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Let's kick things off with some sad news that might tug your heartstrings. President Donald Trump might be going to jail. We all react to grief differently, but yes, prosecutors in one of Trump's four hundred court cases might have found a surprise witness one of his own lawyers.

I'm breaking news right now.

Donald Trump's former lawyer just pleaded guilty.

Sidney Powell is who we're talking about now entering into a plea agreement in the Georgia election subversion case. This is a deal that comes just one day before her trial was due to start, and as part of this flea deal, she has agreed that she will testify in any future trials which raises the possibility that she could testify against Trump in the future, which obviously is a huge deal.

That's right, Sidney Powell might be flipping on the don And if you don't remember Sidney Powell, she was Trump's craziest lawyer, which is amazing considering that Trump's other lawyers included this guy.

And this guy.

Being Trump's craziest lawyer is like being the most divorced dad at an embassy suites. Embassy suites, not an embassy and definitely not sweet. Now, under this plea deal, Powell will avoid prison time, but she will have to pay a nine thousand dollars fine and write an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia.

I mean, just a letter. This woman actively tried to steal an election. At least you could do is apologize door to duel like a sex officer.

Yeah. Hi, I'm Sidney Powell. I'm a lested democracy. A good point, Ronnie. Yeah.

At the very least, she should write an apology to Mike Pence for almost getting him hanged.

I mean, obviously he won't read.

It because he considers receiving mail from a woman to be a form of sex.

But it's good.

Etiquette, I mean constant. I gotta say, you know, Sidney Paul Weell sounds like a pretty great lawyer to be honest. I mean she got treason down to an apology letter like that's amazing negotiation. Still practicing because I might want to hire.

Her, But no, why would you hire a criminal lawy? Have legal problems.

Nothing major to some minor drug trafficking, drug trafficking like Fenlol, although like ENGENU want man?

I can who kill up?

All right, let's move on.

To some breaking news from the world of AIS. Every day people are using AI for groundbreaking things like cheating on their homework or drawing them on a Lisa with giant boobs. But now researchers are using it to unlock ancient human mysteries.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is allowing researchers at the University of Kentucky to read an ancient scroll burned by Mount Vesuvius. Now, the scrolls are too fragile to unfurl, but UK's doctor Brent Seals and his team of researchers have developed technology to try and read what's on the scrolls without opening them. One word that's already been deciphered is purple, but a more recent discovery has given scientists more to translate.

Wow purple. I mean I was hoping for ancient wisdom or like how to summon a demon? But yeah, you know, mixing red and blue is cool too, I guess. Although if we can't read or scroll ourselves, how.

Do we know if the AI is right?

Well, we're just gonna trust it because Chad GBT told me three days ago that gotten the invented the cinnamon challenge. So anyway, it's also a waste of time because I already know what's gonna be on that scroll. Okay, it's gonna be someone writing, hey, she'll hold that volcano doesn't kill everyone in town purple?

Yeah, I mean, do we want to know what ancient people have to say? We always think it's gonna be something profound, but it's always just it's human. It's gonna be something racist.

Don't you think.

I mean, think about how racist.

Your grandpa was sixty years old and you imagine that he was just two thousand years older.

Yeah, I don't want to read someone's two thousand old old tweets. And I agree also, like, what are we looking for in Dell? What kind of wisdom. How smock can these people be? Like they put the most important documents next to a volcano.

That's true, and they say it's too delicate to unravel.

Well, how do you know if you tried to unravel it?

Yeah, good point, Yeah, little.

Bit, Just pick the least important looking one and open it.

Open the scroll, Open.

The scroll, open the scroll, open the scroll.

Oh bend scroll, Oh bend stroll, Oh bend scroll, Oh.

Bend of scull. Let's move on, pund the scroll.

O oh, but let's move on to America's new Let's move on to America's new national pastime.

Book banning.

States around the country are trying to ban any books that expose their children to diversity, but now one prominent children's book publisher is standing up and saying, hey, we can help you with that.

