September 16, 2021 • 32 mins
Anderson .Paak becomes Trevor's bandleader, Trinidad health minister Terrence Deyalsingh responds to Nicki Minaj's vaccination misinformation, and LeVar Burton discusses his diverse career.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I am Trevor Noah. Today
is Thursday, September six, And before we get started, I
just wanted to say thank you for helping us settle
into our amazing new studio here. You know, I'm sure
you've noticed by now that we've been trying a bunch
of new things. You know, I'm trying new clothes. We're
(00:22):
having fun because we're not at home anymore. You know,
we thought that why not experiment. It's been seventeen months
working from home. You know, when you get back into space,
just mix things up a little bit. So today we're
definitely gonna mix things up. We've got a really exciting
new addition to announce for the show. Please say hello
to The Daily Show's brand new one man band, Anderson Park.
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WHOA what yes love. I could when they said you
were joining, I was like, it's too good to be true.
But he's here. We have a one man Van Anderson Welcome.
Thank you man, It's on pleasure. Congratulations on your MS win.
Congratulations on Sulk Sonic just being the most amazing thing ever. Alright,
Congratulations on Sesame Street. Now that's a crazy right man.
You're enjoying it. I'm loving it, living the dream. Oh man,
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I feel it. I feel it. Well. Anyway, thank you
for being here. This is gonna be fun, all right, people,
Let's kick things off with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic.
In person school is now back in session, and while
a lot of people were bracing for problems, I don't
know if anyone expected this one. A school bus driver
shortages gripping the nation. Massachusetts has even called in the
National Guard to help pick up children. Superintendent Almi A.
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Betta of Chelsea Schools in near Boston says two weeks
into the year and she's still short fifteen drivers, meaning
one in every five buses has run late. Now the
Guard will drive ten passenger school transport vans in her district.
Schools returning to in person classes say coronavirus fears pushed
more drivers to retire. Other schools are turning to parents
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to pick up the slack. One charter school in Delaware
is paying them seven hundred dollars for each child they
drive to and from school this year. Philadelphia parents in
a similar program are getting up to fifteen hundred dollars
for the school year. Fifteen hundred dollars to get a
bunch of kids into a van. That's insane. All these years,
I've been doing it for free. And uh, thoughts and
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prayers for those National Guard troops. I mean, war as hell,
but it's got nothing on driving a bus full of
ten year olds. Hey Anderson, that's dope. And it's our
first show. This is perfect. I mean I don't even
know how you do that. Uh, it just needs to
be a little shorter, like, um, you know what I
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mean for for comedies, don't it's like just really shure.
It's like it's that's it, and we like, you know, yeah,
not I feel I feel it. I feel it. It
was it was right, it was perfect. Um, I'm your man,
I got you. I know it. So yeah, the U. S. Military,
so yeah, the U. S. Military is now going to
start driving school buses, which sounds like a great idea
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until all of a sudden, the country has spent two
trillion dollars and then they suddenly pull out and leave
your kids with the Taliban. M I don't think this
is did you hit the punch line already? Yeah? Look
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at me. When you when the punch lines come in.
But the audience I have to be ready either way.
I can't. I can't throw the punch line to you. No,
I believe that I'm not. I'm doing the opposite, like
actually yah um so yeah, So they can't get the
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kids to the school right because there's no school busses
and everyone's trying to figure out what you do. They
saying some parents should drive them. They saying the military
should drive them. Here's my opinion. You know what they
should do. They should hire ice cream trucks, right because
kids chase those things for miles. All you do is
you get one ice cream truck, it drives through all
the suburbs and then the kids just chasing all the
way to the school. He's a tuned the way I
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want him to be. But I'll make sure we I'm
gonna I'm gonna go over the jokes before. Yeah, I
think I think I think that would. Yeah, maybe we
maybe we take a little break and then um yeah,
I'll meet you in the break room. Yeah we can,
and then we'll go through some we'll go through some
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notes and stuff, and then we'll we'll start the show
after that. This is perfect though you use the restroom,
appreciate it. I feel it's right through that Yeah, that door,
you're right, if you go, if you go, you shouldn't
walk in front of cameras generally, when yeah, you should.
If we yeah, there's a door on that side, and
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then we can yeah, all the way all the way down.
Just keep going, keep going all the way close the
door with yeah, we're not yeah, there's not gonna work out.
Close the door. Let's do the show. Coming to you
from the Hard Time Square, the most important place under
It's the Daily Show. Here's edition. Bulgate continues to swell
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Trinidad's health ministers here and love Arburton. This is the
Daily Show with Trevor. Okay, people, there's a lot going
on in the world right now, but there is one
story that is more important than all of them combined.
I'm talking about the ongoing saga of Nicki Minaj's cousins
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friends swollen testicles. As everyone on the planet has heard
by now, Nicki Minaj tweeted out that her cousin's friend
in Trinidad took the COVID vaccine and then his balls
swoll and he became impotent. Now people say well, stuff
about the vaccine all the time, but most people don't
have tens of millions of followers, So this tweet has
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caused a giant uproar, so big that even Dr Fauci
had to weigh in. I wouldn't normally even ask you
about this, but is there any evidence that the Fiser,
the Maderna, or the James vaccines cause any reproductive issues
in men or women? The answer to that, Jake is
a resounding no. There's no evidence that it happens, nor
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is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen.
Can we just appreciate for a moment how crazy Dr
Fauci's life has become. I mean, for the first seventy
eight years of his life, he was just minding his
own business, you know, decades working in a lab trying
to fight diseases. And now in the space of two years,
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he's had to stop Trump from drinking bleach, convinced Americans
he's not trying to microchip them, and now he's weighing
in on some Trinidadian guys balls. I can assure you,
as the nation's top scientists that you're Nutsacked is gonna
be fine. So the story has blown up bigger than
a I don't know a pair of Trinidadian testicles, because
what happened next was that Nicki Minaj said that the
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White House read her tweets and invited her to the
White House to talk out it's But then the White
House said, nah, we just said we would do a
phone call to answer Nicki Minaj's questions. We never invited
her over And that response from the White House really
piste Nicki off. Nicki Minaj, defending her claims she was
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invited to the White House to discuss her concerns about
the COVID nineteen vaccine manage, took to Instagram saying she
would never lie about the invite. Do y'all think that
I would go on the internet and lie about being
invited to the fucking White House? Like, what do you guys?
