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00:00April 21st, 2010.
00:04From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York,
00:08this is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
00:19Hey, everybody!
00:22Welcome to The Daily Show. My name is Jon Stewart.
00:25Thank you for joining us.
00:26Man, did we put together a barn burner for you tonight.
00:30Our guest author and British scientist, Fred Pierce, is going to be joining us.
00:33We're very lucky to get him.
00:34Flights from England are still grounded from the volcanic ash.
00:38But fortunately for us, like all British people, he travels by umbrella.
00:42So, he was able, I believe, to float here.
00:49But that brings us seamlessly to tonight's top story,
00:52the United Kingdom's general election.
00:54Our British brethren will soon go to the polls
00:58to determine whether Tory David Cameron, Labour's Gordon Brown,
01:02or the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg
01:04will have the privilege of acquiescing to whatever demand is made of them
01:08to benefit American interests.
01:10Ha ha!
01:11Someone has to say it!
01:12USA!
01:14USA!
01:15USA!
01:16USA!
01:17USA!
01:18USA!
01:18USA!
01:19USA!
01:20Joining me now to discuss the upcoming election is our very own resident British citizen
01:23who abandoned his own native country four years ago
01:26when he first tasted the golden goodness that is America.
01:30John Oliver is with us.
01:35If I can just pick you up on that last point, that's not entirely accurate.
01:41Really?
01:41Well, who was it that called me right after having his first Denny's Grand Slam breakfast
01:45and said,
01:46weeping, I believe,
01:47who do I need to marry so I can stay here?
01:50The cup of coffee was bottomless.
01:53It just kept coming.
01:56It had no bottom.
01:57We're an innovative country, my friend.
01:59Now, carry on.
01:59Okay, well, the point is there's been an exciting development in this year's British elections.
02:03For the first time ever,
02:05they're importing American-style democratic theatrics
02:08by doing a series of live, head-to-head candidate debates on the telly.
02:13Television.
02:15What did I say?
02:16Forget it.
02:17So, I'm very excited and I must admit a little bit nervous
02:21to show you some of the first debate that happened last week
02:24and just get some feedback here
02:26what a real American social commentator has to say.
02:29Well, that's what I am.
02:30All right.
02:31Let's take a look at it.
02:33Manchester, in the heart of the northwest of England,
02:35is tonight host to a British political first.
02:38I'm Alastair Stewart,
02:39and for the first time on British television,
02:41live in front of a representative studio audience,
02:44the first election debate.
02:52I mean, it's just the open.
02:54It gives you a feel of
02:55what we're trying to do
02:56to the first atmosphere.
02:58What do you think?
03:00It's okay.
03:00It's okay?
03:01It's okay.
03:02It's okay.
03:04Graphics are a little 1980s PBS,
03:05but, you know, it's not terrible.
03:07Staging was a little 1990s,
03:09who wants to be a millionaire?
03:10All right.
03:10Okay.
03:10That's okay.
03:11Music was a little overdramatic and cheesy.
03:13Right.
03:14So, we got that right.
03:15Yes, that was actually well done.
03:17Let me say this.
03:18It showed promise.
03:19Okay.
03:20Let's keep watching.
03:21That's good.
03:21The parties and the broadcasters
03:23have agreed no fewer than 76 rules of engagement.
03:28What?
03:30What?
03:3176 rules.
03:32Too many?
03:34Not enough?
03:34What?
03:35I don't understand.
03:35It seems like a lot, John.
03:36Let's see the rules that they're talking about.
03:38Each leader makes an opening statement
03:40lasting one minute.
03:41Each leader will then have one minute to respond, Max.
03:44Maximum three Churchill quotes.
03:46All questions must begin, Simon says.
03:48No insulting participants' 15th century ancestors.
03:51Obviously.
03:52All cravats must be checked
03:53with a designated cravat checkman.
03:55Yes.
03:55Participants may only wear white underpants.
03:57Yes.
03:57No headlocks.
03:58No.
03:58The Queen's corgi must be given equal time.
04:00And no Hitler costumes.
04:01Yeah, obviously.
04:02Really?
04:03Yeah.
04:03You need no Hitler costumes.
04:05You want to leave that in there, John.
04:08Believe me.
04:09Listen, John.
04:09You can't just say
04:11we're doing an American-style debate.
04:13You've got to earn the brand.
04:14Okay.
04:15I've got the official American debate checklist
04:18let's say here.
04:19No.
04:20I believe.
04:20I'm sorry.
