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Speaker 1: so we need to get into the headlines. Um, we're
Speaker 1: we're gonna begin with more fallout from the killing of
Speaker 1: Tyree Nichols because the story is certainly not over. A
Speaker 1: seventh cop got suspended and two E M T s
Speaker 1: and a firetruck driver. They were fired for not helping
Speaker 1: Tyree fast enough. But the real sign of this story
Speaker 1: is not going anywhere anytime soon. Is that Tucker Caston,
Speaker 1: You know, the grown dude with the banks. This dude
Speaker 1: keeps finding stupid ship to say. The race riots, of course,
Speaker 1: were never about George Floyd. Obviously, that's where there no
Speaker 1: statues of him in American cities. This dude is so
Speaker 1: obsessed with black people, I'm gonna start calling him sickle
Speaker 1: sale looking at the un and that's not funny. We
Speaker 1: need to be clear. If George Floyd didn't get a statue,
Speaker 1: it might be because to get a statue in this country,
Speaker 1: you've got to do some pretty horrible ship to black people.
Speaker 1: Like you can get one for slaughtering three black prisoners
Speaker 1: during the Civil War. You can get one for conducting
Speaker 1: medical experiments on the slave black women without anesthesia. And
Speaker 1: the last guy, he got a statue without killing black people,
Speaker 1: but he did beat the ship up Apollo Creed. That
Speaker 1: was rocky, so uh, and then drago kill rocket he
Speaker 1: got a statue. I was at messing, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was shock Chucker to know that they're
Speaker 1: they're actually that George Floyd does have statues all around
Speaker 1: the country, but you didn't recognize them because that looks
Speaker 1: like LeVar Burton right there. He fell off and he
Speaker 1: didn't get that Jeopardy gig. That's crazy. Are y'all gonna
Speaker 1: be with me or not? Let's pick a side. You're
Speaker 1: you're the you in. You have to pick a side.
Speaker 1: That's she got, all right, Let's move on to more
Speaker 1: news the tech world. There were layoffs. Of course, every
Speaker 1: tech company is letting people go. There's Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook.
Speaker 1: I even saw Siri begging for changing the subway this morning.
Speaker 1: I was like, elected, when you get into the quarter
Speaker 1: of lead, it's open. I think I know where the
Speaker 1: line is now. And certainly there's no good way to
Speaker 1: fire your employees, but there's definitely some pretty bad way.
Speaker 1: There's one CEO Jeff found out. The CEO of a
Speaker 1: tech company based in San Francisco has posted an apology
Speaker 1: after she quoted Martin Luther King Jr. In a layoff
Speaker 1: letter sent to employees last week Page Your Duty. CEO
Speaker 1: Jennifer to Hatta sent the letter to employees announcing layoffs
Speaker 1: on Thursday, Towards the end of the letter to Hotta,
Speaker 1: closed with the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Saying
Speaker 1: in part time reminded at moments like this is something.
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King said that the ultimate measure of a
Speaker 1: leader is not where they stand in the moments of
Speaker 1: comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of
Speaker 1: challenge and controversy. Who gets fired with Martin King quotes
Speaker 1: like I've been to the mountaintop and they ain't highing either.
Speaker 1: I have a dream and you can too, because there
Speaker 1: ain't no reason for you to give up early anymore.
Speaker 1: So free a last, free a lass here, just seven package.
Speaker 1: You are free a lands. But to be fair, um.
Speaker 1: She did find a way to say that she was
Speaker 1: sorry after facing negative feedback to how to post it
Speaker 1: an apology letter to the company's website, saying, quote, there
Speaker 1: are a number of things I would do differently if
Speaker 1: I could. The quote I included from Dr Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Jr. Was inappropriate and insensitive. I am sorry. After
Speaker 1: the King thing didn't work, she went to the words
Speaker 1: of Adolph Hitler and said, I blame the Jews. Hey,
Speaker 1: come on, mother, I'm not Kanye's a Jew we're like
Speaker 1: and I think of Hitler. There are some people in
Speaker 1: Ohio who are getting in big trouble for their ideas
Speaker 1: on what to teach children. Multiple online news sources are
Speaker 1: reporting that an Ohio cup was supplying Nazi approved material
Speaker 1: for homeschooling. New details aren't emerging tonight about an online
Speaker 1: channel called Dissident Homeschool. The channel already has more than
Speaker 1: two thousand subscribers, according to Yahoo News. It includes ready
Speaker 1: made lesson plans on various subjects like Confederate General Robert E.
