The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Canadian Trucker Protest Continues | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Episode Date: February 11, 2022

Canada's trucker protest gains support from conservatives in the U.S., Ronny Chieng and Roy Wood Jr. talk sports, and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson discusses his documentary "Summer of Soul." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Because I saw where the heart of Times Square in New York City, the only city in America. It's the Daily Show, Ears Edition. Tonight, the tremendous document flush. Canada's not so nice. And QuestLove. This is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.

Let's jump straight into today's headlines. Our first story takes place in school. Yeah, remember school? The place where you go to learn things, like math or science, or most importantly, how to draw that cool S. But in Florida, the state whose official dress code is strip club casual, lawmakers have decided that there's some subjects that shouldn't be learned in school. A controversial bill that would ban school districts in Florida from encouraging classroom discussion

about sexual orientation or gender identity is advancing. A Florida Senate committee just passed the so-called don't say gay bill. Opponents warn it would lead to further stigmatization of gay, lesbian, and transgender children. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has indicated support for the bill. The Republican says it's not appropriate for teachers to have conversations with students about sexual orientation or gender identity. Yeah, I agree with Rondesensis. Kids shouldn't learn that people can be straight or gay in school. We shouldn't teach them that.

We should just let them get surprised when they turn 18. What? Two men can do what? Are you? Oh, that's what little Nazax was singing about. I thought he's just like prison. Now, on the one hand, this is thia thia thia thiiiiiii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be, to be, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the thean, thean, tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooan, th one hand this is terrible because many kids can't talk about gay issues at home so school could be the one place where they can learn. I mean I guess on the other hand this don't say gay law is gonna have some

upsides I mean it's gonna make it a lot harder for bullies in school yeah because they'll be in the hallway like you're gay and then Ron De Sank's is just gonna burst out of a locker like, no! Don't say that! You make fun of his hair cut. Look at it, it looks like he fought a lawnmower. Come on. You know if you ask me the real issue here, is that these people are worried that the kids are gonna learn about being gay, teach my kids about gay in school because they're going to become gay. That's ridiculous.

Learning about the thing doesn't magically turn you into the thing. I mean, in school, when I learned about the French, it's not like I came home that day, like, mama, I have something to tell you. I knew all along my child. Anyway, let's move on. There's a big story that's coming out of the art world right now. And if you're one of those people who's like, I don't understand modern art, well, first of all, congratulations on being basic. And second, maybe you should stop complaining and do something about it,

like this guy did. A security guard was fired from the job at a Russian museum after drawing eyes on a million dollar painting. I want you guys to look closely at this. The three figures painting had a blank space on the faces. You can see the version on the left. But reports say the security guard got bored, decided to grab a pin and just draw a pair of eyes in two of the three figures. Hold on, hold on. This guy defaced a classic painting because he was bored.

Like, in a museum you were bored and so you drew, have you not heard of TikTok? And I know a lot of you basic bitches out there right now are looking at the eyes on this painting and you're saying, that actually does look better, but that's not the point. Art is not about what looks better. Art is about confusing people with a thing that allows you to feel like you are better than them, aye? And how do we know that this things thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to feel to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to feel to feel to feel to feel to that this thing wasn't just a publicity stunt from the museum? Because I don't know about you, but I've never heard of this faceless painting in my life. Now I'm seeing it everywhere.

You know, this could just be like a trick. Maybe this is what all museums do just to get hype. Did somebody steal the Mona Lisa's eyebrows? to come. Donald, Johnson & Johnson, baby powder Trump, the ex-president most likely to be a surprise judge at a wet t-shirt contest. Yesterday, the government office that keeps presidential records asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump's improper handling of official documents. And like, at this point, I'm wondering if there are any laws that tru-s hasn't broken, you know? Like, if there are any laws that Trump hasn't broken.

You know? Like, if there was a Guinness book of World Records for crime, he'd probably steal the book. But yeah, according to reports, Trump would rip up papers after he read them. He took boxes of material with him to Marilago, and now we're learning that Trump did the most Trump thing that he possibly could have done with some of these documents. We are beginning with breaking news. Staff members at the White House residents discovered wads of printed paper in a clogged toilet on more than one occasion during the Trump administration and believed that it was the former president himself who was trying to flush documents.

