The Daily Show: Ears Edition - So Much News, So Little Time - Melania's Jacket Gaffe & Charlottesville Rally Redux | Mike Shinoda

Episode Date: June 22, 2018

President Trump boasts about his elitism at a rally in Minnesota, Charlottesville racists organize a White Civil Rights march, and Mike Shinoda discusses "Post Traumatic." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The smartest way to hire. John Stewart here. Unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, The Weekly Show. We're going to be talking about the election, economics, ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. June 21st, 2018. From Comedy Central's World News headquarters in New York, this is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Welcome to the Dairy Show.

Thank you so for tuning in. I'm Trevor Noah. My guest tonight is a genuine rock star. You know him from Lincoln Park. Mike Shinoda is here, everybody! We're going to be talking about his powerful new solo album Post-Tramatic. You want to stay tuned for that. But first, let's catch up on today's headlines.

Shoo. Remember that photo of President Trump at the G7 summit from a few weeks ago? Remember that one where it looked like all the other world leaders were fighting with Trump because he refused to take a bath? Well, it turns out, there's a pretty sweet story behind it. Chancellor Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Shudow of Canada wanted to press Trump directly to sign the Communicate. And Trump was sitting there with his arms crossed, clearly not liking the fact that he felt like they were ganging up on him.

And at that point he stood up. He put his hand in his pocket and he took two starbursts candies out, threw them on the table, and said to Merkel, here, Angela, don't say I never give you anything. I cannot believe that Donald Trump would have two uneaten starbursts in his pocket. I also can't believe he threw them at another world leader. Although knowing Trump, he probably immediately snatched the second starburst back. He was like, I only meant to give you one. Yum, yum, yum. So with that story about Merkel, plus the news that Trump is escalating his trade beef with China,

it's pretty safe to say that the President of the United States doesn't have a lot of friends around the world right now. But there's still a lot of people who still like him back home, like at last night's campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota, where he popped in to support a Republican congressional candidates. And look, let's be honest, At this point, Trump's rallies are like Jurassic Park movies, right? It's extremely predictable, but you still kind of want to see what the screaming tiny hand monster will do once he gets loose. So I'm not going to waste your time showing you the usual lock her up and build that swamp stuff, right?

But there was one moment that we just couldn't ignore. You ever noticed they always call the other side, and they do this up, but the elite! The elite! Why are they elite? I have a much better apartment than they do? I'm smarter than they are. I'm richer than they are. I became president and they didn't.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold up. I thought the mega fans hated the elites. But now that Trump says he's one, all of a sudden they're cheering. Yeah, elites, yeah! These people will follow Trump anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if one day Trump is like, folks, I just got my 23 and me, and it turns out, I'm fully Mexican! And the crowd will be like, yeah, Mexico!

Mexico! Mexico! Now, most of last night's rally was the same old talking points, right? Same old, same old, same old. But Trump has clearly been practicing a whole bunch of new hand moves. Great champion, you know, you know, the whole thing going up the trees and down the trees. They just show my face. Take a shot of the arena.

Let's go get some more. It's a whole... We're going to be... Going to space. Out. What was that? Like if you had your TV on mute, what would you think the president was talking about when he did that? Someone at home was just like, honey, I think we're going to start jerking off the immigrants. I, uh...

Oh, and I also loved the one that was before that. What, like, what was that movie? What, like, honey, I think we're going to start jerking off the immigrants. I, uh... Oh, and I also love the one that was before that. What, like, what was that move? What is that? What is that? What is that? It's like, it's like, salt bay. It's like a little...

