Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. I am so excited
Speaker 1: to be going back to a show that has a
Speaker 1: live audience. So many reasons. I think one of the
Speaker 1: biggest reasons I'm excited to be going back to a
Speaker 1: show with the live audiences because then I no longer
Speaker 1: have to pretend that there's people here that I'm talking to.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I even hear laughs in my head. It's gotten
Speaker 1: so bad. I've heard that the audience hears them as well.
Speaker 1: That's how you know your delusions are super delusional. People like,
Speaker 1: who are you talking to, Trivit's all in my head, man,
Speaker 1: can't wait for that to be real. People coming to
Speaker 1: you from the heart. Enough times flare in New York City,
Speaker 1: the only city in America. It's The Daily Show. Here's addition, tonight,
Speaker 1: COVID's back, Baby, the War is raging Tiffany Drayton. This
Speaker 1: is The Daily Show with Trevor no Hey. What's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah, and I'm
Speaker 1: so excited because joining me for today's headlines it is
Speaker 1: my good friend Runny check. What's going on? Running? How
Speaker 1: you doing? Trevor? Thanks, thanks for having me. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to have our last show here in this place. We're moving,
Speaker 1: We're moving to write studios. And you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna miss I'm gonna miss this a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, a bit of nostalgia. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss the shelf. I'm gonna miss uh this chess.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss performing jokes awkwardly to complete silence. But
Speaker 1: you know, most of all, I'm gonna miss you. What
Speaker 1: you know, some some people would say, you know that
Speaker 1: you're the most important part of the show, and I
Speaker 1: just think it's a shame that you're not gonna come
Speaker 1: with us to the I'm coming. Well, you know you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have signed that two year least. Here I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: but wait, no, no, no, I'm you can't go without
Speaker 1: now It's okay, Well we'll find a new host. No no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: well it'll be fine. Let me guess it won't be
Speaker 1: the Asian guy you're not running. I'm glad you're coming
Speaker 1: with me. All right, people, let's jump straight into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: We begin with big news from Netflix. The friend who
Speaker 1: checked on you most during the pandemic. Netflix is still
Speaker 1: the most popular streaming TV service in the world, but
Speaker 1: it's lead has been slipping recently. Major rivals like Disney
Speaker 1: Plus have been gaining steam. Up starts like Peacock have
Speaker 1: also been getting buzz, and of course this Paramount Plus,
Speaker 1: which is the best streaming service of all. They've got
Speaker 1: Champions League, They've got yellow Stone, and they pay me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't think of a better network. So
Speaker 1: with Netflix no longer bringing in new customers the way
Speaker 1: it used to, the service is looking for ways to
Speaker 1: make more money off of the users it already has,
Speaker 1: and one idea Netflix is testing out is the exact
Speaker 1: opposite of chill. Sharing your Netflix account with someone else
Speaker 1: or a few someone's it could cost you some money. Soon,
Speaker 1: Netflix says it will start charging a fee to primary
Speaker 1: account holders who share their passwords with people outside their homes.
Speaker 1: They're gonna test this in three countries, Chile, Costa Rica,
Speaker 1: and Peru, and depending on how the test goes, they
Speaker 1: could be expanded to other countries. Netflix says the fee
Speaker 1: will allow them to invest in more shows and more movies.
Speaker 1: Also a bottom line here, it'll boost their profits and
Speaker 1: cost you more money. No no, no, no, no, Netflix,
Speaker 1: This wasn't the deal. The deal was that we get
Speaker 1: to share a single account for our thirty closest friends,
Speaker 1: and in return, you get to keep murdering people to
Speaker 1: get material for your true crime documentaries. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you do have to admit it's pretty shitty that they're
Speaker 1: testing this feature in Chili, Peru and Costa Rica, all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, those people just want to watch TV. Didn't
Speaker 1: sign up to be guinea pigs. Like this makes me
Speaker 1: wonder how many other things Netflix has tested on them
Speaker 1: that we don't even know about. It could be anything,
Speaker 1: could be different shows, it could be different features, like
Speaker 1: the sound, the Netflix sound we we used to babam,
Speaker 1: you're finding those countries they're testing other ones bap or
Speaker 1: just someone's screaming welcome to Netflix. Yeah, man, I don't
Speaker 1: know why everyone's always so casual with this Netflix passwords.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's what happens to essex in this country?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? We like, is this like a country
Speaker 1: of crooks or something we should be We're paying for
Speaker 1: a good service here. This is a good service. They
Speaker 1: make good programs. This isn't a victims crime, This isn't
Speaker 1: a small crime like like tax fraud or awesome or
Speaker 1: being born a crime in half white, whatever you are
Speaker 1: in South Africa. But this is a major intellectual property issue. Man.
