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[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jordan: welcome to "the daily show!" i'm jordan klepper. we've got so much to talk about tonight. kamala and trump prepare for tomorrow night's debate. we hunt down the person who's sending you all those campaign emails. and dick cheney is once again taking shots at his republican friends. so let's get into our continuing coverage of "indecision 2024!" ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] so we at "the daily show" have been on a little bit of a summer break the past couple of weeks. and when we left off, vice president harris was riding a wave of momentum, with a successful convention and surging in the polls. sure. [cheers and applause]

i don't know if that is a fair accounting but we will take it. since then, i've been out of the loop, just sitting on a sandy beach sipping on some mai tais, and i can only assume kamala remains on a smooth path to victory in november. so perhaps i'll take a comically large sip of this drink i brought back from the beach, for some reason, and see what i missed. [cheers and applause] >> former president donald trump leads vice president kamala harris by a razor thin margin, 48% to 47%, among likely voters. >> jordan: that was a good drink -- but that poll is not good! kamala is down a point? seriously? she's sane, never tried to overthrow the government, not 600 years old with a rap sheet. i mean, what else does kamala have to do? two interviews? come on! be reasonable, people! but okay, here we are, less than two months out from the election and we've basically got a tied

race. the candidates are doing everything they can to ramp up the excitement. kamala is speaking to voters in pennsylvania in spice stores, trump is speaking to voters encased in bullet-proof glass, and j.d. vance is trying to counter accusations that he's weird by swimming in the pool with his shirt on. i'm starting to feel bad for the guy. this time around, trump may hang his vp out of mercy. although, if you ask me, this might be the most relatable thing j.d. vance has ever done. don't worry, j.d., i'm with you, and so are millions of other men with pepperoni nipples. i see you, i see you. while j.d. vance appeals to the self-conscious middle-schooler vote, donald trump has secured the endorsement of rfk jr., tulsi gabbard, and elon musk. three people who will help trump reach voters who are

undecided about what shape the earth is. meanwhile, kamala harris just got an endorsement of her own. >> former republican vice president dick cheney announced that he will not vote for g.o.p. nominee donald trump, but instead will back the democratic candidate, kamala harris. [cheers and applause] >> jordan: wow. wow. see, kamala has something for everyone. whether you're a trans person of color, or a white construction worker in the heartland, or an unrepentant war criminal who needs the blood of iraqi children to power the machine that keeps him alive and out of the flames of hell for one more day, kamala is your candidate. and by the way, apologies to those of you who saw dick cheney's name trending on twitter over the weekend and were like, "oh, my god, this is it!" [laughter] sorry. but all of these endorsements and campaign stops and solo wet t-shirt contests will co head tomorrow night, when kamala and donald face off in a debate that could decide this

election. and i don't need to tell you how high the stakes are, because we all remember how the last debate between trump and joe biden went. >> stop the fight! >> throw the damn towel! ♪ ♪ >> my god! >> jordan: you know, not as bad as i remembered. now, kamala definitely has an advantage compared to biden because of the whole not being riddled by age thing. but she's still preparing diligently. perhaps too diligently? >> sources who are familiar with how vice president harris is preparing for the debate tell me she is diligently getting ready for this by going to a hotel in

pittsburgh, spending hours doing mock debates, including with an aide who is dressing like former president donald trump. >> jordan: i'm sorry, you're having a guy dress like donald trump? is that something the campaign thinks she needs to prepare for? "now, madam vice president, he might come out wearing a tie that's slightly longer than usual. don't freak out. we trained for this." meanwhile, trump is preparing for the debate a little differently. >> all the reporting indicates that he's taking this easy. he's taking this casually. he doesn't have debate prep, so to speak. he has what they call "policy time," just to refresh his memory about what he might say on stage. >> jordan: oh, they're giving him "policy time!" such an important part of childhood development. "you can do it, donald. two more minutes of policy time and then you can watch three "paw patrols."

but it's good to know that trump is getting to the nitty gritty of policy. because you want a president who's up to speed on the nuances of the issues and isn't just pulling stuff out of his ass. >> kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operation. can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, jimmy, i love you so much. go have a good day in school. and your son comes back with a brutal operation. can you can you even imagine this? >> jordan: no. no. no, i can't imagine this, because it's an insane thing you just made up. [cheers and applause] do you really think a kid goes to school one day and comes back with a full sex-change operation? that's ridiculous. americans getting free healthcare? not happening!

