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show for you tonight. Saudi Arabia wants you to take the bus. All your kids are drug addicts now and report Lpkins refused to abought herschel Walker plus Constant is joining us as our gas tonight. Everybody, So let's do the people's strick into today's headlines. All right, folks, I'm gonna be honest with you. With all the news that happened today, I just don't think we have enough space in today's show. Yeah. I know. I tried. I tried

everything to fit it all in. I I even used that machine from Honey I shrunk the kids, But there was the whole thing I accidentally aimed at my crotch and the nights to like to get the another one that show. It was like anyway, The point is, I'm fine, but there's still not enough time for the news today. Luckily not enough time. It's just enough time for a

segment week hall A, nobody got time for that. Alright, Let's kick things off with a big story about gas, the only character to appear in every Fast and Furious movie. Gas prices have been falling in America for months now, but it looks like that's about to end, and just in time to throw a big, greasy wrench into the mid terms. A win for Russia and potentially higher gas

prices for American consumers. The Opeque plus alliance of oil producing countries announcing deep cuts in production to boost prices for their members, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, growing concerns about the future of gas prices in the US. We could see an increase in prices by the end of this month, just in time for mid term elections. The worst possible timing for president by this comes just three months after the President visited Saudi Arabia, the biggest player

in OPEK. Biden fist bumped NBS and asked him to increase oil production. Instead, Saudi Arabia did the opposite. Yes, America's allies, Saudi Arabia has decided to take sides with Russia and raise oil prices. And at this point, I'm ready struggling to understand the relationship between America and Saudi Arabia because it seems like a very one sided friendship.

America sells them weapons and ignores their many human rights abuses, and then Saudi Arabia is like, and in the return, we will kill your journalists and raise your gas prices and do ninety elevens. Thank you, my friend, thank you. We are such good friends, such good friends. But I guess that's the power you have when you're in control of all the energy, right. I mean, America can't even threaten the Saudias. What's Biden gonna say if you raise the prices, will fly over there and bump the ship

out of you. If you could just lend us some gas and feel about jets, that would be great. We can't get there. And whether you were Democrats or a Republican, you have to admit that this is not a good look for Biden, because think about it, he had to fly all the way across the world to fist bump the crown prince and in exchange he gets a pie in his face. Honestly, sometimes I feel like the Saudias are just pranking American presidents, you know, like you remember

how they were with Trump. They were like, here to do this short dance, dance with the storm dance. Now put your hands on the glowing or oh my god, he's doing it. Guys, he's doing it. He's doing it. Americans are so thirsty. Now, if we had time, we could talk more about how Saudi Arabia could be raising gas prices right before the mid terms to punish Biden

for running his mouth. Oh, we could talk about how America has painted itself into this corner by pushing both Venezuela andy Ron so far out of the world economy that they caught help stabilize world oil prices. We could even talk about how gasoline comes from dinosaurs, which is crazy. But we don't have the time to talk about any of that, because while Saudi Arabia is coming for your wallets, drug dealers are coming for your kids. Urgent Halloween warning,

rainbow fentanyl. This is every parent's worst nightmare. In New York City fifteen thousand rainbow fentanyl pills seized from a car just days ago, many of them found in this yellow lego box. The d E A calling rainbow fentanyl a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction among kids and young adults, but medical specialists contacted by ABC say there has not been evidence presented that the pills are being given to or targeted towards children. No, the children,

not children. They're being targeted, although there's no evidence of that. But what if there was? The children? What is it about American news that every year they find a new story to scare parents about Halloween? Every single year in this country. Oh, they're gonna put razor blaze in the candy. They're gonna poison the candy. They're gonna switch out the real candy for weed. It's almost like every single October the news is like, well, this Halloween, we're gonna go

as a gullible grandma who believes everything she reads un faced. Fark. Yeah, I heard that if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer. What are you doing? People need to stop fearmongering, al right, The worst thing anyone gives to kids on Halloween's on Halloween is like like a mound's bar. That's it. Yeah, most things are so bad even the company that makes them is like, well, let's just name it after a big pile of dirt. Why not,