Speaker 1: Every time you look at someone's Netflix that you didn't
Speaker 1: pay for, you're taking money away from smart, capable, good
Speaker 1: looking Netflix executives who make great decisions, not to mention
Speaker 1: comedians who make a ton of money saying whatever they want.
Speaker 1: And on a separate note, my new Netflix comedy special
Speaker 1: is coming out April five. Ronnie Chanin speak Easy, so
Speaker 1: make sure you tune in. You don't have to watch,
Speaker 1: you just put it on the view. Still count for
Speaker 1: my contract negotiations. Thanks guys, this guy I thought you
Speaker 1: know I was supporting you, and then you know what.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. So the coronavirus pandemic, which
Speaker 1: unlike most Netflix shows, has been renewed for season three.
Speaker 1: COVID cases are rising at an alarming rate in Europe,
Speaker 1: drawing renewed attention to the omicron subvariant known as b
Speaker 1: A two or the stealth stream. In the UK, daily
Speaker 1: COVID cases sword of a hundred thousand, marking a jump
Speaker 1: of seventy seven percent in a week. This comes right
Speaker 1: after they dropped through much all their COVID restrictions. In
Speaker 1: recent weeks, Germany has also continued to mark record high
Speaker 1: daily infections, with more than two d and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: new cases a day. Meanwhile, in France, Switzerland, Italy, and
Speaker 1: the Netherlands, COVID infections are starting to rise following a
Speaker 1: rollback of coronavirus measures. You're seeing these cases rise in
Speaker 1: Europe where they essentially have the same vaccines we've used.
Speaker 1: They have the same level of protection that we have here,
Speaker 1: both from natural immunity and from vaccinations, possibly even higher.
Speaker 1: When they're starting to see these cases could be a harbinger.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen here? Nash Ship a hobbinger. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what that word means, but hobbings are never good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's never like this dog is heavily pregnant, which could
Speaker 1: be a harbinger of more puppies. So it's bad ships,
Speaker 1: hobbinger of more COVID in America. Man, And and look,
Speaker 1: I will say this guy's before you panic, before you playing.
Speaker 1: Remember remember, if most people are vaccinated, there will be
Speaker 1: a lot of fewer deaths and hospitalizations than before. Even
Speaker 1: if cases shoot up. Remember that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: So we're not necessarily going back to the bad old
Speaker 1: days when every day you were scared that one of
Speaker 1: your loved ones might send you that imagined video. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what forever this this COVID. This isn't
Speaker 1: the weak as twenty peacetime COVID. This is the two
Speaker 1: coming out of European War COVID. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: strong COVID. This COVID survived like a direct nuclear hit.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna come to America. It's gonna infect everybody.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's gonna be tough. People are gonna
Speaker 1: get sick from it. It's gonna call you the N word.
Speaker 1: What's gonna It's gonna look through your tweets and fine
Speaker 1: offensive stuff and get you canceled. I mean, honestly, I'm
Speaker 1: reading reports that this spike is gonna be really badest
Speaker 1: in a few weeks, especially on April five. So I
Speaker 1: suggest on that date everyone should stay at home and
Speaker 1: maybe do less dangerous activities like watch a Netflix comedy
Speaker 1: special like Mine um Ran Chang Speakings on April five
Speaker 1: on Netflix, So tune it. I thought you were worried. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, Finally here's a story that's definitely gonna
Speaker 1: bring you a little ray of sunshine in these dark days. Because,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, people, all of us are pretty stressed
Speaker 1: out right now right the pandemic doesn't seem to end.
Speaker 1: There's a giant war, there's mega droughts in Africa, and
Speaker 1: just yesterday, just yesterday, my dentist told me that I've
Speaker 1: been grinding my teeth while I sleep, which just stressed
Speaker 1: me out even more because how did my dentists get
Speaker 1: into my bedroom. But if your favorite coping method isn't
Speaker 1: doing the trick anymore, well, there's now a group of
Speaker 1: experts that you can call for advice. If you've been
Speaker 1: feeling mad, frustrated, or nervous, just know you're not alone.
