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Speaker 1: are so many things happening in the news. President Biden
Speaker 1: is killing it, Nancy Pelosi is gonna get us all killed,
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump has endorsed twins. So let's do these people.
Speaker 1: Let's come straight into today's headlines. Right before we get
Speaker 1: into the big stories, let's catch up on a few
Speaker 1: other things that are going on in the world. First up,
Speaker 1: a passenger on a flight from Bali to Australia was
Speaker 1: fined more than eight dollars for having to undeclared egg
Speaker 1: mcmuffins in their luggage, And honestly, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they'll be able to pay for that, You know, no,
Speaker 1: because I mean the type of person who saves egg
Speaker 1: mcmuffins for later probably doesn't plan and has lying around
Speaker 1: for fighters, you know what I mean. But apparently Australia
Speaker 1: is very concerned about bringing in food from Indonesia because
Speaker 1: there's an outbreak of foot and mouth disease and that's
Speaker 1: why they're being really strict. And when I saw this
Speaker 1: was like, damn, do you know how poisonous you gotta
Speaker 1: be to get banned from Australia. Yeah, their border patrol
Speaker 1: is like our pets. And come on, three killer spoiders
Speaker 1: right at this, right McMuffin, I could hurt someone, myke,
Speaker 1: that could really hurt someone. In sports news, the head
Speaker 1: of the Saudi Arabian Golf Tour revealed today that Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods turned down a seven hundred million dollar offer to
Speaker 1: play for their league. Yeah, turned it down. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: to side the Woods? That is? That is really amazing.
Speaker 1: All these other golfers just taking the money from Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: you know, but Tigers stood up. He's like, no, I
Speaker 1: would do the same thing. In fact, Saudi Arabia offered
Speaker 1: me that's seven hundred million. Yeah, you'll see. Just putting
Speaker 1: my bank account, You'll see what I'll do the rest
Speaker 1: of you won't see me again. You'll see. Oh, here's
Speaker 1: something fascinating. Here's something. A major new study of seventy
Speaker 1: two million people has found that poor children are much
Speaker 1: more likely to move up the economic ladder if they
Speaker 1: have friends who are rich. Yeah, I know, which seems
Speaker 1: kind of obvious, you know, I mean I feel like
Speaker 1: they didn't need you to a whole study. They could
Speaker 1: have just watched fresh prints. But still now we know
Speaker 1: statistically that poor kids do better with rich friends, which
Speaker 1: shows you why it's so important to have different zoning
Speaker 1: when it comes to housing. To have schools that are integrated,
Speaker 1: you know, gets people on the same trajectory. I mean.
Speaker 1: On the downside, it also means that you have some
Speaker 1: kids coming back demanding weird snacks. You know, it's like,
Speaker 1: what daddy's here do It has purshoot or wrap mentom
Speaker 1: balls like well, Theodore sounds like a little bit. Now
Speaker 1: eat your cheese stick. But anyway, anyway, let's move on
Speaker 1: to the big news of the day, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of it, a lot of news, starting with China,
Speaker 1: the original build the world country. Since jes paying roast
Speaker 1: to power in the communist regime, has steadily been increasing
Speaker 1: its influence around the world. Right They've been advancing into Africa.
Speaker 1: They've been claiming territory and disputed waters, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: creating the perfect algorithm to get us all hooked on
Speaker 1: pink sauce. But one thing China wants more than anything
Speaker 1: is for the world to acknowledge that they own Taiwan,
Speaker 1: which is why they've gotten super piste off at when
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi just booked her Expedia trip. How speaker Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan. The speaker arriving just really
Speaker 1: moments ago for a visit which has been controversial and
Speaker 1: speculated about four weeks now. She says that the congressional
Speaker 1: delegations visit is part of the unwavering commitment to support
Speaker 1: Taiwan's vibrant democracy. In the past few days, China launching
Speaker 1: the most aggressive military exercises in twenty five years, accusing
Speaker 1: the US of interfering in its internal affairs. Chinese President
Speaker 1: Shi Jimping warrened President Biden in a call last week
Speaker 1: about the US meddling in the contested territory, with Chinese
Speaker 1: officials reportedly communicating those who play with fire will perish
Speaker 1: by it. Two weeks ago, President Biden had warned the
Speaker 1: US military did not want Pelosi to go. I thiged
Speaker 1: the military fixure is not a good eye be there
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I would agree. Now, it's not a
Speaker 1: great time to start World War three. I mean the
Speaker 1: world has so many other things to deal with right now.
