Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. I saw, I went. I
Speaker 1: went to South Africa this weekend. It was really fun trip.
Speaker 1: Points to see family, went to see friends and everybody.
Speaker 1: And so this is so cool because I'm in South
Speaker 1: Africa and I'll obviously meet people who know me. They've
Speaker 1: known me like for many years, either from my life
Speaker 1: or from the comedy or whatever. And so I got
Speaker 1: to get my COVID test to fly back to the
Speaker 1: US and one of the guys who's there like taking
Speaker 1: the payment. He's like, he's like, hey, Trevor. He's like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of yours. Bro. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, dude, thank you very much. He's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you make us so proud in South Africa. We love
Speaker 1: what you do. Then I was like, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: thank you. He's like, ah, but Trevor, I've got one question.
Speaker 1: And my man, so I'm not what supposed the question.
Speaker 1: He's like, Trevor, why do you change your accent when
Speaker 1: you're not MERI come amen, now, mind you. He's just
Speaker 1: changed his accent while he's saying this to me, right,
Speaker 1: So I go like, what do you mean? So he's
Speaker 1: like Trevor um Man. When you're talking there in America,
Speaker 1: you like everything you say it sounds so like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's almost American. And I'm like, no, that's that's how
Speaker 1: I talk. He's yeah, I know, but why don't you
Speaker 1: like make it more African? You know? So I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean. He's like, yeah, like I saw
Speaker 1: you in coming to America. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: that accent, that's the one you should do. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: so you want me to go on the Daily Show
Speaker 1: and be like, hello, everybody, my name is Trevor Noah.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daivly Show. And he's like, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: you can do it. And I was like, but that's
Speaker 1: not my actual accent. It's like, that's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is travel. They must know this accents out
Speaker 1: there when you're doing the Daily Show. They must be like, wow,
Speaker 1: oh man, this accent. It's out there doing things. I
Speaker 1: was like, you're gonna get me canceled in America. Like,
Speaker 1: they can't cancel you, but we must tell them to
Speaker 1: come to me. I was like, they don't know you.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, he must introduce me. Like literally, this
Speaker 1: guy was like when he changed his accent to tell
Speaker 1: me the story, like because in South Africa, everyone you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, people could rich all the time.
Speaker 1: You talk to your grandmother differently. But now the guys like, now,
Speaker 1: I imagine part of me wanted to do it, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, because I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what people would say if I just came here and
Speaker 1: then I was just like, welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Trevor Noah. Let's catch up onto this headline in
Speaker 1: the Congress. And then people be like, what is he doing?
Speaker 1: And then they cancel me. They'll be like, you can't
Speaker 1: talk like that. Then I'll be actually, the accents fake,
Speaker 1: Now I cancel you. Coming to you from the heart
Speaker 1: of Times where in New York City, the only city
Speaker 1: in America. It's The Daily Show. Here's adition tonight trucks
Speaker 1: in vad Canada. Joe Rogan has the floying representative Verbroa Lee.
Speaker 1: This is the Daily Show with Trevor no Hey, what's
Speaker 1: going on, everybody. Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor
Speaker 1: no Let's jump straight into today's headlines. We kick things
Speaker 1: off with the presidents of the United States, Donald Jimminy Trump.
Speaker 1: Trump is basically the ex that America kicked out for
Speaker 1: throwing an open house party at the Capitol, and like
Speaker 1: many exes, he really wants a second chance. But instead
Speaker 1: of promising to do better next time, he's threatening to
Speaker 1: do even worse. Former President Trump returned to the campaign
Speaker 1: trail so to speak in Texas last night, and during
Speaker 1: this rally, Trump said E would consider partnering those prosecuted
Speaker 1: for attack in the US capital on January six. If
Speaker 1: I run and if I win, we will treat those
Speaker 1: people from January six fairly, and if it requires pardons,
Speaker 1: we will give them pardons because they are being treated
Speaker 1: so unfairly. Trump also urged his supporters to hold massive
Speaker 1: protests and cities like New York, Atlanta, and wash ind C.
Speaker 1: If prosecutors investigating him in those cities bring charges against him.
Speaker 1: If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal,
Speaker 1: I hope we are going to have in this country
Speaker 1: the biggest protests we have ever had. In reality, they're
Speaker 1: not after me, they're after you. And I just happened
Speaker 1: to be the person that's in the way. He oh
Speaker 1: oh Man, Donald Trump is the greatest convent of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything this guy said. Everything he said. I mean part
Speaker 1: of it was like the racist person, who are they
Speaker 1: racist too? Who is racist in this thing too? Donald Trump? Huh?
