Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Probably one of the biggest surprises,
Speaker 1: they say, apparently of the Winter Olympics is that no
Speaker 1: Way is leading the medals table. Everyone was thinking it's
Speaker 1: going to be America or China or like Canada, and
Speaker 1: then like no Way is crushing it. And then I
Speaker 1: went to the medals table and I looked at the
Speaker 1: events and I was like, guys, this is it's unfair,
Speaker 1: like forget doping. Noise shouldn't be in the Winter Olympics
Speaker 1: because all the ship they're doing is like what Norwegians
Speaker 1: considered normal life. Like they're not like competing, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Does just be like, oh what event
Speaker 1: was this? Oh yeah, this is where like the people
Speaker 1: have to go cross country on skis. Yeah, that's just Tuesday.
Speaker 1: In no way. I've been at the end of the race,
Speaker 1: they're like, well done in gold medal. It's like what
Speaker 1: I was just going to school. Coming to you from
Speaker 1: the heart of Times where in New York City, the
Speaker 1: only city in America. It's The Daily Here's edition tonight
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, Pasa, Willie and Jessica Gingdon. He's the Daily
Speaker 1: Show with Hey, what's going on? Everybody. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: We kick things off with the news about the British
Speaker 1: Royal family, the only people who think chess is a
Speaker 1: representative game. Look, there's me, and there's you, and there's
Speaker 1: the people who pay us. Yesterday marked Queen Elizabeth's seventieth
Speaker 1: year on the throne, making her the longest serving monarch
Speaker 1: in British history, which must be nice for all of
Speaker 1: those people who've been shouting long live the Queen, because
Speaker 1: now they can be like, yeah, you see, we did that. Now.
Speaker 1: As part of the anniversary observance, the family has announced
Speaker 1: that if and when Queen Elizabeth dies and her son
Speaker 1: Charles becomes king, his wife Camilla will be crowned alongside
Speaker 1: him as queen. And I don't know if you remember,
Speaker 1: but when Camilla first started day Charles, people said that
Speaker 1: she could never be queen because their relationships started as
Speaker 1: an affair. So this is a huge This is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge deal. And I also think it's the right move
Speaker 1: because can you imagine how awkward was going to be
Speaker 1: otherwise if every time Charles and Camilla walked in the
Speaker 1: room and the royal announcer would be like presenting the
Speaker 1: King of England and presenting his side piece. But while
Speaker 1: I'm sure the royals would love to be focusing on
Speaker 1: the future of the family, unfortunately they've been forced to
Speaker 1: deal with a scandal from their past. You see, for decades,
Speaker 1: Elizabeth's second son, Prince Andrew, he was rolling deep with
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, and after years of fighting allegations that he
Speaker 1: had done anything wrong, it looks like he's finally throwing
Speaker 1: in the towel. Tonight, Prince Andrew dramatically averting a court battle,
Speaker 1: not admitting liability, but not clearing his name. Virginia Duffrey
Speaker 1: claimed she was sexually assaulted by the Prince when she
Speaker 1: was seventeen years old, trafficked by Epstein the sixty one
Speaker 1: your Prince will pay his accuser Virginia Frey are reported
Speaker 1: ten million dollars and make a substantial donation to her
Speaker 1: charity in support of victims rights. Of course, questions saying
Speaker 1: is it Prince Andrew's money? We know that he's sold
Speaker 1: his Swiss Sky chalet reputedly for about eighteen million, but
Speaker 1: many people saying the Queen is helping to foot the bell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. After years of fighting, Prince Andrew has finally
Speaker 1: settled with Virginia du Frey. And although it's not perfect justice,
Speaker 1: I mean it is something, you know, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I almost feel like this guy got off easy because yeah,
Speaker 1: it is ten million dollars, but you're from the royal family.
Speaker 1: Think about it. Ten million dollars is like one jewel
Speaker 1: from one of their crowns. And this has gonna suck
Speaker 1: for the Queen. Like, imagine having to use the money
Speaker 1: that you earned too. I guess you didn't like earn it,
Speaker 1: but I mean we imagine like working hard your whole life.
Speaker 1: I mean, she doesn't really work. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying. The point is the Queen
Speaker 1: didn't get into the real business to do stuff like this, right.