because let's let's play along with this logic. Let's play along. What do you say. You're saying that drug dealers are trying to get little children addicted to drugs, So then what they can use the millions they've made from the tooth ferries to keep the drug business alive? Huh? Drug dealers one customers not dependents. These kids don't have the money for fencil. Well they're gonna be walking up to

your drug dealer. I can pay you in stickers, but not the glitter ones doesn't my favorite, And don't cut that ship like the last time, Marty, I want to pure stuff. It's the fear mongering. I'm not I'm not saying the drugs onto an issue. I'm saying stuff fearmongering to the parents. Right, I see why this is happening right now. Rainbow fencynel is the heart new panic drug and people. I know rainbow fencyel is scary, but can we just take a minute to congratulate it for being

an ally. Huh cocaine. Maybe your white ass could learn a thing or two about that white all the time. Now, if we had the time, we could talk more about how American news organizations are some of the worst offenders and sensationalizing and fueling the war on drugs because their stories ensure that public support for a program that has decimated communities and incocerated half of the United States carries on.

But we don't have the time for that, because while local news is trying to pump up the drug will, Joe Biden is trying to undo some of the damage it's caused. Or breaking news at this our President Biden just pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law, and the pardon will intact about hundred people

with the simple marijuana possessions convictions between the years. He's also asking the Secretary of HHS to review how we classify cannabis marijuana in this country, pointing out if that marijuana is classified on the same level as heroin, he wants his administration to take another look at that. Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. It's time that we right these wrongs. Yes, finally, this is something that should have been done a long

time ago. You know, can you imagine how many people are incocerated even works? Can you imagine getting for this offen seeing how mainstream weed has become in America? I mean, which is probably feel the same way. You know. It's like, oh, so these hampster change can walk around Brooklyn with their candles and crystals. But when I didn't sell them, I got burned. Bitches, I got burned. But yes, this is great for America. This is really good for America. And

it's also huge. It is a huge week for the characters on Scooby Doo. Think about it. Yeah, first Bellma comes out as a lesbian, and now Shaggy's getting a federal pardon what? And now I know everyone is saying that Joe Biden is just doing this to boost his popularity before the mid terms, But in my opinion, I think maybe this thing hits closer to home. I wouldn't be surprised if Joe Biden secretly a huge pothead. Yeah no, think about it, think about it, Think about it. Joe

Biden can smoke a lot of weed. Yeah, he's he's always puttering around like he forgot where he was going. You know, it's wearing sunglasses everywhere he goes. I mean, he definitely talks like he's highs American. You know the thing I'm I'm just like, I'm not junking. Come on, man, come on, wait, we're here now when the futures everywhere,

it's everywhere? Is he? Now? If we just had a little more time, we can discuss why anyone anywhere in America splin jail for something that almost everyone agrees isn't a crime. Oh, we could talk about how convenience it is that weed is no longer bed, not that America has figured out how to make money from it. But we don't have the time for that, because while the US are showing signs of finally getting over its obsession with drugs, Elon Musk is unveiling his master plans to

get everyone addicted to something else. After a few contentious months, Elon Musk and Twitter seemed to have reached the deal, and Musk is now poised to buy the social media app, Musk tweeting last night his purchase and Twitter will be part of his plans for an app called X, a so called super app that acts as a condensed version of the Internet, letting you do everything within one app. The best example of this is wheat Chat. It's owned by Chinese internet giant ten Cent and has over one

billion users, mostly throughout Asia. We Chat let's you send text messages, pay for things online and in stores, hail a car ride, play video games, and so much more. Must telling Twitter employees in a town hall over the summer. We Chat could be a model for future versions of Twitter. Yeah, Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a super app that does everything in one place. And I will tell you know, I hate that idea. I don't want Twitter to do more things. I like how it works now.

