The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Parkland Survivors Call For Gun Control | Taylor Kitsch

Episode Date: February 21, 2018

KFCs across the U.K. are forced to close amid a chicken shortage, school shooting survivors in Parkland, FL, call for gun control, and Taylor Kitsch discusses "Waco." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Trevor Noah, thank you so much. Tonight's guest from the new miniseries Waco. Taylor Kitch is joining us everyone. But first, but first, there is a major food crisis that is gripping Great Britain. Britain's telegraph reports that a KFC chicken shortage for stores to close across the UK. More than 550 KFCs remain closed and some customers are not happy. It does seem unbelievable really that all the chicken, there's farmers, surely there's enough chickens. It's a chicken place, so they should have enough chicken. We want to get in there, sit down, have some food, but we can't do that today. My reaction is angry, sad, and disappointed.

British KFCs are out of chicken. Finally, an international problem President Trump can understand. He's going to be on the first plane out, like, we need to help these people immediately! Finally, an international problem President Trump can understand. He's going to be on the first plane out, like, we need to help these people immediately. Don't worry, Britishers. This is a job I was born for. By the way, was I the only person who thought it was weird that everyone who eats KFC in the UK as a kid?

And on top of that, they're so polite. Like in Britain, even a kid throwing a tantrum in a fast food place is like, Mother, I'm angry, sad and disappointed. Truly, if I don't get my popcorn nuggets forthwith, I shall be forced to hull my body upon the floor in protest. Ah! Ah! Well, that's that then. Pip, ti-pip, tirio. Now, as sad as those mini Harry Potter's are,

in many ways I feel like that's the kind of thing that kids are supposed to be sad about. You know, that they can't get the lunch they want. Unfortunately, kids in America are dealing with much bigger problems. By now, we all know the tragic story of the Parkland, Florida shooting. A 19-year-old who had purchased multiple weapons, walked into his high school that he was expelled from, and shot and killed 17 students and teachers. And even though these shootings are happening more and more frequently, I refuse to get used to it.

I also refuse to accept the idea that nothing can be done. And look, my first instinct, I'm going to be honest, my first instinct is to talk about limiting guns. But I'm an idiot. I get it, you know. Yeah, in my dumb mind, I keep thinking that gun violence is somehow related to guns. I haven't quite figured it out yet. But the one thing I am sure about is that a lot of people in America think that after a shooting, that is not the time to talk about guns. Apparently it's way too soon.

You see, there needs to be a waiting period before you can just get a gun conversation going. It's a lot more responsible. And now if you told someone that they had to solve gun violence, but they couldn't talk about guns. Most people will be like, well, then there's nothing I can do. But most people are not Fox News. Because over the last few days, Fox showed us that once you remove the obvious solution, you have no choice but to get creative. We need to protect kids, and that means we've got to have metal detectors,

we've got to have experienced cops. I don't care if they're retired or they're still cops working in the schools. And we've got to be able to have perimeter controls. Wait, wait, wait, is she still speaking about schools? Because it sounds like she wants to build a compound in the walking dead. Protect the kids, build a perimeter around the wall. I need them dead now! So her idea is don't touch guns, just turn the school into a fortress. Yeah. And hey, why stop with cops and perimeter controls? Why to post snipers on the roof?

Yeah. Dig a moat, fill it with gun-eating sharks. Yeah. Stick the heads of other school shooters on spikes outside the school to deter another attack. But I don't know, those guns in the classroom. We should start thinking about arming teachers.

