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indeed we do here to remove you president obama we think a thing we ve got a very special shown lined up where you tonight we're all going back to the moon republicans storming the house again and herschel walker gets involved in a fight between werewolves and vampires plus we being joined by one of my favorite black american president's barack obama's lessons if its rays headlights people i wanna be honest with all the news happening right now i don't think we have
space intraday show there's not enough time and i tried everything i tried it
i've tried putting the news in the sauna circuits sweated out for a little while but it didn't work than you
came up listening and sexier than ever were still don't have enough time fortunately though not in
time is just enough time for a segment we call a nobody got time for
kit clings off with the moon a k a ashy earth the last time human set foot on its was nineteen seventy two but now we might find
be getting a sequel
nasa going back to the moon for the first time in five decades launching the most powerful rocket in the world into space kicking off its high stakes artemus one vision this is a test flight with tests dummies but if this succeeds astronauts could do the same in two years and nasa says that this really opens the door to a whole new world of space exploration the long term goal here is to set up a base on the moon where people can actually live yes unlike crypto will
actually going to the moon and before you heinous thoughts i do we really need to go back to the moon yes we do of course we do was altered
if these keys up they do they locked out of his house and fifty career i hear us think it wouldn't it be funny if when we got back up here we find out that the original astronauts at a bunch of crazy shit that they can tell us about like the new astronauts step out and there's a bunch of moon babies that look like neil armstrong like daddy you finally back from your trip to get cigarettes that way why are you still babies not as much as i love space travel and i really do
but my one issue with nasa is why do they keep musing
greek names this problem
this autumn is the old one was apollo one doesn't nasa update things you know name rocket
today's mythical heroes everyone we're sending out a message to the moon ball rang
everyone we're sending john wick to the moon if we had more time we could talk about whether humans should be going anywhere in the universe given the fact that we can't even get covert under control down here because if we are not careful we might turn into the conquistadores of the solar system right just like is their life on mars there was but we don't have time to talk about life forms in space because there are some new lifeforms coming to congress how speaker nancy pelosi just said that she will not seek a leadership position in the new congress her announcement comes after republicans one control of the house of representatives in the mid term elections with great confidence in our carcass i will not seek reelection to democratic leadership in the next congress yes that's right
it is a new era in congress nancy pelosi is stepping down and republicans have official
we won control of the house and this time they did it without shitting on the floor that's growth that is grown and you know kevin mccarthy might be happy right now you know that he's he could
replace nancy pelosi extra speaker of the house but remember remember half of his caucus believe
in jewish space lasers that stole the election using venezuelan mind control so good luck to him controlling them he's going to be trying to get more tax cuts for corporations meanwhile they'll be like oh we want some peanut one hundred binders painters painters are all the republicans are finally going to learn that being in charge brings its own set of promises you know you've
you ve got to deliver
we have to deliver on your campaign promises that's that's a challenge
more is the number one issue that they campaigned on joe biden
and now that they won voters will be expecting them to joe biden the they have to do it the gonna have to pass a bill to ask them out they're going to have to agree you know on the restaurant to take him out to and then when they take him home they going to have to listen to his stories before he lets them smash does it tell you about the time that went by the pool married to a great term is nigger yeah good luck keeping one around through that republicans now if we had more time we could talk more about all the news coming out of american politics for instance we could
about the senate moving closer to protecting gay marriage finally all we could talk about first female the house will be able to beat nancy below these high school in the stock market but we don't have the time for that because there's one man who god forbid might be during these people in the capital and boy is gonna be bringing the greatest idiots wanted it needed outside nights written some guy tonight would have been ten days on the phone a web
to kill a vampire
i never knew that i didn't want to be a very apply anymore i want to be a werewolf don't watch my t v or these kids watching their tv the guy jumped in front of him with his holy water on a vampire for you he covered his all
then he took his hand away you started last word each a big calls it put it very powerfully independent body leave doing today is that there is no work it s wages novel i didn't work you monsieur got things
we gotta have faith in this country we've got gotta have faith in his elected officials and right now that's the reason i'm here the step aside gettysburg address the america of the new greatest speech of all time because you tell me the last time you heard a speech about vampires werewolves faith politics and garlic and i dunno if hershel walker should be a us senator but he should definitely be elected as america
