Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. I can't believe it. Roy
Speaker 1: a real life waffle house in Atlanta. Man, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: It's my first time. You're gonna love it. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it. You know I'm talking. Uh, we can't
Speaker 1: go in yet. But we can't go in. It's not open. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's open, but we're waiting for the fights to start,
Speaker 1: and they spill out to the park. Let it's almost
Speaker 1: two a year. It's about the Joe fights, right. I
Speaker 1: didn't come here for the fights. I can't for the waffles.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, let's just go in. And you can't
Speaker 1: for the whiffle. Nobody goes the waffle house for just
Speaker 1: the wildfles. Violence is part of the experience. You said
Speaker 1: you wanted the authentic waffle house experience, right, Okay, the
Speaker 1: authentic waffle house experience is watching strangers punch each other
Speaker 1: in the face. You record it, you go viral. I
Speaker 1: don't care about going viral filling somebody's fight. I just
Speaker 1: want to eat the food. Just just trust me, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go hang on, hang on home right
Speaker 1: out a second. You can you can wait here. I'll
Speaker 1: go in here I'm gonna listen to me, right, I
Speaker 1: want to listen to me, to trust me. Trust, take
Speaker 1: your hands off from your trust. You think you take
Speaker 1: a house. I'm trying to help you uns often once
Speaker 1: I'm wait, I'm trying to stick. It's try. Coming for
Speaker 1: the fight, Yester, do and come in for the fire.
Speaker 1: I gotta call you. I'm gonna gonna go viral kill.
Speaker 1: Coming to you from Atlanta, where the pizza notting doesn't
Speaker 1: only mean it's the Daily Show a night. It all
Speaker 1: comes down to Georgia. All the hunt for freaking Stacy's
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. What's traveling now? What's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: How you're doing? We made it? Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming out. We're officially here. Take a seat, take
Speaker 1: a seat, Let's do this thing. Everybody, take a see
Speaker 1: what is happening everybody. I'm trevoring, No, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show, and not just any Daily Show. We're coming
Speaker 1: to you from the Tabernacle Theater in Atlanta, George, Everybody,
Speaker 1: We've made it. We're here in Atlanta. That's right, baby,
Speaker 1: a town hot Atlanta. I love it. Black Hollywood, the
Speaker 1: place with the realist housewives, the lost city in the ocean. No,
Speaker 1: that's Atlantis, but still same feeling. We're here. Oh, and
Speaker 1: I can feel it. You feel amazing, which feels good.
Speaker 1: This feels really good. Oh, I'm excited for this. This
Speaker 1: is great. We're gonna be here all week, all week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be here all right. And if you're asking why,
Speaker 1: that's because you know that's how long I'll lay over
Speaker 1: is now I'm joking. I'm joking. It's because Georgia is
Speaker 1: the epicenter of America's elections right now. Yeah, decides everything.
Speaker 1: Decided the presidential race now, it could decide the mid Germs.
Speaker 1: And I know, I know there are a few other states.
Speaker 1: I know there are, but none of them have the
Speaker 1: best food. Right so I'm loving the food out here.
Speaker 1: Everything is extra I love it. Yeah, you got you
Speaker 1: got that Southern fried chicken. You know you got that
Speaker 1: fried Oprah, you got you got fried tomatoes. Everything is fried.
Speaker 1: Even even some of your politicians brains are fried. And
Speaker 1: I like that. You went too far, but I like that.
Speaker 1: The point is we're in Atlanta and I love it.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you I am loving every single moment
Speaker 1: out here. Everything you know, the like like the yeah,
Speaker 1: the five is the five is difference. You've got good
Speaker 1: free who, You've got great music. You know, everyone here
Speaker 1: is so polite as well. Yeah yeah, and New York
Speaker 1: people are like, what the is wrong? Would you? But
Speaker 1: here everyone's just like bless yo hut, bless yo hut.
