Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Happy Black History Month people, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. There's gonna be a really interesting Black History
Speaker 1: Month for multiple reasons. Number one, I think it's an
Speaker 1: interesting timing for Black History mon because like COVID obviously,
Speaker 1: and now people don't want to shut down the schools,
Speaker 1: but do you want to shut down to school? But
Speaker 1: I realized this might help everybody, you know, because on
Speaker 1: the one hand, you've got Black History Month, which a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't like, and then you've got like
Speaker 1: schools that are open, which a lot of people also
Speaker 1: don't like. But a lot of people who don't like
Speaker 1: Black History Month don't want the schools to be closed.
Speaker 1: It's like an intersection. So maybe that'll help now because
Speaker 1: there will be in school and people be like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna learn about Harriet Tubman today and be like, all right,
Speaker 1: shut down to school. It's cool, COVID, send them home,
Speaker 1: send them home. It's interesting. You know what I'm excited
Speaker 1: for this this Black History Month is how teachers are
Speaker 1: going to teach everything that they want to without running
Speaker 1: a foul of like the critics of critical race theory,
Speaker 1: because no one seems to know what critical race theory
Speaker 1: actually is or isn't. Teachers are afraid. They don't want
Speaker 1: to get suthed. They don't want to lose their jobs. Basically,
Speaker 1: like during Black History Month, every teacher is gonna sound
Speaker 1: like rap songs on the radio. You know, they're just
Speaker 1: gonna have to like edit all the pots out. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be like today, everyone, we're gonna be learning about
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman and how she and then she and all
Speaker 1: day and then she lived happily ever after. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like every story is gonna sound like this. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, Hi, kids, he has a story of
Speaker 1: Martin Luther Kane Jr. He was born, and then he
Speaker 1: and he preached for a while, and he was and
Speaker 1: then Barack Obama. Coming to you from the heart of
Speaker 1: Times swear in New York City, the only city in America.
Speaker 1: It's the Daily Show. Here's edition tonight. No more rings
Speaker 1: for Brady. We're all gonna die, dude, but glory sellers.
Speaker 1: This is the Daily Show with Trevor no Hey, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Ever
Speaker 1: Noah and joining me for today's headlines is our very
Speaker 1: own Roy would Jr. What's going on? Roy? Happy Black
Speaker 1: History Month? Happy Black History Month to you, bro. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like Black History Month, man, because this is the
Speaker 1: time to reflect and think about our past, right and
Speaker 1: everything that is important from the past, which reminds me.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I got that that two from
Speaker 1: you that you owed me remember from the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: from two years ago when we bet. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's good for us to let the past stay in
Speaker 1: the past. Happy Black History Month. All right, let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with big
Speaker 1: news from the world of sports. We're two weeks away
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl, one day a year where men
Speaker 1: can express their emotions openly, and one familiar face who
Speaker 1: won't be there this year is Tom Brady, quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and done with almost as many
Speaker 1: rings as shan Chi. Brady has appeared in every Super
Speaker 1: Bowl dating back to two I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: that is right, might be, but if it feels weird
Speaker 1: watching it without him this year, you better get used
Speaker 1: to it, because he's never going to be in it
Speaker 1: ever again. Breaking news this hour, seven times Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champion Tom Brady is retiring from football, he removed all down.
Speaker 1: The forty four year old quarterback played two NFL secenes
Speaker 1: and including twenty seasons with the New England Patriots, he
Speaker 1: won seven Super Bowls. I want to read from his
Speaker 1: statement here. This is difficult for me to write, but
Speaker 1: here it goes. I have loved my NFL career, and
Speaker 1: now it is time to focus my time and energy
Speaker 1: on other things that require my attention. Are the things
Speaker 1: that require my attention. It's a weird reason to retire.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's got like household chores. I've loved
Speaker 1: playing in the NFL, but I've got twenty years of
Speaker 1: laundry piling up, so it's time to call it quits. Guys,
Speaker 1: but look that you love them or hated him, you
Speaker 1: have to admire tom Brady's journey. I mean, when this
Speaker 1: dude started his career, he was picked almost dead lost
Speaker 1: in the draft, and yet he ended up dominating the
Speaker 1: game for twenty years, which is an important lesson for
Speaker 1: the little kids out there who might be coming in lost.
Speaker 1: And that lesson is this probably won't happen to you.
Speaker 1: You see, this was only gonna happen one time, and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady took it. I'm sorry. So if you keep
Speaker 1: coming in dead lost, you probably want to quit and
Speaker 1: do something else. You got this now, If we're being honest,
Speaker 1: this retirement isn't a surprise to anyone, right. What is
Speaker 1: surprising is that at four years old, this dude was
Speaker 1: still dominating in the NFL. Think about it, the NFL
Speaker 1: when people car accident each other for a living, and
Speaker 1: this guy was doing that in his forties. Most people
Speaker 1: I know in their forties are like, ah, my back hurts.
