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Speaker 1: love it. It's trending online. It's a really insightful book.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna figure out why Marjorie Taylor Green and
Speaker 1: half of the GOP can't seem to remember what happened
Speaker 1: on January six. So let's do these people. Let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. All right, Let's begin with the
Speaker 1: latest twist in the will they won't they story that
Speaker 1: everyone is talking about Elon Musk and Twitter. It's the
Speaker 1: hottest and messiest relationship drama this side of Riverdale, and
Speaker 1: it looks like, after weeks of flirtation and fighting, the
Speaker 1: new couple has officially done the deed. Now it is official.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk has bought Twitter for approximately forty four billion.
Speaker 1: He's going to be paying each share of Twitter fifty
Speaker 1: four dollars and twenty cents. In a statement released by
Speaker 1: the company, Mr Musk said free speech is the bedrock
Speaker 1: of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town
Speaker 1: square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
Speaker 1: This is a dramatic turn of events from earlier this month,
Speaker 1: when Twitter was that to decline Musk offer, adopting a
Speaker 1: so called poison pill to block in. That's right, people.
Speaker 1: Twitter said it would never sell to Elon Musk, and
Speaker 1: then he produced the cash and they're like, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll sell. Yes. I guess they found that edit button
Speaker 1: after all. It's actually kind of a historic moment. This
Speaker 1: is the first time anyone at Twitter has changed their
Speaker 1: mind about anything well done. I feel like Twitter was
Speaker 1: always going to sell to Elon though, right, They just
Speaker 1: couldn't be too eager about it. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: a like a husband and a wife where it's like, Ah,
Speaker 1: I am not going to that wedding, forget it, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. And then three months later it's like,
Speaker 1: how does my boat? I look? How does it? It
Speaker 1: looks good? Do you think it does? I honestly don't
Speaker 1: know why Elon would want to own Twitter all right?
Speaker 1: It just doesn't seem like a fun place to supervise
Speaker 1: right now. You know, it's like buying Jurassic Park after
Speaker 1: the power went down and the cages are opened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna spend a lot of time replacing jeep windshields.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But the truth is, look, in
Speaker 1: many ways, this is a really smart move by Elon
Speaker 1: Musk because wealthy men know the value in owning publishing platforms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's why Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post's why Rupert
Speaker 1: Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal. It's why Confucius owns
Speaker 1: those fortune cookies. Yeah, because you see, then he knows
Speaker 1: that none of us will play his lucky numbers in
Speaker 1: the latto and as genius. So you see, by buying Twitter,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk gets to own one of the most culturally
Speaker 1: influential publishing platforms in the world. I mean to remember this,
Speaker 1: think about it. Twitter is how the Arab Spring took off. Right.
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter blew up on Twitter, the Me too
Speaker 1: movement started on Twitter. Trump used Twitter to turn himself
Speaker 1: from a reality show joke into the forty five president
Speaker 1: of the United States and a joke. So own Twitter
Speaker 1: gives you more power than the drug store employee with
Speaker 1: the key to the deodorant shelf. Yeah, yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to smell fresh, you best not pisto off Curtis. Don't
Speaker 1: play around, shut you down, walk around smelling musty. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Look, whether you are for Elon Musk
Speaker 1: or against him, you've got to admit it is pretty
Speaker 1: crazy that one man is now in control of all
Speaker 1: of that. Because before this, Jack Dorsey didn't own Twitter.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think he didn't know he had
Speaker 1: two percent of the shares and even a CEO. He
Speaker 1: stilled to answers to the board, and the board still
Speaker 1: led to answers to the shareholders, and Twitter itself still
Speaker 1: had to answer to the SEC. But now as a
Speaker 1: private company, it's just Elon Musk. Yeah, everything that happens
Speaker 1: on Twitter from now on is up to him. And
Speaker 1: also whatever strain his weak guy gives him that day.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if he gets the wrong fetiva, there
Speaker 1: could be a race war. People prepare yourselves like, this
Speaker 1: is the thing, whether it's a billionaire you like or
Speaker 1: a billionaire you hate. As a society, I think we
Speaker 1: should spend more time interrogating how easy it is for
Speaker 1: billionaires to shape our world in their favor. Just think
Speaker 1: about it. You like it now, you don't like it now?
Speaker 1: But should they be able to do it? Oh? No?
Speaker 1: But let's move on from Twitter to a real battlefield,
Speaker 1: the invasion of Ukraine. Since before the invasion began, the
Speaker 1: United States has tried to put pressure on Russia using
Speaker 1: economic sanctions, which is basically taking away your allowance but
Speaker 1: for countries, and the US government has cost a wide net.
Speaker 1: It's gone off to Russian officials, oligos, companies, banks, and
Speaker 1: of course Vladimir Putin himself. But it turns out there's
Speaker 1: one high profile Russian who has somehow avoided becoming a target.
