November 17, 2021 • 34 mins
Trevor highlights the right-wing extremism of Rep. Paul Gosar, Dulcé Sloan examines the history of Black marching bands, and NBA star Dwyane Wade discusses his book "Dwyane."
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central, So how many of you
accidentally or purposefully eat the sticker on the fruit? Does
anybody do that? Because this was a big thing online.
People were arguing about whether or not you can eat
the sticker that they put on the fruit, and like
a lot of people like, yeah, you're supposed to eat it,
it's edible, and then other people like, you should not
be eating stickers on the fruit. It was like a
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whole fight. It was a whole fight. My thing was,
really there's just two things. Number One, who are you
that you don't have time to like take a sticker
off of your fruit? What is happening in your life
that you're just like, there's a stick I don't tab
to save lives? Like, who are you to take the
time look at the thing and peel it? You know
what I'm saying. It's like. But then at the same time,
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there's also the people who are like this, you can't
eat a sticker. It is the worst thing that will happen.
It's not the worst thing there biodegradable. It's not good,
but it's not the worst thing. People gonna act like
hot dogs don't exist. You know, if you eat hot dogs.
I mean, you're the kind of person who like looks
at life and just goes like, yeah, man, let's find
out that's where the hot dog is. You know what
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I'm saying. You're just the kind of person who's just
like yeah. And it's like a good combination of like
threat and like, you know, security, because the bride is like,
we understand what Brad is and then the hot dog
You're like, wow, let's see, let's see what's going on. Baby.
I'm all about that life. But I mean, I don't
know if you should eat the sticker, you know what
I'm saying. I didn't know you could eat the stick
until this argument. By the way, so I saw this,
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then the New York Times to the piece on this,
and then the FDA has stepped in. I was like, Wow,
of all the things the New York Times could be doing. Yeah,
it's weird to be like in the newsroom and there's
just people like that. You know, what are you looking at?
I'm looking at what's happening at the Russian border with Ukraine.
What are you looking into? I'm investigating these new vaccines
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and you you guys noticed the sticker on fruit? Either
we should eat it or not eat it. I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna do a three word article on
this guy's we're all journalists here, count down to that
person writing a hit piece on me, well played? New
York Times journalist, Why Trevor Noah is worse than the
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stickers on fruit? Well played? Coming to you from the
Hard Times in New York City, the only city in America.
It's The Daily Here's pH tonight in Ama can get
you intro merching bands are racist? Dwain work. He's the
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Daily Show with Trevor. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome
to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining me
for today's headlines is our very own Daisi Light. What's
going on? Des? Hey, Trevor? Are you doing? I'm good.
I'm just, you know, prepping for Thanksgiving, getting ready. I'm
not hosting this year, which is a huge relief. But
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I am in charge of the dressing, which is kind
of a huge responsibility. Dressing all of my uncles, finding
clothes for all sixteen of them. That's that's a lot.
I think the dressing has you know what dizzy good
for you? Anyway? Do you know where I can find
a bunch of camo hats. No, no, I don't. Sorry.
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I took an edible before I got here. I didn't
know I was going to be on today. Well that's fine, Dizzy.
Just relax and breathe and we'll be We'll be good. Okay,
Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, Dizzy, you're good. Mhm. Okay, Well
we'll come back. You shout if you need anything. All right,
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let's jump right into today's headlines. We kick things off
with today's big basketball story. And no, I'm not talking
about everyone dunking on the eternals. I'm talking about an
iconic stadium that's taking on a brand new identity. After
twenty two years, Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles is
getting a new name, and it's a real sign of
the times. Beginning Christmas Day, the home of the Lakers, Clippers,
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and Kings will be known as Crypto dot Com Arena.
The cryptocurrency trading platform reportedly paid within seven million dollars
for the naming rights. The Lakers won six championships in
this building. The Sparks won three titles. The Clippers play
here too. You know I'll be where this is? Uh,
you know, I grew up this being Staples and Staples
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being you know, the place to play in the place
to be. It's kind of like just stripping the history here. Well,
I mean, I don't know if you need to get
that sentimental poll. You know, it's not like Staples is
a sacred name from the ancestors. It's a store where
you buy fifty packs of binders even though you only
need one, you know, and when you get home you
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find out that with the wrong size. Anyway, you don't
need to get that nostalgic about it like it's company.
And if you do want to get nostalgic, just wait,
just wait. I promise you soon will get used to
crypto dot com arena. And in twenty years when they
change that name to nanobot x Arena or whatever, your
kids will be upset about that. Back in my day,
this stadium isn't about the latest fat It was about
swapping blockchain currencies on a digital market exchange. There was
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culture attached to it, you know, n f T s
and look this this shouldn't come as a surprise. But
anywhere a team can advertise, they're going to advertise, right
the stadiums, the jerseys, the courts. They literally started showing
commercials during free throws. You realize that with two months
away from the NBA selling name rights to the score,
it's gonna be like and the game ends with a
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score of eighty four to Mountain Dew a big win
for the Lakers or a big loss. I can't tell
what's happening, but I mean, can you blame the arena though?
If people are offering you a shipload of money to
use their name, you do it. I mean that's what
I did. I sold my naming rights to a guy
named Trevor Noah for forty bucks. What you know this?
Come on? Do I look like a Trevor? My real
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name is Bert Pakowski. I'm sorry. I just can't stop
picturing them removing the Staples logo with one of those
giant Staples when just the giant clock, Sorry, the edibles kicking,
and I think I need to know what edibles these are?
All right, let's move on from sports to music and
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the woman that everyone is talking about right now, Taylor Swift,
pop star songwriter an inventor of the color red. Personally,
I love Taylor Swift, huge fan, really nothing bad to
say about her, But even if I had something bad
to say about her, I wouldn't I wouldn't say it
because Taylor swift fans are super protective of her, like
like they're like one of those old fashioned dads with
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a shotgun who doesn't want you to marry his daughter
because he wants to marry her. You see, Taylor Swift
has been re recording all of her old albums, which
means people are really listening to all of her old
songs about her famous exs and then getting mad at
those exs all over again on her behalf. And While
Taylor may be content to address her old boyfriends with
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heartfelt lyrics and songs that are again, I want to
stress this perfect in every way, some of her fans
are a lot less subtle. This is going a little
too far. While Jake Joan Hall is taking incoming fire
from the Swifties. Another one of Taylor's excess is being
bombarded with messages now. A user on Instagram sent John
Mayer a direct message telling him fuck yourself, you ugly bitch.
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I hope you choke on something. Mayor then responded to
the user saying that he'd been getting many messages like
that over the past couple of days and asking do
you really hope I die, to which the user responded,
O MG, what I don't want you to die. I'm sorry.
The user apologized again and admitted they didn't really think
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Mayor would see the message. You see, people. This is
what I hates about social media. It makes people act
shittier than they actually are, which then makes us think
that people are shittier than they actually are, because social
media makes us forget that we're all human beings. You know,
we just see that little avatar and then we all
talk to each other, But we're all human. Even celebrities
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are real people, all of them. I mean I always
obviously accept Timothy shallowm me, he's going to be c G.
I no one can be that good looking. I mean,
you just look at that person now. I'm craving spice
that damn m m m m m m. And I
know her fans are like, but he heard her. Listen
to her song. Yes, that's all you're supposed to do.
