Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Eric Greitens and on The Nightly Show panelists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mike Cannon, and Robin Thede discuss conspiracy theories.
Eric Greitens is a nonprofit leader, author, speaker, and United States Navy SEAL who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a former Truman Scholar and Rhodes Scholar and the founder of the nonprofit The Mission Continues, which encourages veterans to volunteer for community service. He is on tonight to discuss his latest book
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage if we have the virtue of resilience.
In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn't seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging town, he'd been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, as Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives.
Eric's letters drawing on both his own experience and wisdom from ancient and modern thinkers are now gathered and edited into this timeless guidebook. Resilience explains how we can build purpose, confront pain, practice compassion, develop a vocation, find a mentor, create happiness, and much more. Eric's lessons are deep yet practical, and his advice leads to clear solutions.
We all face pain, difficulty, and doubt. But we also have the tools to take control of our lives. Resilience is an inspiring meditation for the warrior in each of us.
It sounds like a good book, I think the interview will be very good, he has been on before.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
Mike Cannon
is a New York City based comedian and a delightful human being. He thinks being a good human being is more important, but for the purposes of this advertisement will keep his thoughts focused to comedy. Mike has recently appeared on MTV's Failosophy, MTV's Money From Strangers and has been a contributing writer for MTV2's Guy Code. He currently hosts his popular weekly web-series called "The Weed News with Mike Cannon" and his podcast "Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole."
Robin Thede
Robin Thede is a comedy writer and comedic actress. She is the Head Writer for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (Comedy Central). Prior, she was head writer on season one of The Queen Latifah Show and wrote on the first two seasons of the hit comedy "Real Husbands of Hollywood" (BET). She also appeared in recurring roles on "Second Generation Wayans" (BET) and "Goodwin Games" (FOX). She guest starred on "Key and Peele" (Comedy Central) and appeared in the film "A Haunted House" (Open Road).
Next Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
Mo 4/20: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Tu 4/21: Jeff Garlin
We 4/22: Dana Perino
Th 4/23: Neil deGrasse Tyson
I saw Mitch McConnell while I was out walking on Wednesday :D