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See what is happening right now? Oh my goodness. If
they assassinate me and assassinate my character and make me
look crazy or stupid, guess what, no one else will
ever ask questions again? Don't you see what's happening? I'm
not lying, guys. My cousin's friend told me I was
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invited to the White House. Look, I'll be honest with you.
I I can see both sides of this thing. I mean,
it would be kind of weird for the White House
to invite Nicki Minaj for that tweet, you know, because
usually someone gets an invite to the White House for
like winning a gold medal or saving their entire platoon,
you know, not for tweeting about their cousin's friends scroll
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to him. That's not usual. On the other hand, Nikki's
story makes sense too. Why would you lie about going
to a house that's not even as nice as yours?
So I don't think Nikki is lying necessarily. It was
probably just a big miscommunication, which wouldn't surprise me. Nicki
Minaj in the White House or from two completely different worlds.
I mean, put on monster, put on that track and
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asked Joe Biden what he is harder than a Middle
Eastern climate? Violet dobe matter, you know what? I give up?
Can somebody called calm a lotta come help me with this?
But as piste off as Nicki Minaj is at the
White House, it turns out a lot of people back
in Trinidad or even more mad at her for making
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their country the butt of jokes. I'm sorry, the ball
of jokes. This is almost like what you would hear
about Apollo, where somebody will tell you, well, your cousin friends,
neighbor see x y Z. I mean, come on, Nikki,
I have a hundred and eight a million followers. People
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listen to you. I mean, it's irresponsible on all all fronts.
One irresponsible based on the misinformation that is going on
there regarding this vaccine um. You know, there was no
verification of the story. And furthermore, to expose your cousin
friends flat tire in the public domain like that ely
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man of a flat tire. Okay, he will work on that,
you know, the herbs and and and and punsion, so
the easy man can eat and bring back our vibes.
But don't come now and talk that kind of talk. Alright, alright, wait, guys, guys,
can we just all agree that from now on, impotence
should only be referred to as a flat tire because
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the rectile dysfunction it's so clinical, you know, it comes
with a stigma. I have a rectile dysfunction, but a
flat tire. I mean that sounds like something that can
happen to anyone. Yeah, you can pay a guy in
a truck twenty dollars to fix it for you. You
know what's crazy is when we heard this news clip
at the show, we all thought that this guy should
be the official voice of c Elis. And then this
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next part of the story is completely true. But you're
not gonna believe me, and that's fine. But this news anchor,
his name is Jason Williams. He is actually my Trinidadian's
friends cousin. Yeah, cousin, friend, friend, cousin. So we called
him and we actually got him to redo the c
aalis ads and honestly, I think it's a pretty big improvement.
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Do you or your cousin's friend have a flat tire? Well,
you don't have to tell everybody, just to just think
called c Elis. Trust me all these hoops and branch
to bring back your vibes. So ask your doctor about Salis.
Just make sure and do tell Niki manacase she go
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for John Blast and you all world go on mm hmm.
Now I'm craving Cialis and doubles. Anyway. The people have
Trinidad aren't happy, the news anchors aren't happy, and Trinidad's
government is definitely not impressed. A waste of time health
officials in Trinida and Tobago or responding to rapper Nicki
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minaj Or a claim about the COVID vaccine. As far
as we know at this point in time, there has
been no such reported either side effect or adverse event.
And what was said about this is that it wasted
our time yesterday trying to track down because we take
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all these claims seriously. Oh man, you think Dr Fauci
has it rough. The Health Minister of Trinidad had to
spend the whole day going around asking people about their balls.
How are your testicles? And how are yours? And how
are your balls? Everything fine? One thing you've got to
love about the Caribbean, though, is how the people that
can politely cuss you out without using a single swear word.
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Because he seemed chilled, but he was telling her off.
You know, that might be the most dignified telling of
if I've ever heard from a government official. It made
me feel ashamed, and I had nothing to do with this.
I was sitting at home like, yeah, I should be
ashamed of myself. But I will say this as funny
as the story is, and we have been having fun
with it. Unfortunately, this has turned into a real problem
in a real country being handled by real health professionals,
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and so we thought at the Daily Show, you know,
it would be great to have these people on the
show to actually find out the full story, not from
our cousin and not from our cousin's friend, but from
the people who are there to see what's happening on
the ground. So when we come back, I'll be speaking
to the man from that clip, Trinidad's actual Health Minister, Terence.
They all sing, so don't go away, Welcome back to
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the Daily Show. Everyone has been talking about the fallout
from Nicki Minaj's testical tweets, which has affected everyone from
the White House all the way to the government of
Trinidad and Tobago. And since we don't actually live in Trinidad, well,
we thought it would be helpful to have a conversation
with the actual Minister of Health for Trinidad and Tobago.
So Minister Dale sing, welcome to the Daily Show. I'm
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doing well. Thank you so much for taking the time today.
I know you've been inundated and I really do appreciate it.
So I really, really appreciate it anything for honor. Originally,
I try my best. I've been told if I don't
attend the next month, I'm gonna lose my citizenship. So exactly,
Marshall has told me I need, I need to play
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his band and make sure that I that I that
I fit into my outfit for the next month. So lovely. UM.
A few days ago, Trinidad and Tobago was thrust into
the spotlights in in not the most favorable way because
of what could have been an innocuous tweet where it's
tweeted by anybody else, but Nicki Minas tweeted something that
has thrust yourself and your team into the spotlights. And
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I think it would be great for you to come
on the show and and just to help us work
through some of the misinformation that that is swirling in
and around the country right now. So you held a
press conference that has now gone viral worldwide where you
you had to come out and state publicly that there
is no case of testing testicular swelling happening in Trinidad,
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well vaccine related at least, UM. And so I wandered
from you know, your ministry side, do you have any
concerns in and around the vaccine. Is there anything that
has made you say, oh no, people need to pause
or or is there a rollout of the vaccine that
you are comfortable with right now? Thank you for that question. So,
as part of our community is strategies from day one,
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we press conferences every day right now we have them
three times a week, so that was part of our
normal communications um process yesterday. To date, we have administered
over one million doses of vaccines in a country of
one point four million people. You're a small but proud country,
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Small but proud, and we are confident that we have
brought WHO approved vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago. And with
those million doses we have administered to date, they have
only been five cases of adverse events, all reported to
w h oh none of them includes testicular swelling. And
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let me just reiterate when one wears that against the
ravages of COVID nineteen around the world, we are close
to four point six million people have in fact died.
The advantages of vaccination far far out we miniscule risk.