Speaker 1: All the drama on Love Island. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: believe that it cans. You ended up with Davide, Are
Speaker 1: you serious? And it's crazy that Pelosi just ignored Biden
Speaker 1: like that. Well, I mean I assume she ignored him.
Speaker 1: Maybe she just couldn't understand him. Yeah, he was like, listen, Jack,
Speaker 1: don't skin ahead all over the town and the Taiwan
Speaker 1: he is. I mean, come on, man, when in here
Speaker 1: in American you read me? Skip on. She's like, you
Speaker 1: got a Joe, I'm on my way. No. So, now,
Speaker 1: because Pelosi has defied Chinese warnings not to visit Taiwan,
Speaker 1: the Chinese government is conducting military exercises in Taiwan's backyard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is a scary escalation. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: when you think about it, it's also kind of ridiculous
Speaker 1: that countries do this. You know, they fly their planes
Speaker 1: past in their guns, but they don't shoot. It's scary,
Speaker 1: but it's also ridiculous. You know, it's like threatening someone
Speaker 1: by standing outside their house. Jelly, you want to mess
Speaker 1: with me, Look at what I'm capable of. Imagine this
Speaker 1: is your face. Yeah, think about what you did. But
Speaker 1: let's move on from the war. America maybe about to
Speaker 1: start to the one it is still trying to finish.
Speaker 1: The war on Terror, as you know, it started on
Speaker 1: September eleven, two one, when the Twin Towers were destroyed
Speaker 1: by George W. Bush. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. It was Dick Cheney. No, I'm no, No,
Speaker 1: I'm no, it was al Qada. It was al Cada,
Speaker 1: and the plotters of the attack included Osama bin Laden,
Speaker 1: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and i'm An al Zawahiri. And America
Speaker 1: swore revenge, and over the next twenty years, America killed
Speaker 1: Bin Laden, captured Sheik Mohammed, invaded Afghanistan, invaded Iraq, bombed Pakistan, Syria, Yemen,
Speaker 1: Somalia and Libya, the prey troops to Marley, Kenya and Nigeria,
Speaker 1: and completely obliterated the big shampoo bottle industry. Only tiny
Speaker 1: bottles for you. But in that whole time, the U
Speaker 1: S never managed to find Amen al Zawahiri until yesterday.
Speaker 1: The US has now killed the world's top terror target
Speaker 1: more than twenty years after nine eleven. The hunt for
Speaker 1: bin Laden's number two is now over. He has been
Speaker 1: in hiding for more than twenty years, one of the
Speaker 1: world's most wanted terrorists. But tonight the United States finally
Speaker 1: caught up with i'm in al Zawahi. Justice has been
Speaker 1: delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. Senior officials
Speaker 1: say the US government used an unmanned drone and health
Speaker 1: fire missiles to target the third floor balcony of a
Speaker 1: residential apartment building in downtown Cobble. Experts say health fire
Speaker 1: missiles do not explode. Instead, the missiles are with razor
Speaker 1: like blades extending from the fuselage which slice through a target.
Speaker 1: So it will go through and essentially vaporized a human body,
Speaker 1: but somebody standing within sheet of this person would not
Speaker 1: be injured at all. A senior administration officials saying authorities
Speaker 1: spent months identifying Alsware's patterns to avoid civilian casualties. Strike
Speaker 1: was so precise from a drone it killed him. On
Speaker 1: a balcony without harming any family members in the building.
