The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Capsules, Controversies, and Comebacks | Moses “Shyne” Barrow

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

Jordan Klepper dives into the latest headlines: Trump’s cordial meeting with Biden and his surprising nominations of Gaetz, Gabbard, and Hegseth. Dulcé Sloan creates a time capsule to preserve America’s cultural treasures before they face potential restrictions. Moses “Shyne” Barrow, former Grammy-winning rapper turned Belizean political leader, shares his powerful journey of resilience, faith, and his transformation from hip-hop to politics.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with I'm George Clefford. We got so much to talk about. Trump's transition continues. Fox News invades the Pentagon. And Joe Biden passes the baton to a same generation of leadership. So, let's get into another installment of Trump 2.0 coming for the White House.

-♪ I'm gonna come. The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most cherished features of American democracy, a hollow tradition that extends all the way from 1796 to 2016, yada, yada, yada, and continues to this day. And today, the current president and the future president agreed to set aside differences and make nice for the cameras. Mr. President, elect, and former president,

and Donald, congratulations. Thank you very much. And looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition to everything we can to make sure you're accommodating what you need. And we're going to get a chance to talk about some of that today. So, welcome.

Welcome back. The President Thank you very much. And thank you very much. And politics is tough, and it's, in many cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get. Now that's a man who appreciates a smooth transition of power.

As long as it's transitioning towards him. If it's transitioning away from him, there's gonna be some January 6th in. But if it's towards him, smooth. I mean, they did both try to hang Mike Pence just out of tradition, but other than that, it was very cordial. Perhaps too cordial. Joe Biden, you spent the whole campaign

calling him a fascist threat to democracy. It's a little weird to now be like, well, give us a call if you need any help, Mr. Hitler. Toodle-oo! Hey, you know, maybe this respectful meeting at the White House is a sign that Donald Trump is maturing. I really think we should give him, no, no, no. I really think we should.

We should give him a chance to make some responsible decisions from this point forward. Breaking news, President-elect Trump has named former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as his pick for director of national intelligence. OK. That's terrifying, but we're warming up here. How about from this point forward, responsible?

Donald Trump has nominated his pick for attorney general, and that is Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. This is definitely a pick that will raise some eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It's gonna raise some eyebrows. We should have seen it coming.

Matt Gaetz, as attorney general, this is a new low. I mean, not as low as our age of consent laws are about to be, but pretty low. Quick question. The Department of Justice isn't within 100 feet of a school, is it? It almost feels at this point like Donald Trump is trolling us. I mean, these picks can't get any more ridiculous, right?

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth tapped for Defense Secretary. No, no, no. Why do I keep doing this? Stop it. Stop it. Pete Hegseth. The Fox and Friends weekend understudy. I mean, the Department of Defense is one of the most complex bureaucracies in human history, and the president is choosing its leader the same way I chose breakfast cereals as a kid. Hey, I saw that toucan on TV.

He must know how to make cereal. Oh. Now, if you're fortunate enough not to spend your life watching Fox News and you're wondering if Pete Hagseth is one of the few responsible journalists on there, he's not. Black Lives Matter trying to destroy Christmas as we know it. Can the Black Panther be played by a white guy? Wuhan virus, Chinese virus, maybe even the Kung flu. Look, I got a plate full of burgers,

and I got a buddy over here eating a Big Mac for breakfast. I put a flag inside my jacket. Okay. What game are we playing here while I get this on? I think you're gonna do sudden death soccer. I told you you wanted this! No, I don't! I don't think I've washed my hands for 10 years.

That's secretary, I don't wash my hands to you. Now, to be clear, Hegsteth isn't just a Fox News anchor. He's a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the combat he's most famous for did occur on a live Fox broadcast. They're testing their skills with the axe. Who's going to win this battle? I'm putting my money on Clayton. Yeah! Jesus!

I love how conservatives are like, New York is a violent war zone. Well, time to fling an axe on the Fifth Avenue. Yes, Pete Huxett threw an axe at a group of drummers, which is pretty unbelievable. I mean, I'd understand it if it was bass players, but drummers. Then again, launching a weapon that accidentally hit a civilian? I mean, why is everyone saying this guy isn't qualified

to run the Pentagon? Now, you might see this and wonder, what does Hakeseth offer the U.S. military? And I'll tell you what. Great deals. You see, one man army loves the country and makes damn good soap. I've used them all, and I love these new brands. Like Gunsmoke, smells like American firepower.