Speaker 1: I think I slept too long. And now that he's
Speaker 1: put up his cleats, the question is was Tom Brady
Speaker 1: the best football player of all time? Some people say
Speaker 1: yes because he holds all the records and won the
Speaker 1: most Super Bowls. Other people say no because he didn't
Speaker 1: do that for my team. So it'll be a big
Speaker 1: debate for a while, but there's no doubt that he
Speaker 1: is a legend of the game. So congrats Tom Brady
Speaker 1: on a wonderful, wonderful career. Although sadly it means that
Speaker 1: now Gronk has to be put down. Let's go out
Speaker 1: behind the bard, Gronk. We're gonna take you someplace special.
Speaker 1: You know what, I you know what? I respect about
Speaker 1: Tim Brady for the most part, man, is that he
Speaker 1: kept his scandals on the field. You know, the flate
Speaker 1: gate with the ball and then whether or not it
Speaker 1: was a tuck rule fumble way back in the day. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think like the Maga had his locker. That was
Speaker 1: probably the biggest we don't know about Brady. No drug,
Speaker 1: no arrest, no drama getting arrested, not none of that.
Speaker 1: It's wife not murdered. His wife is very unmurdered. All right,
Speaker 1: But let's move on to the hottest fat on the
Speaker 1: internet right now. And no, I'm not talking about hardcore pornography.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Word, all, the online puzzle game that's
Speaker 1: turned your Twitter timeline into a lame version of Tetris.
Speaker 1: Word is especially interesting because of where it came from.
Speaker 1: You see, it was just invented by one guy in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn who just made it as a gift for his girlfriend,
Speaker 1: which is really sweet. Oh, already subtle way to tell
Speaker 1: her that she doesn't know how to spell. I need
Speaker 1: you to brush up on your five letter words. You're
Speaker 1: really embarrassing me at parties. Anyway, His vision for Word
Speaker 1: was for it to be a simple, friendly game, totally free,
Speaker 1: no ads, no app and not addictive, just pure fun.
Speaker 1: And yesterday that vision paid off when The New York
Speaker 1: Times announced that it had bought word All from the
Speaker 1: Sky for more than a million dollars, which is great
Speaker 1: for the guy, But now everyone else is wondering will
Speaker 1: would will still be free? So CNN asked that question
Speaker 1: to the New York Times and the answer was, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know you guys, you gotta tell me what
Speaker 1: you think. Jonathan. I don't want to make this a
Speaker 1: hostile interview, but you need to answer the question that
Speaker 1: every word will user wants to know. Will you commit
Speaker 1: right here and now that forever more, in perpetuity, word
Speaker 1: will will be free to everybody. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: It's great to be here. Um. And yes, when the world,
Speaker 1: when when world comes to New York Times, it will
Speaker 1: be free to play for everyone that doesn't answer my question,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the New York Times, it will
Speaker 1: be free. How about five years from now, ten years
Speaker 1: from now? I wish I had that kind of crystal ball,
Speaker 1: but I don't. So you won't commit that world will
Speaker 1: always be free because it's free. Now, that's right. It
Speaker 1: is free when it comes to the Times, it will
Speaker 1: be free. And yeah, well that took a weird turn.
Speaker 1: I mean, at the beginning he was like, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make us pay for word all? And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he was like, are you gonna make us
Speaker 1: pay for World? Will answer me, bitch. You see how
Speaker 1: nervous the New York Times guy, because in the beginning
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, it's gonna be fair. Then the
Speaker 1: and he was like, look, man, just please, man, come
Speaker 1: on man. Thats CNN anchor has the skepticism of a
Speaker 1: guy who's been burned by a drug dealer. You know,
Speaker 1: He's like, wow, so this is totally free. And then
Speaker 1: a week later he's like, I see what you did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see what you did. Okay, I'll ask your dick,
Speaker 1: but I see what you did. You You got me, man,
Speaker 1: you got me good. Now, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: play wordle I do, And I'll be honest. When I
Speaker 1: heard this, I was kind of sad, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: was like, does this mean that world will loses its purity?
Speaker 1: You know, like, now are we going to have to
Speaker 1: pay to play? Or is the website gonna start tracking me?
Speaker 1: Am I gonna start getting targeted ads for the letter F.
Speaker 1: You you're asking the wrong questions. You hasking the wrong question.
