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Speaker 3: A great show for you tonight, so let's get into
Speaker 3: some headlines. Let's kick things off with the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: justice who's accepted more gifts than'll make a wish kids,
Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas. So every day there's a new story about
Speaker 3: Thomas accepting lavish gifts from his rich ass friends and
Speaker 3: not reporting any of it. And now Thomas is in
Speaker 3: more hot water because someone bought him a jacuzzie.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. It was RV.
Speaker 4: Clarence Thomas has been an RV evangelist for decades, traveling
Speaker 4: the country in a forty foot luxury motor coach that
Speaker 4: he purchased in nineteen ninety nine after borrowing more than
Speaker 4: a quarter of a million dollars from a wealthy friend.
Speaker 4: But a new report from Democrats on the Senate Finance
Speaker 4: Committee alleges Thomas's friend forgave a substantial amount of that
Speaker 4: massive loan, and nine years later, his friend forgave all
Speaker 4: the debt. The IRS considers debt forgiveness as a form
Speaker 4: of income, but Thomas never reported it on his financial
Speaker 4: disclosure forms, a likely violation of federal ethics rules, and
Speaker 4: he never reported it on his tax returns, potentially owing
Speaker 4: money to the IRS the longtime friend, Anthony Welters, who
Speaker 4: loaned him that money. He is defending this arrangement, saying, quote,
Speaker 4: I loaned a friend money.
Speaker 5: We've all been on one side of the other that equation.
Speaker 3: No, we have nots. I've never had a friend just
Speaker 3: give me. I don't know two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Hell, last week I bummed a cigarette from my guy Tommy.
Speaker 3: He sent me a Venmo request. I do have a
Speaker 3: question for Clarence rich friend.
Speaker 1: You want to hang some song? It's a n next game.
Speaker 3: I've got courtside seats to be paid for them, but Lowki,
Speaker 3: I'm disappointed in Clarence. If you're going to take a bribe,
Speaker 3: it should be extravagant, like gold bars and diamonds.
Speaker 1: This is depressing.
Speaker 3: You been around abortion because you want someone else to
Speaker 3: let you drop a bus. Also, they said that driving
Speaker 3: RVs a Clarence thomas favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Look at my man face. This is what Clarence Thomas
Speaker 1: looks like when he's happy. I'm enjoying this.
Speaker 3: Hurry all right, let's move on to an issue plaguing
Speaker 3: America schools, softness.
Speaker 6: Data collected by the CDC finds roughly fourteen percent of
Speaker 6: public schools say they deal with instances of bullying every
Speaker 6: day or at least once a week, although it may
Speaker 6: be lower in New York schools. According to a new study,
Speaker 6: New York ranks thirty ninth out of forty eight states
Speaker 6: for bullying prevalence in schools.
Speaker 3: Damn, New York's not even number one and bullying anymore.
Speaker 1: We invented bullying. How do we get some staff?
Speaker 3: Our state model used to be you, I'm gonna see
Speaker 3: your ass at three o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, my last night. Let's go. Let's go, And
Speaker 1: we need bullies.
Speaker 3: Getting bullied motivates nervous to make billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: If Jeff Bezos had fun in high school, we still
Speaker 3: have to go to strip motorbi socks. And I know
Speaker 3: where some of you are going. This story's not funny.
Speaker 3: My kid got bullied. I mean I could see where
Speaker 3: they get it from.
Speaker 1: Shit.
Speaker 3: And finally, let's talk about dating, fellas. You got big
Speaker 3: plans this weekend taking a lady out on the first date.
Speaker 3: Guess what, No matter where you're going, it's already terrible.
Speaker 7: A list of unacceptable places to take a woman on
Speaker 7: a first date is going viral on social media, and
Speaker 7: it's leaving men stumped on where else to go. On
Speaker 7: the list, cheesecake factory took number one, followed by the
Speaker 7: Olive Garden, Chipotle, and Chili's Great it ain't so, but
Speaker 7: other places mentioned include movies, the gym, coffee and ice
Speaker 7: cream dates, and a bar for drinks. Absurd clubs and
Speaker 7: Hukah lounges also made the list.
Speaker 1: Wait, that's every place.
