New York City Subway Shooter | Jerrod Carmichael

are my life. Studio audience so much looking he's studio audience. Wow, he's that guy live. Somebody shaking, all right, he's alive. We'll do it all right, Take a seat, everybody taken. See, thank you so much for being here. We've got a really fun show for you today. One of the heartsest comedians, Gerard car Michael, is joining me on the show today. It's gonna be a lot of fun and we're gonna be talking about the big story in New York that's

got everyone talking. But before that, let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right. Our first story kicks off in Texas easily one of my favorite states to visits. Yeah. The last time I went to Texas, Ted Cruz took me out to all of his favorite restaurants. Yeah, and everything had spit in it, but it was still delicious. It really was. So I'm definitely going back. But over the past few years, Texas governor has been scaling back

the state's hospitality, particularly towards undocumented immigrants. He's had them arrested, he's called out the National Guard. He even told citizens to quote take matches into their own hands. Yeah. But last week, Governor Abbott he took things to a whole new level when he decided to start bussing illegal immigrants from Texas all the way to Washington, d C. Yeah, as a way to hit back at the Biden administration's

immigration policies. And now the first bus has arrived about an hour ago, the first bus full of migrants from Texas right right outside the Fox Bureau in Washington, d C. This bus took off from Del Rio, Texas. It left Saturday at four pm, I'm told, and has traveled for over three days straight to get here. There's a group from Nicaragua who spoke to six young men from Venezuela asked them what they wanted to do next. They said they wanted to go to Miami, and I asked if

they were going to get there. They said, they didn't know. They're here in this country. They're willing to work hard. We're here in the food court at Union Station, where a lot of them have been getting something to eat because this was a thirty four hour bus ride. They said they are very excited to be here. They feel welcome. They said that they know that they are a proper in all of this, but they wanted to come anyway.

You know, I don't care what anyone says. America is one of the craziest countries in the world, because what is happening here? People? Do you see? Like what is happening here? One day the governor is building a wall to keep immigrants out, and the next day he's giving him a free ride to the capitol. What are you doing? But I also don't think that he fully thought this through, because if you're trying to deter immigrants, don't you think

this sends a mixed message? Uh? Yeah, because you realize they're gonna be calling home, Like you know, as soon as I crossed the border. They captured me, and they took me to Washington, d C. I think I want to meet the president. Oh man, you guys got to come over as quick as you can, say, Saint Greg Abbott sent you, man. It's crazy. Also, of all of the places to drop the people off, you chose Fox News his headquarters in d C. Really, how are you

gonna do that to Fox News? Man? Those people already terrified of imaginary immigrants, not what a they're gonna do when the real ones show up? Those people? What can it is? That is like everyone showing up to the Fox Bureau. I bet in that office everyone screaming like, oh my god, the caravan is here. What I thought? We made that up? But I thought so too. It's also interesting that the immigrants know that they're being used as pawns, but they're willing to get shipped out of

Texas anywhere. I like that, and I like their honesty. They're like, yeah, we get what's happening here, but we're fine. I guess maybe they just preferred to be in a state with a reliable power grid. That's what they were going for. You know. I also don't think this is actually gonna personally annoy joy Joe Biden. You know, I don't think it's personally gonna annoy him because they're gonna do this to get Joe Biden. What's it gonna do

to him? What do you think Joe Biden is gonna be what, waiting to get into the club, and then he's gonna be like, damn, I'm behind like fifteen Nicaraguan dudes. Oh man, I'm never gonna get it. And that's not gonna happen. Joe Biden doesn't wait in lines for the club. The man goes to bed off. The jeopardy keeps things moving. But let's move on to our next story, which is about pregnancy. Yes, you know how most of us were born.

