The Daily Show: Ears Edition - TDS Time Machine | In the Field 2024

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

Desi Lydic, Josh Johnson, and Michael Kosta investigate climate change migrations to Minnesota, finding a group capitalizing on idling vehicles, and chatting with sneakerheads about Trump’s new footwear collection.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 gonna be coming out every Thursday so exciting you'll you'll be saying yourself TGI D Thank God. It's Thursday We're gonna 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 Jon Stewart wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's me, Michael Kosta. The Daily Show's on break for the holidays,

but in the meantime, we put together some special highlights just for you. We'll be back in the new year on January 7th with all new episodes. Enjoy! and Donald Trump just released his new never surrender high tops. There's only a thousand being released and at 400 bucks a pop, they will probably not put a dent in the judgment against him. So I hit the streets today to talk some real sneakerheads to see if these are cop or drop.

Now, what do you think of these sneakers? Um, you know, it's very patriotic. I think that there's no rules in fashion. You can wear whatever you want, but me Percy. I would not wear it. Would you cop these? Would you you wouldn't? Nope. Hard pass. It looks very 2009 dated. They actually they look like they don't bend. What are your thoughts on this shoe? Trying to be chic, okay, but also Very nationalistic. Got you. Now would you wear this shoe? chic. Okay, but also very nationalistic got you now would you wear this shoe? No, okay

So you think if you wore these to school you might get like roasted up. Yeah, cuz like what grade are you in? Seven you're in seventh grade. Yeah How tall are you? 6'1". I Play basketball you you should do you think there's a sort of like Mike? Situation where as soon as you put them on you get indicted? Probably. If not indicted by the judicial system, you'd be indicted by society. Do you think they go up even higher or they go down if he goes to jail? I think if he goes to jail they're probably going like 20k, something crazy. Really? Yeah. People are nuts like that.

I'm wearing these right? Yeah. I get robbed. They get taken off of me. You're not gonna get robbed for those, brother. Oh, that's good to know. So this is really like robbery repellent right here. Some people might try to give you tips on fashion, like why are you wearing those? Oh, okay. Shoes are very symbolic of who you are as a person. So if you have f***ed up shoes, might be a f***ed up person. I mean yeah those are pretty bad but what about your shoes dog? What? Those are some dirty ass shoes bro. What? Those are some stank ass shoes. Oh hell no. You're about to run a marathon? It's really about the- You never did that move. It's really about trauma. Is it? You're lucky you're bigger than me man. You lucky you bigger than me man.

Super hurricanes, drought, wildfires turning New York City the color of Sunny D. Across America, climate change is wreaking havoc and driving people from their homes. And experts say this is only the beginning. This is in the order of millions of people. So where might they go? Climate researchers say the answer is in and up. Think Duluth. Wow, so millions of coastal elites like myself will one day be flocking to Minnesota? Is this the city of the future?

Let's find out. Am I moving? I can't feel my legs. I'm not moving. Why was there not a jacket in my suitcase? To learn more, I met with Chief Sustainability Officer Mindy Granley. So tell me about Duluth. Well, Duluth is a great city. We're on a great lake. We have lots of fresh water. Do you mind if we finish this inside? Because if I don't go inside in seven seconds, my heart's going to explode.

Of course. Okay, come on. Let's go. Oh my gosh. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. So what were you saying about Duluth? Dul. So what were you saying about Duluth? Duluth. What were you saying about Duluth? Well, experts have called Duluth a climate refuge because we're a place that's fairly safe from the worst effects of climate change. You're talking about in 50 years when this climate change thing like really gets bad, right?

A few people are moving here now from California because of climate change. So you're telling me people are moving here from the good states? Yes. Mindy claims Duluth has big advantages, like 10% of the world's drinking water in Lake Superior and room for up to 10,000 new residents,

because it's basically that barren ice planet from Star World. Some people can handle 80 inches of snow every winter. 80 inches of snow? Over 80. Jesus Christ. Do you think those big UN climate change summits would be more effective if people

knew that the alternative was having to move to Duluth? There's really no bad weather. There's just bad clothing. Bad clothing. So people are still wearing Balenciaga here. We don't know what that is. Despite this vast cultural divide, coastal refugees are getting ready to flood Duluth. But are the locals prepared?

