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Speaker 3: As we all know, the presidential election is in full swing.
Speaker 3: Posters are interrupting your dinner, campaign ads interrupting your TV shows,
Speaker 3: and people are intentionally visiting Iowa again. Yeah, so let's
Speaker 3: check in on the latest developments in our ongoing election
Speaker 3: coverage with Democracy twenty twenty four. Let's start with Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: the only rich person who's never heard of Ozipic. Now,
Speaker 3: yesterday we were talking about how everyone is worried that
Speaker 3: if Trump gets back into the White House, he's going
Speaker 3: to declare himself with dictator and now with Trump is
Speaker 3: firing back saying hell yeah.
Speaker 4: I am in a town hall overnight with Fox News
Speaker 4: host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump was asked what should have
Speaker 4: been an easy question, would he abuse the power of
Speaker 4: the presidency during a second term.
Speaker 5: I want to be very very clear on this. To
Speaker 5: be clear, do you in any way have any plans whatsoever,
Speaker 5: if re elected president, to abuse power to break the law,
Speaker 5: to use the government to go after people.
Speaker 6: You mean like they're using right now.
Speaker 4: He dodged the question, but minutes later, Hanneredy pressed him
Speaker 4: again for an answer.
Speaker 5: Under no circumstances you are promising America tonight, you would
Speaker 5: never abuse power as retribution against anybody except the day one,
Speaker 5: except that he's going to praise, except the day one.
Speaker 6: Meaning I want to close the border and I want
Speaker 6: to drill. That's not at all, that's real, that's not
Speaker 6: that's not retribution. I'm going to be.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be. You know.
Speaker 6: He keeps I love this guy.
Speaker 7: He says, you're not going to be a dictator?
Speaker 1: Are you? I said no, No, No other than day one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go again.
Speaker 3: Okay, once again Trump telling us exactly what he's going
Speaker 3: to do, and no one's believing him. You Trump's support
Speaker 3: of the all in my mentions with your clown emojis
Speaker 3: saying you Democratic shoe, you're overreacting. Trump's not a dictator.
Speaker 3: He's telling you, okay, and no, it doesn't make it
Speaker 3: any better that he says he'll just be a dictator
Speaker 3: for one day. Saying you're gonna be dictator for one
Speaker 3: day is like having sex with your partner and telling
Speaker 3: her you're only gonna pump once. Ladies, would y'all believe
Speaker 3: that shit? Exactly? No one ever pumps once on purpose.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I can't believe I have to
Speaker 3: say this, but are you gonna be a dictator?
Speaker 1: Is not a.
Speaker 3: Normal question you should have to ask a presidential candidate.
Speaker 3: If you have to ask your babysitter, are you gonna
Speaker 3: eat my kids? It doesn't matter what their answer is,
Speaker 3: the fact that you needed to ask them means you
Speaker 3: should get another babysitter. So Donald Trump is currently running
Speaker 3: on a platform of dictatorship, and the only man standing
Speaker 3: in his way is President Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Seeing here looking at his own A ratings.
Speaker 3: People have been questioning why Biden hasn't stepped aside, and
Speaker 3: last night Biden gave an answer to that just raise
Speaker 3: more questions.
Speaker 1: Not to President Biden's candid new remark on why he's running.
Speaker 7: For re election.
Speaker 4: During a closed door fundraiser Tuesday, Biden told supporters, quote,
Speaker 4: if Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running.
Speaker 4: But we cannot let him win.
Speaker 8: And just a short time ago, John You renewed his
Speaker 8: claims that he's going to beat Trump.
Speaker 5: Watch do you think there's.
Speaker 1: Any Donald Trump other than you?
Speaker 9: You?
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one to read it, but oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is Biden's ego talking.
Speaker 3: Okay, if you think there are other people who can
Speaker 3: beat him, step aside.
Speaker 1: All right. I know you think you've got this in
Speaker 1: the bag.
Speaker 3: I know he thinks he's got this in the bag,
Speaker 3: but the polls say otherwise. I want Biden stepping in
Speaker 3: to beat Trump the way I want him stepping in
Speaker 3: to defend me at a b our fight.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Karen, but I don't like our chances.
Speaker 3: The point is, we don't need Biden to beat Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: just like we didn't need RBG to stay.
Speaker 1: On the court.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe if RBG had retired during the Obama years,
Speaker 3: we'd still have Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade.
