Playing] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Good show tonight. Our guest tonight the author mr. Malcolm glaad gladwell will be joining us tonight. We begin tonight with the fallout of Government Shutdown and the look at the true victims. No, not the families that rely on headstart. No, not Cancer Patients whose treatment was delayed thats so no not those famewhore panda cam pand yaz. Look at me im nibbling on bamboo. [ laughter ] bleep but the real victims of the shutdown there we go. 28 . Thats how many voters now say they have a favorable view of the republican partism it is the lowest score party. It is the lowest score ever reported for either party by gallun. When you shut down the government for two weeks in order to obtain nothing people dont like it. It hurts the republican brand. Its no surprise that Establishment Republicans are sounding the alarm saying the Tea Party Groups tactics are a tad extreme. You cannot govern from one part of onehalf of congress. The only out is for these people to realize they are in a suicide caucus. Jon they are not in a suicide caucus. I know that because i founded suicide caucus in 1983. Thats right. It was my jazz fusion band. [ laughter ] suicide caucus. And i will have you know the magazine Rolling Stone called us also performing. [ laughter ] i apparently had it urinate during that set. [laughter] that gets us to the dilemma that the republican elite are facing. They want to let the tea party know that they are not allowed to call the shots. They sure were excited a few years back when the tea party showed up. The big split between the establishment and the new people, the Tea Party Folks is vastly exaggerated. I think its extremely harmonious. I think overall its a tremendous asset for the republicans. Its the party that has a structure absorbing the energy of these spoan tainous demonstrators. They wanted the energy. [ laughter ] the republican the party wanted to absorb the tea party energy to swallow and digest the tea partys enthusiasm and passion so long as the tea party promised not to burst through their chest and replicate burst through the establishments chest they [laughter] of course the Republican Partys brain, its architect has a plan to fix all this. And wouldnt you know his plan involves sending money care of carl has helped launch conservative victory project that made the tea party and those who support that part of the party very upset. Our object is to avoid having stupid candidates who cant win general elections. [cheers and applause] jon oh, and to make this country a better place for the citizens. No its actually the elections thing. The goal of mr. Roves conservative victory project is to identify candidates with bona fide credentials without being from the conservative base so they are controllable. Because rove knows the crazy talk is not supposed to be said out loud. The Republican Party seems to have hurt itself. Thats what the polls say. And you say . Thats accurate. Look, we remembers and con republicans and conservatives angry over the victory of president obama wanted somebody to stand up and fight. Deet Fund Strategy was never going to work. Jon thank up commander hindsight. Listen, bill, i told them it wasnt going to work. I called a guy and said a lone ranger movie in 2013. And then i said to steve jobs, no one wants to take pictures with their phones, i mean. Cancel that what i said to steve jobs was sure wish i could fit all my phones in my pocket. [ laughter ] but the shutdown, its too uncompromising, focused too much on stoking the anger of the Republican Base over obamacare without an exit strategy. Its as though the entire misguided shutdown affair was a culmination of a decade long strategy to engage the most rigid and ideological pockets of Republican Party which is why karl rove has no right to complain about the radicals ruining his party because he is the one who invited them. I give you building red america by tommy edsall. During the 2004 electric old captain retrospectively obvious set out the g. O. P. Strategy of quote activating conservatives anger points rather than reaching out to moderates. Anger points like fre health care for Illegal Immigrants and samesex marriage. Leading to scenes this like a senator sharing a stage at a rally with this gentleman. Were ruled, quote unquote, by a president. Imperialist president. Who bows down to allah. I call upon all of to you wage a second revolution to use civil disobedience and demand that this president leave town. [cheers and applause] to put the to put the koran down, to get up off his knees and to figuratively come up with his hands out. Jon there are so many things wrong with that, factually, ideologically, grammatically [laughter] meanwhile [cheers and applause] looks like everybody behind him is like shut the bleep up so we can bid on those storage containers. Old terd blossom here has to create a super pac to attempt to battle the stupid he himself unleashed so no sim pat cofor a guy who started a fire that now rages out of control. [ applause ] perhaps the single least self examing crazy enabler is the increasingly senior senator from arizona who has this to say about his colleagues unexroa mad cow diseasing uncompromising shutdown strategy. Were seeing the end of this agonizing shutdown. Its one of the more shameful chapters ive seen in the years ive been in the senate. Senator mccain calling some of his colleagues wacko birds. Jon you dont get to complain at all because if i remember correctly no matter ho coucko for cocoa puffs your colleagues are they dont come close to your hatchling. Governor palin from the great state of alaska. Jon you opened pandoras box. You were the guy that gave them a post midnight all you can eat buffet. You dont get to complain that the party is overrun with gremlins. Who is happening onon donon h i e]c k [cheers and applause] jon welcome back. As you know from what i understand halloween is next week. Ive not settled on a costume yet. I narrowed it down to the boss. The cake boss. Or undercover boss. [ laughter ] but on the bright side at least im not a lady shopping for a costume. You look for a Halloween Costume as a lady and its hard to find one where you dont look like a hussy. Jon hard to not look like a hussy. God forbid you look like a loose woman from the 50s. We are are joined by kristen shaw. Thank you for joining us. I miss it. Jon and go. It does seem these costumes for women keep getting more and more sexed up. I know, jon, isnt it great . Jon what . The fact that women get this one night only one out of whole year to be viewed as sexual objects. We get to choose what kind. A sexy pirate, a sexy nurse, a sexier nurse, a sexy defense attorney or her people in miss the sexy prosecutor. Youre out of order, no you are out of order. Lets just makeout yeah [cheers and applause] you like that. Jon you are not upset about this in anyway. Why . Why would