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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is running from the law. We'll not running.
Speaker 1: But you know, Boris Johnson gives the greatest farewell speech
Speaker 1: of all time. And you'll never guess which US president
Speaker 1: got COVID. So let's do these people. Let's go straight
Speaker 1: into today's headlines. Right, Let's kick things off with the
Speaker 1: big news of the day. President Biden has had a
Speaker 1: rough time recently. He couldn't get climate change action, he
Speaker 1: couldn't get free community college, he couldn't get tax hikes
Speaker 1: on the rich. But it turns out there's one thing
Speaker 1: he could get. He began this hour with breaking news
Speaker 1: from the White House, where President Joe Biden is an
Speaker 1: isolation after he tested positive for COVID. The White House
Speaker 1: Press Secretary is saying that the President is fully vaccinated,
Speaker 1: He's been twice boosted. He's experiencing what they say are
Speaker 1: very mild symptoms at this point, so he will be isolating,
Speaker 1: but he will be able to continue in his role.
Speaker 1: He won't need to turn over any duties, it appears
Speaker 1: to the Vice president at this point. Hey, folks, guess
Speaker 1: you heard the Sporting Night test depositor of code. But
Speaker 1: I've been double vaccinated, double boosted. Symptoms are mild and
Speaker 1: uh and I really appreciate your increasing concerns. But I'm
Speaker 1: doing well and you get a lot of work done,
Speaker 1: going to continue to get it done. And uh and
Speaker 1: in the meantime, thanks for your concern and keep the faith.
Speaker 1: It's going to be okay, Okay, First things first, I'm
Speaker 1: sure all of our thoughts are with President Biden for
Speaker 1: a speedy recovery. Get well soon, sir. You made it
Speaker 1: through the Spanish flute. You can make it through this.
Speaker 1: I know you can do it. And also, it does
Speaker 1: look like he's gonna be fine. All right. He's even
Speaker 1: got like swag in that video is like hey, uh huh,
Speaker 1: you probably heard I got COVID. But I get why
Speaker 1: he's got swag. You know, he's been vaxed, he's been boosted,
Speaker 1: he's been double boosted, and he's taking anti viral drugs
Speaker 1: and just to be safe, he's sipping some bleach on
Speaker 1: the side. You know. Yeah, that ship seems a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So you get COVID, then you're like, I'll try anything.
Speaker 1: Another reason the president is going to be fine is because,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, there's not much that COVID can do
Speaker 1: to him. Think about it. What's gonna happen. The virus
Speaker 1: is gonna get in his body and be like, let's
Speaker 1: see what I can do here. Time to get some
Speaker 1: brain fog, some fatigue, some dizzy. Wait, wait, have I
Speaker 1: already been here? What's going on now? In the meantime,
Speaker 1: Biden says he will not be taking any sick days,
Speaker 1: which is what sucks about being president. Right, He's still
Speaker 1: gonna put on a strong face and you have the job.
Speaker 1: You'll be milking that ship. You know, COVID red. I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be sick for the rest of the summer.
Speaker 1: If you see pictures of me by the pool, all
Speaker 1: my whole of my phone was hacked. All right, But
Speaker 1: let's move on from the big news out of Americans
Speaker 1: with the big news that's coming out of the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1: The Queen has COVID. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. That
Speaker 1: would be crazy though, right, that would be crazy. No,
Speaker 1: I'm joking. She doesn't have COVID. She's been dead for years. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back in turning, I team Prime Minister Boris Johnson and
Speaker 1: his Conservative Party. They won a landslide election victory. It
Speaker 1: was huge. They won everywhere in Southern England and Manchester
Speaker 1: and Sherlock upon Watson and East Narnia, all the places
Speaker 1: basically between Boris and ed sheer In. Was a good year,
Speaker 1: especially for British people who looked like they're from the
Speaker 1: year thirteen twenty six. There was a good time and
Speaker 1: it was such a commanding victory that people thought Boris
Speaker 1: Johnson might become the Prime Minister who was up there
Speaker 1: for a decade, you know, which would be amazing for
Speaker 1: Britain's first human broom. But then Boris started getting caught
Speaker 1: up in scandals. Right, he botched the COVID response. Then
Speaker 1: he got caught throwing a bunch of parties while the
Speaker 1: rest of Britain had to be in lockdown, and then
Speaker 1: he hired people who he knew alleged sex offenders. And
Speaker 1: of course there was that time when he showed up
Speaker 1: to Parliament wearing a T shirt that said the carpet
Speaker 1: matches the drapes, which was totally inappropriate because it doesn't.