Every day the entire world picks one person and destroys their life, and then the next thing we find somewhere else. It's perfect. It works pretty well. Come up for real, Like, Twitter is such a toxic sewer, why would you want to link it to all the other parts of your life. It's like a businessman saying, hey, you see this trash can. What if it was also your car? I don't to burst anyone's bubble but we already have this all right,

it's called an iPhone. Seriously, are we so lazy now that we're like, oh, I want to order someone to bring me food, but the app is all the way on the other side of the phone, and my thumb is so tired. I'm look. If we had a little more time, we could talk, and we could have so much fun talking about how Elon Musk thought he was trolling all of us but instead just spend billion dollars trolling himself. And I know you might be saying, oh, yeah,

well he still owns Twitter. Driver yeah, and somebody owned my Space. I'll see you guys on the next app. But we don't have the time to talk about any of that because someone somewhere in the world said something by mistake, and now all of us on Twitter, I'm gonna try and destroy their lives. What's the maps. We'll

be right back. Welcome back to The Daily Show. The mid terms are only a month away, and one of the most closely watched races is in Georgia, where Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is being challenged by Herschel Walker, former football star and walking Mori Povic. Episode. So let's catch up on today's big twist in the race in another

installment of Vote Demico. From the very start of this race, herschel Walker has been one of the loudest champions for a total ban on abortion, which made it a bit awkward this week when a woman accused him of paying her to get one. Now, when the story broke, herschel Walker said, this woman was lying. I don't even know who this lady is, but it turns out that he

might be the liar. More fallout for Georgia's pro life senate candidate herschel Walker after he said he had no idea why a woman would accuse him of paying for her to have an abortion. Have you figured out who it is? Uh? Not at all. It's sort of like everyone is anonymous or everyone is leaking, and they want you to confess to something you have no clue about. But after Walker made that statement, the woman went public. She is the mother of one of his children. Oh ah, oh,

that's awkward. Oh man, He says he doesn't know the woman, but it turns out she's reportedly the mother of one of his kids. So either herschel Walker is lying or his penis does some crazy ship while he's asleep. Yeah, Penis just like he's finally out. Time for me to hit the streets and do what Izzy gotta do it now, off to this woman blew up Walker spot. He didn't exact we withdraw his denial, but he did say that if he paid for an abortion quote, it's nothing to

be ashamed of. And here's the thing I agree with that. I agree with it. It's not unless you're known as the anti abortion guy. That's literally a thing. It's like if you've if you've caught smoky bed torching a forest. Remember, only I can dance among the beautiful light of the screeping flames. Kids and now flairly hershel Walker is willing to run on a platform that he himself doesn't actually believe. But what's been amazing to see is how the Republican

Party feels the same way. There is no perfect person, no way. He'll do more to change the Senate just by the sheer presence, by his confidence, by his deep commitment to Christ. He's been through a long, tough period. He had a lot of concussions coming out of football. He suffered PTSD. You're telling me Walker used his money to reportedly hey some skanking for an abortion. I don't care if herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles.

I want control of the Senate. You know, you gotta love it when they say the quiet part out loud. I love it. Abortion is totally unforgivable unless I need to do it. In fact, in fact, what you're saying is you'll fine with an abortion if you need to win a Senate race a Senate race, but you're not fine with a woman needing it to save her own life. That's what you're saying. You know, usually you only see

this kind of hypocrisy from your landlord. Yeah, if your rent is late by one day, they kick your door and want to kick in to the curb. But they when it takes them two months to fix a leak in the ceiling something, you're like, Hey, life happens. Be patient, be patient, right, taking time. And by the way, I'm gonna need to charge you actually for the rain coming from your living room. That's a special feature, that's what

that is. And by the way, as for the rest of them, I'm constantly a maze at how quickly Republicans forgive certain people. They're like herschel Walker, deserves forgiveness for you, since I'm not even disagreeing. But it's interesting how quickly they move, all right, But when it comes to prison reform or college dead suddenly they're like people have got to pay the price for what they've done. There are consequences in life. You do something and then there's a consequence.