Speaker 1: She got into it to steal spices from India. It's
Speaker 1: about that life. And I can tell you now this
Speaker 1: is probably where she misses the days when she could
Speaker 1: just chop off people's heads, you know, because back in
Speaker 1: the day, with this thing happening with Andrew, the Queen
Speaker 1: would have just been like, Andrew, I dropped my contact lens,
Speaker 1: would you burn down and pick it up where mommy
Speaker 1: ten millions saved. Oh and by the way, the next
Speaker 1: time your mom complains about you asking her for rent money,
Speaker 1: you just show the story and reminder it could be
Speaker 1: way worse. But let's move on. If you're tired of
Speaker 1: the same old, same old dating app scene where you
Speaker 1: swipe rights on the cute guy he swindles you out
Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars blah blah blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: then good news. Tinder is now offering a blind date
Speaker 1: feature on the app. Yeah, because usually when you're scrolling
Speaker 1: through people, you first see their picture right and then
Speaker 1: you decide right away whether you're too good looking for
Speaker 1: them or they're too good looking for you. But now
Speaker 1: Tinder is just gonna ask you questions and what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do is they're gonna match you with someone based
Speaker 1: on your responses, and then you have a chat with them,
Speaker 1: and then if you both like each other, Tenda will
Speaker 1: show you their pictures, which is great because if they
Speaker 1: stopped talking to you at that point, then you know
Speaker 1: immediately that you ugly. And you know, it's so funny
Speaker 1: how tech companies came out like they're the future. They're
Speaker 1: gonna show us new things, but then as time goes on,
Speaker 1: they seem to invent stuff that already exists, like blind dates.
Speaker 1: It's the future of dating. No. People in the Middle
Speaker 1: Ages were like, all our dates are blind and I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but you can't really recreate blind dates unless you also
Speaker 1: recreate the part where your mutual friend try to talk
Speaker 1: the other person up whilst also avoiding their faults as
Speaker 1: a key part of blind dates. Yeah, he's like super
Speaker 1: good at cooking and he loves to read interesting So
Speaker 1: does he have a job. As I said, he loves
Speaker 1: to read. Ah. I also have to mention this blind
Speaker 1: dating scheme that tinders running. This is discriminatory towards hot, dumb,
Speaker 1: boring people. You realize you're taking away their greatest assets.
Speaker 1: People with good personalities, they're gonna do fine in this situation.
Speaker 1: They can meet people in person, they can charm them all.
Speaker 1: Some people have as a six pack, they don't even
Speaker 1: know that they have a six pack because they can't
Speaker 1: count that high rapper. Let's move on to a story
Speaker 1: coming from my home country, South Africa. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: the most creatively named country, but you always know where
Speaker 1: to find US. It's been almost ten years since the
Speaker 1: passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 1: And for those of you who don't know, Nelson Mandela
Speaker 1: was basically the Martin Luther King of our Harriet Tubman's
Speaker 1: and everywhere you go in South Africa there are reminders
Speaker 1: of how great he is, like there are statues, there
Speaker 1: are bridges named after him, the whole neighborhoods that bear
Speaker 1: his name. But now there's a new fancier way for
Speaker 1: people who want to celebrate his legacy. The former home
Speaker 1: of Nelson Mandela is now a luxury hotel. It's called
Speaker 1: Sanctuary Mandela and it was Mandela's first home in Johannesburg
Speaker 1: after being released from twenty seven years in prison. South
Speaker 1: Africa's first black president lived there for six years. It
Speaker 1: now can host eighteen guests and eighteen guests rather, and
Speaker 1: it's adorned with Mandela memorabilia. Even Madiba's former cook is
Speaker 1: on staff. They're helping to prepare meals. Rooms range from
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars to as much as one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a night. Yeah, that's right. Nelson Mandela's old
Speaker 1: house has been turned into a luxury hotel. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess this is just the fate of every historic
Speaker 1: building now, right, because if you think about half of
Speaker 1: the old buildings around the world are now either a bank,
Speaker 1: an apple store, or a CVS. That's it. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocked if in like a hundred years of the
Speaker 1: White House is going to be turned into Jeff Bezos's
Speaker 1: dog's weekend place. Now, some people think that it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense for the home of the man who fought
Speaker 1: inequality to be turned into a luxury hotel, but it does.
