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Speaker 1: Everyone that's hear this, We've got a ready great show
Speaker 1: for you tonight. Joe Biden is beefing with Mexico's presidents,
Speaker 1: Congress is trying to do something about guns, and the
Speaker 1: price of gas is still rising. So the next Fast
Speaker 1: and Furious is just gonna be Vin Diesel giving piggyback
Speaker 1: rides to everybody, but only for family plus. Really excited
Speaker 1: about this. Our guest tonight is the creator of one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing Broadway shows ever created, nominated for
Speaker 1: eleven Tony Awards. Michael R. Jackson is gonna be joining us.
Speaker 1: So let's do these people. Let's sun streat at today's headlines.
Speaker 1: Let's kick things off with the price of gas a
Speaker 1: K A petrol, a K A car cocaine. There are
Speaker 1: a few commodities out there that affect the cost of
Speaker 1: living more than gas. You know, it's how we get
Speaker 1: to work, it's how we ship products across the country,
Speaker 1: and that's how we let our X know that we
Speaker 1: busted them cheating. Now, I don't need to tell you
Speaker 1: that over the past few months, the price of gas
Speaker 1: has been climbing faster than your grandpa's heart rate on viagraph.
Speaker 1: In fact, gas is so expensive instead of champagne, boilers
Speaker 1: have started ordering canasas of premium at the club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, baby, baby, that club was really lit.
Speaker 1: And as the national average in America hits five dollars
Speaker 1: a gallon for the first time ever, people all over
Speaker 1: the country are doing whatever they can to stretch a
Speaker 1: tank as far as they can for a nation that
Speaker 1: feels like it's stuck right now, when gas gridlock, many
Speaker 1: drivers aren't sitting idle with soaring costs. They're getting creative
Speaker 1: that My salary hasn't changed, so I carpool hit my
Speaker 1: sister to work. One week she drives in the one
Speaker 1: week I drive. I just bought the motorcycle now for
Speaker 1: twenty bucks I used like for three days before days.
Speaker 1: It saves me a lot at a time. Gas prices
Speaker 1: are so high, bike sales are exploding. I've moved to
Speaker 1: the city, I don't need my car can for gas,
Speaker 1: and even Google Maps is your friend with an option
Speaker 1: to navigate based on fewer hills and traffic. Even police
Speaker 1: departments are understrained this she can Sheriff's office is feeling
Speaker 1: the pain at the pump as well, according to its
Speaker 1: Facebook post, and has advised deputies to manage non urgent
Speaker 1: calls over the phone. Well well, well, I guess Joe
Speaker 1: Biden did end up defunding the police. Yes, the secret
Speaker 1: it's just defunding everyone at the same time, so we
Speaker 1: didn't notice. I see you, Joe, very slick. But yeah,
Speaker 1: gas prices are so high even police have to do
Speaker 1: their jobs over the phone, which you gotta admit is
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for some cops. You know. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna be like, all right, sir, are you black? Okay,
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna have to ask you to whoop your
Speaker 1: own ass a little bit. Yeah, just risk yourself for
Speaker 1: no reason, just to be safe. You know. He was
Speaker 1: actually gonna be hit the hottest by this, right, it's
Speaker 1: the Karen's Yeah, because they're the main people calling the
Speaker 1: cops with non urgent shits. But like, hell a police,
Speaker 1: there's a black man at the grocery store. Bryan tricks cereal,
Speaker 1: which is illegal because tricks are for kids. Hurry, hurry quickly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, all over the country, Americans are doing anything
Speaker 1: they can to save on gas, car pooling, switching to motorcycles. Ship.
Speaker 1: I pretended to be sick this morning just to get
Speaker 1: a free ambulance ride to work. It's definitely AIDS monkey
Speaker 1: poplic symbol. I don't think I'm gonna make it. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much longer I have. Oh wait, that's
Speaker 1: my office. You guys can put you can drop me
Speaker 1: off here. Yeah, I'm gonna pull through. I'm gonna pull through.
