Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. What's your tops? Go on
Speaker 1: wordle what's word all? Oh? Oh, someone has a life
Speaker 1: watch word all? He says. Yeah. World is this game
Speaker 1: you play online. It's not an app. You have to
Speaker 1: go on line to play it, and you guess a
Speaker 1: word and then it's a five letter word and it's
Speaker 1: simple words, and everyone is playing it and you only
Speaker 1: get like six attempts or five attempts to find the word,
Speaker 1: and everyone loves it because you just you can only
Speaker 1: play it once a day and you're done and then
Speaker 1: that's it. And it's like the most popular thing ever
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons. One, I think it helps
Speaker 1: that it's five letter words because, like a lot of
Speaker 1: time with word games, they just need to make you
Speaker 1: feel stupid, do you know what I mean? Because you'll
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Speaker 1: New York City, the only city in America. It's The
Speaker 1: Daily Here's tonight c DCS Blue Guys. Dr Pernice is
Speaker 1: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah, and joining
Speaker 1: me for today's headlines is my very good friend Michael Costa.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Michael? How you doing, Hey, Trevor. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to stick to my New Year's resolutions. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to read upside down more so, the purpose being, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I keep getting these upside down books in
Speaker 1: the mail, and uh, I don't know if it's supply
Speaker 1: chain or Amazons. So I just figured instead of throwing
Speaker 1: them out, just learn how to read them. So, you
Speaker 1: know what, Michael, I wish the world had more people
Speaker 1: like you. A lot of people would have just thrown
Speaker 1: the books away. But I'm challenging myself to read upside down.
Speaker 1: I love that. I knew that you would get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just see the world in a completely different way.
Speaker 1: I guess I could also flip it, but then i'd
Speaker 1: have to read it. Then then I would have to
Speaker 1: go upside down. It's easier for me to do it
Speaker 1: like that. You know, sometimes I wonder how this pandemic
Speaker 1: has gone on this long because there are people like
Speaker 1: you in the world, and I'm like, how haven't we
Speaker 1: solved it already? Thank you so much, dude. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: exactly right. Good, I'm gonna read it. Just read a
Speaker 1: little bit. You go ahead, you go ahead. All right,
Speaker 1: Well he's doing that. Let's jump right into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: We begin with the big news from the world of sports.
Speaker 1: And no, I'm not talking about all the great NFL
Speaker 1: playoff games over the weekend. I mean, I've always said, man,
Speaker 1: the most exciting games are the ones that are over
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. No, I'm talking about Novak Djokovic,
Speaker 1: Serbian tennis star whose name is worth up to a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty points in scramble. This is supposed to
Speaker 1: have been a big week for Djokovic, but like my
Speaker 1: dream of starring in the biopic of wird L, it
Speaker 1: wasn't meant to be. The Australian Open got under way
Speaker 1: Monday without the world's number one ranked male tennis player,
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic, returned to his day to Serbia after being
Speaker 1: deported from Australia for not being vaccinated against COVID. The
Speaker 1: Australian government said it canceled his visa because Djokovic's presence
Speaker 1: could lead to an increase in anti vaccination sentiment and
Speaker 1: even civil unrest. Australia requires everyone entering the country to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated or have a medical exemption. Djokovic had an
Speaker 1: exemption because of a recent COVID infection, but it's sparred
Speaker 1: to outrage in Australia, apparently prompting the government to act.
Speaker 1: An opinion poll yesterday showed seventy of Australians wanted Djokovic deported.
Speaker 1: It says a lot about you when that many Australians
Speaker 1: think you're too dangerous to be in their country. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the country whose health minister is a giant,
Speaker 1: poisonous spider or I get things done in Australia is
Speaker 1: the last country you want to get deported from. I mean, imagine,
Speaker 1: imagine stepping off a twenty five hour flight and then
Speaker 1: immediately having to get on another twenty five hour flights.
Speaker 1: I don't know what djokovic thing is in the vaccine,
Speaker 1: but it can't possibly be worse than breathing in thoughts
Speaker 1: for fifty hours straight. But then again, it's not that
Speaker 1: surprising that Djokovic would be against the vaccine. Keep in
Speaker 1: mind that this is a man who says he knows
Speaker 1: that he has a gluten intolerance, and this is completely
Speaker 1: true because he's physically weaker if he's holding a slice
Speaker 1: of bread. Yeah, so gluten works like kryptonite for him.