Speaker 3: Maybe, but people say no, she needs to be here
Speaker 3: to protect role. And now, look, both of them are gone.
Speaker 1: It's true, they're both gone.
Speaker 3: See the facts are Biden's not getting any younger, he's
Speaker 3: not gonna get any more popular, and he's not getting
Speaker 3: a new running mate. So please, mister President, give America
Speaker 3: an ultimate Christmas gift and step aside. All right, let's
Speaker 3: move on to a more important election. Every year, Time
Speaker 3: magazine announces the Person of the Year so that people
Speaker 3: remember what Time magazine is, and this morning we found
Speaker 3: out who won twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8: Sam Jacobs's Times editor in chief, Sam, good morning, welcome
Speaker 8: to today.
Speaker 1: You can reveal right now who it is. Are you
Speaker 1: ready for it? We're ready for it.
Speaker 10: The twenty twenty three Time Person of the Year is
Speaker 10: Taylor Swift.
Speaker 8: Okay, let me just let's just get this out of
Speaker 8: the way, Sam, because the world is on fire right now,
Speaker 8: and you know this is Person of the Year and
Speaker 8: it purports to say this is the most influential person
Speaker 8: or group of persons in the world this year. You
Speaker 8: picked Taylor. We know about her influence. How did you
Speaker 8: justify this decision?
Speaker 10: There are a number of different choices that could have
Speaker 10: represented twenty twenty three, and I don't think there's anyone
Speaker 10: who's moved so many people so well as Taylor Swift
Speaker 10: did in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, my teenage daughter doesn't speak to me, and
Speaker 1: I thought this would help.
Speaker 11: But yeah, yeah, but yes, Taylor Swift is Times Person
Speaker 11: of the Year, which is terrible news for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: You've seen how the past few winners. If this are
Speaker 3: doing last year? Zelenski one, how's you Create doing now?
Speaker 1: Year before that? Elon Musk got the cover? How's Twitter
Speaker 1: doing now? Year before that? Biden and Kamala.
Speaker 6: Got the cover?
Speaker 3: Enough said, forget Travis kelcey. If this pattern keeps up,
Speaker 3: next year, Taylor Swift is gonna be dating the pointer
Speaker 3: for the New York Jets. But the question is does
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift deserve to be Person of the Year. To
Speaker 3: discuss we turned to Ronnie Chang and Michael Costa. Let's
Speaker 3: start with you, Ronnie, why did Taylor deserve this cover?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 9: As a Swiftie, I can say, isn't it obvious? A
Speaker 9: massive tour that generated like five billion dollars for the
Speaker 9: US economy, A movie about that tour that saved movie theaters,
Speaker 9: and she made football even more popular, not to mention
Speaker 9: all the.
Speaker 6: Breakups she got me through.
Speaker 9: I mean, I was getting dumped on purpose just to
Speaker 9: enjoy those songs.
Speaker 3: More good point, Ronnie. Okay, that's the pro Taylor side.
Speaker 3: Now let's go to Michael Costa. Michael, give us the
Speaker 3: anti Taylor side.
Speaker 12: What no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6: I'm not doing the anti taylors. When did this happen?
Speaker 12: I'm not going to criticize Taylor Swift on television. She
Speaker 12: deserves all her success. Her music is great, she was
Speaker 12: terrific in that Cat's movie. I wish nothing. I wish
Speaker 12: nothing but the best for her and her army of
Speaker 12: incredibly passionate and defensive fans.
Speaker 1: Michael, I'm very confused. You were telling me earlier.
Speaker 3: Today how stupid you thought it was to give her
Speaker 3: a Person of the Year.
Speaker 12: No no, no, no, no, no, no no no, Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte.
Speaker 1: This is not what I said.
Speaker 12: I wasn't talking about Taylor Swis and you weren't even
Speaker 12: talking to me. I've never even said words until now.
Speaker 1: How am I doing?
Speaker 6: Listen? Listen?
Speaker 12: Can we just talk about something less controversial? Okay, I've
Speaker 12: got some strong opinions about Palestine and.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid Coster.
Speaker 3: Remember earlier you said you couldn't believe with everything going
Speaker 3: on in the world, they'd give personal they to some
Speaker 3: overrated singer songwriter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said that who dances like Phoebe from Friends
Speaker 1: is being elextrocuted.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was you you said, and I quote I
Speaker 3: wish Kanye would interrupt her.