Speaker 1: A new report explains why the US has so far
Speaker 1: refused to sanction Vladimir Putin's girlfriend and the mother allegedly
Speaker 1: of his three or three of his children. The U
Speaker 1: s government has considered but then pulled back on sanctioning
Speaker 1: and a woman long rumoved to be Putin's girlfriend, the
Speaker 1: Russian gymnast Alena Kabeva. This is something that I was
Speaker 1: deemed so sensitive that they decided to hold off because
Speaker 1: they believed that Putin's response could be so irrational, so angry,
Speaker 1: um that there would be some sort of backlash. Wow,
Speaker 1: this is interesting. No, the US government has sanctioned everyone
Speaker 1: except Putin's girlfriend. I guess they watched the oscars and
Speaker 1: they were like, maybe we should stay away from spouses
Speaker 1: we just declared safe and and before we get into
Speaker 1: the sanctions or not sanctions, am I the only person
Speaker 1: who shocked that Vladimia Putin has a girlfriend? Am I
Speaker 1: the only one? Like? If there's any man out there
Speaker 1: who has some red flags, girl, let me tell you
Speaker 1: about Glad. Yeah. I know some people like a bad boy,
Speaker 1: but this is next level, like this bad and then
Speaker 1: this genocide. Okay. Also, Putin must be relieved that the
Speaker 1: US is not sanctioning his girlfriend, because, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: sanctions take a relationship to a whole new level. You
Speaker 1: know that puts a lot of pressure on the relationship.
Speaker 1: Can I always tell my friends sanctions in a relationship? Wolf?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a lot of pressure. Yeah yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Putin was relieved. You know, he can't have America
Speaker 1: being more serious about his relationship than he is. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine how Pisties girlfriend bees is just like lead
Speaker 1: the How come America treat me like your wife? But
Speaker 1: you still will not let me keep too hto And finally,
Speaker 1: let's move on to some entertainment news. You probably know
Speaker 1: Netflix as the service with great shows that get canceled
Speaker 1: just when you become a fan, and also the home
Speaker 1: of the saddest episodes of Arrested Development ever. But right now,
Speaker 1: some of Netflix's biggest hits are actually imports from other countries,
Speaker 1: and one of the hottest series on Netflix right now
Speaker 1: is a reality show that is beloved in Japan, but
Speaker 1: has Americans a lot more divided. Japanese game shows have
Speaker 1: never been known for their subtlety, but one new offering
Speaker 1: on Netflix has jaws dropping. Old Enough is an unscripted
Speaker 1: series and parents sending their two to five year old
Speaker 1: children run errands, from grocery shopping to dropping off dry
Speaker 1: cleaning or squeezing fresh juice. Netflix calling Old Enough the
Speaker 1: most wholesome show you've ever seen, but the Internet isn't convinced. Um,
Speaker 1: how is abandoning a tiny child to cross a busy
Speaker 1: road wholesome? It gave me anxiety. Sure it was cute,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that's great parenting. And while the
Speaker 1: concept might seem bizarre to Western audiences, the show has
Speaker 1: been running for thirty seasons in Japan. Japan is very
Speaker 1: different than the US. Neighborhoods are more pedestrian friendly, and
Speaker 1: the culture is more trusting of kids. In Japan, parents
Speaker 1: chaperone their ten and eleven year olds on just fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of trips compared with six here. Some parenting experts
Speaker 1: think American audiences can learn from the show. It's a
Speaker 1: little nerve racking to let your kids go, but when
Speaker 1: you do, they will just impress you. Oh they'll disappoint you.
Speaker 1: That should always be an awe. But yeah. One of
Speaker 1: Netflix's most popular shows, and easily one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: is Old Enough, which is all about kids doing things
Speaker 1: for themselves, and let's be honest, I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: best kind of kid. You know, it's like having a
Speaker 1: self cleaning up and but it's a child. And I agree,
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree that kids should have more freedom than
Speaker 1: they do. This American obsession with protecting kids can actually
Speaker 1: mess with their heads. Like think about parents in America
Speaker 1: will leash their kids, but then let their dogs run
Speaker 1: around free. Your kids should never look at your pets
Speaker 1: and be like that lucky bash there. I don't care
Speaker 1: what anyone says. Man, American parents are overbearing. You won't
Speaker 1: let your kids walk down the street by themselves, but
Speaker 1: then inside the house they just hand them an iPad
Speaker 1: and ignore them. The old day huh, just be like, mommy,
Speaker 1: will you read to me? No? No, no, no. Not
Speaker 1: Now I'm tweeting about how bad these Japanese parents are.
Speaker 1: Go on here, take the iPad, going to YouTube and
Speaker 1: learn about who rarely did ninety eleven? Go on, go on.
Speaker 1: I don't get the anxiety people feel watching the show. Yes,
Speaker 1: these kids are running errands, Yes, but guys, there's a
Speaker 1: whole camera crew nearby by themselves. Well, there's a camera crew.
Speaker 1: If something was about to happen that was bad, that
Speaker 1: step in you know, It's not like a nature documentary
Speaker 1: with after stand by and let the tiger kill the gazelle.
Speaker 1: And now the window listens on approaches, end up SCons
Speaker 1: with Little Mikey. How's the sun sets on Main Street?
Speaker 1: The circle of life is complete? All right? That's it
Speaker 1: for the headlines. Before we go to a break, that's
Speaker 1: checking on the stock market with our very own finance
Speaker 1: expert Michael. Cost to everybody is things are looking crazy. Michael,
Speaker 1: what is happening with the market today? Well, I am
Speaker 1: absolutely crushing the market, okay, and I'm saying and I
Speaker 1: got a hot tip for you, and I got a
Speaker 1: hot tip for you, So let's get into it. Actually
Speaker 1: actually before I do that. The Japanese game show, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's unreal, right, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know American adult children who can't execute those tasks, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I mean? But but parents, you've
Speaker 1: gotta be careful sending your kids out to do errands.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: my dad asked my twenty five year old sister to
Speaker 1: go get the family orange juice. She drove to Mexico
Speaker 1: and joined the cult. You know what I mean? What
Speaker 1: reminds me, Christie, if you're watching this, uh, we still
Speaker 1: need orange juice back at the house. So look, I'm okay, Trevor,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so thankful this show takes place in Japan.