Speaker 1: You think COVID is scary, but Djokovic could die just
Speaker 1: walking past the bakery. I will say, as hard as
Speaker 1: it is to sympathize with Djokovic, it is a little
Speaker 1: disturbing that the Australian government allowed him in then deports
Speaker 1: to him just because they change their minds. I mean,
Speaker 1: if a government can arbitrarily deports an athlete, or's to
Speaker 1: stop them from deporting a whole team? And how can
Speaker 1: we get it to be the New York Jets? And
Speaker 1: also I love how the Australian government is proclaiming that
Speaker 1: there's some health component to this as if. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've been to Australia. It's not exactly the health the asculpture.
Speaker 1: They eat terrible food, They drink exuberant amounts of beer.
Speaker 1: A blue and onion has like forty thousand calories. Trevor,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna kick this guy out of the tennis tournament,
Speaker 1: you still haven't kicked out the sting ray that killed
Speaker 1: Steve Irwin, You know what I mean? And I can
Speaker 1: relate to Novak Djokovic because I've been kicked out of
Speaker 1: a bunch of outback steakhouses, and same as Novak, they
Speaker 1: said it was an issue with my visa. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means, but yeah, I stand with you.
Speaker 1: What's the guy gotta do to be allowed to play
Speaker 1: the tournament? Nine time champion, three time defending champion, world
Speaker 1: number one, tied all time for grand What do you
Speaker 1: gotta do, Trevor? Get vaccinated? Yeah? All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on to some technology and used arguably the most important
Speaker 1: tech breakthrough of the last few years has been five G.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of crazy conspiracy theories you
Speaker 1: might have heard, like five G causes cancer or tois
Speaker 1: um or it's a mind control tool. I mean, a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, it was actually going around that when
Speaker 1: they turned on five G, anyone who had gotten the
Speaker 1: COVID vaccine was going to explode. This is the thing
Speaker 1: people believe, which is ridiculous. I mean, I have five
Speaker 1: G on my phone and I turned it on before
Speaker 1: we came out here, and look, nothing happens, you see.
Speaker 1: But it turns out not everyone who has concerns anyway,
Speaker 1: It turns out not everyone who has concerns about five G,
Speaker 1: where as A ten hats this morning the major airlines
Speaker 1: warning of a possible catastrophic aviation crisis beginning in less
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours, when A T N T and
Speaker 1: Verizon are set to launch a new stronger five G
Speaker 1: technology which would give faster wireless service. The concern whether
Speaker 1: five G signals could interfere with radio altimeters that's the
Speaker 1: device pilots used telling them how far they are from
Speaker 1: the ground and helping them land and poor visibility. Executives
Speaker 1: for airlines including American dealt United in Southwest urging US
Speaker 1: officials to keep new stronger five G signals at least
Speaker 1: two miles away from US airports, saying in the letter,
Speaker 1: immediate intervention is needed to avoid significant operational disruption. To
Speaker 1: be blunt, the nation's commerce will grind to a halt.
Speaker 1: One union saying it's pilots are prepared to ground their
Speaker 1: planes if the f A doesn't act. Yeah, but how
Speaker 1: will they know how to ground their planes if there's
Speaker 1: five G? Just me, Okay, look, look, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the airlines are making this up. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: But we all remember how they said the same thing
Speaker 1: about regular cell phones for twenty years. Right, yeah, remember
Speaker 1: how terrified they had us. Everyone airplane mortal, This plane
Speaker 1: could crash. One time, I forgot to turn off my
Speaker 1: phone and then the plane hit turbulence and I looked
Speaker 1: at my phone was like a ship. This is me.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, everybody, I'm sorry. So anyway, I don't think
Speaker 1: the airlines are gonna win this fight. And honestly, even
Speaker 1: if it's true this time, if it's true, if you
Speaker 1: tell people that they can download a movie in a
Speaker 1: few seconds, but there's a slight chance it'll crash a plane,
Speaker 1: pretty sure people are gonna be like, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: worth it. I'll take that chance first downloads. Also, how
Speaker 1: is this my problem? I mean, you want me to
Speaker 1: take on the cell phone company industry in the airline industry, right,
Speaker 1: you knew five G was coming? It comes after four G.