04:21That would be here.
04:22That would be it.
04:22Yeah.
04:23The one that I drew a face on.
04:25Yeah.
04:25All right.
04:27Let's just take this item by item.
04:29What's the most important thing in a debate?
04:31Oh.
04:32A mastery of the facts.
04:33Please.
04:35What?
04:35You need to pretend
04:36that you're an average schmo.
04:38Okay.
04:39Just like the good people
04:40you want to elect you.
04:41It's a folksy mythology thing.
04:42Okay.
04:42Watch how we do it.
04:43I understand what it's like
04:44to sit around the kitchen table
04:46with a father who says
04:47I got to leave, champ,
04:48because there's no jobs here.
04:49My grandfather never even
04:50went to high school.
04:51It's a long way
04:52from the little rent house
04:53I grew up in.
04:54A couple of family of teachers.
04:55I'm the son of a mill worker.
04:56Well, I'm the son of a man
04:57who couldn't be a mill worker.
04:58My family was living
04:59in a car in the inner city.
05:00My father was a foreign student.
05:02He grew up herding goats.
05:04He was a f***ing goat herder.
05:08Whoa.
05:10That's why he won.
05:11Wow.
05:12How are you going to top
05:13my dad was a goat herder?
05:15I don't know.
05:16What are you going to say?
05:17Your dad was a turd miner?
05:19It's been done.
05:20Okay.
05:20Okay.
05:20You got to go folksy.
05:21Okay.
05:21Well, I think we had some of that.
05:24Let's see.
05:25My mother was a magistrate
05:26in Newbury for 30 years.
05:30A magistrate in Newbury?
05:31Yeah.
05:32It sounds like his mother
05:33tied hobos up with ribbon.
05:35Well, Newbury is actually
05:37a very posh area
05:38and if there were hobos there,
05:40they would probably be ribboned.
05:41Look, look.
05:42Sorry.
05:45That's a fact.
05:45That's a fact.
05:46I understand that,
05:47but it's not folksy.
05:48The next thing any American debate
05:50is going to have
05:50is first-hand anecdotes
05:52from the people.
05:54Tales of woe
05:55from ordinary people.
05:56I met a woman.
05:57She was behind on her mortgage.
05:58She didn't have kidneys.
05:59Her children
06:00were mouthless.
06:02Yeah.
06:03But they gummed
06:05their support for me.
06:06You know, that kind of thing.
06:07Problems they have
06:08that you now understand.
06:09Honestly, honestly,
06:10I think we had some of that too.
06:11All right.
06:12I went to Crosby the other day
06:14and I was talking to a woman there
06:16who had been burgled by someone.
06:17I met a young man
06:18in London the other day.
06:19His flat had been burgled
06:21five times.
06:21Okay, okay.
06:22I'm going to stop right there.
06:23Burgled?
06:24Yeah.
06:24What?
06:26I met a man
06:27who'd been burgled.
06:28Yes.
06:28You know what?
06:29You've got my vote
06:30for Sheriff of Nottingham.
06:31Well done.
06:31Okay.
06:32He'd been burgled.
06:34Settle down.
06:35For goodness sakes, John.
06:37This is insane.
06:38Teach me.
06:39How would you have handled
06:40the crime question?
06:41I met a man.
06:42Yes.
06:43Joe Krakowski, a bricklayer.
06:44Lived in the same house
06:45he was born and 68 years old.
06:47Wow.
06:47What happened to him?
06:48A home invasion.
06:49Oh, no.
06:50Oh, no.
06:51Then what happened?
06:52They robbed him blind.
06:53Oh, no.
06:53They took everything.
06:54They took his eyes.
06:56What would they do?
06:57The very eyes that he used
06:59to pilot his Messer Schmidt
07:01that dropped the Enola Gay
07:02that ended the war
07:03that saved your grandfather's hide
07:04in World War II.
07:05Hold on.
07:06Hold on.
07:06Hold on.
07:06Which side did he fight on?
07:08Let me finish!
07:09He said Messer Schmidt.
07:10You know,
07:12I keep one of his eyes
07:13with me at all times
07:16to remind me
07:17that I owe it
07:18to the American people
07:20to fight
07:21to prevent illegal aliens
07:22from entering this country.
07:25Close the borders!
07:26Shut them down!
07:27Even though that story
07:29does not really track
07:30and I'm fairly sure
07:31that's a fake toy eyeball,
07:32I'm outraged!
07:33That's what we do, baby!