Speaker 1: You guys can pull over here. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'll see you guys tomorrow. All right, by back,
Speaker 1: by back, you know, for real. It's it's actually times
Speaker 1: like this that a lot of people are glad they
Speaker 1: live in New York City because you don't need to
Speaker 1: pay for gas here. All right, you can walk, you
Speaker 1: can ride a bike, you can take the subway. And
Speaker 1: then with all that money that you saved, not buying gas,
Speaker 1: you can afford a room the size of a coffin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in New York concrete jungle where you have ten roommates,
Speaker 1: there's no space or any of you. That was the
Speaker 1: verse they cut out of the song, but it goes
Speaker 1: to show you how desperate times are. America will do
Speaker 1: anything to save on gas right now. I mean not
Speaker 1: investing in mass transit obviously, but anything else, anything else,
Speaker 1: And that means we're gonna have to move on, because unfortunately,
Speaker 1: gas prices aren't the only problem affecting American people right now.
Speaker 1: And yes, I'm talking about guns, the never ending problem
Speaker 1: that America just can't seem to solve, which, now that
Speaker 1: I think about it, maybe America they shouldn't keep hitting
Speaker 1: the same brick. Well, maybe America can just use some
Speaker 1: of its problems to solve some of its other problems,
Speaker 1: you know, like like maybe the price of gas will
Speaker 1: get so high that mass shooters won't be able to
Speaker 1: drive to a gun scrope to buy weapons in the
Speaker 1: first place. You don't need red flag laws the gas
Speaker 1: before you got to the gallon. But until that happens,
Speaker 1: you won't make it. In Congress are trying to find
Speaker 1: any measure that can help reduce the amount of guns
Speaker 1: that end up in the hands of madmen. And yesterday
Speaker 1: the House took action. A major legislative package on new
Speaker 1: gun measures is headed to the Senate. After passing in
Speaker 1: the House yesterday by a two three to two hundred
Speaker 1: four vote, lawmakers approved the Protecting Our Kids Act. The
Speaker 1: legislation is a collection of six new gun safety measures,
Speaker 1: including raising the minimum age to buy semi automatic rifles
Speaker 1: from eighteen to one and requiring that all firearms be traceable.
Speaker 1: Five Republicans joined Democrats and also supported the bill. It is, however,
Speaker 1: unlikely to pass in the Senate, where control is evenly split.
Speaker 1: One Republican congressman who voted against the bill, Congressman Steve Scalie,
Speaker 1: explained his opposition to new gun control laws. I go
Speaker 1: back to September eleventh. Airplanes were used that day as
Speaker 1: the weapon to kill thousands of people and to inflict
Speaker 1: terror on our country. There wasn't a conversation about banning airplanes. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is a good point. I can't think of anyway
Speaker 1: flying changed after nine eleven. Now, if you'll excuse me,
Speaker 1: I have to get to the airport fifteen hours early,
Speaker 1: so the TS as time to on a background checking
Speaker 1: on my champoon to see if it has any links. Six.
Speaker 1: This is a terrible comparison. Nobody's trying to ban all guns.
Speaker 1: They're trying to add small measures to make people more safe,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what happened to air travel after nine eleven.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you even remember what airport security was like? Before?
Speaker 1: You could basically walk onto a plane and just browse
Speaker 1: around like it was an IKEA. Yeah, you could just
Speaker 1: be like, no, I don't have a ticket. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to check out the cockpit. This is nice because
Speaker 1: what does this do? Boop boo boop boop boop boop boo.
Speaker 1: This is fun alright, I have excited trap. But this
Speaker 1: is the problem, you see, this is the problem that
Speaker 1: gun loves having America. There's nothing else that is as
Speaker 1: unregulated as they want guns to be. Sore, the options
Speaker 1: and the like, the analogies that they use always don't
Speaker 1: make sense. There was like cars kill people too, but
Speaker 1: you don't regulate the wait, wait, actually I mean alcohol
Speaker 1: kills people too, but they wait, Actually, no way, Medicine
Speaker 1: kills people too, but we don't regulate or no, wait,
Speaker 1: we do. Let me think of guns killed people, but
Speaker 1: we don't regulate those. See what I did, That's I've
Speaker 1: gone back on myself. That's what I've done. But despite
Speaker 1: despite these dumbass objections from people like Steve Scalise, the
Speaker 1: House still passed a gun control bill. The only problem
Speaker 1: is that everyone already knows that it has zero chance
Speaker 1: of passing in the Senate, which has gotta be rough
Speaker 1: for the House. You know, you work so hard on
Speaker 1: something that you know is going to lose. You know,
Speaker 1: they're like the New York Knicks of legislation. Like what
Speaker 1: a weird system in America where one chamber of Congress
Speaker 1: spends all this time passing legislation that they know the
Speaker 1: other chamber is going to shoot down. It's such a
Speaker 1: strange system. Normal for America, crazy for most of the world.