Speaker 3: So you can't go to a bar, you can't go
Speaker 3: to a club, you can't inbut a girl over to
Speaker 3: my boy's house While the six of us watch a
Speaker 3: movie on a MacBook while sharing one blunt.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Now, I don't know how scientific this list is. It
Speaker 3: kind of looks like he just wrote it in his notesap. Also,
Speaker 3: some of these are really specific, like a bar just
Speaker 3: for drinks, so Shorty's like, I'll also get the kalamari.
Speaker 3: The guy's like, Jeff drinks, So tell me more about your.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 3: From more on, the story goes lot to our senior
Speaker 3: dating correspondent, Ronnie Jay.
Speaker 1: Left.
Speaker 3: Ronnie, my god, help me out here. Where do women
Speaker 3: like going on the first date?
Speaker 5: Jesus, I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 8: Okay, if that's one thing I know, it's how to
Speaker 8: charm women with my sweet personality. First dates are easy.
Speaker 8: You just gotta keep expectations low. Take them here to
Speaker 8: the sparrows at the authorities.
Speaker 3: God damn the port authority, at least one of the Grand.
Speaker 1: Central dog No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5: Grand Central is a fancy clock.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: A first date can't have a fancy anything. If you
Speaker 8: take her to a fancy restaurant, she'd be like, oh wow,
Speaker 8: you must be able to pay rent. Believe me, you
Speaker 8: don't want that pressure, right, Just get her a cold
Speaker 8: slice of pizza next to a gobbigh ca and a
Speaker 8: pameasan shaker.
Speaker 5: That's covid on it. Let her know where the bar is.
Speaker 1: Lo, Okay, I see that's economical. No drinks, no meals?
Speaker 1: Are you paying for? Is a slice? Right?
Speaker 8: No? No?
Speaker 5: You idiot? You know listening?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 8: If you buy her a slice, you're always gonna have
Speaker 8: to buy her a slice. And who am I the
Speaker 8: pepperoni king? Right on the first day, you show her
Speaker 8: what she's in for. That's why on my first date,
Speaker 8: I'm thirty minutes late. I zone out when she's talking
Speaker 8: and best time I start a secret family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, what want to go to Cbarros?
Speaker 8: Okay, well then you meet at a five star restaurant.
Speaker 8: Then you walk her to the nearest Sbarros.
Speaker 1: Okay, what if she's lactose intolerant.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Look, there's a bunch of options
Speaker 5: for bad first dates. Okay.
Speaker 8: You could take her to a funeral. You can take
Speaker 8: her to the DMB, you could invite her to an
Speaker 8: argument with your ex. And if you really want to
Speaker 8: upset her, just take her to the Knicks game.
Speaker 1: Seven got started? Why you sack everybody.
Speaker 3: When we come back, I'll tell you you can't too
Speaker 3: much for thro stadiums. Don't go away. Welcome back to
Speaker 3: the Daily Show. Growing up, I lived across the street
Speaker 3: from Yankee Stadium. I can hear the crowd. I can
Speaker 3: smell the glizzies, white people. Those are hot dogs. When
Speaker 3: Red Sox fans asked me for directions to the state,
Speaker 3: I point them straight to the projects.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. Then in two thousand and.
Speaker 3: Nine, they built a new Yankee Stadium right next to
Speaker 3: the old one, and it looked basically the same. It
Speaker 3: was like Drake's last two albums. You couldn't tell them apart.
Speaker 3: But there was one huge difference, the cost to the public.
Speaker 3: The city handed over twenty acres of public parkland and
Speaker 3: a billion dollars of tax paper money. So the house
Speaker 3: that Ruth built really became the house that you and
Speaker 3: I built, well, most of you. I'm a softign sistant.
Speaker 3: I don't pay taxes, but this happens all the time.
Speaker 3: Just last year, New York gave the Buffalo Bills six
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars to build.
Speaker 1: A new stadium. Six hundred million. That's almost as.
Speaker 3: Much as NYPD spends to stop fifty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 3: of turnstile jumper.
Speaker 1: So how does this happen?
Speaker 3: Why are billionaire owners getting welfare to build stadiums? It's
Speaker 3: something I want to talk about in tonight's long story
Speaker 3: short all right, right now, We're in a sports stadium
Speaker 3: building boom, and just about every one of them is
Speaker 3: funded by taxpayers. So how are billionaire team owners able
Speaker 3: to get these sweetheart deals easy? When asking for taxpayer subsidies?