Speaker 1: It actually does, and it really does. If you remember
Speaker 1: one of Mandela's most famous quotes when he said, or
Speaker 1: not judge me by cola off my skin, parrad, judge
Speaker 1: me by the threat count of this Jupian cotton ships
Speaker 1: balling out of control. It was a powerful speech. We
Speaker 1: cried that day. We cried that day. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're staying at the Nelson Mandela Hotel, good luck
Speaker 1: fighting the minibar charges that you think are unfair. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be at the front desk like, Hi, excuse me,
Speaker 1: I think I was unfairly charged for a bag of pistachios. Madam,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about unfair charges. So, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: this is gonna come with this pros and its cons.
Speaker 1: People are gonna be four it's and against it, and
Speaker 1: I guess it will be good for the people who
Speaker 1: work there and maybe some of the community. But you've
Speaker 1: gotta admit, man, At the same time, it does feel
Speaker 1: a little disrespectful for everything that Nelson Mandela went through.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna pay some money and you can
Speaker 1: sleep in his house. You know what he had to
Speaker 1: do to get to that house. You know what they
Speaker 1: should do. They should they should say for every night
Speaker 1: that you stay in the hotel, you should also have
Speaker 1: to spend the night in an apotheide prison. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: you're getting the full experience. You know. I actually hope
Speaker 1: that they do this with African dictator homes too, because like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Mandela had a nice house, but forget him, man, African dictators,
Speaker 1: those dudes lived lavish. They should make that an experience.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine soaking? An idea means Jacuzzi chilling on
Speaker 1: his giant couch, dressing up in the skin of his enemies,
Speaker 1: talk about a honeymoon like this baby. All right, finally,
Speaker 1: let's move on to some news from the world of religion.
Speaker 1: Since we were young, many of us have been taught
Speaker 1: the same story, right, be good, pray every day, and
Speaker 1: you'll get into Heaven. What your grandmother probably didn't mention
Speaker 1: is that a paperwork issue could send you to hell.
Speaker 1: A Catholic priest in Arizona has resigned because of a
Speaker 1: mistake the church says he's been making for more than
Speaker 1: twenty years. During thousands of baptisms, he used the phrase
Speaker 1: we baptize instead of I baptize, and the Vatican says
Speaker 1: that one word change makes all the baptisms he performed invalid.
Speaker 1: The priest has apologized and again resigned. Wait, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what all the baptisms are invalid because of one no,
Speaker 1: one word? This is like the worst thing that Catholic
Speaker 1: priest has ever done. But for real, people, I cannot
Speaker 1: believe that the Vatican is going to say all of
Speaker 1: these baptisms, all of them, like what two thousand, are
Speaker 1: invalid just because the priest said we instead of I.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to hear that the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church cares about people's pronouns, but this seems like
Speaker 1: a minor mistake to me, you know, like I would
Speaker 1: understand if the priest accidentally cleansed their souls in white cloth,
Speaker 1: that I would get. But this doesn't seem like a
Speaker 1: huge deal. And what's gonna happen all the people who
Speaker 1: aren't actually baptized? What happens to them? Now? Huh? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna go to hell for someone else's mistake? That's
Speaker 1: so unfair. Everyone else who gets to go to hell
Speaker 1: goes there because they got to have some fun first,
Speaker 1: you know. Now they were gonna be down in the
Speaker 1: fire pits like, well, I'm being burned forever. But it
Speaker 1: was worked it for the r je ha ha. What
Speaker 1: are you in for? Man? My priest made a typo
Speaker 1: oh sure whatever. You probably killed some puppies or something.
Speaker 1: You sick, yo, Let's torture this guy extra hard. So wait, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm hearing from my producers that that company, right,
Speaker 1: we have an interview with God himself? Is that even possible?
Speaker 1: All right? Can we can we patch him in turn
Speaker 1: on a whibcam? Oh my lord, hey, Trevior's me God?
Speaker 1: God indeed? Baby? How well? This is amazing God, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining me on the show. Hey baby,
Speaker 1: happy to be here. Look, we gotta make this quick though.
Speaker 1: I'm working on creating a new animal. It's like a horse,
Speaker 1: but it's got flippers and it's got fags. I gave
Speaker 1: it one wing. Who boys gonna miss you all up?
