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Speaker 1: It's The Daily Show. Here's edition tonight, filling down on
Speaker 1: drill Ground Clapper in Canada is The Daily Show with
Speaker 1: Trevor No, Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. I'm trying to know what. Let's jump straight
Speaker 1: into today's headlines. We kick things off with the Russian
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine. Which by the time you watch this
Speaker 1: has either started already, is about to start any minutes,
Speaker 1: or was never going to start at all. And one
Speaker 1: reason no one seems to know exactly what is going
Speaker 1: to happen is that Russia is playing all sorts of
Speaker 1: mind games. As Russia claims it is pulling back troops
Speaker 1: from Ukraine's border, a senior Biden administration official accuses Russia
Speaker 1: of lying and of moving troops around while adding seven
Speaker 1: thousand to the some one fifty thousand troops already near
Speaker 1: Ukraine's borders. Britain's military intelligence chief, in a rare statement,
Speaker 1: said there have been sightings of additional armored vehicles, helicopters,
Speaker 1: and the field hospital moving towards Ukraine's borders. There are
Speaker 1: now questions this morning about why Russia would claim to
Speaker 1: de escalate while apparently not doing it. Propaganda A to
Speaker 1: create confusion or deliberate misdirection to hide an attack. They
Speaker 1: have not moved editor Church job, they'd moved Moore Roch
Speaker 1: Game number one. Every indication we have they're very prepared
Speaker 1: to go into the train. Attack the train. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: wait wait wait people, people, people can ask you a question,
Speaker 1: why is America's president always answering questions in front of
Speaker 1: a helicopter. Is there not a better solution to this?
Speaker 1: And it's not just Biden like Trump the whole time,
Speaker 1: and then we're trying to like turn the helicopter off
Speaker 1: until he gets on. You're wasting fuel and do you
Speaker 1: know how much gas is right now? Joe Byron, you
Speaker 1: also saying important things. You don't want people to miss
Speaker 1: you what you say. Imagine if I was like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: hey guys, as Trevor Noah, I've discovered something that will
Speaker 1: solve all of the world's problems. What we need and
Speaker 1: that's what will solve the world. But yes, America's accusing
Speaker 1: Russia of lying about pulling troops back from Ukraine while
Speaker 1: actually still preparing to invade it. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: like that. It wouldn't be a surprise if Russia is
Speaker 1: being sneaky. I mean, this is the same country that
Speaker 1: hides dolls inside bigger dolls. Now sick you have to
Speaker 1: be to do that. You think you found the final
Speaker 1: you think there's like a doll. I'm so happy news
Speaker 1: like it's another doll. That was I happy enough? Now
Speaker 1: I feel bad. I didn't show the gratitude to the person.
Speaker 1: I didn't know those two doys three dolls. I didn't
Speaker 1: show three dolls gratitudes four dollars. Then I'm like, how
Speaker 1: many dolls? Then I break the last one because I
Speaker 1: thok there was another one inside. Now broke my toy.
Speaker 1: But Russia insists that they're putting the troops back. That's
Speaker 1: what they say, even though all the satellite evidence shows
Speaker 1: that they're adding even more troops to the border. And
Speaker 1: people are saying that what Putin is doing here is
Speaker 1: really disingenuous. But can I be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: really actually understand this move. In fact, anyone who's ever
Speaker 1: played call of duty knows what this move is all about. Right,
Speaker 1: your mom calls you down for dinner, and what do
Speaker 1: you do? Yeah, I'm coming, mom. I'm just wrapping up
Speaker 1: a mission. I'll be right there. All right, guys, let's
Speaker 1: go again this time. Stop messing around on the BI station, Nick,
Speaker 1: Come on, But America is certain. They are certain that
Speaker 1: Russia is still planning to invade. In fact, today the
Speaker 1: U s Secretary of State even said that what Russia
Speaker 1: might do to justify an invasion is launch, fake or
Speaker 1: even real chemical weapons at themselves and then blame it
Speaker 1: on Ukraine. Yeah yeah, First of all, uh spoilers. Hello. Secondly,
Speaker 1: can you imagine that staging a chemical attack on yourself
Speaker 1: to justify you invasion. That's pretty messed up, especially for
Speaker 1: the Russian soldiers who have to carry out the mission.