Speaker 1: You know, imagine a place like South Africa where the
Speaker 1: kids would have to watch out for all the giraffe
Speaker 1: in the streets or no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no cost cost No, we have giroffes, but we don't
Speaker 1: have them in the streets because you don't have streets. Dude,
Speaker 1: don't be ashamed. You're doing good. You're doing good. You're
Speaker 1: doing good. Look, maybe the reason I'm not impressed with
Speaker 1: these Japanese kids is that as a kid myself, I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of a lone time. So look, look,
Speaker 1: my dad used to take me camping, and and as
Speaker 1: I was setting up the camp site, he would he
Speaker 1: would drive off and he'd say, I'll be back in
Speaker 1: a few minutes. And you know, it would be a
Speaker 1: couple of days usually, And sometimes i'd be up there
Speaker 1: on the mountain and it would start to get cold,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have a lot of drinking water, so
Speaker 1: I would I would warm the snow with my hands
Speaker 1: and then eventually I would I would pack up the stuff,
Speaker 1: and I would start the long trek home, you know,
Speaker 1: through the winding, unforgiving mountains, and eventually I would bust
Speaker 1: through the door of home, and my mom she'd be
Speaker 1: so happy to see me. She'd be crying and she'd
Speaker 1: be embracing me. And my dad he'd be so surprised,
Speaker 1: he'd be screaming. You know. Anyways, I love camping. And
Speaker 1: then and then the next time he would take me,
Speaker 1: we would drive even further away from the house. But
Speaker 1: but but I remember, as I would, as I would
Speaker 1: trek through the mountains and hunt antelope with my bare hands,
Speaker 1: that the one thought that would get me through all this,
Speaker 1: Trevor was was my mom's warm embrace and her sweet smile.
Speaker 1: I think, So you wanna get to the markets real quick?
Speaker 1: Or the markets are bad? The markets are bad? Okay,
Speaker 1: red is bad, Red is bad, Red is bad? All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: these lines you got to ignore these unfortunately. Uh, my apologies.
Speaker 1: I uploaded all my computer data into my financial app.
Speaker 1: These are really just personal stuff that measures on my computer.
Speaker 1: This this is my salary once I passed it through inflation. Uh.
Speaker 1: The green line or all my Twitter followers. Once I
Speaker 1: talk about race relations in the United States, the green
Speaker 1: or my effectiveness of erections as I grow older, It's
Speaker 1: it's an odd thing to measure. But I did agree
Speaker 1: to Apple's terms and conditions. So look, look, here's my
Speaker 1: hot tip. Here's my hot tip. Bonds. Okay, as this
Speaker 1: is showing red, invest in bonds. Michael costa financial expert,
Speaker 1: believes in bonds, especially the bond between a mother and
Speaker 1: her son, because as I'm gnawing on a coyote carcass,
Speaker 1: it's the only vision that gets me home safe. And
Speaker 1: also when I lose my money in the stock market,
Speaker 1: it's that bond I can rely on for a couple
Speaker 1: of extra bucks. So I uh, I think you were abandoned, Michael,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that. All right, when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll figure out why nobody can remember what
Speaker 1: happened on January six. You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: You have been as therapy, I mean, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. A little over a year ago, thousands
Speaker 1: of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building in an attempt
Speaker 1: to stop the election from being certified, and they wanted
Speaker 1: to declare Donald Trump super president forever, no backseas. Now,
Speaker 1: what we're surprising is that by and large the Republican
Speaker 1: Party has decided not to hold any of that against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And I mean, let's be honest, how can
Speaker 1: you still made a dispace? Ya ya yahya. But the
Speaker 1: Capital riot it wasn't even the scariest thing that happened
Speaker 1: on January six, because you see, my friends, we're now
Speaker 1: finding out that something else happened that day. Countless Republicans
Speaker 1: seem to have had their memories erased. I know it
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but but okay, look at what happened to
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House Republicans and guy
Speaker 1: who has definitely called rap music the hippote hop. He's
Speaker 1: one of Trump's firmer supporters. Never waived in public even
Speaker 1: after January six. So when The New York Times reported
Speaker 1: that McCarthy had privately told colleagues that he thought Trump
Speaker 1: should resign, he denied it fiercely. He had no memory
Speaker 1: of seeing anything like that. And then the tapes dropped.
Speaker 1: I've had it with this guy. What he did it unacceptable. Um,
Speaker 1: nobody can defend that, and nobody think defended I mean,
Speaker 1: you only discusting me. I would have with him is
Speaker 1: that it would be my recommendation you should be It
Speaker 1: is my recommendation that he should resign. But yet McCarthy's
Speaker 1: memory of that call was completely wiped. Yeah, on January tenth,
Speaker 1: he was all, I've had it with this guy, and
Speaker 1: then two weeks later he was chilling at Mara Lago. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: quit Trump the way most of us quit Twitter. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm deleting this app. Actually I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: delete it, but I won't check it again until right now.
Speaker 1: Twe tweet tree, did you miss me? And by the way,
Speaker 1: a lot of people were wondering if getting caught on
Speaker 1: tape slamming then Trump would be the end of Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy's political career. I mean, this is Trump's party. You know.
Speaker 1: If Trump comes out against him, that's it. It's over all.