A minimum of six to eight teachers and administrators who are trained in the use of firearms. It's an issue of not enough superior firepower to stop these killers. So now you want teachers to have guns. Like, my teacher didn't even know to to to to to to to to to to their to their to their to to their to their theers to have guns. Like my teacher didn't even know who was talking in class. Now you want to trust them to shoot the right kid? Think about it. How many times did your teacher yell at the kid next to the kid who was talking? Like one time my teacher try to hit one of the kids next to him. You want to give those people guns? These ideas are so absurd. It's like a game show host walked into Fox News and

just said, uh, the next category is worst way to solve gun violence. Go. Like it might be kind of fun to live in their world, you know, when you think about it. Like it's a world free of embarrassment. No idea is too ridiculous. Because I've got tons of those ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas those ideas ideas those ideas those ideas ideas ideas those ideas those ideas ideas ideas those ideas ideas those ideas ideas those ideas ideas those ideas. In fact, I'll give you one right now. All right, so look, the problem is school shootings, right? So, let's just get rid of the schools. Yeah. Stick with me, stick with me, people. You can't school shoot without a school. Everyone gets homeschooled. That way no one can shoot their friends, because homeschool kids don't have any friends. Problems solved.

Actually, that was kind of fun. Yeah. All right, Fox News. It's your turn again. Self-defense classes are the best thing for a kid. So it's time that we actually think about this rationing, go, how do you improve upon this? Well, you train them. Learning combat, learning hand-to-hand combat. Hand-to-hand combat? Does this guy know what a gun is? You see, it's only hand-to-hand if both people agree to use their hands. Hand-to-hand combat will only help you if the other person isn't armed, or if their weapon of choice is a wooden board. He's like, relax everyone, I've trained for this very specific moment.

Come here, hiya! These ideas are just priceless, man. Oh, that gives me another one. All right, I got it. I got a few complaints about my homeschooling idea, so scratch that. We keep the schools and equip them with huge supermagnets, right? Then when a shooting starts, a teacher presses a button and the magnet grabs everything metallic. Yeah. I mean, yeah, we'll lose a few kids with braces, but that's the truth is, we can't blame people on Fox for coming up with ridiculous ideas.

It's not their job to be responsible or even solve problems at all, so they can just shut up and dribble. Solving problems is the job of Congress, or at least I thought it was, until Florida Senator Marco Rubio schooled all of us. If someone's decided I'm going to commit this crime, they'll find a way to get the gun to do it. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have a law to make it harder. It just means understand to be honest. It isn't going to stop this from happening.

Ah, nothing inspires more confidence than a lawmaker who doesn't believe in the power of laws. Yeah. It's like your pastor saying, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's that, it's that, it's that, it's that, it's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's thi. thi, it's thi, it's thi, it's thi, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, thi. thi. th your cancer, but I mean, who knows if this shit really works? I don't know. And by the way, it's weird how Marco Rubio is super confident in laws and their power when it comes to restricting drugs and terrorism and abortion and literally everything else. And it's only when it comes to guns that these people suddenly become all Zen. Look man, if the universe wants it to happen to to to to to to thion, to thiiiii, to to guns that these people suddenly become all Zen. Look man, if the universe wants it to happen, it's going to happen, man.

Yeah, we're all just flowing down the river of time. So another mass shooting, and we're in exactly the same place. Don't talk about the guns, and don't bother changing the laws. It feels like nothing's ever going to change. Except this time, there was one big difference, those meddling kids. Six days after the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, the nation's youth are seizing the megaphone. They are demanding changes to America's gun laws. On Tuesday, students meet with state lawmakers in Tallahassee, and from there, prepare for rallies this week in Parkland, Florida and across

the country next month, including a march on Washington. It has to be more difficult for somebody who is mentally ill and disabled than him to acquire weapons of mass destruction. We don't want to disarm America. We want to make America have to work for their weapons. A 19-year-old who can't purchase an alcoholic beverage should not be allowed to purchase an AR-15. They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS!

God damn, these kids are not messing around. Wow! Yeah. I mean, this also just goes to show how upside down everything becomes when guns are involved. Like now kids are acting like adults and adults are acting like children. Because you've got senators like, you're taking my favorite toys, this is so unfair. And the kids are like, you can't have them if you're not responsible enough to handle them. I hate you! You're not even my real farming father, I hate you!

