MacKenzie Scott donates nearly $85 million to the Girl Scouts, slap fighting becomes an official sport, and singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile talks about her album "In the Canyon Haze."
You're listening to Comedy Central coming to you from New York City to the Only city in America. In the Daily Show Tonight, Britain's Prime Minister is in trouble, the end of Free Return, and Brandy Carlile, this is the Daily Show with Driver Nolan comes to the Day Show. Show you saw us for tuning in, Thank you for coming out into people here thinking look at that. Let's looks amazing. Take a seat, looks to this everybody. Oh, I can feel that we're gonna have a great show. Tonight's slapping is going professional, the girl scouts a ball out, and England is having Buyer's Remorse. Plus here to talk about her new album. Brandy Carlile is joining us on the show at the Day. So let's through those people. Let's up straight into today's headlines. All right. Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. Starting with big news coming out of the world of sports. The NFL has announced that, for the first time ever, the league will schedule a game on the day after Thanksgiving, a k A Black Friday. Yeah, and I'm surprised that they're doing this because I thought that the NFL would be busy on Black Friday scouting Walmart for new talents. You know that grandma would just tackle that kid. Let's get her a two year deal. Also, I love how the league made this big announcement, like it's a genius idea. Wow, football on a Friday. Yeah, football put on any day. It works. It's football. It's like oh Sex on a Tuesday. Yeah, brilliant idea. It's good whenever, don't overthink. It's In money news, the U S Mint is about to release new quarters featuring actress Anna May Wong, the first Asian American to ever appear. Yeah, which, which is great news for representation and great news for bad tippers. This is gonna be like you only took me a quarter. It's like, wow, Okay, I didn't know I was dealing with a racist. Which quarter. In international news, British Prime Minister Liz Truce is now officially the lowest polling prime minister in British history, and is now in danger of losing her job after only six weeks. Yeah. When asked for comments, she said, any woman can break the glass ceiling. I'm proud to have shot at the glass floor all right, Let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day, starting with the Girl Scouts of the USA, you know, the Cineloa cartel of baked goods. Off the years of struggling with falling membership and sinking revenues, one Girl Scout has stepped in with the ultimate good deed. The Girl Scounts of the USA just received their largest donation ever by a single person. Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott just donated eighty four and a half million dollars to the organization. The Girl Scounts leadership says that the money will help them recover from the pandemic which drove down membership. Scott has donated some twelve billion dollars to charities since Wow Wow. Thanks to Mackenzie Scott, the Girl Scouts are now bawling out of control, which is great. It really is great because the Girl Scouts do an amazing job of training a new generation of leaders, providing a community. Although I will say they've got to be careful because this kind of money could easily change your vibe. Yeah. This year they're earning badges for computer coding and rock climbing. Next year it's going to be badges for crystal popping and tax evasion. Becauld be like Meredith for discovering that the Cayman Islands are superior to Panama. Where warn you this? Obviously I'm joking. I'm joking, all right, because it's gonna be selling cookies. This is gonna be doing it out of the back of a Bentley now, just like buy them or not, we don't carry the way you brought gast bit and ask for McKenzie starts. How can you not love this woman? Huh? Because she's exposing what billionaires don't want you to realize. That billionaire is always like, if you raise my taxes even a little bit, how will I have the money to feed all of my private jets? But think about the Mackenzie Scott has only been a billionaire for three years and she's already given away ten billion dollars more than her ex Jeff Bezos has given away to Tillie. And get this, and get this, she's still a billionaire. Don't forget that. Yeah, it just goes to show how much good you can do when your main priority isn't going to space in a giant metal penis. There are things you can do anyway, Let's move on. Let's move on to some big sports news. For decades, boxing dominated the world of price fighting. Then M M A came along with a roundhouse kick and became a worldwide phenomenon. And now we might be witnessing the birth of a new era slap fighting. It's become a viral sensation over the past few years, and now UFC President Danta White is starting a league. He got approval yesterday for it to be a licensed athletic competition in Nevada. His Power Slap League will be regulated by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and as you can guess, slap fighting features two competitors across from one another, throwing slaps with open hands to each other's faces. The sport has been around for several years, but never regulated until now. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Slapping is about to become an official sports and those big dudes might be the champs for now, but it's only amoutter of time before the sports is dominated by immigrant mom's feet on their couch fit on the couch. You know, I don't know about you. I don't know about you, but I am excited to see how the Nevada Athletic Commission plans to regulate the rules of the sport, like are you allowed to flinch? You know? Can I use my moods from school? Is Will Smith the reigning champ? Is that how it was? You know? You know what I would propose. I would propose to make the sport more exciting. You know, having wrestling they trash talk right to get people going, and then in boxing they do the way in where they challenge each other and they say things. What they should do for slap fighting is they should have each fighter say something first that warrants them getting slapped, you know, just like I never liked your mother's cooking. And by the way, by the way, I like that there are more and more sports that divorced men can excel at getting slapped eating hot dogs. You're basically two weeks away from there being a sport that's just sleeping on your friends. Put out a couch, right, just four days and he's still on the couch. People, This is why he's the goat. Can you say this and before you one of those people who's like, you know, this is a bizarre idea for a sport. Isn't really a sport. Every sport sounds ridiculous when you first hear about it. All right, every sport is not a real sport. Pick any sport, any sport like Nascar. Huh. Imagine that first conversation. So we're all gonna drive really fast in a big circle. Yeah yeah, but what if I lose control and crash into the wall. Well, that's what we're all hoping for. Right, And finally, everyone knows that the Internet has made shopping easier than ever. You know, sometimes I get packages without even ordering. Yeah, I mean sure, they accidentally put the boxes on my even stupid. It's free. I can't complain. But this year, this year, it looks like online shopping will be a little less easy than before. We As holiday shopping season approaches, you may find something a little bit different this year. Returning gifts may not be so easy or cheap anymore. Buyers beware. Free returns may soon be a thing of the past. The cost of returns is becoming so astronomical for retailers right now they have no choice but to pass that cost on to the consumer. One reason for the new return fees is an increase in what's called bracketing. That's when a consumer buys the same clothes in several different sizes and colors with plans to return what they no longer want. The National Retail Federation reports two eighteen billion dollars worth of online purchases were returned in That is more than double the amount in. As a result, some major retailers are now adjusting their return policy, including H and M, which is now testing a return fee in certain places. No, no, no, no, no no. How are you gonna charge people for returns? If I want to make a rash decision on a whim and then change my mind, I shouldn't have to pay a price for it. That's the whole point of America. I thought, this great nation is about you make decisions. I think i'd look good in the jacket, you know what. Never mind, I think i'd look good in Iraq, you know what. Never mind. And you know who I blame for this? I blame the Democrats. Yeah, they should have cutified the rights of free returns when they had a super majority. You could have done it, matching. I don't want to lose free internet returns because you realize what that means. That means we're gonna have to go back to the old way. You remember the old way. If you wanted to return to shirts, you'd have to drive all the way to the store to wait and lie and to look the cashier in the eye and try to convince them that the shirt was already burnt when you bought it. But letsie made it like this. Actually, you don't you know what. I blame the clothing stores for all these returns in the first place. Yeah, we wouldn't be forced to order all these different sizes if each clothing store didn't choose to have their own sizing system. In some stores, you're a medium, then you go to another store, Now you're a six. Then in some storts they're like, if you're usually a medium, you probably want to go to the large. Then you just call it a large. Hot sizes run small? Then why don't you make that a medium? What are you doing? Can you imagine if I owned a pizza store and you ordered a large pie and then I came out with one slice, and I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you our pies run small. I bet you now that conversation would end with a championship slap five. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to break, let's check it on traffic with our very own Roy Would Jr. Everybody, Come on, get out of get out of that coup, Get out of that count there you go, there you go, Get up out of that, Get up out of that boy, get about of that. They go dip dog? Right, what are you? What are you doing? The traffic? That's some of the traffic devils. You don't know. I feel like you're watching a cow. Is that cow being chased by the costles happening? I don't know, but I'm rooting for him. You've been running what what? What? Do? What? Do the rest of the traffic. But before I get to the rest of the traffic ban, let's let's just talk a little bit about this whole giving the money to the girl Scouts. It's an amazing story. You're like McKenzie, eight six million dollars. Yes, it's good to give away eighty six million. But to the glass Scouts, they've ben making money pipping them cookies. They're good. You need to get them money to the boy Scouts. The boy Scouts the one need the money. They've been selling popcorn for decades and they still broke they broke. The boy Scouts need someone. They need some money for R and D. They didn't research some new ship to sell. Well, they can't make some money. You know what. The boy Scouts need to start selling them Eat cigarettes said that a big one if the old or or if the boy Scouts sold Eat six and Girl Scout cookie flavors. Bitch a dopey dot flavor June, Come on dollar, everybody love a thin minte. If you could smoke a thin man, you're telling me you wouldn't