Or I guess for him, it's sexual assault to be. All right, all right, enough of Trump. Let's catch up on some other news. You know, this whole week, we've been so focused on the border issue, that we haven't really had the time to cover all the other fun stories that have been going on. There's just too much news. Thankfully, though, too much news is just the right amount of news for a segment we call, ain't nobody got time for that. Let's kick off with some news from the World Cup. Today Argentina and Lionel Messi suffered a shock defeat to Croatia and some Dutovic. But that wasn't even today's craziest news out of Russia. Burger King is apologizing to its customers in Russia for some offensive ads that were

aims towards women. Burger King Russia offered women a chance to win $47,000 in free whoppers for life if they got pregnant by a World Cup soccer player. The prize was offered to women who get quote, the best football genes and, quote, ensure the success of the Russian team for generations to come. This would be a great excuse for any woman who gets caught cheating during the world cup with a soccer player. She can be like, no honey, you think I wanted to make sex with Ronau? No, I did it for free burgers, for us. It's like making babies for the future World Cup. Like I can imagine when these soccer babies are born and the doctor spanks them, the baby immediately falls to the floor.

It's like, ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! This is such a weird story, but we really don't have the time for it because remember the Charlottesville Nazis, well, they're back. Yes, the organizers of the Charlottesville Rally have just announced that they'll be hosting a march in D.C. for white civil rights. Yeah, that's right.

They're demanding better treatment for white people in America. Which, I'm just going to put it out there as going to make this the most successful protest march in history. It's going to be like, we demand civil rights. Oh, hey, we got them. All right. We got it, we got it already. We got it already th all all all all all you guys next time. Have a good one. Now, look, I don't have time for Nazi, so let's move on. Because there's a wardrobe malfunction that's blowing up the news. Breaking news, Malaniya Trump, making a surprise visit to children at the border.

But did she hurt the message she was trying to send with an unfortunate wardrobe choice. The first lady wearing a jacket, bearing the words, I really don't care, do you? Wow. I really don't care, do you? Wow. It looks like when Melania was in the hospital, she had her lost f-feeh'rown. that's really cool. Although, although, although it is kind of sweet that she made a jacket out of her and Donald's wedding vows. That's really cool.

I like that. Aw. Now, look, we could spend forever talking about how out of touch this makes Milania seem, but I don't really care, do you? Plus, we don't have time to talk about fashion-full pause, because there's been another shooting in America. But a strange story involving the fanatic, a hot dog, and a head injury. On Monday night a Philly fanatic started firing hot dogs, real hot dogs into the stands and one landed squarely between Mick Ve's eyes. And then next

thing I know he shot it in our direction and bam it like hit me like a ton of bricks. Kathy McVeigh loves the fillies and doesn't plan to take legal action and yes she does understand if her story gets a few laughs. It gives people good laugh and if that makes somebody chuckle then that's fine. Oh man. That's so cool. Like I'm really glad that she's not badly hurt and that she's being a really good sport about this because we do want to make jokes. First of all, America is rock and roll.

You guys will shoot anything. Hot dogs, t-shirts, cash. When you got shot in America, it couldn't mean anything. You can be like, oh no, I've been shot with a puppy. Yay! Oh, and by the way, it's probably smart that she's not suing, right? Because the Philly mascot's name is literally the fanatic. Yeah, who knows how far he'll go?

He might be like, she's so unlucky to be shot in the face with a hot dog, but there's probably some people in Africa going, she's so lucky to be shot in the face with their hot dogs. That's all the time we got. We'll be right back. Finding great candidates to hire can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. You might get a lot of resumes, but not enough candidates with the right skills or experience. But not with Zip Recruiter. Zip Recruiter finds amazing candidates for you fast. And right now you can try it for free at Zip Recruiter. Zip Recruiter's smart technology identifies top talent for your roles quickly.

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recruiter.com slash zip. Zip Recruiter the smartest way to hire. John Stewart here. Unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, the weekly show. We're going to be talking about the election, economics, ingredient to bread ratio, on sandwiches. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the Dade Show. My guest to Mike is the co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning band, Lincoln Park. He has a new solo album out called Post Traumatic. Please welcome Mike Shinoda. Thank you for having me. So good to have you here. Your crowd is really loud.

Oh yeah, this is, are you kidding me? This is the best crowd making me. Listen to that. What? Does it make you jealous? Yes? Well, that's why I was surprising. It's like, oh, you know, it's much louder than my.

