Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central YEW.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Daily Show. I live here in
Speaker 2: New York City, but my heart and liver damage are
Speaker 2: from my home state of Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Mitch McConnell and Ran Paul.
Speaker 2: Kentucky doesn't have the best reputation, so I wanted to
Speaker 2: show that there's a lot more than you think.
Speaker 3: Take a look.
Speaker 2: Kentucky and I have both changed a lot since my youth,
Speaker 2: but unfortunately the changes the state currently faces can't be
Speaker 2: resolved with acutane. In one hundred and fifty hours of
Speaker 2: community service, Kentucky legislators passed one of the strictest anti
Speaker 2: trans laws in the nation. House Built three hundred would
Speaker 2: allow prosecutors to charge a woman with criminal homicide if
Speaker 2: she gets an abortion.
Speaker 4: At least can't enforce any kind of federal bait on
Speaker 4: gun adding gender affirming care the name of drag show rifles,
Speaker 4: free school, trigger laws, business make up.
Speaker 2: These bills are getting shoved through like a fried chicken
Speaker 2: sandwich in McConnell's lipless mouth.
Speaker 5: But do Kentuckians really feel this way? Absolutely not. Kentuckians
Speaker 5: are suffering because of their decisions. You can do things
Speaker 5: a lot better. It's like we're both of the falling
Speaker 5: upon DEATHI earths there's a.
Speaker 6: Lot of straight white men, a lot of older men.
Speaker 2: I would say, and to match in particular that the
Speaker 2: vast majority of American people are sick and tired of
Speaker 2: the guns turtle base. There's that Southern hospitality on this.
Speaker 2: But she's right, Kentuckians aren't happy with their lawmakers. In fact,
Speaker 2: statistics have shown a majority support access to abortion, background
Speaker 2: checks on guns, and oppose the law on gender affirming healthcare.
Speaker 2: So how is this happening. To get more insight, I
Speaker 2: met a local journalist who's shining a spotlight on the
Speaker 2: politics happening in conservative states. There's only one way to
Speaker 2: have this conversation, and that is overburbed. So it's safe
Speaker 2: to say that a lot of these laws that are
Speaker 2: passing from extreme legislators are not reflective of the values
Speaker 2: of the people Canucky.
Speaker 4: So my view is we're seeing an extreme Republican agenda
Speaker 4: because our legislators are governing like Republicans, not like Kentuckians.
Speaker 4: If you look at the laws being passing Kentucky, they're
Speaker 4: the exact same ones being passed in Florida or Mississippi.
Speaker 4: So these are much different states with much different priorities,
Speaker 4: but they have the exact same agenda because they're Republicans
Speaker 4: in every state, just passing a list of things Donald
Speaker 4: Trump and other writing Republicans like, and they're popular on
Speaker 4: Fox News.
Speaker 2: You know what, Let's just keep this flowing. I don't
Speaker 2: want to see this glass empty. Where do we go
Speaker 2: from here? Is there any solution?
Speaker 4: I think ultimately we have to in the short term,
Speaker 4: shame them out of passing the most aggressive version of
Speaker 4: these bills, criticize them enough to make sure that they
Speaker 4: are told when they go to church or when they
Speaker 4: go to the grocery store that you passed a terrible
Speaker 4: bill and acted like a bigot.
Speaker 2: Are you sure that shame would work with Kentucky Republicans.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at rand Paul. If I got my
Speaker 2: ass kicked in my front yard by my neighbor, I
Speaker 2: would never leave my house.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's a full proof point, and I'm
Speaker 4: just saying that these legislators have to walk in public
Speaker 4: and live their life. And I do think you want
Speaker 4: to make clear that you have done something terrible.
Speaker 2: It might be the drinks but I have an idea.
Speaker 2: What if we may change through the power of song,
Speaker 2: through subliminal messages.
Speaker 3: We could write a country song.
Speaker 5: No one's tried that, No one's tried that.
Speaker 3: We'll sing it together, Okay, because we know how it goes.
Speaker 3: It goes here in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: We got bourbon and horses and a woman's rat to choose.
Speaker 5: We have.
Speaker 4: Education, well funded, well supported at school.
Speaker 5: Oh this is so good. Okay. We got to record
Speaker 5: this as being subliminal.
Speaker 2: The irony is that even as the Kentucky legislature becomes
Speaker 2: more extreme kentuck these citizens are trying to bring the
Speaker 2: state together. Citizens like Edward Lee.
Speaker 7: Edward Lee, an award winning chef, founded the Lee Initiative
Speaker 7: on nonprofit so he can do increase diversity and equality
Speaker 7: in the restaurant industry.