07:35You gotta push
07:36the emotional buttons
07:37in a bait.
07:37You've got work to do.
07:39Admittedly,
07:40the lighting is very harsh.
07:41Your audience
07:42is from the 50s.
07:43There's no flags on the set.
07:45Your moderator's named
07:46Alistair Stewart.
07:48What kind of last name
07:48is Stewart?
07:50I'll give you that.
07:51It's a good rough track.
07:52I'll give you that.
07:52In America,
07:53we don't really get rolling
07:54until after the debates anyway.
07:55It's all about
07:56the post-game coverage.
07:57Giant touchscreens,
07:59holograms,
07:59whole rooms
08:00designed for such situations.
08:03But that's master class,
08:04my friend.
08:05You're not ready for it yet?
08:06You'll do this for a few years.
08:07You'll come back.
08:08We'll talk a little bit later.
08:09We actually do have
08:11some of that already,
08:12if I may.
08:13Please.
08:13Who'd make the best
08:13prime minister?
08:1537% David Cameron.
08:17What is the effect
08:17on the dynamic
08:18of the election campaign?
08:19Let me show you
08:20a swingometer.
08:21This is one we haven't
08:22shown you before, actually.
08:23This is the conservative
08:24Lib Dem swingometer.
08:26So I'll show you
08:26the situation
08:27as the Lib Dems
08:29advance against Labour.
08:303% takes them,
08:31well, hardly any.
08:33Now, they need
08:33116 extra seats.
08:35And here they are.
08:40Situation room,
08:41meet the thing
08:42that just
08:43your mama.
08:45Yes.
08:47Yes.
08:48state-of-the-art,
08:50fully immersive,
08:51hollydeck 3D
08:52matronic technology.
08:54Is it clear
08:54what it does?
08:55No.
08:56Does it matter?
08:57Of course it doesn't.
09:01I...
09:03I want one.
09:06I'm sorry,
09:07little girl.
09:07That was the last one.
09:09Damn it!
09:11Outplayed.
09:12Now I know
09:12what it feels like
09:13to be Canada.
09:13Exactly.
09:15And we've got that,
09:16plus non-stop
09:18live interactions
09:19between the voters
09:20and the news people.
09:21You at home
09:21can get involved
09:22with our big conversation
09:23about the debate
09:24online.
09:25Go to
09:26itv.com
09:27forward slash
09:27election debate.
09:28Boom!
09:29That felt good.
09:30How do you like that,
09:31Stuart?
09:31Because there's
09:32a new dog in town.
09:33And it's a bulldog.
09:40Can I ask you a question?
09:41What?
09:42Is that a bulldog rooster?
09:43Because that was
09:44the weirdest...
09:44It's...
09:45No.
09:46No, it's how
09:47a British bulldog sounds.
09:49But when does a bulldog
09:50ever get up
09:50on its two back legs
09:52and try and wake people?
09:54When it's early
09:55in the morning.
09:57You have to straighten
09:58the back,
09:59otherwise it looks ridiculous.
10:00Was that interaction
10:01real time
10:02between the audience?
10:03Yeah, absolutely.
10:03Is there a delay?
10:04Are they...
10:05No, there's no time.
10:05There's no time.
10:06What the...
10:06No, there's no time
10:07to check.
10:07It's interesting.
10:07Chuck, do me a favor.
10:08Bring that last frame
10:09up again.
10:10John, why don't you
10:11read what that says?
10:12Sure, no problem.
10:15I'll read it.
10:16Cameron, you are
10:18a first...
10:19Oh, boy.
10:20Yeah.
10:20You blew it.
10:21Oh, boy.
10:22You blew it, my friend.
10:23Your boys flew
10:24too close to the sun
10:25and you got burned.
10:27You're just not ready.
10:27You can't handle this stuff.
10:29Sorry.
10:29We can learn, John.
10:30We've got two more
10:31debates left.
10:31You've got two more
10:32debates left.
10:33When's your election?
10:34In a fortnight.
10:35When's your election?
10:37In a fortnight's
10:38time from now.
10:39In English,
10:40when is your election?
10:41Two weeks.
10:44And how long
10:44is your campaign season?
10:45It's a month.
10:46A month?
10:47Yes.
10:47You're going to get
10:47the whole damn election
10:48done in a month?
10:49Yeah.
10:49You know nothing
10:50about democracy, do you?
10:52Rookie!
10:55Can I go now, please?
10:56I thought you'd already gone.
10:58John Oliver, everybody.
