well, peter, i'm glad you're home, and i'm happy you guys found what you were looking for. yeah, and this trip made me realize that 98% of the world, is just making each other blankets. so, brian, you still an atheist now that dad's met god? stewie, who knows who he met? every time we go to disney world, he thinks mickey mouse just happened to be there that day. i'll tell ya, seeing god in heaven was just like that time i met mickey and donald outside thunder mountain. i mean, what are the odds? but, peter, i still don't understand why you would go to all that trouble to find god and only ask about the patriots. oh, i asked for one more thing. -aah! what's happening? -don't look at her. don't look at her. it's okay. just go with it. it'll all be over in a second. >> 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, desi lydic! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause]

>> desi: welcome to "the daily show!" i'm desi lydic. we've got so much to talk about tonight. the right pretends invading greenland isn't weird as hell. we've got tips for maintaining your insurrection. and you won't believe this, but new yorkers are complaining about something! but first, donald trump is reminding people what his special brand of leadership looks like, so let's get into our continuing coverage of "trump 2.0: coming for the white house"! ♪ ♪ >> i'm gonna come. [cheers and applause] >> desi: let's kick things off with president-elect donald trump. he's not even on america's payroll yet, but he's already causing chaos for free. what a workaholic. as you've probably heard, trump has decided that his first big policy proposal will be buying, or perhaps invading, greenland.

it's the kind of nonsense no one should take seriously. but trump said it, so... i guess we're all doing this. >> it would be exciting if greenland was part of the united states. >> i think that the people of greenland should be honored. >> this, to me, could be donald trump's louisiana purchase. same size as the louisiana purchase in square miles. >> greenland strategically makes sense because it's the -- it's halfway point between our country and the u.k. so it would make sense to have that for war purposes. >> desi: yes, "war purposes"... i'm not exactly sure what that means, but i guess we should annex any place that's halfway between us and somewhere else. this is just sad. i know she's trying to be supportive, but you can tell even ainsley thinks this is a bad idea, and this is a lady excited to marry sean hannity. can you imagine how exhausting it is to treat every one of trump's dumb ideas like it's a work of art?

"oh, sweetheart, what a beautiful drawing! it looks like the louisiana purchase. i'm going to put it on the fridge." but while the pentagon draws up plans for war against puffins, trump is giving us a reminder about what his leadership looks like during times of crisis. because while everyone else is deeply concerned with what's going on in los angeles right now, trump is handling the tragedy like the statesman that he is. >> donald trump is now weighing in on the horrific fires in los angeles county, and he's laying the blame on california's democratic governor. >> in a social media post referring to the governor as "news scum" and writing, "he is the blame for this." [boos] >> desi: yeah, in the midst of chaos, donald trump is taking action by opening up the strategic nickname reserves. thank you, sir. although, quick question for trump, do you mean new-scum or news-come?

>> i'm gonna come. [laughter and cheering] >> desi: got it. even though we can't count on the incoming president, some people are stepping up. and it's always heartening to see everybody coming out to help their neighbors. and i do mean everybody. >> there's an important announcement i wonder if i could just make. here on palisades drive, if anybody has a car, and they leave their car, leave the keys in the car. so a guy like me can move your cars and get 'em up there so that, so that these fire trucks can get up there. it's really, really important. >> thank you for talking to us live, sir, what's your name? >> my name is steve guttenberg. >> desi: holy shit1 steve guttenberg? the actor steve guttenberg, moving abandoned cars out of the way for firefighters? that is amazing!

and not only that, but if anyone abandons a baby, he and two other men will raise it for them! [applause] hijinks will ensue! of course, as great as that is to see, officials are warning that now that the fire has reached steve guttenberg, it is only two degrees from kevin bacon. now if you're wondering why trump isn't focused on helping californians, it's because he's focused on the people who need him most: his insurrectionists. >> trump didn't rule out pardons for those who were charged with committing acts of violence on january 6th, 2021. >> are you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses? >> well, we're looking at it. we'll be looking at the whole thing, but i'll be making major pardons, yes. [boos] >> desi: on the one hand, it's absolutely shameful that trump

