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Speaker 1: New York City, the only city in America. It's The
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Here's a Tony People versus Plutin. Everything is
Speaker 1: Meta's Quita Bronson. This is The Daily Show with Trevor No, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah. It is now day twenty one of Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and it's safe to say the
Speaker 1: world is officially tired of his bullshit. So let's catch
Speaker 1: up on how the world is pushing back in our
Speaker 1: ongoing coverage of the war in Ukraine. Even as Putin
Speaker 1: continues to push into Ukraine and kill civilians, the world
Speaker 1: is uniting to fight back. Today, the International Court of
Speaker 1: Justice in the Hague ordered Russia to halt its invasion
Speaker 1: of Ukraine, so you know that should get results quickly.
Speaker 1: And here in the US, the Senate is advancing a
Speaker 1: bill that would give ordinary people a reward for snitching
Speaker 1: on oligarchs and helping to identify their assets. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you snitch, you find an oligarch, and you get money,
Speaker 1: which is really interesting, and it's probably gonna mark the
Speaker 1: first time people are gonna call the cops, like, hey,
Speaker 1: I just saw a very suspicious yacht sailing by, and look,
Speaker 1: some of my best friends have yachts, but there's something
Speaker 1: fishy about this one. Yeah, I'm in danger. Also, yesterday
Speaker 1: the White House announced that President Biden himself will travel
Speaker 1: to Europe next week for a series of diplomatic meetings
Speaker 1: with other NATO leaders, and in response to that, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump Jr. Remember him, He tweeted that his dad should
Speaker 1: go instead, saying quotes, if you want to get something
Speaker 1: done right, send Trump, which I actually agree with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if your goal is to confuse the hell out of
Speaker 1: everyone in Europe, send Trump. That will definitely stop the war.
Speaker 1: Russia is stealing Ukraine's land, just like Black lives matter. Still,
Speaker 1: the voting machines and the toilets, they don't flush anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't flush. And that's why we gotta band windmills,
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of well of them. Now. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: is not happy about any of this. In fact, today
Speaker 1: he gave a speech in which he complained that the
Speaker 1: West is trying to cancel Russia, which is pretty rich
Speaker 1: coming from this dude. A man is over here as
Speaker 1: the only person in history who has ever sent an
Speaker 1: army to kill a comedian. And guys, can we agree?
Speaker 1: Can we agree that the term cancel has lost all meaning? Right?
Speaker 1: Because first, canceling meant that people were getting mad at
Speaker 1: you for what you said online. Now you're being canceled
Speaker 1: if people don't want you to invade other countries. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're a few months away from archaeologists being
Speaker 1: like and then sixty six million years ago, a giant
Speaker 1: asteroid hit the Earth and canceled all the dinosaurs hashtag walk.
Speaker 1: But the big news today is about Ukrainian President Vladimir
Speaker 1: Zelenski and his speech to the United States. Yeah. Appearing
Speaker 1: live via satellite in Congress's home theater, Zelenski pleaded with
Speaker 1: the US to send more weapons and enforce a no
Speaker 1: fly zone over Ukraine, and based on his references to
Speaker 1: American history, it was clear that Zelensky knew his audience.
Speaker 1: I remember your National Memorial in Rushmore, the faces of
Speaker 1: your prominent presidents, those who laid the foundation of the
Speaker 1: United States of America as it is today. Remember Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 1: terrible morning of December seven, nineteen when your sky was
Speaker 1: let from the plains attacking you. Remember September the eleventh,
Speaker 1: a terrible day our country experience the same every day.
Speaker 1: I have a dream, these words unknown to each of you. Today,
Speaker 1: I can say I have a need. I need to
Speaker 1: protect our sky. I need your decision, your health, which
Speaker 1: means exactly the same, the same you feel when you
Speaker 1: hear the words I have a dream. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Zelensky brought out all of America's major moments. I have
Speaker 1: a dream, N eleven, Mount Rushmore. You know he was
Speaker 1: on Wikipedia last night planning this out. Okay, Pearl Harbor, Boston,
Speaker 1: Deep Perty. Should I mention how Cogan sex tape? Maybe?