11:06Welcome back.
11:07In this era of polarized politics,
11:10the last thing a politician needs
11:11is criticism from his own.
11:13But it happens more often
11:14than you think.
11:15It's the subject of tonight's
11:17Friendly Fire,
11:18Gay Watch edition.
11:20President Obama has yet
11:21to fulfill his promise
11:22that he would end
11:23the military's
11:23Don't Ask, Don't Tell
11:24ban on gay service members.
11:26It's a fact he was reminded of
11:27when he spoke in California
11:28earlier this week
11:29on behalf of Senator Barbara Boxer.
11:31She's passionate about fighting
11:33for California's families.
11:35She is...
11:36We are going to do that.
11:39Hey, hold on a second.
11:40Hold on a second.
11:42We are going to do that.
11:44When you've got an ally
11:45like Barbara Boxer
11:46and you've got an ally like me
11:48who are standing for the same thing,
11:52then you don't know exactly
11:53why you've got to holler
11:55because we already hear you.
11:57You don't know why liberal activists
11:59have to holler?
12:01You don't like to spend much time
12:03with liberal activists.
12:05Hollering is their inside voice.
12:07They use it when ordering chai.
12:11What do we want?
12:13Soy milk.
12:14When do we want it?
12:15Whenever you can deliver it
12:16in an environmentally sustainable fashion.
12:21Meanwhile, on the Republican side,
12:22South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham
12:24is talking about cooperating
12:25with Democrat Chuck Schumer
12:26on a compromise plan
12:28to reform immigration laws.
12:30It's angered activists on the right.
12:32Like this fella,
12:33speaking at a Tea Party rally
12:34in Graham's home state
12:35of South Carolina
12:36over the weekend.
12:37I don't care about your private life,
12:40Lindsey,
12:41but as our U.S. Senator,
12:42I need to figure out
12:44why you're trying to sell out
12:45your own countrymen
12:46and I need to make sure
12:46you're being gay in there.
12:52Did you just link the possibility
12:53of Lindsey Graham being gay
12:55to being the reason
12:56he wants to reform immigration law?
12:59You know gay's not a nationality, right?
13:04You think Lindsey Graham
13:05is encouraging looser immigration laws
13:06so that his fellow natives
13:07of Gay-sylvania
13:09can sneak across the rainbow bridge
13:11for a better life?
13:14If that is your case,
13:15I'm intrigued,
13:16but I suspect your theory
13:17makes even less sense than that.
13:19I hope this secret
13:20isn't being used as leverage
13:21over Senator Graham,
13:22so today I say,
13:24Senator Graham,
13:25you need to come forward
13:27and tell people
13:28about your alternative lifestyle
13:30and your homosexuality.
13:32Come out of that closet, Lindsey.
13:36I see.
13:37You believe he's being blackmailed.
13:39Lindsey Graham's a puppet of mole,
13:41a man-on-Manchurian candidate,
13:42if you will.
13:45Blackmailed by the gays
13:47to let more Mexicans
13:49into the country.
13:52Ingenious.
13:53Actually, I don't know anything
13:54about Lindsey Graham's sexuality.
13:55I don't care.
13:57But this guy should know
13:58he's playing a dangerous game here.
13:59Everyone knows
14:00if a Republican comes out of the closet
14:01and sees a gay shadow,
14:03it means six more years
14:04of a Democratic administration.
14:16Welcome back to my guest tonight,
14:17an environmental journalist
14:20whose new book is called
14:20The Coming Population Crash
14:22in Our Planet's Surprising Future.
14:24Please welcome to the program
14:25Fred Pierce.
14:26Sir.
14:28Thank you, sir.
14:30Please have a seat.
14:33Thank you for joining us.
14:35I know that we were fortunate.
14:37You were waylaid here
14:38in the United States.
14:38You were supposed to fly back
14:39to England,
14:40but apparently the volcanic ash
14:41has prevented that from...
14:42Absolutely.
14:43I'm flying tomorrow night.
14:44Well, Godspeed, sir.
14:46I mean, no hurry.
14:47I love the ice.
14:48It's a lovely country.
14:49Can I tell you something?
14:49It's one of the volcanic ash-less places
14:52in the entire world right now.
14:54It is?
14:55You can breathe our air.
14:56It's even over Canada now, you know.
14:58The volcanic ashes?
14:59You know they'll just turn it
15:00into hockey rinks.
15:02They'll freeze it.
15:03They'll skate on it.
