Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central Big Day. Today, the Oscar
Speaker 1: nominations came out, Yes, powerful, powerful moments. Many, many movies
Speaker 1: were nominated, many were snubbed. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, but I always feel like the Oscars. Whenever
Speaker 1: the Oscars have the nomination's announcements, I always feel like
Speaker 1: that's when it's like movie homework time for me, because
Speaker 1: it's never the movies I've watched, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like the nominations are always like and the
Speaker 1: nominations are man in an old place, woman doing a
Speaker 1: thing a long time ago, black person suffering, and then
Speaker 1: it's you know what I mean? And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: haven't watched any I should I should? And then we
Speaker 1: all walk around, have you seen it? I'm going to?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to. Of course I'm going to, because
Speaker 1: like the Oscars, it's never like ship that I've seen.
Speaker 1: They never like and the nombin news are transformers saying
Speaker 1: it fast and fear saying it Matrix unfortunately seen it?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? It's never like the
Speaker 1: Oscars always feels like like they do it on purpose.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they go to the box office and
Speaker 1: they're like, what are the people watching? Then they're like
Speaker 1: these ones, what are they not watching? All right, these
Speaker 1: are the ones we're gonna It's like a disconnect, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying the movies are not good, Please
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. I'm just saying there's a disconnect
Speaker 1: clearly between like what we want to watch and what
Speaker 1: we should watch. It's like, these movies are the vegetables
Speaker 1: of movies. Very good for you, powerful for the soul. Powerful,
Speaker 1: but when you hie on some ship, you're not craving
Speaker 1: these movies coming to you from the heart of times.
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Speaker 1: It's The Daily Show. Here's edition tonight, Putent's Big Table Dunes.
Speaker 1: Take your man, Robert Glassberg. This is The Daily Show
Speaker 1: with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining me for
Speaker 1: today's headlines is Daisy Ledge. What's going on? How you doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. I'm excited. I got a big
Speaker 1: game this weekend, Mangles versus Ran Super Bowl. I feel you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm having an animal fighting ring in my backyard.
Speaker 1: I'm renting a ram and a Bengal tiger and they're
Speaker 1: going at it head to head. Got chilly place in beds.
Speaker 1: You're coming over, right, nothing weird about it. I got permits,
Speaker 1: I got the whole nine yards. I would love to
Speaker 1: be there. I just promised Michael, and he's so happy
Speaker 1: to have me. I'll see you after all. See after
Speaker 1: Michael sounds good. All right, let's jump into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: We kick things off with the big international news that
Speaker 1: could possibly lead us to World War three. I no,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about whether Northwest should be on TikTok.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Russia and Ukraine because every day Putin
Speaker 1: moves his tanks closer and closer to the Ukraine border,
Speaker 1: creating the world's most high stakes game of I'm not
Speaker 1: touching you. You can call mom. I never touch your face,
Speaker 1: never touched your face. I don't touch your face now.
Speaker 1: Because war is bad for business and also human life,
Speaker 1: every country is trying everything that they can to talk
Speaker 1: Russia down from its invasion plans. And yesterday the presidents
Speaker 1: of France took his shots and people had high hopes
Speaker 1: for this meeting, you know, because the French and the Russians.
Speaker 1: They have a lot in common um For example, both
Speaker 1: have disgusting sella dressings named after them. But despite this commonality,
Speaker 1: the meeting did not go well. French President Emanuel Macron
Speaker 1: is in Russia. He met with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: in Moscow at a twenty ft long table. Thanks to
Speaker 1: COVID restrictions, Macron believes Russia has a right to ask
Speaker 1: questions about its security and seek guarantees. Putin did not
Speaker 1: offer to de escalate in that meeting with Macron, but
Speaker 1: Russia does continue to deny any plans of an invasion. Okay, people,
Speaker 1: what what the hell is this? Why? Why are they
Speaker 1: sitting so far apart? Like I've been in zoom meetings
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting closer to the other person, who, Like,
Speaker 1: why do you even have a table so big? Like
Speaker 1: do you see that thing? Like? Maybe Putin isn't trying
Speaker 1: to take over Ukraine because he's evil. Maybe he just
Speaker 1: needs more space for his giant furniture. Apparently the reason
Speaker 1: for this distance is because they say they want to
Speaker 1: make sure that everyone is safe. That's they say. And no,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about COVID I'm talking about putin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he wants to kill you, at least with this table,
Speaker 1: he's got to catch an uber to get to your
Speaker 1: end in four minutes. Your debt five minutes. Now, let
Speaker 1: demistis turn Why would you take the truth? That don't
Speaker 1: so it's like counseled, no Dwight pick. How does this work?
