hey, guys! guess who's back? aah! aah! [screaming] ohh, god! >> trevor: this was crazy news today. did you see some amateur decipher discovered a like, 900-year-old sword. have you guys seen this? 900-year-old sword just, like, found at the bottom of the ocean. it was bottom-bottom. he was just an amateur diver, i guess. and people are like, this is like an ancient crusade sword, and there were two things i was thinking-- one, it's amazing that getting rid of murder weapons hasn't changed in 900 years. even back then, they were like "throw it in the ocean." it's wild. someone will get a knock on their door, "are you mr. christiansen?" "yeah." also, the other thing i was thinking, to the person who found the sword, congratulations. and also, what are you doing!

have you never watched movies? you don't bring back shit from the bottom of the ocean that's a sword. one of two things will happen, either you're going to be leading people now, or more likely, there's a curse. a curse is going to happen to all of us in humanity. you went and fetched the sword. you couldn't leave the sword where it was. this is white people. this is what this is. white people. they'll be like, i saw it at the bottom of the ocean ocean. i saw it. why didn't you bring it. >> announcer: coming to you from the heart of times square, most important place on earth, it's "daily show." tonight: this is "daily show," with trevor noah. >> trevor: hey, what's going on, everybody? welcome to "the daily show." i'm trevor noah, and joining me for today's headlines is our very own desi lydic! what's going on, desi? >> oh, my god, trevor.

i am so glad that you called me in, because i cannot work from home anymore. >> trevor: right? it's like such a cool feeling to be-- i know we're not fully back, but this is like a nice feeling. >> it feels so good. i'm telling you, my neighbor's a nightmare. >> trevor: trust me, i know what that feels like. >> no one knows my neighbor. my neighbor is insane. >> trevor: i know like a neighbor-- >> you don't know my neighbor. she pops by all the time unexpectedly. she tries to make small talk in the elevator. i hate talking to people. >> trevor: i feel you-- >> not you, not you. i love talking to you. >> trevor: it's good to have you. nice to see you, desi. we're back. let's kick things off with the topic on everyone's mind: vaccine booster shots. they're like a butt-lift for your immune system. and one thing people are wondering about is whether they should mix and match their shots, because maybe vaccines are like super-heroes. sure, iron man iron man can save your life, but if you follow him up with captain america, now you

have the avengers. and where it really gets complicated is with the johnson & johnson shot, which is basically hawkeye: better than nothing, but, come on. so researchers studied which booster would help people most if they got j&j first, and the results were pretty dramatic. >> now the new research indicates moderna's booster shot was most effective for people who originally got the j&j shot. it increased antibodies 76-fold. the pfizer booster created 35 times the antibody, and sticking with j&j, it quadrupled the antibodies. >> trevor: oof, that is embarrassing for johnson & johnson. having another vaccine come in and do way better than you on you? that's like being upstaged by your son's new step-dad: "don't worry. i'll teach him how to drive, since i, you know, have a car." clearly, someone at the company has to be held accountable for

this. personally, i blame johnson. then again, maybe it was johnson i should blame? no, no, definitely johnson. but i hope j&j doesn't get too down on itself, because they fit an important role here. they're the vaccine that the other vaccines hang around to feel better. plus, i'm glad that this is happening, because i love that you can mix vaccines! like, am i the only one who gets excited about this? it's like the adult version of when you mix all the soda fountain flavors together-- pfizer, moderna, johnson & johnson-- the trinidadian one that gives you a monster nutsack. let's do this! >> feel like j&j should really stick to what they know, right, like baby shampoo, cotton swabs, and band-aids for white people. wouldn't be that better. >> trevor: it would be. >> they do that really well. i am also very excited about the mix-and-matching things. it's like being a vaccine swinger. like, i had moderna, but i'm kind of pfizer curious. >> trevor: i like that. >> right? and the f.d.a. has totally given

