September 15, 2021 • 34 mins
Trevor highlights civilian deaths in Afghanistan, Desi Lydic examines the mistreatment of women in childbirth, and Carmelo Anthony discusses "Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised."
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coming to you from the heart of Times Square, the
most important place on Earth. It's the Daily Show. Here's
the coming hot people make us send how Babies are Mad?
And Carmelo Anthony. This is the Daily Show with Trevor. Hey,
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what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm
Trevor Noah and today is Wednesday, September. Let's kick things
off with Instagram, the reason every wedding has its own hashtag. Now,
let's face it, Scrolling Instagram can be pretty depressing, right.
The whole thing is just seeing people you will never smash,
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or in clothes you'll never own, in places you'll never go.
So we've all pretty much known that Instagram is not
great for your mental health. And I think we've known
this for a while, but it turns out that Instagram
also knew this. Instagram can be damaging for many teen
ager's mental health, most notably teenage girls. These are the
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internal findings from Instagram's own parent company, The Wall Street Journal,
citing three years of the tech giants internal studies, including
one leaked power Points line from March two thousand twenty
that reads of teen girls said that when they felt
bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse. Another
from two thousand nineteen reads teens blame Instagram for increases
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in the rate of anxiety and depression. The Wall Street
Journals Jeff Horrats writing six percent of American Team users
who reported suicidal thoughts trace the desire to kill themselves
to Instagram. The research seems to contradict what CEO Mark
Zuckerberg has said publicly. The research that we've seen is
that using social apps to to connect with other people
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can have positive mental health benefits. Oh that's weird. The
research I've seen says that I can keep making money
and there's nothing maladjusted about about me, about me about
me at all. But that's right. Instagram had secret data
that it is in fact making us crazy, you know,
sort of like how the tobacco companies always knew that
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cigarettes cause cancer and they didn't say a thing. Oil
companies knew about climate change, they didn't say a thing.
I won't feel like there should be a new law
that every company's internal research has to be made public.
You know that way, we as the public, we know
the same ship that they know. At the same time,
we don't have to wait fifty years to know what's
actually in Girl Scout cookies, thin Men's cause Alzheimer's. Oh, Man,
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at least I know, nam, num what thin Man's cause Alzheimer's. Well,
at least now I know, um, how many cookies have
I eaten? And by the way, you want to know
how I first realized something was up, It's when I
started getting targeted ads for apps to calm your mind
and help you unplug. I mean, that's basically the algorithm
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staging and intervention. And meanwhile, my reaction like, damn, I
wish my pictures of raindrops look that good. And even
if your social media addiction isn't making you depressed, he
has another story about how it could actually be getting
you into trouble in a totally different way. The l
a p D is under fire tonight after it was
revealed that officers were instructed to collect social media accounts
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on every civilian they stop. According to documents obtained by
the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice, officers have been ordered
to start collecting a person's social media handle or use
your name when they file reports on an incident. The
practice was started in the l A p D issued
a statement saying social media handles can be critical pieces
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of contact information, along with phone numbers and email addresses. Okay, okay,
I'm sorry, this is this is a bad idea. Right,
No one wants to give their social media handles. Two
cops or maybe except for influences, will probably start rubbing
banks just to get follow. Oh no, obviously you caught
me hashtag follow and subscribe. And also, what exactly do
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you cops think you can find on social media? Like,
you're never going to crack the case because someone posted
hashtag TVT to me murdering Jeremy. I don't know. It
seems like a small thing. But how is this even
any of the cops's business? Right? Can we not have
one place in our lives where cops on on top
of us all the time. People don't go on Twitter
to get arrested. We go to Twitter to get canceled.
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And finally, some environmental news. As you probably know by now,
farming is a major source of pollution around the world.
Right Fertilizers contaminate waterways, pesticides get into our food, and
not to mention all of those single use disposable tractors.
But one big thing is ammonia emissions, which damage soil
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and contributes to climate change. But now researchers are taking
that on at its source. How about this find the tie.
Some scientists are working to potty train cattle. That's right, cows.
Resar Chers in Germany say eleven out of sixteen cows
actually learned to use the mulu when they had to
go in just two weeks. Turns out livestock waste is
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a serious issue. A single cow can produce about eight
gallons of urine a day. So far, the party training
researchers have only focused on urine, but they claim cows
could probably be trained to go number two as well. Wait,
hold on, hold up, hold up, cows can use the
bathroom now, Yo, that's amazing because I mean that means
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now your mama doesn't have to shut in the back
yard anymore. Oh, if there were people here, was just
gonna be like a thing. Yeah no, but for real though,
I mean, this is crazy news, not just that cows
can use a toilet, but that it only takes them
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two weeks to learn how to do it, Like it
changes my perspective on cows completely, Like what else can
cows do if we just give them a chance? All
rights can probably read. And we've just been jerking off
their nipples. And I do wish that this would actually
make a difference in the cow's lives, like you hope
it would. But you know, it's only gonna be another
popular selling points at those fancy restaurants. Well, our ribby
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tonight is grass fed, pasture raised, and party trained. Yes,
two weeks. I will say though, being able to pee
does have some benefits for the cows. You know. It
means they can finally use the excuse that humans use
to get out of boring conversations. Whoa really, you got
milked twice today? Oh my god, that's great. Hey, I
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just gotta run to the bathroom. Yeah no, no, I'll
be back. I'll be back. This is fascinating, all right,
But let's move on to our top story. Afghanistan the
only thing harder to get out of than a gym membership.
Just hours before America pulled out of the country last month,
it got in one final drone strike at a suspected terrorist.
You know for all times sake, except now we're learning
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more about who was actually owned. New questions tonight about
a US drone strike that killed ten people in Afghanistan.
The New York Times reports the strike mistakenly targeted an
AID worker, not someone connected to isis K. The man's
vehicle was said to be carrying bombs, but he was
actually transporting water. There's mounting evidence that that drone strike
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killed an Afghan working for a US aid group, along
with nine others, including seven children. A U s military
investigation into the drone strike is underway. We know from
variety of other means that at least one of those
people that were killed was a ISIS facilitator. So where
there are others killed, yes, there are others killed. Who
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they are we don't know. But at this point we
think that the procedures were correctly followed and it's a
righteous strike. Okay, maybe we have different dictionaries. But if
you killed one guy who you're still not sure was
a terrorist, but you definitely killed seven kids, I don't
think righteous is the word I would use. You know.
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In fact, when you hear people use righteous, it's usually
to justify terrible things that they know they've done Like
the Crusaders said they were righteous, colonizers said they were righteous.
Terrorists say that they're righteous. You killed families and children. Yeah,
it was for a righteous court. You I don't care
like you know, we just observed the twentieth anniversary of
nine and what do we say? Never forget, right, which
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is a powerful and necessary sentiment. And it's true. I'll
never forget. I'll never forget hearing the phone calls from
that day. I'll never forget seeing the towers full. I
was in South Africa, I was a child, and I
will never forget that day. But if I'm honest, I
think we need to expand on what never forget means.