And then what of what of Nicki Minaj's further claims
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that nobody in Trinidad can work if they are not vaccinated.
Is that true? I welcome the opportunity to put your
record street in simple land which are is simply not true.
Our vaccination program is voluntary but highly recommended. Vaccines are
not mut to the region. To be Caribbean, to Trinidad
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and to be going to the power whole region. This
is not new. What is new is social media trying
to uh throw doubt on this vaccine. But globally, five
point eight three billion doses of vaccines have been administered
globally and it will save lives and travel. If you
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want to come back here to play mass, get vaccinated
and come back. I mean, that's a great way ever
to come back. I will personally take you to eat double.
I will personally take you for a personality take you
to Tobago. You know. So let me let me ask
you this. If you were to send a message to
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Nicki Minaji, what would that message be. My message to
the Trinidad and to be go diaspora anywhere that you
are is that vaccines are safe, vaccines are effective. And
if I may broaden the conversation to the Caribbean diaspora,
the Caribbean is one of the best places that you
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would to live and please it is one of the
best places to bring up your family's My message to
the Caribbean diaspora is spread the word that get vaccinated
to save your life, so we can get back to
what Caribbean ray of life with the soca. Whether it's Reggie,
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whether it's pleaded. Um, will these lovely things, cricket, football,
right Chutney, all these things. The way out of this
pandemic right now is simply get foxy leaked it. Well,
I'll tell you now, Minister. You had me at doubles
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and playing mass I'm going to try and lose a
little bit of my COVID weight and then I will
be I'll be back. Maybe we'll be playing in the
same band. You never know. We'll make it a special occasion.
Friend and my children of great fans with you. Thank
you so much, Thank you so much for taking the time, minister,
appreciate you. Friend. Thank you so much again for joining us.
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Minister Dale sing before we go to the break, Um,
I just wanted to also say thank you to the
people of Trinidad for being such good sports because I
know that everything has become a joke these days, but
I hope that everyone remembers that for Trinidaddians, this is
a very real thing, right Trinidad is a real place
with real people that is going through a very real
pandemic right now, one that has decimated the economy like
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many countries in the world. So this issue is something
that they didn't need to be dealing with right now.
And I mean not to mention. When you're from a
small country, it's so easy for one negative story to
define you to the world. You know. I think Trinidad
should be known for its culture, it's food, it's carnival,
you know, not just as the home for one guy's
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giant gonads and as the South African I get this,
you know, like when Oscar Pistori has happened, every time
I went to the bathroom after that, people would run
out screaming. So to all my friends in Trinidad, thank
you for sending me information, thank you for correcting me
and for keeping me in touch with what was going on.
And to the people of Trinidad, we wish you the best.
We know that this won't be the story that defines you,
and hopefully soon everyone will be vaccinated nobody will have
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strolling testicles, and we'll be back at Carnival celebrating us.
I mean, I've gained a few pounds during COVID, but
I still think my out offer is gonna look pretty dope. Yeah,
all right, when we come back, the man who taught
us how to read and survive in space, LeVar Burton,
will be joining us on the show, So don't go away.
Last week, President Joe Biden woke up from sleepy time
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and announced his new vaccine mandate, one of the most
heinous displays we've ever seen, Joe Biden's angry anti American
vaccine mandate. Biden's threatening the unvaccinated more than he's threatening
the Taliban. He wants to yell at people, what happened
to the idea of my body, my choice? If they
can force you to take a vaccine that you don't need,
what kid they do? So what does this mean for
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freedom loving Americans like you and me and mel Gibson? Well,
I've been watching box News for eighty seven hours straight,
and spoiler alert, I hope you like eating your meat
loop with chopsticks because we're basically communist China now mandate. Sorry,
Joe but the only mandate I need is court mandated
community service for gently bitch slapping a flight attendant. You're
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about to put something in your body and you don't
even know it's in it. Don't be stupid. No, I
won't get vaccinated. No I won't wear a mask. No
I won't stop eating at a crowded restaurant three meals
a day. And yes, I'm wuld like to speak to
the manager. I'm sorry that just came out naturally. This
is North Korea times Apartheide plus Cuba divided by the
Civil War is slippery slope. People, First, you need a
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vaccine card to enter a restaurant. Pretty soon you're going
to need a kid to enter a PTA meeting. What
country are we living in? This is discrimination of the
highest order. Unbacked should be considered just as much of
a slur as any of the words I'm not allowed
to sing a karaokee anymore. Don't listen to Joe Biden,
don't listen to Fauci, don't listen to your doctor. Listen
to me. A lady woman whose favorite newscasters all shout
minus Liberty time seventeen seventy six. Raised to the Power
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of Venezuela. Here's a logistical question. Why do I need
the vaccine if I'm already snorting the proven COVID cure
cinder plusic cinder practice. It's not just for cows with
goneria anymore. Also, how about natural immunity. Science shows the
best way to not get COVID is to get covid.
Read a medical study. I've caught COVID like eighteen times
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and I'm fine. My fellow patriots, what's next? They're gonna
mandate back some nations for kids to go to school? Well,
jokes on you. I don't send my kids to school.
I whole schooled them with John the Bounty Hunters Creak
media podcast. I'm solid Times, putin Times, Castro Times, agleamrco hands.
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally, who just died of
COVID divided by isis times, Jim Crow laws plus socialist
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breadlines and what is that? Equal? Zero? And that's how
many vaccines I'm beginning, Joe Biden, if I had a
job and it wasn't already vaccinated? Do you know where
this virus is from? China? Do you know who created it?
Ilan Omar? Do you know how many years in prison
and get for getting arrested at school board meeting. That
was a question for my lawyer. Well, that pretty much
sums up the Biden vaccine mandate. Dr Baucis from Neptune,
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Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonights as
an award winning actor, director, and literacy advocates LeVar Burton.
He's here to talk about his legendary career and the
importance of storytelling. Mr LeVar Burton, Welcome to the show.
Thank you very much. Um, let's talk a little bit
about LeVar Burton, because what a life you've live. I know, right,
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Your journey keeps on moving, Your story keeps on being
almost rewritten, chapters keep on being added. When you see
your life, how do you see it? Mm hmm, Well,
I I know I'm here to tell stories. I know
that that's part of why I'm here. I really I
see my life. There's a through line from Kunta right
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at one end of the spectrum, and Jordi Laford, the
chief engineer of the enterprise, at the other end of
that spectrum, and LaVar, the reading rainbow guy, is in
the middle of that continuum. So I've been able to
represent the Black experience from slavery to the future, everything
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in between. And what an honor that is. It feels
it feels like an honor of that. I think the
people would argue belongs more to them. You've always been
somebody who is not just passionate about being in the stories,
not just passionate about telling the stories, but encouraging others
to tell their own stories and become storytell tell us
(25:06):
in their own right. Absolutely, let's talk about reading Rainbow. Okay,
where did that passion come from? Where does the Bobbert
and go? You know what? Yeah, I can do TV,
I can make movies, I can do whatever. You know.