i be upset about progress, jon . When my mom was growing up in the oppressive olden days she only had two options, sexy secretary or sexy meter maid. But in these modern liberated times a woman can be a sexy whatever the hell she wants. Jon sort of like a Glass Ceiling that you break by putting them on the glass, putting the boobs on the glass. Yeah, your sharp spikey boobs, john. Women can be sexy and inman in mate objects. Im not making this up. The sexy carrot, sexy guitar or this one for sexy card lovers. You want a piece of . He this included a pad the mini dress with detail and crust shoulder pads. Jon in my mind to be perfectly honest i dont know that pizza needs cleavage to make it sexy. You said it boss. bleep pizza. Jon what . [cheers and applause] i mean think about mens costumes they are empowering. You can be super heroes, jedi masters and you dont have to show your, you know your bits and pieces. You know what i mean . Youre right. Its not fair. They should be allowed to be sexy, too. Jon right. Thats why i designed my own line of sexy costumes for men. Come on out gustav. Gustav yeah tell me this costume isnt dead sexy. [laughter] jon ah, he just looks like some dude. Some dude jon its not a he is modeling the costume called sexy hollywood producer who hires women over 40 for inappropriate roles. Yeah, damn lets get out of here you hot piece of meat. He is my ride. Jon yeah, um [laughter] and he is from austria apparently. Yes. Jon you dont think that womens costumes are getting out of hand . I dont think they go far enough. Ladies are we being so coy about this. Why dont we just show everyone what we need when we put on the sexy kitty carrot nurse cost yiewrms and take things to the next level. Introducing my 2014 line of sexy costumes for women. Come on out female gustav. Yeah [cheers and applause] jon i dont i really dont know. [cheers and applause] i dont know if you can show this. I dont know if this is something we can show. I call this one the sexy vagina. And what better way to get everyone thinking about sex than dressing up as the place where sex happens. Jon yeah but it somehow seems worse for women. Degrading. I dont know. I know what you are into, jon. Calm down. Jon right. Huh . Ooh, wow. [cheers and applause] [laughter] hello, sexiest pizza ever. Does the cheese match the crust . Ill never tell. Jon can i ask a question . Do those things normally have pizza in them. Youve never seen any one of them jon a best selling author. My guest tonight his new book is called david and goliath please welcome to the program malcolm gladwell. [cheers and applause] how are you . [cheers and applause] good. Jon book is called david and goliath. Basically the premise being sometimes being david is a very positive thing. You can use those to your advantage is that the desirable adversity difficulties is the praise i use in the book. Its an examation of underdogs. Lots of things that seem like disadvantages can be highly add vant taigous. Jon in the book things like dyslexia or having a crappy childhood. Yes. Dyslexia is a great example of this. Many people with dyslexia suffer and its a real obstacle to get ahead in life. If you look at groups of very successful entrepreneurs or professionals youll find a greater than expected number of dyslexics in their ranks. The number of incredibly successful entrepreneurs over the last 30 years, richard branson, charles schwab, the guy who runs sysco. Cisco john chambers. Jon if theres only four that wouldnt be very good. Theres many of them. They say they didnt succeed in spite of dyslexia but because of it. Because of being coped to a highly problematic child a. D. H. D. Where they couldnt do what they were required to do, which was read, forced them to learn many other things. Jon there has to be a supply side economics where it gets to a place if i can use a phrase i learned in a different point, Tipping Point. A Tipping Point that buries you, bad childhood and no mouth. Then you put helen kellen helen keller up there. I use the phrase desirable difficulty its a lovely phrase that two psychologists come up with to distinguish between the kind that prove add advantage taigous which are not the kind of thing anyone should be expected to recover from. Jon im sure some people do. The hugan spirit incredibly adaptable. Dont we all have to some extent disadvantages that shape our character as we go through and it is sort of tenacity with which you overcome them no mat ter what that would be . I got started on this because my last book outliers because i spent time talking to successful people. I was struck by how often when they accounted for what they had achieved they began with the difficulties not the obvious advantages. So much of their sense of themselves was something that grew out of in some cases of it a terrible blow that happened to them that they managed somehow to navigate. The chapter here on parental law. On this striking fact that very large numbers of american president s and british prime ministers have lost a parent in childhood, way higher than would be expecting from the normal population. Really. Its just about the worst thing that can happen to a human being. Jon you are saying if my son wants it be president oh, boy. [laughter] here is the thing. I shut the lights and i close my eyes around this kid. Look bill clinton, obama, these are two people who have but the list is extraordinarily long. What you understood is that these are one of the things that distinguish these people is theres something about that took the devastating experience and found a way to come out stronger. Jon is it a chicken in the egg . There a way of determining if theres an inherent personality type that is able to translate the devastating plows to a positive outcome or whether or not the blow includes the outcome. I dont know. Jon what do you mean you dont know. You wrote the book . Theres so much i dont know. These books always raise more questions than they resolve. Thats what they are supposed to do, right . They are supposed to kind of start. It would be really fascinating. I didnt do it. Now i think i should have. To sit down next to bill clinton and ask that question. Here is a guy who had the furthest thing from a silver spoon in his mouth. Jon no question. I dont know if he would share his story. Hes receipt sent about that. Very shy. Jon you might get a couple things. You might be like the book is too big last. Laugh raises tons of questions and i think is a nice way to look at, you know, that old adage the lemons ants lemon yaid, that sort of thing. David and goliath. Be a david, why not. [cheers and applause] jon thats our show. Join us tomorrow at 11 00. Here it is your moment of zen. Voter registration is the most important undertaking now. You cant get a 35yearold to teach the Republican Party to get the young people. You cant rely u a. Tonight a new way to eat ont. Tracheotomies arent just for