I'll be honest, people, I honestly don't understand how any of this makes sense, but I want to. I want to, which is why I've asked Dasilidic to foxplain it to us. Herschell Walker is under attacked by the usual suspects, the lame stream media, the woke left his children. But what's the real story. Well, I've been watching Fox News for four straight and I'm ready to explain why herschel Walker is the biggest victim of cancel culture since the chap

O Taco. I don't care if herschell Walker aborted baby eagles. I don't care if you aborted baby kangaroos. I don't care if you aborted baby otters. I've been banned from all the petting zoos and I don't give up. I'm sorry, but we're supposed to leave all these stories from herschel Walker's kids. They've never even met herschel Walker. Even if he did pay for that woman's abortion, that just proves that he's a gentleman. Sorry Ben the Nazis, but chivalry

is not dead. And what is an abortion? It's not stopping a freeloader from coming across the southern border. What would Jesus do? Seriously, I'm asking herschel represents American values football, college football. We are so close to control the Senate. We cannot let our dreams be crushed by one unplanned pregnancy. Wait, I don't care what herschel Walker did. As long as he gets in the senence, we can stop other people from doing what he did, which he didn't do. He

doesn't matter what herschel Walker's in the past. It matters what he does starting now. He got caught doing what Jesus starting now. Don't realize everybody, when we come back comes, we'll be joining us on a sul go work. Welcome back the Daily Show. My guest Tonight is one of the stars of the new film Lyle Lyle Crocodile. She's also written a deeply personal memoir called Making a Scene. Please Welcome Constance Wood cause this wrong. Welcome to the

Daily Show. Thank you good to be here. Um, let's start with the question that I've been trying to figure out the entire time reading the book. Just the title of the book, no making a scene. You know that there's so many different interpretations where it's like making a you know, you're saying good making a scene, bad, making scenes of fool making a scene you write a memoir about your life. That is the title. Why that Well, you kind of got it because it's supposed to, um

have multiple meanings. There's two overarching themes in the book. One is how art is very healing, and for me, art was always doing theater, and in theater you make scenes in a play. And um. The other theme is sort of about what it means when somebody makes a scene, and how growing up I sort of felt that it was unladylike to make scenes, and how that repression was something that I've been struggling with my whole life as a naturally extroverted emotional person. And so now I'm just like,

I'll just be emotional and just make a scene. You know, I didn't know what to expect when I picked up the book, you know, because when you read it somebody's memoir, you have an idea of who they are, and then you have an idea of what you think they more

will be. You've written in a really interesting way in that I've seen a book that has essays, and I've seen a book that's written in a completely linear format, but you've told some of the stories or you've written them as screenplays, and it feels like we're in a movie that is your life. Why did you choose to do that? Is that how you saw it, or or do you want us to feel like we in the

movie that is your life? Well, there are certain scenes, are parts of the book that were originally written as dialogue that happened to me as I recount my experiences, and then I put them in a sort of screenplay or playwriting format, because I feel like sometimes with actor memoirs there's a little bit of a kind of a slant, like they're trying to make themselves be the victim or the hero, or like cooler than and I felt like by putting it in a scene format, it sort of

took you out of the book in a way that made the experience more objective. So if I'm talking about somebody putting, you know, his hand on my crotch. I could talk about how that felt to me, or I could just explain the action and everybody will have their own response to him. Let's let's talk a little bit about it, because, yeah, because that that was something interesting in the book. You know, you shared some really vulnerable

moments in your life. You talked about going through sexual harassment. You know, one of the producers on the show, the hit show that you are on Fresh of the Boat. But what's interesting is it doesn't seem like you are trying to slam somebody. It seems like you're counting what happened. You even seem to have, honestly, a compassion that I don't think many people would where you go, I understand where this guy came from. I didn't appreciate what he did.