Speaker 1: So we launched this on ourselves, but this is fake. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: we will find out when bomb explode. Mystery excitement And
Speaker 1: you know, people as erratic as the Russians actions might seem,
Speaker 1: you understand what they're doing right now, right They're playing chess.
Speaker 1: This is literally what chess is all about. Oh I'm
Speaker 1: moving forward? Who I'm moving backwards? Or I'm attacking? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not the horses going this way. Then it turns
Speaker 1: this is what Russia's doing. This is literally and the
Speaker 1: Russians love playing chess. They've been designed for this moment. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the rest of us, we don't play chess anymore. We
Speaker 1: love dumb games. Now we're like, oh, I need a
Speaker 1: five letter word that ends in d e plate. No,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on from a country that's trying
Speaker 1: to take over the world to a dictatorship that already
Speaker 1: runs the World. Disney, the magical company is known around
Speaker 1: the world for its amusement parks, it's movies, and for
Speaker 1: having the fanciest rats. But now they're apparently moving into
Speaker 1: real estate. You see, yesterday, Disney announced that it will
Speaker 1: be building planned communities where residents can be quote parts
Speaker 1: of Disney all the time, which I guess means you
Speaker 1: have to wait in line for three hours to use
Speaker 1: your own bathroom. And look, guys, as much as I'm
Speaker 1: for decriminalizing drugs, I don't know if we should encourage
Speaker 1: people to take them at work, because this sounds like
Speaker 1: an idea that was inspired by a something extra, if
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, what if the whole
Speaker 1: world was Disney all the time? Likes just all the time?
Speaker 1: I love this guy, Hey so hey, so great. I
Speaker 1: love it Disney all the time. Oh man, I'm so
Speaker 1: fed up right now. And now. Look, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I love Disney by the way. I personally love Disney.
Speaker 1: I love Disneyland, I love Disney World. But I think
Speaker 1: the Disney experience will lose its magic if you relive
Speaker 1: it every day. You catt to do Disney every day.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I don't want to pretend I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make a wish kid to cut lines every day. You've
Speaker 1: got to do that like twice a year max, you know,
Speaker 1: special occasions. And by the way, if you think this
Speaker 1: idea sounds creepy, just like living in Disney all the time,
Speaker 1: wait until you see the promo video that they released.
Speaker 1: These vibrant communities will be infused with Disney place making
Speaker 1: picture and energetic community, with the warmth and charm of
Speaker 1: a small town and the beauty of a resort, a
Speaker 1: place that entices inspiration. It makes every moment more memorable
Speaker 1: than the last a story. Living by Disney community is
Speaker 1: something truly special. Communities infused with Disney place making. Am
Speaker 1: the only one who thinks that sounds like a cult.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it is a cult. You saw how
Speaker 1: it looked and how it sounded. It feels like a cult,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm not saying it is a cult. I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking it feels like a cult. Yeah, Like, if
Speaker 1: you decide to live there, don't be surprised if you
Speaker 1: get home one day and it ends with Goofy banging
Speaker 1: your wife. I mean, even if it's not a cult,
Speaker 1: I don't trust it, you know, a perfect community that
Speaker 1: just feels like an ideal small town. I saw one division. Disney,
Speaker 1: You're not fooling me. I know how the ship ends.
Speaker 1: And by the way, by the way, this isn't the
Speaker 1: first time that Disney has tried to invent a town
Speaker 1: that people live in. Right back in nineties, Disney built
Speaker 1: a community in Florida called Celebration that also had a
Speaker 1: lot of hype at first, and then a few years
Speaker 1: later did so badly that they had to offload it
Speaker 1: to a private equity firm. I mean, so, what does
Speaker 1: Disney think. I think they can just rehash the same
Speaker 1: idea with a modern spin and then people throw money
Speaker 1: at it. It will never work. It's just not gonna work.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to our top story, and our top story is about rap.
Speaker 1: The thing you're fifty year old cousin still thinks he
Speaker 1: has a shot at. Rap has been around for decades
Speaker 1: and it's gotten so mainstream it's now even part of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl halftime show. But now there's a new
Speaker 1: style of rap that's blowing up, and it's gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where the Mayor of New York is so
Speaker 1: concerned that he's trying to rein it in. Mayor Eric
Speaker 1: Adams is trying to curb the violence associated with drill rap.
Speaker 1: Now that's a branch of rap music that is about
Speaker 1: the violent side of the streets. Do what drill rapping was?
