Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, w this is a piece
Speaker 1: of interesting news that that happened to it. So they
Speaker 1: found a shipwreck from I don't know how many years,
Speaker 1: hundreds of something years ago, and it's like it's like
Speaker 1: another one of those stories, you know when they go like, oh,
Speaker 1: they went somewhere, was actually a South African ship. Props
Speaker 1: to South African ships, you know how we do. It
Speaker 1: was a South African ship that like went somewhere to
Speaker 1: find the ship that was wrecked. And I don't really
Speaker 1: care about the details of the shipwreck, I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: because it's like the ship sank I don't care about ships.
Speaker 1: That's saying I prefer the ships that didn't sink um.
Speaker 1: But this is what gets me right, is how come
Speaker 1: you're allowed to just keep what you find in a shipwreck?
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand why, like law in the sea,
Speaker 1: just as like it's like pirate law. Essentially everywhere else
Speaker 1: in the world we have laws. You know, like you
Speaker 1: can't find a thing in the desert and keep it.
Speaker 1: You understand that no one like lives there's like big
Speaker 1: pieces of the desert, but you can't just find ship
Speaker 1: there and keep it but in the ocean, you can
Speaker 1: just do whatever you want. Find a ship yours, that's it.
Speaker 1: You can't do that anywhere else. And they're like, no,
Speaker 1: it's the finders keepers law, maritime law. You find it
Speaker 1: and then you've got it, and then you understand how
Speaker 1: crazy that would before applied that law. Imagine if you
Speaker 1: had a mall and then like you lost your car
Speaker 1: in the parking lot and you're like, I lost my
Speaker 1: car and everyone's like, it's mine now, bitches. That's essentially
Speaker 1: what's happening here. This is the chaos. It would be fun, though,
Speaker 1: if we did have those laws in life, Like the
Speaker 1: next time you had a music festival, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've lost my wife, and everyone's like coming to you
Speaker 1: from the heart of times where in New York City,
Speaker 1: the only city in America. It's The Daily Show. Here's
Speaker 1: edition tonight, No more Matches for Russia, cancel, culture is
Speaker 1: out of Control, and Jolly Parton and James Banners. This
Speaker 1: is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. We are
Speaker 1: now entering week three of the war in Ukraine and
Speaker 1: there is a lot going on, both in the combat
Speaker 1: zone and around the world, so let's catch up on
Speaker 1: all the latest updates in our ongoing coverage of the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. As you probably know, one of the
Speaker 1: big stories of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has been
Speaker 1: the surprising resilience of the Ukrainian people. But what's been
Speaker 1: almost more surprising is that it turns out the Russian
Speaker 1: military wasn't as prepared or powerful or effective as everybody thought. Yeah,
Speaker 1: their tanks are falling apart, their trucks are getting stuck
Speaker 1: in the mud, and the soldiers don't seem very prepared,
Speaker 1: which is not what any of us expected. You know,
Speaker 1: Russia struggling is not what anybody thought. It's like imagine
Speaker 1: if in Game of Thrones we waited seven seasons for
Speaker 1: the White Walkers and then when they arrived, it was
Speaker 1: just a bunch of old dudes using walkers, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it still would have been a better ending,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. You know, when you
Speaker 1: think about it, you realize there's a chance that Russia's
Speaker 1: nukes don't e in work. Yeah, because if you look
Speaker 1: at the trucks, that gets stuck in the mud. You
Speaker 1: realize there's a chance that the nuclear weapons don't work,
Speaker 1: like they might press that red button and the nukes
Speaker 1: are just going to be like yeah, now, please note
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong about the nukes were all dead. So
Speaker 1: whatever you do, don't act on my intelligence. This is
Speaker 1: just me brainstorming here. The point is that in the
Speaker 1: two weeks that this has been going on, Russia has
Speaker 1: only been able to capture completely capture one major Ukrainian
Speaker 1: city so far, but that hardly means that things are
Speaker 1: going well for Ukraine. Several other cities on the siege
Speaker 1: and facing constant bombardment, and Russian troops have taken control
Speaker 1: of one especially strategic assets. Ukraine is raising alarms about
Speaker 1: the situation. If that's your noble nuclear power plant, the
Speaker 1: side of the world's worst nuclear disaster. Ukrainian officials say
Speaker 1: Russian forces disconnected the decommissioned facility from the power grid,
Speaker 1: but called for a ceasefire in order to restore power.