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't means the same thing. But
Speaker 1: it feels different, you know, it feels completely different. Oh
Speaker 1: and can I just say, can I just say one
Speaker 1: of the things I've been loving most about being here
Speaker 1: is how black it is. What what I landed in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I thought I flew black to South Africa. But my mistake,
Speaker 1: because there's black people everywhere. It's like opposite Boston. I've
Speaker 1: never been anywhere like since. This is wild. From the
Speaker 1: moment we know, like the moment I landed at the airport,
Speaker 1: it's just black people. Ever everyone was black. You get
Speaker 1: in the car, your Uber drivers black. Everyone in the
Speaker 1: hotel was black. I get into the room, I turn
Speaker 1: on the TV news anchor is black throws throws to
Speaker 1: a black weather man, then crosses over to like a
Speaker 1: black sports reporter. I walk into the bathroom. I look
Speaker 1: in the mirror. That person is black. I like, what
Speaker 1: and you can feel it. You can feel it in
Speaker 1: the city because everyone complains, They're like, oh, Atlanta has
Speaker 1: so much traffic trafor have you felt the traffic if
Speaker 1: you felt what it's like I have, But the blackness
Speaker 1: changes that too. This is the only city I've been
Speaker 1: to where the traffic has rhythm. You can feel the
Speaker 1: trap even when you're moving forward and back. It's just
Speaker 1: like it's got like a little like it's like a
Speaker 1: stop and then it's going, and then it's like stopping
Speaker 1: the it's go And you're like, what are we are
Speaker 1: we do? What's happening right here? And you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change lanes, I'm gonna change vans. Like oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to that lane. You're like, Ah,
Speaker 1: what's happening right now? Okay, what kind of traffic is this?
Speaker 1: He's gonna emerge, You're gonna e merge here, and it's
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, you're not gonna let me emerge. Well,
Speaker 1: bless your heart, sir, bless your heart. But as I said,
Speaker 1: as I said, the reason we're here, the real reason
Speaker 1: we're here, is because we wanted to feel what it's
Speaker 1: like to be on the ground in a state that
Speaker 1: everyone is looking to as election day approaches. Everyone right,
Speaker 1: and you can feel it. You can feel it. I
Speaker 1: mean you you all live here, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Like, you can't even forget election days coming.
Speaker 1: Every single ad, every single ad is political now, every at,
Speaker 1: every billboard is political. Everything, every flyer, every spam text
Speaker 1: that you get, everything is political. It's ham aween. Today
Speaker 1: I bumped into a kid on the street dressed as Frankenstein.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, what are you doing? He's like,
Speaker 1: the real monster is actually inflation. The three Musketeers feels
Speaker 1: like a two Musketeers. And as you know, they're two
Speaker 1: big races, two major races that everybody's watching, right, two
Speaker 1: major races. First up, the governor's race, of course, yes,
Speaker 1: but the seats the seat currently occupied a Republican Brian Kemp,
Speaker 1: who's leading in the polls right now. What is that?
Speaker 1: Is that for Halloween? Is that why you're doing? Is
Speaker 1: that what that is? Yeah? And he's running on a
Speaker 1: platform of making it harder to get an abortion but
Speaker 1: easier to get a gun. And despite his policies, Brian
Speaker 1: camp has seen as a moderate. That's what I find
Speaker 1: really interesting, all because all because he refused to help
Speaker 1: Donald Trump overturned the election, which is good, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. But that's how extreme politics has gotten in America.
Speaker 1: All Right, He's like, I don't think we should hang
Speaker 1: Mike pants, and people like, wow, this guy's got some
Speaker 1: moderate views. Yeah, he's a real moderate politician. But of
Speaker 1: course the person trying to stop Kemp from getting a
Speaker 1: second term is the one and only Stacy Abrams. M
Speaker 1: who who, by the way, who, by the way, does
Speaker 1: it all. She writes books, she's a voting rights activist
Speaker 1: who played a big part in turning Georgia blue. And
Speaker 1: it's great. It's great to see that Stacey Abrams has
Speaker 1: gone boldly where no one has gone before. Paramount plus
Speaker 1: I like that. Now we're gonna be chatting from his
Speaker 1: Abrams right later on in the show, so we'll get
Speaker 1: back to that. But but right now, right now, let's
Speaker 1: focus on a Senate showdown that has ramifications even beyond Georgia. Right,
Speaker 1: and it's between it's between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and
Speaker 1: Republican candidates, and the Republican candidates herschel Walker. Yes, now, now,
Speaker 1: Warnox campaign is focused on abortion rights and expanding infrastructure rights.