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You know, I also feel like we should never forget
how easily our fear can drive us to do horrible
things to other human beings. Because as terrible as this
drone strike was, was even more terrible is that when
you look back at twenty years of the war, there's
absolutely nothing unique about it. The past several years in
Afghanistan have seen a rise in the number of civilians killed.
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The first half of teen marked the first time that
US and Afghan forces were responsible for more civilian deaths.
In two thousand and eight, we have the highest civilian
casualties from air strikes. By two thousand and eleven, those
numbers have gone from over five hundred and fifty civilians
killed in air strikes per year down to around a hundred.
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Then when the Trump administration comes in, we see a
complete flip and it really goes into the idea that
we're going to bomb the Taliban and submission. Yeah, think
about that. At one point in this war, America and
its allies started killing more civilians than the Taliban. I mean,
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that's a huge failure on the part of America, now
that I think about it, is a failure for the
Taliban too. I mean, if you're killing more civilians than
the Taliban, what's the point of being there. Like if
you're trying to catch the candy man, but you're killing
more people than he is. At some point people are
just going to be like, all, l right, well, maybe
we should just stick with the candy man. At least
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he's got candy. What do you mean he doesn't have candy? Well,
then what what do they call him the candy man?
One they just call him the killer man? Then what
makes it worse? Is that nobody ever seemed to face
any consequences for these deaths. Right, There's no other job
in the world where you can just accidentally kill innocent
people and then show up to work the next day
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like nothing happened. Right, Nobody at the hair salon is
ever like, hey, Vanessa, rough day today, but please remember
for tomorrow. Maybe he's a little less conditioner and also
trying to kill an entire family. Otherwise, great job, Yeah,
see you tomorrow. Okay, bye. Because America's air war in
Afghanistan was regularly killing civilians, and what happened was the
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republic outcry, were charges filed. No, for the most part,
no one even really cared. Right for most of the country,
the war in Afghanistan was something most Americans did forget
while it was happening. And that's not what wars are
supposed to feel like. A war should be something that
is impossible to ignore. But most people in America, this
war became like when you forget Netflix is on, right,
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and then they have to pop up that little thing
like yo, are you still alive? And best believe the
people of Afghanistan knew that the war was happening because
to them, the terror of America's drone war was a
part of everyday life, and never forget that when a
drone strike goes wrong, it doesn't just end up killing
lots of innocent people, it also turns possible friends into
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definite enemies. Most Muslims around the world condemned the September
eleven terrorist attacks on the United States and two thousand
and one, but many consider the US response to the
terror attacks far worse. In fact, some of the more
controversial tactics that the US used in Afghanistan, such as
night rates and opportun right attentions and airstrikes that sometimes
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kill civilians, created this content in local communities and actually
helped the Taliban recruit more fighters. Kareem Khan, who's from
that tribal region, tells me his brother and son were
killed in a drone strike in late two thousand and nine.
He is suing the CIA, but given the chance, he says,
he'd take revenge on those responsible. But I even kill
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them if if Allah give me this opportunity, I will
kill them because they are responsible for killing my my
brother and my son. Drones are creating not just one generation,
but generations of jehadas. Because if you kill a father,
his son will come. And then if you kill the son,
his grandson will come. And this is what is happening. Man,
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This is such a ship show. Forget being a four
star general. Like, if you just watch Kung Fu movies,
you would know this was inevitable. If you kill someone's
family for no reason, they're gonna want revenge. And can
you blame them for wanting revenge? Alright? This is this
is what anyone would feel. Any human would feel this.
Imagine if like I don't know, let's say, no way,
blew up your house, killed your entire family. You'd be devastated.
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And I promise you now it wouldn't make you feel
any better. If they told you they were actually trying
to get some guy named Gary, you wouldn't be like, oh,
you were trying to kill Gary? What would you killed
my family? Well? Oh, no, hard feelings. Good luck finding him.
He sounds like a bad dude. Oh and if you're
if you're not the kind of person who's swayed by
emotional arguments like bad to kill children, never forget that war,
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even wars that you barely know are going on, Well,
you're still paying for them. How much did the war
in Afghanistan actually cost on the accounting books between the
initial invasion and twenty years of supporting the Afghan government.
Estimates are in the trillions. It's an astronomical number. Our
experts explained. That's because the war was basically paid in debt,
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and every day the cost of the Afghanistan war actually
goes up. According to the Congressional Research Service, from two
thousand and one to two thousand and twenty one, the
Department of Defense allocated eight hundred and thirty seven billion
dollars for military operations. But that isn't the final cost.
We fought this war on credit and so uh, this
was mostly borrowed money that we used to pay for
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the war. The total costs they've estimated is two point
to six one trillion dollars. The Afghanistan war cost about
three hundred million bucks a day for two decades. It
is an eye opening number. Sweet lord, three hundred million
dollars a day for twenty years a day. Law wow,
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I feel like I want to be sick think about it.
For the last twenty years, Americans have been fighting hard
about where to find money for health care, for education,
for infrastructure. In fact, half of the reason Americans hate
each other is because they're always fighting about money. You know, like,
forget about schools and hospitals. For three hundred million dollars
a day, America could have made a new Fast and
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Furious movie every day for twenty years. Yeah, we could
be up to Fast and Furious seven thousand by now.
We're gonna drive a car into the sun for Family Man.
But we did that like two thousand sequels ago. Yeah,
but this time the car is green. So look, I
know it's almost impossible to rule out wars forever. But
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the least we could do, the least we could do
the next time we even consider getting into another war
is to never forget that it might not actually make
anybody feel safer or safer at all. I'll never forget
that it will cost you a fortune, and most importantly,
never forget that there are innocent people on the other side.
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All Right, when we come back, dasilide goes into labor. Yep,
you definitely don't want to miss it. Welcome back to
the Daily Show. Women's contributions in history often get overlooked,
so to solve the problem, we turned to Dasi lidec
for another episode of not history, but of his hurry
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uh childbirth. It's like three D printing a person. Bringing
a baby into this world isn't easy. But for most
of recorded history, other people, usually men, have been dictating
to women the terms of their own childbirth, even when
they don't know what the hell they're talking about. Time
to take a couple of deep breaths and push out
another history. Let's start all the way back in ancient Greece.
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Plato may have been one of the greatest philosophers of
all time, and he could definitely rock that casual tunic
look like nobody's business. But when it comes to baby making,
he was clueless. He thought the womb could literally wander
around the body like one of those DVD screensavers. Who
is that an eyeball? I am definitely on the wrong floor.
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As dumb as Plato's dumb ideas about women's anatomy were,
they were accepted by male doctors for centuries, and doctors
couldn't do their own research because for most of human history,
male doctors refused to even watch a woman give birth.