Speaker 1: There's a group of elementary school students with some positive
Speaker 1: messages only a phone call away. Welcome to the PEP
Speaker 1: Talk Hotline, real advice you can use from the students
Speaker 1: at west Side Elementary. The hotline is the brainchild of
Speaker 1: west Side art teacher Jessica Martin and local artists A
Speaker 1: Cheryl Weiss. Two days after we we went live, we
Speaker 1: were getting five hundred calls an hour and uh, at
Speaker 1: last I checked, we're getting eleven thousand calls an hour.
Speaker 1: If you're nervous, go get you wally and standing on
Speaker 1: ice cream and shoes. Your frustrate, you can always go
Speaker 1: to your bedroom. Pun't you pillow? Are you cry on it? Huh?
Speaker 1: Just when you thought there was no goodness in the world,
Speaker 1: you see something like this. I don't care what you say.
Speaker 1: That is the most adorable way to feel better. Ever.
Speaker 1: You call a five year old and they give you advice, Like,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I like getting advice from kids way
Speaker 1: more than the alternative, because if you tell a kid
Speaker 1: you're stressed, they're like, go buy some ice cream. That
Speaker 1: picks you up, you know. But if you tell your
Speaker 1: therapist you're stressed, what do they do? They're like, let's
Speaker 1: relive every failed relationship you've ever had, And then just
Speaker 1: when I'm getting into it, they're like, all right, our
Speaker 1: time is up. Good luck out their kid. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: the effects of kids therapy could go both ways. You
Speaker 1: have to consider that, because yes, their advice could make
Speaker 1: you feel a whole lot better. But then you realize
Speaker 1: you're taking advice from a child. Are you depressed again?
Speaker 1: I love the services. There's nothing wrong with it. Ronny,
Speaker 1: would you would you do that? Uh pep talk? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've been feeling this accidental dread from this pandemic,
Speaker 1: this war. Gas prices are going through a roof. Also,
Speaker 1: my Netflix special is coming out on April five, and
Speaker 1: I've been feeling a little insecure about it. Um. Also
Speaker 1: my marriage. You know, I want to say what I'm happy,
Speaker 1: but you know, it feels like this is silence and
Speaker 1: emptiness that just keeps growing. You don't know, do you
Speaker 1: have any advice? M hmm? What was that? Drink? Some
Speaker 1: apple juice? Okay? Thank you? Do you think I haven't
Speaker 1: tried that? Kids? Man? I think you're missing the point
Speaker 1: of what the kid is trying to do running. I mean,
Speaker 1: how much juice can women take? You know what I'm saying, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it, But the kids, it's not like actually
Speaker 1: about doing the thing. It's about the feeling of the kids.
Speaker 1: If you can't deliver, then don't start the business. All right.
Speaker 1: It's not a business. It's a thing to make you
Speaker 1: feel good. Well, it's you. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: a bill for that ship that was completely useless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not about the bill running, it's about the joy.
Speaker 1: It's like, there's some things in life that bring people joy. Look,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna get advice some kids, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get if I saw American kids, Okay, it's like what
Speaker 1: you're doing kindergarten from coloring a book, Dude. In Asia,
Speaker 1: we'll be doing advanced calculus by this point. I want
Speaker 1: some Asian kids to give me my advice. Wow, you
Speaker 1: know it's so grumpy. You know what you need to do, Runnie,
Speaker 1: you know, go on Netflix on April five and what's
Speaker 1: your special little will probably cheer you up. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Ronnie check. Let's move on to
Speaker 1: our top story. We are now in the fourth week
Speaker 1: of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia's worst decisions and sending
Speaker 1: their horny as spy to kill James Bond. So let's
Speaker 1: catch up on all the latest updates in our ongoing
Speaker 1: coverage of the war in Ukraine. While Russia's military hasn't
Speaker 1: had a lot of success recently in terms of capturing
Speaker 1: Ukrainian territory, that doesn't mean the military hasn't been successful
Speaker 1: at killing Ukrainian civilians. Every day brings new reports of
Speaker 1: a hospital, school, or shelter being hit by a Russian airstrike,
Speaker 1: or entire cities under siege with no access to food, water,
Speaker 1: or medicine. And I honestly don't know what the point
Speaker 1: of it all is like. Unless Putin's plan is to
Speaker 1: win over the Ukrainian people with the world's largest case
Speaker 1: of Stockholm syndrome, what is he doing? But either way,
Speaker 1: either way, Ukraine has been saying for weeks that Russia
Speaker 1: is guilty of war crimes, and now it looks like
Speaker 1: the President of the United States agrees. Now at Washington,
Speaker 1: where President Biden is called Vladimir Putin a war criminal
Speaker 1: for the very first time. Here's a war community. The
Speaker 1: White House says President Biden was quote speaking from the
Speaker 1: heart about Vladimir Putin's barbaric actions when he made that declaration.