Speaker 1: America is basically doing that thing that parents do with
Speaker 1: their kids, you know. You know those parents that are
Speaker 1: on the same page, Like you ask your dad, Dad,
Speaker 1: can we eat ice cream for dinner? And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: sounds good to me. But you've gotta ask your mom,
Speaker 1: And you know mom is gonna say no. So I
Speaker 1: should have just asked her, why are you even a
Speaker 1: part of this process? Well, if I got your mom
Speaker 1: on the record saying no, that I can run ads
Speaker 1: against her next year and then we can get a new,
Speaker 1: cooler mom. Yeah. But what's especially interesting to me is
Speaker 1: that as modest as this bill is, only five Republicans
Speaker 1: voted for, only five, and get this, four of them
Speaker 1: aren't running for re election. Yeah, which is really interesting
Speaker 1: time and time again. You see, whenever Republicans aren't worried
Speaker 1: about pandering to Trump voters, all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: make common sense decisions. And I'll be honest, this this
Speaker 1: has shown me something that like, maybe American needs to
Speaker 1: relook the process. Maybe people in Congress shouldn't get to
Speaker 1: be real acted. You just do one term and you're done.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, because then American's politicians would finally care
Speaker 1: more about governing as opposed to getting re elected. You know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the same way people in relationships
Speaker 1: finally tell the truth when they're breaking up, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, because the whole time you're worried
Speaker 1: about saving the relationship. But if you'ren't worried about that anymore,
Speaker 1: you become a lot more. Honest, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: You're like, well, it's gonna end anyway, so I might
Speaker 1: as well tell you now that you fought like a
Speaker 1: beat boxing machine and your sleeve Sarah the whole night back, Papa.
Speaker 1: Moving on, this week, Los Angeles is hosting the Summits
Speaker 1: of the America's because, contrary to popular belief, America isn't
Speaker 1: the only America in the world. Yeah, there are dozens
Speaker 1: of countries in North and South America, and every once
Speaker 1: in a while they get together to discuss issues that
Speaker 1: affect the entire region, and then they bitch about Christopher Columbus.
Speaker 1: But for this year's summits, the person most countries are
Speaker 1: bitching about is Joe Robinett and Biden drama before the
Speaker 1: diplomacy officially begins this week in Los Angeles, where President
Speaker 1: Biden will be hosting the Summit of the Americas, there
Speaker 1: is a significant snub. The president of Mexico has announced
Speaker 1: that he is refusing to attend the summit because the
Speaker 1: US is not inviting Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua over their
Speaker 1: lack of democratic values. But Mexico says the agenda of
Speaker 1: migration economics climate, and COVID is just too important to
Speaker 1: exclude any of the nations from this region. The White
Speaker 1: House counters that it believes that no dictator should be invited.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, Joe Biden has stopped a Mexican from
Speaker 1: coming to America. You know, wherever he is. Trump must
Speaker 1: be so piste off right now. He's that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is stealing my ideas. I'm the Mexican man. Mom. Well, seriously, too,
Speaker 1: is such a petty story. This is a meeting of
Speaker 1: the leaders of an entire hemisphere, but instead they sound
Speaker 1: like middle school mean girls. You know. It's just like, Hey, Mexico,
Speaker 1: I'm having a party and you can come, but don't
Speaker 1: tell Cuba and Venezuela and Nicaragua because they're not invited.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, America, it's so brave that you
Speaker 1: think you're cool enough to even throw a party, you bitch.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I will say this. I think we
Speaker 1: can all agree that Mexico is making a good point.
Speaker 1: America's stance on human rights violations seems a little inconsistent
Speaker 1: a right. Think about it. You won't even talk to
Speaker 1: Cuba and Nicaragua, but then you're gonna fly to Saudi
Speaker 1: Arabia and beg Prince Bone sort to release more oil. Huh.