Or Gurka, refined bourbon and tobacco leaf. Or how about Patriot and the Pine Tar Bar. There's more of them too, you can get them in a variety pack. Each of them shaped like a grenade, soap on a rope. The well-groomed militia. This Fourth of July, join it at grenadesoap.com. Oh, gosh. Look, I'm no history buff, but I have to think

this is America's first defense secretary who has previously served as a soap influencer. And not just any soap, of course. Grenade-shaped soap. For the kind of man who's too insecure to wash his body, you know? Is it gay to soap up my own butt? I don't know!

I mean, what are these scents, by the way? Gunpowder, bourbon, tobacco? I love getting out of the shower smelling like, I need a shower. I'm surprised this ad wasn't like, do you want to smell like a man at his lowest? Then try grenade soap and smell like divorce. But look, Pete's tenure isn't just gonna be about

smelling like bourbon while evading ax murder charges. No, as Secretary of Defense, he has plans to protect us from its greatest enemy. We only have one military, and if the military goes woke, then it is less equipped to fight the wars it needs to fight. Social justice, politically correct, environmental, LGBT, CRT, DEI nonsense that divides the force, makes it weaker. I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.

That's right, that's right. No women in combat roles. In Trump's America, if women's right. That's right. No women in combat roles. In Trump's America, if women really want to risk their lives, they're gonna have to get pregnant. Now... tough ass. Talk to the man. Now, you might wonder why Pete is so down on the idea

of women working in the military. It's tough to say, but when you consider that reportedly his first marriage ended because he had an affair with a female coworker, and then his second marriage ended because he had another affair with a female coworker, then you begin to understand why he's so worried about working with women. Of course, Pete Hgseth has written many books

espousing his social conservative principles. And if you're wondering how he squared those principles with all his affairs, it was actually easier than you think. In his 2016 book, In the Arena, Pete Hegseth called for policies preventing divorce of parents with kids. A year later, after his affair ended his marriage,

he published a revised version, changing his demands to policies preventing wanton divorce. Damn! Fellas, you ever have sex so good it changes your opinion on divorce laws? Our next Secretary of Defense has. For more on the appointment of Pete Hegseth, we go live to the White House with Troy Iwata.

Troy. Uh, Troy! Troy, come back! Cup Troy! What are you? What are you doing? Why are you dressed like Columbo? I don't want to be on air right now, okay? The longer I'm on TV, the more of a chance Trump sees me

and appoints me to his cabinet. I just, then I'll have to work alongside Pete Hegseth and listen to him explain his soaps all day. Like, oh, dirt and blood-scented. That's manly. Okay. Come on. Troy, take that disguise off. Take it off. Take it off. Donald Trump is not gonna pick you,

and I doubt he even watches Comedy Central. Fine, fine. Is this better? Yes, yes. Thank you, Troy, as you were saying. As I was saying, it... Damn it. Is this better? Yes, yes. Thank you, Troy, as you were saying. As I was saying, it j— Damn it! It's a letter from Donald Trump. Dear Troy, I saw you on TV, so you are now the new Secretary of the Interior.

See you around my house, parentheses, the White House. Thanks a lot, Jordan! Seriously? He just made you secretary of the interior? You're not qualified to run the interior? Okay, I'm gay, Jordan. He obviously thinks the head of interior is a decorating job. There's...

There's... There's wallpaper swatches in here! Okay. Okay. What are you gonna do? Well, I'm not gonna put nautical-themed wallpaper in the Lincoln bedroom. That's stupid. No, I mean, no. What about the job?

How did you get hired so fast? I've been on TV for 10 years. Well, you know, it's not just being on TV. You have to have charisma. Have you tried having charisma? I have charisma. I've got the Riz. Daddy's got the Riz. Daddy's got the Riz.

Stop that. You're embarrassing yourself. Another letter? Jesus. Dear Troy, I love how you read my first letter so good. Okay, he's made me the secretary of education now. Plus you are a bow tie, which means you are professor. Please go wild on the DOE for me. Damn it, Jordan, you see what you're doing?

Okay, sorry. What are you gonna do? I guess I'm gonna run the Department of Education now. Why doesn't he get a qualified TV personality, like Ms. Frizzle or someone? Curse my Riz! Look, why do you keep getting all these appointments? I have charisma, too. Mr. President-elect, check this out, right?

