The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Best of Olivia Munn | Correspondent Spotlight

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

Former Daily Show correspondent Olivia Munn discusses the effects of tiger mothering with her own mom and covers how an oil spill is affecting Vietnamese fisherman in the Gulf. Plus, Trevor sits with Olivia to discuss her superhuman role on "The Rook."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Author Amy Chua wrote a best-selling book about Tiger mothering, a strict method of raising successful children, and America threw a shit fit. At one point she says that she called her daughter garbage and threatened to withhold food from her. Amy Chua hurt her children garbage and threatened to withhold food from her. Amy Chua hurt her children by denying them a childhood. Is she preparing them for life or Abu Ghraib? Yes, if by Abu Ghraib you mean great success. You see, I know a little bit about this subject.

Before there was a name for Tiger Moms, there was my mom, the original Milf, the mother I learned from. What is Milf? You are. Okay. And without a more strict upbringing, I most certainly would have ended up on the pole. Oh, look at this place. this is the refrigerator. Do you remember what happened here?

Yes, I can bang your head in here. Because you talk the phone to all times. You see the dent? That's your head mark. So why were your methods so successful? I don't know. Okay, don't hit me. I don't hit you. I only guessed you whenever I say. That's my technique from my parents, I learned from them. When I were younger, if we don't listen well, they decided to knock on the head or hit us on it by the chopsticks.

But according to parenting experts like Christine Carter, my mother did everything wrong. When I read Amy Chua's Tiger Mom method, I felt really pretty angry, actually, that she was claiming that this method was superior to other methods. How does your method work? Well, my method of raising happy kids is one that's based on about 50 years of really great, solid, scientific research. Now, who are these scientists that did the research? Well, Carol Dweck is somebody who's been... Dweck?

Dweck. That's not Asian. No, she's not. What is she? What is she? I don't know. White? Yeah.

I don't need non-Asinec-scien-sign to t closed knuckle hit? I think the chopsticks hit. Well, why is that? When I knock on your guy head by my knuckle, it hurt my hand. But if it doesn't work, I use my knuckle. And it works. You guys scare. Yeah, I remember. Yeah.

And I'm not the only success story. Just look at the numbers. 32% of Asian Americans work as white collar professionals. 26% work in engineering. And the remaining 42% make pie charts for Caucasians. But for some people, it's not about the parent. It's about the type of child you have. More than 80% of our children across the globe are Indigo children now. It's almost a new breed of children.

They remember what we might call the Garden are indigo children now. It's almost a new breed of children. They remember what we might call the Garden of Eden. So how do we identify these indigo children? They will insist upon justice. They won't tolerate any kind of hypocrisy like John Stewart. John Stewart. Oh, of course. John Stewart is an indigo child. No, for fuck's sake, lady. We need to listen to our children and be present for them. What if they're just yappen like you have been this whole time? I believe taking off subject a little bit, is how well can we love?

Okay, yeah, I'm out. Okay, good. White folks can have their happiness and their indigo's. I'll go the Tiger Way. You know, when I was growing up you always were like, you know, oh you know, why don't you listen to me? Oh, you make me lose my marble. I give you a knuckle sandwich. Oh, why you make one of me so? That's just how you talk. So what? Look, you've been in America for a long time.

Dign to their opinion, but I know what ancient philosophers have said for centuries. Go ahead, don't fa to make mommy to talk. Thank you, Olivia. We'll be right back. Now, as we saw earlier, while the hermit crab population is threatened by the spell, there was also an equally fragile bayou population at risk, Vietnamese fishermen. Approximately 80% of commercial fishing licenses in the state are owned by people with Asian surnames. Since the shrimping grounds were shut, they have lost their livelihood. Their country was destroyed during the Vietnam War, so they

escaped to America to build a new life on the Gulf. Never suspecting that 30 years later, we would destroy our own country. I mean... Uh, uh... But the Bianese people are resilient, as evidenced by the new post-spill delicacy they've created peel and weep shrimp. For more on how the spill is affecting this community, we go to our newest senior Asian correspondent, Olivia Munn.