Speaker 1: But I called my son and he sent me some
Speaker 1: videos and it is alarming. Drill rap came under renewed
Speaker 1: scrutiny after eighteen year old artist Jakawon McKinley's murder earlier
Speaker 1: this month. Adams made national headlines late Friday when he
Speaker 1: called out social media companies for their responsibility in promoting
Speaker 1: violence and drill rap videos, and he vowed to put
Speaker 1: a plan in motion. And we pulled a Trump off
Speaker 1: Twitter because of what he was spelling. Yet we allowing
Speaker 1: music displaying of guns, violence, We're allowing it to stay
Speaker 1: on these sites. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on. It
Speaker 1: is not fair to compare President Trump too wrapperus. Alright,
Speaker 1: rappers are all about dissing their haters and banging porn
Speaker 1: stars and bragging about how rich they are even when
Speaker 1: they're secretly broke. Does that sound like Donald Trump to you?
Speaker 1: Show some respect? And yeah, once again, social media companies
Speaker 1: are in the cross as because you know, these days,
Speaker 1: they're getting pressure to take a lot down al right, COVID, misinformation,
Speaker 1: election misinformation, hate speech, bullying. They can't keep up. I mean,
Speaker 1: so the only thing that's gonna be left on social
Speaker 1: media is just gonna be cat photos and things your
Speaker 1: grandpa accidentally tweeted while trying to google where did Genie
Speaker 1: and I have our first date? But the real question
Speaker 1: is what is drill rap and why is it even
Speaker 1: scaring the Mayor of New York. Well, let's find out
Speaker 1: in another installment of If you don't Know, Now you know.
Speaker 1: Rap music a k a. Hippote hop. It's a music
Speaker 1: form that tackles every topic you know. It talks about relationships,
Speaker 1: talks about money, social issues, life on the streets, boiling,
Speaker 1: you can even walk about the relative moisture content of vaginas.
Speaker 1: But it can also celebrate gang violence, and that's what
Speaker 1: has some people worried about drill rap. The hard, driving
Speaker 1: beats and dark, ominous sound of drill originated in Chicago.
Speaker 1: It was also heavily gang affiliated. It got a new
Speaker 1: life in Brooklyn and was brought into the mainstream by
Speaker 1: the late pop smoke. Drill music has been around for
Speaker 1: more than a decade, but local activists tell us what's
Speaker 1: different is that the music now has a darker tone,
Speaker 1: with the drill rappers creating songs and viral dances that
Speaker 1: celebrates local murders. Got shot with face Cort cannot they
Speaker 1: found his rockcorming more than the music itself, and YPD
Speaker 1: says it's the taunting and dissing and the lyrics that
Speaker 1: are wrapped and posted on social media that fuel the violence.
Speaker 1: Is distant people that passed, is distant people? Family members?
Speaker 1: Is disn't people homies? And when that happens, their homies,
Speaker 1: their family members, and the people's is going retaliate and
Speaker 1: it's just a never in this cycle. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: A lot of the lyrics and drill wrap aren't just
Speaker 1: about street life and violence in general. No, their attacks
Speaker 1: on specific people in rival gangs, and especially taunting people
Speaker 1: who were already murdered, which, if you're asking me, is
Speaker 1: way over the line. People like, what are you trying
Speaker 1: to prove at that point? The person is dead? Why
Speaker 1: you gotta make songs dissing a dead person? It's not
Speaker 1: like God's up in heaven like we were gonna let
Speaker 1: you wear, but Little Tree bodied you so hard on
Speaker 1: the track, you gotta go to hell. No busters allowed
Speaker 1: through the pearly gates. Oh they roasted you, kid. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a rapper, you know, until my mixtape blows up.
Speaker 1: But if you ask me, a good distract doesn't need
Speaker 1: to call for someone's murder. It doesn't need that. In fact,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I think the best distracts don't even
Speaker 1: mention the names at all. Yeah, look at Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: All she said was that someone stole her scarf and
Speaker 1: it ruined Jake Jillenhall's life. Yeah, that dude wishes he
Speaker 1: was your shot in the street. But drill rappers getting
Speaker 1: renewed scrutiny right now because two drill rappers were murdered
Speaker 1: in New York just this month. And as you can see,
Speaker 1: the backlash has been widespread, right from Eric Adams to
Speaker 1: the police, to local community leaders on the ground. Even
Speaker 1: some of New York's biggest hip hop DJs, people who
Speaker 1: love drill music, by the way, have said that they're
Speaker 1: going to stop playing explicit distracts because they don't want
Speaker 1: to encourage any more violence. And look, you can totally
Speaker 1: understand where all of these people are coming from. Right,
Speaker 1: they feel like the rap is making the street more dangerous.
