A fris friskey crowd we have to. Bestselling author and super genius Malcolm Gladwell joins us tonight on the panel. [cheers and applause] so excited looking forward to this. But first, a story coming straight out of pyongyang. Not to be confused with straight outta pyongyang, the hit film poster with North Koreans below about the rise of and fall of n. K. W. A. , North Koreans with attitude. By the way, also snubbed at the oscars. No, tonights story is about the north korean government, which recently captured one of americas most annoying exports, a frat bro. Otto Frederick Warmbier is a university of virginia student now being detained by north korea. Larry wait a minute. Can i hear that name again . Otto Frederick Warmbier. Larry otto Frederick Warmbier . Did this kid get arrested in north korea and then just give the cop his fake i. D. . Yes, sir, weve got american student Otto Warmbier here. His birthday is 420, and he lives on 69 weed avenue. Whats a College Student even doing in north korea . He was on a private tour in north korea. Its a chinesebased tour company that advertises and brags, come on our tours. Were going to destinations even your mother doesnt want you to go to. Larry no, cancun is a destination your mother doesnt want you to go to. North korea is a destination you dont want you to go to. What were you expecting some spring break spot full of underage strip clubs . Because north koreas version of girls gone wild is just middleaged women eating full rations of oatmeal. Okay, so whatd he do wrong . Hes accused of trying to steal a north korean political banner from his hotel. Larry listen up, frat boy, this isnt like the time you stole sig eps goat. This is north korea. Theyre not known for their love of pranks. Look, i get the desire to steal things from hotel rooms. I get pretty much everything from hotels, even this suit. [laughter] [applause] do not steal. Right, like a brothers going to steal it. Well, i guess in this particular case, i did steal it. But still, thats racist. Go to the nightly show web site to see my Howard Johnson underpants. But hotel pranks dont play in north korea. North korea is essentially taking what a lot of people might interpret as a College Prank taking down a sign, and theyre turning it into some sort of alleged covert operation. Larry alleged covert operation . If our government had a secret plan to steal a banner, they should have recruited that nightly show audience member who stole a cardboard cutout of me from our show last thursday and then snuck it onto the subway. Flatlarry. Never forget. But could this u. V. A. Student really be a secret government agent . After all, he was in north korea. He goes to school in virginia. Not far from c. I. A. Headquarters. And again, his name is otto Frederick Warmbier, one of the top three fakestsounding names ive ever heard. Gosh, maybe this student is some sophisticated undercover mastermind. Please. Ive made the worst mistake of my life. [laughter] larry okay, so maybe he isnt some sophisticated undercover mastermind. I entirely beg you people and government of the d. P. R. K. , for your forgiveness. Please, think of my family. Larry youre going to try to appeal to kim jong un about family . This is a guy who had his own uncle shot to death. Youre crying to a dictator who only looks out for numero un. [laughter] north korea isnt a playground for College Pranks, kim jongun isnt a fictional character from a seth rogen movie, and pyongyang isnt some game you play with coors light and solo cups. Im sorry, guys, its just tough for me to have much sympathy for this guy and his crocodile tears because he allegedly stole this north korean hotel banner as an initiation prank for university of virginias secretive z society. This sounds like the worst hazing ever. So you have to commit an International Crime to get into that clique . What else is on that hazing list . Butt chug holy water from the vatican, steal one of putins pubes, leave an upper decker in Robert Mugabes bathroom . Okay, that one went too far. I agree. Look frat bros, if your hazing includes International Crimes, youve got to read the fine print on your american frat bro warranty. Its all the way at the bottom so its easy to miss, but it says, frat bro privilege not valid in totalitarian dystopias. Listen, otto von crybaby, if youre so anxious to go to a country with an unpredictable megalomaniac in charge, just wait a year and youll live in one its coming, you guys make America Great guys, it is catchy. Okay, to get a better sense of otto, lets talk with some of his fraternity brothers. Please welcome preston and hawes. So guys, is it upsetting to see your frat brother begging for mercy in north korea . Its hilarious. Warmbiers crying like hes watching the paul walker tribute at the end of furious 7. Sick flick. Listen, bro, i dont care if its north korea or west korea; warmbier wanted a sick banner to decorate his dorm, so he too. Theta chi larry first of all theres no wet korea. That its not okay to steal stuff in north korea . Who said anything about stealing . These are pranks. Larry its an International Incident its an international prank. Exactly, man i pulled an international prank when i studied abroad in rome. I dipped my balls in the trevi fountain. Larry summer of 98 . How old are you . 