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Speaker 1: It's The Daily Here's a tonight, three bands, Instagram and one.
Speaker 1: It is The Daily Show. With Trevor no Hey, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor
Speaker 1: Noah and joining me for today's headlines is the one
Speaker 1: and only Michael Costa. How you doing, custom man? I'm tired.
Speaker 1: I mean, I woke up at four but it was
Speaker 1: really a fifteen, or it was I woke up at
Speaker 1: eight fifteen, but it was actually for my Do you
Speaker 1: get confused by it? But was the time? Thing? Was
Speaker 1: I early? Today? It was I late? I you know
Speaker 1: what I don't. I don't know because in South Africa
Speaker 1: we don't do that, so I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: don't even know it happens sometimes because everything changes automatically
Speaker 1: except my microwave right in that southern hemisphere, so the
Speaker 1: clocks they go the other direction. Is that right? Because
Speaker 1: I get all screwed up here because it's light outside
Speaker 1: or is it dark? I think you should go on
Speaker 1: with the show, but this daylight saving things really messes
Speaker 1: me up. Well that's why you hear my friend at
Speaker 1: a much needed perspective. All right, let's jumped straight into
Speaker 1: today's headlines. We begin with major news from the world
Speaker 1: of sports, involving Tom Brady seven times super Bowl champion
Speaker 1: and the guy who taught Gronk how to read. Six
Speaker 1: weeks ago, Brady retired from professional football, which was a
Speaker 1: huge deal because Brady is arguably the greatest quarterback of
Speaker 1: all time. Okay, he's played for twenty two seasons and
Speaker 1: he's been going to Super Bowl so long. His first
Speaker 1: halftime show was a bunch of Gregorian monks chanting. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was big news when Tom Brady retired. But you
Speaker 1: know what's even bigger news than retiring. I'm retiring. Let's
Speaker 1: move now to a headline that everybody's talking about this morning.
Speaker 1: A surprise twist in the retirement of Tom Brady. It
Speaker 1: turns out that it wasn't much of a retirement after all.
Speaker 1: The NFL great announcing he is going to be back
Speaker 1: with his Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the season, citing crude
Speaker 1: unfinished business. In this announcement on social media, he says
Speaker 1: this he's past two months. I realized my place is
Speaker 1: still on the field and not in the stands. That
Speaker 1: time will come, but it's not now. Yes, Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: this is back in the NFL. Oh. I love this
Speaker 1: so much. I love it so much because he is
Speaker 1: the most loved and the most hated athletes in the game.
Speaker 1: I love this guy. He's the main character. What's the
Speaker 1: NFL without Tom Brady? Him leaving the NFL is like
Speaker 1: when Charlie Sheen left two and a half men. Yeah
Speaker 1: there was still two and a half men, but which men?
Speaker 1: Not men we care about? Where's the cocaine stepping up?
Speaker 1: Little kid? And I get why Brady's back. First of all,
Speaker 1: have you seen the price of gas right now? This
Speaker 1: is not the time to quit your job. Also, some
Speaker 1: people are just not made for the retired life, especially
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Think about it. For twenty two years, he's
Speaker 1: had men the size of little trucks trying to tackle him.
Speaker 1: That's adrenaline. Yeah. Can you imagine how boring his home
Speaker 1: life is right now? Even hiring his own commentators probably
Speaker 1: didn't help. Oh, tom Brady searching under the sink for
Speaker 1: the soap refhil can he find it? He's got tom
Speaker 1: Brady's got the soul. He needs to go back to football.
Speaker 1: So of course Tom Brady wasn't gonna retire. Man, he's
Speaker 1: the goat. His grip on the NFL is tighter than
Speaker 1: whoever braided Drake's hair. Yeah, you want to talk about
Speaker 1: a gold that person's a goal. How the hell did
Speaker 1: you turn Drake's shorthand into braids? That's witchcraft, that's how.
Speaker 1: So with this move, Tom Brady has officially officially officially
Speaker 1: confirmed himself as the greatest of all time. Because you
Speaker 1: see this move, right, here's what all the greatest do.
