Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Every year since Time magazine
Speaker 1: has awarded Person of the Year to the world's most
Speaker 1: influential newsmaker. It is my far the most incredible honor
Speaker 1: that most people find out about in a dentist's office.
Speaker 1: And this year, the lucky winner is a guy who
Speaker 1: already pretty much one life. We are breaking news tessela
Speaker 1: and CEO Elon Musk, is now Time Magazines Person of
Speaker 1: the Year. Time magazine said he is different from any
Speaker 1: other CEO. Constantly interacting with Twitter users while running one
Speaker 1: of the most valuable companies in the world, Elon Musk
Speaker 1: can also influence the markets with just one tweet. Time
Speaker 1: magazine also recognized must other ventures like SpaceX. Musk is
Speaker 1: the richest man in the world thanks to Tesla, which
Speaker 1: is increased in value eightfold since the beginning of the pandemic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: congratulations Elon Musk. Oh Man, I'm so happy for him. Like,
Speaker 1: the guy could really use an ego boost, you know,
Speaker 1: And honestly, you can't argue with this. I mean, richest
Speaker 1: man in the world who also controls space, Crypto and
Speaker 1: electric cars. I mean, who would even be second place,
Speaker 1: Like maybe Pete Davidson. Maybe moty question is this, though,
Speaker 1: Why isn't that Person of the Year always goes to
Speaker 1: the weirdest persons? Like have you noticed that? Like I
Speaker 1: sometimes wanted if aliens came down, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want these guys representing our race, you know, the
Speaker 1: aliens would be like your space SAEs nature to be exterminated.
Speaker 1: Except for that guy, Hey shames normal, totally normal. I
Speaker 1: think it's just because his name is Ellen that we
Speaker 1: think he's all futuristic. You know a lot of futuristic
Speaker 1: things Ellen, I pad, xbox, E, cigarette, a rod. You know,
Speaker 1: if his name was Leon, would you buy a car
Speaker 1: from Leon? Trevor, It wouldn't be the same Leon. Musk
Speaker 1: does not carry the same word. Stop talking about the
Speaker 1: blockchain Leon, you know what I mean? So I Leon
Speaker 1: feels like a kind of a deadbeat name, whereas Elon's
Speaker 1: a disruptor. So I'm not on board. So you don't
Speaker 1: think he deserves it at all. I think we're all
Speaker 1: being duped by some good naming. I feel you there.
Speaker 1: You know, Tesla, that's a good name as well if
Speaker 1: it was called Elsa. You see, we just let it go.
Speaker 1: We let it go I'll be here weak folks. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to our next story, which is from California,
Speaker 1: America's side boob. California is one of the most anti
Speaker 1: gun states in the country, which is a frustrating position
Speaker 1: to be in these days, especially when conservative courts are
Speaker 1: striking down any effort at gun control. But now the
Speaker 1: governor of California has come up with a new plan
Speaker 1: to limit guns, and where he got the idea from
Speaker 1: is pretty hilarious. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he wants
Speaker 1: to use the new restrictive abortion law in Texas as
Speaker 1: a model to ban assault weapons use them, tweeted. He
Speaker 1: wants legislation that allows Californians to sue anyone who makes, distributes,
Speaker 1: or sells the guns, as well as ghost gun kits.
Speaker 1: The governor site Supreme Court rulings that have allowed the
Speaker 1: Texas law to remain in effect while the High Court
Speaker 1: reviews it. That's right, Gavin Newsom now wants to pull
Speaker 1: a Texas except he's going to do it on assault
Speaker 1: weapons and ghost guns. But if you ask me, is
Speaker 1: a pretty risky move. I mean, you're gonna want those
Speaker 1: ghost guns and a giant marsh meadow man shows up.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what a ghost gun is. I
Speaker 1: think it is costa I read. But yeah, the idea
Speaker 1: is that because the Supreme Court is allowing this forbanning abortion,
Speaker 1: they're going to have to allow it forbanning guns too.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Here's the thing. The problem with
Speaker 1: this idea is that the Supreme Court can make up
Speaker 1: whatever rules they like, Like, if they want to strike
Speaker 1: down these gun laws, they'll find a way. You know,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is like that annoying kid that your
Speaker 1: mom made you have playdates with tag I got you not.