Speaker 1: But don't forget. Don't forget. This is an argument that
Speaker 1: we've heard about rap music for decades. Gangster rap has
Speaker 1: become incredibly popular and profitable by selling lyrics about black
Speaker 1: on black violence. Now that some of its stars stand
Speaker 1: accused of doing what they've been rapping about, life seems
Speaker 1: to be imitating art, so to speak, and the critics
Speaker 1: are coming out in fours. So radio stations they refused
Speaker 1: to play the most controversial rap records to make the
Speaker 1: logic King verdict and the civil unrest in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Some police officers across the country now so they're feeling
Speaker 1: threatened by the lyrics of a rap song. Radio stations
Speaker 1: such as k C in Los Angeles and w b
Speaker 1: LS in New York announced they would no longer play
Speaker 1: songs they considered negative. You have the right of free
Speaker 1: speech in this country, but you don't have the right
Speaker 1: to yell fire in a crowded There they're yelling shoot
Speaker 1: in the community that is proud of the guns. They
Speaker 1: don't seem to see any connection between the kind of
Speaker 1: music which they sell for profit, and the kinds of
Speaker 1: problems we have an American society. Rap opponents say they're
Speaker 1: fighting to save a generation. It won't be easy. Last night,
Speaker 1: at the Billboard Music Awards in Hollywood, one of the
Speaker 1: most foul mouth rappers, Dr Dre, was upheld as one
Speaker 1: of the best artists of the year. Oh that foul
Speaker 1: mouth Dr Dre. What a disgrace. I for one will
Speaker 1: never buy mid range headphones from that man. But yeah,
Speaker 1: back in the nine sees, people we're saying all the
Speaker 1: same things about rap music that they're saying now about
Speaker 1: drool rap music. And you find in another thirty years
Speaker 1: they'll be saying the same thing about whatever rap is.
Speaker 1: Then these crypto rappers are out of control. We don't
Speaker 1: feel safe in our own metaverse anymore. And look, please
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, Please don't get me wrong. I
Speaker 1: am not saying the backlash against drool rap is exactly
Speaker 1: the same situation as the nineties. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: In fact, this week, Eric Adams actually sat down with
Speaker 1: a group of drool wrappers to hear this side of
Speaker 1: the story, which is definitely not something that was happening
Speaker 1: a lot back then. You know, like Rudy Giuliani never
Speaker 1: sat down for a meeting with Tupac, and if he did,
Speaker 1: it was only because he was trying to find dirts
Speaker 1: on Hunter Biden. But still, the fact that we've been
Speaker 1: down this road before probably should be a reason to pause,
Speaker 1: just pause before condemning an entire genre, because a lot
Speaker 1: of the people that think drool rap is the cause
Speaker 1: of this violence don't realize that. If you ask people
Speaker 1: in the drool Rap unity, they said, no, it's not
Speaker 1: the cause of the violence. It's actually the other way around.
Speaker 1: How are we taking a genre of music and saying
Speaker 1: this is the problem in the community. How do that's
Speaker 1: the problem? That's yo, that's music. There's a problem that
Speaker 1: already existed before they had this genre music. The music
Speaker 1: is the expression for trauma. They're rapping about their reality,
Speaker 1: and they need to understand that if, for example, they
Speaker 1: was about drill music, its violence going to stop, it's not.
Speaker 1: So we're seeing it as they're using it as a scapegoard.
Speaker 1: The community is like, it's like there's no hope, there's
Speaker 1: no opportunities. No, we're just making music so we can
Speaker 1: get out of these crazies. The lyrics are manifestation of
Speaker 1: what is already happening. Right, They are actually living their reality. Right,
Speaker 1: So if their reality was different, then they would rap
Speaker 1: about different things. Yeah, you see from their perspective, people
Speaker 1: up it about violence and rap music are focusing on
Speaker 1: the symptom instead of the root cause. Because you want
Speaker 1: to ban drool wrap, but you don't want to ban
Speaker 1: income inequality. You want to ban drool rap, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to band mass incarceration. You want to ban
Speaker 1: drool wrap, but you don't want to ban failing schools.