Speaker 1: They retire and then they come right back. Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: did it, Jay Z did it, and the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time Jesus Yeah. That guy retired from life for
Speaker 1: three days before he was like, nah, the game needs me.
Speaker 1: You know. My favorite part of the story actually is
Speaker 1: is the night before Brady unretired, there was an auction
Speaker 1: for the football that Brady used to throw his final
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, and someone paid more than half a million
Speaker 1: dollars for that ball. If you if you're to me,
Speaker 1: I mean, this actually just makes the football cooler, you know,
Speaker 1: because if I was at somebody's house and they were like, yo,
Speaker 1: you want to see the football from Tom Brady's last
Speaker 1: touchdown throw, I'd be like, yeah, maybe not really. But
Speaker 1: if they were like, hey, you want to see one
Speaker 1: of the worst purchases ever, I'd be like, hell, yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: you're that dumb ass. You paid you thought it was
Speaker 1: his last throw, you idiot, you dumb ass. Oh man,
Speaker 1: oh Cousta, what do you think about the story? Many? Look,
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to me like Tom Brady's acting
Speaker 1: like someone who's been hitting the head every day for
Speaker 1: the past thirty years. You know what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for his kids. You know, they finally
Speaker 1: get dad back in the house, and after a month,
Speaker 1: he's like, I'll do anything, you know, I'll do anything
Speaker 1: to get back to work. I think what he realized, Trevor,
Speaker 1: is when you retire, you see and hear how much
Speaker 1: people really love and admire you. And maybe that was
Speaker 1: something that compelled him to return. And you know that
Speaker 1: you don't realize how much you're missed until you're gone.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's interesting. And I think I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna steal a chapter from Tom Brady's book, and I
Speaker 1: want to announce to you tonight into the into the
Speaker 1: crew here that I'm retiring from the Daily Show. Okay,
Speaker 1: and uh, I like Tom Brady, I'll be paying attention
Speaker 1: to what you are saying about me once I'm gone.
Speaker 1: But I am retiring. Okay, this is my last performance
Speaker 1: on the Daily Show, and uh, thank you, and feel
Speaker 1: free to share with others how you feel about me.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, thanks a lot, So thank you everybody,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thanks, thanks Trevor. I'm retiring. So this
Speaker 1: is it. I'm gone now, I'm retiring from the show.
Speaker 1: Not listening, but I am paying attention to what you're saying.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on from the greatest quarterback of
Speaker 1: all time to the greatest disease of all time. Covid en,
Speaker 1: the virus that goes away then comes back more times
Speaker 1: than an evil twin on a soap opera. More than
Speaker 1: two years into the pandemic, several countries in Asia and
Speaker 1: Europe are now facing record infection rates, and things have
Speaker 1: gotten especially bad in China, where the government has just
Speaker 1: imposed lockdowns on fifty one million people. And for those
Speaker 1: watching from the United States, this is a real lockdown,
Speaker 1: all right, where you can't leave your house, not an
Speaker 1: American lockdown where everything is open, but there are stickers
Speaker 1: on the floor that everyone ignores. And in most countries,
Speaker 1: in most countries, including the US, things are going in
Speaker 1: the other direction. In fact, restrictions are being lifted so quickly,
Speaker 1: things are getting a little confusing, you know. Like, for example, Okay,
Speaker 1: right here in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has
Speaker 1: lifted the rule that you have to be vaccinated to
Speaker 1: attend indoor events. Okay, that's gone, but there is still
Speaker 1: a rule that you have to be vaccinated to go
Speaker 1: to your workplace. So if someone's job is at an
Speaker 1: indoor event, they can't go to work, but they can
Speaker 1: show up to work to watch their colleagues do their thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what happened this weekend. A big matchup
Speaker 1: at Barclay Center with the Nets taking on the Knicks.
Speaker 1: But Kyrie Irving, who's ineligible to play in the city
Speaker 1: for failing to comply with the vaccine mandate for city workers,
Speaker 1: he might have stolen the show. He attended the game
Speaker 1: as a fan and watched his Nets win from the sidelines.