Speaker 1: Pune is playing some crazy psychological mind games with Macron,
Speaker 1: you think so. Yeah, French people don't know how to
Speaker 1: sit at a big table like that. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to do. They're used to those tiny, little
Speaker 1: bestro tables where they have like room for one little
Speaker 1: glass of wine in a cube of cheese. That's it. Also,
Speaker 1: I can't stop thinking about the delivery guy who had
Speaker 1: to love that table all the way up the staircase
Speaker 1: just for that meeting, and then he had to wait
Speaker 1: five hours and take the table back down. Crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's how delivery works. I think we'll
Speaker 1: think about if he's playing mind games like that, he
Speaker 1: brought that table and specifically for that meeting, and that
Speaker 1: delivery guy he better not get any nicks or dings
Speaker 1: in it, because he's getting poison in the neck. If
Speaker 1: he does. Yeah, I think you have a very different
Speaker 1: idea of what they do. But yeah, yeah, no, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Will agree to disagree, We totally agree.
Speaker 1: I think. Look, all I'm saying is all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is the table might be better than catching COVID. But
Speaker 1: it could also be the reason that there's a giant
Speaker 1: wall because these two couldn't possibly have understood each other
Speaker 1: at all. I mean, just just listen to the conversation,
Speaker 1: Mr Putin. We can at risk another wall what we
Speaker 1: cannot skin another for. No, no, not bors. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about foreign affairs. You're having an affair. Of course you're French.
Speaker 1: Maybe I could sit closer to you. No, I'm saving
Speaker 1: the seat for a friend. His quote is on it.
Speaker 1: But you can't hear anything I'm saying. That is interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you doing that thing where you agree because you're
Speaker 1: not sure what I said? Moscow smells like urine. Your
Speaker 1: face looks like a peach head boatox and it's only Monday.
Speaker 1: All right, let's make like the presidents of your high
Speaker 1: school drama club and moved to New York City. Last month,
Speaker 1: New York inaugurated a new mayor, moderate Democrats and former
Speaker 1: police Captain Eric Adams. And even though he's new in
Speaker 1: the job, that hasn't stopped him from making his presence felt.
Speaker 1: For instance, he said that he's going to take his
Speaker 1: mayor's salary in crypto. Yeah, which means he's the richest mayor, poorest, richest,
Speaker 1: poorest mayor, richest, poorest, richest mayor, poorest mayor. I wish
Speaker 1: I had taken cash mayor in the world right now. Also,
Speaker 1: Mayor Adams is a vegan. Yeah, no, I thought he
Speaker 1: was black, I know. And this week he announced that
Speaker 1: going forward, all New York City schools would have to
Speaker 1: have mandatory vegan Fridays, which I actually think is a
Speaker 1: great idea. Yes, because Friday, I think needs to be
Speaker 1: taken down a peg. You know, Oh you're excited for
Speaker 1: the weekend. How about a tofu sandwich, bitch. Now, obviously
Speaker 1: because of this decision, a lot of people are mad.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people are mad you have to
Speaker 1: eat meat or it's not a meal. But if you
Speaker 1: ask me, there's nothing wrong with kids being exposed to
Speaker 1: different kinds of foods and different kinds of diets. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you kids with peanut allergies. Stop being
Speaker 1: so close minded. So yeah, schools in New York are
Speaker 1: gonna serve vegan food on Friday's, partly because the mayor
Speaker 1: himself is vegan. Or is he. It's a big city
Speaker 1: scandal in New York. Mayor Eric Adams is making waves
Speaker 1: with the revelation that he eats fish. Adams is a
Speaker 1: self proclaimed vegan. Report in Political New York over the
Speaker 1: weekend sided restaurant sources at a midtown eatery frequented by
Speaker 1: the mayor who say Adams often dines on fish. He
Speaker 1: released a statement saying, I want to be a role
Speaker 1: model for people who are following or aspire to follow
Speaker 1: a plant based diet. But as I said, I am
Speaker 1: perfectly imperfect and have occasionally eaten fish. Okay, everybody calmed down.