I learned that staff in the White House residents would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it, and what the engineer would find would be wads of clumped-up, wet, printed paper, meaning it was not toilet paper. It could be post-its, it could be notes he wrote to himself. It could be other things we don't know, but it certainly does add, as you said, another dimension to what we know about how he handled material in the White House. You know, it's so funny how in every scandal involving Trump and documents, none of them involve him reading them. And by the way, I will say this, I know it's easy for us to all go, Trump was trying trown, tr-and, try tr-a, tr-a, 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 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 th the th th th the the the the the the th the the th the th th th to to to to to to to to to to. Trump was trying to obstruct justice. That's what this was. But you do remember at the start of the pandemic,

there was a shortage of what? And I don't know about you guys, but when there's no toilet paper, state documents start to look mighty tempting. It also does explain why Trump was always complaining about toilets. You remember how he always did that? People are flushing toilets ten times, fifteen times, as opposed to once. They end up using more water. Yeah, they're flushing ten times, fifteen times.

No, dude, you were flushing toilets, ten times, fifteen times, because you were shoving your homework down the toilets. I mean, everyone assumed he was a man who clogged the White House toilets, but no one ever thought we'd have to ask the question, but with what? Now, of course, Trump denies all of this. He says he never clogged any toilets ever. Smoothest poo of all time. So the big question is, who's telling the truth. Well,, we have an exclusive interview with the only man who knows what the truth is.

So we're going to go out live right now to the White House to chat to that man. Sir, I understand that you are the official White House plumber. That's right. It's a me. It's a me Mr. Schwartz. As the White House plumber, we'd love for you to tell us everything you know about Trump flushing documents down the toilet? All right, let me stop you right there, Chief, okay? Sorry to disappoint you, but I can't. It's the plumber's code? The plumber's code? That's right. It's the iron code. that's that's right. that's th. th. th. th. the the the iron code. the iron code. the iron code. the iron code. the iron code. the iron code. the iron code. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron. the iron code. the iron code. 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 th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. true. true. th. true. true. truuuuuuuction. truction. truction. true. truuuction. truoomuoomu true. true. true. true. true. truuu. tru. tru-s. tru-s. tru-s. tru-s tru-s tru-s tru-s toilet secrets. Two, always round up the bill. Three, no visible butt crack. Trying to break that stereotype. So I'm sorry, but I can't reveal what I know about Trump's toilet.

No matter what. Oh, come on. All right, fine, I'll tell you. I was in Trump's bathroom almost every day pulling clogged so many classified documents they had to give me top secret clearance. I'm talking CIA briefings, diplomatic cables, the medical experiments that created Rudy Giuliani. Honestly, some of the stuff I didn't understand what it meant. Like, I found this one document that just says, nuke Spain, question mark. Oh, wow. Yeah. You must have been pretty frustrated with President Trump giving you so much unnecessary work.

Are you kidding me? I love President Trump. He made my job more interesting and he trusted me with our nation's top secrets. Unlike certain other presidents who just used the to poop or pee. Obama. I don't know why you said it like that. You could have, we knew who the... Anyway, let me ask you this. Was Trump the only one in the White House who was flushing documents? Did Vice President Pence do it? No, no, no. Mike Pence never even used the bathroom. He actually doesn't have any

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what do they need to pull off the heist? A truck. Yeah, when a Batman villain tries to shut down the city, they need a truck. Having trucks just gives you the ability to out-muscle people who don't have trucks. And so even though 90% of Canadian truckers are so-fired up, the small minority is still still still still still still still still still still still still still still to their small minority is still still still still still still thlentermissuiii. they's is still they's is still they's is still. Tr-inin. They's they's they's they's still they's still they's still they're still they're still they're th th thr- they're thr-in. th thr-in. th th th thr- to th th thi. they're they're they're they're they're they're they's is they's is they's is they's they's they's they's they. they's they. they. they's they. they's they's they. they's th th th th th th th th th thi. thi. thi. thi. thr-s. thr-s. to try. try try. try try to try try to try to try to to thr-s. thr-s. thr-s want to know why these truckers are so fired up, well, they're more than happy to tell you. What is the stuff that you can't do right now is as a non-vaccinated person? I live in Quebec, so it's a bit more intense than other places in Canada, but look, I can't go to Kagan. I can't go to Walmart. I can't go to. I mean because the stuff the stuff the stuff th is the stuff th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho. tho. thi. the stuff is thi. the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff is the stuff. the stuff stuff. the stuff stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. the stuff. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. the, I can't go to the gym. Because you're not vaccinated, have you, is there business, is there stuff you can't do in Canada now? Yeah, I'm like, well basically if you want to compare Canada to anything, it's like Hitler's