For a long time, you know who you are. For a long time, society has had a really weird relationship with pregnant women, you know, because on the one hand, it will be like a beautiful mother bringing life into the world, but then on the other hand, society will be like, I don't want to see it. Ah, catch your breastfeed without your boobes. Man. Well, now one of the world's biggest superstars is trying to help reshape how

society looks at pregnant women. A first look at Rihanna on the cover of Vogue, photographed by any Leave of It, sharing details of her high fashioned pregnancy, saying quote, when I found out I was pregnant, I thought to myself, there's no way I'm going to go shopping and no maternity aisle. I'm sorry, it's too much fun to get dressed up. I'm not going to let that part disappear

because my body is changing. The music superstar has been redefining maternity wear since her pregnancy announcement in January, telling the magazine quote, I'm hoping that we were able to redefine what's considered decent for pregnant women, adding my body is doing incredible things right now, and I'm not going to be ashamed of that. Yeah, what can you tell them? Weary? I love that, you know. I couldn't agree with her more like women should show off that they're pregnant, Like

that's the most amazing thing in the world. Think about it. You're growing a person inside of you. You've basically turned into a studio apartment for nine months. That's incredible. I like, I don't even enjoy having people over at my place for more than a few hours. I can't imagine making that decision. Can you imagine if a friend was like, Yo, dude, what would be cool if I crashed in your stomach for like nine months and then leave through your vagina? Yeah? No,

all right, how about I just lean on the couch. Ye, I'll stay on the couch, dude. I actually can't ever believe that women were made to feel ashamed of any part of getting pregnant. That's like one of the strangest things you think about in society, because let me tell you something, Man, if guys group babies in our balls, we'd showed that ship off everywhere. Yeah, our maternity panthers just have a hole in the front. We'd be like four months, four months to see that. Four months we're

doing this. So I actually think, I actually think it's pretty dope to have someone as influential and famous as Rihanna trying to destigmatize the pregnant body in everyday life as well. Because whatever Rihanna does, people will follow, you know, I mean, look at what you did for umbrellas before that. We're just getting wets. In fact, you know what you

do know I should happen after pregnancy, after pregnancy. I hope that Rihanna will pick another societal issue to destigmatize, you know, I hope that issue is something important, like like picking wedgies out of our butts in public. No, you, you, you guys, because Gill is a bigger deal than people want to admit. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of doing that thing where I put my hand in my pocket like I'm looking for my keys, but then I'm secretly picking my underwear out from my Ask

why am I ashamed? Why is any of us ashamed? Huh? Think about statistically speaking right now, half of this audience, you're right now. You have a wedgie right now, right now, Yeah, and you're afraid to take it out right now. So please Brianna when you're ready. We need this. All right, let's move on because our final story is about school. Yeah, that's where you learn important life skills like how to get hit by a dodgeball. I actually use that in

office every day. There are a lot of controversies about schools right now. You know, from the books that students read to the subjects that teachers teach to Meredith getting costs the lead in the Spring Musical, when clearly Alison is the bettert singer. But Merediths mom runs the arts committee, so you know how that goes. But in Pennsylvania, they don't give a ship about any of those issues. No, they're arguing about lunch. Parents are angry over what they

call the lunch police. A school in Pennsylvania says they will search students lunches to confiscate their snacks. The district says students have been bringing an excessive amount of chips, candy, and soda. Students will only be allowed now to bring one small bag of chips and one soda. Anything bigger or more will be thrown away. Parents criticized the decision, saying the school has no right to limit what a student eats. They also say students will not have to

bring so many snacks if school lunches were bigger. M hmm. This is It's an interesting one, isn't it? Show who look? Look. On the one hand, I I get what the school is doing. Junk food addiction is a real problem. You know. I had a cousin who loved pringle, and once he popped, he couldn't stop trying. So I'm gonna miss you soon uses so much, so I get I get putting some sort of limits on the sugar. You know, sugar makes

kids go crazy. They can't concentrate, Like if they all hopped up on sugar, how they're supposed to learn that racism ended in. They can't concentrate, they can't think. But I will say this, I also agree with the parents. This seems like another example of school overreach, Like American schools keep imposing all sorts of crazy restriction restrictions. You know, it's like, oh, which food can you eat? What can you wear? How many guns can you bring? It? We're

in America, God dammit, it's not North Korea. I mean, it's one thing to make the rule, But searching kids for snacks, that's a violation of privacy, not to men in a health risk, because not what are the kids gonna do? Probably gonna be sneaking cans of sprite inside their butts like bags of heroin. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go, let's check in on the stock market without good finance expert Michael cost to everybody, thank you, what's the what's putting the markets?