Speaker 12: More so, I'm saying, Charloa Matte, you said that, Charlemagne,
Speaker 12: I have a family. Please, Okay, I didn't say anything
Speaker 12: like that about Taylor.
Speaker 6: That wasn't even me. I think you're confused with Ronnie.
Speaker 1: That sounds something like Ronnie would say, don't you know him?
Speaker 12: He's always like I hate everything, including Taylor Swift and
Speaker 12: babies and puppies.
Speaker 9: These bloggers, Charlamagne, these Taylor Swift haters like at Michael
Speaker 9: Costa on Instagram and dud at Michael Kasta on the
Speaker 9: score on TikTok.
Speaker 6: They discuss me.
Speaker 9: Okay, First, despite what Michael says, the way Taylor Swift
Speaker 9: dances makes her relatable all right. And two, she can
Speaker 9: easily fulfill all the responsibilities of Times Person of the Year. Okay,
Speaker 9: she can post with the cover, she can hang on
Speaker 9: the wall, and then and and that's it, those other responsibilities.
Speaker 1: Michael, he's got you. There are you at the airport?
Speaker 6: What do you do?
Speaker 1: What does it look like I'm doing?
Speaker 6: You loose lip snitch bitches?
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, I'm fleeing the country. I need somewhere to
Speaker 12: hide out, somewhere safe.
Speaker 6: One ticket to North Korea.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 6: They don't have any internet there, right, Come on.
Speaker 1: Gosta, you really think the swift is not gonna find you?
Speaker 6: Well, that's why I'm changing my name to something generic.
Speaker 12: John Mayor.
Speaker 3: All right, good luck with that, my brother John Mayor
Speaker 3: and Ronni Chan everyone. When we come back, we'll find
Speaker 3: out the truth about bavek Rama Swama.
Speaker 1: So don't go anywhere. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Tonight was the final debate of the GOP primary, featuring
Speaker 3: three well known politicians and one newcomer with surprising stand power.
Speaker 1: Who is this up?
Speaker 3: Starting with Donald Trump is reportedly considering as a potential
Speaker 3: running mate. Well, he's the subject of our latest Daily
Speaker 3: Show ography.
Speaker 7: Americans are divided, fighting over everything from beer into voting
Speaker 7: etiquette to whether that mother is real Facer is not real.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it can seem like we're living in different realities. Luckily,
Speaker 7: there's a presidential candidate who exists in every reality.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I am announcing my run for President of the
Speaker 9: United States, a.
Speaker 7: Powerful being who can travel between dimensions without even pausing
Speaker 7: for breath.
Speaker 9: President Trump, I believe was the best president of the
Speaker 9: twenty first century.
Speaker 13: As US President, I would have made different judgments than
Speaker 13: Donald Trump made.
Speaker 9: The climate change of Cadate is adduces climate change is
Speaker 9: also real.
Speaker 6: By the way, Hansel, June, Keean and all the other duss.
Speaker 9: Willing made up Happy June teams, everybody, I'm very open
Speaker 9: to banning TikTok outright.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm officially on TikTok.
Speaker 7: We're going to be on here a lot pops and
Speaker 7: drama mean because this is the daily showography of the
Speaker 7: vake Ramaswami enter the rama verse. The vake Ramaswami was
Speaker 7: born on Earth Prime to Indian immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 7: He learned at an earthly age how to navigate the multiverse,
Speaker 7: being raised Hindu but educated at a Catholic school and
Speaker 7: eventually using both to his benefit.
Speaker 14: I share those same Judeo Christian values more so than
Speaker 14: even many self professed Christians.
Speaker 7: You see, the thek is more Christian than most Christians
Speaker 7: because he's Hindu. By the end of high school, he
Speaker 7: already knew that time is a flat circle.
Speaker 15: The word commencement comes from the French word comansi, which
Speaker 15: means to begin. And yet now we use that same
Speaker 15: word commencement to describe a ceremony marking the end to
Speaker 15: our four year high school experience.
Speaker 7: It was undeniable. This bright young man owned a dictionary.
Speaker 7: After graduation, Ramaswami went on to study at Harvard and
Speaker 7: Yale and came out a man of the people.
Speaker 6: I think many people are like me, people who are
Speaker 6: disgusted with the establishment.
Speaker 7: Yes, separately, Harvard and Yale are the establishment, but together
Speaker 7: they cancel each other out like a hamburger and salad.
Speaker 7: After law school, Ramaswami was ready to tackle the world.
