all right, i'm going to go warm up the car? ok. oh, you dropped something. jim. ok, i know i've been crying easily today, but i mean, that's just pretty killer, right? i mean, maybe it's stupid. no, it's wonderful. i'm going to frame it. i can always unframe. ♪ ♪ >> 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, michael kosta! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> michael: welcome, welcome! welcome to "the daily show!" i'm michael kosta. we've got so much to talk about tonight. the u.s. economy is down bad, apparently, america likes guns? and trump broke a campaign promise... what! so let's get into it. ♪ ♪ >> i'm gonna come. >> michael: i'm gonna come. being president comes with a lot of pretty cool powers: you can write executive orders, you get one free checked bag on air force one, and you even get the uncensored feed of c-span. which -- but for donald trump, the power he enjoys the most is the power to impose tariffs. >> tariffs are easy, they're

fast, they're efficient, and they bring fairness. we're going to bring so many things back to our country and the thing that's going to get us there is tariffs. we'll take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. and we're going to make our country so strong and so rich, it will never be so rich. tariffs, it's a beautiful word, isn't it? >> michael: "tariff. it's a beautiful word. it's why i named my daughter tariff-any." this guy's so horny for tariffs. isn't he? "i love any word with big natural double-fs." according to donald trump, tariffs are great! and i also want our country to be rich without any negative consequences. so let's see how he has imposed tariffs on canada and mexico, let's sit back and watch that economy roar, baby. >> tonight, the stock market dropping more than 600 points. >> the u.s. stock markets plunged for the second day in a row. >> we've seen consumer confidence tank.

>> layoff numbers across the u.s. are the highest they've been since 2020 >> the r-word is back, thanks in large part to tariffs. >> michael: wait... the r-word is back? tariffs brought back the r-word? so i guess i can say it? reeee..... >> wall street banks are starting to raise a red flag that recession odds have become unsettlingly high. >> michael: right, right, that r-word, of course. that's what i was thinking. i can be such a recession sometimes. by the way, is "recession" an r-word now? who thinks the word "recession" is offensive? finance bros? did they get woke? "before we discuss the impending r-word, we begin by acknowledging that we are on the ancestral grounds of capital grille, where chad was unjustly removed by the bartender before he could get a chance to cheat on his wife. sup, chad?" so basically, trump said the tariffs are going to be a quick and painless way to get rich. and now that it turns out we're not all shitting gold, republicans have moved onto their new talking point: "nobody said this was going to

be easy! trust the process." >> going to be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that. >> there's going to be a little bit of pain going into this. >> it is going to be painful. >> and if i have to pay a little bit more for something, i'm all for it. >> we're going to have to suffer through some bad news. >> there's going to be a short period of time where there will be some high prices on certain products. it's not inflation. that's nonsense. >> michael: yeah, yeah, nonsense. it's not inflation, people! it's just higher prices on food and cars and gas and every other product we import from our biggest trading partners. but you know what? we might be in for some hard times, but tariffs are donald trump's whole thing, and if there's one thing i know about donald trump, he's a man who sticks to his guns. >> breaking news into cnn. president trump's officially delaying tariffs on mexico and canada. >> michael: wait, wait, wait. after all that, tariffs are on

hold now? trump just backed away from those tariffs like it was a long-time friendship with jeffrey epstein! [audience reacts] so tariffs are on, they're delayed, they're off, who knows if they'll come back, or when, or for how long? look, i'm not a big business guy, but quick question: does anyone know if businesses need to make decisions more than four hours in advance? so then it appears the only silver lining in this pointless trade war is that at least we're only fighting with canada and mexico. if you're going to pick a fight, pick a fight with two sissy countries you can beat. right? right? right? >> the chinese embassy of the u.s. tweeting earlier this week, quote, "if war is what the u.s. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end." >> michael: oh, shit. china. china don't play. they're like, "if you got beef,

we got broccoli, bitch. let's go." listen, donald, canada and mexico are one thing, but please don't piss off china. i know you wrote "the art of the deal," but they wrote "the art of war." and i think a trade war with china might lead to, at best, a devastating economic depression, or at worst, nuclear destruction of most american cities. or as trump might say... >> going to be a little disturbance. >> michael: for more on trump's tariff policy and its economic effects, we go live to the white house with josh johnson. [cheers and applause] josh. josh, what exactly is going on with these tariffs? >> kosta, this is nothing we haven't seen before. these economic decisions are smart, so everyone should stop throwing around the r-word!