Speaker 1: Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. Who they say is
Speaker 1: the antithesis of our civilization and our people. It also
Speaker 1: includes things like print outs so students can learn to
Speaker 1: write Adolf Hitler quotes in cursive, and tips to quote
Speaker 1: avoid Jewish media content. Wow, um antithesis. I gotta g D.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? I don't want to body calling
Speaker 1: me a name. I don't understand. Like, homeschool kids are
Speaker 1: already weird enough. You don't want to add good stepping
Speaker 1: to the program. That's crazy, all right? So for more
Speaker 1: on this school, let's go to a Daisy Laddic who
Speaker 1: live who's live in Ohio how the Pan's feeling about
Speaker 1: this story. They are furious to you, as am I.
Speaker 1: These lesson plans are shocking. They teach hate, they teach racism,
Speaker 1: they teach cursive. It's disgusting. Was that last one cursive?
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Can you imagine in American children
Speaker 1: learning cursive? It's useless. The only acceptable time to use
Speaker 1: cursive is when you're forging a bank signature. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: your problem with the Nazi school is that they're teaching cursive. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not my only problem. Nazism is one
Speaker 1: of the world's most evil ideologies. But have you seen
Speaker 1: hersive to you? I mean, look at how you're supposed
Speaker 1: to write a queue? What is that? Is it a queue?
Speaker 1: It's a two? All these Nazis are going to accidentally
Speaker 1: join two and on And look at the g It
Speaker 1: looks like a diagram of my least favorite sexual position.
Speaker 1: You all know, the one. I think the bigger danger
Speaker 1: is that the school is spreading Nazi ideas, not if
Speaker 1: they're writing those ideas out in cursive. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not going to get the message out here. Look what
Speaker 1: I wrote about the Jews. All I'm saying here is
Speaker 1: squiggle loop loop reverse cow Girl. What oh, I'm the
Speaker 1: only one day? Uh, Danny. I don't think cursive is
Speaker 1: the problem. I don't know how to write in cursive
Speaker 1: like a Nazi. For your sake, I really hope you've
Speaker 1: just been forging bank signatures. You know what, forget it
Speaker 1: dead the lighted everyone. We're gonna take a quick right.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, John Clapper will check in
Speaker 1: on Trunk's new campaign, and we're gonna want to move back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. And of course, last weekend,
Speaker 1: I Don't Trump his first campaign stops of presidential race.
Speaker 1: Jordan Clapper followed him there for another episode of Fingers
Speaker 1: the Pulse. This past weekend, Donald Trump finally hit the
Speaker 1: campaign trap. So I headed down to South Carolina for
Speaker 1: what was originally permitted as a bug a rally but
Speaker 1: later downgraded to it. It's an event. What is this event?
Speaker 1: Trump rally? It is a rally, I'd say it was.
Speaker 1: It's not a rally. It's somewhat of a rally, but
Speaker 1: it's not a big rally. Now I thought it was
Speaker 1: a rally. It's not a rally. It's a bunch of
Speaker 1: people standing in line, it's an event, it's a list,
Speaker 1: it's invited list only. This is a private event that
Speaker 1: v ips have been invited to. Yes, only, heavily vetted
Speaker 1: v i p s were invited. Like this guy, Sombrero
Speaker 1: Trumps Long South Carolina Sombrero Trump. Yes, it's not a rally,
Speaker 1: it's a leadership form. Former leadership teams see a guy
Speaker 1: like this. I think this guy has got two dates
Speaker 1: circled out his calendar Zigo to male at January six.
Speaker 1: This kicks off this pack with classic style and classic takes.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is president right now, he's currently the president,
Speaker 1: is still president. There's a lot of things that this
Speaker 1: Biden person does not have, like the president to steal
Speaker 1: and things like that that they're pretty obvious. Biden doesn't
Speaker 1: have the presidential seal. When he speaks, there's a presidential
Speaker 1: seal in front of him. It's not real. What is
Speaker 1: he doing as president? He is in charge of the military. Great,
Speaker 1: the military is in charge of his whole thing. Military
Speaker 1: were put in charge when President Trump signed an executive
Speaker 1: order the American military arms that are going to Ukraine.
Speaker 1: We have Donald Trump to think for that. That's there's two.
Speaker 1: There's two militaries. There's a good and a bad. So
Speaker 1: there's two militaries. Donald Trump's in charge of the good one,
Speaker 1: Biden's in charge of the bad military. It's exactly right. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: there were sub supporters who still believe in election cycle
Speaker 1: is actually necessary and we're serious about planning for a
Speaker 1: long campaign. It's just been doing a lot of preparations,
Speaker 1: a lot of tests in the waters and do you
Speaker 1: know just watching normal talking to advisors, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Nick Twente's Kanye West like the minds that are gonna
Speaker 1: shape the point of view of this whole trampaign. The
Speaker 1: original Trump brand is still strong, honey guy uh mr.