Germany and we're like the Jews, eh? You see, this is why we shouldn't be banning books. Because now this guy thinks that the Holocaust is when you can't take a shit in a Tim Hortons. I mean even Marjorie Tiller Green is looking at this guy like, dude, this isn't anything like the Holocaust. There's no soup here at all. It's actually wild when you think about it, like how many different ways people disrespect Holocaust survivors because some people are like, what happened to you didn't happen. And it's some people are like, no, what happened to you did happen. And it's happening again to me right now, because I can't go skiing. Team.

But anyway, the point is these truckers and their supporters feel persecuted. And when this started, it was just a protest against vaccine requirements for truckers. But it's now grown into a wider movement against all coronavirus restrictions. They want vaccine mandates gone, they want mask mandates gone, they want to be free to sneeze into strangers mouths again, like the good old days, but blocking traffic in downtown Ottawa hasn't done the trick.

So now, they decided to take things up a notch. A crucial trade link between Canada and the United States was disrupted by protesters for a third day in a row. The ambassador Bridge is the busiest international crossing in North America, linking Windsor Ontario to Detroit, while another border crossing in Ontario is experiencing an hours-long delay. The Ambassador Bridge sees about one quarter of all the goods that go between the two countries every day. On a normal day, that's about $340 million worth of goods rolling through, and the impact is already being felt. Ontario auto plants,

including Ford and Stalantis, reduced production over the last 24 hours due to missing parts from shipments. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for an end to the protests. Right now, people in Windsor are suffering and losing their jobs because they can't get auto parts across the Ambassador Bridge. Yeah, you see? You see? Now you can really see how much of an impact a truck protest can have.

You just park a bunch of them on a bridge, just a key bridge. Boom! International trade slows to a trickle, which I didn't even know could still happen, by the way, because that that th is tho is tho's thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr-s, their, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, 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, they.... thr-s. thr-s. thr-s, thr-s. throoo. toe. tr-s. the. throoo. the. thr-s, thro. the. the. the by the way. You know, because that almost sounds like a story from medieval times. You know, when the army would block one mountain pass and then your entire village would starve. Then you'd have to eat your horse and then your dog and then eventually you'd be forced to eat your own children. And then right as you finish eating your last child, the siege would end and you need to spend the rest of your life I just feel really bad for eating my own children. Look, you can't blame yourself. That path was closed for almost two days. Like, think about it, think about it.

If these were just regular protesters on foot, the cops would have cleared them out by now. But to move a truck, you need someone who can drive a truck. to their truck, of training to be able to sit in the driver's seat of a truck and not just honk the horn the whole time. It's extremely tempting. So now, these truckers are finding a lot of support, not just from Canadians, but from Republicans in the United States. Yeah, Rand Paul, Donald Trump. Everyone on Fox News are coming out in support of these truckers, which I do find kind of the thrackers, thii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thrugk, thrugk, thi, thrug. thrug. theuk, thea, thea, thauk, truck, thea, truckers, truckers, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thrunk, thru, the, the, the, the, the. It, the. It, thea, truck-s, truc-s, truc-s, truc-s, truc-s, truc-s, truc-a, truck-a, truck, truck, t people who are cheering on the truckers are like, yeah, shut it all down, truckers, bring the economy to its knees. Aren't those the same people who said we shouldn't have any COVID restrictions because the last

thing we wanted to do is bring an economy down to its knees? I mean, so basically what? It's not worth hurting the economy just to save countless. But regardless, these Republicans are now calling for the trucker movement to come to America. And it looks like they might soon get their wish. Ottawa's so-called freedom convoy spawning similar anti-vax mandate protests in cities around the world. In Australia, protesters assembled outside the Capitol building, many waving Australian flags and signs asking for freedom. In New Zealand, protesters camped outside Parliament for a second day.