Listen to the song. You know. Taylor Swift writes songs
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to express her emotions in a way that touches other people,
not to order a hit on her ex boyfriends so
death threats are not the way to go, especially with
someone like John Maya. Don't don't send him death threats.
He gets them all the time. If you anyone upsets him,
tell him that Ed Shearon is a better guitar player.
That's going to hit his heart. You know. It's it's
weird how people get like they're so hateful on the internet. Dezzi, Yeah,
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I know it's bad, but if you think John Mayer's
dams are rough, you should see the d ms of
any woman on the internet. Really. Yeah, it's either death
threats or requests to see your feet every time, like
just your feet feet, yeah, just your feet, or a
death threat. One of the two. It's either like why
are women in Star Wars? Or send me a picture
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of your feet? That's really intense. Yeah. I know they're
both bad, But which one do you prefer? Well, I'm
pretty proud of my feet, so I got no problem
sending foot picks again bad. I just wondered which one?
Have you ever requested a footpick? No? No? Wow? Look,
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who's a gentleman? I think is the phrase you're looking for?
Maybe looka It all depends. Yeah, but to be totally fair,
it is completely inappropriate for anyone to send a death
threat on the internet. It's not cool. I agree. You
gotta do it the old school way. You know, you
got to like cut out from the magazine. This is
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the real way to do it. That is better than
a d M. Yeah, still not good. I always have
this with me just in case. I don't even know
who it's for. But it takes a long to do
it that I figured. By the time I'm done, i'll
figure it out. I'll be pissed at somebody. By the way,
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you're out of glue. Yeah, and all my magazines have
been destroyed. Thank you, Dizzy. You know this is from
your book cover? Oh well, thank you. I thought you
wanted it, signed it because you wanted to read it.
You wrote that book, Yeah, I did. I wrote it
all right. Let's let's move on to the big story
from Washington Today. Last week, Arizona Congressman Paul Saw tweeted
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an anime video of him chopping off AOC's head right
easily the most disturbing cartoon since that Family Guy fan
fake porn I accidentally watched seven times. Brian has stamina
and Democrats were so furious about this video that today
they voted to sensua go Saw and kick him off
of his committees, the first member of Congress to be
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censured in over a decade. Yeah, it's pretty bad, but
Saw well, he seemed to take it as a badge
of honor. I rise today to dressed and reject and
this characterization accusations for many in this body that the
cartoon from my office is dangerous or threatening if I
must join Alexander Hamilton's the first person attempted to be
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censored by this house, So be it, it is done.
Uh yeah, I don't know if this makes you the
same as Alexander Hamilton's. You know, this is like this
like Jeffrey Epstein's girl friend taking the stand. Like if
I must be tried and caught just as Jesus was,
then so be it. No, No, lady, ladies, the same process.
But these are very different crimes. Now, the fact is
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that this didn't surprise anybody, right, Seeing something like this
from Paul Gosta is not surprising because over the years,
Gosa has made a name for himself as possibly the
most controversial person in all of Congress, which is actually
pretty impressive when you think about it. So let's talk
about what makes Gosta one of Congress's most extreme extremists
in a all installments of Fringe Watching. Paul go Saw
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was first elected to Congress back in riding the wave
of the Tea Party, the movement that pretended to care
about the national debts, but only while Obama was in office.
He's black, and like many Tea Partiers who were elected
that year, he didn't come from a career in politics. No,
he was a dentist, which, as far as he's concerned,
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is all the experience a congressman needs. I was a dentist,
and so every patient that walks in my office, I
have to be prepared for an emergency. I'm a dentist,
so science is a big deal to me. As a dentist.
I love to kiss theory. Keep it simple, stupid. By
the way, I'm a dentist. Okay, so I read body
language very very well. Okay, half of those didn't even
make sense, he was adding, as a dentist to the
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beginning of unrelated thoughts. Yo, I'm a dentist, so can
I get this drag cleaning back on Tuesday? I'm a dentist. No,
you're not currently a dentist. You're working at another job
because of your previous job. At this job, I'm a dentist.
Would you like number two as well? With that? And look,
I agree that being a dentist is the perfect job
to prepare you for being in Congress, you know, since
you already have tons of experience with people hating you.
But it turns out there was one part of being
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a dentist that Goshaw did bring to Congress teeth whitening.
Except instead of whitening teeth, he's trying to whiten America.
A few Republicans have been more linked to extremist groups
than Mr Gosar. He's been involved with anti Muslim groups
and hate groups. Eighteen, he dined with an in, an
extremist anti Muslim Belgian politician, at a London event organized
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by Steve Bannon, and last month he tweeted then deleted
a reportedly neo Nazi theme video. Gosar has aligned himself
closely with leaders of white nationalists and extremist groups, people
like Nick Fuente's, the twenty two year old leader of
the America First Movement. Other conservative organizations have denounced him
as a holocaust denier and a racist. The Arizona Republican
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was the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by Mr.
Fuente's group in February. The only member of Congress to participate,
Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green, along with Republican Congressman Paul Gossar,
have been working to create a new House caucus to
help return America to its quote Anglo Saxon roots. The
document reads, quote America is a nation with a border
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and a culture strengthened by a common respect for uniquely
Anglo Saxon political traditions. You know, I always find it
funny how white supremacists want to take America back to
its roots. But not like the original roots, you know,
just like the roots of when white people were in charge.
We need to take this country back to when Native
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Americans were in charge. No no, no, no, too far back,
too far back, Go four and go fo to MLK.
No no, no, too far forward, back back back, back
back back, the Irish coming over stop perfect, Because let's
be honest, that's what he means by Anglo Saxon traditions,
right like when he says that he's not talking about
nights in armor roaming the land on quests, although that
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that would be pretty cool. People of Arizona. I'm off
to slay the mighty dragon at is a dentist. Now.
The only thing that goes on loves more than whiteness
is a really, really good conspiracy theory. In fact, he's
claimed the Democrats stole a Senate race, in he's claimed
that the Neo Nazi rally in Charlottesville was a false
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flag operation secretly carried out by George Soros. And he's
claimed that the FBI was behind the Capital riot on
January six, and the lost one is especially weird because
one of the people who arguably was responsible for January
six was Paul Gosa, Arizona Congressman. Paul goes on firing
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up crowds with lies about the election results. Imagine this
that you get go back home. Once we conquered the hill,
Donald Trump has returned to being the president and amazing
things will happen with four more years. In just the
days before the riot, he tweeted, patriots, the time is
now hold the line joined me in d C January six,
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hashtag fight for Trump, and in another he tweeted, sedition
and treason for stealing votes is appropriate on the morning
of the siege, he would send followers this image, stating
Biden should concede. He promptly went to Congress, stood up
and opposed the certification of the Electoral College results. I
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rise quote for myself and sixty of my colleagues to
object to the accounting of the electoral ballots from Arizona.