Speaker 1: God damn America kipt the walls most wanted terrorist off
Speaker 1: of his safe house balcony. I mean, also, at this point,
Speaker 1: maybe we should stop calling them safe houses. Every terrorist
Speaker 1: gets killed in a safe house, they should they should
Speaker 1: quote it a house that you think you're safe in,
Speaker 1: but you never know. What's crazy is that America didn't
Speaker 1: just killed him. They killed him with a razor blade missile,
Speaker 1: which I didn't even know it was a thing, did you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. The weapons America has sounds like things
Speaker 1: that kids just make up on the playground. I'm shooting
Speaker 1: you with a laser. Guy did miss out with razor
Speaker 1: blades and the sharks body. Meanwhile the CIA is up
Speaker 1: in the tree like with the sharks body. You get
Speaker 1: that voice. We gotta go make one of those rais
Speaker 1: the missile that's experienced especially genius because like, if it hits,
Speaker 1: you kill the target. But even if it misses him
Speaker 1: by a little he gets like a really shitty haircut,
Speaker 1: and that's just as good. No one's gonna be loyal
Speaker 1: to a guy with the bowl cuts. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: I will say, you know, when you see stories like this,
Speaker 1: you see stories about what America is capable of. This
Speaker 1: is where you realize there's really no excuse for the
Speaker 1: amount of domestic terrorism in America, right because Zoaheri Zoaheri
Speaker 1: lived all the way in Afghanistan, right in some random
Speaker 1: safe house in the middle of nowhere, and America knew
Speaker 1: what time of day he liked to go out onto
Speaker 1: his balcony. But when a white supremacist post on Facebook
Speaker 1: that he's gonna murder everyone and then buys an air fifteen,
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, oh, there was no way to stop there.
Speaker 1: Oh if only he liked balcarnies, right. And I know
Speaker 1: some people are saying, oh, who cares America killed elkta's leader,
Speaker 1: But ELKDA isn't even in the game anymore. They're like
Speaker 1: taking out Tom from my space. That's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is America never forgets unless it's slavery, but
Speaker 1: everything else, America never forgill. He thought it was over,
Speaker 1: America came back. America's a kid who never stopped playing
Speaker 1: Hide and Seek decades after the game is done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're at a retirement party giving a speech in America
Speaker 1: pops up behind you like sound you bitch talp with
Speaker 1: my grandkids not anymore? Still know this is like one
Speaker 1: hell of a strike. They got him with a missile.
Speaker 1: I'm still stuck on this. A missile filled with swords.
Speaker 1: This is how I know I'm not cut out for
Speaker 1: the war room and like all of the things you
Speaker 1: need to just commander in chief, all these I know
Speaker 1: if I was in that room, I would not have
Speaker 1: been able to keep my cool in there. All right,
Speaker 1: talking to quiet, Mr President, they say contact in three
Speaker 1: two one? Oh ship God damn? Oh? How do you
Speaker 1: see the source and stuffing coming out of it? Oh?
Speaker 1: There's like fruit ninja. How are you watching this? How's
Speaker 1: everybody's watching this? You're not even gonna flinch. Nobody's gonna flinch.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm the only one. Okay, you're acting like you've
Speaker 1: all seen the missout that souls come out of it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm there, only watch you guys aren't even moving here?
Speaker 1: You know you do see that yet? You see that
Speaker 1: specially was wild? Wow, that was crazy. That missile. I
Speaker 1: just knew it can find anyone. Wow, even you coming
Speaker 1: out with us. I'm just playing. But where you hiding?
Speaker 1: I've got to see you go, oh yeah, that was crazy. Finally, today,
Speaker 1: it was a big day for the mid term primary
Speaker 1: season with a lot of closely watched races that will
Speaker 1: tell us a lot about the direction of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: You know, will it be filled with the crazy extremists
Speaker 1: to worship Donald Trump like a god? Or will it
Speaker 1: be filled with traditional conservatives who worshiped Donald Trump like
Speaker 1: a god. And one race that everyone is talking about
Speaker 1: is the Republican Senate race in Missouri, and the reason
Speaker 1: that's getting so much attention is because Donald Trump decided
Speaker 1: to give one of the weirdest endorsements of all time.
Speaker 1: It is primary day in America, former President Trump hedging
Speaker 1: his bets in a Missouri Senate race, simply endorsing Eric,
Speaker 1: a first name shared by two rival Republican candidates. Trump
Speaker 1: has triggered confusion in Missouri after endorsing Eric in the
Speaker 1: state primary without providing a last name. There are two
Speaker 1: Erics in the race. Both Eric Grynds, who has been
Speaker 1: accused of abuse and blackmail, and Eric Schmidt, the current
Speaker 1: attorney general, have claimed the endorsement as their own. Now,
Speaker 1: both Eric's are saying the former president is supporting them.
Speaker 1: Each posted a statement online thanking Trump for his endorsement.
Speaker 1: A source close to the former president told NBC News
Speaker 1: leading off the last name of the Eric he was
Speaker 1: endorsing was intentional, saying it was a quote epic troll.
