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Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Josh Johnson.
We've got so much to talk about tonight. The war on drugs continues, and this time we're on the side of drugs.
We break down the latest tips to kiss Trump's ass, and bad news, AI might kill us soon, but good news, AI might kill us soon. So let's get into the headlines.
Let's begin with President Trump. He started his second term in January, promising to keep America out of foreign wars.
Now it's December, and he almost made it a year.
President Trump hinting at land strikes in Venezuela as backlash on the controversial boat strikes deepens. We're going to start doing those strikes on land too.
You know, the land is much easier.
It's much easier. And we know the routes they take.
We know everything about them. We know where they live.
We know where the bad ones live.
We know where they live. We know if they've been good good or bad.
What is he? Drone strike Santa?
So yeah, Trump is launching a war on narco-terrorists, which by the way, I get why he calls them narco-terrorists, because Americans know how to feel about terrorists. We hate those guys.
But if you just say it's a war on drug dealers, that's a person we invited
to bring us drugs that we wanted.
That's like if they told you to start hating your Amazon delivery guy. Like, that's your guy.
He's bringing your blender.
But hey, this war in Venezuela just shows how serious Donald Trump is about going after these drug traffickers. If there's even one guy on a little fishing boat, Trump's taking him out.
So drug dealers, watch your back. President Trump has issued a full and unconditional pardon for the former president of Honduras.
Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year sentence after he was convicted on major drug trafficking charges in the U.S. last year.
Like I just said.
drug dealers, watch your back because Trump is about to give you a nice massage.
I don't even know what's crazier, that President Trump is pardoning the president of Honduras for selling drugs, or that the president of Honduras was selling drugs.
People work their whole lives just to become president. So for you to get there and say to yourself, now I get to do my dream
is crazy. At least Walter White had a teacher's salary.
You're the president, and not only are you selling drugs, you're so bad at it, you get arrested in a whole different country.
But maybe I'm missing something about this pardon. Maybe he's not some kingpin.
I mean, this is America, the country that locks people up for years just because they happen to have a little baggie of drugs. How do we know this marginalized president deserved 45 years?
I'm sure whatever this guy did, it wasn't that bad. Juan Orlando Hernandez helped smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
I'm sorry, 400 tons of cocaine?
First of all, how do you even shove all that up your ass?
I didn't even know you could measure cocaine in tons.
It's like if someone told you they weighed 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Like,
the f are you talking about?
400 tons of cocaine, that sounds like all the cocaine in the world.
Give me another unit based on not all the cocaine in the world. More than 400 tons, which is about 4.5 billion individual doses of cocaine.
Doses?
Is that the term?
Hey man, I'm I'm going to head to the bathroom and do a couple of recommended serving sizes.
You could tell this is someone who doesn't know about cocaine because you don't measure it in doses. You measure it in half-written screenplays.
All right?
That's like saying, hey, do you mind if I get another dial-up of meth?
But the point is.
But the point is, in the middle of an active war against drug traffickers, Donald Trump has pardoned a man who smuggled in enough cocaine to give every American resting cash patel face.
It's confusing to say the least, but if I know Donald Trump, he'll have a very coherent and well-thought-out explanation for this pardon.
You've made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the U.S. Can you explain more about why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker? Well, I don't know who you're talking about.
You know you've been pardoning too many people when you're like, I'm sorry, which notorious drug lord are we talking about? At least give me the first letter or we'll be here all night.
It's wild how Trump always talks to the media like he's in court. He's like, I don't know who you're talking about.
I wasn't there. I'm not even here.
But after they reminded Trump who this guy was, he did have some semblance of an explanation. Well, you take a look.
I mean, they could say that you take any country you want.
If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn't mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life. And that includes this country, okay?
To be honest. I mean, if somebody does something wrong, do you put the president of the country in jail?
Clearly, Trump is worried about a slippery slope here.
It's like that classic poem, first they came for the wildly corrupt presidents, and I said nothing because that would be admissible in court.
But I'll be honest, I don't think Trump pardoned another president so that he could get pardoned later. That's just too smart for Trump.
