Is it Possible to Live "Off the Grid" in Manhattan? | The Daily Show
Вставка
- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Grace Kuhlenschmidt meets up with astrophysicist Joshua Spodek to see what “living off the grid” in Manhattan really means, and if she can go electricity-free for 24 hours herself. #DailyShow #Comedy #GraceKuhlenschmidt
Subscribe to The Daily Show:
/ @thedailyshow
Follow The Daily Show:
Twitter: / thedailyshow
Facebook: / thedailyshow
Instagram: / thedailyshow
Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: www.paramountplus.com/?ftag=PP...
Follow Comedy Central:
Twitter: / comedycentral
Facebook: / comedycentral
Instagram: / comedycentral
Watch full episodes of The Daily Show: www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show
About The Daily Show:
For over twenty-five years, the groundbreaking, Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Daily Show has entertained audiences each night with hilarious, provocative and insightful satire about our society that helps make sense of the world. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 44M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment.
This next chapter of this iconic franchise showcases its diverse news team of correspondents and contributors, including Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan, Roy Wood Jr., Lewis Black and Jordan Klepper, comedy greats as guests hosts, and interviews with influential and emerging voices from across society.
The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. - Комедії
Big props to that guy for trying to do the right thing. He's guided by his conscious, and that's a beautiful thing.
He's so awesome! His combined ecological footprint is 0.3 Earths. Average American's 5.2 Earths!
*conscience
@@christopherbedford9897 Thank you so much. Without your correction, I'm not sure anyone would understand what I was saying.
@@emily8878No, thank _you_ - without your sarcasm, no-one would understand that you're offended.
@@christopherbedford9897 No, I'm sincerely thanking you. Not many people care enough to comment to correct someone's spelling. I need to get better at fixing my spelling mistakes, and you brought it to my attention. People can know the exact word I was trying to say. But if you want to look at it in a negative, way... then that's your choice.😛
America's packaging issue is a REALLY BIG issue
Sure, but as an environmentalist, I’m not going to let corporations greenwash or guilt me into thinking my consumer packaging is responsible for anything but the smallest blip of solid waste. Let’s hold corporations to actual account, since saving 20% off that little bit we see in our shopping carts is so minuscule when you think about the piles and piles of packaging that the product will go through in all its stages from raw material to factory to assembly to warehouse to retail. I saw a mini water bottle from Costco that bragged on the label that they were saving plastic by making the cap smaller. Shut it, Costco.
This needs to be addressed at a higher level than each individual consumer. Until then…business as usual for me. I’m too poor to consider this lifestyle.
@@nimue325I’ve seen this “not much I can do about it anyway” mindset from those of us on the left more often in recent years. I mostly blame the John Oliver segment that implied we should take away all responsibility from consumers and placed it on corporations. Yes, our impact is small compared to the actions we should continue pushing corporations to take, but our impact is still non-zero and non-negligible. That’s something this man would doubtlessly tell you as well.
It seems like a huge deal to live more sustainably, and Spodek takes it as far as his privilege permits him to, but you can go a long way toward cutting your footprint just by giving up (or just limiting as much as possible) air conditioning, avoiding unnecessary travel, using local mass transportation, and being more mindful when you shop for food and clothes. Like the guy says, systemic change begins with personal change.
To be French, basically.
No air conditioning? Yeah, F that. 🤣
Begins and ends with personal change in the US...
That poor guy. This takes me back to original DS interviews where they have no idea what’s happening.
I feel like TDS traditionally does a solid job of toeing the line between being a nuisance while still being informative in their segments. This one seemed like it was just making fun of the guy…and interrupting him too 😣
Agreed, I don't like this chick. Desi would have done a MUCH better segment.
This segment emulates how society views people like Josh, but it definitely feels more mocking than satirical. Perhaps it's meant to be informative in a way, but it kind of trivializes the whole idea of conservation. The fact that the audience is laughing along with the cringe makes it worse.
Yeah, this really didn't fit. The satire just wasn't funny.
Snowflakes it shows that it takes aacrifice most people won't do
Rightt... she seems so annoying
Am I the onlyone who feels that Desi Lydic should have done this segment?
Let’s give this new correspondent a chance. They were all rough around the edges at first 🤷🏽♀️☺️
desi is always the correct choice. she has grace and would have balanced comedy with curiosity rather than whatever shitshow this was. can't believe when she mocked the food/drink he served her. not even funny just rude. shame.