Speaker 1: But as election day gets closer, I feel like his
Speaker 1: campaign adds are now more focused on making sure that
Speaker 1: the race doesn't go any longer than it has to.
Speaker 1: Guess who's coming to Thanksgiving? Mom, that's right, I could
Speaker 1: be interrupting your Thanksgiving because if nobody gets of the vote,
Speaker 1: there'll be a runoff, and nobody wants that to happen.
Speaker 1: Robo warrn out if we don't have to mix politics
Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving. That's why I proved this message. Moms, dona
Speaker 1: post the spiropos? Can I just say that is the
Speaker 1: most convincing way to get people to vote. If you
Speaker 1: don't vote, politicians are gonna come to your house and
Speaker 1: hang out. Can you imagine politicians just showing up on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Like Hi, I'm Hershel Walker. It's like, oh hi Dad,
Speaker 1: wrong house, wrong house? And by the way, by the way,
Speaker 1: I really need to understand it. What is what is
Speaker 1: going on in Georgia that Reverend Raphael Warnock is neck
Speaker 1: and nick with what is happening? Like? I know I
Speaker 1: don't walkers all neck? But what what is what is happening?
Speaker 1: Every second thing the man says turns out to be alive,
Speaker 1: all right. He walks around with a fake police badge. Yea.
Speaker 1: He pretended he was an FBI agent, all right. He
Speaker 1: claimed he was anti abortion, even though he apparently paid
Speaker 1: for one. He claimed he had only one kid, even
Speaker 1: though he has like a thousand oh and and he
Speaker 1: told people he graduates it in the top one percent
Speaker 1: of his class at the University of Georgia, and then
Speaker 1: it turn out he never graduated at all at all.
Speaker 1: Like at this point, I want to meet the herschel
Speaker 1: Walker that herschel Walker thinks he is all right, because
Speaker 1: at this point, at this point and everything is like
Speaker 1: he treats real life the way we treat dating apps,
Speaker 1: you know, just like in your profile, like I'm one
Speaker 1: of the taallest people you'll love a mate. I founded
Speaker 1: my own industry, and my mom lives with me, not
Speaker 1: the other way around. Yeah, but the bigger thing about
Speaker 1: herschel Walker for me isn't all the lying in the hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: He's also just weird. He's a strange guy, you know,
Speaker 1: Like and if you don't believe me, if you don't
Speaker 1: believe me, watch him give one of my favorite answers
Speaker 1: ever in politics. Right, this is what he said when
Speaker 1: he was asked about the biggest problem facing America today.
Speaker 1: What do you see as some of the big biggest
Speaker 1: problems going on in our country today? I think some
Speaker 1: of the biggest problems going on our countries today we
Speaker 1: have so many celebrities telling people that they can't do it,
Speaker 1: telling a lot of people, Oh, you know, it's you
Speaker 1: can't do it, like you gotta feel bad for yourself,
Speaker 1: feel sorry for yourself. We just said the meme go
Speaker 1: to you know they've done it, but they're telling you
Speaker 1: you can't do it, and it's like, God, you did it,
Speaker 1: why they can't do it? Okay, First of all, that
Speaker 1: was the sleepiest interview I've ever said. It's like, it's
Speaker 1: like if ambient had a podcast. Uh what was that?