Speaker 1: Ukraine's Foreign minister says the plant has are of diesel
Speaker 1: generators that can power it for forty eight hours, but
Speaker 1: after that the cooling systems for spent nuclear fuel store
Speaker 1: There will stop making radiation leaks in a minute. Come on, Russia,
Speaker 1: can you not mess around with a nuclear power plant?
Speaker 1: It's nuclear power. I mean I one season two of Chernobyl, Yes,
Speaker 1: but I also want to be around to watch season
Speaker 1: two of Chernobyl now. Thankfully, the International Atomic Energy Agency
Speaker 1: says that there's no danger of a leak right now,
Speaker 1: which is good news right now. But I mean, regardless, Russia,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Huh? I mean, we're already dealing
Speaker 1: with one meltdown over here. The world doesn't need another one,
Speaker 1: and a Chernobyl disaster's bad news for you. Think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, best case scenario. Best case scenario, what happens
Speaker 1: if you screw this up? A lot of Russians get sick?
Speaker 1: Worst case scenario, the radiation is going to create an
Speaker 1: army of mutant super Ukrainians. And right now you can't
Speaker 1: even beat the regular one. So is this some if
Speaker 1: you ready want to make Now? While all of this
Speaker 1: is taking place in Eastern Europe, the West is still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how it involved Nature should get
Speaker 1: in helping Ukraine fights off the Russian invasion. Because you see,
Speaker 1: so far, nature has been sending a lot of weapons
Speaker 1: into Ukraine. They've been sending surface to air missiles, anti
Speaker 1: tank missiles, rocket launches, guns, ammos, some legos for the
Speaker 1: Russians to step on everything, and these weapons are all helping.
Speaker 1: But what Ukraine really wants, really, really really wants is
Speaker 1: some fighter jets, which apparently is a much trickier request.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration racing to catch up to news the
Speaker 1: Poland is offering to provide used fighter jets MiGs that
Speaker 1: could ultimately be delivered to Ukraine, multiple sources telling CNN
Speaker 1: that report initially caught US officials completely off guard. Poland
Speaker 1: said it would give Ukraine all of its MiG twenty
Speaker 1: nine jets but transfer them to an American air base
Speaker 1: in Germany, but the Pentagon said no, that it's too
Speaker 1: close to direct US military involvement in the fight against Russia. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is weird. This is really weird. Poland
Speaker 1: has offered Ukraine fights and jets, but they don't want
Speaker 1: to give the jets to Ukraine directly because then they
Speaker 1: will be in a direct role with Russia. So instead
Speaker 1: they want to give the jets to America, and then
Speaker 1: America hands them to Ukraine. But then America doesn't want
Speaker 1: to do that because then they're fighting Russia directly. So
Speaker 1: now there's jets and there's Ukraine, but nobody knows how
Speaker 1: to bring the two together. I'll be honest, I don't
Speaker 1: know why this is so complicated. I mean, you've just
Speaker 1: got to treat these jets like an old couch that
Speaker 1: you don't want anymore, just leaving on the sidewalk. And
Speaker 1: then if Ukraine happens to walk by and finds a jet,
Speaker 1: I mean, what Poland got to do with it? Also,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just me. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's just me, but it's weird that they're going
Speaker 1: through all these mental gymnastics yet, because even if Poland
Speaker 1: finds some sneaky way to get these planes to Ukraine,
Speaker 1: is it Russia gonna know where the planes came from?