At the end of his speech, interrupted by the very
mob he helps stir up ah the irony interrupted by
his own mob. You see, this is why when you're
fermenting a coup, you've got to coordinate, you know, send
out a doodle. Let the mob know you're speaking to
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overturn the election at one thirty, so maybe they could
overtake the police barricaded too. Maybe. You know, you know,
the only thing worse than your mom showing up early
is your mom showing up late, because then you're just
on the floor of Congress going. And if you think
Joe Biden is going to be president, I have a
few thousand friends who disagree. Guys, where where are you
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use the bathroom? Now? Use it after? This is the time,
just the time. So when you look at what he's
done in Congress, I'm not surprised the GOP doesn't care
about gozas anime video. I mean, between the coup and
the White supremacy, this is the least offensive thing that
he's ever done. And the GOP might not be condemning
Ghosts behavior, but his own family is definitely picking up
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that slack. Everrizon A Congressman Paul Gosar was whacked with
this attack by six of his brothers and sisters. My
name is Tim Gosar, David Gosar. Paul is absolutely not
working for his district, and he's not listening to you,
and he doesn't have your interests at heart. Go Star
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fired back on Twitter. You can't pick your family, got
A tweeted to the six angry Democrat gotars see you
at mom and Dad's house. God damn, we need to
get Paul Ghost out of Congress and onto a Bravo show.
You're telling me you wouldn't watch the real ghost saus
of Maricopa County. I'm a dentist, I'm a private investigator.
I hate you. We hate you too, june In. I
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don't even want to imagine how stressful Thanksgiving must be
for ghost as parents. Think about it. You gotta cook
for a bunch of children and the entire mob that
Paul brings. You're not serving pumpkin pie this year. Well,
let's say what my friends after saying about that, wait,
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wait the bathroom again, come out? What did you guys aid?
You're killing me here? My mom is waiting. Yeah, we
gotta prove a point to her. Okay, Okay, I'll see Sue.
I'll be honest. Though. As awkward as this family dynamic is,
it's more surprising to me when someone does endorse a
sibling a confront. I mean, think about it. Siblings have
experienced too much with you, Like, I don't care if
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my sister and I believe in all the same things.
She put my hand in warm water to make me
pee in bed. Nobody should do that to a thirty
seven year old. So that's Paul Gosa, French politician, anime fan,
and a man so awful he couldn't win votes from
his own family. And I don't know about you, guys,
but someone this awful, they shouldn't be running anything in government.
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And I don't say this as a talk show host.
I say this as someone who's been to the dentist.
All right, when we come back, we won't just hear
some marching bands, we'll listen to them. What does that mean?
I don't know. Just stick around to find out. Welcome
back to the Daily Show. If you've ever watched a
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college football game, you know two things. One, you could
definitely have coached that team better. And to the marching
band is pretty awesome. But how much do you know
about the history of the marching band? Well, dul Say
will full you in with another installment of dull saying
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black marching bands. It's the one time black people get
to march without Fox News calling them rioters. And we
all of them, even those of us who got cut
from one just because our baton twirling was deemed dangerous.
Maybe our trombone players should have stayed out of my
strike zone. But marching bands are even more amazing when
you learn about their history. For example, you may not
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know this, but black marching bands actually started in the
same setting as all your dad's favorite movies, Times of war.
You see, in colonial times, black men weren't allowed to
carry weapons, but they still had to serve and state militias,
so they were assigned to fighting drum corps instead, and
they needed to fight from drum corps back then in
case the armies ran out of bullets and had to
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resort to a rap battle. So yeah, not letting the
black servicemen have guns was racist, But there was actually
an interesting side effect of this racism because over the
next century, the military pumped out thousands of trained black
musicians who took their marching band skills back to their communities.
And that's definitely one of the best skills to take
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out of the military. I mean, who do you wanted
a party, the guy who knows how to play drums
or the guy who knows how to dig a hole
to poop in. And all of this marching band culture
found a new home in eighteen ninety when Tuskegee University
started the first hbc U marching band. It turns out
college and marching bands are a natural fit like college
and STDs. Over the next fifty years, marching bands popped
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up at Alabama State, Florida A and M, Kentucky State,
and other HBCUs. But the big turning point came in
nineteen forty six when Dr William P. Foster at Florida
A and M discovered the missing ingredient choreography. Dr Foster
taught his marching band new dance moves with help from
a pe teacher named Beverly Barbara. And that must have
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been cruel for all those band nerds who thought that
going to college men no more gym class. Oh you
thought you were done running, Now you gotta do it
with a But it was worth it because choreography took
marching bands to the next level. Adding dancing to anything
makes it more entertaining, karaoke in fight announcements, finding out
you are not the Father. By the nineteen sixties and seventies,
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hbc U bands had gone mainstream. They were playing super
Bowls and they even marched JFK's inaugural parade, which had
to be the most memorable parade JFK was ever in. Wait,
that seems wrong. Then Southern Universities Band changed the game
again when they started doing their own rendition of top
forty radio hits. That earned them the nickname the Human Jukebox.
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And it's a tradition that goes on to this day.
I'm telling you you haven't lived until you heard a
marching band cover whips. There's no lyrics, so all these
old people are dancing to it in the stands and
they don't even know they're getting down to a song
about lubrication. Get nasty, Grandma. It was also during this
time that bands made their next big move, dance lines.
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The start it with the Golden Girls in Alcorn State
and spread to the j sets of Jackson State, whose
J setting technique became a big influence on hip hop dance.
And the j sets only happened because a major at
name Shirley Middleton, demanded that they'd be allowed to dance
in a more modern way and quote put down their batons.
I wish someone had gotten rid of baton's back when
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I was toiling. Then I wouldn't have gotten sued so much.
The band got more ct than the football team that year. Today,
the impact of HBCU bands and their dancers is all
over pop culture. There in songs, movies, and they were
even part of Beyonce's iconic Coachella performance. That show changed
the conversation, It changed the culture. I mean, just watching
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that again, it changed my outfit. Here's how popular black
marching bands are now. Even Trump had one perform in
his inauguration. Between that and all the cheating on his wife,
he was just like jazz good and just this year,
Vice President Kamala Harris was escorted at the inauguration by
the marching band from her own alma mater, Howard University.
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What an incredible moment that was. Most people only reconnect
with their alma maters when they're getting hit up for donations.
I already made a donation. It was called my tuishtion
and I had a full ride. So the next time
you see a black marching band, you'll know how they
became the phenomenon that they are today. Now play me out,
still got it? I see not so bad. I'm not
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paying for that. Thank you so much for that, du
say all right. When we come back, the legendary Dwyane
Wade will be joining me right here in the studio.
You don't want to miss its. Welcome back to the
Daily Show. My guest tonight is NBA superstar and businessman
Dwyane Wade. He's here to share his new photographic memoir
about his legendary career and building a legacy off the courts.
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Dwyne Wade, Welcome to the show Man, Thank you and
good to have you here with like, you know, a
book that I didn't know what to expect when I
started reading it. But it feels like a memoir in
pictures of feels like a story of your life and
some of your inner monologue thoughts, like what inspired this
version of the book. It is, That's exactly what it is.
I didn't I didn't want to go at it from
a standpoint of like just words on a on a paper.