Speaker 1: And by the way, props to him. I mean he
Speaker 1: knows way more about America then most U. S. Senences
Speaker 1: know about his country. Like, can you imagine how they
Speaker 1: would sound if they had to give an inspiring speech
Speaker 1: using Ukrainian history? People of Ukraine? Remember the vision of
Speaker 1: your founder, I want to say, Daniel Ukraine. I'm also
Speaker 1: impressed that Lensky was able to dodge so many landlines
Speaker 1: in his research, because you realize this could have gone
Speaker 1: very wrong. And now to nine eleven, which, as we
Speaker 1: all know from YouTube, was inside job. I see you
Speaker 1: Bush No for real. It was a really impressive speech.
Speaker 1: Although you know, these days people on Twitter will complain
Speaker 1: about literally anything, So of course there was one economist
Speaker 1: who tweets I understand times are hard, but doesn't the
Speaker 1: president of Ukraine owner suit? Damn? What a weird criticism.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of guy who would see Jesus come
Speaker 1: back and be like, really, sandals my guy. But anyway,
Speaker 1: most people were impressed by the speech, especially the powerful
Speaker 1: ending when Zelensky switched to English and addressed President Biden directly.
Speaker 1: Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine, we
Speaker 1: are fighting for the values of Europe and the world.
Speaker 1: And at the leader of my niche, I'm addressing the
Speaker 1: President Biden. You are the leader of the niche of
Speaker 1: the area. I wish you to be the leader of
Speaker 1: the world. Being the leader of the world means to
Speaker 1: be the leader of this Thank you, blobb o grain.
Speaker 1: That was inspiring. I'm pretty sure that was the first
Speaker 1: time in history people applauded a zoom call. It's also
Speaker 1: impressive that Zelenski was able to deliver that message in
Speaker 1: his non native tongue. In fact, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: his English is better than the past two U S presidents.
Speaker 1: And also how a raised it. How raised it to
Speaker 1: see everyone in Congress all stand and applaud for the
Speaker 1: same thing. Right, you never see that, I mean obviously
Speaker 1: almost everyone, almost everyone, because I don't know if you
Speaker 1: noticed that one congressman, who I guess I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that everyone else was doing a standing ovation. My man,
Speaker 1: we're on the brink of nuclear conflict. You can fill
Speaker 1: out your bracket later. Now, it doesn't look like America
Speaker 1: is going to support and no flies on over Ukraine
Speaker 1: anytime soon, because again, a direct confrontation between American jets
Speaker 1: and Russian jets that could end up spiraling into World
Speaker 1: War three. And that's a sequel that nobody wants except
Speaker 1: for maybe the History Channel. And you think they want
Speaker 1: to be talking about aliens and ship they hated as
Speaker 1: much as you do. But America's government has been ratcheting
Speaker 1: up with support in other ways. Today Biden announced that
Speaker 1: America would be sending another eight hundred million dollars worth
Speaker 1: of military aid to Ukraine. And aside from the American government,
Speaker 1: the American people have also taken it upon themselves to
Speaker 1: step up and help Ukraine. And I'm not just talking
Speaker 1: about the usual ways, by the way, like donating money
Speaker 1: and putting a Ukrainian flag in their Twitter handle. And
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, the flag emoji is making a
Speaker 1: huge difference, but people are also finding more creative ways
Speaker 1: to help out Inspired by these images of Ukrainians displaced
Speaker 1: by the invasion of their country, Americans are finding inventive
Speaker 1: ways to help, turning pain into purpose. Sasha Schmurkowski created
Speaker 1: an Amazon wish list of items needed in Ukraine. The
Speaker 1: response overwhelming, one truck after another dropping off donated goods.