Speaker 1: I have a vest that makes me invisible. Man, I
Speaker 1: wish the courts allowed your mom to have an abortion.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you what, guys, America has gotten
Speaker 1: so divided right now that at this point I think
Speaker 1: maybe maybe some states should just like succeed and and
Speaker 1: try and do their own thing, like you know, have
Speaker 1: they tried that before? Supposed the worst that could happen?
Speaker 1: You know, Trevor Um, I usually try to have something
Speaker 1: funny to say, but the story is about guns, abortion
Speaker 1: and obscure Supreme Court ruling. So you're on your own
Speaker 1: for this one. Wow. I was hoping that I was
Speaker 1: going to turn it to you and you were gonna like,
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, and then you just left me.
Speaker 1: If anything, I wish the State of New York allowed
Speaker 1: me the right to sue you for putting me on
Speaker 1: the spot to come up with something funny for that story.
Speaker 1: But we're not there yet. Well, I mean, it's your job.
Speaker 1: Like you, before we started this, you said you've got
Speaker 1: my back, and now you're saying, I'm saying, that's a
Speaker 1: tough story, you know. But but yeah, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what we do here. We deal with tough stories. Well,
Speaker 1: you do it better than me, which is why I'm
Speaker 1: sitting this one out. But at this point it seems
Speaker 1: like I'm all in because I'm still talking somehow. One
Speaker 1: of the guys who have the most information about Trump's
Speaker 1: attempts to overthrow the election is his former chief of staff,
Speaker 1: Marck Meadows, but as of a few weeks ago, he
Speaker 1: suddenly stopped talking. Lawmakers investigating the January six attack on
Speaker 1: the Capitol have run out of patients with Mark Meadows.
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows made the decision to cooperate, and then he
Speaker 1: made the decision to uncooperate and as a result, we're
Speaker 1: going to have to hold him in criminal contempt. The
Speaker 1: committee says they've got questions about documents Meadows has handed over,
Speaker 1: which shed light on what the Trump white House knew
Speaker 1: about the insurrection before it began. The committee is also
Speaker 1: interested in the week leading up to the insurrection and
Speaker 1: meadows involvement in efforts to undermine the election outcome. When
Speaker 1: presented with the idea of certain states sending alternate slates
Speaker 1: of electors to Congress, Meadows responded, I love it. Mmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: Get you a man who loves you the way Mark
Speaker 1: Meadows loves overthrowing democracy? See that, I love it. I
Speaker 1: love it. I mean to be fair though I love it.
Speaker 1: There's also what you send when you want the other
Speaker 1: person to think you actually read through all their texts
Speaker 1: when you didn't. So maybe it was like that with
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows. I don't know. The fact is, though it
Speaker 1: looks like Mark Meadows was very involved in Trump's plan
Speaker 1: to overturn the election. He pushed the Justice Department to
Speaker 1: investigate made up voter fraud, he tried to block states
Speaker 1: from certifying their electors, and he even made Trump licked
Speaker 1: the Oval Office desk to claim dibbs. And it definitely
Speaker 1: doesn't look good that he stopped cooperating with the investigation.
Speaker 1: I mean, I do get it, though, you know, he
Speaker 1: he can't be disloyal to Trump because in Trump World,
Speaker 1: loyalty is everything. You take care of Trump, and Trump
Speaker 1: takes care of you. Unless you're John Bolton or Jeff
Speaker 1: Sessions or Rudy Giuliani or Millennia Michael Cohon or anybody
Speaker 1: else He's ever known, it's called loyalty. But before he
Speaker 1: stopped co operating, Meadows did hand over a lot of
Speaker 1: documents to the committee and one thing they discovered were
Speaker 1: a bunch of frantic text messages that he got during
Speaker 1: the Capital riots, and some of them some of them
Speaker 1: came from Donald Trump's closest advisers. Thoughts Entertainers frantically texted
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows as the Capital riot was happening and urged
Speaker 1: him to get then President Trump to stop it. In
Speaker 1: one text exchange, Hannity urged Meadows to tell Mr Trump
Speaker 1: to quote make a statement and ask people to leave
Speaker 1: the capital. Brian Kilneed saying please get him Trump on TV,
Speaker 1: destroying everything you have accomplished. Laura Ingram, writing, Mark, the
Speaker 1: president needs to tell the people in the Capitol to
Speaker 1: go home. This is hurting all of us. He is
Speaker 1: destroying his legacy. Oh man, this is so amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you realize Fox News has spent the whole year
Speaker 1: acting like January six was nothing, just nothing. It's just
Speaker 1: a few you know, patriots, just having their voices here.
