[cheers and applause] >> stephen: please welcome nyu president john sexton. om! boom! mr. sexton thank you for coming back. can i call you john? >> john is it. >> stephen: john, thank you for coming back. good to see you again. you are the president of nyu and also a teacher there and your new book "baseball as a road to god" is based on a course you taught there what do you mean baseball as a road to god? jesus said that no one gets to the father but through me. are you saying that jesus is baseball? because there's no jesus in baseball -- there's some hey-sus but there's no jesus in baseball. [ laughter ] >> the point of book is, stephen, to go directly at the proposition you put on the table. i'm a catholic. >> stephen: i'm the catholic. [laughter] >> the point here is that those of us that were taught as we were that we had the truth, with a capital t. >> stephen: which we do. >> should be a little bit more humble about that. >> stephen: i am. [ laughter ] >> and open ourselves up to the fact that baseball is a road to god just as our religion is a road to

john sexton thank you so much for being here. john sexton "baseball has a road to god." we'll be rk.ack. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: that's it for the next two weeks. good night. [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: bam! welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. we've got a good one for you tonight, ladies and gentlemen. i am particularly excited about this, the head coach of the new york football giants, tom coughlin is joining us later. we're very excited about that. [cheers and applause] he is a good and decent man who should in no way lower himself to appear on a program like this but we're excited he has. first of all, you know yesterday senator rand paul embarked on a filibuster to draw attention to the issue of executive branch's seemingly unchecked power to use drones on american soil. the libertarian senator spoke for 12 hours for theified only by the occasio

john sexton's and ricky's idea.idea if we do it right that could porch into something much bigger around the world. >> rose: let me talk about two issues. one is sustainability. where are we on sustainability on the urban agenda of every major city? >> it's an important issue but not as parents ought to be. as paul's work shows, a large proportion of the cities that will be around at the end of the century have not-- don't exist yet. and they're going to have to be built and they're going to consume resources and if we do it well we'll be a lot better off than if we do it baldly. it's now an issue on our agenda. we worry about it. we talk about it. it's taught in schools. but it's not as prominent an issue as it ought to be and probably will have to be unless we end up on a matt way to a pretty grim future. there is a lot at stake and super storm sandy has brought some of these issues. the experts believe we'll get 100-year floods every 25 years or so, and we'll have to focus on all these issues. and if weep don't,