Speaker 1: You know it's after five G, Trevor, six G. How
Speaker 1: how do you want me to go? You know you're
Speaker 1: asking me to take on the Airline's a place where
Speaker 1: I can't even get a full can of coke or
Speaker 1: I can't even change my middle seed. This is not
Speaker 1: my problem. But you know what crashed together my friends.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's what friendship is all about. That
Speaker 1: all right, let's make all our moms happy and go
Speaker 1: to church with this next story, have you ever seen
Speaker 1: a pastor who worked a little too hot to keep
Speaker 1: the congregation's attention? Well, one pasta and Oklahoma, Well he
Speaker 1: just out did them all and tells a church leader
Speaker 1: facing criticism for smearing his spit on a man's face
Speaker 1: during a sermon. It happened over the weekend. Gross, So
Speaker 1: many people talk about this on social media. Yesterday, Pastor
Speaker 1: Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Vixby was giving a
Speaker 1: sermon on Sunday about how to quote received God's vision
Speaker 1: can be nasty. He said, I just bought my dream car,
Speaker 1: and now you're gonna ask me to send it back
Speaker 1: and ride in the hoof. Do you get yeah? Because
Speaker 1: the vision I'm about to give you and might get nasty. Well,
Speaker 1: the pastor says, while he was trying to make a
Speaker 1: point in his sermon on Sunday, he realizes that he
Speaker 1: crossed the line and the guy on stage that was
Speaker 1: his brother. How is COVID still spreading in America? We're
Speaker 1: doing everything right. Huh, We're doing everything right. Look, I
Speaker 1: know it looks nasty, but I will say this pastor's
Speaker 1: point that God might ask you to do stuff that
Speaker 1: other people don't like. He's not wrong. Yeah, all these
Speaker 1: people who are like, God doesn't want you to wipe
Speaker 1: your nasty spit on people. Yo. Somewhere Abraham is like, yo,
Speaker 1: he told me to kill my damned son. I wish
Speaker 1: he just wanted me to spit on him. You know what,
Speaker 1: misterpy me and my kid had to go to after that.
Speaker 1: She was never the same. The pastor is just trying
Speaker 1: to say, sometimes God will give you a message that
Speaker 1: may throw you off, like flam in your face. And
Speaker 1: you know the fact that that was his brother, that
Speaker 1: he was doing that too. For me, that makes it
Speaker 1: even worse because now it feels like he just uses
Speaker 1: the scriptures to mess with his sibling. And God sends
Speaker 1: a great flood and to show you what that flood
Speaker 1: looked like, I'm gonna stick my brother's hand and some
Speaker 1: warm water while he sleeps. I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: I I see this as a beautiful expression of spirituality
Speaker 1: a cost. What are you talking about? This is disgusting,
Speaker 1: It's gross. Okay, A few I Honestly, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to say anything because it's a black church. But what
Speaker 1: the fun is going on? Dude? Huh is this? What
Speaker 1: is this what black church is all about? No, it's not.
Speaker 1: That's why it's disgusting. I mean that being said, it's
Speaker 1: not as bad as what happens at white church. But
Speaker 1: you're right about it. When religion was invented, they were
Speaker 1: doing some dark ship. It kind of shows how sensitive
Speaker 1: we are now. A little spit on the face from
Speaker 1: your brother. I mean, my brother used to pin me
Speaker 1: down and drink orange juice and then do the the
Speaker 1: you know what that is. No, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. The spit down to the face and then
Speaker 1: you know, you went back up. I'm sorry. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize my brother was just presenting me with scripture at
Speaker 1: the time. You didn't do that. Maybe it's just my brother.