Speaker 1: The question is not whether or not word is going
Speaker 1: to remain free. The question is will word will still
Speaker 1: be easy? Have you tried to do a New York
Speaker 1: Times cross word postle? I don't know nothing. The words
Speaker 1: in word that the world that that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: word of word is for people that I'm kind of dumb.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know how many five letter words
Speaker 1: there are in the English languages, over one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty and the word of database there's only Oh so
Speaker 1: it's just the dumb words. It's the good crank shift spark.
Speaker 1: Is that fine? I don't know, but I just know
Speaker 1: once the New York Times to get their hands on it,
Speaker 1: they're gonna add all the words and oh, you got
Speaker 1: word or wrong? Today? Today's where it was six And
Speaker 1: I ain't with that. I just need world to stay free,
Speaker 1: stay dumb. Well, anyway, speaking of things that are popular online,
Speaker 1: let's move on to today's most insane viral video. It
Speaker 1: comes to us out of suburban Pennsylvania, and if you
Speaker 1: were in the mood for dinner and the show last night, well, this,
Speaker 1: my friends, is where you wanted to be. CBS Philadelphia
Speaker 1: says a massive brawl broke out and a Pennsylvania Golden
Speaker 1: Corral restaurant over an alleged steak shortage. A former restaurant
Speaker 1: employee says he was told that the fight may have
Speaker 1: started when the buffet ran out of steak and a
Speaker 1: customer cut in line. Take a close listen, and a
Speaker 1: man can be heard saying all I wanted was some steak. America, America.
Speaker 1: This is you. This is how you know COVID is
Speaker 1: over for people. Americans are ready to go indoors again
Speaker 1: and fist fight over food. We're back, baby, we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back. Give me some of that. Let us bitch.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only silver lining in this story is
Speaker 1: that the fight happened at a Golden Corral, because if
Speaker 1: that fight was at a waffle house, the high chairs
Speaker 1: would have still had kids inside them. Do you see
Speaker 1: that guy throwing the chair? By the way he can
Speaker 1: throw He just smashed the light, you know what the
Speaker 1: lights like, I wasn't even involved in this ship. Now
Speaker 1: the light is smashed. Why are you through? Also a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand like how to throw a
Speaker 1: chair like they think they know how to throw a chair.
Speaker 1: A lot of people you can see these were first
Speaker 1: time chair throwers. These are these were like buffet people.
Speaker 1: And then they were just like the buffet has never
Speaker 1: not had the buffet. They didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: You can see the people just losing their minds. The
Speaker 1: I'd just kicked in at that moment. And I know
Speaker 1: Golden Corral is probably embarrassed by this, but think about
Speaker 1: what a huge compliment this actually is to the cooks
Speaker 1: in your kitchen. Your steak is riot worthy. Yeah, right now,
Speaker 1: the managers at Ruth's Chris are probably yelling at their chefs,
Speaker 1: just like, why isn't anyone getting stabbed over our steaks? Huh?
Speaker 1: Step up your game, people, step up a game. I
Speaker 1: saw this, which oh, by the way side, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if you notice it not, uh, form a
Speaker 1: Golden Correl employee right here, Royal Wood Jr. Florida, tellus
Speaker 1: in Florida, nor from my roads at Golden Quarante two
Speaker 1: thousand one. Baby, I've been in them trenches. I've never
Speaker 1: seen nothing like that in my life. But I was
Speaker 1: calm when I was watching the video. No panic did
Speaker 1: you think people are gonna get hurt. Yeah, No, nobody
Speaker 1: was gonna get hurt in that fight. Have you eaten
Speaker 1: at a buffet in America? Okay, then you know this
Speaker 1: is the knife. I stole a lot of knives when
Speaker 1: I worked at Golden Correl. This is an authentic buffet
Speaker 1: knife from a traditional American buffet restaurant. I want you
Speaker 1: to see the tip right there. Doll can't stab nobody.
Speaker 1: You can't get no poke action with that. So nobody
Speaker 1: was gonna die in that. You can't saw nobody to
Speaker 1: death at a buffet fight. That's the one thing that
Speaker 1: I really appreciated about that video is that nobody was
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's the thing also like and for
Speaker 1: you to talk about waffle House, don't put Olden Corral's
Speaker 1: name in the same bucket as waffle house. Well, I
Speaker 1: didn't mean to offend anybody. I know you love like
Speaker 1: the southern little offended Broca. Waffle House fights are one
Speaker 1: on one. Golden Corral is a family experience, and you
Speaker 1: look at that tape, everybody's fighting, family coming together, still
Speaker 1: unified even in violence. Golden Corral on mission, bro I
Speaker 1: didn't notice that, and I'm sorry for lumping them all
Speaker 1: in very disrespect apologize, very disrespectful. Also a lot of
Speaker 1: different different races in there, a lot of white people
Speaker 1: in that fight too. That was the thing that I appreciate.