Speaker 1: And the looting starts, that's when the shooting starts. But
Speaker 1: a new election cycle could be a different tone. What
Speaker 1: are you seeing that is different about Trump and his
Speaker 1: tone with this kind of an event. I think it's
Speaker 1: more elevated. He's at a more kind of a mature level.
Speaker 1: How everybody's got all their advisors. It's almost like he's
Speaker 1: finally listening to his a little bit. As far as
Speaker 1: totally comments down, are you noticing even the MAGA community
Speaker 1: being great serious in respectable If you watch the conservative rhetoric,
Speaker 1: it looks like you still love America. Conservative rhetorics still
Speaker 1: respects positions of power in this country, our police, our military,
Speaker 1: our executive branch. Exactly what's your hat sack? I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I could ship a better president. This camp Paide is
Speaker 1: already attacking Biden's approach to the war in Ukraine, while
Speaker 1: laude Trump's brilliant yet still theoretical approach would have never
Speaker 1: ever gone in and even now I could solve that
Speaker 1: in twenty four hours. Club says he could pick up
Speaker 1: the phone and end this thing in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: What actually would he say? He'd kind of be that
Speaker 1: that kind of tone to him, you think, totally knock
Speaker 1: it off, Mike Cower, Vladimir Putin because he knows Trump
Speaker 1: stands up and says, hey, I'm gonna do this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it. The you wish Biden would threaten nuclear war? No, no,
Speaker 1: no strong stance of hey stop doing this, okay, or
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta have you gotta have a rattle
Speaker 1: behind that saber, which is troops. But you don't want
Speaker 1: to do troops because than you have all that war right,
Speaker 1: So what would it be? Threat of it? The threat
Speaker 1: of troops correctly, do you want Trump to get into
Speaker 1: office and promised to put troops into that war. No,
Speaker 1: I wanted to stop it verbally because you don't want
Speaker 1: military into it, because then it escalate. He said verbally,
Speaker 1: you have to have some sort of backup, correct, So
Speaker 1: you want Trump to have that backup, which would be
Speaker 1: not troops. No, he has the troops. Would support troops
Speaker 1: being sent in. You don't want to send troops in.
Speaker 1: It seems like a complicated situation. It is very complicated.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for some of these dud rally goers, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be that complicated. I haven't seen any any
Speaker 1: news reports about, you know, this terrible war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Where do you get your news on news Max? And
Speaker 1: they haven't covered it at all. I think that there's
Speaker 1: no war to cover. I think the whole thing is fabricated,
Speaker 1: and I think that Zelinsky, who's the president of Ukraine,
Speaker 1: I believe that this is all extortion money. I spent
Speaker 1: a little time in Hungary and I met people who
Speaker 1: were coming from Ukraine to try to find safe haven.
Speaker 1: Their actual refugees fleeing what they said was a war zone.
Speaker 1: Were they I just think they might be actors. As
Speaker 1: far as I know, I believe that they might be actors.
Speaker 1: All of those people I met in Hungary, those are refugees.
Speaker 1: I believe that the government is paying them to do that.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of actors. That's a sad gang. That's
Speaker 1: gonna cost you billions. And if this is the Trump
Speaker 1: campaign's first round of indvites, America isn't for a sweet,
Speaker 1: sweet ride thanks to doing alright? Thanks soon, because when
Speaker 1: we come back, he Da Morton will be going much
Speaker 1: on the show, and you do not want to go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My next guest is
Speaker 1: a Grammy Award winning songwriter, singer, producer and keyboardists from
Speaker 1: The Room Five, here to talk about his latest solo album,
Speaker 1: Watch the Sun. Please welcome p J. Morten. You are
Speaker 1: man right, you know. I don't need to remind you
Speaker 1: to you and he is here, so you're the world
Speaker 1: is watching right now literally literally, Um you are. You've
Speaker 1: got a lot of jobs, right, so you're gonna work
Speaker 1: no matter what. So you suppose some singer, songwriter, producer
Speaker 1: out of all of them, which one is your favorite? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, performer. I really love getting in front of
Speaker 1: people and seeing all the work and all the you know,
Speaker 1: you put all of this into the songs, really seeing
Speaker 1: it in real life, in real time performing and always
Speaker 1: be my favorite, I think. But but you and you you,
Speaker 1: you're a couple of different gybres. One is of course
Speaker 1: R and B and the other is gospel. What's the
Speaker 1: difference between, Like do you just like put Jesus in
Speaker 1: more songs? Like yeah, you know, I actually consider myself
Speaker 1: a soul artist, you know, soul music, which, um, I
Speaker 1: think that that foundation of church. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily uh as an artist who explicitly gospel song.
