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Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about why you'll be taking out a
Speaker 4: mortgage on your next Baconator Biden tries to solve Israel
Speaker 4: and Palestine and one lick and good news. There's finally
Speaker 4: a Kennedy in politics. Let's get to the headlines. Let's
Speaker 4: get things off with an update on the war in
Speaker 4: the Middle East. With the situation increasingly desperate, the world
Speaker 4: has been looking to the United States for a way forward,
Speaker 4: and yesterday President Joe Biden had some good news, although
Speaker 4: he delivered it in the most Joe Biden way possible.
Speaker 3: Can you give us a cent where you make the
Speaker 3: final started?
Speaker 1: Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend, I
Speaker 1: mean the end of the.
Speaker 5: Weekend at least my not security visor tells me that
Speaker 5: we're close. We're closer.
Speaker 4: Not the most dignified way to deliver a world changing news.
Speaker 4: It does remind me of the photo of Obama's team
Speaker 4: watching that bin laden raid while making balloon animals. Now,
Speaker 4: in Joe Biden's defense, he had the ice cream first.
Speaker 4: It's not like they asked him about Gaza and he said,
Speaker 4: hold on, if we're going to talk about war, I
Speaker 4: got to get a mint ship. No, he was in
Speaker 4: an ice cream store about to eat ice cream, and
Speaker 4: some reporter in and said, what about Gaza. This is
Speaker 4: why I don't think we should have a free press.
Speaker 3: Personally.
Speaker 4: I don't think anyone should be asked about Israel Palestine
Speaker 4: while they're eating ice cream.
Speaker 3: I thought that was like an unwritten rule.
Speaker 4: I'm holding a tiny cylinder topped with a giant, misshapen
Speaker 4: dairy blob that immediately starts melting on all sides. I've
Speaker 4: got one tiny little napkin for some reason. Do you
Speaker 4: think Israel Palestine is a crisis. I'm dealing with something here.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: If I was a politician, I would always have an
Speaker 4: ice cream with me, just to cram in my mouth
Speaker 4: in case I got asked about Israel Palestine. It's not
Speaker 4: a good strategy for Mitch McConnell, though, that guy already
Speaker 4: has brain freeze Kobe.
Speaker 3: Now, despite Biden's prediction.
Speaker 4: Both of US and Israel say they're not actually close
Speaker 4: to a sea fire. But I'm not surprised that Biden
Speaker 4: was so optimistic. When you're holding a freshly scooped ice
Speaker 4: cream cone, everything feels like it's going to be okay.
Speaker 4: That's why it's the official food of telling your kid
Speaker 4: you're getting a divorce ice cream. It is your fault, kiddo. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I don't blame Biden for talking about that stuff
Speaker 4: while he was eating ice cream. What I do blame
Speaker 4: him for is why does he open his mouth so
Speaker 4: early in the process. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 4: I typically open my mouth when the food gets there.
Speaker 4: I don't need a lot of prep time. And he
Speaker 4: did one other thing that I found pretty disturbing. That is,
Speaker 4: we've got name shed dude. The sneeze guard is there
Speaker 4: for a reason. Republicans are right, Biden doesn't really respet borders. Impeach, impeach,
Speaker 4: although I will say I am impressed by how flexible
Speaker 4: his shoulders are. Yeah, I didn't think he could do that,
Speaker 4: based on what I've heard from John Stewart, you would
Speaker 4: think his arms would just fall right off.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to the other side.
Speaker 4: Of the aisle because over the weekend, Republicans gathered for Seapack,
Speaker 4: the Conservative Political Action Conference. It's like Woodstock for people
Speaker 4: who hate anybody who went to Woodstock.
Speaker 1: And if you think the.
Speaker 4: Whole weekend was just them saying that Trump really won
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty election, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, no no.
Speaker 3: They were also singing it.
Speaker 4: Does anyone have any molly? I want to overdose if
Speaker 4: the lyrics are too subtle for you. I like how
Speaker 4: her dress gets the point across what she's saying. Oh,
Speaker 4: I see Trump one. But look, SEAPAC isn't just the
Speaker 4: best rock concert of all time. It's also an important
Speaker 4: way to find out what the current conservative priorities are.
Speaker 4: And based on the titles of this weekend's panel discussions,
Speaker 4: it's going to be a fun.