For more on how the spill is affecting this community, we go to our newest senior Asian correspondent, Olivia Mun. Very nice to see you. Olivia, you yourself are of Vietnamese descent. You're on the Louisiana coast. Great to have you here. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, John. The fishermen down here, they're suffering. And believe me, if Vietnamese people say they're suffering, it's bad. As one Vietnamese fishermen summed it up, "'Dieu ne'con tehun, bon, nepoem.'" "'What, uh, what does that mean?'

"'It means, f-b-s'e'n'e'n'em.'" Excuse me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Excuse me, coming through. I'm sorry, honey, you're actually... Wait, Sam, Sam, what are you, what are you doing? Well, I'm not fly fishing. John, like a greasy Katrina, the spill has reached its oily tentacles around the very livelihood. Yeah, Sam, I'm sorry, that was terrific. Oh, thank you. Olivia is actually covering the story for us, so...

I'm sorry, who? Hi. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, John, this show already has a sexy news bunny. Damn! Sam, I'm sorry. Yes. Are you pregnant again?

Yep, reporting for two. Jones, get out here! What's off, Stubby? Stubby! But did you get Samantha pregnant again? No? What are you talking about? Whoa, shit! When did that happen?

About eight months ago. Oh, congratulations. Oh, thank you. It's my third in two years. Whoa, whoa, John, John. John, John, this lady's covering the fisherman's story? Yeah, yeah, no, that's Olivia Munch. She speaks Vietnamese. You seemed like... John, you don't need Vietnam Ease to report on this. Okay? This is a beach story, and who's king of the beach?

Frank Yavalon, I guess, for being... No! I am! I got water wings filled with Pita Kaladas. What? What? John Stewart doesn't care about black people. What? What are you doing down there? That... Still covering Katrina. What? That doesn't think. But I guess once the Asian started having trouble, you don't need the black journalist anymore.

Should I call Larry Wilmore or you're going to call Larry Wilmore? No, don't call Larry Wilmore. It's ringing. No! No! Guys, guys, okay, I'm not here to replace anyone. I'm not the new, always pregnant lady. I'm definitely not the creepy guy that smells like Bacardi and corn dogs.

And no one's forgetting about the blacks. I'm the new senior Asian correspondent and I'm just here to report on the Vietnamese fishermen. Oh Asian! Okay what's that mean? You report the news and then half an hour later you want more news? Boom! What, you, uh, you slide the stories under the door? Ouch! Oh my God, you're so fucking hot. I want to have your babies.

Yeah? Then let's double down. Come here. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Did someone say Asian correspondent? Because that is me! Ah, Asif? How did you do that? How did you hide back there like that?

I'm so Asian, John. I'm ninja. You're, you're, you're not. No, you're Indian. Yeah, I'm still Asian. Asian-ish. What's it? I always thought you were a Mexican.

All right, hey, guys. Everybody just get out. Let Olivia report the story. Will you please just go? Let her report the story. Fine. But I am keeping my three eyes on you. He's good. He's good. I'm terribly sorry.

What have you... What have you found out for us regarding the spill? Is there anything? Well, John, after exhaustive interviews with the head of BP, government officials, and numerous locals, a picture has started to emerge. One that can be best summed up by an old saying we have in Vietnam. Newy Dung, Kahn, tongue. Nong tongue. In the tongue.

thawn. today. I thi. Thank you so much. Olivia Munn, everybody. We'll be right back. 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. My guest tonight is an actor who plays a government agent in a new

supernatural spy thriller on stars called The Rook. Please welcome Olivia Mann. Welcome back to the show, Miss Mung. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be back. And congratulations on yet another show where you are playing another supernatural person with supernatural abilities. Is this just like your thing? Like you're just like, I just want to kick ass in movies and TV shows?

