Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Does anyone celebrate the super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Damn straight greatest sporting event ever? I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The super Bowl halftime show was trending today because they
Speaker 1: revealed the lineup. It's gonna be Kendrick Lamar halftime show,
Speaker 1: not playing in the game. Kendrick Lamar is gonna be there,
Speaker 1: Eminem is going to be there. Dr Dre is going
Speaker 1: to be there, Snoop Dog is gonna be there. Mary J.
Speaker 1: Blige is going to be there. It's gonna be the
Speaker 1: dopest halftime performance of all time. It's also going to
Speaker 1: be one of the quietest halftime performances of all time
Speaker 1: because his network Television, They're gonna spend half the time
Speaker 1: censoring all of those songs. Can you imagine, Like, what's
Speaker 1: the point of that? Eminem is gonna come out, let
Speaker 1: me tell you about the and and more but and
Speaker 1: the more over to you Snoop La La, La La La.
Speaker 1: It's the mother snoop Dog. Everyone's gonna be sitting at
Speaker 1: home like, what the hell is going on with my TV?
Speaker 1: Something's wrong some all the and then Mary J. Bligel
Speaker 1: singing people like she was amazing. It'll be funny if
Speaker 1: she's just like surprised people. Let's get it pumping. No Mary,
Speaker 1: coming to you from the heart of Times in New
Speaker 1: York City, the only city in America. It's The Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Here's edition tonight, Millonio, Eminem's voting rights gets mentioned, and
Speaker 1: Francis in Dan. This is the Daily Show with Trevor
Speaker 1: no Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. We
Speaker 1: kick things off with the COVID vaccine. It's the reason
Speaker 1: you no longer think heroin when you see the syringe emoji. Personally,
Speaker 1: I believe that everyone should get the vaccine. I mean
Speaker 1: except maybe Superman, right, because he's the only one who's
Speaker 1: not vulnerable to COVID. And also the needle would just
Speaker 1: break on his skin, which I guess means that Clark
Speaker 1: can't conquet the vaccine because then people would know that
Speaker 1: he's Superman. So now he just has to pretend to
Speaker 1: be an anti VAXXA so that he doesn't give away
Speaker 1: his secret identity something. He gets fired from the Daily Planet,
Speaker 1: so now he works for Fox News. Anyway, the point
Speaker 1: is the federal government tried to make it the law
Speaker 1: that all large businesses must require their employees to get vaccinated,
Speaker 1: but last week the Supreme Court said you can't do that,
Speaker 1: And now companies have to decide whether to keep those
Speaker 1: requirements in place. And as you can imagine, no matter
Speaker 1: what the companies choose, they're screwed either way or two
Speaker 1: big name companies are taking dramatically different approaches to the
Speaker 1: federal vaccine mandate. Carhart is standing by its employee vaccine policy.
Speaker 1: The decision, though his sparks and backlash on Twitter, with
Speaker 1: people threatening to boycott the company. Meantime, Starbucks is no
Speaker 1: longer requiring workers to get vaccinated against COVID nineteen. The
Speaker 1: company decided to rebus policy that was announced earlier this month.
Speaker 1: The Coffee giants decision not to require workers to get
Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine or test for the virus is not
Speaker 1: sitting well with some customers. People on Twitter are calling
Speaker 1: for a boycott. Okay, before you panic, it's important to
Speaker 1: remember that just because people say on Twitter that they're
Speaker 1: gonna boycott something doesn't mean it's gonna happen. I mean
Speaker 1: the company that people on Twitter say they're going to
Speaker 1: boycott the most is Twitter. You see how that turns out.
Speaker 1: And also, good luck boycotting Starbucks. Yeah, how are you
Speaker 1: gonna boycott America's number one bathroom provider? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got principles, but my number one principle should not
Speaker 1: go number two in my pants. But still, man, the
Speaker 1: fact that people even jump to this just shows you
Speaker 1: how polarized America is. You can't even buy coffee or
Speaker 1: clothes without it being part of like a cultural You
Speaker 1: bring cookies to a party now and people will be like,
Speaker 1: you got some balls bringing chips? So Hawaii here after
Speaker 1: what they said about panda bear rights, this is an
Speaker 1: are o house. Ultimately, though, these companies aren't trying to
Speaker 1: make a political statement whether or not to have a
Speaker 1: vaccine mandate. It's just one of many decisions that businesses
Speaker 1: have to make about what policies work best for them
Speaker 1: and their employees. Most of the time just for them.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like how CBS keeps a strict one
Speaker 1: cashier per two thousand customers ratio, And if you don't
Speaker 1: like it, you can use the self checkout that can
Speaker 1: never tell when you've actually put your item in the bag.