Speaker 1: Did you know he was doing this when he was
Speaker 1: drinking the orange juice? Did you know what was coming? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: That was that was so tricky. Half the time he
Speaker 1: was just having some breakfast orange juice, and the other
Speaker 1: time he was getting ready to kick the ship out
Speaker 1: of me. So that's trauma, coustumes, that's trauma. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know he's probably watching, and I'm onto you, dude,
Speaker 1: and and I don't I don't you know, I guess
Speaker 1: you won because here I am crying on TV about it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about this in the break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna fix this all right. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll tell you why you're wearing the wrong mosque and
Speaker 1: how to get the right mosque and why that mosque
Speaker 1: is also wrong. So stay tuned, because you see your
Speaker 1: brother con is that No, no, I was just just
Speaker 1: trying to keep breathing upside down. You go ahead, man,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. We are now answering
Speaker 1: year fifty of the coronavirus pandemic, and dealing with life
Speaker 1: in a pandemic has been a struggle for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, small in the owners, teachers and of course
Speaker 1: people with a chin fitish. But one group that's having
Speaker 1: a tougher time than you'd expect is the CDC. So
Speaker 1: let's catch up with all the latest in another edition
Speaker 1: of Keeping Up with Corona. From the beginning of this pandemic,
Speaker 1: the CDC has tried to give clear, simple guidelines to
Speaker 1: the public and from the beginning, they have mostly failed.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you remember their masque chart Shop looked
Speaker 1: like a traffic lights had and aneurysm. And look, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that telling million people how to behave during
Speaker 1: a global pandemic is easy, but it also doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like the CDC is getting any better at it. The
Speaker 1: CDC has updated its guidance on masks. According to the agency,
Speaker 1: cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively
Speaker 1: as other masks, saying any mask is better than none,
Speaker 1: but masks that fit well like n offer the best protection.
Speaker 1: The agency stopping short ofverging all Americans to upgrade their masks,
Speaker 1: drawing immediate criticism from some health experts. You know, the
Speaker 1: approach that the CDC has taken right now with mask
Speaker 1: and I think just adds to the confusion. We should
Speaker 1: be making it loud and clear that the ninety five
Speaker 1: rush freighters are really the only thing that will really
Speaker 1: protect you. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on. If cloth
Speaker 1: mosques don't protect you, then tell people they need to
Speaker 1: wear a better mosque. What's this, Well, it doesn't really work,
Speaker 1: but but it's it's fine. It's fine. I mean, in
Speaker 1: that case, I might as well wear a T shirt
Speaker 1: with a seatbelt drawn on it instead of an actual
Speaker 1: seat belt. Yeah, I mean it looks like a seatbelt
Speaker 1: doesn't protect me, but I mean apparently that's enough, right.
Speaker 1: The thing I really don't understand is, now that we
Speaker 1: know cloth mosques don't work, who are the people who
Speaker 1: are still wearing them? Huh? Because look, we've pretty much
Speaker 1: got two teams. Yeah, You've got the people who are
Speaker 1: scared of COVID and they're running around looking like Bain.
Speaker 1: And then you've got people who think COVID is total bullshits,
Speaker 1: so they refuse to wear a mosque altogether. And I
Speaker 1: don't agree with them, but at least they stand by
Speaker 1: their beliefs and they don't care if those beliefs end
Speaker 1: up killing their workers in the Supreme Court. But a
Speaker 1: cloth mosque, it's just wishy washy, like you either want
Speaker 1: to protect yourself or you don't. You can't just the
Speaker 1: tip the coronavirus come on people. It's like someone being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wear condoms, but only if they made like a
Speaker 1: doily by my condoms on Etsy. At the same time,
Speaker 1: though this does suck. I mean, we spent two years
Speaker 1: building up a whole wardrobe of cloth mosques. You know,
Speaker 1: I had musque for every situation. I had my work mosque,
Speaker 1: at my weekend mosque, at my masques, for going to funerals,
Speaker 1: at my masques, for going to weddings. It's too bad
Speaker 1: now if you wore a cloth mask because the CDC
Speaker 1: was kind of okay with it and you got infected
Speaker 1: with COVID. Well, the CDC also has some new guidelines
Speaker 1: for how long you should isolate from other people, and
Speaker 1: it turns out those guidelines so weird as hell. At
Speaker 1: the same time, the CDC finds itself facing backlash over
Speaker 1: some of its other recommendations concerning how long those who
Speaker 1: have tested positive for COVID should isolate and whether a
Speaker 1: negative test should be required to end that isolation. The
Speaker 1: CDC says the infected can end isolation if fever free
Speaker 1: just five days after a positive test, When a study
Speaker 1: of infections in the NBA suggests more than a third
Speaker 1: are probably still infectious ending isolation, the day five should
Speaker 1: include a negative rapid antigen test, tweeted one of the researchers.