It is really fun to be able to kick ass in movies. Yeah. Because I feel like you got all of that training. How many hours did you spend training when you did like martial arts training? Uh, well, we, my whole family, all the kids in the family had to do tyquan. the tycoe updegree black? Like blacker belt? It's a black belt? What is second?

You get like these, you get like tabs on your belt to show that you've completed. Because you know, black belt's the highest, then you start to just take more test to get. But if it's the highest, how do you have higher? and they were like, now we just need a fake it and act for things. So you, wait, so you got to Black Belt, but then you also did training for, for like X-Men, for like X-Men, for instance. Right, so for X-Men, when I was, I mean, I sat on to that movie, I said, I want to do this movie, only if there's a big fight saying, because I know that Sylock is such a such such such such a, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, like, like, like, like, like very talented, very athletic, but had never done any fighting before. And, you know, it's very different when it's part of your DNA, when you know how to do it. And so I said that I would rather just me do all of my fight scenes and my stunts in X-Men. So I started training six, seven hours a day.

Now your new character has different superpowers. This is a supernatural spy thriller. It basically takes place in London as I understand and it like I mean the opening scene is crazy because you you just have like it's it's under under a bridge and then there's like a bunch of people who just like just like passed out and you don't know and you don't know and then someone wakes up they're dead they're not I don't I was sure I'm sure that's sorry that wasn't clear enough I didn't want to I I didn't well I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I they I they I they I to I to I to I to I to I didn't I didn't to to to to to th to th th th th th th th th th th th th thi th th thi th thi thi th thi thi th't know. Maybe, maybe someone read them a story and they all fell asleep at the same. I don't know. Yeah, they fell asleep at their eyes open like this. I don't, hey, sometimes I'm just like,

ah, too too tired. Too close to trying to like corral all of these supernatural people but you're one of them. God you're so good at describing the show. Thank you. Like you're doing such a good job. I try. Yeah thank you. Yeah so the it's this world where there are these government agencies and they they recruit people who have extreme varian abilities right and all of our special abilities are rooted in whatever we as human beings have. So my character has extreme strength. And somebody else can hear a whisper in a crowd of thousands or see for miles.

So they're not super powers, it's like super human powers. Oh, I see. So it's just like really extended versions of the things we already have. Yes, exactly. I feel like the whisper one is really cool. the wispe for that one. No? No, I can, my character can, like I can, like, how strong? Like, I can push a deadbolt out with just my thumb, just like a tap of my thumb. So she can push a deadbolt out with a tap of her thumb.

Yeah, and so no gym is going you could like take any of your superpowers to the extreme, any human thing, what would you take to the extreme? Oh, what would you? I need more inspiration. I would be, I would have superhuman taste. I would try to to think, I would have superhuman taste. I would have to task. That's what I would want to to. You love. You love. What if you eat something that tastes so bad? Yeah, but I would want to be able to trace why it tasted bad so that I could go back to the first person that made it task bad. Do you get what I'm saying? Trace it all the way back and be like specifically go to one person in a kitchen and be like, you! Sometimes, sometimes, have you ever eaten food the food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food food to the next day you're like, I must have eaten something. Imagine if you knew what that something was. Huh? I use that superpower. I use that superpower.

Yeah. You guys, you guys. Don't encourage that behavior. Yeah, I use that super power to sue the people. And then I become rich. Bam, super taste buds. What would you choose? I would want super strength, I think. It's like, it's the best, I don't need to, if I'm so strong, I'm just, I'm capable of anything. Olivia, what are you gonna do with super strength in the real world?

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Thank you so much for coming back to the show. Oh my God, I think we should tell that. Amazon Netflix, you guys listening. The Rook premieres June 30th at 8 p.m. on stars. Olivia Monte everybody. We'll be right back. Explore more shows from 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. This has been a comedy central podcast.

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