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and let me tell you that nobody in this country has been betrayed more than my ricky rick. - huh? what? [confused clamoring] - rick, i am so sorry. and if you are out there, i want you to know that i love you. you are the only thing that keeps me from doing all this stupid stuff. when i met you, i felt in control of myself for the first time. there has never been anyone who calmed me down more than my little ricky bear. you are my boo. - did he just say that rick is his boo? - the truth is, some of us simply can't be alone. we need a relationship so that we're accountable to someone. i realize now how broken i am without that person who keeps me from destroying myself.

- sh-sharon? - and all i've ever done was take you for granted and wished i wasn't being controlled. - [sobbing] hi, sharon. will you please come home? - rick, i am a giant piece of shit without you. i don't deserve another chance. you have been wronged. you have been betrayed. and the only person who deserves retribution is me. i know you all really want to rally and rage, but... the only thing i have to say is... is that i love rick. [pounding podium] i love rick! i love rick! [together] i love rick. i love rick. i love rick! i love rick! [all chanting] i love rick! i love rick! - i love you, rick! all: i love rick! i love rick!

i love rick! - yeah! all: i love rick! [all clamoring] i love rick! i love rick! i love rick! i love rick! i love rick! - oh, crap. here we go again! all: i love rick! i love rick! i love-- - [sobbing softly] - it's okay, randy. we're back. - i'm sorry i cut your trip short. - [sighs] it's okay, randy. you made it longer than last spring break. - oh. hey, mom. - stanley, what have i told you about playing "warhammer" on the kitchen table? - aw!

- oh, rick! i don't wanna go through all that again. i just wanna stay in south park with you. - well, i guess we'll just have to see what happens. [twangy music] ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from the most trusted journalists at comedy central... it's america's only source for news. this is "the daily show" with your host, jon stewart! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

[cheers and applause] >> jon: hey, everybody! welcome to "the daily show" my name is jon stewart! coming to you on a... what? what the heck? thursday? jon stewart on a thursday? it's like breakfast-for-dinner over here! pancakes at night? we do have a great show for you tonight. i'm gonna be talking about 2024 polling a little later with the polling director of the harvard kennedy school institute of politics. [cheers and applause] i don't believe you! but first, it's been another big week of wall-to-wall, non-stop, penis-to-penis coverage of

donald trump's trial! from the lingering glamour shots, to the trial merch store, to a rudimentary court treasure map, to second-by-second realtime closed-caption transcripting, and a qr code you can scan for more coverage! and, i guess, msnbc's in-room dining menu. why would you need -- the ubiquitous coverage is numbing, fading into televised wallpaper. with insight that only occasionally crackles through, such as: >> he greeted her at his hotel room in satin or silk pajamas. >> jon: which? both are smooth materials! but satin or silk? which? i need to know! >> she said, she had my...

i had my clothes and my shoes off. i removed my bra. we were in missionary position." >> jon: hmm. missionary! no wonder trump has locked up the evangelical voting bloc. unlike those democrats and their devil doggy-style! their devilish -- tell us more! >> not wearing a condom. >> jon: don't tell us any more! but perhaps this hyperfocus by our news media is purposeful to distract americans by keeping visions dancing penises in their heads. all the while, americans are

losing their freedoms at home. >> the biden administration's war on energy is reaching into the american home. >> jon: while we were penising, apparently the biden administration is reaching around, into the american home! >> put a stop to the department of energy's continued crackdown on american-made appliances. >> never in my wildest imagination would i have thought that i would stand here on the house floor to defend my constituents' appliances and gas stoves. >> i was proud to lead the house republican effort to protect our gas stoves. >> jon: they can take our lives, but they can never take our cooktops! apparently this was a bill they passed to stop the biden administration's new energy

regulations. and look, i'm going to be 100% honest with everybody here: i'm on the republicans' side. i [bleep] hate electric stoves. i [bleep] hate them. i can not cook unless i can see how high the flame is, and i'll be damned if i start burning my signature bananas foster because joseph goebbels biden is trying to ban gas stoves -- i'm sorry, i'm being told that's not what's happening. apparently, the department of energy just set new efficiency standards for home appliances, and 97% of gas stoves already meet the new standards, so unless this is where you cook, you're probably fine. and even so, at the end of the day, it's just gas stoves. >> it's not just gas stoves. it's your washer, your dryer, your dishwasher, and much more. >> they started with gas stoves... >> jon: "and i did not speak up, for i was not a gas stove!"

why do i do this scottish accent for that? isn't that a german homily? look, no disrespect to these [bleep] idiots, but i think we can move household appliances down on the threat-to-democracy list, just below aluminum-free deodorant. clearly, this was an overblown reaction. but that doesn't mean that this trial coverage isn't obscuring some true horrors. >> they're dead. the boy scouts are dead. >> the boy scouts, we can pretty much declare, are dead! >> jon: oh, my god! the boy scouts are dead? while we were all fixated on the titillating details of the stormy daniels' testimony, the boy scouts all died? i'm assuming in a terrible s'mores explosion, engineered by one joseph "charles manson" biden! >> the boy scouts of america is changing its name for the first time in history. the organization will be renamed

"scouting america" to emphasize its commitment to inclusion of all youth. >> jon: oh. the boy scouts are alive, they just rebranded as an organization. partly because they started letting girls in five years ago, and partly because they had a giant molestation scandal. i say that so that no one can hear me. a giant molestation scandal. rebranding yourself is a tried-and-true formula for many such organizations. in fact, it's why the catholic church now goes by the name "gary." [laughter and applause] so -- i feel terrible for anyone at home named gary. what is the issue? >> there used to be sacred organizations where the children could really flourish. >> is anything sacred, bob brooks? >> no.