Speaker 6: Year Seapack twenty twenty four, where globalism goes to die,
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, Does Congress even matter?
Speaker 7: Would Moses go to Harvard? What you're talking about?
Speaker 6: Fanny willis shooting from the hip, going full Hungarian, stopping
Speaker 6: Georgie Soros survival uncanceled, God loves Justice, God's children are
Speaker 6: not for sale. Babies are us putting our heads in
Speaker 6: the gas stove.
Speaker 4: Seems like you guys might be inhaling some fumes already. Now,
Speaker 4: it's always good to have panels that sound like categories
Speaker 4: if Jeopardy had a mental breakdown.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to some economic news.
Speaker 4: Traditionally, Americans have eaten food at breakfast, lunch, and dinner,
Speaker 4: but soon that's going.
Speaker 1: To cost you.
Speaker 8: Wendy's, the country's second largest burger chain with six thousand locations,
Speaker 8: announcing that starting next year, menu prices will fluctuate during
Speaker 8: the busiest times of day, meaning you could be paying
Speaker 8: as much as a dollar more for that baconator during.
Speaker 7: The lunch rush. Wendy's CEO announcing.
Speaker 8: His company will spend twenty million dollars on high tech
Speaker 8: digital menu boards that can update prices in real time.
Speaker 8: Wendy's telling ABC News in a statement that the decision
Speaker 8: can allow them to motivate customers to visit and provide
Speaker 8: them with the food they love at a great value.
Speaker 2: Shut the f upan, Wow, you're providing me with food
Speaker 2: I love at a great value.
Speaker 4: Don't you hate when companies try to pretend they're not
Speaker 4: squeezing every dollar out of us? Just tell me you
Speaker 4: want all my money, dude, Okay, don't take my wallet
Speaker 4: and be like this is.
Speaker 3: Good for both of us.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it looks like Wendy's is going to charge
Speaker 4: more during the most popular times. And they call this
Speaker 4: dynamic pricing or whatever, but really, this is just another
Speaker 4: tax on people who hate themselves and don't know how
Speaker 4: to cook. Although this will be good for guys looking
Speaker 4: to impress girls. Hey, you want to go to Wendy's
Speaker 4: during the lunch rush?
Speaker 1: Ooh all right? Play.
Speaker 4: Uh, well, let's face facts. This is the way of
Speaker 4: the future. Airlines and hotels and Uber already do this,
Speaker 4: and if Wendy's pulls this off, there's no reason why
Speaker 4: every restaurant, help, every place of business won't be using
Speaker 4: surge pricing. Soon the emergency room will be like, look,
Speaker 4: you can come back at two am. Fixing those stab
Speaker 4: wounds will be a lot cheaper. So if you agree
Speaker 4: with me that this has to stop, there's only one
Speaker 4: natural conclusion. You need to burn down a Wendy's right now,
Speaker 4: and you also need to say it.
Speaker 3: Was your idea. That's important.
Speaker 4: For more on the surge pricing, Let's go live to
Speaker 4: a Wendy's with our very own, Ronnie, chang.
Speaker 3: Ronnie. Isn't this capitalism at its worst?
Speaker 9: He is capitalism and it was maybe for whiney bitches
Speaker 9: like you, Costa, but for finance geniuses like me, this
Speaker 9: data driven late stage capitalism is the next gold rush gold.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 9: I'm talking about abatrage, baby. I buy a thousand burgers
Speaker 9: at four am when the price is low, and then
Speaker 9: I saw them high in lunchtime.
Speaker 1: That's right, I'm.
Speaker 9: Flipping burgers, but in a rich way.
Speaker 3: You missed the boat cost. Now, I hope you don't cry.
Speaker 9: This is crypto and games stop all over again. Moneyball,
Speaker 9: pick a ball, Ai.
Speaker 3: Stop yelling buzzwords.
Speaker 4: It sounds like your genius financial plan is to sell
Speaker 4: burgers that have been sitting around for eight hours.
Speaker 9: Yeah, news flash, idiot, all fast food burgers. I have
Speaker 9: been sitting around for eight hours.
Speaker 7: Eh.