I mean look in flame? Actually, that last story, you know, that reminded me. We'll get to this in a second. But the school lunches, you know, I uh, I remember being a kid and feeling this way because I used to get beat up every day at school for my brunch money. Right, I went to private school. But um, here's the question that no one is asking, right, these confiscated chips, candies and sodas, where are they going? Everybody? Okay?

I got an answer for it. I bet you it's the lunch ladies that are grabbing them because they're not gonna eat the ship they're cooking, am I right? So something man, that's another thing. I'll get to this in a second. But you know, when I was a kid, Trevor, and I used to have food left on my plate. My mom would say, hey, you better eat that. Kids are starving in Africa. And I used to say to her, Look, Mom, someday I'm gonna work for an African okay, and I'm

gonna ask that African. So I'm just gonna for a second, if I got you while here, I mean, when I would finish my mom's tuna castle roll, like, were you feeling that, you know what I mean? Like but I mean, it's not it. That's not how it works. But my mom, I never I think it was about gratitude. It's not how it worked. Like we didn't we didn't know whether you finished your food or not. All right, So I

guess you'd call my mom a liar or something. But look, look it seems to me, Trevor, that the only thing these schools aren't confiscating their guns, you know, I mean they're looking through the backpack like, oh, here's a rifle you can keep that. Here's a handgun you can keep that. Oh my god, what the hell is this? Sour patch kids? You know, sugar Kills Chandler, right, all right? Because of

what's happening on the stock. Look, look this is simple, Okay, I crush it at the stocks, dude, all right, look this is everyone doesn't figure this out. You need to buy here, okay. And when you look, take a step back, and you can see when you buy here, it's going up. Now. You don't want to buy right here, okay, right now, the company's in green, Trevor, And I'm just realizing this, by the by the green, right red. You don't want to do that ship you get it Okay, it's going

to predict the future. This is not if you take a step back, like, let's go with this green squidly line right here right if you buy right there, you know, and then you sell there, you see why he does it. I'm saying, it's simple, dude, dude, how much how much money have you invested in the stock markets? I do crypto right, So what reminds me? Can I sleep at the studio tonight? Because you know, you said you were an expert, Michael cost to everybody you think you silt

and murdered. All right, we gotta take a quick break. But when we come back, we're gonna meet one of the heroes from the New York subway shooting, and Jerard Cot Michael is joining us from the show, so don't

go away. Welcome back to The Daily Show. For those who don't know, The Daily Show is based in New York City, which is easily America's most famous pigeon toilets Now, on a normal day in New York City, millions of people take the subway to work, but yesterday most far from a normal day, the morning rush hour quickly turning to chaos when police say a gunman put on a

gas mask and open fire. At about eight thirty a and Tuesday, Planicked passengers on a Manhattan bound train fled for their lives after a gunman set off a smoke bomb then fired more than thirty rounds into the crowd. In another car, video shows riders trapped in a thick cloud of smoke waiting for the train to pull into the station. Passengers were seen dragging each other in safety or performing first day while others fled to the street of bund Some good news is that none of the

injuries appear to be life threatening. I get off the train and the first thing I smell, the smoke that hit me in the face was not normal training smoke. This is like something's burning. It's thick, it's heavy. Okay, First of all, thank god nobody died in this attack. That's the main thing, all right. It's honestly a miracle. Infect And kudos to all the people who stepped up to help each other in a crazy moment like this, you know, because you saw the people helping and they

did like assisting each other. You know. People always say that New Yorkers are selfish and rude and won't lift a finger for other people. And and that's true on a normal day, on a normal day New Yorkers, I'm not trying to help anybody like I actually remember. I actually remember when I first moved to New York. I was walking one day behind an old lady and her shopping bag broke and all her fruits and vegetables rolled

out right. And then instead of helping her, everyone just like bounced around the vegetables like everyone's just like dance dance revolution ng over the vegetables. No one helped, no one, And as in South African, I was like, this is crazy, what are you doing? Everyone just carried on with their day. I was like, Yo, what a bunch of assholes. So then I bent down to like pick up some of her stuff, and she was like, hey, don't touch my ship.

