SOTU Recap: Trump Gets Tarantino-Gory & Award-Crazy in Record-Long Address | Jonathan Haidt & Catherine Price

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It's how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe. The pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is home ownership, with us tonight is Racial Wiggins, a mom of two from Houston. Well, who says Democrats are woke? They were just honoring Black History Month by also having a dream. But let's not focus on length, let's focus on girth, by which I mean the content of the speech. Mr. President, what is your message on the state of our union? Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before. This is the golden age of America. Oh, okay, that's great news. I actually think an optimistic uplifting state of the union might be just what the country needs right now. Let's hear more about this golden age. Drug lord, manly, so over our country killed and maimed thousands ambushed and shot in the head shot. Violently in the head, one bullet after another, violently and viciously. We're talking about the edge up there. Which part of this is the golden age? Can we just get back to the uplifting optimism? Gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle, viciously slashed, bleeding profusely, blood all over. Shredding his leg into numerous pieces, unbelievable what's happened to his legs. Oh my god, the violence. Was this the state of the union's future a Quentin Tarantino movie? All it's missing is Uma Thurman's bare feet. Close enough. Look, there's nothing wrong with honoring Americans who have been through tragedies, but we used to have presidents who could do that without sounding like a six-year-old dismembering his GI Joe's. Now, the speech wasn't just two hours of Donald Trump traumatizing America. One reason that the speech went so long was because Republicans kept interrupting with applause breaks, which Trump would just bask in, rotating back and forth like he was stuck on oscillating fan mode. Guys, he's stuck. How do I get him back to regular? Push your pull. Do I push your, do I pull them? But the Democrats stayed seated almost the entire night and you could tell it started to get under Trump's skin. How do you not stand? You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. Look, nobody says up. These people are crazy. Mr. President, I will have you know that the Democrats are not standing because they are outraged by your tyranny and lawless behavior. And also, they are sleep right now. You know, Mr. President, let's forget about the Golden Age and yelling at Democrats for not applauding you. Why don't you just focus on telling us the state of the union now? Here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud. The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team. Come on in. Oh, okay, great. Nice to give the hockey team a shout out. All right, give a wave and smile. They got strip clubs to get to. But now that we've gone through that, back to the state of the union. And we will soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. Okay, great. Didn't need to do that here, but sure, one quick award. Let's not turn this whole thing into a big award show. I will ask the first lady of the United States to present Captain Royce Williams with his congressional medal of honor. Chief Warren's officer, Slover, with the congressional medal of honor. I am now awarding you the Legion of Merit, it's called the Purple Heart. Wow, he didn't just give out one award, he gave out all the awards. Guess the state of our union was, come on down. Now you could be cynical and say that it seems like Trump has so few accomplishments of his own that he was trying to draft off of the actual heroism of other people. But hey, at least he's giving awards to other people for a change instead of demanding that they give one to him. I've always wanted the congressional medal of honor, but I was informed I'm not allowed to give it to myself. And I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it, but they ever opened up that law. I will be there with you someday. Yeah, there he is. Just can't help himself. Trump would have asked for the Purple Heart, but his doctors told him that he had one already. For more on last night's address, let's go live to Washington, D.C. with Troy Ewada. You were in the room for the speech, you had a scene in the gallery, what was your impression? Yeah, I guess it was fine. I don't know. Some people liked it, whatever. Okay, what was fine or whatever about it? Can't you just be more specific? Oh, you want me to be specific? It was specifically shitty. Okay, the whole thing sucked. Okay, go away. Go away. Why are you so upset? Because I was the only one in the entire room who didn't get an award. Are you happy, Desi? This is the fourth grade spelling bee all over again. What are you talking about? I spelled the word pigeon with a D. No, I meant about this speech. Why were you expecting an award? Well, I wasn't at first, but then everyone around me started getting awards. Like the Medal of Freedom, the Medal of Honor, a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and I went home empty