[cheers and applause] donald, do you think this is even remotely a possibility? apart from everything else, one time in middle school, i told the nurse i had a stomach ache and she put a band-aid on my stomach. i have a hard time believing they're doing full-scale operations. but you know what? everybody's thinking a lot about school safety, and it's refreshing to see a politician take a step beyond thoughts and prayers and actually do something to protect our children from the biggest threat they face at school... mass sex changes. apparently. but some people would say that donald trump's biggest challenge at the debate tomorrow is that he can't open his mouth without rambling incoherently. but if you ask trump about this, he says, no, no. i ramble very coherently. >> and i look forward to the debate with her. you know, i do the weave. you know what the weave is?

i'll talk about, like, nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together. and it's like -- and friends of mine that are, like, english professors, they say, it's the most brilliant thing i've ever seen. >> jordan: ah, yes, "the weave." i thought your brain was broken but now that you did those hand motion things, i see it's a tactic. i mean, all your english professor friends are impressed. which professor is that? is that professor hogan or dr. rock? i mean, forget english professors, trump's friends are barely english speakers. for more on the candidates' debate preparation, let's go live to philadelphia with grace kuhlenschmidt. grace! [cheers and applause] grace. i'm curios, grace, is kamala harris prepared to handle donald trump at tomorrow's

debate? >> it's tough. remember, donald trump grew up in queens, so he's a street fighter. like ken and ryu. remember that? the fireball? hadoken! that reminds me, my first sex dream was about blanka from "street fighter 2." we were on a disney cruise ship for some reason. one thing people don't know, they have jails on cruise ships because they have to put you somewhere if you rob someone. but the jails are too small to hold more than two people at a time. so you just have criminals roaming the halls of our cruise ships, just like our democrat cities under nancy pelosi. back to you, jordan. >> jordan: whoa, whoa, whoa, grace, what the hell are you even talking about? >> oh, my god, jordan! i'm doing the weave! see? it's a master level talking mechanism, and it's why you just lost this debate! >> jordan: this is not a debate. i asked you for information and you responded with incoherent rambling. >> boy, you sound just like my high school teachers. but thanks to donald trump, we now know that we can rebrand our

character flaws into something more flattering. i'm not bad with money. i'm fiscally promiscuous! sexy, right? i didn't wet the bed. i'm a sheet durability analyst! [laughs] sexy, right? and i definitely did not fall into a pothole this morning because i was watching tiktoks about japanese toilets. i'm the key plaintiff in a class action lawsuit. cha-ching! >> jordan: look, i get that rebranding your flaws makes them sound fancier, but everyone still knows you're a fiscally irresponsible bed-wetter. >> but america has been rebranding since the beginning. christopher columbus thought he was landing in india, but when he found out he wasn't, he rebranded it to "america." and tomorrow, kamala harris will need to rebrand the biden administration. she'll need to convince us democrats won't wet the bed anymore, but will fill the potholes of america.

the america we dream about while we're having sex with blanka on that cruise ship. and that's how she'll win the debate. >> jordan: wait, grace, did you just weave everything back into the topic? >> sexy, right? >> jordan: grace kuhlenschmidt, everyone. [cheers and applause] when we come back, we meet the most important person in this election, so stick around. [cheers and applause]

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yes, every day. the chipotle way is: we make it fresh every day. sounds delicious. [cheers and applause] >> jordan: welcome back to "the daily show." i think i speak for all of us when i say that my favorite part of election season is all the emails i get from candidates asking for money. but do you ever wonder who's really writing all those great emails? well, we at "the daily show" found out. >> you are justin, have you seen the latest polls? we need you to send $5 now to defend democracy! and sand! nailed it! yes! who am i? i go by many names. kamala harris, robert de niro, parentheses kamala harris.com and parentheses, mark kelly, but

my real name? susan mcintyre, and irate fund-raising emails for political campaigns. ♪ ♪ [typing] i never thought this is what i would be doing for a living but all my life, people have told me, you have the personality for this. is there anything i can do to convince you i need these blouses before midnight? i am depending on you to act n now. i am pleading with you to pick me up so we can get to work together! this could be historic! i need your help! >> shut up! >> i wasn't scouted at a young age after i sent a letter to new kids on the block sank on all of them marrying me. [laughs] how silly. only one of them did. with the letter caught the attention of a gubernatorial campaign and launched my political career. what i do is a highly specialized skill.

♪ ♪ obviously, during a presidential election year, i am crazy busy. ♪ ♪ i usually right between the 46 emails a week. >> 4-600? >> million. million, yeah. i burn through a lot of keyboards. funny story. i have no feeling in my fingertips anymore. check this out. nothing. defend democracy. the hours are crazy. can i count on you before midnight? can i? okay. first emails go out at 5:00 a.m., the last batch goes out 5 minutes before midnight. sometimes, this job gets in the way of my personal relationships. hey, sorry, kiddo, working late again. hey, brush your teeth or they will crumble like our senate

majority if we don't raise $10,000 before the sec filing deadline. love you -- battery died. but when i'm home, i leave work at the door. it's over! >> what? >> if we don't rush to get these dishes done, we'll miss the beginning of "blue bloods." >> jesus, you don't have to be so dramatic. >> fine! i will just get my tubes tied! >> i don't talk to her anymore. i once lent her $5 for lunch and she has called me every day for three years. i can't escape her. >> the work is the work and i am the work. the work is me. i am to work. but more importantly, i am making a difference. send, send, send. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jordan: when we come back, yuval noah harari will be

joining me on the show. so don't go away. [cheers and applause] excuse me. can i get this? (speaking in thai) ♪ "new world v5r3" ♪ by mathew hollingsworth (speaking in thai) ♪♪ try me. ♪♪ ooooohh! ♪♪