Speaker 1: So you need to call that one cashier to come
Speaker 1: and help you. Those are your options. But let's move
Speaker 1: on to some science news. We all know that the
Speaker 1: surface of the Earth is getting warmer, making life more
Speaker 1: difficult for everyone except Superman, because you see Superman. You
Speaker 1: know what. Never mind? Never mind. But while we're worried
Speaker 1: about the outside of the planet getting too hot, now
Speaker 1: it turns out we also have to worry about the
Speaker 1: inside of the planet getting too cold. Knew this morning.
Speaker 1: Earth's core is cooling faster than scientists initially thoughts. Researchers
Speaker 1: made the discovery while studying a mineral found between the
Speaker 1: Earth's core and mantle. Scientists say is the Earth cools,
Speaker 1: it will eventually lose its magnetic field and become a solid,
Speaker 1: uninhabitable rock. While they don't have an exact timeline on
Speaker 1: all of that, it's not expecting to happen until millions
Speaker 1: of years from now. Yeah, I believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Scientists say that the Earth's core is cooling faster than
Speaker 1: we thought. Look, guys, I'll be real with you. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know that the core was cooling in the
Speaker 1: first place. You know, sometimes I feel like living on
Speaker 1: Earth is like owning your first home. There's always something
Speaker 1: new that's random and breaking, and you just gotta plumber
Speaker 1: coming in. Like, So, it turns out the pipes in
Speaker 1: your light switches are leaking. I have pipes in my
Speaker 1: light switches. Yeah, how do you think your light stay hydrated? Now? Look,
Speaker 1: when I first heard that the core of the Earth
Speaker 1: was cooling, well, I thought was wow, great, now we
Speaker 1: can finally dig a hole to China. But it turns
Speaker 1: out if the core cools down, the magnetic field protecting
Speaker 1: Earth from cosmic radiation will disappear, and then Earth will
Speaker 1: turn into a cold, lifeless rock. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: like upstate New York. I mean like really cold. The
Speaker 1: silver lining to all of this is that it's only
Speaker 1: gonna happen millions of years from now, and by then
Speaker 1: all humans will be dead. We'll all be living in
Speaker 1: the metaverse. I'm living next to swoop Dog. So I
Speaker 1: don't know why scientists are even wasting their time with this.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like scientists need to focus. If
Speaker 1: we don't fix COVID, I can't poop at Starbucks. Finally,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Eminem's the only time it's okay to say,
Speaker 1: I don't like the Brown ones. When you have a
Speaker 1: brand that's been around for eighty years, it's important to
Speaker 1: keep up with the times. Yeah, even Superman, he used
Speaker 1: to wear underwear outside his pants, and now he has
Speaker 1: a suit that's more like body armor, even though that's
Speaker 1: not really necessary since his skin is already impenetrable, But
Speaker 1: that's not what matters. It just looks cool. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Eminem's have been around for a really long time, which
Speaker 1: is why it's famous. Advertising characters are getting a makeover.