Speaker 1: He paid for a ticket, just like a regular person. Yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: I don't care, like how COVID compliant you are, ship
Speaker 1: Like this makes zero sense? Can we agree on that?
Speaker 1: Can we What? So Kyrie can go inside, not wear
Speaker 1: mosk even how get teammate, but he cannot play. I
Speaker 1: don't get it. Why does the ball have a weak
Speaker 1: immune system? What's going on? I mean, it's crazy. Just
Speaker 1: think about it. Just about Kyrie kon play but he
Speaker 1: can sit in the stands right like a fan, And
Speaker 1: then as a fan, what happens if he gets picked
Speaker 1: to take the half court shot to win the car?
Speaker 1: Can you do that? What are those rules? How does
Speaker 1: it work? You know? The funny thing about Kyrie being
Speaker 1: in the stands is that this is the one time
Speaker 1: a fan is screaming at the team that he could
Speaker 1: play better than them, and he actually could. They probably
Speaker 1: looked over like, who's saying that? Ship? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my bad. I actually wonder if Carrie is the only
Speaker 1: person that has happened to Like, are there other people
Speaker 1: who can't work because of vaccine mandates? But then they
Speaker 1: still show up to the office to cheer on their coworkers.
Speaker 1: You're killing it, Steve, You're killing it selling that report. Baby,
Speaker 1: you've got kids, You've got oh ship? Did you just
Speaker 1: click reply? Oh? Oh man, You're so screwed. Boom, Take
Speaker 1: him off? Take him off? All right, let's move on
Speaker 1: to some entertainment news. Awards season is now in full
Speaker 1: swing and every event brings so much to look forward to.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna take home the big prize, Who's gonna win
Speaker 1: the red carpets. Will this finally be the year they
Speaker 1: use an E. D M song for the in memorium? Oh,
Speaker 1: these people die Die Die Die die dot dot dot dot. No,
Speaker 1: now I see why they don't do that now. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's always the question of who's going to give the
Speaker 1: most viral speech at an award show, and today that
Speaker 1: award goes to the director Jane Campion the Critics Choice
Speaker 1: Awards last night, the Netflix film The Power of That Dog,
Speaker 1: getting plenty of momentum, heading into the Oscars and walking
Speaker 1: away with the award for Best Film Director Jane Campion
Speaker 1: taking home the Best Director award. While on stage, he
Speaker 1: made this comment about Serena and Venus Williams that has
Speaker 1: people talking. Give my love out to my fellow fellow
Speaker 1: fellow of the guys the nomination. And you know, Serena
Speaker 1: and Venus, you are such marvels. However, you do not
Speaker 1: play against the guys like I have to. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: are angry about this. I know, well, honestly, I can see.
Speaker 1: I can see both sides. I can see both first
Speaker 1: of all. First of all, Campion was obviously trying to
Speaker 1: make a point about how hard it is for female
Speaker 1: directors to break through in Hollywood, which is true, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, in her defense, name a female director. Uh
Speaker 1: see you see nothing? Yeah, you're like Steven Spielberg. Please
Speaker 1: don't cancel me, Trevor too late. And that's what Jane
Speaker 1: Campion means. It's a big deal when a woman breaks
Speaker 1: through in a category that's always dominated by men. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you if you watch the clip, you can
Speaker 1: see Serena Williams love that moment. She was clapping hard,
Speaker 1: but Venus Venus, Well, she looked like someone just told
Speaker 1: her how well spoken her back hand is. Now. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, on the other hand, I get why
Speaker 1: a lot of people found this cringing. I totally understand
Speaker 1: it because it felt like a white woman on top
Speaker 1: of her game was telling two black women on top
Speaker 1: of their game that her game is harder than theirs,
Speaker 1: which can sound rude any time, but especially in an
Speaker 1: award speech where traditionally the only person you're supposed to
Speaker 1: offend is your spouse. When you forget to thank them.
Speaker 1: And also, if I was camping, I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: be challenging the Williams sisters to anything because they are competitors.
Speaker 1: Knowing them, they're gonna start learning to direct movies and
Speaker 1: then going to win next year's Oscars in straight sets.