Speaker 1: You want to ban drool rap, but you don't want
Speaker 1: to ban the things that lead to drool wrap. And look,
Speaker 1: this isn't even unique to this issue, right, Like attacking
Speaker 1: the symptom instead of the cause is as American as
Speaker 1: arming teachers. But just cracking down on droo rappers won't
Speaker 1: stop anything. They'll just find another way to express themselves. Right,
Speaker 1: You're gonna end up creating a generation of drool podcasters.
Speaker 1: When I'm putting my enemies to sleep, I always do
Speaker 1: it on a casper mattress. The point is, drool wrappers,
Speaker 1: like any other artist, the artis is going to be
Speaker 1: an expression of what's around them. If you want to
Speaker 1: stop the music, don't emulate the same mistakes America has
Speaker 1: been making for thirty years. Emulate policies from a country
Speaker 1: that isn't produced. Say drill wrap like, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to start a beef, but there's a reason that the
Speaker 1: Scandinavian drool scene ain't shit. And yeah, I'm talking to you, Finland.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna do, give me free healthcare ship And look,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, Don't get me wrong. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's necessarily wrong to stop some of these songs
Speaker 1: from spreading on radio or on social media. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that. All I'm saying is that that can't be
Speaker 1: the only solution. And who knows, who knows. Maybe if
Speaker 1: you actually fix the issues in these communities, then maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe the rap music that comes out of them
Speaker 1: could sound a whole lot difference. You already know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's your boy DJ system to change my neighborhood. Good,
Speaker 1: the road smooth, the system working exactly how it's supposed to.
Speaker 1: I've got no beef, nothing to complained about. Let's go
Speaker 1: starting my job. So I gotta suit close to the cript.
Speaker 1: I should commute funded. Nobody wholes on the roof after
Speaker 1: school program to mented you schools were funded too, so
Speaker 1: date you learning that too? Man? My kids been learning
Speaker 1: piano when flute? My neighborhood good. They need to uproot.
Speaker 1: None of these posts want to shoot their names. Too
Speaker 1: many drop opportunities, dropping their cash on the home. Got
Speaker 1: for your proof for a loan. That's the education, and
Speaker 1: make it for your degree, not Adama dead. Don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about felonies. I'm at home behind the neighborhoods
Speaker 1: Sonday and everything is good. When the police we see
Speaker 1: in me, they'd be filling me over and they'd be
Speaker 1: coming up and need I'm gonna be honest, I really
Speaker 1: have no complaints. It's a wonderful neighborhood. I got a
Speaker 1: great home. I got a guy you could call. We
Speaker 1: could get you a good realtor. All right, when we
Speaker 1: come back, what the hell is going on in Canada? Well,
Speaker 1: we sent Jordan Clapper to find out. You don't want
Speaker 1: to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show. By
Speaker 1: now you've heard about the massive truck driver protests in
Speaker 1: Canada that have shut down major parts of the supply chain.
Speaker 1: But what exactly is it that these protesters want? Well
Speaker 1: to find out, we sent Jordan Clapper up to Canada
Speaker 1: to ask them personally for an international episode of Jordan
Speaker 1: Cleppa Fingers the Pulse. Three weeks ago, north of the border,
Speaker 1: a new kind of protest emerged. The trucker convoy has
Speaker 1: arrived in Ottawa. This city, in the downtown corps remains gridlocked.
Speaker 1: Some residents here say that they really can take no more.
Speaker 1: So I traveled to Ottawa expecting to find some Canada
Speaker 1: nice but their messaging was a bit more coarse. These
Speaker 1: trucks shut down businesses and made roads impassable. Can I go?
Speaker 1: I go around here? How do I? How do I
Speaker 1: get around? But? How long were the protesters planning to
Speaker 1: paralyze Canada's cape best city? David? How long you been here?
Speaker 1: I've been here since day one, holding down the fort
Speaker 1: pretty much. I'm not going anywhere. I'm coming in from
Speaker 1: New York. I go by Brooklyn's kindness on the same, Baby,
Speaker 1: you're able to stay yere up to two years. You're
Speaker 1: you're committed to be being here for two years? Because
Speaker 1: two years is nothing? Are you gonna keep up the
Speaker 1: energy to be here for two years. Are probably people
Speaker 1: bring stimulants. The people bring it. I smoke a lot
Speaker 1: of weed. Yeah, okay, right, yeah, but that's just to
Speaker 1: calm me down, to keep me, keep me centered. Are
Speaker 1: you ordering it all with weed? Paranoia that might creep in? No? No,
Speaker 1: do you think the government is coming for you? Oh? Yeah? Constantly?