Speaker 1: For Emine, I'm making some rebranding changes. Company leaders say
Speaker 1: they're trying to make the characters, particularly the female ones,
Speaker 1: more current and representative of their consumer. Green has swapped
Speaker 1: her Go Go boots for sneakers. Brown is sporting lower,
Speaker 1: more sensible heels. You're going to see our brand evolved
Speaker 1: and it's still can feel to reflect a dynamic and
Speaker 1: dynamic and progressive world that we're living in. For example, Green,
Speaker 1: you'll see her better reflect empowerment and confidence. You're going
Speaker 1: to see Green and Brown together being a supporting force
Speaker 1: for women who are throwing shine and not shade. Okay,
Speaker 1: I I appreciate what this chocolate company is trying to
Speaker 1: do but making the green eminem less sexy. I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: I refused to live in a world where I don't
Speaker 1: want to my candy. That's just going against nature. And
Speaker 1: also who does who does this really help? Like? Were
Speaker 1: there women who identified with the green eminem? I'm genuinely asking,
Speaker 1: genuinely because as a guy, I know I've never looked
Speaker 1: at any of those eminem's and being like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: me bro. I feel seen like this whole movement is
Speaker 1: just weird to me because I'm awful representation where it matters,
Speaker 1: but not in the things that we eat, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to see KFC going are new chickens could
Speaker 1: be in your family? Okay, dig in, But I guess
Speaker 1: that's two right. Women will probably lose the right to
Speaker 1: an abortion. But on the plus side, the green eminem
Speaker 1: gets to wear comfortable shoes Hakuna matada. Oh and they're
Speaker 1: not just updating the green eminem and the brown one. No,
Speaker 1: the red eminem is gonna be less bossy, and the
Speaker 1: orange eminem will embrace his anxiety, which I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess that makes sense. You should be anxious if you're
Speaker 1: about to get eaten. I know it's some's job to
Speaker 1: think about this stuff, but I feel like we're getting
Speaker 1: two in depth on these eminem personalities. Now they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: so the blue Eminem was raised in a single parent
Speaker 1: household at the height of the Cold War and his
Speaker 1: family out of here. Manage a chocolate Let me eat
Speaker 1: it and get fat. All right, enough of that, let's
Speaker 1: move on to our top story. It's about Superman. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's about the mid terms, which is just
Speaker 1: as exciting. America's basic cable elections are coming up in November,
Speaker 1: which is just five COVID waves away. So now's as
Speaker 1: good a time as I need to check in on
Speaker 1: how America's elections are shaping up. In our ongoing segment
Speaker 1: vote Gasm. Voting it's what makes America the greatest democracy
Speaker 1: in the world. And if you don't like American democracy,
Speaker 1: America will come invade your country to show you in
Speaker 1: person how good choosing for yourself is. And as we
Speaker 1: are pro mid term elections, Republican led states across America
Speaker 1: are busy fine tuning their voting processes to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're even more perfect. Take Texas, for example, during
Speaker 1: the last election, people were so frustrated by how many
Speaker 1: voting options they had. They could vote in person, they
Speaker 1: could mail it in, there was drive through voting, too
Speaker 1: many choices. It was so annoying. So now Texas are saying,
Speaker 1: don't worry. We're giving you fewer options, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about choices anymore. Oh and in Georgia,
Speaker 1: voters were complaining about how many convenient ballot drop boxes
Speaker 1: were cluttering the streets. Well, thankfully, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot few of them, and they're gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: harder to find this November. In Iowa, they're reducing early
Speaker 1: voting and closing the polls earlier on election day, which
Speaker 1: we can all agree as great because who wants to
Speaker 1: vote after work? I mean, that's prime Netflix time. Baby,
Speaker 1: democracy can wait. Now, all of these changes have just
Speaker 1: affected the process for voting, but some of America's most
Speaker 1: respected leaders also trying to fine tune the process for
Speaker 1: counting votes. And they're doing this to make sure that
Speaker 1: the votes accounted the right way. Allies have Donald Trump
Speaker 1: are trying to remove some of the guardrails that prevented
Speaker 1: him from overturning election. Now, according to the Post, Trump
Speaker 1: and his supporters are pushing a plan to place loyalists
Speaker 1: in key election posts, from pole watchers and precinct judges
Speaker 1: to county clerks and state attorneys general. We have to
Speaker 1: be a lot shopper than next time. When it comes
Speaker 1: to counting the vote. There's a famous statement, sometimes the
Speaker 1: vote counter is more important than the candidate, and we
Speaker 1: can let that ever ever happened again, they have to
Speaker 1: get tougher and smarter. Is that a famous thing? There's
Speaker 1: a famous saying that the vote count I've never heard
Speaker 1: that saying in my entire life. I know I'm going
Speaker 1: to get a lot of flak for saying this, but
Speaker 1: Trump is totally right. He's right about being tough. You've
Speaker 1: gotta count those votes hard. If you show any weakness,
Speaker 1: those ballots are going to take your girl. And for
Speaker 1: Trump to say the vote counter is more important than
Speaker 1: the candidate, I mean, that just shows you how committed
Speaker 1: he is to ensuring the democratic process goes the way
Speaker 1: he wants it to. I mean, think about it. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said, stop thinking about me so much. It's unprecedented.