He made my life a living hell, but I forgive him. And then you go on to talk about parts you know, lates on the book where you realize that there were moments where you felt like you were creating an environment that was harassing to people. Not on the same level in any way, but but I was intrigued by why you would do that and how you would even begin to think like that. Well, I mean, you are right, I even in a way have a compassion for the person who raped me, and that is something that is

you know, you don't do. And the reason I do it is not to have compassion and not to take their side. But I do feel that if I am asking for people to look at my life and my mistakes with curious curiosity and empathy rather rather than judgment, I feel like I want to do the same for other people. And it was beautiful because as I was

doing that, it made me stop blaming myself. So you know, I felt really bad with the sexual harassment on Fresh off the Boat because sometimes I I wanted to be part of the boys club, So like when he would do or say something that was inappropriate, I'd be like, oh my god, you're such a dick, you know, like laughing with him, and I felt like that was a type of permissiveness, and I felt guilty because of that.

Um But then when I thought about how he's an Asian American man and how Asian American men have traditionally felt very masculated in this country and what that does to a person and why and how they might exercise their feelings of powerlessness and exercise it on the women in their own community. Because he was always respectful to white and black women all around me. It was just to Asian women who weren't in positions of power that

he sort of exercised his power. And you know, I consider that, and I consider the pressure he was under, not to excuse him, but just to understand people better. Wow. Wow mhm. You know you you you bring up your life and everything that you've gone through. There are many people who are familiar with it, and they obviously those who learn about it from the book or maybe even from us speaking about it. But you went through a really interesting period where you were on this hit show.

It came out of nowhere. It was a supern over, fresh off the boat. People were loving it. It represented, you know, the Asian community, and it was this exciting you idea, and it was funny, it was powerful. And then I think it was after about five seasons, people thought the show was done. You started booking a few projects, then the show got picked up and you had to go back to the show contractually. You spoke up about it on Twitter, you know, and I mean more than

spoke up about it, I mean rather profane tweet. Yeah, i'll let you. I'm objectively giving it to you. But you said a few things and and what you talk about in the book, and I really enjoyed it is you talk about how you felt, You talked about the mistakes you made, but then you talk about the response and and and how people made you feel, leading to a point where you contemplated suicide. Um yeah, I actually

really did pull myself over a balcony ledge. So it was very close, and I'm very lucky that I had a friend there to help me. But um, but yeah, I mean, I do think the reaction to my not ladylike tweets was outsized in proportion to my mistake. And um, you got, I remember you got. You were getting slammed like people, people were coming after you, and people were like, oh, they were saying, like you should kill yourself, you're ungrateful you. I remember it at the time, and it was huge.

It went far beyond like what had happened. You know. It felt like you were angry and you were lashing out, but the response was like it seemed like it was. It was pretty cruel. Um yeah, And so that's why I ended up in a hospital and why I inevitably had to take a break from Hollywood just sort of guy. I didn't want to cry. I'm sorry to like work

on my mental health. Um and and it was lonely, and I'll tell you what, it remains a little bit lonely because one of the things I wanted to talk about was how the Asian American community has largely remained silent because they're so hyper focused on this idea of positive representation. And I think that is such an illusion. It's like the model minority coin, but just the the

other side of it. We need a whole human representation which includes mistakes, which includes insecurities and vulnerability, and it

includes the intersections of race and gender. Because one of the few people that I've told back in season two that I was being sexually harassed was one of the most vocal and prominent advocates for Asian Americans, very um progressive, very outspoken, and I sort of told him I guess as a as a testing ground to see, you know, if he would believe me, and he just looked at me like my dog had died, and then never asked that anything again, and a week later, I saw him

into reducing my abuser on an Asian American panel with the most profuse praise, and it felt like such a betrayal. And I'm like, if even he doesn't believe me, who's going to believe me? And this is prior to the Me too movement. And I just want to say to a lot of Asian American male activists, if you claim to stand for Asian Americans, you have to stand for

women too, because that's fifty percent of that population. When you, when you experienced this, it was really it was really interesting to read through how you felt about it in the book, you know, because because you you share the complexities of of what you were going through, and one of those complexities was around the burden of carrying for

an entire group. You know. I spoke to a friend of mine and she was telling me, you know, she's Chinese and she moved to the US, and she was saying how she's always been taught that the group is more important than the whole, regardless regardless of the cost. And you you talk about in the book about how many said to you it doesn't matter what happened to you.

