la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ >> chef: what if we just gethen go to robert's? >> chef 2: edgefield closes at midnight. >> chef: you gotta see -- have you been to robert's? >> chef 2: but dino's definitely -- >> anthony: i haven't been anywhere. >> chef 2: -- starter and that's it. >> anthony: i saw the hotel. the [ bleep ] do i know? [ laughter ] >> patrick martin: hold on, time out. stop, stop, stop. you've never hung in nashville? >> anthony: no. >> martin: you're gonna have a fun time. >> anthony: i have no doubt. [ laughter ] ♪ >> anthony: nashville. if you haven't been there, you probably know it as what? a country music capital, grand ole opry, and it is music city. and there is indeed plenty of country music, both genuine and fake-ass, but it's way more than that. nashville is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in all america. people who grew up here will tell you the city is in a state of perpetual, never-ending change, and the rate at which things are changing is accelerating. eighty to a hundred new faces move to nashvill

sha la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la sha la la la la la ♪ [ engine revving ] ♪ >> anthony: there are partsique, unlike anywhere else. cultures all their own, kept close. much loved but largely misunderstood. ♪ the vast patchwork of salt water marshes, bayous, and prairie land that make up cajun country is one of those places. while the rest of the usa got stitched together by super highways, southwestern louisiana remained relatively isolated. i-10 wasn't completed until the 1970s, finally connecting this part of the state to new orleans, houston, and the rest of the nation. with that came chain restaurants, drive-thrus, and strip malls. but fear not, it's still magnificently weird. ♪ take for example, cajun mardi gras. ordinarily, i loathe the idea of mardi gras. any kind of group celebration. anything festive involving dancing fills me with self-conscious dread . thousands of happy drunks crowding into the french quarter for instance, not for me. but cajun mardi gras is another thing entirely. closer to the ancient french tradition. vaguely more dangerous, down right medieval. cajuns do

la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ >> anthony: what are we drinkinger stuff? what's going on? >> sean: i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. >> anthony: budweiser and a jagermeister? so any notion of going local right out the window. >> sean: yeah. >> bartender: two jagers? >> anthony: uh, yeah, two jagers. yeah. cheers. good to see you again, man. >> sean: cheers, man. the first one's never good. the first one is never good. but it gets easier after the first one. >> anthony: so, look, um, this is not my first time to, uh, charleston, as you know. i did do a show here before and i'm still taking -- about it. apparently i really -- up the first time i came here because i made a number of errors, apparently none more egregious than going out for, like, doing oyster roasts and drinking champagne. >> sean: i'd never heard of such a thing. well, champagne of beers is okay with oysters. >> anthony: right, see that's what -- it must've been a typo. >> sean: maybe somebody got, yeah, confused somewhere. >> anthony: yeah. anyway, i got it wrong. t

, la, ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ ♪ve. and it's easy to think, having lived here nearly all my life, that this is what america looks like, thinks like, that the things that are important to me are important to everybody. that every place else is out there. unthinkable, maybe even unknowable. ♪ [ rain falling ] [ water rushing ] [ birds chirping ] >> anthony: 600 miles away from midtown manhattan is mcdowell county, west virginia. another america. in the mind of many of my fellow new yorkers -- the heart of god, guns, and trump country. the existential enemy. ♪ ♪ there is a place on god's creation ♪ ♪ a place of beauty beyond compare ♪ ♪ some people say it's almost heaven ♪ ♪ look for me you'll find me there ♪ >> alan johnson: my daddy always told me, you know those tornados and hurricanes, they can't get to us. we're down in these mountains, down in the holler, and these mountains protect us. here, if you're going to see the sky, you gotta look up. ♪ you can find me on the highest mountain ♪ ♪ you can find me in the bla

la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ >> geno: right now we're in thearish street. >> anthony: it is a street with a lot of history. what did it used to be like back in the day? >> geno: the street was packed with folks. folks all over, they had their own restaurants, grocery stores, juke joints. i mean everything happened on farish street that happened in jackson for the african-american community. >> anthony: the state capital of jackson, mississippi, located along interstate highway 55, just outside what's known as the mississippi delta. it's the kind of place that makes you wonder why did they make it the capital. until you grab hold of what used to be around here. farish street used to be the hub of african-american life in the city. its black commercial, cultural center. when dr. king came to town, he came here. everybody did. medgar evers had an office just upstairs, here. musicians like tommy johnson, sonny boy williamson ii, and elmore james all played here. and the likes of duke ellington, cab calloway, count basie, and louis armstrong all too

- ♪ you and me girl it's forever ♪ ♪ sha-la la-la-la-la ♪ ♪ you and me girl forever and ever ♪ ♪ sha-la ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from new york city, the only city in america, it's the show that invented news. this is "the daily show" with your host, chelsea handler! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> chelsea: welcome to "the daily show"! i'm chelsea handler, and this is it! my last night behind the desk. i hope you enjoyed this week as much as i did, but if you didn't, feel free to tweet me my handle is @ellendegeneres. we've got another excellent show for you tonight, because if you didn't know this already, thursdays are the best. they're like fridays for people who work 4-day weeks. so let's get into headlines! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] i wanted to kick things off with a heartwarming story tonight. as a woman, it's always nice to see a father spend real quality time with his daughter especially when he's a busy career man. >> kim jong un, dictator and family man, brought his daughter and wife to the military parade which featured more intercontinental ballistic missiles than ever before. >> belie

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