Speaker 9: That's why it's a stable investment. That like if gold
Speaker 9: came with a slimy pickle on top. Oh hang on,
Speaker 9: hang on, the mak is moving. Yeah yeah, yeah, bye,
Speaker 9: I said, by four thousand baker akers do it. Yeah,
Speaker 9: Daddy earned his commission today.
Speaker 3: Runny, are you snorting salt packets? Yeah? It's pure Himalayan
Speaker 3: grete a.
Speaker 4: Ronnie, stop, stop, stop, stop, You're in over your head.
Speaker 4: You can't sell four thousand baconators in a parking lot.
Speaker 3: People are gonna be weird at ow.
Speaker 9: Hey, these people already biting chili from a redhead with
Speaker 9: pigtails and Wendy's okay, you can't wear them out. That's
Speaker 9: why this plan can't fail unless they kicked me out
Speaker 9: of the parking lot. Oh wait, what's that what?
Speaker 1: They're kicking me out?
Speaker 3: The pocket log? I mean, I'm ruined.
Speaker 1: This is crypto in game. Stop all over again.
Speaker 9: I'm dock to flipping Burgers, but in a poor way.
Speaker 9: Who's gonna buy four thousand baconators from man?
Speaker 4: Okay, Ronnie, I can buy one baconator.
Speaker 3: Yes, one thousand baconatis.
Speaker 1: Well, my god, I'm back on top rock.
Speaker 3: Just what we'll talk about?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 4: Look like, Ronnie Chang, everybody, I'm going and learn.
Speaker 9: Come back, well, learn all about the twenty twenty four
Speaker 9: candidate leading.
Speaker 10: The race, if for third place, don't go away, Ronnie Chang,
Speaker 10: Welcome back to the Dairy Show.
Speaker 4: With the South Carolina primary out of the way in
Speaker 4: Michigan coming up this week, We're getting closer and closer
Speaker 4: to having just one Republican and one Democrat in the
Speaker 4: presidential race. But there's still another option.
Speaker 1: Take a look.
Speaker 11: The Kennedys, an American dynasty, the Kardashians.
Speaker 1: Of the Capitol.
Speaker 7: We chose to go to Ramond.
Speaker 11: For over a century, the steady hand of the Kennedy
Speaker 11: family has led America through its greatest challenges.
Speaker 3: The hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
Speaker 7: They aren't just in politics, they are politics.
Speaker 11: It being Eine Springfield and in twenty twenty four are
Speaker 11: abnormal times called for an abnormal Kennedy.
Speaker 3: I don't like winning shows.
Speaker 1: I never have.
Speaker 11: This is the daily showography of Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
Speaker 11: Immune to normal. Bobby Kennedy Junior was born in nineteen
Speaker 11: fifty four into the most prestigious clan of the wait
Speaker 11: is that Arnold Schwarzenegger Chris Pratt?
Speaker 7: How powerful is this family? Anyway?
Speaker 11: There? He is no there There. The third of Senator
Speaker 11: Robert Kennedy's eleven children and the one lucky enough to
Speaker 11: share his name. Despite his proximity to power, Bobby Junior
Speaker 11: wasn't initially drawn to the family business.
Speaker 4: To have your committed to side to the political future.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: If we can't all go off, it.
Speaker 11: Would turn out to be the first of many things
Speaker 11: he would be wrong about. As a young man, Bobby's
Speaker 11: unique personal story landed him a spot.
Speaker 7: At Harvard such amazing look.
Speaker 11: After studying law at the University of Virginia, he became
Speaker 11: an assistant district attorney in Manhattan before pausing to take
Speaker 11: part in a personal research trial of a promising new
Speaker 11: drug called Harold Rehabit Court order community service had him
Speaker 11: cleaning up both himself and pollution in the Hudson.
Speaker 7: River, which led him to a career and environmental law.
Speaker 3: The project that I work on is river protection.
Speaker 11: While most environmentalists are about as effective as a Trump
Speaker 11: gag order, RFK Junior was massively successful, winning huge cases
Speaker 11: with his team of young law students and earning him
Speaker 11: the title Hero for the Planet. And that's the end
Speaker 11: of this great man's story.
Speaker 7: Wait, there's more.
Speaker 1: Uh shit.
Speaker 11: A year ago in two thousand and five, a woman
Speaker 11: came to RFK Junior with an unbelievable story. Her son
Speaker 11: had gotten autism from childhood vaccines, and while normal people
Speaker 11: don't believe unbelievable stories.
