The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Arizona's Abortion Ban Sends Trump and the GOP Reeling | Hanif Abdurraqib

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

Michael Kosta reports on the fallout from Arizona’s nearly complete abortion ban, sending the GOP into scramble mode. Plus, Jordan Klepper joins Kosta for an enlightening new segment, “Men Talk About Abortion.” Also, are you a politician afraid of going viral for falling down the stairs? Worry no more! Stair Sherpa is the only app where you can request a beefy man in your area to carry you safely up and down any staircase. Nothing embarrassing about this! And cultural critic, poet, and best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib joins Michael Kosta to discuss his new book “There’s Always This Year” and how the game of basketball can illuminate our understanding of time, urgency, and mortality. Abdurraqib reflects on turning 40, how to reframe aging, the kind of ascension we should strive for, and how to utilize nostalgia as a tool for improvement.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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even Republicans are mad at Republicans. So, let's get into the headlines. Let's talk about some big news on the abortion front. Earlier this week, former President Trump announced that after getting Roe v. Wade overturned, he's happy with how everything has worked out. Because from now on, each state will make its own rules. Like you know how sometimes the speed limit is 45 miles an hour, and then down the road it's 35 miles an hour?

Well, that's how human rights are going to work now. So what could go wrong? But then Arizona decided that its law would be a nearly complete abortion ban that was first enacted during the Civil War and even pro-life Republicans started freaking out. Tonight, some Republicans across the country are rhetorically trying to distance themselves from Arizona's Supreme Court ruling that upholds a near total abortion ban. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, called it an asinine ruling. And Republican congressman Juan Siskamani, calling the decision disaster for woman and providers.

Kerry Lake locked in one of the most high-profile races in the country. She released a statement which reads, and I quote, I oppose today's ruling and I am calling on Katie Hobbs and the state legislature to come up with an immediate common sense solution that Arizonans can support. Yeah, yeah, I mean this, this law is being received as well as O.J. Simpson at the Pearly Gates. Um, yeah, I, uh, I don't see you on here. Um, even far right Republican, Carrie Lake hates it. And that can't just be because she's in a tight Senate race.

Surely she's always hated it, right? Carrie Lake previously said this about the 1864 law less than two years ago. I'm incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that's already on the books. I believe it's ARS 133.3. Wow. already on the books. I believe it's ARS 133303. Wow. Kerry Lake didn't just support this bill.

She knew it's Bill Number by heart. I believe it's ARS 133303. She said that like when a guy tries to play it cool about how much he's into dune, you know. Oh yeah, I think I've heard of that movie. I believe that's the one where Pauletrides wielded-the power the power the power the power the power the-in, the-in, the-in, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thean, thean, thiii, thean, thii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, of that movie. I believe that's the one where Paulet Trades wields the power of the Benadjesurate to fulfill the prophecy of the Lysengal Gaet. I think that's the one. They changed it from the books. I mean, look, have you ever loved a law so much that you memorized it? Even the person who wrote the law in 1864 would be like, my lady, thou art a weirdo, or however they talk back then.

I'm just saying, the way she rattled it off, 13, 3603, I'm pretty sure if you find Kerry Lake's iPhone you'll be able to unlock it. But hey, that's fine. If even Republicans agree that this abortion ban is too extreme, then Arizona Democrats can just propose a bill to reverse the old.. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. the old, the old, th. the the thoe, th. the th. thoe, thoe, the tho, tho, tho, tho, the tho, the too extreme. Then Arizona Democrats can just propose a bill to reverse the old law and I'm sure the GOP will get on board. Check it up! GOP lawmakers today block a vote to reverse the landmark ruling from the state Supreme Court yesterday reinstating a pre-statehood near-total ban on abortion. Well that's that's weird. I mean you guys say it you don't want an insane abortion ban, But then you voted to keep it. It. And it. And it. And it. And it. And it. And it. It. It. It. It. It. It. It, it, it, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the GO the the the to get to get to get to to to to to to to to to to to to to the, the, the the the the the the the the the the the to to to to to to to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to to the to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to get the the's... that's weird. I mean, you guys say it, you don't want an insane abortion ban, but then you voted to keep it. It's almost like you're just totally full of shit.