Speaker 1: Forty thousand counting people are booking air babes in Ukraine
Speaker 1: with no plans of staying there. The initiative, which gained
Speaker 1: popularity on social media, is a way to get money
Speaker 1: to Ukrainians impacted by the war. More than sixty one
Speaker 1: nights were booked in just forty eight hours, raising almost
Speaker 1: two million dollars for hosts in Ukraine to Harvard University
Speaker 1: students are doing their part to help Ukrainian refugees find
Speaker 1: homes around the world. They have launched this website, Ukraine
Speaker 1: Take shelter dot com. It's designed to help refugees find
Speaker 1: hosts with spare rooms, condos, and dormitories. Wow, people, that
Speaker 1: is heartwarming. Huh. These two students helping thousands of Ukrainian
Speaker 1: refugees find places to stay. That's amazing. It's amazing. I
Speaker 1: mean we should keep in mind not that the website
Speaker 1: was built by Harvard students in their dorm room. So
Speaker 1: a few years from now it will probably lead to
Speaker 1: an attempted coupe, but for now, it's all good times.
Speaker 1: And I also love that people are renting air bnbs
Speaker 1: in Ukraine but not staying there. They're just doing it
Speaker 1: to send money to Ukrainians who in need. That's one
Speaker 1: of the coolest initiatives I've ever seen, although I hope
Speaker 1: everyone understands that this is just a donation, okay, because
Speaker 1: you know there's gonna be one guy who actually shows
Speaker 1: up just being like really disappointed. WiFi was spotty and
Speaker 1: sound of missiles exploding kept me up all night. Two Stars,
Speaker 1: and it turns out Americans aren't just helping refugees and
Speaker 1: ordinary civilians. No, they're also directly contributing to the war efforts.
Speaker 1: The company in the Wisconsin is donating a million of
Speaker 1: rounds of ammunition to Ukrainian forces. The company's close ties
Speaker 1: with the US military makes workers confident to the ammunition
Speaker 1: will it gets to where it is needed at most.
Speaker 1: A growing number of police agencies across the US are
Speaker 1: jumping in to support Ukrainians with combat supplies. This box
Speaker 1: full of gear used to be for law enforcement in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Soon it will be sent to protect people a world away.
Speaker 1: The Citcienati Police Department is pitching in to help Ukraine
Speaker 1: defend itself against Russia. It is sending nine and fifty
Speaker 1: ballistic helmets to people fighting to defend their country. When
Speaker 1: New York County executives organizing a collection drive for guns,
Speaker 1: asking gun owners to donate their weapons for the cause,
Speaker 1: we could get a million guns to the people of
Speaker 1: the Ukraine. The Ukrainian people want to protect themselves, so
Speaker 1: let's give them the resources to do that. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. America's police forces are sending their military
Speaker 1: great hardware to help Ukrainians fight a war in Russia.
Speaker 1: That's dope. And if you're asking, wait, why do our
Speaker 1: police have things that you can use in the war,
Speaker 1: You're not asking the right questions. The question you should
Speaker 1: be asking is at what point does America realize it
Speaker 1: has too many guns? Because you realize that that guy
Speaker 1: just said, we can get a million guns and we
Speaker 1: can send them to That's when you know your country
Speaker 1: has too many weapons. Is when another country needs weapons.
Speaker 1: And everyday people in America are like, yeah, we can
Speaker 1: give them the spare block in the guest room, honey.
Speaker 1: But I guess this is just a beautiful example of
Speaker 1: how an ecosystem can balance itself. You know, one country's
Speaker 1: problems can be another country's solution. America has too many
Speaker 1: guns and an over militarized police force. Send it over
Speaker 1: to Ukraine. Hell throwing some mass shooters to go get him,
Speaker 1: Tyler Hakuna matata. But look, whether or not it says
Speaker 1: something terrifying about the States of America, it is still
Speaker 1: a nice gesture for Americans to be donating their own
Speaker 1: weapons and they get to Ukraine. Still, for some Americans,
Speaker 1: sending guns just isn't good enough. No, they're also volunteering
Speaker 1: to be the ones shooting them. Ukraine's government has actively
Speaker 1: recruited foreigners to join the fight. Over twenty thousand have
Speaker 1: reportedly expressed interest, and many Americans are showing up daily.