15:04There's people who don't care.
15:04Yeah, it'll be a little cold.
15:05Let me ask you a question.
15:06You have a very interesting position.
15:07I have heard all my life
15:09that the human race is doomed.
15:12We are the world's
15:12most dangerous predators
15:13because we are reproducing
15:16at such a rate
15:17that the Earth cannot sustain us
15:18and that at some point
15:20there will be pushback.
15:22You are suggesting
15:23that it may not be as dire.
15:25There's good news.
15:26Women today have half as many children
15:28as they had a generation ago.
15:29Their mothers had five or six.
15:31They're having about two and a half
15:33all over the world.
15:34I always heard that
15:35in the developed world.
15:37No, no, no.
15:37I'm talking India.
15:38I'm talking much of Africa,
15:39most of Asia.
15:40It's a real success story.
15:42Women are having fewer children.
15:44We are defusing
15:44the population bomb right now.
15:46Let me ask you a question.
15:46Is it because
15:48they no longer find us,
15:50and again,
15:50feel free to say this,
15:52attractive?
15:54It's has something happened, sir.
15:57Well, you go and ask
15:58the men of Italy
15:59where the lowest fertility rate is,
16:01where women have about
16:02one and a quarter children.
16:04In Italy?
16:04In Italy.
16:06Despite the Catholic Church,
16:07despite all that stuff.
16:09Women have gone on childbirth.
16:10You know what it may be?
16:11They may believe like,
16:11I don't want to do it here.
16:12I think the Pope
16:13might be watching us.
16:17I think you might not be.
16:18Well, the Pope says
16:19no contraception,
16:20and yet...
16:21Right.
16:22Why is this happening?
16:23I don't think they're
16:24doing what he says.
16:24What do you believe
16:25is happening, then?
16:26They're saying,
16:28if I have a choice
16:28between working
16:29and having a family,
16:31and if the men
16:32and the state
16:32and the employers
16:33and the church
16:34and everybody
16:35is making it really hard
16:36for me to do both,
16:37then they say,
16:37well, I'll have the job
16:38and forget the family.
16:39That's what's happening there.
16:40And by controlling
16:41our population...
16:42Because it's very interesting,
16:43you know,
16:43the book really takes on
16:44the history
16:45of sort of this idea
16:46of environmentalism
16:47and population control.
16:48And it was fascinating,
16:49this Malthus.
16:50And the early attempts
16:52at population control
16:55and saving the earth
16:56were to sterilize
16:57the mentally insane,
16:58and now we use
16:59those Curly-Q light bulbs.
17:00So we've really
17:01come a long way
17:02in terms of how
17:03we're doing this.
17:04And the other thing is
17:05that 40 years ago
17:06everybody was saying
17:07we need population control,
17:09state-run population control,
17:11there's got to be bans
17:12on having too many kids.
17:13Well, China, of course,
17:14have done that.
17:14Right.
17:14But what we now discover
17:16is that women
17:16did it on their own.
17:18Women decided
17:19we're going to have
17:19fewer children,
17:20so they're having
17:20half as many
17:21as their mothers had.
17:22So really,
17:23it's a good news story.
17:23And it's really,
17:24it's not so much
17:25that it is a conscious decision,
17:26it's that their role
17:28in the world,
17:29but you know what I'm saying,
17:30that their role
17:30in the world
17:30has changed as such,
17:32moving more
17:32into the workforce,
17:33that it has just made it,
17:34that has made their decision
17:35for them to some extent.
17:36That's right.
17:37The other thing,
17:37I mean,
17:37they know now
17:38that you don't have
17:40to have five or six kids
17:41for two to grow up
17:42to produce
17:43the next generation.
17:44This is the first time
17:45in history
17:46where women
17:47haven't had to do that.
17:48So guess what?
17:48They're making the choice.
17:50They're saying,
17:50okay, well,
17:50I'll have two kids.
17:51I'll get on with them
17:52the rest of my life.
17:53And it's interesting,
17:53you made the point
17:54that the world's population
17:56is also going to be much older,
17:58and that's actually better
17:59for the earth
18:00for us to be older.
18:01You say that half the people,
18:03we will have more than half
18:04the people
18:04who ever lived over 65
18:06living now.
18:07Yeah, we do.
18:07We do.
18:08We're getting old,
18:09and we're getting old
18:09very fast.
18:10We're living longer,
18:11and there are fewer kids.
18:13So the population
18:14as a whole is...
18:14I think that's good news.