Speaker 1: So that's just some of the admirable work Republicans have
Speaker 1: been getting up to but the Democrats have been trying
Speaker 1: to make changes of their own, and if you ask them,
Speaker 1: everyone should be able to vote with barely any effort,
Speaker 1: which would be crazy because then everyone would vote, including
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby. So they've been pushing their own laws in Congress,
Speaker 1: and last night they almost got their way. We're gonna
Speaker 1: begin with a major setback for Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: What would have been their landmark voting rights bill failed
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty eight in the Senate last night,
Speaker 1: with two Democrats joining all fifty Republicans in opposing a
Speaker 1: rules change to push it through. To those surprises, it
Speaker 1: was Senators Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manson who helped Republicans
Speaker 1: kill hopes for filibuster reform and voting rights. Eliminating the
Speaker 1: filibuster would be the easy way out. Wasn't meant to
Speaker 1: be easy. Yeah, Joe mentioned his rights. Everything in the
Speaker 1: Senate should be as difficult as possible. If Democrats want
Speaker 1: to possibil Chuck Schumer should have to carry it through
Speaker 1: a stage of American Ninja warrior first. But yes, Republicans
Speaker 1: were able to use the filibuster to block the Democrats
Speaker 1: voting rights bill with the help of Democrats. Joe mentioned
Speaker 1: the Kurson Cinema because you see, those two do support
Speaker 1: the Democrats voting rights bills, they just don't support making
Speaker 1: sure that they pass, which when you think about it,
Speaker 1: is actually so inspiring. You know, Joe mentioned in Kurson
Speaker 1: Cinema believe so strongly in the power of voting that
Speaker 1: they use their vote to block voting rights for the
Speaker 1: entire country. They they were un voting voting by voting.
Speaker 1: So it was the right thing for Mentioning Cinema to do,
Speaker 1: and basically everyone loves them for it. But as usual,
Speaker 1: there are haters out there who just don't get it.
Speaker 1: If you think this bill makes sense, and if you're
Speaker 1: worried about the future of American democracy, and if you're
Speaker 1: prepared to vote for the bill, so why are you
Speaker 1: wasting everybody's time and not voting for the rule change
Speaker 1: that allows us to pass the bill. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like inviting somebody to launch, putting on a great spread
Speaker 1: and saying you can't eat. This is why people shouldn't
Speaker 1: debate on an empty stomach. If we're not gonna pass
Speaker 1: this bill, can someone at least pass me or goddamn sandwich.
Speaker 1: But this is just classic Bernie Sanders man. He thinks
Speaker 1: just because those two Democrats say they support the bill,
Speaker 1: they should vote accordingly. Really, Bernie, it's called politics, logic tics.
Speaker 1: See what I did there, changed it with politics, and
Speaker 1: I made it. Maybe if he had spoken off to lunch,
Speaker 1: Bernie would have understood how much sense this makes, because
Speaker 1: what Joe Mention is saying is I want to help
Speaker 1: you out of the water. I'm not going to throw
Speaker 1: you a rope, but I want to throw you the rope.
Speaker 1: And any drowning man would agree. It's the thought that counts,
Speaker 1: Isn't that right? Drowning man can't hear what he's saying,
Speaker 1: but he agrees. So for whatever reason, the rights of
Speaker 1: votes has gotten people very passionate on both sides. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's become such a big deal that they even woke
Speaker 1: up Joe Biden so that he could weigh in with
Speaker 1: the voting rights push hitting a dead end. President Biden
Speaker 1: was asked whether this year's mid terms would be fairly
Speaker 1: conducted and legitimate after many Republican led states enacted new
Speaker 1: voting restrictions. All depends on whether or not we're able
Speaker 1: to make the case to the American people that some
Speaker 1: of this is being set up to try to all
Speaker 1: of the outcome of the election. It's never good for
Speaker 1: an American president to sow seeds of doubt and the
Speaker 1: legitimacy of American elections. The language is being used is
Speaker 1: clearly concerning. I thought that undermining our election results is
Speaker 1: a threat to our democracy. The last thing you wanted
Speaker 1: to hear was to hear from President Biden that there
Speaker 1: are questions about the legitimacy of the elections. You needed
Speaker 1: the President to say, no, We've got the best electoral
Speaker 1: system in the world. Yeah, that's right. Joe Biden needs
Speaker 1: to step up and say that not a single other
Speaker 1: country in the world has a better electoral system than America.