Speaker 1: The Kremlin responded to that charge just moments ago, calling
Speaker 1: a quote absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable, in pointing the US
Speaker 1: bombing of Hyoshima and Argasaki during World War Two. Seriously, Russia,
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring up something America did in the forties.
Speaker 1: America has committed plenty of war crimes since then, keep
Speaker 1: up with the arms, yo, come with that old ship.
Speaker 1: And just because America committed war crimes doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you have to as well, Vladimir Putin, Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: what if all your friends jumped off a bridge? Would
Speaker 1: you do it too? No, seriously would you. I'm just
Speaker 1: bring storming ways to end this whole thing. I just
Speaker 1: want to know what you do. You know now, despite
Speaker 1: being on the constant bombardment, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zlenski, he's
Speaker 1: made it clear that he has no plans, zero nada,
Speaker 1: to ever surrender to Russia. Yeah, Practically every day he
Speaker 1: releases a new video reassuring Ukrainians that he's splint charge.
Speaker 1: He's still in Kiev, and he's still making olive green
Speaker 1: t shirts the hardest fashion item of two. Although if
Speaker 1: you were watching Ukrainian news yesterday you might have heard
Speaker 1: a very different message. A video claiming to show Ukraine
Speaker 1: President Vladimir Zlenski calling for the Ukrainian people to surrender
Speaker 1: to Russia was aired on news station Ukraine. It then
Speaker 1: circulated on social media. In the deep fake video of Phoni,
Speaker 1: President Zelenski tells Ukrainians to put their weapons down in
Speaker 1: their war with Russia. Digital forensics experts quickly picked it apart,
Speaker 1: catching a number of visual and audio glitches. The official
Speaker 1: Facebook account for Ukraine's land forces posted a warning that
Speaker 1: more videos like this may be coming. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what's funny is the first time I saw a deep fake,
Speaker 1: the first time, I wondered when it would finally be
Speaker 1: used for something dangerous in the world, like something actually meaningful,
Speaker 1: because you realize, like some Ukrainians could have seen this
Speaker 1: video and actually surrendered, and the only reason they spotted
Speaker 1: this was because of small discrepancies, and also because the
Speaker 1: fake Zelinski says that Putin had a big dick and
Speaker 1: he's a karate king. I mean that sort of gave
Speaker 1: it away. But you realize why deep fakes are so scary,
Speaker 1: rights because they can make you think that anyone was
Speaker 1: doing anything even if they weren't. Like for instance, for instance,
Speaker 1: have you seen there's a video of me online where
Speaker 1: they make it look like I was crying at the
Speaker 1: end of Jurassic World, which is ridiculous. Why why would
Speaker 1: why would I cry just because that one dinonsaw dinsa
Speaker 1: like like Dinosos Why are they killing each other when
Speaker 1: bending each other didn't see they did it again? That
Speaker 1: was the point? Is The point is this was a
Speaker 1: bullshit way for Russia to try and win this war. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is why we at The Daily Show decided we're
Speaker 1: getting back at Putin by releasing our own deep fake video.