Speaker 1: And because of the backlash. Because of the backlash, Jane
Speaker 1: camp be An apologized today because obviously she felt bad, right,
Speaker 1: She wasn't trying to hurt anybody. If I'm honest, I
Speaker 1: don't think she meant anything nefarious. She was trying to
Speaker 1: tell a joke. It landed weird. You know, you almost
Speaker 1: wish that someone could have intercepted her right before she
Speaker 1: said that line. You know, where is Kanye when you
Speaker 1: actually need him? Actually, don't answer that. Don't answer that.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines, But don't go
Speaker 1: away because when we come back, we're gonna bring you
Speaker 1: all the latest from the war in Ukraine and spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: it's still bad. So don't I guess I'm on retiring
Speaker 1: so oh, because I want to. I love to have
Speaker 1: my job back. What you retired though, right, But I'd
Speaker 1: like to unretire because I was retiring to hear what
Speaker 1: you had to say about me, and you didn't. It
Speaker 1: seemed like you just kind of skipped right past that.
Speaker 1: So I'd love it if I could have my job back. Please.
Speaker 1: Oh damn, my Roy took your job. Roy Roy took
Speaker 1: my job. But Roy already has a job. And then
Speaker 1: he was like he could use another one. He's got
Speaker 1: another job. Yeah, it was like a whole because you
Speaker 1: were gone, and then like I retired, But then I
Speaker 1: went like that because I just wanted to do what
Speaker 1: I thought you'd like a thing in your eye and
Speaker 1: I was like, that's why you were retiring your eyesights going, Trevor.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to hear you say some nice stuff
Speaker 1: about me. But then but it never happened, so that
Speaker 1: and then just un retiring. I'm sorry, I'll say it now, man,
Speaker 1: My bad. I didn't know nice things about Michael Costa.
Speaker 1: What I love about Michael Costa is that even though
Speaker 1: he's left the show, he doesn't begrudge anybody at the show,
Speaker 1: and he leaves his his security clearance behind, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't make a scene of it, and he doesn't make
Speaker 1: anybody feel bad. I do. I do appreciate all, but
Speaker 1: I really do need the job. That was just kind
Speaker 1: of a comedic. Oh shit, okay that I work here,
Speaker 1: Roy's fourth job. But maybe let's let's you know, let's
Speaker 1: let's talk. Let's talk about it. And then um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was well, let's chat to Roy. We'll figure something out.
Speaker 1: We'll got something out, and even if we don't, I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll never forget you. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: It is now day nineteen of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
Speaker 1: a war that has quickly turned Ukraine into a giant
Speaker 1: battlefield and Russia into a giant North Korea. So let's
Speaker 1: catch up on the latest developments in our ongoing coverage
Speaker 1: of the war in Ukraine. Thanks to a fierce Ukrainian resistance,
Speaker 1: Russia has been frustrated by its inability to capture any
Speaker 1: major cities so far, which is why more and more
Speaker 1: they've decided to just bomb those cities from the sky,
Speaker 1: apartment complexes, hospitals. Basically, the less threatening the building, the
Speaker 1: more Russia wants to vomit, and that has led to
Speaker 1: a fierce debate in the West over how to respond.
Speaker 1: Should NATO send Ukraine fighter jets, should NATO enforce a
Speaker 1: no fly zone over Ukraine. So far, the answers to
Speaker 1: both of those have been no over fears that doing
Speaker 1: either would spark a direct conflict between NATO and Russia.
Speaker 1: But over the weekend it was Russia edging everyone closer
Speaker 1: to direct conflict. A war that many fear could spill
Speaker 1: into other countries has taken a dangerous turn, with Russia
Speaker 1: firing on a Ukrainian military base close to the Polish
Speaker 1: border and the NATO alliance. The sky turned red, witnesses
Speaker 1: say when roughly thirty Russian missiles struck the Yahari training
Speaker 1: base in western Ukraine, leaving this smoldering crater, thirty five
Speaker 1: people dead, and an escalation of the war. Now only
Speaker 1: a you miles from Poland's a key NATO ally the
Speaker 1: base was routinely used by US and NATO trainers over
Speaker 1: the years. The attack came a day after Moscow warned
Speaker 1: it would try to destroy foreign shipments of weapons to Ukraine,
Speaker 1: calling them quote legitimate targets. Yeah, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: For the first time, Russia bombed a military base very
Speaker 1: close to Poland's border, just fifteen miles away, which definitely
Speaker 1: seems like a warning. I mean, fifteen miles is basically nothing.