Speaker 1: People in Denmark they wish, they wish they could spend
Speaker 1: all of election days sweating in a high school gym.
Speaker 1: I mean sure, that's why most functioning countries actually have
Speaker 1: the elections run by nonpartisan, independent commissions, you know, to
Speaker 1: make sure that politicians can't twist the votes and laws
Speaker 1: for their own gain. But that would just be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. You want the people in
Speaker 1: charge of the election to have some skin in the game, right,
Speaker 1: That's how you know it's fair. Imagine how stupid it
Speaker 1: would be if a basketball game had a separate group
Speaker 1: of people on the court just to enforce the rules.
Speaker 1: That would make no sense. That's why instead, the strongest
Speaker 1: teams get to the side for themselves, whether they committed
Speaker 1: any fouls. And that's why, my friends, America's electoral system
Speaker 1: is still the best, and why nobody should ever say otherwise,
Speaker 1: because it's not true, and also because even if it was,
Speaker 1: it will be really uncomfortable to hear. All Right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, Daslide will become a famous TikTok influencer.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to miss it, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. A big challenge of the COVID pandemic
Speaker 1: has been well a breathing and be convincing people to
Speaker 1: get vaccinated. But one place in America thinks it has
Speaker 1: found a solution. Dais Elidic went to find out. This
Speaker 1: last year has shown us that Americans don't trust me,
Speaker 1: authority figures anymore, the government, scientists, doctors, even the English language.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why we ranked forty six and COVID vaccination rates.
Speaker 1: Nice job, oritious, But there is one group that can
Speaker 1: still convince us, social media influencers. At least that's what
Speaker 1: the Guildford County Health Department was betting on when they
Speaker 1: partnered with forty one local social media influencers to spread
Speaker 1: some fresh facts facts. Our communities are more likely to
Speaker 1: follow guidance from people than they truly trust, so we
Speaker 1: decided to do an influencer marketing campaign. But you're the expert,
Speaker 1: why aren't they listening to you? Well, over to last
Speaker 1: year and a half, a lot of individuals became overnight
Speaker 1: public health experts, So I think that it also depends
Speaker 1: on personal ideology, on who's an expert and who's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it. Sometimes it's better to watch the amateur
Speaker 1: ors do the job rather than the pros. It's just
Speaker 1: more authentic and natural that way. Um, I don't think
Speaker 1: that we thought about it that way. And as a
Speaker 1: self licensed juice therapist, I am all about avoiding public
Speaker 1: health experts. But why would influencers use their powers to
Speaker 1: fight COVID instead of their regular no makeup Mondays, throw
Speaker 1: back Thursdays, and throw you Fridays. Uh, most of the time,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about food, So it's like, you guys
Speaker 1: can check this pizza out if you guys want to.
Speaker 1: But now I felt like I actually had a role
Speaker 1: that was beyond myself, you know. So the caption of
Speaker 1: that one just says, hey, I got my vaccines. You
Speaker 1: guys should probably get yours too. Yeah, okay, but why
Speaker 1: are you wearing a shirt? We just got to get
Speaker 1: this vaccine together because we're a team and that's the
Speaker 1: only way we're gonna get back to normal. Yes, that's it.