What I'm gonna do is basically make no money and
go and just read, read to people, just have kids reading.
That's our gene E R M A G E N E.
That was my mother's name. Um. She was an English
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teacher and a social worker and my first teacher. Um,
I'm a reader because of her influence. My mom read
not only to us when we were kids, my two sisters,
but she read in front of us. And that's like
really that that critical modeling. I grew up in a
house where reading was like breathing, so just the awareness
that literature was a critical component of our life and
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life style was really you know, demonstrated and pounded into me.
I like to say, in my mom's house, you either
read a or you got hit in the head with one,
but you were going to have an experience with the word.
I wonder if there's something in you that is almost
you know I I love that you say it's about
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your mom. I grew up. I grew up in a
similar household. You know, my mom read everything to me,
you know, everything to me, and then from the Bible
to you know, just random books as a child growing up.
And I just like I devoured books right vout book
Before I asked the question, I'd love to know what
do you do when you're not enjoying a book? As
an avid book reader? Do you do you quit? What's
your technique? Are you like the thirty pages and then
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I'm out? I've only ever quit reading one book in
my life. Wow, what was that boat? Norman Mailer's Armies
of the Night m board me to tears were the
ship out of me? Um? You know that must be
a terrible book. It was understanding for you to say
there's one book everything else you just read you you
you you like, I'll go, yeah, absolutely, because there's a
(26:57):
gift in everything. There's a gift in every book. Right. Um,
I find some books hold me hostage, so I'll finish them,
but I'll go it maybe starts well, then doesn't or
maybe it's like it doesn't start well, but now I
feel like I have to finish the book, and then
I'm now I'm a hostage. And now every day I
go like, I gotta go back to that book, and
I have to because I'm a completionist. I want to finish.
And Funny enough, now because of COVID, I'm learning to
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like let go a little bit more and be like, no,
I don't have to finish, don't have to. You don't
have to not if you don't want to. I don't
have to. I'm compelled to because I guess I have
a habit of um picking books that I know I'm
going to enjoy. Okay, right, Armies of the Night was
it was an assignment and you know back in the
day in school, and I had to I had to
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fake my way through that book report because I couldn't
do it. Um, of all the rules you've played of
all the places you've gone at fans, one of the
more recent, and obviously it's just been exploding on the news,
has been that as a guest host of Jeopardy. I
mean you you know that you beloved right, and it's
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wonderful feeling. I'm sure it is, but this was special.
I mean, just like you, you had this LeVar burden
and it's not a crazy it's like that's the thing
about you. Like maybe maybe your fans mimic your your calm,
but it's like you're a very calm fans just like
I like liv Off for this job. Everyone just wanted
you for they loved seeing you that There's something about
that world, maybe the jeopardy of it all, maybe the
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information of it all, that that that people associated with you.
What did that moment feel like for you? Just experiencing
that love from people, you know? For that? You know
when when we did a kickstarter several years ago, um
And I discovered then that the generation of adults now
who grew up on reading Rainbow, Um, they were down
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with whatever it is I wanted to do, um and
And the same was true with this Jeopardy thing. UM.
I made it public that I wanted it for myself
that it made sense to me, and and they were
all about it. Well if if and it made sense,
it had as much sense to them as it did
to me, and um, and so they wanted it for
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me as much as as much as I wanted it.
The crazy thing is is that you know, when you
set your your sights on something, you know they say,
be careful of what you wish for. Because what I
found out is that it wasn't the thing that I wanted.
After all. What I wanted was what I wanted was
to compete. I mean, I wanted the job right, but
then when I didn't get it, it was like, well, okay,
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well what what's next? And and so the opportunities that
have come my way as a result of not getting
that gig. I couldn't have dreamt it up. I couldn't
if you had given me a pen and paper and said, well,
so what what do you want this to really look like?
If it doesn't include jeopardy, I wouldn't have been this gym.
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That's that's the that's the shipwreck that leads you to
the magical island. That's it exactly, you know what I mean,
that's what that is then you were meant to be
focus on I focused on the ship. We don't think
about the island that it got us to. The island
was where you were meant to be all along. I
would love to see you make I know you've got
you've got a production company and you you know, I
know that you've you've had a podcast for seven years,
(30:12):
reading books. You know you you you still embody everything
that you love in literature. I would I would love
for you to think of a way. I mean, I
know I'm giving you all the work here, but there's
got to be like a there's gotta be some sort
of game show in and around books. There's got to
be something in that world that we are working on
creating exactly what that is. I never deserve a credit
for it. I mean, I know I said it late,
(30:33):
but I feel like I feel like now this is
one of those where I feel like you hacked my mind.
So now I owe you money. No not money, just credit. Credit,
just credit. You can just say developed by all the people,
and then you say like and Trevor Trevor later, but
also developed by brother. I would be happy if you credit,
(30:53):
because the thing is I never thought about hosting any
other game show outside of Jeopardy, but now having they
went in a different direction with their show, which is
their right, and now I'm thinking, well this, it does
kind of make sense. Let me see what I can do.
So we're trying to figure out what the right game
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show for LaVar Burton would be. I love that. Now
you're writing your story inspired by another store, inspired by
another story. I love that. Thank you so much for
joining me on the show forever. Noah, you are a
national treasure. You're the best in the business, and what
you do with your platform is really remarkable. I appreciate
you by the real man. Thank you so much. Thank
(31:36):
you for being here. Don't forget people. You can listen
to the LeVar Burton Reads podcast right now at LaVar
Burton podcast dot com or wherever you subscribe to your
favorite shows. We're gotta take a quick break or we'll
be right back after this. Well that's our show for
tonight until next week. Stay safe out there, get your vaccine,
and remember, if you're hearing weird stories about the vaccine,
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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I am Trevor Noah. Today
is Thursday, September six, And before we get started, I
just wanted to say thank you for helping us settle
into our amazing new studio here. You know, I'm sure
you've noticed by now that we've been trying a bunch
of new things. You know, I'm trying new clothes. We're
(00:22):
having fun because we're not at home anymore. You know,
we thought that why not experiment. It's been seventeen months
working from home. You know, when you get back into space,
just mix things up a little bit. So today we're
definitely gonna mix things up. We've got a really exciting
new addition to announce for the show. Please say hello
to The Daily Show's brand new one man band, Anderson Park.