It's like seeing a monkey draw a cube.
There's no way he knew that's what he was drawing.
There had to be another, dumber reason why Trump pardoned Hernandez.
The ex-president of Honduras wrote a letter to President Trump back in October, calling Trump Your Excellency and praising Trump's resilience in what he called the face of political persecution, writing in part, just as you, President Trump, I have suffered political persecution targeted by the Biden-Harris administration.
It was that easy.
All you have to do is write Trump a letter saying that Biden framed you for something you definitely did, had a trial for, and were convicted of. You are the most did it.
Because if it really is that easy, you know what this means.
I don't think Diddy can read or write.
For more on the pardoning of the former Honduran president, we turn to our very own Troy Owada.
Troy, what's the latest? Josh, Josh, I'm here in the jungles talking to the drug cartels, and they are ecstatic about the pardon. Mr.
Trump, they read you loud and clear.
The war on drugs is over and the drugs won. All right, let's fill these baggies, okay?
Josh, Josh, does this look like a Graham to you? No,
no, okay. Well, it's close enough.
So stand by, Mr. President.
The drugs are on their way.
Hold on, man. Trump only pardoned one person.
He is still blowing up all those boats in Venezuela. That right? Is that right? Is that right? That's right.
All right. All right.
War on drugs is back on. All right.
Compadres,
we got to get rid of this stuff. We got to get rid of it now, okay? Cancelen la cacaina, los fringos, los manadron attack, okay?
Oh, God.
Whoa, whoa.
Dude, don't do cocaine on TV. Oh, calm down, you noob.
It's just like one dose.
Okay, look, we just, we gotta get underground before Trump locks us up for life, right? Well, he'll probably let you go free if you just blame it on Joe Biden. Oh,
okay. Chicas, we are back in business.
All right. So as long, as long as we suck up to Trump, we're golden.
All right. This is amazing.
Josh, I feel like I have an eye for this.
Do you feel like I have an eye for this, Josh? What do you think, Josh, Josh? Are you there, Josh? Wait, I have an eye for this. Troy, Troy.
Sucking up doesn't always work.
Venezuela is doing it now, but Trump's still about to bomb them. Okay, well, god damn it.
I mean, make up your mind, America. Do you want drugs or not?
God, God, I feel like I'm back in high school again when I couldn't tell who was wearing the dare shirts, ironically or not. Just like,
tell me what the policy is. I mean, I think the policy is whatever the president wants to do at the time.
Okay, well, that's fed up.
Why do you keep doing that? I don't know. I'm starting to think this stuff is addictive.
Troy Atwatta, everyone. When we come back, we find out if AI is going to put us on the street, so don't go away.
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Welcome back to the Daily Charge. Artificial intelligence might enslave the entire human race, but what if it did something even worse? Ronnie Chang has more.
America is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure. Wait, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure?
Ah, damn it, I'm gonna have to talk to some nerd about this, aren't I?
Like Peter Wilderford of the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. I've used AI.
Did I ejaculate? Yes. Was it the best sex thing ever? Not really.
So what's the big deal about it? The big deal is what AI might be able to do in the future.
The level of investment's actually now even exceeding the Manhattan Project. That's right, the Manhattan Project.
The four-year program where the U.S.
spent the equivalent of $37 billion in today's dollars to build a working nuclear bomb, all in an attempt to finally defeat Barbie once and for all.
So why is the AI infrastructure build out costing 10 times that? It is essentially a big bet that AI will generate a lot of profit in the future and that we will get AGI before the money runs out.
Obviously, I know what AGI is, but for dumbasses like Michael Costa who might be watching this, could you please explain it to them?
AGI stands for artificial general intelligence it's a hypothetical future form of AI that can do anything a human can do current AI systems have narrow intelligence which means they're great at simple tasks but when it comes to complex actions in the real world they holy shit its f ⁇ ing head fell off
But these AI companies are betting billions that their systems will improve to be as capable as a human at most tasks. Also known as AGI.
My character at Megan, was that killed by AI or was that AGI?