the official movie review or did you hear that i want to watch that movie i don't even know what it was he did this for every movie i've seen the little mermaid is one more of the fish but boyfriend to a fork in the ocean because of an octopus she lost her voice and we need a new voice in washington and now that little mermaid is black the only we had more time we could watch more of the herschel walker speech all we could talk about how elon musk said that he will eventually let someone else run towards which is a genius idea that everyone else had before he took over we can talk about how this fdx crush could actually bring all of crypto down because the regulators looking into crypto we could talk about how congress might be bringing ticketmaster in for hearings because i guess they couldn't get taylor swift tickets either but we don't have the time for any of that because there's someone backstage by the name of barack obama we've got to make time the
here too the stuff of amr foundation democracy forum and how he's training the next generation of young leaders in the u s and around the world please welcome the forty four presence of united states rocco by do i should have a broad michel here this is how i'd like to be greeted when i come home but let me show you stole my lab from over mr president welcome to the danish it is wonderful to see you do you miss your name by the way
because everyone calls you mister president but like i feel like i would like if people call me like mr daly i would miss just being called a young miss your names of my best friends call me barack okay you should
mr provide workers we show let let's not with me in the most pressing used the midterms just happened you know america voted the house's flipping democrats have held onto the senate many
you for coming
anne and pushing out you know people to vote i would love to know two parts to that number one do you do
pressure whenever you ought to come up is like in the movies when you know they need that home run and the bases are loaded the team's losing and they go barack we need you to hit this out of the park we might lose everything do you feel the pressure doesn't get to you and second of all what does it say
but the state of the damage
party that their we need you to come out and do that before intellectually look i think that
the reason we d better than expected
can be attributed to not
me or
anything i did but it has today
the criticism excellent candidates
if you look like good to more in maryland josh shapiro in pennsylvania you look at our son of candidates
on fishermen martello bit they are committed passionate down to earth they connect with people
and so i come in mainly to shine a spotlight on them
for number one and the second thing that happened in iraq
mid term and we ve seen it now for three election so i'm starting to feel pretty hopeful
this is a habit
people are voting
it has been many times remarked ally that bumped during
terms during my presidency
part of it was that voting rights will really love people
in some sense i think a lot of democrats
obama's there will be ok and at all if it turns out the
mcconnell and vainer another's suddenly
have power then that greatly
strix what a present can do and i think that lesson was learned trump comes in
suddenly twenty eighteen twenty twenty and now this one you senior
people come in and their typically voting at a rate of
seventeen thirty sixty two forty democratic
public and right and that makes a huge difference and send so there
i met premier limo enthusiasm i think is what really drove this election i i agree with that in terms of the the the people who actually voted but young people don't seem to be turning out as much you know so the ones who did vote voted overwhelmingly democratic yes but then the number of young voters seems to be dwindling from election to election and many young voters saying they feel disillusioned they feel like
hasn't made away for them they don't see a future for themselves well look
what is always true is young people are going to vote at slightly lower rates than old people like me
dr lecter better things to vote michel myerson at all
even dinner we gotta run
thanks to say well let's go about young people molly incisive sasha they're out they got all kinds of stuff so
so that's always gonna be the case that young people's voting rights are a little bit more
our higher now than they were in the mid terms when i was press and in
such a polarized environment one to three percent if they're turning out
twenty one percent instead of eighteen percent makes a different that can make an enormous step right when you look at that tiny difference
still see the places where i mean people
into power despite the fact that they deny elections i think republicans got gonna hundred seventy election denies into congress
people who don't believe in them
i was running its elections people who don't believe joe biden should be president or they do you know they will be vague about their answers what are you what do you think it says about american democracy that so many people are getting
these positions when they may seem to dismiss the election itself what
the interesting thing is you noticed election deniers don't deny their own election
funny how they work
how many of them actually believe that some of them
nonsense that that circulates
versus those who think it's convenient or its away to own the liberalism or its away to send the message
or align themselves with trump that's hard to say but
what is important is that
because i was merely concerted efforts in a lot of important states some of the most
a grievous prominent
potentially dangerous election deniers they got fucked
they got beat and
particularly in the secretary of states races and in some cases governors races where in a
ex presidential election you could have somebody who could really
do some damage there i think
we held the line now what it does say more broadly is the fact that
not just here in the united states but around the world the fundamental point
steps of democracy are being challenged right we're not
having arguments about policy but we're having arguments about the
the rules of the game which
previously we all agreed to ride
i there was a notion that
we run elections whoever gets the most votes actually wins the loser concedes goes back and tries to do better next time and what we
see now for a whole host of reasons
is a creeping
that
the outcomes not what we want
then we can do whatever we want and say whatever was in order
mr wynn and that is profound
dangerous and as i said it is not unique to the united states but when it has
in the united states it sends a signal all around the world that weakens democracy