Speaker 1: The only reason those two should be in the same room,
Speaker 1: is it Ben Conston is doing brain surgery on her
Speaker 1: Shall Walker. There's no other reason they should be talking
Speaker 1: to each other. It's not because I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he says. The biggest problem, the biggest problem
Speaker 1: that America is facing right now, the celebrities telling people
Speaker 1: they can't do it. The biggest problem, the biggest part
Speaker 1: you think the average American right now is saying, I
Speaker 1: know inflation is bad right now, but the bigger issue
Speaker 1: is that Ben Diesel has never told me to follow
Speaker 1: my dreams. I could have owned a bakery by now,
Speaker 1: could have been banking for family, and look and look,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it all right. Some people
Speaker 1: be like, you're a celebrity, you're not objective when I guess, so,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm missing something here, you know, maybe I am
Speaker 1: and so and so if I am. In case I've
Speaker 1: been too discouraging to the American people, let me say this, Yea,
Speaker 1: in America, you can do anything, just like herschel Walker.
Speaker 1: If you want to be an FBI agent, do you
Speaker 1: claim you're an FBI agent. If you want to graduate valedictorian,
Speaker 1: just tell people that had happened, because it did. If
Speaker 1: you want to be the father of one despite having
Speaker 1: father fall, then by God, be the father of one
Speaker 1: despite having father four children. That is the American way.
Speaker 1: The point is, there are many major races that are
Speaker 1: going on this year, and they're really close. You know,
Speaker 1: this American knows this all right. A week from now,
Speaker 1: herschel Walker might actually be claiming victory. I mean, he'll
Speaker 1: be doing that no matter what. But he could actually
Speaker 1: win for real. And that's why with one week until
Speaker 1: the election, the Democrats have pulled out the big guns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Netflix is very own Barack Obama. This race is so important.
Speaker 1: It even got Obama off the beach. He was down
Speaker 1: here in Want You over the weekend, and he brought
Speaker 1: that Obama swag with him. Some of you may not remember,
Speaker 1: but herschel Walker was a head of a football player.
Speaker 1: But but but here's the question. Does that make him
Speaker 1: and Quinn two weigh in on the critical decisions about
Speaker 1: our economy and our foreign policy in our future. Let's
Speaker 1: let's do a lot experiment. I sat here at the
Speaker 1: airport and you see Mr Walker and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: there's herschel Walker, Heisman winner. Let's have him fly on
Speaker 1: the plane. You'd want to know does he know how
Speaker 1: to fly on their plane? Wow? Wow? Really, Brandy, President Obama? Ready,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say that about a man who graduated in
Speaker 1: the top one percent of pilot school. How tell you?
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't notice about me, Hershrud But
Speaker 1: I was in Top Gun. That movie was about me.
Speaker 1: My name of the eighties was Pete Maverick. I love
Speaker 1: how Obama roasts you with like that signature swag. He
Speaker 1: makes it sound so polite, but he's roasting the ship
Speaker 1: out of you. The last time I checked, you don't
Speaker 1: have any brains. But it was fun. It was fun
Speaker 1: to see Obama at it again, wasn't it. Uh? People
Speaker 1: always love seeing him come out. You know, it gets
Speaker 1: the crowd fired up, gets everybody excited. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what you get from him in a race. You know
Speaker 1: that's why they don't send Joe Biden. You know you
Speaker 1: don't get the same thing from him. It's true Joe
Speaker 1: Biden wants to do and he's always like, I'll go
Speaker 1: give him speech and everyone's like, no, no, it's please, sir, please,
Speaker 1: you're needed in Washington. There's a one thousand piece puzzle.
Speaker 1: We need your help on you go on, you're going, sir.
Speaker 1: He's like, I used to know a guy named Puzzle.
Speaker 1: Yes you did, sir, Yes you did. Go on. You
Speaker 1: just sold that, sir. So at the end of the
Speaker 1: it's all gonna come down to the votes, right who
Speaker 1: votes who doesn't, which is gonna be a little bit harder.
Speaker 1: I don't need to tell you this, but you know
Speaker 1: this because last year Georgia State Republicans passed a very
Speaker 1: controversial bill, right, it was a law s P two
Speaker 1: O two, which created all kinds of new obstacles to voting,
Speaker 1: Fewer drop boxers, shorter absentee voting windows. Uh. And it's
Speaker 1: even illegal to hand water to people waiting in line. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean luckily you can still hand out the sunny
Speaker 1: because legally that's considered sewage. But at that point, I mean,
Speaker 1: people would rather that first. Now, Georgia Republicans claimed that
Speaker 1: this bill was about votes a fraud, but we all
Speaker 1: know the real motivation and that it's about fraud. Right,
Speaker 1: It was about trying to suppress the voter turnout. We
Speaker 1: get it, I get it. I mean because at some
Speaker 1: point they even tried to limit early voting on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: Why Sunday? We know why? Because of Souls to the polls.