Speaker 1: And if you think about it, like it's really smart
Speaker 1: what he's saying, because he could have pardoned all of
Speaker 1: his people when January six happened, you realize that, right,
Speaker 1: he was the president, but he didn't pardon them. He
Speaker 1: let them get prosecuted and now they're all going to jail.
Speaker 1: He let this happen. But now that his asses on
Speaker 1: the line, now he's like, man, if I was president,
Speaker 1: if I was president, I would have never let this
Speaker 1: happen to you, But you did. It's like some dirtbag
Speaker 1: being like, let me tell you something. If you were
Speaker 1: my girl. But I'm your wife. Yeah, but if you
Speaker 1: were my girl, ship wouldn't have happened. Baby. You gotta admit.
Speaker 1: Trump leans on his supporters really hard. I mean, first
Speaker 1: they had to storm the Capitol because he lost the election.
Speaker 1: Then their donations went to his legal fees because he's
Speaker 1: always getting sued. Now they have to protest if he
Speaker 1: gets charged. Like, where does it end if Trump does
Speaker 1: go to prison? Is he gonna make these poor people's
Speaker 1: smuggle cigarettes up there, but they're worth more unopened, so
Speaker 1: make sure you get the whole carton up in there
Speaker 1: and don't clench. It'll squish the filters. Anyway, moving on
Speaker 1: from Donald Trump to push Donald Trump. Boris Johnson, the
Speaker 1: British Prime Minister and guy who starts every morning sticking
Speaker 1: a forking electrical outlets, has been in quite a spot
Speaker 1: of bother lately, which means it's time for another installment
Speaker 1: of keep calm and party on. British Prime Minister Boris
Speaker 1: Johnson just apologize to Parliament after a damning independent report
Speaker 1: was released this morning which condemns quote failures of leadership
Speaker 1: and judgment by Johnson's office over those parties at ten
Speaker 1: Downey Street held during COVID lockdowns, the government being scolded
Speaker 1: like children. The report says there were serious failures to
Speaker 1: observe the high standards. It says that excessive alcohol shouldn't
Speaker 1: be drunk at the workplace. It repeatedly describes the culture
Speaker 1: of drinking and party. Boris Johnson was back in Parliament
Speaker 1: to try to justify the unjustifiable. Mr Speaker. I get
Speaker 1: it and I will fix it and I want to say,
Speaker 1: and I want to say to the people of this country,
Speaker 1: I know what the issue is, yes, Mrs Speaker, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's whether this government can be trusted to deliver. And
Speaker 1: I say, Mr Speaker, yes we can be trusted. Yes,
Speaker 1: we can be trusted to deliver. I love how he's like,
Speaker 1: I identify the problem. I know what the Yeah, you
Speaker 1: made the problem. Of course you know what the problem is.
Speaker 1: Guys have solved it because I did it. But yes,
Speaker 1: according to this investigation by Johnson's office, had a culture
Speaker 1: of drinking and partying throughout the pandemic. And I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I'd be more convinced that Boris could fix it if
Speaker 1: he didn't always look like an upside down guy doing
Speaker 1: a keg stand. I'm gonna say my my favorite part
Speaker 1: about this whole scandal is actually how high school it
Speaker 1: is to get caught having a party. Let me think
Speaker 1: about that's the level of scandal. Other world leaders are
Speaker 1: staging coups and invading other countries. Meanwhile, Boris is filling
Speaker 1: vodka bottles up with water like hurry, hurry, the Queen
Speaker 1: will be home soon. All right, But let's move on
Speaker 1: to our top story. Which takes place in Canada, friendliest
Speaker 1: country in the world if you don't count the French parts.
Speaker 1: Today the news broke that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID. And this is just another reminder
Speaker 1: of how contagious this virus is. Even if you're vaxed,
Speaker 1: boosted and in disguise, half of the time, COVID will
Speaker 1: still find you. Now, because he's vaccinated, Trudeo was handling
Speaker 1: the I was just fine. And that's good news for
Speaker 1: him because it turns out he's got a much bigger
Speaker 1: problem to worry about right now. A group of Canadian
Speaker 1: truck drivers calling themselves the Freedom Convoy tying up the
Speaker 1: streets of Ottawa. Thousands flooded the streets over the weekend.
Speaker 1: If the truckers are using their rigs to block streets
Speaker 1: and even the entrance to Parliament. The demonstrations were initially
Speaker 1: aimed at pushback against vaccine mandates for truck drivers crossing
Speaker 1: the US Canada border, but the movement escalated into an
Speaker 1: expression of disapproval with the Canadian government's COVID nineteen policies.