Speaker 1: It's me, Vladimir Putin. I made the boom in via
Speaker 1: the Ukraine and I just pooped my pants, checkmate Putin. Now,
Speaker 1: we don't know for sure who's behind the steep fake
Speaker 1: but it obviously wouldn't be shocking if it was the
Speaker 1: work of the Russian government, since fake news is kind
Speaker 1: of the whole thing right now. In fact, if you
Speaker 1: turn on Russia state media, you'd probably hear that Ukraine
Speaker 1: was the aggressive in this war and that Russia had
Speaker 1: no choice but to defend itself, and also that the
Speaker 1: war is going great and if a few thousand Russian
Speaker 1: soldiers never come home, it's not because they're dead, it's
Speaker 1: because they're on a permanent vacation. You know how it is,
Speaker 1: And believe it or not, believe it or not, the
Speaker 1: Russian government is being helped in this propaganda effort by
Speaker 1: conservative TV networks in the United States. Yeah, as wild
Speaker 1: as it sounds. Channels like Fox News, News Max and
Speaker 1: O A N. They've been so friendly to Putin's narrative
Speaker 1: that Russian TV stations have even reportedly been ordered to
Speaker 1: play clips of Tucker Carlson on its broadcasts. And that's
Speaker 1: a smart move by Tucker. You know, you might be like,
Speaker 1: why is he defending the Russians? Yeah, it's a smart move.
Speaker 1: You don't want to put all your eggs in the
Speaker 1: Trump propaganda baskets. You've got to diversify, you know, I
Speaker 1: think about other bad guys you could roll with Putin,
Speaker 1: Kim Jong Oon, Hey, maybe the joker. Are we really
Speaker 1: supposed to believe a batman is keeping our streets safer?
Speaker 1: Why is that? But the point is America's conservative media
Speaker 1: is doing almost as good a job at spreading Russian
Speaker 1: propaganda as Russia itself. All Right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: Daslidic checks in with the Russians. We shouldn't be blaming.
Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine,
Speaker 1: everyone has been looking for a way to help Ukraine
Speaker 1: and get back at Russia. But It turns out some
Speaker 1: people are doing it the wrong way, and Daisilidik has
Speaker 1: more like Pride flags in June, Freedom Fries after nine
Speaker 1: eleven or black Squares on social media. Americans have a
Speaker 1: knack for making real change with their creative activism, and
Speaker 1: no surprise, now they're turning their focus to Russia. Russian
Speaker 1: restaurants here in the US that wants proudly display the
Speaker 1: country's heritage or feeling repercussions from a war thousands of
Speaker 1: miles away. A new call this morning to ban the
Speaker 1: sale of Russian alcohol here in New York. Surely these
Speaker 1: savvy New Yorkers no a Putin supporter when they see one, right,
Speaker 1: But are these businesses really in the pockets of Russian oligarchs?
Speaker 1: And how much are they sending back to Putin himself?
Speaker 1: As a true patriot, I had to find out how
Speaker 1: well our boycott strategy was working. My first stop a
Speaker 1: Russian front sorry restaurant in the West Village. Sorryevna, sounds
Speaker 1: suspicious already? Did Putin help you set up this place?
Speaker 1: How much of a share does he have in this business?
Speaker 1: None that I'm aware of. If I ordered the bush,
Speaker 1: how much of it will go back into his hands.
Speaker 1: Presumably none, because you're somewhere where's the yacht's I wasn't
Speaker 1: able to find the spy stuff at Ricky's, but a
Speaker 1: restaurant with Russian in the name must be a front
Speaker 1: for Moscow loyalists. I went to the Russian Samovar to
Speaker 1: meet with the owner. Look at this guy's got to
Speaker 1: be in Putin's pocket. Have you brought this out for me?
Speaker 1: Mishe von Shots? That's your real name, It's my real name,
Speaker 1: Misha wanna shot? Do you always refer to yourself in
Speaker 1: the third person? Misha sometimes does? This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a long shoot. You know what, you should probably try
Speaker 1: this first. I know what Russia does to journalists. M hmm.
Speaker 1: What is your most popular dish and drink here? No surprise,
Speaker 1: Chicken Kiev? And how has business been up until this point?