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of cases where medical professionals have
Speaker 1: looked aside African Americans problems that they may come in with,
Speaker 1: and for a lot of people in my community, it's
Speaker 1: just all encompassing, no trust in that. But as an influencer,
Speaker 1: I can influence my audience to go through the steps
Speaker 1: of getting vaccinated. I'm like the sock puppet. I guess
Speaker 1: for those experts that they can speak to, that comes
Speaker 1: off a little bit less big brothery a sock puppet.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea, get the vaccine. M The influencers
Speaker 1: were obviously buying the hashtag backs life themselves, and they've
Speaker 1: been spreading the word on their accounts. But is anyone
Speaker 1: hashtag listening to hashtag what their hashtag saying. On Instagram,
Speaker 1: I have nearly twenty thousand followers, about a thousand, I
Speaker 1: have like one thousand, four hundred followers, basically just like
Speaker 1: a public account. Yeah, I mean, if you're going to
Speaker 1: take advice from someone on the internet, are you more
Speaker 1: likely to take it from someone that you know? It's
Speaker 1: a community. It's not like I am Jesus and you
Speaker 1: are all my followers. To be fair, Jesus had twelve followers,
Speaker 1: so I do have a little more than that more
Speaker 1: follow worse than Jesus. Easy there, John Lennon. But it's
Speaker 1: all this nano influencing only micro effective. We believe that
Speaker 1: those particular influencers connect on a more personal level with
Speaker 1: their community compared to some of the larger ones that
Speaker 1: can have hundreds of thousands of followers that might not
Speaker 1: have that really personal and intimate connection. So you're using
Speaker 1: the least viral influencers to stop the virus. You can
Speaker 1: say that, Okay, so how effective is this program? Are
Speaker 1: we talking fiser level effective or are we talking like
Speaker 1: Johnson and Johnson It's better than nothing. So we think
Speaker 1: that the campaign has been um incredibly successful. Within two
Speaker 1: days of that content being posted. We have also seen
Speaker 1: the increase in vaccination rates. That's good news. Unfortunately, these
Speaker 1: micro influencers are up against heavy anti VAXX propaganda casting
Speaker 1: doubt on the vaccine. How many of you guys are
Speaker 1: going to be among the first to inject this experimental
Speaker 1: vaccine that's been rushed into your arms? And this anti
Speaker 1: vax content is more infectious than covid itself. With a
Speaker 1: social media and other platforms, it's really easy to fall
Speaker 1: into this world of personal truth. So maybe the most
Speaker 1: effective way to clean up the mess that social media
Speaker 1: has made is with more social media. Like a hair
Speaker 1: of the dog when you have a hangover and you
Speaker 1: drink more alcohol to make it feel better, or like
Speaker 1: when you're trying not to catch a virus and you
Speaker 1: treat your body with tiny amounts of the virus so
Speaker 1: you don't get it. What's what? What's that called vaccination? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's it. It's the only thing to stop that influence
Speaker 1: on social media was good influence. I wanted to give
Speaker 1: our influencers one more shot at going viral. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you're tired of staying inside, very care, what's up? I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: We want our people to just stay alive. Now's the
Speaker 1: time to rule up, you see, now's the time to go.
Speaker 1: Get the vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, Get the vaccine, vaccine. It's okay.
Speaker 1: We'll work shop at We'll get there. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for that, Daisy. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: I'll be joined by the UFC Heavyweight Champion of the World,
Speaker 1: Francis dan So stay tuned. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is Francis Danu, who came from a
Speaker 1: poor village in Cameroon to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion.
Speaker 1: He's here to talk about his upcoming fight to defend
Speaker 1: his tight Francis the Predator and Ghanu. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Thank you, Trevor. Is a great pleasure to
Speaker 1: be here. You know, this is this is such a
Speaker 1: great experience for me having you here because we have
Speaker 1: so many similarities. You and I. We are both a
Speaker 1: you know, we're both African, right, you know, we we
Speaker 1: both apply our trade in different nations and different continents.
Speaker 1: And then also I believe that according to the last statistics,
Speaker 1: you and I both share the strongest punch ever recorded
Speaker 1: in the UFC. We we do. Yeah, they said, when
Speaker 1: you combine our punch, it is the strongest punch ever
Speaker 1: ever in the UFC, which is amazing. Welcome to the showman.
Speaker 1: This is this is great to have you here, Champ.