I stayed in an off grid area recently, and though this piece is intended to be satirical, there's a point here. If we're going to do off grid living, or at least sustainable living, there's nothing necessarily wrong with keeping some pleasures and conveniences of modern civilization. The key is moderation, not deprivation. Many systems for off grid living take the pleasure out of life, which is why it ends up not being a sustainable way for most people to live
True!!
Not if your living in a van down under the bridge.
Our great-grandparents lived off-grid. Just saying…
@@smrk2452 And my great- great great- great-.........grandparents lived in a tree. Just saying...🤔😉
It all depends on what you call "pleasure". I live off the grid on a Cleary and my pleasures are finding mushrooms, exploring the woods, seeing a dear walk by while I'm sitting on my compost toilet, looking at the stars in the summer, sitting in the creek when it's too hot, seeing the first seeds I sowed sprout in the spring, etc.
I don't find pleasure in consumption anymore and I only come online for research (that's how I stumbled on this piece).
Of course, sometimes I do find myself engaging in mainstream online activities, but I'm soon reminded why I let go of it in the first place!
pre-cycle YES! we need to remember that food does NOT need to come in a package.
sadly so many stores are packaging even fresh produce. We may take our own bags to the store but we still come back with a pile of packaging. We need to disrupt whatever is incentivizing all this packaging - including through our choices as consumers but also through policies.
yeah agree. my biggest p1ss off is when i see each apple with its own little sticker label - super annoying so i never buy those ones..
A big reason is stores have remove packaging from items they get on the shelves that don't have it which are installed for shipping. So the pre-packaged ones may actually be more sustainable, depending on type of material used
He seemed very interesting. She was more rude than funny.
this segment really didn’t have to mock someone who’s genuinely trying to help the planet ): poor taste
I'm a granola tree-hugging lifelong vegetarian, but I'm also living in reality. 50% of Americans could live like him and nothing would change or be improved with respect to water or air quality or climate change. It's not individual choices driving the big issues, it's governments and corporations.
@@anahata2009 Governments would need to make somewhat drastic movements. For example a full-shift to electric cars and basically a ban on fossil fuel consumption. Perhaps a ration on air travel. Only a few flights per year allowed per person. We would need to change much more than plastic usage. And yes, corporations would need extremely strict monitoring.
One day our species will look back and wish we did all this.
Do you not think governments and corporations respond to demand? If 50% of Americans stopped eating beef, do you believe that corporations would still produce the same amount of beef? If 50% of Americans stopped flying, do you believe that airlines would still fly the same number of planes? If 50% of Americans started generating their own power, do you believe that power companies would still burn the same amount of coal? The fact is that our government and our corporations are reflections of our lifestyles, as much driven by our behavior as driving it.
given that 100 corporations in the world are responsible for 71% of global emissions, yeah, even if half of america stopped using plastics and coal-based electricity, it wouldn't do much. we're just one country, and not the most populous or most greenhouse emitting, so even if we wiped out all american civillian greenhouse emissions, the worldwide corporate emissions would still be there and so would our climate problem@@anahata2009
Exactly it’s corporations and big business
@@anahata2009that would help a lot too.
I love this guy. I wish we had a bulk buy/ zero waste store near me. I didn’t like how annoying and rude she was. There’s comedy and there’s cringe.
Im overwhelmed by plastic packaging!!!! Please keep this topic rolling!!!!!
Her inhability to listen provoked missing the point that this guy Johua makes, by far.
*Joshua 🤡
Love this man. Segment was too cringe for me, there's better ways of making the segment entertaining without mocking the subject
yeah these segments are a balance between being respectful while still making jokes. she didn't do it. she was just rude.
@jayjya Not rude. She's basically showing how bullheaded citizens will react to the lifestyle change if it suddenly happened. Think Covid.
agreed
I mean... Satire
Yeah, i love the daily show but for many years their science segments have been very cringey.
There are jokes you can make about people you can't make about science, but they seem to keep making those bad jokes
Yeah.......... REALLY missing Roy Wood Jr.
Why
@@craun23 bc field pieces tend to be cringe without a correspondent of high caliber to artfully balance the comedic and solemn.
Oof... That was painful to watch. I stopped it a quarter way through.
Packaging! Don't get me started.
After losing my home and family to a fire I had to live in a shed. I had no heat until the seventh month (Northern Michigan) and no electric until the eighth. Six and a half years later I still have no well or septic. I import drinking water and use captured rain for my veganic garden. I hang a couple dresses out, spray them with organic soap and in a few days the wind, rain, and sun have done my laundry for me. I have a camp toilet and my favorite thing is showering in a rain storm. You must try it!