I was like, okay, we welcome to New York. But one thing I'll say about New York City, as someone who's been lucky enough to live here now for seven years, is that when ship hits the fan, new York has come together man always. Always. Because in that train station, people weren't just trampling other people, they were carrying the injured. They were performing first aid others were even looking for the shooter, looking for that she was one of the

bravest things you could do, you know. And that's one thing I'll say about the city. You know, I don't know how to explain this energy. People ask me, what does New York like? New York is the best worst city in the world. Yeah, it is. I don't know how it sixplads, the greatest city I've ever lived in.

And look, don't get a twisted This was a scary day for New York, you know, because compared to other big cities, New York is actually a very safe place, and a mass shooting is not a regular occurrency here that they just don't happen, you know. So when something like this happens on the subway, it affects all New Yorkers because the subway is the lifeblood of New York, you know, it connects everyone when it works. Don't don't

take it on the weekend. Don't, don't even try. Damn In the subway is like one of the few places in the world where you'll find you'll find a homeless person sitting next to a Wall Street banker, you know, whose deals probably helped make that person homeless, Like it's no. It's one of the few cities in the world where you can't ignore the fact that there are other human beings living a completely different experience to yours but in the same place. That's what I think makes it special,

you know. So the good news is today they arrested the suspected shooter who apparently here. The arrested the suspective shooter who apparently drove here from Philadelphia, And like, can I just say, do not bring your ship into New York. Okay, I don't care who you are, where you from. Don't bring your ship into New York. We don't need people bringing in more problems from the outside. We've already got enough going. We don't even have a place to put

out garbage. Okay, we're dealing with things. You do with that before we deal with mass shootings. Like, if you're thinking, oh, I'm gonna go to New York and shake things up, trust me, they're already shaken up. You're not helping, especially in the subway. Hon't know if you've ever been on the subway, but the subway is one place where, even on a normal day, you never know what's gonna happen. Yeah, maybe you just listen to your podcast and everything is normal.

Or maybe a rat masturbates on your shoe. Could be an uneventful ride. Well, you could get pulled in as a fourth member of a mariachi band. You don't know, or or this could be the day that that liquid on the floor finally touches your shoe. You don't know. Yeah, you know the liquid you see you know the liquid. You know exactly what I'm talking about. You never know, never know. Man, there's a baby selling twizzlers that the subways is happening and speaking and speaking of the problems

we have in New York City. They probably could have found this guy even sooner if New York had its ships together. Because first Wable, the train conductor, tried to tell the cops which way the shoots a ran, but nobody can understand because like have had understand came back raft And then when they tried to check the security cameras this happened, none of the security cameras inside the thirty six Street station were transmitting pictures as the train

bearing the suspect entered the station. Sources tell CBS to the cameras at the two stops on either side of the thirty six Street station. Forty fifth Street and twenty five Street also had the same connection problems. The MTA has approximately ten thousand cameras that it's four hundred and seventy two stations. All were operational except those three. Sources say, really, really, out of ten thousand cameras in the subway system, the only three that weren't working are the ones that could

have helped. Really, Oh, that's a crazy stroke of bad luck if it were true. Look, man, if you live in New York, you know the truth. The subway cameras never worked, none of them ever. Yeah, that's why every station has those signs that say if you see something, say something, because they don't see anything. They know that camera won't see ship. We don't even know if those are real cameras. I mean, if you cracked them open, it's just like chocolate inside. We don't know. We assume

it's a camera. But let's not get hung up on the details here. The important thing is that those cameras cost New York taxpayers dollars each. Don't forget that. That's all that matters. So you might be asking if the cameras weren't working. How did they catch the guy? Well, I'll tell you how. New Yorkers. We our own cameras. Zach Tahn it was installing surveillance cameras on a business. Initially saw James. He knew that phase that had been

circling on social media. And he went with his gut flagging down police officers on the street on First Avenue near StatET Mark's place. And I was working and I gushed him, thank god, and he I want to see the bag. And he was working at Sweet. I thought, I see the god Bolly's I come from Sweet. That's this that guy, that's the enople for a double plan. We need to catch him today. We know why I got to making him because this is the guy like he tells him and people, how was gonna be like this?