and that's why i think us getting our house in order as so important when we
look at the discourse on the countries will end in and around the world but again i think you're correct in that america is a leader in what's happening right now
this course has become so toxic
you were in every single state you were meeting with people all the way from iowa through to california wet weather you you were meeting people on the ground they were listening to you
they therefore there was an openness even though people had different political affiliations it seems like that has eroded over time
i wonder what you make of that what will we do you think it's coming from giving social media thing do you think it's the tenor of politicians in the capital adds that is to fix that the biggest change has taken place when i ran for let's go
you are set in
eleanor you go down state that's the south i mean
rural its conservative there a lot of folks who look like you or me
and certainly there are more travers than there are barracks so
driving around i've got a map
young people here that this paper you can forget not uphold it back but that's how you find your way on roads
and but i go
to a town and it be
seventy percent republican
lotta angelic calls etc but
i could go to a diner or vfw hall or
county fair i could
go to the local newspaper and the owner there's conservative and he's got a boat time buzz cut his gonna score
all about my ideas but
there wasn't the filter
that had been created by
fox news or the media
infrastructure the sort of right wing
conspiracy theory folks and so
they came at me with an open mind and i could i could
listen to them and they could listen to me in that
the end of the day they might say well is a low liberal for our taste but we have some
in common he talked about it
he held his mom gains
i remember my mom getting sick
it's like he loves us kids i love my kids and there were some sense of connection and i think that
turn now has become so pick it started
with fox news and some of the other
traditional media and
now with social media that's gonna turbocharging
if you go into those same communities now they
have so many preconceptions about what somebody like me
these cares about cetera that it's very hard to penetrate so i think
the answer is both thinking about
information flow and media and how to how can we break through
that information bubbled people earn
requires by the way progressed
to get out of them media
as we ve got some preconceptions that i think create barriers as well and then work
a lot more locally
because you notice that
you're on the ground doing stuff
harder the stereotype people and
the nationalization of our politics i think has been damaging
more we can focus on grassroots efforts
real world rather than this virtual meetings
conversations that's what over time i think and can help strengthen democracy and that's all
what the hell bar emphasis has been at the
the foundation is with young later
who are working on that
might come
ap with new ideas to create those connections so i i definitely wanna speak to you about that i want to speak to about direct democracy worldwide i want to speak to you about disinformation and what we can do to immunize ourselves from it but we've got to take a quick break
back after this with more from present
president falafel bomber chatting democracy disinformation and who is better looking between us i won let's start with what the real question is how will we look what he fixed it returned to bremen remove almost everybody knows very almost stare almost the last little overly let's talk about i plan to listen about your your your foundation this song about what you doing we see you out there you know wish you talkin about democracy in the world is in a really interesting place in that you know few years ago i think the wolves and like forty nine fifty percent of the world was you know you could
the country's word democratic democratic you know they they had they had
actions people one those elections there was an exchange of power etc and now
seventy percent of the world is living to state whether either ruled it waits a complete in old autocracy or did isn't a democracy to think
again one why do you think the world
has gotten you know if if democracy and freedom
everybody wishes to have why doesn't seem like the world is moving away from that and then secondly what kind
we do or why shouldn't we then try get back to this democracy if you look at the trend lines lives there buncher factors i think
globalization the glow
what economy this
did a lot of traditional societies
what are we welcome
i will supply chain eliminates industries limits jobs god
increases
wealth gap not only between come
is but within countries rights so and then
modernity challenges people's traditional
notions of religion and family and generals
and you ve got these culture clashes right ear been some
village in yemen and suddenly your kid has fallen and its look it up the carnations and write an end you're so so you get this vertical and what happened
what you ve seen happen i think in a whole bunch of places is
essentially a push back a backlash to change that is happening too fast for their comfort and when people
are pushing back against change than their vulnerable to politicians who say you know what i mean
make things just like it was back then when you word
feeling more important you had higher status
then are you didn't have people who don't lie
like you said
testing somehow that europe
doing something wrong
that somehow your traditions are flawed
and in that appeal usually
also involve saying the price
you're feeling or somebody else's fault is its those folks there it's immigrants its gaze its
he knows it's muslims its
fourth and so on and and
then gets turbo charged with
the information issues that we talked about and look democracy requires
is by definition getting along with people
who don't agree with you and
the other thing that happens is that these countries are becoming less homogeneous right and so do you just eta
a right wing party
in sweden which we always use the swedes
right there so chill democratic right but
if you've got a whole bunch of immigrants coming in suddenly people
start getting nervous and and so part of what i think we have to do
is to stand firm
asked on the principles of equality