Speaker 1: Thank you and you you You forget to mention that
Speaker 1: mentioned the thing that we are. We are you and
Speaker 1: I we have in comment, which is like shock for
Speaker 1: American culture. I think everyone has that where they come here.
Speaker 1: Everyone everyone experiences that. What's the biggest thing that I
Speaker 1: shocked you about about being in America is how sometimes
Speaker 1: they treat they treat kids. People complain, kids complain, and
Speaker 1: how they treat them. You know, Like usually when I
Speaker 1: was kid, if I complain about something, I have it
Speaker 1: and said I'm like, oh, please eat your food. Oh,
Speaker 1: like I like sending you in Africa for two days.
Speaker 1: When she comes back, he will be eating all his food.
Speaker 1: That will realize how how blessed they are and so grateful. Yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's talk a little bit about your life.
Speaker 1: You know, because a lot of people know you now
Speaker 1: as the champion, the heavyweight champion of the UFC. A
Speaker 1: lot of people know you as one of the hardest
Speaker 1: hitters in the world. But man, so many people don't
Speaker 1: understand your story in getting there, Like you know, it's
Speaker 1: almost like winning the championship was one of the easiest
Speaker 1: things in your life because of how hard your life was.
Speaker 1: You know, you grew up in Cameroon. You lived a
Speaker 1: really tough life where you know, you you were living
Speaker 1: with different families, You were separated from your mother, then
Speaker 1: you were reunited. And I mean at the age of eleven,
Speaker 1: if my research is correct, you were working in a
Speaker 1: stone quarry. Yeah, in the same quarry. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was saying even since the age of nine, nine or
Speaker 1: kind like did something like that. And we were I
Speaker 1: was very small at the time, and those job was
Speaker 1: meaningful adult, but we didn't have any choice. Uh any
Speaker 1: we didn't have choices, so we have to go there
Speaker 1: and like beg for a job. You were struggling. You
Speaker 1: couldn't get food in school. You you you couldn't even
Speaker 1: afford to stay in school. And at some point you decided,
Speaker 1: as Francis, I'm gonna work as hard as I can.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save all the money I can. And then
Speaker 1: you made a really interesting decision. You decided to get
Speaker 1: into boxing. Why why did you think boxing would take
Speaker 1: you out of that life? For multiple reason that will
Speaker 1: always keeping me out of this school. So I was
Speaker 1: a subject of embarrassment, and so I was I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be embarrassed anymore. So therefore I decided that
Speaker 1: I need, I need to do something that's gonna outstand
Speaker 1: me from all those kids and so they can see
Speaker 1: that I'm not worth less, you know. Then, combined with
Speaker 1: the desire of my reputation and and everything, my love
Speaker 1: with convers sport, that's when I came across with boxing.
Speaker 1: And I was thirteen years old. But problem, there is
Speaker 1: not a gym boxing gym in the hundred miles radios,
Speaker 1: So how can I do boxing nowhere? Then after years
Speaker 1: go by, I left school, then stay in the village
Speaker 1: couple of years, and I was twenty two by that time,
Speaker 1: and they dream that dream was still inside of me,
Speaker 1: like if I I was thinking about it all the time.
Speaker 1: I decided then to move on to the city, go
Speaker 1: and chase my dream. You then go to Morocco. You
Speaker 1: didn't go to Spain. You get arrested in Spain for
Speaker 1: coming into the country legally. You still manage to make
Speaker 1: your way out of that and go to France where
Speaker 1: you didn't build a life and you really it really
Speaker 1: is you know what they would call it, here's the
Speaker 1: American dream, you know, is that Francis and Ghana goes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make something on myself and you move
Speaker 1: from boxing to the UFC where you're now the champion,
Speaker 1: and now it feels like the whole world is watching you.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cameroon, you're a hero. You know this in Africa,
Speaker 1: You're a hero in the world. People go this guy
Speaker 1: is not just a champion, but he's one of the
Speaker 1: most dynamic fighters to watch. You've got a huge fight
Speaker 1: coming up against an opponent who is tenant, oh perfect record.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to know, like what you think you expect,
Speaker 1: what we should expect from this fight, because it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like it's going to be easy, even though you
Speaker 1: have some of the quickest knockouts ever recorded in UFC history. Uh,
Speaker 1: if I will never be easy. When you're going to
Speaker 1: fight a man, you don't know what will happen. You know,
Speaker 1: there's now if I that gonna be easy. But he's
Speaker 1: a tough guy. Um, he's a very good talented open
Speaker 1: end and very good content there for me. But you
Speaker 1: know the fact that you say something like the perfect record,
Speaker 1: there's not a perfect record. And I have seen ten
Speaker 1: and oh before. It is not my first ten and
Speaker 1: all and goes know what happened to those ten and oh?