Changes are coming to school book fares after several states pass laws limiting discussions of race and gender in schools, Schoolastic announced it's fairs will now have a separate section for books covering race, gender, and sexuality.

The new diverse Books category includes sixty four titles such as biographies of Malala and Lebron James, as well as books about same sex families. Schools can opt to exclude all these books from their sales.

Hold on, hold on, Yeah, so now biggots can just check a box and now all the books will be removed.

Come on, guys, if you're going to be.

Racist and sexist, you can't also be lazy.

You know, you got to put the work in.

You go through the books and find all the race and gender stuff yourself. Look, and who knows, you know, maybe if you actually take the time to read these books that you think are so terrible, actually absorb them, you might just find out that.

All kids' books are terrible. You know, I love you, Ronnie Man.

Yeah, well, more on this story. Let's go live to an elementary school and I'll off from here if I'll sen your book for extra.

But Troy, what, Troy?

Troy, it's a real scandal keeping kids from reading these classic books.

No, No, I think they should be kept from kids. Have you actually read some of these books? They get really graphic. I mean, James Crowl's right up inside that peach, like right up in there.

Troy, Come on, even if some of these books are a little mature, kids should be able to buy them if they're curious No.

The last thing we need is a bunch of bi curious kids. Okay, that is no way to treat our children. With your children, I don't have them. Kids are disgusting.

Okay, look, Troy, we all think kids are disgusting. Okay, you're not special, But do you really believe these books are gonna walk kids minds?

Actually, if I could get personal for a second, I am a living example of how damaging these books can be. When I was in school, I read a Japanese manga book and look at me now, I am half Japanese.

Wait the book turned you half Japanese?

Why only half?

Well, I didn't finish it.

But as you can see, the damage was done. That's how influential books are.

Okay, so I guess the solution is to separate the books.

No, actually separating them has been a disaster. Have you ever told a child that they can't have something, It becomes the only thing they want. These kids have stormed the forbidden section like it was a Nickelodeon version of January sixth. They beat dokomme Ellen with a flagpole.

There was even there was poop on Nancy's desk.

But that that was because the first grader had an accident. They must have read that book. Everyone poops.

Okay, well trot, I'm still reading this a little spoilers. Please look, man, if banning books doesn't work, then how can schools protect kids.

Well, I think the only answer is a compromise. Stop banning books, but also stop teaching.

Kids how to read. Oh okay, that looks for me.

Try you what, everybody.

When we come back, we'll find out why President Biden talks.

The way he does it.

Don't go away, good, Welcome back to the Daily Show.

President Biden addressed the nation tonight on the war in the Middle East. Luckily he has a special skill way it comes to speaking, and we found the guy who taught it to him.

All right, testing levels.

Let me know if you can hear this.

I'm Joe Biden, Soul of America, Scranton.

That works for me.

I'm noan peacock, and I'm Joe Biden's senior whisper advisor.

I don't know any way.

Dismiss what Senator Murphy says about the environment.

I dismiss it at all, So she might ed I wrote the bill Let the environment.

Before the president gives any speech.

It's my job to come through it and find the most jarring moments for him to whisper.

All right, what do you think about this? Yeah, that's the spot right there.

I got them one you're going to begin chasing.

This week.

Here's my idol, Old Teddy Roosevelt. We all remember what he said, right, speak softly and carry a big stick.

What's that a big stick?

I'm not familiar. You may wonder why whisper.

I'll tell you what. Sorry, boyd you say exactly?

You see now, you're interested as a whisper advisor.

You're always looking for new inspirations, honing your craft. In fact, lately I've been experimenting with something I like to call reverse whispering.

Think about it, Think about what you'd think about at the pot.

Some people question my methods.

They'll claim there's no good reason President to suddenly whisper in the middle of a speech.

I want of attention today, whispers from President Biden lighting up social media, where the hashtag creepy Joe started gaining traction very quickly.

I don't understand why he keeps doing the creepy whisper thing.

What's with the.

Creepy whispering all the time.