Speaker 1: It was that black history, white people allies fighting with
Speaker 1: well not with black in the same fight, in the
Speaker 1: same fight about the same thing. Pretty much. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I got I got my name tech man.
Speaker 1: It's the one thing I kept. I never quit Golden
Speaker 1: Corral because you never know, you just left. I kind
Speaker 1: of just I told him I'll be back. So technically
Speaker 1: you have two busses, right, You've got like me. And
Speaker 1: then to someone at Golden Corral was like, yeah, Roy
Speaker 1: works for me as well. Yeah, his name is Kim
Speaker 1: mccrack real quick in case you see me. Do you
Speaker 1: need to know that I'm on the clock. Get my bread?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, I guess you learned something new about
Speaker 1: your friends every day. Well you know what, let's let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break, um, and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll look at all the exciting ways that you can
Speaker 1: get rid of your corps. You don't want to miss it, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think you don't have another job. Hang on
Speaker 1: this let's voting crowd. Hey, Mrs mccragan's mine. I'm on
Speaker 1: the way, Yes, sir, bring me back a starter please, Roy,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. We have all experienced
Speaker 1: supply chain issues recently. Right, you order something, it doesn't
Speaker 1: arrive on time. It's happening to everything. Some groceries are
Speaker 1: harder to find, cause are harder to buy. And I
Speaker 1: was supposed to have a studio audience by now by
Speaker 1: apparently they're stuck on a container ship off the coast
Speaker 1: of California. But believe it or not, these supply chain
Speaker 1: issues might affect you even after you're dead. From the
Speaker 1: pandemic to quarries closing. Businesses that make monuments for grave
Speaker 1: sites are having trouble getting granted. A lot of the
Speaker 1: products that we sell, it's mind in India or Brazil
Speaker 1: or Italy, and when they all sat down, they weren't
Speaker 1: sending anything else. This originally would take oh maybe two
Speaker 1: months to get now eight months. Okay, Before we move on,
Speaker 1: can I just say for a second, I love a
Speaker 1: gravestone that shows someone's priorities, you know, like most of
Speaker 1: the time it's like loving father, devoted husband. But then
Speaker 1: this dude was just like, screw you family, I'll be
Speaker 1: playing golf with Jesus. And I'm sorry about eight months
Speaker 1: is too long to wait for a gravestone. I mean,
Speaker 1: after eight months, how are you even going to remember
Speaker 1: where you buried the person? All right, everyone, you guys
Speaker 1: will remember this leaf and what it looks like. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll come put the grave stone here in eight months.
Speaker 1: You got, everybody. It's an orange leaf, a little tinge
Speaker 1: of yellow something like that. So obviously this is extremely
Speaker 1: inconvenient for a lot of people. But it got me
Speaker 1: thinking like, maybe this gravestone problem could be an opportunity
Speaker 1: to re examine how modern society handles the dead, because
Speaker 1: it's actually kind of a big problem, starting with cemeteries,
Speaker 1: because yes, cemeteries are the number one place god kids
Speaker 1: go to make out, But it turns out they're also
Speaker 1: getting more crowded than a Barris Johnson quarantine party. We've
Speaker 1: got a grave issue on our hands. As the world's
Speaker 1: population increases and becomes increasingly urban, the cities of the
Speaker 1: world are running out of room to bury their dead.
Speaker 1: In France, the cemeteries in big cities are overcrowded. In
Speaker 1: l A's rapidly filling cemeteries, some family plots being listed
Speaker 1: at over a million dollars. New by laws passed in
Speaker 1: Vancouver will allow the city's only cemetery to bury multiple
Speaker 1: unrelated people in the same grave. This means that up
Speaker 1: to three people who want to participate will be able
Speaker 1: to share a grave. Okay, okay, getting buried with two
Speaker 1: other people, I mean that raises a few questions from
Speaker 1: my side, like like what is the body arrangement? You know,
Speaker 1: are we are we stacking them like pancakes or are
Speaker 1: we dropping them in vertical like crayons? Or are they spooning?
Speaker 1: Because I mean, if we're spooning, that's cool and everything.
Speaker 1: I just want to know who's gonna be the big
Speaker 1: spoon because I don't mind doing it for a while,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna do it for eternity. I want
Speaker 1: to be cuddled to, you know. Plus my arm is
Speaker 1: gonna be dead, like dead dead, And I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of people right now might be like Trevor,
Speaker 1: you can't be putting dead bodies on top of each other.
