Ronny Chieng tackles South Korea’s martial law reversal and misconduct allegations against Pete Hegseth. In “Sports War,” Ronny and Jordan Klepper debate Trump-inspired athlete celebrations and Hallmark’s NFL holiday collab. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins to share insights from his new book, the contributions of immigrants to science, and why resilience is key in the scientific community.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What recent event triggered the discussion of martial law in South Korea?
Okay, South Korea, stop giving Trump ideas. Right? He didn't know you could do that. Right? Unfortunately for South Korea, this looks like the beginning of a long and slow descent into dictatorship, a dark period which may last years or even decades.
Breaking news from overseas. South Korea's parliament just voted to nullify the declaration of martial law that was made by the country's president just a few hours earlier.
Oh, that's great. Good old Asian efficiency. The president went nuts, declared martial law, the assembly overruled him, martial law over, and they did it all in a lunch break. All right. Everybody, get back to doing K-pop. Chop, chop. Dance. But I'm glad this didn't get out of hand because I don't even know what martial law in South Korea looks like.
I mean, do they wheel this doll out and whoever moves gets shot? I mean... But let's turn to a country just beginning its fascism period in another edition of Trump 2.0, coming for the White House. I'm going to come. Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks filling out his cabinet.
And now that Matt Gaetz has dropped out to try to find the high school from Euphoria, there is a new nominee for Shadiest Nominee, Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense and guy with resting divorce face. And all right, let's hear it, leftist snowflakes. What's wrong with this one?
CBS News has confirmed that Pete Hexeth was forced to step down from a veteran's nonprofit after being accused of alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct, and mismanaging the group's money.
OK, that's a lot for one person. Alcohol, sex, and financial misconduct? I mean, it's called delegating, bud. Try it sometime. How could someone do so many bad things at the same time? Like, not only are you drinking and harassing women, you've also got to find time to suck at QuickBooks? I mean... Let's go through his charges, because I'm sure the libs are just overreacting.
Like, with the alcohol. I mean, what? He probably had, what, too much Chardonnay at the office Christmas party, like, one time? How bad could it be?
The report says Hegseth was repeatedly intoxicated to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization's events.
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Chapter 2: What allegations have been made against Pete Hegseth?
It might exist. That's not what I said. Yeah, that's kind of what you said. That's kind of what you said, man. Okay, last one. Give me one more here. All right. Also from the internet. Can the government manipulate the weather with Jewish space lasers? This is from anonymous congresswoman. This is more in your realm, astrophysics. This is... What are the physics of Jewish space lasers?
Does the star focus the thing in the prism?
A laser will function as lasers do, no matter the religion of who invokes it. You know, the more you speak, the more it's like you're more like a Buddhist, like Zen master colon than scientist here. I'm just saying, when you turn on a laser, the religion of the person, it doesn't matter.
That's A. B, to worry that a space laser could affect the weather while we are simultaneously pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, possibly irreversibly changing the weather, seems to me to be a completely misguided, misprioritized sense of the world.
Okay, that's, yo. But the answer is no. The answer is no. No, not a maybe no. Just say that to the, yeah. No. Okay.
No, no, no, no.
No.
All right. Okay, well, look, you can follow, you can get his book. But really, I mean, what a treasure that we have. We're alive around when Dr. Tyson is here to educate us. Hey, Marley's Tour of the Universe is available now.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this.
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