smoke a thin me. But you know that's cool. That's cool, Mackenzie. Mackenzie Scott. Want to get the money to the Girl Scouts, that's cool. They'll be giving money to all the little individual troops, millions of dollars. That's the new liqu I started me a Girl Scout troupe. Are you do you mean like you have one? Yeah, She's gonna give them ways on more money. And I'm gonna be right there ready, I'm gonna be Reggie. I did the paperwork already. Let me talk to a group which is just the camera. Um um, madam Mackenzie, Um, how you doing? I'm Roy Withood Jr. Girl Scout truthfully, the six two three j not my my venmo. My venmo is supposed to be at p if you see them did they added later I start for money on the show, man, I was, I'm gonna do the traffic, you know what? Man also shout out to anime wan, shout out the anime wan man Asian on the money. It's an Asian on the money, which is cool. That's a nice place to start. But why would you put him on the quarter to put them on a dollar bill? Put somebody on a dollar pit. Let let's be real. Let's be real about this ship. When the last time you use the quarter, well, let'st time to use the quarters, so the machine pay phone. The only time people use the quarter as a launder matter strip club. Everybody know that that's been Wait wait wait wait, I get the laundry. Why would you use don't don't ask me nothing about that on TV. What I'm saying is good for anime one because finally we got some more minority representation on American money, just in time for Apple pet I see what you did that? Yeah yeah, oh, speaking of money, speaking money, Also, this whole return fee nonsense for the clothes and all of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think people should be having to pay these return fee take something back. The fees add up. I've been returning clothes for years. That's everything I performed in the TV. That's the chick. Go right back, like I'm not even lying to you right now. Like O two oh three, oh four, Bro, I was starving dog, I would do Conan. Every time I did Conan O'Brien, I would take that ship right back to Macy's and it was perfect. It was perfect. It's perfect too because like in l A, you can go to Macy's at ten o'clock in the morning, you get your outfit for Conan, Conan, rehearse at to they shoot at five, you're done by six, You're back at Macy's by seven thirty, return your ship. Then you're at the house watching yourself for falling and close. You don't even own no more. That's the move man. Because also, these return fees add up, and I don't think we understand like how unfair it is to charge some body money to get back some of their money. You can't do that to people. Circus City. Circus City used to do that ship to me back in the day. With cameras back in the day with Sucu City, because like I would buy a camera for fifty dollars, I keep it for a couple of days, using for a couple of shows, and then you go back and they want a fifty dollar restocking fee, which I didn't have because two of the shows canceled. So now I'm broke. So now I got to go out and donate plasts or four days in a row just to make back to fIF which is illegal, by the way. You're only supposed to donate plasts, but twice a week, supposed to take a day off in between drink fluids. But I ain't have time for this ship because I had to pay the restocking fee, So I would do all of that just to get the fifty dollars to return the camera. What you may wait, they've sold their body for money. They understand what I'm talking about. Why did you need a camera for so badly that you that you were willing to do all of that. I had to make the audition tape to get on Conan O'Brien. Okay, that seems dead. Are you Are you healthy now? Does that affect you? No? Man, I feel pretty good. For the most part. All right, well, let's let's get to the traffic. Okay, I mean I would get to the traffic, but I'm gonna be honest with your dog. I gotta get the macis right quick. I gotta get I gotta get a continuity saves for Junia. Everybody start to fall screen, I gotta go him back. I'll be talking to the legendary Brandy Carlile, so don't go away. Welcome back to the Day Show. My guest tonight is a Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and musician. She easier to talk about her new deluxe album In the Canyon Hayes, which is available right now. Please welcome Brandy Carlisle. Welcome to the show. I thank you for having me. Wow. Look at this. Wow, look at this is us looking at you. That's what the wild look at this is because I never got to tell you this in person. You know, we we're all working at the Grammys, but you put on, hands down, one of the greatest live performances human beings have ever witnessed. It was phenomenal. I hope everybody told you this, just like everywhere you went. Thank you because because here's the thing. You're a legend. You You've been nominated for countless Grammys, you want tons of Grammys, but you are a consummate performer, and it feels like every performer wants to perform with you for that reason. You know, everybody from from Elton John all the way through to Joni Mitchell, Legends, go, Brandy, Carlile, lot to know what that feels like for you. Well, it all comes from them, you know it does. And they've sort of taught me through the years pretty much everything I know about performing. And the cool thing with the Grammys is that, you know, it didn't happen to me when I was so young that I wouldn't be able to really seize the moment. I felt really ready for that moment, and um, and I knew. I was like, man, I'm nearly forty, Like I just I've got I've got to do this right now. You know, I got to take this moment and make it means that in my life for me and my and my family. You know, you haven't had you have had a journey that many of your