(25:10):
I've done it once and it was great, But like
this time, sitting down thinking about my responsibility in my role,
and I take it very seriously um as a public figure,
and you know, I just understanding that little Duyanes needs
something to see, you know, like reading something that is great,
but when they can actually see the image of the
of of something, of someone, I think that right there
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is more powerful. So for me, it was important that
I showed the human side of you know, what people
look at as an athlete because they make but I'm
a human and so I wanted to show a little
bit of that. It's a beautiful book divided into quarters,
you know, uh, you know, like your life has been
this game that you've been playing out. I was a
little disappointed because I was like, well, it can't be
full quarters because your life's not finished yet, so then
(25:54):
the next one's gonna be over time. You realize that,
right then' think of that? I didn't think of writing
another book. This is this is your life? Do you
ever think about that? As an athlete? It's like, you know,
a lot of the time, for athletes and for the public,
sometimes your life ends when your career ends. You know,
do you ever think about that? And and how hard
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it is to think about your next journey as a
human being. I mean, I know, you know you're a husband,
you're a dad, you're a businessman now, but were you
ever worried? Was there a moment where you were like, man,
who is Dwayne Wade without the bull? Who's Dayne Wade
without the hoops? One percent? Basketball is what I know
right from the standpoint of I've focused my whole life
on trying to be great. If you're trying to be
great as something, you understand it. It takes all of
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your your attention, It takes all of your time. And
once I got to like my last year, when I
was like, all right, I think I'm ready to walk away,
I was like, what am I gonna do next? And
everybody tells you a long way you're gonna be fine.
You're gonna have so many things going on, You're like,
how where? And you know, I took a few took
a few months off, maybe like two or three months,
and then I just said, you know what, talk on
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my team, and let's say let's get back to it.
Let's just hit the ground run and let's take medias.
Let's just see, let's see where my interests lies. Because
I didn't know. You know, all I know is I
love the game of basketball, and I enjoy business, and
I enjoy making money. I enjoy creating things. I enjoy
designing things. So for me, it was like, let's fine,
what that next step is? So I feel that I'm
in my rookie season in life again. I'm in a
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pre game. I'm in a pre game again, and in
this in this new this new step, this new If
I if I had guests before reading the book and
someone said to me, Okay, what are Dwyane Wade's passions,
I would have gone, Okay, basketball is definitely one of them.
I would have said, fashion, it's definitely one of them.
You know, it's never been afraid to take a chance.
You know, I would have said, wine is one of them.
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You know, but one thing I would have never said
before reading the book was karaoke. Oh you you're a
humble person. But the one thing you have no humility
about it if you you pull yourself the greatest karaoke
singer in the league. Well, it's just like when I
was in the league. Yeah, you know, I'm out a league.
I'm I'm gonna go. Oh you just to go. It's
not that it's not that I can sing. I cannot sing.
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To say, my life is that I will get up
on stage anywhere, the saying karaoke Like, I'll go to
local bars and just jump on stage. That's that's the
kind of person I am. Wow, I got to know
the song, but you know what I mean? Yeah, but
you you just do it anywhere. Your favorite song, like
what is like Dwyane Wades, Well, my wife told me
I made a new song because I've been doing the
same one for about six seven years. What was that
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song with Mantel Joy and this is how you know?
It's easy? Well, I like my Montel Jordan because it
brings the energy I hear. Everybody know the words. Even
if we don't know the words, you know some of
the words and so it's kind of crowd participation and
I don't have the sing I can deep voice it,
so well, yeah, I love it, man, I love it.
I did like the human side of your story with Lebron.
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You know, I wasn't in I wasn't in the U
S when when the whole move to Miami happened. I
wasn't in the US for that chaos. What do you
think was the biggest thing that people missed from Lebron
coming to Miami? You know, you you you share a
few thoughts in the book that I really enjoyed, you know,
the conversation you had. What were you trying to you
were trying trying to achieve. What do you think people
missed in that story? What do you think that you know,
people just didn't understand about that move and the Big Three? Well,
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I mean, I'm sure it's a lot that that people
didn't understand, you know, didn't understand. I mean as athletes,
you know, when you're you're touted as one of the
goods and the greats in the game, they say, these
are the things you have to accomplish. You have to
get rings, you have to get and repeat, like it's
all these things, And so you can't knock someone for
for listening to that and going out and making sure
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that you put the best team around you right to win.
So I think at that time, you know, I was
I had won a championship with twenty four. I've been losing, losing, losing, losing.
I was tired of that Lebron you know, for seven years.
You know he's got he got close ones, but he
was ready to like get over that hunt. Right Chris
Boss was an emergent star in Toronto, UM, and he
was ready to get a little bit more light, a
little bit more attention. So I just feel like, man,
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just to be young and to decide as young men
that we want to do this as friends, UM. And
we understood at that moment that we were shifting the
culture of what the NBA was that it has will
never be the clear empowerment. That's what that move was about.
Your life has been one that is filled with both
tragedy and triumph. I I can't help wondering if that's
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why you've been as dedicated to your family as you
have been. You know, it feels like Dwayne Wade has gone, like,
I want to win championships on the court, but I
want to win championships at home as well. And you know,
I see that, you know with for instance, your son's
aim was playing in the game. Now you're seeing your
face light when you watch him when you play against him.
And I've also seen like the journey that you've been
on with your daughter and just like talking through the
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challenges of having a child who's trans and learning about it,
and I want to know a little bit more about that.
Everyone thinks the journey to understanding trans people and the
conversation happens overnights. It wasn't overnight for you, and you
had to learn if you would have talked to another
parent out there or somebody who just goes like Dwayne,
this is just I don't get this is wrong, this
is I don't get it. What helped you to begin
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to understand so that you could be the best parent
to her? Well, I think when when things happen personally
to you, when you have a personal connection to something
or someone, um, you take it a little bit more serious.
But when it happens to you, you have to you
have to look at in the face. You have to
you know, right on, like my daughter looking at me
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across the table. I have to this is something I
need to deal with, right in the sense of I
don't know everything you know, and as a parent, you
want to make sure that your kids come to you.
You have answers, you know what I mean. You have
the right words, you have the right you know, support
whatever it is, you have the right motivation. And so
at that moment I had no answers. The only answer
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that I knew and that I had that this was
my child. I love him, and I hate the pain
that my child is in, right, you know, send the
pain of you know, not being able to feel feel,
you know, confident and comfortable in who you are. You
know that's not you don't want to see. No one
live like that, no one you love. And so immediately
when still hug and embrace and you see the just
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the light, like I seek Zaya's light and for me
to to to be in a place where I'm not
trying to dim her light. I'm trying to move out
the way and let her get all the light. I
just see a beautiful, you know, blossoming fourteen year old
girl who's you know, trying to find, you know, trying
to pass her her test. At school, just like everybody else.
She's trying to find friends that are new, you know,
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this year, going back to school like everyone else. And
you know, my wife and I you know, our whole
role and our whole job, and we understand this is
you know, to provide, to protect, to love, to facilitate.
You know, we have all these rules. Is not to
to to to own. It's not to say you're gonna
be this and you're gonna do that. Just to find
out who they are, so I know what they're likes,
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and you know, and and whatever they're dislikes, and try
to help them, you know, through life, you know, the
best they can find themselves. It's not about us, you
know what I mean, It's not about us. Talk to
accept as a parent. Yeah, but you're doing it. Wade,
thank you again for joining me on the show. Congratulations,
this is This is a really fantastic coffee table book
slash memoir ish vibe and I'm excited to see what
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over time is gonna bring men. Congratulations, Thank you. Oh
you got it And that was quick. Still got those reflects.
I like that. Dwayne Wade's new book Dwayne is available. Now.