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WHOA what yes love. I could when they said you
were joining, I was like, it's too good to be true.
But he's here. We have a one man Van Anderson Welcome.
Thank you man, It's on pleasure. Congratulations on your MS win.
Congratulations on Sulk Sonic just being the most amazing thing ever. Alright,
Congratulations on Sesame Street. Now that's a crazy right man.
You're enjoying it. I'm loving it, living the dream. Oh man,
(01:18):
I feel it. I feel it. Well. Anyway, thank you
for being here. This is gonna be fun, all right, people,
Let's kick things off with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic.
In person school is now back in session, and while
a lot of people were bracing for problems, I don't
know if anyone expected this one. A school bus driver
shortages gripping the nation. Massachusetts has even called in the
National Guard to help pick up children. Superintendent Almi A.
(01:41):
Betta of Chelsea Schools in near Boston says two weeks
into the year and she's still short fifteen drivers, meaning
one in every five buses has run late. Now the
Guard will drive ten passenger school transport vans in her district.
Schools returning to in person classes say coronavirus fears pushed
more drivers to retire. Other schools are turning to parents
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to pick up the slack. One charter school in Delaware
is paying them seven hundred dollars for each child they
drive to and from school this year. Philadelphia parents in
a similar program are getting up to fifteen hundred dollars
for the school year. Fifteen hundred dollars to get a
bunch of kids into a van. That's insane. All these years,
I've been doing it for free. And uh, thoughts and
(02:31):
prayers for those National Guard troops. I mean, war as hell,
but it's got nothing on driving a bus full of
ten year olds. Hey Anderson, that's dope. And it's our
first show. This is perfect. I mean I don't even
know how you do that. Uh, it just needs to
be a little shorter, like, um, you know what I
(02:51):
mean for for comedies, don't it's like just really shure.
It's like it's that's it, and we like, you know, yeah,
not I feel I feel it. I feel it. It
was it was right, it was perfect. Um, I'm your man,
I got you. I know it. So yeah, the U. S. Military,
so yeah, the U. S. Military is now going to
start driving school buses, which sounds like a great idea
(03:12):
until all of a sudden, the country has spent two
trillion dollars and then they suddenly pull out and leave
your kids with the Taliban. M I don't think this
is did you hit the punch line already? Yeah? Look
(03:41):
at me. When you when the punch lines come in.
But the audience I have to be ready either way.
I can't. I can't throw the punch line to you. No,
I believe that I'm not. I'm doing the opposite, like
actually yah um so yeah, So they can't get the
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kids to the school right because there's no school busses
and everyone's trying to figure out what you do. They
saying some parents should drive them. They saying the military
should drive them. Here's my opinion. You know what they
should do. They should hire ice cream trucks, right because
kids chase those things for miles. All you do is
you get one ice cream truck, it drives through all
the suburbs and then the kids just chasing all the
way to the school. He's a tuned the way I
(04:59):
want him to be. But I'll make sure we I'm
gonna I'm gonna go over the jokes before. Yeah, I
think I think I think that would. Yeah, maybe we
maybe we take a little break and then um yeah,
I'll meet you in the break room. Yeah we can,
and then we'll go through some we'll go through some
(05:19):
notes and stuff, and then we'll we'll start the show
after that. This is perfect though you use the restroom,
appreciate it. I feel it's right through that Yeah, that door,
you're right, if you go, if you go, you shouldn't
walk in front of cameras generally, when yeah, you should.
If we yeah, there's a door on that side, and
(05:40):
then we can yeah, all the way all the way down.
Just keep going, keep going all the way close the
door with yeah, we're not yeah, there's not gonna work out.
Close the door. Let's do the show. Coming to you
from the Hard Time Square, the most important place under
It's the Daily Show. Here's edition. Bulgate continues to swell
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Trinidad's health ministers here and love Arburton. This is the
Daily Show with Trevor. Okay, people, there's a lot going
on in the world right now, but there is one
story that is more important than all of them combined.
I'm talking about the ongoing saga of Nicki Minaj's cousins
(06:26):
friends swollen testicles. As everyone on the planet has heard
by now, Nicki Minaj tweeted out that her cousin's friend
in Trinidad took the COVID vaccine and then his balls
swoll and he became impotent. Now people say well, stuff
about the vaccine all the time, but most people don't
have tens of millions of followers, So this tweet has
(06:47):
caused a giant uproar, so big that even Dr Fauci
had to weigh in. I wouldn't normally even ask you
about this, but is there any evidence that the Fiser,
the Maderna, or the James vaccines cause any reproductive issues
in men or women? The answer to that, Jake is
a resounding no. There's no evidence that it happens, nor
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is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen.
Can we just appreciate for a moment how crazy Dr
Fauci's life has become. I mean, for the first seventy
eight years of his life, he was just minding his
own business, you know, decades working in a lab trying
to fight diseases. And now in the space of two years,
(07:34):
he's had to stop Trump from drinking bleach, convinced Americans
he's not trying to microchip them, and now he's weighing
in on some Trinidadian guys balls. I can assure you,
as the nation's top scientists that you're Nutsacked is gonna
be fine. So the story has blown up bigger than
a I don't know a pair of Trinidadian testicles, because
what happened next was that Nicki Minaj said that the
(07:55):
White House read her tweets and invited her to the
White House to talk out it's But then the White
House said, nah, we just said we would do a
phone call to answer Nicki Minaj's questions. We never invited
her over And that response from the White House really
piste Nicki off. Nicki Minaj, defending her claims she was
(08:16):
invited to the White House to discuss her concerns about
the COVID nineteen vaccine manage, took to Instagram saying she
would never lie about the invite. Do y'all think that
I would go on the internet and lie about being
invited to the fucking White House? Like, what do you guys?
(08:37):
See what is happening right now? Oh my goodness. If
they assassinate me and assassinate my character and make me
look crazy or stupid, guess what, no one else will
ever ask questions again? Don't you see what's happening? I'm
not lying, guys. My cousin's friend told me I was
(08:58):
invited to the White House. Look, I'll be honest with you.