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like America is a lot more
Speaker 1: tolerance of countries that have a little ch change. Is
Speaker 1: that what it is? In many ways, the American government
Speaker 1: is like a stripper. Yeah. Yeah, it's like if you
Speaker 1: ain't paying, they don't care about you. And I hope
Speaker 1: you know that Saudi Arabia, America is not actually into you.
Speaker 1: They're just saving up for college. That's all this is.
Speaker 1: It's not about to you, America. The transactions. Here's a thing.
Speaker 1: Here's a thing. Whether the US likes it or not,
Speaker 1: it is connected to these countries, right. They affect the
Speaker 1: United States, and the United States affects them. Don't you
Speaker 1: think it's weird that you're gonna be talking about migrants
Speaker 1: from Nicaragua, but then Nicaraguay is not going to be
Speaker 1: at that summit. I don't think it's strange. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like staging an intervention without the person there. You've
Speaker 1: got to get your life together, Barry, is what I
Speaker 1: would say. If Barry was here, I think this would
Speaker 1: have been good. Guys, This would have gotten through to him.
Speaker 1: It really would have been great. Where is Barry by
Speaker 1: the way, what drunk again? Well we tried, all right,
Speaker 1: that's over the headlines. But before we go, let's check
Speaker 1: it on the traffic without very own Roy would Jr.
Speaker 1: Everybody little knows what's up, Roy, We're happening. We're happening
Speaker 1: the place I'm just looking. Man, Ain't nothing happening. Ain't
Speaker 1: nobody out there gas cost you damn much? Everybody at home.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody on these roads today. Man, it's looking pretty
Speaker 1: looking pretty good there, you know. I'll be honest man
Speaker 1: with this is these gas prices. Man, I kind of
Speaker 1: it's got to be kind of rooting for monkey pox. Sorry,
Speaker 1: what how was traffic during the last shutdown? It was good,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? It was good the last pandeffic It wasn't
Speaker 1: no traffic. So bring back another pandific boom traffic fix
Speaker 1: problem solve. The gas prices are getting out of hand,
Speaker 1: Like I like, I kind of like the fact though
Speaker 1: that the police can't respond to every call. That's cool
Speaker 1: for now, but then when the emergency start really start
Speaker 1: piling up, then it's gonna be bad. Man. Eventually the
Speaker 1: police gonna help to start car pooling with the fire
Speaker 1: department and the avalance. They're gonna have to ride together. Like,
Speaker 1: the only way they're gonna come save you is if
Speaker 1: all three things are happening to you at the same time.
Speaker 1: Like if you get shot, you got to set something
Speaker 1: on fire, then they'll show up. They're gonna have to
Speaker 1: combine their vehicles. It's gonna get bad. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to come check on you. And a fire truck, ambulance cruiser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fire truck, ambulance cruiser. That's what all three police cruiser, ambulance,
Speaker 1: fire truck using boys and what's happening in the traffic. Boy,
Speaker 1: it's just just people going to Errand's. People are just
Speaker 1: going to and fro Man. It's just it's a beautiful thing. Man.
Speaker 1: It's just real quick about the gun loss stuff, the
Speaker 1: gun whatever they're trying to pass. Yeah, the gun safety,
Speaker 1: that's part of it, all right, Can we like that's
Speaker 1: the only solution to gun violence is gun regulating guns
Speaker 1: and a lot of different things contribute to gun violence
Speaker 1: this country. I agree. You start with the guns, but
Speaker 1: then you at communities, you you look at schooling, you
Speaker 1: look at eradicating poverty. I hear what you're saying, right,
Speaker 1: I don't talk about that. I'm talking about lonely white dudes.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about we gotta have legislation, Like every lonely
Speaker 1: white dude got to have a friend. We got to
Speaker 1: legislate friends for lonely white man. And I think that's
Speaker 1: how we get that's how we fix some of it,
Speaker 1: Like like it would be like jury duty, Like you
Speaker 1: think you gotta you think you can get to go
Speaker 1: out this week, but then you get a letter in
Speaker 1: the mail, report to Gary's basement, and you gotta be
Speaker 1: Gary's friend for a little while. Because then them them
Speaker 1: lonely white and ain't got no friends. Man, So we
Speaker 1: don't let the lonely white men not have a friend. Okay,
Speaker 1: but then but then one from a friend, every lonely
Speaker 1: white dude gets a friend. Yeah, don't take a group
Speaker 1: of friends. Yeah, but then, but then what if they
Speaker 1: put a lonely white man with another lonely white man.