>> jon: nothing is sacred. what did happen to those sacred organizations, "gary?" but as you all were saying? >> what happens to institutions in america, and really all over the world, is patriotic people start these institutions and the left must destroy it. it's a sad day when young boys can't learn how to be strong men. we've wrecked it. actually, they wrecked it. >> jon: okay, i don't want to break character here, but this [bleep], this guy, who is blaming the left for the loss of our institutions where young boys can become strong men, his name is matt schlapp. you may remember him. he's head of the american conservative union. you may remember him as the strong man who was sued by another fella for non-consensually grabbing his

dick in 2022. [audience reacts] yeah. that only got dropped after a reported $480,000 settlement. the point being, when this guy talks about the depravity of our institutions, he knows of what he speaks. [laughter and applause] all this false outrage is starting to make me cynical about america's media ecosystem. is there anything else going on that does merit a defcon 1 freak-out? >> in the end, this is a sad day for america, a moral failing of a magnitude we can't even begin to calculate. >> jon: oh, my god, a moral failing we can't even begin to calculate? perhaps it's a combo failing? an appliance that changed its name to be more inclusive? is mr. coffee now "they/them coffee"? is that -- is that the danger we

now face? >> president biden threatening to withhold more military aid if israeli military carries out an all-out assault on the city of rafah. >> president biden halting a weapons shipment of 3500 bombs to israel. >> we paused one shipment of high payload munitions. >> jon: oh, my god! the biden administration has paused one shipment of 3500 munitions, of the over 300,000 munitions israel has already dropped on gaza, to try and prevent the israelis from attacking the area where all the refugees of this war are currently sheltering. i mean, oh, my god! or to put that another way: >> and now what the biden administration has done is they become the primary protector of hamas. >> he absolutely is siding with the terrorists. >> the only reason they aren't dancing in iran is because they don't believe in dancing. >> joe biden has been the greatest friend to hamas and hezbollah that there is on planet earth.

>> amen! >> damn, he's good. >> jon: yes, nothing says gravitas like, [goofy laughing] "he's a terrorist sympathizer -- high five!" "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- yuk yuk yuk!" you people are [bleep] children. that came out wrong. [applause] i am curious, why would biden do holds that shipment now? >> i have made it clear to bibi and the war cabinet they're not going to get our support if, in fact, they're going into these population centers. >> jon: if they go into the population centers? the whole place is a population center!

they've been in the population center for six months! gaza is all population center! you know what you never hear around gaza? "yeah, i don't live in the populated area. i live in upstate gaza. i live by the lakes!" it is really quiet there." is there no one who can offer a more nuanced analysis of our newly-formulated position on the conflict? preferably in some type of catacomb or echoey tunnel? >> what biden is doing with respect to israel is disgraceful. if any jewish person voted for joe biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. >> jon: [laughs] my apologizes to you, rabbi. thank you so much for taking

time off of your condomless porn star hush money trial to deliver a shame lecture to jews. i will reflect on your moral standing next yom kippur, you can be sure. what about a jew who might vote for him twice -- >> [correspondents chanting "shame"] >> jon: first of all, guys, american jews are americans. we do not have dual loyalties or citizenship, there's nothing to be ashamed of. >> that's not what donald trump says. donald trump says you should be ashamed! >> [correspondents chanting "shame"] >> also, you should've been a doctor. [applause] >> jon: guys, this is making me a little uncomfortable. >> why? donald trump is just saying that there's good jews and there's

bad jews, and we have to start identifying the bad jews. >> jon: i don't like where this is going. >> [correspondents chanting "shame"] >> shanda! >> jon: shanda? >> yeah, i'm jewish, too! >> jon: what? oh, i didn't know that. >> yeah, on my mother's side -- >> [correspondents chanting "shame"] >> jon: get out of here! my god! go! [cheers and applause] as i was saying... >> shame! >> jon: oh, for god's sake. >> shame! shame on you! shame! shame! >> jon: i know. ronny, we already did the israel shame bit. >> no, i was talking about "death to smoochy." i spent ten bucks on that movie! shame on you! >> jon: it is a good movie. >> so are you not ashamed?

>> jon: no, i'm not. listen. here's ten bucks. just go. >> thank you. this makes up for israel. >> jon: thank you. when we come back, john della volpe will be joining us, so don't go away. us, s old spice gentleman's [c super hydration body wash.