I I can see both sides of this thing. I mean,
it would be kind of weird for the White House
to invite Nicki Minaj for that tweet, you know, because
usually someone gets an invite to the White House for
like winning a gold medal or saving their entire platoon,
you know, not for tweeting about their cousin's friends scroll
(09:19):
to him. That's not usual. On the other hand, Nikki's
story makes sense too. Why would you lie about going
to a house that's not even as nice as yours?
So I don't think Nikki is lying necessarily. It was
probably just a big miscommunication, which wouldn't surprise me. Nicki
Minaj in the White House or from two completely different worlds.
I mean, put on monster, put on that track and
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asked Joe Biden what he is harder than a Middle
Eastern climate? Violet dobe matter, you know what? I give up?
Can somebody called calm a lotta come help me with this?
But as piste off as Nicki Minaj is at the
White House, it turns out a lot of people back
in Trinidad or even more mad at her for making
(10:01):
their country the butt of jokes. I'm sorry, the ball
of jokes. This is almost like what you would hear
about Apollo, where somebody will tell you, well, your cousin friends,
neighbor see x y Z. I mean, come on, Nikki,
I have a hundred and eight a million followers. People
(10:21):
listen to you. I mean, it's irresponsible on all all fronts.
One irresponsible based on the misinformation that is going on
there regarding this vaccine um. You know, there was no
verification of the story. And furthermore, to expose your cousin
friends flat tire in the public domain like that ely
(10:42):
man of a flat tire. Okay, he will work on that,
you know, the herbs and and and and punsion, so
the easy man can eat and bring back our vibes.
But don't come now and talk that kind of talk. Alright, alright, wait, guys, guys,
can we just all agree that from now on, impotence
should only be referred to as a flat tire because
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the rectile dysfunction it's so clinical, you know, it comes
with a stigma. I have a rectile dysfunction, but a
flat tire. I mean that sounds like something that can
happen to anyone. Yeah, you can pay a guy in
a truck twenty dollars to fix it for you. You
know what's crazy is when we heard this news clip
at the show, we all thought that this guy should
be the official voice of c Elis. And then this
(11:27):
next part of the story is completely true. But you're
not gonna believe me, and that's fine. But this news anchor,
his name is Jason Williams. He is actually my Trinidadian's
friends cousin. Yeah, cousin, friend, friend, cousin. So we called
him and we actually got him to redo the c
aalis ads and honestly, I think it's a pretty big improvement.
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Do you or your cousin's friend have a flat tire? Well,
you don't have to tell everybody, just to just think
called c Elis. Trust me all these hoops and branch
to bring back your vibes. So ask your doctor about Salis.
Just make sure and do tell Niki manacase she go
(12:11):
for John Blast and you all world go on mm hmm.
Now I'm craving Cialis and doubles. Anyway. The people have
Trinidad aren't happy, the news anchors aren't happy, and Trinidad's
government is definitely not impressed. A waste of time health
officials in Trinida and Tobago or responding to rapper Nicki
(12:33):
minaj Or a claim about the COVID vaccine. As far
as we know at this point in time, there has
been no such reported either side effect or adverse event.
And what was said about this is that it wasted
our time yesterday trying to track down because we take
(12:57):
all these claims seriously. Oh man, you think Dr Fauci
has it rough. The Health Minister of Trinidad had to
spend the whole day going around asking people about their balls.
How are your testicles? And how are yours? And how
are your balls? Everything fine? One thing you've got to
love about the Caribbean, though, is how the people that
can politely cuss you out without using a single swear word.
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Because he seemed chilled, but he was telling her off.
You know, that might be the most dignified telling of
if I've ever heard from a government official. It made
me feel ashamed, and I had nothing to do with this.
I was sitting at home like, yeah, I should be
ashamed of myself. But I will say this as funny
as the story is, and we have been having fun
with it. Unfortunately, this has turned into a real problem
in a real country being handled by real health professionals,
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and so we thought at the Daily Show, you know,
it would be great to have these people on the
show to actually find out the full story, not from
our cousin and not from our cousin's friend, but from
the people who are there to see what's happening on
the ground. So when we come back, I'll be speaking
to the man from that clip, Trinidad's actual Health Minister, Terence.
They all sing, so don't go away, Welcome back to
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the Daily Show. Everyone has been talking about the fallout
from Nicki Minaj's testical tweets, which has affected everyone from
the White House all the way to the government of
Trinidad and Tobago. And since we don't actually live in Trinidad, well,
we thought it would be helpful to have a conversation
with the actual Minister of Health for Trinidad and Tobago.
So Minister Dale sing, welcome to the Daily Show. I'm
(14:32):
doing well. Thank you so much for taking the time today.
I know you've been inundated and I really do appreciate it.
So I really, really appreciate it anything for honor. Originally,
I try my best. I've been told if I don't
attend the next month, I'm gonna lose my citizenship. So exactly,
Marshall has told me I need, I need to play
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his band and make sure that I that I that
I fit into my outfit for the next month. So lovely. UM.
A few days ago, Trinidad and Tobago was thrust into
the spotlights in in not the most favorable way because
of what could have been an innocuous tweet where it's
tweeted by anybody else, but Nicki Minas tweeted something that
has thrust yourself and your team into the spotlights. And
(15:14):
I think it would be great for you to come
on the show and and just to help us work
through some of the misinformation that that is swirling in
and around the country right now. So you held a
press conference that has now gone viral worldwide where you
you had to come out and state publicly that there
is no case of testing testicular swelling happening in Trinidad,
(15:36):
well vaccine related at least, UM. And so I wandered
from you know, your ministry side, do you have any
concerns in and around the vaccine. Is there anything that
has made you say, oh no, people need to pause
or or is there a rollout of the vaccine that
you are comfortable with right now? Thank you for that question. So,
as part of our community is strategies from day one,
(15:59):
we press conferences every day right now we have them
three times a week, so that was part of our
normal communications um process yesterday. To date, we have administered
over one million doses of vaccines in a country of
one point four million people. You're a small but proud country,
(16:19):
Small but proud, and we are confident that we have
brought WHO approved vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago. And with
those million doses we have administered to date, they have
only been five cases of adverse events, all reported to
w h oh none of them includes testicular swelling. And
(16:42):
let me just reiterate when one wears that against the
ravages of COVID nineteen around the world, we are close
to four point six million people have in fact died.
The advantages of vaccination far far out we miniscule risk.
And then what of what of Nicki Minaj's further claims
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that nobody in Trinidad can work if they are not vaccinated.