Speaker 7: One version of him became a stand up comic.
Speaker 10: I was actually a one time aspiring stand up comedian
Speaker 10: in New York City myself.
Speaker 7: Another became a pro tennis player. I'm a tennis fanatic.
Speaker 6: If the path was open to me to have pursued
Speaker 6: that career, I would have done it.
Speaker 7: And a third entered the business world. As a founder
Speaker 7: of Yvan Sciences, a company that sounded scientific but also wasn't.
Speaker 7: Instead of developing its own products, Rayven bought failed drugs
Speaker 7: from real pharmaceutical companies and tried to find uses for them,
Speaker 7: because those drugs might not work in our universe, but
Speaker 7: maybe he could sell them in the universe where they did.
Speaker 7: Many of Reuman's secondhand drugs failed, but in the multi verse,
Speaker 7: failure and success are all the same thing anyway. As
Speaker 7: a hard headed businessman, Ramaswami had no interest in the
Speaker 7: world of politics. I was out of politics back then.
Speaker 6: I was an a political guy that.
Speaker 7: He was propelled into yet another alternate life by the
Speaker 7: only force powerful enough to rip a hole in the
Speaker 7: space time continuum, wokeness.
Speaker 9: I was a CEO who, like so many CEOs, was
Speaker 9: browbeaten into potentially making statements on behalf of black Lives
Speaker 9: Matter after George Floyd died.
Speaker 6: Amongst CEOs in America, I was.
Speaker 12: Unique in sand that I refused to do it.
Speaker 7: It takes a brave man to take a stand against
Speaker 7: sympathy for the dead, and the Republican Party took notice.
Speaker 7: As an Indian American who isn't Indian, American Ramaswami was
Speaker 7: just the person to assure white conservatives that while racism exists,
Speaker 7: it also does not.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the.
Speaker 7: Booking a white supremosisteingaus is somewhere in America.
Speaker 6: I've just never met.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'll meet a uniform sooner.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 7: The VEK has never met someone who hates people of color,
Speaker 7: aside from the guy who cuts his hair. In twenty
Speaker 7: twenty three, this anti elite outsider with nearly a billion
Speaker 7: dollars in Ivy League connections was ready to quantum leap
Speaker 7: into the Oval office. But which recent president would he
Speaker 7: model himself after?
Speaker 10: Yes, well you have to give him a big credit
Speaker 10: for following the Trump playbook to a team.
Speaker 6: Jim, I'm sorry you're fired, John Lemon, you fy it.
Speaker 7: They're saying that you were the Republican Obama.
Speaker 9: The skinny kid with a funny name, This skinny guy
Speaker 9: with a funny last name.
Speaker 7: Out of many one eat woribus poem from many. Yes,
Speaker 7: Ramaswamy shamelessly borrowed from two men who won the presidency,
Speaker 7: and yet he simultaneously will never be president. Remarkable, Ramaswami
Speaker 7: picked up supporters in one dimension as a classical pianist
Speaker 7: and in another as an equally accomplished rapper.
Speaker 1: My name's the Vik.
Speaker 6: It rhymes with cake. It ain't about THEE, it is me.
Speaker 6: It is about THEE. The United States is about liberty.
Speaker 1: Back to reality.
Speaker 7: Boops, there goes mom Spaghetti. When not spitting bars, Ramaswami
Speaker 7: is talking about the issues, familiar issues like closing the
Speaker 7: Mexican border, but also the upside down.
Speaker 1: Version of that.
Speaker 6: Don't just build the wall, build both walls, and.
Speaker 7: Who's gonna pay for it? Mexicanada. Ramaswami is a thoroughly
Speaker 7: modern Republican, and also he's not a Republican.
Speaker 12: I kind of cringe when someone says, fellow Republicans, I'm
Speaker 12: not a party.
Speaker 7: Then he's a man whose principles make him strong and
Speaker 7: also weak. Your greatest strength a firmness of my convictions.
Speaker 6: Biggest weakness.
Speaker 7: Firmness of my convictions. Indeed, his firmness of conviction is
Speaker 7: like a coin. It has two sides and ultimately isn't
Speaker 7: work very much. But that's the genius of the vague Ramaswami.
Speaker 7: He's not nearly a Christian Hindu elite. Every man's successful
Speaker 7: failure classical rapper, independent Republican, anti immigrant, child of immigrants.
Speaker 7: He's everything, everywhere, all at once.
Speaker 5: I'm back.