Speaker 1: Just when you think you've seen it all from Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: he does something like this. There are two Eric's running
Speaker 1: against each other in the primary, and Trump put out
Speaker 1: a statement endorsing Eric. Just Eric. He could be supporting
Speaker 1: any Eric in the world. Well, not any Eric, but
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, I'm not his
Speaker 1: father to me. The best part of the story is
Speaker 1: that before he made the announcement, Trump called Eric Schmidt
Speaker 1: and told him that he was getting the endorsement. Then
Speaker 1: he called Eric Greeten's and told him he was getting
Speaker 1: the endorsements. But he didn't mention to either of them
Speaker 1: that he was endorsing both of them. Yeah, national turns
Speaker 1: out the dude even brings infidelity into his endorsements. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the first politician to have a side. Eric, You're
Speaker 1: the only Eric from me. Eric, don't listen to those
Speaker 1: other Erics. They're just jealous. All right, that's it for
Speaker 1: the headlines. But before we go to a break, it's
Speaker 1: time to checking on all the latest social media trans
Speaker 1: without very on running chatting. Everybody so glad to see
Speaker 1: you running. So what's happening online? What's trending? Another day
Speaker 1: in hell, Trevor, I guess what's trending today is what?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it today? Tuesday vibes? Whatever
Speaker 1: that means? And when you have a pH d and stupid,
Speaker 1: maybe you can explain it to me. Okay, because as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, every day on the Internet is
Speaker 1: hasteg stupid vibes, even even you, Trevor, participating in this.
Speaker 1: Was this, Trevor Or, three days till the weekend? Prayer emoji,
Speaker 1: pray your hands, Pray, pray your hands. Even if God
Speaker 1: heard you, he'd be like, what am I supposed to
Speaker 1: do with this? In fact, I'm gonna start a new
Speaker 1: internet challenge right now. Yeah, it's called the smash a
Speaker 1: phone against your face challenge. All right. What you do
Speaker 1: is you take your own phone and then you smash
Speaker 1: it on your place. Runny, RUnni okay, Runnie Ronnie. First
Speaker 1: of all, I don't know why you keep going off
Speaker 1: to my social media post. Secondly, if you hate the internet.
Speaker 1: You really, you don't have to do the segment right Wait? Wait,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? I live for this ship.
Speaker 1: Yes that and by the way, by the way, that guy,
Speaker 1: that guy who got a fine for bringing McDonald's mcmuffins
Speaker 1: into Australia. Yo, that punishment wasn't hot enough. Okay, they
Speaker 1: should have given him the death penalty. Okay, what kind
Speaker 1: of idiot brings McDonald's to another country? Every country has McDonald's. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's McDonald's in every airport. In fact, most airports now
Speaker 1: just some McDonald's. Just like, we're just flying from McDonald's
Speaker 1: to McDonald's. And he smuggled it in his luggage. YO,
Speaker 1: smuggle it up there, asked like a professional. Okay, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Tiger Woods and Tiger woodsn't didn't take the
Speaker 1: money from the Saudi Gulf whatever, Tiger Asian to Asian.
Speaker 1: You take the money. Take the money. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: take it. I always take the money from the worst
Speaker 1: people in the world, Okay, because what better way to
Speaker 1: punish evildoers than to take their money? Yeah, take the money.
Speaker 1: I take everyone's money. Know what oil companies, big tobacco
Speaker 1: isis Comedy Central. If I don't take the money, bad
Speaker 1: people will just have more money, all right. In fact,
Speaker 1: in fact, next week I got asked to judge an
Speaker 1: episode of The Mass Singer North Korea, And you know
Speaker 1: you should come with me, Trevor. That really, you know, Ronnie,
Speaker 1: I told you I am not going to North Korea running. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what you just want a dictator to keep all
Speaker 1: his blood money? You're basically funding terrorism? No, I'm not
Speaker 1: what you talking about. Also, I want to get off.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is back, Okay, she's causing world War three.
Speaker 1: Under that world War three? Good? We need world War three, Runny,
Speaker 1: How can you say that easily, Trevor? We need world
Speaker 1: War three to complete the trilogy? Okay? What if? What if?
Speaker 1: What if more of the Rings ended that number two?
Speaker 1: We'd be like, yo, are these guys gay or not?