Is that true? I welcome the opportunity to put your
record street in simple land which are is simply not true.
Our vaccination program is voluntary but highly recommended. Vaccines are
not mut to the region. To be Caribbean, to Trinidad
(17:28):
and to be going to the power whole region. This
is not new. What is new is social media trying
to uh throw doubt on this vaccine. But globally, five
point eight three billion doses of vaccines have been administered
globally and it will save lives and travel. If you
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want to come back here to play mass, get vaccinated
and come back. I mean, that's a great way ever
to come back. I will personally take you to eat double.
I will personally take you for a personality take you
to Tobago. You know. So let me let me ask
you this. If you were to send a message to
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Nicki Minaji, what would that message be. My message to
the Trinidad and to be go diaspora anywhere that you
are is that vaccines are safe, vaccines are effective. And
if I may broaden the conversation to the Caribbean diaspora,
the Caribbean is one of the best places that you
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would to live and please it is one of the
best places to bring up your family's My message to
the Caribbean diaspora is spread the word that get vaccinated
to save your life, so we can get back to
what Caribbean ray of life with the soca. Whether it's Reggie,
(18:58):
whether it's pleaded. Um, will these lovely things, cricket, football,
right Chutney, all these things. The way out of this
pandemic right now is simply get foxy leaked it. Well,
I'll tell you now, Minister. You had me at doubles
(19:19):
and playing mass I'm going to try and lose a
little bit of my COVID weight and then I will
be I'll be back. Maybe we'll be playing in the
same band. You never know. We'll make it a special occasion.
Friend and my children of great fans with you. Thank
you so much, Thank you so much for taking the time, minister,
appreciate you. Friend. Thank you so much again for joining us.
(19:39):
Minister Dale sing before we go to the break, Um,
I just wanted to also say thank you to the
people of Trinidad for being such good sports because I
know that everything has become a joke these days, but
I hope that everyone remembers that for Trinidaddians, this is
a very real thing, right Trinidad is a real place
with real people that is going through a very real
pandemic right now, one that has decimated the economy like
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many countries in the world. So this issue is something
that they didn't need to be dealing with right now.
And I mean not to mention. When you're from a
small country, it's so easy for one negative story to
define you to the world. You know. I think Trinidad
should be known for its culture, it's food, it's carnival,
you know, not just as the home for one guy's
(20:22):
giant gonads and as the South African I get this,
you know, like when Oscar Pistori has happened, every time
I went to the bathroom after that, people would run
out screaming. So to all my friends in Trinidad, thank
you for sending me information, thank you for correcting me
and for keeping me in touch with what was going on.
And to the people of Trinidad, we wish you the best.
We know that this won't be the story that defines you,
and hopefully soon everyone will be vaccinated nobody will have
(20:44):
strolling testicles, and we'll be back at Carnival celebrating us.
I mean, I've gained a few pounds during COVID, but
I still think my out offer is gonna look pretty dope. Yeah,
all right, when we come back, the man who taught
us how to read and survive in space, LeVar Burton,
will be joining us on the show, So don't go away.
Last week, President Joe Biden woke up from sleepy time
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and announced his new vaccine mandate, one of the most
heinous displays we've ever seen, Joe Biden's angry anti American
vaccine mandate. Biden's threatening the unvaccinated more than he's threatening
the Taliban. He wants to yell at people, what happened
to the idea of my body, my choice? If they
can force you to take a vaccine that you don't need,
what kid they do? So what does this mean for
(21:26):
freedom loving Americans like you and me and mel Gibson? Well,
I've been watching box News for eighty seven hours straight,
and spoiler alert, I hope you like eating your meat
loop with chopsticks because we're basically communist China now mandate. Sorry,
Joe but the only mandate I need is court mandated
community service for gently bitch slapping a flight attendant. You're
(21:48):
about to put something in your body and you don't
even know it's in it. Don't be stupid. No, I
won't get vaccinated. No I won't wear a mask. No
I won't stop eating at a crowded restaurant three meals
a day. And yes, I'm wuld like to speak to
the manager. I'm sorry that just came out naturally. This
is North Korea times Apartheide plus Cuba divided by the
Civil War is slippery slope. People, First, you need a
(22:10):
vaccine card to enter a restaurant. Pretty soon you're going
to need a kid to enter a PTA meeting. What
country are we living in? This is discrimination of the
highest order. Unbacked should be considered just as much of
a slur as any of the words I'm not allowed
to sing a karaokee anymore. Don't listen to Joe Biden,
don't listen to Fauci, don't listen to your doctor. Listen
to me. A lady woman whose favorite newscasters all shout
minus Liberty time seventeen seventy six. Raised to the Power
(22:33):
of Venezuela. Here's a logistical question. Why do I need
the vaccine if I'm already snorting the proven COVID cure
cinder plusic cinder practice. It's not just for cows with
goneria anymore. Also, how about natural immunity. Science shows the
best way to not get COVID is to get covid.
Read a medical study. I've caught COVID like eighteen times
(22:53):
and I'm fine. My fellow patriots, what's next? They're gonna
mandate back some nations for kids to go to school? Well,
jokes on you. I don't send my kids to school.
I whole schooled them with John the Bounty Hunters Creak
media podcast. I'm solid Times, putin Times, Castro Times, agleamrco hands.
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally, who just died of
COVID divided by isis times, Jim Crow laws plus socialist
(23:16):
breadlines and what is that? Equal? Zero? And that's how
many vaccines I'm beginning, Joe Biden, if I had a
job and it wasn't already vaccinated? Do you know where
this virus is from? China? Do you know who created it?
Ilan Omar? Do you know how many years in prison
and get for getting arrested at school board meeting. That
was a question for my lawyer. Well, that pretty much
sums up the Biden vaccine mandate. Dr Baucis from Neptune,
(23:40):
Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonights as
an award winning actor, director, and literacy advocates LeVar Burton.
He's here to talk about his legendary career and the
importance of storytelling. Mr LeVar Burton, Welcome to the show.