Speaker 1: You told us on the news, Comrade, did you notice
Speaker 1: Poland offered you couldn't jets? Now you couldn't has Polish jets?
Speaker 1: How did that happen? Yeah? Probably same way toast always lends.
Speaker 1: Butter side down there. Life is crazy. We'll never know.
Speaker 1: And this has been a tricky situation since the war started.
Speaker 1: How involved can NATO get without Russia turning on them.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I get it. It is hard
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know. This is like the ultimate
Speaker 1: conundrum of life. Sometimes, Like the other day, I saw
Speaker 1: a mugging on the subway, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: jump into stop it because now that person is stabbing me.
Speaker 1: So instead I said, hey, don't do that, and then
Speaker 1: immediately jumped off the train and I ran away, which
Speaker 1: I think struck the right balance. Now, while the war
Speaker 1: war rages on the West, economic war against Russia is
Speaker 1: ramping up too. Just yesterday, President Biden band all Russian
Speaker 1: oil from entering America. But that's created its own problems
Speaker 1: because America Ricans still need gasoline to drive cars and
Speaker 1: to heat offices and to set their homes on fire
Speaker 1: for the insurance money. So President Biden is going around
Speaker 1: the world asking other countries to pump more gas to
Speaker 1: replace Russia's right. Unfortunately, some of the countries that could
Speaker 1: help America apparently won't pick up the phone. As Americans
Speaker 1: watch gas prices rise, The Biden administration is now looking
Speaker 1: at importing oil from hostile countries, but it's not going
Speaker 1: so well. The Wall Street Journal reports President Biden tried
Speaker 1: to call the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Irramembrance,
Speaker 1: but they would not take his call. Officials from both
Speaker 1: countries are upset over American policy in the Gulf. Specifically,
Speaker 1: the Saudis want legal immunity for Prince Mohammed Ben Solomon
Speaker 1: in the US, he's facing several lawsuits over the killing
Speaker 1: of journalist Jamaal ka Shogi. Back in Saudi Arabia and
Speaker 1: the U a E also want more backing from the
Speaker 1: US and Yemen to quell the civil war there, and
Speaker 1: both are also reportedly not happy with the revival of
Speaker 1: the Iranian nuclear Deal. You have got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: Apparently Saudi Arabia won't even pick up the phone for
Speaker 1: the President of the United States. I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: know it's hard to arrange those calls. You know, real
Speaker 1: is eight hours ahead, Biden is asleep by four pm.
Speaker 1: It's a narrow window to make it work. But still,
Speaker 1: I must have been really embarrassing for Biden. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine he phones them and they don't pick up. He
Speaker 1: probably had to do that thing where you pretend that
Speaker 1: the other person did pick up. Ha ha, Yes, MBS,
Speaker 1: my man, yeah, Ukraine, that is what I'm calling. You
Speaker 1: got me, baby? You got yeah? Oh I haven't been
Speaker 1: working out. Yeah. This kind of loves me. He loves me. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll call you back all right, love you too. You
Speaker 1: know what the White House needs to do, you know
Speaker 1: they should do for the situation. They need to redirect
Speaker 1: the call so that instead of Washington d C. It
Speaker 1: looks like the call is coming from Ohio. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: then the saudiast curiosity is going to get them. Phone's
Speaker 1: gonna ring. They're gonna be like, ah, who's calling from Ohio?
Speaker 1: Do we know anybody from Ohio? And I was gonna
Speaker 1: be like, don't answer, don't answer, But what if it's
Speaker 1: Lebron I have to answer? Hello, Joe Biden? Damn it?