Speaker 1: Everybody calmed down. I can feel the stress in the
Speaker 1: room right now. Everybody calmed down. I know you're angry
Speaker 1: right now, and I know you want him to step down.
Speaker 1: But give the man a chance. Yes, he's a vegan
Speaker 1: who sometimes eats fish. Don't get a twisted man. Being
Speaker 1: a vegan isn't about eating vegan. It's about telling everybody
Speaker 1: that you're vegan. So technically, this man's legit. And that
Speaker 1: is what's great about New York. We're imperfect here, we're
Speaker 1: perfectly imperfect. You can label yourself whatever you want in
Speaker 1: New York. Whether it's true or not, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: you know. That's why the vegan Maya isn't vegan, and
Speaker 1: that's why the New York Jets can call themselves a
Speaker 1: football team. You know, if you ask me, the weird
Speaker 1: thing to me, it's not that he cheats occasionally on
Speaker 1: his veganism. It's the fact that his cheat meal is fish.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna cheat cheap ma man cheat,
Speaker 1: eat a cheeseburger or pepperoni pizza. Eating fish as your
Speaker 1: cheap meal is like getting a whole posse from your
Speaker 1: spouse and using that whole pose to have sex with
Speaker 1: a fish. It's a total waste of a whole posse
Speaker 1: and a fish. I gotta say I really appreciate his
Speaker 1: transparency and that he didn't make the fish sign an
Speaker 1: n d A. That's progress, I guess. Yeah. This is
Speaker 1: like an adorable political scandal. This is ridiculous. Let the
Speaker 1: guy eat a little bit of fish, what's next? Adams
Speaker 1: took a penny, but didn't leave a penny. He put
Speaker 1: a plastic cup in the paper recycling then, and he's
Speaker 1: keeping solitary confinement at rikers. Okay, that one is. That
Speaker 1: one's bad. The paper cup one's also pretty bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like those are those are? Those are pretty bad?
Speaker 1: Apologized over and over again. I don't know what else
Speaker 1: I can do. The colors match, you put the you
Speaker 1: know all right. Finally, if you're still looking for a
Speaker 1: perfect Valentine's Day gift, there are a few last minute
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Speaker 1: They also say the sheets are changed and everything has
Speaker 1: been cleaned in between flights for you. Prices for the
Speaker 1: romantic getaway start nine and nine dollars. Wow. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is now what I expected, and I feel like it
Speaker 1: kind of defeats the whole purpose of the Mile High Club.
Speaker 1: You know, the Mile High Club isn't just about having
Speaker 1: sex on a plane. It's about having terrible sex quietly
Speaker 1: without getting sucked down that toilet. That's the experience anyone
Speaker 1: can have sex on a plane. Not to mention, they
Speaker 1: said this flight only lost forty five minutes. Only forty
Speaker 1: five minutes, You realize that's barely enough time to apologize
Speaker 1: for the first two minutes. And don't get me started
Speaker 1: on the fact that the pilots a k a. Mr
Speaker 1: Smiley over here. I've just got to trust that I've
Speaker 1: got privacy because he closed that little curtain. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna pay a thousand dollars to have sex while some
Speaker 1: random dude is sitting there pretending to not pay attention.