Speaker 1: All right, you have an organization that makes sure that
Speaker 1: they get people going straight from church on a Sunday
Speaker 1: to go and vote. I to say, that's particularly messed up.
Speaker 1: Are you going to take that away? Sunday voting was
Speaker 1: the one day when black church was only five hours
Speaker 1: instead of ten. But can I tell you, what I've
Speaker 1: loved about being here in Georgia is watching the news
Speaker 1: and realizing that the votes of suppression strategy might have backfired,
Speaker 1: because it turns out, it turns out all these new
Speaker 1: restrictions are just motivating Georgians to vote even harder. Continued
Speaker 1: to see a ruffle corn out for early voters in
Speaker 1: a midturn. So far, more than one point six million
Speaker 1: people have already cast their votes in Georgia, and election
Speaker 1: officials expect that number to surpass the two million mark
Speaker 1: this week. And I think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: really motivated for a bunch of different reasons. Um and
Speaker 1: I think democracy is definitely on the table. People have
Speaker 1: fought for us to have the right to vote, so
Speaker 1: we are press system about coming to vote early. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people lost their lives for us to
Speaker 1: have that privilege, uh to come out and voice our opinion.
Speaker 1: I would have came out if it was snow on
Speaker 1: the ground, that would have came out to vote, thinking, imputing, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. The votus suppression people thought they
Speaker 1: could stifle the vote, but all if that has motivate
Speaker 1: people to vote earlier than ever. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. That's how you know. That's when you know
Speaker 1: you've messed up and you made black people angry. When
Speaker 1: we arrive early to some ship, that's when you know
Speaker 1: some ship's about to go down from black people like hey,
Speaker 1: hey man, you're only supposed to get here at two
Speaker 1: out and say eleven thirties like yeah, but we need
Speaker 1: to handle some ship first. Why are you early? You're
Speaker 1: about to find out. You're about to find out. But
Speaker 1: I just wanted to remind you, whether it's early voting
Speaker 1: or waiting in line or mailing in your ballots, everyone
Speaker 1: here in Georgia needs to get out there and play
Speaker 1: their parts. Every One's gonna play their part, including myself,
Speaker 1: including myself, because as a celebrity, I need to tell
Speaker 1: you you can do it. You get out there and
Speaker 1: you vote early, or you vote on election day. You
Speaker 1: bring your own water, and if the lines along, you
Speaker 1: stay in that line, because if you don't, Prophaiel Walnuts
Speaker 1: gonna come straight to your house and he's coming for
Speaker 1: those street potatoes. All right, let's take a break, everybody.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna be checking out some
Speaker 1: of the Lantz's hort Aside, you don't want to miss
Speaker 1: at the Danny Show. Isn't a latta people, We're bad
Speaker 1: as where here? Welcome back. So the Dancy Show coming
Speaker 1: to you all the way from Atlanta this week. That's
Speaker 1: where we're gonna be everybody. That's where we are right now.
Speaker 1: That's what you're feeling now. Now we we might be
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, but the people watching this at home are not.
Speaker 1: So we sent our very own Michael Costa out into
Speaker 1: the city to show America what Atlanta has to offer. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Michael Costa here in Atlanta to show you the
Speaker 1: places that the guide books won't take you. Crash, go on,
Speaker 1: do you get a skinnier guy? Bubb First stop on
Speaker 1: my Atlanta buckhead list The one and only Trapped Museum.