You know, these kids are inspirational. They're doing town halls. They're marching on Congress all while mourning the loss of their fellow schoolmates. So what they may lack an experience, they seem to be making up for with sharp moral clarity. And I know some people think they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're just. they're just. they're just they're just they're just they're just they're just they may lack an experience, they seem to be making up for with sharp moral clarity. And I know some people think they're just kids. Can they really make a difference? Well think of it this way. Their generation found a way to make it cool to eat tied pods. So there's nothing they can't do. We'll be right back. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show coming out every Thursday. We're going to be talking about the election earnings calls.

What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the daily show. My guest tonight portrays Branch David Kareesh in Paramount Network's six-part series called Waco.

Please welcome, Taylor Kitch. Welcome. I, first and foremost, happy birthday. Aw, the first and foremost, happy birthday. Aw. Oh, wow. I have to. I had to.

Thank you very much. Happy birthday to you, too. Welcome to the show. I'm a huge fan of yours. I have been for a long time, but I've never seen you in a role like this. For people who don't know in the shortest way possible, what was the Waco siege about? What is the story really talking about? It's an event in 1993 that was a cult, a branch of Davidian religious group that was

in Waco, Texas, that basically ended up in a 51-day standoff with the ATF and the FBI and ended with it burning to the ground and 76 people dying in that building. It's a tragic story and it's laid out in this mini-series in six parts and it's one of the most confusing stories on an emotional level. Because you play Koresh, all right? you play David Koresh, who was the leader of what some people call a cult and then other people say, no, no, it was a religious organization. You're playing a complicated character and you're making us like him.

How do you think you achieve that? Because he's not the most likable human being. I had the same question in the start of prep. It was just because, 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, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they, thin, tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, the, the, thi, thi, I had the same question in the start of prep. It was just because my first mistake in prepping for him was in the first few weeks where I was judging. Obviously there's some reprehensible stuff that he's done or did. And once I stopped judging that and try and to understand why he did or led the way he led and studied the way he studied because it through prep you're listening to hundreds of hours of calls with child protective services with

Gary Nezner the lead FBI negotiator and his crutch was the Bible it was the unknown and he could lay fear into that and when you can't prove or disprove that he has something to stand on right that's how brilliant he was with that he was an incredible manipulator. He he really gave purpose to stand on. That's how brilliant he was with that. He was an incredible manipulator. He really gave purpose to the Dividians and he was a self-proclaimed messenger of God. You know so with that comes ego. Right. And you start to see, you see in that clip, by the way, that was a first time I saw that clip, so everything... Yeah, you've never watched. Yeah, it's interesting to see that. It, and you, and you, and that, and that, and that, and that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th, th, th, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the, th, the the th, th, th, th, th, the th, th, the the th, the thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the thi, the thi, thi, th clip, so everything cut. Yeah, I haven't seen it. So that was interesting to see that. It's, it's, you're like that all the time.

Yeah, totally. That's, it's intense. That's me in the morning. Yeah, no, but I'm just like, your character is so intense. And here's what's interesting is, David Koresh, he's this character, you have to be charismatic, you have to be what many people would consider a nice guy doing really, really obscene and horrible things, but the people within his parish,

many people would see as normal apart from the beliefs that they had. Right, and I think that goes with the purpose, and I think in that sense he could give that purpose. It really does go down to like, he would tell you when they're going the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their tho, thi, their, thi, thi, thia, thia, thia, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thruui, throooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe, tha, tha, tha, tha in that sense, he could give that purpose. It really does go down to like, he would tell you when to eat, when they're gonna have the sermons. And some of these sermons that not a lot of people understand, that they'd be an hour to 36 hours. Wow. So in the sense of testing these people, like they'd fall asleep, up and still be in the sermon. Wow. And he's just, and when you're there in the

compound, he's created this system of control. And this is a guy that comes from abuse and zero control. He left, right, left at 14, memorize the Bible by 17. So he has that over anybody on the planet. He could memorize, you know, the Bible at any point. You could come out with that. Which is something you for the role as well, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, the the the the, th. th. the th. th. the, the, the, the, the, the, their, the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the. And, they. And, the. thea. thooooooooooome. And, they. And, they.a, their, their, their, their, their, their, their memorize the Bible at any point. You could come out with that. Which is something you did for the role as well, though. Didn't you learn scripture? Didn't you learn entire sermons? Like you just have to be around your house, right? Yeah, so we, I mean, it was me, it was me and my best made and I'm not, I don't come

from a religious background and it's just tough dialogue to be beyond grounded. And if you see me second-guessing on camera, we're done. Yeah. For God, so like the world? Yeah. The kingdom of what? It's going to come? Is it Haven? No, things happen. It's Haven.

