But it's
Speaker 1: not just Ukrainian women fighting against Putin. No, it turns
Speaker 1: out there were also Russian women fighting against him too.
Speaker 1: The chance no, the war is resounding throughout Russia. In St. Petersburg,
Speaker 1: this brave old lady stood up to a goon squad
Speaker 1: of armored police during an anti war protest. She said
Speaker 1: to be a childhood survivor of the Nazi siege of
Speaker 1: letting Brad during World War Two. Some saying they'd rather
Speaker 1: risk arrest than live with guilt. I want the whole
Speaker 1: world to see that we don't want it, this woman says.
Speaker 1: One video on social media showed Russian security forces in St.
Speaker 1: Petersburg roughing up a woman holding a peace sign and
Speaker 1: a baby. This woman even burning her Russian passport and
Speaker 1: an anti war protest in Germany. Yeah, it turns out
Speaker 1: Russian women all over the globe are also standing up
Speaker 1: against this unjust wall. I mean that granny survived Nazis
Speaker 1: and now she's fighting for this that mother was arrested
Speaker 1: with her baby attached to her chest. And I'm sorry people,
Speaker 1: armored police should not be roughing up a baby. Only
Speaker 1: an armored police baby is allowed to do that. It's
Speaker 1: called a fair fight. Now, look, I don't know if
Speaker 1: Ukran's or Russia's women will be able to stop Putin,
Speaker 1: but on this International Women's Day, I think it's worth
Speaker 1: highlighting how women across two countries are coming together to
Speaker 1: fight a crazy man's war. All right, don't go away
Speaker 1: because when we come back, international spiritual leader Sad Guru
Speaker 1: will be joining me on the show, So don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is
Speaker 1: Yogi mystic visionary and best selling author, Sad Guru. He's
Speaker 1: here to talk about why he's beginning a global awareness
Speaker 1: campaign to save soil. S Guru, Welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Wonderful you see. Now this is weird for me because
Speaker 1: we try to start this interview and then we had
Speaker 1: a technical issue, and now we're starting the interview again
Speaker 1: and now I'm like, am I being as authentic as
Speaker 1: I could be with you as a Guru? Or is
Speaker 1: this in and of itself inauthentic to you know, there's
Speaker 1: be yourself. There's nothing called authentic. Nobody knows what's that
Speaker 1: authentic because human beings that are consequence of a thousand
Speaker 1: things that are picked up all over. Man, that's deep impressions. Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a good time. I can tell we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a really good time. By the way, I
Speaker 1: I woke up today a lot unhappier than I woke
Speaker 1: up yesterday because I had to do all the research
Speaker 1: for our interview, and I knew that there's war in Russia.
Speaker 1: I knew that there is um. You know that we
Speaker 1: were facing a climate crisis, and then now thanks to you,
Speaker 1: I know that we also are facing a soil crisis,
Speaker 1: where some people are estimating that if we do nothing
Speaker 1: in fifty years time, we may not be able to
Speaker 1: grow anything because we may run out of soil. Which,
Speaker 1: forgive my ignorance, I did not know that soil is
Speaker 1: even something that we could run out of. The thing
Speaker 1: is uh. This has happened in the last years of
Speaker 1: industrialized farming, that the organic content in the soil is
Speaker 1: going away because there's no replanation s ment to replenish
Speaker 1: the soil. We either need uh, you know, leaves and
Speaker 1: vegetative matter or animal waste. Both of them have disappeared
Speaker 1: from the farms. We thought we could do everything with
Speaker 1: the machines. Machines can plow, machines can do the work
Speaker 1: that animals and human beings were doing, but organic content
Speaker 1: cannot come from the machine. It has to come from
Speaker 1: vegetative or animal waste, and that is not there. Because
Speaker 1: of that, one must understand. If you add organic content
Speaker 1: to sand, it becomes soil. If you take away organic
Speaker 1: content from soil, it becomes sand. So right now, desertification
Speaker 1: is one of the most serious problems. As you said,
Speaker 1: fifty years or sixty years time after that, there's not
Speaker 1: enough soil to grow crops. But the more important thing
Speaker 1: is by twenty thirty five to twenty forty, they're expecting
Speaker 1: that we will grow forty percent less food than what
Speaker 1: we're growing right now, and our populations will be over
Speaker 1: nine billion. That's not a world you want to live in.
Speaker 1: That's not a world where you want to leave your children.
Speaker 1: So we need to act now. Why it's very important
Speaker 1: to act now. An institute or enshrying this in our
Speaker 1: policy is on an average, according to U n f
Speaker 1: A OOH. On an average, twenty seven thousand species of
Speaker 1: microbes are going extinct period And is that because of
Speaker 1: how we farm or is that a natural consequence of
Speaker 1: existence because there is no organic content for the microups.
Speaker 1: See as as you know today that you cannot even
Speaker 1: digest the food that you eat if there are no
Speaker 1: gut microbial Yes. Similarly, in the soil, it's the same
Speaker 1: reflection in a much more complex way. Without the microbial
Speaker 1: activity in the soil, the plants are not able to
Speaker 1: get the necessary nourishment from the soil. So we're throwing
Speaker 1: chemicals and boosting them up, but without needed nourishment. On
Speaker 1: an average, the drop in nourishment in the United States
Speaker 1: from early twentieth century two now is approximately only ten
Speaker 1: percent is left. If you eat one orange in, you
Speaker 1: need to eat eight ore in just today to get
Speaker 1: the same stuff. So that's simply impractical. So we're moving
Speaker 1: to a place where food production is sliding down gradually.