Speaker 1: That's not a plane, it's a flying dorm room. So
Speaker 1: I mean, look, good luck to these guys, But I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people are gonna want to take
Speaker 1: this flight because there's always a chance of a crash.
Speaker 1: There's always a chance when you fly, there's a chance
Speaker 1: you can't crash, and nobody wants the obituary to be
Speaker 1: like John Sanders was killed today when his sex plane
Speaker 1: crashed into a mountain. The main thing, though, is that
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like it's worth a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1: It's cool experience, but a thousand dollars is a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I mean, think about a Spirit Airlines only
Speaker 1: costs what nine dollars round trip? Yeah, and they always
Speaker 1: leave you feeling like you So, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: pretty sweet deal. I completely agree with you. It takes
Speaker 1: all the fun out of it. It's like if CNN
Speaker 1: is going to hold a staff meeting where they're like, everyone,
Speaker 1: come and master rate. Jeffrey Tuban is not logging onto.
Speaker 1: That takes all the fun out of it. If someone
Speaker 1: gave me that as a gift for Valentine's Day, I
Speaker 1: would break up with that person right away. I don't
Speaker 1: need to ride the jizz jet. I don't need that. Plus,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, it's not really all that practical,
Speaker 1: because how are you going to fiddle your sex toys
Speaker 1: and a carry on? You gotta put him in airplane mode.
Speaker 1: You don't know if they're gonna work. You guys just
Speaker 1: like pray for turbulence right before the final descent and
Speaker 1: you get all your lube in those little three ounce bottle.
Speaker 1: It just it doesn't work. It doesn't work. I never
Speaker 1: thought of the practicalities, and I'm here for Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: that that that really helped me a lot. Why Why
Speaker 1: does why does the sex toy have airplane? All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into our main story, which is about mosques. Yes,
Speaker 1: a key tool in the fight against COVID and the
Speaker 1: reason we've all gotten really good at smizing. Now. Mosques
Speaker 1: have been a really contentious issue since the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, and that doesn't seem like it's going
Speaker 1: to change. So let's see where the mosque debate stands
Speaker 1: now in another installment of mosque madness. Let's be honest, people,
Speaker 1: there's been no point in this pandemic where everyone has
Speaker 1: been on the same page about mosques no point at all. Initially,
Speaker 1: the CDC said that mosques don't help with COVID. That's
Speaker 1: what they said, right then. I guess maybe they googled
Speaker 1: something and then they decided no, no, no no, if you
Speaker 1: don't wear a mosque, you're gonna kill your grandma. Then,
Speaker 1: because of all of that, we just had people arguing,
Speaker 1: arguing the whole time about us master this mosque, people
Speaker 1: arguing with strangers in the street about proper mosque wearing etiquette.
Speaker 1: It's below your nose, it's your chin, yours hasn't dolphin?
Speaker 1: Where can I get one of those? And for a
Speaker 1: long time, Red states and Blue states have completely opposite
Speaker 1: mosqu policies right, but now many Blue states are starting
Speaker 1: to change their tune. Some strong indicators of the receiving
Speaker 1: oh Macron wave, and the country has moved toward a
Speaker 1: new normal one by one. Five states just announced dates
Speaker 1: to end mask mandates in schools, child care centers or
Speaker 1: end indoor masking entirely. New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela, Oregon all
Speaker 1: ending their school mask mandates either this month or next.
Speaker 1: Delaware and Oregon will also drop their statewide indoor mask
Speaker 1: mandates entirely soon New Jersey Governor Billy Murphy said his
Speaker 1: decision to drop a statewide school mask mandate is not
Speaker 1: a declaration of victory over the virus. There. We're not
Speaker 1: going to manage COVID to zero. We have to learn
Speaker 1: how to live with COVID. But many parents are still concerned.