Thank you very much. Um, let's talk a little bit
about LeVar Burton, because what a life you've live. I know, right,
(24:01):
Your journey keeps on moving, Your story keeps on being
almost rewritten, chapters keep on being added. When you see
your life, how do you see it? Mm hmm, Well,
I I know I'm here to tell stories. I know
that that's part of why I'm here. I really I
see my life. There's a through line from Kunta right
(24:25):
at one end of the spectrum, and Jordi Laford, the
chief engineer of the enterprise, at the other end of
that spectrum, and LaVar, the reading rainbow guy, is in
the middle of that continuum. So I've been able to
represent the Black experience from slavery to the future, everything
(24:45):
in between. And what an honor that is. It feels
it feels like an honor of that. I think the
people would argue belongs more to them. You've always been
somebody who is not just passionate about being in the stories,
not just passionate about telling the stories, but encouraging others
to tell their own stories and become storytell tell us
(25:06):
in their own right. Absolutely, let's talk about reading Rainbow. Okay,
where did that passion come from? Where does the Bobbert
and go? You know what? Yeah, I can do TV,
I can make movies, I can do whatever. You know.
What I'm gonna do is basically make no money and
go and just read, read to people, just have kids reading.
That's our gene E R M A G E N E.
That was my mother's name. Um. She was an English
(25:29):
teacher and a social worker and my first teacher. Um,
I'm a reader because of her influence. My mom read
not only to us when we were kids, my two sisters,
but she read in front of us. And that's like
really that that critical modeling. I grew up in a
house where reading was like breathing, so just the awareness
that literature was a critical component of our life and
(25:52):
life style was really you know, demonstrated and pounded into me.
I like to say, in my mom's house, you either
read a or you got hit in the head with one,
but you were going to have an experience with the word.
I wonder if there's something in you that is almost
you know I I love that you say it's about
(26:14):
your mom. I grew up. I grew up in a
similar household. You know, my mom read everything to me,
you know, everything to me, and then from the Bible
to you know, just random books as a child growing up.
And I just like I devoured books right vout book
Before I asked the question, I'd love to know what
do you do when you're not enjoying a book? As
an avid book reader? Do you do you quit? What's
your technique? Are you like the thirty pages and then
(26:35):
I'm out? I've only ever quit reading one book in
my life. Wow, what was that boat? Norman Mailer's Armies
of the Night m board me to tears were the
ship out of me? Um? You know that must be
a terrible book. It was understanding for you to say
there's one book everything else you just read you you
you you like, I'll go, yeah, absolutely, because there's a
(26:57):
gift in everything. There's a gift in every book. Right. Um,
I find some books hold me hostage, so I'll finish them,
but I'll go it maybe starts well, then doesn't or
maybe it's like it doesn't start well, but now I
feel like I have to finish the book, and then
I'm now I'm a hostage. And now every day I
go like, I gotta go back to that book, and
I have to because I'm a completionist. I want to finish.
And Funny enough, now because of COVID, I'm learning to
(27:18):
like let go a little bit more and be like, no,
I don't have to finish, don't have to. You don't
have to not if you don't want to. I don't
have to. I'm compelled to because I guess I have
a habit of um picking books that I know I'm
going to enjoy. Okay, right, Armies of the Night was
it was an assignment and you know back in the
day in school, and I had to I had to
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fake my way through that book report because I couldn't
do it. Um, of all the rules you've played of
all the places you've gone at fans, one of the
more recent, and obviously it's just been exploding on the news,
has been that as a guest host of Jeopardy. I
mean you you know that you beloved right, and it's
(28:00):
wonderful feeling. I'm sure it is, but this was special.
I mean, just like you, you had this LeVar burden
and it's not a crazy it's like that's the thing
about you. Like maybe maybe your fans mimic your your calm,
but it's like you're a very calm fans just like
I like liv Off for this job. Everyone just wanted
you for they loved seeing you that There's something about
that world, maybe the jeopardy of it all, maybe the
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information of it all, that that that people associated with you.
What did that moment feel like for you? Just experiencing
that love from people, you know? For that? You know
when when we did a kickstarter several years ago, um
And I discovered then that the generation of adults now
who grew up on reading Rainbow, Um, they were down
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with whatever it is I wanted to do, um and
And the same was true with this Jeopardy thing. UM.
I made it public that I wanted it for myself
that it made sense to me, and and they were
all about it. Well if if and it made sense,
it had as much sense to them as it did
to me, and um, and so they wanted it for
(29:05):
me as much as as much as I wanted it.
The crazy thing is is that you know, when you
set your your sights on something, you know they say,
be careful of what you wish for. Because what I
found out is that it wasn't the thing that I wanted.
After all. What I wanted was what I wanted was
to compete. I mean, I wanted the job right, but
then when I didn't get it, it was like, well, okay,
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well what what's next? And and so the opportunities that
have come my way as a result of not getting
that gig. I couldn't have dreamt it up. I couldn't
if you had given me a pen and paper and said, well,
so what what do you want this to really look like?
If it doesn't include jeopardy, I wouldn't have been this gym.
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That's that's the that's the shipwreck that leads you to
the magical island. That's it exactly, you know what I mean,
that's what that is then you were meant to be
focus on I focused on the ship. We don't think
about the island that it got us to. The island
was where you were meant to be all along. I
would love to see you make I know you've got
you've got a production company and you you know, I
know that you've you've had a podcast for seven years,
(30:12):
reading books. You know you you you still embody everything
that you love in literature. I would I would love
for you to think of a way. I mean, I
know I'm giving you all the work here, but there's
got to be like a there's gotta be some sort
of game show in and around books. There's got to
be something in that world that we are working on
creating exactly what that is. I never deserve a credit
for it. I mean, I know I said it late,
(30:33):
but I feel like I feel like now this is
one of those where I feel like you hacked my mind.
So now I owe you money. No not money, just credit. Credit,
just credit. You can just say developed by all the people,
and then you say like and Trevor Trevor later, but
also developed by brother. I would be happy if you credit,
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because the thing is I never thought about hosting any
other game show outside of Jeopardy, but now having they
went in a different direction with their show, which is
their right, and now I'm thinking, well this, it does
kind of make sense. Let me see what I can do.
So we're trying to figure out what the right game
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show for LaVar Burton would be. I love that. Now
you're writing your story inspired by another store, inspired by
another story. I love that. Thank you so much for
joining me on the show forever. Noah, you are a
national treasure. You're the best in the business, and what
you do with your platform is really remarkable. I appreciate
you by the real man. Thank you so much. Thank
(31:36):
you for being here. Don't forget people. You can listen
to the LeVar Burton Reads podcast right now at LaVar
Burton podcast dot com or wherever you subscribe to your
favorite shows. We're gotta take a quick break or we'll
be right back after this. Well that's our show for
tonight until next week. Stay safe out there, get your vaccine,
and remember, if you're hearing weird stories about the vaccine,
(31:58):
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