Speaker 1: Then isn't that double dangerous. Oh that's called a militia.
Speaker 1: That's safer than a lonely white man. A militia is
Speaker 1: much safer than a lonely white man. Militia got uniform,
Speaker 1: They got a website, they got a schedule, they get permits,
Speaker 1: they that you know when they're gonna show up. Who
Speaker 1: would you rather do with a militia or a lone
Speaker 1: wolf militia. That's what I'm saying. That's what we need.
Speaker 1: We need to because we gotta do. Somebody got to
Speaker 1: talk to these white white dudes in person. We tried
Speaker 1: talking to him over the internet, but read it didn't work.
Speaker 1: It was a big failure. Okay, well, um, let's get
Speaker 1: the traffic right. It's just so beautiful when you're just scared.
Speaker 1: Let's get too. We got time. No, we ran out
Speaker 1: of time again for you. We got time. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: we just let me just know we we had we
Speaker 1: had just real quick. Okay, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 1: It's just so that guy's gonna have it wreck. You's
Speaker 1: going thank you so much? Right with you and everybody
Speaker 1: where we go. I want to find out what MAGA
Speaker 1: interactionists and black people have in common. You don't want
Speaker 1: to miss it. Talking about to the very show. Tonight's
Speaker 1: Congress officially launched a major round of hearings into the
Speaker 1: events of January six, Juneteenth for Trump supporters, the day
Speaker 1: when white people visited the Democracy store and demanded to
Speaker 1: speak to the manager. And by the way, there's still
Speaker 1: arresting people for this. You may not know that, but
Speaker 1: they are. In fact, just today they arrested a guy
Speaker 1: who's running for governor of Michigan because he also stormed
Speaker 1: the capitol. Yeah, and you know, that's definitely going to
Speaker 1: change the whole course of the election because now we
Speaker 1: know he's going to win the Republican nomination. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. And this is this is a
Speaker 1: new experience for a lot of these white people. You know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're finding out what it's like
Speaker 1: to be on the bad side of the police. And
Speaker 1: it turns out they do not like it one bit.
Speaker 1: The January six diffinite so are being treated differently on
Speaker 1: a whole another level. They are denied religious services, haircuts, shaving,
Speaker 1: the ability to trim their fingernails. Imagine a group of
Speaker 1: men being held in jail with no idea of when
Speaker 1: they're going to go to court, no ability to bail out,
Speaker 1: no ability to see their family. If you're Peter Navarro,
Speaker 1: they will literally pull you off of a plane, shackle you,
Speaker 1: and throw you in the brig I wand up in
Speaker 1: leg iyres. I wasn't allowed to call a lawyer, no food,
Speaker 1: no water, solitary confinement, illegal aliens to al Qaeda terrorists
Speaker 1: were treated better than I was. They actually followed him
Speaker 1: in the car to the airport to make a scene
Speaker 1: at the handcuffle. Um, why would they do that? It
Speaker 1: actually puts an exclamation point on the fact that we
Speaker 1: have a two tier justice system. Uh, if you're a Republican,
Speaker 1: you can't even a lie to Congress or a lie
Speaker 1: to an FBI agent. Are they're coming after you? You
Speaker 1: can't even lie to Congress or the FBI without them coming.
Speaker 1: You realize he's just stating the law, but in an
Speaker 1: angry voice. You can't hit pedestrians and drive away. You
Speaker 1: can't even sell another man's kidney on Craig's List. And
Speaker 1: if you're steal your neighbor's dog and sell it back
Speaker 1: to them for the money, it's also not allowed. As
Speaker 1: that's America. That's that's America. It is wild that Louis
Speaker 1: gome over here is complaining about not being allowed to
Speaker 1: lie to Congress because he's in Congress. Why does he
Speaker 1: want people to lie to him? Why would you want that.
Speaker 1: I feel like he must have asked someone for their
Speaker 1: honest opinion at some point and then gotten it. Tell
Speaker 1: me the truth? Do I look like someone three D
Speaker 1: printed Elmer fudd wait? I changed my mind? Lie to men,
Speaker 1: lied to me. But yeah, as you can see, many
Speaker 1: many Trump supporters saying that they're being oppressed and they're
Speaker 1: just learning how tough the justice system can be. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, Mogorlie Taylor Green. You heard what she says.