Speaker 1: Harrison josepha Witz is twenty five and was a Chicago
Speaker 1: police officer. Harrison spent five years in the U. S.
Speaker 1: Army and did a tour in Afghanistan. You just quit
Speaker 1: your job and got an app pretty much why that's
Speaker 1: the right thing to do. Dennis Diaz is a former marine.
Speaker 1: When he watched Russian tanks pulling into southern Ukraine, his
Speaker 1: gut said he had to do something. As America's way
Speaker 1: take on the big bullets. Right now, UM is the
Speaker 1: big bullet. The resumes range from combat experience to no
Speaker 1: military training at all. I worked at a place called
Speaker 1: Talk About. It's a fast food restaurant in the US.
Speaker 1: I did saying similar. When I was nineteen, I went
Speaker 1: to UM I react to join up with the MS.
Speaker 1: So everything that was happening here, I just decided to
Speaker 1: take that take that money had the planes are cann't
Speaker 1: come out here. Yeah, you heard that right. This guy
Speaker 1: left his job at Taco Bell to go and fight
Speaker 1: the Russians. I'll tell you now, he's got way more
Speaker 1: balls than me. I also think he's got the perfect
Speaker 1: experience for war. If you've worked at a drive through,
Speaker 1: you've already seen the worst of humanity. Those have probably
Speaker 1: gained a lot of hand to hand combat training. Ship
Speaker 1: have you seen what people do at three am? But yes,
Speaker 1: thousands of people around the world, including many Americans, are
Speaker 1: heading to Ukraine to join up with the Ukrainian resistance.
Speaker 1: And these people are heroes. The heroes no doubts, but
Speaker 1: I think we can also admit it's probably a few
Speaker 1: of them who made this decision partly because of COVID.
Speaker 1: I don't care where it is. I just want to
Speaker 1: travel again. Yeah, but seriously, good luck to all these
Speaker 1: people who are risking their own lives to go and
Speaker 1: defend democracy. And don't forget you headed into an act
Speaker 1: of war zone. So please remember the pack of suits.
Speaker 1: All right when we come back. Ronnie Chang is going
Speaker 1: into the metaverse. You don't want to miss it. If
Speaker 1: Donald Trump were president, no descrab what they're going on,
Speaker 1: because you've got to be strong. Just now, President Putin
Speaker 1: denied having anything to do with the election, your parents?
Speaker 1: Who do you believe? President Putin? He just said it's
Speaker 1: not Russian. I will say this, I don't see any
Speaker 1: reason why it would be Donald Trump's, both clearly and forcefully,
Speaker 1: and that as credible deterreds. I said the word would
Speaker 1: instead of wouldn't. I don't see any reason why it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be Russia. Sort of a double negative. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of President Trump was. He'd say, get him on
Speaker 1: the phone, and then he'd read Plutin the rioter. President
Speaker 1: Trump admitted that during an hour long phone call with Putin,
Speaker 1: he did not bring up Russian meddling. My father, would
Speaker 1: you call up and he would have said, Vladimir, don't
Speaker 1: even think about it, and don't even try us. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's not gonna work out very well for you.
Speaker 1: But you know, the people have cried meat from what
Speaker 1: I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.
Speaker 1: And as far as Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess.
Speaker 1: They were very sure when Donald Trump was in office
Speaker 1: that they should have mass with America. Most of the
Speaker 1: dictators the president is friendly with it now understand they
Speaker 1: can play Trump to get what they want from him
Speaker 1: by flattering Vladimir Putin feels like it has the wind
Speaker 1: at his back, especially with a very different type of
Speaker 1: American leadership compared to the America First, Donald Trumps a killer,
Speaker 1: a lot of killers. You've got a lot of killers,
Speaker 1: what you in our country? So when this in president,
Speaker 1: the American people remember what it is to have a
Speaker 1: commander in chief who is respected and feared on the
Speaker 1: world stage. North Koreas. Kim said this, I will surely
Speaker 1: and definitely tamed the mentally deranged US Dotard with fire.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. There are some news
Speaker 1: stories that help us understand the world we live in,
Speaker 1: and there are some news stories that are just stupid.