Speaker 1: But it turns out that in private, they were freaking
Speaker 1: out about it, freaking out. It's like finding out the
Speaker 1: flight attendant who's been telling you that it's just a
Speaker 1: little turbulence is actually going back into the cockpit, like,
Speaker 1: doesn't anybody know how to fly this thing? We're all
Speaker 1: gonna die. On your left, you can see the Rocky mountains,
Speaker 1: really beautiful. Pre stay in your seat, folks. And I
Speaker 1: love that they were so concerned that this could ruin
Speaker 1: Trump's legacy. If he gets somebody killed today, no one
Speaker 1: will remember that time he told everyone to drink bleach.
Speaker 1: It's crazy that CNN fired Chris Cuomo because he was
Speaker 1: caught giving secret advice to a politician his brother. But
Speaker 1: now it turns out that basically everyone at Fox News
Speaker 1: was giving secret advice to President Trump and these people.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess that's what makes it okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like one person at your network has no integrity, that's
Speaker 1: a problem. If nobody has integrity, that's a company policy.
Speaker 1: Fox News, we all Ireland. But the best part of
Speaker 1: this text dump is that it wasn't just Fox hosts
Speaker 1: who were freaking out about Trump's response to the riot. No,
Speaker 1: there were also texts from President Trump's oldest son and
Speaker 1: men who never has to worry about chin cancer, Don Jr.
Speaker 1: As the violence continued, one of the president's sons texted
Speaker 1: Mr Meadows, quote, He's got to condemn this ship asap.
Speaker 1: The Capitol Police tweet is not enough, Donald Trump Junior texted.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior texted again and again, urging action by
Speaker 1: the president. Quote, we need an Oval office address. He
Speaker 1: has to lead now. It has gone too far and
Speaker 1: gotten out of hand. Yeah. It appears that Don Junior
Speaker 1: himself thought the insurrection had gone too far and had
Speaker 1: gotten out of hand, which suggests that he was okay
Speaker 1: with an insurrection that was a little more in control. WHOA,
Speaker 1: what's with all this violence? I kind of thought we
Speaker 1: could overthrow the government in like a cool fun way,
Speaker 1: like Oceans eleven, like we sneak in and still Democracy
Speaker 1: before anyone noticed, and we're all wearing cool suits, and
Speaker 1: George Clooney is like, you guys are cool, and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, you're cool, George Clooney, something like that. Now,
Speaker 1: clearly Don Junior's texts didn't work, which honestly, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of glad about, because the only thing worse than an
Speaker 1: insurrection would have been having to thank Don Junior for
Speaker 1: stopping an insurrection, Thank you for save being Democracy, Don Jr.
Speaker 1: But still seeing Don Junior desperately trying to get a
Speaker 1: message to his own father, I mean that tells you
Speaker 1: a lot about their relationship, right, And those those aren't
Speaker 1: even the only texts that he sent Mark Meadows that day.
Speaker 1: In fact, a source has provided The Daily Show with
Speaker 1: additional texts, and I'm going to read them to you
Speaker 1: right now. Later that day, Don Jr. Texted Mark Meadows again, quote,
Speaker 1: hey man, just wanted to see if you pass those
Speaker 1: messages to my dad yet, And then quote, actually it
Speaker 1: might be easier if you gave me my dad's numbers
Speaker 1: so I can text him directly, question Mark. Some time passed,
Speaker 1: and then another text let me know about my dad's number,
Speaker 1: but no rush, I know ship is cray law. And
Speaker 1: finally that night quote, come on, man, at least give
Speaker 1: me his email, and then three prayer hands emojis. There
Speaker 1: was no response. Today, Dr Fauci announced that three doses
Speaker 1: of the current vaccines of a good enough protection against
Speaker 1: omicron that as of now, we don't need any new
Speaker 1: omicron specific vaccines, and that, my friends, is great news.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like finding out that your old charger
Speaker 1: works at your new phone. And this is actually good
Speaker 1: news for anti VAX's because that means like your old
Speaker 1: spiracy theories will look for omcron too. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: have to think of new conspiracy theories because that ship
Speaker 1: is hard. Like this, This new O Macron vaccine is
Speaker 1: gonna make your blood gay. Oh man, this is hard.
