Al Franken Unpacks The U.N. Climate Report | Alan Ruck

get right into the headlines. Let's begin right here in New York City, the greatest city in the world. It's changing its pronouns. The iconic I Love New York logo is getting a makeover. The new campaign we Love New York City, launched by official staff, helped the city we bound from the pandemic. Designers keeping the big red heart but switching up the font a little bit. Mayor Adams and Governor hokel on hand in Times squad to unveiled the new logo with the help of Broadway stars and

community leaders. No one will ever beat New York is down, and we took the eye out of I Love New York and we brought the we when this together. That's right, it's not I anymore. It's we as in week and a Ford Rent. Or we just got pushed in front of the subway, or or we just pushed someone in front of the subway. But if you're wondering how they got this incredible new slogan, I actually have some of the some of the runners up here. Let's see some

of the other options were we love jw York. Okay, jew York, jew York, start spreading the Jews, and then they told Kanye to leave the meeting, and that's when That's when they settled on we love New York City. Now, let's move on to a story that's very sad for those of us who love Fox News, because it turns out that a producer for Tucker Carlson is suing the network, saying that the network pressured her to lie in the

dominion voting machines lawsuit. And I actually wasn't surprised about this at all, because all the way back twenty years ago, I wrote a book about Fox News called Lies and the Lying Liars Who tell them Lies, Lies and the Lining Liars who tell them a fair and balance look at the right, and in fact, I wanted to treat you guys tonight. So look, all of you, look under your seats and you'll find directions to a local bookstore where you can buy you can buy lies for twenty

ninety nine. Okay, let's move on to international news. This week, Vladimir Putin is hosting Chinese President Shi Jinping for a three day summit in Moscow, and a lot of people are upset with she for posing up to Putin after he's become an international pariah. But you know what, I think that that is exactly the time when you really find out who your friends are. We should all be so lucky to have a friend like President She, who

doesn't judge us for every little crime against humanity. And other overseas news, there was a big win for workers in France who will now get to work longer than ever. Despite weeks of protests from lazy French people who who wanted to keep the retirement age in sixty two, the government has now raised the age at which workers can retire with a pension to sixty four. And this is terrible news because is leading to a revolution in France. And last time that happened, we all had to listen

to Russell Crowe saying show tunes. So fix this right now, France. And I'm sorry, but I have no patience for people who need to stop working in their early sixties. I'm I'm seventy one and I'm working and I haven't lost a step feet. I'm as sharp as I was when I started on Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live. I haven't lost a step since then. And that was back

in nineteen seventy five, nearly twenty forty long decades. But let's get to the story today that makes Let's get to the story today that makes all the other stories kind of pointless. According to the UN, We're all going to die. Just into CNN a dire warning about the state of the planet. A new UN report warns the climate time bomb is ticking and the world is running

out of time to avoid disastrophe. This report tells us we need a quantum leap in climate action, and every country in the world has to reduce emissions at warp speed to try to curb the warming of our planet. We are nowhere close to making that Paris Agreement goal of curbing warming to one point five degrees celsius from pre industrial levels. To accomplish all of it, developed and the richest nations in the world would need to reach

zero by twenty forty. That is going to be nearly impossible. Wow, that's awful, But I guess a shout out to my baby boomers. Feels like we got the last chopper out of Saigon, and that's a reference we baby boomers understand now. Part of the problem is the UN's expectation of collective action. It's just easy to shirk your part when everybody has to chip in. So the solution here is to call out people individually. The next UN report shouldn't say we

all must lower our emissions. It should say, Gary, stop driving your car so much. You don't You don't need to visit your wife's grave every day. She's not keeping track. The fact is, on our current path, we're in for a grim future. And find out just how grim. Let's go to the future to talk to dasilidik Hi. Oh, yes, I am reporting from the year twenty seventy five. Can you believe it? This space is ninety three? Take that, Paul Rod, I'm afraid to ask, but how is the

climate crisis going sixty years from now? Climate crisis? We sold that years ago. Look, the entire world looks like a leaf of frank folder. Hold on, we fix climate change. How did how did that happen? Well, it started when the UN issued its report on March twentieth, twenty twenty three, warning that we had to radically reduce carbon emissions by twenty four party. So we read the report and we made all the changes and saved the world. Back to you, Ala,

you're talking about the report from yesterday. Yeah, yeah, it laid out exactly what we needed to do. So everyone just came together and did it. Why wouldn't we Well, what wasn't doing all that really expensive? Oh? Yeah, definitely was. But the alternative was the destruction of the planet, So of course we just spent the money. Obviously. Back to you, Al, I can't believe it. Everything sounds so great in the future. Oh it sure is. A little guy a grassland sparrow.