Speaker 1: Why do all the work to identify infections if we
Speaker 1: are going to just let them go back to work
Speaker 1: while still potentially infectious. Yeah, that's a great point. These
Speaker 1: CDC guidelines could be sending people back to work while
Speaker 1: they are still contagious. It's like the CDC is trying
Speaker 1: to turn every office into the CDC office. Look, if
Speaker 1: we have to work alongside deadly viruses every day, then
Speaker 1: so do you? Why would you do that? Why would
Speaker 1: you test and then still let the person go? Imagine
Speaker 1: if the T s A had that philosophy, just like
Speaker 1: pat you down? Is that a gun? Yeah? All right,
Speaker 1: go on now, to be fair, To be fair, Dr
Speaker 1: Fauci says that these new rules are an attempt to
Speaker 1: keep the most infectious people at home while also getting
Speaker 1: essential workers back to work faster, because, let's face it,
Speaker 1: basically everyone has omicron right now. And if people don't
Speaker 1: have to be in isolation as long, then hopefully hospitals
Speaker 1: can bring back nurses faster, you know, hopefully schools can
Speaker 1: bring back teachers, and the NBA teams can stop signing
Speaker 1: sweaty dads that they found at the local y m
Speaker 1: c A. But even after you come out of your
Speaker 1: much shorter isolation, the c d C has some pretty
Speaker 1: weird expectations of what you should be doing next. Part
Speaker 1: of the guidance we recently got from the c d
Speaker 1: C was what to do after five days of isolation,
Speaker 1: once you're out and you have no more symptoms. They say,
Speaker 1: these are the people you should stay away from after
Speaker 1: you and your COVID five day isolation. People who are overweight,
Speaker 1: battling depression, current or former smokers, and pregnant people. That's
Speaker 1: nearly nine out of ten people. You guys, you know,
Speaker 1: the CDC is create easy people. You can come out
Speaker 1: of isolation as long as you don't interact with basically
Speaker 1: any other person. You realize you're describing isolation. And look,
Speaker 1: I understand, I understand that the CDC wants to protect
Speaker 1: vulnerable populations, but this is a legit minefield. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what's not going to help depress people. Everyone's
Speaker 1: staying away from them. Not to mention, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: stay away from overweight people. CDC is gonna get people
Speaker 1: canceled because now you're gonna be like, hey, I can't
Speaker 1: hang out with you for a few days, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be like why not. Uh. Honestly, it sounds like
Speaker 1: the CDC is trying to describe a very specific person,
Speaker 1: but just doesn't want to call them out. That's what
Speaker 1: it seems like. They don't embarrass them. Stay away from
Speaker 1: a former smoker who's pregnant, whose hair is curly but
Speaker 1: everybody knows is actually a perm and she's really into
Speaker 1: pandas even though she's never been to China. Her name
Speaker 1: rhymes with mamantha. And look, I know that a lot
Speaker 1: of this confusion is because the virus itself is confusing.
Speaker 1: I understand that it's constantly changing. We'll in you things,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to keep up. It's like trying to
Speaker 1: stay on top of TikTok trends. You're like, okay, I
Speaker 1: finally learned that I ain't ever been with a batty dance,
Speaker 1: and TikTok is like, no, we're doing encanto memes now.
Speaker 1: But it absolutely does not help when the people who
Speaker 1: have to explain what to do in response to the
Speaker 1: virus answer like this, At what point does the administration saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, the strategy isn't working, We're going to
Speaker 1: change strategies. Six former administration officials last week wrote that
Speaker 1: open letter urging the administration to change course, to change strategy.
Speaker 1: Is it time? It is time for us to do
Speaker 1: what we have been doing, and that time is every day.
Speaker 1: It is time for us to do what we have
Speaker 1: been doing, and that time is every day. How does
Speaker 1: that sound so familiar? Oracle? When will it be done?