Speaker 1: Has only about two percent of children aged five to
Speaker 1: eleven are fully vaccinated, significantly lower than the nearly seventy
Speaker 1: of adults. It seems to be a recipe for disaster
Speaker 1: sending them in without masks on Oh boy, yep, this
Speaker 1: is a complicated issue. On the one hand, mosques can
Speaker 1: do a lot to keep kids safe, right They can
Speaker 1: also help to prevent the spread of COVID two, teach
Speaker 1: us and to stuff, and on top of that, they
Speaker 1: can help hide all of those middle school mustaches. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you need that, your fourteen? Why
Speaker 1: do you look like porn star? But you also have
Speaker 1: to weigh the benefits against the downsides, because kids need
Speaker 1: to see each other's faces to advance their emotional development,
Speaker 1: and it makes it easier to understand what the teacher
Speaker 1: is saying, and they need a place to store their
Speaker 1: pencils when they're not using them, but more and more
Speaker 1: Blue states owaging the pros against the cons and they
Speaker 1: changing their tune, and they're deciding that it's time to
Speaker 1: get rid of masque mandates, and not just schools. By
Speaker 1: the way, masque mandates are being repealed for adults too,
Speaker 1: mostly because the omicron wave is subsiding, but also because
Speaker 1: Democratic politicians they just can't seem to stop doing stuff
Speaker 1: like this. Well. Stacy Abram's, a Democratic candidate for Georgia governor,
Speaker 1: faces criticism tonight for what she didn't put on her face.
Speaker 1: These are pictures that both Abrams and the principle of
Speaker 1: an Atlanta area elementary school tweeted out last week. Abrams
Speaker 1: was attending a Black History Month reading event, and you
Speaker 1: can see the children in the class are wearing masks. Teachers, staff,
Speaker 1: and guests in the class are wearing masks. Stacy Abrams
Speaker 1: is not The event was indicator that city and school
Speaker 1: district have masked mandates. Now, since the backlash started, Abrams
Speaker 1: has deleted the tweet, and the school's principal, who first
Speaker 1: tweeted the pictures, has deactivated her Twitter account. The Abrams
Speaker 1: campaign suggests the attacks are politically motivated. The Abrams campaign
Speaker 1: also told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that she wore a
Speaker 1: mask to that school, but later removed it so she
Speaker 1: could be heard by students watching remotely and for the
Speaker 1: photos on the condition that everyone around her was wearing masks.
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams, come on, you can just say that you
Speaker 1: messed up. You could just say that your team doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be like, oh no, Stacy only removed the
Speaker 1: mosque so that the kids could hear her speech. First
Speaker 1: of all, no little kids want to hear a speech
Speaker 1: from a politician, right, especially the kids doing remote learning
Speaker 1: at home. Mosque or no masque. Those kids are not
Speaker 1: listening to you. They're watching Pepper Pig and another tab.
Speaker 1: It's not about the kids to say that was doing
Speaker 1: the thing because everyone's gone a reason for taking off
Speaker 1: the mark. No, I didn't take off the masque. I
Speaker 1: only took off the masque because I needed to take
Speaker 1: up the mask. Yeah, that's why everyone takes off the mask.
Speaker 1: That's why you're not allowed to take up the masque.