They avoided the delivery room like it was an idea
a woman said in a meeting. In fact, in fifteen
twenty two, a curious German doctor decided to sneak into
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the delivery room dressed as a midwife and guess what,
he was burned alive for it. It's like the most
extreme drag race challenge ever. So, because men didn't have
the balls to see a vagina, it was up to
the midwives to deliver the babies. That is until the
mid sixteenth century, when men realized how much money they
could make by doing it themselves. But even in the
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delivery room, men were still so squeamish about seeing lady
parts that they made women lie on their backs and
cover their legs to deliver. That's why lying on your
back is still the standard delivery procedure today, even though
there are so many more comfortable and a fish positions.
A woman can give birth in on her side, squatting
on all fours, or how I did it standing in
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line to get into the Gucci sample sale. Fun fact,
if you find a placentic stain on the scarp will
give you an extra five percent off. Aside from awkward positions,
men started doing all kinds of things to women we
never would have chosen ourselves. We all know what this
is right. Now, why do you think this was invented
to chop down trees hunt down unsuspecting hotties. Wrong? Originally,
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the chainsaw was invented to assist in childbirth. How horrifying
is that at that point I'd rather just let the
baby grow up inside me. It's no surprise mail doctors
would come up with the idea of chainsawing a baby
out of a woman because a woman's pain was never
really taken into consideration, which is crazy because pain is
the most traumatic thing about childbirth. Well, that and going
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on morey afterwards to find out who the child's father is.
But for a long time, men believe that when and
should feel pain during childbirth, that it was part of
her destiny. So pain killers weren't even an option. In
a woman from Edinburgh had the gall to ask for
pain relief during the birth of her twins, and no joke,
she was burned at this stake for it. Yeah, another
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one apparently just telling someone no wasn't invented for another
couple of centuries. Pain killers were largely off limits until
the mid nineteenth century, when Queen Victoria used chloroform for
the birth of her eighth child. She raved about it,
which made it even more popular. She truly was the
original Mommy influencer. Thanks to Queen Victoria, drugging women during
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childbirth became much more acceptable, but after a hundred years
or so, the no drugs philosophy came back in style
again thanks to men like doctor Grantly dick Read, the
first modern physician to suggest women shouldn't get drugs at all,
because he claimed that women's pain was all in their heads.
In his defense, he was probably just trying to get
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revenge on his mom, forgive him that name. Look, if
women want drugs during childbirth, that's their choice. If they
want to push a watermelon through a bagel hole without drugs,
that's also their choice. The problem is when decisions are
being made by other people without putting the woman first.
And that's not just in the past, it continues today.
There's O. B. G. Y n S who refused to
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work with the doulah. Epsiotomy is being performed without consent,
and unnecessary c sections being pushed on women just to
work around a doctor's lunch break, which is honestly kind
of weird because if you still have an appetite after
cutting a person open, then I need a new doctor
and you need a shrink. So to all the doctors
and medical professionals out there, please listen to the women
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who are actually pushing another human being out of their bodies.
Take their concerns seriously, put their interests first, and for
God's sake, please no more burning people at the stake.
Yeah right, thank you so much for that, Daisi. When
we come back, I'll be talking to NBA legend Carmelo Anthony,
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So stick around. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
guest tonight is ten time NBA All Star, author and
philanthropist Carmelo Anthony. He's here to talk about his new
memoir and the upcoming NBA season as a newly minted
Los Angeles Laker. Comment on Anthony welcomes to the show,
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I feel like I'm the only person, says los Angeles Laker, right, Uh? Probably, yeah.
That's like a friend of mine said that to me
the day. He's like, you don't watch basketball much? To you?
I was like I do. He's like, then why do
you say los Angeles Laker? Was like, because the Los
Angeles Lakers? Like what the l A Lakers was like?
What the Los Angeles Lakers but the way, yeah, the
Lakers giving it like the full name. I don't know.
I don't know what it is for me. It's just
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like it makes it. It makes it bigger from whatever
works for you. Welcome to the show, and um, congratulations
on on adding author to I mean, like a really
impressive list of titles that you already hold. I will say,
I think, like like any people, I opened the book thinking, Okay,
Carmelo Anthony book. It's gonna be basketball. You're gonna teach
me how to do those moves. You're gonna teach me
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how to fake You're gonna teach me. And yet it
did the exact opposite. It's like, this isn't the story
of the Carmelo Anthony. We know this is the story
of the Carmelo Anthony that gets to the person that
we know. Tell me why you chose to write this book.
I just think everybody knows that part of the story,
Like they know the basketball part of the story. They know,
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you know, the business side of Carmelo Anthony, but they
don't know what it took to get to that part.
They don't know what what I had to go through
and endure and and deal with and see and hear
uh before that, right, so we well talk about the
ten hour rule. I've been doing that. I've been put
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my ten tho hours and probably a little bit more
in order to get to that point. So by time
I David Stern hand, that was the story that I
always wanted to tell. Right when you read this book
where tomorrow's aren't promised, I think the title couldn't be
more perfect, because that is Carmelo's journey. You grew up
in a world where there is no tomorrow that has promised,
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and there's no journey that's pre written. When you were
writing the book and you're telling us of the story
and the world you grew up in and everything that
was was, did you take a moment to realize what
you've actually experienced to get what you've gotten to Not
until I've read it, not that I was done right now,
and I read it because I didn't look at it
as a place of trouble or pay a place of
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of harm or just I looked at it was life.
It was life. I woke up every day I saw
the same people, went to the same full spots, hung
on the same block, the same neighborhood, with to the
same school. That was my life every single day. So
I didn't look at it as it was difficulty, like
it was just life. We had to deal with life.
We was going through life. What I was going through,
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my neighbor was going through, the guy across the street
was going So we we was a very We became
a retightening it community. Carmelo one of the most signature names,
like in the world. You know, whether it's in hip
hop track tracks with it inst is you know what
I mean, Melo, my man, it's it's it's it's it's signature,
it is you you. At one time, I wanted to
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be Tyrone Johnson. Who is Tyrone Johnson? I have no idea.
I have no I didn't want to be Tyrone. I
just didn't. I didn't understand my name, Like it was
just you gotta understand me breaking down you was. I
came from Brooklyn and Red Hook where it was predominantly black,
Puerto Ricans. Italians was in the back. Irish was in
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the back. So we was very diverse. When you go
to Baltimore, it's all black. So to hear a name
Carmelo like you, I'm like, they're not gonna understand what
that really is, you know. So they're gonna they're gonna
butcher my name, the caromelo, caramel, whatever they whatever they're
gonna do, they're gonna butcher the name. So the teacher
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comes around and she passed the index cards you gotta
put your name on their first day of school, and
somebody else's name was on the board from the previous class,
and I just looked up and I was like, my
name is Tyrone Johnson. I took Tyrone and then added
Johnson because that was a very it was a common name,
So Tyrone Johnson. And that's why I became for three days.