Speaker 3: Teams come to a community like a dude asking for
Speaker 3: open marriage.
Speaker 1: Nah. Girls, not just good for me, it's good for
Speaker 1: you too.
Speaker 3: Now they say these stadiums will spread economic growth throughout
Speaker 3: the community, construction jobs, restaurants, Taylor Swift, body doubles. Come on,
Speaker 3: now you think she's watching Travis kelcey and doing a
Speaker 3: show in Argentina.
Speaker 1: An hour later? Nah, that math is not mathing. Come on, yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, these owners also claim these stadiums will increase property values,
Speaker 3: which is one of the biggest lies in the world.
Speaker 3: What kind of cycle was like, Yeah, I want fifty
Speaker 3: thousand drunk idiots pissing on my.
Speaker 1: Stoop every night.
Speaker 3: No way, bro, If any drunk idiot is gonna piss
Speaker 3: on my stoop.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be me. Next.
Speaker 3: They promise to donate money to the community or build
Speaker 3: affordable housing, and if.
Speaker 1: None of that works, they threaten to move the team.
Speaker 3: And it usually works because even though using taxpayer money
Speaker 3: in stadiums is usually unpopular, losing the team could end
Speaker 3: the politician's career, like, for example, if Mayor Eric Adams
Speaker 3: lost us the Knicks, he would be deported all the
Speaker 3: way back to his real home in New Jersey. But
Speaker 3: the truth is a lot of the time those owners
Speaker 3: are bluffing, and we know that because they admit it.
Speaker 9: David Samson, the former president of Marlin's largely credited with
Speaker 9: pulling off the worst stadium deal for Miami day taxpayers.
Speaker 5: It's actually pretty easy playbook.
Speaker 10: I get a lot of credit for doing the Marlins
Speaker 10: Park deal, but it really wasn't very difficult because Miami
Speaker 10: did not want to lose its baseball team, and all
Speaker 10: we had to say is that we're ready to leave
Speaker 10: Miami if we don't get a deal done.
Speaker 11: Let me ask you, were the Marlins going to leave Miami?
Speaker 11: David truly absolutely not. See these guys are full of shit.
Speaker 11: They were never going to leave Miami, because no one
Speaker 11: ever leaves Miami. Even people who are just visiting don't
Speaker 11: leave Miami.
Speaker 1: Not a cousin who went to a bachelor party six
Speaker 1: months ago. He's still in a club party with bbls.
Speaker 3: So the teams get their free subsidies and now that
Speaker 3: they have their brand new stadium, that boost their value.
Speaker 3: But don't worry because in return, the city gets hundreds
Speaker 3: of millions of dollars worth of jackshit.
Speaker 1: Economists who study stadium subsidies say little or none of
Speaker 1: the money makes it back to taxpayers.
Speaker 8: One economist estimated that the contribution of a professional baseball
Speaker 8: team is similar to that of a mid sized department.
Speaker 1: Store, as a university of shood.
Speaker 9: Economists happtly put it, if you want to inject money
Speaker 9: into the local economy, it would be better to drop
Speaker 9: it from a helicopter than invest it in a new ballpark.
Speaker 1: Wait, that's an option, yo.
Speaker 3: I wish they'd dropped a giant bag of money in
Speaker 3: my neighborhood, like rest the peace of the person in
Speaker 3: lands On, But it'd be a payday for the rest
Speaker 3: of us. So the economic boostaate promise doesn't pan out,
Speaker 3: and I know that personally because I saw that in
Speaker 3: the Bronx. In exchange for that twenty acres of Parkland,
Speaker 3: the Yankees promise to donate forty million dollars to affected areas,
Speaker 3: but the media community has not seen a dime from
Speaker 3: the team, and more immediately, they're more importantly, we haven't
Speaker 3: seen a World Series in like twenty years, or like,
Speaker 3: if you want to screw my community out of forty million, fine,
Speaker 3: that's business, But me not getting a ring, that's personal.
Speaker 3: I mean, at the very least, these teams could toss
Speaker 3: out some more shirts during games, like how do you
Speaker 3: have twenty five thousand fans in the arena and only
Speaker 3: toss out ten T shirts?