Speaker 1: Business was just getting good again, coming out of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And then because we have Russian in the name, we're
Speaker 1: automatically vilified. You know, just because we are a Russian
Speaker 1: establishment doesn't mean we write a check to put In
Speaker 1: his regime. We're standing with Ukraine in our staff, that is,
Speaker 1: most of Ukrainian people don't send. Many Ukrainians work for
Speaker 1: Russian establishments, and by black bowling the business, you're hurting
Speaker 1: them earning their wages in their tips where they need
Speaker 1: to send it back home to help theirs, which becomes
Speaker 1: the problem as well. Where exactly do you stand on
Speaker 1: this war? We stand behind all Russian New Yorkers when
Speaker 1: we say that violence is not the answer and we're
Speaker 1: here to make borsch not war. How has your business
Speaker 1: changed since this war started? Since the first week of
Speaker 1: the war, we definitely noticed a big decline in business
Speaker 1: and revenue. We probably say about half of what we
Speaker 1: normally do. Just people not coming in. Americans have a
Speaker 1: way of sort of not knowing exactly where to put
Speaker 1: their activism and sort of misunderstanding a proper boycott. Is
Speaker 1: that what's happening, that's sort of what's happening. Yeah. They
Speaker 1: like to assume that maybe the Russians in New York,
Speaker 1: by maybe hurting us in might hurt Russians back home,
Speaker 1: when in reality, the Russians that are here left Russia
Speaker 1: for a reason. Could it be that our protest strategy
Speaker 1: was punishing the wrong people. I mean, these guys are
Speaker 1: even part Ukrainian themselves. This is worse than the time
Speaker 1: my sister went to jail. Because our DNA profiles are
Speaker 1: so similar. This has dropped like overnight, lude just getting
Speaker 1: threats and calls calling us all types of names, Nazis,
Speaker 1: this and that, and being of Jewish descent isn't always
Speaker 1: a nice thing to deal with, and that's happening pretty
Speaker 1: frequently on a constant basis. Yeah of shunkay, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go. Are you look for the whole thing? Okay?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be rude. Are you sure you're
Speaker 1: not a Russian spy? You drank that like the Russian.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry that your business is suffering and that
Speaker 1: Americans are so misguided on this whole thing. I want
Speaker 1: to support your business. You know what, I'll take one
Speaker 1: of everything, round of drinks for everyone. Well there's no
Speaker 1: one in here, but you get the idea. Just everything
Speaker 1: we can get you our Russian kid juice, yes, cheers,
Speaker 1: and to wash that down some of our famous bush nice. Okay.
Speaker 1: I've very much been looking forward to this. What is
Speaker 1: in this? So beats and beef and potato all Russian's
Speaker 1: favorite thing. I have a slight beat ergy, but it'll
Speaker 1: be fine. Oh so good. I'm not going to let
Speaker 1: back in the way. What would be your message to Americans?
Speaker 1: My message to Americans is don't vilify anything or anybody
Speaker 1: that is Russian. We didn't start this war. It's Putin's war.
Speaker 1: One final question, why so many beats? Why not? It's
Speaker 1: full of vitamins, minerals. Well, if one thing is abundantly clear,
Speaker 1: it's that New Yorkers have gotten this one all wrong
Speaker 1: and the only Russian asshole in this war is Putin. Now,
Speaker 1: the only thing left to do is to support my
Speaker 1: fellow Americans. Thank you so much for that, Daisy. All Right,
Speaker 1: people don't go away because when we come back, you
Speaker 1: know how people always say, if you don't like America,
Speaker 1: you should just leave. Well, we're gonna talk to someone
Speaker 1: who actually did that, So stay tuned. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. My guest tonight is journalist and author
Speaker 1: Tiffany Drayton. Her new memoir is about how her family
Speaker 1: came to America for a better life and why she
Speaker 1: returned to Trinidad and Tobago because she felt they couldn't
Speaker 1: find it. Tiffany Drayton, Welcome to the Day Show. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. You know, you have
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting takes in this book. You
Speaker 1: do not want to be middle of the road. You
Speaker 1: very much want to speak your piece. Black American refugee.
Speaker 1: You say something that that I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people feel, but you have acted on. You've gone America
Speaker 1: is not my friend as a Black American person, and
Speaker 1: so forth. Because of that, I'm leaving absolutely. So when
Speaker 1: you say black American refugee, that's that's a very specific
Speaker 1: title to choose for a book, because you don't say
Speaker 1: black American immigrants, black American refugee, which implies some sort
Speaker 1: of fleeing. You know, you're leaving the place you're living
Speaker 1: in exile. Now, I would love to understand the thought
Speaker 1: behind that because many would say, oh, but you chose
Speaker 1: to leave, and you you could stay as well. But
Speaker 1: you argue in the book you couldn't stay. Stay wasn't
Speaker 1: actually an option for you if you wanted to live
Speaker 1: a life, right, And that's when you have to really
Speaker 1: take a good look at stomach oppression and what that
Speaker 1: does to an individual. So when I made that decision
Speaker 1: to leave, I was being oppressed in so many ways,
Speaker 1: whether it be the withholding of your diploma, the um
Speaker 1: living in a neighborhood that is rife with violence. UM.