Speaker 3: Michael Ruben will be joining me on the show, so
Speaker 3: I don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is the entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social justice advocate.
Speaker 3: He's the CEO Fanatics and the co founder of the
Speaker 3: Reform Alliance. Please welcome Michael Rubin. How are you, sir?
Speaker 6: Doing amazing? How you doing?
Speaker 1: I am blessed, black and holly favored man.
Speaker 6: Now that's a pretty good response.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you worth eleven point five billion dollars. Michael Rubin,
Speaker 3: How did you make your money?
Speaker 6: I'm a podcast watch Vitua bork by Brick, working my
Speaker 6: ass off.
Speaker 1: Right, come on, tell me more, give me the Dirk.
Speaker 14: You know, selling T shirts, jerseys, hats, starting the merch business.
Speaker 14: But honestly, I grew up as an entrepreneur my whole life.
Speaker 14: I was a horrible student, barely made out of high school,
Speaker 14: didn't go to college. Actually I went for a part
Speaker 14: of semester, flunked out, worst athlete and planet Earth. But
Speaker 14: I always love to work, and since I've been a
Speaker 14: little kid, I've always been working. So I've been eight
Speaker 14: years old selling things baseball cards, snowshoveling, and then just
Speaker 14: started a ski shopping when I was twelve years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that a dream?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 1: Do you sit around at tell them like I want
Speaker 1: to be a billionaire one day? No, not at all.
Speaker 14: I realized, like, you go to what you're good at,
Speaker 14: and I was literally good at nothing but working, So
Speaker 14: I gravitates at what I love to do.
Speaker 16: Do billionaires have a group chat? Is it like you,
Speaker 16: Mark Zuckerberg? You were with a group chat? Of course,
Speaker 16: but you know, no, listen, I act my wage. You
Speaker 16: actually listen, you actual wage? All right, So you're definitely
Speaker 16: a group chat for sure.
Speaker 14: You're in a spine. You're going to be there now, listen.
Speaker 14: I love hanging with all types of people. I learned
Speaker 14: from everyone around me. I've got so many different types
Speaker 14: of friends. So there's no group chat with lots of
Speaker 14: really successful people.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you play and to do with all
Speaker 1: your money when you transition? First of it always says
Speaker 1: he's going to give it all the way.
Speaker 14: First of all, I'll never transition. I want to work
Speaker 14: as hard as I work today that you don't have
Speaker 14: to die.
Speaker 7: Why would I die?
Speaker 14: Like I want to be like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 14: years old and just keep killing it. Yeah, yeah, live
Speaker 14: my best life every day.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's fair for Americans to hate billionaires
Speaker 1: the way that they do?
Speaker 14: You know what, I understand why there's that hatred. I
Speaker 14: think when you're really successful, you have a big responsibility
Speaker 14: to give back, to make a difference in the world.
Speaker 14: I think you do, and I think if you do
Speaker 14: it the right way, people appreciate and you get a
Speaker 14: lot of love. I don't feel like I get hate
Speaker 14: for being successful. But I also feel like we do
Speaker 14: a lot of things to make the world a better place,
Speaker 14: and that's my responsibility.
Speaker 6: I owe it to people to do that.
Speaker 1: What political party, Yeah yeah, what political party is better
Speaker 1: for your economy? Republicans and Democrats?
Speaker 6: Listen this. I'm not a political person.
Speaker 1: But what I will tell you is ask that I
Speaker 1: said what political party been podcast?
Speaker 14: Well, I'll tell you in business, you take no political
Speaker 14: party because that's the best answer for business. But for business,
Speaker 14: what would I say is better? I honestly, like, I'm
Speaker 14: not not a company. I don't think about it like
Speaker 14: I focus on what I can control, and I can't
Speaker 14: control politics. And by the way, I don't like politics
Speaker 14: because I don't like the outcomes of things taking forever
Speaker 14: and nothing getting done.
Speaker 6: So politics aren't for me at all. True.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they come to you to like donate, though,
Speaker 1: Do you donate the political campaign? I do?
Speaker 14: I do, and you know, I donate to people who
Speaker 14: I think can make a big difference. I'm generally much
Speaker 14: more of a Democrat, you know, giver than a republic
Speaker 14: I can't remember the last Republican I've given money too,
Speaker 14: But I want to give money to people that make
Speaker 14: a difference. By right, my guy, I'm gonna say the
Speaker 14: guy I started with, and I'm not really into politics,
Speaker 14: but Jos Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania is my guy.