Speaker 1: And Stacy's campaign for them to say the criticism is
Speaker 1: politically motivated. That might be true, but then again, so
Speaker 1: was posting the picture in the first place. I mean,
Speaker 1: the picture was politics, right. Politics is the only reason
Speaker 1: people hang out with second grade is that they don't
Speaker 1: know or at least the only reason that doesn't get
Speaker 1: you arrested. And you know what, that's the real issue
Speaker 1: here going to this classroom in the first place, Abrams
Speaker 1: is campaigning for governor of Georgia. So why waste your
Speaker 1: time meeting kids who can't even vote when you could
Speaker 1: be out in the streets meeting adults in Georgia who
Speaker 1: also can't vote. Although I guess this may be part
Speaker 1: of Stacy's plan. You know, you meet with the school
Speaker 1: kids and then if they line up at the polls,
Speaker 1: now they'll turn eighteen by the time they reached the
Speaker 1: voting It's pretty smart. Actually, yeah, I take my mosk
Speaker 1: off to you, madame. But look as bad as this was,
Speaker 1: at least Stacey Abrams to make the mosque and rules
Speaker 1: in Georgia, because if you break the rules that you make,
Speaker 1: that's that's much worse for you, which is exactly what
Speaker 1: happened in Los Angeles over the weekend. California Governor Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: along with the mayor of l A and San Francisco,
Speaker 1: on the defensive over photos showing them without masks pothing
Speaker 1: with Magic Johnson. The politicians we're seeing here at so
Speaker 1: Fi Stadium over the weekend at the Rams forty Niners
Speaker 1: game not wearing masks. L A County rules state people
Speaker 1: at large events have to wear masks except when eating
Speaker 1: or drinking. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti defending his mask
Speaker 1: less picture with Magic Johnson in an exchange with the
Speaker 1: Reporter Wednesday, Garsetti claimed he held his breath. I'm used
Speaker 1: to criticism as a public figure. I've been wearing a
Speaker 1: mask the entire game long. People on a picture I
Speaker 1: hold my breath, kind break, zero risk. This is guy
Speaker 1: being serious. It's like, that's the real thing. See me,
Speaker 1: He wasn't holding his breath. Everyone knows when you hold
Speaker 1: your breath, your face does this. That's holding your breath. Now, Look,
Speaker 1: am I saying that, Oh, politicians need to always hold
Speaker 1: themselves accountable to every single law that they impose on us.
Speaker 1: Kinda yeah, or at least have a better reason to
Speaker 1: break the laws. Then, oh ship, it's Magic Johnson. That's
Speaker 1: so irresponsible. You're supposed to set the example, if you
Speaker 1: ask me. The biggest scandal here is that Garciti is
Speaker 1: making it sound like Magic asked him for a picture
Speaker 1: the oh the way he said, oh when people asking
Speaker 1: me for them No, no, my man, my man. If
Speaker 1: two people take a picture together, the person who sucks
Speaker 1: at basketball, they're the ones who asked for the picture.
Speaker 1: That's the rules of taking pictures. So again, like, why
Speaker 1: can't politicians admit when they stuff instead of deleting tweets
Speaker 1: and offering weird excuses, just say, you know what, I
Speaker 1: messed up. I wanted to see my face in the picture.
Speaker 1: And when the mask is on, it's not as cool
Speaker 1: because the rest of us actually get that right. Taking
Speaker 1: a photo with the mosk on sucks. It's weird. People
Speaker 1: take photos smiling, right, unless it's like the eighteen fifties,
Speaker 1: because all those photos are more like this camera had
Speaker 1: better not steal my soul. But other than that, people
Speaker 1: smile in photos. That's kind of the whole point. We
Speaker 1: get it. So look, I'm not an epidemiologist, but maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it's a good thing that mask mandates are starting
Speaker 1: to go away. Students in school will be able to
Speaker 1: interact normally. Democrats can stop getting tripped up by their
Speaker 1: own mask mandates. And for me, well, I'll finally be
Speaker 1: able to tell when the waiter is judging me for
Speaker 1: ordering off the kid's menu. You know what, sometimes I
Speaker 1: just want to fish sticks. Okay, I'm a vegan, all right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Grammy Award winner Robert Glasper you
Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is multi Grammy and Emmy Award winning
Speaker 1: artist Robert Glaspa. He's here to talk about his new album,
Speaker 1: Black Radio three. Robert Glasco, Thank you, thank you, good
Speaker 1: to have you here, um for one of the most
Speaker 1: anticipated albums I think of all time, all time period,
Speaker 1: genuinely of all time, before music was even invented, people
Speaker 1: have just been like, this is this is what we've
Speaker 1: been waiting for. And I'm acting like it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. So I feel like you're a big deal though. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, there are a few musicians like
Speaker 1: you'll meet or you'll hear about where every musician wants
Speaker 1: to work with them, you know with comedians say it's
Speaker 1: a comedians comedian, you know you are a musicians musician
Speaker 1: ever for everyone from Erica Badou all the way through
Speaker 1: to like her and today, And you know, Kendrick Lamont,
Speaker 1: let's start with that. What do you think it is
Speaker 1: about your music that every musician gravitates towards. I think
Speaker 1: it's just being honest, the honesty of it all, because
Speaker 1: you know, I'm technically trained, you know, classic, a little
Speaker 1: bit of classical music, but I went to school for jazz,
Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff, So I have that. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, with all the genres
Speaker 1: that I play, I play with the masters of that genre.