Look at me. Oh, my God. God, stop. Stop. Come on. Oh. Hold on a second. What do we have here? Well, well, well, Troy, it looks like someone's noticed my Riz. Dear Jordan, this is President Trump. Please ask Education Secretary Troy,

why do I see moon in sky during day? Damn it. Go tell him, Troy. What, you think I f***ing know that? No, even if I did, I wouldn't tell him. He's just gonna put me in charge of NASA. Troy Watt, everybody. We come back, we remember America.

Don't go away. coming out every Thursday. We're going to be talking about the election earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? Listen to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, wherever you get your podcasts. Donald Trump's election means for America and the answer is simple and means the end but

who will remember us as a country. They'll say Sloan took up the end. But who will remember us as a country? Dulcé Sloan took up the task. Well, looks like Donald Trump gets to be president again. And judging by how it went last time, a half million Americans died unnecessarily of COVID-19. Demonstrations over the death of George Floyd spread across six continents. Um, I think we can be sure that America ain't going to survive another term. So before it all goes down, I want to document what life was like in America before our dumbasses

collapsed society. So join me here in New York City as I record a backup of our society in my new segment, Who Will Say Back That Thing Up. This is what we called a public library, a cathedral of knowledge, a catalog of human experience, and a place for creeps to masturbate on weekdays. I always loved the library. It was the one place you could tell strangers to shut the fuck up, because that's the official policy.

This is where we came to read the great works of literature like A Tale of Two Cities, or this Men's Health Magazine with Michael B. Jordan in the cover. Live wear it. Girl, you nasty. This was the theater. An ancient venue for dramatic performance, constantly interrupted by cell phones

and hard candy wrappers. Can y'all cool it on the Jolly Ranchers? I'm trying to see who killed the salesman. The theater was also the place to go to see a musical of a movie that wasn't that great in the first place. What's playing here? Ah, Bad Sand of the Musical. Can't wait.

This was a rare place where the public could see artists in person and creepily wait by the stage door to get an autograph. Thanks for signing, John Stamos. You were brilliant as King Lear. Now to sell this on eBay for $12. On top of that, audience members would hand the performers flowers for no reason. Woohoo!

I'll take it. Ah, the public park. A shared space where Jamaican nannies would take white babies while their parents worked. It was a place where joggers could jog, bikers could bike, and drug dealers could challenge you to a game of chess. On these fields, corporate employees would play four innings of softball once a year to

distract from the solitude of their everyday lives. And also, backnicks! For you in the future, parks are the fields that the Canadian military uses to airdrop supplies. So in your next trip to pick up medicine, bring a frisbee or the ribcage of the person you defeated in the Thunderdome. I don't know what y'all do to relax. Your life is bad. This was a school, a place of learning, and a Ponzi scheme run by the Scholastic Book Company.

It's where we teach our children essential academic lessons, like reading, writing, and dodging a ball. Still got it. Schools are also where we help kids grow up by teaching them valuable social skills, like how to drive a car and how to put a condom on a banana. And that's important

because I'm not trying to get herpes from a banana. I don't know where that Chiquita lady's been. There you have it. The cornerstones of American society before we allow hate and anger to poison our hearts. Hey, get the fuck*** out of my shot! You know what I'm saying? Oh yeah, hopefully the society that comes next

will learn from our mistakes. And now to take shelter in the only place that will be safe from the nuclear war, my corner bodega. You know they got like four layers of bulletproof glass, so, they'll do it. Until next time, I'm Dulce Sloan, and this was America.

Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me the election economics earnings calls

What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches and I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go. But how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a Grammy Award-winning musician turned politician whose story is told in the new documentary, The Honorable Shine.

Please welcome Moses Shine Barrow. I gotta come here more often. They love you. I gotta come here more often. My goodness. Please come on back. This is like Madison Square Garden or Minnesota College scene when I used to be a performer. This is quite, well, that's how I got to know you as a performer. Yeah.

I mean, your story is, can I say bunkers? Is bunkers maybe the most appropriate way to frame this? Extraordinary. Okay. I think resilient. Mm-hmm. I think it's like the human spirit, which is indefatigable and indomitable.

It's incredible. Yeah. But I think all of us have that. We have that in us? Maybe that's why those people are so excited to see me, because I represent them. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. That is very kind of you. You speak to a resilience that I wish I could say I had, but I've been having foot problems for the last seven years. I have a lot of health issues.

I'm ailing in that way. This isn't about me, but if you know any way to make me a stronger person, both physically and emotionally, I'll take it. I'm sure you're resilient in other ways because I, you know, I don't get involved in U.S. politics. Yeah. But I just, you know, listen to your monologue, and you're still going strong.