Speaker 6: Okay, he's amazing. I hope that guy's president. Wanted dancerusy
Speaker 6: kill it.
Speaker 3: A lot of people say your step aside and somebody
Speaker 3: like Shapiro's step up.
Speaker 14: They got a lot of good kindents. But but Jos
Speaker 14: Shapiro is a guy who I think could be an
Speaker 14: amazing president. And I've been working with him since he
Speaker 14: was running the Montgomery County, which is like the township I.
Speaker 1: Grew up in.
Speaker 3: You do a lot of work in a criminal justice
Speaker 3: reform as well through the Reform Alliance. Speaking exclusively about
Speaker 3: criminal justice, which presidential candidate do you think could get
Speaker 3: the most done because you work.
Speaker 14: With both of them where you need both of them
Speaker 14: the truth be told. To get anything done, you need
Speaker 14: to being both together. And if there's one thing I've learned,
Speaker 14: if you only work with the Democrats, only work with
Speaker 14: the Republicans, you can't get lost pastor right now in
Speaker 14: Pennsylvania working to get a very important law passed to
Speaker 14: change the probation and pro laws. And we're bringing both
Speaker 14: sides together, so you really can't get last passed if
Speaker 14: you don't work with both sides together, will not work.
Speaker 3: So yeah, tell the people you know some of the
Speaker 3: things Reform Alliance has done, because you'll have done a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So Reform Alliance is focused on changing the very broken
Speaker 14: probation and prole system. What's crazy to me is that
Speaker 14: twenty five percent of the people to go to prison
Speaker 14: Joe each year don't go for committing a crime. They
Speaker 14: literally have what's called a technical violation, and they go
Speaker 14: to prison for not committing crime. So the story everyone
Speaker 14: knows the story of Meek Mill, who's you know family
Speaker 14: that I think each of us. He popped a wheel
Speaker 14: in a motorcycle and he got sentenced to prison for
Speaker 14: two to four years for not committing a crime. So
Speaker 14: that was the inspiration of starting the Reform Alliance. And
Speaker 14: we've now changed seventeen bills eleven states, and we've reduced
Speaker 14: seven hundred thousand people.
Speaker 6: Seven hundred thousand people were.
Speaker 14: Less today on probation and porler when we started this
Speaker 14: less than five years ago. We have amazing founders Jay Z,
Speaker 14: you know, Meek Mill, Robert Kraft, myself, Clara Si, we
Speaker 14: have Laura Arnold. We have so many amazing members have
Speaker 14: come together by the Republicans Democrats, just bringing people together
Speaker 14: to fix the really screwed up and broken criminal justice system.
Speaker 3: I love the story you tell about realizing that there
Speaker 3: was two Americas because of the Meek situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you one thing. Just being completely blunt.
Speaker 14: Up until up until the time I was probably five
Speaker 14: years ago, I really thought the criminal justice system worked
Speaker 14: the way it was supposed to. You would have said
Speaker 14: to me five years ago, you know what percentage of
Speaker 14: people that go to prison in jail should actually go
Speaker 14: I'd say it's like ninety nine percent today. I'd say
Speaker 14: that is the most screwed up broken system I've ever
Speaker 14: seen in my life. And the amount of people that
Speaker 14: go to prison and jail for not committing a crime.
Speaker 14: You know, we've learned about someone who got married without
Speaker 14: permission for them their probation officer.
Speaker 6: They went to prison for that.
Speaker 14: You know, Meek, if he went to pick up his
Speaker 14: kid ten minutes where he lived without permission from his
Speaker 14: probation officer would have gone to prison. And so what
Speaker 14: we really want to do is just fix this screwed
Speaker 14: up system. We are making good progress and by the way,
Speaker 14: it's hard, we're taking a business approach to you know,
Speaker 14: a political problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the system isn't broken though, well designed to work
Speaker 3: that way. Yeah, well, must of those people you're talking
Speaker 3: about a black and brown Yeah.
Speaker 6: Bye, I agree with you.
Speaker 14: But I also say sometimes like things just like inertia
Speaker 14: kicks in, you just got to go and say, like
Speaker 14: we looked at this and said, we're going to take
Speaker 14: a business aproach. We're not gonna, you know, allow this
Speaker 14: to work the way it's working. And you know, what
Speaker 14: We've made a lot of progress in less than five years.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're doing great work.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Fanatics because you're the CEO of Fanatics,
Speaker 3: which is a one stop shop for sports fans.