Speaker 1: He combs the carpets. So finally, last month he was
Speaker 1: forced to resign in disgrace, and yesterday he gave the
Speaker 1: greatest farewell speech of all time. Boris Johnson, facing Parliament
Speaker 1: for one last time as British Prime Minister. As only
Speaker 1: he would, Johnson defended his record in his farewell remarks.
Speaker 1: He also gave some words of advice to his successor.
Speaker 1: Number one, stay close to the Americans, stick up for
Speaker 1: the Ukrainians, stick up for freedom and democracy everywhere, car
Speaker 1: tatis and deregulate wherever you can to make this the
Speaker 1: greatest place to live and invest, which it is. Focus
Speaker 1: on the road ahead, Focus on the road ahead, but
Speaker 1: always remember to check the rear view mirror and remember
Speaker 1: remember a bubble. It's not Twitter that counts, it's the
Speaker 1: people that's sent us here. Mrs Speaker. I want to
Speaker 1: thank everybody here, and hasta la vista baby, thank you,
Speaker 1: Hasta la vista baby. This is the land of Shakespeare
Speaker 1: and Jane Austen. And the quote Boris chose was from
Speaker 1: the Terminator. I mean, I guess that shows you the
Speaker 1: power of American culture. Even the Prime Minister of the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom is like farewell and god speed. It's a
Speaker 1: ridiculous thing. Ever, I don't know if you sort like
Speaker 1: the speech was weird, the whole thing in the middle.
Speaker 1: It looked like you just started giving random advice about driving,
Speaker 1: focus on the road ahead, always checked the rear view mirror,
Speaker 1: and remember it's not a hits and run if you
Speaker 1: drive away slowly. You know. It's also like normally when
Speaker 1: you're giving a speech, especially about resigning or being fired,
Speaker 1: like sure, do you want to make people regret it?
Speaker 1: Like when you give the speech, you want people to
Speaker 1: go like, ah, man, have we made the wrong choice?
Speaker 1: They're leaving? Like remember with Obama right when he gave
Speaker 1: his farewell speech, even racists in America were like, maybe
Speaker 1: he was one of the good ones. But this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy gives this speech, like yo, how did he
Speaker 1: get the job? How did he want a contest? Or something.
Speaker 1: Who is this pussies anywhere? Let's let's move on to
Speaker 1: some news about America's most powerful institution, Amazon, And I know,
Speaker 1: I know from the get go people have mixed feelings
Speaker 1: about Amazon. Oh they exploit their workers, Oh they ruined
Speaker 1: local economies. Quit bitching. I love them. You know why.
Speaker 1: If I need more Shaman, I get it on Amazon
Speaker 1: and booms at my house in six hours. And yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not exactly Shaman. Maybe it's like a Chinese
Speaker 1: knock off. And maybe the toilet paper is mostly made
Speaker 1: out of lead. But am I gonna get brain poisoning
Speaker 1: from wiping with lead? No? And I certainly am not
Speaker 1: gonna get brain poisoning from wiping with lead anyway. The
Speaker 1: fact is Amazon is the parts of life in America,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna get brain poisoning from wiping with lead.
Speaker 1: And now am Uzon is going to be expanding even more.