Speaker 1: You are right, ship, Yes, yes, I was hoping you
Speaker 1: with call now. According to the White House, According to
Speaker 1: the White House, this story is totally untrue. They deny it,
Speaker 1: which I would too. But either way, man, there's no
Speaker 1: denying that Saudi Arabia isn't playing ball with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you can say what you want,
Speaker 1: but this would have never happened to Donald Trump. Never,
Speaker 1: No one was ever ignoring Donald Trump's calls. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: if you ignored Donald Trump's calls, you didn't know how
Speaker 1: he would respond. Maybe he'd send an angry tweets. Maybe
Speaker 1: he just like banned your country from everything. You don't know.
Speaker 1: That's why I bet in these situations Biden actually wishes
Speaker 1: that he could hire Trump to step in as president.
Speaker 1: Wild card. You know, just keep everyone on their toes,
Speaker 1: because if Trump was calling, you best believe the UE.
Speaker 1: They'll be racing to pick up the phone. Mr Trump.
Speaker 1: Mr Trump would here, We're here, hello, Julie, doc mad
Speaker 1: you a new way to rings were bombing the u
Speaker 1: A and the UFC just in case. Now. While Biden
Speaker 1: and nature wat trying to figure out how to get
Speaker 1: Russia back in line, people all over the world are
Speaker 1: trying to do their part to stand up to the
Speaker 1: Russian regime. The only downside is that some people don't
Speaker 1: quite seem to understand the assignments. Backlash to the Russian
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine is leading to some misguided hostility in
Speaker 1: the US. Congressman Eric S. Walwell, who says that the
Speaker 1: consideration of kicking every Russian student out of the US
Speaker 1: should be on the Table. A young Russian pianist who
Speaker 1: is set to perform with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra this week,
Speaker 1: has been struck from the schedule after protests. The Can't
Speaker 1: If Philomenical Chestra have removed the Russian composer Tchaikovski from
Speaker 1: its program of up and coming concerts due to the
Speaker 1: current conflict in Ukraine. The popular Russian restaurant in d
Speaker 1: C is now vandalized. D C police say several people
Speaker 1: broke windows and spray painted anti Russian writing on the
Speaker 1: Russia House restaurant. New York's Russian Sam of Our Restaurants
Speaker 1: says they've lost six of their customers. The co owner
Speaker 1: is half Ukrainian. He said their sign has been kicked down,
Speaker 1: and people have been leaving one star reviews online, saying
Speaker 1: things like stop the war. Just because you're a quote
Speaker 1: unquote Russian establishment does not mean you cut of check
Speaker 1: to Prudent or his regime. Really, people, really, you know,
Speaker 1: the only thing worse than not getting help is getting
Speaker 1: help from idiots. People. Just because something is Russian doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's automatically bad, all right, Like like Russian dressing,
Speaker 1: for example. Okay, that that is bad that's actually bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that tastes like ketchup died inside a bottle of mayonnaise.
Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. Not all Russian things
Speaker 1: are bad because of what's happening in Russia. Do you
Speaker 1: understand you're not trying to be against the Russian people.
Speaker 1: You're trying to be against the Russian government to stop
Speaker 1: them from what they're doing in Ukraine. You understand that
Speaker 1: you can be anti Russia and pro Russian, all right.
Speaker 1: It's the same way you can question the Chinese government's
Speaker 1: handling of coronavirus without punching Asian grandmothers in the street.
Speaker 1: Do you understand this? Americans, of all people, should understand this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes people want to be separated from the
Speaker 1: actions of their government. Yeah, we've seen you Americans traveling
Speaker 1: around the world with your Canadian flags sewn on your backpacks,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can't tell the difference between your accents.
Speaker 1: By the way, you might think it's a good idea
Speaker 1: to ban Tchaikovsky now, but wait until Christmas comes and
Speaker 1: you're trying to get your nutcracker on, then come talk
Speaker 1: to me. But look, idiots taking their anger out on
Speaker 1: Russian restaurants in New York. That's one thing. There is
Speaker 1: another backlash that's going on with corporations, which does make sense.