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What I loved is when you talk about how you
came to love your name. You know, So you get
you get in trouble at school, the teachers call your
mom to the school. They go like, yo, we gotta
deal with your son. She gets them, They go like
Tyrone has been getting up to some ship, and she goes,
who's Tyrone? So I got in trouble and I did
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something that I wasn't supposed to do. Our chids ain't
listening to this. I knew what time my mother had
to go to work, so I ran home and I
made sure I was there for the phone call to
tell my mother, so I like this. My mom wasn't
wasn't there, so I knew the phones over you're trying
to get ahead of the whipping. Let's see this call.
I the Yeah, I don't answer the phone. My mom
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don't get it. I still go to school the next
day as if I was going to school, zackpack uniform
on in the line about to walk into the school.
I'm the last one. Everybody walks in. I stay outside
in the yard as I'm outside for some reason, maybe
this was, you know, this was the higher power telling me,
giving me a message. My mom comes driving down the
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street and I peek around the corner. We catch eye contact.
I couldn't. I couldn't make shedn't make this up. So
that's how she found out that I wasn't in school.
So she took me back to school. That was asking
questions and that's when they told her, Hey, Ms Johnson,
your son Tyrone has been dispended, suspended for X y Z.
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And she's like, mine, I don't know any Tyrone. This
is CaRMetal Anthony right here. Everyone knows you from the
basketball court, but people have started knowing you in different
areas as well. You know, I remember just from South Africa,
you getting involved in basketball philanthropy around the world. You know,
you would, you would come out, you would host clinics,
you would, you would do it all over Africa, you would,
you just get involved. That's how when you Camelo, not
just from the NBA, you've you've been a big proponent
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of that getting to the kids. But what I loved
in this book is you talk about how you never
brought into the concept that like, the sport will just
save you. You know, everyone will be like, oh, get
the kids into the sport. It saves them, It'll save you,
it'll save you. But but you can't buy into that.
You you never you never discard, you know, the things
that happened to you because of basketball, but you don't
buy into the myth. Tell me more about that. Well,
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I just I just knew and where I come from
it again, I don't only could speak on my experience, yea,
And so I just knew what I was up against.
I knew the odds that that we all was up
against growing up in that and it's it's a number game.
You're you're one of x amount of of players who
have a chance to make it to the NBA, of
thousands of players, millions of people, millions of basketball players
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in the world, you're one of them. So to fathom that,
it's like, that's impossible. And definitely they ain't not coming
back to the wire. They're not coming to the wire
to come to come get one of us. So I
kind of just like, kind of I didn't want to
hold onto that. I haven't watched bosketble my entire life.
Started loving basketball when I moved to the US, got
into it, you know, just the stories. And one thing
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that I that I've always noticed, just as an outsider,
is how often people have written you off. You know,
people like woll it's over for comment, got to hang
it up now, I gotta hang it up now, Carmelo
dropping this many podcasts. It's not over. Nope, it's over now.
He's got to hang it up, this guy. And you
just remember, I'm just coming into southing like is it over?
Is it not? It doesn't seem to be over, but
it's over, but it's not over. Like it feels like
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you lived a life where you were written off it.
It feels like you came from a world that was
written off. Do you think that's part of the reason
that you just keep putting your head down and making
the place is that? Is that? And hence why the
name is where Tomorrows are in promise? Like that, that
has a wide range of meaning when when when you
hear one when tomorrows on promise? And that's a prime
example right there. I've I've always felt like I had
(29:58):
to like do extra and do more or than that
than the next person. I always felt like I had
to not be louder, but I had to show people
a lot more of of what I can do, my
talents and my skill and you know, just being me.
And I was battling that for a long time, and
because I didn't know who I was as a person.
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And when you dealing with those type of issues and
those those meant that mentality, it can mess you up.
And I always I'm in a competitive sport anyway as
it is, so I don't want to be competitive in
every aspect of my life. I want to come home,
I want to relax, I want to turn the TV
on and listen to music, drinks some wine, and I
don't want to be competitive all day, every day. And
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that's what it does to you. Man, it just makes
you competitive because when you feel like you're backers against
the wall and people always doubting you, and you know
you're not gonna do this. Oh he's back, like you said,
he's back. Oh he's not back and he needs to
go he need to come back or what is he doing?
It's like, where's wal though, And that's not something I
don't want to live my life like that. You're finding
your piece. I was finding my piece and where I'm
(31:03):
at now, I think I've found some of my piece
and I'm still on that journey of finding you know,
being being peaceful just in in life. But that takes time.
And I want people to understand that when they're reading
this story, like to find your piece, that it takes
a long time. Seven years old and I just started
over the past couple of years to look and search
(31:23):
for that piece. Thirty seven years old and you are
starting another journey, right maybe one of the most anticipated
parts of your career, which is crazy at thirty seven,
you know, because you are joining the Lakers, the Lakers,
joining the Lakers, and again people are writing everything off,
you know, I mean Lebron has talked about this, he's
(31:45):
he has fun with it on Twitter and everything. You know,
people are like, oh, it's the retirement home of basketball
player players. You know, you've got Dwight, You've got Carmelo,
You've got Lebron, you got Roger and Rondo, You've got
this is this is retime. This is a retirement home.
And Lebron and said, oh, well, we'll show you what
old men can do. You feel it feels like you've
been in this position before, but it feels like it's
a completely different story every single time. Why did you
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say yes? Why do you think that this would be different?
And what are you hoping to achieve? Is there something
you're trying to prove all are you just in a
different state of mind going into this next season. It's
nothing that I'm trying to prove. If I wanted to
pick l A, I would have been at peace walking
away from the game knowing that I gave it everything
I could and I still couldn't win the championship. I
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would have been at peace with that. I would have
been good. But now that I'm in the Lakers, I
can't be at peace. We're not winning, so it's just
it's the you gotta change, you know, you gotta change
your way of thinking, you gotta change your perspective. But
being out there at this point in time in my career,
we hear all we hear all of it. We hear
that the old and the seior citizen all for basketball.
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But we just know what we bring to the game,
and we what we bring to the table. And I
say we're wiser, Like we're wise, We're not. We're not old.
Thirty seven is young, thirty six is is as young.
I feel there's only old in the in the sports world.
So like Lebron said, like other guys said, man, it's
just just watch and see. And I think people will
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enjoy the show. Hey man, I know I'll be one
of the people watching. Congratulations on your book, Congratulations on
the story. I hope everybody reads it because, as you said,
you know, it'll connect with not just your journey, but
how hard that journey actually is and how many people
can relate to the story that gets you to where
you want to. Absolutely, as universe is a universal message.
I say that I appreciate you money, thank you so
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much for joining me on the show. Don't Forget People.
Carmelo's book, Where Tomorrow's Aunt Promised, is available right now.
We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
back after this. Well, let's our show for tonight, but
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Like do you think you should like flare your nostrils
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you know what I mean, I feel like the person
is doing it, and then sometimes we just leave our
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like it would be polite. So just like try and
like flare them just to give them a bit more room.