Speaker 1: These are all things that I was experiencing at that time.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, to add an additional
Speaker 1: layer of trauma, I was in a narcissistic, abusive relationship.
Speaker 1: And that's something that's more common with people who are
Speaker 1: of an oppressed minority. You realize it's so hard to
Speaker 1: not find yourself an abusive dynamics because guess what, everybody
Speaker 1: is existing in a way that's so traumatic and so
Speaker 1: full of constant distress. And not only that, but you know,
Speaker 1: we internalize so many of the messages from our abusers,
Speaker 1: and in this case, this larger structure of systemic oppression.
Speaker 1: Right for example, you know, so many black people internalized
Speaker 1: ideas of self hate that they would have learned from
Speaker 1: the media that brands us thugs or crack babies or
Speaker 1: welfare queens, all of these brands and all of these labels.
Speaker 1: And so my decision to leave was really born of
Speaker 1: my desire to even free myself from those labels, and
Speaker 1: that's what I was able to do by going back
Speaker 1: to Chinida. There are there are pros and cons to
Speaker 1: every country. I have friends from Trinidad who will be
Speaker 1: like man Trevor, I wish I lived in America. There's opportunities,
Speaker 1: there's ways you can do things that it seems like
Speaker 1: there's upward mobility. Trinidad is so small. It's it's a community,
Speaker 1: it's of village, but it also feels constricting at times.
Speaker 1: Do you do you not think it's just a case
Speaker 1: of maybe the gross being greener or do you do
Speaker 1: you think it's something that you've chosen to weigh up
Speaker 1: and go? You know what, me feeling like being black
Speaker 1: is not an issue? Is worth more to me than
Speaker 1: the ease of upward mobility? Or do you think up
Speaker 1: mobility itself doesn't even exist? I I feel like you
Speaker 1: know when you recognize that you are in a cast system.
Speaker 1: It is true that upward mobility may exist for the few,
Speaker 1: but what does that say about the majority? And is
Speaker 1: there truly upward mobility If when you move into that
Speaker 1: rich neighborhood or you start driving that BMW, you are
Speaker 1: still under the same threat of white supremacy. Is it
Speaker 1: truly upward mobility If you have to be afraid to
Speaker 1: gift your child a car, that's expensive because a police
Speaker 1: officer may shoot that child because they think that the
Speaker 1: child stole the car just because they're black. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that we can only view mobility in terms
Speaker 1: of maybe our economic circumstances. But when that brand of
Speaker 1: blackness puts you at the bottom rungs of a society,
Speaker 1: there is really no way to escape that, aside from
Speaker 1: destroying that very system that seeks to put people in
Speaker 1: that wrong and keep them there. I like that you
Speaker 1: say cost system, because it is that. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think people don't understand what a cost system actually is. No,
Speaker 1: but it's not India. It's like it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be India. It could be the American version. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I still I often say to people, we're still dealing
Speaker 1: with a very basic level of it because here it's
Speaker 1: still like we're still like I always think of if
Speaker 1: I was playing a video game, racist like almost like
Speaker 1: the first boss. Do you know what I mean, They're
Speaker 1: still gonna like classism is still going to come in
Speaker 1: as the next boss, which is almost what like the
Speaker 1: racism is hiding? No, absolutely not, because altimately don't think
Speaker 1: so darling, Let's go take a trip down MLK. Let's
Speaker 1: go take a trip down, Malcolm X. In fact, let's
Speaker 1: go to Barack Obama schools across the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Something about class not being interconnected with race. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's not only part of the same thing.