We're gonna take a quick break, but will be right
back after this. Well, that's our show for tonight, but
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of Taylor Swift's exes who might have been shitty to her,
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What's the Daily Show weeknights and eleven Central learned Comedy
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This has been a Comedy Central podcast
You're listening to Comedy Central, So how many of you
accidentally or purposefully eat the sticker on the fruit? Does
anybody do that? Because this was a big thing online.
People were arguing about whether or not you can eat
the sticker that they put on the fruit, and like
a lot of people like, yeah, you're supposed to eat it,
it's edible, and then other people like, you should not
be eating stickers on the fruit. It was like a
(00:22):
whole fight. It was a whole fight. My thing was,
really there's just two things. Number One, who are you
that you don't have time to like take a sticker
off of your fruit? What is happening in your life
that you're just like, there's a stick I don't tab
to save lives? Like, who are you to take the
time look at the thing and peel it? You know
what I'm saying. It's like. But then at the same time,
(00:43):
there's also the people who are like this, you can't
eat a sticker. It is the worst thing that will happen.
It's not the worst thing there biodegradable. It's not good,
but it's not the worst thing. People gonna act like
hot dogs don't exist. You know, if you eat hot dogs.
I mean, you're the kind of person who like looks
at life and just goes like, yeah, man, let's find
out that's where the hot dog is. You know what
(01:04):
I'm saying. You're just the kind of person who's just
like yeah. And it's like a good combination of like
threat and like, you know, security, because the bride is like,
we understand what Brad is and then the hot dog
You're like, wow, let's see, let's see what's going on. Baby.
I'm all about that life. But I mean, I don't
know if you should eat the sticker, you know what
I'm saying. I didn't know you could eat the stick
until this argument. By the way, so I saw this,
(01:25):
then the New York Times to the piece on this,
and then the FDA has stepped in. I was like, Wow,
of all the things the New York Times could be doing. Yeah,
it's weird to be like in the newsroom and there's
just people like that. You know, what are you looking at?
I'm looking at what's happening at the Russian border with Ukraine.
What are you looking into? I'm investigating these new vaccines
(01:47):
and you you guys noticed the sticker on fruit? Either
we should eat it or not eat it. I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna do a three word article on
this guy's we're all journalists here, count down to that
person writing a hit piece on me, well played? New
York Times journalist, Why Trevor Noah is worse than the
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stickers on fruit? Well played? Coming to you from the
Hard Times in New York City, the only city in America.
It's The Daily Here's pH tonight in Ama can get
you intro merching bands are racist? Dwain work. He's the
(02:31):
Daily Show with Trevor. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome
to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining me
for today's headlines is our very own Daisi Light. What's
going on? Des? Hey, Trevor? Are you doing? I'm good.
I'm just, you know, prepping for Thanksgiving, getting ready. I'm
not hosting this year, which is a huge relief. But
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I am in charge of the dressing, which is kind
of a huge responsibility. Dressing all of my uncles, finding
clothes for all sixteen of them. That's that's a lot.
I think the dressing has you know what dizzy good
for you? Anyway? Do you know where I can find
a bunch of camo hats. No, no, I don't. Sorry.
(03:16):
I took an edible before I got here. I didn't
know I was going to be on today. Well that's fine, Dizzy.
Just relax and breathe and we'll be We'll be good. Okay,
Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, Dizzy, you're good. Mhm. Okay, Well
we'll come back. You shout if you need anything. All right,
(03:39):
let's jump right into today's headlines. We kick things off
with today's big basketball story. And no, I'm not talking
about everyone dunking on the eternals. I'm talking about an
iconic stadium that's taking on a brand new identity. After
twenty two years, Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles is
getting a new name, and it's a real sign of
the times. Beginning Christmas Day, the home of the Lakers, Clippers,
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and Kings will be known as Crypto dot Com Arena.
The cryptocurrency trading platform reportedly paid within seven million dollars
for the naming rights. The Lakers won six championships in
this building. The Sparks won three titles. The Clippers play
here too. You know I'll be where this is? Uh,
you know, I grew up this being Staples and Staples
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being you know, the place to play in the place
to be. It's kind of like just stripping the history here. Well,
I mean, I don't know if you need to get
that sentimental poll. You know, it's not like Staples is
a sacred name from the ancestors. It's a store where
you buy fifty packs of binders even though you only
need one, you know, and when you get home you
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find out that with the wrong size. Anyway, you don't
need to get that nostalgic about it like it's company.
And if you do want to get nostalgic, just wait,
just wait. I promise you soon will get used to
crypto dot com arena. And in twenty years when they
change that name to nanobot x Arena or whatever, your
kids will be upset about that. Back in my day,
this stadium isn't about the latest fat It was about
swapping blockchain currencies on a digital market exchange. There was
(05:06):
culture attached to it, you know, n f T s
and look this this shouldn't come as a surprise. But
anywhere a team can advertise, they're going to advertise, right
the stadiums, the jerseys, the courts. They literally started showing
commercials during free throws. You realize that with two months
away from the NBA selling name rights to the score,
it's gonna be like and the game ends with a
(05:27):
score of eighty four to Mountain Dew a big win
for the Lakers or a big loss. I can't tell
what's happening, but I mean, can you blame the arena though?
If people are offering you a shipload of money to
use their name, you do it. I mean that's what
I did. I sold my naming rights to a guy
named Trevor Noah for forty bucks. What you know this?
Come on? Do I look like a Trevor? My real
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name is Bert Pakowski. I'm sorry. I just can't stop
picturing them removing the Staples logo with one of those
giant Staples when just the giant clock, Sorry, the edibles kicking,
and I think I need to know what edibles these are?
All right, let's move on from sports to music and
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the woman that everyone is talking about right now, Taylor Swift,
pop star songwriter an inventor of the color red. Personally,
I love Taylor Swift, huge fan, really nothing bad to
say about her, But even if I had something bad
to say about her, I wouldn't I wouldn't say it
because Taylor swift fans are super protective of her, like
like they're like one of those old fashioned dads with
(06:31):
a shotgun who doesn't want you to marry his daughter
because he wants to marry her. You see, Taylor Swift
has been re recording all of her old albums, which
means people are really listening to all of her old
songs about her famous exs and then getting mad at
those exs all over again on her behalf. And While
Taylor may be content to address her old boyfriends with
(06:52):
heartfelt lyrics and songs that are again, I want to
stress this perfect in every way, some of her fans
are a lot less subtle. This is going a little
too far. While Jake Joan Hall is taking incoming fire
from the Swifties. Another one of Taylor's excess is being
bombarded with messages now. A user on Instagram sent John
Mayer a direct message telling him fuck yourself, you ugly bitch.
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I hope you choke on something. Mayor then responded to
the user saying that he'd been getting many messages like
that over the past couple of days and asking do
you really hope I die, to which the user responded,
O MG, what I don't want you to die. I'm sorry.
The user apologized again and admitted they didn't really think
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Mayor would see the message. You see, people. This is
what I hates about social media. It makes people act
shittier than they actually are, which then makes us think
that people are shittier than they actually are, because social
media makes us forget that we're all human beings. You know,
we just see that little avatar and then we all
talk to each other, But we're all human. Even celebrities
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are real people, all of them. I mean I always
obviously accept Timothy shallowm me, he's going to be c G.
I no one can be that good looking. I mean,
you just look at that person now. I'm craving spice
that damn m m m m m m. And I
know her fans are like, but he heard her. Listen
to her song. Yes, that's all you're supposed to do.