But when President Biden nails a whisper, so unexpected, so borderline confusing.

You wonder if you're hallucinating. Guess what crost economy?

Alright, when we come back Survival Us, Jordan Jonas are you're joining me on the show?

Welcome back to the Daily Show.

My guest tonight is a wilderness guide and self reliance expert who won season six of the History Channel show Alone. Please welcome Jordan Jonas. So, thanks for coming to New York City.

What an honor. Thanks for the invite. Now I'm in your world.

Yeah, you're in my world now. We were trying to get a hold of you. You live in Montana.

Yeah, the booking.

Department was freaking out. You're gonna make your flight?

You weren't responding to anything, and then they told me you sent this text yesterday. I literally just galloped on a horse for the last ten months in the wilderness so I'd be able to catch my flight in the morning.

Ha ha.

So this isn't like a bullshit act. You are a wilderness guy.

I was in the woods. Yeah, a fast horse. Fortunately, fight it out.

You won season six of History Channels Alone. You spend seventy seven days alone in the Arctic.

You killed a moose with a bow and arrow.

Then then a wolverine was trying to steal your moose meat, so you killed that.

With a hatchet.

Doggy Dog World.

You figured out a way to fish in the frozen tundra, which helped you win.

Tell me about winning.

Alone, Oh, man, what I never pictured that as being a career opportunity. No, it was an incredible experience, man, Nothing like the pressure getting dropped off on a helicopter and you don't get another meal until you catch it, right like that, indefinitely. But you also so get the pure joy that's almost hard to replicate it every time you catch a fish or a rabbit or whatever it is. It's pure joy and like that all the way up until the end. Which, yeah, I mean.

I think it's sometime we get so jaded watching reality TV.

This is your alone. Yeah, No one's.

Giving you granola bars and saying like salmon fil a.

I mean, it's really a survival show.

It is is It's cool. It's like, so it feels so similar to what all of our ancestors used to go through, you know, And yeah, on a daily basis, just trying to survive, trying to make, you know, make your way forward, and all of our dopamine, serotonin, all that is lined up with that experience, you know, kind of the the modern life's a bit of a hack. But when you're out, you know, now our serotonin is released through Yeah.

I do my hunting online.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So when you're dropped off in that situation, are you thinking I need big game like a moose. I need reliable fishing. I mean, what's the strategy? Because you kill a moose, then you have to do something with the moose.

Right my initial thought, I mean, I for sure my main concern was food. Like I thought, I'm a skinny guy, I'm gonna starve out here. Yeah, so I was all focused on food. I thought, I'm gonna catch a bunch of fish, make a pile of fish, and beta bear in and hunt that. But I didn't catch many fish to begin with and no bear. So I got an opportunity at a moose and just rolled from there.

Man.

Yeah, tell me about where some of this skill set came from. Yeah, this story fascinates me, and it seems to have really affected your view on the world and who affected who you are.

Yeah, when I was in my early twenties, I went over to Russia and spent a bunch of time living with nomadic reindeer herders.

You do know, anyway, next question, you do that in your twenties.

As you do? Yeah, no, but it was a fascinating experience. I didn't even know people really still live like that until I basically dropped off at the tepee. But they're nomadic, living in the wilderness year round. Follow the herds through the woods, and I learned a ton from them, and they all, of course became good friends, and I've spent a lot of years living with them.

So you know, I should be honest with our audience.

Jordan and I've met before, and I took one of your wilderness expeditions. My wife and I started to watch alone during COVID, as a lot of people did, and were just blown away at the show. And also you because you had all this amazing skill set, you could feed yourself, you could survive, but then there also seemed to be a connection and humility with nature that that was really beautiful. And now I know you, I know that's all bullshitv My wife buys me for my birthday,

To kill me.

This is me on the right, and this is I can't even explain to you everything about this, But I flew to Missoula, Montana.

I drove four and a half hours.

