"the daily show's" michael kosta's premier choice of battery. >> trevor: do they pay you for that? >> it is-- i'm doing it as a concept, i will send it to their ad team. >> trevor: so you are giving them free ads and they might not even pay you for them? >> i'm taking a calculated risk. >> trevor: yeah. i don't even know what to do any more, kosta. >> all right, well they have different sizes, i think this is a but-- a great battery, i use them for all my machines and remote control tdz all right, give me-- i need two for my remote. >> okay. >> trevor: peloton has tried to ride this out and to be honest to you, i give props to them as a company, for trying to have a sense of humor, limit the damage by joking about it all. i don't think that they are out of the woods yet, because based on the preview for next week's episode of sex and the city reboots, man, peloton has got some more bad pr ahead of it. >> taxi! >> trevor: all right, when we come back joy wood, wood, jr. wl look back at who got canceled in 20216789 you don't want to miss it. it. because this might be you. ♪ spin the

going on, welcome to the daily show, i'm trevor noah and joining me for today's headlines is michael kosta, how are you doing, michael? >> the year is almost over, trevor. >> trevor: right? >> two more weeks and i realize i got to get on my new year's resolution now or else i'm never going to have actually done anything. so for the next two weeks, i am going vegan. and for the next 12 days i'm going to do no cheese pizza and impossible burger and then new year's eve i'm going to do spaghetti with tofu butter s that what they do, i don't know, but never too late, that's my mission. >> trevor: i think itity moo be. >> okay. >> trevor: but you know what, good for you. >> i'm still going for t you know. >> trevor: that is what i love with about you michael. >> thanks, trevor. >> trevor: always pushing, all right straight into today's headlines. we kick things off with the big media news. every year since 1927 time magazine has awarded person of the year to the world's most influential news maker. it is by far the most incredible honor that most people find out about in a be dentist's office. a

>> trevor: you look something, kosta. >> look, it's like you said, trevor. a dictator wants people to copy him. he should be worried about the trend he's trying to set that no one is copying him on. i don't see a lot of north koreans with his haircut, right? no one will say to his face-- "kim jong your hair is whack. your hair is whack. your people won't tell you that." anyway... but this is fly. right wilson's leather, trevor? >> trevor: you know, kosta, what i love about you is not only the fact that you are so comfortable in that jacket, but the fact that you believe that kim jong-un might be watching this show. >> i think he is. >> trevor: i mean-- >> trevor, you're a global star, dude. >> trevor: amen, thank you for that kosta. >> yeah. >> trevor: i appreciate that. >> trevor: all right, when we come back, we'll tell you what the government isn't telling you about covid. you don't want to miss it. christmas trees try so hard. lights, ornaments, and lil choo choo trains. c'mon. the best trees, they kinda only need two things. peanut butter and chocolate.

start on la kosta drive. >> steph curry loves basketball but also golf, making it more accessible forkids develop golf game and critical life skills. stephen and his wife and their foundation surprised some with round of golf at legendary olympic club in san francisco. that's good ticket there. currys' foundation is providing a grant to expand. >> love that. >>> steph and >>> no ceremony, hugs, nba records normal game for the warriors. >> not used to normal games. warriors in boston, rookie moses moody is fired up for first nba start, replacing jordan poole off on protocol. this was a tight finish. fourth quarter, watch the hustle, damion lee, over his head, behind to andre iguodala and warriors win, congrats to coach kerr, 400th career win and steph curry will not play tomorrow in toronto, a day off. >>> covid problem in nfl, first time this season, three games postponed, including the raiders. supposed to play in cleveland tomorrow, but 20 players on the browns out with covid. rescheduled monday at 2:00 p.m. also the rams/seahawks game and washington/philadelphia game postponed unti