Megan was, I think, probably a form of AGI. I thought it was a great movie, kind of showing what could happen with an AGI system that they didn't know how to control.
Yeah, I'm glad you liked my movie. Crazy.
Yeah. Oh, wow.
Wait, you...
You said you watched it. You didn't see me in it? No.
How did you miss f ⁇ ing one-third of the movie? I was the main villain. I thought Megan was the villain.
Yeah, but I was the secondary antagonist. Were you looking at your phone? I was on the airplane.
Well, that's not the optimal experience.
But as billions pour into AI, some pundits are starting to use the B word. We are in a bubble.
We're in a bubble of some sort that will pop at some time. Or we're in an AI bubble.
Of course.
That pre-pube vet said, old man is wrong. It's not a bubble.
All that's happening is the three biggest players in the AI world have created a circular flow of deals worth billions.
Nvidia invests in OpenAI, who turns around and invests in cloud computing from Oracle, who then reaches around to NVIDIA to buy chips. These contracts jack up their stock prices and...
Oh, wait, now I see it.
So this is the most expensive circle joke of all time.
Yes.
25% of the stock market is a bet on AI. The f
if these deals don't work out, there could be a stock market crash and the public would be the ones left holding the bag. Alright, well, I mean, I guess that sucks for the public.
Well, you're part of the public. Am I part of the public? I think we're all part of the public.
It would affect basically the entire stock market in the entire economy. You could potentially even get a recession.
I can't be poor.
But Peter says if AI actually delivers on its promises, things could get even worse.
If the bet pays off, AGI could potentially take all our jobs and we would have mass unemployment. Okay, okay, starter, I don't care about any of this.
Capitalism is killing us.
I don't think that it's necessarily capitalism killing us. The CEOs of the companies themselves are saying there's a one-in-five chance their own technology might wipe out all of humanity.
Would you fly in a plane that had a one-in-five chance of crashing? Well, are you on the plane watching my movie and not remembering I was in it? Because then, yes, I would like that plane to crash.
There could be immense concentration of power, or we could even fight like World War III over this technology. So we'll all die.
But at least we'll be rich. Yes, until the death part.
Right. That's fine.
I can live with that. Man, you scared me for a second.
Whether it crashes the markets, takes out jobs, or starts World War III, AI is changing the world. Just like the Manhattan Project.
As a visionary genius once said, there shouldn't be any ambiguity over what a historic occasion this is. Just one of many great lines from my my unforgettable character in Megan.
Hint, hint, Peter.
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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is an award-winning magician and mentalist whose More Than Magic Tour returns in January.
Please welcome Ossie Wind.
Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me.
Yeah, I okay, so I love magic a lot.
I'm happy you do. I am a huge fan, and
I think that out of all the magicians that I've watched, especially because I really fell in love with it young, so I would watch it on like VHS tapes and just be like so engaged with everyone.
And you're like the only magician that really looks like a normal person.
I'm not sure it's a compliment. No, no, it's just, I'm just saying.
I feel like so many people are trying to be like extra, extra like out there, mysterious and everything. And you have a presence and
just a general demeanor that's very inviting. And I'm wondering if that's on purpose.
Like if you are, if that's your approach to magic. It's because I'm just not naturally cool.
Shall I go with the flow? You know, it's yeah,
here's a real answer. I really think that
people take themselves a little too seriously, and magicians especially, they try to look really cool. Let's face it, we are nerds, we do car tricks.
So I'm honest about my
take it from here.
You know what I mean? No, I'm with you. Do you remember the first trick that you ever saw? I do.
I don't know if it's the first one, but it's the one that got me.
Someone had a lit cigarette. He would make a fist and he will push a lit cigarette into his fist like that,
open his hand and it's gone. And I learned it and that's the only trick I wanted to do.
I became a human ashtray.
My parents were heavy smokers
and I would, mom, give me, and I admitted I also wanted to help their health.
But it really, that's the first trick that kind of comes to mind. Then would you do it as soon as they lit up? You're like, I got to to show you something else.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
It's a double purpose. It's amazing and it saves life.
Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
And so your approach to magic, I feel like,
is a bit different because, like I said, you're very inviting and everything, but you also have...
You have an openness about what is going on that I think is unique.
Because like you said, with other magicians trying to be super mysterious and everything, I think a lot of other magicians want you to think that they have powers, like actual superpowers.
And I feel like you're very much like, we're going to make something together. Absolutely.
First of all, I feel like I'm in therapy.
But,
no, and I like it. I really do like it.
It's like I'm reflecting. But here's the deal.
Yeah,
it
probably manifests my opinions in life in general that, you know,
people ask me, like, what art do you like?
you go to a museum you see a piece of art or whatever which art do I am I attracted to it's the one that feels sincere meaning if I see a painting with splashes of paint and this and every shtick every gimmick there is on a canvas I go ah this guy's trying to impress me and when I see like Lucien Freud who I really love the painting looks sincere it looks like he meant every brush stroke That's the one I like.
So it's, I'm sharing my passion.
Something I thought I was lucky. I was young, 13.
I was young and stupid. I said, yeah, I can do this.
And I followed the dream because, and I'm sharing with the audience, hey, look, I love this. I hope you do too.
You know, and I let me share what I,
yeah, that's my approach in life for a lot of things. So, yeah.
Yeah. And not to put you on the spot.
Oh, awesome.
Right.
Thank you.
Wow. I don't need to do magic.
I'm just going to say these things.
Okay.
I don't want to put you on the spot, but do you want to? But you're going to put me on the spot. Yeah.
But you don't want to do it. I don't want to.
But you will. But I have to.
Is it cool if I have to? Yes, let's go. Okay, gotcha.
Okay. So let me show you something.
This is, again, thing, I wanted to do something that I have not done in a long time.
And I'm going to show you what I mean. If you were just randomly to place your finger quickly, quickly on a piece, any card, quickly, go, go, go, go, go, go.
you're going for five of diamonds can we see this five of them now i did it with the cards face up it's a deliberate choice you made is there do you you have a reason why you touch this and not this or this or that why five of diamonds i don't have the best aim i didn't want to poke your thumb okay so this was a convenient choice okay no so forget that okay five of diamonds is nice but what if you were to name a card any card you want okay name what uh
king of spades king of spades okay king of spades right there you don't want the uh five of Clubs. You want King of Spades.
Sure? Yes?
Yes. Yeah.
Yes. Okay.
Okay. This is not a quiz, but look,
on the back of this card, if you look, I drew a little figure stick. You see this? Yeah? Stick figure, supposed to say.
Stick figure. And it's like a movie.
You see this? It kind of moves. You see?
It's so cool, right?
Ah, that's a teaser. But listen,
he knew how you think.
He knew you're first going to touch touch which one you touch five of diamonds first yeah so look look at this go he goes behind a curtain and he keeps one card and it happens to be the five of diamonds
no he did not stop there he knew he had five of five of diamonds right he drops it to the ground and he keeps one extra card in the hat just in case he goes inside and he pulls out one other card it happens to be the king of spades and here the five of diamonds and the king of spades
that's that's dope
no okay okay we don't have oh you want to do this okay
we'll do this got you okay
But here's the thing that I that I think when when I
when I see how you do magic and how even like, you know, online there's people who go viral for magic tricks that do and everything, I think that your approach is so human that it is timeless because it will be,
it will last as long as people last, you know what I mean? Whereas I think
very soon, I mean, not plenty. 20 minutes.
But I think that
in that timelessness,
is that also being factored in into your approach? Do you think of tricks or do you want to do tricks that feel very like in the moment? That's a great memory?
Or do you look at them as things that should last?
Absolutely. I mean, I want to do work that if I look back at it, I go, oh, I still love it, I still like it.
Here's the deal. We live in a world where technology is a real threat to magic, right?
We look at AI, we look at other things. Magicians were always afraid of technology.