Then I got on a horseback for eight hours with you and nine other people whose partners were trying to kill that. We were at thirteen thousand feet maybe in the Bitterbot Mountain ten thousand feet let me exaggerate a little bit.

And you really taught.

Us some things in a really gentle kind way. There's a picture of you teaching us how to trap some small animals. What is this trapping device? To these talk to these city, big city folk about this.

You guys all know about this. That's like a basically a mouse or a rat trap. It's called a dead fall. But that's one of the don't trap the mice that are harassing you at night you have a miserable survival experience.

I thought that would be particularly helpful for so many New Yorkers.

Yeah, I know it is. That's an excellent trap to learn.

You were so kind to me. We one day we were walking on the mountain. We see this lake and I don't know if you didn't have an itinerary or out in the wilderness you don't have an itinery Yeah, so you go, do you guys want to walk down to that lake? And we're like, yeah, of course. It took all day. It's exhausting. And we get down to the lake and we start fishing. But we just had a little bit of fishing line. I remember you handed me this casting reel.

I had a hook.

I threw the casting reel in the lake. I was holding onto my hook, but it was not natural for me. Is it important for you to introduce people to nature in this way?

Oh?

You could have easily been like Jesus Christ, you threw the wrong thing into the lake.

No. I actually love it, man. I feel like it's so important for people, especially in the modern world, to be able to escape. And I love you know, it's awesome to bill and power people to go out there and experience what nature does have to offer.

Who did that for you? What did you learn?

Well?

I kind of grew up on a farm in Idaho and that that helped. But I really learned a lot living with the natives. I'd say, you know, it's kind of what set my knowledge base apart. Yeah.

Yeah.

So then Jordan just grabs like some fishing a piece of stick and some fishing line and he just gets like eleven fish. There's a picture of that.

That's where we camped that night.

And then he didn't just cook him like rudimentary style. He did a nice little smoke. Here's the fire with the fish on it, you know. Tell us about that?

Oh yeah, older, you know, so up in the northern regions al there's a great smoking wood. So I like to lay those green alders sticks down on top of the coals, put your fish on top of that.

It was excellent.

Tell me about let's say, hunting. People can have a reaction to hunting, big game hunting. It's easy for me to see pictures online and see this pin and going I don't like this.

You're killing an animal, right?

I also feel like you care a lot about nature and conservation.

How can those two be connected?

That's actually a really fascinating question. I think we are no matter what we think, we're a part of nature. And in my experience, people who hunt who rely on nature to you know, feed themselves, their families. There's almost there's few people that are more in tune with the health of a particular ecosystem because you rely on it.

The knee jerk, the knee jerk.

Yeah, you see these pictures in that, you know, But I think one thing that really was beneficial for me. I'm not a hunter, but I definitely fished and killed the grouse that week because I was starving and and you said, we're only going to eat what we can procure for.

The next thirty six hours. Well guess what.

Costa doesn't really procure much. But man, and this is sill. It's gonna be silly to you and maybe silly everybody else.

But when I.

Took this little grouse's life, it really meant something. And it was sad to me. Yeah, but we then cleaned it. We cooked it that night. It was my dinner and I just thought. On the flight home, I made a lot of notes. I had so much I had to be thankful for. I was like, I've never been that close to my food before.

I appreciate it.

I go to the grocery store, I buy four pounds of whatever, three of it goes in the track. I mean, it's like, man, that was like such a different connection that's gone.

For the most part from us.

Valuable. Yeah, I know, I think we've all been disconnected. We're talking. You're talking about packaging earlier, you know everything.

The other guy.

But yeah, but it's yeah, it's it's it's important to have that connection with our food. Otherwise it just all happens on a farm or a field somewhere, and you can act like you're not a part of the system, but we are, so we should do our job.

Well, yeah, I bought your axe. Oh okay, so people on the subway were looking at me weird. But tell me about this style of that. You used a similar.

Axe on a loan.

Yeah, and tell me some of the characters of this s to me and access for chopping. Would you buy at the gas station when you're on vacation, but you actually used it as a survival tactic.