Speaker 7: Kennedy was so important.
Speaker 11: After doing his own research, he published his findings in
Speaker 11: the acclaimed medical journal Rolling Stone, where it was the
Speaker 11: second most important article of the month. Despite having been
Speaker 11: completely wrong, Kennedy doubled down.
Speaker 7: There's no vaccine that is safe and effective.
Speaker 11: Indeed, he developed a natural immunity to all criticisms.
Speaker 8: You've said, see that no vaccine is safe or effective,
Speaker 8: which you did say that in a podcast interview in July.
Speaker 11: That his ideas spread and spread and spread. RFK Junior
Speaker 11: gained potency for him. This fight is personal. You can
Speaker 11: hear it in his voice.
Speaker 3: We ought to be debating the science.
Speaker 11: Which was damaged by a neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia.
Speaker 7: Well doctors weren't sure how he contracted the disease.
Speaker 11: Kennedy did his own research and surprise, blamed his annual
Speaker 11: flu shot.
Speaker 4: It occurred to me that this might be a vaccine injury.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but it's certainly a possibility.
Speaker 11: Hey who hasn't gone on WebMD and thought, oh shit,
Speaker 11: I definitely have that. And then came his big moment,
Speaker 11: the COVID vaccine, when RFK Junior rolled up his sleeves.
Speaker 11: It was to fight vaccine ever made as one of
Speaker 11: the most influential voices against vaccines.
Speaker 7: He truly put the flu.
Speaker 1: In influencer mainstream.
Speaker 7: And that's when the censorship started.
Speaker 3: And I've been silence in many, many ways.
Speaker 11: In the face of this silencing, there was only one
Speaker 11: thing Kennedy could do to get his message out.
Speaker 1: I've come here today.
Speaker 4: What noun is my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for
Speaker 4: President of the United States.
Speaker 7: Kennedy could deny his fate no longer.
Speaker 11: Like a microchip from the COVID vaccine politics was in
Speaker 11: his DNA, and compared to his rivals, Kennedy isn't just
Speaker 11: fit for office, he's straight up jacked for it.
Speaker 1: You've gone viral, not only with your.
Speaker 5: Message, but just your sheer masculinity.
Speaker 7: Take that big farm.
Speaker 11: This is a level of physical fitness you only get
Speaker 11: from clean living.
Speaker 7: Natural foods and take because I was drawing replacement.
Speaker 11: Okay, so then he takes little steroids, but it's organic
Speaker 11: farm to table steroids.
Speaker 3: And I started this campaign.
Speaker 11: Normally, a Kennedy on the ballot would coast on his
Speaker 11: family name, but Bobby Jr.
Speaker 7: Is not normal.
Speaker 11: Definitely, partly because much of his family is actually opposing him,
Speaker 11: especially after he dropped out of the Democratic primary to
Speaker 11: run as an independent, but also because this Kennedy is
Speaker 11: a man of the people, living simply in Hollywood with
Speaker 11: Larry David's wife lock And yes, he has name recognition,
Speaker 11: but he also has broad appeal, championing liberal ideas, conservative ideas,
Speaker 11: and every conspiracy theory known to men.
Speaker 5: OVID nineteen attacked certain races, the people of most me
Speaker 5: are Asconage, Jews, and the Chinese all their greatest hits.
Speaker 1: I do chatelefe all.
Speaker 4: We'll be able to look at every square inch.
Speaker 11: That's why nine out of ten alternative thinkers recommend RFK
Speaker 11: Junior for President of the United States.
Speaker 5: A conspiracy theory is just something the government doesn't like
Speaker 5: to hear.
Speaker 11: There's nothing normal about the twenty twenty four election, and
Speaker 11: in a contest between a professional courtroom sketch model ampa
Speaker 11: who wandered away from his family at the mall, Kennedy
Speaker 11: is still somehow the least normal Kennedy and.
Speaker 8: Somebody snapped him walking the aisles heading to the bathroom
Speaker 8: without any shoes or socks.
Speaker 7: Well, that's one way to do your own research. And
Speaker 7: that's why America needs to inject Robert F.
Speaker 11: Kennedy Junior straight into its bloodstream.
