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Speaker 1: a jam packed show for you tonight. Everybody loves Joe Manchin.
Speaker 1: America is a broke as bitch and if you've heard
Speaker 1: the new Beyonce album, you're going to jail. So let's
Speaker 1: do this people. Let's come straight into today's headlines. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. Before we get into the big stories, let's
Speaker 1: catch up on a few other things that are going on.
Speaker 1: First up, in business news, jet Blue has officially announced
Speaker 1: that it will buy Spirit Airlines for three point eight
Speaker 1: billion dollars. Three point eight billion. Yeah, what's crazy is
Speaker 1: that Spirits still charged them thirty dollars for a carry
Speaker 1: on bag. But I mean this is a smart move
Speaker 1: for Jet Blue. A lot of people are confused that,
Speaker 1: like why, but it makes sense. As a business you
Speaker 1: want to diversify, you know, think about it. Why just
Speaker 1: be an airline when you can be both an airline
Speaker 1: and a flying porter. Party, This is great. In entertainment news,
Speaker 1: the new Beyonce album officially drops tonight at midnight. People. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but somehow the entire thing leaked online yesterday, thirty six
Speaker 1: hours early. And you know what happens when someone betrays
Speaker 1: Beyonce like this, she puts out a fire album about it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait, I can't wait. No. But for real, though,
Speaker 1: leaking Beyonce's album early is an outrage. It's unforgivable. And
Speaker 1: if any of you in this room have it on
Speaker 1: your phone right now, you better go ahead and air
Speaker 1: drop that to me. I want to hear when phone
Speaker 1: hole has going on part. And finally, in some really
Speaker 1: exciting gaming news, we're finally getting a glimpse into Grand
Speaker 1: Theft Auto six and there are some really cool ship
Speaker 1: in it. Apparently the game will constantly grow as you're playing,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna keep adding new areas and new missions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So whatever your job you have right now, finish it up,
Speaker 1: because once that game comes out, you're not leaving your bedroom,
Speaker 1: it's over. Oh. What's also cool is that, for the
Speaker 1: first time ever, G t A is gonna have a
Speaker 1: female main character in the game. Yeah, follow me. I
Speaker 1: love this. It was so cool. Finally someone has broken
Speaker 1: the glass ceiling by driving into the Lamborghini like shooting.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get a lot of new people playing G
Speaker 1: t A, especially the Supreme Court. They're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I get to control a woman's body. I'm in. I'm in.
Speaker 1: Too soon, too soon? All right? Anyway, let's move on
Speaker 1: to the big news of the day, which is about
Speaker 1: the economy. What people in suits blame for why they
Speaker 1: can't pay you. It's the economy you understand for the
Speaker 1: pasture or so As America began to emerge from the pandemic,
Speaker 1: It's economy has been dragged down by soaring inflation, and
Speaker 1: today everybody is debating one key question, is America in
Speaker 1: a recession? Is the U s economy in a recession?
Speaker 1: Right now? Well, not officially, but today the Bureau of
Speaker 1: Economic Analysis reported that our nation's grows domestic product fell
Speaker 1: by point nine from April June. Now that fall lose
Speaker 1: a one point six percent drop in the first quarter
Speaker 1: of the year. For many economists, of following GDP for
Speaker 1: two straight quarters equals a recession. However, the National Bureau
Speaker 1: of Economic Research has not declared a recession. FED chairman
Speaker 1: Powell said that while consumer spending that production are slowing,
Speaker 1: unemployment remains near fifty year loans, that suggests the US
Speaker 1: is not currently in a recession. I do not think
Speaker 1: the US is currently in a recession. Whatever we're in today,
Speaker 1: whether you want to call it a recession or not,
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a natural recession, at least a classic
Speaker 1: recession as we've had in previous periods. It's a recession.
Speaker 1: Possibly sell everything, but by everything, we're are gonna die.
Speaker 1: At some point. America might be in a recession or not.
Speaker 1: Some signs say no, but some signs say yes. As
Speaker 1: we found out today, the gross domestic product has gone
Speaker 1: negative for two quarters in a row, and that's generally
Speaker 1: a sign that you are in a recession. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like when you say I love you to your
Speaker 1: partner and they respond great, that's a sign that your
Speaker 1: relationship is in a recession. And in case you're wondering
Speaker 1: why they call it gross domestic product, it's because most
Speaker 1: of the economy is pretty gross. You see, a big
Speaker 1: chunk of America's GDP comes from Steve Bannon's only Fans account.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't realize this, and and what's
Speaker 1: even more important to know is that the government is
Speaker 1: creating the slowdown in the economy on purpose to try
Speaker 1: and combat inflation, which we all know is out of control.