Speaker 1: Because the class system in America, remember that you brought
Speaker 1: enslaved people to act as your compleatly with you and
Speaker 1: completely with you. From that moment, you built a system
Speaker 1: around oppressing them so that you can constantly use their
Speaker 1: bodies to profit from. Let's look at mass incarceration, like
Speaker 1: not interconnected. This is what I'm saying. As as this
Speaker 1: is one one in the shame like this handing glove
Speaker 1: in America, it may not be. Yeah, in America, you
Speaker 1: built both systems simultaneously. I mean it's a very young country.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's the brand new country. It's not
Speaker 1: like the very old country. And that's that's what I'm saying. People,
Speaker 1: I think don't seem so I I appreciate that you
Speaker 1: said it like that. So okay, let's look at America
Speaker 1: as an example. Right. The thing I always try and
Speaker 1: explain to people is this the system that exists screws
Speaker 1: over so many white people as well, because there are
Speaker 1: so many white people who are kept poor by a
Speaker 1: system that has taught them that black people are coming
Speaker 1: to take your ship, so you need to fight the
Speaker 1: black people. And that's when facts them does if you
Speaker 1: look at the history of America, right, Yes, Europeans of
Speaker 1: all sorts can come to America and eventually assimilate, you
Speaker 1: absorb the whiter folks so that your power is maintained.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean But the key thing is that
Speaker 1: the white is on one end and the black is
Speaker 1: on the other. So anybody who falls off into that
Speaker 1: black category, like if you're dealing with descendants of slaves
Speaker 1: who are American, Um, they know it's a system. There's
Speaker 1: no question for them because they see how there is
Speaker 1: no like generational wealth where where where's it at? The
Speaker 1: average white family has like sixteen times the amount of
Speaker 1: generational wealth. So to say it's not race, that's just
Speaker 1: no. No No, I'm not saying it's not race. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Let's look at it. Yes, but they
Speaker 1: are intertwined, but I don't think they're the same thing.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. Let's look at immigrants who
Speaker 1: come to America. That first generation will come from a
Speaker 1: place and go. I was given opportunities that could make
Speaker 1: something of it. Yes, I had to be a taxi driver,
Speaker 1: to be the eutceter etceterator or whatever it is. And
Speaker 1: they'll go, But my kids now do this. I came
Speaker 1: from this place and now my kids do. Then are
Speaker 1: ironically their kids who are black American are now promised
Speaker 1: a dream. Like m L K said, So immigrants will go,
Speaker 1: this is not my country. Ergo the promise is not
Speaker 1: to me. So the country is not failing me. They
Speaker 1: have American children, The American children go, I have a promise.
Speaker 1: Then the promise is not fulfilled, which creates you know,
Speaker 1: I want to give you another thing to think about
Speaker 1: as we're on this, because if you want to look
Speaker 1: generationally like my mother when she came to the United
Speaker 1: States of America, despite the fact that she worked as
Speaker 1: a nanny and then eventually became a nurse, she was
Speaker 1: actually a very educated woman. Now for her to give
Speaker 1: her children that same level access to education, uh, we
Speaker 1: ventured to three or four states. So it requires so
Speaker 1: much effort to extract, especially like within if you look
Speaker 1: at the education system, like if you are in a
Speaker 1: majority black school, it's going to be hot gardage, and
Speaker 1: that's just a fact. In other countries, that's not going
Speaker 1: to be the thing that's holding you back. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be the fact that you're black, that you can't
Speaker 1: get a good education. That may plan to it. Like
Speaker 1: you say, that's where you see more of those class
Speaker 1: based situations. But in the United States of America, as
Speaker 1: soon as you bring your blackerty black kids from Africa
Speaker 1: or from whatever, and you think that you know these
Speaker 1: titles of being immigrant to trinidout you or whatever, we're
Speaker 1: going to protect you and perhaps they might give you
Speaker 1: a blinder. But for your children, they're going to have
Speaker 1: to experience what it is like to be educated in
Speaker 1: the education system of the United States and America. And
Speaker 1: it ain't got no time for us. I'll put it
Speaker 1: that way. I'll tell you this, Tiffany Drayton, You've written
Speaker 1: an engaging book which is one of my favorite books
Speaker 1: to read. And things I agree with that things I
Speaker 1: disagree with, their things that are new to me. I
Speaker 1: hope everybody reads it full that reason. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining me on the show. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for having me. All Right, people, Tiffany Drayton's memoir
Speaker 1: Black American Refugee is available right now. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. Well,
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