Speaker 1: But just because the current vaccine seem effective doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that omcron isn't turning into a big problem. You see,
Speaker 1: the CDC says that it could soon lead to a
Speaker 1: major COVID wave in America, and it looks like when
Speaker 1: it comes to America's sports leagues, that wave is already here.
Speaker 1: Professional sports are being hit hard by a surgeon COVID cases,
Speaker 1: A league's source tells CNN the twenty eight NFL players
Speaker 1: tested positive yesterday. That's in addition to thirty seven players
Speaker 1: testing positive on Monday. The two day total more than
Speaker 1: doubles the number of cases in previous two weeks. The
Speaker 1: NHL postponing is ninth game this season because of multiple
Speaker 1: players testing positive and in the NBA, plethora of players
Speaker 1: will mistime result of being placed in the league's health
Speaker 1: and safety protocols. Thirty one players are on the list,
Speaker 1: according to CBS Sports, including buckstar Jana sis It's coupo
Speaker 1: the reigning finals m v P. He'll be out for
Speaker 1: tonight's game against the Pacers in Brooklyn. The Nets they
Speaker 1: were nearly forced to cancel their matchup with the Raptors
Speaker 1: seven players in the NBA's health and safety protocols, including
Speaker 1: superstar James Harden. They had the league minimum eight players
Speaker 1: available for this game. Almost nobody on the Brooklyn bench
Speaker 1: tonight at Barkley Center. Look at that. Oh no, not
Speaker 1: this ship again, Not this ship again. You remember what
Speaker 1: happened last time, Right, one week we were all like, huh, well,
Speaker 1: some NBA players getting COVID, And the next week we're
Speaker 1: all at home showering without Amazon packages. I mean, so
Speaker 1: many players in the NBA are getting COVID right now
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to change the logo. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's so many players who have COVID that I actually
Speaker 1: feel bad for the players who don't have it, because,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one hell of a way to find
Speaker 1: out that everyone on the team was hanging out without you.
Speaker 1: The one thing I don't think they should be doing
Speaker 1: is canceling games. Yeah, I said it because everyone hates it,
Speaker 1: and I get that the teams barely have any players left,
Speaker 1: but like, just make them play anyway. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I would watch the hell
Speaker 1: out of a basketball game that was one on five.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine watching a football team with a quarterback
Speaker 1: has no one to protect him? What the Giants already do? That? Wow,
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem safe. In fact, this might end up
Speaker 1: being great for the fans because you know how, deep
Speaker 1: down inside, when you're at a game, you always hope,
Speaker 1: you always hope secretly that the coach is gonna look
Speaker 1: up into the stands and be like, hey, we need
Speaker 1: you to help us win this game. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the real reason people wear jerseys. You know you've got
Speaker 1: to be prepared. Well, now everyone is so short on players,
Speaker 1: that might actually happen, although knowing how quickly Oh Macron spreads,
Speaker 1: it'll probably be like, hey, you come help us win.
Speaker 1: Just get a quick COVID test that he can come in. What. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's also good a Macron. Look at you, loser, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you suck. You got O Macron and you don't play basketball.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm not looking forward to, though,
Speaker 1: is hearing what the old timers have to say about
Speaker 1: this at the Bober shop, because you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: go in man NBA players these days of suft Patrick
Speaker 1: Ewing would never let O Macron spike proteins penetrating. He
Speaker 1: has sent it a membrane. She but let's move on
Speaker 1: from Corona to something else that goes off to your
Speaker 1: body without permission. Andrew Cuomo, back when he was governor,
Speaker 1: Cuomo took a break from getting people in nursing homes
Speaker 1: killed to write a book about how brilliantly he was
Speaker 1: handling the pandemic. And that book made him very, very rich,
Speaker 1: at least until now. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Speaker 1: is facing new troubles. This morning, the state Ethics panel
Speaker 1: ruled that Cuomo must now repay five point one million
Speaker 1: dollars that he earned from a book that he wrote
Speaker 1: during the COVID nineteen pandemic. That book was a memoir
Speaker 1: on the handling of the pandemic. The panel determined Cuomo
Speaker 1: used state resources and government staffords to help prepare that book,
Speaker 1: even though his lawyer previously said otherwise. The five million
Speaker 1: dollar bill must be repaid by nex month. But some
Speaker 1: of those funds have already been donated to charity and
Speaker 1: also added in a trust for his daughters. Oh. I mean,
Speaker 1: if the money is in a trust fund for your
Speaker 1: adult daughters, just keep that. But the money to charity,
Speaker 1: he's going to have to give that back. Actually feel
Speaker 1: bad for the charities though, I mean, losing that money
Speaker 1: right before Christmas. I'm sorry Orphans no presence this year
Speaker 1: because Governor Cuomo used the office printer. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: But yes, Cuomo may have to give back all five
Speaker 1: million dollars of his book money, which is fine by me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand why politicians are writing books
Speaker 1: while they're in office in the first place. He's just
Speaker 1: kind of flaunting. How you got distracted with the side gig. Honestly,
Speaker 1: between being governor and writing this book, it's a wonder
Speaker 1: that he found time to sexually harass anyone at all.