Speaker 1: It takes is one crying Kevin betrayed me, and it's done.
Speaker 1: But instead Trump came out and said he and McCarthy
Speaker 1: are fine. In fact, he said, I think it's all
Speaker 1: a big compliment. Frankly, they realized they were run and
Speaker 1: supported me. Yeah, you see, Trump loves this stuff. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you used to be against him, and now you're not.
Speaker 1: He likes those people more than someone who loved him
Speaker 1: the whole time, because it shows that he made you
Speaker 1: bend the knee. Yeah, the dude loves converting people more
Speaker 1: than scientologists and vegans combined. Let me tell you something now,
Speaker 1: if Hillary Clinton herself came out right now as pro Trump,
Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: right now, she would be his new favorite person. He'd
Speaker 1: be like, do we love crooked Hillary? Folks, do we
Speaker 1: love her? Let her out? Let her out Let her
Speaker 1: so good, so good? I love her. I love her.
Speaker 1: She was so cheeky, used to be cheeky. So yeah.
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy completely forgot what he said on and around
Speaker 1: January six. But it's not just him. Take Rick Perry,
Speaker 1: Trump's Energy secretary. A few months ago, CNN reported that
Speaker 1: Perry was the author of a text message laying out
Speaker 1: a plan for overturning the election, and Perry said, absolutely not,
Speaker 1: it never happened. But then today CNN got hold of
Speaker 1: the complete message and it's actually signed Rick Perry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's worse the fact that he was
Speaker 1: part of an insurrection or the fact that he signed
Speaker 1: his text message. That's such an old person thing to do.
Speaker 1: It's worse than when my grandfather bought a bigger TV
Speaker 1: because he thought it would fit more channels in it.
Speaker 1: So look, obviously something happened to Rick's memory too. But
Speaker 1: as worried as I am for those guys people, I
Speaker 1: am really concerned about Marjorie Taylor Green, congresswoman from Georgia
Speaker 1: and soccer mom, who's definitely slatched the other team's bus hires.
Speaker 1: You see, a few of mtgs constituents have filed a
Speaker 1: lawsuit to disqualify her from Congress based on her role
Speaker 1: in January six. Yeah, apparently there's something in the constitution
Speaker 1: that says you count run for office if you do
Speaker 1: an insurrection against the government. You know how people are
Speaker 1: crazy ideas back then and now, look, we all know
Speaker 1: it's probably not gonna work. But Marjorie Taylor Green was
Speaker 1: still forced to testify out of hearing on Friday, and
Speaker 1: it looks like nobody has been hit harder by January
Speaker 1: six amnesia than her. You didn't talk to anybody in
Speaker 1: government about the fact that they were going to be
Speaker 1: large protests in Washington on January six. I don't remember
Speaker 1: he spoke to Representative Biggs or his staff about that fact,
Speaker 1: didn't you? I did not remember. How about Representative Sorry? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't remember. Did anyone ever mention to you the
Speaker 1: possibility that there might be violence in Washington? I don't remember. Ms. Green.
Speaker 1: This is a tweet that you sent out on January
Speaker 1: two in two correct? I'm not sure? Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: recall this. I don't recall tweeting that. Now, did you
Speaker 1: advocate the President Trump to impose martial law as a
Speaker 1: way to remain in power? Don't? You don't recall if
Speaker 1: you wanted to impose martial law? You don't. Wow. I
Speaker 1: wish I had Margery Taylor Green's memory. Yeah. I once said,
Speaker 1: enjoy your dinner to a waiter in two thousand three,
Speaker 1: and I still think about it every day every day.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your dinner. You enjoy your dinner. Kill me. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: she can't even remember if she told the president to
Speaker 1: impose martial law. Yo, yo, let me tell you something
Speaker 1: that should be an easy one for most people. If
Speaker 1: you ever asked the president to impose martial law, you
Speaker 1: would never forget something that specific, like if anyone can't
Speaker 1: say no to doing something that specific and weird. You
Speaker 1: definitely did that ship. Um, I have I ever tried
Speaker 1: to steal a horse and ride it inside a bouncy castle? Um,
Speaker 1: your honor, I do not recall, um, but you gotta
Speaker 1: admit that sounds like something a pretty cool guy would do, right, right,
Speaker 1: members of the jury, Right, yeah, but if it's not cool,
Speaker 1: then I do not recall. Yeah, I don't remember. So.
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green spent the entire hearing denying that she
Speaker 1: had any memory of anything to do with January six.
Speaker 1: But it turns out, my friends, that may be acute
Speaker 1: to the semnesia, because one thing that can bring it back,
Speaker 1: even if just for a little bit, is evidence. And
Speaker 1: in another moment, Taylor Green first denied that she had
Speaker 1: called how Speaker Nancy Pelosi a traitor to her country,
Speaker 1: before kind of hedging a little bit when faced with
Speaker 1: actual evidence of saying it. In fact, you think that
Speaker 1: Speaker Pelosi is a traitor to the country, right, You're
Speaker 1: I'm not answering that question of speculation. You've said that
Speaker 1: having human screen, that she's a trader to the country. No,
Speaker 1: I hadn't said that okay, put up parents Exhibit five please.
