The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Colorado Becomes the First State to Legalize Weed | TDS Time Machine

Episode Date: January 7, 2024

We're going back in time to this day in 2014: Host Jon Stewart welcomes in the new year with news that Colorado legalized the recreational sale and use of cannabis and Fox News has a lot to say about this news. Also, Jon sits with actor and comedian, Steve Coogan, to discuss the release of his movie Philomena.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday?

I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. January 7, 2014. On Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is the Daily Show with John Stewart. We have a nice program for tonight. That's very kind of. Our guest tonight, our guest tonight from the new movie Philomena, Steve Kugin, the great Steve Kugin is going to be joining us right here in our studio.

We'll be talking to him. But, that's very kind of a guest tonight from the new movie, Philomena, Steve Kugin is going to be joining us right here in our studio. We'll be talking to him. But, uh, pop story tonight, I'm about to roll a clip. Chances are when you hear this clip, when you see this clip, you will applaud. For two reasons. One, it will be a feeble attempt to keep yourselves warm, which, uh... Let's face facts. It will be a feeble attempt to keep yourselves warm, which, uh... Let's face facts. Not going to happen. Seriously.

Even inside here, I see the audience looking around to see which one of them to eat first. And two, you will applaud because you people are moral degenerates. Roll the clip! In Colorado today, the start of a brand new industry, as that state became the first in the country to make it legal for most people to buy marijuana. You're saying something right here, right now. I know my audience. You're saying something right here, right now. I know my audience.

Recreational pot is now legal in Colorado, which will, according to Lester Holt, create a brand new industry in that state. A pot selling industry. Wow. Brand new. I guess lucky for Colorado, it's stores selling water pipes for tobacco and black light posters. Infrastructure can easily be repurposed for this new pot industry.

But I imagine, you know, it's not going to be like the wild west out there in Colorado. There's going to be some stringent limits on this new law. Pot purchasers must be at least 21 years old. Check. Rules out the kitties? You can't light up in public, and police warn you still can't drive high. What? Well then, riddle me this, Batman.

Why does Taco Bell have a drive-through? That, my friends. That, my friends. That's entrapment. Can't drive high. That is entrapment. All right. Getting restrictor here. Any restrictions on the sale of marijuana? Pot shops cannot open until 8 a.m. and must close by midnight.

You know, given your clientele, I'm pretty sure you could have gone with noon till midnight. You know, given your clientele, I'm pretty sure you could have gone with noon till midnight. You would have been fine. But 16 hours a day is a pretty good window of opportunity for recreational users to head down to their local potteria, their local pottery barn, if you will. Get a little bit of a sweet buzz on. Any restriction on how much they can have? An individual can have one ounce of marijuana in their possession. So no restrictions. Holy shoot!

An ounce, that is a lot of pot. Is that for recreational use? An ounce was a lot of the low-grade pot I used to smoke. I can't even imagine how far an educated pot consumer could stretch an ounce of today's hydroponic non-1980s Jersey swag pot. Of course, like in most instances where America is slightly changing, the most interesting take came from our friend Bill O'Reilly's The Old-Timie-American Restoration Hour. Crank up the Grumpelodian! If you use any intoxicating agent, your goal is to leave reality.

You're not satisfied with your current state of mind. You want to get high, buzz, blasted, whatever. Some adults can handle that on occasion, others cannot, so it's literally Russian roulette. Literally, Russian roulette! Bro, what are you talking about? Literally! In fact, I think the only difference between a bong hit and pointing a loaded gun at your own skull is that the gun can kill you instantly and must never be criminalized or restricted in any way ever.

Ever! Ever! Ever! But then, the Just-Say no part of the program took a bit of a hairpin turn. But then, the just-say-no part of the program took a bit of a hairpin turn. Now more bad news. Combine the drug aspect with the internet. According to report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 75% of 12 to 17 year olds in the USA of cell phones and virtually

all of them, text. What the hell just? What the hell just happened? What the hell just happened? How do we go from just saying no to, and what's with all the beep-biboo-boo machines? And with the L-O-L and the T-T-T-Y-Y? And with the L-O-L and the T-T- to, and what's with all the beep-be-boo machines? And with the L-O-L and the T-T-Y-K and the music and the dancing with the pelvis and you... What happened?