Speaker 1: It is time for us to do what we have
Speaker 1: been doing, and that time is every day. Now. Look,
Speaker 1: communist point was that the administration doesn't need a new
Speaker 1: plan because we already have a way out of this pandemic,
Speaker 1: which is everyone getting vaccinated. But it should be obvious
Speaker 1: by now that hoping everyone gets vaxed isn't enough, which
Speaker 1: is why the Biden administration is rolling out a new
Speaker 1: plan to get everyone in America and at home COVID
Speaker 1: test just as soon as the omicron wave is over.
Speaker 1: Just into the Sena news room. The website where you
Speaker 1: can order free COVID nineteen at home tests from the
Speaker 1: government is up and running. The site was quietly launched today.
Speaker 1: We just checked it does work. Go to www dot
Speaker 1: COVID tests dot gov and that's where you can order
Speaker 1: your test. At this point you can order four per household,
Speaker 1: and we're told the bill ship within seven to twelve
Speaker 1: days of ordering. About a week to a week and
Speaker 1: a half. So let's say you go online and tomorrow
Speaker 1: you place an order. On Wednesday the nineteen, they should
Speaker 1: be on their way to you by the end of
Speaker 1: the month. Okay, okay, look, I mean it's great the
Speaker 1: tests are finally going to be available to everyone. But
Speaker 1: seven into twelve days. I don't think that's a little
Speaker 1: too long in a pandemic. I mean, every day is precious.
Speaker 1: Every single day's precious in the pandemic. If anyone should
Speaker 1: know that, it's Joe Biden. You know, I can't help
Speaker 1: but think that if America just took a military approach
Speaker 1: to COVID, this testing thing would be solved like that
Speaker 1: because there's no delays when it comes to the American military.
Speaker 1: America doesn't need bombs and then start building them. America
Speaker 1: always has bombs ready to go. America wants to drone someone,
Speaker 1: No one is like, okay, we can place the order now,
Speaker 1: and then we wait seven to twelve days unless there's
Speaker 1: a holiday. Then in that case, no, it's just boom,
Speaker 1: that terrorist is gone. Baby, what was just a family
Speaker 1: were boom? There's still gone. I stand by my boom.
Speaker 1: If America was that proactive when it comes to pandemics.
Speaker 1: We would have all gotten these tests months before, oh
Speaker 1: mcron even got here a little. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I trust at home tests.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna test ourselves antigens is that before after
Speaker 1: we mess up the directions on an easy Mac. So look,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are frustrated with the
Speaker 1: government right now, and they're depressed that this pandemic seems
Speaker 1: to never end. Like when are we going back to
Speaker 1: normal life? When can we go to work and hang
Speaker 1: out with friends like we used to? When is the
Speaker 1: Daily Show going back to having an audience? You got me, Trevor,
Speaker 1: you don't count. It's all a mess. But the good
Speaker 1: news is the good news is it won't be a
Speaker 1: mess much longer because people, if we just keep doing
Speaker 1: what we've been doing, then it'll be time to keep
Speaker 1: doing it every day until it's time. All right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, Dr Benice King will join us to
Speaker 1: talk about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. You
Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. I'm sorry a little. I
Speaker 1: just yeah, I just I'm sorry, man, I should I
Speaker 1: lost it. I'm sorry. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is Dr Benice A. She's the daughter
Speaker 1: of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. And Coreta
Speaker 1: Scott King. She's here to talk about advancing the legacy
Speaker 1: of her parents through her work as the CEO of
Speaker 1: the King Center. Dr Benice King, Welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I am so honored to be here. UM.