would pardon these rioters. but you have to remember, these people are his ride-or-dies. they stormed the capitol and they shat on a desk for him. no one's ever shat on a desk for me, not once! and i took out a craigslist ad! for him, it's all about loyalty. plus, he's going to need a personal army for when he invades greenland. those puffins aren't going to pepper spray themselves. plus, he also wants to give insurrectionists a little treat. they must have been so disappointed when january 6th came around this year and they didn't get the chance to riot. but for anyone out there who overprepared for this year's january 6th, there are still some options for you. ♪ ♪ >> you were ready to storm the capitol, but then donald trump won the election. now what do you deal with all that insurrection gear? no problem! you can just repurpose all of that stuff you were going to

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manhattan, south of 60th street. >> desi: huh, that makes sense. one clap. [laughs] one person here thinks that makes sense. that makes sense. if you charge more to drive in the city, the roads get less congested. who could have a problem with that? >> it's horrible, horrible! >> see, now they're coming down on the hard people that are trying to work and make money. >> i drop my wife off at the apartment on 60th street, and i got to pay $9 extra to do that. >> whoever is putting that bill together needs to see a psychiatrist. [laughter and applause] [cheers and applause] >> desi: see a psychiatrist? this is new york, pal. everyone's already seeing a psychiatrist. look, i get it. new york is already a crazy expensive place to live. the only reason i had kids was so i could split the rent with someone. and i guess for some commuters who don't have other options, this could be a real hardship. but not everyone who's

complaining is quite so sympathetic. >> it really hits home, because i live right here on 61st street in this building and my car is right there, parked in front of my building, and if i want to go to turn around to go uptown to visit my kids, who live on 79th street, i have to pay $9 to go around the block. >> desi: "well, i guess that's settled. i'll never see my kids again." [laughter and applause] buddy, driving is not the only way to get across 20 blocks. you could take the subway or the bus. or have you considered... legs? legs. the ford f-150 of the body. [laughter and cheering]

but some people aren't just complaining, they're taking action. although, not action, like taking mass transit. i mean action, like, crime. >> some motorists are coming up with clever ways to avoid those toll cameras planted strategically around the city. this brazen driver removed his plates altogether. >> desi: wait, how is that clever? he just took off his license plate! so that's clever, but when i avoid my taxes by telling the irs that i'm dead, i'm a wanted felon? come on! not right. [laughter and applause] i don't think so. removing the license plates isn't clever. now, covering your car in license plates? that would be clever. but regardless, don't commit crimes, all right? because mayor eric adams doesn't need another thing to worry about. >> mayor eric adams laughed off a question asking him to assess how it's working so far, but he

also reminded new yorkers congestion pricing wasn't his idea. >> i have 99 problems, you know? >> desi: 99 "problems?" i think those are called "indictments." i don't know if "99 problems" is the song people associate most with eric adams. i'd go with "in da club," or "club can't handle me," or "i'm under investigation for bribes from turkey." real hip-hop heads know that one. look, i know this is a big change. and i get that there are some drivers who are worried about the safety on the subway. but the more people who use the subway, the less room the subway masturbators will have to masturbate. so it works out for everyone. and we'll see how it all turns out. although, so far, the news has been pretty positive. >> the lincoln tunnel, moving well. it's almost unheard of at this hour to see that. so it could be that congestion pricing has gotten people off the roads. >> desi: look at that! it's working.

and yes, it's only been a few days, so i don't want to get ahead of myself, but i'm pretty sure there will never be any problems in new york ever again. [laughter and applause] of course, in a city this big, there's bound to be a variety of opinions about congestion pricing. so we sent josh johnson to the streets to get some of them. >> new yorkers disagree on a lot of things. yankees versus mets, pizza toppings, whether they can poop on the subway or not. but now there is one thing ripping new yorkers apart more than ever. >> congestion pricing is official. >> drivers are paying to drive south of 60th street. >> i have to pay the congestion pricing. for god you feel about it? >> not too happy. >> [bleep] or [bleep] congestion pricing. >> [bleep] karst. >> i don't like the idea of all these new jersey people being