>> michael: recession? >> okay, everyone should stop throwing around both r-words. in fact, these tariffs are going to help out all my n-words. >> michael: your... your... >> my net gains, kosta. >> michael: right, of course. your net gains. >> hey! you're not an economist, that's not your word to say! point is, these tariffs are necessary. i've been talking to president trump and i can speak exactly to his intentions on tariffs. i mean, c'mon, y'all heard donald trump! he said during the campaign, we're doing this! it's an economic street fight. so you better get on board, because the pain is worth it to bring back manufacturing, even if it leads to higher prices. we are not backing down! >> michael: okay, but the american people don't like higher prices. >> then forget the whole thing! tariffs off! i don't even know who suggested it! >> michael: trump did! he said they're necessary to bring back america's economy.

>> and they are, which is why they're back on! >> michael: so we are doing tariffs? >> damn right we are! i ain't scared of shit! >> michael: not even more expensive housing? >> tariffs are off. >> michael: but that will increase the trade deficit. >> on again. >> michael: what about the price of breakfast? >> off in the morning, on at night. >> michael: but canada is retaliating. >> off with canada, on with china. we'll go to war with china! i don't give a [bleep]! >> michael: josh, china has nukes. >> no tariffs on china. [laughter and applause] in fact, we're part of china now. [applause] all hail president xi. year of the snake, mother[bleep]. get on board! >> michael: josh, how can trump run the country like this? tariffs, no tariffs, we're chinese, we're not chinese. it's unsustainable. >> get off his ass, kosta. all trump's trying to do is stand firm on his principles,

even though he doesn't know what they are yet. no matter the cost, although it shouldn't cost a single dollar, and [bleep] what anybody thinks, but please, nobody get upset. >> michael: josh, be realistic. part of being a leader is knowing there are trade offs to every decision. it's not possible for everyone to have a net gain. >> whoa. i thought i told you, kosta. that's our word. me and my economists are going to [bleep] you up. >> michael: i'm sorry, i'm sorry! josh johnson, everybody. when we come back, we get guns off the street, so don't go away. [cheers and applause]

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[cheers and applause] >> michael: welcome back to "the daily show." there are millions of guns in america, but one 40-year-old virgin is trying to change that. desi lydic has more. >> it is no surprise, america has a gun problem. in fact, even if our legislators could pass copperheads of gun reform, there is already over 4s country. a number statisticians call really high, and [bleep] huge. but one brave michigander is taking action into his own hands and thin is not someone you would expect. ♪ ♪

i was confused about priest since i blends "fleabag." how does a priest get involved with getting guns off the streets? >> and america, it is a lot easier to get a gun then to get rid of a gun. there is the sense that in churches, we are just going to pray for this gun problem, but church people are sick of thoughts and prayers too. >> michael: you know what is bad when a priest is sick of thoughts and prayers. that is your bread and butter. just as jesus turned water into wine, this father turned prayer into action and started a gun buyback program. >> the gun buyback program is aimed at reducing gun violence. >> they are popular and that is because it is your choice to turn in your gun. >> because this is america, people are more willing to part with their guns if they get something out of it. >> the first buyback we did, we had $5,000 worth of gift cards in the line was 2 miles long, and we gave away the gift cards in 20 minutes. >> what kind of gift cards are we talking about?

>> it is usually target. >> target? i am not allowed in target anymore. i had a bit of a run and with the law involving an incident with a cheese grater. >> do we want to save that for later? we will take care of that in confession. >> okay, thank you. what happens to the guns when they are collected? did they go to the farm updated with all of the dog's? >> after guns are processed, michigan state police on them to a company in missouri called gun busters and they destroyed parts of the guns. >> the state police then was contracting with a company called gunbusters who has a gun pulverizer. >> the pulverizer. that was my signature move when i was on the amateur wrestling circuit. >> no, no. it is used to destroy weapons. >> a deadly machine that destroys deadly guns? problem solved. >> this machine called the pulverizer can turn this into this. most of the metal left behind can be recycled.