Speaker 1: For those, we turned to Ronnie Change. In the world
Speaker 1: of the Internet, there's one thing everyone is excited about
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm not talking about those stupid monkey
Speaker 1: and f t s. Everyone is buying non fungible Have
Speaker 1: you never heard of a printer? Just print them all out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just saved you a million dollars. No, the hottest
Speaker 1: trend in tech right now is the metaverse. And you
Speaker 1: know it's hot because no one will shut up about it.
Speaker 1: The metaverse is defined as a virtual reality space where
Speaker 1: people can play games, connect with friends, and even go
Speaker 1: to virtual concerts, a parallel world in your computer or phone.
Speaker 1: The metaverse is where tech is headed. You see Apple
Speaker 1: dedicating time here, Microsoft, Samsung, Navidia. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: ignore or to label this as a fat Facebook has
Speaker 1: changed its company name to Meta. It's short for metaverse,
Speaker 1: a virtual reality considered by many to be the future
Speaker 1: of the Internet. That's right, Facebook change his name to
Speaker 1: Meta before the metaverse even caught on. It's like tattooing
Speaker 1: a girl's name on your arm after two dates. Luckily,
Speaker 1: if it all goes solved, Zuckerberg can just change it
Speaker 1: to Meta Musle and pretend it was a fiber company
Speaker 1: the whole time. But yes, the Metaverse is coming, not
Speaker 1: that anybody asks for it. These companies just decided to
Speaker 1: move us all into the metaverse like they're putting their
Speaker 1: grand mind to a nursing home. Sorry, Nanda, you have
Speaker 1: to live in the computer now. But apparent of lead,
Speaker 1: we should all be excited because the metaverse will allow
Speaker 1: us build our own world and explore the limits of
Speaker 1: human imagination, which makes you think you'll be flying on
Speaker 1: dragons or an orgy full of unicorns, you know, the
Speaker 1: thing we all dream about. The only problem is the
Speaker 1: Metaverse is being made by Microsoft and Facebook, so you
Speaker 1: know it's going to be boring as shit. Meta is
Speaker 1: also working to bring remote workers into a similar virtual space.
Speaker 1: This app is called Facebook Workrooms, and it's designed for meetings.
Speaker 1: It's a sign of what a professional piece of the
Speaker 1: metaverse will look like. It basically gives you the opportunity
Speaker 1: to sit around a table with people and work and
Speaker 1: brainstorm and whiteboard ideas it's this pretty amazing experience where
Speaker 1: you know, you feel like you're really right there with
Speaker 1: your colleagues. Microsoft just unveiling some new tools to immerse
Speaker 1: users in the workplace, integrating avatars and virtual reality features
Speaker 1: into teams. By the middle of next year, power Point
Speaker 1: will be available in the metaverse as well. Oh thank god,
Speaker 1: there'll be PowerPoint in the metaverse. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: the massive experience of feeling like I'm inside a pie chalk.
Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. The metaverse gives us
Speaker 1: endless possibilities, and you want to have virtual meetings. Imagine
Speaker 1: a world where your shopping never runs down an inc.
Speaker 1: You did it again, Zuckerberg. And even though the metaverse
Speaker 1: looks like the wet dream of a billionaire robot, somehow
Speaker 1: real people are laying down actual money to pretend to
Speaker 1: live there. There's a land rush happening, and it's not
Speaker 1: in New York City or Beverly Hills. Early speculators, professional realtors,
Speaker 1: and celebrities are buying up virtual land for millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Sales of virtual land and the major metaverse platforms top
Speaker 1: five million dollars last year. Celebrities like Snoop Dogg and
Speaker 1: Paris Hilton are also diving into the digital land. Grab
Speaker 1: you're in the sandbox. This piece of land with Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg's face on it is owned by the rapper. He's
Speaker 1: building a virtual mansion on it. Fires all want to
Speaker 1: be neighbors of Snoop Dogg's upcoming mansion. A parcel next
Speaker 1: to him just selling for five hundred thousand dollars. You're
Speaker 1: paying half a million dollars to live next to Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg in the metaverse. All that money, and you came
Speaker 1: and get a contact high Hell for half a million dollars,
Speaker 1: you can buy enough drugs to thank you are Snoop Doggs.