And in France, hundreds of protesters in Nice, headed for Paris, waving Canadian flags. The Department of Homeland Security is telling law enforcement authorities, it's receiving reports that a similar kind of convoy could soon begin in the U.S. The department has, quote, received reports of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States. The protest could begin as soon as Sunday in Los Angeles

to disrupt the Super Bowl and then travel across the country to disrupt President Biden's state of the Union in DC on March 1st. Whoa, these guys want to disrupt the Super Bowl? I don't know, man. That seems like a terrible strategy. I mean, think about it, you'd be ruining one of the last things that everyone in America loves. Everyone, you're going to block the Super Bowl?

What's your follow-up? Driving over Dley Parton? And honestly, I don't know how disrupting Super Bowl traffic is even going to work. If you're in Los Angeles on Super Bowl Sunday, you're the one who's going to be stuck in the traffic. Come on, move it! I'm going to get to the traffic disruption. And not to mention, disrupting the state of the then what, honk their horns? You realize all those horns are just gonna help Biden stay awake. Stay at the State of the Union, yeah. Oh, it's strong. Stay the Union's truck, come on Jack, it's so strong, super strong, man.

So yeah, these trucker protests from Canada might be coming to America. And if that's the Canada, they blow up much more when they come to America. You know, Drake, Justin Bieber, those cool weed posters that they got up there. But I will say this, the funny thing about the whole protest is that when it comes to coronavirus restrictions in America, what are they going to be protesting? There's not a whole lot left. thrown virus isn't over but everyone has already started to act like it is. Businesses are open, schools are in session, and even the blue estates are getting rid of mask mandates. So I guess what I'm saying is, congratulations truck drivers, you did it! So I guess now there's no need to block the Super Bowl. Please. Unless the RAM start winning, then you block that shit. I bet my house on the bangles, man. Block everything, you drive on the field, you just block them.

All right, when we come back, Roywood Jr. and Ronnie Chang are gonna catch us up on all the sports news. And Questlove is still joining us on the show. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the daily show. Let's turn to some big news from to some big the to some big the the the to the to the to the the the the to the the to the the to to the the the to tho. to to to to thoomoomoomo. to tooomoomoomoom. 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 sports the the the the the the the the th., the th., tho., thoom., the thooooooooooooo-s., the the the the the., the sports the., throoooooo., the., thr., thr., thray, and it ended with a flurry of blockbuster deals. And I gotta say, man, I love the NBA trade deadline. Because it just goes to show that everyone, even the people who run sports teams, wait until the last minute to do anything. Oh, shit, the deadline is today.

Oh, trade him! Get him! We'll give you that guy. Here's the today.. th. th. the guy. to. the to. the to. the the the the to. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the today. the the the the the the the the trade the the the toda. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the NBA. I the the NBA. 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 toda. today. trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade trade toda. today. today. take your jacket. I'll take it. But there's so much more sports out there and for the rest of it we turn to Ronnie Chang and Roywood Jr. for another episode of I apologize for talking while you were talking. Roy today. Roy are you ready to talk about sports? Dude, we're standing on thick grass of course I am. Let's do it. Great, let's start with the Winter Olympics. I thought you meant real sports like basketball or Wordle. Didn't know what? What?

Come on, the Winter Olympics have all kinds of great sports. Like skiing, and cross-country skiing, and alpine skiing and snow skiing and ski lift riding. Stop, stop. This is a hate crime. No, Roy, that's not a hate crime. What is a hate crime is what China did in the opening ceremony. I mean, just take a look at this. The Winter Olympics now in full swing.