us the green light. >> trevor: it's very forward thinking. >> why not just see what else is out there? >> trevor: yeah, yeah, like maybe starting off with this and going with this helps you appreciate the other one more. >> moderna has been in the top two times, right? it's not a commitment. if they want aid commitment, they would have given me a lifetime of antibodies. speaking of insane swinger life-- my neighbor makes the loudest sex sounds. it's like sex all day long. it's crazy. you should hear the noises she makes? do you want to hear it. i recorded it. >> trevor: i don't know if you can play is? >> yes, i can play it. >> trevor: i mean legally. >> it's not that long. it's seven, eight minutes. >> trevor: you recorded your neighbor? how? >> what are you the cops? i'll just listen to it on my headphones. go ahead >> trevor: let's move on to our next story about hooters. it's the restaurant that makes its waitresses wear skimpy clothing so you, i dunno, can

have a boner while you eat? it never made sense to me. can anyone explain that concept. maybe as a non-american i don't understand that. is the point you want to be hard when you eat your food? is that what they're going for? but a couple of weeks ago, hooters announced that from now on, their waitresses had to wear even shorter shorts. which is not exactly surprising. i mean, we're talking about america's number-one me-too-themed restaurant. but what is surprising is that yesterday, hooters reversed their decision after a bunch of their waitresses went on tiktok and told the company to kiss their exposed ass. >> severalhooters employees posted videos criticizing the new shorts. >> the new black shorts, away from my black t-shirt. they do not have a bottom. they have a crotch string. with the new type i can't even hide the front of my legs. and oh, look, a wedgy! >> trevor: okay, that's just wrong. and forget, like, wrong for women and wrong for society. it's just wrong on a food-safety level. like, you don't want the person serving your wings to be picking their pants out of their ass all

the day. but, yeah, the waitresses have shut this shit down fast. i'm not surprised, though. half their job is turning down creepy men's requests. and hooters needs to listen to their servers, because without them, hooters is nothing. i mean, what do you have without all those women? dry chicken wings and an owl with an eye infection. >> i used to think men who went to hooters were creepy but then the internet came out and you can watch an orgy in 4k, on your phone. or you can shoot one. do you want to see my neighbor's. >> trevor: who is creeper, the people who go to hooters or the ones who watch it from home? >> that feels judgey. >> trevor: i feel in the workplace we shouldn't talk about this. >> you're right. i would get on board with less butt coverage if they would

compensate by giving more health coverage. that seems fair. >> trevor: that's deep. >> that's a good tradeoff. >> trevor: that would be a crazy world to live in, if how skimpy people remember dressed is how much health coverage they had. it would be like, nuns have no health coverage. >> it's all up to the lord. >> trevor: it's balanced. >> they were going to stage a walkout, but it was too cold outside with those uniforms so they went to tiktok. can which can actually be a super powerful tool. it's how i got my neighbor to stop explaining about me to the h.o.a. board. >> trevor: you used tiktok against your neighbor? >> yes, i used tiktok to get my neighbor to stop complaining about me against the board. it's not cool. i'm just living life. >> trevor: huh. it's weird, when you sat down and said your neighbor is a problem, i... i don't know why i assumed that your neighbor was the problem. >> yes, she's the problem.

because she complains about me. often. you know her? has she been talking to you? >> trevor: finally, let's talk about kanye west. today, the iconic rapper, fashion designer, and self-appointed youth pastor made a big announcement: he is kanye no more. from now on his full legal name is simply ye. and i'll be honest, i get why he changed it. if i went super maga like he did last year, i would also want to distance myself from myself. trevor? federal reserve who? plus there's a benefit to having a name that's only two letters long. like, have you ever tried to input your name an apple remote? it's why i never signed up for paramount+. ( sirens ) i'm kidding! i'm kidding!