It's Haven. It's Haven. When you look at the parallels between where America is now and where many Americans were back when the Waco siege happened. I found it interesting that many people were in a place of distrusting both the media and the FBI. You see these stories of people back then saying we don't trust these organizations. We feel like they don't tell us the full story. When the story does come out, it disproves a lot of what they say. And that happened with the people in the parish, it also happened with people within the public at large.

Do you see how it's easy for people to begin to believe a narrative where they go, I don't believe anything that's happening around me other than what I know? Without a doubt, I think that in 93 that's what it kind of encompassed in that sense of just, the FBI was the media. So there was, they did block off the press. There's a three mile perimeter around the compound. Wow. So from obviously the press to also even when it was burning down, they didn't even allow the fire department to come and stop the fire.

So you're dealing with, on both sides, you're dealing with somebody that's answering to God, and then you're dealing with the ATF who's thto somebody that has an ulterior motive to the FBI. And so that's the amalgamation between all the, it's a perfect storm, is what that was. And I think what I'm finding now, more than any other job I've ever done, and this is I think the fifth guy I've played that's lived. I find with Waco people actually, which I'm loving, they're doing their own research, they're formulating their own opinion on this, and they're asking questions. Instead of just coming and just making, or someone telling them their opinion, that's what I'm loving about this. They're asking me, they're challenging my ideals or where I'm coming from, and I love that, to have that conversation, and we should should............................................................................. I, the, the, the, the, the, the, their, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, their, their, their, their, their, their. their, their. their. their, their, their, their. their, their, their.a.a. their.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a. their.a. their. their. their. their. their. their. that. To have that conversation and we should.

If there's one part of the character that stuck with you because you weren't so method, what would you say it is? Like one thing you couldn't shake off in your life? I still don't understand why. There's so many questions that are still there because he's gone. So I, you know, he was shot in the head at the very end and, like to be a the th you because because because, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, because, like, like, like, because, because, to be the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, because because because because because because because because because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, the, the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, the the, the, the, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, because, because, because, their, because, because, their, because, their, their still there because he's gone. So I, you know, he was shot in the head at the very end and like to be a true martyr to, I don't know, it's just like, it's tough to, I just can't understand why. Right, like why didn't you, you know, obviously retrospect with, you know, 21 children under 15 past in the final fire and it's just like, during that siege, the the. th, you, you, you, you, you, you th, you th, th, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, thu, like, th, th, like, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, thin, thin, the, thin, thin, thin, thin, the the the, the the they, they they they they to they, to to to they, to to they, to they, they, they, they the And it's just like during that siege, forget retrospect, during that siege,

why didn't you just let most of, keep your own kids. I somehow understand that because he was ceding the 24 elders that will take over the world. That was the message. And diabolically, obviously, in my humble opinion. But it's like, I just, I don't understand during the siege why he didn't, they didn't go out in that sense.

There are pieces obviously when you start, when the government knocks on your door with a 51 minute gunfight, there's no trust to begin with there for the next 51 days. So I understand why they didn't come out in that sense. But during the siege with the children, I think that's something that I'll always have questions about. Well, it's questions that you have, questions that we have.

But the show does a great job of posing those questions and creating a great story. You're amazing in it. Thank you so.m. on Paramount Network. Taylor Kitch, everybody. The Daily Show with Trevor No. the tel. The Daily Show with Trevor No. Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11. 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. And follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content and more.

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