After the ceremonial start of the games, Team USA walking in the parade of nations. But a controversial ending to the ceremony,, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, the the the the the the the the, the, the, the, the, thi, toe, toe, toea, toea, toea, toea, anda, toea, and toea, and toe, and toe, and toe, and toe, and toe, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop. Stop, anda, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toea, toea, toea, toea, thea, thiiiiolioliolioliolioliolioliioliiiiiolioliiiioliiiioliiiiiioliioliiioliiioliiolii. Stope, toe, toe, to Games, team USA walking in the parade of nations. But a controversial ending to the ceremony, China choosing a Uyghur athlete as one of the torchbearers to light the final Olympic flame. The host country has been condemned for its treatment of the Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, leading the U.S. and other nations to hold a diplomatic boycott of the games. Damn, tryting out the Uigigigigigigig Do you have any idea the size of the balls that takes? The Great Wall ain't the only thing you can see from space running. I don't even get what the message was supposed to be here.

China's like, it's all cool. See, we let them hold fire. See, see, this is the problem. This is's not mixed up in all the allegations of human rights abuses. Yes, exactly. Like a good country. You know, like, like, like, uh, one, um, what's the one? No, not them. What, no, they just got no war. Uh, I see.

You know what, let's just on. Let's just move on. We'll come up with one. We'll come up with one. Because there's still a pandemic going on. That's right. China's COVID crackdowns are turning the games into a different kind of spectacle. Everyone who touches down in Beijing for the winter games

is greeted by a hazmat suit wearing welcoming suit-wearing welcoming committee like this one. They help you navigate various checkpoints and not one but two COVID tests. When an athlete or reporter test positive, they're ordered to put on a full hazmat suit and taken away by ambulance to a COVID-isolation hotel 45 minutes away and the food, some say, is inedible. One Russian athlete says she was given this tray of food for breakfast, lunch and dinner for five days. My stomach hurts and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I cry every day. That's what they're feeding Olympians? How did the chef even go about preparing that? Eating food and then throwing it up again? Blahah. No, man, it's got all the major food

groups. Unsalted potatoes, weird meat, red liquid. I say, born appetite. What I can't believe is that they're making them wear hazmat suits just for COVID. Those should be reserved for more dangerous situations, like, like handling flesh-eating bacteria, or using a bathroom on a bus. I totally disagree with you, Roy. That's such an American perspective. When the rest of the world gets COVID, they quarantine. When Americans catch COVID,

they go to Applebee. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Bad Mouth America all you want, but what you're not going to do is disrespect apple bees, all right? They got milkshake egg rolls, bro. They are so delicious and decadent. Whatever. But enough about the Olympics the's talk about the Olympics of a sport that only America plays. The Super Bowl. That's what I'm talking about running. Finally, we're talking about football. Cincinnati Bingels, LA Rams on Sunday.

And I'm already on layer 83 of my famous, 1, 400 layer bean dip. I call it the iceberg melting. What does that mean? Because it causes so much fard and they mess with the global warming and stuff. Out you, out your ass. That is disgusting. While you're gambling with your digestive system, Americans will be doing a different kind of gambling. The gambling kind.

Millions, literally, if Americans are expected to place a wager of some type on the Super Bowl. And they'll bet an eye-popping $7.6 billion up 78% from last year. That dramatic rise attributed largely to broader access. Well since last year, 10 states have launched legal sports betting, meaning 45 million more Americans can wager in their home state than last year. $7.6 billion on Super Bowl gambling? That could buy you a lot of NFTs. Or maybe just a few NFTs. I still don't know what NFTs are.

Here's my thing. The second they legalized gambling, it was everywhere. They won, everywhere. The websites were ready, the ads were on a timeline. So why does every other law take years to kick in? Joe Biden, put draft kings in charge of your infrastructure bill. By March, everybody gonna have their own bridge. But you know, Roy, the Super Bowl isn't all about gambling and farding.

I disagree but go on. It's also about having the worst Monday of the year. Unless you the the the the the the the their thy. thine thine thine thine their thine thine their thine thine thine thine thine thine thine thine thi thi. thi. thoomomomanananananananananananan. thi. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoes the. the. the. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. They th. They th. the. They they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're the theanananan. thea thea. thea. th worst Monday of the year, unless you live in Ohio. Cincinnati Public Schools are given students the day off after the big game. The school district tweeted in honor of the Bengals. First Super Bowl appearance since 1988. CPS will not have school on Monday, February 14. They say it's so everyone can, quote, celebrate what we believe will be our city's first Super Bowl victory. I should just make it a national holiday.