handed. Like, what am I? A female director at the Oscars? See, they're sad for me too. But you weren't there to get an award. You were there as a reporter. Well, that's no consolation when everyone around me is getting them. And for lame stuff, like a guy in front of me was honored for having good facial hair. A woman next to me got a medal for her parallel parking. And then some bitch got a fancy flag just because her stupid husband died in the stupid Korean War. Like, why can't my husband have died in the Korean War? Because you weren't born yet and you also don't have a husband. Oh, rub it in. Look, don't let it get you. All right, those awards were just glomming on to other people's glory. I have glory to glom. I have so much glory to glom. I can spell pigeon now, PIGE-O-N-D. Damn it! Wait, that's where you put the D? Oh my god, oh my god, you sound just like Mrs. Longbard. I'm sorry, but if you care so much about getting an award, why don't you just enlist in the army or join a hockey team? You don't think I tried? After heated rivalry, I thought it'd be great at hockey, but turns out, hockey is not the part I was great at. So. I don't know, Dezi. I don't know. I guess I'm just not good at anything. I'm never going to get a medal at the State of the Union. I'm never going to be a celebrated widower. Never! I hate seeing you like this. Can I do anything to help? I don't know. You could maybe give me an award. I'm sorry, what? You can give me an award. Give me an award. Give me an award, Dezi. Give me an award. Okay, okay, all right, all right, fine. Troy Wato on the. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm not ready. Okay. 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They teamed up to write the amazing generation your guide to fun and freedom in a screen-filled world. Please welcome Jonathan Hyton, Katherine Price! [Music] Oh boy, you got a lot of fans here. A lot of people out here read the anxious generation. [Applause] Trying to break up with your phone. Yeah. I mean, Jonathan, your previous book, The Anxious Generation, really sparked a huge conversation all over the world about the effects that social media and our smartphones have on our kids. Talk about what you've observed since the book came out. Yeah. Well, so when the book came out in 2024, I'd focused on the effects of social media on teen mental health. And so one thing I've discovered is that I grossly understated the damage that's being done. Because since then, we've got a lot more evidence about the cognitive deficits, the inability to pay attention, especially because of short videos. There's a lot more research now that short videos are truly our rotting brains. I mean, it's not a joke. It is truly okay. It's not literally rotting brains, but it makes it work less well. And not the daily show, short video. [Laughter] All those other garbage videos. Yeah, real news is helpful. And then the other thing that we also know now is that test scores are going down. And IQ is going down. We didn't know that a few years ago around the world. So 50 years of progress in education to 2012 ended and now test scores are going down. And so the damage from this phone-based childhood is far beyond what I said in the anxious generation. That's one of the -- that's the downside. Okay. Can I give you the upside, too? Yeah, please. But that means -- The upside is that as soon as the book came out, mothers around the world stood up and said, let's go. Yeah. [Applause] Give me a round of applause. So just in the first two years, in the first year we got 40 U.S. states have put limits on phones 20 did it right, phone-free for the whole day. Australia is the first country in the world to raise the age to 16 for social media. [Applause] And the last -- just in the last four weeks, a dozen countries have said they're going to follow. So we are at a global turning point. Okay. This is good momentum. Katherine, you wrote a book called How to Break Up with Your Phone and the Power of Fun. Now, you're very passionate about the idea of kids and adults setting aside their phones to embrace fun. Explain this elusive concept of fun. What is this? I have an entire vent diagram, but I will not go into that right now. But I would say that yes, I broke up with my own phone. I realized, oh my goodness, I need to figure out how to fill my time. And that's how I wrote the power of fun. And what I realized is that the tech companies are promising us and our children that their products are fun. But that's actually fake fun. Because what real fun is is the feeling that you get when you're with people in real life together, totally connected, having a playful experience. [Applause] And the two of you joined forces to write this incredible book, The Amazing Generation. I have a 10-year-old at home. I already gave it to him. I mandated him to read for a certain amount of time, but I will tell you that when his time was up, he continued to read. So you do something right. Talk about, I mean, here's what I love about this book, is you really, you don't water it down for the kids. You give it to him straight. You say, if you don't own your life, tech will own you. What went