I like try and do like a little thing. But
then sometimes I feel like I'm a creep, you know
what I mean, Like I feel like they're doing it,
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and then they're like this guy enjoying it and I'm
not enjoying it. But I'm just like, yeah, I'm here
to make this easier for years of person. Just do
like a little. It's just my way of saying like
thank you, thank you for your help, and I appreciate
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I don't know. It's just like no one taught us
how to get your nose jabbed. I'm just I'm just saying,
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And Carmelo Anthony. This is the Daily Show with Trevor. Hey,
(01:24):
what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm
Trevor Noah and today is Wednesday, September. Let's kick things
off with Instagram, the reason every wedding has its own hashtag. Now,
let's face it, Scrolling Instagram can be pretty depressing, right.
The whole thing is just seeing people you will never smash,
(01:44):
or in clothes you'll never own, in places you'll never go.
So we've all pretty much known that Instagram is not
great for your mental health. And I think we've known
this for a while, but it turns out that Instagram
also knew this. Instagram can be damaging for many teen
ager's mental health, most notably teenage girls. These are the
(02:04):
internal findings from Instagram's own parent company, The Wall Street Journal,
citing three years of the tech giants internal studies, including
one leaked power Points line from March two thousand twenty
that reads of teen girls said that when they felt
bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse. Another
from two thousand nineteen reads teens blame Instagram for increases
(02:26):
in the rate of anxiety and depression. The Wall Street
Journals Jeff Horrats writing six percent of American Team users
who reported suicidal thoughts trace the desire to kill themselves
to Instagram. The research seems to contradict what CEO Mark
Zuckerberg has said publicly. The research that we've seen is
that using social apps to to connect with other people
(02:48):
can have positive mental health benefits. Oh that's weird. The
research I've seen says that I can keep making money
and there's nothing maladjusted about about me, about me about
me at all. But that's right. Instagram had secret data
that it is in fact making us crazy, you know,
sort of like how the tobacco companies always knew that
(03:10):
cigarettes cause cancer and they didn't say a thing. Oil
companies knew about climate change, they didn't say a thing.
I won't feel like there should be a new law
that every company's internal research has to be made public.
You know that way, we as the public, we know
the same ship that they know. At the same time,
we don't have to wait fifty years to know what's
actually in Girl Scout cookies, thin Men's cause Alzheimer's. Oh, Man,
(03:34):
at least I know, nam, num what thin Man's cause Alzheimer's. Well,
at least now I know, um, how many cookies have
I eaten? And by the way, you want to know
how I first realized something was up, It's when I
started getting targeted ads for apps to calm your mind
and help you unplug. I mean, that's basically the algorithm
(03:56):
staging and intervention. And meanwhile, my reaction like, damn, I
wish my pictures of raindrops look that good. And even
if your social media addiction isn't making you depressed, he
has another story about how it could actually be getting
you into trouble in a totally different way. The l
a p D is under fire tonight after it was
revealed that officers were instructed to collect social media accounts
(04:21):
on every civilian they stop. According to documents obtained by
the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice, officers have been ordered
to start collecting a person's social media handle or use
your name when they file reports on an incident. The
practice was started in the l A p D issued
a statement saying social media handles can be critical pieces
(04:44):
of contact information, along with phone numbers and email addresses. Okay, okay,
I'm sorry, this is this is a bad idea. Right,
No one wants to give their social media handles. Two
cops or maybe except for influences, will probably start rubbing
banks just to get follow. Oh no, obviously you caught
me hashtag follow and subscribe. And also, what exactly do
(05:04):
you cops think you can find on social media? Like,
you're never going to crack the case because someone posted
hashtag TVT to me murdering Jeremy. I don't know. It
seems like a small thing. But how is this even
any of the cops's business? Right? Can we not have
one place in our lives where cops on on top
of us all the time. People don't go on Twitter
to get arrested. We go to Twitter to get canceled.
(05:26):
And finally, some environmental news. As you probably know by now,
farming is a major source of pollution around the world.
Right Fertilizers contaminate waterways, pesticides get into our food, and
not to mention all of those single use disposable tractors.
But one big thing is ammonia emissions, which damage soil
(05:46):
and contributes to climate change. But now researchers are taking
that on at its source. How about this find the tie.
Some scientists are working to potty train cattle. That's right, cows.
Resar Chers in Germany say eleven out of sixteen cows
actually learned to use the mulu when they had to
go in just two weeks. Turns out livestock waste is
(06:09):
a serious issue. A single cow can produce about eight
gallons of urine a day. So far, the party training
researchers have only focused on urine, but they claim cows
could probably be trained to go number two as well. Wait,
hold on, hold up, hold up, cows can use the
bathroom now, Yo, that's amazing because I mean that means
(06:31):
now your mama doesn't have to shut in the back
yard anymore. Oh, if there were people here, was just
gonna be like a thing. Yeah no, but for real though,
I mean, this is crazy news, not just that cows
can use a toilet, but that it only takes them
(06:51):
two weeks to learn how to do it, Like it
changes my perspective on cows completely, Like what else can
cows do if we just give them a chance? All
rights can probably read. And we've just been jerking off
their nipples. And I do wish that this would actually
make a difference in the cow's lives, like you hope
it would. But you know, it's only gonna be another
popular selling points at those fancy restaurants. Well, our ribby
(07:13):
tonight is grass fed, pasture raised, and party trained. Yes,
two weeks. I will say though, being able to pee
does have some benefits for the cows. You know. It
means they can finally use the excuse that humans use
to get out of boring conversations. Whoa really, you got
milked twice today? Oh my god, that's great. Hey, I
(07:35):
just gotta run to the bathroom. Yeah no, no, I'll
be back. I'll be back. This is fascinating, all right,
But let's move on to our top story. Afghanistan the
only thing harder to get out of than a gym membership.
Just hours before America pulled out of the country last month,
it got in one final drone strike at a suspected terrorist.
You know for all times sake, except now we're learning
(07:57):
more about who was actually owned. New questions tonight about
a US drone strike that killed ten people in Afghanistan.
The New York Times reports the strike mistakenly targeted an
AID worker, not someone connected to isis K. The man's
vehicle was said to be carrying bombs, but he was
actually transporting water. There's mounting evidence that that drone strike
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killed an Afghan working for a US aid group, along
with nine others, including seven children. A U s military
investigation into the drone strike is underway. We know from
variety of other means that at least one of those
people that were killed was a ISIS facilitator. So where
there are others killed, yes, there are others killed. Who
(08:42):
they are we don't know. But at this point we
think that the procedures were correctly followed and it's a
righteous strike. Okay, maybe we have different dictionaries. But if
you killed one guy who you're still not sure was
a terrorist, but you definitely killed seven kids, I don't
think righteous is the word I would use. You know.
(09:05):
In fact, when you hear people use righteous, it's usually
to justify terrible things that they know they've done Like
the Crusaders said they were righteous, colonizers said they were righteous.