Speaker 1: What about their dignity? Yeah, but think about it. Have
Speaker 1: you been to New York? People already stackingly living on
Speaker 1: top of each other. I mean, if we have to
Speaker 1: have roommates, why not the dead? And look, I get
Speaker 1: wanting to be buried in the city that you lived in.
Speaker 1: I understand that. You know, it makes it easier for
Speaker 1: your loved ones to come and visit your grave, and
Speaker 1: you have a short to commute when you go to
Speaker 1: haunt them every night. But the fact is, cities are
Speaker 1: running out of space. And it's not even just a
Speaker 1: space issue, because now we're learning that traditional burial methods
Speaker 1: also leave behind a toxic trail for the people who
Speaker 1: are still living right now when most Americans consider a
Speaker 1: traditional burial takes a big toll on the environment. About
Speaker 1: four point three million gallons of embombing fluid are used
Speaker 1: in US burials each year. The typical body requires three
Speaker 1: pounds of this formal in solution and sends a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty gallons of untreated funeral waste directly into the
Speaker 1: sewage system, including blood, fecal matter, organ fluid, and carcinogenic chemicals,
Speaker 1: as well as whatever unknown diseases the body contains. An
Speaker 1: option that's becoming more popular in the US is cremation,
Speaker 1: but despite its apparent minimalism creation is resource intens of two.
Speaker 1: It takes around twenty eight gallons of fuel to turn
Speaker 1: just one person into ash. You're heating a body for
Speaker 1: two hours up to eight degrees. You're releasing pollutants into
Speaker 1: the atmosphere's most significantly and mercury. Each year, Creations in
Speaker 1: the United States released the same amount of c O
Speaker 1: two seventy cars. Yeah, it turns out all that stuff
Speaker 1: that we do to dead bodies is super bad for
Speaker 1: the environments. I mean, I guess on the plus side,
Speaker 1: all that toxic ship we dump into the sewers, it's
Speaker 1: gonna make some cool new ninja turtles. But aside from that,
Speaker 1: it is pretty disturbing. And by the way, I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but this really makes me look differently
Speaker 1: at the mafia. You know, all this time, I thought
Speaker 1: throwing bodies into the river was just a way to
Speaker 1: cover up their crimes, But it turns out they just
Speaker 1: really care about the environment. So our modern burial rituals
Speaker 1: come with a lot of baggage. Does the space issue,
Speaker 1: there's the environment, and I haven't even gotten to how
Speaker 1: awkward it is to tip the grave. Digger. Thanks for
Speaker 1: burying Nana he has a dollar three hundred dollars. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, this is weird. And while traditional burials
Speaker 1: aren't going away anytime soon, there are more and more
Speaker 1: sustainable alternatives out there for people who decide to think
Speaker 1: outside the coffin. Around the world, there's a growing to
Speaker 1: make funeral practices more sustainable. One of these is a
Speaker 1: process called acquamation that is essentially a way of dissolving
Speaker 1: a body and uses a heated bath of potassium hydroxide
Speaker 1: and water that can be safely disposed down the train.
Speaker 1: It's more environmentally friendly since there's zero toxic emissions and
Speaker 1: it has about one tenth of the carbon footprint as
Speaker 1: a cremation. Washington State Governor j Insley just signed a
Speaker 1: law making it the first state allowing human composting, or
Speaker 1: turning a body into soil. Recomposition is the ultimate green
Speaker 1: way to go using an eighth of the energy of cremation,
Speaker 1: and there are other options. The infinity burial suit, a
Speaker 1: shroud that helps the body decompose, or the eco pot
Speaker 1: where your body becomes the root of a new tree.
Speaker 1: That's how I want to go out. What eco pot?
Speaker 1: Do you hear that I want? That I die. They
Speaker 1: turned me into a tree. I grow. I provide for
Speaker 1: the community with my fruits, provide shade for the kids
Speaker 1: when they play. When I get old, they chopped me
Speaker 1: down and turned me into toilet paper. Then I get
Speaker 1: in that ass, Cindy. Yeah, you said I had zero chance,
Speaker 1: but now you're wiping your ass with me. I'm in there, girl.
Speaker 1: I played the long game. No seriously, Actually like this
Speaker 1: idea of green burial. I mean, yeah, it's good for
Speaker 1: the environment and all that, but it will also help
Speaker 1: you flex on everyone else when you get to heaven.