There's a migrant caravan of Californians coming. They're bringing their spin instructors, their kombucha makers, their oat milk. You ready for that? I don't mind having a few more friends. Any advice for, you know, refugees that are coming here? Oh sure, you can need to dress really warm. They can't dress warmly because then they would lose their job as Instagram models. Well it's gonna be hard to be a bikini model here. I mean you're laughing but this is important to my culture. Your culture. It felt like you were speaking two different languages But how deep was this divide polo or rugby?

Ooh Rugby why why because I like sports that no no I don't mean the sport. I'm talking about names for children Neither are there any members only or rugby? Neither. Are there any members only exclusive clubs here? Well, there's Sam's Club in Costco. So I can be cooking in the bathroom there? I even got some words of wisdom from former Duluth mayor

Emily Larson, seen here in a press conference last July. Duluth is gritty and resilient and real. We work hard. We really care about each other. That's gonna be tough for some of these people in LA because they don't work hard and they don't care about each other. But the first wave of Californians are already here.

So how are they surviving? It does feel like another planet sometimes. Meet ex-Californian and environmentalist, Jamie Alexander. We packed into a camper van thinking we were gonna drive out here and spend the summer. And then wildfire season of 2020 happened. And I decided to move my family here because of climate change. Let's be honest.

Okay, there's no Duluthurians here. Is it Duluthurians? Duluthurians? Duluthians. Duluthians. All right, let's be honest. There's no Duluthans here, okay? This place sucks, right?

It doesn't. I love it here. I want to live in a place where it feels real. People say that Deleutherans, Dulags are more real people. A New Yorker spits in my face, it feels pretty real. Yeah. I mean, I think what is meant by that is here. You're connected to your neighbors.

Everywhere is going to experience climate impacts. If a climate-related, you know, weather event happened, would you be able to lean on your neighbors? I've lived in New York for seven years. I don't know my neighbor and I don't want to know my neighbor. Next question. Do you have a winter jacket for me? This is not cutting it.

And my BMI is like under 2%. You know what I'm saying? Jamie told me to really understand diluthians, I would have to walk a mile in their shoes, even if mine were nicer. These boots are dilute, I'm not gonna get snow on them, am I? You probably will.

Ready to do it? I'm ready. Let's go. Go! Shoot. You probably will. Ready to do it? I'm ready. Let's go. Ah! Ah, shoot. They're kind of hard to walk in at first. OK, there goes my suit. Hey, those look like huge, almost rats.

They're deer. Do they ever take the pizza out of your hand when you're in the subway or anything? No. No. They're deer. Do they ever take the pizza out of your hand when you're in the subway or anything? No. No. You're lucky. Duluth was starting to grow on me, but there was just one problem.

The idea that there's like a climate-proof city is, A, it's not true at all, and B, it's dangerous because every place on earth is already experiencing climate impacts and climate change is happening now and people are making huge life-changing decisions because of it. Then what the f*** am I doing here? I left my wife and family for a week to come here it's not even a real climate refuge? No. Damn I knew the only

thing that could cheer up this coastal elite was hitting the spa but unfortunately for me in Duluth, even the spa is terrifying. We had to remove 30 inches of ice so that you can go jump in it. Oh my god. I'm gonna die. And your body is gonna tell you you're gonna die. Yeah. But you're retraining some of those neural pathways in your head to say, hey, I can handle

hard stuff. Yeah, I can handle this. Go in it. Hey, I can handle hard stuff. Yeah, I can handle this. Going in. Maybe once I get used to it, the cold isn't so bad. Oh! Ah! Ah! I'm frozen to the thick.

Well, at least I can go back to New York. God damn it, that's my car. As a kid growing up in Chicago, there was one horror movie I was too scared to watch. It was called Candyman. The scary cult classic was set in the Chicago housing project. It was about this supernatural killer who would attack his victims if they said his name five times into a bathroom mirror. Candyman. Candyman?