I'm often moved to tears of gratitude for my beautiful life here in my woods.
Don't get me wrong, I'd have a well and septic if I could afford it. It would make things easier on a 70 year old disabled woman. But I have always conserved water and electricity, limited use of plastics, shopped bulk, avoided chemical products, etc. So I would otherwise live the same.
He's right, it's not deprivation; it's freedom.
you hang your laundry out to dry in Northern Michigan in the winter?
Wow!! 🙌
I didn't laugh at any of the gaslighting dumfucc bits but I do follow Josh on UA-cam now.
That was....painful. Like, really, really painful.
Same
Stopped it less than a minute in. Not worth it. Too harsh already.
That's how it always starts - system change starts with personal change!
This could have been better. Don’t interrupt. I wanted to hear what he had to say.
Can't really tell if you're trying to make fun of the man or get his message across
Yeah that’s why it’s excellent satire.
It's both.
(Probably more the latter than the former.)
and you never will...
by featuring him on the show he is getting message across. It's also a comedy show.
@@dino_matt No comedy was found. :/
This girl killed brain cells😮
Where is this man's TED Talk?
You can find it here on youtube.
Title: Stop Suggesting Small Things. Do Meaningful Things
Or google a man Named Michael Reynolds, father of the Earthship.
@@mbulelobam7529 that... doesn't bring you to this man's Ted talk.
Grace is my new spiritual animal lol
I understand you are still getting your footing on the show so I will give you some grace. Though the reason I love the Daily Show is its blend of learning and humor. Interrupting the learning in this segment and making fun of a person who has successfully found one way of helng the planet in Manhatten isnt the Daily Show way.
It’s still trash, absolute garbage.
Well said.
Exactly
She definitely has the potential though.
It's what they've been doing since Day One. The correspondent pretends they're an idiot and the interviewee gets to explain their stance. What have you been watching?
It was a joke, but i hope he knows I'm going to try once a week trash down to once a month. I can't imagine 5 years, but I'm down to try a year to contribute to the solution not the unbalanced problem.
Gr8 work Josh - awesome!! We can all make little changes and that can have a BIG impact on our shared environment. I live in the tropics and i never buy plastic bottles / take my own container for takeaways / never use hot water / never use aircon / run a scooter not a car / ride my bicycle lots. My average electric/water bill per month is usd50/month. the more i care about my environmental footprint the less money i spend... and i never feel like i am sacrificing happiness/going without stuff etc. While its gr8 looking at new technologies for energy needs we can do so much more immediately with day to day behavioral changes.. Saving the environment = saving money = no brainer!!
Hi Grace, I have an old daily show fan here. Not yet used to your humor, but you hit sometimes! You will do well with more exposure. Don't mind haters.
Also Daily Show, make a decision already uour correspondents are tired!
The electricity speaking over segment had me cackling w
Making fun of harmless people is not funny. It's disrespectful and mean.
most people are harmless. and she's not making fun of him. she's making fun of herself. the pt of her mocking him when he was talking about science was her pretending to know what he was talking about when she really had no idea. so essentially the joke was she's dumb and pretending to follow along. if you don't understand comedy, prolly best to stay away from the daily show.
This was making fun of the people who don't see the need to change their daily behavior to help the environment.
She was making fun of herself 😅
Or, a ton of people are going to watch this lighthearted comedy interview and hear a message about sustainability that wouldn't otherwise pay attention. It's a tactic.
@@02wrxRally Nope. The man didnt think this was lighthearted. I'm glad his discomfort provided amusement for you.
@@doublefeature Maybe you guys a right. I notice that if she wants to go off grid, she is wearing a tent now. She can live outdoors as is. How much cabbage and carrots would it take for her footprint. She would probably need to take the garbage out once a week.
See, its just lighthearted fun. I am glad I do not agree with you lot.
That was fun, and the message was told without saying much. I hope Josh keeps getting more exposure and raises awareness. Congratulations.
This is basically #vanlife but without the wheels. It would be much more effective and environmentally friendly to have renewable energy coming through the grid than deep cycling your lithium battery every day.
“Actually one of the things about…”
We never got to hear the rest of the thought 💀
Liked the interview subject. The correspondent was distracting without making any points.
Nice job cousin Josh, it all starts with personal change.