Speaker 1: Oh God, I have so many questions. First, First of all,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that this is how you look. Oh No,
Speaker 1: this this is just how I look to you. I
Speaker 1: don't look like this when I'm talking to white folks.
Speaker 1: I want to surprise them when they get here. Oh man, God,
Speaker 1: I just oh. I also have another question, and this
Speaker 1: is a little embarrassing. No, I'm not helping you with
Speaker 1: how did you know that that was gonna ask Tod? Tod?
Speaker 1: Are you asking about word? You tweet about word all
Speaker 1: at the time. You don't need to get a life, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the New York Times made the words. Anyway, God,
Speaker 1: let's talk about issue at hand. What's your position on
Speaker 1: this priest in Arizona who's been messing up baptisms. I
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, I've got no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: There's a priest in Arizona who said the wrong word,
Speaker 1: and now the Vatican is all upset, and they're saying
Speaker 1: that the people might be going to hell. Now you
Speaker 1: you haven't heard about this. No, man, I don't pay
Speaker 1: half as much attention to Earth as y'all think I do.
Speaker 1: I'm having too much fun. Look at me. I'm in heaven.
Speaker 1: We got prints, Whitney Houston, George Michael. Every day up
Speaker 1: here is a Super Bowl halftime show. Wait hold, so hold,
Speaker 1: you're saying that you're not really focused on every single
Speaker 1: thing that's going on down here. No, worried about everything
Speaker 1: going on? Do you realize how many worlds I've created?
Speaker 1: I can't keep track of every single one. You think
Speaker 1: Seana Rhimes know what's going on in every single one
Speaker 1: of her TV shows. She got the Firefighter show, she
Speaker 1: got the Doctor show, she got the one where everybody
Speaker 1: having sex in the seventeen hundreds. It's impossible to keep
Speaker 1: track of impossible. I mean that makes sense. But are
Speaker 1: you saying that even if this priest messed up the
Speaker 1: baptisms you you would still accept these people into heaven?
Speaker 1: That's right. People don't sweat the small stuff. Look, that's
Speaker 1: all you got to do, Trevor, all you got to
Speaker 1: do to get into Heaven is being a good person.
Speaker 1: I just want people up here who won't gonna ruined
Speaker 1: the party. I now, if you'll excuse me, it's trivia
Speaker 1: night and Alex Trubeka is on my team. Trebek. Baby,
Speaker 1: let's get these bitcoins. Yeah yeah, Wow, Heaven sounds like
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I can't wait to see it
Speaker 1: one day. Oh, don't worry, You're gonna see it real soon.
Speaker 1: Wait what? What? What is how soon? What is that?
Speaker 1: What is that? You know? Let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: so I can figure out what that meant. And after
Speaker 1: the break, I'm gonna be talking to Willio Rei, the
Speaker 1: first black hockey player ever. You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: When he said soon, do you think there was a
Speaker 1: threat or do you think it was an invitation? You
Speaker 1: turn this way up camp. Oh but god, you have
Speaker 1: to press the No, it didn't if you it's on
Speaker 1: the top top right, the top right of the If
Speaker 1: it's a touch screen, you gotta hit the top rights. No,
Speaker 1: it's a leave meeting. No you still here, Lord, You
Speaker 1: you haven't left meeting. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My first guest like is a hockey legend by the
Speaker 1: name of Willie Orie. He integrated the sports of hockey
Speaker 1: by becoming the first black player to compete in the
Speaker 1: NHL in night, for which he will be awarded the
Speaker 1: Congressional Gold Medal, making sports history and hockey as Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson did in baseball. Willie all Ree of the Boston Bruins,
Speaker 1: a native of Frederick and New Brunswick, is the first
Speaker 1: Negro to play in the National Hockey League. In his
Speaker 1: first time out, his team won against the Montreal Canadiens.
Speaker 1: In the Bruins dressing room after the game, Gord Sinclair
Speaker 1: June Europe CFCF pressed through the crowd for this interview.
Speaker 1: Makes any thing, isn't that they get into an NHL
Speaker 1: game for the Boston Bruins. What do you feel about it? Then?
Speaker 1: What are you? I'm unusual? No, it was the greatest
Speaker 1: sell of my life. I believe I'll always remember this day.