There's a magician, David Devont, many years ago, was asked by a reporter, are you afraid of the new technology being a threat to magic? goes yes and they were talking about the telegraph back then
they were scared then but here's the deal i'm not scared because technology cannot compete with one thing people come to the theater come to my show i'm flattered by it they buy a ticket right to see magic not because i do magic because they want to see it people have a desire to see magic I'm only there to help them.
So I think that's, they're the co-authors of the show. Without them, there is no magic.
Some people say, ah, sleight of hand,
you know, they can dismiss it in a second and they see nothing. Some people say, I want to believe, I want to see it.
So for an hour and a half, I'm there to help them. Oh, that makes sense.
Yeah.
That's very true as well because it's like even as a magician and a very accomplished one at that, you're not sitting in your room by yourself like, I can't believe I did it.
You know what I I mean like you're sometimes but
no no no no never never I say this is gonna that's not gonna fool anyone you know and it's it's so magic is the way we go about it it starts with a dream right
my dream is to like let's say this thing I did with the cards which is a classic that's a modern classic and this is my take on it I wanted the idea of that that the little figure would would be able to guess two cards how do you do this and you start and you think and you you you make a million versions until you get to a place, okay, this looks good.
But it's a lot of work, and our job is to make it look effortless, of course. But it's not.
It's really a lot of work.
And can you tell me about your show? You're going to be in the U.S. and Australia.
Yes, we're doingland shows at the Sydney Opera House. Yes, yes, and I'm very excited about that.
So we're continuing our East Coast More Than Magic tour. We're going to have a bunch of dates in Florida.
And after that,
early
February, we're going to go to the Sydney Opera House. And I'm very excited.
Very, very excited.
Congratulations.
Very special. Have you been? Have you been?
I have been to Sydney, but not the opera house. So thanks for rubbing it in.
I don't believe you can. No, but I believe you should.
Let's do it together. You want to do it together? Yes.
That would be crazy. Are you being serious? Because,
okay. You could just have me up there the whole time being like, oh, oh.
That will help the show a lot. That would really help.
Usually people have like a beautiful assistant. I'll just be a scared one.
You'll be both. You'll be both.
Can I put you on the spot one more time? Can I try?
Okay.
Okay, so
I have a map of the United States, okay?
And
I would like you to think of a random place, a city and a state. In the United States, it has to be in the United States.
You cannot choose Canada.
I mean, soon you'll be able to, but as of now, no, say, it's within, you know. And we're going to do something crazy.
If I find, you already have a place, a random place in mind. If I find it right now and I say, oh, you're thinking of blah, blah, blah, not impressive.
You will find it, not me.
Okay, and here's how we do this. We just like this, okay?
It's an incense stick, I think. Yeah? Is that what you call it?
Okay, and hold it by the corner.
And as I move over the map, whenever you call stop, I will poke a little hole with your eyes closed. You say stop, let's say, Montana, it will be the state.
Okay.
But I will not be able to, you'll guess it by yourself. So close your eyes.
Okay. And think about first the state.
Think about the state.
And you say the word stop. One second.
I'm just trying not to sneeze.
Stop. Okay.
Do I open? You can open your eyes. Okay.
And we already know the state is Wyoming, right? And he stopped me and I stopped exactly.
The state is Wyoming?
No.
Okay, but it's close to Wyoming?
Like if you took an Uber?
No? No, no, it's fine. You can say no.
No, it's fine. No.
Okay, it's a neutral. Yeah, I have an idea.
What if I poke a bigger hole?
It's going to keep burning, you know, and eventually it will get to your place.
No? Okay, we'll try this.
So here, I'll burn a little, like try to make a little bigger hole here.
Okay, yeah, there we go. It's called, yeah.
Now, is your place east or west? Just tell me that.
It is east. East, so think east, and maybe the burn will go to the east.
Okay?
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's kind of favoring.
It's favoring east. It's favoring east, right? Oh.
Yeah, yeah, it's favoring east. Is it now? Don't say, just think south or north, okay? Just think it.
Okay, I can tell you right now, yeah, it seems to me that it's slowly making its way up north towards Canada, obviously,
towards Iowa, Minnesota. Yes, is it your place is more
north?
No. You're saying no?