Speaker 1: We never know? All right? Also, at to sick all
Speaker 1: these World War two movies, like, we need something new,
Speaker 1: We need some fresh ideas China versus America. Tons of
Speaker 1: roles for Asian actors. Yeah, actors who can do everything,
Speaker 1: Actors who can do intense or sad or happy. If
Speaker 1: you care about Asian representation, Trevor, you would support World
Speaker 1: War three anyway? That's us trending Solar has tag Tuesday Vibes,
Speaker 1: Ronnie check everybody, h No, we'll walk through all right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna be chatting to a
Speaker 1: civil rights lawyer who tells us why public safety doesn't
Speaker 1: mean more cought. So don't go away. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. My first guest is an award winning
Speaker 1: civil rights lawyer and founder of Civil Rights Corps. He's
Speaker 1: here to talk about his work challenging the money bail system,
Speaker 1: holding prosecutors, judges, and police accountable, and finding a non
Speaker 1: punits of approach to public safety. Please welcome Alec Carrigtanis Holly,
Speaker 1: thank you for having Thank you so much. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. You you have a really interesting story, Alec,
Speaker 1: because you know you worked as a public defender. You've
Speaker 1: worked in the justice system for a long time. You're
Speaker 1: part of many organizations that fight for people who are
Speaker 1: incarcerated unjustly or in a way where they can never
Speaker 1: find their way out of the system, which is unjust
Speaker 1: in a in a different way. Um, but a lot
Speaker 1: of your notoriety has come from your Twitter threads and
Speaker 1: how you break down the world, the way we see
Speaker 1: policing in the country, and the way even liberal organizations,
Speaker 1: funny enough, are part of the problem. So let's let's
Speaker 1: start with that part. You know, what made you decide
Speaker 1: to not be looking at Fox News, not be looking
Speaker 1: at you know, right wing outlets, but rather say no,
Speaker 1: New York Times, l A Times, Washington Post, you need
Speaker 1: to change the way you talk about policing in America.
Speaker 1: I began this work because I care so deeply about safety,
Speaker 1: everyone's safety. I care about violence in our communities. And
Speaker 1: as I was going around the country fighting these injustices,
Speaker 1: the cash baiale system, police abuse all over the country,
Speaker 1: we're running into obstacles. And one of the main obstacles
Speaker 1: was this status quo approach that many progressive people have.
Speaker 1: And it's not their fault, really, right. We're b barted
Speaker 1: constantly in the media with what we call capaganda, and
Speaker 1: capaganda has really, I think three main functions. The first
Speaker 1: function of capaganda is to narrow our conception of what
Speaker 1: safety means. We're constantly being told that there's quo of
Speaker 1: these threats around us. But the threats that the media
Speaker 1: and police and certain large corporations want us to be
Speaker 1: focused on, are not the things that actually most determine
Speaker 1: our safety. So, for example, you've seen all over the
Speaker 1: country UM taught conversations about retail theft or a wave
Speaker 1: of crime, right, but you don't hear is about the
Speaker 1: epidemic of wage theft. Wage theft costs fifty billion dollars
Speaker 1: every single year. Wage theft alone is about five times
Speaker 1: the value of all robbery, burglary, larceny, shoplifting combined. And
Speaker 1: why are we not hearing about it? And I think
Speaker 1: it's because you have this law enforcement system. I use
Speaker 1: that system in quotes because police want us to call
Speaker 1: them law enforcement, but in reality the only enforced some
Speaker 1: laws against some people some of the time. So let's
Speaker 1: let's let's talk that that. You know, there's a disconnected
Speaker 1: feels like sometimes in the conversations we have in America,
Speaker 1: because on the one hand, many people will agree that
Speaker 1: law enforcement needs overwatch. You know, many people will agree
Speaker 1: that law enforcement UM that isn't in some way regulated
Speaker 1: by by an outside body will run rampants. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, there are many communities who will still
Speaker 1: say yes, but we we still need some form of
Speaker 1: law enforcement. We need some form of justice, we need
Speaker 1: some form of protection. And this is something that almost
Speaker 1: goes beyond law enforcement as we know it's in the
Speaker 1: world today. So, so what is an argument for a
Speaker 1: better world that that doesn't subscribe to the notions of
Speaker 1: how people think law enforcement needs to exist. Now, let's
Speaker 1: just stirt with some of the very basic facts that
Speaker 1: we know. If we care about safety, we care about harm.
Speaker 1: The number one thing we need to do is address
Speaker 1: the actual root causes of violence and harm in our society.