Listen to the song. You know. Taylor Swift writes songs
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to express her emotions in a way that touches other people,
not to order a hit on her ex boyfriends so
death threats are not the way to go, especially with
someone like John Maya. Don't don't send him death threats.
He gets them all the time. If you anyone upsets him,
tell him that Ed Shearon is a better guitar player.
That's going to hit his heart. You know. It's it's
weird how people get like they're so hateful on the internet. Dezzi, Yeah,
(08:41):
I know it's bad, but if you think John Mayer's
dams are rough, you should see the d ms of
any woman on the internet. Really. Yeah, it's either death
threats or requests to see your feet every time, like
just your feet feet, yeah, just your feet, or a
death threat. One of the two. It's either like why
are women in Star Wars? Or send me a picture
(09:01):
of your feet? That's really intense. Yeah. I know they're
both bad, But which one do you prefer? Well, I'm
pretty proud of my feet, so I got no problem
sending foot picks again bad. I just wondered which one?
Have you ever requested a footpick? No? No? Wow? Look,
(09:24):
who's a gentleman? I think is the phrase you're looking for?
Maybe looka It all depends. Yeah, but to be totally fair,
it is completely inappropriate for anyone to send a death
threat on the internet. It's not cool. I agree. You
gotta do it the old school way. You know, you
got to like cut out from the magazine. This is
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the real way to do it. That is better than
a d M. Yeah, still not good. I always have
this with me just in case. I don't even know
who it's for. But it takes a long to do
it that I figured. By the time I'm done, i'll
figure it out. I'll be pissed at somebody. By the way,
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you're out of glue. Yeah, and all my magazines have
been destroyed. Thank you, Dizzy. You know this is from
your book cover? Oh well, thank you. I thought you
wanted it, signed it because you wanted to read it.
You wrote that book, Yeah, I did. I wrote it
all right. Let's let's move on to the big story
from Washington Today. Last week, Arizona Congressman Paul Saw tweeted
(10:28):
an anime video of him chopping off AOC's head right
easily the most disturbing cartoon since that Family Guy fan
fake porn I accidentally watched seven times. Brian has stamina
and Democrats were so furious about this video that today
they voted to sensua go Saw and kick him off
of his committees, the first member of Congress to be
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censured in over a decade. Yeah, it's pretty bad, but
Saw well, he seemed to take it as a badge
of honor. I rise today to dressed and reject and
this characterization accusations for many in this body that the
cartoon from my office is dangerous or threatening if I
must join Alexander Hamilton's the first person attempted to be
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censored by this house, So be it, it is done.
Uh yeah, I don't know if this makes you the
same as Alexander Hamilton's. You know, this is like this
like Jeffrey Epstein's girl friend taking the stand. Like if
I must be tried and caught just as Jesus was,
then so be it. No, No, lady, ladies, the same process.
But these are very different crimes. Now, the fact is
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that this didn't surprise anybody, right, Seeing something like this
from Paul Gosta is not surprising because over the years,
Gosa has made a name for himself as possibly the
most controversial person in all of Congress, which is actually
pretty impressive when you think about it. So let's talk
about what makes Gosta one of Congress's most extreme extremists
in a all installments of Fringe Watching. Paul go Saw
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was first elected to Congress back in riding the wave
of the Tea Party, the movement that pretended to care
about the national debts, but only while Obama was in office.
He's black, and like many Tea Partiers who were elected
that year, he didn't come from a career in politics. No,
he was a dentist, which, as far as he's concerned,
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is all the experience a congressman needs. I was a dentist,
and so every patient that walks in my office, I
have to be prepared for an emergency. I'm a dentist,
so science is a big deal to me. As a dentist.
I love to kiss theory. Keep it simple, stupid. By
the way, I'm a dentist. Okay, so I read body
language very very well. Okay, half of those didn't even
make sense, he was adding, as a dentist to the
(12:42):
beginning of unrelated thoughts. Yo, I'm a dentist, so can
I get this drag cleaning back on Tuesday? I'm a dentist. No,
you're not currently a dentist. You're working at another job
because of your previous job. At this job, I'm a dentist.
Would you like number two as well? With that? And look,
I agree that being a dentist is the perfect job
to prepare you for being in Congress, you know, since
you already have tons of experience with people hating you.
But it turns out there was one part of being
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a dentist that Goshaw did bring to Congress teeth whitening.
Except instead of whitening teeth, he's trying to whiten America.
A few Republicans have been more linked to extremist groups
than Mr Gosar. He's been involved with anti Muslim groups
and hate groups. Eighteen, he dined with an in, an
extremist anti Muslim Belgian politician, at a London event organized
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by Steve Bannon, and last month he tweeted then deleted
a reportedly neo Nazi theme video. Gosar has aligned himself
closely with leaders of white nationalists and extremist groups, people
like Nick Fuente's, the twenty two year old leader of
the America First Movement. Other conservative organizations have denounced him
as a holocaust denier and a racist. The Arizona Republican
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was the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by Mr.
Fuente's group in February. The only member of Congress to participate,
Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green, along with Republican Congressman Paul Gossar,
have been working to create a new House caucus to
help return America to its quote Anglo Saxon roots. The
document reads, quote America is a nation with a border
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and a culture strengthened by a common respect for uniquely
Anglo Saxon political traditions. You know, I always find it
funny how white supremacists want to take America back to
its roots. But not like the original roots, you know,
just like the roots of when white people were in charge.
We need to take this country back to when Native
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Americans were in charge. No no, no, no, too far back,
too far back, Go four and go fo to MLK.
No no, no, too far forward, back back back, back
back back, the Irish coming over stop perfect, Because let's
be honest, that's what he means by Anglo Saxon traditions,
right like when he says that he's not talking about
nights in armor roaming the land on quests, although that
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that would be pretty cool. People of Arizona. I'm off
to slay the mighty dragon at is a dentist. Now.
The only thing that goes on loves more than whiteness
is a really, really good conspiracy theory. In fact, he's
claimed the Democrats stole a Senate race, in he's claimed
that the Neo Nazi rally in Charlottesville was a false
(15:15):
flag operation secretly carried out by George Soros. And he's
claimed that the FBI was behind the Capital riot on
January six, and the lost one is especially weird because
one of the people who arguably was responsible for January
six was Paul Gosa, Arizona Congressman. Paul goes on firing
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up crowds with lies about the election results. Imagine this
that you get go back home. Once we conquered the hill,
Donald Trump has returned to being the president and amazing
things will happen with four more years. In just the
days before the riot, he tweeted, patriots, the time is
now hold the line joined me in d C January six,
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hashtag fight for Trump, and in another he tweeted, sedition
and treason for stealing votes is appropriate on the morning
of the siege, he would send followers this image, stating
Biden should concede. He promptly went to Congress, stood up
and opposed the certification of the Electoral College results. I
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rise quote for myself and sixty of my colleagues to
object to the accounting of the electoral ballots from Arizona.