Speaker 1: So what is the tramp Museum? Trap Music Museum? Actually
Speaker 1: trap music Museum? Yes, I was thinking it was like
Speaker 1: holes in the ground and spikes coming out, you know,
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones stuff. I don't need this flashlight and Skelton
Speaker 1: he need that at all. Actually, KG educated me on
Speaker 1: the forefathers of trap, loved by their fans and hated
Speaker 1: by the d E a t i a k a. Tip,
Speaker 1: Gucci Maine and my personal faith. Jeez, yep, alright, my bad.
Speaker 1: Just I see coke and I get all excited. So
Speaker 1: Jeez is known as Snowman, and of course these are bricks.
Speaker 1: For my white people, Snowman is cocaine man, and this
Speaker 1: is bricks. These are cocaine. I think white people know
Speaker 1: about cocaine. What do these pitches look like? Is this
Speaker 1: a trap for me? I mean they look like mug shots.
Speaker 1: But is that yes? Okay, good job. I'm not a
Speaker 1: balanced being. So the goal of this piece it's they
Speaker 1: did what they had to do to come out of
Speaker 1: their circumstances, but it led into multimillion dollar businesses. Makes
Speaker 1: you feel something when you see a much lum. Don't
Speaker 1: google if Michael costa dust. So these are the trap
Speaker 1: come image, and there's ten of them. I try to
Speaker 1: live my life very much like trap. Commandment seven peep
Speaker 1: ship from miles away. That cat ain't about nothing. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's truly how I've organized my career. Really, But when
Speaker 1: I think of you, I think it's Commandment three, never
Speaker 1: go to sleep around a stripper. Yeah no, that is good.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's brings us to our next destination, Magic
Speaker 1: Sea Home of Atlanta's finest lemon pepper wings. And no,
Speaker 1: that's not a euphemism. Well, lemon pepper wings are a
Speaker 1: staple of Atlanta flavor. Lemon pepper is a staple. Wow,
Speaker 1: his wings are amazing. The wings haven't got here yet, Mike. Okay.
Speaker 1: Once I tasted them things, I knew why people preferred
Speaker 1: wings over breasts and thighs. Rocher delicious wind. Would you
Speaker 1: like a wing or not? While you're working? So I
Speaker 1: ended up staying awhile to try your reflavor. Uh sorry,
Speaker 1: there's some lemon pepper sauce on the money. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: had so much fun that eating that I broke trapped
Speaker 1: commandment number three. And then it was time to stumble
Speaker 1: to my next destination, to the grocery spot. This is
Speaker 1: the supreme of grocery stores. There's a line around the block.
Speaker 1: Let's go check it out. Follow me what I just
Speaker 1: I got? I'm I'm on TV, I'm a celebrity is
Speaker 1: The grocery Spot is the brainchild of local hipster Matthew Jones.
Speaker 1: And it's not your grandma's grocery store. Featuring street art,
Speaker 1: a DJ, and a line around the block. I knew
Speaker 1: I'd have to blend in with these Atlanta Seasters to
Speaker 1: get past the bouncer. But once I got inside, I
Speaker 1: was surprised to find just a regular store. Uh, I
Speaker 1: don't get it, just people buying groceries. Just pretend I
Speaker 1: get it for Campa. Okay, as you can see behind me,
Speaker 1: there is no explanation needed. This place is popular for
Speaker 1: obvious reason, and if you don't get it, well, then
Speaker 1: you're dumb. But then I noticed something odd. People were
Speaker 1: taking food and just walking out without paying. So after
Speaker 1: stuffing a few essentials in my pockets, I went to
Speaker 1: war and the owner you got to undercover boss here,
Speaker 1: man like, people are just walking out with their food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, she just took a dollar and the guy
Speaker 1: had a full bag of food. Yeah. That's how it
Speaker 1: works is they don't even have to give a dollar.
Speaker 1: It's all free. It's what we do. What the business
Speaker 1: model is to feed people for free. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: it to you. Wow, Atlanta's own only free sustainable grocery store.
Speaker 1: We feed around four hundred people per day, three days
Speaker 1: a week. What inspired you to do something so stupid?
