The Daily Show: Ears Edition - A Series of Gunfortunate Events | Thandie Newton

Episode Date: April 20, 2018

Trevor highlights recent blunders from "good guys with guns," Ronny Chieng sounds off on Earth-friendly technology, and Thandie Newton chats about her role in "Westworld." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sit down, everybody. Sit out! Oh, I'm really excited. My guest tonight from the hit show Westworld Tandy Newton is here, everybody. She's going to be here. She's going gonna be here! Or at least I think she is. She could be a robot. Either way, I'm excited. But let's kick off tonight's show.

Tomorrow is another nationwide school walkout to protest gun violence. And now, in the months since the parking shooting, not a lot of progress has been made in terms of legislation. But for now, we'll just have to rely on good guys with guns. So, let's check in and see how these good guys are doing in our new segment, a series of gun-fortunate events. Now, one of the big suggestions after the Parkland shooting was, why not just give the teacher's guns? Well, I'll tell you why. This. A teacher at the Parkland High School where 17 people were shot and killed in February, was theded thed thed thed thed thed thed thed in thed in thed thed in thed in th th th th th th th th th th th the in thui the in the the the the the thoe thuii thui theoes thoes thoes are thoes are thoes are thoes are thoes are thoes are thoes are thuiiiii thuiiii thuiiiiiiii thuiiiiii th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thui thui thui thui thui thui thui thui thui the the theeeean toean toean toean toell you why. This. A teacher at the Parkland High School

where 17 people were shot and killed in February was arrested for leaving a loaded gun in a public bathroom. Police say Sean Simpson removed his 9mm glock in the bathroom at the public pier where he was and then forgot it there. He apparently realized he left it behind minutes later when he heard a gun shot. A homeless man picked up the gun inside the bathroom and then fired the gun into the ground to see if it was loaded. Well that homeless man is now charged as well, charged with discharging a firearm in public and for trespassing.

Okay now first of all let's acknowledge that this is not the first time a homeless guy has recklessly discharged in a public bathroom. All right? But more importantly, a teacher from the Parkland High School in the news forgot his loaded gun in a public bathroom. How do you forget your gun in a bathroom? I mean, like, I guess you're busy, you know? It's like your hands and you're pulling stuff and you're moving stuff around, you put the gun down What's even worse is how you find out that you lost your gun, you know You're getting mugged and then you reach into your pocket and pull out toilet paper I'm like, ah Now luckily this was an instance where no one has hurt because in the foot inside a Macomb Township grocery store.

Shoppers and workers at the Kroger on 21 mile in card were startled by a loud pop. Turns out it was a gun shot. As many people ran for cover, Macomb County deputies arrived. The 23-year-old CPL holder was adjusting his holster when his gun went off. Okay, shooting yourself while grocery shopping is the worst.

Because you still have to check out, all right? And then you know there's gonna be an old lady in front of you and she's paying with a stack of coupons. And you're like, can you hurry up? I'm bleeding. And she's like, tough shit, I'm saving a nickel on my chubanny. So some good guys forget their guns is is is is is is gukeg. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thi is thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. 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 thi. thi. their thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. to to to to to to tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. to to toselves in the foot. But I know what you're thinking. Yeah, those guys are amateurs. Trained on duty professionals know how to handle their guns. Now, I will play a video that is the opposite of what I just said.

Maplewood police officer still working his normal shift after his gun went off at a children's learning center. According the officer, a thirner, the the according to the officer a third grader at Harmony Learning Center was able to reach inside his holster and that kid was able to fire the weapon on Monday bullet went into the ground nobody was heard. Are you shitting me? A third grader grabbed a police officer's gun unholsted it and fired it before the cop could stop him. That cop needs to be disciplined and that child needs to be promoted. Yeah, his parents must be so proud. They'd be like, I mean he's only in third grade, but he's already handling guns at a tenth grade level.

So amazing. So, that's all for now. Tune in next time when a baby accidentally fires off a gun on the Senate floor. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Daily Show. This Sunday is the 49th annual Earth Day. And to explore some recent planet-saving innovations, we turn to Ronnie Chang for a special, today's future now. Thanks, Trevor.