What? You should not... Well, you wouldn't happen to have a surprising exemplar of a society and a culture that's getting it right here that perhaps undercuts the inherent message and everything else you and your colleagues at Fox have ever said. In China, young people are encouraged to compete, be disciplined, to live in the real world, not here. Why can't America be more like the People's Republic of China?

And, while the truth is the Chinese use text messaging more than anybody else in the world, I guess the thought behind this is you could keep kids from texting so much by restricting the size of their families through central planning. My favorite part, however, was watching a Columbia professor and expert on drug policy take in this new drug and texting phenomena. Kids and pot. You don't recommend that, right? Of course not. I don't recommend kid taking alcohol or smoking. All right, thank you and I appreciate that. Texting. You know it's an addiction. It's it's going crazy. Are you aware of that, right? No, I'm not aware that it's an addiction. Wait, wait, wait. Smart black guy with dreads disagrees with me. I will do the opposite.

Get me a bald white idiot. Texting, the incessant use of Facebook, the use of marijuana now. You'll do just fine. I'm sorry, I interrupted you, you were railing against the marijuana texting industrial complex. And by the way, for extra bonus pleasure, watch the guest's reaction to Dr. Abelow's expertise. Even the people who can identify this as a huge problem are using texting. It deposits them in a virtual world where their feelings don't need to have integrity, where their intentions can be to have integrity, where their intentions can be the same as a pot smokers, non-motivational, looking for the next high.

And you say to that? Well, I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going. Nobody that. Nobody got. I guess I could say you're a fucking idiot. But of course, many establishment figures are wringing their hands.

Even former pot smokers like the New York Times David Brooks. Most of us age out of marijuana use because it's not that exciting when you find more serious and more uplifting pleasures. I think the state, through its laws, should encourage a culture that discourages the use of marijuana on both moral grounds and health grounds. Now that I no longer use it. You just don't get it, Brooks. You don't understand the exuberance of the feast.

You know, I read a great thing recently. This guy wrote, happily, about having an orgy of excess. His head fogged with wine and bourbon. Made him realize how much he hates living in the age of the lily-livered. Quote, Lily-livered, when everything is a pallid parody of itself. Gone, he wrote, sadly, is the exuberance of the feast. Gone is the grand and pointless gesture. I believe that stirring tribute to hedonism was written by David Brooks. How weird is that? That's so weird. I wonder, I wonder how he forgot about that. Probably a little bit

of there. We'll be right back. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out

on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome So, uh, you got your recreational marijuana, it's not legal in Colorado. You know, we've heard how pot use has recently combined with texting to devastating consequence. But there's another reason why America should reconsider this liberalization of pot law. Pot just makes you dumb. It just makes pot law. Pot just makes you dumb. It just makes you dumb!

It just does in the same way that Santa Claus just is white. Unassailable truth. And that's not all that pot does. Most people that do smoke pot, I watch their ambition being curtailed steadily, and they never reach their potential. I know on pot because I believe it is addictive and it leads to more serious drugs. What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?

Right. Right. No. No. That is just too tasty. hit me again. What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel? Right, nothing.

Sample that audio, Beyonce, that is... Okay, there's no question that pot like everything else can have its downside. But you know, a recent UC San Diego study found that alcohol appears to harm the teenage brain, even more than, and I'm using clinical terminology the the theology theology theology theology theology theology theology theology theology theology, theology, theology, theateate, theate, the, the, toe, tho, toe, toe, toe, the, tho, tho, toe, that, that, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe appears to harm the teenage brain even more than, and I'm using clinical terminology here, getting potted up on weed. So your argument against marijuana, it would carry a lot more weight if these same individuals had a similar perspective on America's alcohol usage and go. It's Wednesday, Wednesday. It is, Best Day of the Wing. Great job getting us drunk.