Speaker 1: We tried for profit, uh and it failed terribly. Then
Speaker 1: we learned what mutual aid was. Matthew explained how his
Speaker 1: pay what you can model was a response to atlantis
Speaker 1: problems with food insecurity. No, it's not when you're a
Speaker 1: little sandwich feels pathetic next to that giant HOGI it's
Speaker 1: pete who aren't starving but are still struggling to get
Speaker 1: enough food to feed their families. Are demographic is the
Speaker 1: working class family, the people who make too much to
Speaker 1: have help and government resources, but don't make enough to
Speaker 1: actually make it on their own. Okay, well, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm here because I can really advise you
Speaker 1: on how to turn this place into a profitable grocery store.
Speaker 1: I don't think you understand how nonprofits work, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: First taste is free, second taste, third, fourth, fifth. But then,
Speaker 1: like once people get hooked, that's when you flip the
Speaker 1: script and start hitting him with the price. Well, hopefully
Speaker 1: right that eventually the goal would be to where you
Speaker 1: could pay for your own groceries and help feed another family. Stupid,
Speaker 1: What about turning this thing into a strip club? I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's one thing Atlantis taught me anywhere, it can
Speaker 1: be a strip club. Now so what do the customers
Speaker 1: think of my Look, the food is free, but at
Speaker 1: forty bucks to get in the door? Na, Man, what
Speaker 1: if he just puts big price tags on each item?
Speaker 1: That way the rich people have to pay. What if
Speaker 1: it's like a fifty dollar toe bag but it's artisanal
Speaker 1: and it's cool, and then like people could buy the
Speaker 1: toepag Why why would we want to do that? Because
Speaker 1: toads are sweet? But these folks did agree on one thing.
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Speaker 1: All right, stay tuned because when we come back, Stacy
Speaker 1: Abrams will be our guest. You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is
Speaker 1: a voting rights activist and entrepreneur who is the Democratic
Speaker 1: nominee for Georgia's governor. Please welcome Stacy Abrams. Stacy Abrams,
Speaker 1: welcome back back. Um. I mean this is this is
Speaker 1: strange because it's the fourth time that we were chatting.
Speaker 1: This is the first time I'm chatting in your neck
Speaker 1: of the woods. You know, it's the final stage of
Speaker 1: the race. It's it's been a it's been a particularly
Speaker 1: interesting race. So let's let's start with this. I know
Speaker 1: what your profile and your images in most parts of America.
Speaker 1: Coming to Georgia has been really interesting because every ad
Speaker 1: that I watch makes it seem like you are a
Speaker 1: very evil person. Well, um, my parents were surprised to
Speaker 1: learn that I was responsible for the kidnapping of the
Speaker 1: Lindbergh baby. I I know where half of his body
Speaker 1: is buried, and I may have stolen something backstage, so
Speaker 1: that wasn't ben an ad, but okay, I'm gonna check that. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it feels ridiculous, It feels like people don't
Speaker 1: believe it feels but it really feels like the campaign
Speaker 1: against you has been particularly personal, It's been particularly vile.
Speaker 1: Part of standing for office is you people are going
Speaker 1: to attack you. You can either internalize the attacks or
Speaker 1: you can use as a fuel to remind you of
Speaker 1: why you're doing this every single day. And these are
Speaker 1: real people with real lives. And yeah, Brian Kemp wants
Speaker 1: to say vile things about me. My daddy's watching and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, you're in this race. You're trying
Speaker 1: to position yourself as as somebody who can move Georgia forward.