Speaker 1: And their all size excel do mediums costs more?
Speaker 3: And also could we please get a T shirt cannon
Speaker 3: that could hit the three hundreds?
Speaker 1: What the fuck.
Speaker 6: Up?
Speaker 1: Top? And the row uptid?
Speaker 3: And the thing that really gets me heated, these stadiums
Speaker 3: aren't even that old. Stadiums for the Brakers and the
Speaker 3: Rangers last like twenty years before they built new ones.
Speaker 3: You can't be replacing a stadium that Leonardo DiCaprio was
Speaker 3: still hit.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a tight haannic too.
Speaker 3: Sorry, but you know what the worst part is how
Speaker 3: much this sucks for the fans because suddenly the team
Speaker 3: they've been rooting for their whole lives starts extorting them
Speaker 3: for a f fortune and all they can do about
Speaker 3: it is to go to the stadium and cuts out
Speaker 3: the owner, which is what they did in Oakland.
Speaker 5: Check this out.
Speaker 9: A's fans packing the Oakland Coliseum for the first time
Speaker 9: in what seems like forever to send a blunt message
Speaker 9: to the athletics Top brass a season best crowd of
Speaker 9: nearly twenty eight thousand A's fans came out to the
Speaker 9: coliseum for what was deemed a reverse boycott, which encouraged
Speaker 9: owner John Fisher to sell the team so it can
Speaker 9: remain in Oakland instead of moving to Las Vegas.
Speaker 12: Tonight, the coliseum corrupted with one of a high.
Speaker 1: Chance and cheers.
Speaker 9: Thirty thousand people are going to show up tonight to
Speaker 9: show John Fisher.
Speaker 1: That he sucks. How you do it?
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm the East Coast boy to Oakland, paying twenty
Speaker 3: dollars to cuts out the man you've never met is
Speaker 3: big New York Energy. Respect But long story short. Politicians
Speaker 3: got to stop falling for the stadium, Griff. If we're
Speaker 3: getting ripped off by team owners, it should be the
Speaker 3: old way with fourteen.
Speaker 1: Dollars bud lights. All right. When we come back, D
Speaker 1: Smoke will be joining me on the show. Don't go
Speaker 1: away you welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is a Grammy nominated rapper whose latest
Speaker 3: single is called Work Hard, Play Hard.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to Homie. D Smoke.
Speaker 12: That's that brother brother that has gone amazing amazing.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, you no good?
Speaker 3: So you still teach Spanish and music theory in Inglewood
Speaker 3: High School?
Speaker 5: I did well.
Speaker 12: I taught Spanish at Inglewood High School. Ok, Ultimately I
Speaker 12: ended up teaching music theory.
Speaker 1: And then you have to show the Netflix show Rhythm
Speaker 1: and Flow absolutely and you are I did okay? Any
Speaker 1: of your students come back like yo, I coudn't even know.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you could split like that. Man.
Speaker 12: I run into my students everywhere, because if you think
Speaker 12: I talked for over like seven years and stuff and
Speaker 12: so and you and each each year you have anywhere
Speaker 12: from one hundred to like two hundred students, and.
Speaker 1: So they're all over the world.
Speaker 12: They're adults now, and so you run run into them
Speaker 12: ow hiking trails and they're like, wow.
Speaker 1: Mister Ferris. It was like you was a good teacher,
Speaker 1: but you're a better rapper. I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. Also, if your students are on hiking trails,
Speaker 1: you're a good teacher. Hey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You know the processing reason?
Speaker 1: All right, we just did a segment about bullying schools
Speaker 1: and they actually said California is number one for bullying
Speaker 1: while you were teacher. Who is worse in bullion? High
Speaker 1: schoolers or rappers?
Speaker 12: I'm gonna have to say high schoolers easily. High schoolers
Speaker 12: they're no man, They're they're heartless sometimes, you know, And
Speaker 12: and I think that the teachers sometimes are easy targets.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: They're like, oh, you have a job to protect and
Speaker 12: all this, so they're just they'll shoot at the teacher.
Speaker 12: And sometimes you just got to take the teacher hat
Speaker 12: off and be like, man, that's why your mama no,
Speaker 12: you know, you know, you know what it's crazy because
Speaker 12: when you when you when you take off the cool
Speaker 12: hat and you shoot back at the students, then they're like, Okay,
Speaker 12: he's not playing.