You say that, but you know that's not true. I've been lucky enough to see some of your live shows and your audience is loving everything that you're doing. Before we get into into the current album, let's talk a little bit about your journey moving into being a solo artist. You're back on stage again. Yeah. You know, the journey of Lincoln Park and yourself has been one with many ups and downs, many emotions attached to it. Yeah. What has it been like getting back on stage again? You know, in the beginning, after Chester passed, I think for weeks I didn't leave my house. I was hard for me to, you know, I grew up drawing and painting and making music and it was hard for me to do any of those things.

And so, you know, fast forwarding a bit, like the idea of getting on stage was just like, it was impossible, you know. Today, to be able to go out and do shows is, it's like for me, it's like a personal, it's this victory, it's like this miraculous thing. And one of the things that drives me to do it is the knowledge that I've been through something that's, while it's unique in some senses because it's on this larger scale. Right. It's universal in a sense that we all lose somebody.

We all go through, you know, tragedy and trauma. And I feel like I made a decision early on to share that with people and talk about it in the open. Right, and you've rarely spoken about that as much as you can. You know, when the news came out that Chester Bennington of Lincoln Park had taken his own life, people were traumatized, people always asked similar questions. And what I've really admired about your message is that you've come out and said, hey, let's figure out a way to remove the stigma that anyone might have around any mental health issue.

That's really been key for you. It has, thank you. The thing about it, like I was, it was so weird to be like given a membership to this club that I never wanted to be a part of. Right. It was something that I didn't have so much experience with in terms of these things that we're now talking about and I think for me I what I've learned along the way like one thing I've learned is that in terms of you know mental health we talk often now about you know it

being like physical health right so you wake up in the morning if you have a bad back. You go I need to take. the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the to to the the to the to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I tho tho the thi thi and thi thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho the. the. the. the. thi. thi. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thin the the the the the the the the the the thin thin thin thin the the thin thin thin thin and then then thin and then the and then the and then the and I the. I the. I'm toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo morning your back kind of hurts, you go, oh I need to take it easy today. You might wake up and say oh it's a little bit worse than I thought I need to take some medication today. Right. And then even if it's even worse than that, wow I really need to see a doctor. Right. Mental health should and the way that we get to that point is to actually check in with ourselves and say, oh, do I need to take it easy? Do I need medication? Do I need to see a professional? Like, those are things you can do.

Above all, I think the number one, the gateway into all of that is just being able to to talk about it. And so that's one of the thin, you, thin, to, to, thin, to, to, thin, to, the, to, to, thin, the, to, to, thin, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, too, 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, I.I.I. I. I. And, the, the, the, the, the, I.a, the, the, the, to, too, the, too, the, the, too.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a. too. too find myself like kind of talking maybe too much. I find, can I tell you that that's what I found is one of the most beautiful things about your performances now on stage? You know as we get into the album, you've written an album that really is a diary of your feelings, your journey and when you're performing live with the audience where it seems like you're having a conversation intimately through the music. Has that become therapeutic for yourself and the fans in a way? Yeah, I feel like every show I do, every performance, you know, a whole concert at a venue or

like just a couple songs. Today I did something, like an Apple store, I did three songs. Right. And it's, it does feel like, like, there's a communal element, there's like a family element. One thing that I think people, maybe they forgot about or they didn't know about our fans and our band is it, it kind of always has been that way. People just didn't know.

Like, ever since the beginning, like, because when hybrid theory, our first album came out, you know, however many years ago, it was, when the label told us, you guys, your album was the best-selling album on the planet this year. And we all looked at them like, what's the reason, like, punchline? Oh, it's amazing. Yeah, right. And people literally, you know, people grew up with this things, and over a course of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th..... their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, the, the, their, their, their, the, their, the, the, their, 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, te.... te. te. te.. te. te. te.. their, their, was it was one of those things where they you know that it was a cultural family right it really it really has felt like that and in the songs that you've written here it hasn't been tough for you people I think thinking that every single song is about pain and every