38 years young, kemosabe. I work at Credit Suisse now. Doesnt mean i cant swing by and have some brews with my bros every now and again, or every day, or whatevs. Larry guys. Dont you guys find any of this behavior abhorrent . Whoa you sound pretty brojudiced, larry brojudiced . Yeah, man, racist against bros. Larry thats not a thing. Anyway, what do you thinks going to happen to otto . Everyone in our frats family got mad connects in d. C. Hell get out. Dont were owe about it, man. He commits crimes all the time. Hes the ultimate frat bro. Larry thats the first thing you said that makes sense. Thing you said that makes sense. Well be right back. We broabout this new car. To get your honest opinion to keep things unbiased, we removed all the logos. Feels like a bmw. Reminds me a little bit of like an audi. So, this car supports apple carplay. Siri, open maps. She gets me. Wow. It also has teen driver technology. It even mutes the radio until the seat belts are buckled. Im very curious what it is. This is the 2016 chevy malibu. And it sells for . It starts at twentytwo five. What . Oh wow. I mean with all this technology. Thats a game changer. Okayits chewy. His . Really icy. Wooh. Thats intense it just hits you. Its gum. No. Its totally a mint its disappearing as i am chewing it. Where did it go . Its not a gum. Not a mint. Its a breakthrough in cool. Ice breakers cool blasts. Versus the lube strip. With a hydrating gel reservoir that gives you 40 less friction. 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For instance, one study showed that a store playing traditional french or german music can prime shoppers to buy french or products, which means certain types of music being played at polling places can affect the way you vote. Its kind of like when i see a picture of ted cruz, i just think of grandpa munster. Its uncanny i cant get it out of my head. With more on this phenomenon of music at the polling places, please welcome rico and oda bensimon. So guys, what is it you do exactly . We provide a noninvasive background muzak at your local polling station to relax people to vote for whomever they want. Its a public service, when you think about it. Larry so you guys arent trying to influence voting at all, right . Not at all. Oh, no people wownt to cla want to r hands. This is what we wrote down for super tuesday its an amazing time to vote. You got the right to choose. Its an amazing time to vote. As long as you vote for cruz. Larry hold on a second see, larry, just super objective, not picking sides here. Larry guys, that was not objective. You just said vote for cruz. Technically she didnt say it, she more sang it. Larry but it just seems wrong to sing vote for cruz. Okay. Well, then, heres another one america is great and we never lose, never lose so if you dont want to die, you better vote for cruz larry okay, stop. As soon as you say lose, i knew youre going to rhyme it with cruz. Ahh, hes so good. Are you a songwriter, larry . Larry no you guys say youre not priming, that youre not influencing, but its exactly what youre trying to do. Are we hearing the same song, larry . A lot of our lyrics are metaphorical. Theres imagery. Pictures. Larry yeah, but its imagery of telling people to vote for cruz. Can you give me a song that doesnt tell me to vote for cruz . Yeah, i think we can do that, larry, but i think youre making too much of this. Marco is the worst. He is never first, never if you vote for him youll be forever cursed bielizibob larry thats a blatant slam on marco rubio who are you, sir quincy jones . Larry first of all, i dont think quincy jones is a knight. Secondly, you guys keep lying. About what youre doing. No never lying larry you guys are obviously working for ted cruz. I mean, what do you have to say for yourself . I think what we have to say is better said in song. 3, 2, 1. Satan, satan, satan, can you hear me satan . Satan, satan, satan, can you hear me satan . Ive got one hell of an ultimatum. Help ted cruz. And im yours for the takin. Larry you just offered your souls to satan ted cruz 2016 satan, satan, satan. Can you hear me satan . Everybody snievment larry no, not eve. Well be ri cmon, a six pack . Who needs a six pack, when you got. The nose. Or a nose. When you got the suit. Now, you dont need a suit when you got the fire. Or fire when you rock those heels. Or when you got the brains. The awww. Who needs some other thing when you got. Your thing. Now work on it. I got minds to twist and alrivalues to warp. His. Mr. Tyler, your skittles portrait. That is e to the z oh twiddly deesgusting you havent heard me sing diddlyding yet. Dream on higher. Dream on i think a little higher dreammmm onnnnnnnn dreammm onnnn rock the rainbow. Taste the rainbow. We wonerere. And here. And here. Here. And here. Uh, here. Also in here. Back there. Behind here. Even next to these guys, here. In the nations largest, independent study, rootmetrics just named verizon Number One Network for the fifth time in a row, here. So when the other guys claim theyre the best, remember theres only one, number one. And now well pay up to 650 to switch to the best network. This one right here. Larry welcome back. Im here with my panel. First up, nightly show contributor mike yard; nightly show contributor Rory Albanese; and hes a journalist for the new yorker as well as the bestselling author of the books the Tipping Point, blink and david and goliath, Malcolm Gladwell. [cheers and applause] and for everyone at home, join our conversation right now on