Speaker 1: Oh no wait hold on now oh no no wait
Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait no no, no, no no, Now
Speaker 1: that you busted me, I remember the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember it now. I love that move. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: that's when you tell your mom, yeah, I did my
Speaker 1: homework and she's like, oh yeah, yeah, well let me
Speaker 1: show it to me and you're like, oh, homework, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant my work at home. I'll do
Speaker 1: that now, Thank you mom for reminding me. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for that. Look, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: clearly this person is unqualified for Congress because politicians are
Speaker 1: supposed to be good at line. Okay, this was just embarrassing. Okay,
Speaker 1: in my defense, I didn't know you had evidence. I
Speaker 1: mean I never have evidence for the stuff I said.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know there was a thing you could do.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, people, this stuff only happened a little
Speaker 1: over a year ago. It's not like they're being asked
Speaker 1: to remember their prom dates. Eye color. These are trick questions,
Speaker 1: but nobody in the Republican Party can seem to remember
Speaker 1: planning the insurrection or talking about it or even how
Speaker 1: they felt about it at the time. Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie
Speaker 1: Taylor Green, Jim Jordan's. The list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the events surrounding that day, it's
Speaker 1: almost like it's been erased from their memories, which is
Speaker 1: obviously ridiculous. Unless on the next season of Severance, did
Speaker 1: you talk to the White House about trying to overturn
Speaker 1: the election? I did not remember. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: forget work, or to say McCarthy simpably doesn't remember what
Speaker 1: he said about Mr Trump's culpability call you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan's can't seem to remember when he talked to
Speaker 1: Trump on January six. I don't know if I spoke
Speaker 1: with him in the morning or not. I just don't
Speaker 1: know when those conversations happened. But what if an entire
Speaker 1: political party couldn't remember January six? Did you talk with
Speaker 1: other congressmen about overturning the election? I have no idea.
Speaker 1: That's a perfect score. Sometimes it's just easier to forget. Hello,
Speaker 1: coming to Apple TV Plus this fall and still like
Speaker 1: you john it again? All right? When we come back.
Speaker 1: D j Envy and his wife Gia are gonna tell
Speaker 1: you how to save your marriage. They don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guests tonight's are
Speaker 1: DJ and radio host Rashawn Envy and his wife Gia
Speaker 1: Casey that you have to talk about their new book
Speaker 1: about their twenty seven year relationship called Real Life, Real Love.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Gia and d J N Dan. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Day Show. Thanking your book has caused quite a storm.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have noticed. You know, they're an many
Speaker 1: books about marriages and relationships that get everyone online talking,
Speaker 1: which I actually think is a good thing. But I
Speaker 1: want to start with the why. You know, some people
Speaker 1: write books about how they did what they did in
Speaker 1: the relationship. It's always one person in the couple. You
Speaker 1: wrote a book together. It's really intimate. It is also
Speaker 1: really vulnerable. Tell me why. Well, for us, like you said,
Speaker 1: we've been together for twenty seven years, married almost twenty
Speaker 1: one years, and people constantly come up to us, friends, family,
Speaker 1: sometimes even people on the street asking us how is
Speaker 1: it that we kept it together? And I don't really
Speaker 1: like that question because kept it together kind of gives
Speaker 1: the impression that you did it somewhat under duress. I
Speaker 1: think the better question is seven years later, why do
Speaker 1: we still want to be together? I like that because
Speaker 1: marriage is a choice, but a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: look at it as a choice. It's like after the
Speaker 1: honeymoon stage is over, after the big beautiful wedding, typically
Speaker 1: around seven years down the line, it's as though if
Speaker 1: people feel as though they're trapped there or being held
Speaker 1: in advice, and I start wandering, but why is it
Speaker 1: that now we still want to be there? So we
Speaker 1: wanted to let people know. It really gets into the
Speaker 1: nitty gritty of relationships in a way that like, you know,
Speaker 1: like you you're DJ Envy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I was surprised by the vulnerability you put in
Speaker 1: this book because you can talk about in the book.
Speaker 1: There's no denying that hip hop for a long time
Speaker 1: has has operated in a shroud of bravado. Correct. You know,
Speaker 1: so hip hop has all been about I don't even
Speaker 1: talk about my wife. You don't know if I have
Speaker 1: my wife. I'm about the streets. You know that these
Speaker 1: ladies in the streets, it's it's a it's a feeling,
Speaker 1: an idea. And you've come out of DJ Envy and
Speaker 1: you're going no hear the mistakes I made. Here's how
Speaker 1: I was insecure as a man, Here's how I could
Speaker 1: have been a better husband. Was there not a part
Speaker 1: of you that was worried that the DJ envy would
Speaker 1: now basically be, you know, losing himself to to tell
Speaker 1: the truth. I think these are the conversations we need
Speaker 1: to have, if you think about it. We can go
Speaker 1: to the ballber shop and we talk about our favorite
Speaker 1: NBA player, we can talk about our favorite sneak is,
Speaker 1: our favorite music. But sometimes things that are important we
Speaker 1: need to discuss as well, and that is relationships. I
Speaker 1: wish I had somebody at the ball and shop and say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: my wife is men are arguing about this. Am I right?
Speaker 1: Is she right? What do I do? You know? How
Speaker 1: do we solve this conversation? How do we get into
Speaker 1: a situation where we're not right fighting meaning we're just
Speaker 1: fighting to win, but we actually want to, you know,
Speaker 1: get to the same place and have a better you know,
Speaker 1: description of whatever we're arguing about, because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we're on the same team. If we're arguing,
Speaker 1: we should be arguing to I should be trying to
Speaker 1: annihilate her. She should be trying to destroy me an argument,
Speaker 1: We should be trying to get to an understanding where
Speaker 1: we could both understand. It seems impossible though that, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, the book starts off and honestly one of
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable places, which I which I commend you
Speaker 1: for because I think a lot of people live in
Speaker 1: a silo where they think their relationship is terrible and
Speaker 1: everyone's living great relationship because they're on Instagram, right, And
Speaker 1: then you read the book and then you go like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, relationships are tough. People are struggles. You talk
Speaker 1: about infidelity, you know, you talk about in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the book you were a shitty man to her.
