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Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. All right. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the big stories, let's catch up on a few other
Speaker 1: things going on in the world. We kick things off
Speaker 1: with the World Cup with the United States has moved
Speaker 1: on to the round of sixteen after defeating your Role
Speaker 1: one zero. Yes, it's such an amazing win for them.
Speaker 1: It means that they go to the next round and
Speaker 1: they now get to say Iran instead of Iran in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: the world's largest active volcano has just begun erupting for
Speaker 1: the first time in thirty eight years, which is a shame.
Speaker 1: Another brother fallen during no not November. It was so close, man,
Speaker 1: it was so close. And now the Science News researchers
Speaker 1: have now reanimated a so called zombie virus that has
Speaker 1: lain dormant under the Arctic ice for nearly fifty thousand years. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: the good news is that Joe Biden is immune. He
Speaker 1: already had it as a kid. And I know, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are worried. They're like, why
Speaker 1: are we doing this? Is dangerous to mess with viruses
Speaker 1: this way, But think about people, it's actually pretty smart
Speaker 1: because these viruses are eventually going to emerge anyway when
Speaker 1: the ice caps melt. So the quicker we can learn
Speaker 1: about them, the quicker we can make a vaccine that
Speaker 1: no one will take. Oh and in some legal news,
Speaker 1: a Florida woman is suing Craft Foods over it's microwave
Speaker 1: mac and cheese, arguing that while the box says it's
Speaker 1: ready in three and a half minutes, that doesn't include
Speaker 1: the amount of time it takes to add the water
Speaker 1: and then wait for the sauce to thicken, and you
Speaker 1: can laugh, but she's right. I mean, the box doesn't
Speaker 1: even include the time it takes for me to cry
Speaker 1: over the fact that I have to eat craftmac and
Speaker 1: cheese for dinner. That's another forty five minutes. And you know,
Speaker 1: stories like this make me think about it. He must
Speaker 1: be so hard for the lawyer who works in a
Speaker 1: case like this to discuss their work with their peers.
Speaker 1: You know, they're like, they're just sitting in the rooms,
Speaker 1: like I'm working on a case to protect the right
Speaker 1: to abortion in the South. It's like, yeah, I'm working
Speaker 1: on a case to shut down a company that's been
Speaker 1: poisoning the water of poor communities. How about you, Allen,
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you know, you know how sometimes back
Speaker 1: and cheese takes longer to make than you expect. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to some of the biggest stories of
Speaker 1: the day, starting with the ongoing firestorm facing Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: former presidents and host of the most disturbing dinner since
Speaker 1: the one Jeffrey Dahma had last week. Trump Ate dinner
Speaker 1: at Marlonga with Kanye West and a prominent white supremacist
Speaker 1: named Nick Fuentez. And we don't know exactly what happened
Speaker 1: at that dinner except that nobody ordered Lukis. But apparently
Speaker 1: a lot of Republicans don't think it's a great look
Speaker 1: for the leader of their party to be splitting apps
Speaker 1: with neo Nazis. Donald Trump facing growing backlash to his
Speaker 1: dinner last week with prominent white nationalist Nick Flenton. Republican
Speaker 1: politicians now among those calling out the former president. I
Speaker 1: think there's has been clear that there's no bottom to
Speaker 1: the degree to which President Trump will degrade himself and
Speaker 1: the nation. Well, I think he makes better choices. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that was a bad decision. There's no place for that
Speaker 1: in the Republican Party. President Trump was wrong to give
Speaker 1: a white nationalist, an anti semid and Holocaust denier a
Speaker 1: seat at the table, and I think he should apologize
Speaker 1: for it. Uh, and he should denounce those individuals and
Speaker 1: their hateful rhetoric without qualification. Let me just say that
Speaker 1: there is no room in the Republican Party for anti
Speaker 1: semitism or white supremacy. That's rob there's no rule at all.