Speaker 1: We have breaking news out of Seattle this morning, home
Speaker 1: to Amazon, the company announcing it is diving further into
Speaker 1: the healthcare industry with plans to buy healthcare provider one
Speaker 1: Medical for about three point nine billion dollars. Amazon says
Speaker 1: healthcare is high on its list of things that needs reinventing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: finally a win for Jeff Bezos. Oh man, I could
Speaker 1: not be more excited. Yeah, because with Amazon's prediction algorithm,
Speaker 1: healthcare will never be the same. You know. You notice
Speaker 1: how they always know what you want, what you need
Speaker 1: before you even know it's imagine them with healthcare. You're
Speaker 1: gonna buy a pack of double Bay double A batteries,
Speaker 1: and then just before you check out, they'll be like,
Speaker 1: you might also need chemotherapy. By chemotherapy, I don't have
Speaker 1: a ship. I shouldn't have used that lead toilet paper
Speaker 1: now about. I know, I know some people are a
Speaker 1: little uncomfortable with the idea of Amazon getting into every industry,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're buying medicine now, they run the cloud,
Speaker 1: they own TV studios, they have grocery stores and you
Speaker 1: know what, so what, what's the words that could happen? Huh? Well?
Speaker 1: What what? At some point Jeff Bezos owns everything? So what?
Speaker 1: And then he has all our money? So now where
Speaker 1: his slaves working crazy hours in the warehouse, you know,
Speaker 1: peeing in bottles? That doesn't sound so bad. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: least I don't know where my packages are. Take it.
Speaker 1: For myself. The one thing that does suck about this
Speaker 1: is if Amazon also owns your medicine. You realize that
Speaker 1: means Alexa knows your medical secrets. You gotta watch out
Speaker 1: for that because you're gonna be hanging out at home
Speaker 1: with your friends and all of a sudden, Alexa will
Speaker 1: be like, your hemorrhoid cream is arriving this afternoon. No,
Speaker 1: Alexa cancel? Cancl cancel? You would like me to cancel
Speaker 1: your giant top of hemorrhoid cream? No, no, no cancol.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we
Speaker 1: go to break, it's time to checking on the weather
Speaker 1: forecast with our very own Dasili like everybody, well, it's
Speaker 1: absolutely a sad Please just help us out. What is
Speaker 1: the weather looking like, Trevor. It is hot out there,
Speaker 1: so let's make it quick because I got a kid
Speaker 1: in my car. Relax, Relax, it's not my kid, it's
Speaker 1: just some actor I hired so I could use the
Speaker 1: car pool lane. Anyway, it is scorching all across this
Speaker 1: country as you can see, and it is really important
Speaker 1: that we take precaution. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give everyone a few tips to stay safe out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: safe and cool now. This heat is dangerous, especially for
Speaker 1: pets and the elderly. Basically, anyone who eats out of
Speaker 1: a bowl is considered high risk. Um, So do your
Speaker 1: elderly neighbors a favor, popeye, see how they're doing. Check
Speaker 1: in because if they die, God rest their soul, you
Speaker 1: get first DIBs on that real estate. And this real
Speaker 1: estate market is a beast. You've got to be competitive.
Speaker 1: I actually checked in on my my neighbor this morning.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately she was fine. What do you do? Second tip,
Speaker 1: it is cooler at night, so you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: leave those windows open before bed. And I know what
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Trevor, what about robbers? Right? Crime rates are up?
Speaker 1: So this is why I home alone my house every
Speaker 1: single night, marbles on the floor, blow torches up above.
Speaker 1: The whole deal. You just takes care of everything. The
Speaker 1: one thing you're gonna want to do is you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to remind anyone that you live with about that
Speaker 1: because my my husband has not been the same since
Speaker 1: the pink cannon's incident a little bit rough. Next tip,
Speaker 1: wear loose clothing, okay, especially if you sweat a lot
Speaker 1: like me, and I mean a lot, Trevor. It is
Speaker 1: like a slip and slide under this sleep. It's a
Speaker 1: whole situation. I'm talking violently, moist. I mean, you do
Speaker 1: not want to know what's happening. Yeah, yeah, yes I do.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to know. Yes, the sheer
Speaker 1: volume of it. Sometimes there's a grit to it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, like gritty. Have you ever
Speaker 1: opened up a dishwasher mid cycle? That's what it's like.
Speaker 1: It's like that. Well, I'm glad you didn't tell me anyway.