Speaker 1: This convoy is all about freedom. It's not only with
Speaker 1: the truck drivers. It's actually for every single person you
Speaker 1: re buddy down the road. It doesn't matter. Um, it's
Speaker 1: all about your free choice. You can't lock up healthy
Speaker 1: people and expect them to remain healthy. Okay, so the
Speaker 1: children have not been at school. I personally believe that
Speaker 1: is wrong. Um, they we need to drop them. I
Speaker 1: shot the manatee and started living our lives again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what this woman is saying is probably poignant. I can't tell.
Speaker 1: I can barely hear anything over the honking. Watching this
Speaker 1: made me feel bad for anyone who's actually stuck in
Speaker 1: that traffic all day, because you realize, if you were
Speaker 1: stuck in the traffic, your honk sounds exactly as the
Speaker 1: protest honk. Can't separate the two. He's like, pap pa, papa,
Speaker 1: pap Hey, I'm like for work. That's right, brother, down
Speaker 1: with the vaccines. But yeah, thousands of these truckers have
Speaker 1: ground Canada's capital city to a halt. And I'm awful vaccines,
Speaker 1: But I do get why the truck is wouldn't think
Speaker 1: that they need them. I mean, think about it. They
Speaker 1: spent all day every day alone in their trucks. The
Speaker 1: only person they would give COVID too, are the hitchhikers
Speaker 1: that they'll murder or get murdered by. Either way, COVID
Speaker 1: isn't their biggest problem, is what I'm saying. Not. What
Speaker 1: I don't understand is why trucks are opposed to mosques.
Speaker 1: I don't get that. I mean, mosques are just mud
Speaker 1: flaps for your face. You just put a sexy lady
Speaker 1: silhouette on it and you feel right at home. And
Speaker 1: these COVID protests in Canada are nothing new by the way, right,
Speaker 1: Actually they're not new any way in the world. Like,
Speaker 1: you can walk around outside basically any day and you
Speaker 1: will see people yelling about how they are not allowed
Speaker 1: to go outside to do exactly what they're doing. But
Speaker 1: if you live in Ottawa, well it turns out you
Speaker 1: might be seeing this particular protest for a really, really
Speaker 1: long time. The people who have organized this say that
Speaker 1: they will stay out there months if needed. They have
Speaker 1: raised well over six million dollars US to their fund
Speaker 1: on the go fund me page. The truckers say they're
Speaker 1: prepared to stay for months as long as they have fuel.
Speaker 1: You're prepared to stay for a month. I got a
Speaker 1: month worth of food in there. These are people who
Speaker 1: have arrived, you know, since Friday in through the rest
Speaker 1: of this Saturday, and planned to stay here. Many of
Speaker 1: them say until their demands are Matt damn. You can
Speaker 1: really feel these truckers passion. I mean you can't hear
Speaker 1: it because they're honking, will everything. But still you heard them.
Speaker 1: You know, they say that they're going to be there
Speaker 1: for as long as it takes, and I believe them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody's more prepared for a month long protest than a trucker.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. They have all of our
Speaker 1: stuff in the back of their trucks. Next month, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see one of them giving an interview wearing the
Speaker 1: snuggy that you ordered for Christmas. And it's not just
Speaker 1: having the supplies. By the way, truckers make very effective protests,
Speaker 1: like they can make a lot of noise. They used
Speaker 1: to being away from home, and police are afraid to
Speaker 1: confront them because any one of those trucks could just
Speaker 1: turn into a transformer. That ship is too risky. Of course,
Speaker 1: street protests in general are a healthy part of any democracy,
Speaker 1: you know, like putting up campaign posters or drawing dicks
Speaker 1: on campaign posters. But things got a little out of hand.
Speaker 1: In Ottawa win, some of the freedom protesters decided they
Speaker 1: wanted a little more freedom than most people were comfortable with. Well,
Speaker 1: much of the protests was peaceful. This morning, police are
Speaker 1: investigating some incidents involving the desecration of national monuments, including
Speaker 1: Canada's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Last night, another protester
Speaker 1: was seen climbing onto the monument. This morning, it was
Speaker 1: marked with urine states the swastika flags. Senior protests denounced
Speaker 1: by two Conservative MPs who had openly supported the convoy.