i signed up! but, apparently, that's not why kanye changed his name. >> the 44-year-old has no legal middle or last name now. he said he was making the switch for personal reasons. he believes ye is the most commonly used word in the bible. >> trevor: okay, first off, i think it's safe to assume that anything kanye does is for "personal reasons." i mean, this man has never uttered the sentence, "let's go with what's easiest for everyone." i don't think he's that kind of guy. but, also, what does he mean that he believes ye is the most commonly used word in the bible? i know that the bible is open to many different interpretations. some people say jesus died for our sins and others say it was for our shins. but this particular thing is not a belief. it's something you can count, and "ye" is not remotely the most common word in the bible. i will say this, manual, i joke about kanye all the time but this is one instance i am on his side. changing hills name might be the

least weird thing he's ever done. think about it. why should someone else get to choose the thing you're called. your parents are like, "that's your name." "that's not my name. i'm not a timothy." imagine if you had to live with what your parents forced on you. i would be eating vegetables. i'd eat a dick. >> my neighbor does that. >> trevor: i like having you-- >> thank you, because i might not leave glifs hoping we would make more jokes about the news, and i feel like you're coming here to trash your neighbor. >> no, no, i want to weigh in on this kanye thing-- sorry, ye thing. i think it's not that big a deal. celebrities have been giving themselves nicknames forever. lil nas "x." lady gaga.

channingitate um. no one is called that. >> trevor: i think it is. >> do you know who has been changing their name forever? women. when they get married they take their husband's name. it's a huge pain in the ass. kanye changes his name and gets a headline, and a woman changes her name and spends a day at the d.m.v. i had to put my last in the middle and take my husband's name. it looks likes a cvs receipt. it's a message. hello? no, i'm not moving out. you're moving out. no, you're moving out. you know what? i am tired of having this argument, mom. wait, your mom is your neighbor? >> yeah. >> trevor: you are recording... >> should i hang up? >> trevor: yeah. >> let me wrap it up. i'll wrap it up. i gotta wrap this up.

no, it's-- forget it. forget it! i'll just take it over here. i'll be quiet. no, you're the worst! you're being a dick, mom! >> trevor: but let's move on to our top story: jobs. they're how americans prove they is deserve health care. but right now, america is experiencing a big change in what it means to have a job, and especially what it means when your job treats you like shit. so let's find out what people are doing about it in another installment of "labor pains." we've talked a lot lately about the unprecedented labor issues sweeping across the country right now. with more job openings than ever and more people quitting than ever, workers suddenly find themselves with a lot of leverage, and they're using it to demand things like better pay, more flexible hours, and cancelling the annual company "squid game." and a lot of companies are

giving in to these demands, but not all of them, which is why all around the country right now, you're seeing this happen: >> this week, 10,000 workers at agricultural equipment manufacturer deere and company made their voices heard. it's the first strike for united auto workers union in 35 years, and just the latest in a string of labor actions across the country. more than 24,000 employees at healthcare provider kaiser permanente have voted to authorize a strike. as more than 1,000 workers at cereal maker kellogg began their own strike, with more disputes looming across other industries, some are calling this month "striketober"." >> trevor: that's right, striketober! it's a great month to hit the picket lines. because you're out on the street, it's an easy segue into trick-or-treating. "who got the power? we got the power! ( doorbell ringing ) "who got the twix? you got the twix!" and right now, workers from so many different industries are striking-- although, it's none of the bad industries that you wish would go on strike. like, have you ever noticed how the people who collect student

loans they never go on strike. or telemarketers? come on, you guys deserve better pay! now, going on strike is not a step that workers take lightly. it's a major decision. you risk your jobs. you lose out on pay. you have to protest in front of your workplace, but you can't go in to pee, which means that when people do go on strike, they probably have pretty good reasons for it. >> take an iconic american brand, john deere. they had profits of $4.7 billion in just the first three quarters of this pandemic year. workers say they power that. >> they're demanding better pay, secure pensions, a fair share of a hugely profitable american company. >> the company wants to eliminate pensions all together for new people, and we refuse to sell people down the road like that. >> sounds like it's about sticking together. >> yes, it's about sticking together now and for the people that come after us. >> and about better pay? >> yes, absolutely. the company, their profits have just been through the roof.