Speaker 1: She's like, can you imagine a group of men who
Speaker 1: can't pay bail and can't see their family? Well, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't have to imagine it. America has already got
Speaker 1: the largest population of them in the world. And then,
Speaker 1: just so we clear, it's so we clear. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: glad the people who stormed the capital are being held accountable,
Speaker 1: but I don't take delight in the idea of them
Speaker 1: experiencing the shitty side of America's criminal justice system. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, I hope you keep this exact speech
Speaker 1: ready for the next time black people in America are
Speaker 1: complaining about the exact same thing. You'll have to change
Speaker 1: the words. We don't even have to change the words,
Speaker 1: it was a wild that they've been treated like this
Speaker 1: for like five minutes and all of a sudden, like
Speaker 1: it's a two tier system, but like it's so hard
Speaker 1: big a Republican in this country, there's also always waiting
Speaker 1: for them to go into it, like a white Negro
Speaker 1: spiritual and al it's just like wo, go go to
Speaker 1: the Whole Foods, gluten and toddlerance is getting me anyway.
Speaker 1: Conservatives are not learning at interactions with law enforcement don't
Speaker 1: always end well, which means they're going to have to
Speaker 1: have some hard conversations with their children. As a Trump
Speaker 1: supporter in America, you already know that cops treat people
Speaker 1: like us differently. We can be profiled and misjudged any
Speaker 1: time just trying to overthrow a free and fair election.
Speaker 1: That's why it's time for us to have the talk.
Speaker 1: As a Trump supporter, it's important to remember that law
Speaker 1: enforcement is always out to get you. You can be
Speaker 1: targeted solely because of how you look, or what you chant,
Speaker 1: or who you're assaulting with a flagpole. How many young
Speaker 1: and middle aged men have already been arrested just because
Speaker 1: they tried to vote for Trump one too many times?
Speaker 1: And then stormed the Capitol and then posted on Facebook
Speaker 1: for some reason. And they'll use anything against you, your skin, color,
Speaker 1: your politics evidence if you so much just think about
Speaker 1: overthrowing the government and then actually attempt to. There is
Speaker 1: nothing anyone can do to protect you, unless your husband
Speaker 1: is like on the Supreme Court, youre so. First rule,
Speaker 1: always listen politely to the police. Don't freak out and
Speaker 1: call them bullies or fascists until after you're booked. On
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, the bad news is that if they do
Speaker 1: arrest you, you can expect the worst kind of abuse.
Speaker 1: They'll put you in handcuffs, take you to the station,
Speaker 1: and put you behind bars and then lock them. These
Speaker 1: are things no criminals should have to suffer. And now
Speaker 1: they're openly throwing around the word trader with a hard art.
Speaker 1: You know, every time I see a young man being
Speaker 1: hassled by police for smearing theces on the walls of
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's office, I think that could be our son.
Speaker 1: He's a sweet boy and we're proud of him. He
Speaker 1: is a proud boy. So that's the way things are.
Speaker 1: And hopefully the next generation of conservatives won't have to
Speaker 1: have this talk because there won't be elections exactly. Paulson
Speaker 1: Polson moment. Thank you, Jessie and Michael or I stay
Speaker 1: tuned because we're gonna be joined by the playwrights Michael R.
Speaker 1: Jackson right up to the break. You don't want to
Speaker 1: miss it. Welcome back to the Danna Show. My guest
Speaker 1: tonight is Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights Michael R. Jackson. He's
Speaker 1: here to talk about his smash hit new musical, A
Speaker 1: Strange Loop, which is currently nominated for eleven Tony Awards.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Michael R. Jackson. Welcome to the show. Mr
Speaker 1: Michael R. Jackson. Thank you for having me. Before we
Speaker 1: get into the show that you have created that is
Speaker 1: getting everybody buzzing, Let's talk about the name. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. How many people do you disappoint when you
Speaker 1: show up? I mean, like not now obviously maybe now
Speaker 1: it's more like a probe, like Michael R. Jackson, people
Speaker 1: just see Michael Jackson. I don't know. I think like
Speaker 1: I always get people to perk up a little bit
Speaker 1: when I make here, Like my name precedes me. You
Speaker 1: just show Mr Jo Mr Jackson, and then um that
Speaker 1: was there are always was always the I'm assuming I
Speaker 1: kind of dropped it in there. Well, that's on Facebook
Speaker 1: on the Living Michael Jackson. I like that. It's the
Speaker 1: only other person who I think has is Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan's that's right right, Why he interned all my children.