Speaker 1: At this shelter in Ottawa Stops, they protesters showed up
Speaker 1: last night demanding food meant for the homeless. One member
Speaker 1: was assaulted and a security guard was called a racial
Speaker 1: slurve Wow Nazi flags, peeing on war memorials, shouting racial slurs,
Speaker 1: and homeless shelters. Honestly, it's kind of refreshing to see
Speaker 1: Canadians break the stereotype, although maybe they did all of
Speaker 1: this in like a very polite way, go back to
Speaker 1: where you came from, A I'll give you a ride
Speaker 1: if you want. I do kind of feel bad for
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the protesters who are Nazis. Though, because,
Speaker 1: like I mean, people, let's admit it. Once a Nazi
Speaker 1: flag shows up at a rally, the whole thing has
Speaker 1: just turned into a Nazi rally. You know. It's like
Speaker 1: when you put the cantlope and a fruit salad. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what other fruits are in there, it'll taste
Speaker 1: like cantlope. Now, cantalope is the Hitler fruit, is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Well, for more on the saga, let's go
Speaker 1: now to Desili, who is live at the protests. Desi,
Speaker 1: what's the latest on this truck of protests, Trevor? If
Speaker 1: one thing? Desi? Sorry? Can you can you say that
Speaker 1: all again? Please? The horns were drowning you out. We
Speaker 1: couldn't hear anything. Guys, could you please stop honking? I
Speaker 1: mean like the penis of a starfish? Sorry, Desi, the
Speaker 1: horn honking was too loud except for the starfish penis,
Speaker 1: which actually, you know what, it doesn't really matter. Actually,
Speaker 1: could you just tell us what's happening right now in Canada?
Speaker 1: Where's this going? Yeah? You know what, let me try
Speaker 1: morse code most code. Yeah, because we're both ship captains
Speaker 1: in the nineteenth century. Okay, what are you going to
Speaker 1: honk out your message. Jesus, haven't done this in so long.
Speaker 1: If one thing is clear, it's the thorns are too loud.
Speaker 1: I mean I knew that you didn't have to mosque
Speaker 1: you know what day. This was a huge waste of time.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Oh no, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for sending me after phrasing cold Canada, your asshole. Oh
Speaker 1: now you stop honking? Well that was awkward. All right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll be talking about the fallout
Speaker 1: with Joe Rogan and Spotify. You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: Are they honking for me? Now? But here? Still in
Speaker 1: my job right right? Oh yeah, your job doesn't go anywhere, dizzy,
Speaker 1: you're cutting out. I can't hear you. Your job doesn't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. I don't I think I think I heard
Speaker 1: you say that I still have my job. Yes, yes, so,
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, I mean, you all know the story, and
Speaker 1: if you don't know, it's I envy the world that
Speaker 1: you live in where news just doesn't come to you. Um.
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan had to respond finally to the whole Spotify
Speaker 1: um Neil Young thing, because I'm sure you remember Neil
Speaker 1: Young came out right and he was like, I'm sick
Speaker 1: of Joe Rogan spreading all of this misinformation about vaccines.
Speaker 1: If Spotify is gonna let him, like, um, say all
Speaker 1: of this trash on the app, then I want them
Speaker 1: to take my music off. So then Spotify was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well we'll take your music off your Neil Young.
Speaker 1: This is Joe Rogan. We've paid him millions of dollars,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like, and I get
Speaker 1: it because Spotify was never gonna quit Joe Rogan. You
Speaker 1: give got a hundred million dollars, You're gonna keep the
Speaker 1: guy that you gave a hundred million dollars to because
Speaker 1: you spent the money. It's the same reason I still
Speaker 1: drink Tummy t I bought it in bulk. Well, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make me ship, but I spent my money. I
Speaker 1: don't approve of it, but that's life. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people said Neil Young was an idiot for going
Speaker 1: up against Spotify. I'm not gonna lie. I didn't think
Speaker 1: this was gonna do anything like even me as sure.
Speaker 1: I was like, Neil Young, thank you for laying your
Speaker 1: life down and things are just going to carry on.
Speaker 1: But it turns out one person can start a movement
Speaker 1: because over the weekend, um, Joni Mitchell said Spotify take
Speaker 1: off my music as well, and then people were like,
Speaker 1: oh ship, we know Joni Mitchell. And then Burnee Brown
Speaker 1: came out and she was like, my podcast, I'm not
Speaker 1: putting any more episodes up. And that's huge because Burnee
Speaker 1: Brown is like Oprah's therapist, and I mean, think about it,
Speaker 1: that's huge because Oprah is our therapist. And then on
Speaker 1: top of that, Harry and Megan came out and they
Speaker 1: were like, we have concerns and that seems calm, but
Speaker 1: for British people, we have concerns. Basically means oh no.
Speaker 1: So things got big over the weekend. And then on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Joe Rogan comes out and he issues his
Speaker 1: own apology. Right, this is how big this thing got.