Now we all know chanting a name won't make a killer magically appear. But did you know that the movie Candyman was partly inspired by an actual murder? I was struck by both how spooky it was, but also how outrageous it was. We're going to talk to the people who were there, and we're also going to uncover the larger story. My architect was shocked when he saw how this was created. Literally shocked. And we'll look at what the story tells us

about injustice in America. If you really believed in tough on crime, then you wouldn't make it easy to crawl into medicine cabinets and kill our women. Listen to Candyman, the true story behind the bathroom mirror murder wherever you get your podcasts. ["Naked Cowgirls"] In New York, you've got to have a side hustle,

whether it's being a naked cowgirl or being an older naked cowgirl. But I recently learned about a new hustle that's actually helping the planet. The way to make some easy money, get some video of a trucker idling in New York City. There are hefty fines for dirtying the air, and so-called idle warriors get a share. To learn more, I met up with the Idle Warriors, a group of citizen vigilantes who are cashing in on this green gig.

They say idle hands are the devil's workshop. What made you decide to use your idle hands to stop idling? Over seven million people die every year on this planet due to air pollution. And we can change this if we just turned our engines off. The anti-idling law was created in 1971 by the city of New York, but it wasn't being enforced at all.

Huh. So it's kind of like when white people do drugs. I thought that if citizens got an opportunity, they would do it. As an environmental attorney, Samara Swanston I thought that if citizens got an opportunity, they would do it. As an environmental attorney, Samara Swanson wrote a law allowing any narc Yorker to report an idling vehicle and collect 25% of the city fine. That's almost $88 bucks a pop. But what if I don't want a Karen on my Amazon driver?

The companies are the ones who pay the fine. The drivers themselves do not pay the fine. It's the owner of the commercial vehicle. So you're actually snitching on the companies. What we're actually doing is holding big companies like Amazon, Con Ed, and Verizon accountable for polluting our air and literally killing people in New York. That is so cool. See, in elementary school I was always known as a cattle tail, but now I'm saying that that was just good training to be an environmentalist. Okay, so we're taking down the man, not my actual mailman. Clearly, this isn't about the money,

but we're all friends here. How much do you make? I know gentlemen that have made over $100,000 a year. What? Wow, I'm not a mathematician, but if I take the sum of my credit card debt, add it to the cost of being a woman in America, multiply by 84% of what a man makes,

and subtract the earnings from reporting on a dozen idling vehicles? I'm rich! How many people know about this? Am I getting in on the ground floor or is this like Bitcoin where I'm going to have to cut my losses by selling my beanie babies? It's only about maybe 20 to 30 of us who are submitting the bulk of the complaints. I think we should just keep it between us. It's like an orgy. You don't want to advertise it to everybody.

You want a small dedicated group and hopefully Jake Gyllenhaal. With an orgy you would think the more the merrier. We hope that everybody participates. Our ultimate goal is for idling to end. The best thing we can get is clean air. Money. Clean air, actually. Our ultimate goal is for idling to end. The best thing we can get is clean air. Money. Clean air, actually.

And clean air. There's so much idling going on that as long as you're in the right place, you can really get one after another. Oh. F*** it, let's snitch. We are a group of vigilant workers looking out for the best interests of our neighbors. I wrote this bill because I wanted to see a change in the future. I have a Nordstrom credit card that hasn't been paid off in seven years.

Are they even in business anymore? What do I do? I'm ready to make some money. A difference. Make a difference. You have to keep your ears tuned to the sound of engines. Listening ears. On. Listening ears, yep. Then you use your iPhone to capture the headquarters address and the license plate.

See these blinking lights here? On the truck van? Yes. That's a good signal that they're idling. So when I see these blinking lights, I hear. There's a good opportunity to be just like that. And then how long do we do this for?

For three minutes and 10 seconds. Yeah, it's a long period of time, but it's okay. I gotta do this for three minutes? If you want to get paid, you have to do it right. Turns out activism is really boring and dehydrating. I'm just gonna pop in for a quick marg. You want a marg? Yeah, that's fine. Confronting truckers takes balls.

Luckily, George and I have those balls. I'm gonna go and tell that driver that he's breaking the law. George? Yes. I just gonna go and tell that driver that he's breaking the law. George? Yes. I just want you to know. Yes. I'm right here with you. I am right behind you.

I got your back. Thank you. Do you know why? Why? Because we're partners for life. Love it. I'm right behind ya. Can we shut the engine off

so you're compliant with the law? I'm not with him. What a great team. So you think you've learned enough to go out on your own? Oh Totally all right. I'm gonna welcome you to become an idol warrior George You can count on me After a full day of saving the earth it was time to celebrate with my fellow warriors this rounds on me here to the real superheroes protecting the planet.

So when do we get paid. It takes about 2 years. 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 podcasts.