Speaker 1: Oh you got buried. Yeah, I just thought that that
Speaker 1: was kind of bad for the environment, so I was
Speaker 1: melted in acid instead. I guess I'm just a little
Speaker 1: bit better than you are as a person, Mr Rogers. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: for more on the alternatives to traditional burials, we turned
Speaker 1: now to our burial experts, Ronnie chang Hey. First off,
Speaker 1: happy lunar New Year, Ronnie. Yeah, well, thanks for making
Speaker 1: me come to work to talk about death. That's not
Speaker 1: bad luck at all. Oh my bad. I guess I
Speaker 1: didn't think about that. Sorry. Well, what a surprise. But
Speaker 1: at least I got a chance to pick up some flowers. Well,
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. They're just sitting out here for free. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're free running. I think someone left them
Speaker 1: there for for the dead. Yeah, exactly, what a waste,
Speaker 1: Just like this entire cemetery wasted on the dead. I
Speaker 1: mean this is prime real estate. Look right here, this
Speaker 1: could be a cheesecake factory. And over here this could
Speaker 1: be another cheesecake factory. Look, you do have a point.
Speaker 1: There's all sorts of alternatives to cemetaries, like, for instance,
Speaker 1: human composting or acquamation. Yeah. I don't know what any
Speaker 1: of those was mean, Trevor, here's what I think. Okay,
Speaker 1: we need to stop throwing away perfectly good bodies and
Speaker 1: we can start using that. I don't like where this
Speaker 1: is going. Yeah, I don't just need sex stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of things a dead body can be
Speaker 1: used for. Like, think about it, how many times have
Speaker 1: you watched Law and Order and thought that's not even
Speaker 1: a real dead body. I've never thought that once, running
Speaker 1: or trust me, when you've seen as many dead bodies
Speaker 1: as I have, you become real stickler for details. Okay,
Speaker 1: but but fine, forget Law and Order. How many times
Speaker 1: have you been stuck in traffic. Huh you got dead body?
Speaker 1: Now you're cruising to work in the cobulan. Wouldn't we
Speaker 1: be worried about the police seeing you with a dead
Speaker 1: body in your car. That's why you only use dead
Speaker 1: white bodies so you don't get pulled over, right, And
Speaker 1: that makes sense. The point is I got a ton
Speaker 1: of ideas for dead bodies. Okay, okay, scarecrows or natural
Speaker 1: mannequins at the gap? Uh? Sex stuff? That was that
Speaker 1: was your idea? Uh? Put one in the four years
Speaker 1: so if a murderer comes to your house, you'll think
Speaker 1: someone alread beat him? Do it? Okay? What else? Uh?
Speaker 1: Sell one as an n f T. Wait wait wait
Speaker 1: wait what an n f T. I don't know. People
Speaker 1: just keep yelling at me about n f p s.
Speaker 1: Al Right, it can't be any dumber than an ape
Speaker 1: that looks like Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: get the apes. But let me ask you this, which
Speaker 1: one of these things, like these new techniques do you
Speaker 1: want to do with your body? Oh? My body? Oh no,
Speaker 1: none of them. I'm going four, Masley, I'm covered in gold.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking ten bedroom ten bath and you'll have a
Speaker 1: cheese gay factory in it. That actually sounds great, Nie,
Speaker 1: I bet you can't wait to be dead. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not the worst thing you can say on lunar New
Speaker 1: Year to someone. All Right, that's disgusting. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'll say something else. Um uh gong, hey fat Choi?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, your pronunciation is even worse. Just wish
Speaker 1: I die. I'm sorry. You know. Let's take a break
Speaker 1: and when we come back, I'll be talking to Maccari Sellers.
Speaker 1: We'll be able to talk about his new book that
Speaker 1: is just in time for Black History months, So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Is it that bad? Hey fat Choi? Oh, hey, hey
Speaker 1: fat Choi. Chinese is racist even when you try. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is civil
Speaker 1: rights attorney and CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers. He's here
Speaker 1: to talk about his new children's book. Who are your people?
Speaker 1: Okari Sellers, Welcome to the Daily Shrank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here in person. In person. Right,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people I'm meeting now for the
Speaker 1: first time, and I go like I've met you. It's like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I met you much more handsome in person than virtually.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you. You're much taller than
Speaker 1: I thought you were. You could have said handsome, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to give the compliment back
Speaker 1: to you. Okay, fair enough, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It feels then, it feels like I'm recycling. So I
Speaker 1: was trying to think of another thing I noticed about
Speaker 1: you that wasn't looks related. Um, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here. You've You've lived a really
Speaker 1: interesting life, you know, because there was a moment in
Speaker 1: your career where people genuinely thought you were going to
Speaker 1: be one of the next new faces of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party in this country. You know, you served for I
Speaker 1: think it was eight years in the state legislature and
Speaker 1: people were just like, Oh, this guy's going all the way.