Speaker 1: I interned all my children when he was like a
Speaker 1: kid working there. It's really weird. There's a connection. Look
Speaker 1: at it. All the famous names people going on to
Speaker 1: create their own famous things, and that's exactly what you've done.
Speaker 1: A strange new congratulations eleven Tony Award nominations. I've had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of seeing this production and I can't even
Speaker 1: explain it to people, But you know what I love
Speaker 1: about it is it makes me seem cool when I
Speaker 1: recommend it. You know, no, no, no, because you know,
Speaker 1: in this world there's not many things you can recommend
Speaker 1: to people that will have them leaving feeling like you're
Speaker 1: so cool because you told them to go. Everyone I
Speaker 1: tell to see this goes and sees it, and then
Speaker 1: they're like, Trevor, oh thank you. So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I do. Did you know when you finished
Speaker 1: creating this show, did you know that it was going
Speaker 1: to be the hit that it is um not even
Speaker 1: close like it was like not on my vision board
Speaker 1: even a little bit. So it was really exciting. But
Speaker 1: you took twenty years to write it. Yeah, yeah, that's wild,
Speaker 1: George George R. Martin would be like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: that's like, that's like a did I would love to
Speaker 1: know that, like where this where the this idea came from?
Speaker 1: Because I don't want to give anything away from the audience,
Speaker 1: because part of the joy of the show is that
Speaker 1: you won't really know what it's about and you'll just
Speaker 1: be in a story. But what we can tell people
Speaker 1: is it is a story of a gay black man
Speaker 1: who is in the world of theater and he's in
Speaker 1: the world of being black and in the world of
Speaker 1: being gay. But it come into and every gay black
Speaker 1: fat Yes, and you talk about that in the show.
Speaker 1: One of the funniest shows I've ever seen, one of
Speaker 1: the most point in shows I've ever seen people crying,
Speaker 1: people laughing like that. I see why it took twenty years. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it just started off. You know, I was about three
Speaker 1: years old. I'm thty one now, and I had just
Speaker 1: graduated from undergrad playwriting n y U. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what I was gonna do with the b Athey degree.
Speaker 1: I was living in this old lady's bungalow style house
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere Jamaica Queens. But if you
Speaker 1: live in New York, that's like all the way to
Speaker 1: the end of the eye or the train and then
Speaker 1: you take a but that's like ten minutes to get
Speaker 1: to the house. It was crazy and so and I
Speaker 1: was just like, didn't know what I was gonna do
Speaker 1: with my life. And so I started writing this monologue
Speaker 1: called why I Can't Get Work, and it was just about,
Speaker 1: you know, a young black a man walking around New
Speaker 1: York wondering, my life is so terrible. So and from
Speaker 1: and sort of the show sprang from that sort of
Speaker 1: primordial soup. I didn't know that it was It was
Speaker 1: true that you worked as an usher at The Lion King. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I worked at when The Lion King used to be
Speaker 1: at the New yandsterday In Theater, and I worked there
Speaker 1: for five years. I did like four years of Lon
Speaker 1: King and a year at Mary Poppins, and then I
Speaker 1: did a couple of years later a seasonal sin of
Speaker 1: The Laddin. So I ran through the whole Disney pantheon
Speaker 1: was there anything that was there anything that you saw
Speaker 1: where you were like, I don't ever want to see
Speaker 1: this again in the Broadway show, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: create something differently. Or was there something you show that
Speaker 1: inspired you that made you want to create the show
Speaker 1: the way you did? What was kind of both? It
Speaker 1: was a strange loop. I like, okay, okay, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you're standing in the back of the theater,
Speaker 1: you're ringing the bells, You're watching audience at night after
Speaker 1: night after night. So after show you get a little
Speaker 1: forward and luckily, you know, I was there with my
Speaker 1: thoughts and just sort of thinking to the show. I
Speaker 1: used to We used to have the stuff to play
Speaker 1: bills and sometimes I would write little ideas for that
Speaker 1: would go into the show on the back of the
Speaker 1: inserts for like today that on this, understudies in or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I would collect them and being on my pockets
Speaker 1: when I got home. Um, but so it's wild like
Speaker 1: but I again, I never expected that anything would kind
Speaker 1: of it, But I just was doing it to sort
Speaker 1: of keep myself saying, what do you think you have
Speaker 1: taken away from this? You know, I saw so many
Speaker 1: people in the audience who were touched for different reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, if people grew up in a religious family,
Speaker 1: I saw them connecting with the show in a different way.