Speaker 1: Every day, more and more corporations are deciding they don't
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the Russian economy that
Speaker 1: is funding this war. Right. As we told you yesterday, McDonald's, Starbucks,
Speaker 1: and now Coca Cola have announced that they're suspending business
Speaker 1: in Russia. Yes, which means the Russian people are gonna
Speaker 1: before to develop diabetes on their own now. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: today today another big names calling it quits. Bumble also
Speaker 1: announced that it will be discontinuing operations in Russia, removing
Speaker 1: all of its apps from the Apple App Store and
Speaker 1: Google Play Store in Russia and Belarus. And it's just
Speaker 1: the latest company to do so. Wow, normal Bumble in Russia.
Speaker 1: That's harsh, and you need dating apps in the country
Speaker 1: with a cuffing season is ten months long? Have you
Speaker 1: seen their winters? And I know you might be saying, oh, Trevor,
Speaker 1: meeting women in Russia is easy. All you have to
Speaker 1: do is look inside a slightly larger woman. But that's
Speaker 1: not how it works. Don't be stupid. This is yet
Speaker 1: another hit to the Russian people because of what Putin
Speaker 1: has done. And you know, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: because Russian people only get Russian news, they probably have
Speaker 1: no idea why all these companies are closing. None think
Speaker 1: about it. Every day, something else just disappears from their life.
Speaker 1: McDonald's gone, Starbucks, gone Coca Cola on you don't know why?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how confusing that must be. It's probably
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Speaker 1: All right? When we come back, Dolly Parton and James
Speaker 1: Patterson are joining me on the show. You don't want
Speaker 1: to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
Speaker 1: guests tonight are legendary singer songwriter Dolly Parton and best
Speaker 1: selling author James Patterson. They're here to discuss the novel
Speaker 1: that they've co written about the country music industry and
Speaker 1: the album Dolly wrote to go with it. James Patterson,
Speaker 1: Dolly Parton, Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm I'm I could.
Speaker 1: I could not be in a better place, because you
Speaker 1: realize I am talking to two of the most successful
Speaker 1: people in the fields that they do anything in. I mean,
Speaker 1: James Patterson, you've written books that have gone around the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, hundreds of millions of people have consumed them.
Speaker 1: Dolly Parton, we're familiar with your music. I grew up
Speaker 1: listening to it with my mom. Like would be driving
Speaker 1: around and I like, folks fucking Beatles singing to your
Speaker 1: songs with Kenny Rogers, and I would like sing your part.
Speaker 1: My mom would do Kenny Rogers. It's it's part. Now
Speaker 1: you can't sing Dolly Parton to Dolly Parton, James, don't
Speaker 1: put me on the spot. Um Run Rose Run. It's
Speaker 1: not dark, but it's thrilling. I mean, it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a really different sites of the music industry than
Speaker 1: I think what a lot of people would have expected,
Speaker 1: you know, James, I I maybe would have expected something
Speaker 1: like this from you. But Dolly Parton, what made you think?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna show you, guys,
Speaker 1: maybe another world in music that you might not be
Speaker 1: familiar with. And yes, it's fiction, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: it touches on some of the themes that people have
Speaker 1: encountered in music. Well it does. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I knew all about the visions. And I've never written
Speaker 1: an album before. I've written books, written children's books and that,
Speaker 1: so I know what it's like to kind of rite.
Speaker 1: But I had often thought i'd liked to write an
Speaker 1: album when I was older, and so when James presenting
Speaker 1: me with this, I thought, ask, why would James Patterson
Speaker 1: even be searching me out? And I thought, why he
Speaker 1: don't need me, look at what all he's done. But
Speaker 1: it made complete sense when he told me what what
Speaker 1: the book was going to be about. And I knew
Speaker 1: I really could because you know, I mean, Dolly came
Speaker 1: out of the hills of Tennessee and I came out
Speaker 1: of sort of a similar situation in upstate New York.