Speaker 1: You know. The bigger issue here for me actually, when
Speaker 1: I think about it, it's like the money shouldn't go
Speaker 1: back to the government just because he used government resources. No,
Speaker 1: the money should go back because he wasn't doing the thing.
Speaker 1: If you write a book about a thing that you
Speaker 1: weren't doing, then you shouldn't get the money for the
Speaker 1: book because it wasn't real. If we found out that
Speaker 1: the person who wrote the Kamma Sutra was a virgin,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yo, yo, money back, all the money back.
Speaker 1: You were just no wonder. You know, no legs goes
Speaker 1: like that. Just made this ship up, just making it
Speaker 1: you just like you put your legs and then the
Speaker 1: other legs. I had a heardier because of your ship. Man. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's move on. For the last few months, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about how millions of people around the country have
Speaker 1: been quitting their dead end jobs to pursue their true passions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might find this hard to believe, but most people's
Speaker 1: dream job is not being berated by a customer at Applebee's.
Speaker 1: So people acquitting to write that screenplay or start that
Speaker 1: small business, or whatever their dream is. And one enterprising
Speaker 1: young woman is making headlines for selling something that everyone
Speaker 1: else get us away for free. Reality star Stephanie motto
Speaker 1: of Fiance has gone viral and a TikTok where she
Speaker 1: claims to have earned over nine dollars selling her farts
Speaker 1: in a jar for each Hey, guys, today I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be showing you a day in the life of a
Speaker 1: girl who sells her farts in a jar. So I
Speaker 1: like to get things a roll in with some beans,
Speaker 1: a protein muffin. Sometimes even a yogurt less sugar is better,
Speaker 1: some hard boiled eggs. While I wait for those parts
Speaker 1: to develop, I like to read. I'm very smart. Love
Speaker 1: to read. And then after I'm ready to go, I
Speaker 1: go ahead, and you know, do my word, do my job.
Speaker 1: I don't need to show you that, guys, but I
Speaker 1: like to add a little flower petals. I feel like
Speaker 1: they attach the scent and make it last longer. And
Speaker 1: when I'm finally finished with my jar, I like to
Speaker 1: leave a personalized note. Mm hmm. The smell of success.
Speaker 1: America truly is the greatest country in the world. And
Speaker 1: props to this woman. Props to her from making that money.
Speaker 1: And look, no, this isn't the common capture taking as
Speaker 1: you we were hoping for. But I guess if everyone
Speaker 1: did it, we could solve climate change. Yeah, why didn't
Speaker 1: you think of this, Greta? Now, look, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people will see this story and wonder who
Speaker 1: the hell is blowing hundreds of dollars on a fought,
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's no dumber than n f T s.
Speaker 1: People are dropping millions of dollars on things that don't
Speaker 1: even exist. At least with a FOT jar, you get
Speaker 1: to keep the jar, So I'm not gonna judge anybody
Speaker 1: for buying one of these jars. You are into what
Speaker 1: you're into. What I will say I am confused about
Speaker 1: is what you actually do with the FOT jar once
Speaker 1: you have it, Like, do you open the jar right
Speaker 1: away and just get one hits? Or do you keep
Speaker 1: it in its packaging forever like a collectible? Oh? Do
Speaker 1: you keep it for a few years and then open
Speaker 1: it on a special occasion just like, Hey, honey, great news,
Speaker 1: I finally got that promotion. How about we celebrate with
Speaker 1: a jar of Chateau dapou. The army cron wave that
Speaker 1: we've been waiting for has now hit the US for real.
