The Daily Show: Ears Edition

She has a new memoir called The Farmer's Wife, My Life in Days.

I enjoyed your book so much. You really walk us through a day in your life, all of the daily work that you do, taking care of a family of six, your herd of sheepdogs, 50 chickens, 500 sheep.

It started off with personal stories and recipes. I wanted to leave a collection for the kids of what mum makes.

I choose this life.

I love when you say in the book, I choose this life.

A religious scholar, a best-selling author, his books include No God but God and Zealot.

A religious scholar, a best-selling author, his books include No God But God and ZEALOT.

The first cast album I ever bought, Small World, by Huey Lewis in the News.

Gettysburg, wow.

Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was, the battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable, I mean it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways.

It represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow.

Gettysburg, wow.

It was vicious and horrible and beautiful.

And that's how I wrote The Power of Fun.

And I think what's also scary about it, I'm going to pull out one of my favorite books, Professor Michelle Goodwin wrote Policing the Womb.

And in fact, I wanted to treat you guys tonight. So look, all of you, look under your seats and you'll find directions to a local bookstore where you can buy, you can buy lies for $29.99.

Tonight is a best-selling author, publisher, and a professor whose new e-book is called Stand Your Ground, a black feminist reckoning with America's gun problem.

What made you want to write this piece about guns?

And I think that there's a lot to be said about the founders and their lack of vision.

It wasn't written for black people. It wasn't written for women.

The original e-book and audio book, Danger Ground, is available only on EverEnd.

Your favorite book? For Whom The Bell Tolls.

President Trump was venting again today, possibly taking a swipe at Michael Wolff's new book.

First Women, The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies and the Residents

Yes, 10, 11 years ago, my father took me to see my first Broadway show.

And it was The Color Purple.

And so I remember sitting in the audience just like this, 15 years old, just crying.

So what this book is, is the story of black people in America. And so we ain't talking about James Garfield's political campaign. We're talking about what black people were going to our perspectives and the unwhite watched, the unerased stories that we've been missing from our history books.

Like for instance, like nobody, like when I used to ask people about head rights and they always say, what was that? And I was like, oh, y'all didn't know like the first people that came to America got 50 acres for every slave that they brought here.

So people were thinking like, oh, the slaves came here to do the white people's work and to make them wealthy. And I was like, no, the slaves is what made the white people wealthy, right? But nobody knows about head rights.

And it was how the blue blood families of this country gained their wealth, not from owning the stuff that slaves produced, but the actual bodies of the slaves is what gave them their power and their intergenerational wealth that is still persist to this day.

It's coming out in January of 23.

Josh Marsley writes Talking Points, Dave Weiner.

one of the 100,000 books used to train ChatGPT was my book, The Bedwetter. Available wherever books are sold.

And ChatGPT stole all of it and didn't even have the courtesy to give me Mona Lisa tits.

if these people say you have the power, wouldn't you want to?

I wouldn't want any one person to have that authority.

but wouldn't it almost be cool to have that power?

no, look, I've read this and I don't see a way to do it. We've exhausted every option. I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible. My interpretation is no.

no, no, no. You don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this.

Utopia for Realists is the book that you wrote and it's come back into prominence again because it's just like a fun read.

You talk about all of these ideas and how they could actually be implemented, which is interesting. It's not just the ideas. Universal basic income, open borders, 15-hour work week.

This is like Freddy Krueger for a GOP person. This is like nightmare stories. That's what this is.

But I mean, it's also true that if I look at a debate, right, Medicare for all, for example, America is the only country in the rich world that doesn't have it. And still, it has the most expensive healthcare system and life expectancy is going down. So, yeah, that seems pretty ridiculous.

if you go back to the 60s, almost everyone believed, all the experts believed that some form of basic income was going to be implemented in the United States.

there were no books for me to read in order to understand what I was going through as a kid. There were no heroes or icons to look up to and emulate. There were no road maps or guidelines for journey.

I made it my original goal to get this right.

Also joining me is a professor of developmental psychology at NYU, an author of the book Deep Secrets, Boys' Friendships, And The Crisis Of Connection. Her book was also the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film Close.

I'll read a quote for 12-year-old boys that says something soft. I love him so much from my book, Deep Secrets.