fans have said is long overdue. They've gone, Why isn't Brandy getting her credit? Why isn't she more successful? We love her so much. The industry is definitely caught up, you know, the world is definitely caught up. But you do talk about this how you achieved fame a little later than than some musicians will at sixteen, seventeen, whatever it may be. Do you feel like that prepared you better for the for the place that you're in now. Yeah, I do. I'm really grateful for that, you know. And it's funny. It's like, I mean, it literally is singing for a living, So it's probably the greatest job in the world at whatever level you're at, right And I think I always felt like I was making it and like I was making an impact. Um, But it's definitely taken a turn, you know. That's uh that I am emotionally prepared for because I'm old enough to like handle it. But it's happening for some of my heroes to Bonnie Rate's career is kind of that way, and she's like somebody I really look up to, just how she's conducted herself throughout her career in life. Yet when you when you when you blow up, you know, at a certain stage and art, there's there's always the balance between maintaining how your fans knew you and loved you, and then catering to the masses who now want to enjoy in the art that you're creating. Do you find that you've been able to create that balance for yourself? Do you still have the intimate Brandy Carlisle and then like the Giants the Giant shows. I mean, I'm so obsessive, I don't really even know how to cater to the fans that loved me, you know, like my desires are still so strong to pursue my own heroes and I really love that my love of entertainment. That I just am like a little too obsessive to be able to see outside of that to really know how to cater you know. Um, but not not in a way like that I'm saying like I'm too much of an artist for that, because I care what people think and I just don't know how to do it. That's that's fascinating, because you know, I think it was David Bowie who said something similar, said something to the effect of, you know, don't play to the raft is remember why you started playing essentially, you know, and it's the idea of creating for yourself for the joy that you first had, and then that's you know, I mean, that's essentially why the people became fans. You've got a new album that is out now, and you've done something that a few artists were dare to do, and that is you. You've remade an album that was critically acclaimed, many regarded as as one of the more perfect albums. I'd love to know why. I mean, there's like, there con so many different versions of a song that can exist, and when you're an artist, like they exist in your head whether you get a chance to record them or not, like at any given time. But you've got an album, you've got one shot. That song is going to have one life. It's going to be heard one way. And um, I wanted to do this album as a revision of like, well what would what would? In these silent days? It sounded like if it was in Laurel Canyon in the early nineteen seventies, like what we what would? What will we do? Would there be four or five six part harmony? We have strings and lushness and melotrons and steel guitars and you know, we just did this. We did this at home, you know, for the love of it for for as a labor of love, because we wanted to hear what our album would sound like in that way. I mean, I still think that in these silent days is the right that's the right thing. That's the album I wanted to make. But I loved making that one. You You, you tell very personal stories in the album. Some of them feel like they happen to you, or they feel like everyone feels like they happened to them. You know, you you you connect with people in the storytelling of your music. And yet every time I've seen you talk about your music, it feels like you don't take credit for it, but you give credit to this larger idea of artists who have inspired you and what they've created, and you, you're part of it. And it's it's this beautiful, humble attitude that you have about music itself. It's almost like you you treat it like it's magic that just comes down and it's infused within you. When you when you talk about mimicking and the autists that that inspire you, Like, how do you see music that maybe other people don't, Well, I mean, I do see myself as an artist and I'm proud of myself as a songwriter, especially as a singer. Um. So it's not like a humble bragg or anything. But I am like a fan like so like I'm the kind of fan, like I waited outside your tour bus for an autograph, you know what I mean, Like I kind of knew where you lived, like I had. We're okay, okay, you went to a year you were like, I'm that kind of a fan, but you wouldn't go to the house. No. I would stop short of that because that it made my jover's licence till I was twenty. But but I I know artists like molecularly, I'm I'm interested that goes beyond just music, you know. And so I just never grew out of that. Even though it's my job now and I know there are people that feel that way about me, it doesn't scare me. And um and I still feel that way about my heroes. They're just kind of letting me hang out with them for some reason. And it's probably the greatest honor of my life. Don't tell my kids. I already I already love that. I really really loved that because because it comes across and and what's amazing is that your heroes are fans of you. One of the most amazing moments people have ever seen in their lives was when Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest of all time, just truly one of the greatest of all time, came out and say you surprised people with her perform Everyone thought Johny wasn't going to perform anymore. You know, we know that she almost lost her