Speaker 1: There there are do like night a little tactics. They
Speaker 1: try to they move around, they move in, they add more.
Speaker 1: No lot kind of stuff to do you haul? I
Speaker 1: haul everything in two thousand twenty e haled from food
Speaker 1: to building supplies to medical supply. You have my end
Speaker 1: table that I ordered from Wayfair like three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Is it probably a city either in Montreal or Toronto
Speaker 1: orders it would really like grant in my apartment. So
Speaker 1: what exactly was the point of interrupting the supply chain?
Speaker 1: So what is this all about? You know what? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: What is this all a moot? This is about our freedoms?
Speaker 1: Could you be any more generic? You know, if you
Speaker 1: are vaccinated, you get to do certain things. If you're
Speaker 1: not vaccinated, you don't. I don't think people should be divided.
Speaker 1: We should all be together united because we're setting up
Speaker 1: essentially a truck barrier to keep everybody together so they
Speaker 1: can be united. Yes, God, yeah, we might as well
Speaker 1: lock them in. It's sort of like a parent who
Speaker 1: locks the door and says, you guys are in here
Speaker 1: until the water runs out. You become friends or democracy
Speaker 1: crumpis yes. And if you're not vaccinated, you're literally a
Speaker 1: second class citizen in this country. I can't go to
Speaker 1: the restaurant, I can't go play hockey, I can't go
Speaker 1: watch the Ottawa Senators. We don't live in Germany. We
Speaker 1: don't live a Nazi Germany. Those days are over. To
Speaker 1: show me your papers don't happen anymore. That's a freedom
Speaker 1: that every should have. Is the Germany comparison a stretch
Speaker 1: here in Canada? Are you afraid of cultural appropriation? Probably
Speaker 1: American cultural appropriation because we use the German excuse all
Speaker 1: the time. Oddly enough, that wasn't the only thing Canadians
Speaker 1: were appropriating. Yeah, I hate to use the slogan, but
Speaker 1: I don't make North America great again. To meet North
Speaker 1: America great again. And I don't mean to use that
Speaker 1: guy's word, but it's true. To be honest, it wasn't
Speaker 1: even his. He's told from another guy before heaven. I
Speaker 1: see the Q army on your head? Is it que
Speaker 1: the American thing trying to find JFK Jr? Yes? What
Speaker 1: qu ship is going down here? Us? No Q is
Speaker 1: amar us. Oh so this isn't like a Yankees had exactly? Okay,
Speaker 1: the cute thing might just be a fashion choice, but
Speaker 1: they're definitely reading the same Internet as many Americans and
Speaker 1: it's more than just a keen past part. What else?
Speaker 1: The attend to joining thirty is a good steridy? What's
Speaker 1: agendas in the world's tend towards Joe? Government? You want
Speaker 1: to sterilize? I said, only certain people cann kate drilling.
Speaker 1: You're afraid the government will sterilize you? Probably not me,
Speaker 1: but now I'm the nine yea. But in two weeks
Speaker 1: of the Cat of the truck fasting in a mountain,
Speaker 1: Deuke can can't be too good for the spur production.