Speaker 1: I mean, all your fans are behind you. Everyone can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what's going to happen in this fight. Um.
Speaker 1: One of the things people are also waiting to see
Speaker 1: is what happens after the fights. You're not the only
Speaker 1: UFC fighter who's come out and said you feel like
Speaker 1: you should be getting paid more. The sports is making
Speaker 1: so much money now, it's becoming one of the most
Speaker 1: widely watched sports in the world. And you have said
Speaker 1: very publicly. You said, guys Francis and Gon, who deserves
Speaker 1: more money? I know this is the last fight that
Speaker 1: you've been contracted to UM in in the UFC. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you see for yourself in
Speaker 1: the future and what do you hope that the sport
Speaker 1: will learn to appreciate from you? Well for the future,
Speaker 1: I see, UM, I see. I expect to have a
Speaker 1: better contract, better contrast structure, something that put me in
Speaker 1: the safe position. You know, I'm doing the sport that
Speaker 1: is very risky, very tough, and the sport is generally
Speaker 1: generating money, and I just need I'm not asking to share,
Speaker 1: but I just need to have some respect to see
Speaker 1: that I'm worth it. I mean, we we need to grow,
Speaker 1: we need to be saved. We need UH insurance, we
Speaker 1: need her insurance. You're doing a sport that you're putting
Speaker 1: yourself on the line, your hearth, and you don't even
Speaker 1: have guarantee. And those for those fighters who have the
Speaker 1: minimum salary, they can't even afford to pay for their injury.
Speaker 1: They can't even afford the physical therapies, They can't even
Speaker 1: afford a good UH her care nothing. What I respect
Speaker 1: about you as well is that you don't just want
Speaker 1: it for yourself. You also wanted for other fighters and
Speaker 1: and you also wanted for other human beings. Talk to
Speaker 1: me about like what you're trying to do and what
Speaker 1: you dream of doing in Cameroon for kids who grew
Speaker 1: up in the world that you grew up similar to. Personally,
Speaker 1: I know how I feel when I meet somebody like that.
Speaker 1: When I have a chance, I always look up to
Speaker 1: somebody like the Rock Dewent Johnson and recently, Uh, he
Speaker 1: notices me, you know, and now we even chat. I
Speaker 1: text and the Rock takes back and sometimes he let
Speaker 1: me avoid me. When then when I wake up someday,
Speaker 1: just listened to it, the Rock voice voice message. You know.
Speaker 1: I go out there that day, I work double of
Speaker 1: what I should I supposed to Amazing, man, I'm just motivated.
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, the Rock just leave me. Amazing. This
Speaker 1: is it, you know, the enthusiasm, the motivation of that,
Speaker 1: just his message, you know. And then I realized how
Speaker 1: how great is it to be in the position that
Speaker 1: you have that power to like maybe just talk to
Speaker 1: somebody and change his day or his life. And I
Speaker 1: want to be the same thing, the same thing for others,
Speaker 1: basically knowing from where I in from, that's what we need.
Speaker 1: We just need hope. From my experience, I believe that
Speaker 1: somebody that has hope and self believing is a successful person.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you have zero dollar in your
Speaker 1: bank account. That shape will who shoot out there and
Speaker 1: then will make you a successful person. Well, Francis and Gano,
Speaker 1: you're a champion both in and out of the octagon.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
Speaker 1: We look forward to the fight, we look forward to
Speaker 1: the future, and hopefully I'll see you again in person,
Speaker 1: my friend. Thank you so much, Thank you, Trevill. It's
Speaker 1: been a great pleasure to meet you. Finally, the pleasures
Speaker 1: all mind, my friend, the pleasures all mine you. WEFC
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