I mean, listen, listen, if Arizona women are going to be forced to live under this law from 1864, then all of Arizona's lawmakers should be forced to get their health care from 1864 standards, too. Yeah, you've got back pain, put some leeches on it. Migraine, more leeches. Feeling depressed, you can see a therapist. Your therapist is a leech, okay? Clearly, this law has completely thrown Republicans for a loop. They hate the law.

They love the law. They don't know what to do. And this is all great news, actually, for President Biden. A perfect opportunity to hammer the Republicans in a critical swing state for their confusion and their hypocrisy. Dude, you got a wide open net, my man. All you need to do is just tap the ball in president Biden was asked today what his message is to Arizonans elect me I'm in the 20th century 21st century

that's a fuck you do it? Okay, okay. Hey, Republicans think we're in 1864. The president thinks we're in the 20th century. If we're playing by the Price's Right rules, Biden was closest without going over. Right? Yeah. Now, luckily Arizona voters will likely vote on a ballot initiative in November that will let them decide for themselves if they want abortion to be legal. And for anyone in Arizona who might need an abortion before then, Republicans want you to know, hey, everything's fine.

I mean, this is tricky business, how does this play out? It hurts Trump for a few days and then people start to realize this is not the worst thing in this is not the worst thing in the world. If you had to travel to another state to get an abortion, it's not the worst thing in the world. Hopefully this is a very rare occurrence in your life. Once in your life, maybe you would do it.

Buying a bus ticket to go somewhere to get it't be the worst thing in the world as long as that toupe exists. But, but, what is wrong with you guys? It's not the worst thing in the world to take a bus to a different state. It's also not the worst thing in the world to just let women have rights, you know? You know? I would say it's actually significantly nicer than going on a bus, you know. It doesn't cost you anything, and there's never a circumstance where someone takes the shit so bad, they need to pull over and wait for a second bus to pick everybody up.

And by the way, I love that he made this entirely the woman's problem. Where's the father in this scenario? He can't give her a ride? He's just standing at the bus station waving like, Bye, have a nice abortion. Try to pick up some food on the way home. Now, a panel of men talking about abortion might seem like a ridiculous embarrassment for everyone involved, but I actually think it's a great idea for our new segment, men talk about abortion. All right.

All right. All right. You know it. Yeah. Yeah. Joining me now is my main bro, my main man. You're just like me, aren't you? Yeah, sure am. A big old man, huh?

Just watch me open this jar. I'll finish it later. You softened it up, big dog. All right, let's get right to it, man to man. What's your solution for abortion? Okay, easy, peasy, levy, squeezy, all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A woman needs an abortion, she should just take the bus

to a state where it's legal. Okay. And look, obviously, I've never had to travel on a state for an abortion. But I did accidentally hit myself in the next state I was fine. Yeah, couldn't agree more chief. Couldn't agree more chief. Women should just take the bus ride or just give birth. And look, I've never given birth. Of course not, but if you would crush it if you did, I mean you would crush it.

I mean you would crush it. Okay, I know what a word. Who's frustrating for women, but we can't all, you know, we have rights some places and other places we don't. For example, I'm not allowed to go to the Epcot food court anymore because apparently you can't do that to the funnel cakes. I mean, double standard, double standard? Double standard.

Double standard. Look, look, women are making too big a deal about all this. I've never had to walk through a line to to to walk to walk to walk to walk tho tho to walk tho to walk tho the line the line the line the line the line the line the line the line the line the the the the to walk the to the to the to to to to the to the the to the the to to go to go to go to go to go their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to to to to tape, to to the toda, to the to the the to the the the to the the the to the the the the to walk through a line of protesters to get basic health care, but I have had to make eye contact with the woman at Walgreens while buying a pack of slim-fit Trojan condoms. So, sometimes you got to get past feeling judged ladies. You're brave. Thank you. You are brave, my broham. And by the way, what about the father's rights? The fathers have to have rights. Right. Right. th you you you you you you you you you you th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to to to to to to to to th. to to th. to to th. to to to to to to to th. to to to to th. th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be. to be. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. to to to to to to to toea. to. to to fathers have to have rights. Right.