Speaker 1: But this is how bad the real estate market is now.
Speaker 1: I'm being priced out of worlds I don't even exist.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more depressing than showing up to the metaverse
Speaker 1: and needing a roommate. But even if you've got rid
Speaker 1: of the meetings and the dumb houses, the meta verse
Speaker 1: is always gonna be made up of people, and people
Speaker 1: are gonna make anything shitty. Facebook parent Compty Meta is
Speaker 1: adding a feature to combat virtual reality harassment. It comes
Speaker 1: after a woman claims she was verbally and sexually harassed
Speaker 1: within a minute of joining a virtual game last year,
Speaker 1: less than thirty seconds into it, um he suddenly surrounded
Speaker 1: by three male avatars with male voices who were kind
Speaker 1: of staying sexual innuendos to me. Before I knew it,
Speaker 1: they were, for lack of a better word, grow being
Speaker 1: my avatar. That's right, women are being harassed within seconds
Speaker 1: of joining the metaverse. I guess it will right. It
Speaker 1: is just like a real office, Like how is Facebook
Speaker 1: not prepared for this? Pervs have been a Pavla internet
Speaker 1: since they won. You know, to sound your dollar connection
Speaker 1: used to make that was your mode of having an orgasm? Disgusting.
Speaker 1: So overall it seems like the metaverse is a total
Speaker 1: ship show. But there is one small silver line, a
Speaker 1: word of warning if you're visiting the metaverse. Insurance firm
Speaker 1: Aviva says it saw a thirty one increase in claims
Speaker 1: involving those VR headsets last year. In one thing where
Speaker 1: over your eyes, the average claim for VR related damages
Speaker 1: it's about eight hundred eighty dollars. Most of those incidents
Speaker 1: involved cracked TV screens. Of Viva says it's already processed
Speaker 1: a number of claims so far this he did. You
Speaker 1: know what, I take it all back. I love the metaverse. Now,
Speaker 1: if it's gonna let the world's biggest dumbasses blow their
Speaker 1: savings on fake houses and then crash into their own TVs,
Speaker 1: this might be the best thing to happen to the
Speaker 1: Internet since they invented cat fishing. So thank you, Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: Unicorn dis here we come. Thank you so much for that, Ronny.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, comedian and actress Quinta
Speaker 1: Bronson will be joining me on the show to talk
Speaker 1: about her show that everyone's loving right now, Abbott Elementary,
Speaker 1: So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is comedian and actor Quinta Bronson. She's
Speaker 1: here to talk about Abbott's Elementary, the hit show she created,
Speaker 1: writes for, and stars in Quincy Bronson. Welcome to The
Speaker 1: Daily Showavor. Thank you for having me, you kidding me,
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here this show Abbott Elementary. I
Speaker 1: remember when I saw the first trailer. A lot of
Speaker 1: people we fell in love with it just in a promo.
Speaker 1: The idea was funny, the idea was special, and I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that it has lived up to expectations. Let's
Speaker 1: talk through the idea, the inception of it all. Quinc
Speaker 1: has always been somebody who's been very funny. But why
Speaker 1: does Quincin Bronson go like, the funniest thing I want
Speaker 1: to do on the network show I want to make
Speaker 1: is going to be about school? Why that's well? You know,
Speaker 1: I got really inspired by going to visit my mother before.
Speaker 1: It was the year before she decided to retire. I
Speaker 1: lived in l A. And I came back to visit her.
Speaker 1: My mom was doing basically a parent teacher conference with
Speaker 1: a parent on an open house night. The night started
Speaker 1: at twelve o'clock PM and ended at eight o'clock uh pm. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: no parents came the whole time, and I was there
Speaker 1: with my mom waiting with her. A parent walks in
Speaker 1: at seven eight and I was livid. I was just like,
Speaker 1: how could you not get here earlier? There was so
Speaker 1: much time. But my mom then look at it that way.