behind the decision to be so honest and straightforward? Yeah. Well, the challenge for us was how to make a version of the book for kids. And I sure can't write for kids. And so we put out a, we were looking for a co-author and I'd met Catherine, apart from seeing her amazing TED Talk on the power of fun. And it was really Catherine's idea about how to make this a book that kids would actually enjoy. And that I'm thrilled to hear that your son actually enjoyed it. Can I just suggest next time don't mandate it, just like put it in front of him and be able to more subtle? But anyway, back to Catherine. All right, don't dad explain to me. This is trying my best here. She's living in his lunch box. Is that what you do? Yeah. So anyway, so Catherine figured out how to do, how to put in a graphic novel, how to put in all kinds of testimonials from older kids. And the net effect, you look at the Amazon reviews, kids are reading it and then they're saying, "Mom, I don't want a smartphone when I start middle school." So we're just really thrilled and it was Catherine's idea how to do that. I appreciate that. But I think that's really what's been so exciting because we were just talking about what is a win for this book. And as many people may know, the anxious generation talks about getting phones out of schools, more independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world, and then having kids not have smartphones till at least high school, and not have social media till at least 16. Well, the ultimate win is if kids decide that for themselves. And so that was really the goal of this book. And we told them the truth. You know, I think that's why kids are reacting to it and the way they are, where they're actually making these decisions because they realize we're being manipulated. And they don't like to be manipulated. And so it's really, it's truly, really exciting to hear from parents and families who feel like for the first time ever they're on the same side when it comes to students. [Applause] It was really remarkable to see all of the feedback from young people, from teenagers, from kids, from kids in their 20s who were looking back. Were you surprised by the willingness of young people to give up their phones and say, you know what, this is what I want, my life is better? Based on how to break up with your phone, I would say I wasn't surprised when people actually put their phones down and reconnect with real life, that they tend to realize it is better, and that it's actually easier than they had feared. I think though that I'm personally very excited, and I think you'd agree to just see how quickly the younger generation has accepted this message and gotten excited about it. We frame this basically as an invitation to Jen Alpha, which is the younger kids these days, to join this growing rebellion of young people who are standing up against Big Tech and deciding they want to have more real friendship and more real freedom and real fun. And so it's been really thrilling to see that kids are taking that up and saying, yeah, that is what I want. Right. So if we want our children to put the smartphones down, does that mean that we, the adults, also have to put the smartphones down because that's going to be a deal breaker for us. For them, I'm sorry, for them. I won't do the dad's planning thing here. I asked for it. So a lot of us, we're using our phones all the time, but mine is for work. Kids can actually understand that. They can actually understand that they're different. They can understand that maybe you have some habits that are for adults. The important thing is to structure space and time in your house, because what happened when these things came in is they're just everywhere all the time. There is no structure to space and time. And so you got kids sitting at the dinner table, kids sitting on the toilet, kids walking out the door, always on the phone, put a stop to that. Make it clear, there are times when we have these things and there are times when we don't. So the easiest, of course, are meal times. That needs to be an absolute no phones at the table, even if you want to just check something. The most important one of all is no screens in the bedroom after a certain time. If your kids are younger, I would actually say start with the rule, no screens of any kind in the bedroom ever. I wish I had done that with my kids, but of course, you're going through COVID, that's the habits got formed. So there's a lot you can do to structure space and time that will really convey to your kid that you don't always have this. Right. Okay. So here's one thing I want to just bring up, because as a parent, I think we see what the way that screens affect our kids. And we desperately want to take them away, but it can be really challenging. And sometimes parents feel like they're backed into a corner because their kids friends all have phones or the school hasn't done a school ban. And so you're hesitant to pull your kid out and ostracize them from their friends. How much of the onus falls on the parent and the teachers and how much falls on these companies and our leaders to do the right thing? In any rational world