Speaker 1: It is a medical condition, which is why I so
Speaker 1: appreciate you being such an ally leaving out those towels
Speaker 1: for me, those beautiful clean towels in your bathroom for
Speaker 1: me to use three four, five times a day. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I just I really appreciate that. And and to show you,
Speaker 1: that's why I always folded up neatly and put it
Speaker 1: exactly how you left it. Thank you. I use those
Speaker 1: towels on my face. Of course. The most effective way
Speaker 1: to beat the heat is to stay hydrated. Okay, but
Speaker 1: please please be careful watch out for products that claim
Speaker 1: to be more hydrating than water. That's a cash grab.
Speaker 1: There is only one thing that can hydrate you more
Speaker 1: than water, and that is Darryl's hard brown lemonade. What
Speaker 1: makes it brown? After one or two? No one cares
Speaker 1: if it ain't brown, it's not going down. Has so good?
Speaker 1: So good? You know who could use Daryl's hard brown?
Speaker 1: President Biden? You know why because it also cures covid.
Speaker 1: The only hard brown lemonade that also cures covid. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: That is why I love this stuff? Is thick anyway,
Speaker 1: those are the big tips to carry it through this heat.
Speaker 1: Oh um, one more thing. Actually, if a guy named
Speaker 1: Darryl offers you fifty dollars, no strings attached? There are
Speaker 1: strings attached. Ship. This kid's calling me again. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you can't put the windows down. Someone could steal something. Well,
Speaker 1: did you home alone the car? Is she gonna leave
Speaker 1: the does he like to everybody? That's I think that's illegal?
Speaker 1: All right? When we come back, we want to find
Speaker 1: out if Donald Trump is going to be president. All prisoners,
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss it. Yeah, welcome back to
Speaker 1: a day show. Tonight was the season finale of the
Speaker 1: January six hearings, the TV event that investigates the day
Speaker 1: a mob of megamaniacs tried to help Mike Pants meet
Speaker 1: his hero. So phase one of the hearings coming to
Speaker 1: a close. Let's catch up on the latest developments in
Speaker 1: our ongoing coverage of January six. After weeks of televised hearings,
Speaker 1: we're learning a lot about what happened on January six
Speaker 1: and the days that led up to it. We learned
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was told by his closest advisors that
Speaker 1: the election wasn't stolen. We also learned that he set
Speaker 1: up a fake election defense fund that took millions of
Speaker 1: dollars from his supporters. We also learned that he knew
Speaker 1: his crowd was on that day and still sent them
Speaker 1: to the capital anyway, and after all of these guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think
Speaker 1: this Donald Trump guy might be bad news. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: like one or two red flags. Yeah, and I'm not
Speaker 1: the only one. Because remember how we learned in those
Speaker 1: hearings about how Trump tried to get Mike Pen's to
Speaker 1: single heavily toss out the election results. Remember that, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: a bipartism group of senators has decided that ship should
Speaker 1: never happen again. Here in Washington, a bipartisan group of
Speaker 1: senators have cut a deal that would make it much
Speaker 1: tougher to pull off a repeat of what former President
Speaker 1: Trump tried to do that effort to pressure his vice
Speaker 1: president into overturning the election. One measure would reform the
Speaker 1: Electoral count Act to make it clear that the VP's
Speaker 1: job is quote solely ministerial, and that he or she
Speaker 1: does not have any power solely to determine, except reject,
Speaker 1: or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors. Wow, this is big.
Speaker 1: This is big. Senators from both parties have agreed to
Speaker 1: amend the Electoral Counts Act of seven to make it
Speaker 1: clear once and for all that the VP cannot just
Speaker 1: toss out the election results, which, yes, is something everyone
Speaker 1: in America already knew except for one guy. You know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when in kindergarten the teacher made
Speaker 1: an announcement to the whole class, but it was clearly
Speaker 1: directed at one kid. You know. It's like, okay, class, remember,
Speaker 1: we don't poop on the toilet, We poop in the toilet.
Speaker 1: That that's for everyone to understand, Okay, Donald, it was
Speaker 1: It was obviously to everyone else. But the vice president
Speaker 1: can just throw out the election results. That would make
Speaker 1: no sense. Why would you give so much power to
Speaker 1: someone who's otherwise totally powerless. Would be like handing over
Speaker 1: control of America's drones to whichever kid wins the National
Speaker 1: Spelling b It's what the founders wanted. But either way,
Speaker 1: this is a big deal, and it's also a good
Speaker 1: reminder for America that if an old ash law doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense anymore, you can just change that ship right,
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, ain't me wrong. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's because people in the day were stupid. No,
Speaker 1: people back in the day were smart as hell, all right.