Speaker 1: According to my friend who can't stop telling me that
Speaker 1: he's training for a marathon, I get it, you run far.
Speaker 1: In fact, fifteen miles is basically as close you can
Speaker 1: get to bombing Poland without actually hitting it, which means
Speaker 1: this missile strike was basically Russia going, oh, I wish
Speaker 1: a NATO would. And on top of that, Russia is
Speaker 1: also warning that it's not gonna just let the West
Speaker 1: keep sending weapons into Ukraine. It's going to start attacking
Speaker 1: those shipments, which is scary, but I mean, of course
Speaker 1: they want to stop those shipments from coming in. You know,
Speaker 1: Nature is sending Ukraine it's most sophisticated weapons. Meanwhile, Russia
Speaker 1: is fighting with the equivalent of a flip phone. So
Speaker 1: if you're a ups guy who gets a package that
Speaker 1: looks like this, you might want to watch yourself. Now.
Speaker 1: Both of these developments are concerning because, like I said,
Speaker 1: nobody wants World War three. We don't want to start
Speaker 1: for any reason. I mean, America hasn't even defeated all
Speaker 1: the Nazis from the Lost World War. And like my
Speaker 1: mom always says, you can't have more until you finish
Speaker 1: what's on your plates. But while everyone is trying to
Speaker 1: keep the war from spilling into the rest of Europe.
Speaker 1: As it turns out it might already be spilling into China.
Speaker 1: We're learning this morning that Russia has asked China for
Speaker 1: military support and other aid for this invasion that is
Speaker 1: really concerning further west and could be a real blow
Speaker 1: to these Ukrainian forces if indeed this happens. U S
Speaker 1: officials tell us it's true, and the White House National
Speaker 1: Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is traveling to Rome today to
Speaker 1: meet with Chinese officials, and he said is he will
Speaker 1: warn them not to help Vladimir Putin. We are communicating
Speaker 1: directly privately to Beijing. We will not allow that to
Speaker 1: go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to
Speaker 1: Russia from these economic sanctions from any country anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world. Okay, look, I can see why America doesn't
Speaker 1: want Russia seaming up with China. You know that would
Speaker 1: be an unstoppable power couple benefit, but with nukes. But
Speaker 1: getting tough on Russia is one thing. How does America
Speaker 1: plan to turn the screws on China? Hey, you better
Speaker 1: do what we say or we won't let you sell
Speaker 1: us literally everything we need to survive anymore, because we
Speaker 1: haven't made anything ourselves in thirty years. Ship I've been
Speaker 1: America with sacrifice three or four states just to keep
Speaker 1: getting new iPhones. And whether China decides to help Russia
Speaker 1: or not, you've got to admit this is embarrassing for Russia.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. They're not even what three
Speaker 1: weeks into this war, and they're already like, China, can
Speaker 1: you help us? We read out of washed stuff. It's
Speaker 1: like when you were a kid at the arcade, you
Speaker 1: used up all your tokens trying to beat the first
Speaker 1: level of a video game. Then you just got to
Speaker 1: walk around begging other people for their tokens, and then
Speaker 1: when that fails, She's been the rest of the party
Speaker 1: finger banging all the machines hoping someone left the token behind.
Speaker 1: You remember those days. But as Poutin looks for the
Speaker 1: help on the battlefield, the fallout is also continuing to
Speaker 1: mount inside his own borders. Seemingly every day, Russia becomes
Speaker 1: more and more isolated from the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: They can't fly anywhere, they can't order anything off of Amazon,
Speaker 1: they can't even use Airbnb, which means now they have
Speaker 1: to film themselves going to the bathroom, and every day
Speaker 1: the Russian people become more cut off from the truth
Speaker 1: about the war. All the independent media has been shut down,
Speaker 1: so the only thing that they have now is state TV.