Speaker 1: She was like, this is the time that this parent
Speaker 1: could get here, And she sat down and had the
Speaker 1: conference with her, and it was in that moment that
Speaker 1: something was sparked um where I said, this is what
Speaker 1: I want to make a show about, because the whole
Speaker 1: time I'm there, I'm just thinking about how funny the
Speaker 1: places her co workers in this situation. Her and I
Speaker 1: started fighting about me, you know, doing comedy and her
Speaker 1: not retiring yet, and then this beautiful thing happens, and
Speaker 1: I think, boom, I saw a show and I saw
Speaker 1: what I wanted to work on for the next however
Speaker 1: many years I'm able to You know, before I knew
Speaker 1: that your mom was a teacher, I was just like
Speaker 1: man Quinco is just like in love with teachers in
Speaker 1: a really beautiful way. And I know you all, but
Speaker 1: it explains so much. For instance, I remember seeing how
Speaker 1: you got this marketing budget, for instance, from ABC, and
Speaker 1: then you took a chunk of that money. Instead of
Speaker 1: spending it on marketing and billboards and everything, you gave
Speaker 1: that money to school so they could buy supply, so
Speaker 1: that they can get things. What do you think we
Speaker 1: don't understand about teachers, you know, having grown up in
Speaker 1: a teacher household, just how much work they really put
Speaker 1: into the job. It is not a it's not a
Speaker 1: nine of five, do you know what I mean? First
Speaker 1: of all, my mother used to wake of a seven
Speaker 1: thirty six sorry earlier, because she had me. She had
Speaker 1: her own children, do you know what I mean? Which
Speaker 1: we forget her own children that she has to get
Speaker 1: through school, clothe and feed. And then she would go
Speaker 1: to school, Um, deal with kids who were great, well behaved,
Speaker 1: but also kids who are menaces and parents who are menaces.
Speaker 1: And then she's identifying more than just these are my kids.
Speaker 1: It's this child has this learning issue. This child over
Speaker 1: here comes from a home where this is happening. This
Speaker 1: child is a selling too fast, and I have to
Speaker 1: make a little extra room for them. She's doing this
Speaker 1: for thirty kids all at once, my mom. And then
Speaker 1: after that she would stay later, she would stay until
Speaker 1: the last parent picked up their kid, because there always
Speaker 1: was a parent that would come in and be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, pick up, set three up the same time
Speaker 1: every day and come in at five thirty. And then
Speaker 1: she would go home and she would sure grade papers,
Speaker 1: which is the thing we all think is like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what they do at home, but no, it's doing
Speaker 1: lesson plans which takes up like an hour. Um, it's
Speaker 1: doing learning new development material that the school district puts
Speaker 1: out that the teachers have to learn themselves. Exactly, and
Speaker 1: I can go on and on, but I just think
Speaker 1: people who maybe don't have a teacher so close in
Speaker 1: their life, I don't know how big the job is,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the reasons why I firmly believe
Speaker 1: they should be paid more. But I hope your show
Speaker 1: does this because you don't. You know what your show
Speaker 1: has done. I think a really great job of is
Speaker 1: that it shows the human side of being a teacher.
Speaker 1: We've only watched what seven episodes of the show already.