Speaker 1: We see what he's doing. You know, he's from a
Speaker 1: civil rights family. He's really in tuneing what's happening. And
Speaker 1: then you were like, no, I'm done with this. What happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was, I'm done with it.
Speaker 1: But I think that having an opportunity right now to
Speaker 1: be a father and be a husband I've realized are
Speaker 1: my two most important jobs. And then being able to
Speaker 1: utilize my form to lift people up and write books.
Speaker 1: Now this is my second book, it's my second opportunity
Speaker 1: to be on the New York Times bestseller's list. Um,
Speaker 1: there's just so much that I can do. And when
Speaker 1: that opportunity presents itself, um, you know, when Jim Claiburne retires,
Speaker 1: maybe when I get back in that political scrum. Maybe,
Speaker 1: But I mean, Trevor, would you want to go to
Speaker 1: Congress and serve and have less seniority than Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 1: Green or Matt Gates or Madison Cawthorne. Like this is
Speaker 1: not an appetizing thing when you think about the American
Speaker 1: political system we have today. So I think I may
Speaker 1: get back out there, but right now, I just want
Speaker 1: to take care of my kids and my wife. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the book who Are Your People? Wonderful title
Speaker 1: that could be um interpreted is the wrong way, you know,
Speaker 1: because because because in America at least, it's very uncomfortable
Speaker 1: when people say like, who are you from? Who are
Speaker 1: your people? Could people have used it, as you know,
Speaker 1: as you know down South as a colloquialism that when
Speaker 1: you meet people for the first time, like when I
Speaker 1: met my my daughter's boyfriend s sixteen, you're like, who
Speaker 1: are your people? Because you get to know you want
Speaker 1: to know where their family is from, um, where they
Speaker 1: what type of they come from? And so who are
Speaker 1: your people is is just trying to get people to
Speaker 1: understand where you come from. And I wrote this book
Speaker 1: because I wanted personally. I was sick and tired of
Speaker 1: my twins having to see purple people are blue people
Speaker 1: on TV. I wanted him to be able to see
Speaker 1: people that look like them, like the movie and Conto
Speaker 1: for example, and and and in this book, they're able
Speaker 1: to see them and their people and have a sense
Speaker 1: of pride. And I think when young black and brown
Speaker 1: kids read it, they'll get a sense of pride. When
Speaker 1: white kids read it, they'll get a sense of empathy.
Speaker 1: And to your point earlier in the conversation, we live
Speaker 1: in a country where we have an empathy deficit, where
Speaker 1: people no longer care about the struggles and plight of others.
Speaker 1: And maybe this is some utopia that I'm living in
Speaker 1: or youth when I even say, but I firmly believe
Speaker 1: there's more that brings us together than divides us. But
Speaker 1: we have to embrace those differences in the book. You
Speaker 1: you know, when they said, okay, but Car's coming on
Speaker 1: with a book, I was like, okay, great, I love
Speaker 1: his previous pictures for you. And then they were like,
Speaker 1: there's pictures. And I was like, oh, it's a kid's book.
Speaker 1: And then I and then I started reading through it,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, Wow, it's a kid's book.
Speaker 1: But I mean there's parts of the book where you know,
Speaker 1: black people are sitting at like the lunch counter and
Speaker 1: they're just getting shout to that in the science that
Speaker 1: say no Negroes. Except I was like, wow, this is
Speaker 1: one hell of a children's book. And then I started thinking.
Speaker 1: I was like two things. One, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know some people who won't be like, oh, man, is
Speaker 1: this what you want to teach kids? And the other
Speaker 1: people might go, uh, you know, this book's gonna get
Speaker 1: banned in a bunch of places soon. Right. Well, that
Speaker 1: image that you're talking about is is one of my
Speaker 1: two favorite images. It's it's actually a real image from
Speaker 1: February one, nineteen sixty at the World Wor Lunch Counter,
Speaker 1: where students from North Carolina Anti State University is kicked
Speaker 1: off the sit In movement, and I wanted to have
Speaker 1: that history and that those lessons in the book, and
Speaker 1: maybe if you're an adult reading it, it refreshes your memory,
Speaker 1: you can teach more about it. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: people are they're banning Michelle Obama's books in Texas right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, people are talking about this book,
Speaker 1: a picture book, being critical race theory. It's absolutely not
Speaker 1: critical race theory, but it's getting caught up in all
Speaker 1: of this this utter anti intellectual bs is the best
Speaker 1: way that I can phrase it, Because what's wrong with
Speaker 1: kids learning about out who they are? What's wrong with
Speaker 1: kids learning about where other kids came from and being
Speaker 1: proud of that. I don't see anything wrong and it
Speaker 1: and hopefully it teaches a new generation to dream. It
Speaker 1: feels like it comes out at a at a perfect
Speaker 1: time as well, not just because of what's happening in
Speaker 1: the conversation around books, but because of Black History Months.