And we catch him? Thank god, you guys, thank you. That's what I'm talking about. What that's what I'm talking about, Zach. And watch your materity named Zack Zack Zack Zack Zack za za za za Zack. Yeah whatever, you don't check his old tweets. We don't care, we don't know. He's our hero. We're keeping him. And how amazing is it? How amazing is this for the story that Zach is a security camera installing that's what he does for a living. Yes,

he was installing a security camera when this happened. Huh. So if the city had hired Zach to fix they're busted as subway cameras, then maybe Zack wouldn't have had to get them out of this mess in the first place. Yeah, and so I say, now that Zach Tahan is a New York City hero, it's time to honor him the New York City way by naming an absolutely disgusting sandwich at a daily after him. It's gonna be oh want you want, you want him and egg and marrin narrow

sauce on buttered rye. Yeah, all right, won Zack Tohan coming off. Let's get it right off paper. It's coming. It's comera. So thank you, Thank you to Zach, Thank you to all the New Yorkers who stepped up on the subway yesterday, because this event turned out a whole lot better than it could have. And you know, whatever the guy intended to do to New York, it didn't work. Yeah, Because let me tell you, man, New York is a tough place. After New York bounce back after Hurricane Sandy.

New York bounce back after COVID. People were like, Oh, New Yorkers, we're gonna come back, get out where you can travel. It's come back that. Yeah. People are like, oh, all the places are gonna be empty, or people have moved back in. Rents are higher than ever before. Yeah. I don't know why I said that, like it's a good thing. But still the point is this city keeps coming back, and that's what makes it the greatest city in the world. Don't go away to our car Michael

joins us right off to the break. Welcome back to the day to Show, and I guest to orry is the talented comedian and actor Gerard car Michael. He's here to talk about his revealing and deeply personal new HBO comedy special Rathaniel. Please welcome Gerard Carmichael. I want to I don't want to do the real thing you work, so you want to make it up. Thank you. Wow, wow, wow, Gerard car Michael, what a nice, warm hug. I've missed you, man.

Congratulations on not just man. You know you've always been funny. I think you know this and You've always been one of my favorite comedians. And I think you know this. I don't say this just because you're here now, but like your special is one of the It's it's a tight rope book. That's the best way to put it.

You know, when you're watching comedy and you're watching somebody balancing and it's a title but there's no net, and the moment where I was going like, oh, Gerald, maybe you should just stop, man, don't don't don't say that, and you're saying and you feel the crowd going with you because they shot. They don't know ahead of time, and the crowd is shot. They've come to see Gerard comic. And then you go, I'm gay and my name is not even Gerard. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot. It's it's

a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. It's just imagine how my therapist feels. You know. It was um, yeah, I don't know, uh like I felt I felt like who am I to talk about? All these other things you know in the world, like you know, actually who am I? Let's start there right, like like who? Like that? That that type of self exploration. I think comedy, uh, stand up has room for yes, you know, Um, and it's so much. I'm like so inundated with other forms of comedy that I just felt like a long form interior

story would be. You know, you're talking the special. You know that part where you talk about like your mom, and I related to that in that, Like your mom is very religious, you and your mom were best friends. You come out as gay, and and then your mom goes, I can't. I don't know how to decipher because I'm Jesus on the one hand, and how I've been taught religion and then you on the other hand. But you're

processing that in real time. Why did you choose to do that instead of going, you know what, I'll figure this out and then five years down the line, I'll do a special about it. Well, well, it's something I one. You know, for all of life's problems. You don't know if or when you'll ever have the answer. Um, using the profession that we chose, like I talked about my life, I don't know. I have an opportunity to go and make it into a show. So I did it. Yeah,