Speaker 1: They studied the classics, they knew how to write in cursive,
Speaker 1: they wore top hats, all the signs of an intelligent person.
Speaker 1: But they wrote the laws that made sense for their time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they need to spell this out because they didn't have
Speaker 1: a Donald Trump. So that law has changed. The vice
Speaker 1: president conscious overturned the election, and knowing America and whoever
Speaker 1: writes the story, what's gonna happen is Donald Trump's gonna
Speaker 1: get all these people to become the electors in each state,
Speaker 1: they're gonna ignore the voters, right, and they're gonna go
Speaker 1: these are the votes, and then it's gonna come to
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris will be like Kamala flip the things. She's like. Man.
Speaker 1: But it looks like overturning the next election might be
Speaker 1: the least of Donald Trump's worries, because, after all the
Speaker 1: facts that the committee has exposed about his lost overturning,
Speaker 1: the Justice Department might be paid on all the visits.
Speaker 1: The spot line on the Justice Department's investigation is growing,
Speaker 1: Attorney General Mary Garland making it clear he will hold
Speaker 1: accountable every person who was criminally responsible. No person, It's
Speaker 1: about the law in this country. Nothing stops us. No.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to maybe say that again. No
Speaker 1: person is about the longest country. I can't say any damn.
Speaker 1: I've never seen that side of Marrigarland looked like he
Speaker 1: was about to cut a bit. Did you see any
Speaker 1: did that? Yeah? He like he turned into Samuel L.
Speaker 1: Jackson for a second. He's like, no person is above
Speaker 1: what about the Americans? Like, what part of no person?
Speaker 1: Don't you understand? Mother? I said, no person. Now. What's
Speaker 1: interesting about the story is that some Democrats are actually
Speaker 1: mad at Mary Garland because they think he doesn't really
Speaker 1: want to prosecute Trump, all right. They say he's slow rolling,
Speaker 1: he's trying to hide behind things. But I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I get it. I think the man is in a
Speaker 1: tough spot here. Think about it. Even if Trump is
Speaker 1: definitely guilty, can you imagine what would happen if he
Speaker 1: gets sent to prison? The country would explode. You thought
Speaker 1: January six was bad, Trump supporters will be storming everything.
Speaker 1: If you got arrest of the capital, the White House
Speaker 1: to Supreme Court. The only place that would be safe
Speaker 1: from them is libraries, Like, don't go in there. They
Speaker 1: got history books. But it turns out, it turns out
Speaker 1: Mary Garland isn't even Trump's only problem, because right now
Speaker 1: he's being investigated by everyone, right Congress, the States of
Speaker 1: New York, a district attorney in Georgia, the men in black,
Speaker 1: and I get it. I get it. No human beings
Speaker 1: don't just look like this. It doesn't make sense. That's
Speaker 1: not a human thing. So Trump looks like he's in
Speaker 1: a tough spot right now. But if there's one thing
Speaker 1: we know about Donald Trump is that getting out of
Speaker 1: tough spots is his speciality. Can get out of anything,
Speaker 1: criminal cases, lawsuits, marriages, marriages, other marriages, And apparently, apparently
Speaker 1: Trump thinks he's found an ingenious way to get out
Speaker 1: of his current troubles. It is sounding more likely than
Speaker 1: an announcement from for President Trump about election bid is
Speaker 1: more of a matter of when and not an if.