I love this. And as someone who grew up in Cincinnati, I will also be taking next Monday off. You're not from Cincinnati. Yeah, I am. May one thing Cincinnati is famous for. Uh, nothing? Okay. But seriously, this is bullshit. Uh, nothing? Okay. Lucky guess.

But seriously, this is bullshit. What is this teaching the children of Ohio? You're not supposed to get off the day after the Super Bowl. You're supposed to pretend you have the flu the day after the Super Bowl. By the way, Roy, do you want to come over to my place to watch the Super Bowl? I can't dog. What? Like right now? Of course, yes. Right now, I have pogo. Well then what are we doing here in the studio? We should be going to Applebee's. My band, that's what I'm talking about. Let's do it. Back to you, Trevor.

Milkshake egg rolls. Trust me, you're gonna love him. I'm gonna try that shit. that thi th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. that. that. that. that. tho' tho' tho' tho' tho. thr-I' tho' to to to tho' tho'-I'-I'-I'-I'-I's tho'-I's tho'-I. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. Well. th. th. th. th. Well. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. thate. the. thate. thate. thate. the. thate. thate. thate. thooooooooo. the. you so much for that guys. All right, when we come back, the one and only Questlove will be joining us right here in the studio to talk about his Oscar nominated film. Don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the legendary drummer and co-founder of the roots, Amir Questlove Thompson. He's here to talk about his award-winning documentary Summer of Soul, which was just nominated for an Oscar. Now I want to watch it again. Thank you. You know? Now I want to, welcome to the show. Thank you.

Thank you very sir. How have you been? This is great. I love this. There are few people I know who have had more jobs than you and excel at more jobs. I know many people who have had more jobs than you but for a bad reason. people who have had as many jobs as you have and just done well. I was one of those people though, because at one point I thought there was honor in sort of matching James Brown and the hardest working me in the show business. Once I stopped doing everything, then a whole new world

of magic open that I never knew of. And one of them is what I called storytelling or directing, which this definitely wasn't on my my bingo card back in 2005. But if you look at it, everything I've done to this point is preparing for this moment. This point, because I mean those 40 hours could go, the 40 hours of the footage that sat in the basement for five decades. I still don't, wait, wait, let's just talk about that. I still don't understand this because nobody has seen all of these performances, nobody has seen these moments, nobody has seen what happened in Harlem in 69. I need to start with that.

So how did you even begin to find 40 hours of footage? It would be like somebody now finding, hey, I found a concert, was Jay-Z and Beyonce and like Michael Jackson and like, just like everyone. Right. And it was in a basement somewhere. I directed this film and I refused to believe it. I get word backstage at the Tonight Show that these two gentlemen want to talk to me about these so-called Black Woodstock. And I was like, black woodstock. And then I was like, the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, th... th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. th. thi, directed, I directed, I, I'm thinking of Woodstock, and you're saying there was a black version of that.

And then I was like, well, wait a minute. I'd like to think that I was a music expert or new things. Like, how come I didn't know that over 300,000 people gathered in Harlem for a collective six-week-in affair with Stevie Wonder's, Li Stone, B.K. Mavis Staples. Like, how come I didn't I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I didn't I I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't I didn't th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Yeah, how I didn't. Yeah, how I th. Yeah, how I th. Yeah, how th. Yeah, how th. Yeah, how th. Yeah, how th. Yeah, how th. Yeah, how th. Yeah, how th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. th. thi. th. th. th. I'm thi. I'm th. I'm thi. th. I'm th. I'm King, Mavis Staples. Like, how come I didn't know about this? And you know, I was like, call another Bee? You heard a black woodstock at dinner? No, I never heard of it. And so- I don't understand how that's possible.

I didn't believe it. I didn't believe that it happened. So the very first meeting, I just thi tho's the the that, that, that, that, the two, the two, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to, to, to, the, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, you, the, you you you, the, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to, thought it was. And then they came by the next week with a hard drive. And even then I was like, well, the footage must be bad, or maybe Stevie had an off day. Right, right, right. And everything I saw was magic. And to this day, the reason why, even when I agreed to do this,

at first I was just going to compile like 17 songs. Yes. Wow, like a mixed tape, you know, that sort of thing. But the curiosity kept burning me inside that like, the question I asked is, is black erasure this easy? And that's the thing, I think oftentimes when, you know, when we speak of like Black Lives Matter or is that racist or not racist, I think people think of the most extreme definition of it. Like in their minds, they're saying, well, I've never once hung somebody to a cross or castrated them or set them on fire.