Speaker 1: Of people, you know, had had issues with their identity
Speaker 1: growing up. Maybe they were bullied, maybe maybe they're struggling today.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what it was. You're looking for work
Speaker 1: in America. You you know, you're just trying to get by,
Speaker 1: You're trying to find friends, love. All of these themes
Speaker 1: are touched on, and I watched people in the audience
Speaker 1: feel something. I watched everyone walked out just making sounds.
Speaker 1: That's when you know, no one no one said anything.
Speaker 1: Everyone's just like, ah, it was. It was beautiful. But
Speaker 1: then I wondered what you got by creating like for yourself,
Speaker 1: didn't change anything in your world? I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: for me, the best part of the show has been
Speaker 1: actually talking to people after when when it lets out,
Speaker 1: because what I've been finding is that for some people
Speaker 1: the show is a mirror and for other people the
Speaker 1: show is a window, and that seeing people there together
Speaker 1: experiencing the same thing but through those two different lenses
Speaker 1: has been creates a really powerful energy that sort of
Speaker 1: goes up onto the state goes to the actors on
Speaker 1: stage and they send it back, and it really brings
Speaker 1: the audience into the loop of the show, of the
Speaker 1: character's mind that we're in as we're watching you. You
Speaker 1: had a great I forget was the phrase you called it.
Speaker 1: You said it was like it was a big gay,
Speaker 1: big black and queer ass American Broadway show. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that. You don't know, you know what I
Speaker 1: love about that? Yeah, it was because what you just said.
Speaker 1: I've seen some shows where, you know, if an audience,
Speaker 1: let's say from New York, they really get the show.
Speaker 1: If they're not from New York, maybe they don't enjoy
Speaker 1: it as much, or if the audience is black, maybe
Speaker 1: they get it more or later. This was one of
Speaker 1: those shows where everyone was enjoying it from from a
Speaker 1: different A lot of different reference points sort of in it,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of what it's like to be a person.
Speaker 1: You're made up of all of your reference points, your history,
Speaker 1: your different memories, everything. And so the main character, Usser,
Speaker 1: that's his name, he loves a lot of different things
Speaker 1: and he hates a lot of different things. And so
Speaker 1: my sort of hope was by exposing the audience to
Speaker 1: that everybody can sort of meet user and the show
Speaker 1: wherever they are and they can take from it what
Speaker 1: they need to and um, and that the show is
Speaker 1: sort of promoting a spirit of inclusion for anybody who
Speaker 1: decides to come in and stick it out. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody's sticking it out. I will tell you no, genuinely.
Speaker 1: I know there's some difficult moments for some people, but
Speaker 1: but you know what that's I think that's what made
Speaker 1: it so amazing is it's not difficult for the sake
Speaker 1: of being difficult. It's difficult in like, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not gratuitous, it's it's not at all. And and I
Speaker 1: I've seen shows where audiences go, I'm uncomfortable, but here
Speaker 1: it was people experiencing the discomfort that somebody else may
Speaker 1: be living through. Yeah, And because that's what the character
Speaker 1: and I am trying to do. If we're trying to
Speaker 1: get the audiences to feel what it's like to walk
Speaker 1: in the skin that they may not be either that
Speaker 1: they don't feel familiar with, or that they feel familiar
Speaker 1: with but feel unseen, unheard, or misunderstood. It's phenomenal. It's
Speaker 1: one of the funniest most intelligent, just everything. This is
Speaker 1: that you put. I hope you in every single Tony
Speaker 1: Award that you're nominated going for. Congratulations and everyone needs
Speaker 1: to go watch the show. Thank you for being here
Speaker 1: a strange new It was nominated for eleven Tony Award.
Speaker 1: It's now playing at the last same data on board rate.
Speaker 1: Go and watch it. I promise you know it's the
Speaker 1: best thing you love to see. You're gonna take great
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