Speaker 1: You have quadrupled your ratings from the first episode, which
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was possible either. I always
Speaker 1: thought it was like start at the top and then
Speaker 1: you just gradually. Network TV never does that. And you've
Speaker 1: broken records, you've changed history. You you know, congratulations and
Speaker 1: two has already been you know all of this, And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it comes from the dynamic
Speaker 1: of the cost. How did that happened? How is everybody
Speaker 1: so comfortable in such a new thing? Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: I feel like I got to pick everyone I wanted
Speaker 1: for the cast, and I think that's rare. You know,
Speaker 1: usually there's some issue like you can't get this person
Speaker 1: you want because of this reason, you can't get this person,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But I also had like a personal
Speaker 1: connection to each person that I cast and knew what
Speaker 1: type of person they were. Ultimately, I think, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: everyone has different opinions, but I wanted my show to
Speaker 1: feel like a workplace. I know, it's TV, and TV
Speaker 1: can be crazy, and we accept it. We accept like
Speaker 1: a bunch of crazy uh this shit. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were did the Today Show this morning side, but
Speaker 1: we you know, we accept like that behavior, We accept
Speaker 1: like so much. But I didn't want it to be
Speaker 1: like that because, you know, is my show and I
Speaker 1: was no asshole policy. I believe in the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, so getting all these people together in a
Speaker 1: room that the first time we filmed the pilot, everyone's
Speaker 1: just energizing and feeling good about each other and feeling
Speaker 1: good about the show that they're making too. So I
Speaker 1: think everyone's happy to be there and I love that.
Speaker 1: I just you, you know, you maybe one of the
Speaker 1: few people I know who has gone off of the
Speaker 1: Internet because of too much positivity. January, You're like one
Speaker 1: of the few people I know who's gonna guys, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a break from Twitter. There's too many positive comments.
Speaker 1: I have to take a moment, please, And I think
Speaker 1: it's because of what you put out into the world.
Speaker 1: You know, I hope you never lose it. You you
Speaker 1: have this thing. It's so authentic that I know everyone
Speaker 1: asks you questions. I mean, it's there's a fervor around
Speaker 1: the show, which I hope never never ends. One of
Speaker 1: the more confusing things that happens to people was a
Speaker 1: video where all the kids are leaving and you know,
Speaker 1: you're saying that it's the mid season break. All the
Speaker 1: kids are leaving, but they're all saying goodbye to you
Speaker 1: as your character. You know, so fin mis TV se
Speaker 1: you on Monday. You guys, be careful. Anyone was watching
Speaker 1: this video and some people thought, yeah, that the kids
Speaker 1: don't get paid and the kids on it was very
Speaker 1: confusing with some people, it was very confused. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure they jumped there until we don't pay them. We
Speaker 1: take a few steps before we get to later the
Speaker 1: world is a bad place. People think it was a
Speaker 1: bad place. If nothing else. That really showed it to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, no no, we would never
Speaker 1: not pay the kids, Like why would you dump there?
Speaker 1: Please don't look. People were very confused by but the
Speaker 1: way our set operates with the mockumentary style camera work,
Speaker 1: the kids are viewing it as a typical TV set.
Speaker 1: They know that some people are moving around with cameras,
Speaker 1: but they can't bank on where those cameras will be, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't look like this, and so to them
Speaker 1: it almost feels like there in a classroom and someone's
Speaker 1: making a documentary. Absolutely in our classrooms look so real
Speaker 1: because they also have school there where the kids actually
Speaker 1: have school there. Yeah, because studio, you know, they have
Speaker 1: to have school. So they don't know me as Quinta
Speaker 1: Brunson girl from you know, the Internet and TV. They
Speaker 1: just know mistigues and sometimes I have to tell them
Speaker 1: to be quiet as mistigues. They would raise their hand
Speaker 1: and be like miss Tees. He hit me, miss Teaues
Speaker 1: after the bathroom, and I would just have to play
Speaker 1: the part so we could get through the Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we could get through the scene. And they know they're acting.
Speaker 1: By the end, some of them kind of started to
Speaker 1: figure out there like, uh, this is a set, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on TV, so and your name is Clinta. My
Speaker 1: mommy told me. I'm like, Okay, you're not figuring out
Speaker 1: anything groundbreaking, but all right, I love it. I love
Speaker 1: I love everything you do. Thank you, thank you, and
Speaker 1: thank you for your continued support. Always been so supportable
Speaker 1: for my career. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right people. Abbot Elementary returns to ABC on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: March two, and is available to street on Hulu. If
Speaker 1: you haven't started watching it, you're missing out. Just go
Speaker 1: and catch up and then we'll do it together. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
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