Thanks, Trevor. Sunday is Earth's day. The one day of the year, we pretend to care about the Earth by doing silly things, like turning off our lights and not flushing our pee. Meanwhile, I never flush every day, not even poop, and I don't even get a thank you. Listen, there are lots of ideas out there about how to save the environment. Okay, some are stupid and some are really stupid. Take plastic for example. We use plastic for everything, bottles, office supply. John Chaucerode's face. So to solve the plastic pollution problem, some genius came up with this idea. At this moment, 165 million tons of plastic is floating in the world's oceans.

Waste that we now turn into this, which we then use to make shirts. Introducing the Gant Beacons Project, shirts with tech prep containing upcycled ocean plastic. Finally, we can wear garbage without having to shop at H&M. Don't get me wrong. I completely support the idea of recycled clothing. For example, I got this tie at a funeral I crashed. Don't judge me it was open casket and clothes are for the living. My only problem is one day you're gonna stop wearing that sea garbage t-shirt. And then what happens?

You're going to throw it out and it's going to end up right back in the ocean, stuck in the dolphin's butt. Thankfully, we're not just banking on wearing chewed-up straws to save the earth. Some scientists are working to destroy the plastic. Scientists may have found a solution to the world's plastic problem. They've engineered an enzyme that can break down a key type of plastic that's used to make bottles and other products. To have an enzyme involved that actually eats this man-made material is really stunning. An enzyme that eats plastic.

Now that sounds like a great idea until the enzyme gets out of control and develops a taste for human nipples. It's too risky. We don't need enzymes. What are enzymes? Nobody knows. Let's just get teenagers to eat plastic as one of their dumb viral challenges, all right?

Yeah. They're already eating tide pods and snorting condoms. I'm telling you, eating plastic will be the healthiest thing they've done all year. Look, saving the planet isn't that hard. Okay, let's just do it old-fashioned way. Get Elon Musk to do it for us. Tesla says the world's largest lithium-ion battery has been switched on in South Australia. The 100 megawatt battery was built by Tesla. CEO Elon Musk says it has the capacity to power more than 30,000 homes for an hour during a blackout. Giant batteries are a great idea, okay?

If my wife had one of those, she wouldn't have to keep changing the batteries in her neck massager. Every day, she's always kicking me out of the bedroom so she can use it. Again and again, I mean, apparently her neck gets really sore after we bang so hard. Hey, what can I say? I guess I'm just that good. So, yeah, anyway, apparently all this tech stuff is going to like clean up the Earth or something. I don't know.

The only problem is, once we're done on Earth, we're going to have to clean up the mess we've made in space. A British satellite designed to clean up rubbish in the Earth's orbit has been launched into space. The removed debris project was on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which successfully took off from Florida last night. The satellite, which features a large net to collect junk, will be delivered to the International Space Station before astronauts begin using it next month. Wow, we've dumped so much garbage into the universe that astronauts are going to take off from Florida, rocket into space and think they're still in Florida. And why is that garbage in space? How bad are you missing the trash can that ends up orbiting the Earth?

Also, what's the plan here? We're going to capture space junk with a net, bring it back down to Earth? And then what? Throw it in the ocean? Make into a romper? Hey, at least up there, it was their problem. Okay? It's called Earth Day, not space. Clean up your own mess, alien. Rony Chang, everybody, we'll everybody. 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. 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. to. to. to. to. to. to-. to-a. to-a. to-a. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the. Chang, everybody. We'll be right back. Have you ever been watching the news and thought to yourself, wow, the Supreme Court sure does suck. We made a podcast about that. We sure did.

There is a supermajority of conservative maniacs on the Supreme Court right now, really doing some damage. I'm Michael. I'm the P.R. to 4 is about all of this. 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. th. th. th. th. th. Have, th. Have, th. Have, th. Have, th. Have, th. Have, th. Have, th. Have, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to, to-a. to-a. to-a. to-a. to-a. to-a. to-a. to-. to-. to-. the.'m Riannan. And I'm Peter. Our podcast 5-4 is about all of this. Every week we dissect and analyze a different ruling that has made our country a little worse, a little more cruel. And you would not believe how many of them there are. Check out 5 to 4. That's the number 5-4, wherever you listen to the Daily Show.