Speaker 1: Although today an anti war message managed to slip on
Speaker 1: the air. Provocative and courageous move from an anti war
Speaker 1: protester and Russia. Watch her bold and brave act during
Speaker 1: a prime time broadcast on Russian state TV this evening
Speaker 1: sign reads and Russian quote no war, stop the war.
Speaker 1: Do not believe propaganda. They tell you lies here unquote
Speaker 1: the last line of the sign right quote Russians against
Speaker 1: war unquote. The program appeared to quickly cut away the
Speaker 1: video at this hour. It's unclear what happened to this
Speaker 1: woman after her onset protest. Russia, of course, does not
Speaker 1: allow freedom of speech. Wow, that is either an incredibly
Speaker 1: brave protester or a very horrible Q card person. No
Speaker 1: for real, though, for real, that was actually an employee
Speaker 1: at that state TV channel, which is brave. It's one
Speaker 1: of the bravest things I've ever seen. Although knowing Russia's
Speaker 1: propaganda machine is probably gonna find a way to like
Speaker 1: twist this whole thing yeah, they'll be like, you show
Speaker 1: the sign no war, there's no war. Everything is normal, good,
Speaker 1: but this protest aside, it's almost impossible for Russians to
Speaker 1: get information from the outside world out even on the Internet.
Speaker 1: There's no Facebook, there's no Twitter in Russia, and now
Speaker 1: there's no catch photos. Instagram has gone dark in Russia.
Speaker 1: The country shut down the social media platform at midnight.
Speaker 1: Russian regulators gave people forty eight hours to save all
Speaker 1: their photos and videos before the service ended. So there's
Speaker 1: all these influencers in Russia with like twenty three millions
Speaker 1: something followers that are like sobbing and very upset that
Speaker 1: they're losing all their followers. Reality TV star Olga Bozabad
Speaker 1: posted this video of her crying and saying, it feels
Speaker 1: like a big part of my heart and my life
Speaker 1: is being taken away from me. Yeah. If you thought
Speaker 1: being a Ukrainian refugee was bad, imagine being forced to
Speaker 1: pick up your whole life on Instagram and move it
Speaker 1: over to cameo. That's tragic, I mean for real, though,
Speaker 1: Instagram shutting down in Russia does really affect people's lives
Speaker 1: because Instagram is used in a lot of ways you know. Yes,
Speaker 1: it makes influences money, yes, but it also gives small
Speaker 1: businesses the opportunity to promote themselves. Lets people share important
Speaker 1: life updates with each other, you know it. Lets creepy
Speaker 1: dudes tell women who are clearly porn parts that the
Speaker 1: ass is flames. It does a lot of things. But
Speaker 1: luckily for Russians going through Instagram withdrawal, Putain has come
Speaker 1: through again with a new app that I think it's
Speaker 1: even better. Comrades, or you said that Mother Russia has
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Speaker 1: so you can see what you look like if you
Speaker 1: had reason to smile. And with close comrade mode, your
Speaker 1: private pictures will only be visible through your best friends
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Speaker 1: did not comment enough. Now we put you in jail,
Speaker 1: instable you low. You liked all right? When we come back,
Speaker 1: Evan rachel Would will be joining me on the show
Speaker 1: to have a really important conversation about how we deal
Speaker 1: with sexual abuse. So stay tuned. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. My guest tonight is actor and activist Evan
Speaker 1: rachel Wood. She's here to talk about her new documentary
Speaker 1: about surviving domestic violence entitled Phoenix Rising. Evan rachel Wood,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. Thanks, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: It's good to have you here, especially to talk about
Speaker 1: a topic that I think it's one of the more
Speaker 1: sensitive topics that were discussing in society today, but also
Speaker 1: one of the more pertinent topics that we're discussing in
Speaker 1: society today, and it's in and around the issue of abuse.
Speaker 1: You know, sexual abuse, which, as we learned from the
Speaker 1: Me Too movements, is far more rampant than people would
Speaker 1: have wanted to admit or even some people realized. And
Speaker 1: you've created a documentary here. Let's start with the why
Speaker 1: maybe and not why the documentary. But the timing of
Speaker 1: the documentary. So many people want to let go of
Speaker 1: pain in their life, so many people want to move on.