6:30 It looks to me like you've got the wrong _idea,_ here. Dr. Spodek doesn't live _without_ electricity. He lives by electricity he generates _himself._
People who are underprivileged may not have money or time for this tech.
@@Kentrc11That wasn’t the point
@@rlud304 It wasn't your point, you mean. If underprivileged don't have access to the tech, then the tech is grandstanding.
@@Kentrc11 No it wasn’t the point of the story. No one was talking about expecting underprivileged people ( or any people)to do any of this. You’re ridiculous lol
@@rlud304 Just say you don't care about the underprivileged having this. Oh wait, you already say that.
Solar panels are not for all areas. We were told that we would have to cut down our trees around the house to install panels. The trees, 2 huge Doug Firs, an Elm, a cherry tree and an apple tree all provide shade in the summer and keep the house cool, we don’t have air conditioning. Also the cherry and apple provided fruit.
We also live in the Pacific Northwest and have a lot of cloudy days and rain.
We passed on the solar panels.
my parent's house is also too surrounded by trees to get solar panels (they had a guy come and inspect a few years ago), but the major difference is that they live in Maryland where the summers can best be described as hotter than Satan's taint, so the shade-giving trees STAYED!!! 😂 (my mom's hero is Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning!)
Solar panels don't have to be on or near the house though. Hopefully there would be somewhere they could be placed. 🤞🤞
I'm in Portland and there are solar panels everywhere and giant trees everywhere. If you fly into Portland, you'll literally see hundreds of giant wind turbines generating renewable electricity to all the rural folks' power companies.
Solar power can function with little rays
Who is this lady? It was very annoying to watch.
Terrible segment! Don’t understand what was funny about this
Kudos to Dr Spodek for not kicking her out
* Not kicking her in the face.
Who is the correspondent!?!? She's HILARIOUS!
Daily Show should hire Cunk
Maybe he can show us all how to live more consciously in NYC
This segment could have been better with almost any other host😅
Maybe tune down the rudeness and the interruption in the future
*Correspondent 👍👍 And yes, absolutely!!!
Josh is awesome! Not a fan of the correspondent, though.
The skeleton 🦴 at the end got me 😂🤣🤣
I actually wanted to learn how he does it in NYC. The comedy was so bad. Kept interrupting him. I thought it was a very interesting topic. Never got a resolution on how he keeps his garbage so low.
Wish she would have let him talk more. She cut him off too much. Also, sounds like he is one person, not a family, so multiply the waste by the number of people in your family to know what could really be like.
but its SaTiRe you wouldnt understand!
I hate how much she interrupts him
Not funny ! she’s being mean to the interviewee not letting him talk. She couldn’t even just make one funny joke
Do you buddy! Love it
I thought she was really going to talk about how to live in Manhattan, like Chelsea, off the grid, he has an Apt . Wow, I am either slow or had hope. I would love to live in Chelsea!
Josh is a dreamboat❤ well done. the correspondent needs more work
Watching this is giving me an anxiety attack. 🤣
How do you get in contact with him to ask where he got the solar panels? I WANT panels on my house without the hassle of these scam offers seen on YT. First Energy prices are getting out of control & assistance programs won't help everyone they can't wait to tell you how you don't qualify for help when you're barely making ends meet. Student loan pause up they don't even CONSIDER that aspect!
We have a solar panel factory in our area why is it I can't just waltz into Home Depot or Lowes (I checked their websites no results return for panels), buy some, & pay an expert I hire to install? Private companies have fields full of them why can't the public have a back or side yard or roof full unless they make contact off one of those shady ads? Something's not right here.
She’s not it.
Love her Apt
hiring a task rabbit to go up the remaining flights... i've never felt so seen.
My only issue with solar panels is it's cloudy where I am often enough that it might not be worth it.
and it rains alot in NY so then what. Guy must have a backup plan or gas powered generator
Get more panels / batteries
Wait, is this correspondent a replacement for Roy Wood Jr. ? The guy literally said, he uses solar panels, charges batteries, and generate electricity. He didn't say he is going electricity-free. I believe Grace is better off doing standups. Her jokes are cringey here.
Lol 😂
So what's the joke here? Idiot vs Prof Nerd? This feels like a throwback to the Craig Kilbourn era when field pieces used the subject as a prop for cartoon antics. This guy is extra, but well meaning. Give him more space to establish that instead of talking over him. His lifestyle seems to require a level of sacrifice. If that's real, then Grace should stick to that standard when she tries it. Then it's relatable to every self-help that anybody has ever tried. Not listening in the first place and doing a half-assed assumption on the work isn't even a field piece. It's a skit about half paying attention to a TikTok and trying to replicate it at home.