Speaker 1: If you don't know, are you working.
Speaker 3: With college athletes now with the new name and image
Speaker 3: and likeness rules?
Speaker 14: Well, I remember, I was just reminded last time I
Speaker 14: saw you, we had a little wager and you were
Speaker 14: wearing a Sixers jersey I think for a month straight.
Speaker 14: So I thought we were going to come out in
Speaker 14: Allen iverson Sixers Mitchell Nest jersey today.
Speaker 3: That's what I.
Speaker 6: Expected you to be in.
Speaker 14: You know, if you're a man, you were and sticking
Speaker 14: to oh you work for that month, you did wear
Speaker 14: for the month?
Speaker 6: I think, Yeah, how does smell after like twenty did
Speaker 6: it smell well?
Speaker 1: Good? After ball? And it just waking up in the
Speaker 1: morning wearing it?
Speaker 6: Yes, So no, college athletes are a big deal for us.
Speaker 14: Actually, I just came from Dylan Harper's announcement at the
Speaker 14: Fanatics headquarters. Who came out there's going to records today
Speaker 14: and certainly a huge moment for Dylan. We were proud
Speaker 14: to host them at Fanatics today. But college athletes drive
Speaker 14: our business. We own tops, We have a big trading
Speaker 14: cards business, and that's really about the best college athletes
Speaker 14: in the world now selling college jersey. So we're super
Speaker 14: excited about the changes that allow us to work with
Speaker 14: college players directly.
Speaker 1: How do you think college athletes will handle having all
Speaker 1: that money?
Speaker 6: Man, I'll tell you.
Speaker 14: Someone said to me a couple of days ago they
Speaker 14: were thinking about giving a kid who was in tenth
Speaker 14: grade millions of dollars, and I said, I feel like
Speaker 14: I'm going to be gone to problem soon, Like we're
Speaker 14: gonna be making a pitch outside.
Speaker 6: Of a prom. So it's crazy.
Speaker 14: It's very hard to get your head around, you know,
Speaker 14: you know how young these kids are. But it's such
Speaker 14: an amazing situation in reality. I mean, these kids, they
Speaker 14: work so hard, they're so good at what they do.
Speaker 14: They drive our business. So I'm really happy for him.
Speaker 14: But we used to talk about nineteen year old to
Speaker 14: twenty year olds, and now we're talking about fourteen year
Speaker 14: olds and fifteen year olds. I did have a conversation
Speaker 14: with Drake that we should sign his kid, I think
Speaker 14: was four or five when we first came up.
Speaker 6: Four years old when we came up with the idea
Speaker 6: for it.
Speaker 1: You thought early, Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: We started like nineteen Now we're like in tenth grade.
Speaker 6: Soon we're going to be at the kindergarten Jesus Christ,
Speaker 6: Bye ba that kindergarten ball. We want them at Fanatics.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the Fanatic Athlete's Immerging Program.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So you know, look, one thing I feel is we're
Speaker 14: blessed to do what we do. We're really lucky to
Speaker 14: work with so many great athletes. Every day we work
Speaker 14: with three thousand incredible athletes, and so we wanted to
Speaker 14: come up with a program we were could help athletes,
Speaker 14: you know, really figure out what they're going to do
Speaker 14: when they get done playing.
Speaker 6: So we're now building a program.
Speaker 14: The next year together with USC, we're gonna have sixty
Speaker 14: professional athletes in all the major sports come and intern
Speaker 14: at Fanatics and also and start with this internship program
Speaker 14: with at Fanatics and also at USC to really do
Speaker 14: all the different parts of backs that work in Mitchell Nass.
Speaker 14: They work in our live commerce division, they work in
Speaker 14: our trading card division, they're working our online sports betting
Speaker 14: division and our merchandise business, and just learn all the
Speaker 14: different things that we do. And we did our first
Speaker 14: class a few weeks ago and it was incredible. WNBA players,
Speaker 14: major League Baseball players. They had so much fun. It
Speaker 14: was great for me to feel like we can help
Speaker 14: them figure out when they get done playing, what are
Speaker 14: they going to do next?
Speaker 1: They're upticking WNBA jerseys now, definitely an.
Speaker 6: Uptick in WNBA jerseys, and I think a lot more
Speaker 6: upticks to be.
Speaker 1: Had or dope.