Yeah, I'm the real connoisseur of a good accent after Has anybody at.

The Daily Show ever had an axe out here before?

So the features I kind of combined all the things I like into it in an axe into one. It has a it's the right link, the right weight and size. It's got a single bevel edge, which if you'd like to pull out.

I'll watch. I'll do this and I'll cut myself.

Yeah, careful sharp, they are sharp.

So this is here, I'll let you do it. Did, So, there you go.

It's sharpened from one side so that you're left handed.

Yeah.

If I was left handed, it's got that flat edge. I can carve and whittle like that really well, chop trees down.

You use There's so much more than chopping trees down. You do.

You do a lot of carving and building things for yourself when you're out there, and so that's why I like that single bevel. It's got to slip on tomahawk style head, which is what the Evenki, the native folks did in Russia. It just makes it easier to repair. You have a little wedge, and it's got kind of the Siberian design, which I like, wide cutting edge.

It's very cool.

Yeah, it's sweet.

I feel like a poser that I have it.

But well, like I said, I don't see any plans plant putting it to work.

You've come a long way to chat with me. I really appreciate it. Your Instagram is fascinating. There's so many great videos and pictures of you with your kids doing this stuff.

What's the goal there?

I mean, if it's a kid, my kid, I tell them the deuce. I take my to the tennis court and she stands in the corner and kicks leaves. Are you worried your kids aren't going to love and appreciate nature.

That's a good question. I think they will, but I'm not. I don't want to force anything on them. They might come and live here as far as I know. But I want them to have the.

So I love when New Yorkers here from other people, what they think about me.

No, but I want them to have the ability to tap into nature because in the modern world, with all the distractions and all the you know, psychological issues, there's almost nothing like being able to get out in nature, disconnect, you know, and and be understand your thoughts and all that. And so I want to make sure they can always have the skills and ability to create that space for themselves.

And so I'm convinced, my daughter's three and a half, I'm convinced if we take a walk outside and I put my phone somewhere else, a lot of stuff gets solved just walking together outside, you know.

And uh, that's my little parenting hack.

But is there a survival skill that you could recommend to everybody to learn or is there a hack for connecting to nature If you live in a high rise in the Upper West Side of New York or Brooklyn, or you don't have a.

Car, you can't get up state.

Yeah, you guys in Montana take all this shit for granted. I have literally I have one tree on my street right and the way people drive.

I think, sure, it's going to come down somedays.

Well, I got to say, like, I feel like there's a lot of value in like setting aside a period of time, even if it's just yearly, you know, to go out in the wood and spend enough time to where you really your phone is off and you really do have time to think your thoughts and to talk

About a survival tactics while you.

Do you got to know how to build a fire. Yeah, so I usually carry.

A lot glad you said, let me know. I'm just.

One of the things that I loved was we when we get on the horseback it was kind of raining and you started grabbing things off of the tree a little.

Bark, yeah, and you put it in your pocket.

It's raining, everything's wet, and you put it in your pocket, and I go, what are you doing? You go, well, in nine hours from now, when we need a fire at night, this will be dry. And I was like, you're thinking more further ahead about this than I do about my career my family?

Is that an important part of me?

I mean, are you always even on a loan, It seems like you're always thinking.

A few steps ahead. You have to be.

Yeah, you always try to plan ahead and things never quite work out as you plan. But yeah, I think, Okay, build a fire.

So the key to building a fire is what have dry tender?

So find some good dry stuff or take it with you and ball with Vasolene's good and then I always have two ways of starting to fire, an easy one like a lighter, and then the pharaoh rod, which you're a master of. And that's like a fail safe way of starting to fire that way no matter what happens. You're warm.

Yeah, don't start fires in your apartments. Don't start fires through lithium batteries on scooters. That's New York's problem. But uh, Jordan Jonas, thank you for being here. I really appreciate you making it the whole you're to.

Talk with you. Thank you very much, George.

For more information about Jordian his Weakness expeditions, check out Jordan Jonas dot com.

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