self governance and representation and everybody gets a seat at the table
i think we have also find a language and a story
way of telling the story about how
we can get to gather that does not threaten people who are on company
it would change as much and
and that's you're going
different for different countries but i'll give you an example there's a young leader who we worked with from
slovenia is part of our network who was
an advocate for doing something about domestic violence
the laws of that country didn't have domestic violence was a real problem
a referendum got crushed
and we worked weather and
just a well maybe you want to talk to the people who didn't both for four she goes out to these rural villages with these
the traditional rural very religious very conservative women and as energy
and listen to them and talk to them and it's not that
i agreed with the
stick abuse its that they thought
their way of life was being challenged shit
after their language ran the referendum again a few years later and past right because she
adopted the language that made them feel as if ok
this is not so much of a earthquake
a huge change in how we live but it's rather affirming our best value and and i think
a finding ways to do that
a consistent way will help but it's hard
for most of human history democracies relatively recent
trying to blip that's a book tribe
a nation state race sex that
typically been how we organise things and it's always easy to say
versus them that's that's the easy politics what
democracy demands is always a little bit more difficult it it also feels like when when when you observe its there are two elements that i often seize on the one hand story tat
as you said
often easier to tell a story of blame that's why things going wrong because of that personal it's simple
there's the person and we shall why
things going on well there's a confluence of factors and you have this and you have the economy going understand the supply to that's not an answer for many people and will you sell freedom they got i don't i can't eat freedom i can't buy a house with freedom i can't you know and then there's the second
is what you're talking about you know that the us versus the them the who is and who isn't sometimes i think for many people it feels like it feels like the pie
he lists come in and just do you know whether it is in brazil and or whether it's more scenario you know where with its in america with trump when they go they're just going to do and what did they do or don't actually do it feels like they're going to do but then some
go all but when we get the freedom people they want to talk
and they want to discuss and it seems incremental and it seems like things won't change do it is there
it took combat that because it is a feeling a lot of the time well look
if you want to be
progressive pluralist tolerant democrat
and i don't mean small be democratic and i don't mean democratic party
it can be a was about me you ve got to have
a story that with some swag you
be able to sell end the level and
and also call out the fact that
what those folks say they're gonna do they almost never do right big
does the truth of the matter is is that when you look at what we have experiments
those countries that have been
the harness every one big and everybody participates in their consent and
feel like i've this is working for us versus
places at our failed states
the track record of democracy is is is pretty good but
we have to be forceful in making our argument and what
true is that
we can't just talk we got a walk the walk
which is why you were having for
and in new york one other topics that work
talking about as inclusive capitalism it people are
when you think about what they are here in the united states there is good
appeal of right wing populism in
a lot of communities rural communities that
they're not wrong that
the economy the global
the economy has shifted away from them to urban centres
even in their own states and so the
opportunities in austin texas are different than in a rural
only an easter and people notice that so
we have to spend some time thinking about how are we delivered on behalf of
people whose lives who used to work in a fight
who used to the farm for eleven and and
habits have dignity and worth and
stability and security in those laws
and now suddenly they don't feel as if they
the lottery ticket
this in this existing economy that does
have to be addressed and in places like africa
right now you have
let's say china coming in heavy presence
i had a lot of these countries
providing a lot of foreign aid lot of strings attached lot of china
workers coming in to build
big building muslim owning the etc etc but
if word not bear if we're not
helping to build that road if we're
a bear a bill that port
then naturally people
start thinking well maybe that's a that's a recipe for
better in my life as opposed to
flowery language but has not been behind the right right i wondered what do you think
inclusive capitalism is
this is somewhat of a paradox and it feels like it's possible it feels you think it's because it feels it feels like i mean capitalism is designed to extract as much wealth as possible from every single interaction that can that look i mentioned
sweden and some of the problems there having because immigration on the other hand you look at scandinavian countries their capitalist countries would by some and those worked very well but something would argue that they found nation is more in our socialist and then they go with its action was i think i'll wait with social
first and then capitalism is our under current lab really even though if you go there essentially the people are
it's more than that
our common gryce
you're still gonna run a job and you get paid
and it's not like you're going into the store just grabbing whatever you want walk it out feed the fish when you gotta pay for it then the guy at the cash register check and emma did i make a profit here today but the reason i'm asking that is because i and maybe it's the woods that fail us sometimes i often you know i'll talk to my friends about this it's interesting that we sort of stopped we went all is socialism there's you know there's this there's the communism this capital and then we just stopped we like this is it this capitalism and that's that i sometimes wonder is there not something better is that we could be or is that what the media should be all inclusive capital reason i just used