Speaker 1: One thing that has particularly overshadowed your campaign, though, is
Speaker 1: how national politics has started to infect you know, state
Speaker 1: level politics. So I would love to know how do
Speaker 1: you distinguish yourself as Stacy Abrams and and how do
Speaker 1: you speak to people you know from under the shadow
Speaker 1: of them saying Joe Biden, because again, half of the
Speaker 1: ads are not about you. Funny enough, it's Joe Biden's economy,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's inflation. Stacy Abrams is Joe Biden. And so
Speaker 1: when when you speak to people, that's literally what one
Speaker 1: of the ads says, says, Stacy Abrams is Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: How do you get out from under that, and what
Speaker 1: do you think people need to understand that does separate you,
Speaker 1: funny enough from Joe Biden slashed the national agenda. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, people remember who was in the office
Speaker 1: before Joe Biden, and they're very happy he's gone. Number two,
Speaker 1: the money that has come to grows up. The resources
Speaker 1: that have come to Georgia, the billions of dollars that
Speaker 1: have kept the state of float came because of federal Democrats,
Speaker 1: not because of the current governor. Hard working Georgians did
Speaker 1: this and I remind them of that. But but it's
Speaker 1: also Brian Kemp banned abortion, he banned background checks, he
Speaker 1: banned children, he banned books, he banned the truth, and
Speaker 1: he intends to go further if he gets reelected. Reminding
Speaker 1: women that you do not have the right to control
Speaker 1: your bodies. Herchel Walker can do whatever he wants. Brian
Speaker 1: Kimp's good with that, but if you're a woman, he
Speaker 1: believes he should control who you are. He made he
Speaker 1: flitted our streets with guns, and there is a story
Speaker 1: about gun violence every day in Georgia. And so part
Speaker 1: of it is just reminding people of his record. Well,
Speaker 1: he's been governor for four years. I haven't you made
Speaker 1: sure of that? So if you're the governor, you don't
Speaker 1: get to take credit but not take responsibility. And that's
Speaker 1: that's that's how it is. It is going to be
Speaker 1: a hotly contested race. You know, they're going to be
Speaker 1: stories coming out about pole stations that closed when they
Speaker 1: shouldn't have and people who are kicked out of lines
Speaker 1: and purging, etcetera, etcetera. What it creates is uh a
Speaker 1: really paradoxical world where on the one hand, you want
Speaker 1: to call out, you know, election processes that aren't fair
Speaker 1: and make it as easy as possible for people to vote.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, people will be quick to turn
Speaker 1: that on you and say, oh, but if Trump doesn't
Speaker 1: accept the election, then he's bad. But you also don't
Speaker 1: accept the election, so you're bad. How do you navigate
Speaker 1: that and how do you speak to the issues around
Speaker 1: voting in Georgia without making it seem like you don't
Speaker 1: accept the democratic process. You've actually done a great job
Speaker 1: of this, but some of your colleagues have been very
Speaker 1: easily duped into conflation. There is one thing to be
Speaker 1: used to winning everything you want and being told no,
Speaker 1: And why ending about it inciting a surrection. That's what Bryan,
Speaker 1: That's what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump denied the outcome
Speaker 1: of an election. I know I'm not governor. I haven't
Speaker 1: been governor for four whole years. I've been very clear
Speaker 1: about that. That's how I got to go on star
Speaker 1: trek Um. But what I have always fought for and
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, you can go back. I was
Speaker 1: on the march on Washington when I was nineteen, So
Speaker 1: this is I've got a pretty clear track record on this.
Speaker 1: Voting rights. Voting access is about who gets to show
Speaker 1: up election outcomes. That's up to the voters. But access
Speaker 1: is the responsibility of government. And Brian Kimp's greatest hits,
Speaker 1: Brian Kemp is the architect of voter suppression. And the
Speaker 1: reality is they try to stop us from talking about
Speaker 1: the access so they can gen up the outcome they want.
Speaker 1: And what I will never stop talking about is the
Speaker 1: fact that no American, no Georgian, should be denied access
Speaker 1: if they are legally eligible. And there's no amount of
Speaker 1: cavett ching and blaming and conflation and false equivalent that
Speaker 1: will ever make me say that it is okay to
Speaker 1: tell a George and you don't have the right to
Speaker 1: be heard. That is not right and it will not
Speaker 1: happen as long as I've got drapped. And as you said,
Speaker 1: the website is known. The answers are pretty conclusive, and
Speaker 1: I see why you have the support that you do.
Speaker 1: Stay Savings. Thank you so much for joining on the
Speaker 1: show again. I want to Stay Savings everybody. I want
Speaker 1: to take the first place for your life back as well.
Speaker 1: That's our show for tonight's Thank you so much for tuning,
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