You can all use a stiff drink. Fantastic Margarita Day. If you're not going to drink, pass it around. I haven't had a beer ever. Would you like a beer? I'm going to get real drunk. I'm going to get real drunk. Yeah, I'm going gonna get real drunk.

I just hope I don't see any of them loser potheads while I'm getting all fucked up, because that would kill my totally socially acceptable alcohol buzz. So we clearly know that marijuana is a deadly gateway drug from which no sane person can ever hope to escape, but our view of alcohol is not even benign and difference, but celebratory. Where marijuana always leads you to a dark path. How do we view the effective beer? Come on now.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Holy s-h-coer is light. Holy s-h-h-hoea! Beer is magic! It turns an overcrowded, sweltering citys into a beach party where skateboards become surfboards and business suits become bikinis. But rest assured, our children will never be exposed to this potentially overstated fantasy world that glorifies alcohol consumption, unless, unless they watch TV.

It's not just a good time, it's Miller time. Cross Brood Cores Life, the world's most refreshing beer. Make a love altres the superior light beer. But light, here we go. That's one afternoon of watching football. It gives me cirrhosis of the eyeballs. I can't sit down with my kid for a pleasant afternoon watching. to to to tune. to to the to the tune. th. th. the tune. th. th. th. th. the th. th. the thu. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, thi. the, the the, thu, th. Unless, th, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the TV the TV the TV the TV the TV the TV, the TV, the TV, the TV, the TV the TV, the TV, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, te. I te. I'll te.e.e.e.e.vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv. the. the. the, the, the, cirrhosis of the eyeballs. I can't sit down with my kid for a pleasant afternoon watching grown men give each other concussions without being bombarded by the Harry Potter-esque transformative power of fermented hops. Not that they aren't looking out for the kids.

Please drink responsibly. What? I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you over the kids. Please drink responsibly. What? I'm sorry? I couldn't hear you over the snowing bikini party. Maybe if Pod had as many commercials as beer, we wouldn't let it worry us so much. Honestly, it wouldn't even be that hard. You could use the same commercials. Most of them barely even need to be changed.

You know that Joseki's guy? He is the most interesting man in the world. Actually, he's just an actor. But, if you get high, he will become the most interesting man in the world. That's the beauty of marijuana. And if I may say so, at the same time, your couch will become the most interesting couch.

Most beer commercials could easily be retrofitted. Bud. Smoke. Bud. That actually even, that even makes more sense. Because you might buy beer if a frog tells you to, but only weed really makes you believe the frog. We'll be right back. Hey everybody, John Stewart here.

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but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. in his new film, which he produced, co-wrote and stars in, is called Philomena. Please welcome Steve Kugin. Thank you very much for being here. Glad to be here.

Glad to be here. Now, it's, you know, for everybody that, that knows you and your great comedy, this is a surprising project for you to take on. Just briefly, what is the story of this, and how did you even get involved in this? I read an article in the Guardian newspaper when I was here in New York making a movie called The Other Guys with Little Feral. And my downtime between my scenes playing a British ass ass which I was quite good at.

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And they were laughing in the photograph and I thought, well if I can get some of the laughs into this tragic story, maybe I can get something that was, I thought, the incredible check, because it is man. It's a moving story, it's a dark story at times, it's powerful. There are a ton of laughs in it. Yeah, well, I mean, it's great. Well, the thing is, if you, I always, you know this, you know you know this, you know, if you, if you, if you want to talk about serious topics and you're, you want, you want, you want, you want, you want, you want, you want, you want, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the the the the the the the the the the the their, the their, their, their, their, their, the the their, the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to, their, their, to, they let the guard down and they're more open to the argument you're putting. So putting laughs into a serious topic is a good thing. How hard was it for you because there's moments in the film where I'm watching you be serious and earnest and there is the comedian in me my heart just wants to reach out and go do a dick joke.