Speaker 1: I mean, spirit a lines is three eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Now there was worth what com on? People? So the
Speaker 1: GDP has fallen. But on the other hand, the money
Speaker 1: manage your own Powell. He says that some parts of
Speaker 1: the economy are actually doing great, which means maybe we're
Speaker 1: not in a recession. And that's what makes the economy
Speaker 1: so weird. Right now. It's bad, but it's also good.
Speaker 1: You know. Basically the economy is right now is yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you have to watch this show. Oh it's good. No,
Speaker 1: it's terrible. It's terrible. Oh so it's bad, No it
Speaker 1: is so good, so good. All right, that's it for
Speaker 1: the headlines. But before we go to break it, start
Speaker 1: to check out on all the latest social media trends
Speaker 1: without very own runny chearing, everybody crazy, dandy street trying, crazy, crazy,
Speaker 1: day and so up. What's what's happening up? There is
Speaker 1: anything trending? We mean, is anything trending? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Are people are still dumb? Yeah? Yeah, yes, things are trending?
Speaker 1: All right? That's when the problem is. Okay, we can't
Speaker 1: think fa ourselves anymore because you can only talk about
Speaker 1: whatever is trending. You don't running. I'm starting to feel
Speaker 1: like you hate social media. No, no, don't let my
Speaker 1: tone confuse you. I love the ship, I love this.
Speaker 1: Why why would do we want to give every idiot
Speaker 1: in the world a platform for the stupid opinions? All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it. That's fine, let's go. What's turning right now?
Speaker 1: Was hang before? Before this? I just want to say
Speaker 1: quick shout out to the recession. Love you man, love recessions. Recession,
Speaker 1: No recession, the recession. No, no, you cannot be rooting
Speaker 1: for a recession. Come on, running, Yeah I can. If
Speaker 1: it's gonna wipe out these crypto boys right with the
Speaker 1: cartoon monkeys and their doggy coin. You know, they had
Speaker 1: so much money they made up a thing to lose
Speaker 1: money on. Okay, they deserve a recession. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be like, no, it's flood wash everything away. Let's rebuild,
Speaker 1: you know what running before you start recession? Can you
Speaker 1: just tell us what's trending, what's happening, what's trending online?
Speaker 1: What when you don't have the phone? Look, there's only
Speaker 1: one thing trending today. Okay, beyond set, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. When Beyonce trends, everything stops. Okay.
Speaker 1: No one trends harder than Beyonce. It. In fact, if
Speaker 1: your celebrity planning to die, when until tomorrow? Because no
Speaker 1: one's gonna care today, No one's gonna care. And the
Speaker 1: reason Beyonce is trending is because her album leaked. Alright,
Speaker 1: tad bet it linked? Yeah, leaked? Oh what an accidental leak?
Speaker 1: Little leak at the album? There? This is for publicity,
Speaker 1: al right, we all know the game and guess what
Speaker 1: it worked? Okay, So travel man, why don't we do that?
Speaker 1: You know, we should be leaking the show. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be leaking, kill y'all like idiots, just releasing it Monday
Speaker 1: through Thursday like a like like a bunch of boomers.
Speaker 1: All right, we should be leaking the ship. Leak the show,
Speaker 1: Come on, leak it, Yeah, gets the kids talking that
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we go platinum. That Ronnie, we can't go platinum.
Speaker 1: We're a TV show exactly because we don't leak. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's leak leak. Just try leaking once. Okay. And and
Speaker 1: by the way, everyone, everyone who's mad that it leaked, guys,
Speaker 1: this is a victimless crime. Okay. They probably made like
Speaker 1: a billion dollars anyway on this league, because it's not
Speaker 1: about buying albums. No one buys albums anymore, Okay, even
Speaker 1: Jet Blue or rather buy Spirit Airlines than buy an album. Right.
Speaker 1: Beyonce leaked this album on purpose for the hype, which
Speaker 1: is a great move, but no one admit it because
Speaker 1: you can't say anything bad about Beyonce in this country, right,
Speaker 1: because we live in this like fascism. You know. I
Speaker 1: love Lemonade all right, single, all the single, Laateist, all
Speaker 1: the single, I love, I love all that stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: but she's human, all right. You can criticize God in
Speaker 1: this country, but you can't criticize Beyonce. Run runny, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop you there, all right. This this is blasphemy,
Speaker 1: all right. I do not think Beyonce leaked the album
Speaker 1: on purpose. Don't you say that on my show? Oh oh,
Speaker 1: so you don't think she leaked on purpose? So therefore,
Speaker 1: what this is what Beyonce made a mistake. She made
Speaker 1: a mistakes. What you're saying Beyonce's incompetent is what we're saying. No, no,
Speaker 1: it is that what I'm saying. I would never say that.