My guest tonight is an actor who stars in the HBO series West World. Please welcome Tandy Newton. What a lovely warm welcome. They're wonderful and you are wonderful as well. Thank you so much for being on the show. I am such a huge fan of Westworld. It's one of the most frustrating shows I've ever watched. Why? Because you're always like, they're the kids, they're gonna kill, that's the person, the robot that no that's a real that's a bit and then it happens again and yeah I don't do it again don't do it again you should try actually acting in it's no it's just too much it's just so much but that clip for me

yeah that we just played really in many that how you see your character on the show? Wow. Against them, against him. Well first and foremost she's a robot. She's not, you know, she's a thing. Is she a thing though? A thing, my darling. If a thing thinks, though, like us, is it still a thing? Is that not the only thing that makes us... That's one of the things I love about the show is that we see Mave as a woman. Right. You see her as a woman. By the end of season one I saw her as a woman. She's a robot. She is a thing. And that's one of, that's what gets tackled really I feel like in season the ta. theirsesesesese is is is is is is is constant, th. th. thinin, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is a th th th th th thii, is, is, is a th thi, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, th thin, is, the th th th th th th th th th thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, 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 th th th th th th thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, the, the, the, the, the. I, thin, the. I, thei. thei. thei. the. the, the, the, the, the, the, th she's a thing, that they're things. And that's, I mean, really, that's where the harsh reality of the show finds its, you know, finds its core is that what do you, you know, how do you, how you treat a thing? Right. And we've got to really think about this because we consider other human beings as things.

Let's face it. And that, yeah, I think that is where Westwell does reflect life because people say, oh, you know, if you could go to Westworld, would you want to go and do the la la, and I say, well, actually I feel like Westworld's happening all around us. You can go places where you can do horrific things to people, even though they're aid workers. We're seeing this stuff happen all the time, so I feel like Westworld is here amongst us and we're just not seeing it, we're not accepting it, we are treating human beings like things. That is a terrifying prospect when you think about it because the show... It's not a prospect It's actually happening right but I'm saying the fact the fact the fact the fact the fact the fact that's that's that's thapapapapapapapapapapap I'm the fact the fact the fact that's that's the fact that's the fact the fact that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's not the the that's that's that's that's that's that's th. that's th. that's that's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I's th. I's th. I's th. I'm the th. I'm the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the th. the the th. the th. th. the the. the. the the the. the the. the the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. saying but I'm saying the fact that Westworld being the world is like a terrifying idea because Westworld

is it's all concentrated it seems like it's all senses around violence and and it's this is this world. You can go and have a watercolouring holiday? Yeah you can I mean you know you see people painting shit. If you would go to Westworld what would you choose to do? I wouldn't go to Westworld until it was affordable for everyone because it's very expensive to go. But if you could go, what would you do? I couldn't because I couldn't afford it, babe. But if you could go, you have to give me, that's what I'm saying, that what if you could go?

But that's why I don't want to go there. Let me ask you this question. When Westworld premiered, I remember there was like a lot of criticism, they were like, oh, this show is just about objectifying women. It's just about having women naked, naked on screen. And these women have no power, no agency, no nothing. And then you watched the show develop. And all of a sudden, the women are the revolution, they're the ones who are changing what's happening. Did you, did you want to like tweet out spoilers maybe to the fans who are just like, this is not about women? You want to be like, shut up, here's what happens.

I knew, I knew. I knew. I knew, when I first met the show, and playing the madam of a brothel. I'm like, do you know that I've been an activist fighting violence against women, sexual violence against women for 20 years? It's like, why are you calling me? This is weird. But I was intrigued because I wanted to hear, how could you possibly, because they're really smart people.

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And I did it because this show, what it is doing to empower women and to make us really, really understand the vulnerability of a defenseless human being, not just a woman, but a defenseless human being. And the only way we could do that is by, you know, the shock factor of nudity. And also seeing nudity not in a sexual way, but in the way where you don't really want to look, because they're being treated like animals in a factory farm. It is simply not sexualized.

I am so excited for season 2. I'm one of those people who bingees all of it. I do not need spoilers. I do not eat yet anything. I just need to know that you're in the show and you're going to be amazing. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate every moment of your school. Season 2 of Westworld, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app.

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