Speaker 3: And he's achieving this on a national level as well.
Speaker 5: Jeff Edward Lee, owner of sixteen Magnolia and Louisville, has
Speaker 5: been invited to the White House to cook for the
Speaker 5: US and South Korea state dinner.
Speaker 2: When it comes to politics, he has a more grassroots approach.
Speaker 8: There are people in power here that have their agenda,
Speaker 8: but there's some belief in me where you stay and
Speaker 8: you fight the good fight, and you build a community
Speaker 8: and make sure that people do not feel marginalized, that
Speaker 8: people do not feel alone, that people do not feel
Speaker 8: like they're the only ones in this fight. And to me,
Speaker 8: that's stronger than any political movement. We have done dinners
Speaker 8: here where we have brought different groups at the table
Speaker 8: to sit down and talk things out, and I would say,
Speaker 8: at the end of the dinner, you still disagree. The
Speaker 8: only difference is now you see the other person as
Speaker 8: a human being.
Speaker 2: Do you think this level of humanity and kindness and
Speaker 2: outreach that you do could ever exist in the Kentucky legislature?
Speaker 5: They come here for dinner, I can ask them, has
Speaker 5: Mitch McConnell ever? Can we don't serve intel?
Speaker 3: You don't serve in Telly.
Speaker 5: We've been here twenty one years. I'll say this, everyone's.
Speaker 8: Been through here.
Speaker 5: How many times have you spit in this food?
Speaker 3: I waited tables for ten years.
Speaker 5: Oh that is against everything I've seen through.
Speaker 3: I know a thing or two about spitting in food.
Speaker 2: Despite not taking my advice and loved me feeling hopeful.
Speaker 2: So I sobered up and hit the streets to see
Speaker 2: if other people shared Ed's vision.
Speaker 6: You have to have hope because otherwise you wake up
Speaker 6: and you live in fear. And that's not what we
Speaker 6: in Kentucky do. We get up and we go to work,
Speaker 6: and we take care of our families and we're good
Speaker 6: to our neighbors. When something bad happens in the state,
Speaker 6: everyone rallies together and the good fight still can and
Speaker 6: is on.
Speaker 9: We are the solution, and we truly have got to become.
Speaker 5: Much more forceful and active.
Speaker 9: I think we can make it uncomfortable enough for those
Speaker 9: who are in charge of the voting, who are in
Speaker 9: charge of her present.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah, make him uncomfortable.
Speaker 10: Slip those laxatives. Key is car not a mag of
Speaker 10: shit on his doorsteps?
Speaker 9: And you have the problem with that only makes me
Speaker 9: look bad. That would not achieve the goal I have, paus.
Speaker 2: It takes all that time to shit in the bag
Speaker 2: and light it on fire and d.
Speaker 5: That's right, right, thank you.
Speaker 3: You know we can get some good bourbon around here,
Speaker 3: well at my house. But oh, either way, I follow you.
Speaker 5: It's a lot, you know.
Speaker 10: I actually have a fine if you don't mind picking
Speaker 10: up the tab I've racked up plate the mill you say,
Speaker 10: Kentuckyans are generous.
Speaker 2: Right, Let's talk about wellness. It's a one point five
Speaker 2: trillion dollar industry and I'm obsessed.
Speaker 3: I've tried it all.
Speaker 2: I drink mushroom coffee, I've done ice baths, I've tried
Speaker 2: meditation apps. I gave my meditation app an ice bath.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it worked because my phone won't
Speaker 2: turn on. But like a ski trip with Gwyneth Paltrow,
Speaker 2: wellness has a dark side, and that is what I
Speaker 2: want to talk about in tonight's installment of Long Story Short.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: You might think that the term wellness started in the nineties,
Speaker 2: back when white women invented yoga, but it's actually been
Speaker 2: around for at least a century, and until very recently,
Speaker 2: there's been zero government regulation to make sure that wellness
Speaker 2: products are legit. A company could claim that their Pandaceman
Speaker 2: protein powder will give you that glow, but they don't
Speaker 2: have to show receipts, so it's no surprise that they
Speaker 2: sell a lot of snake oil.
Speaker 1: The US Preventive Services Task Force reviewed eighty four studies
Speaker 1: involving hundreds of thousands of people over thirty years.
Speaker 5: The task Force concluded there was little or no.
Speaker 1: Benefit in using vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent cancer,
Speaker 1: cardiovascular disease, and death.
Speaker 3: There is a new study that failed.
Speaker 11: Some of those melitonin gummies that are so popular actually
Speaker 11: contain way more of the hormone than they advertise.