Right. Right. Right. I would like to be, but I haven't quite figured out how it works yet. Okay. I do know boobs are involved, though, you know? How about you? Yeah, I haven't found the right lady yet.

I was in a relationship for several years, but she turned out to be a raccoon and she tricked me out of my credit card. Oh, tale as old as time, player, tale as old as time. In fact, my ex was three possums in a trench coat. Just, you know, point is, when it comes to women's rights, we get it. We get in. All right, before we go, quick question. What is an abortion? Not a clue. Not a clue. But, but, but I think the boobs are once again involved. Sounds right to me. My main man, Broham Jones, everybody, when we come back. The hot new app for politicians.

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There's Always This Year on Basketball and Ascension. Please welcome Hamnif Abdu Rakib. Look at this. Look at this. This book. There's always this. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. this book.

This book. There's been said ball is life. But you have written a book about basketball, poetry, meditation, music, LeBron. Was your intention to do ball is life right here? Everything? Yes, and I, in some ways, I think I failed. But in other ways, I think I succeeded.

My hope was to write a book where anyone could see their own interest in it. It's like walking to a body of water looking in and seeing what you most want reflected back to you. So if you are in this book saying I want to find a basketball book, you will. If you're in this book saying I want to meditate on grief or place or home, you will. If you are someone who wants to see a complicated relationship with lineage and parentage reflected back to you you you you you you you you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you their to their th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thiii. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's thioleea. It's thiolea. I thi. I's thea. I's thea. I's like like like like like theeeanan. It's like like like like theeanananananananananea. It's thea. to you, you will. So in that way, yeah. You tell the story of seeing your dad shoot a basketball once. And this book reminded me of how much I love basketball and also how much I watched with my dad. And I wonder, it's not often described this way. Is basketball a family sport?

It feels like at least a family sport from the standpoint of witness. I grew up in a house of Nick's fans largely, and I remember my mother loving Charles Smith and you know, the dislike for the bulls. So you know, I was strange for me. I can't love Michael Jordan because, you know. So in some ways, basketball is in a family that loves basketball, it gets passed down like so many other things. You learn to love the game through the people you witness loving the game. And that I think is a beautiful thing.

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before it begins to twirl downward. I thought of my dad when I read that. Really. You did that. You read that beautiful. Thank you. I'll tell you. I'm in like the, I'm in the second half of my book tour. You should take over for me. I'm not going to take over. But, um, but it's just one example of the things you describe so well. You said you're a nix van. So I'm, you're familiar with there's always next year. Right. But, um, the significance of there's always this year? It presents a real urgency. I mean, so much of this book is also about the passage of time and making peace with the passage of time, which I think a lot of people, I turned 40 last year.

I think a lot of people as they age, think first about what is being taken from them instead of thinking about affection around the time you have and put it in the immediate moment for me to structure a book around that was a real generosity to myself. Well yeah, and the book, you know, it's yeah. And the book, you know, it's a took it seriously. And you know, he's not just saying that. And you know, and there's clocks, there's a countdown, you know, and is that to give me the reader a sense of like

time is limited, enjoy this page? Yeah, I mean, in some ways to put a literal stop clock, a literal countdown clock in a book is to say, you, the reader, and me, the writer, because so much of the process of the book was to make us feel like we are in this together and understanding what time is how much we have left, how much we don't have left, but some of the language I was attempting was to slow you down and say, for example, you we are all certainly going to die but we are not dead yet and so since we are not dead yet have you ever considered the sunset. And you haven't really considered the sunset because there are infinite sunsets on infinite days as long as you're alive.