Speaker 1: They just let me respect them. Their biggest fear is
Speaker 1: the fear.
Speaker 12: Of being embarrassed, so you you might have to pick
Speaker 12: at at one time, you know, and not of course
Speaker 12: not overboard, but let them know that you you're there,
Speaker 12: you in the moment, you know, you got you.
Speaker 3: So your family's in the business musical family. Your brother
Speaker 3: is sir, My brother is sir. Okay, are you familiar?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How does that work? Having a family member also entertainment?
Speaker 1: Like like if you want you on a remix, and
Speaker 1: she's like, so, brother, you go through the agency.
Speaker 12: So no, we go direct, We go direct, but after
Speaker 12: the music is done, it's still got to go through
Speaker 12: like the proper channels. But you know, there's a lot
Speaker 12: of respect there because we're not a group. You know,
Speaker 12: we're our own artists and and we just admire each
Speaker 12: other so much that we choose the right moments to
Speaker 12: put out songs. And that's where this single came about.
Speaker 12: It's like, is the time And we both looked at
Speaker 12: each other, it's like, yes, time.
Speaker 1: Work hard play hard work hard play. Your brother you're
Speaker 1: working on ya novel?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Young yeah man.
Speaker 12: There's so many acronyms in my head, and I'm like,
Speaker 12: why you know, jo, I used to work on library.
Speaker 1: So I'm being like a wild nerd right now.
Speaker 12: Because I'm like, y, don't they call juvenile hall Ya?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but wow, that's a I went to
Speaker 1: ya for three years and it was hard.
Speaker 3: But shout out to you because you know, like, as
Speaker 3: a black man writing a white a novel, you feel
Speaker 3: like you have more teaching to do.
Speaker 1: You have more Absolutely you.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, I'm an educator by trade, I'm an educator at heart,
Speaker 12: but I'm also critical of the education system.
Speaker 5: I won't go into it.
Speaker 12: It's just, you know, it's not necessarily the best circumstances
Speaker 12: under which to reach people, you know, like you have
Speaker 12: to do certain things, you know, Whereas the things that
Speaker 12: really impacted me the most, there are certain books that
Speaker 12: changed my life, one of which was The Alchemist, you know.
Speaker 12: And for me, i'd like to believe I've written The
Speaker 12: Hood Alchemist, you know, and so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm super.
Speaker 1: Proud of that. Gotcha.
Speaker 3: And now, in this current musical environment, what advice could
Speaker 3: you give a new artist if they're really trying to
Speaker 3: stand out? Because assuming new artists out there.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, I mean I always tell artists two things. I
Speaker 12: tell them, extend a runway, right, give yourself more time
Speaker 12: than people tend to. Everybody's trying to hit home runs.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 12: Everybody wants to blow up. But if you grow up,
Speaker 12: nobody can take from you what you built.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 5: If you blow up, it can happen. Then you're trying
Speaker 5: to figure out where you're.
Speaker 1: At, you know, so stein the runway, grow up, be consistent.
Speaker 12: What changed my life is what got me on Rhythm
Speaker 12: and Flow is that I was putting something out once
Speaker 12: a week consistently with a visual.
Speaker 5: So I'm talking about it.
Speaker 12: If it took me putting a tripod down and filming
Speaker 12: it myself and the editing it every Friday, you was
Speaker 12: gonna get a new piece of content. And I knew
Speaker 12: what my creative advantage was. I spoke Spanish. I was
Speaker 12: just I'm not gonna wear I was a black man
Speaker 12: from Inglewood speaking Spanish.
Speaker 1: You got you, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 12: And I knew people hadn't seen that, so I'm like,
Speaker 12: let's demonstrate that and mix it with some of the contents,
Speaker 12: some of the message, and do it once a week.
Speaker 12: And then we started getting the phone calls. So a
Speaker 12: lot of people think, oh, rhythm and flow puts you
Speaker 12: on Like no, they called us, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 12: to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: So gotch So thank you for coming through.
Speaker 3: Work Hard play Hard is available now we want to
Speaker 3: take a quick bread right back after this.
Speaker 5: My God, you.
Speaker 1: Float yo.
Speaker 5: Yo.
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