>> john deere's profits grew by 61% in recent years and their c.e.o.'s salary grew by 160% during the pandemic. >> we're the ones who make your stuff. we've earned it. give it to us. end of discussion. >> trevor: the man makes a solid point. i mean, the c.e.o. got a 160% pay raise while screwing over his workers? that's a horrible idea, man, especially when your getaway vehicle is a tractor. "you'll never catch me, peasants!" you're still here! once i get into-- this only has one gear. maybe we should talk. honestly, some of these c.e.o.s get so greedy that they become short sight because if they thought about it, they could get away with exploiting their workers for longer if they just exploited them a little less. but if you don't give them anything, it's really easy to

notice the disparity. "wait a minute, are you cutting my pension?" "sorry, there's just not enough gold to go around. i choked on some gold." but workers have different reasons for going on strike. at john deere, they're basically looking for the company to simply share a bigger piece of their giant profits. and not cut their pensions. but over at kellogg's, one of the big complaints of the workers is that in order for you to get you your cereal in the morning, they have to work morning, noon, and night. >> for any time that someone would feel sick, or whatever, they want you to use your vacation days as opposed to having sick days, and again in working excess of 120 days in a row. >> you know, best friend died, "sorry, not my problem. that's yours. we got cereal to make." >> we work seven days a week. we are literally scheduled seven days a week. day off, someone else is working 16 hours. very often, we don't even know that we have to work 16 hours until 10 minutes before it's time to go home.

if you have dogs, if you have kids you have to pick up from school, if you have other obligations, i hope you have somebody to call, because you have to stay. >> trevor: yeah, i'm not gonna lie: when i heard how brutal these hours were, i was shocked. like, what the hell, kellogg's. you shouldn't be working people to the bone for cereal. we can all eat a pancake once in a while. it's fine. we're not going to die. and it's not just inhumane to treat employees this way. it totally goes against the kellogg's brand image of cheerful colorful cartoon mascots. if kellogg's keeps this up, those gameson the back of the box are gonna start getting a lot less cheerful. you guys better w5u67 out. so, not wanting to be worked to death seems like a pretty reasonable demand, but so far, these companies aren't giving in. and what's funny to me is how some of these companies are trying to get by without their workers. like, for instance, john deere

reportedly re-directed their office employees to work on their factory floors, and one of their workers-- get this-- immediately crashed a tractor-- which of course was going to happen! office workers do not have the skill set to work in a factory. you hand them a wrench, and they're like, "do i use this to check my facebook?" and look what happened when one distillery hired a non-union truck driver, who was very passionate about not supporting the truck drivers' strike. >> a semi-truck overturned on wednesday near the heaven hill distillery in nelson county where workers are currently on strike. >> union officials said the replacement driver made an obscene gesture to strikers, causing him to lose control of the vehicle, which then flipped over. >> trevor: oh, you see that? that's karma. and, by the way, if you can't flip someone off while driving, you shouldn't be driving anything. that's a fundamental driving skill: parallel parking, three- point turn, go (bleep) yourself. those are the basics. the worst part is that he flipped over right in front of the other people who were striking.

how do you save face after that? you flip them off. you gotta just play it off like you're joining the strike. your truck flipped and you're like, yeah, i flipped the truck to support you guys. we're striking for medical benefits, right? because i think i screwed up my back." so, where is this all headed? i don't know. but i hope these companies start treating their employees like people, and not just money-making machines. and if they don't do that, then they should at least be honest in their tv commercials. ♪ bring on the tigers, the mighty, mighty, tigers. >> frosted flakes is the only cereal flavored with the tears of the people who made it. they'rrrrre exploited! >> trevor: all right, when we come back, dulce sloan will explain why trees are racist. i know, it blew my mind, too! don't go away.