I thought those were going to extinct. Oh they were, but we turned it around. We reforested the Amazon, We got all the plastic out of the ocean and up cycled it into friendship bracelets. That we all wear un ironically, plus all the children in the world joined hands and saying in a harmony so beautiful it ended war forever. Wow, holy crap, Really all that happened? Oh my god, No, you're dumb, dumb, I'm being sarcastic. You think that for

some reason, we're gonna suddenly start listening to un climate reports. No, Ell, I'm not from the future. This is all fake. I am literally in the same room as you right now. I'm so I'm so stupid. I did. I just didn't realize that. Yeah. I hate to say it, but we're just going to keep on driving forward expeditions and burning fossil fuels until the ocean swallows this whole. Oh well, I guess you're right, Daisy, And you know that's our our satirical point. If only satire had the power to

change the future for the better. Yeah, well, al, I mean the good news is there's still a chance that our sharp witted satire will inspire people to make the necessary changes to save our planet. Wow. Really, No, were you really a seditor? Yes, yes, I was, Daisy Light like everyone. All right, when we come back, I'm going to dig around in your trash, So don't go away. Welcome back, Welcome back to the Daily Show, Coming to you from fabulous New York City. New York is a

city of superlative's biggest, tallest, richest, most duane edist. But because so many people live in New York, it's also the trashiest city in the US. So recently I decided to try and answer a very basic question. Do you ever wonder where your garbage actually goes? As a New Yorker, I've always kind of assumed I was taken away by some garbage ferry after I put it outside my apartment. Well, it turns out that's not the case. In fact, I

don't know what happens to it. So I'm here at the ninety first Street transfer station to find out a commission My guide is Jessica Tish, new York's forty first Commissioner of Sanitation. A lifelong New Yorker with only three Harvard degrees, Tish formerly held high ranking positions in both the city administration and the Police Department, and all that has led her to this. Wow, that is that's a lot of trash. Yeah, no, this isn't a lot of trash for us it's probably in less than five hundred

thousand count ements. This is what you wanted to do. Yeah, girl can dream there. It is desperate run sanitation. Why did you want this? Because sanitation is the essential service. Every day New Yorkers live twenty four million pounds of trash and recycling. If a million pounds we don't do our job for one day. Yeah, everyone in New York City notices. If we don't do our jobs for two

or three days, that's a public health crisis. Commissioner Tish has already been a dynamo of innovation, bringing new ideas and a breath of fresh air the Gotham's piles of garbage. We announced this week that we're changing to set out times for trash to eight pm. This week, the Department of Sanitation launched its first all borro composting program. A gift swing that you can take at cleaning up our streets is to shut down the all night, all you

can eat rat buffet. Tell me about you. I've been associated with the word rat and rats because you said something that went by the rats don't run this city. We do. Rats don't run the city. Rats don't run the city. We just like a mom. I think I went viral. Jesse Tish took it to the rats. The idea is one third of the material in these black bags is food. As we're trying to take the food a hump, post it and create soil. Now the rats won't like that. The rats will hate that. But the

rats don't run the city. We did. Yeah, all right, look out, trucks coming. I think you know what? Really, I don't know. We have to go. This is mine? Okay, trash here, I'm stepping in cabbage, isn't it? Oh? From here, the trash is loaded into containers and put on barges. Then makes a stop at Staten Island. What are you? Good goots? But not even trash want us to stay there. So then it shovels off the Buffalo by rail where it's burned to generate electricco What what's that? Thanks scrapping

our composting mascot? Can you come over here? I got a bone to pick with you. You clearly models scrappy after me? The glasses, Dave, be kind of the jew fro What about the eyebrows? Those are my eyebrows? Exactly? You should be flattered. It's our composting mascot. I'm my monitor. Thank you, thank you scrapping. Okay, go away. So far, I've learned that I'm a composting bin, that trash travels more than I do, and that I don't have to

bring my own garbage bag to the transfer station. And that's thanks to New York's unsung heroes, the track collectors like the next let me ride along his night shift through Manhattan's Westville. All right, all right, let's get ready to roll the quicker. We get it done the quicker. The rats don't have to want to know something. The rats don't run the city. That's true, Yes, correct, they don't.

We run the city. What about this thing about the just the trash not being out that that is a very smart idea, because you know what, I guess scitation has been doing it for seventy eighty years. Putting it out at four pm sits off for sixteen hours. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to put it out at a PM, less time on the street, less rots. It was gonna be a long night. I wondered if I was ever gonna make it as a garbage Hey, I'm more okaid here,

especially with the bang we're picking up garbage here. We're picking up garbage here. Okay, we're gonna move, but we're picking up garbage here. Turns out it was a natural. You're doing it wrong. Okay, that you're back, Gonna go out, Jesus Christ, Hey, this is easy. You ever spend three hours trying to write a joke and not be able to him? Okay, No, this is nothing. Letting you talk another time? Blocks to go. Okay, you know, I think you guys are fine without me, and so can you

give me a lift home? I'm on the Upper West Side. You want to go on the back home. Even though Nick refused to give me a ride home, I knew it was because he has something much more important to do. Keep our streets clean. After all, this is New York City. We all need to work together with mutual respect to do it. A big thank you, A big thank you to Commissioner Jessica Tish, Nick and Tommy and everyone at

the Department of Sanitation. You people are amazing. We'll be right back with succession is Alan Rock right after that. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a wonderful actor who plays Connor Roy on the Emmy award winning the HBO series Succession. Please welcome Alan Rock. Hello, Senator Hello, somehow you got a bigger welcome than Lindsey Graham last night. I don't know how that happened. I love the show. My wife and I watch it every