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and halfway through the album, the song you just played is crossing a line. That's the point at which I felt like in the music and because this was true in my life, in the last year, there was a point at which I was looking backward and then there's a point at which it shifted towards the future, and even the present too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, to, to, and also, the the present, the present, and also, the present, and also, the present, and also, and also, and the present, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I......................... the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th the th th the th th th t t t t t t t t t today, t t today, t t today, today, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I was, I was, I was, I'm, I'mards the future, and even the present too, but also like there was a hope. And I realized, oh, it's like, you know, you get Delta hand of cards and you just, you play them, you do your best with what you've got. And this, you know, this isn't the outcome that I would have ever wanted, but if this is what I've got, then I'm going to look at itthis way and having these types of conversations about mental health, about different things, I feel like that's, for me, a very productive way and a positive way to use the platform and to use, well, to express my art.

Which is something you've always done. You've used your art. You're a graphic designer, you are a painter, you are a musician. I noticed in one of your performances this week, you performed a song. I believe you had written about your family's history, which was really intriguing for me. Like, your grandparents, I believe,

were in a Japanese internment camp. Is that true? Correct. So this is a song, not on the post-traumatic album. This is a song that I did a while back and the song is called Kenji. My middle name is Kenji. My dad's family, being Japanese, he was what we say, we called Nisei. He was the first generation born in the United States and as you know in the in the 40s after Pearl Harbor the government came and basically told everybody that anybody of Japanese descent or who kind of felt like they were Japanese.

Oh wow. Wow, that's not really cool. That's a weird one to go with? Not really cool. Because there were people who, there were people who weren't actually Japanese and they're like, oh, you're close enough, you're coming to the camps. They took all the people on the West Coast and where my family went first was, I just imagine you're in your house and they say, okay, you're going.

Packed two bags, you're out of here. And my family built up from nothing. They had built like this wonderful mercantil, gas station, pool hall, like it was the center of town. And they were very successful. They were told, you're out of here. Two bags, get on the bus, where are we going? They don't know. They took them to the Santa Anita race track and stuck them in the horse stalls.

They stayed there while the government built barracks that were made of wood in the desert. There was no air conditioning, there was no heating. The stories that I remember hearing from my aunts and uncles were that they would wake up and shake the dust off of, like all the dirt and stuff off of their blankets. They'd go to set up their breakfast and by the time they'd actually put the food down on the table, the dirt was back all over everything again. So these are the types of things. And when I hear these stories of the things that have gone on in the past week, for example, I immediately go to those memories of my aunts and uncles like telling these stories.

It's really not that, first of all, it's really not that far back in time that this actually happened. I mean, it wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't the th wasn't th wasn't th wasn't th th th th th th th th th th th th th the US apologized officially for the thing. And yet here we are only a couple decades later, a few decades later saying, oh, we forgot all about that, like, no, no, this is a totally different situation. And it's not that different. Right. And it's not that different.

It's not that different. It's scary. It's not that different. And I'm really glad that you use your music and your to speak about it. The album is your first solo venture. What are you hoping people will take away? What do you hope people will understand about Mike on his own? People know you through Lincoln Park, but what do you want people to know about you? Well, as I started this album, I didn't, I was just using the art, the painting and the music as just therapy. It was meditative for me. And so the first thing is like if you're going through something difficult, like I, art therapy is very real, so I always encourage people to do that.

Thank you. And I say the other thing is Chester was one of the best rock singers of all time, so let's not forget that. I do my... I didn't grow up celebrating like D'i de los mortos, or in Japanese we have the Oboan Festival. Like, I didn't really grow up doing those things or understanding those things,

but to be able to look at the tragedy of the past and celebrate the, you know, family members and friends we've lost, and then take our thing, as I said, the cards that we've been dealt and do something positive with them. There's a lot of, there's a wonderful feeling that comes from that, especially when you're doing it, not in a selfish way. You're doing it for other people and connecting this community. I feel like this is my effort. It's the beginning of an effort to do that. It's an amazing effort, man.

Thank you so much for being on a show. Post-Tromatic is available now. Mike Chinoona all everybody. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central Act. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more.

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