Speaker 1: We'll always remember this day. Mr willio Re welcome to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. Thank you very much. As certainly is
Speaker 1: a pleasure to be here. The pleasures all mine. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a man who's a legend on so
Speaker 1: many counts. I mean, you your your a legend because
Speaker 1: of what you did for the sport of hockey. You're
Speaker 1: a legend because you were the first black player in
Speaker 1: the NHL. And for me, you are a legend because
Speaker 1: you're a black person who chose to play on the ice.
Speaker 1: I I don't meet many black people who willingly go
Speaker 1: to the cold mister y, So you're you're a legend
Speaker 1: personally for me as an African. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: It's good to have you. Thank you, sir. Um. Let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about your journey. You know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't anything that anybody had done before. You know, you
Speaker 1: talk about this in your life and how you had
Speaker 1: a dream. You said, I want to play in the NHL.
Speaker 1: I want to be a professional hockey player. Nobody had
Speaker 1: done it, nobody thought anybody could do it, and yet
Speaker 1: you set your mind to it. I'd love to know
Speaker 1: how you you had this idea of doing something that
Speaker 1: had never been done before, with the clarity that you had. Well,
Speaker 1: when I was fourteen years of age, I decided I
Speaker 1: wanted to become a professional hockey player and then hopefully
Speaker 1: one day in the play in the National Hockey League.
Speaker 1: And I have to give credit to my older brother
Speaker 1: who was not only my brother and my friend, but
Speaker 1: he was my mentor and he taught me a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I would need to know. So I
Speaker 1: started playing organized hockey, and at fourteen, I left my
Speaker 1: hometown to go up to Quebec, Canada to play junior
Speaker 1: junior hockey with the Quebec front Next played there that
Speaker 1: one year, and then I went and played in kitchen Or,
Speaker 1: Ontario the second year, and that's when I had an
Speaker 1: unfortunate accident. You know, none of the players wore any helmets,
Speaker 1: no faith shields, no cages, and I was struck in
Speaker 1: the right eye with the puck and lost ninety seven
Speaker 1: percent vision in my right eye. And wow, the doctor,
Speaker 1: the doctor told me I've never played hockey again. But
Speaker 1: I kept it a secret and turn turned pro nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty six and was able to play twenty one years
Speaker 1: with one eye. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait,
Speaker 1: let's okay, now we now we need to add an
Speaker 1: extra layer of legend to the story. You lost some
Speaker 1: of your vision and the doctor said that you were
Speaker 1: legally blind. You keep this a secret, and then you
Speaker 1: go on to play that I don't I don't even
Speaker 1: understand how that's possible. I can't follow the puck. I've
Speaker 1: been to hockey games. I love watch hockey games, but
Speaker 1: it's like, I can't follow the puck. But you're telling
Speaker 1: me you were a professional player who was legally blind.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you did this. Well, you know, um,
Speaker 1: when I went to the hospital and I was in
Speaker 1: my recovery room and the doctor said, Mr. Rey says,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be blind and you'll never play hockey again. Well,
Speaker 1: the two goals that I have set for myself, well,
Speaker 1: seemingly we're gone. But I got out of the hospital
Speaker 1: and within the next five weeks, I'm back on the
Speaker 1: ice practicing and playing. Now I'm a left hand shot
Speaker 1: and playing left wing. But to compensate, I had to
Speaker 1: turn my head all the way around to the right
Speaker 1: to pick the puck and pick the playoff and look
Speaker 1: over my right shoulder, and consequently I was over skating
Speaker 1: the puck and missing the net. And I just said,
Speaker 1: will you forget about what you can't see and concentrate
Speaker 1: on what you can see. So the season ends and
Speaker 1: I go back to my hometown, and I kept my
Speaker 1: fingers crossed that I'd be contacted by a professional team,
Speaker 1: and I waited and waited, and finally I got a
Speaker 1: call from Punch I'm black, who was the coach and
Speaker 1: general manager at the Quebec Ages, the Quebec professional team
Speaker 1: up in Quebec City. So, to make a long story short,
Speaker 1: I go to training camp, I make the team. I
Speaker 1: don't tell them that I'm blind. I don't have an
Speaker 1: eye exam. So I said, well, if I don't take
Speaker 1: an exam, just just play. And we won the championship
Speaker 1: that year. So that's what gave me the extra confidence
Speaker 1: that I needed. I said, Oh, man, I mean that's yeah.