Speaker 1: You talk about this in the book. No, no, it's
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying you guys. You talk about
Speaker 1: being controlling, you talk about being like you know, you
Speaker 1: have this, You're like, yeah, you can't go that. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go with me here and you're gonna be in
Speaker 1: the booth when I'm tj you you talk about this.
Speaker 1: That's a vulnerable place to put yourself in, and it's
Speaker 1: an honest place like that is an interesting thing to
Speaker 1: do as a person. I want to know why you
Speaker 1: thought you need to include that. You didn't keep it vague.
Speaker 1: You're like here specifically how I was shipping. Well, I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about what I did to be so
Speaker 1: shitty relationships. I was a good husband too at one
Speaker 1: point now, but but you know, also, I have a
Speaker 1: twenty year old, you know, and she goes to n
Speaker 1: y U and I wanted to teach her and show
Speaker 1: her what she should be looking at right because I
Speaker 1: tell him, she finds a guy like how I was
Speaker 1: run wanted It's not that funny, but I want to tell.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to also discuss, you know, the change
Speaker 1: in the evolution and what made me think about it
Speaker 1: and why I was insecure. I was insecure because I
Speaker 1: thought she would find somebody smarter, somebody more u handsome
Speaker 1: than me, which would be difficult, but more handsome than me. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I was really, really at a place where I
Speaker 1: was like, I can't let her go. If she leaves,
Speaker 1: she's gonna find somebody else. And it was my own
Speaker 1: insecurities that almost ruin this relationship, ruining the best thing
Speaker 1: I've ever had, ruined a relationship with my best friend.
Speaker 1: We have six kids, and I almost lost all of
Speaker 1: that because I was insecure. Wow, it's beautiful, man, thank
Speaker 1: you for share for real. That's beautiful. Thank you. That's
Speaker 1: really nice, because he said when we talk about that,
Speaker 1: gravato taken away from hip hop because people have been
Speaker 1: sold the idea of perfect relationships. Everyone who thinks they're
Speaker 1: not in a perfect relationship things that they're failing, when
Speaker 1: in fact, people who are honest go like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is hard, it is hard to do. You talk about infidelity,
Speaker 1: You talk about the things that you were going through gear.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest things women will talk about is
Speaker 1: the embarrassment and shame that comes with being cheated on.
Speaker 1: They go like, my self worth has almost been publicly decimated.
Speaker 1: In the book, you share how you found out from
Speaker 1: a gossip blog that he was having an affair. Now,
Speaker 1: people lie on everything, but that one was true. When
Speaker 1: you're sharing that, when women are reading that, many women
Speaker 1: would say the same. They go to gift man cheats
Speaker 1: on me, I'm gone, I'm out, And yet you talk
Speaker 1: about all of your wives and your house. What did
Speaker 1: you learn in that moment and what do you think
Speaker 1: people can learn about infidelity in a marriage. Okay, first
Speaker 1: of all, Rashaan didn't cheat on me. He cheated on himself.
Speaker 1: And a lot of women don't look at the situation
Speaker 1: that way when they're cheated on, and some men and
Speaker 1: some men, But it takes a tremendous amount of integrity
Speaker 1: and self worth to be able to hold yourself to
Speaker 1: a certain standard when you're in a relationship in and
Speaker 1: of itself. Furthermore, when you're in the public eye. Extend
Speaker 1: that a little bit more when you're an artist, a DJ,
Speaker 1: and athlete or someone in that profession, because like you
Speaker 1: stated earlier, it's almost expected that you're living this single
Speaker 1: life where you're popping bottles and in the clubs and
Speaker 1: have women around you constantly. But for me, it was
Speaker 1: very important to write the book because I want women
Speaker 1: to understand that men cheat and it doesn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to be because of you. It's because of them. So
Speaker 1: I don't I didn't feel embarrassment. People ask me, how
Speaker 1: is it so easy for you to talk about He's
Speaker 1: his own individual, he made a choice. I didn't cheat.
Speaker 1: There's no embarrassment for me. There's no humiliation for me.
Speaker 1: I own me, and I have to decide how I'm
Speaker 1: going to move forward. With my head health high. It's
Speaker 1: very important for women to understand that when when you
Speaker 1: when you talk about it in the book. What what
Speaker 1: I love about this book is it's not a how
Speaker 1: to book. I will say that it's a It's a
Speaker 1: book that seems like a conversation you are having with
Speaker 1: anyone who's reading the book. It seems like we've met
Speaker 1: you as a couple. We get to know you as
Speaker 1: a reader. We see you talk to each other, you
Speaker 1: talk to us as individuals. Some of your friends on
Speaker 1: the book as well, getting their perspectives from the outside
Speaker 1: and from the inside. And and one thing that was
Speaker 1: really intriguing to me, Gia, is when you talked about
Speaker 1: honesty through a different lens. Many people think the only
Speaker 1: betrayal that can happen in a relationship is one where
Speaker 1: somebody cheats. That's betrayal. That's the only betrayal. You dropped
Speaker 1: one of the biggest bombshells in the book and in
Speaker 1: your relationship when you told your husband you had been
Speaker 1: faking orgasms for basically a decade. Yeah, that's that's but
Speaker 1: you you admit that you like this is also a betrayal.