Speaker 1: Probably strettty, So what differ? So Margaret Atwood, audio books
Speaker 1: are apparently a thing with Canadian truckers, and while shutting
Speaker 1: down a city seems to have many obvious downsides. Hey okay, great, Hey, Hi, yeah,
Speaker 1: have you seen a prius around here? Sub see an
Speaker 1: opportunity coming from liberal gridlock. The truckers are bringing in customers,
Speaker 1: are bringing in tourists from Montreal, from all across Canada.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to check this out. It's essentially a tourist
Speaker 1: right now. You can feel the tourism in the air,
Speaker 1: right You can smell and it smells like amphetamines and
Speaker 1: uh drift or blood. The flood of eighteen wheeler driving
Speaker 1: tourists and their Canadian a f outfits created legitimate tension
Speaker 1: with residents of the city going what you here? The
Speaker 1: downtown was shut and there was palpable inger directed at
Speaker 1: local media. There's still guys, and even at the Daily
Speaker 1: showy getting food over here. We've been walking around here. Uh,
Speaker 1: there seems to be a real distrust of media here. Well,
Speaker 1: for sure, it's a lot of cameras up in your face,
Speaker 1: cameras on cameras. And while Canadian authorities have finally enacted
Speaker 1: emergency measures to try to clear the convoy, so far
Speaker 1: the trucks are still there, and a well funded, never
Speaker 1: ending street party infused with misinformation and nationalism feels remarkably
Speaker 1: possible in our own land of the Free. Where does
Speaker 1: this move went and go? From here. I believe it's
Speaker 1: going to be worldwide. It's gonna come to America. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: Think this is inspiring the dick heads of America. Pardon me,
Speaker 1: this is inspiring the dick heads of America. It's inspiring
Speaker 1: of America to join together a stand for freedom. Okay,
Speaker 1: if they do come to America, then maybe I'll finally
Speaker 1: get my eat head table. Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1: Jordan's all right. When we come back, I'll be talking
Speaker 1: to filmmaker Janick Sobravo about turning a tweet thread into
Speaker 1: a movie. So don't go away. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. My guest tonight is writer and director Jannick Sabravo.
Speaker 1: She's he to talk about how she transformed a viral
Speaker 1: Twitter thread about a crazy road trip to Florida into
Speaker 1: one of the movies that everyone has wanted to watch.
Speaker 1: Worst road Trip, Emma. It's not a good one, Yes,
Speaker 1: it really isn't, but it makes for a fantastic story.
Speaker 1: Janisa Bravo, Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. Um. You have done something that nobody has
Speaker 1: done before. You turned a viral Twitter thread into a movie.
Speaker 1: And not just like a movie. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a full on Hollywood movie nominated for multiple awards. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: you know, just it's like fresh on rotten. Tomortowes every
Speaker 1: what he loves the story. We read Twitter threads all
Speaker 1: the time, right, we see tweets that go viral, we
Speaker 1: see moments, but it's very seldom that you think yourself,
Speaker 1: this could be turned into a movie and turned into
Speaker 1: a movie. Well, what made you think that you could
Speaker 1: turn a story of a strip meeting up with a
Speaker 1: friend of hers as a strip of going down to
Speaker 1: Florida and turning into one of the craziest nights and
Speaker 1: weeks of their lives. How did you think yourself, No,
Speaker 1: I can turn this into a movie. Did you read
Speaker 1: the original thread? Yeah? I did. It's incredible. I mean
Speaker 1: it's so electric, so radical, super stressful, very funny. So
Speaker 1: it was written by Asia King and I read it
Speaker 1: the day it came out. I'm not on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: wasn't then, I'm not now lucky me, I know, I
Speaker 1: know it's great. It's a good way to do it.
Speaker 1: If you want to hate yourself, you should join. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually don't need Twitter to do that. I want
Speaker 1: my own brain. But so I read it the day
Speaker 1: it came out, and it was just unlike anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: every line, if it isn't, if there isn't a incredible
Speaker 1: joke embedded inside of it. There is also just the
Speaker 1: way she strung texts and words together. It was visual
Speaker 1: and and I already said it was stressful and that's
Speaker 1: kind of my area. I'm I would say my umbrella
Speaker 1: is stressful comedy. I mean, if you said to anybody, hey,
Speaker 1: would you like to watch this movie that's like about
Speaker 1: sex trafficking and you know, women being exploited, and but
Speaker 1: it's going to be a comedy, people who like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: do you understand what comedy means? And yet it feels
Speaker 1: like comedy is the only way that you could have
Speaker 1: processed the story, not just you as the director, but
Speaker 1: Asia herself writing the story of what happened to her.
Speaker 1: Because when we were reading the tweets, I remember laughing
Speaker 1: but going this is this is ridiculous? No, it's incredibly bleak.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just hats off to her for using
Speaker 1: Twitter as a platform to ex soorce size. What was
Speaker 1: you started by saying this didn't seem like a great
Speaker 1: road trip? I called her today and checked in and said,
Speaker 1: what do you feel hasn't been said about the film
Speaker 1: after having spent the last five years talking about it
Speaker 1: and also for her living with it. And she said
Speaker 1: that what she hadn't all the way kind of maybe
Speaker 1: process is that the film allowed her to close that chapter.