Speaker 1: And so like after you watch that apology, there's there's
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that I wanted to say
Speaker 1: about it, um Number one, In my opinion, I actually
Speaker 1: thought it was a pretty classy apology from Joe Rogan,
Speaker 1: you know, for him to say I can do better.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to spread misinformation. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: will try and do a better job at this. I
Speaker 1: actually thought it was pretty classy. And I know some
Speaker 1: people are gonna say, yeah, the only reason he's saying
Speaker 1: sorry is because his bosses are making him say sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but bosses are not guys. Let's be honest. In this
Speaker 1: society we live in these days, who says I'm sorry
Speaker 1: and I made a mistake and I don't have all
Speaker 1: the answers I'm just trying to do. But people don't
Speaker 1: say that anymore. Nobody admits to making mistakes anymore. You know.
Speaker 1: I was half expecting Joe Rogan's coming and be like, guys,
Speaker 1: my podcast was hacked. That wasn't me. But instead he
Speaker 1: owned up to it. I thought it was pretty dope.
Speaker 1: It was refreshing, you know. Secondly, I also like that
Speaker 1: he said I'm still a Neil Young fan, even though
Speaker 1: Neil Young was against his views in those podcasts. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think that was nice. It's
Speaker 1: nice to live in the world where we can say
Speaker 1: I don't agree with you, but I still like you,
Speaker 1: because that used to be a thing that we could
Speaker 1: do as people. You know, Now we've just turned into
Speaker 1: a group of people who are like, I hate you.
Speaker 1: I hate you because you said the thing opposite. I
Speaker 1: don't get away I disagree with you. You mom, Now
Speaker 1: you don't talk to your mom anymore, you know. Like
Speaker 1: I like that he said that. I like a lot
Speaker 1: of people who I don't agree with on everything. Like
Speaker 1: I don't believe that Uptown Fund is going to give
Speaker 1: it to me, But I still love Bruno Mars. We
Speaker 1: agree to disagree the society right and and and also
Speaker 1: I think this is this is like a really complicated
Speaker 1: point to make. Maybe is this is this? Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: says that he brings on people who he doesn't agree
Speaker 1: with all the time. But people are pulling a handful
Speaker 1: of episodes out and they're angry about those episodes. Theyre
Speaker 1: saying he spreads misinformation. Now here's what I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to defend Joe Rogan, and somebody's maybe gonna do it
Speaker 1: to me. They're gonna take a part out and go
Speaker 1: Trevior defends Joe Rogan, Travis, whatever it is, I don't
Speaker 1: I myself am saying this. I understand the nuance of
Speaker 1: this point. Joe Rogan makes a ship ton of podcast
Speaker 1: and in those podcasts, they were like maybe two podcasts
Speaker 1: or so where people like, we don't like what you
Speaker 1: what you said there, But he's not wrong in saying
Speaker 1: that he sometimes brings people on who say the opposite
Speaker 1: point to that. And the reason we know that that's
Speaker 1: true is because we've all seen that clip of Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan's where he's on his show being corrected by somebody
Speaker 1: on his show. So he's not lying when he says
Speaker 1: he brings people on to correct him. And we saw
Speaker 1: the correction in live like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: happened in real time on his show, So I go, yes,
Speaker 1: he does bring that stuff on. But because of the
Speaker 1: Internet age we live in, we should on people based
Speaker 1: on the little that we see of them. We don't
Speaker 1: give them the full context. People are like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna listen to hours and hours of Joe Rogan. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna get angry about this and move on with
Speaker 1: my life. So in his defense, I get that part
Speaker 1: of what he's saying, right, I get it, But everything
Speaker 1: in life needs context. Like if you cut out one part,
Speaker 1: then sometimes you can lose it, you know, because you
Speaker 1: can watch a movie and then just cut out a
Speaker 1: clip and you'll be like, oh, is this a movie
Speaker 1: about some guy? Hooking up with his sister, and you're like, no,
Speaker 1: this is Star Wars. There's a lot more ship. The
Speaker 1: context is very important, is what I'm saying. Right, Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan does. He talks about M M A. He has
Speaker 1: authors on really cool authors. Sometimes you know, he talks
Speaker 1: to real doctors who disagree with him, etcetera, etcetera. Say
Speaker 1: he does he does that. In Joe Rogan's defense, I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm saying that now, but now you know,
Speaker 1: I also want to live in a reasonable world. In
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan's defense, he does bring other people on now here.
Speaker 1: He has the issue that I have with the lip though.
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan then goes on to say, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to spread misinformation, but let's be honest. A lot of
Speaker 1: the things that we're saying now you would be banned
Speaker 1: for saying a long time ago, right, And he says like,
Speaker 1: remember a lot of things that we said months ago,
Speaker 1: like they weren't considered true, but now they're true. And
Speaker 1: and and I've noticed this trend starting to happen where
Speaker 1: people are using what I like to call like broken
Speaker 1: clock techniques, where they're going like it wasn't floor at
Speaker 1: four o'clock earlier, But it's four o'clock now, yeah, you
Speaker 1: were wrong. Then at some point it will be four o'clock.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that now you were right all along.
Speaker 1: You can't just wait at the time. What's the time
Speaker 1: four o'clock? No, what's the time four o'clock? No, what's
Speaker 1: the time four o'clock? No, what's the time four o'clock? Yes,
Speaker 1: I told you I was right all along. No, at
Speaker 1: some point you may be right. Because here's the thing
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Joe Rogan himself, but I know Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan has not been a COVID vaccine fan. Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: and a lot of people like him were like, the
Speaker 1: vaccines are bullshit, They're useless, right, And now they're saying, look,
Speaker 1: we were right, We're right. No, oh, Micron gets through
Speaker 1: the vaccine. Vaccines will still save your mother's life. Have
Speaker 1: you seen the numbers the rates of people dying, the
Speaker 1: rates of people getting sick. If you don't have it's
Speaker 1: like seven point eight out of a hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: can die. And then when you take the vaccine it's
Speaker 1: like nothing. And then when you go down to the boosters,
Speaker 1: like even less than nothing to get what I'm saying. Oh,
Speaker 1: Macron changed that. You can't say that like I was
Speaker 1: right all along when I became right. No, you were
Speaker 1: wrong all along, and then now things changed, and now
Speaker 1: you're not as wrong as you were. That's the first
Speaker 1: point for me, you know. So the second thing he
Speaker 1: said as well, and he's like, if you said cloth
Speaker 1: masks were useless back then you would be banned. You weren't.
Speaker 1: You weren't banned for saying that. Four months. There's been
Speaker 1: researched on the types of masques. That's another issue I have.
Speaker 1: People are taking the words and then they're just cutting
Speaker 1: a few words on and be like, you see, the
Speaker 1: right masters are useless. No, cloth masks are basically useless.
Speaker 1: Cloth masks, right masks still work, but now people are
Speaker 1: using cloth masks to negate all the other ship. You
Speaker 1: see all masters. No, my friend, what we've realized is
Speaker 1: knitted condoms don't work. Condoms still work. You can't black
Speaker 1: I told you condoms don't work. No, No, no, knitted condoms.
Speaker 1: Let's be specific about which ones we're talking about. Again.
Speaker 1: In Joe Rogan's defense, I can't believe I've said the
Speaker 1: sentence so many times. The thing about COVID coming from
Speaker 1: a lab that could get your post removed from social media. Again,
Speaker 1: it didn't get you banned, but that is a thing
Speaker 1: where people like, oh, this is a theory. And for
Speaker 1: a long time, because of racism towards Asian people, people
Speaker 1: were really sensitive about that because they were just like,
Speaker 1: are you Chinese? People came with this from your house?
Speaker 1: That's how people were saying it. Jur Organ's like, no,
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying it like that. It's a misinformation. I
Speaker 1: understand that part, you know what I mean, But people
Speaker 1: mustn't make it like, oh, no, we were right all along.
Speaker 1: This ship has proved everybody wrong in every different way.
Speaker 1: You know, this proved so many people wrong. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying Joe Organ's trying to spreads misinformation, and he is right.
Speaker 1: It is just a conversation. But conversations change with context,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? You can say anyone,
Speaker 1: you can say the election was stolen, ain't no thing
Speaker 1: about a chicken wing. But when you're the president of
Speaker 1: the United States and you say the election was stolen,
Speaker 1: the context changed. You can't be like I was just
Speaker 1: having a conversation, you know, just me and my people
Speaker 1: shooting the ship. It changes a lot, and I think
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan acknowledges that. He goes like, Yo, I have
Speaker 1: millions of people listening to me, So now I have
Speaker 1: to be responsible because now I have a boss called Spotify,
Speaker 1: and now you guys are listening to me. It's the
Speaker 1: gift and the curse. You can say whatever you want
Speaker 1: when nobody's listening, and then when everyone's listening, now you
Speaker 1: have to be responsible. I mean, it's the same rules
Speaker 1: as like a penis when no one's around, do whatever
Speaker 1: you want. When there's people all responsibility in the world.