Speaker 1: It feels like you've done the exact opposite. You've gone
Speaker 1: back into the pain. You've gone back into the story.
Speaker 1: Why and why now? Well it is sixteen years later.
Speaker 1: So I do get a lot of people commenting on
Speaker 1: how I'm able to speak about things and put on
Speaker 1: a brief face and and and how strong I am. Um.
Speaker 1: But it took sixteen years to get here. And and
Speaker 1: the first thing that I did when I got out
Speaker 1: was try to get as far away from it as possible,
Speaker 1: try to forget it ever happened. You're you're you're running,
Speaker 1: You're trying to forget that it ever happened. Um. And
Speaker 1: then of course it catches up with you. And I
Speaker 1: couldn't run from it. It started the trauma started to
Speaker 1: seep into other areas of my life. So I threw
Speaker 1: myself in a therapy, which I highly recommend if you
Speaker 1: have the resources. Unfortunately, in this country, you know, mental health,
Speaker 1: it's not always at the top of the list. Um.
Speaker 1: And and really, I I was planning on taking this
Speaker 1: to my grave. I really was not planning on saying
Speaker 1: anything ever. I was that afraid um and that afraid
Speaker 1: of retaliation. I just did not feel safe and I
Speaker 1: felt very alone. I thought it was the only one.
Speaker 1: You'll hear that a lot from from abuse survivors. When
Speaker 1: I first was asked to testify for the Sexual Assault
Speaker 1: of Virus Bill of Rights in front of Congress about
Speaker 1: my story, I really thought that was going to be it.
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, here, I'm gonna tell my story and
Speaker 1: that's it. I'm gonna be done. And then women started
Speaker 1: popping up and men online that had eerily similar stories,
Speaker 1: but new details that I knew they weren't lying. They
Speaker 1: were very very specific details that I there's there's just
Speaker 1: no way you could know those things unless unless you
Speaker 1: were toe to toe with that person. So so I
Speaker 1: knew it was real, and that's it changed. That's when
Speaker 1: I knew I couldn't stay quiet. You know, when you
Speaker 1: say that person, I guess one of the reasons the
Speaker 1: story is as big as it is not just because
Speaker 1: of what happened, but it's because of who it involves.
Speaker 1: You know, you named Marilyn Manson. In cases of abuse,
Speaker 1: oftentimes we think of it as being black or white,
Speaker 1: good and bad. You know, there are layers to people
Speaker 1: which make it complicated. And you've talked about You've talked
Speaker 1: about his history, You've talked about you know, his history
Speaker 1: with abuse, You've talked about his his history with you know,
Speaker 1: the issues that he deals with mentally, etcetera. I I
Speaker 1: found that particularly interesting because I felt it cloudy is
Speaker 1: a subject that is already quite complicated, and yet because
Speaker 1: of that, it deserves to be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1: Why did you feel it necessary to say, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is the person who abused me, and this person also
Speaker 1: suffered abuse, and this person is also going through things.
Speaker 1: Why do that? Knowing that it would then, you know,
Speaker 1: almost cloud some people's judgment and like who's guilty or
Speaker 1: who's not even even who's accountable sometimes of course, and
Speaker 1: and and that's it can definitely get get complicated in
Speaker 1: that way. Because I do believe in accountability and healing
Speaker 1: and reform, and I think there is a a time
Speaker 1: and a space for that, and I think we need
Speaker 1: to leave more space for accountability otherwise nobody's going to
Speaker 1: be accountable. Um But I just knew we're never going
Speaker 1: to get to the root of this problem. If if,
Speaker 1: if we don't go into the background, um and and
Speaker 1: the root and the cause, because violence in the home
Speaker 1: is the root of so many issues in this country,
Speaker 1: in the world. It bleeds into almost every area of
Speaker 1: society and we don't even realize it. Um and violence
Speaker 1: begets violence, it's it is. It is a cycle. Um
Speaker 1: and uh. There are people that can stop the cycle.