Speaker 1: If if if anything qualifies somebody to be a legend,
Speaker 1: I think that that's that story makes it. Um, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the sport itself. You know, you talked about
Speaker 1: back then what it was like being in in the
Speaker 1: league as the first and only black player. You had
Speaker 1: teammates who supported you, you had fans who cheered for you,
Speaker 1: but they were also the fans who really could only
Speaker 1: think of the color of your skin as the reason
Speaker 1: that they didn't like you. You know, they were they
Speaker 1: were they were shouting slurs at you on the eye.
Speaker 1: So they were shouting slurs at you from from the stands.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know how you blocked out that noise,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that surely affects you as a
Speaker 1: human being, but you found a way to persevere. Was
Speaker 1: was that something you had just grown up within your
Speaker 1: family or did you put your head down? And like,
Speaker 1: how did you do that? And I just put my
Speaker 1: head down. I was called the N word every time
Speaker 1: I stepped on the ice by players on the opposition,
Speaker 1: by fans in the stands. If I had a penalty
Speaker 1: and I went in the penalty box, I could hear
Speaker 1: them saying the N word, But I just blocked it
Speaker 1: out thanks to my older brother again and he told me, Willie,
Speaker 1: if they can accept you for the individual that you are,
Speaker 1: because you have the skills and the ability to play
Speaker 1: in the league at this particular time, should forget about
Speaker 1: everything else. She said, just go, stay focused on your
Speaker 1: goal and work hard. And basically that's what I did.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I it was it was really rough
Speaker 1: at the at the beginning, Trevor, It it really was.
Speaker 1: But finally I gained the respect of the players and
Speaker 1: the opposite and the and the fans. Man. I can,
Speaker 1: I honestly can't even imagine how hard it must have been,
Speaker 1: you know, being in that world. Um, there are over
Speaker 1: a hundred black players you know who have now played
Speaker 1: in the NHL. Many of them have either talked about
Speaker 1: your story or they've talked about your journey in some
Speaker 1: way inspiring, but they've also talked about how difficult it
Speaker 1: can be being the only black player on a team,
Speaker 1: you know, the only black player who's representing the franchise.
Speaker 1: You know, were there any tips that you gave to
Speaker 1: any of these players, or were there any tips that
Speaker 1: you learned that would help you not almost carry the
Speaker 1: entire burden of being the only black player on a team,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to fail for Willie or being
Speaker 1: able to succeed for Willy, and not always worrying that
Speaker 1: it you know, it represents all of blackness at the
Speaker 1: same time, which it did and didn't. Well, I met
Speaker 1: a lot of the black players and the players of
Speaker 1: color that are playing in the in the league at
Speaker 1: the present time, and you know, some of them that
Speaker 1: that I have met, they said, Willie, I just can't
Speaker 1: imagine what you had to go through to make it
Speaker 1: possible for players like me to play in the league.
Speaker 1: He says, I just I have the highest respect in
Speaker 1: the highest admiration for you. He said, what you what
Speaker 1: you had to do? You must have had to turn
Speaker 1: your cheek a thousand times. And I said, I just
Speaker 1: stayed I stayed focused on what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: I I worked hard, and I told myself I'm good
Speaker 1: enough to play in the league, and uh, just just
Speaker 1: work hard and stay confident. Let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about the future. You know, you were celebrating you and
Speaker 1: you've been celebrated for such a long time as being
Speaker 1: not just part of black history, but part of also
Speaker 1: the NHL's history. You have now been an ambassador for
Speaker 1: the National Hockey League, getting black players into it, players
Speaker 1: of color, you know, kids who would have never thought
Speaker 1: that this could be their sport, or maybe they wanted
Speaker 1: to get into it but couldn't. It's an expensive sport
Speaker 1: to get into. You you know, your skates and and
Speaker 1: and all the equipment that you need to to be
Speaker 1: part of it sometimes becomes a bigger barrier than even
Speaker 1: the color of your skin. When you're when you're meeting
Speaker 1: with new kids and you're you're talking to these children
Speaker 1: who want to join in, how do you inspire them
Speaker 1: to get into a sport that sometimes might be just
Speaker 1: out of their reach. Well, we have we have organized
Speaker 1: programs all over North America, and when I first started
Speaker 1: there were approximately five. We have about thirty six now.