Speaker 1: But it's not just about avenging a loss for people
Speaker 1: with knowledge of the situation tell Rolling Stone Magazine that
Speaker 1: mounting legal issues are a motivating factor for Trump's desire
Speaker 1: to retake the Oval office. According to the Justice Department's
Speaker 1: Office of Legal Counsel, a sitting president cannot be charged
Speaker 1: with a federal crime. Yeah, so it turns out some
Speaker 1: people are above the law. And it's crazy that Trump
Speaker 1: might run for president so that he doesn't go to jail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost wild that Donald Trump is the
Speaker 1: only person who runs for president but has no interest
Speaker 1: in being president. You know, the first time he did
Speaker 1: it to try and drum up ratings for The Apprentice,
Speaker 1: And now he's gonna run just to stay out of
Speaker 1: out of jail. Like his campaign slogan is probably gonna
Speaker 1: be Trump four, I can't do time I actually think
Speaker 1: it would make the campaign more fun. Yeah. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine if Trump's running for president while he's running from
Speaker 1: the law every ready, just like no child should ever
Speaker 1: learn pronouns or how ship the comes are here, Rudy
Speaker 1: open the sewer gate. You'll never get me. Pepp out,
Speaker 1: peppy how check out. So that's the end of the
Speaker 1: first season of The January six Committee, and it ends
Speaker 1: with the possibility of Trump going to prison. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure right now, wherever he is, the man is probably terrified.
Speaker 1: He's just like, what do I do, Milannia. I can't
Speaker 1: go to prison. How am I gonna survive? Don't worry, Donald,
Speaker 1: I'll give you tieps. I've been a prisoner for twenty years,
Speaker 1: all right? That true? Because when we come back Blitz
Speaker 1: father rule, it will be turning me on the show.
Speaker 1: Don't go off talking about the day show My guests.
Speaker 1: Like is a musician and artist filmmaker who has collaborated
Speaker 1: with the likes of Beyonce and Oprah Winfrey. He's here
Speaker 1: to talk about his debut novel, The Scent of Burnt Flowers.
Speaker 1: Please welcome, Let's ba. How are you? How are you
Speaker 1: doing so fantastic? This is so good to have you
Speaker 1: here because you know, there are a few people in
Speaker 1: the world who can say that they have people like
Speaker 1: Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce as their fans. Fear none. Maybe
Speaker 1: you maybe let's let's let's let's start with this with
Speaker 1: this idea. I mean, you know, people have seen your work,
Speaker 1: even if they don't know, if they don't know your name.
Speaker 1: You do so many different things. You know, you're nominated
Speaker 1: for a Grammy for co directing black Is King. Um,
Speaker 1: you're also now creating the musical adaptation of the Kind
Speaker 1: of Purple Absolutely and all of this and your journey
Speaker 1: begins in Ghana. I'm always fascinated as an African. How
Speaker 1: how does that journey begin? How does it get you
Speaker 1: to this point here? Well, first, no African has one job.
Speaker 1: We know that, you know you gotta do them all.
Speaker 1: You gotta do it all. And you know, I've always
Speaker 1: I've been no'med by storytelling. That's for me. It's the beginning.
Speaker 1: I grew up with a grandmother that told stories. They
Speaker 1: were incredible. They were always visual. Um I call it
Speaker 1: the HBO Showtime Netflix of its time, and and the
Speaker 1: beauty of that was they were imaginative. So I grew
Speaker 1: understanding that stories could be nonlinear, it could be they're
Speaker 1: powerful tools um for the imagination, and so over time,
Speaker 1: for me, that's just been it. It's just chasing this
Speaker 1: idea of storytelling, understanding that stories bring us together, understanding
Speaker 1: especially as a continent where stories are so few and
Speaker 1: far between and so few people know about our stories.
Speaker 1: I found that having to do it and multiple mediums
Speaker 1: allows me to tell more of the same exact story.
Speaker 1: I love that you've done that across multiple mediums, because
Speaker 1: you know, you don't just direct, and you don't just
Speaker 1: you know, produce and create movies. You you also are
Speaker 1: are a rapper? Do you have like four self released
Speaker 1: albums right right you and now a novel throw into
Speaker 1: the mix? Absolutely? What what's happened? You're just you're just
Speaker 1: winning so hard and then you you get bored in
Speaker 1: the next time. Like, not many people would think that
Speaker 1: they can write the book, and then not many people
Speaker 1: would write a book that is getting the reviews. Your
Speaker 1: book is getting indeed, I mean, and I really look,
Speaker 1: it was covid. It was covid. Okay, it was all
Speaker 1: I'll take it. Everyone else does. Everyone else is baking bread.