Speaker 1: This is a dishonesty. Absolutely, like, so walk me through
Speaker 1: that as a couple, because because we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: online aspect later, I want to get I want to
Speaker 1: get through that because I really enjoyed you talking about
Speaker 1: it with each other. Here you are, as as a
Speaker 1: wife going, I lied about this. Here you as a
Speaker 1: husband going, my whole world is a lie. Correct. Yes.
Speaker 1: So we've been together since I was fifteen and he
Speaker 1: was sixteen, and I lost my virginity, virginity to him
Speaker 1: on my when when I was sixteen, on our one
Speaker 1: year anniversary. So I was sixteen, he was seventeen. I
Speaker 1: was a virgin and he was virgin ish, relatively virgins.
Speaker 1: He had tried with somebody else that didn't really you know,
Speaker 1: cross the Finnish line. So virgin is so. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: we were both very inexperienced. But even during those times,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed our intimacy. I enjoyed sex, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know myself what an orgasm was. I came to figure
Speaker 1: it out. But when you don't understand yourself, how do
Speaker 1: you communicate your needs to someone else? And the way
Speaker 1: that most young women are raised in this country, more
Speaker 1: than likely around the world, it's as though we're subconsciously
Speaker 1: taught that women are playthings for men. When you look
Speaker 1: at billboard, magazines, ads, television, music videos, anything, you see
Speaker 1: beautiful women, sexy women, sometimes scantily clad, and you believe
Speaker 1: that we're here for the pleasure of men. So I
Speaker 1: prioritized my husband or my boyfriend before he became my
Speaker 1: husband when it came to the bedroom, and my needs
Speaker 1: came second. And I never communicated that with him. I
Speaker 1: thought through love. I thought I was catering to his
Speaker 1: ego and catering to the outcome that obviously any person
Speaker 1: wants in that type of situation. And then when I
Speaker 1: finally told him it was years of frustration. We were
Speaker 1: in an argument and I weaponized it. Did she I
Speaker 1: thought I was man dingo, big daddy, long leg, and
Speaker 1: then she sits in, I'm not gonna lie. I would
Speaker 1: watch porn when I was a teen, and porn you
Speaker 1: just yes, and that's what I think. To get it,
Speaker 1: and they're in that argument, she was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't had an orgasm. I'm like, oh really, all right,
Speaker 1: well how a long last week? She's like, no, ten
Speaker 1: years and it looked just like that. That's painful, very yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And it wasn't that far stretched for me at the
Speaker 1: time to weaponize something like that because our relationship at
Speaker 1: the time, we didn't behave as though we were on
Speaker 1: the same team. If we argued, it was to win.
Speaker 1: In the book, we referred to it as right fighting.
Speaker 1: We didn't care about understanding each other, gaining common ground,
Speaker 1: fixing the problem. We just wanted to win so that
Speaker 1: we can kind of shrug our shoulder at the other
Speaker 1: person at the end and maybe tell our friends or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was with that um that feeling where you just
Speaker 1: wanted to demean essentially the person that you're with and
Speaker 1: you want to hurt them as like they say, hurt people,
Speaker 1: hurt people. So that's where I was coming from at
Speaker 1: the time in in the sharing of this, and I
Speaker 1: want people to read the books. I won't give all
Speaker 1: of it away because you break it down, you talk
Speaker 1: about the ramifications, you talk about how it made you feel,
Speaker 1: and I love that you also say you don't blame her.
Speaker 1: You don't go like I cheated because she did. You
Speaker 1: go like, no, I now felt insecure. I went it
Speaker 1: really is honest. One of the things I noticed online
Speaker 1: as as happens is this has become like a It's
Speaker 1: almost a meme now, you know, people like oh DJ
Speaker 1: and never let my wife go out and talk like that.
Speaker 1: Everyone has this provado, everyone has this privado. My wife
Speaker 1: would never talk about I do my thing, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, but but but you had to
Speaker 1: have known, especially coming from hip hop, you had to
Speaker 1: have known that people would respond in that way. I
Speaker 1: would love to know why you decided that the public
Speaker 1: ridicule was not enough of a factor to consider, you know,
Speaker 1: versus you sharing a truth that many couples would love
Speaker 1: to deny publicly. For myself, it was like this, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you've been through it. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: been canceled before, You've been laughed at in jokes, and
Speaker 1: nothing bothers me. The only thing that bothers me is
Speaker 1: my family and my kids. Outside of that, I feel
Speaker 1: like we have a big omission and the conversations that
Speaker 1: we started with that are through the roof. If I
Speaker 1: showed you my d ms and my wife's DMS of
Speaker 1: how many wives hit me or hit my wife and
Speaker 1: says I'm going through that same problem, thank you. Now
Speaker 1: I can have the conversation with my husband now I
Speaker 1: can have the conversation with my boyfriend because I wasn't
Speaker 1: getting to that level. He didn't know how to please me.
Speaker 1: And now it's a conversation and that's all we want. Now.
Speaker 1: That was when we were sixteen and fifteen and we
Speaker 1: figured it out. We figured out how to be intimate.