Speaker 1: You know, Black History Month is is one of the
Speaker 1: most interesting times to observe, especially when you come from
Speaker 1: outside of America, you know, because where I'm from, it's
Speaker 1: always black History Month, you know, and I want to
Speaker 1: come there. You You're welcome. Welcome every day is Black
Speaker 1: History Month used to be? It needs to be your
Speaker 1: your slogan. You need to work on that. But it
Speaker 1: really is an interesting, interesting thing to understand as somebody
Speaker 1: who has worked with some of the most devastated families
Speaker 1: in this country, as they've dealt with civil rights abuses,
Speaker 1: as they've dealt with hate crimes. You know, what do
Speaker 1: you think Black History should be about? I think we
Speaker 1: need to understand when Carter G. Woodson found it Nigro
Speaker 1: History Week and shows February, he did it because of
Speaker 1: the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, two of
Speaker 1: his heroes at the time. And that's how we ended
Speaker 1: up in black in February for Black History, Negro History Week,
Speaker 1: and Black History Month. For me, it's about the richness
Speaker 1: of a culture, the perseverance and overcoming. You're talking about
Speaker 1: slavery and oppression four hundred years Jim Crow. My father
Speaker 1: literally went to segregated schools. My mother was a part
Speaker 1: of the herd desegregating class in high school. This isn't
Speaker 1: generations ago. We're talking about pain, but we're also talking
Speaker 1: about the triumph of overcoming and so there's a lot
Speaker 1: to be proud of. But if people don't recognize that pain,
Speaker 1: then they can never understand the struggle of what it
Speaker 1: is to be black in America. There seems to be
Speaker 1: um a paradox for some people in understanding the the
Speaker 1: duality of being black, you know, like some people think
Speaker 1: black people can only exist in a state of pain
Speaker 1: and suffering, and those people just, oh, I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: that you're black. It must be so hard all the time.
Speaker 1: And then there are some people who exist almost in
Speaker 1: a state of being like, oh, get over, nothing happened.
Speaker 1: And I always trying to expence people. I go like, no,
Speaker 1: it's about understanding all of it, the whole, the whole person,
Speaker 1: and and like, you know that, I think the most
Speaker 1: perverse phrase we have in politics right now. And I
Speaker 1: hate when people teach young people to be color blind.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to be color blind. I mean,
Speaker 1: I want you to be able to see the richness
Speaker 1: of my culture, everything I bring. I want you to
Speaker 1: see the fact that, yes, I've cried tears when Trayvon
Speaker 1: Martin was killed, or or when George Floyd was murdered.
Speaker 1: But I've also recognized that we have a great history
Speaker 1: of overcoming in this country. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: disagree me, disagree with me on this premise, but I
Speaker 1: fundamentally don't think there's anything irredeemable about this country. I
Speaker 1: fundamentally believe we have to reimagine what she looks like
Speaker 1: to being more inclusive America than includes all of us.
Speaker 1: But what's interesting is how many times black people fought
Speaker 1: for their progress in the country because of the rules
Speaker 1: that it had written for nothing that you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, It's an interesting paradox. It's a bounce check.
Speaker 1: And I think King said it best. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: someone wrote down a promise to give people this and
Speaker 1: then it bounced. They knew it was insufficient funds, and
Speaker 1: so here we are, we're trying to we're trying to
Speaker 1: reclaim what you promised us in that check. And so
Speaker 1: what you're saying is you're hopeful, you believe that there's
Speaker 1: a chance that America could be able to pay the
Speaker 1: amount on that check. I believe. So I believe America
Speaker 1: right now is an unfulfilled, broken promise to so many people,
Speaker 1: whether or not your Muslim immigrants, gay, black, a woman
Speaker 1: in this country. It's a It is a bounced check
Speaker 1: and an unfulfilled promise. However, I still have faith in tomorrow. Wow,
Speaker 1: look at that. I can run for office with that.
Speaker 1: You should, man, I still have faith into marrow. But
Speaker 1: car Sellers, I stillft faith in tomorrow. South Africa. Every
Speaker 1: day is black history. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I love this. We're running campaigns right here, marketing you.
Speaker 1: Let me know when you're going back into politics, and
Speaker 1: I will be right behind you, not following you, but
Speaker 1: just cheering you. Appreciate you. Who are your people? Is
Speaker 1: available wherever books are sold. We're gonna take a quick break,
Speaker 1: but we'll be right back off to this. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you very much. Well, that's our
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