>> a love a name that says exactly what it is. busting guns, no deception there. >> but they weren't busting them. >> come again? >> we found out, they are not really destroying them. they were salvaging most of the gun and reselling the parts on the internet. people can make their own ghost guns. >> so gunbusters is actually contributing to making more guns. >> yeah. >> jeez -- sorry. shit. sorry. jeez -- >> turns out, they were using the pulverizer more for evil than good. doing only partial destruction means that the guns can be born again, and not in the jesusy way. i reached out to speak with gunbusters but much like the fate of their guns, they ghosted me. if i can't find answers to this gun problem in god's fancy buildings, maybe i can find some in the states fancy buildings. michigan state representative natalie price.

how the [bleep] is it legal for gunbusters to get away with this? >> because of the gun act of 1968. >> sure. the famous 1967 gun act. >> 1968. >> 1968 gun act. the act of... >> when we only destroy that narrow part of the weapon, a receiver and a frame, which includes the serial number, the firearm is considered by federal law to be fully destroyed. >> yes. receiver and the frame. >> so just to reiterate, under this old-timey law -- >> the gun control act of 1968 -- >> the receiver or the frame by itself is considered to be a firearm. so if gunbusters tells you they have destroyed the firearm, technically, they only have to have destroyed that one tiny piece, leaving the rest to be potentially used for ghost guns. >> there is no good way to keep track of how many there are. from 2016-2021, there was over

1000% increase in ghost guns. >> holy shit. 1000%? that is like four ghost guns for every ghost. luckily, michigan has a solution. >> i can tell you what we are doing here in michigan, which is partnering with state police and a company that will fully pulverize and destroy the complete weapon right here in michigan. >> women get shit done. [cheers and applause] >> so it seems the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a pulverizer. but this time, michigan has their very own state-ron pulverizer. ensuring that they guns that they receive are completely destroyed. i went back to the church to spread the good word to father yaw, only to discover he had taken it upon himself to fulfill his own prophecy. >> there is more that needs to be done. we are planning to actually destroy the weapons ourselves, with chop saws. >> that sounds dangerous. >> i can take you to a place where we are practicing and you can watch it happen. >> all right. >> sure, just follow a priest i

just met to the site of the movie "all" but for guns. what could go wrong? ♪ ♪ [chainsaws buzzing] >> that goes in the disposal here. >> three guns down. now just 399,999,997 more to go. [cheers and applause] >> michael: thank you, desi. when we come back, antoni porowski will be joining me on the show, so don't go away. [cheers and applause] touches of black. they say a lot without having to say much.

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the bits left behind, you would mince, but nowadays, i don't think they put the ears and testicles in. >> you would love those, wouldn't you? you would love those. >> i thought you were talking to florence there. [laughter] >> michael: please welcome antoni porowski! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ nice! >> nice, nice! >> michael: nice! wow. thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> michael: this show is amazing. it made me hungry. it made me emotional. >> it made you hungry for testicles. >> michael: it made me hungry for testicles. for those of you that are unaware, maybe watching online, there was a clip before this about testicles. >> it's always good to have a little bit of -- >> michael: we are all hungry for testicles. did you know that this show would get as elevated

emotionally as it does? >> yes and no. i mean, the original -- look, it is "national geographic" which for me, i've been reading the magazine since i was a kid. we had a subscription. it's the iconic yellow rectangle. but i think once we started going down and each episode is a little different, but once it does get personal and everyone is just trying to answer that question of why i am the way i am and learning that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants and we have all these people in our lineage that we can kind of explain why we are the way we are, i think it is a sort of -- so i would say it was a mix. awkwafina, it was very emotional, going to south korea, the first time she had been there since her mother passed away when she was four years old. we had a bit of a bromance with justin in italy. it ran the gamut a little bit. >> michael: explain for those who haven't seen it, you start at home with a family dish, a favorite dish, and you trace it