Speaker 1: So when I cross over, it's it's a real thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I played with the
Speaker 1: masters of hip hop. I used to play in the roots.
Speaker 1: I played with Jay Della, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I used to play with Claude, Q Tip and Common
Speaker 1: and all those that's the hip hop thing. And in
Speaker 1: the R and B world, we're just talking about playing
Speaker 1: with Maxwell for years and my fan and let's see
Speaker 1: a little half Away and all these other people. And
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up playing with my My mother
Speaker 1: was a singer, you know, a vocalist, So it's like
Speaker 1: I was just in those in those slots with with
Speaker 1: the real people for that for so long. So I
Speaker 1: can tap into that, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: like in a in a Kung Fu movie, you're going
Speaker 1: to learn with all the best masters of all the
Speaker 1: I'm not personally of the piano. It's like the wing chunk.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Come and see they called him
Speaker 1: the Bruce. I mean, there's a few people who could
Speaker 1: argue with this, like like for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, let's say somebody like Kendrick Lamm. You know,
Speaker 1: he he's known to be one of the most meticulous
Speaker 1: autists out there. You work with him on right butter Fly.
Speaker 1: But the way it happens is you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: there for one song. He hears you play, and then
Speaker 1: he goes like, no, all of it, all of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was there. My friend Terris Martin called me, He's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: come by the studio. I'm here with Kendrick now, need
Speaker 1: to play for one song that in real life. Literally
Speaker 1: I've heard that like a movie and stuff comes to
Speaker 1: the studio right now. I don't know that was real.
Speaker 1: It was so I was recording my own record. That
Speaker 1: was the kind of my record covered and my boy
Speaker 1: Terrice called me, he's like you in l A I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah. He's like, I'm at the studio, my
Speaker 1: DR DRE studio with Kendrick. Come now after you finished
Speaker 1: recording that, come there. And I went there, played the
Speaker 1: first song and Kendrick was there. He's like, whoa, keep
Speaker 1: him there, pull up on so, pull up so on
Speaker 1: so and I would hear it once and play what
Speaker 1: I heard. He's like, play with you here, And I
Speaker 1: literally did every song one take, play what I heard.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm on like nine or tennis songs with
Speaker 1: some of the stuff I didn't get credit for because
Speaker 1: it happens so fast, you know what I mean. You know,
Speaker 1: but everything happened so fast, but it was amazing. Man,
Speaker 1: and kids are so open, he said. He's like a
Speaker 1: jazz musician, you know, he just open and whatever happens
Speaker 1: in the moment, he's like, let's do that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So when you're choosing who to collaborate
Speaker 1: with on on on your albums, I mean you you
Speaker 1: have a pick. You know, every ofticers wants to work
Speaker 1: with you. You you love working with different artists. You
Speaker 1: don't just pick who you want to work with, you
Speaker 1: also pick what genre you want the album to fall into. It,
Speaker 1: and not many people can do that. Like I didn't
Speaker 1: know this until I was doing the research for this interview.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that when it comes to the Grammys,
Speaker 1: you have to choose which category you to your music
Speaker 1: is going to be. You choose with category absolutely because
Speaker 1: in jazz you pretty much know. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: I was a jazz and that's what happened with with
Speaker 1: with my first Black Radio album, Yes Black Radio one
Speaker 1: and came out two thousand twelve, and I'm a jazzing Usian,
Speaker 1: so I had four jazz albums before that. And you
Speaker 1: want full Grammys exactly exactly, I'm out here. But it's
Speaker 1: not about the awards, about the music. But I um
Speaker 1: with that. Everybody's like, oh, your jab mus shouldn't so
Speaker 1: put that abum in the jazz category. But I was
Speaker 1: on the streets, I was on tour Maxwell. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: knowing what's happening in the R and B world. The
Speaker 1: R and B world love the record, the hip hop
Speaker 1: world love the record, So I knew I'm seeing it
Speaker 1: happened in real time. So I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: put this in the put this in the R and
Speaker 1: B category, and what we got nominated. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, that that was done. Then I was like,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna win, but in case I needed. And
Speaker 1: then when you know, when you have Jimmy jam, why
Speaker 1: do you think you don't gonna win? Because no one
Speaker 1: knew me in that category and no one knows me
Speaker 1: at that time. No one knew me in that world.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of thinking in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, okay, we've got nominated, at least that I'm
Speaker 1: good for that. I'm not thinking gonna win because Bruce
Speaker 1: Lee would think that is not how brustly would think
Speaker 1: you would go. I'm gonna win the Grammy. I can't.