Speaker 1: You were writing a book. It's it's a fantastic book
Speaker 1: as well, you know, and the and the premise to
Speaker 1: your points of stories is beautiful. I won't give away
Speaker 1: all of the details, but essentially, it's the story of
Speaker 1: a couple in the sixties, a black couple in the
Speaker 1: sixties living in America who escaped to Africa, and you know,
Speaker 1: a whole journey unfolds. Now. What I love is that
Speaker 1: it's set in the sixties, and we know the civil
Speaker 1: rights movements, we know all the stories in around that time,
Speaker 1: but it feels strangely like it could be said today
Speaker 1: as well as people going like America, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I need to go to Africa, absolutely, and and and
Speaker 1: it's it's been an ongoing thing. And for me, what
Speaker 1: it is is also about expectation. You know, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of friends who say they want to go
Speaker 1: to Africa and they go and they go, oh, this
Speaker 1: is this is the real Africa, and it's real. It's
Speaker 1: very real to them. And I find that ultimately, Um,
Speaker 1: I was have friends who want to come to America, yes,
Speaker 1: and you know that you're told they are you know,
Speaker 1: they're no homeless people there attempted coups and things like that,
Speaker 1: and then and then you arrive and you go, wait,
Speaker 1: that happens here too, And so the expectation back and
Speaker 1: forth for me has been one of the most interesting
Speaker 1: juxtapositions of this book. And whether it's now, whether it's then,
Speaker 1: I think this story is still the same we're all
Speaker 1: longing for at home that we hope will be better
Speaker 1: than the one we're in. I love that. Wow, I
Speaker 1: already love that. Also, I also enjoy how you know,
Speaker 1: how how real you made the story. This, this is
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, this this has already been bought
Speaker 1: to be turned into a series, correct, absolutely, this is.
Speaker 1: This is wild because you know, most of the times,
Speaker 1: most of the time, the book has to be out
Speaker 1: and then people are like, oh, we need to make
Speaker 1: this into a movie or a TV series. And then
Speaker 1: you wrote the book and there was a bidding warm people,
Speaker 1: we want how do they even know what was in
Speaker 1: the book? Did they know or do they just know you?
Speaker 1: And then they were like, we'll take it, We'll take
Speaker 1: it this. I would love that. Okay, Okay, they had to.
Speaker 1: So now here's here's a question I have. Everyone says
Speaker 1: the same thing about everything. Oh, the book was always beat.
Speaker 1: The book is better, the book is better. How are
Speaker 1: you going to make sure that the book isn't just better?
Speaker 1: How do you make sure that the series, you know,
Speaker 1: holds a candle to the book? Absolutely? I mean I
Speaker 1: think first, you know, shout out to Yaya du Martin,
Speaker 1: who's going to be starring in in in the show. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's really going to be fantastic,
Speaker 1: um exploration. Because one thing I found about writing is
Speaker 1: that you can create these multiple layers and backstory in
Speaker 1: ways that you probably couldn't in television. But in television
Speaker 1: and or a film, you've got a visual medium in
Speaker 1: which you can tell non verbal story too, so you
Speaker 1: can show people are supposed to tell them. And so
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm I have the best of both
Speaker 1: worlds because I can go in here whenever I need it,
Speaker 1: but I also have the visual to tell the stories.
Speaker 1: I love that. So, so you gonna be working on
Speaker 1: the adaptation and the musical is what what's the what's
Speaker 1: the process with that right now? Because you know, the
Speaker 1: color purple is one of those stories that is really
Speaker 1: held in high esteem in the United States, such an
Speaker 1: important story. It's you know, it's multi generational. You're going
Speaker 1: to be redoing it as a musical, which which is
Speaker 1: particularly interesting. How do you how do you capture the
Speaker 1: essence of something whilst also bringing elements of the new
Speaker 1: and then making sure that the world's merged together. How
Speaker 1: you did it? How you did it. I didn't make
Speaker 1: the color purple. No, I think you're confusing me with
Speaker 1: Steven Scott. That's how There are a lot of people
Speaker 1: tell me that on this side of Steven Spieler, not
Speaker 1: trying to like sorry, I mean, I mean the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what you did. And I have to
Speaker 1: be honest, it's such an inspiration, you know, when I
Speaker 1: there eciting, thank you ste when I got this job.