And so that urges people to slow down a bit. You know, I was in Cleveland this past weekend reading both the book and the audio, you know, so I'm walking around Cleveland and you're writing about Cleveland. Yes. A lot of Cleveland. And I had forgotten how fucking good LeBron James is it basketball. Can you believe that? Can you believe that? I know. I know. Well, I'm too busy watching the tennis channel. But you know, there's a lot of Lebron James, but why is he an important backdrop for you

to tell a story of your life? For two reasons. One, I got very interested in this idea, the idea, thia figure, someone who we believe will play forever, because it does seem right now as though he might play forever. But of course we also know immortality is a lie. Time is undefeated, as I say, time will get the best of us eventually. However, in a moment where it feels like I could focus in on the idea of immortality, the idea of living forever. It was interesting to me. But also, because for much of my life, Lebron James did seem like a faraway star in the background of my living.

You know, I write about being homeless and walking through the streets of downtown Columbus and hearing a calves game on the background and bars that I could not get into. And so in a very real literal way, Lebron James is in the background of my living, in ways I could not access. And in any book that analyzed my living and my survival, it felt as though I should render it effectively, render what was in the background that helped me get to the forefront. Well and that leads to my next question, which is home. Yes. You know, I believe you moved back to Columbus six or seven years ago. You talked about everyone getting something from this. Here I am. I feel like we might like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I that th. I th. I th. I th. I that that that that that that that that that that that to to to to to to to to to the their their their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I'm their. I'm their. I'm their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. this. Here I am. I feel like we might have had different childhoods, okay?

Yes. And man, your description of going back home to Ohio reminds me of when I go home to Michigan of I did I have to leave Michigan to be successful in comedy? Do we have to leave? What is ascension? All of this was hitting me in the face? What is home to you? And did you need to leave it? I don't think I need? I mean, to have, to have, to have, to have, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, I mean, I mean, I to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, I'm, I'm, I'm, to their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. I th. to, to, to me, to me, to me, too, to me, their, their, their, their, man, man, man, their, their, their, their home to you and did you need to leave it? I don't think I need. I mean one it's good to talk to another Midwestern. Yeah for sure. I will say for me I never felt the need to leave home. I think this book is also trying to realign a consideration of what making it is. Yeah. In Ascension not necessarily is something that sends you upward but thii. to the place. thrown. thin. thin. thi. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I thin to to the the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the that place geographically is the same, but is emotionally different, it's mentally different, all of these things. And for me, if you have a place you love and a place where you can do your work

and a place where your name will be cemented for years after you are gone, for anything you have done. You've made it. You know, my mother passed away when I was 13. When my mother passed away, they were grocery workers and postal workers who mourned her passing because of how kind and generous she was to the people in her orbit, and therefore, her kindness is a part of that legacy.

And so my mother made it. Right. I love that. So, you know, your legacy is right. I need your help. You wrote that nostalgia is a relentless hustler. Truly. Please educate me. Okay. I know you did it in here but I needed help with it. You need help. Okay. So there's a useful way to say if we sit back and talk about the good old days of our midwestern youth.

That's a lot of fun and we could do that. But it actually doesn't do anything to inform the way we can live thoughtfully and generously now. Nostalgia for nostalgia's sake is great, but there's a difference between, say, a porch conversation and a page conversation. A page conversation has to use nostalgia as a way to move your actual present life forward, I think, which, and I'm not, you know, porch conversation is fine and fun. But also, you know, I'm not that interested, we're all getting older older, and, and, and, and, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, tho, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, to, to, to, to, toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo., and, thee, but also, you know, I'm not that interested. We're all getting older and the way that, for example, I play basketball now is different. You know, you know, I can't play the way I did when I was 20 or even 30. And it doesn't really serve me to sit back and say, man, in the good old days, I can run up and down the court and do all all this other stuff. It serves me more to say, I to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say more to say, I, I that I that I that I that I th. I th. I can th. I can th. I can th. I can th. I can thi, I can say th. I can say th. I can't th. I can't th. I can't th. I can't the the the the th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play tha. I play I play things that align with what I know about the game and what I love about the game and what my body is still capable of.

And when I do those things, I'm unstoppable for a little while. I love that. I love that. Thank you. There's always this year is available now. Hanif, I'll do a quick break. Thank you, man. Beautiful. Beautiful. The candidates for November are set. I know Donald Trump's type.

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