Speaker 1: Um and there are some people, I feel, like Brian,
Speaker 1: that don't want help. And he's had every opportunity, He's
Speaker 1: had so many people try, um and he has he
Speaker 1: has refused it every time. Um and uh once. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much I can say, but there
Speaker 1: you know there there have been allegations and stories that
Speaker 1: have come out on the on the internet that involved miners,
Speaker 1: and you gotta draw the line somewhere, and with children,
Speaker 1: I have to draw the line there. Um and uh.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that he will stop until he has stopped.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the greatest act of love is stopping that
Speaker 1: person from hurting themselves or hurting anybody else. We in
Speaker 1: society often say, we go, well, why didn't you do
Speaker 1: it sooner? Why didn't you come forward sooner? And so
Speaker 1: I would love to know from you how time, how
Speaker 1: you think time affects the mental state, the relationship, and
Speaker 1: the entire world of somebody who's experienced sexual abuse. People
Speaker 1: underestimate the power of that kind of trauma and what
Speaker 1: it does to your body and to your brain. And
Speaker 1: there's so many studies to back this up. And and
Speaker 1: this is what the laws do not reflect is the
Speaker 1: effects of trauma on the brain. And a lot of
Speaker 1: people when they're think they know how they're going to
Speaker 1: respond to a situation like that. But until you're in
Speaker 1: a life threatening situation and you're doing risk assessment, and
Speaker 1: you're in survival mode and you're going to have that fight, flight,
Speaker 1: or freeze response sometimes all three. Um, you're just trying
Speaker 1: to survive that moment and get the least amount of damage,
Speaker 1: you know. And uh, and then once you're out again,
Speaker 1: like I said, you you your your body and your
Speaker 1: brain do back flips to protect you from the pain.
Speaker 1: And and and that's how denial comes into play. That's
Speaker 1: how you know, addiction comes into play bad coping mechanisms
Speaker 1: because you're just trying to bury because to to face it,
Speaker 1: to to face the reality is almost unbearable. I think
Speaker 1: on average, it takes people seven to ten years to
Speaker 1: be able to process, understand, heal, and be able to
Speaker 1: put things in chronological order the laws. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: in California the stage of limitations was one to three
Speaker 1: years when we started advocating for the Phoenix Act. And
Speaker 1: you know, one of three years is nothing to a
Speaker 1: survivor or just something that is experienced, not just one
Speaker 1: incidence of trauma, which is you know, any act of
Speaker 1: trauma is terrible. But you know, imagine seven for four
Speaker 1: years the damage that would do on somebody's psyche and
Speaker 1: self esteem and um, with somebody like him who was
Speaker 1: very calculated in brainwashing in in isolation. Um, it very
Speaker 1: much operates like a cult, and that when you're in it,
Speaker 1: you can't see the force for the through the trees.
Speaker 1: Up is down, down is up. It's it's you two
Speaker 1: against the world, and it is a secret that nobody
Speaker 1: will ever be able to understand. And you feel like
Speaker 1: you're a cart of something you know, uh um, And
Speaker 1: you've gotta you've gotta break free of that illusion. And
Speaker 1: it takes time. It takes time and work and therapy.
Speaker 1: I cannot stress that enough. Um, But you know, again
Speaker 1: I I I have those resources, I have a platform,
Speaker 1: I have privileged So it really breaks my heart to
Speaker 1: think of people that don't have access to the things
Speaker 1: that I've had access to, and how alone they must feel.
Speaker 1: And that really is what what drives me. Well. As
Speaker 1: I said at the beginning of the conversation, it's one
Speaker 1: of the hardest conversations to have, I think, because it
Speaker 1: makes us question a lot of what we've allowed in society,
Speaker 1: who we are, who we were, and who we hope
Speaker 1: to be. And yeah, thank you for joining us on
Speaker 1: the show, and I encourage everybody to watch the documentary
Speaker 1: and hear your side of the story. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: The two part HBO documentary Phoenix Rising is March fifteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen on HBO and can be streamed on HBO Max.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
Speaker 1: back after this. Well that's our show for tonight's but
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