Speaker 6: Side effect of after Junior include Now jam Measles, Moms, Revella, Chickybots,
Speaker 6: Monkey Box Bolo.
Speaker 8: Until the nineteen.
Speaker 4: When we come back, author Kwame Alexander will be joining
Speaker 4: me on the show, So don't go away.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: My guest tonight is a number one New York Times
Speaker 4: best selling author and Emmy winning produce whose latest book
Speaker 4: is an anthology of black poets called This Is the Honey.
Speaker 3: Please welcome Kwame Alexander.
Speaker 1: This is nice. Yes, this is nice poetry.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I have to admit I was like poetry,
Speaker 4: this can be a little intimidating. How do you advise
Speaker 4: people who are approaching poetry for the first time to
Speaker 4: digest it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I typically don't advise.
Speaker 4: Okay, That's what I do with comedy too.
Speaker 12: I mean it's like when you go up on stage
Speaker 12: to deliver some fascinating stand up I just share a poem.
Speaker 1: There were these seventh graders in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 12: These boys and their teacher wanted them to get excited
Speaker 12: about poetry, and so I went in their library and
Speaker 12: just a quick shoulder shake, a slick eye fake number
Speaker 12: twenty eight is way past late.
Speaker 1: He's reading me like a book.
Speaker 12: But I turned the page and watch him look, which
Speaker 12: can only mean I got him shook.
Speaker 1: So I went through this whole poem and at the end,
Speaker 1: all the boys do I have to.
Speaker 3: Do one now, or they're like battle poems or something.
Speaker 1: Your turn.
Speaker 12: Yeah, But at the end, all the boys were like, oh, So,
Speaker 12: I think it's just we got to hear poetry, and
Speaker 12: it's how we learned how to read and write nursery
Speaker 12: rhymes as a kid, lullabies.
Speaker 1: We don't remember that we.
Speaker 12: Love poetry, and I think I'm trying to, you know,
Speaker 12: remind us of that.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: A lot of you've written forty books.
Speaker 4: A lot of what you write about involves sports. Right,
Speaker 4: Some people hear sports and they block it or they
Speaker 4: run away. But why are sports an important metaphor for you?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 12: I mean I think they remind us of things like teamwork,
Speaker 12: how important it is to collaborate. They remind us of resilience,
Speaker 12: the remind us of grit, you know, And so I
Speaker 12: think sports is a great metaphor for our lives. If
Speaker 12: you miss enough of life's free throws, you will pay
Speaker 12: in the end. Never let never let anyone lower your goals.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 4: You just want an Emmy for a show based off
Speaker 4: your award winning book The Crossover. Is that kind of
Speaker 4: why you got into poetry so you can get an Emmy?
Speaker 4: But the Crossovers made an enormous journey.
Speaker 3: Tell me about that, sure?
Speaker 12: I mean it was a book that was rejected twenty
Speaker 12: two times by publishers because publishers didn't think boys would
Speaker 12: read poetry or girls would read a book about basketball.
Speaker 1: And I always had the vision.
Speaker 12: I mean, I knew from a very early age because
Speaker 12: my mother had introduced me to doctor Seuss, you know,
Speaker 12: Fox Socks knocks box in socks socks inbox Like, I
Speaker 12: love poetry for so long, so I know the impact
Speaker 12: that it had on my life, and so I knew
Speaker 12: that it would have an impact on young people's lives.
Speaker 4: I listened somewhere you said you might have been joking
Speaker 4: that you wrote The Crossover at a Panera bread Right?
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 1: Is that it is very true? I wrote it because I.
Speaker 4: See people at their laptops open and I go, there's
Speaker 4: no way that person's writing anything worthwhile right now.
Speaker 3: It's inspiring.
Speaker 4: If that's true, many people who write a coffee shops
Speaker 4: and Panera Breads are going to see this and go,
Speaker 4: holy shit, Yeah, I have an opportunity here.
Speaker 12: I sat in a chair next to a fireplace at
Speaker 12: Panera bread in Herndon, Virginia, and I wrote every day
Speaker 12: for five hours a day. And when I won the
Speaker 12: Newberry Medal for the Crossover, the manager whose name was
Speaker 12: Skip May he rest in peace, he put a sign
Speaker 12: up that said, Kwame Alexander wrote the Crossover here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hey, could be worse, could be like don't serve Michael
Speaker 4: Costa at this bar or something like that.