taxed so heavily. >> do you think that maybe you should go the other way? maybe new york should have to pay $9 to get to new jersey? >> absolutely not. nobody wants to go to jersey unless they have to. >> cars. >> because the cars are very important, because as a new yorker, how else are you going to get where you need to be, besides the subway or the bus or bike or, like, a petty cow, or the horse drawn carriage, scooters? segues? morollerblades? piggyback rides, some nice walking, walking with a purpose? yeah. we need more options. you know? >> they need the money for the mta. it is supposedly raising $50 million a year. so i definitely feel okay for the city doing this. >> what type of improvements would be made to the mta? >> regular service that is

completely reliable. teleportation. >> teleportation is actually way more likely than the regular service. >> the first thing i would love to fix is that we have lights everywhere. i don't have to be afraid to walk in the dark, when i get off of work at night. i would also like to have them have some people maybe help the people that i see walking around naked. >> i am very sorry about that. that was me and that was a hot day. >> they could do something like some glade plug-ins in the subway cars, that will be a huge improvement right there. >> i am guessing because of the crime rate in the subway, that is not the number one priority is my guess. >> but if i'm being mugged on the subway and it also stinks? that is two bad things happening to me at the same time. i want to get rob somewhere clean. >> i think hygiene is important. >> one of my biggest hopes is that with less cars, with less congestion, right, it will make eric adams try to get away from the feds a much cooler track.

>> yeah, he will be a -- >> "bourne supremacy" level. less cars means less noise. who would have thought with less noise, i can finally hear jack hammers, i can hear sirens, i can hear [bleep] yous and screams and stuff. >> that is, you know, that is showing love in new york, saying "[bleep] you." you walk around as a "b30 [bleep] you" to the scammer, that is showing love. >> a good "[bleep]" lets you know that you are not only in new york, you are really alive. before we part ways. [bleep] you. >> [bleep] you too. [cheers and applause] >> desi: thank you, josh. when we come back, richard reeves will be joining me on the show, so don't go away. [cheers and applause]

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whatever you do, do it for less at harbor freight. (♪♪) [cheers and applause] >> desi: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight is the president of the american institute for boys and men and author of the book, "of boys and men: why the modern man is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it." please welcome richard reeves. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ well, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> desi: i sure appreciate it. this book, "of boys and men," is a reboot of "of mice and men." correct? >> correct. i thought i would go back to literary canon and turn it into a book with so many charts in it. if you remember, "of mice and

men" did not have any charts in it. this has got lots of charts in it. so much better. >> desi: i was so happy you made that change and i always felt the problem was with the mice. so you corrected that. >> i am here for you. >> desi: i guess none of these questions will work. start from the beginning. you've spent most of your career researching gender inequality, poverty, family policy, and a lot of your research lead you to write this book, which was on obama's reading list over the summer. congratulations. [cheers and applause] no big deal. i never thought i would say this but could you mansplain this issue to me? >> absolutely, i would be very happy to. i should say, it was very nice that president obama did mention that. it was interesting that happened in 2024. the book came out in 2022. i'm not going to criticize president obama right here. >> desi: well, he's never been on trend. >> i wonder if it took a little bit of a while for the subject area to become almost one that

he could talk about publicly because i think part of the problem here -- this is where i will start mainsplaining -- >> desi: please. >> is that i think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to talk about the problems of boys and men somehow means you have joined the other side, somehow that means you have turned against women. somehow, to support women's rights and women's concerns about health care or the pay gap or the lack of women in politics means that you then can't care about how your son is doing in school, about your brother's mental health issue, or about your husband's job, and that is insane. but it is the way this debate about gender is in danger of being framed and has been for the last few years, which is, you've got to choose and if you want to care about women, you're not allowed to care about men. sometimes the other way around too. that is just crazy. i think it is part of the problem. the book and the work, in some ways, i think i saw too many people who were talking about the issues of boys and men, doing so, that led them almost immediately to say, i know who is to blame, the women. the feminists.