So I'm not racist. But there's other, there's benign levels of racism as well. And even as sort of the dismissal of like, well, we'll pass, you know, we're good. For a lot of people, their first view of us was either in black face or mired in trouble or controversy, or getting arrested, getting hosed down. And, but Black Joy is the component that shows that we're human you know and this could

have been that moment had it allowed been you know the spotlight that Woodstock had had gotten. It was also a crucial time as well you know it's a sum of 69 so many things were happening in America you know a lot was changing in the country and I remember watching this I had never seen it. I had never seen it. I I had that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th tho the the the the the the thoes thoes thoes thoes tho tho tho tho tho th th th the the the the the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th tho tho tho tho tho tho tho to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thoooooooooooooooo tho tho tho th, it's the summer of 69. So many things were happening in America. You know, a lot was changing in the country. And I remember watching this, I had never seen it. I had never seen something like this. To your point, a lot of what you see from that time period is a very one-dimensional view of Black America. So it seems like Black America has only existed in strife for I should mention. And then you watch this and you're like, man, this is, I couldn't believe the scale, I

couldn't believe the party people were having, I couldn't believe like who was there and how they were there, who was performing and what it signified. When you, when you told that story, what do you think the significance of the event, at least what I got from it, was that this was a community trying to heal. And so for me, shall I say, a really beautiful gander into the infinite possibilities of what a future is. You're seeing Stevie Wonder a mere two years before his his genius period. You're seeing Nina Simone give one of her very first non-jazz, non-love song, non-Broadway musical performance of like Nina

Simone stepping into her activism shoes in real time. So you're seeing all these artists but really you're also just watching the people and that's thething, like when I say like we were robbed of that, not just as black people but the world to see, you know, oh, families just like mine, just like mine, happiness just like, and that's sort of the, that's sort of the, the missing fiber element and telling our stories from the civil rights period that people don't know. You look at America's story over and over, it's such a giant country, you know, where if people don't have an interaction

with the people on the ground, you don't know a black person, you don't meet a Hispanic person, you don't know, do you get to what you're saying? You can get to what you're saying, is it showed a joy, it showed a normality, it showed a... There's just a human element that I didn't even know I was looking for. Like, because I didn't know that this was going to invoke some sort of emotion.

the emotion out of Merlin McCoo, and she watching herself. I'm thinking like you hosted solid gold. Like right. How do you remember this very specific show back then but you know when she started to really open up about code switching yes and you know something that every black person relates to on the professional job and even I needed to see that like wow even when you're the number one singing group in the world like like you still have to to always be on guard and you're never comfortable and, you know, you have longings for just love from your people. Right? You just want to be accepted. I won't lie.

I think you deserve every award that this film has won and is going to win because... Thank you. You know what it is, man. it's the, it's telling a story from history that is lost, it's sharing a joy from history that is lost, and I think it's something that people need today where you go like, hey, you know, yeah we can fight, here we can, here we can argue, here we can, we can, we can deal with what we need to deal with, but at the end of the documentary. Thank you. Now I'm gonna watch it again. I watch the clip and now I'm back in it. Let's go watch right now. Let's do it right now. Let's do it right now.

All right. Some of so, it's currently streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus, and it will make its broadcast television debut Februa, thea, tha-a'n't, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, t, and, and, and, t, and, and, and, t, and, and, t, and, t, tt, and, t, and, and, and, and, and, to, and, to, and, to, and, and, to, and, t, and, and, and, to, and, and, and....................... to, to........ to. to. to. to.. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. t t t t t to. t to. t to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the's our show for tonight, but before we go, please consider supporting young black and lit. They're an organization that sources and distributes new books featuring black to elementary and middle schools at no cost. So if you want to support them in their work, promoting access to children's books that reflect children's experiences who are black, then please donate at the link below. Until next time, stay safe out there, get your vaccine, and remember, don't flush your sensitive documents down the toilets.

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