Speaker 1: The actual root causes of harm in our society are
Speaker 1: not the fact that we're not policed enough. Right, we
Speaker 1: have the most police of any society, with most prisons, prosecutions, courts, judges,
Speaker 1: probation parole, if probation parole, prosecutors, judges, and courts. If
Speaker 1: money spent on that made us say we would have
Speaker 1: the safest society in the history of the world, we don't.
Speaker 1: What actually matters, What actually matters for our safety is
Speaker 1: investing in things like reducing poverty, like safe permanent supportive housing, healthcare,
Speaker 1: public health. I completely, I completely agree with you on that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a firm believer in that I think
Speaker 1: it's the you know, the cause versus the symptom. There
Speaker 1: is a confusing element that that I think often gets overlooked,
Speaker 1: and it's the transition. You know. I see it when
Speaker 1: people talk about electric cause, I see it when people
Speaker 1: talk about policing, and and it's the unfortunate truth that
Speaker 1: there is always going to be a transition from one
Speaker 1: system to another. Unless there is a revolution that happens overnight,
Speaker 1: there needs to be a transition. What do you propose
Speaker 1: for the transition in between? Because we do have police
Speaker 1: now they are union is that are very powerful that
Speaker 1: even the police say, hey, we we can't say anything.
Speaker 1: The union is controlling how this is doled out. So
Speaker 1: what do you do for the interim? Because I think
Speaker 1: we can You and I will agree on all of that.
Speaker 1: You know, those are long term solutions, but in the
Speaker 1: in the in the short term, what do you think
Speaker 1: we can do to keep people safe and also find
Speaker 1: a way to move the system over. The good thing
Speaker 1: is that we know exactly what works and we have
Speaker 1: a lot of evidence. So anyone who tells you that
Speaker 1: the solution even in the shorter media in terms more
Speaker 1: funding for police, that's like climate science denial there's overwhelming
Speaker 1: research that the programs that already exist UM permanent supportive housing,
Speaker 1: safe consumption sites, violence interruption, restorative justice, UM, investing in
Speaker 1: safe places for communities to gather, our at school, music
Speaker 1: theater programs, early childd education. All of these things work,
Speaker 1: and they work quickly. The problem is we don't have
Speaker 1: the political power right often. What happens is we identify,
Speaker 1: like in our work, these enormous injustices, like there are
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand human beings in cages right now in
Speaker 1: this country because they can't afford to pay cash to
Speaker 1: it out right, we identify that injustice, and what happens
Speaker 1: a lot of prominent establishment liberals they propose a reform,
Speaker 1: but the reforms that are being proposed are backed by
Speaker 1: those same interests that created the current problem. And so
Speaker 1: we're constantly being hit with short and medium term solutions
Speaker 1: that are reforms that actually exacerbate the problem. Let me
Speaker 1: give you an example. Take the bail system. If you
Speaker 1: care about the presumption of innocence, about people being taken
Speaker 1: away from their children because they can't make a monetary payment,
Speaker 1: like millions of children from their parents every single year, UM,
Speaker 1: you want to fix this problem. So enter the establishment Democrats.
Speaker 1: What do they do? In most of these cities. They're
Speaker 1: trying to replace the cash bail system with privatized for
Speaker 1: profit electronic monitoring, electronic incarceration. This is enormously profitable. There
Speaker 1: are billions of dollars to be made with private corporations
Speaker 1: who want to convert our system of mass incarceration to
Speaker 1: a system of mass electronic attention. I as I say,
Speaker 1: I've I've always admired the fact that you you almost
Speaker 1: have a start at home approach. You know, you on
Speaker 1: spending your time fighting with conserve those Republicans who believe
Speaker 1: in that system. You're challenging liberals, you're challenging progressive You're
Speaker 1: challenging Democrats who claimed this to actually follow through on it.
Speaker 1: So my question to you would then be for for
Speaker 1: for the media specifically, who you have a you know,
Speaker 1: a targeted focus on, you know, for the newspapers, for
Speaker 1: the publications, what do you think is a change that
Speaker 1: they could make overnight, because that's completely in house. What
Speaker 1: is something they could do right now that could present
Speaker 1: a care of vision of where America should be? I
Speaker 1: think there are a few things. Number One, as they
Speaker 1: write my newsletter recently, cover the things that are most
Speaker 1: threatening to our health and safety. Cover the hundred thousands,
Speaker 1: Cover the one hundred thousand violations of the Clean Water
Speaker 1: Act every year that are killing children, that are killing families.