Speaker 1: What makes us this, what makes me that, and our
Speaker 1: relationship is on a whole another level, so nobody can
Speaker 1: really bother me or make me feel anyway. I have
Speaker 1: my wife and my kids. Nobody else feels, but I
Speaker 1: make her all gas. And now I just want to
Speaker 1: put that out there now multiple times I'm not there.
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this before before I
Speaker 1: let you go, because I could chat you forever about this, honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: before you go, I would love to know two things. One,
Speaker 1: you had to start a new relationship, you know which
Speaker 1: which is something you get into in the book, is
Speaker 1: there was the old relationship and there's definitely a new relationship.
Speaker 1: People are in relationships all over the world. We always
Speaker 1: find ourselves in relationships that may be bad. And then
Speaker 1: now the internet is everything is toxic, but you may
Speaker 1: not know when it's toxic or when it's bad. When
Speaker 1: it can be repaired, or when it cannot be repaired.
Speaker 1: Gear from your side as a woman, what advice would
Speaker 1: you give to a woman to try and decipher between
Speaker 1: working on a thing that can be worked on versus
Speaker 1: staying in something that they shouldn't be. Well, First, you
Speaker 1: have to figure out how you actually feel about the
Speaker 1: other person. For me, when I found out I didn't,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter how I felt. I told him from
Speaker 1: day one that if he ever cheated on me that
Speaker 1: I was out, and I meant it. So I was
Speaker 1: out and a lot of work had to be done
Speaker 1: to get me back in. God was a huge part
Speaker 1: of it. You'd have to read that in the book.
Speaker 1: But preparations had to be made. There's a part of
Speaker 1: the book called the New Deal. So when people ask
Speaker 1: me how with the exception of God, the New Deal
Speaker 1: explains exactly what steps for Shawn needed to take to
Speaker 1: deserve my forgiveness, to deserve my understanding, and to and
Speaker 1: to deserve my grace. And he worked relentlessly to achieve
Speaker 1: all of those things. And the key for me was
Speaker 1: until he was willing to do that work, until I
Speaker 1: was whole again, until we were whole again, until he
Speaker 1: was able to fill in the holes that he had
Speaker 1: put throughout our entire relationship. There was no expiration date
Speaker 1: because a lot of men will say, listen, I've been
Speaker 1: apologizing for two months. I've been trying to make it
Speaker 1: up to you. What do you want from me? Blood? Like,
Speaker 1: what what else can I do that? That approach is
Speaker 1: damaging because is you're the offender. I'm the offender. Now
Speaker 1: I have to expedite my healing and make you feel
Speaker 1: good again. No, that's not my job. You broke it.
Speaker 1: Now you have to fix it. And I wasn't willing
Speaker 1: to teach him how to do that. He had to
Speaker 1: figure that out on his own. So all of his efforts,
Speaker 1: the time invested, the length to which he went to
Speaker 1: prove to me that he was worthy of the things
Speaker 1: that he needed to become whole so that we could
Speaker 1: become whole again. And it worked, and once I decided
Speaker 1: to forgive, I didn't look back. Before you move on
Speaker 1: from that, though, Uh, there's something you said in the book,
Speaker 1: which is I feel like a slight semantic but but
Speaker 1: a powerful one because you know now you said he
Speaker 1: had to fix it. But what you said in the
Speaker 1: book is really interesting. And that he wasn't supposed to
Speaker 1: fix you, he had to fix him, and then you
Speaker 1: began your journey of fixing you as well. And I
Speaker 1: feel like there's a there's a difference there in healing,
Speaker 1: is you know, especially in the book when you talk
Speaker 1: about that, there's a difference between you saying you have
Speaker 1: to fix me versus you have to fix you and
Speaker 1: then I am going to fix me as well. So
Speaker 1: in that fixing, before I let you go, you become
Speaker 1: new people, You become more honest. WI You're scary because
Speaker 1: the parts to honesty is almost the end of the
Speaker 1: relationship because you have to start a new one. So
Speaker 1: in that fixing, what did you have to fix? And
Speaker 1: then what are the new things you discovered about each
Speaker 1: other where you went Oh, in this new relationship, I
Speaker 1: actually love this person more. Um, I think honestly, whole, honest,
Speaker 1: And I had to learn the definition of love. Right.
Speaker 1: We all say I love you, you say I love
Speaker 1: my spouse, I love this person, But do we truly
Speaker 1: know the definition of love or do we just say it?
Speaker 1: And if I love somebody, I don't want to lie
Speaker 1: to them, I don't want to hurt them. I still
Speaker 1: get butterflies. When I see them, I'll never cheat on them.
Speaker 1: And I had to understand what love meant. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: can say, oh, we love them, but we still do this.
Speaker 1: And that's not what I wanted. I wanted. I wanted
Speaker 1: my best friend. And if that's my best friend, she's
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with me, and I have to be
Speaker 1: honest with her. If there's something that that bothers me
Speaker 1: about her or something that bothers her, we have to
Speaker 1: be honest. And now we're at a point in our
Speaker 1: relationship where completely honest. And even though I put a
Speaker 1: lot of do a whole bunch of bull bullish, you
Speaker 1: can say bullshit, bullshit, it's on the other side, it's
Speaker 1: a thousand times better. We are are better friends, we
Speaker 1: are better parents, we are better lovers, we have a
Speaker 1: better relationship. We're just better as people. And that's due
Speaker 1: to all of bullshit I put it through. Man, it's
Speaker 1: an amazing book because it's so honest. It's messy, it's imperfect,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what every relationship is. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining me on the check. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. All right, people here and these books, real life,
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