Speaker 3: Now, Michael, you throw what is now an infamous white
Speaker 3: party in the Hampton's right, and it's called a small
Speaker 3: party for a few mic party. Yeah, and it's called
Speaker 3: a white party because everybody with white, not cause everybody
Speaker 3: is white.
Speaker 1: And I just want you all to know that last year, I.
Speaker 6: Think our diversity is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Oh, you have an amazing diversity. We want to talk
Speaker 1: about that right now. Because you gave up this infamous photo.
Speaker 3: I call you the Notorious hug Okay, could.
Speaker 1: You like the hug Rappers from the back Listen?
Speaker 6: All right, I'm a hugger. I'm a hugger. I'm making
Speaker 6: hugging cool in twenty twenty four. That's my goal.
Speaker 14: I mean, Fanatics Reform Alliance. It's all about making everyone
Speaker 14: hug in twenty twenty four. But when it comes from,
Speaker 14: if I'm being honest with you, is I love bringing
Speaker 14: people together. So like I've always been a hugger my
Speaker 14: whole life, And so there might have been that could
Speaker 14: have been, like, you know, a few shots, maybe ten
Speaker 14: twenty shots in the evening, and there could have been
Speaker 14: a picture of you know, me jumping on babies back.
Speaker 14: And you know, at the time, I didn't really look
Speaker 14: at what went on Instagram and how other people could perceive.
Speaker 1: But I'm a big hugger. You told me that you
Speaker 1: know you don't You're and I want bigger hugs.
Speaker 6: For you too. Like I didn't feel like I got
Speaker 6: a really great when I came here. I felt like
Speaker 6: I got a medium hug. I didn't get a big hug.
Speaker 1: I saw Michael out one night and I was like,
Speaker 1: don't even think about it.
Speaker 6: I kind of had five drinks. You would have got
Speaker 6: a giant hug from behind you.
Speaker 14: You told me that you don't like hugging little baby
Speaker 14: though you say what I said was baby such a
Speaker 14: brother to me. That we were in Vegas a couple
Speaker 14: of weeks ago and he looked at me, he's like,
Speaker 14: you know, you can still hug me.
Speaker 6: He was like he was messing around with me.
Speaker 14: But I think I'm serious when I say I like, like,
Speaker 14: I don't like when people just want to pick at
Speaker 14: things and find out what's wrong with things. And to me,
Speaker 14: the White Party is about bringing people from all different cultures,
Speaker 14: all dimmate backgrounds together to have a thirteen hour incredible
Speaker 14: evening and.
Speaker 6: Morning, thirteen hours. You got to be built for this.
Speaker 6: By the way, there's like training camp.
Speaker 14: I remember having a conversation with a couple of people
Speaker 14: who are some of the best athletes in the world.
Speaker 14: I said, look, you really got to be built for this, Like,
Speaker 14: I know you may be a superstar in football or
Speaker 14: superstar in basketball, but there's a thirteen hour endeavor here.
Speaker 6: So are you sure you can make this?
Speaker 1: I fund like a cool imaged to me thirteen hours coca.
Speaker 14: It did end this year with I think Kevin Hart
Speaker 14: and I crawl up the steps together. It was more
Speaker 14: of a crawl than a walk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you do seem to make like these
Speaker 3: street rappers and like athletes melt like now the one
Speaker 3: picture of you and MB.
Speaker 6: Like, look at that is so cute. Listen it's my guy.
Speaker 6: I mean, hear listen, you.
Speaker 1: Think you have this effect on them, you personally, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you.
Speaker 14: Know a lot of rich people, a lot of people.
Speaker 14: They're successful, they're not relatable, they're not normal. So like
Speaker 14: to me, for someone who barely met at a high school,
Speaker 14: got a seven to eighty combined on my SATs.
Speaker 6: That's not for half, that's combined.
Speaker 14: Okay, got a one point eighty seven in the one
Speaker 14: semester I went to college. Like the only thing I'm
Speaker 14: succeeding on is like common sense and a little bit
Speaker 14: of relationship skills and so you know, but that's what
Speaker 14: makes me me, which is why you're gonna give me
Speaker 14: a big.
Speaker 6: Hug at the end of this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, all right, Michael, come on, let's go.
Speaker 6: Let's go.
Speaker 1: All right, okay. And it wasn't from the back, get it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, never be a yet. There have
Speaker 3: no lick in that cup. We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this. Michael Ruby Up.
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