Speaker 1: When I got this job, you were one of the
Speaker 1: first people I thought about, which is, how do you
Speaker 1: take something that is classic? How do you tell you
Speaker 1: something that people love and making your own? And and
Speaker 1: you did that, and so in going into the Color Purple,
Speaker 1: which we just wrapped, by the way, um yes, the
Speaker 1: fantastic UM. Shout out to Steven Spielberg and and Oprah
Speaker 1: for the support and love, and the Warner Brother's family
Speaker 1: for the love but they really allowed me to make
Speaker 1: this my own and and they allowed me to to
Speaker 1: to experiment, They allowed me to give celia and imagination.
Speaker 1: They allowed me to do things that I think um
Speaker 1: elevate the story and and and make it something that's
Speaker 1: modern and something that still holds its foundations together. And
Speaker 1: so also Alice Walker's amazing text, which is the original
Speaker 1: inspiration for all of this. Very very lucky. I think
Speaker 1: we're lucky because we we're gonna be the ones who experience,
Speaker 1: you know, how you put the work together. I find
Speaker 1: myself intreated with a lot of the work you create,
Speaker 1: because you can tell that, you know, Ghana and Africa
Speaker 1: as a whole have an indelible impression on how you
Speaker 1: think and how you apply your mind to the projects
Speaker 1: that you're working on. You see this in the book,
Speaker 1: and I loved how you did it. You tell a
Speaker 1: story about people who are connected by so many things
Speaker 1: and yet have so many things that actually make them different.
Speaker 1: You know, particularly an African American couple going to Africa
Speaker 1: and going this is our home and then realizing it
Speaker 1: goes it's not, but it is, and and there are
Speaker 1: things that are different, and that how did you how
Speaker 1: do you tackle that sensitively? Because what I felt reading
Speaker 1: the book was Wow, we are the people. But we
Speaker 1: can also celebrate the fact that new cultures have emerged
Speaker 1: and new ideas have spread across the you know, from
Speaker 1: generation to generation. How do you how do you capture them?
Speaker 1: And do you do it on purpose or is it
Speaker 1: just innate? I mean it's it's it's on purpose. I
Speaker 1: mean the fact that I grew up in Ghana through
Speaker 1: high school, I went to actual to secondary school, which
Speaker 1: is fantastic school, produced presidents. I'm lucky to be from
Speaker 1: that school. And and but but the beauty there was
Speaker 1: that I've been able to really never let go of,
Speaker 1: you know, that early those early years of my life,
Speaker 1: which then you know, spending as much time as I
Speaker 1: have now in the US, it's kind of found a
Speaker 1: way to kind of all quagless. That's one thing which
Speaker 1: now which now is kind of the mirror threw which
Speaker 1: I am, or the vessel through which I've made music,
Speaker 1: it was the same. It was like taking you know,
Speaker 1: public Enemy and mixing it with flat which which you know,
Speaker 1: you know now you've got aphobeats and everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: But ten years ago it was that it was wild,
Speaker 1: it was canine, it was myself, very few people who
Speaker 1: were who were attempting to do this. And I think
Speaker 1: it's all about this double consciousness where you kind of
Speaker 1: zig zag through these worlds where you know that you're
Speaker 1: never quite either because they both become one thing and
Speaker 1: and and and that's how these characters find themselves. They
Speaker 1: find themselves constantly wrestling with identity. Um, who am I?
Speaker 1: You know? Where where am I going? And what world
Speaker 1: do I belong? Ultimately? Is it where you are? Is
Speaker 1: it where you were born? Is it? Is it where
Speaker 1: you're where you're going next? And that's kind of where
Speaker 1: I find I've personally wrestled with that myself, um, and
Speaker 1: many many immigrants do. Um. And so that's kind of
Speaker 1: how I I filter all that through into this book.
Speaker 1: You've done an amazing job. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: amazing show. And thank you so much for you. As
Speaker 1: we talk about the big the France of Burnt Flowers
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