Speaker 1: And the character in the book also, I mean, we
Speaker 1: were both kind of million to one shots, and the
Speaker 1: character in the book is a million to one shots.
Speaker 1: She's very talented any Lee keys Uh, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're gonna make it. But also her story, everybody
Speaker 1: has a story when they come to town. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: to pass their childhood and how they grew grew up.
Speaker 1: And everybody's story is is you know different. Everybody's life
Speaker 1: is a soap opera, and so it's really about her
Speaker 1: her story. She was running to something. She loved the music,
Speaker 1: but she was running from something. So I knew that
Speaker 1: I could write great songs like all the bad people
Speaker 1: in town like Snakes in the Grass, about the bad
Speaker 1: managers and things, the guys that we because I've experience
Speaker 1: a lot of that myself, you know. When we met.
Speaker 1: So I go, I go back home, and and two
Speaker 1: days later I had I had some notes on for
Speaker 1: for Dollity to reactive. She sent me notes on the
Speaker 1: outline and she and she sent me the lyrics for
Speaker 1: seven songs. Well, I got Todays. I had said to him,
Speaker 1: I said, now, look, if I'm not the kind of person,
Speaker 1: but if we're going to work together, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to just put my name on a book, you know,
Speaker 1: if you put my name if I don't really work
Speaker 1: and I so, how am I going to contribute the
Speaker 1: most to it? And then one day I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I write songs and I know these stories, and I
Speaker 1: would love to write a book, I mean, an album
Speaker 1: about these uh situations and the characters in the movie.
Speaker 1: So it just seemed to false from natural and just
Speaker 1: really helped us both, I think. So it was just
Speaker 1: such a magical thing. It worked very quickly. It was
Speaker 1: kind of like a TV show where every week we
Speaker 1: would have another episode or another two or three chapters
Speaker 1: to mess around with and I really enjoyed it because
Speaker 1: it just seemed to work. I'll tell you what the
Speaker 1: best thing of all were We really become really good friends.
Speaker 1: You know, from my birthday she sang happy birthday in
Speaker 1: me over the telephone. I mean, that's that's all it was.
Speaker 1: It was great. That's everything the book is. The book
Speaker 1: is already a success in your world just because of that. Um. Actually, James,
Speaker 1: from your side, you you worked with President Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: writing a book together. Now you you're a successful author
Speaker 1: on your own. I mean, this is what you do.
Speaker 1: You want of the most beloved authors around the world.
Speaker 1: But now when you're writing with somebody who has their
Speaker 1: own points of view, who has their own fan base,
Speaker 1: who has their own style, I'd love to know how
Speaker 1: you find a way to meld those two worlds, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and the second part of that question is
Speaker 1: what were the biggest differences between writing with Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: and Bill Clinton. Well, the biggest difference between Dolly Dolly
Speaker 1: is a much better singer and Billes a better sax player.
Speaker 1: I think unless she plays the sack. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: they're both great to work with, and they're both friends.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's really that's the most proud. Just
Speaker 1: think to me about both of the relationships. Um, but
Speaker 1: the authenticity that built the president brought and then the
Speaker 1: authenticity that that we worked on in terms of run runs,
Speaker 1: run um and and now he goes there was never
Speaker 1: any bumps in the road ever, not one bumps. But
Speaker 1: I think people are accepted. She says, I can't sing.
Speaker 1: I didn't like that. I know that perfect, but he can't, right.
Speaker 1: But I really think people are enjoying this book. Are
Speaker 1: going to enjoy it because I think, like you said earlier,
Speaker 1: they love to see the inside and the stories of
Speaker 1: these people. You know that some of the stories behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, what natural is kind of like kind of
Speaker 1: gives them an insight into the business in them and
Speaker 1: not just the entertainment entertainment side, you know, James Lost,
Speaker 1: we spoke. We talked about your your family foundation and
Speaker 1: how you know you have scholarships and how you get
Speaker 1: books out to kids and just people who want to read.