twitter, nightlyshow, using the hashtag tonightly. Okay, malcolm, im glad youre here. Im a huge fan. There are so many issues i could discuss with you tonight, but i want to talk about a subject youre passionate about, and thats football. Theres been a lot of stories in the news lately about the injuries and concussions, and youve even mentioned banning it. Why are you so down on americas favorite past time, canadian i should say im a hypocrite. Larry youre a fan. Im a huge fan even if i understand what im watching is morally problematic in many ways. I feel more strongly as i thought about this. More strongly about whats wrong with college and High School Football than with the pros. Its one thing to have someone play a game that runs the risk of bringing them permanent damage while theyre making a couple Million Dollars a year, right. Its another thing to do that on the College Level where theyre not making anything where theyre potentially endangering their own health to entertain alumni and drunken College Students. Larry do you think College Football is a problem. Listen, you dont have to play football, okay. You play football because its a choice. Who am i to tell people what to do with their lives. I dont smoke crack because i know what it does to you. If youre a head crack dont play football. This is pretty new information. I dont feel its out there. But the injuries and concussions. The bigger problem is people dont know bit. The way we do about cigarettes we have to put warning on things. Like a football should have helmets on it saying this doesnt work. Then when you put it on. Thousands of kids play football every day and yet people get hurt. But people get hurt driving, were not talking about bang that. You have to drive but you dont have to play football. Exactly but its a choice. If you decide to play football. All you got to do is watch people run into each other to know its not a good thing. What will really make a big impact on our decision. Our feelings about football is when we discover just how dangerous it is were only a couple years understanding what this condition called cte is. We still dont know how many players are afflecke afflicted , how common it is. If its 1 of people who play football. To my mind its a lot. Its a very different matter if its 10 . If youre playing a game where 10 of the players are having an awful death, committing suicide, driving cars off the road, where they are lapsing into dementia then i have a very different feeling about the game. If they put that into the monday night football stuff. If you play football, you get dementia, stuff like that. On monday night football it used to be a logo. They would sing a song. I know. Why do you think people really love football. Is it for the violence of it. Yes. Families are watching transformers. Its fun, its exciting. Listen those guys train very hard to go on the field and run into each other. Im not going to down them for that. Theyre getting paid. You play high school in college so you can possibly gre get pai. Would you allow your child to play football. Never. Are you kidding me . No. I wouldnt introduce him to it but if he found out about it. Im not going to cover you. I dont have a kid but if they had any athletic ability coming out of me, i would be like just thrilled. I would be thrilled at the process spect that mprospect thh a ball. I dont know if i would let him or her play but i would be so proud. How many nfl players are now saying they wouldnt let their Children Play football. Wait, wait. Terry bradshaw said that and he has two 30 year old daughters. I think hes clear. Before i go, since i have you, i just want to ask you a couple questions about the election. I just want you to help me understand donald trump, the phenomena of trump and maybe using the wealth of your knowledge. Would you explain, like weve had a black president. Is that a Tipping Point . Or do you think people just blink and they are like [bleep] or do you think hes some david or some goliath that just showed up. Or maybe hes just an outlier out there. I personally think its what the dogs are. Trump is what the psychologist called the impassive bully or the best bully are people who are brilliant at reading your weaknesses. He picks on you in this particular way that makes you feel terrible because he has looked inside your head and seen what your weaknesses are. Trump is the impassive bully. When he makes fun of the other candidates its not some bad crude insult, its actually an insult that cuts to the chase. Hes very good at it. We called jeb bush low energy. Thats exactly the thing that nailed him. I saw a clip of them talking about marco rubio and he was talking about hour marco rubio slept a lot. Its like oh my god its so true and i cant look at marco rubio. He literally ruins people. He moves to and lays waste to everyone around him. Hes obviously spent 10,000 hours being a bully. [applause] larry all right, well be larry all right, well be right back. Kids, juicy fyeah. Gum with starburst flavors . mmm. mmm. zipper noise zipper noise baby rattle shaking juicy fruit so sweet you cant help but chew. And discovered the sprinted network really is faster. Plus, its more reliable with better coverage than ever. To celebrate, were extending our offer so you can save 50 on most rates from verizon. No more overpaying . At t. Bye bye big bills . 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