Okay, so let's focus then south, okay? Okay. So if you focus south,
it's going north. Are you thinking south?
No, no. Okay, so
I'm trying to
think.
You have to think. Oh, I'm sorry.
And if you say, say,
say south. South, south.
South, south. Oh, oh, oh, look, it's making your turn.
It's making your turn. Yeah, it's pivoting down.
It's going towards Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana.
Is that the right direction? Yeah. Close your eyes.
Close your eyes. Close your eyes.
I want you to think now about the
city, the city in the state you're thinking of. Are you thinking?
It's going towards Missouri. Are we in the right state? Missouri?
Yes. Okay, good, good, good.
It's going to, let's zoom on. Yeah, we see it.
It's going down and down.
Whenever you want, take your time. Say the word stop.
Oh, I thought something touched me. Okay.
Say stop whenever you want.
Stop. Stop? Yeah.
Okay, let's see if it stops by itself. Do I open my eyes? Oh, it stopped here.
You said it stopped. Don't look.
No, no, no, no, no. Can you tell us the place you're thinking of?
Springfield, Missouri. Look where it stopped right there.
Open your eyes. We stopped on Springfield, Missouri.
And by the way, if you ever find yourself in Wyoming and you're lost, this will guide you all the way. And you can.
Okay.
So this leads me to my next question.
You know, you do great tricks and stuff, but there's got to be some people who don't love it after it's done where they're like,
does anybody freak out and run away?
There's some people who freak out, run away,
hate me, but yes, some people don't love magic
because...
they take it as
a challenge to, an intellectual challenge. And I'm not there to do that.
I'm there to,
I spend many hours just to figure out this magic. But some people take it too personal and they say, oh, this is
offending me in some way. So yeah, it happens.
My job is with the humor and all that and presentation, and there's lots of audience participation in my show, is to tell, hey, we're here together to do this, you know, to have fun. Yeah.
No, this is fun.
This is very fun.
And
even though I have been more freaked out than I thought I was going to be when I asked you to come on,
I am having a good time. I don't want you to think I'm not having fun.
Yeah, yeah. Like, this is amazing.
It's just taking a second to process. You know what I mean?
It's like, I imagine what you do is like the first time somebody saw somebody dunk, where they were like, I didn't even know you could, wow.
I promise not to freak out. Can you show me one more thing? Sure.
So now we're going into improv land. I have no idea what I'm going to do, but I'm going to try.
Okay. So maybe we can get a shot from above.
Can we see it from above?
So you verify to the audience, all different, all mixed up. It's not the same car repeated, right?
So here's a question.
If I just place them, let's say, here.
Okay, name any car that pops into your head right this second. Remember, the deck is here.
I can do anything.
Seven of hearts. You don't know where the seven of hearts.
The seven hearts could be literally, could be here, right? Could be there. It could be right where I cut it.
That is wild. In my country, that's considered amazing.
Yeah.
No, no, no, I'm just saying.
They did not respond to it. Yeah, so I had to.
God with you.
Here, name a different card. Name a different card.
Whichever you want. Anyone.
King of Spades.
King of Spades. Yeah.
King of Spades, remember, you chose it before. Are you sure you want to still go to the King of Spades? Who? Oh,
okay. I changed everything.
Yeah, king of spades. Okay.
Now you don't know where it is, right? Can you pick one? Take one out? And anyone, pick me, okay? One, one, one, one, out. One.
Okay.
No, one, one, not two. No.
Okay. This or this.
You're changing. Yeah.
You want to change. You good with this?
I'm okay. You're sticking to this.
Yes. And you wanted to be king of spades.
Spades. And you could have named any one of these cards.
Take a look what you chose. Take a look.
Yeah. Yeah.
By the way,
not to be confused by you a second open your hand is you chose king of spades, but uh you also chose seven of hearts before so if you switched it and you chose seven of hearts first it would be this then I will change it again.
You know what I mean?
I'm just saying if we're
it's
Yeah, and by the way,
King of Spades, this is
just for backup. Okay.
I'm so glad you haven't started a cult.
Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much.
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