And I don't you fart. Yeah, well, I was tempted. I was tempted. You know, and and there are there are plenty of jokes in there, but sometimes you've got to have the the balls to say, okay, no jokes now. You know, you should practice that sometime. I won't be able to. I'm uncomfortable. No, I'm just, I'm a typical repressed Brit. It's how I am. It's what, uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh, uh. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I th. I, I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I, I, I, I, I, I th. I, I, I, I, I, I, I th. I, I th. I, I th. I, I, I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. th. th. th. th. th. the. th. th. the. the. th. the. the. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm th. I'm uncomfortable. No, I'm just I'm a typical repressed Brit. It's how I am. It's what this now obviously you do something about this it's it's about this woman's story the Catholic Church. There's there's been controversy now about this whole thing that it's anti-catholic you would say that you felt like the Pope would like it. Well I think I think as Pope's go you know this one seems he seems pretty good. He. You you you you you you you that you to to that you to to that that to to that that to that that to that to that that that that that th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi to thi to thi thi to to tho to to tho. tho. the the the the the the the the th is th is th is th is th is th is th is to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thi to to to thi to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thi to the thi the thi thi thi th I think I think as I think as pop's go you know

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So, and he kind of gets his come-up and so at the movie. So, it's, it's a a story necessarily of the church, but of the times, of an era when this was viewed very differently than it is now. It is about that. It's about how things have changed, but it's also about the nature of faith. And it's, what it says is no one monopoly on wisdom, you know, that we can all learn from each other. And my character is secular in the movie.

He's non-religious and Philomena is religious right to the end. And he doesn't undergo a damascene conversion and find God. And she continues to believe in God, but they love each other and respect each other. And, you know, that's the way forward. Does she, has she seen it? Was she able to see it? The real Philomena? Yes. Yeah, she's she's, she's, she's, she's been, she's been, she's been, she's been, she's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. She's been th. th. th. th. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. th th th th th th th to. to. to. to. to. th th th to. th th th th the the thii. th Yeah, she's been out on the publicity trail with us. In fact, sometimes you can't shut her up. Oh, have you ever just tried just leaning in and going, shut the f- fuck?

Um, I have, but it didn't work. What? Yeah, I know. What did she? Because you must feel incredible burden. When you're telling someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone? to to to to the their to their their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their. their was. their was. their was. their was. the the the the the the the the the the the their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. to. their. to be the caretaker of that story. Did you watch it with her? Were you in the room? No, no, no, I wouldn't do that. You didn't do it. No, no, no. But you know, she, she, she, she, she was at first she was a little nervous about it because we kind of poke fun at her, and her kind of little old, conservative, the thirty, to-a, thi, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, tooomo, thi, thi, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. And, th..... And, th...... And, th... And, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to, to, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, thi. And, to, to, to, to, to, too. too. toe. too. toe. toe. too. toe. too. toe. Did, too. Did, toe. But in the end, she emerges heroically. So she gets a free pass. And, and you know, I mean, for some of the criticism,

some of it came from the New York Post. I'm not familiar with that. No, no. No. It's a highly intelligent newspaper. Oh, OK. I'm going to take a look at it. Yeah, sometimes. by I assume a brilliant media magnet. A lovely guy called Rupert Murdoch.

Not familiar. Oh, he's a lovely man. He's so kind. And he's about people and good values. Oh. Yeah. Sounds like a good Christian fella. Yeah, yeah.

But you know, I think if you get criticized by the New York Post then you're doing something right. Or you're in a hot tub topless sucking on someone's toes. That's the most reason. That's right. Yeah, well, you know. Yeah, that's next on my list. No, but. Welcome to the City then. Cheers. Well, Filmmena's in theaters now. It's doing gangbusters. And it's great. And you're great in it. Steve Kugin. Go ahead. Go sit. Go. to explore more shows from the daily. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. t. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. Well, to. Well, to. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. to. to. to. to. to.............................................................. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the Daily Show Podcast Universe by searching the Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Fairmount Plus.

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