like it in real time? I mean to me, that's what makes it. I mean, it's interesting in a in a way. I mean you know, it's kind of like music, I think in that like it captures a moment, like just like, uh, it's the the emotion is more specific because it's happening in real time, because it's actual things that I'm feeling and going through. Like yeah, I think I kind of thought of it like an album in a way. I loved how it felt, not just like you were processing it. It felt like you made us

the audience processing with you at the same time. That's what I loved about it because because you know, sometimes you watch the show and it's neatly tied up in a bowl, and then when I was watching this, I was sitting at home going like a Gerard, how do I help you fix this? Because it's happening not really but by the way, hold, I think it's funny too, And I should say that because I could feel if you haven't seen it, like people are just like Jesus Christ.

He just tells us all of his problems and then it's my problem, you know. Like It's like, I think it's kind of funny. Amazing though, because you were in the thing, you could feel it in the in the room, for instance, you could feel the audience with you. You know, even even even how you in honestly the most natural, seamless way, you even delve into homophobia, just like in

the black community for instance. You know what I mean, you kind of coming out to a room full of black people that I was like, there's a lot of yeah, no, no, you're just going into it because you can. You can feel like the reaction is kind of shocking. You know, people who were fans of mine or people who knew me, some people in my my personal life didn't know. Uh, and do those people feel like you betrayed them in some way? Did they feel like you tricked them? Yeah?

Well here's the thing, how much time we got like like like it's yeah, and in a way I did right Like I was, I was in the closet and a bit duplicitus by nature of like I was lying about certain aspect acts of my being just out of I mean, I could justify it and say it's self protection.

Is definitely because I was scared. But you know there there, I think my friendships are able to be actually actual friendships now, Like my relationships are actually real now because I'm not hiding anything because I don't have like a hand behind my back. You can't give someone a full hug, you know, if you're concealing something. So that's beautiful that. Yeah, the I feel like the special showed us a different

side of you. I've seen that side of you as a person before, but it was almost like that was the side that you just chose to fully expose. What I was really intrigued by was the fact that you kept in the moments where you spoke to the audience in the special, because there was a point where I mean, we saw that in the clip, but there's literally points where the audience just goes hey man like like one

of the most poignant things. And I wanted to ask you about that was the audience member said to you, you say, it's took you time to accept yourself and to come out, and they said, have you have you thought about maybe you should be able to give your mom time to accept what is happening, and you you gave a very beautiful answer. People should just watch it to get it. What I wanted to ask you off of that was has your mom watched the special? Has

your family? Has anyone watched the special? And then it had like a different perspective or have they said. Man, I didn't think of it that way until I watched you say it like this. Um. My niece reached out, So I guess I made the special. Um. A lot of what's in the special is that I'm gay, and it's a thing that's that goes largely unacknowledged in my family right for whatever reasons, religious reasons. UM. And my

niece texted me. Probably I guess it came out at midnight, by one to two a m. She sent me a text just saying, Uh, I'm very happy for you, thanks for saying how you feel. I'm glad you did it so I don't have to wonder. UM. And it's very It was really beautiful. It was it was the kind of sense of acknowledgement that I think I was seeking in many ways. UM. And that was really beautiful. And and I'm focusing on that because you know, the reff with my family is real and it happens, and it's

something that you learned to kind of deal with. Life kind of sometimes can be a bit bitter sweet, um, because at the time of my life when I'm receiving a lot of love, there's a certain amount of isolation that I'm enduring. I guess. Um. I'm saying all that to say that my niece's love and response was very beautiful and it gave me a lot of hope and um,

and I'm very thankful for her. I'm very very competiful. Yeah, I'm like we th in my mouth, I'm thy well, I mean marriage and where you're happy for you, which is it's been so long. I'm glad to see you again. Congratulations on everything. SNL was amazing. Congratulations on the special people. If you haven't seen it all, it's probably special because a special Rothaniel is turning now on HBO Max. We're gonna take a quick break though, We're right back possible.

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