Speaker 1: It's like sort of nightmare in which her agency was
Speaker 1: being robbed of her. And I loved being on the
Speaker 1: receiving end of that because that's all I wanted. I
Speaker 1: wanted to protect her, but I also wanted to be
Speaker 1: able to potentially offer some kind of solace for some
Speaker 1: other women out there that might find themselves in this situation.
Speaker 1: You know, the opportunity to feel less alone, to feel her,
Speaker 1: to feel considered, to feel that there is value in
Speaker 1: their life and that you know they're worth it. And
Speaker 1: I think we got to do that. I think you
Speaker 1: did that end more. When you when you're directing a
Speaker 1: film that is based on a true story, you know
Speaker 1: something that is wild is is because when you watch this,
Speaker 1: this is like like real life of what The Hangover
Speaker 1: was sort of trying to do. If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: You don't, Oh, I like that think about The hang
Speaker 1: was like what's the craziest thing that could happen on
Speaker 1: a trip and no, and this was real life. This
Speaker 1: is happening. Guns are being pulled on people. Here. You
Speaker 1: have two strippers, one who's like, wait, I didn't sign
Speaker 1: up for this. Wait, what's happening now? Now there's sex,
Speaker 1: Now there's drugs. No the wait, what is going on here?
Speaker 1: Do you know there are no drugs? There are no drugs.
Speaker 1: The world is drug free. I didn't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that it feels like they're drugs because the
Speaker 1: experience of those people are the world is sober. It's
Speaker 1: not to say that the real story was sober, but Okay.
Speaker 1: In the threat, she never mentions drugs. So the characters
Speaker 1: are eating candy primarily, and if they're drinking, they're either
Speaker 1: drinking Cranberry juice or red Bull, so they're dehydrated and
Speaker 1: they're having like these sort of candy rushes and headings.
Speaker 1: There was just like drugs everywhere. But I think we
Speaker 1: bring that to the table. I think we're bringing we're
Speaker 1: bringing drugs, and though in the film itself they don't
Speaker 1: go all the way to sort of like the empty read,
Speaker 1: but it's just enough information so that we as watchers.
Speaker 1: We start to fill in those blanks and we make
Speaker 1: it worse, right, we do, we do make it worse. Um,
Speaker 1: before I let you go, I'd love to know what
Speaker 1: you're looking forward to doing. You know, you you've lived
Speaker 1: such an interesting life in terms of your journey, you know,
Speaker 1: starting off in costuming and and and styling, and then
Speaker 1: moving up into the ranks of being a really respected
Speaker 1: director with its directing shows like Atlanta for instance, and
Speaker 1: the movie that's being nominated for all of these awards.
Speaker 1: Where do you see yourself? Where do you want to go? What?
Speaker 1: What stories do you want to try and tell now
Speaker 1: that you're in the space of being a director. Very
Speaker 1: good question. So the next thing that I'm working on
Speaker 1: right in this moment. The other reason I'm in New
Speaker 1: York is I am working with the Constitute, the Customer Institute.
Speaker 1: I'm working with the MET for this year's gala, which
Speaker 1: is a bit of you know, I used to be
Speaker 1: a custom designer. Like you said, I used to also
Speaker 1: be a production designer. So it's pulling from that part
Speaker 1: of my life and being able to tell a story
Speaker 1: through clothing, through inanimate objects. There's sort of these life
Speaker 1: sized dioramas. I would say sort of long term the arc.
Speaker 1: I just hope to keep getting to do this, and
Speaker 1: any opportunity or any chance to kind of put myself
Speaker 1: out there makes me feel like I the thing I
Speaker 1: believed about myself is true. Right I do. I do
Speaker 1: have value. I am worthwhile. And then I hope for
Speaker 1: you know, the directors who come behind me or come
Speaker 1: after me, I hope that it allows them this, that
Speaker 1: it either makes the road a little bit easier for
Speaker 1: them or it tells them that there's some possibility or
Speaker 1: some chance. I think you're going to do that and
Speaker 1: a whole lot more. Thank you so much for congratulations
Speaker 1: on a grateful thank you. Thank you. All Right, everybody,
Speaker 1: don't forget. Zola is currently streaming on Showtime and it
Speaker 1: is available to rent or by wherever you get your movies.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take a quick break, but we'll
Speaker 1: be right back after this. I still can't believe there
Speaker 1: were no drugs. Well, that's our show for tonight, but
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