Terrorists say that they're righteous. You killed families and children. Yeah,
it was for a righteous court. You I don't care
like you know, we just observed the twentieth anniversary of
nine and what do we say? Never forget, right, which
(09:28):
is a powerful and necessary sentiment. And it's true. I'll
never forget. I'll never forget hearing the phone calls from
that day. I'll never forget seeing the towers full. I
was in South Africa, I was a child, and I
will never forget that day. But if I'm honest, I
think we need to expand on what never forget means.
(09:49):
You know, I also feel like we should never forget
how easily our fear can drive us to do horrible
things to other human beings. Because as terrible as this
drone strike was, was even more terrible is that when
you look back at twenty years of the war, there's
absolutely nothing unique about it. The past several years in
Afghanistan have seen a rise in the number of civilians killed.
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The first half of teen marked the first time that
US and Afghan forces were responsible for more civilian deaths.
In two thousand and eight, we have the highest civilian
casualties from air strikes. By two thousand and eleven, those
numbers have gone from over five hundred and fifty civilians
killed in air strikes per year down to around a hundred.
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Then when the Trump administration comes in, we see a
complete flip and it really goes into the idea that
we're going to bomb the Taliban and submission. Yeah, think
about that. At one point in this war, America and
its allies started killing more civilians than the Taliban. I mean,
(10:52):
that's a huge failure on the part of America, now
that I think about it, is a failure for the
Taliban too. I mean, if you're killing more civilians than
the Taliban, what's the point of being there. Like if
you're trying to catch the candy man, but you're killing
more people than he is. At some point people are
just going to be like, all, l right, well, maybe
we should just stick with the candy man. At least
(11:14):
he's got candy. What do you mean he doesn't have candy? Well,
then what what do they call him the candy man?
One they just call him the killer man? Then what
makes it worse? Is that nobody ever seemed to face
any consequences for these deaths. Right, There's no other job
in the world where you can just accidentally kill innocent
people and then show up to work the next day
(11:35):
like nothing happened. Right, Nobody at the hair salon is
ever like, hey, Vanessa, rough day today, but please remember
for tomorrow. Maybe he's a little less conditioner and also
trying to kill an entire family. Otherwise, great job, Yeah,
see you tomorrow. Okay, bye. Because America's air war in
Afghanistan was regularly killing civilians, and what happened was the
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republic outcry, were charges filed. No, for the most part,
no one even really cared. Right for most of the country,
the war in Afghanistan was something most Americans did forget
while it was happening. And that's not what wars are
supposed to feel like. A war should be something that
is impossible to ignore. But most people in America, this
war became like when you forget Netflix is on, right,
(12:19):
and then they have to pop up that little thing
like yo, are you still alive? And best believe the
people of Afghanistan knew that the war was happening because
to them, the terror of America's drone war was a
part of everyday life, and never forget that when a
drone strike goes wrong, it doesn't just end up killing
lots of innocent people, it also turns possible friends into
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definite enemies. Most Muslims around the world condemned the September
eleven terrorist attacks on the United States and two thousand
and one, but many consider the US response to the
terror attacks far worse. In fact, some of the more
controversial tactics that the US used in Afghanistan, such as
night rates and opportun right attentions and airstrikes that sometimes
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kill civilians, created this content in local communities and actually
helped the Taliban recruit more fighters. Kareem Khan, who's from
that tribal region, tells me his brother and son were
killed in a drone strike in late two thousand and nine.
He is suing the CIA, but given the chance, he says,
he'd take revenge on those responsible. But I even kill
(13:24):
them if if Allah give me this opportunity, I will
kill them because they are responsible for killing my my
brother and my son. Drones are creating not just one generation,
but generations of jehadas. Because if you kill a father,
his son will come. And then if you kill the son,
his grandson will come. And this is what is happening. Man,
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This is such a ship show. Forget being a four
star general. Like, if you just watch Kung Fu movies,
you would know this was inevitable. If you kill someone's
family for no reason, they're gonna want revenge. And can
you blame them for wanting revenge? Alright? This is this
is what anyone would feel. Any human would feel this.
Imagine if like I don't know, let's say, no way,
blew up your house, killed your entire family. You'd be devastated.
(14:07):
And I promise you now it wouldn't make you feel
any better. If they told you they were actually trying
to get some guy named Gary, you wouldn't be like, oh,
you were trying to kill Gary? What would you killed
my family? Well? Oh, no, hard feelings. Good luck finding him.
He sounds like a bad dude. Oh and if you're
if you're not the kind of person who's swayed by
emotional arguments like bad to kill children, never forget that war,
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even wars that you barely know are going on, Well,
you're still paying for them. How much did the war
in Afghanistan actually cost on the accounting books between the
initial invasion and twenty years of supporting the Afghan government.
Estimates are in the trillions. It's an astronomical number. Our
experts explained. That's because the war was basically paid in debt,
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and every day the cost of the Afghanistan war actually
goes up. According to the Congressional Research Service, from two
thousand and one to two thousand and twenty one, the
Department of Defense allocated eight hundred and thirty seven billion
dollars for military operations. But that isn't the final cost.
We fought this war on credit and so uh, this
was mostly borrowed money that we used to pay for
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the war. The total costs they've estimated is two point
to six one trillion dollars. The Afghanistan war cost about
three hundred million bucks a day for two decades. It
is an eye opening number. Sweet lord, three hundred million
dollars a day for twenty years a day. Law wow,
(15:35):
I feel like I want to be sick think about it.
For the last twenty years, Americans have been fighting hard
about where to find money for health care, for education,
for infrastructure. In fact, half of the reason Americans hate
each other is because they're always fighting about money. You know, like,
forget about schools and hospitals. For three hundred million dollars
a day, America could have made a new Fast and
(15:56):
Furious movie every day for twenty years. Yeah, we could
be up to Fast and Furious seven thousand by now.
We're gonna drive a car into the sun for Family Man.
But we did that like two thousand sequels ago. Yeah,
but this time the car is green. So look, I
know it's almost impossible to rule out wars forever. But
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the least we could do, the least we could do
the next time we even consider getting into another war
is to never forget that it might not actually make
anybody feel safer or safer at all. I'll never forget
that it will cost you a fortune, and most importantly,
never forget that there are innocent people on the other side.
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All Right, when we come back, dasilide goes into labor. Yep,
you definitely don't want to miss it. Welcome back to
the Daily Show. Women's contributions in history often get overlooked,
so to solve the problem, we turned to Dasi lidec
for another episode of not history, but of his hurry
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uh childbirth. It's like three D printing a person. Bringing
a baby into this world isn't easy. But for most
of recorded history, other people, usually men, have been dictating
to women the terms of their own childbirth, even when
they don't know what the hell they're talking about. Time
to take a couple of deep breaths and push out
another history. Let's start all the way back in ancient Greece.
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Plato may have been one of the greatest philosophers of
all time, and he could definitely rock that casual tunic
look like nobody's business. But when it comes to baby making,
he was clueless. He thought the womb could literally wander
around the body like one of those DVD screensavers. Who
is that an eyeball? I am definitely on the wrong floor.