Speaker 1: And it's it's really important to you, Dolly. I didn't
Speaker 1: know why you got into it. I've always known you
Speaker 1: as a philanthropist. I've always known you as somebody who
Speaker 1: loves giving back and you know, loves getting kids reading
Speaker 1: and loves donating books. But I didn't know why you
Speaker 1: got it. Is it true that your father couldn't read?
Speaker 1: And so you said, you know what, not only is
Speaker 1: this important to me, but I think it should be
Speaker 1: important to everybody to to to be literates. I absolutely
Speaker 1: started the Imagination Library because from my father, who I
Speaker 1: loved to death, and he seemed to always be embarrassed
Speaker 1: and kind of almost crippled, you know, that he couldn't read,
Speaker 1: and he thought he couldn't read after he was grown.
Speaker 1: But my daddy was so smart and so good and
Speaker 1: I just I just one day I just thought, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start something where children can learn to
Speaker 1: read when they're in their young days. That's when their
Speaker 1: most impressionable. And I wanted to get my daddy involved
Speaker 1: with me in it. So my daddy, I took him
Speaker 1: with me. He helped with, you know, with all the
Speaker 1: little things, and he just loved to hear the kids
Speaker 1: called me the book lady, and I'd say, this is
Speaker 1: my dad, and of course I didn't say anything about that.
Speaker 1: But he couldn't read and write at the time, but anyhow,
Speaker 1: I was he got to live long enough to see
Speaker 1: Imagination Library doing so good, and he was so proud,
Speaker 1: And so I have to answer to say, that's one
Speaker 1: of the most proud things that I have ever I'm
Speaker 1: proud of so that I mean as anything I have
Speaker 1: ever done in my whole career because of the kids.
Speaker 1: That is so beautiful. I mean, I'm sure he's proud
Speaker 1: of you. I'm sure you know, and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: he got to see it. As you say, in in
Speaker 1: his lifetime. People have been eternally grateful to your organization
Speaker 1: for this. You know. I remember as a kid, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that changed my life was
Speaker 1: my mom spent the little money that she had to
Speaker 1: get me books, which changed my life forever. I was
Speaker 1: actually surprised to see that, um, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think it was a Kentucky state state legislator who said
Speaker 1: they don't want some of the books that you were
Speaker 1: offering because they didn't think it was appropriate for young kids.
Speaker 1: What do you think some people miss in and around,
Speaker 1: you know, what kids can or cannot read, or how
Speaker 1: we process what we're reading. Well. I would never in
Speaker 1: a million years begin to think that I would choose
Speaker 1: those books. I don't choose. We have a whole committee
Speaker 1: of people that choose the books that are made up
Speaker 1: of parents and all different people. So I would never
Speaker 1: be so bold as it's like I knew what other
Speaker 1: people's kids should read. But it goes through a whole committee,
Speaker 1: and so we do the best we can. And I'll
Speaker 1: let people thought that out a lot. Just want to
Speaker 1: be there for the I mean, there is no they're
Speaker 1: not going to be reading going with the wind, you know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we let people figure that one out. But
Speaker 1: we do have other people that choose. They choose the book,
Speaker 1: not me. James, Are you going to try your hand
Speaker 1: at songwriting? Is this gonna rubble for you? On your side?
Speaker 1: Now you know what the answer is. But when I
Speaker 1: was down here at Vanderbilt, you can't help yourself. So
Speaker 1: I did. When I was down here, I did try
Speaker 1: to write some songs. It wasn't a good idea. What
Speaker 1: do you think? What do you think is actually harder? Honestly,
Speaker 1: do you think it's harder to write a novel or
Speaker 1: do you think it's hard to write song? For you? Specifically?