back to the origin. and not only that, but through genes as well. >> it starts off with a dish that shape the guest. it could have been enjoyed during a special family occasion or birthday. then we go to the country of origin. we explore what was going on culturally, politically, socially, then we kind of break down the dish and the elements while introducing -- it's a lot going on. >> michael: there is a lot going on. >> while introducing to family and we meet genealogists and historians and it is a whole journey. i mean, like, the most emotional episode of all of them is awkwafina's. they are all very special for different reasons. hers started with a completely different dish but we were making this seaweed soup that this woman who had a phd in fermentation, which they do that in korea, because food is truly healing, it is unesco protected. she's making this soup and nora, awkwafina, reminded the smell, the one smell she remembered of her mom when she was making this soup and we learned that in korean history, women make this for their daughters after they are born because they are depleted of iron.

it is something that is very healing and it is passed on from mother to daughter. for her to learn, oh, my gosh, that smell is literally the soup that my mother was trying to use to heal herself and to make sure that her daughter was okay. like, and it all -- it is never -- it is so much more than the dish. when you look back on it, there's always a story, the knowledge of history. >> michael: talking about parents, this is a cookbook that my wife made after my father passed, and it is of his favorite dishes, and watching this made me think of this recipe for this eastern european soup that my dad made, i mean, look at this [bleep] thing. how can anybody read that? >> was he a physician? >> michael: no, he was not. when i was watching your show, i was thinking of this. then i'm thinking of my dad's handwriting. then i'm thinking of him in the kitchen with the apron on and now i'm crying. it's not even about your show. it's about my dad. you really [bleep] me up, antoni.

>> genuinely, that is what i want. i want people to watch the show. while i understand that not everyone has a "national geographic" historical team that can do 3-6 months of research for each episode -- >> michael: this was actually research. >> 100%. it is not like -- i love "queer eye" but that is a different unscripted show where i can say whatever i want and it's a very different editing process. here, every single thing that i say has to be corroborated by three independent sources, which is kind of wild. so we are dealing with places like germany, where, you know, they have the infrastructure and the places that you go to to get these documents. they give it to you within the hour because the germans have it all figured out. in italy, they take 2-3 weeks, but they will get it as well. they take their time. if you are in senegal, if you are where we went with issa rae, or in borneo, where we went with henry golding, they don't have that. it is oral history. the team has to go there a few

months prior, speak to village elders and if the three village elders are saying the exact same thing, they consider it a fact. i have done voice-over for narration on the show and had to go back to the studio after because our showrunner was like, we are not 100% sure, we can't say it. we have to go back. >> michael: it is so clear in the show that the guests really see is how important this dish is, how important is food is to their family. for you personally but we don't get to do this show with you, with your dish, but why is food so important to you? >> my face just got warm. because i think, i don't know. i think it has to do with -- to quote to my therapist, if it is hysterical, it is historical. and growing up, my parents, i adore them and they did the best with the tools they were given, but it was a really dysfunctional household. the one time where we all got along was when we were sitting at the table, and gossiping and just, like, talking shit and having the best time and that is when everybody had a smile on their face. so it is personal to me. i feel like everyone kind of has

their own version of that. like, at any single gathering, my parents would have, everyone always ended up in the kitchen. that is the case with so many people. so it is -- food is there for you when you are depressed, when you are really happy, when you are celebrating life's achievements, when you are celebrating -- dealing with loss. sometimes people celebrate loss. but it is just -- it is -- for me, my whole family is just as obsessed if not more than i am about food. it is in our dna. >> michael: the show is great. [cheers and applause] it is beautiful. >> thank you. >> michael: you kind of do what "the daily show" does, which is, you trick us by entertaining us and then somehow, we have learned something and there is a message that has been presented. i really loved it. thank you so much for making it. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> michael: new episodes of "no taste like home" air sundays on national geographic, and all episodes are streaming now on disney plus and hulu. antoni porowski! we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back

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