Speaker 1: Wellness influencers promoting products like colloidal silver drops they say
Speaker 1: can combent where there is infection.
Speaker 7: Non prescription products that contain colloidal silver are not recognized
Speaker 7: as safe by the FDA.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of buzz around tea tooxes, but dietitians
Speaker 11: and doctors will tell you detoxing is a myth. There
Speaker 11: is one ingredient though, that takes some ttoxes to another level.
Speaker 11: It's called senile and the thing is sena can also
Speaker 11: cause stomach problems, cramps, and after using zenna for a while,
Speaker 11: you might not be able to poop without it.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: If you take some of these products, you might be
Speaker 2: as full of shit as the influencers who sell them. Look,
Speaker 2: I get why people want to believe this stuff works,
Speaker 2: but if just drinking tea was the key to looking snatched,
Speaker 2: the British royal family would look a lot different. But look,
Speaker 2: the truth is You don't have to spend a single
Speaker 2: dollar to try a bullshit wellness trend. Just go on
Speaker 2: social media and you'll find plenty of ways to jeopardize
Speaker 2: your health for free.
Speaker 5: Advocates of the saltwater flush claim chugging water mixed with
Speaker 5: two tablespoons of salt is a healthy way to clean
Speaker 5: out your colon, but experts are issuing stern.
Speaker 2: Warnings dangerous as it literally napon for your bowels.
Speaker 7: It's the latest viral health trend, with nearly forty million
Speaker 7: views on TikTok the claim that putting a tape on
Speaker 7: your mouth at night and help you get better sleep.
Speaker 7: It's a trend that has some medical experts sounding the alarm.
Speaker 3: You're risking things like cardiac arrest, it can induce seizures.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of risks to it. Doctors are warning
Speaker 5: against a viral wellness trend called paraneum sunning.
Speaker 1: They say it's not worth the risk of sun damage
Speaker 1: or even skin cancel.
Speaker 2: Just a general rule, never try a trend that seems
Speaker 2: like it was invented by the guy next door with binoculars.
Speaker 2: Please please do not try that at home. If you
Speaker 2: want to see a sunburnt asshole.
Speaker 3: Just watch the next presidential campaign.
Speaker 2: That's the last we'll see Ahead nailed his ass. But
Speaker 2: maybe the darkest side of wellness is that too often
Speaker 2: it's not even about wellness. It's about targeting women's insecurity,
Speaker 2: whether it's eliminating your wrinkles, flattening your abs, or the
Speaker 2: industry's favorite targets are extremely disappointing vaginas. Apparently it needs
Speaker 2: a full runno down there talk in detox, pearls to
Speaker 2: stay clean, vaginal eggs to tighten its core, and of course,
Speaker 2: gummies to improve its taste.
Speaker 5: Because it's not.
Speaker 2: Enough that your vagina can regulate its own pH and
Speaker 2: be a pleasure center and deliver a baby. It also
Speaker 2: needs to taste so good it gets a Michelin star.
Speaker 3: We don't need any of this. The vagina is a
Speaker 3: self cleaning organ.
Speaker 2: It's not like you need a tiny rumba in there
Speaker 2: getting all those hard to reach corners. In fact, if
Speaker 2: your vagina has corners, please go see a doctor. But
Speaker 2: the fact is the reason the wellness industry is making
Speaker 2: so much money off women in the first place is
Speaker 2: because of doc The American healthcare industry is constantly failing women,
Speaker 2: whether it's doctors dismissing their symptoms or telling them that
Speaker 2: their pain isn't as bad as they're claiming, or prescribing
Speaker 2: them less medicine than men for the same issues. And
Speaker 2: keep in mind, this is all even worse for women
Speaker 2: of color, and it's happening as the courts and states
Speaker 2: are rapidly eroding women's access to reproductive healthcare.
Speaker 3: And all of this is stressing me out so much.
Speaker 2: I could really use a pantacey and smoothie like meditation
Speaker 2: app when I need it. So it's no wonder that
Speaker 2: women turn to wellness despite all its faults, Because what's
Speaker 2: more ridiculous a healthcare system that denies women treatment and
Speaker 2: tells them that they're pains all in their head or this.
Speaker 3: The long story short.
Speaker 2: Until American healthcare takes women's concerns seriously, we're going to
Speaker 2: continue to be targets for alternative solutions. So the next
Speaker 2: time a wellness brand tries to sell you a product,
Speaker 2: here's some advice. Pretend like you're a doctor listening to
Speaker 2: a female patient. Don't take their word for it.
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