(18:00):
As dumb as Plato's dumb ideas about women's anatomy were,
they were accepted by male doctors for centuries, and doctors
couldn't do their own research because for most of human history,
male doctors refused to even watch a woman give birth.
They avoided the delivery room like it was an idea
a woman said in a meeting. In fact, in fifteen
twenty two, a curious German doctor decided to sneak into
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the delivery room dressed as a midwife and guess what,
he was burned alive for it. It's like the most
extreme drag race challenge ever. So, because men didn't have
the balls to see a vagina, it was up to
the midwives to deliver the babies. That is until the
mid sixteenth century, when men realized how much money they
could make by doing it themselves. But even in the
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delivery room, men were still so squeamish about seeing lady
parts that they made women lie on their backs and
cover their legs to deliver. That's why lying on your
back is still the standard delivery procedure today, even though
there are so many more comfortable and a fish positions.
A woman can give birth in on her side, squatting
on all fours, or how I did it standing in
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line to get into the Gucci sample sale. Fun fact,
if you find a placentic stain on the scarp will
give you an extra five percent off. Aside from awkward positions,
men started doing all kinds of things to women we
never would have chosen ourselves. We all know what this
is right. Now, why do you think this was invented
to chop down trees hunt down unsuspecting hotties. Wrong? Originally,
(19:31):
the chainsaw was invented to assist in childbirth. How horrifying
is that at that point I'd rather just let the
baby grow up inside me. It's no surprise mail doctors
would come up with the idea of chainsawing a baby
out of a woman because a woman's pain was never
really taken into consideration, which is crazy because pain is
the most traumatic thing about childbirth. Well, that and going
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on morey afterwards to find out who the child's father is.
But for a long time, men believe that when and
should feel pain during childbirth, that it was part of
her destiny. So pain killers weren't even an option. In
a woman from Edinburgh had the gall to ask for
pain relief during the birth of her twins, and no joke,
she was burned at this stake for it. Yeah, another
(20:17):
one apparently just telling someone no wasn't invented for another
couple of centuries. Pain killers were largely off limits until
the mid nineteenth century, when Queen Victoria used chloroform for
the birth of her eighth child. She raved about it,
which made it even more popular. She truly was the
original Mommy influencer. Thanks to Queen Victoria, drugging women during
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childbirth became much more acceptable, but after a hundred years
or so, the no drugs philosophy came back in style
again thanks to men like doctor Grantly dick Read, the
first modern physician to suggest women shouldn't get drugs at all,
because he claimed that women's pain was all in their heads.
In his defense, he was probably just trying to get
(20:58):
revenge on his mom, forgive him that name. Look, if
women want drugs during childbirth, that's their choice. If they
want to push a watermelon through a bagel hole without drugs,
that's also their choice. The problem is when decisions are
being made by other people without putting the woman first.
And that's not just in the past, it continues today.
There's O. B. G. Y n S who refused to
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work with the doulah. Epsiotomy is being performed without consent,
and unnecessary c sections being pushed on women just to
work around a doctor's lunch break, which is honestly kind
of weird because if you still have an appetite after
cutting a person open, then I need a new doctor
and you need a shrink. So to all the doctors
and medical professionals out there, please listen to the women
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who are actually pushing another human being out of their bodies.
Take their concerns seriously, put their interests first, and for
God's sake, please no more burning people at the stake.
Yeah right, thank you so much for that, Daisi. When
we come back, I'll be talking to NBA legend Carmelo Anthony,
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So stick around. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
guest tonight is ten time NBA All Star, author and
philanthropist Carmelo Anthony. He's here to talk about his new
memoir and the upcoming NBA season as a newly minted
Los Angeles Laker. Comment on Anthony welcomes to the show,
(22:25):
I feel like I'm the only person, says los Angeles Laker, right, Uh? Probably, yeah.
That's like a friend of mine said that to me
the day. He's like, you don't watch basketball much? To you?
I was like I do. He's like, then why do
you say los Angeles Laker? Was like, because the Los
Angeles Lakers? Like what the l A Lakers was like?
What the Los Angeles Lakers but the way, yeah, the
Lakers giving it like the full name. I don't know.
I don't know what it is for me. It's just
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like it makes it. It makes it bigger from whatever
works for you. Welcome to the show, and um, congratulations
on on adding author to I mean, like a really
impressive list of titles that you already hold. I will say,
I think, like like any people, I opened the book thinking, Okay,
Carmelo Anthony book. It's gonna be basketball. You're gonna teach
me how to do those moves. You're gonna teach me
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how to fake You're gonna teach me. And yet it
did the exact opposite. It's like, this isn't the story
of the Carmelo Anthony. We know this is the story
of the Carmelo Anthony that gets to the person that
we know. Tell me why you chose to write this book.
I just think everybody knows that part of the story,
Like they know the basketball part of the story. They know,
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you know, the business side of Carmelo Anthony, but they
don't know what it took to get to that part.
They don't know what what I had to go through
and endure and and deal with and see and hear
uh before that, right, so we well talk about the
ten hour rule. I've been doing that. I've been put
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my ten tho hours and probably a little bit more
in order to get to that point. So by time
I David Stern hand, that was the story that I
always wanted to tell. Right when you read this book
where tomorrow's aren't promised, I think the title couldn't be
more perfect, because that is Carmelo's journey. You grew up
in a world where there is no tomorrow that has promised,
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and there's no journey that's pre written. When you were
writing the book and you're telling us of the story
and the world you grew up in and everything that
was was, did you take a moment to realize what
you've actually experienced to get what you've gotten to Not
until I've read it, not that I was done right now,
and I read it because I didn't look at it
as a place of trouble or pay a place of
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of harm or just I looked at it was life.
It was life. I woke up every day I saw
the same people, went to the same full spots, hung
on the same block, the same neighborhood, with to the
same school. That was my life every single day. So
I didn't look at it as it was difficulty, like
it was just life. We had to deal with life.
We was going through life. What I was going through,
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my neighbor was going through, the guy across the street
was going So we we was a very We became
a retightening it community. Carmelo one of the most signature names,
like in the world. You know, whether it's in hip
hop track tracks with it inst is you know what
I mean, Melo, my man, it's it's it's it's it's signature,
it is you you. At one time, I wanted to
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be Tyrone Johnson. Who is Tyrone Johnson? I have no idea.
I have no I didn't want to be Tyrone. I
just didn't. I didn't understand my name, Like it was
just you gotta understand me breaking down you was. I
came from Brooklyn and Red Hook where it was predominantly black,
Puerto Ricans. Italians was in the back. Irish was in
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the back. So we was very diverse. When you go
to Baltimore, it's all black. So to hear a name
Carmelo like you, I'm like, they're not gonna understand what
that really is, you know. So they're gonna they're gonna
butcher my name, the caromelo, caramel, whatever they whatever they're
gonna do, they're gonna butcher the name. So the teacher
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comes around and she passed the index cards you gotta
put your name on their first day of school, and
somebody else's name was on the board from the previous class,
and I just looked up and I was like, my
name is Tyrone Johnson. I took Tyrone and then added
Johnson because that was a very it was a common name,
So Tyrone Johnson. And that's why I became for three days.