Speaker 1: And before the pandemic, I was traveling around to these
Speaker 1: cities and uh talking to the elementary school, middle schools,
Speaker 1: junior high high schools, UM boys and Girls clubs, y M,
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Speaker 1: if they want to. And UH, all you have to
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Speaker 1: how to skate and if you if you follow them,
Speaker 1: we'll get you on an organized, un organized team where
Speaker 1: you're able to able to play. I mean, hockey is
Speaker 1: a fun sport, but I tell these kids, if you're
Speaker 1: not having fun, don't play it and find another sport.
Speaker 1: But I can honestly say that the clinics that I've
Speaker 1: conducted over the years, once I get these boys girls
Speaker 1: on the ice, I've not had one boy or girl
Speaker 1: come up and say, Mr, y, I don't like this,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming back. So it's a nice feeling to
Speaker 1: reach out and needing and just touch one individual and
Speaker 1: make a difference in their life. Well, that's why you
Speaker 1: are who you are. That's why you are receiving not
Speaker 1: just a medal, but all the praise and we celebrate you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Mr WILLIOI, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for runing us on the show. Thank you for what
Speaker 1: you've done, and thank you for the joy that you've
Speaker 1: brought to the sport and to the world. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: All right, don't go away because after the break, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be chatting to Jessica Kingdon, who has made a
Speaker 1: documentary that takes us into China and shows us what
Speaker 1: some of their challenges are that we may not know about.
Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. My guest tonight is filmmaker Jessica Kingdon. She's
Speaker 1: here to talk about Ascension, her Oscar nominated documentary that
Speaker 1: examines the contemporary Chinese dream. Jessica Kingdon, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Thank you so much for having me. It's
Speaker 1: a complete honor to be here. Let's talk about the film.
Speaker 1: It's very seldom that you see China, and it's very
Speaker 1: seldom that you see China not from China's perspective, and
Speaker 1: not from like the West perspective, but just in China.
Speaker 1: So let's start with that, how on earth do you
Speaker 1: get to make a documentary in China in all the
Speaker 1: places that you've got to make the documentary Because the
Speaker 1: film itself is not politically overtly political, and we're not
Speaker 1: filming inn any um quote unquote sensitive areas, So we
Speaker 1: were able to be extremely straightforward about what we were doing,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it was just simply asking these locations, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're an independent American documentary film crew coming to make
Speaker 1: a film about China's ecodomic rays. Can we come and
Speaker 1: film in your factory? Can we come and film in
Speaker 1: your manner, school, etcetera. Surprisingly, the thing that people were
Speaker 1: worried about is not something I anticipated. A lot of
Speaker 1: factory managers, Um, we're worried that we were going to
Speaker 1: scam them and try to get money out of them,
Speaker 1: like to hit them up with a bill for appearing
Speaker 1: in our movie later on. Yeah, maybe I'm dead serious.
Speaker 1: Another suspicion that happened was in the textilemn one of
Speaker 1: the textile manufacturing companies. He thought that we were there
Speaker 1: trying from a corporation trying to um take the technology secret.
Speaker 1: You were trying to steal the tick and then go
Speaker 1: and make your own textile exactly. It feels like what
Speaker 1: also makes the film different is you know telling us anything.
Speaker 1: You're just showing us things. You know, there's no one
Speaker 1: who's narrating, there's nobody who's giving you their opinion. You see, like,
Speaker 1: you know, low income workers, we see the middling class
Speaker 1: that's burgeoning, and then we see like wealthy Chinese people.
Speaker 1: You even take us into a factory that is making
Speaker 1: very advanced sex dolls. When you were making the film,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you have attempted to step in and go like,
Speaker 1: this is what this means? Or were you happy for
Speaker 1: us the viewer to just watch for ourselves in decide.
Speaker 1: I don't think I could even say what it means,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. I mean, I think there's
Speaker 1: so many meanings that are can be found within that
Speaker 1: one clip even But like you said, something that struck
Speaker 1: me about this place was the paradox of it were
Speaker 1: On one hand, it seems like one of the most
Speaker 1: exploitative factories. There are these replicas of bodies literally made
Speaker 1: for exploitation, But On the other hand, the women are
Speaker 1: handling the dolls and also working together with a certain
Speaker 1: type of tenderness that I found very touching, and the
Speaker 1: conversations that they're having with one another two are almost
Speaker 1: accidentally poetic sometimes, and so I found that really beautiful.