Speaker 1: The Carols were already at fault. I remember, we don't
Speaker 1: have room for someone who hates Darth rockets. That would
Speaker 1: be a new one. You know, It's so funny watching
Speaker 1: Republicans try to chastise Trump for hanging out with someone
Speaker 1: who has the exact same views as him without chastising
Speaker 1: Trump for having those views right. Because here's the thing,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to believe. I'm willing to believe that Trump
Speaker 1: didn't know who Nick Flentces was when he came to
Speaker 1: his dinner. As Trump says, I'm willing to believe that,
Speaker 1: But you've gotta admit it says a lot about him
Speaker 1: that he enjoyed this man's company and everything that he
Speaker 1: had to say. Al Right, Like, if your friend brings
Speaker 1: Darth Vada to your house for dinner, that's not your fault.
Speaker 1: But fifteen minutes in, any decent person would be like,
Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable with how much this guy talks about
Speaker 1: blowing up planets. Also, why is he wearing a masque?
Speaker 1: We've all been tested, and it is nice. It is
Speaker 1: nice to see Republican officials speak out against Trump for
Speaker 1: a change, but we all know how this is gonna end.
Speaker 1: Republicans get mad at Trump for a little while, and
Speaker 1: then they always get back together with him. In the end.
Speaker 1: Trump scandals are basically like Hallmark movies, you know, except
Speaker 1: never actually changes and becomes a better person. It's just
Speaker 1: like Donald, either you choose your career or you choose me. Like, well,
Speaker 1: I choose my career. Okay, you can have me too, Donald.
Speaker 1: But let's move on to some news about trains, or
Speaker 1: as I call them, choo choo trains. You may think
Speaker 1: about trains is just a form of transport or a
Speaker 1: place where people gather to solve murders, but they're not
Speaker 1: just that. It turns out that trains are responsible for
Speaker 1: carrying billions of dollars in goods across America every year.
Speaker 1: But over the past few months, railroad workers have been
Speaker 1: trying to negotiate better working conditions with the railroads, and
Speaker 1: the dispute has gotten so bad that now President Biden
Speaker 1: Amtrak Joe himself is stepping in President Biden his client
Speaker 1: Congress to a vertal looming rail strike and impose a
Speaker 1: settlement that some union members rejected. The President's involvement signals
Speaker 1: a major shift for him, he that could potentially pit
Speaker 1: him against his union allies. But right now, George he
Speaker 1: says that that he was reluctant to get involved in
Speaker 1: this one, but the potential that cripple that this could
Speaker 1: but the economy was just too much. A strike could
Speaker 1: threaten everything from farming and food to crucial chemicals for
Speaker 1: clean water, causing major supply change instructions. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: A railroad strike wouldn't just inconvenience passengers. It would devastate
Speaker 1: the entire economy, which you've got to admit sounds weird
Speaker 1: in two right, No, it does because railroads feel so
Speaker 1: old timing. You know, it's like down the railroad and
Speaker 1: then's like it will devastate the economy. Now is like
Speaker 1: finding out you're losing your job because the whale hunters
Speaker 1: union went on strike. But I work on computers. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: actually the internet runs on whale oil. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do now? The situation is complex, but basically, some
Speaker 1: railroad unions are threatening to strike because despite railroad companies
Speaker 1: making billions in profits, workers schedules are so unpredictable that
Speaker 1: they can't plan their lives and they definitely don't get
Speaker 1: nearly enough sick days, which they deserve, especially because every
Speaker 1: few train rides they have to climb on the roof
Speaker 1: because they hear a sound and as James bonders coming
Speaker 1: to punch them and take over the train. That's at
Speaker 1: least the mental health day. So it's kind of messed
Speaker 1: up for Joe Biden to step in and forbid the
Speaker 1: workers from striking. You know, that's the only points of
Speaker 1: leverage that workers have. If they can't strike, what are
Speaker 1: they supposed to do and be like, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: run the trains, but when we blow the whistle, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be real shad to too. At the same time, though,
Speaker 1: I can see why Joe Biden is willing to stop
Speaker 1: the unions from going on strike. He can't have the
Speaker 1: economy take a hit on his watch. His administration has
Speaker 1: enough problems, high interest rates, war in Europe. They can't
Speaker 1: find a center for Pete Boudhage. Times are hard, But
Speaker 1: if anyone can solve a train crisis, it's Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: This man has spent his whole life obsessed with trains.