Speaker 1: I would never say that. I would never say that.
Speaker 1: Even even you, you're you're part of the problem. Right now,
Speaker 1: this this thing right you came and say something bad
Speaker 1: about Beyonce's through all your tweets, okay, and this is
Speaker 1: the meanest thing you've ever said about Beyonce. Where this
Speaker 1: Beyonce come from? It's almost like she came comes to
Speaker 1: visit us from heaven. This is you right here, right yeah,
Speaker 1: this is super edgy speak truth to power. Trevor Nola
Speaker 1: here kissing some But you're like that lady, you're that
Speaker 1: North Korean news lady Glorious Leader has released a new song.
Speaker 1: That's not fair, man, that's Ronnie. That is not true. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not true. And say something bad about Beyonce right now,
Speaker 1: say something baddyonce right now, do it? Do it? Prove
Speaker 1: it yourself. I can do I can do it. Say
Speaker 1: you came and find the words, you came and find
Speaker 1: the world. It's all right. And guess what, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do it. I knew you couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah, put that camera
Speaker 1: on me, camera one, let's go. I'll do it right now. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Beyonce. Beyonce, You're too beautiful for your own good.
Speaker 1: That that's how it's done, right, I said it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said it back you, Trevor, come at me, be
Speaker 1: high wold, great Runny chating everybody. I'll we come back.
Speaker 1: We'll be looking at how the Democrats pulled the fox
Speaker 1: on Mr McConnell. So don't go away. A welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Day show. You. You might remember this. Back
Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was elected, one of his bigest promises
Speaker 1: was the Build Back Better Bill, a plan that promised
Speaker 1: to make everything in America better. That's why the better
Speaker 1: was in the name. Yeah, it was going to rebuild
Speaker 1: the roads, fix the climates, reduce inequality, and it was
Speaker 1: even going to give you another shot with your high
Speaker 1: school crush. Yeah, like this time, I won't eat prunes
Speaker 1: before Assembly. Now, all of that depended on getting every
Speaker 1: Democrats vote in the Senate. But there was always one
Speaker 1: senator who refused to play ball. Joe Mansion, West Virginia Senator,
Speaker 1: a man who definitely has a photo on the fridge
Speaker 1: of him holding a fish. No matter what the Democrats
Speaker 1: offered him, Joe Mansion was blocking all attempts, like an
Speaker 1: appellation with Tombo. No, no, y'all. And so it seemed
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden's agenda, very much like Joe Biden himself,
Speaker 1: was basically dead. But then last night this happened. New tonight,
Speaker 1: Democratic Senators Joe Manson and Chuck Schumer announcing a deal
Speaker 1: on a bill that was But did you almost never
Speaker 1: see this in Washington. You never see Washington surprise like
Speaker 1: it is. This morning, Democratic Senitor Joe Mansion announced he
Speaker 1: has struck a deal with Senate majority of Leader Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1: This is a major piece of legislation that they say
Speaker 1: would pay down the national debt, cut healthcare costs, fight
Speaker 1: climate change, and battle inflation. It is the product of
Speaker 1: secret negotiations over a package that until yesterday appeared to
Speaker 1: be dead. Two weeks after walking away from a climate
Speaker 1: deal West Virginia Democrat Joe Mansion embraced one last night
Speaker 1: with a compromise dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of two.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Joe Mansion agreed to vote for
Speaker 1: a bill which means Democrats might actually get something done.
Speaker 1: And my dreaming, and if so, what a boring dream?
Speaker 1: And also what a week for Joe Biden. Huh? First
Speaker 1: he defeated COVID, then he defeated low expectations. Look at you, Joe.