life and she's thought to come back, and then here she was on stage performing and it was with you. I mean, that is history being made. You don't do you ever pinch yourself and go like, I'm part of this. I still can't believe that happened. It was just a few months ago, you know. And in the fact that it was at Newport Folk Festival, which is such a monumental and storing place. She always has a plan. She knows what she wants to do, even if she doesn't say it. We didn't know she was going to do that. We we thought it was a jam. We didn't know that she was going to sing all the leads on those songs. She just started singing. We rehearsed the songs ourselves, and we didn't know whether we should stop or what we should do? You know, so we just sang with her, and then it turns out she completely took over the show and became the performer that we all know that she is. And I mean it was she didn't go, we didn't go to sleep the night we set up till the sun came up. Just just just love loving what happened. And Joni flat out loves to perform, and she's awesome at it. She's every good at it as a good at it's now and she was yes. So you know what when when those when those types of moments, when those types of moments happened, you know, everyone goes, oh, you should have been there. You you'll never get to see it again. But but I heard a little whisper that maybe something might happen. Yeah, we're gonna we get to talk about this right now. So after Newport, Jone said, I want to do another show, she said, I want to play again, and we got to thinking about it and we decided on a venue, which is The Gorge out in Washington State, George, Washington, The Gorge, Yes, you want to play there. It's one of the most beautiful venues in the world. It's like it's it's called Echoes through the Canyon. I'm going to play the first night, Joni and the Joni Jam. We're gonna play the second and it's a It's June ninth and tenth out of the Gorge. Joni Mitchell is going to play. You haven't been able to buy a ticket. No one's been able to buy a ticket to see Joni Mitchell play in twenty years. So this is enormous. And she's so excited because it's close to Canada and some of them for Canadian fans, so it's just I can't believe it's happening, but it's happening, and she is going to crush it. So if you can get there, I get that. Yeah, I mean you compend. Get the wow that's gonna be. That's gonna be intense. Um. After the break, we're gonna have a performance of Yours from the new album. And and it's interesting because the title of the track really hit home for me. You know, it's um, you and Me on the Rock, and it reminded me of just like you know, Bible study with your mom. There's always like the rock, you know, the foundation that you build you a house on versus the sand and you you you grew up in very in a very religious household, didn't you. Well, I don't know if it was the household, but I found religion around me, you know. It was kind of in the extremities of my family and some a bit in my household, and then I sort of found it later on in life in my own way, and it sort of came up with my own way to practice my faith. But the concept of you and me on the rock has been with me since I was about six years old, you know, going to Sunday school and sing and build your house on a rock. I love that you say, um, practice it in my own way, you know, because you've talked a little bit about this. But one of the many aspects of you that makes you so inspiring and phenomenal in many people's eyes is that you have you blazed the trail. You know. You you grew up, as you say, in a religious environment, you know, and you're proudly gay. You know, when people go, wait, Brandy, but but but it's religion. And and then country music has also had its issues with that, you know, just like some other genres like rap et cetera. When when you when you're performing and when you're putting your hearts out there and you're putting your your your life out there. Are you doing that as cathosis or you're doing that to help so many of the other people who have had the journey that you've had in your life. Definitely both. I can't not do it. I don't know how to not do it, since you know since I can remember I have to do that. I have to be in front of an audience and create, whether they like it or not, and to exist, you know. But also I do know how impactful it is because, like I told you, I'm the girl that waits outside your tour bus because I was so impacted. I needed that particularly, I needed quit your icons as a rural queer religious good. So you know, when I see you and me on the rock, it's a take on a Sunday School lesson, and I know that, you know it's it's about me marrying the love of my life, my wife Katherine, and having these two little girls. And I know that that's not exactly what Sunday School had in mind for me, but I do think it's what I do think it's what God had in mind for me and that I kind of wait to see the stunk. You so much for gennering all the show people being here. I really really appreciate you. Thank everybody. Run half in the Panion Hayes is available about I lets our talk. It's a lot, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. But before we go, I just wanted to remind you please consider supporting the Violence Intervention Program in New York City. They work with in Latino communities to end domestic and sexual violence by providing emergency shelter, advocacy for long term economic stability and healing for survivors and their children. So if you want to support their work, then please donate at the link below. Until next time, stay safe out there, and remember if you need some extra cash to pay for your returns. Just Oscar girld scouts What's the Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast