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Speaker 3: Welcome in the Daily Show. I'm Jennie Lighteck.
Speaker 4: You've got so much to talk about tonight. The Capitol
Speaker 4: bathroom has become a war zone. Thanksgiving Turkey is a lie,
Speaker 4: and Matt Gates finishes too soon. Let's get into the headline.
Speaker 4: Let's pick things off with some breaking news. If you've
Speaker 4: ever dreamed of being an attorney general, update your resume
Speaker 4: because they have an opening.
Speaker 5: Major breaking news.
Speaker 2: President ELEC.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General is out.
Speaker 6: Matt Gates says he is withdrawing his name from.
Speaker 5: Consideration from himself.
Speaker 1: Has put out a statement, Matt has a wonderful future
Speaker 1: and I look forward to watching all of the great
Speaker 1: things that he will do.
Speaker 4: Oh you want to watch all the great things Matt
Speaker 4: Gates will do?
Speaker 3: Might I suggest downloading the Citizens app?
Speaker 4: But yes, this this was a shocking announcement from the
Speaker 4: Trunk team, and as you can say, no one was
Speaker 4: more surprised than Matt Gates. What a week Gates has
Speaker 4: had he resigned from Congress, everyone talked NonStop about how
Speaker 4: he's a sex criminal and a pedophile and now he
Speaker 4: doesn't even get to be Attorney general. This guy is
Speaker 4: so hard that he had to venmo himself. Ten grands
Speaker 4: pour out a Caprice's son for one of the goats.
Speaker 4: But let's move on. We've all heard the official story
Speaker 4: of the twenty twenty four election. According to the pundits,
Speaker 4: the Democrats were obsessed with woke. They then politics that
Speaker 4: didn't connect with voters, while Republicans were talking about real
Speaker 4: issues that affect people day to day. So now Republicans
Speaker 4: are in charge of both houses of Congress. So let's
Speaker 4: hear about the economy.
Speaker 6: On Capitol Hill, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson took
Speaker 6: aim of Democrat Sarah McBride, the first trans member of
Speaker 6: Congress eight borrowed transgender people from using the Capitol Complex
Speaker 6: bathrooms that do not align with the sex assigned at birth.
Speaker 4: Hmm, okay, forget about the economy. I guess the national
Speaker 4: mandate was making it harder for this one woman to
Speaker 4: poop at work. And by the way, who appointed and
Speaker 4: Mike Johnson is the king of bathrooms.
Speaker 7: Under House rules, the speaker has general control of facilities
Speaker 7: in the chamber.
Speaker 4: Oh, I guess he's the king of bathrooms. Pardon me,
Speaker 4: your majesty. Government is weird sometimes. This guy is second
Speaker 4: in line for the presidency, and he also has to
Speaker 4: refill the soap dispensers. So now, Sarah McBride, the first
Speaker 4: trans congresswoman, hasn't even started work yet, and she already
Speaker 4: has to run around the corner to Starbucks to pee.
Speaker 4: And she is handling this situation more calmly than I
Speaker 4: would when I have to get to the bathroom.
Speaker 7: Sarah McBride actually did respond in a statement, she said,
Speaker 7: I am not here to fight about bathrooms. I'm here
Speaker 7: to fight for Delawareans and to bring down cost facing families.
Speaker 7: I've remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest
Speaker 7: state in the Union come January.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Although did you just say that Delaware is
Speaker 4: the greatest state? Have you tried any other state? I mean,
Speaker 4: you won, You don't need to keep saying that. But
Speaker 4: the point is, Sarah McBride is not the one pushing
Speaker 4: this issue. The whole thing started because of one Congresswoman,
Speaker 4: Nancy Mace, the Republican from South Carolina, where things must
Speaker 4: be running so smoothly that she can devote all her
Speaker 4: energy to this.
Speaker 8: I'm going to file like hel for Women and Girls
Speaker 8: to keep men out of women's private spaces, to include bathrooms, restrooms,
Speaker 8: locker rooms.
Speaker 5: Changing rooms, you name it. You are not welcome.
Speaker 8: And being a feminist makes me an extremist or a
Speaker 8: bigot or a monster.
Speaker 5: I am totally here for it.
Speaker 8: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Come
Speaker 8: at me, bro are bros. In this case.
Speaker 4: I don't love her bigotry there, but I do respect
Speaker 4: her dedication to getting her steps in. I listen to podcasts,
Speaker 4: but holing your coworkers is also a choice. Honestly transphobic.
Speaker 4: Cruela Deville's logic might my backfire here because all of
Speaker 4: her drama ironically is affirming Sarah McBride's gender. There is
Speaker 4: nothing that defines the female experience more than starting a
Speaker 4: new job and a woman at work just decides she
Speaker 4: hates you. And Nancy Mace really seems to hate Sarah McBride.
Speaker 4: It's like it's her full time job.
Speaker 1: In just seventy two hours on X Representative, Nancy Mace
Speaker 1: has posted about trans women and bathrooms more than three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five times.
Speaker 4: What the three hundred and twenty five tweets? How can
Speaker 4: anyone else even use the bathroom when Mace's on the
Speaker 4: toilet tweeting all day?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Jesus, I have.
Speaker 4: Never hated anything so much that I had to buy
Speaker 4: a new data plan. That is way too much tweeting.
Speaker 4: Even Elon Musk is like, have you considered joining Blue Sky?
Speaker 4: She's not just posting on the Internet, she's posting on
Speaker 4: the balls.
Speaker 9: South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace hanging signs for biological women
Speaker 9: on restrooms.
Speaker 4: Tutta, your tax dollars paid for this, But hey, she's
Speaker 4: getting a lot of attention for her bullshit politics, and
Speaker 4: even if it's pissing off a lot of people, you
Speaker 4: know who would not be happy with Nancy Mace right
Speaker 4: now twenty twenty one.
Speaker 10: Nancy Mace Back in twenty twenty one, she said, I
Speaker 10: strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality. No one should be
Speaker 10: discriminated against. I have friends and family that identify as LGBTQ.
Speaker 10: Having been around gay, lesbian, and transgender people has informed
Speaker 10: my opinion over my lifetime.
Speaker 3: HM wonder what changed.
Speaker 4: I guess the biggest transition was Nancy Mace wanting to
Speaker 4: identify as the center of attention. Here's how you know
Speaker 4: that this is all performative. Well, first the performance ta da.
Speaker 3: And also here's what she claims. The problem is.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to stand for a man. You know,
Speaker 8: someone with the penis is in the woman's locker room.
Speaker 5: That's not okay.
Speaker 8: I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.
Speaker 4: Yes, of course, you just want to protect women from
Speaker 4: hypothetical predators. That would play a lot better if you
Speaker 4: weren't trying to get actual predators into the highest levels
Speaker 4: of government.
Speaker 3: Pete Heggsi, RFK, Matt Gates.
Speaker 4: If Donald Trump nominated Bill Cosby, Nancy Mace would be
Speaker 4: walking in circles in an ugly eighties sweater, eating a
Speaker 4: pudding pum bottom line.
Speaker 3: Shit like this.
Speaker 8: Men are not allowed in women's spaces, period, full stop.
Speaker 4: In the story would land a lot harder if you
Speaker 4: weren't rolling with the guy whose attitude about women's spaces
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 7: They'll go backstage before a show, yes, and everyone's getting
Speaker 7: dressed and ready and everything else.
Speaker 9: And you know, no men are anywhere, and I'm allowed
Speaker 9: to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant
Speaker 9: and therefore I'm inspecting it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, tut up.
Speaker 4: When we come back, we find out the truth about Thanksgivings.
Speaker 3: Couldn't go away.
Speaker 8: Love the Magniney Show.
Speaker 4: We live in a time where everything has become the
Speaker 4: conspiracy theory. Vaccines have microchips, and then elections are stolen.
Speaker 4: Jay Leno is in debt to the mob. But those
Speaker 4: are just the obvious ones. Now there's a new show
Speaker 4: where they reveal the conspiracies we never even knew about.
Speaker 5: Check it out Conspiracies. They're everywhere? Or are they nowhere?
Speaker 5: Or is that exactly what they want you to think?
Speaker 12: So that's where my wallet is.
Speaker 5: Well for every day there's a meet I'm Kevin Matthew Kelp.
Speaker 12: Follow me as I pull back the curtain to find
Speaker 12: the truth behind the curtain.
Speaker 5: This is Project Conspiracy.
Speaker 13: Thanksgiving.
Speaker 12: It's a time to gather with friends and family and
Speaker 12: celebrate the birth of autumnal vegetables from a great horn vagina.
Speaker 12: But what if I told you this innocent fall festival
Speaker 12: that has no dark side whatsoever, has a dark side
Speaker 12: like most sheeple I used to believe in the myth
Speaker 12: of Thanksgiving as a time of peace and harmony. But
Speaker 12: then I started to notice a curious pattern.
Speaker 4: God damn it, Kevin, if I hear one more freaking
Speaker 4: conspiracy theory.
Speaker 13: It's not a conspiracy, Dad, The earth is actually a triangle.
Speaker 13: Every year at Thanksgiving, I would try to inform my
Speaker 13: family about new and brilliant ideas.
Speaker 5: You bisexual, Kevin.
Speaker 12: Look here, what's wrong with you? Do some research, and
Speaker 12: every year, without fail, my entire family would act like
Speaker 12: I was the crazy one.
Speaker 2: The Chinese are not spreading propaganda and maroon five songs.
Speaker 12: Maroon is a shade of red, and there's five stars
Speaker 12: in the Chinese flag.
Speaker 1: Do I have to spell it out for you?
Speaker 11: So?
Speaker 12: What is it about this holiday that warps my family's
Speaker 12: minds and turns them against rational thought? It's time to
Speaker 12: give thanks for the truth, Gobble gobble. Thanksgiving is in
Speaker 12: every nook and cranny of our culture. But I had
Speaker 12: to start somewhere. As we all know, Thanksgiving was started
Speaker 12: by the Pilgrims, a shadowy cabal so devoted to suppressing
Speaker 12: good ideas they literally force people to.
Speaker 5: Put locks on their brains.
Speaker 12: In eighteen sixty three, Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday
Speaker 12: by Abraham Lincoln, the king of making Americans fight each
Speaker 12: other honest abe, more like.
Speaker 5: Dis honest abe. Of course, the main event of Thanksgiving
Speaker 5: the turkey.
Speaker 12: We don't eat turkey as a main course any other
Speaker 12: day of the year. It's dry, it's bland and frankly,
Speaker 12: it's just playing fuggly. Why is the government pushing turkey
Speaker 12: on us for this one day every year? Time to
Speaker 12: go to the source.
Speaker 3: Look at all this.
Speaker 5: They push this stuff hard.
Speaker 12: Huh, buy one, get one.
Speaker 2: That is a good deal, though.
Speaker 3: Wow, there's a lot of turkey you got there?
Speaker 12: Eat all that you're gonna Oh d on? Tripp to van?
Speaker 3: What tripper van?
Speaker 5: You know, the weird chemical and turkey. You're fool You've
Speaker 5: given the whole game away. Well, you gotta pay for that.
Speaker 2: Money.
Speaker 5: Isn't real turkey.
Speaker 3: It's got the trip to fan that knocks everybody on
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 12: So what does trip to fan do to our bodies?
Speaker 11: Side effects of too much tripp Deman may cause agitation
Speaker 11: and confusion.
Speaker 12: Oh d on, it made perfect sense. Drowsiness, agitation, and confusion.
Speaker 12: Turkeys turn our families against us with their mind altering chemicals.
Speaker 5: Of course, it was.
Speaker 12: The turkey, and they're rewarded for their work with a
Speaker 12: presidential pardon and granted unlimited access to the highest corridors
Speaker 12: of American power.
Speaker 5: This has gone on long enough.
Speaker 12: If I'm going to end this foul play, I'll have
Speaker 12: to execute a plan with all the trimmings. This might
Speaker 12: look like a regular turkey, but don't let your eyes
Speaker 12: fool you. It's completely fake. And now we'll see if
Speaker 12: removing the mind control turkey and serving them my untainted
Speaker 12: meat sets my family's minds free. Perfect, let's eat testing.
Speaker 5: Here we go, Operation Gobbler begins.
Speaker 3: Now, hey, glad you made it. Listen, don't be weird
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 5: Okay, what, of course, not even about a normal turkey?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you mean normal? Hilarius?
Speaker 5: Excuse me, Lisa got a normal turkey. Everybody who's loving
Speaker 5: this turkey?
Speaker 14: Huh?
Speaker 12: Come on? Everybody dig in? Speaking of digging, you know,
Speaker 12: dinosaurs aren't real. All those bones are a hoax to
Speaker 12: market the Jurassic Park franchise.
Speaker 5: God damn it, Keurviy you promised you wouldn't do this.
Speaker 8: This is just like when you said ancient aliens built
Speaker 8: mount Rushmore.
Speaker 5: You don't believe me.
Speaker 13: Oh, have some turkey?
Speaker 3: What would you do to it? It smells like spray paint.
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't look.
Speaker 1: The best turkey I ever have. I have about Bramla.
Speaker 3: West Peace, Trevin and we have that.
Speaker 4: Brittany Howard Hope joining me on the joke, says.
Speaker 14: Welco away, welcome back to thank the show.
Speaker 4: My guest to night is the Grammy Award winning artist
Speaker 4: whose latest album is called What Now.
Speaker 3: Please welcome Brittany Howard. You're so cool. What's it like
Speaker 3: to be this cool?
Speaker 11: No one ever asked me that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, am I you are? I mean, come on?
Speaker 3: Is she the epitome at Pool?
Speaker 11: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Wow, congratulations on your Grammy nomination.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Why this says.
Speaker 4: On your new album What Now? Are you a fortune teller?
Speaker 4: How did you know we'd all be asking ourselves that question?
Speaker 5: Listen?
Speaker 11: It was crazy when I wrote the album, and there's
Speaker 11: no stopping it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You wrote the album out of not being able to
Speaker 4: tour right during lockdown.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 11: It was during the pandemic and I had finished watching
Speaker 11: Tiger King and it wasn't like the good part of
Speaker 11: the pandemic where you're like, oh, I might not have
Speaker 11: to go to work for like a month. You know.
Speaker 11: It was like I got into the dredges of it.
Speaker 11: We all know about it, you know, and started just
Speaker 11: having kind of like an existential crisis. Not a crisis,
Speaker 11: but more just like, well, I got nothing better to
Speaker 11: do with my time, let me just like figure out
Speaker 11: who I am real quick. And that's really where the
Speaker 11: album started. It was just some crazy times we didn't
Speaker 11: know what was going to happen next.
Speaker 4: It's so inspiring because you you take that lockdown and
Speaker 4: you're like, let me figure out who I am and
Speaker 4: write a Grammy nominated album. And I was like, how
Speaker 4: many housewives are there? I mean, that's what most people did.
Speaker 4: It's really remarkable.
Speaker 11: I'm not going to judge you for your use of time.
Speaker 5: Ways to get through it.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I think one of the things that sets you apart
Speaker 4: from so many artists is that you really are genre defying.
Speaker 4: You don't you talk about not really wanting to be
Speaker 4: boxed in by any particular type of music, and you
Speaker 4: have all these different influences funk and R and B
Speaker 4: and soul and dance, music and exploring with all of
Speaker 4: these different vocal techniques, particularly in this new album. What
Speaker 4: was behind the creative inspiration for that?
Speaker 11: I think the creative inspiration was really just who am
Speaker 11: I now and who do I want to be next?
Speaker 11: And really taking responsibility of who I become, you know,
Speaker 11: and creatively, it was just like, you know what, if
Speaker 11: I made something and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks
Speaker 11: about it, and it doesn't matter what genre lies in,
Speaker 11: and it doesn't have to be necessarily like anything I've
Speaker 11: done before, and I just pray, I just like play
Speaker 11: homage to all of these artists that have come before
Speaker 11: me and really connecting my emotions to music, and every
Speaker 11: emotion's different, and I think they all deserve their own soundtrack.
Speaker 3: I heard that.
Speaker 4: You've mentioned being influenced by a lot of different artists,
Speaker 4: and you mentioned being very influenced by Prince and studying
Speaker 4: Prince and his techniques. Do you feel like musical ability
Speaker 4: is something that you can study and perfect or is
Speaker 4: it something that you're just sort of born.
Speaker 11: With you can absolutely perfect it. When I started, I
Speaker 11: was terrible.
Speaker 3: I doubt that.
Speaker 11: No, it's out there, and I had a computer with
Speaker 11: all the songs on it from when I was like
Speaker 11: thirteen fourteen and it's gone now, just took it out
Speaker 11: back never to be seen again. And I had to practice.
Speaker 11: I had to practice. I feel like the curiosity was there,
Speaker 11: and I think that's the most important element of creativity,
Speaker 11: is just being curious about, well, what if I did
Speaker 11: this and what if I did that? And having that spark,
Speaker 11: And that's what keeps me going. I just you just
Speaker 11: never know what you can make and what it can
Speaker 11: mean to you in the moment or later. And especially
Speaker 11: it's amazing what it means to other people and how
Speaker 11: it can connect it to each other. And I think
Speaker 11: that's why I just keep doing it.
Speaker 3: It's so interesting that you say that.
Speaker 4: I think that that transcends all types of not just art,
Speaker 4: but just experiences. Curiosity, just the idea of being curious
Speaker 4: kind of keeps everything alive, right right, You have an
Speaker 4: interesting Prince Store.
Speaker 3: You actually got to play with.
Speaker 11: Prince I did.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 11: It was just a call out of the blue. So
Speaker 11: what happened was we played Minneapolis and some of Prince's
Speaker 11: band was there, and they went back and they were like, Yo,
Speaker 11: this band's great, and so Prince calls my management, not
Speaker 11: him personally, you know, but somebody with Prince adjacent sure
Speaker 11: calls my manager and was like, hey, can they show
Speaker 11: up tomorrow to play Paisley Park? And I remember my
Speaker 11: manager's face when they came in and they were like,
Speaker 11: they're like, you know, do you think you could do
Speaker 11: a little detour on your tour and go to Paisley
Speaker 11: Park and play with Prince. I was like, uh duh, yeah.
Speaker 11: So yeah, we show up and Prince is there and
Speaker 11: he's welcoming us into the studio. He's like super funny,
Speaker 11: super cool. He really does have a very low voice,
Speaker 11: and he was like, oh, I like this song, you
Speaker 11: got what kids it in? I want to hop up
Speaker 11: there and play with you. And I'm like what, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, I forgot the key.
Speaker 11: I was like I don't know. And we're playing the
Speaker 11: song right. And everybody always has a story about how
Speaker 11: Prince can like levitate, or Prince can disappear, Prince can
Speaker 11: you know, you know, all kinds of crazy stuff, like
Speaker 11: he's a ghost apparition, and I found it.
Speaker 12: To be true.
Speaker 3: Did he disappear?
Speaker 11: What happened was I'm up there playing the solo and
Speaker 11: I'm like this is about time where Prince is gonna
Speaker 11: come out right, And so we're just he's not showing up,
Speaker 11: and we're just like playing the same things over and
Speaker 11: over again, and I'm hoping he's gonna show up. And
Speaker 11: then out of nowhere, he just pops on stage and
Speaker 11: I'm like, okay, maybe I didn't see him get up here.
Speaker 11: You know, he shreads the solo so sick we start
Speaker 11: double sewing in my mind. I'm just like, I can't
Speaker 11: believe it. You know, this is the greatest story of
Speaker 11: my life. And we finished playing a song and he
Speaker 11: kisses me on the cheek and then he just jumps
Speaker 11: in the air and vanishes. Gone. Yeah, And I'm not
Speaker 11: the only one with that story that is.
Speaker 4: I mean, what an experience to have that you will
Speaker 4: always be able to look back at the time that
Speaker 4: you played with Prince and he just vanished into thin air.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I can confirm it. I'm one of those
Speaker 11: people who saw him vanish.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The song to Be Still, which is about a flower
Speaker 4: being taken care of in someone's garden, is this about
Speaker 4: someone in particular or is this just about the idea
Speaker 4: of being taken care of?
Speaker 11: You know, I'm a libra.
Speaker 3: I love love.
Speaker 11: It's my favorite thing on this planet. And it's just
Speaker 11: a very good thing. And I think love can grow
Speaker 11: if someone waters it. And so the song was just
Speaker 11: my imagining of what if I could quit looking for
Speaker 11: love and I could stay in one spot and I
Speaker 11: could blossom and I could put down roots, and I
Speaker 11: could be the greatest thing that I was always meant
Speaker 11: to be. And it's with support of something else, you know,
Speaker 11: And I just want to to write a song like that,
Speaker 11: And it just came to me and to me, it's
Speaker 11: just my peaceful place, this song.
Speaker 3: Oh well, we're so grateful that you're sharing it with us.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. I could talk to you forever,
Speaker 3: but you have to perform. So What Now is available everywhere.
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