Speaker 1: But yeah. In a surprise announcement, Joe Mansion released a
Speaker 1: statement saying that he is on board with build Back Better,
Speaker 1: except he's calling it the Inflation Reduction Act. Yeah. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't think anyone cares what it's called,
Speaker 1: as long as it's a good bill. You know, he
Speaker 1: can he can call it the Everyone except Joe Manchon
Speaker 1: has got a small dick act, and I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'll just be like, well, at least my dick is
Speaker 1: going to see a better climates. But I think I
Speaker 1: think this has taught us all an important lesson. Everyone
Speaker 1: was so mad at your Mansion, calling him names, letting
Speaker 1: their anger take over, writing him off as a villain
Speaker 1: and it worked. Nice job, everyone work. Yeah. Now, just
Speaker 1: to be clear, it just to be clear. If this
Speaker 1: bill isn't every thing that Joe Biden wants wanted, but
Speaker 1: it's still a pretty big deal, right. It lowes prescription
Speaker 1: drug prices, It forces big corporations to pay the taxes
Speaker 1: that they owe. But maybe, but maybe the most important
Speaker 1: part of the bill is what it does to fight
Speaker 1: climate change. This would be the largest US climate change
Speaker 1: legislation ever. The centerpiece about three hundred seventy billion dollars
Speaker 1: worth of clean energy tax incentives and grants, including dollar
Speaker 1: tax credits for many Americans who buy electric carbs. It's
Speaker 1: going to try to reduce carbon emissions by by This
Speaker 1: was something that many Senate Democrats simply did not think
Speaker 1: would be included in any sort of legislation they could
Speaker 1: get through. But it's not all green energy. In a
Speaker 1: win for Joe mansion, the bill also opens millions of
Speaker 1: acres of public land for new oil and gas production. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, tons of money to fight climate change, but
Speaker 1: also some fossil fuel stuff too, you know, just to
Speaker 1: keep Mother Nature on her toes. But overall, overall, this
Speaker 1: is a huge investment in alternative forms of energy, wind solar,
Speaker 1: and they're even gonna be researching new forms of energy
Speaker 1: and who knows what it could be. Yeah, in ten years,
Speaker 1: we could be charging our phones with the power of dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, ah, that's right. Yeah, keep going okay, yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got this. I got this a ten percent. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna charge roll out devices. They're just thinking. You know
Speaker 1: what's funny is is that if that does happen, some
Speaker 1: white people are gonna be un charging their phones because
Speaker 1: we're like, what, what's happening? Wait? Why am I? Why
Speaker 1: am I? Why am I losing power? What's going on here?
Speaker 1: What I'm dancing? What's going on? What's what's happening here?
Speaker 1: What's happening? But this is a huge win for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And now obviously obviously please remember this is the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: So there is still plenty of ways for those things
Speaker 1: to fall apart. You know. Yeah, House Democrats could come
Speaker 1: out against it. Kirsten Cinema could come out against it.
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion could come out tomorrow and opposed the bill
Speaker 1: just out of habit. But if it does get through,
Speaker 1: this could be the legislative victory that the Democrats need
Speaker 1: to write into the mid terms and only lose the
Speaker 1: House by two hundred seats. I believe in your Democrats.
Speaker 1: All right, stay tuned, because when we come back, PLAYA
Speaker 1: Morckley will be journey me out of Charlis fall Away,
Speaker 1: olcome back to the Day Show. My guest to mikel Is,
Speaker 1: poet and New York Times bestselling author layl Up Motley.
Speaker 1: She's here to talk about her day Abu novel Nightcrawling.
Speaker 1: Please welcome LATERA Martley, Lata Martley, welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I you cannot thank me when you are,
Speaker 1: by most people's accounts, the biggest rock star in the
Speaker 1: world of books right now. I mean, you're twenty years old.
Speaker 1: But then I read the book and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is not possible. It's one of the most amazing
Speaker 1: books I've ever read. And then I realized that Oprah
Speaker 1: also thinks the same thing, and you were on her
Speaker 1: book club at nineteen, youngest book club for Oprah. Ever, like,
Speaker 1: how are you doing this? New York Times best selling
Speaker 1: offering to book club offered to watch other Let's let's
Speaker 1: start with that before we get into the book. I
Speaker 1: need to understand how did you write a book like
Speaker 1: this because you started at seventeen? Oh yeah, I'm an overachiever. Okay,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. But you really have
Speaker 1: a beautiful command of not just the words, but the
Speaker 1: storytelling in the book. What made you think even begin
Speaker 1: to think that, you know what, I can write this
Speaker 1: book in a way that everyone will connect with. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think really it started with wanting to tell a
Speaker 1: story of teenage black girls and give it the validity
Speaker 1: and respect I think our culture doesn't often give teenage
Speaker 1: black girls. I wanted Kara's internal world to be this rich,
Speaker 1: nuanced place and to have the complexity that I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't expect out of young people.