what said a denmark as an example is now
because it's gonna work perfectly in india the united states etc the point though is that they ve got some blend some mix rights
there is an advantage in terms
efficiency and also freedom to a market system
we have a control system
some guy in an office is deciding how many potatoes we're gonna grow this year that usually doesnt work rights
what side of it is that
what we also learned is that if some gonna boardroom is
deciding i'm gonna ravage the environment
do whatever i want that doesn't work either right so what
have a blend of some sort we want some collective decision making about
the social good and we want something
efficient and dynamic and allows us to exercise our innovation in britain
and we don't need the worried so much about the labels as we do about being practical
and thinking about what's working and what isn't and this is going back to the information issues
as part of why
to me one of the biggest challenges democracy is not
the mechanics of elections or
independent judiciary those things are all important but but
this is why this information and media issue is so important because
we ve seen here and there
dates and elsewhere is a
abandonment of a commitment to facts and reason and logic and better stuff but
is useful and necessary necessary and if we can have a debate based on facts then we can get to
better solutions right we start
talking and slogans and nonsense and there's no reality check we just makes
bob i lose an election
somethin broken over there and it doesn't it and its impervious to facts so so part of what i think why am i ve been spending a lot of time thinking about this this information issue is how do we in how we
it's our kids in the old either
industry standards or
or regulation of these social media platforms how do we get
to the point where you can have opinions we all do but facts matter
anne and proof matters and an architect
to debate and say in a what
if we do things this way
work better and then
you may disagree but at least we entered
we agree to a set of rules whereby we can arrive at a better solution he doing is possible to get to that place when almost half licious talking about the united states almost half the country says well what are those rules and why even deciding them and why are we having this conversation
you are not even affect how do you i honestly mean how do you get to that place with people like that
we can we're not the interest
thing is even
those places that are just inundated with what i consider to be nonsense and end
listen and distortions
people operate in their own lives there still operating on facts
on their jobs when their coach in their kids the league
or their soccer game and border they don't let the rest
just gonna say you know what
this time we're just going to five points for the touch them
why why why why
both on the sidelines or not
points where the touch them and then you go back to your point and so
we abide by all kinds of facts in our own lives it's just this national story
that is being told where we allow lies to be told and we accept them mainly
because it too
but when we tell a story about the other side it makes us feel better it's like yeah you know trevor he's a
i guess you should say tell me why
and so we enjoy the performance of aspects of making stuff up and
and part of that is because we don't think there are consequences to it now what we
learned from
the election of my successor from the pandemic from
the insurrection is actually the stories we tell do matter and
your having some baseline of sticking to the truth when you're
stories about our country about policy
but also about the other side that matters and and i
i like to think that part of what happened in this election is people said ok you know what
well this stuff's a little too crazy it turns out that there is a
a majority of country that does prefer normal not crazy
i see and that is that's a basis for you don't have the time it could have been wonderful having you here though it's also been wonderful seeing you know what you're getting up to because of you you know we had the pleasure of interview at the white house just before you left and then
towards us or you kite surfing and i loved it i loved it by the way great technique but often wonders like what you know what is mr president going to do next what does he go and you know you started producing shows about issues around the world and now you ve got
forum i wondered if maybe you know if you have any tips for me as you know why because i could you unite likely basic you know it s i think you're gonna have to
really focus on real earning thinks like driving pressing your own elevator but have you heard from whether the lie jeweller live what you under the dragon later on fifty felt strangely go i take him yeah we're very you you you don't like you very like you you know that's like us and you mr president for ever you have secret service forever that's correct eyes you and ended
i leave like my either i i i i still am in a bubble i thought i thought i could escape a quick stories were in new york i used
so all in all at once i get out of here i'm gonna
be able to like walk through central park and going to you know and i'll just put like on a baseball cap and it's going to be fine and yeah michelle's all like yeah okay good luck with that and the first time i tried it
like half a block suddenly versus small bones and traffic stop and it didn't work so so
oh
i guess what i would say though is that you will be missed here but
but we were told the most aid
are the following one piece of advice that i would have as i leave when your poll numbers are high that i don't remember yeah fuck yeah i'm excited i'm going to i'm going to go on the road yes i mean i've said this to before
you're not the witness the winners correspondence dinner in georgia when you didn't we you're very funny get so you want me to open boy from some money in open how would he then you could call you know you can't win for me you're the president mr president matter we just do like a man or woman lining tour you not mean in half an hour every line
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