Speaker 1: And um, that was a paradox that I was really
Speaker 1: trying to lean into and and look for and draw out.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't something that I had to go in
Speaker 1: and try to manufacture. It was just something that was
Speaker 1: already there. And I think a lot of this type
Speaker 1: of filmmaking is about the patients to sort of sit
Speaker 1: with these sort of moments and allow them to to
Speaker 1: emerge instead of trying to go and you know, prove
Speaker 1: a certain point. It's wonderful to just see just a
Speaker 1: world happening, but in a way where it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: a like you said, manufactured, but also with something is happening.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of stories that happen in
Speaker 1: how people live and and it was nice to watch
Speaker 1: that in the documentary just see people living, but then
Speaker 1: also there's a story being told by how the people live, right.
Speaker 1: It's just the art of observing and seeing what comes up. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're You're a better filmmaker than i'd ever be. I
Speaker 1: would always be tempted to like jump in be. I
Speaker 1: was very tempted a lot of the times. It took
Speaker 1: a lot of discipline, didn't Okay, okay? You know, the
Speaker 1: China that I had known for so many years was
Speaker 1: just all industrial and very and and in this documentary
Speaker 1: we start to see a new world that is forming,
Speaker 1: where people are now learning how to be influences and
Speaker 1: the culture is changing. Would it be safe to say
Speaker 1: that there's almost now the Chinese dream like the American dream,
Speaker 1: where people are going we want to ascend in how
Speaker 1: we live and creates. There's a lot of similarities with
Speaker 1: the Chinese dream and the American dream. I mean, the
Speaker 1: one thing that they both have in common is this idea,
Speaker 1: this quest for upward mobility, and this belief in this
Speaker 1: system that you'll be rewarded materially for your hard work
Speaker 1: and you know, are able to work yourself up to
Speaker 1: a middle class lifestyle, which of course we know is
Speaker 1: not true for everyone. Um, But within China, I found
Speaker 1: that it was just interesting to see how a lot
Speaker 1: of it mirrors American style capitalism as well. There's so
Speaker 1: many different parallels that we wouldn't necessarily see on the surface,
Speaker 1: but if you kind of look closer, you see a
Speaker 1: lot of it's echoed with one another. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite moments in the documentary is where you are in
Speaker 1: the factory where they're where they're making the Donald Trump
Speaker 1: make America Great Again hats, like they're making the Maga hats,
Speaker 1: but you saw them making the keep America Great and
Speaker 1: you thought you thought they were messing up, Like you
Speaker 1: thought they had totally messed up the slogan. That's right.
Speaker 1: This was during Trump's reelection campaign. The manager told us, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, all of the Maga hats are gone because
Speaker 1: they were bought out by the Canadians. Not something I
Speaker 1: would have expected, but okay, sure, Canada Maga hats um.
Speaker 1: But instead, hey, we're actually making um keep America Great
Speaker 1: um scarves. And I thought that that was kind of
Speaker 1: maybe a mistake or mistranslation or something, but we shot
Speaker 1: it anyway, and they said, no, no, this is his
Speaker 1: new campaign slogan. And sure enough, six months later or whatever,
Speaker 1: we were seeing it everywhere. So there's this thing that
Speaker 1: business people in EU, the city where we were shooting
Speaker 1: our ahead of the curve, ahead of the political trends,
Speaker 1: because they're kind of like the base of manufacturing where
Speaker 1: all of these global issues first come. Yeah, I definitely
Speaker 1: want to go. I just want to see what my
Speaker 1: future is. What shirts are they making about me? Exactly? What?
Speaker 1: Free Trevor Noah, I'm wait, I'm want to be in prison. Um. Jessica,
Speaker 1: congratulations again on the Oscar nomination, and thank you for
Speaker 1: making really one of the most fascinating documentaries out. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. This has been an absolute honor. All Right, people,
Speaker 1: Jessica's documentary Ascension is now streaming on Paramount Plus. Trust me,
Speaker 1: you want to watch it. It's going to teach you
Speaker 1: so much. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll
Speaker 1: be right back after this. Well that's our show for
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