Speaker 3: This is this is the honey.
Speaker 4: This is an anthology of contemporary black poets.
Speaker 3: I am very white. Are you can? I? Can I
Speaker 3: tackle this? Can everybody tackle this?
Speaker 1: Here's the thing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Poetry is a way to open a door to possibility,
Speaker 12: regardless of who's writing, whether it's Mary Oliver or Nikki Giovanni,
Speaker 12: whether it's Pablo Naruda or Kwame Alexander. Poetry is a
Speaker 12: way to allow us to connect with each other, to
Speaker 12: feel more empathetic and ultimately to become better human beings.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, this book is for you, This is for me,
Speaker 1: this is for us.
Speaker 4: Tell me about the title, This is the Honey.
Speaker 12: We often think about, you know, Black History Month in
Speaker 12: terms of the woe and not the wonder. We think
Speaker 12: about the tragedy and not the triumph.
Speaker 1: That's all valuable.
Speaker 12: But I wanted to create a book that reminded us
Speaker 12: of all the beautiful things, of the regular normal things,
Speaker 12: and remind not only Black people but Americans in general
Speaker 12: that Black people live, love, hope, dream, dance, smile, eat
Speaker 12: just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: So that this is the honey. Are you.
Speaker 4: So many stories, so many stories about black suffering. Are
Speaker 4: you seeing a change in media covering different types of
Speaker 4: stories in the black community.
Speaker 12: Well, I don't spend a whole lot of time looking
Speaker 12: at what the media is doing except watching you.
Speaker 4: I mean, duh, come right.
Speaker 12: I spend a lot more time trying to change the narrative,
Speaker 12: trying to make sure I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: So I try to spend.
Speaker 4: This book is organized in a particular way. Share with
Speaker 4: us how this book is organized.
Speaker 12: When you wake up in the morning and the sun
Speaker 12: is out, it's a new day of promise. And so
Speaker 12: the first part of this book is the language of
Speaker 12: joy of hope. After you've awakened, you see the people
Speaker 12: you love and the people you care about, and so
Speaker 12: the second section is love and caring. And then you
Speaker 12: go out into the world and you're sort of face
Speaker 12: with the challenges of what's happening.
Speaker 1: And so the third section in the.
Speaker 12: Book is dealing with that, those challenges, those obstacles. And
Speaker 12: of course, by the time we get to the end
Speaker 12: of the book, we are at the end of our
Speaker 12: day and we come home and we're grateful, and we're
Speaker 12: around family and we and we offer praise, and so
Speaker 12: the last piece of the book is dealing with that
Speaker 12: kind of praise.
Speaker 4: That's a wonderful synopsis of a good day, grateful and
Speaker 4: praise at the end of the day. I'm not always
Speaker 4: getting praise and graciousness at the end of my day,
Speaker 4: but maybe that's something I can strive for.
Speaker 12: Well, you're you're you're grateful for your family. Sure, you're
Speaker 12: grateful for your your your mother, you're grateful for your wife,
Speaker 12: for your kids, and so at the end of the
Speaker 12: day and so and so, no matter what is happening
Speaker 12: in our world, no matter what chaos is going on,
Speaker 12: the poetry is sort of a way for us to
Speaker 12: be uplifted, to be reminded of the things that matter. Family, love, community, hope, possibility.
Speaker 4: Also sex. I mean your poems, there's some sex in there.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where that's where we are now.
Speaker 3: Is that the hope part? It's I you don't have
Speaker 3: to answer after you don't want it.
Speaker 4: So last year you released your memoir Why Father's Cry
Speaker 4: at Night, and it's dedicated to your two daughters. What
Speaker 4: did you two part question? What did you want them
Speaker 4: to get from this? And I'm a father of two daughters.
Speaker 4: What should I get from this? Here's the deal.
Speaker 12: I mean, as men, we don't often talk about matters
Speaker 12: of our heart. We don't talk about it with each other,
Speaker 12: don't talk about it with ourselves. And I came to
Speaker 12: a point in my life where I realized that it
Speaker 12: wasn't serving me any longer.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: And my nephew, his name is Jordan. We were in
Speaker 12: Target with my my daughter was shopping, she's a teenager,
Speaker 12: and we were in Target and my nephew and I
Speaker 12: who's nine, we were dancing in aisles and we had
Speaker 12: a good time. And when we got home, you know,
Speaker 12: later his mother, my sister, she called and she said, Kwame,
Speaker 12: Jordan said, he wants to he can't wait to grow
Speaker 12: up to be an uncle like you.