start on la kosta drive. >> steph curry loves basketball but also golf, making it more accessible for kids. the program helped kids develop golf game and critical life skills. stephen and his wife and their foundation surprised some with round of golf at legendary olympic club in san francisco. that's good ticket there. currys' foundation is providing a grant to expand. >> love that. >>> steph and warriors, fantastic finish in boston, and issues in the nfl. stay with us. rn about covid-19 the more questions and worries we have. calhope can help with free covid-19 emotional support. call 833-317-4673 or live chat at calhope.org today. i didn't have to shout out for help. because you didn't have another dvt. not today. one blood clot puts you at risk of having another, so we chose xarelto®, to help keep you protected. xarelto® is proven to treat and reduce the risk of dvt or pe blood clots from happening again. almost 98% of people did not have another dvt or pe. don't stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase risk of blood clots. while taking, a spinal i

that deep cold across the canadian prayers in the northern plains, to central america, some showers, kosta rica, and panama, and still in that zone from brazilian to rio de janeiro. we've got some orange alert. we could scoop up to a 100 millimeters of rain and then south of all of this high heat. so by jablonka has got a height of 32 degrees on saturday. that's it. see said, ah, a sun ah father, ah, a mutual love of the ox. the stage is set to immortalize freezing memories or in a magical race against time. witness our time mission on a jesse yo, lou. the me talk about what's going on there with me, the whole long the reminder of all the help stories, much of europe has just running in the new year on the part of alma from celebrations on news of the cross the world with some of these counseling that traditional fireworks display opening large countries. okay, that remains one of the main issues in the world right now. and the fact that we're all entering our 3rd year of pandemic bags and lots of questions specifically why a lot of it has to do with vaccines and why many people aren't vac

michael kosta takes a look at all the top scams of the year. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> a lot changed in 2021 -- the length, the energy level of our president, my inlaws hulu password. within thing that didn't change is people still fell for anything. you know how they say a sucker is born a minute? more sucking going on than an orgy at the dyson factory. nonfungible tokens is one of the biggest. when you buy the right to a piece of digital art. they got pretty expensive. >> $200,000 for a lebron james dunking clip. 600,000 for -- i don't know what that is in the middle. and millions for jack dorsey's first tweet. this image of digital toilet paper is worth $2,100. >> trevor: $2,100 for digital toilet paper. come in hand by when i dump in the meta verse. people spent millions on nfts thinking they had actual value but they can become worthless anytime. i bought this of a dog wearing panty hose. i love stock. the next scam the meme stock. people were pumping money into terrible businesses because the internet thought it was cool. it was the financial equivalent of the tide pod challenge and no stock was mor

i talked with bob kostas tonight. agree with that, but i don't like the half measure of diplomatic protest. as i said, tony blinken doesn't go. does that really take notice? we're either all in or all out. i don't like the half measure adopted by the biden administration. here's some other reaction that came in during the course of the program. i love that you tweet at me while i'm speaking. happy that we have a president that is not afraid to take action against russia. i say hit them where it hurts, right in the wallet. stop the pipeline, ukraine has a right to its sovereignty. 2020 was decided by women, does that include the commitment of american troops if it comes to that? i said to the admiral, what are the dynamics for the united states of ukraine joining nato? because think about that. now it's a domino process. ukraine desperately wants to be in nato, at least under president zalenski, but once they're in, we're on the hook. what would be the sentiments of american it is our men and women had to fight for ukr

as bob kosta said, they're still a year out. back up close to 50? >> there are a couple things here, joe. first, of course, is getting a handle on the pandemic, which the president defined as the central issue of his presidency. jen psaki, press secretary, was my guest on "way too early." pressed her whether the administration was caught off guard with the variantregimen. she said, we all were. we're doing the best we can and surging the tests to the american people. of course, repeated the need for americans to be vaccinated and boostered. that's how we will get out of this. she made clear, they weren't going to shut down again. but, eugene, she also talked about, there are two other legislative priorities. build back better, which hit hopeful notes and she says talks with senator manchin are going to continue early next year. there is also the looming question of voting rights, which some activists including reverend sharpton, friend of the show, said if they can't show progress by martin luther king day, there will be unhappi