Speaker 1: This is his moment. Can you imagine it's made for him?
Speaker 1: This is like if Trump had to solve the crisis
Speaker 1: involving the mac rib You know, he's just buy everyone
Speaker 1: out of the room, Milannia, give me the Hamburg line,
Speaker 1: a secure line. We're gonna solve this. But this isn't
Speaker 1: yet another reminder of all the things happening in the
Speaker 1: supply chain that we all just take for granted, right
Speaker 1: we he can all for granted because a banana doesn't
Speaker 1: just show up in a grocery store. Somebody grows a
Speaker 1: tree in Costa Rica, and then it's picked and it's
Speaker 1: loaded onto a truck and then a ship, all right,
Speaker 1: and then another truck, and then a train and then
Speaker 1: another truck. And that's when you buy it at the store.
Speaker 1: You put it on your counter and you let it
Speaker 1: slowly rot before throwing it in the garbage, and that
Speaker 1: garbage is picked up by another truck and then it's
Speaker 1: shipped back to Costa Rica. It's actually beautiful when you
Speaker 1: think about it. It's a circle of life acta quite finally,
Speaker 1: history is full of famous feuds, you know, Godzilla versus Mathra,
Speaker 1: Swifties versus ticket Master, herschel Walker versus Condoms. And now
Speaker 1: there's a new one. Elon Musk, the world's richest man,
Speaker 1: is picking a fight with the world's richest company. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk has a beef with Apple. He claims the tech
Speaker 1: giant has threatened to pull Twitter from its app store,
Speaker 1: a move like that would, of course, crush Musk's new company.
Speaker 1: Musk tweeting a series of claims against him cooking company,
Speaker 1: calling out the iphonemaker for pulling back on advertising on
Speaker 1: the social platform, also complaining about the fifteen fee that
Speaker 1: is placed on app developers. Musk also said that Apple
Speaker 1: had threatened to remove Twitter from its app store as
Speaker 1: part of its review moderation process. He likened this move
Speaker 1: to a suppression of free speech. This is a battle
Speaker 1: for the future of civilization, he writes. A free speech
Speaker 1: is lost even in America. Tyranny is all that lies ahead, Leon, Tyranny.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't give the brave on speech about
Speaker 1: everything everything. This dude is walking around Twitter headquarters like
Speaker 1: this threatens the very existence of democracy and mankind. And
Speaker 1: the genda is like, okay, jeez, I'll refill the paper towels.
Speaker 1: Stop shouting now. We should unpack this a bit because
Speaker 1: Ellen went full on to christmode yesterday with a bunch
Speaker 1: of different claims about Apple. The first thing he complained
Speaker 1: about was that Apple stopped advertising on Twitter, which he
Speaker 1: thinks is an attack on free speech, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: just me, but like you also find it funny how
Speaker 1: free speech and giving Elon Musk money always seemed to
Speaker 1: be perfectly aligned. Elon's like, oh, so the world's most
Speaker 1: perfectly perfectly protected brand doesn't want ads showing up next
Speaker 1: to Nazi memes. I guess you believe in censorship. Secondly,
Speaker 1: Elon is bitching that Apple has threatened to drop Twitter
Speaker 1: from the App Store, and if that's true, it's probably
Speaker 1: because Apple requires all of its apps to be safe,
Speaker 1: and Musk has essentially fired all the people who are
Speaker 1: responsible for content moderation and replaced them with a sign
Speaker 1: that just says, hey, don't post that. And the third point,
Speaker 1: the third point that Elon is crying about, is that
Speaker 1: Apple has too much power over iPhone apps. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: if he charges eight dollars a month for Twitter verification,
Speaker 1: Apple automatically is to take up to thirty of any
Speaker 1: money people spend in the app. Elon doesn't want that,
Speaker 1: I mean kind of four to give of Twitter's money
Speaker 1: away just because some idiot made him spend forty four
Speaker 1: billion dollars on an app that we all used for free.