Speaker 1: Right right, And so thank you.
Speaker 12: That's that's the kind of man I want to be
Speaker 12: who has those type of relationships with the people he
Speaker 12: loved and who and who love him. And so I
Speaker 12: wanted to write about that as an exploration.
Speaker 4: What can I I mean, you know, man, there's some
Speaker 4: beautiful stuff in here, and it's poetry, yep, advice. Then
Speaker 4: there's a recipe for fruit punch, you know, and I
Speaker 4: like every page.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what's next?
Speaker 4: As someone who's parenting two daughters, what what do I
Speaker 4: need to do, whether even in the book or just
Speaker 4: in life.
Speaker 12: Tell me listen, listen, hey, it's no secret, it's no
Speaker 12: way around it.
Speaker 1: We got to listen to our daughters.
Speaker 12: When I was a kid and got in trouble, my
Speaker 12: mom would send me to the room because I hated
Speaker 12: being alone.
Speaker 1: And I would be in my room I hate that woman.
Speaker 1: I hate that woman.
Speaker 12: And she'd come in and she'd recite a poem or
Speaker 12: sing a song to make me laugh. I did the
Speaker 12: same thing with my fifteen year old. I tried to
Speaker 12: make her laugh when she was upset, and she said, Dad,
Speaker 12: you know it's okay to sit with your anger. And
Speaker 12: I was like, whoa mind blown? I think we got
Speaker 12: to listen to our kids.
Speaker 1: Man. Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 4: Poets are always asked to read poems and interviews and
Speaker 4: I just you know, I love that comics don't have
Speaker 4: to do that again.
Speaker 3: It's like, you're here to hang and to promote your book.
Speaker 3: Why are we going to put you to work?
Speaker 4: But I really love ten Reasons Why fathers cry at night?
Speaker 3: From this from your memoir? Would you mind reading it
Speaker 3: for us? Sure?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 4: And this really resonated with me very much.
Speaker 12: So shout out to my two daughters, Dandie and Samaya.
Speaker 12: When Nandi was a teenager, she came home and said
Speaker 12: those words no father ever wants to hear. She said, Dad,
Speaker 12: I want to go on a date. Oh, And I
Speaker 12: said maybe when you're thirty. So you got little ones, yeah,
Speaker 12: enjoy that moment, yeah, because when they become fifteen and sixteen,
Speaker 12: it's another life.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 4: Well that's why I read this and put it down,
Speaker 4: and I had to take some deep breaths, and then
Speaker 4: I took a picture of and texted to my wife
Speaker 4: and she's like, don't send me. This is too sad,
Speaker 4: and you know, but it's just it's capturing this human feeling.
Speaker 3: So please, if you don't mind, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Ten reasons why father's quiet night.
Speaker 12: One because teenagers don't like park swings or long walks
Speaker 12: anymore unless you're in the mall. Two because holding her
Speaker 12: hands is forbidden and kisses are lethal. Three because school
Speaker 12: was fine, her day was fine, and yes, she's fine,
Speaker 12: so why is she weeping? Four because you want to
Speaker 12: help but you can't read minds. Five because she's in
Speaker 12: love and that's cute until you find his note asking.
Speaker 1: Her to prove it. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Six because she didn't prove it. Seven because next week
Speaker 12: she's in love again, and this time it's real. She says,
Speaker 12: her heart is heavy. Eight because she yearns to take
Speaker 12: long walks in the park with him. Nine because you
Speaker 12: remember the myriad woes and wonders of spring desire, and
Speaker 12: ten because with trepidation and thrill, you watch your teenage
Speaker 12: daughter who suddenly wants to swing all by herself.
Speaker 3: Oh crushes me.
Speaker 4: This is the honey and Why Father's Cry at Night
Speaker 4: are both available now.
Speaker 3: Kwannie Alexander, thank you some much for ye. We're gonna
Speaker 3: quick regular right back after this. That's that show for tonight.
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