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be a headline. Trevor No defends Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1: That's all They're gonna cut out or Trevor No slams
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. Now it's like, I don't there's no you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So Welcome to the Internet. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is Barbara Lee,
Speaker 1: the highest ranking African American woman in Congress. She's there
Speaker 1: to talk about current challenges facing Congress and the documentary
Speaker 1: about speaking truth to power throughout her career. Representative Barbara Lee,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show having to be with you.
Speaker 1: It's an honor. Really, No, I think the honor is
Speaker 1: mine because you know, I've known a little bit about
Speaker 1: you over the years, but you have a documentary that
Speaker 1: has just come out about your life, and there are
Speaker 1: honestly few people who have acted in movies that have
Speaker 1: a story as amazing as yours is in real life.
Speaker 1: You know you you grew up in a world where
Speaker 1: you lived in a segregated community. Your mother almost died
Speaker 1: giving birth to you because she was a black woman
Speaker 1: and people wouldn't help her in the hospitals. You know
Speaker 1: you you went through domestic abuse as a wife who
Speaker 1: had to escape a husband where the law wouldn't protect you.
Speaker 1: You have lived such a journey and to see you
Speaker 1: here now as a congress person who's been serving for
Speaker 1: over two decades, you know, with it us who love her,
Speaker 1: is quite the journey. When you watched this movie, did
Speaker 1: were you also shocked at the life that you've lived,
Speaker 1: Because I know sometimes people forget Trevor. First of all, Uh, yes,
Speaker 1: I was, and it was very humbling for me. And
Speaker 1: I just have to take a moment and give credit
Speaker 1: to Abby Ginsburg, who actually tracked me down and forced
Speaker 1: me to do this film because I was an unwilling subject,
Speaker 1: and she took it took twice as long to do
Speaker 1: the film because of me. Because this is my life,
Speaker 1: and you know, I believe that so much of what
Speaker 1: I have been through, uh really has been reflective of
Speaker 1: what so many others have gone through in this country,
Speaker 1: especially young African American women, women and black people in general.
Speaker 1: It's not for myself that I've done what I have
Speaker 1: done and tried to break down barriers and you know,
Speaker 1: move forward, but it's for others, because you know, everyone
Speaker 1: deserves the quality of life that this country provides for
Speaker 1: everyone else, and black lives you met. Hopefully young people
Speaker 1: especially will see the lessons in my life. I think
Speaker 1: many many young people have. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's apt that you mentioned black lives matter, because your
Speaker 1: name cannot be separated from the struggle in the United States.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not just fighting for people's freedoms, but
Speaker 1: also fighting an unpopular fights. I mean, you were working
Speaker 1: with the Black Panthers for you know, a long period
Speaker 1: where many people labeled them as terrorists. Only today people
Speaker 1: are starting to realize that man who the US government
Speaker 1: really did a number on people with this organization. But
Speaker 1: you were working in many unpopular positions, fighting for the
Speaker 1: liberation of poor people in particular, And and when you
Speaker 1: got to Congress, there were many people who said, whatever
Speaker 1: you do, do not say the word poverty. Please, don't
Speaker 1: bring poverty into politics, and you did just the opposite.
Speaker 1: Tell me why whatever, I had had to do that because,
Speaker 1: first of all, yes, I was a unity worker with
Speaker 1: the Black Panther Party, and the Black Panther Party had
Speaker 1: a ten point program, and that program was about feeding
Speaker 1: hungry children, right, about medical care that was inaccessible to
Speaker 1: low income people, black people, people of color. It was
Speaker 1: about providing the shoes, which we did clothing. It was
Speaker 1: really about providing for the basics in terms of just
Speaker 1: survival so that we could move forward to change the
Speaker 1: conditions that give rise to all of these very unbelievable
Speaker 1: injustices and the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when I came to Congress, I mean it's
Speaker 1: like I come as Barbara Lity, my experiences, experiences matter,
Speaker 1: and so I had to fight like you and I
Speaker 1: believe to get Democrats to yes, continue to talk about
Speaker 1: fighting for the middle class, But what about low wealth people,
Speaker 1: what about low income people, about poor people, about working
Speaker 1: people who worked two jobs and still lived a little
Speaker 1: bit poverty life. So that was an uphill battle. But
Speaker 1: everything is toevor, you know. And so we finally broke through.
Speaker 1: And now I hear the pass Force on Poverty and
Speaker 1: Opportunity and we have close to one behind your members
Speaker 1: on that task force. And every issue, especially now with
Speaker 1: buying administration, intersects with race and income inequality, and so
Speaker 1: we're trying to really look at legislation and funding priorities
Speaker 1: in the context of what will live people out of
Speaker 1: poverty so that they can go and live their lives
Speaker 1: and take care of their families. Um, some people may
Speaker 1: remember your name or even your face from maybe one
Speaker 1: of the scariest fights I think that you've ever taken
Speaker 1: upon yourself, and that is fighting against George Bush going
Speaker 1: into Iraq. In fact, you were the only dissenting voice
Speaker 1: at a time when every American, almost every American, said
Speaker 1: let's go in and let's bomb people. You said this
Speaker 1: is not the right thing. You've got death threats. You
Speaker 1: were vilified across the board. I guess my question, my
Speaker 1: question has two parts to it's is number one. When
Speaker 1: you were doing that, did you not think yourself, this
Speaker 1: could be the worst mistake I'm making because although I
Speaker 1: know I'm right, I know that the cost that I
Speaker 1: will pay maybe two greats. And the second part of
Speaker 1: it is looking at the crisis happening right now at
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian border. Are you now in another position where
Speaker 1: you're saying to your colleagues, hey, let's breathe and think
Speaker 1: about the ultimate cost of war before we act to
Speaker 1: every Let me just first say I come from military family.
Speaker 1: My dad retired to lieutenant colonel in the Army. He
Speaker 1: served in the segregade and ninety second Infantry in Italy
Speaker 1: supporting the Normandy invasion. I know what war is about.
Speaker 1: My dad was the first person who called me. And
Speaker 1: this was the vote right after the horrific, terrible events
Speaker 1: of nine eleven where the country was angry and mourning
Speaker 1: and had wanted us to do something. When the authorization
Speaker 1: came three days, mind you, after these terrible events. Sixty words,
Speaker 1: it was a blank check and all it said, basically
Speaker 1: was any president can go to war any time he
Speaker 1: or she wants to. Of away Congress's responsibility on an
Speaker 1: articleitude where Congress is supposed to be the final decision
Speaker 1: maker on going to world We gave it to any president.
Speaker 1: That was twenty one years ago, now, right, That was outrageous.
Speaker 1: My dad was the first person who called me after
Speaker 1: that vote, and he said that was the right vote.
Speaker 1: He said, do not send our troops in harms way,
Speaker 1: do not do any action right now three days nine
Speaker 1: and fourteen, that's when it was, September fourteen. Give it
Speaker 1: a little bit of time, be rationally think through the
Speaker 1: implications of what you're about to do. So, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a rough time, death threats, I mean, it was
Speaker 1: a horrible time. But I had to be ready for
Speaker 1: that because you know, we're elected Trevor to lead. And
Speaker 1: so fast forward to today. First of all, uh, I
Speaker 1: really believe and I've been to Ukraine UH in two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, and I understand Russian aggression and what's taking
Speaker 1: place there very clearly. And I believe very clearly that
Speaker 1: Ukraine is a sovereign country and it has the right
Speaker 1: to determine its allies and its alliances. And I think
Speaker 1: that the Biden administration is doing the right thing by
Speaker 1: by exercising a strong diplomatic initiative. But we can't mess
Speaker 1: that up. We've got allowed ephalmacy to work. We cannot
Speaker 1: And I'm concerned about sending troops and hard military hardware
Speaker 1: because even though the President has said we're not going
Speaker 1: to enter into combat operation, I believe him. I know
Speaker 1: he does not want to do that. He supports my
Speaker 1: repeal of the authorization of the youth support, so I
Speaker 1: know this president really wants a diplomatic solution. What I'm
Speaker 1: concerned about is a miscalculation. Errors can occur. Our troops
Speaker 1: could be there and something could happen, and then they
Speaker 1: would have to take the offense for We talked about sanctions,
Speaker 1: we talk about what would bring putin to the table
Speaker 1: UH and getting him to back off of his aggression.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if if sanctions are gonna help or
Speaker 1: hurt him, because he wants to do what he wants
Speaker 1: to do, and we'll it aggravate the and include efforts
Speaker 1: in his mind to escalate even further. So we have
Speaker 1: to calibrate this very careful. I really hope that we
Speaker 1: let diplomacy work and not do anything that's going to
Speaker 1: exacerbate or escalate what is taking place. Now because Putin
Speaker 1: we know what he wants to do in Europe and
Speaker 1: in Eastern Europe, especially in with Ukraine, and it's very dangerous.
Speaker 1: So we've got to do everything to continue on the
Speaker 1: path of the Clois Well representative. Probably thank you so
Speaker 1: much for taking the time, and thank you for finally
Speaker 1: allowing them to tell an amazing story of the life
Speaker 1: that you've lived. Well, thank you to ever. Thank you
Speaker 1: abb Agains actually made me do it. I will do.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Bubbaly Speaking Truth to Power premiers
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