Speaker 1: Did you know that there are one hundred thousand deaths
Speaker 1: in the US alone and ten million across the globe
Speaker 1: because of air pollution? That is five times a number
Speaker 1: of homicides in the US alone. Did you know how
Speaker 1: many people tens of thousands die from eviction and and
Speaker 1: predatory lending practices that put people into poverty. Um. These
Speaker 1: are solvable problems. We know how to solve them, but
Speaker 1: the people in this country don't treat them urgently. And
Speaker 1: the reason is because the volume of news stories they
Speaker 1: share volume every single day is about shoplift things, about
Speaker 1: this isolated crime. It's about that isolated crime, and we're
Speaker 1: not talking about the threats to our existence like the
Speaker 1: rise of fascism or, for example, UM, the growing right
Speaker 1: wing threat in this country to reproductive health. Did you
Speaker 1: did you realize that? Um? When you know I've been
Speaker 1: looking and studying very carefully how the media is covering
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's current request for a hundred thousand new cops.
Speaker 1: When I see liberal Democrats all over the country, both
Speaker 1: in newsrooms and in politics, UM talking about that this
Speaker 1: isn't a big deal and we need to pass a
Speaker 1: hundred cops just to have a little bit of talking
Speaker 1: points and success for the mid terms. Understand this. Voters
Speaker 1: who care about that and want a right wing fascist
Speaker 1: force UM taking over our society are going to vote
Speaker 1: for the Republicans anyway. UM. People who care about building
Speaker 1: and investing in communities are looking for leadership on on
Speaker 1: things that we actually know work, like better schools, early
Speaker 1: childhood education programs in communities run by the people who
Speaker 1: are most impacted by these problems. I will say this
Speaker 1: story before I let you go on. I know, I
Speaker 1: know why I'll let you go. I will say this
Speaker 1: so this is where I will disagree with you slightly.
Speaker 1: Time and time again, You'll find when you actually look
Speaker 1: at voting blocks, people do not have access to that
Speaker 1: information and so they do not vote accordingly. People will say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I just want crime in my neighborhood
Speaker 1: to go down. I feel like the Democrats are not
Speaker 1: serious about crime. I feel like, you know, we need
Speaker 1: better cops or more cops. I feel like because they
Speaker 1: maybe don't have the information or they haven't been given
Speaker 1: any possible solution that isn't policing, and so I think
Speaker 1: there's a difficult disconnect that may go back to if
Speaker 1: they read about it, if they see it, they would
Speaker 1: think about it as a possibility. So Alex, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining me on the show. They can
Speaker 1: tell me to thank you for your time and hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll chat again. Alex book usual fourties of Anything now
Speaker 1: and you can sign up for his pup again and
Speaker 1: use that for three on top back. All right, stay
Speaker 1: tuned because when we come back, they can larious Miss Pat,
Speaker 1: I'll be journey on show. I'll go away. Thank you God,
Speaker 1: thank you for the turn of pleasure. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: here show. My guest to like is a very funny
Speaker 1: comedian because you had to talk about her hit BT
Speaker 1: plus series, The Miss Pat Show. Please welcome Miss Pats.
Speaker 1: Chris Pat welcomes to the Dinner Show. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. I've been trying to get here for years.
Speaker 1: I made it. You made it. Heard mean, you made
Speaker 1: I feel like I made it talking to you. First
Speaker 1: things first, congratulations, you know it is so rare for
Speaker 1: a new show to come out in this like flooded
Speaker 1: market and get the recognition that yours has. Congratulations on
Speaker 1: the Emmy nomination for It's I don't know how to
Speaker 1: explain your should to people. I go, it's hilarious. It
Speaker 1: is also engaging. It feels like a sitcom but for
Speaker 1: grown folk. Like if you told me, if you pitched
Speaker 1: me and you said, I'm gonna make a show that's
Speaker 1: about um a life of selling crack, formally selling crack
Speaker 1: and sexual assault and also struggling as a single mother,
Speaker 1: and it's all gonna be funny. I be like, that's impossible,
Speaker 1: but you did it. I'd love to know how how
Speaker 1: do you how do you think I can make all
Speaker 1: of this funny? Well? I mean, this show was in
Speaker 1: the working for five years with Lee Daniels, and we
Speaker 1: went through three writers and he found somebody that can
Speaker 1: catch my voice and you know I'm a comedian, you know.