Sunday night, and we're looking forward to Sunday for the premiere. Um. Now, this is the saga of the roy family. Uh yeah, and Connor is the oldest son, and uh, you are maybe the least accomplished. It's sick to say that. Yeah, okay, and I know this is going to be the last season, right, yeah it is, So how does it end? I can't do it, not even for you. I'm sorry, I can't. Okay. Well you're you're seeing that that clip you're running for president? Yes, I am. Okay, So you can't tell us whether or

not you win. No, but I'm working that one percent. Man. I mean that's leverage. Okay, it might have been a tip off. Maybe you don't, but you never know. Things get weird, right, it's a crazy show. It's surprising. Yeah, you can't out guess Jesse Armstrunk. So yeah, he's the he's our creator and head writer. Yes, yeah, And I heard him interviewed and he said that that your father in the series, Logan Roy has said that that he loves all his children, right, Brian Cox has said that. Right. Really,

I mean that's amazing to me. I think as much as Logan is capable of loving anything, he does love his children. He's just bitterly disappointed in all of them. I think, so especially you don't you think, well, yeah, they just they make me stand to the back of the picture whenever there's the oldest son and yeah, yeah, yeah,

it's a sad little history. You know. He probably divorced my mother when I was about eight, and I lived with her for ten years, and she was in and out of mental institutions, and I was in and out of boarding schools, and I didn't see my father for three or four years. So it wasn't it was like Dickens, I think, you know, sorry, yeah, so okay, got it? Man? So so in the campaign and so do you so in the campaign you're running for president? There is a

something interesting about your marriage? Oh yes, specifically something you want to talk about. Not if you don't, what's your sure? Yes, my Willa was at one point a professional escort and then I convinced that no, I mean, you know, you got to make a living, and I convinced her to have me be her exclusive client. Um and maybe against her better judgment, she's actually developed some affection for me. I wouldn't say she's in love, but she's become protective

of me over these uh and her. You produced a play for her that she wrote, Sands. It was called Sands, about a woman who's trapped in the desert by an evil king. That that sounds like it could be really good. Yeah, evidently not. It didn't get good reviews. I no, no, I remember the scene where she throws the iPad off the off the yacht. Yeah, yeah, she was, she was having a day. Yeah. So okay, So uh, the show it's it's it's going off the air. Yeah, that must say,

you must. It looks like you guys love each other, that you guys love working with each other. I've never seen it looks it looks like a tremendous amount of fun. It's a brutal, brutal, emotional yeah show. But it's also

quite funny. Yeah it is. It's wickedly funny. And I think something that helps it along is that all the actors are wonderfully They're just wonderful, intelligent, kind hearted people that are playing all these bastards, you know, so it adds something to it that you can't help it like them, even though they're miserable human beings. And I I am going to miss everybody terribly, but I think Jesse's smart to end it on this high note. Yeah. Well, sometimes

things run their course. But I just I'm going to miss saying it. But I can't wait. It's Sunday is when it starts, So it starts this Sunday coming up. Does somebody end up getting the leadership of the company because a lot of this has been all about one of the six las? Yeah, succession? Yeah, nice Jack Eddy, of course, of course. Yeah, I can just say that

someone does. Wow. Okay, that's that's good to know. Yeah. Now, having gone through this, do you have any have you developed any kind of sympathy for like Rupert Murdoc's family. I guess I would be the Prudence. I guess that's his oldest. His eldest is Prudence. Isn't that right? I think so? Yes, don't ask me, But I don't really feel sorry for these people at the very top of the food chain. But they do have to do things

that we don't like. If you fall in love with somebody, you just get to marry them or be with them. You know, these people need to be vetted by the family, and if you pick the wrong person, they just say no, no, I can't have her. So your wife, the call girl was vetted a sort of Yeah, they were brutally, they were vicious toward her. But since I am dismissive, so is she. You know, they don't. They didn't care about

that too much. If it was Kendall or Roman or Chavon had married a questionable person and they would have something because you didn't count enough. I don't count not enough anyway. Um how many more shows, Well, there would be ten. It's ten ten shows. I just can't wait to see it. And it's just been a masterful show. My congratulations to everyone, Frank Rich the cold producer, and

just everybody, a bunch of people we'll congratulation. Has been the best bunch I've ever worked with, truly so and I've been doing this a long time out and I know some of the other people you've worked with, and they're going to be really sorry to hear you know, some of us go on a publicity tour and then blow it. There's a lot of their old friends. But but they're old friends out. Yeah. Yeah, they're not the new They're not the new crop, which is that's who

counts everybody. New friends who can do you some good? Isn't that right? Welcome to show business. Yeah, if we have any advice for anyone, not just here in the audience tonight, but anyone watching on television, new friends who can help you out, helen out up. Season four Succeection will premiere March twenty six on HBO and HBO MAC. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back after this. That's our that's our show for tonight.

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