18:15Now, why is that good news
18:16for the earth?
18:17Why does the earth
18:18prefer older people
18:20than younger people?
18:22Is it bone density?
18:24What's the issue?
18:25As I get older,
18:26I begin to think
18:27that older people
18:28are wiser,
18:28and they've got more experience,
18:30and I think that's true.
18:31And what I think
18:32is that we have
18:32an older society,
18:33we'll have a wiser society,
18:35we'll probably have
18:35a greener society.
18:36We'll fix some of those problems
18:37that we haven't,
18:38in the kind of teenage century,
18:40the 20th century,
18:41been able to fix.
18:42I think the 20th century was,
18:43oh, it was great fun to be in,
18:44but it was the baby boom generation.
18:46It was the teenage century.
18:48Now we're heading
18:48for the old century.
18:5021st century
18:51is going to be real old.
18:52But if this is the case,
18:53isn't, you know,
18:54if we move past
18:55this idea of war
18:56and anger
18:58and pestilence
18:59and famine,
19:01won't we run the risk
19:03of then allowing
19:04too many of us
19:05to live full
19:06and fruitful lives,
19:08thus using up
19:08a lot of,
19:09I don't know,
19:10wheat.
19:10I don't know,
19:11you know,
19:11whatever the commodities
19:12may be.
19:13Well, if we don't
19:14grow our numbers,
19:15that'll be all right.
19:15I mean,
19:16what I think is
19:16the world population
19:17is going to stabilize
19:18pretty soon
19:19because, you know,
19:19women are having
19:20fewer and fewer children
19:20all the time.
19:21Where are we going to be at?
19:21Give me a number,
19:228 billion?
19:23About 8 billion,
19:24a little bit more maybe.
19:25But by 2040,
19:26I think the world's population
19:27will have stabilized
19:28and it'll be starting down.
19:29And if we all become
19:30like Italians,
19:31it's going to come down
19:31quite a long way.
19:32I hope that doesn't happen.
19:33But I like a stable,
19:35older society.
19:35you just said on my show,
19:36I hope we don't all
19:37become like Italians.
19:38I just want to make that clear.
19:39That everyone watching
19:40the show tonight
19:41realizes that was him.
19:42I had nothing to do with that.
19:43That was probably
19:43a dumb thing to say.
19:45But there you are.
19:46You feel optimistic.
19:47You're the first person
19:48I met that is optimistic.
19:49And this also includes
19:50the idea that the world
19:51ends in 2012
19:52because the Mayans said so.
19:54You said that,
19:54I didn't.
19:55You don't believe that?
19:56No.
19:57The Mayans said 2012.
19:59Although, really,
20:00I mean,
20:00how prescient were they?
20:01They didn't see Cortez.
20:03I'll come back in 2013.
20:05All right.
20:05Come back in 2013.
20:06That would be delayed.
20:07Okay.
20:07And the book is called
20:08The Coming Population Crash.
20:10It's on the bookshelves now.
20:11It's optimistic.
20:12Fred Pierce.
20:20That's our show, everybody.
20:22Join us tomorrow night
20:24at 11
20:24where our guests will be.
20:29Zoe Saldana.
20:30Zoe Saldana.
20:30Dope.
20:31And that woman is delighted.
20:36That was the weirdest yay.
20:39That was like one of those weird,
20:41like, uh, uh,
20:42what do you call them?
20:42Schoolhouse Rocks Yays.
20:43Like, you almost imagine
20:44there was a big bubble
20:45over her head
20:46and it's spelled out yay.
20:49Here it is.
20:50Your moment is in.
20:51They want you guys
20:52to protect all these
20:53Butterfingers
20:53that are being stolen.
20:54You just got to explain this.
20:56Well, you know,
20:56it's funny.
20:56Butterfingers is 83 years old.
20:58Everyone loves Butterfingers.
20:59We defend it
21:00because the fact that
21:01it's a wonderful candy
21:02and we're protecting the candy
21:04because nobody lays a finger
21:05on my Butterfingers.
21:06And it's at this point
21:07that the election campaign
21:08officially kicks off.
21:10Now, this lasts for 17 working days,
21:13in effect,
21:14just over three weeks.
21:16And there's a lot to get through.
21:18As in past campaigns,
21:19there'll be daily morning
21:20news conferences
21:21held by the main parties.
21:23But another staple
21:24of the campaign,
21:25the Battle Bus
21:26is destined
21:27to take a bit more
21:27of a backseat this year.
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