Speaker 1: Let me stop by saying happy belated, Uh Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Junior Day. UM. I've seldom seen a holiday that
Speaker 1: seems to be celebrated by as many different people in
Speaker 1: as many different ways as I have seen with m
Speaker 1: LK Day in America and as the daughter of Dr
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Jr. I'd love to know what you
Speaker 1: feel MLK Day should be about. Well. I try to
Speaker 1: capture in three ways. It's a time to educate, advocate,
Speaker 1: and activate and people follow under you know, each one
Speaker 1: of those in different ways. Uh. Some some people use
Speaker 1: this as a time to you know, advance the teachings
Speaker 1: of Dr King, and then some people advocate that many
Speaker 1: shoes that are we're faced with in this nation, um,
Speaker 1: that people are concerned about, and they used that time
Speaker 1: to raise their voices to advocate for issues and groups
Speaker 1: of people in fact, and then activate how do we
Speaker 1: capture the holiday under one massive theme and focus. And
Speaker 1: it became about a day of service, so we started
Speaker 1: touting a day on, not a day off. In your lifetime,
Speaker 1: you saw your father go from from being one of
Speaker 1: the most hated men in America to now being one
Speaker 1: of the most beloved men in America. But ironically almost
Speaker 1: not because he's changed, but because people have changed what
Speaker 1: he stood for. Hmm. That's an interesting insight, Trevor. I've
Speaker 1: never heard it put that way. Wow. Yeah, because we
Speaker 1: have an affinity for for for their deceased leaders, they're
Speaker 1: more comfortable when they're no longer with us because they
Speaker 1: are not able to, you know, influence the masses in
Speaker 1: the same way. You know. It's kind of like good
Speaker 1: and evil. When you have something that's so powerful revolutionary
Speaker 1: like that, you know, people do want to kind of
Speaker 1: find the easy, comfortable part of it. Um And I
Speaker 1: agree with you that that that has happened, um and And,
Speaker 1: and that's why we have to continue to be resolute
Speaker 1: in teaching the whole king. I think there's no escaping
Speaker 1: the fact that his whole essence cannot be spoken about
Speaker 1: without speaking about your mother, Curtis God King, what do
Speaker 1: you what do you wish people knew about the work
Speaker 1: that she was doing to help fight for civil rights
Speaker 1: in America? In many ways, I think she was much
Speaker 1: more advanced, um, you know, uh than my father morally,
Speaker 1: uh and in terms of her um insight, she gave
Speaker 1: him a lot of you said, sounding board feedback when
Speaker 1: he prepares messages and sermons. Um. But probably one of
Speaker 1: the most important ways is when it was when he
Speaker 1: spoke out against the Vietnam War in nineteen seven. You know, um,
Speaker 1: everybody turned against him. Literally, the black leaders of a
Speaker 1: fee urbanly they all turned against him because they felt
Speaker 1: that we had made so much progress on the civil
Speaker 1: rights front from the Johnson administration that we need to
Speaker 1: kind of you know, you know, you know, be careful
Speaker 1: at this point that we don't alienate. Yeah, And so um,
Speaker 1: my mom said, Martin, we could really use your moral
Speaker 1: authority and voice. I mean, look when you said he's
Speaker 1: most hated and now one of the most loved. What
Speaker 1: I say to people is the reason all of what
Speaker 1: we know about Dr King at the level that we
Speaker 1: know it, um, And why we can't seem to shake him.
Speaker 1: It is because she she immediately went to work two
Speaker 1: and a half months afterward, a grieving with our with
Speaker 1: four little children. She had this amendous called to continue
Speaker 1: their work, and she was very strategic and everything she did, um,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like to me. That's why I call
Speaker 1: it the architect of the King Legacy, because she really
Speaker 1: provided a blueprint for how we must continue to remember
Speaker 1: Dr King and his teaching, and in all uncertain terms,
Speaker 1: she was insistent that we understood those teachings. You see
Speaker 1: some of the opponents of of voting rights using your
Speaker 1: father's words in their defense or using it on a
Speaker 1: day to say I'm pro moderin Luther King Jr. And
Speaker 1: then almost you know, ignoring his teachings on on what
Speaker 1: he believed in. You're looking at a country that right
Speaker 1: now is considering getting rid of the filibuster. How do
Speaker 1: you grapple with the idea of the filibuster where voting
Speaker 1: rights needs to go in America and the risk of
Speaker 1: not having a filibuster in a country where power goes
Speaker 1: back and forth the entire time. Yeah, you know, I've
Speaker 1: had mixed feelings about it. I mean, I've I've tweeted
Speaker 1: out about you know, doing away with it. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a difficult thing because the filibuster is neutral
Speaker 1: as we know it. It's how it's used that makes it,
Speaker 1: uh something for good or for bad. We would not
Speaker 1: be a democracy if we did not have voting rights.