At the end of his speech, interrupted by the very
mob he helps stir up ah the irony interrupted by
his own mob. You see, this is why when you're
fermenting a coup, you've got to coordinate, you know, send
out a doodle. Let the mob know you're speaking to
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overturn the election at one thirty, so maybe they could
overtake the police barricaded too. Maybe. You know, you know,
the only thing worse than your mom showing up early
is your mom showing up late, because then you're just
on the floor of Congress going. And if you think
Joe Biden is going to be president, I have a
few thousand friends who disagree. Guys, where where are you
(17:07):
use the bathroom? Now? Use it after? This is the time,
just the time. So when you look at what he's
done in Congress, I'm not surprised the GOP doesn't care
about gozas anime video. I mean, between the coup and
the White supremacy, this is the least offensive thing that
he's ever done. And the GOP might not be condemning
Ghosts behavior, but his own family is definitely picking up
(17:27):
that slack. Everrizon A Congressman Paul Gosar was whacked with
this attack by six of his brothers and sisters. My
name is Tim Gosar, David Gosar. Paul is absolutely not
working for his district, and he's not listening to you,
and he doesn't have your interests at heart. Go Star
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fired back on Twitter. You can't pick your family, got
A tweeted to the six angry Democrat gotars see you
at mom and Dad's house. God damn, we need to
get Paul Ghost out of Congress and onto a Bravo show.
You're telling me you wouldn't watch the real ghost saus
of Maricopa County. I'm a dentist, I'm a private investigator.
I hate you. We hate you too, june In. I
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don't even want to imagine how stressful Thanksgiving must be
for ghost as parents. Think about it. You gotta cook
for a bunch of children and the entire mob that
Paul brings. You're not serving pumpkin pie this year. Well,
let's say what my friends after saying about that, wait,
(18:31):
wait the bathroom again, come out? What did you guys aid?
You're killing me here? My mom is waiting. Yeah, we
gotta prove a point to her. Okay, Okay, I'll see Sue.
I'll be honest. Though. As awkward as this family dynamic is,
it's more surprising to me when someone does endorse a
sibling a confront. I mean, think about it. Siblings have
experienced too much with you, Like, I don't care if
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my sister and I believe in all the same things.
She put my hand in warm water to make me
pee in bed. Nobody should do that to a thirty
seven year old. So that's Paul Gosa, French politician, anime fan,
and a man so awful he couldn't win votes from
his own family. And I don't know about you, guys,
but someone this awful, they shouldn't be running anything in government.
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And I don't say this as a talk show host.
I say this as someone who's been to the dentist.
All right, when we come back, we won't just hear
some marching bands, we'll listen to them. What does that mean?
I don't know. Just stick around to find out. Welcome
back to the Daily Show. If you've ever watched a
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college football game, you know two things. One, you could
definitely have coached that team better. And to the marching
band is pretty awesome. But how much do you know
about the history of the marching band? Well, dul Say
will full you in with another installment of dull saying
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black marching bands. It's the one time black people get
to march without Fox News calling them rioters. And we
all of them, even those of us who got cut
from one just because our baton twirling was deemed dangerous.
Maybe our trombone players should have stayed out of my
strike zone. But marching bands are even more amazing when
you learn about their history. For example, you may not
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know this, but black marching bands actually started in the
same setting as all your dad's favorite movies, Times of war.
You see, in colonial times, black men weren't allowed to
carry weapons, but they still had to serve and state militias,
so they were assigned to fighting drum corps instead, and
they needed to fight from drum corps back then in
case the armies ran out of bullets and had to
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resort to a rap battle. So yeah, not letting the
black servicemen have guns was racist, But there was actually
an interesting side effect of this racism because over the
next century, the military pumped out thousands of trained black
musicians who took their marching band skills back to their communities.
And that's definitely one of the best skills to take
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out of the military. I mean, who do you wanted
a party, the guy who knows how to play drums
or the guy who knows how to dig a hole
to poop in. And all of this marching band culture
found a new home in eighteen ninety when Tuskegee University
started the first hbc U marching band. It turns out
college and marching bands are a natural fit like college
and STDs. Over the next fifty years, marching bands popped
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up at Alabama State, Florida A and M, Kentucky State,
and other HBCUs. But the big turning point came in
nineteen forty six when Dr William P. Foster at Florida
A and M discovered the missing ingredient choreography. Dr Foster
taught his marching band new dance moves with help from
a pe teacher named Beverly Barbara. And that must have
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been cruel for all those band nerds who thought that
going to college men no more gym class. Oh you
thought you were done running, Now you gotta do it
with a But it was worth it because choreography took
marching bands to the next level. Adding dancing to anything
makes it more entertaining, karaoke in fight announcements, finding out
you are not the Father. By the nineteen sixties and seventies,
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hbc U bands had gone mainstream. They were playing super
Bowls and they even marched JFK's inaugural parade, which had
to be the most memorable parade JFK was ever in. Wait,
that seems wrong. Then Southern Universities Band changed the game
again when they started doing their own rendition of top
forty radio hits. That earned them the nickname the Human Jukebox.
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And it's a tradition that goes on to this day.
I'm telling you you haven't lived until you heard a
marching band cover whips. There's no lyrics, so all these
old people are dancing to it in the stands and
they don't even know they're getting down to a song
about lubrication. Get nasty, Grandma. It was also during this
time that bands made their next big move, dance lines.
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The start it with the Golden Girls in Alcorn State
and spread to the j sets of Jackson State, whose
J setting technique became a big influence on hip hop dance.
And the j sets only happened because a major at
name Shirley Middleton, demanded that they'd be allowed to dance
in a more modern way and quote put down their batons.
I wish someone had gotten rid of baton's back when
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I was toiling. Then I wouldn't have gotten sued so much.
The band got more ct than the football team that year. Today,
the impact of HBCU bands and their dancers is all
over pop culture. There in songs, movies, and they were
even part of Beyonce's iconic Coachella performance. That show changed
the conversation, It changed the culture. I mean, just watching
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that again, it changed my outfit. Here's how popular black
marching bands are now. Even Trump had one perform in
his inauguration. Between that and all the cheating on his wife,
he was just like jazz good and just this year,
Vice President Kamala Harris was escorted at the inauguration by
the marching band from her own alma mater, Howard University.
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What an incredible moment that was. Most people only reconnect
with their alma maters when they're getting hit up for donations.
I already made a donation. It was called my tuishtion
and I had a full ride. So the next time
you see a black marching band, you'll know how they
became the phenomenon that they are today. Now play me out,
still got it? I see not so bad. I'm not
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paying for that. Thank you so much for that, du
say all right. When we come back, the legendary Dwyane
Wade will be joining me right here in the studio.
You don't want to miss its. Welcome back to the
Daily Show. My guest tonight is NBA superstar and businessman
Dwyane Wade. He's here to share his new photographic memoir
about his legendary career and building a legacy off the courts.
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Dwyne Wade, Welcome to the show Man, Thank you and
good to have you here with like, you know, a
book that I didn't know what to expect when I
started reading it. But it feels like a memoir in
pictures of feels like a story of your life and
some of your inner monologue thoughts, like what inspired this
version of the book. It is, That's exactly what it is.
I didn't I didn't want to go at it from
a standpoint of like just words on a on a paper.