Speaker 1: Well for me, no, for me, I can't know because
Speaker 1: I can't write country songs or any other kind, but
Speaker 1: you could. I mean you're a writer. Yeah maybe I
Speaker 1: don't think the novel thing. I've kind of have a
Speaker 1: groove on it now, believe so yeah, and all kinds
Speaker 1: of now because I do the kids stuff and then
Speaker 1: nonfiction and you know, so we're you know, I I
Speaker 1: know what I can do and what I can't do it.
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. Dolly. On your side, you
Speaker 1: you've said, and you know it's crazy that you have
Speaker 1: wishes that that haven't been fulfilled in life yet. But
Speaker 1: I know one of your wishes is you've said that
Speaker 1: you wish that Beyonce would cover Jolene. There are over
Speaker 1: four renditions of Jolene, multiple different languages. People have done it,
Speaker 1: and you said you specifically want Beyonce to do that.
Speaker 1: Are there any updates? Is there? Like? Do you know
Speaker 1: of this happening? You know? And and why Beyonce? Maybe
Speaker 1: that's that's even more important. I don't know if she's
Speaker 1: even got the message, but wouldn't that be killer? I
Speaker 1: think she's fantastic and beautiful and I love her music.
Speaker 1: I would just love to hear Joe Lane done in
Speaker 1: just a big way kind of howth Whitney did my
Speaker 1: I will always love you. Just someone that can take
Speaker 1: a little song to make them my powerhouses. So that
Speaker 1: would be a marvelous day in my life if she
Speaker 1: ever does do jo lane. Dolly. One last thing, you
Speaker 1: amously donated a million dollars for UM the research that
Speaker 1: went into helping us get the vaccine for COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: How is it that you've always been on the right
Speaker 1: side of history. You know, you've said amazing things during
Speaker 1: the civil rights movements, you know, when many people were
Speaker 1: far behind, you said amazing things like you know about equality,
Speaker 1: about women's rights. You've said amazing things now in and
Speaker 1: around the vaccines, like what is the magic of Dolly Parton?
Speaker 1: That you're always on the right side of history. I
Speaker 1: just love people. I think we're all God's children. I
Speaker 1: make no difference in that. I always trying to find
Speaker 1: the godline and everybody always keep my my ear and
Speaker 1: I trained on what's going on. And I saw right
Speaker 1: away that that pandemic was going to be awful. I
Speaker 1: just sensed it, and I thought, well, what can I
Speaker 1: do uh to maybe help a little bit. So I
Speaker 1: donated the money to the research and I'm happy I did.
Speaker 1: I got a lot more credit than I deserved. But
Speaker 1: I am very proud of whatever effect that I had
Speaker 1: on that going on, because it's still going on. But
Speaker 1: I just kind of be aware and want to help
Speaker 1: when I can. I think when you get in a
Speaker 1: position to help, you should. And you know the other
Speaker 1: thing is is, um, you know, Dolly does what Dolly does.
Speaker 1: But having been around her now for a year and
Speaker 1: a half, she is the smartest person I've ever dealt with.
Speaker 1: That's a piece of it. We thank you both to
Speaker 1: the compliments. James Patterson, Dolly Parton, thank you for your partnership,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for taking the time and
Speaker 1: joining us on the Daily Show. And we just love you.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of things too. You've just got
Speaker 1: that God blow and I love it. So keep up
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Thank you very much. There are a
Speaker 1: few moments in life that I think my mom would
Speaker 1: actually like consider as me making it. Interviewing Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: is one of them. Like of all the things in
Speaker 1: life that is it. I'm gonna go back to her
Speaker 1: and be like, huh this now, and she'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you did one thing, well done. James. Really wonderful, see
Speaker 1: you again. Congratulations, it's it's it's it's a fantastic thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Thank you so much, Donny. Great meeting you.
Speaker 1: How do I will do? I will do, definitely sending
Speaker 1: it right to her. Okay, I'm gonna clip this and
Speaker 1: send it to her. Both the novel and the album
Speaker 1: Run Rose Run are available right now. All right, we're
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