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you are a popular writer. your books have sold over 45 million copies. [cheers and applause] >> whoa. >> jordan: "the atlantic" referred to some of your writing style as "since the dawn of time" style books. you go all the way back and you bring us into the future. these are big, important tomes. simultaneously, i heard you meditate for two hours every single day? >> yes. >> jordan: how the [bleep] do you make all this happen? >> i don't have kids. >> jordan: [laughs] you don't have kids. [cheers and applause] what have i done? why don't you write a pamphlet that says just that? [laughs] you want to get shit done, don't have kids. >> some people manage to do both, you know? >> jordan: but you have time to dive into this. >> yeah. >> jordan: i'm curious, this

book is about information, and you reject the notion that more information is a good thing. that it leads to truth and wisdom. is this you being jaded by the trump administration and the time we are in or does this thought process go back? >> it is basically like thinking that more food is always good for you. there is a limit to how much food the body needs and in a similar way, there is a limit to how much food for the thought, food for the mind the mind needs, which is information. and the same way that most, there is so much junk food out there, there is also so much junk information out there. and we basically need to go on an information diet. >> jordan: yes. [cheers and applause] but i need my sweet, sweet twitter snacks, yuval, i need it. i need it. >> it is exactly that. the same way that over the last few generations, they learned,

the industries learned how to produce artificial food, which is pumped full of fat and sugar and salt and is addictive and not good for us, they have also learned how to manufacture this artificial information, which is pumped full of greed and hate and fear and is addictive to our mind and isn't good for it. >> jordan: now i totally agree and i feel stuffed on all of it. but everything, everything is pulling us to maximalize, right? the idea, the fact, if we had a new cycle that could end on friday and we pick it up on monday would be fantastic. but it doesn't seem like the algorithms, it doesn't seem like the financial benefits are pushing us in that direction at all. where do you see a path like that going? >> if you keep kind of increasing the pace all the time, we can't handle it. so the algorithms can, so they take over, but it is not good news for humanity. we need to slow down, basically.

and we are facing now these nonorganic entities, which work and think in a completely different way from us. and the question is, who is going to adapt to whom? >> jordan: you are pointing at ai. now is ai, do you see it as an existential threat? i have seen some of these shrimp jesuses, and i don't like it. these weird images that pop up online, but i don't necessarily connect that with the end of conversation. >> hmm. i think the most important thing to understand about ai is that ai is not a tool. it is an agent. it is the first technology in history that can make decisions and invent new ideas by itself. even something as powerful as the atom bomb could not decide anything by itself. all the decisions were made by humans. now we have created something which potentially can take power

away from us. at present, it starts with very small things. like, for instance, there was an experiment, when openai developed gpt-4 two years ago. they wanted to test what can this thing do. so they gave it a task to solve captcha puzzles. the captcha puzzles, like when you go online and you want to access your bank or whatever and they have this riddle that you have to solve, an image that you have to say, what are the twisted words and the letters to make sure that you are not a robot. >> jordan: i have taken the test. it's tough. is that a street light, is that a bicycle wheel? i don't know! let me do it again. refresh. >> and it is really difficult for gpt-4. gpt-4 could not solve the captcha. but what gpt-4 did, it accessed taskrabbit, which is an online site where you can hire humans to do different things for you and it asked a human to solve the captcha for it. now the human got suspicious. the human asked, why do you need

somebody to solve captcha for you? are you a robot? it asked directly, are you a robot? and gpt-4 answered, no. i am not a robot. i have a vision impairment which is why i can't solve the captcha so i need your help. [laughter] >> jordan: so the truly evolved human is not someone who is smarter, it is just somebody who gets someone else to do the work for them. smart. scary. >> yeah, very scary. >> jordan: you actually -- you signed a book for me backstage, and one of the comments you made within it was to not lose hope. help me. help me do that. where do you see those little glimmers of hope? when you look at this uncertain and perhaps scary future that we are walking into? >> you know, i think that ai is nowhere near its full potential. but humans also, we are nowhere near our full potential.

if we -- if for every dollar and every minute that we invest in developing artificial exploring and developing our own minds, we will be okay. but if we put all of our bets on the technology on the ais and neglects to develop ourselves, this is very bad news for humanity. >> jordan: all right. so i'm going to get that gym membership and i will cut out the sweets. "nexus" is available now. yuval noah harari. we will take a quick break. we'll be right back after this. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ popeyes wings... are the official wing of watching football. win the wing game every week with seven signature flavors!

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