What's more important is how the Asian community is perceived. Yes, that positive representation of the whole and straight from that, right, and so how did you how did you find the balance and also the fortitude to say, look, I am here representing the Asian community as a whole, as a as a as a complex person, but I also wish to be protected as an individual. Like where where did you find that strength? Where did you because you, as you say, you were contemplating suicide. You you know you were,

you were in a mental hospital. You you went through so many things. What what is it that changed in constance is life? Where you decided no, you know what, I've got to change how I deal with this? Well, to be honest, I think I'm still finding it. But I think one thing I learned is that repressing those stories of abuse that happened to me, it wasn't just going to go away because I wanted it to go away, because I wanted to maintain the reputation of the show.

And I realized, if I'm going to live as my authentic self, then I just need to do it, even at the risk of some other people's discomfort. And so I do think my speaking out is going to make some people uncomfortable, but I think discomfort is often where you find growth, and it's sort of the only way I know how to be right now. I love that. Uh, I wouldn't I wouldn't be doing I could put that away. I use that for my second evidence of my dada.

I would be doing the book in your life at disservice if we just stayed on the saddest parts, in the saddest moments anybody wants to talk about, well, not not me, Not because because because it is a life. You know, there are many funny moments. You tell amazingly funny stories. Um, I feel bad for almost every guy who's dated you, especially lots of I know what I mean, what it means because you tell the story is in

a really funny way. And if I was like the maitre d for instance, there's so many great stories yourself about dating and life going well, life not going well. It's silly things, that's funny. Moments. You know you talk about moving in your twenties. You you you you you. You share really fun stories about your journey growing up, moving around, for instance, just the way you speak about your sisters. You want a four all right, one of

four girls, one of four girls. And I love how in the book you talk about how Helen is just like your favorite sister. And I was, like, you do realize your sisters are going to read this book? You're not worried about that them knowing that you have a favorite. Now did I say favorite? No? No, no, no. I said, she's the one I become closest to an adulthood. Oh, that's even worse. Oh she's the one I'm closest to.

That's not much better. But what I love is that you you you you share a lot and it's and it's and it's funny and it's complex when you look at your life, when you when you look at the laughter that you you bring to yourself, Like, what are some of the funniest moments that you loved reading about in your own book? Because I feel like thinking book means you have to relive some of what you've been through. You have to read it so many times when you're editing.

It's like a whole thing. I wrote it all myself. Um, that's why it took me so long. Um. I mean, there's one essay I really enjoyed writing about my first ever job, which was at a bread bakery where I learned about what it means, what it really means the bake bread. When you think about it, for centuries, the recipe has stayed the same, and it's funny. I was

almost embarrassed. I'm almost embarrassed of my job now because an acting career feels so flimsy next to something as substantial as a loaf of bread when you really think about what that has means meant for cultures. And also like writing that one brought back all the smells of the bakery and the taste. No, I feel like that's like a missed opportunity, just like now and again, I mean I do explain in the book, you know I was. I was at the needing table, so I needed the

bread and I shaped it. But I was never the mixer. That's like a very important role where they mixed the doll and Um, that was never my job because I was like a fifteen year old. It's too important of a job for a fifteen year old. When you walk past the place that's baking something, do you get memories immediately? I even tried to audition um to be a baker when I first moved to l A and I was like, let me try a different side job other than waitressing.

I have, um, I have these banking skills, let me try. So they auditioned me for this banking role. And I remember the mixer. He and I were working together, and I'm trying to make small talk the way you might do with you know, your waitressing staff, and and saying like, oh, you know, I'm an actress. What do you do? And he looked at me and he said, I'm a baker. But I remember thinking like, that's that's right, yeah you are. That's an honorable job, you know. And You're like, I'm

just he has my side hustle. And I didn't get the job. You didn't, and you know what, you ended up in the ripe one conscience. And thank you so much for taking the time, Thank you for joining me on the show. What Nation's Gonna Run? Fascinating book making the same as available wherever you buy a book. There are tons more stories to make sure you go out and get a concert where everybody we're gonna say a quick great over right fast after. Thank you very much,

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