if i'm struggling, it is because you are sitting there. it is because you are doing better. that whole zero-sum frame, i think, is just getting in the way of a better conversation about it because most people are perfectly capable of thinking two thoughts at once. they can worry about women and they can worry about men. [cheers and applause] right? that is not where we are. >> desi: i'm glad you said that because there is not feeling among feminists, particularly in this moment in time when reproductive rights are in peril and there is the equal pay and all kinds of things, women are not -- the feeling, the immediate gut reaction is, let me grab the world's tiniest violin, like, so sorry. >> roll your eyes a little bit. >> desi: you are absolutely right. the two things can be true at the same time. >> i get that feeling. i think it is actually important not to dismiss that feeling. i think anybody who doesn't find this a slightly difficult conversation, like, how do we talk about the rising suicide rates among men, the falling wages among men, the troubles of boys having at school? how do we do that in a way that

makes sure that we don't in any way let up the work we still need to do for women? so i get that. i think it should be a difficult conversation. but just because it is difficult doesn't mean we shouldn't have it. because someone is having it. and they are having it online. [applause] and the discomfort that many people have had because of their support for women, in just acknowledging that there are lots of ways in which a lot of men, especially young men are not doing great today, just failing to acknowledge that, it leaves a massive open space for a bunch of other people to come along, possibly online, and say, you are struggling, that is the women's fault, come to my website or vote for me or whatever. the neglect of male problems is not good, not only not for men, but in the long run, not good for any of us either. it creates a massive vacuum in our culture and our politics. >> desi: absolutely. >> i'm very frustrated. i understand the hesitation but unless you get past the hesitation and have this kind of

conversation, the fact that we lose 40,000 men a year to suicide in the u.s. now and that it has risen most among young men since 2010, the fact that is a problem doesn't mean that the gender pay gap isn't also a problem. i'm sorry, but anybody who says i have to choose between caring about this two things, i am only allowed to care about one of them, is no one's friend. i don't care from the left or the right. [applause] you have to rise together. >> desi: you have strong feelings about the term "toxic masculinity." is that just your toxic masculinity speaking? >> it could be. it's very hard to know, isn't it? [laughter] >> desi: it is possible. >> i didn't used to be so against it. actually, what i noticed is that when you go into a conversation with men and you have that deficit frame, it is basically, how can we make you less toxic? i have a vision for you. you could be a nontoxic man. that is not very inspiring. i raised three boys to their 20s and i hope i did a better job than saying, in the future,

boys, you might be actually not poisonous. wouldn't that be amazing? >> desi: fair point. >> it actually pushes men away from a productive conversation. you put those two words next to each other. but actually more fundamentally, i think it gets us into a place where we are just saying, how can we take out the bad stuff from men? that is in no way of course to say we don't need men to do better and step up but i think the idea that masculinity itself might have something wrong with it is intellectually wrong, but also politically incredibly dangerous. if you want people to really lean into an identity, what you do is you pathologize it, what you do is say there is something wrong with being a man and then watch what people do. if you want to men actually to think less about that masculinity, parade their masculinity less, perform the masculinity less, don't talk it will not talk about it as toxic. that is a recruiting sergeant for the reactionaries if you do that. i think it is an offensive term that we should simply stop using. >> desi: thank you for coming on. thank you for having this

conversation. it's an important one and i hope we all continue having it. [cheers and applause] "of boys and men" is available now. richard reeves. we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ (♪♪) (♪♪) (♪♪)

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i'll just have four to five beers to stop the shaking, and then i'll go outside. huh, never seen that kid around the neighborhood. maybe he's got something to do with it. hey, kid. you know anything about a tricycle that just got stolen from the park? no, sir, i've been sitting here for the last three hours selling lemonade. would you like an ice-cold glass? why, sure. you couldn't have been here for three hours on this, the hottest day of the year, -or the ice cubes in your pitcher would have melted. -ow-- you have the right to remain silent. -anything you say-- -peter, peter! we can't arrest him. if anything, they can arrest you. hey, here's the tricycle. you were right, peter. this kid's a thief. -we did it! -wow, look at us. hey, you know, we make a great team, guys. like huey lewis and the jews. ♪ we don't need money-- ♪ sorry, the band's breaking up. here you go, stewie. don't bother sniffing the seat. it don't smell like nothing.