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okay. [cheers and applause] that is crazy. >> turn this into a focus group maybe? >> jon: that is a focus group. how do you get to gen z? i have two of them in my house and i don't know what they think about anything. >> they want to be listened to. it is actually quite, quite, quite easy. you can bring a group of young people together, and i ask a couple simple questions. do you feel understood? no. what do people like me, what do you think people like me don't understand about you? and then we learn from those kinds of questions and we conduct very large-scale surveys of a relatively small population. so whereas most polls across the country might have 1,000 americans, maybe a couple thousand americans, we do a couple thousand young people between the ages of 18-29, who are representative of that generation across the country.

so we learn from what we hear, and we try to quantify that through very large-scale, very rigorous surveys a couple times a year. >> jon: and you write in that their passion will save this country. >> i do think so. i do think so. because, as i talked about the severe anxiety and depression that they have, but in many cases, other generations, who feel that way, it is normal to actually flee and to run away. but this generation has decided to use all of the tools, as david hogg, the parkland activist talks about to use all of the tools in their civic toolbox to fix problems and stand up for the vulnerable, whether it is voting, protesting -- >> jon: do you think they are different than past generation? the idea that this generation had challenges in a way that no one else has. i just think that is putting upon them a sense of victimhood that is not necessarily -- and i think can ultimately have them play into that identity, as opposed to saying, yeah, man,

your perspective is this is the worst the world has ever been, but i'm going to tell you something, the world is hard, and it is horrible sometimes, but to treat them as though they have faced some kind of condition that is so anathema to everything that all these other generations have faced doesn't feel real to me. >> i didn't say more than all other generations. >> jon: you said since the greatest generation. >> the difference, though, without seeing america united. the difference between a millennial, in my view, and a gen zer, is a millennial remembers a september 11th and september 12th and 13th. for that period of time when we came together, the red county and blue county and the flag, we came together. >> jon: that was a day. >> right. it was a short period of time. >> jon: [laughs] >> this generation doesn't understand that. and it has been division after division. and it would be easy for them, in my opinion, to not engage in politics, not try to work with other people, to try to address

this. >> jon: but how much of that is a fiction? how much of that is imposed upon them through the algorithm and through the media, that somehow, we were just talking about this, a young woman in the audience, said, how do you remain hopeful? i said, the way i remain hopeful is to separate the world that you read about it and hear about on the news and in the algorithm from the world you experience as a human being every day. and aren't we, by creating these data points of the horror they all live in -- yeah, it sucks to have shooter drills. but we had nuclear war drills, where we hid under desks, and i didn't know that much about the atomic bomb, but i was pretty sure my desk wouldn't help. but do you understand what i'm saying? >> i do. [applause] >> jon: so we create this mythology around these things that is part of that separation. >> but there is nothing -- seeing children slaughtered in schools, we did not see a

nuclear war, is not mythology. >> jon: but we were seeing it in vietnam. >> and we are seeing that. but i am telling you is, listen, there is elements of this i agree, and we collectively should be putting this into context for people. >> jon: yes! >> i agree with that. >> jon: okay. >> i agree with that. but what i'm saying is that we don't have to agree that -- we just have to understand the way that they feel and where they are coming from, and help them help themselves and help us. that is my message. and these issues are real, because we could work a summer job as an intern or cutting grass and afford a one year tuition at public or private university. we could do that in the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s. young people can't do that today. you can work one job and afford a house. these are the rights, not only is this generation losing reproductive health care from the supreme court, but this is a generation who feels like they are losing other rights.

the rights to attend their college without going broke if you work hard. the rights to own a home or piece of property. those are the rights. >> jon: do we really need to talk to the gen z anymore? don't we know enough already? i watch the tiktok. it is everywhere! do they -- do you think social media has hurt them? >> unquestionably, it has hurt them. >> jon: really? >> it has hurt them. >> jon: what would you do to ameliorate this feeling that gen z is having and -- or has it helped them organize and so you wouldn't lose it because it is a double-edged -- >> there is certainly some pros to it. there are folks who feel vulnerable who can find community on that space where they can't find it in their own community, and that is good. they can organize from it. but the degree to which fear is instilled in their lives, i was talking the other day in terms of what people are anxious about, and a lot of the young men i talked to have feeds every morning of car crashes. horrible, horrible car crashes

in their tiktok, instagram feeds, where they are concerned about driving to work. the economic fears -- >> jon: wait, what? >> in terms of the algorithms. >> jon: it just feeds them car crashes? >> car crashes. it feeds car crashes to them. >> jon: how the [bleep] does not even start? >> that is just one -- that is one example. >> jon: can i tell you, all i get is that one girl going "i am two days into college and i'm three lectures behind," and then it's just 1,000 people dancing to that. >> that is you, that is your algorithm. they found you. >> jon: i'm doing it wrong. thank you very much for coming by. harvard's john della volpe. it is -- what is the name of the book? >> "fight." >> jon: gen z. we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

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[cheers and applause] >> jon: hey, everybody! that is our show for thursday night! i'll be back on monday after i am spending the weekend in a hyperbaric chamber. to only have three days off... [laughs] here it is, your "moment of zen." ♪ ♪ >> in may, 2024, house republicans and set out to fight the moor