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I've done it once and it was great, But like
this time, sitting down thinking about my responsibility in my role,
and I take it very seriously um as a public figure,
and you know, I just understanding that little Duyanes needs
something to see, you know, like reading something that is great,
but when they can actually see the image of the
of of something, of someone, I think that right there
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is more powerful. So for me, it was important that
I showed the human side of you know, what people
look at as an athlete because they make but I'm
a human and so I wanted to show a little
bit of that. It's a beautiful book divided into quarters,
you know, uh, you know, like your life has been
this game that you've been playing out. I was a
little disappointed because I was like, well, it can't be
full quarters because your life's not finished yet, so then
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the next one's gonna be over time. You realize that,
right then' think of that? I didn't think of writing
another book. This is this is your life? Do you
ever think about that? As an athlete? It's like, you know,
a lot of the time, for athletes and for the public,
sometimes your life ends when your career ends. You know,
do you ever think about that? And and how hard
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it is to think about your next journey as a
human being. I mean, I know, you know you're a husband,
you're a dad, you're a businessman now, but were you
ever worried? Was there a moment where you were like, man,
who is Dwayne Wade without the bull? Who's Dayne Wade
without the hoops? One percent? Basketball is what I know
right from the standpoint of I've focused my whole life
on trying to be great. If you're trying to be
great as something, you understand it. It takes all of
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your your attention, It takes all of your time. And
once I got to like my last year, when I
was like, all right, I think I'm ready to walk away,
I was like, what am I gonna do next? And
everybody tells you a long way you're gonna be fine.
You're gonna have so many things going on, You're like,
how where? And you know, I took a few took
a few months off, maybe like two or three months,
and then I just said, you know what, talk on
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my team, and let's say let's get back to it.
Let's just hit the ground run and let's take medias.
Let's just see, let's see where my interests lies. Because
I didn't know. You know, all I know is I
love the game of basketball, and I enjoy business, and
I enjoy making money. I enjoy creating things. I enjoy
designing things. So for me, it was like, let's fine,
what that next step is? So I feel that I'm
in my rookie season in life again. I'm in a
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pre game. I'm in a pre game again, and in
this in this new this new step, this new If
I if I had guests before reading the book and
someone said to me, Okay, what are Dwyane Wade's passions,
I would have gone, Okay, basketball is definitely one of them.
I would have said, fashion, it's definitely one of them.
You know, it's never been afraid to take a chance.
You know, I would have said, wine is one of them.
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You know, but one thing I would have never said
before reading the book was karaoke. Oh you you're a
humble person. But the one thing you have no humility
about it if you you pull yourself the greatest karaoke
singer in the league. Well, it's just like when I
was in the league. Yeah, you know, I'm out a league.
I'm I'm gonna go. Oh you just to go. It's
not that it's not that I can sing. I cannot sing.
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To say, my life is that I will get up
on stage anywhere, the saying karaoke Like, I'll go to
local bars and just jump on stage. That's that's the
kind of person I am. Wow, I got to know
the song, but you know what I mean? Yeah, but
you you just do it anywhere. Your favorite song, like
what is like Dwyane Wades, Well, my wife told me
I made a new song because I've been doing the
same one for about six seven years. What was that
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song with Mantel Joy and this is how you know?
It's easy? Well, I like my Montel Jordan because it
brings the energy I hear. Everybody know the words. Even
if we don't know the words, you know some of
the words and so it's kind of crowd participation and
I don't have the sing I can deep voice it,
so well, yeah, I love it, man, I love it.
I did like the human side of your story with Lebron.
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You know, I wasn't in I wasn't in the U
S when when the whole move to Miami happened. I
wasn't in the US for that chaos. What do you
think was the biggest thing that people missed from Lebron
coming to Miami? You know, you you you share a
few thoughts in the book that I really enjoyed, you know,
the conversation you had. What were you trying to you
were trying trying to achieve. What do you think people
missed in that story? What do you think that you know,
people just didn't understand about that move and the Big Three? Well,
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I mean, I'm sure it's a lot that that people
didn't understand, you know, didn't understand. I mean as athletes,
you know, when you're you're touted as one of the
goods and the greats in the game, they say, these
are the things you have to accomplish. You have to
get rings, you have to get and repeat, like it's
all these things, And so you can't knock someone for
for listening to that and going out and making sure
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that you put the best team around you right to win.
So I think at that time, you know, I was
I had won a championship with twenty four. I've been losing, losing, losing, losing.
I was tired of that Lebron you know, for seven years.
You know he's got he got close ones, but he
was ready to like get over that hunt. Right Chris
Boss was an emergent star in Toronto, UM, and he
was ready to get a little bit more light, a
little bit more attention. So I just feel like, man,
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just to be young and to decide as young men
that we want to do this as friends, UM. And
we understood at that moment that we were shifting the
culture of what the NBA was that it has will
never be the clear empowerment. That's what that move was about.
Your life has been one that is filled with both
tragedy and triumph. I I can't help wondering if that's
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why you've been as dedicated to your family as you
have been. You know, it feels like Dwayne Wade has gone, like,
I want to win championships on the court, but I
want to win championships at home as well. And you know,
I see that, you know with for instance, your son's
aim was playing in the game. Now you're seeing your
face light when you watch him when you play against him.
And I've also seen like the journey that you've been
on with your daughter and just like talking through the
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challenges of having a child who's trans and learning about it,
and I want to know a little bit more about that.
Everyone thinks the journey to understanding trans people and the
conversation happens overnights. It wasn't overnight for you, and you
had to learn if you would have talked to another
parent out there or somebody who just goes like Dwayne,
this is just I don't get this is wrong, this
is I don't get it. What helped you to begin
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to understand so that you could be the best parent
to her? Well, I think when when things happen personally
to you, when you have a personal connection to something
or someone, um, you take it a little bit more serious.
But when it happens to you, you have to you
have to look at in the face. You have to
you know, right on, like my daughter looking at me
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across the table. I have to this is something I
need to deal with, right in the sense of I
don't know everything you know, and as a parent, you
want to make sure that your kids come to you.
You have answers, you know what I mean. You have
the right words, you have the right you know, support
whatever it is, you have the right motivation. And so
at that moment I had no answers. The only answer
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that I knew and that I had that this was
my child. I love him, and I hate the pain
that my child is in, right, you know, send the
pain of you know, not being able to feel feel,
you know, confident and comfortable in who you are. You
know that's not you don't want to see. No one
live like that, no one you love. And so immediately
when still hug and embrace and you see the just
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the light, like I seek Zaya's light and for me
to to to be in a place where I'm not
trying to dim her light. I'm trying to move out
the way and let her get all the light. I
just see a beautiful, you know, blossoming fourteen year old
girl who's you know, trying to find, you know, trying
to pass her her test. At school, just like everybody else.
She's trying to find friends that are new, you know,
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this year, going back to school like everyone else. And
you know, my wife and I you know, our whole
role and our whole job, and we understand this is
you know, to provide, to protect, to love, to facilitate.
You know, we have all these rules. Is not to
to to to own. It's not to say you're gonna
be this and you're gonna do that. Just to find
out who they are, so I know what they're likes,
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and you know, and and whatever they're dislikes, and try
to help them, you know, through life, you know, the
best they can find themselves. It's not about us, you
know what I mean, It's not about us. Talk to
accept as a parent. Yeah, but you're doing it. Wade,
thank you again for joining me on the show. Congratulations,
this is This is a really fantastic coffee table book
slash memoir ish vibe and I'm excited to see what
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over time is gonna bring men. Congratulations, Thank you. Oh
you got it And that was quick. Still got those reflects.
I like that. Dwayne Wade's new book Dwayne is available. Now.
We're gonna take a quick break, but will be right
back after this. Well, that's our show for tonight, but
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