Speaker 1: Hospitals are starting to fill up again. Big companies that
Speaker 1: were planning to bring workers back to the office in
Speaker 1: January have postponed until May, and concerts and shows are
Speaker 1: shutting down. A lot of people are saying that it
Speaker 1: feels like March all over again. But people, please have
Speaker 1: some optimism. Things are much better now than they were
Speaker 1: back then. For one, we have vaccines too, we have treatments,
Speaker 1: and three, no one thinks zoom happy hours are a
Speaker 1: good idea. We've done a lot. But while we are
Speaker 1: being reminded about just how serious this pandemic is, there
Speaker 1: are still some people who are taking it just a
Speaker 1: little more likely. A Cape Coral man was spotted on
Speaker 1: a United Airlines flight masking up, but not with one
Speaker 1: of these. He actually was wearing underwear on his face.
Speaker 1: This is Adam Jenny wearing his statement Pete bright Red song,
Speaker 1: I think the best way to illustrate absurdity is with absurdity.
Speaker 1: Jenny says he's worn underwear as a mask since the
Speaker 1: beginning of the pandemic. I am banned from flying United
Speaker 1: so so much for the customers. Always right, Jenny is
Speaker 1: comparing himself to civil rights icons. Everything else that has
Speaker 1: sparked changed in this country has started from everyday people.
Speaker 1: Rosa Parks was nobody famous. She changed the course of history.
Speaker 1: Rosa Pox, my man, don't be so modest. You more
Speaker 1: than Rosa Pox. If anything, You're the Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: of white dudes comparing themselves to black heroes for no reason. Ship,
Speaker 1: you know, for real, Sometimes I think conservatives are right.
Speaker 1: America shouldn't be teaching the history of racism in schools
Speaker 1: because then at least white people wouldn't know who to
Speaker 1: compare themselves too when they get kicked off of airplanes
Speaker 1: for doing dumb ships. I'm exactly the same as huh.
Speaker 1: I can't think of anybody, you know. Uh, Like, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just a dumbass wearing panties on my face. I
Speaker 1: didn't reevaluate my behavior. And by the way, and we
Speaker 1: all agree, there's no way this dude just started sniffing
Speaker 1: thongs during the pandemic. I bet you he's been going
Speaker 1: around for years like well, it looks like I got
Speaker 1: kicked out of the dorm because once again, the rose
Speaker 1: are parts of my sister's friends underwear drawer. Yeah, someone's
Speaker 1: got to do it. But as long as we're talking
Speaker 1: about civil rights, let's move on to a story about
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Day. Some people are saying America needs
Speaker 1: to stop celebrating MLK Day next year, but the people
Speaker 1: suggesting it might not be who you think. Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King the Third is asking people not to celebrate his
Speaker 1: father's legacy on MLK Day coming up next month. If
Speaker 1: Congress has not passed new national voting rights protection. They're
Speaker 1: calling on President Joe Biden and lawmakers to pass two
Speaker 1: voting rights bills that have installed in Congress. One is
Speaker 1: aimed at fighting voter suppression and it's restoring the nine
Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act. The other focused on reforms making it
Speaker 1: easier to register to vote who this is core, But
Speaker 1: I get why the King family has to resort to this.
Speaker 1: I mean, with Republicans blocking the new laws and Joe
Speaker 1: Manchin and Kirsten Cinema refusing to end the filibuster so
Speaker 1: that Democrats can post it themselves, someone has to think
Speaker 1: outside of the box and holding a holiday as a
Speaker 1: hostage is a great leverage. I mean, it's a brilliant
Speaker 1: idea because I don't care how racist you are, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to give up a day off of work. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you ask me, they shouldn't just threaten to take
Speaker 1: m l K Day. No, you know what they should do.
Speaker 1: They should threaten to turn MLK Day into a second
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. That's a real threat, and nobody wants to
Speaker 1: put their relationship in that much trouble. You forgot Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: There's another one. Still. This is a risky strategy because
Speaker 1: you realize Republicans have a way of twisting everything related
Speaker 1: to m l K. Yeah, tomorrow, Rondo Sanctists could come
Speaker 1: out and be like, the King family is right. We've
Speaker 1: got to defend Dr King's dream. That's right. From now on,
Speaker 1: all Black people in Florida can vote exclusively in their dreams.
Speaker 1: So no need to show up any morning election day.
Speaker 1: Black people, We did it before we go. Please consider
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