For real Comedy Central. Settle on a host with an actual vision for the show, then go get correspondents. This woman was set up to fail.
The Joke? Weird criticism like this. The point of the segment? To highlight a thing but in a humorous way. If you didn't find it funny that's just taste but I thought it was funny.
@@merlinthegray It didn't highlight a thing though. Grace spent the whole time interrupting and talking over the subject, reducing him to a mannequin, then went off to do her own "ain't I a stinker" bits. It's a watered down Eric Andre routine at best. This literally could have been a 4-year-old doing all this and have the same effect. Funny for a minute, then tiresome.
You must be new to these segments in The Daily Show. Going back 20 years it's basically always been like this.
@@merlinthegrayexcept they’re usually well done. This one was a total mess
Anytime I hear "Off the Grid", I think of Nick Fury going "Off the Grid".
All she did was talk over him with nonsense. Normally these segments get a message out while also including humor. This segment just came off as cringey, rude, and desperate. This was really hard to watch.
Yeah...no. Dumb correspondents make me despondent for better days on the Daily Show. (And the canned laughter is no bueno)
Miss Trev
My country invented the perfect sustainability model: poverty. If people only use a latrine instead of a bathroom with a shower, eat meat only on major holidays because they're too broke to eat it every time they feel like it and too broke for having a car which pollutes anyway, you're half way to the solution already. It also means you're probably on the brink of starving, like my grandparents. But fortunately I have two bathrooms, and one even has a shower because my parents live less sustainably. I got a TV, wifi and a Netflix subscription which helps me avoid human interaction as well as a job from home so that I don't need to get out of bed unless I need to eat or shower.
Excited to see Grace on here. I’ve been following her on SM for a few years.
really? she made this video almost unwatchable for me!
I wouldnt watch anything of hers again if its all like this
This is the funniest daily show sketch i’ve seen in a while! 😂
I would incorporate those solar panels to a fuel cell.
Try doing that in NYCHA projects apartments in Pedro ibizu Campos plaza on losaida Avenue in alphabet city Manhattan.
painfully funny
Not the Daily Show’s best work
Love this! Grace is super charming and funny. I like how she has a completely different vibe than the other correspondents, but she fits in with the show overall.
I'm sorry, I want to like them- they seem to be motivated and I'm sure they're funny...
This wasn't it. Clicking away and wishing them better luck next time.
At the end of the story is my life as a blind man
❤❤❤❤❤😊
Try not having electricity for real. For days and weeks. 😢I've been through it.
I looove these its like a real RIGHT WING DUCHEBAG is there! Very #COLBERTREPORT ❤❤❤❤
lame
HOnestly this just felt rude, mean and dumb. Like you just existed to annoy a guy who was living his life and was trying to explain it to you, because you showed up and asked.
😂😂😂
That was the worst field segment I watched for this show in a few years. I hope the correspondent get the gist of it.
This is not going to fix things. It’s the corporations that need to change
And the corporations won't unless they're forced to.
so the corporations are not beholden to the consumer?
Bros teeth make me feel not so bad about mine not being shiny white.
😂😂 the skittles!!!! This sketch was 🔥 I love all the peeps up in arms, he was clearly in on the joke and I think she nailed it!
Loving this! Thanks for a bit of morning levity ❤
🤦♀️
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She was way too obnoxious
Why was she repeating him/talking over him? 🥺
Great guy, super cringy lady. You're not funny, just let him talk please.
I get that cringe is the point of the "character"... but sometimes these segments are just too hard to watch. Bring it down a notch.
LOVE Grace! Been following her on social media for a while. So stoked to see her on The Daily Show!
😂😂 skittles. They are toxic.
Wow! How far the mighty have fallen
Gonna get awfully annoying with her cintinually interrupting the guest to "play dumb."
I really don't care for her
Hilarious - love the piece😂
lame
If you think Kuhlenschmidt looks familiar it is cause of that viral video she did years ago where she pretends her family was making Alabama p*rn downstairs while she was having chili.
Yes I think about it from time to time and laugh to myself, go check it out
Link?
@@Galaxies3000 ua-cam.com/video/fETaT6mnIcU/v-deo.html
First time seeing this woman. Becoming a fan!
gag