Speaker 1: You know, when the song is gonna be a gospel
Speaker 1: song as opposed to one that is more secular. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that comes from the same place for me. Um,
Speaker 1: talking about the love for love for a person and
Speaker 1: love for God comes from the same place for me.
Speaker 1: So it's not until I start speaking, you know, saying
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Uh, you know, that's when
Speaker 1: I know what it is. But no, it doesn't start
Speaker 1: that way. Like something sounds gospel can easily be an
Speaker 1: R and B song from because because I mean I
Speaker 1: don't go to church, because cover charge is too high.
Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, you need Jesus. But then I got
Speaker 1: that from you. If yeah, I'll started going to church
Speaker 1: when church came on TV on Sunday, Like I can
Speaker 1: stay right here and again. But but I think it's
Speaker 1: important because I think that one of the things that
Speaker 1: happens with music, whether it's you know, a secular or gospel,
Speaker 1: is that it inspires you. Like, if it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be great music, it makes you want to dance, that's
Speaker 1: that's a classification. But if it makes you want to
Speaker 1: praise the Lord, then that's a different thing. Um. But
Speaker 1: they all come from this well spring, like like you
Speaker 1: have this well spring that you that is that based
Speaker 1: on experiences or do you just kind of for me?
Speaker 1: You know, I like the songs to be a reflection
Speaker 1: of life, you know, and my life and tells all
Speaker 1: of that. It tells love and tells the weather being nice,
Speaker 1: you know, and it tells my faith. So I talk
Speaker 1: about all those things and pull from them as as
Speaker 1: I see fit. Or really I say, the music tells
Speaker 1: me what to say, you know, so you already know
Speaker 1: what the music? Yeah. Once the once I start with
Speaker 1: the music and start to hear the melody. Then it
Speaker 1: starts kind of tell me what it's saying, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm just a vessel at that point, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to say what I feel in here. You you
Speaker 1: were You talked about how you were inspired doing the quarantine,
Speaker 1: Like doing that that was a really rough time for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, Like spending that much time with
Speaker 1: your family, Um, yeah, because they're stranger, Like, um, spending
Speaker 1: much that much time away from everything, being with your family,
Speaker 1: off the stage, not being able to go to a
Speaker 1: studio some people didn't have. For some people, there wasn't
Speaker 1: a creative track to take, but you you found it
Speaker 1: to be. Now, I feel I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: cheat code. Like sometimes I feel guilty for having that
Speaker 1: ability to release like that. I mean, I was able
Speaker 1: to go inward, um in such a tough time. But
Speaker 1: then I think the flip side of that is, um,
Speaker 1: I'm able to speak for a lot of people who
Speaker 1: were going through that and be a voice for them,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what I feel like my job is.
Speaker 1: So I do have an advantage and having that release,
Speaker 1: but then I shared that advantage with the world. You know.
Speaker 1: I write jokes, I write books, But one thing about
Speaker 1: songwriters being a songwriters like describing a sound. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's it's something like I can't even understand where it
Speaker 1: comes from. But um, when you think of all the
Speaker 1: songs you've written, like in the places you wore in
Speaker 1: all those songs, Um, what is the most inspirational one?
Speaker 1: What did you know? Like the song was already ready,
Speaker 1: you knew where everything went, Like you knew that this
Speaker 1: was going to be go to this thing and be
Speaker 1: in this place. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean currently
Speaker 1: I'm up for H for R and B Song of
Speaker 1: a Year, I think, And um, I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: it was the first song that I wrote on this
Speaker 1: specific album and it kind of wrote itself. It was
Speaker 1: one of those where it's like it's going so fast
Speaker 1: it can't just be me. You know. It was a
Speaker 1: rhythm so please don't walk Away as the name of
Speaker 1: that song, and um, it's a special one. Just I
Speaker 1: knew it immediately, Yeah, I knew it before it had
Speaker 1: before it had lyrics. It started it was speaking like
Speaker 1: we knew in the studio that it was special. Then
Speaker 1: the first thing I said it was like chills, you know.
Speaker 1: So it was one of those that just was moving
Speaker 1: on its own, and I'm always super grateful. You know,
Speaker 1: when you've ever done favorite ever? I mean right now,
Speaker 1: favorite ever is the one I'm doing here be like
Speaker 1: water uh, because that wait a minute he did. It's
Speaker 1: inspired by that and really inspired by that overall concept
Speaker 1: um And but Stevie Wonder is my hero and he's
Speaker 1: on that super yeah, and that that would have been enough,
Speaker 1: But then nas is also on that song with Stevie,
Speaker 1: So right now, that's my that's my favorite song. Wait wait,
Speaker 1: you got nae Stevie and Jesus you can't lose man.
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