Speaker 1: He can't afford that ships. And so that's where we
Speaker 1: are right now, the richest company versus the richest man
Speaker 1: in the world. And the stakes could not be higher
Speaker 1: because remember, the outcome of this war couldn't determine how
Speaker 1: we spend our time while we poop. All right, that's
Speaker 1: it for the headlines. Before we go to a break,
Speaker 1: it stigned to checking and all the latest show show
Speaker 1: media trains without very own Ronnie chatting everybody. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love social media.
Speaker 1: It's the one place where you can keep your Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: fights going all your long. Here's what's trending today. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's this weird video on TikTok of a doll dancing
Speaker 1: around in the forest, and now parents are showing their
Speaker 1: kids that video and tricking them into believing that the
Speaker 1: doll was then as a baby out. What I just
Speaker 1: said may not make any sense, but trust me, after
Speaker 1: you watch it, it will somehow make even less sense.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look, do you remember, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just okay, stop stop a video putain. If you're
Speaker 1: watching this, please just nucus right now and end it, Okay,
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna gas like kids, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: men in black brainwash your children. At least give them
Speaker 1: a good fake memory, okay, like make them believe that
Speaker 1: two years ago you already got them a Nintendo instead
Speaker 1: of losing their college fund in bitcoin. Right because, because
Speaker 1: this challenge is just mean. Even Woody Allen is like this,
Speaker 1: This is no way to treat your own kids. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: too soon, too sunny kids. Let's let's try a new challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: the call protective Services and tell them your parents are
Speaker 1: exploiting you for like's challenge. Okay, because you might even
Speaker 1: get a new family out of this would be hilarious,
Speaker 1: something for the Graham and on the other thing that's
Speaker 1: training right now is, as Trevor said, Elon must versus Apple.
Speaker 1: He's very upset right now. And of course Elon is
Speaker 1: upset at Apple's policy. Okay, Elon barely read his own
Speaker 1: contract to buy Twitter. You think he read Apple's terms
Speaker 1: and conditions? Okay, No one seems to understand. This guy
Speaker 1: is rich in America. Okay, that means people should just
Speaker 1: do what he wants, stop oppressing him. Okay. Elon grew
Speaker 1: up in South Africa under Apotheigh Trevor, do you have
Speaker 1: any idea how hot that was for him? That's something
Speaker 1: none of us in this room could ever understand, and
Speaker 1: that that us what's motivating him to save democracy, Okay,
Speaker 1: by preserving our right to have Neo Nazis called me
Speaker 1: a cock, so you call me. He's better. Let the
Speaker 1: free market save this company that's not profitable. But speaking
Speaker 1: on Twitter, the only trend that matters this week is
Speaker 1: the World Cup. Okay, yeah, I'm sorry. And every day,
Speaker 1: every trend, every trending topic is someone versus someone Usa,
Speaker 1: uss Iran, moroccos Is, Belgium. You can't see anything but
Speaker 1: World Cup hashtags. Okay, it's so bad. I don't even
Speaker 1: know who Pete. Pete Davidson is fed right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's how unclear my feet is. It's just buried on
Speaker 1: the inane soccer tweets from idiots like this guy. You
Speaker 1: see this, Look at this Lionel messie. What a player?
Speaker 1: Do we need this? Do we need this? What a player?
Speaker 1: What a tweet? What a discovery? Oh my god, this
Speaker 1: guy should quit his job and become a soccer scout
Speaker 1: whoever he is, because he's got a real eye for
Speaker 1: finding the best player in the world for the last
Speaker 1: two decades. Listen, Pete Davidson could be happy based right
Speaker 1: now and I wouldn't even know because of trash like
Speaker 1: this cluttering up my feed. Anyway, I gotta go. My
Speaker 1: mom just sent me a video of me as a
Speaker 1: baby playing in the forest or something. I gotta go
Speaker 1: watch this all right, back to you, Trevor Ronnie chaging everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm sorry to hear that much for that,
Speaker 1: And you should check out MESSI. He's pretty amazing. All right,
Speaker 1: we come back. Michael Costa will give you the secret
Speaker 1: to getting rich, So don't go away the Day show.