Speaker 1: So this sliding down will affect I Favor predicts that
Speaker 1: by five there could be dozens of civil wars across
Speaker 1: the world, and that is not necessarily in African countries
Speaker 1: or South America. It could be anywhere if you all,
Speaker 1: I mean, the World Food Program talks about famines around Chicago,
Speaker 1: Illinois area by five. This is terrifying, you know. It's
Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend about how before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I think there was a certain hubris that human humans
Speaker 1: had about everything. We just believed it would always go on.
Speaker 1: You hear these doomsday prophecies, or you hear these even
Speaker 1: warnings about the world ending at some point, of humans
Speaker 1: not being able to inhabit the planet. But until the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I feel like we didn't have a a tangible example
Speaker 1: of the world's stopping. You know, people would even say,
Speaker 1: how do you stop the world? How can you stop travel?
Speaker 1: How can you stop countries? And now we've seen it,
Speaker 1: and now you're telling us, no, this is not a
Speaker 1: doomsday production. This is a wake up call because we
Speaker 1: are at a cusp of time that if we do
Speaker 1: the right things right now, in another fifteen to twenty years,
Speaker 1: we can make a significant turnaround. So what are the
Speaker 1: right things to do. We've been pushing this for the
Speaker 1: last two years. We have these programs going for over
Speaker 1: twenty five years in southern India where we have brought
Speaker 1: in ten percent of the farmer's lands under three cultivation
Speaker 1: and animals, so that this ten percent produces enough organic
Speaker 1: content for the remaining so Once the organic content is
Speaker 1: about three to six percent, minimum is three to six percent.
Speaker 1: If you raise the organic content to eight in the soil,
Speaker 1: your irrigation requirements will come down to what it is.
Speaker 1: Because the water holding capacity of organically rich soil is
Speaker 1: such if you raise it to to fifteen percent, your
Speaker 1: irrigation requirement would come down to ten to fifteen percent.
Speaker 1: That is, into hundred liters of water. You would use
Speaker 1: fifteen liters of water for the same crop. That's what
Speaker 1: needs to happen. And this is the same story everywhere
Speaker 1: when it comes to ecology. When it comes to soil,
Speaker 1: our national barriers, racial discriminations, our religions, our costs, our creates,
Speaker 1: our gender staff our, you know, political ideologies, nothing matters.
Speaker 1: This is a unifying factor if we as a generation
Speaker 1: of people act now to change the necessary policy changes,
Speaker 1: which is not some rocket science. This is something always
Speaker 1: farmers in the past new but we forgotten the last
Speaker 1: fifty years. Are you are you getting any science that
Speaker 1: governments are enthusiastic to try and do something about this.
Speaker 1: In the last two years, I've been talking to various
Speaker 1: UH country heads, various politicians, political parties. We have written
Speaker 1: to seven thirty political parties on the planet to make
Speaker 1: sure that they include soil and ecology as a part
Speaker 1: of their election manifestoes as their political philosophy, whatever they
Speaker 1: believe in, right, left, center, whatever they are. Soil is
Speaker 1: one thing which is a common factor for all of us.
Speaker 1: We're always looking at what divides is It's time. If
Speaker 1: you don't understand the consciousness of this costmos and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, at least you understand you come from the soil,
Speaker 1: You live off the soil. When you die, you go
Speaker 1: back to the soil. That much, you get it. What
Speaker 1: I see is in the last two years that I've
Speaker 1: been talking to people, everybody knows there is a serious problem.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows what is a solution also, But I think
Speaker 1: it looks like they were all waiting for an idiot
Speaker 1: to build a cat so here I am. I'm sixty
Speaker 1: five and I'm writingtometers must be an idiot, isn't I
Speaker 1: could talk to you forever? And I guess that's why
Speaker 1: people you know come to your your events and your
Speaker 1: you know, it's the gatherings. They read your books. They
Speaker 1: want to see what you're gonna do. Um on a
Speaker 1: journey of soil. It feels like it is yet another
Speaker 1: thing that we add to our list that that governments
Speaker 1: need to do, that people need to do that. You know,
Speaker 1: if we don't do this, it's over. If we don't
Speaker 1: do that, it's not one more thing. Travel No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm saying it feels like they have enough on my hands.
Speaker 1: I don't have to take this up. I've taken this
Speaker 1: up because as a generation of people, if we don't
Speaker 1: do this now, we will regret this seriously. If you
Speaker 1: don't end shy in it in the policy now, it
Speaker 1: will get too late if you leave it for another
Speaker 1: twenty third years time. This needs to happen now. So
Speaker 1: we want everybody to talk about soil for a hundred
Speaker 1: days in their own terms. If they don't know anything,
Speaker 1: if we will provide a massive amount of information on
Speaker 1: our website, they can pick it up and use it
Speaker 1: as their own, or they can research themselves whichever way
Speaker 1: they want. If they don't know anything else to say,
Speaker 1: just to save soil, let's make it happen every day.
Speaker 1: If you if you send a message to somebody, close
Speaker 1: it with save soil. If you call somebody says save soil,
Speaker 1: Safe soil. It was great shotting to you Safe soil,
Speaker 1: my friend. Thank you very much for being here. It's
Speaker 1: really been wonderful for having you. For more information on
Speaker 1: St Guru's Save Soil movements, all you gotta do is
Speaker 1: visit the website below. We're gonna take a quick break,
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