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dulce, some people choose where they live. isn't green space random? these are all great questions. first of all, my momma. second, the disparity in tree coverage is a grid. it's connected to a racist practice called red lining which began in the 19 thifts. red lining made it almost impossible for black people to get a home alone approved in white neighborhoods which led to residential segregation, and a wealth gap between black and white families bigger than lil nas' baby bump. cities didn't want to waste resources on them and that included trees and parks. in 37 cities around the country, formerly red lined neighbors have fewer trees than a white neighborhood. you might be thinking, so what? poor minority neighborhoods don't have as many trees. what's the worst that could

happen? actually, it makes a big difference in a lot of ways. for one thing, a lack of trees leads to heat, and lots of it. studies have found that almost all of the formerly red lined neighborhoods are hotter than the ones that weren't, some by, like, 13 degrees. now, 13 degrees may not seem like a lot. but that's two totally different lifestyles. at 80 degrees, you're enjoying the pool. at 93 degrees, you are a pool. sparse tree coverage disproportionately affects communities of color and translates into higher rates of respiratory illness, including childhood asthma, hospitalizations, and even death. this is such a crisis, i wouldn't even mind getting more stuff in the hood that used to be trees. i mean, while communities of color are the most impacted by all this, adding more trees and parks would benefit everyone because trees might not look

like big-ass air filters but that's exactly what they are and what they do. think of a park as being full of dyson air purifiers, and green spaces help regulate floodwaters and reduce crime. because it's pretty hard to be in a gang when you have a bunch of parks nearby. how are you going to be tough during the fall? like, "hey, man, i want to pick up that guy, but the leaves are changing. it's so pretty. let's pick apples!" the next time you see a vacant lot or empty lot of land in your city, ask yourself, why isn't there a park there? better yet, ask your local officials. we need more trees in urban spaces, starting with my apartment. i'm going to get one, one way or another. because that dyson, too expensive. >> trevor: thank you so much for that, dulce. all right, when we come back, alex wagner will explain why american democracy is doomed. american democracy is doomed. sounds like fun.

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group. that's matt gaetz, paul gossar, myself, people like that. and then you have a liberal republican like mitch mcconnell. he's almost a democrat. they're biding their time before they're removed from the party. >> survival of the fittest. >> that's right. >> trevor: alex wagner, welcome to the show. >> trevor, always good to be here, my friend. >> trevor: i feel like every time you come here, though, you come with a slightly more ominous message for what america should expect. >> i'm a cassandra-- a harbinger of doom. >> trevor: it really feels like you will. that clip we saw, i'm sure some people are watching that and say, "wait, did that guy say mitch mcconnell is liberal." >> the word "liberal" and "mitch mcconnell" were in the same question. >> trevor: wherever mitch is, his jowls are trembling. you've been on the road now for how long? >> six weeks. >> trevor: six weeks on the road-- >> six weeks in this and we

started-- on january 5, i started my year in atlanta and we know what happened on january 6. >> trevor: i feel like what you've been doing is what many journalists have stopped doing in america, being on the ground, talking to the actual people. what's your assessment, from 10,000 feet, things are good, things are bad, things are okay? >> i'm going to fulfill my role as the cassandra of this television program. it's bad out there, trevor. it's worse than we think it is in so far as the machinery of democracy i think in many ways is grinding to a halt. i think what the republicans are doing at the state level, doing at the gubernatorial level, is incredibly worrisome. >> trevor: what does that even mean? >> well, look, we talk a lot about 2021, and we talk a lot about january 6, and what happened, but in many ways, looking back is what the republican party is doing in order to look forward, which is to say, they see the areas where they didn't succeed in terms of insurrection, in terms of swinging the vote, in serms of

literal usurping american democracy, and they see that as almost a series of tests. and they're trying to figure out how to foolproof the system, if you will, ahead of the 2022 midterms and the 2024 elections. there are voter suppression efforts that you are well aware of but there are also election subversion members to undermine secretaries of state of and their power. the machinery of elections and democracy is very much something republicans have set their sights on. and they are not going to be content to just let the voters have their will. i really feel like we are on the precipice of one of our two parties trying to undermine the will of the people and american democracy. >> trevor: okay, but what about all of the stall waters of the g.o.p., like the ones who are like, "the insti institutioe everything." or is it now trump land? >> yes, it is trump's party. it is not mitch mcconnell's