Speaker 1: You know, with the global economy looking shaky, you may
Speaker 1: be wondering where you can safely invest your money. Well,
Speaker 1: Michael Costa has you covered with an opportunity you can't miss.
Speaker 1: When you think of successful markets that have thrived during
Speaker 1: the pandemic while so many others have perished, you think
Speaker 1: of Zoom, Amazon, Sweatpants, and Haunted Dolls. That's right, Haunted
Speaker 1: dolls are big right now. Now. I'm not usually in
Speaker 1: a cult guy, but to survive in this economy, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to make a deal with the undead. But first
Speaker 1: I had to find out more about the business. And
Speaker 1: who better to teach me than Cat Blowers, the number
Speaker 1: one seller of haunted dolls on ebaying. Be scared of demons,
Speaker 1: to be scared of negative energy. But other than that,
Speaker 1: if you're interested, you should jump in with both feet.
Speaker 1: You are literally in the business of ghosting people. When
Speaker 1: did you notice that the haunted doll business was skyrocketing
Speaker 1: and that you are basically the Jeff Bezos of haunted dolls.
Speaker 1: I started and there was only a few shops. Now
Speaker 1: there's probably fifty sixty shops for haunted dollars. How many
Speaker 1: dolls would you say you've sold in the last year,
Speaker 1: probably a thousand. There's money in this, there is. I've
Speaker 1: seen a haunted doll go for four thousand dollars. Okay,
Speaker 1: now cost is into it. But my big question, aside
Speaker 1: from how can I hide four thousand dollars of doll
Speaker 1: sales from the I R S is what made a
Speaker 1: haunted doll a haunted doll? According to haunted doll sellers,
Speaker 1: any doll that was inhabited by the soul of a
Speaker 1: dead person was prime for selling. But what made one
Speaker 1: haunting more expensive than another. When you say haunted for me,
Speaker 1: that sounds scary. You're also saying that there's a positive, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I try to keep most of my stuff on
Speaker 1: the positive side. The baby with its legs ripped, Actually,
Speaker 1: that one's not that positive. What if it's like a
Speaker 1: really evil spirit. I actually do charge a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I don't want the little young kids to be able
Speaker 1: to afford it. You can sell a human soul on
Speaker 1: There was a band who was selling too many human souls.
Speaker 1: You have to have a disclaimer if a ghost caused
Speaker 1: you to murder your wife. Isn't capitalism fascinating? It can be.
Speaker 1: That's about of the business. And people send them to me,
Speaker 1: and right now I have a two and a half
Speaker 1: year waiting list or evaluations. Yeah what write down everything
Speaker 1: you know about the dolls? So when I opened the box,
Speaker 1: I know what I'm dealing with, and uh, talk to
Speaker 1: you in two and a half years. The rest of
Speaker 1: the business is people contacting me looking for a haunted doll.
Speaker 1: Are you looking for a little kid? Are you looking
Speaker 1: for something that's going to challenge you? Are you looking
Speaker 1: for something that's going to scare your neighbors? There's spirits
Speaker 1: that will motivate you to do work. Their spirits that
Speaker 1: will attract money to your house. There's spirits that will
Speaker 1: attract love. Wow, clearly Katherine was selling these haunted little hotcakes.