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What I loved is when you talk about how you
came to love your name. You know, So you get
you get in trouble at school, the teachers call your
mom to the school. They go like, yo, we gotta
deal with your son. She gets them, They go like
Tyrone has been getting up to some ship, and she goes,
who's Tyrone? So I got in trouble and I did
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something that I wasn't supposed to do. Our chids ain't
listening to this. I knew what time my mother had
to go to work, so I ran home and I
made sure I was there for the phone call to
tell my mother, so I like this. My mom wasn't
wasn't there, so I knew the phones over you're trying
to get ahead of the whipping. Let's see this call.
I the Yeah, I don't answer the phone. My mom
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don't get it. I still go to school the next
day as if I was going to school, zackpack uniform
on in the line about to walk into the school.
I'm the last one. Everybody walks in. I stay outside
in the yard as I'm outside for some reason, maybe
this was, you know, this was the higher power telling me,
giving me a message. My mom comes driving down the
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street and I peek around the corner. We catch eye contact.
I couldn't. I couldn't make shedn't make this up. So
that's how she found out that I wasn't in school.
So she took me back to school. That was asking
questions and that's when they told her, Hey, Ms Johnson,
your son Tyrone has been dispended, suspended for X y Z.
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And she's like, mine, I don't know any Tyrone. This
is CaRMetal Anthony right here. Everyone knows you from the
basketball court, but people have started knowing you in different
areas as well. You know, I remember just from South Africa,
you getting involved in basketball philanthropy around the world. You know,
you would, you would come out, you would host clinics,
you would, you would do it all over Africa, you would,
you just get involved. That's how when you Camelo, not
just from the NBA, you've you've been a big proponent
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of that getting to the kids. But what I loved
in this book is you talk about how you never
brought into the concept that like, the sport will just
save you. You know, everyone will be like, oh, get
the kids into the sport. It saves them, It'll save you,
it'll save you. But but you can't buy into that.
You you never you never discard, you know, the things
that happened to you because of basketball, but you don't
buy into the myth. Tell me more about that. Well,
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I just I just knew and where I come from
it again, I don't only could speak on my experience, yea,
And so I just knew what I was up against.
I knew the odds that that we all was up
against growing up in that and it's it's a number game.
You're you're one of x amount of of players who
have a chance to make it to the NBA, of
thousands of players, millions of people, millions of basketball players
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in the world, you're one of them. So to fathom that,
it's like, that's impossible. And definitely they ain't not coming
back to the wire. They're not coming to the wire
to come to come get one of us. So I
kind of just like, kind of I didn't want to
hold onto that. I haven't watched bosketble my entire life.
Started loving basketball when I moved to the US, got
into it, you know, just the stories. And one thing
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that I that I've always noticed, just as an outsider,
is how often people have written you off. You know,
people like woll it's over for comment, got to hang
it up now, I gotta hang it up now, Carmelo
dropping this many podcasts. It's not over. Nope, it's over now.
He's got to hang it up, this guy. And you
just remember, I'm just coming into southing like is it over?
Is it not? It doesn't seem to be over, but
it's over, but it's not over. Like it feels like
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you lived a life where you were written off it.
It feels like you came from a world that was
written off. Do you think that's part of the reason
that you just keep putting your head down and making
the place is that? Is that? And hence why the
name is where Tomorrows are in promise? Like that, that
has a wide range of meaning when when when you
hear one when tomorrows on promise? And that's a prime
example right there. I've I've always felt like I had
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to like do extra and do more or than that
than the next person. I always felt like I had
to not be louder, but I had to show people
a lot more of of what I can do, my
talents and my skill and you know, just being me.
And I was battling that for a long time, and
because I didn't know who I was as a person.
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And when you dealing with those type of issues and
those those meant that mentality, it can mess you up.
And I always I'm in a competitive sport anyway as
it is, so I don't want to be competitive in
every aspect of my life. I want to come home,
I want to relax, I want to turn the TV
on and listen to music, drinks some wine, and I
don't want to be competitive all day, every day. And
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that's what it does to you. Man, it just makes
you competitive because when you feel like you're backers against
the wall and people always doubting you, and you know
you're not gonna do this. Oh he's back, like you said,
he's back. Oh he's not back and he needs to
go he need to come back or what is he doing?
It's like, where's wal though, And that's not something I
don't want to live my life like that. You're finding
your piece. I was finding my piece and where I'm
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at now, I think I've found some of my piece
and I'm still on that journey of finding you know,
being being peaceful just in in life. But that takes time.
And I want people to understand that when they're reading
this story, like to find your piece, that it takes
a long time. Seven years old and I just started
over the past couple of years to look and search
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for that piece. Thirty seven years old and you are
starting another journey, right maybe one of the most anticipated
parts of your career, which is crazy at thirty seven,
you know, because you are joining the Lakers, the Lakers,
joining the Lakers, and again people are writing everything off,
you know, I mean Lebron has talked about this, he's
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he has fun with it on Twitter and everything. You know,
people are like, oh, it's the retirement home of basketball
player players. You know, you've got Dwight, You've got Carmelo,
You've got Lebron, you got Roger and Rondo, You've got
this is this is retime. This is a retirement home.
And Lebron and said, oh, well, we'll show you what
old men can do. You feel it feels like you've
been in this position before, but it feels like it's
a completely different story every single time. Why did you
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say yes? Why do you think that this would be different?
And what are you hoping to achieve? Is there something
you're trying to prove all are you just in a
different state of mind going into this next season. It's
nothing that I'm trying to prove. If I wanted to
pick l A, I would have been at peace walking
away from the game knowing that I gave it everything
I could and I still couldn't win the championship. I
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would have been at peace with that. I would have
been good. But now that I'm in the Lakers, I
can't be at peace. We're not winning, so it's just
it's the you gotta change, you know, you gotta change
your way of thinking, you gotta change your perspective. But
being out there at this point in time in my career,
we hear all we hear all of it. We hear
that the old and the seior citizen all for basketball.
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But we just know what we bring to the game,
and we what we bring to the table. And I
say we're wiser, Like we're wise, We're not. We're not old.
Thirty seven is young, thirty six is is as young.
I feel there's only old in the in the sports world.
So like Lebron said, like other guys said, man, it's
just just watch and see. And I think people will
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enjoy the show. Hey man, I know I'll be one
of the people watching. Congratulations on your book, Congratulations on
the story. I hope everybody reads it because, as you said,
you know, it'll connect with not just your journey, but
how hard that journey actually is and how many people
can relate to the story that gets you to where
you want to. Absolutely, as universe is a universal message.
I say that I appreciate you money, thank you so
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much for joining me on the show. Don't Forget People.
Carmelo's book, Where Tomorrow's Aunt Promised, is available right now.
We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right
back after this. Well, let's our show for tonight, but
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