Speaker 1: And I agree with the Republicans in the sense that
Speaker 1: we should make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Speaker 1: But how that looks as different, you know, um, And
Speaker 1: that's what we need to be talking more about. So
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of hypocritical to me, um to say
Speaker 1: we shouldn't set aside this filibuster and just at this
Speaker 1: point vote on what the majority says for something that's
Speaker 1: funny then to everybody, so you got away you know
Speaker 1: the workaround, you know, like with Kurston Cinema and um
Speaker 1: and and and Manson saying, you know, you know, the
Speaker 1: poisonous aspect of our democracy and we have to stop
Speaker 1: what you just said, the back and forth. I actually
Speaker 1: agree we did have to do that, but at at
Speaker 1: the price is what we're looking at, the price of
Speaker 1: them getting back in charge and saying, okay, you did this,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do this life, y'all about the Boston
Speaker 1: or the damage of millions of people being disenfranchised. That's
Speaker 1: what we're looking at you. I hear you, and and
Speaker 1: and it is a it is a it is a dilemma.
Speaker 1: And again, funny enough, I think that's something that your
Speaker 1: father doesn't get credited enough with, is how much strategy
Speaker 1: he had to put into the movement, how strategic cats are?
Speaker 1: Can you can you? Can you say that again, because
Speaker 1: that's what's missing today. Before I let you go, I
Speaker 1: want to talk about some of the work that you've
Speaker 1: been doing recently, um in spreading some some some really
Speaker 1: wonderful messages. You know, many people know you. You you
Speaker 1: have a fantastic new book out talking about love and
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a beautiful experience. Yes, there it is.
Speaker 1: It starts with me, and it's a it's a really
Speaker 1: wonderful story of a young girl who's going out there
Speaker 1: and changing the world in in in you know, in
Speaker 1: her expression of love and and and doing things whilst
Speaker 1: also you know, loving people, not just sitting back, um,
Speaker 1: but you're also the CEO of the King Center, and
Speaker 1: you you've done something really revolutionary and and and different
Speaker 1: for an organization, and that you've moved a lot of
Speaker 1: your lessons and a lot of the ideas about non
Speaker 1: violence online. Talk me through that a little bit, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind. We found a way to kind of
Speaker 1: developed an online experience that is reflective of what we
Speaker 1: do in person. So non violence for us is a
Speaker 1: love centered way of thinking, engage in speaking, and acting
Speaker 1: that brings about personal, cultural, and societal transformation. Daddy said,
Speaker 1: and I have a dream. It's a part that most
Speaker 1: people missed in his speech. We must forever conduct our
Speaker 1: struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. He
Speaker 1: was talking about how we talk to you know, words
Speaker 1: are powerful. In my Christian tradition, we say death in
Speaker 1: life and the power of the tongue. You can murder
Speaker 1: somebody with your tongue. So when people say I'm not
Speaker 1: violent because they don't do anything physically, it's not confined
Speaker 1: to that. We cleared that up even in this this
Speaker 1: online experience. For some reason, people think love is something
Speaker 1: like this, you know, man, be pan be weak kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It's not what love does. Is it make
Speaker 1: sure that you are always trying to elevate the situation
Speaker 1: and even the person. So I try to participate in
Speaker 1: that part of the struggle. And that's what nonviolence, you know,
Speaker 1: really represents. And I think if we get to that place,
Speaker 1: we can have these hard conversations. But I like to
Speaker 1: I like to talk to people the way where the
Speaker 1: defenses come down. I'm learning how to listen because that's
Speaker 1: a non violence you know, UM where um tool as
Speaker 1: well listen if my friend John Bryant of Operations Home
Speaker 1: will say, listen without being defensive and speak talk without
Speaker 1: being offensive. H thank you so much for continuing to
Speaker 1: share not just your father's legacy, but your mother's as well.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, a story that has changed the
Speaker 1: nation forever. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Don't forget people. Dr King's book, It
Speaker 1: Starts with Me is available right now. For more information
Speaker 1: on the King's Centers non Violence three six five online classes,
Speaker 1: visit the website below. We're gonna take a quick break,
Speaker 1: but we'll be right back after this. Well that's our
Speaker 1: show for tonight, but before we go, if you like
Speaker 1: what you heard from Dr Bernice King tonight, then consider
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