Speaker 1: But who are the everyday folks buying these haunted dolls? Hi? Oh,
Speaker 1: I I know it's you, I know you. Yep, the
Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels. Stormy's doll Susan was purchased in two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven and is said to be cursed with a uniquely
Speaker 1: malevolent spirit. We believe Susan belonged to a little girl
Speaker 1: who died in and it definitely had something to do
Speaker 1: with the stomach issue. Before we even started shooting, the
Speaker 1: producer on set here wanted to touch her, and you said,
Speaker 1: don't do that, you'll shoot your pants. Yes, three people
Speaker 1: that I slept with in a row she attacked. They
Speaker 1: had stomach problems and back issues pretty much immediately. She's
Speaker 1: more mischievous than Militia's. I've never felt like I was
Speaker 1: in danger. What has Susan added to your life? She
Speaker 1: adds protection when you go into these places that could
Speaker 1: be dangerous. Okay, but is Susan really worth that much?
Speaker 1: I have been offered her once and ten tho dollars
Speaker 1: for her once, but she is not for sale. She
Speaker 1: has her own TV show. She's on v H one's
Speaker 1: Real Life. Anyone who follows her Instagram will not. This
Speaker 1: little plastic bitch has been on yachts and Ferrari's. Is
Speaker 1: that her handle? This little plastic bitch should be? Would
Speaker 1: you say she's living her best afterlife? She is definitely
Speaker 1: living her best afterlife. So I went back to KAT
Speaker 1: to learn about the highly scientific analysis process used to
Speaker 1: identify a haunted doll. So bells okay. After studying the
Speaker 1: extensive tools needed and the strict procedure, what if the
Speaker 1: ups guy rings the doorbell? That screws it up? I
Speaker 1: knew if I was serious about getting into the business
Speaker 1: of haunted dolls, the next step had to be trying
Speaker 1: out the haunted product to see what all the fuss
Speaker 1: is about. Her name is Jennifer. She is about seven
Speaker 1: or eight years old, and we think she was murdered.
Speaker 1: Is it safe to say that she was killed by
Speaker 1: a white man? Yes? Probably absolutely the white men lately?
Speaker 1: What would Jennifer cost for someone? Sucks? Sixty seventy bucks? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Jennifer. Uh, sorry, you got murdered. So I
Speaker 1: left with my free trial named Jennifer, and I took
Speaker 1: a bit your diary to record my feedback. Hey, so
Speaker 1: day one with Jennifer. I don't know if I really
Speaker 1: get it yet. The only thing I can report. Have
Speaker 1: had some violent dreams. There was a river of blood
Speaker 1: and there was stabbing, but still better than what I
Speaker 1: was given about before, which was the state of this country.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm starting to get it a little bit.
Speaker 1: Did you make this for me? I don't know if
Speaker 1: she's following me or if I just bring her everywhere.
Speaker 1: I can't do this with you watching. Thank you. The
Speaker 1: soul of this doll has excellent comedic timing. It's just
Speaker 1: great having someone around who laughs at jokes. She is
Speaker 1: a haunted doll, and I know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: it sounds crazy, but it's just it's it's wonderful. Nice
Speaker 1: to me. You nice to me. I'm gonna kill you,
Speaker 1: just kidding U. The trial. The trial is over and
Speaker 1: I can't get into this business. Sending Jennifer back to
Speaker 1: Katherine is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Jennifer,
Speaker 1: you gotta go get in the box. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much about Michael. I say tuned because when we come back,
Speaker 1: the legendary Pam Brea will be joining a righty on
Speaker 1: the show. But I'll go away. Welcome back to your
Speaker 1: Daily Show, my guests. Tonight is an iconic actor you
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Speaker 1: I'm not leaving life, no, but I I look forward
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Speaker 1: life and your journey. There are a few human beings
Speaker 1: who have lived it almost feels like a hundred lives
Speaker 1: in one lifetime. You know it's guffy and for its
Speaker 1: gonna happened to me? Come on, are you kidding me
Speaker 1: to be the first week I'm off the turnip truck
Speaker 1: literally I get to sing back up with Bobby Womack.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, I have a friend that has is