Speaker 1: I became Bruce Lee right after that Grammy. That's when
Speaker 1: I became It's the Grasshopp's what it is um growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid. I I love listening and hearing
Speaker 1: about your story because I love I love hearing about
Speaker 1: anybody who's been to church as much as I have.
Speaker 1: Growing up. You were in church a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: for no reason. My mom was for no reason. It's
Speaker 1: for all the reasons. What do you mean your blessings?
Speaker 1: But like you know, okay, so because a lot of
Speaker 1: people go to a lot of church, but a few
Speaker 1: people I've met go to different churches. So my mom
Speaker 1: took me every different kind of church, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you played. That's what That's what intrigued me. You
Speaker 1: played music in every church. I played for a seven
Speaker 1: day in Venice church on Saturdays. All right. I played
Speaker 1: for a Catholic church early Sunday morning. But what do
Speaker 1: you playing at the Catholic church this particular hymns. Hymn knows,
Speaker 1: but this particular Catholic church. Also, the priest was a
Speaker 1: jazz fan and the choir director rest in peace Chimera.
Speaker 1: She passed away, but she was a jazz singer, so
Speaker 1: they would do the call and response things to jazz.
Speaker 1: So come on, you're telling me that when I was
Speaker 1: in Catholic church, I gotta be getting jazz. Absolutely, we
Speaker 1: were changing up things and making them. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: And then right around the corner at eleven o'clock, I
Speaker 1: will go to the Baptist church. I played that. That
Speaker 1: must be the most fun. Absolutely, I was bawling. I
Speaker 1: made money in high school. I was crazy with the money.
Speaker 1: Wa they paid you? Absolutely? Wow? Absolutely, Oh man, I've
Speaker 1: only keep the money at money from church. I bought
Speaker 1: so much of lunch from my friends. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Turn the tops on me going down. I'm not even thirsty,
Speaker 1: but I always want to do this or you should
Speaker 1: do it. That's what it's here from. It's not even
Speaker 1: for the like the actual drinking of the thing. Um,
Speaker 1: we just keep the water from episodes, so we don't
Speaker 1: even change it to Grammy nominations coming up. I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be working at the oscars as well. The
Speaker 1: album comes out February, Yes by Radio three. Absolutely a
Speaker 1: lot of pressures, no pressure. You forgot big water, my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm loving this man because most people will go the
Speaker 1: first album came out, it was basically like like the Godfather,
Speaker 1: you know where people just like, what is this album?
Speaker 1: Then the second one came out, people like it can
Speaker 1: We didn't think it could get better, but it did. Boom.
Speaker 1: Now you got the third one coming out. The most
Speaker 1: people with think pressure, no pressure like water. Like one
Speaker 1: of my friends, my friend, congratulations on another amazing album.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being on the show. Black Radio three
Speaker 1: comes out of February. Well, that's our show for tonight.
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