where you had a consumer product that was used by 95% of all children that had killed thousands of them that had gotten to the point where 25% of the girls say that it is damage the mental health that has gotten to the point where Snapchat gets 10,000 reports of sex torsion not a year a month, at least that was the case in 2022. In any rational world, if there was such a consumer product, it would have been sued out of existence or at least made an adult only product. We don't live in that world. We live in a world where wealthy industries can just pay not even that much money to buy huge amounts of influence in Congress and block anything. But the states are acting. The states are much more independent. That's where we're making so much progress in the states and the rest of the world is acting. So I think we're going to win on this eventually. And the companies are going to have to bear some responsibility. Of course in Los Angeles right now they're on trial for the first time. Their facing jury, thousands of kids are dead and they've never had our answer for it. So I think that this will come. But until then we all have to play it part. So parents have responsibilities. Schools need to do their part. And the amazing thing is that now kids are actually rising up and doing their part. There's a part of this book that I think is so inspiring. You don't just approach it in terms of taking something away. You show what's on the other side of it. Your life, your childhood. This is what's on the other end. Explain what the rebel code is. Yes. So as I was mentioning there is a growing youth rebellion of young people who have decided that they are going to choose not to use these things to begin with. Or they've realized I have regrets about my own youth and I want to live a different way. And they really are rebels because they are standing up against big tech and just going their own path. And so we wanted to try to put their philosophy into words that other people could follow. And so that's the rebels code. And the basic idea is to use technology as a tool. Just don't let it use you. We're not let it's we're not saying the technology is all bad. But we are all being used by technology right now. And then the second part of the rebels code is fill your life with real friendship, real freedom and real fun. And I think that that's something that's incredibly important for kids, but also for all of us adults too. And just just like to add on to what Catherine said, this all makes so much more sense if you stop focusing on the phones and you focus instead on childhood. What is a healthy human childhood? Everybody here who's over 35 was out. I don't understand. Sorry, I can't say that I am. Don't Google it. Well, if you had an older sister, she probably went out and played. So, but if you keep your eye on chat and that's what this is really about. And that's why I think that's why I think your son is going on because it's not just, oh, don't do this kids. If you've ever seen movies that took place in the 80s and 90s, you're see kids out having fun, having adventures. You can have that. And kids know that it exists and they want it. Yeah, yeah. What is there if there's one piece of advice that you could give to parents right now? What would it be? I would suggest that in terms of this fear of your kid being left out, which is the most common thing. I think we both here to focus less on what your kids are going to miss out on if you don't give them smartphones and social media and focus more on what they will miss out on if we do give them smartphones and social media, which is to say having a real life. And I would say picking up on what you said before no parent wants the kid to be alone. If you do this alone, it is hard. But if your kid has one or two other friends who are with them. Now, they're suddenly the kids who are out riding bicycles. They're going getting ice cream while everybody else has to stay under supervision. So I would say my number one piece of advice to parents is talk to the parents of your kids friends. You surely talk with them anyway. You've got them on texting and party pickup and things like that. So find a small group and do it together. I'm a social psychologist. The whole key to this whole thing is that we're stuck in a collective action trap. Anyone who goes out is missing out on the connections. But if a few of us go out, then they're actually having fun and then others see it and then they join. So do it together and it becomes fun. Excellent advice. My advice would be to go out and pick up this book. Amazing. It's available now. Jonathan Highton has been fighting. We're going to take a quick break. [Applause] [Applause] People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country until you came along. We're just always losing. But now we're winning too much. And I say, no, no, no, you're going to win again. You're going to win big. You're going to win bigger than ever. Explore more shows from the Daily Show Podcast, Universe by searching the Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show, weekdays at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Fairmount Plus. [Music]