Speaker 1: recorded rink tomorrow night. Now I'm I'm I'm I'm literally
Speaker 1: sleeping in a girlage trying to get into film school
Speaker 1: at U C. L a. Okay, okay, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: seeing for working for a Sylvester Stewart footy cat. What
Speaker 1: kind of Sylvester name is that? Okay, Okay, I can
Speaker 1: do it. I can do it. I say gospel and Denver,
Speaker 1: I play keyboards. So I go CBS and and and
Speaker 1: the the the director and the manager says, have you
Speaker 1: sung with Wonder love before? With wonder what? Stevie wonders back, No,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm poor, and I live in Colorado and
Speaker 1: I've come out here to go to school. And he says, okay,
Speaker 1: well tell se best you want to meet him? Okay,
Speaker 1: So he walks over to this big window in a
Speaker 1: slide slide in the family stone fro based you know,
Speaker 1: Chammy on drums in the back, Buddy Miles. He had
Speaker 1: already started a band of Gypsy. So I get to sing,
Speaker 1: go to sleep. Elevator opens. Here's three guys in the elevator,
Speaker 1: A big black dude in the center with a hat
Speaker 1: and two white dudes on the side walking down the hallway. Animal,
Speaker 1: I smell Petulio. It's it's Jimmy Hendrix. What and the
Speaker 1: band of Gypsy is coming to jam with slide in
Speaker 1: the family stone. Where are the tapes? What? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: he goes in here. But you know, hey, butter Man
Speaker 1: like I'm like a zombie, Like, don't don't be stupid, Pam.
Speaker 1: You got she can sing, she's kind, she don't don't
Speaker 1: pay any attention to her. And they started jam and
Speaker 1: where are the tapes? Come on? Now? That's I couldn't
Speaker 1: plan that. Can you imagine? I don't know, Maybe you
Speaker 1: can find that. I feel like every story in your
Speaker 1: life is this, you know, like, like you said, you
Speaker 1: grew up in a world where you poor, you didn't
Speaker 1: have much. You come into this world, you're trying to
Speaker 1: do something. You start creating this something. You're singing with people,
Speaker 1: You're you're going out with legends and icons. You you're
Speaker 1: becoming friends with them, you're working with them, you're creating,
Speaker 1: and you become the legend and the icon. I would
Speaker 1: love to know when you've been part of this documentary
Speaker 1: that looks back on your life. You know, when we're
Speaker 1: living life, oftentimes we don't take stock of every single
Speaker 1: thing that we've experienced. But when you get to hear
Speaker 1: it back to you, when you get to tell it again,
Speaker 1: sometimes you appreciate it even more. I would. I would
Speaker 1: love to know when you look at it again, what
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest moments, not of success, but
Speaker 1: where you go. Wow. I cannot believe that I lived
Speaker 1: through that moment in my career. I lived through Richard Pryor. Wow.
Speaker 1: I really loved him and he loved me. He thought
Speaker 1: I was a funny bitch around his horse Ginger from
Speaker 1: the mud Bone folklore. Yes, the horse was injured, and
Speaker 1: I come from Western stock horses and grew up the
Speaker 1: horses safe and my family and I had to take
Speaker 1: him to the vet. But I didn't have a truck
Speaker 1: or a horse trailer. Richard's in a bathroom crying. He's
Speaker 1: gonna kill every mother around and I'm like, no, you
Speaker 1: don't have to kill anybody. We're gonna put the horse
Speaker 1: in my jaguere he says, But it's a it's a
Speaker 1: jag it's a four door x J L Banana yellow.
Speaker 1: You said you put the horse, and put the horse
Speaker 1: in the back seat of the jack. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna gonna pull it, and you push, Richard. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get the horse in the jaguar. We get through us
Speaker 1: and the Jaguar. The shocks go boom, the tires go boom,
Speaker 1: and get in the car, Richard with your Ashley ankles
Speaker 1: in your bag. Car, Okay, we're getting a car. We're
Speaker 1: driving down the four or five Yes way, and and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like the cars the fishtail and
Speaker 1: all over the place with a horse in the back
Speaker 1: and and white people saying there's two Negroes in the
Speaker 1: car with the with a horse in the back seat
Speaker 1: of an English car to jag and and and we're
Speaker 1: all over and they're saying, where's the vet words of
Speaker 1: and follow us, follow us, And so we've got it.