Speaker 1: He came up. He was like, Joini COOPI is my
Speaker 1: co creator. He's like, Oh, we're gonna do a Cusin
Speaker 1: sitcom and I'm like a cousin sitcom, I can curse
Speaker 1: And he was like, I think that would be great
Speaker 1: because I cursed in my real day life. You know,
Speaker 1: I cursed every day. Him tell it. I'm save on Saturdays,
Speaker 1: but because I don't, I don't want to go to
Speaker 1: church on Sunday. You have to tie. But we talk.
Speaker 1: You know what's what's great about this show as we
Speaker 1: talk everything that I've been through, and we threw it
Speaker 1: in with comedy because that's what I do with my
Speaker 1: real life stand up. I take the darkest things and
Speaker 1: I try to find it funny and then I tell people,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't change the past, so why why
Speaker 1: cry about it? So I talked to a less station
Speaker 1: and I made it funny. I talk getting shout in
Speaker 1: the back of the head and made it funny. You
Speaker 1: see the audience right now. I was gonna like, wait,
Speaker 1: what I could I could feel you? But but that
Speaker 1: is exactly what you do. Is you you use and
Speaker 1: I mean as comedians we understand this, but it's so
Speaker 1: rich to be able to translate that to an audience.
Speaker 1: You know you It feels authentic. You don't minimize the
Speaker 1: experiences and and every every single episode of the show
Speaker 1: brings you into a world that you may not be
Speaker 1: familiar with, but it makes you understand people, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's what I feel like your show does.
Speaker 1: It makes me understand someone who hasn't lived my life exactly,
Speaker 1: and well I take it. Well, we take it. And
Speaker 1: even though you haven't been through what I've been through,
Speaker 1: you probably know a miss pat or you probably know
Speaker 1: a victim, or you probably know somebody been through what
Speaker 1: I would have been through. You know, just because you
Speaker 1: haven't been molested, on mean nobody else haven't been molested.
Speaker 1: Just because you haven't been shot, don't mean nobody else
Speaker 1: haven't been shot. So we all kind of been through
Speaker 1: stuff with families and friend members. I just experience did
Speaker 1: and put it on TV with comedy. You put it
Speaker 1: on TV with comedy. You've been successful at doing it.
Speaker 1: You've got a wonderful cost that tells amazing stories. I
Speaker 1: would love to know where you see the series going
Speaker 1: from here? What do you hope to achieve? It's gonna
Speaker 1: show you the real path of my life as a
Speaker 1: comedian because I'm a comedian this show, so eventually, before
Speaker 1: they cut out the lights, I'm gonna become a famous comedian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm no food trap. I gotta end it before they
Speaker 1: turned out the life and let me give you the
Speaker 1: last episode. Let's end this thing right. It is such
Speaker 1: a wild story, you know. I sometimes people will hear
Speaker 1: my story and they go like, that doesn't sound real.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but it is really, but it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like Christ. And then I read your story. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is this is not real. One person couldn't have
Speaker 1: gone through all of this. What what is What is
Speaker 1: your secret beyond the comedy that you use as as
Speaker 1: a tool to process this information? Like where does your
Speaker 1: resilience come from as a human being? Um, I don't
Speaker 1: dwell on things I don't have control of. I cannot
Speaker 1: change the past. So and I'm you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big church going person, but I just learned when
Speaker 1: I could forgive the people who hum me, I can
Speaker 1: start to live. So my mother, my first kid's father,
Speaker 1: who shot me in the back of the head. Those
Speaker 1: were the two biggest devils in my life. So once
Speaker 1: I forgave them, I found happiness. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love that. I love the show. It's an honor to
Speaker 1: have you here, come back when you won all the Emmys,
Speaker 1: all the awards, super famous comedian. Everyone should watch your
Speaker 1: Netflix special and I hope you'll join us again and
Speaker 1: again and again, again and again and again. Miss Pat,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for Thank you so much. For
Speaker 1: upcoming stand up dates. Check out Miss Pat Comedy dot com,
Speaker 1: and don't forget. Season two of The Miss Pat Show
Speaker 1: for Me is August eleven on BT pluck. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take you a quick break. We'll be right back after this.
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