party, because he's an institutionalist, he's seenaise rino, because he didn't fall in line with donald trump initially, he is seen as a traitor to the cause. at this point, the mendacity has infected the hierarchy of republican power. steve scalesse won't say whether joe biden was the rightful winner the 2020 election, and because they're institutionalists, because they're not seen out there, and they weren't part of the insurrection pumping their fists on the way to the capitol, they're seen as traitors. that is deeply dangerous, but the fact is that is the republican party at this point. that is two-thirds of the republican parties and that is how republicans are going to win elections in 2022. >> trevor: that is true of the republican party, but america still has people who would consider themselves centrists, or we don't favor a particular party, and then you have the democrats. what are the democrats doing about this? surely there's something they have in place. they seem like the kind of people who would plan ahead and they know how to counter this?

>> listen, i think the democrats are really focused on passing president biden's agenda. and they are dealing with crosswinds inside the party. part of the problem with the republican party shrinking and becoming a lection of people who are not tethered to reality, is those who still believe in facts and read main stream news has basically become democrats. in what world is joe manchin really in the same party asasm o.c.? the democratic tent is massive. so whenever ultimate to get democrats to pass something, you have a lot of weather patterns that have kind of converged inside one party -- >> like a big tent. >> yes, you have a big tent. and they're very intent on giving their president a win, and they also are terrified that 2022 is going to kick them out of power. this is their last chance to do something really big and structural for american society and the economy. that's what they're focused on. >> trevor: when you go out there, when you talk to people, what i find particularly interesting is i've always had this ideal of super trump people being extremely manic and like

baaaah! but it seems the people who are running for positions of power in the trump party, they seem pretty lucid. i don't know how to explain this to you. they don't seem qanonnish. but they're like, "we're going to destroy this, but i can tell you the alphabet backwards. i'm in the game, let's go." >> what is disturbing is the degree to which otherwise sentient people who worked in business, who had careers, who are mothers, who are college educated, have fallen down willfully, or unintentionally down a rabbit hole of misinformation, and who now see the world in radically different terms than most people who are still tethered to the universe of facts and reality do. >> trevor: when you talk to them, there is nothing you can say-- >> i talk to the people there tell me that qoched is not a risk, that it is an infringement on civil liberties to require children who cannot get vaccinated to wear masks in school. they say this with empathy, with

seriousness, and with conviction. and when you see the world inside this diametrically oppositional ways, it makes coming together-- let alone convincing someone of your point of view-- impossible. and i have to believe somehow that sort of d.n.a. that connects us all as a species kicks in at some point. and that's the hope is that legislatively we can remind ourselves that it's not just about democracy. it's about humanity, you know. it's not just about winning reelection. it's about the human experience and the suffering and the things that unite us as a country. it sounds so pollyannish, but we are the united states of america, and we're in this marriage. we're not getting divorced, so we've get to figure out a way to get along and see each other as human beings. i think maybe some of those people still can do that. >> trevor: 50% of all marriages end a certain way, so we're hoping that this marriage somehow finds a way that can-- >> i don't know. listen, it could be an open

marriage. we could adopt. >> trevor: maybe, canada, mexico, you guys figure out a thing. alex, i could always talk to you forever. thank you for being here. thank you for being on the road. i genuinely enjoy watching the show because it's fun to see people talking to people about these things, as opposed to having someone report on the idea of who the people are. it doesn't make it any less scary but it is very entertaining. thank you for joining me. >> thank you, trevor. >> trevor: "the circus" airs sundays at 8:00 p.m. on showtime. we're going to t and there you have it- woah. wireless on the most reliable network nationwide. wow. -big deal! ...we get unlimited for just 30 bucks. sweet, i get that too and mine has 5g included. that's cool, but ours save us serious clam-aroonies. relax people, my wireless is crushing it. that's because you all have xfinity mobile with your internet. it's wireless so good, it keeps one upping itself.

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