Speaker 1: I've got a train of people. Shoot your train, following
Speaker 1: following us to the vet with the horse in the
Speaker 1: back seat to get you know, I'm gonna sable horse.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save a lot. I love that. And we
Speaker 1: get there and Richard said, baby, you're the funniest bitch
Speaker 1: I've ever known. You're funny. That saved your life. And
Speaker 1: and he realized that I loved him and I didn't
Speaker 1: want him to fall off the wagon because he was
Speaker 1: trying to get his you know, stuff together, And I
Speaker 1: would do anything when you when you really love someone,
Speaker 1: when you you don't abandon people you love. You abandoned
Speaker 1: people you're using and I never used him. What do
Speaker 1: you what do you think it was about you that
Speaker 1: immunized you from a world where you've talked about this,
Speaker 1: you know, in your biography, and you talked about this
Speaker 1: in your stories. So many of the people around you
Speaker 1: who were brilliant, they were icons, they were changing, they
Speaker 1: were geniuses, but but they were also addicted to drugs,
Speaker 1: drugs with really you know, destroying who they were. Many
Speaker 1: people going to rehab, some never making it out. And
Speaker 1: yet you you managed to escape so much of that.
Speaker 1: What do you think it was about you? I can't
Speaker 1: drink gin. I'm part Native American that Jennifer Barry makes
Speaker 1: my brains. But I remember at my debutante ball, I
Speaker 1: had a slow gin fizz and I wasn't supposed to
Speaker 1: have it. And I remember someone said they saw me
Speaker 1: jumping off a table in my mom's wedding dress, fighting
Speaker 1: duking it out. Um. I think I because I've had
Speaker 1: four attacks when it's a child, and then again at
Speaker 1: seven and then in an eighteen and then twenty. I
Speaker 1: thought a family trauma many of you know about from
Speaker 1: my book, and um, I found my pain is deep,
Speaker 1: but my joy is infinite. And I find such joy
Speaker 1: in watching these geniuses escape their genius. It's scary. You
Speaker 1: can't repeat that. Who's gonna play Miles Davis again? Which
Speaker 1: is brew on a chart? Who's gonna do that? Nobody
Speaker 1: who's gonna do a lot of the music that's done
Speaker 1: today and it's not being written because it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be played years from now. That's genius and you have
Speaker 1: to play it over and over and over again in
Speaker 1: your show every night or at a concert. It's what
Speaker 1: do you do? Take the fear and anxiety way, I
Speaker 1: can do it. I created, I gotta do it again
Speaker 1: eight shows a week. That's a test for yourself and
Speaker 1: your discipline. And you've got this out here, it's it's
Speaker 1: hard to keep it out there. What genius that you created?
Speaker 1: Note by note, bar by bar Everyone who writes classical
Speaker 1: music pages but Alliameser It's like, yeah, they're gonna do
Speaker 1: something because they're gonna have to re create that or
Speaker 1: sell it to someone. And so when you do that,
Speaker 1: and when they say, well, who's gonna fill my shoes?
Speaker 1: I said, it can be filed because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of women that come up to me and say, Pam,
Speaker 1: thank you. I was criticized for being a tomboy. You know,
Speaker 1: you and a tomboy. You're a girly girl and it's okay.
Speaker 1: But just be the best that you can be. That's
Speaker 1: what makes you so legendaries. You you forged the path,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know how many people will be
Speaker 1: inspired by it. And now you're there on the other
Speaker 1: end tying it up again, forging the path for the next.
Speaker 1: Pam Grid, thank you so much for joining me on
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you for being here. Congratulations on the story,
Speaker 1: on your bottle, quick on your life. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: so much. Pam Bread, everybody gonna think quick break over
Speaker 1: right after this. Thank you so much. Thank you. Well,
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