Speaker 1: You did that a thousand times over. And and just
Speaker 1: to give perspective, spec to give perspective. So those who
Speaker 1: don't know the books, you know the book is about
Speaker 1: the main character, Kiara, and and you write a story
Speaker 1: that is inspired by one of the most harrowing stories
Speaker 1: that America saw and it involved a young girl in
Speaker 1: Oakland who was victimized by the police department. And just
Speaker 1: tell us a bit more about that, and then how
Speaker 1: you you you thought of turning this into a novel
Speaker 1: that could tell a story for everyone. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: always surprised to hear how few people know about this case.
Speaker 1: But in in the Bay Area case broke, where a
Speaker 1: young girl was sexually exploited by many different barrier police officers.
Speaker 1: And I was a young teenager at the time. I'm
Speaker 1: born and raised in Oakland, um And I UM And
Speaker 1: I remember being really struck by the way the media
Speaker 1: talked about this case and the disproportionate focus on how
Speaker 1: this case might impact the relationship between the police department
Speaker 1: and the community, might damage the trust, as though it
Speaker 1: was ever there in the first place. And I think, um,
Speaker 1: I was wondering, what about this girl, you know, what
Speaker 1: about the impact for her and the systemic harm to
Speaker 1: young girls, particularly girls of color. Um And and this
Speaker 1: particular iteration of police violence that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of us don't often talk about, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to sex work. You know, I learned things in this
Speaker 1: book that I don't think I actually knew. I don't
Speaker 1: think I concretely knew. They seem obvious, but I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Um And some some of them are more harrowing than others.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at the history of sex work
Speaker 1: in America, and then you look at the exploitation of
Speaker 1: sex workers and non sex workers like and how often
Speaker 1: black women experience the worst atrocities at the hands of
Speaker 1: law enforcement, which which which is a strange, strange world.
Speaker 1: You know, to find yourself in the book seems like
Speaker 1: it's only going to be painful, and it really is.
Speaker 1: You know, in parts you cry and then and then
Speaker 1: you you go on this journey. But it also seems
Speaker 1: like it's about hope. It seems like it's about resilience.
Speaker 1: Is that something you you you worked to achieve. I
Speaker 1: mean absolutely. I think we dehumanize black characters if we
Speaker 1: don't see them in their entirety, which means we have
Speaker 1: to see them in moments of joy and moments of
Speaker 1: grief and moments of you know, mundane things like making pancakes,
Speaker 1: are taking a nap, Like we have to be able
Speaker 1: to see that in order to see someone as human
Speaker 1: and invest in them and and their world. Really, you
Speaker 1: see that and you feel that you know it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the main care to cure. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to spoilers because I think everyone should just read the book.
Speaker 1: We see her in a position where the world is
Speaker 1: not taking care of her, and yet she's able to
Speaker 1: take care of somebody else. And as we read through
Speaker 1: her journey, what I appreciate it is how you so
Speaker 1: aptly encapsulate the experience of many black women, not just
Speaker 1: in America but around the world, you know, where they
Speaker 1: are expected to be the protectors, the providers, and the nurturers,
Speaker 1: and yet nobody seems to be doing that for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's this long history of black women and Black girls
Speaker 1: being put into the role of caretaker and being um
Speaker 1: kind of asked and forced into taking care of everyone
Speaker 1: around them, which which implicitly makes it so that black
Speaker 1: women can't take care of ourselves. We don't think about
Speaker 1: ourselves first. Um and I really wanted in this book
Speaker 1: to show how black girls are vulnerable and allow us
Speaker 1: our fragility, allow us to be soft, allow us to
Speaker 1: be whole and complete people. It's a beautiful story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's a beautiful story, not just because
Speaker 1: of how you've written, which is truly amazing, and and
Speaker 1: because of the story it tells, but because it makes
Speaker 1: the character human being. It is a bad time and
Speaker 1: a bad thing that is happening to a human who
Speaker 1: has so many more layers to them. You've written this book.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves it, I mean your poets as well. It
Speaker 1: feels like you're at the beginning of life and yet
Speaker 1: you've conquered everything. What do you hope to achieve in
Speaker 1: your storytelling going forward? I mean, I think I always
Speaker 1: want to tell stories of black girlhood and and what
Speaker 1: it means to have our narrative sidelined, and I want
Speaker 1: to put those into our our common idea of what
Speaker 1: this country is and who we are to each other.
Speaker 1: You've already done that. You're gonna do it even more.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. A journey on the show. You're
Speaker 1: actually tears congragulations, my cool, one of the most fascinating.
Speaker 1: Why do you ever take it's available now. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. Ye.
Speaker 1: Well that's out. Start it tonight. Until next time. Stay
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