We're still going strong. There you go. Yeah. You continue the fight, right? Got to continue your fight. I'm fighting in Belize. I don't want to get involved in American politics. Are you sure? Anybody can be involved in American politics.

What we've learned today, if you show up on TV, you could be in the cabinet by dawn. Yeah. My critics and beliefs might say the same thing about me. I was going to say. How do you find... What is easier to navigate, the rap world or the world of politics? Man, politics is vicious.

But, you know, it's quite similar. In music, I was making music to be the voice of the voiceless. My art represented so much more than just a beat and being famous and being an entertainer. It was really you know poetry, it was really you know dissertations that were life or death. And being in the House of Representatives is the same thing. There are people that are dealing with high crime rates, high poverty rates, people dealing with inflation,

people dealing with poverty. And when I go into the House of Representatives, I'm speaking on behalf of those people. So I don't care what my political critics have to say. I don't care what the paid media or any of my detractors have to say, because I'm fighting for people. So I was doing the same thing as a musician. This is even greater for me, because you're

creating a society. Your policies are going to impact society at large. They're not just impacting the creative sector, the agro sector, you know, the business sector, the laborers. So, simply as a musician, because everyone listens to your music. So it really is a seamless transition for me. Well, you found connections so early as a musician.

And if people are unfamiliar with your story, a Grammy-award-winning musician, and then there's a shooting incident in a club with Puff Daddy. I got the Grammy after the incident. That's right. The album came out after the incident. Well, I got Grammy nominations and credit for Usher's album. I performed on that album.

Lil Wayne and Faith Evans and Carl Thomas. So this all happened while I was incarcerated, unfortunately, for taking the fall and being the sacrificial lamb for Diddy. Yeah. Well, oof. Oof is right. Yeah. Well, and Diddy is a big part of your early story. Indeed.

But also, Diddy has re-emerged as a part of sort of this new American story. You see what has happened to him in that story and reflect on that. It feels like your story of taking the fall for Diddy didn't get much attention way back when. Now do people see that in a new light, or how do you see what is happening currently? You know, it's interesting because his celebrity, his power was so loud that when myself and my mom and my supporters were screaming, hey, this guy destroyed my life,

this guy sent witnesses to testify against me, and I was just trying to defend him, and, you know, he's ruined my life, taken away my freedom, took away my career. Nobody was listening. Nobody heard me. And I've been saying it for so long. Then I got to a point where I said, you know what, I'm not gonna keep exerting energy

on blaming anyone. I'm gonna take responsibility for my life. I'm gonna curate my present and my future, and I'm gonna let go of this baggage. And that's what I did. And... Thank you. Thank you. And, um...

And that's how I got involved in politics and really just focused on fixing my life and not waiting for anyone to fix it and not lamenting on who broke it. And, you know, I found the right partner in Disney, Anscape, to do the documentary. And here we are. All of the events that you see happening just

happen to be happening. We have nothing to do with that. And so the story is not necessarily focused on the demise of Diddy. It's focused on the celebration of my resilience, which is your resilience. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Anyone that's listening right now

that is going through a difficult time, anyone that's listening right now that thinks the world is unfair and they've been screwed over and they've been done wrong, I represent that hope that things work out. Mm-hmm. Well said. Guys, I truly find it remarkable to hear your story, to watch your story. Your ability to let go of perhaps your preconceived notions

of who you were and to find something new. I think something that was surprising to me is after you're deported to Belize where you were born, but then you find Orthodox Judaism and you find real meaning in that and use that sort of also as a path to find meaning in your life, but also as a way to also find what you got out of politics. Is that correct?

I guess what part of what is remarkable to me about that is I think so much of who we are is about cementing an idea of who we are. And as somebody who finds such great success as a rapper so early in life, to be able to let elements of that go and to discover new parts of yourself just find really difficult for people to do,

to let go of who they think they are. Yeah. But I think hip-hop, I got to give credit to hip-hop. You know, we celebrated 50 years last year. Hip-hop has always been such a multidimensional, diverse, cultural juggernaut. And it has transformed today where it emerged in the inner cities and now it's global

and now it's every ethnicity, every culture, all in one. So I realized a long time ago, getting into the music business with different people that, you know, they started off as rappers. They ended up being actors. They ended up being entrepreneurs. They ended up, you know, owning clothing lines. You name it.

They diversified their portfolio. Even Kanye, he ran to be president. They've quite worked out. That's not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of what Kanye has gone on to do, but that's one of the things. Didn't quite work out. Sure.

So, I learned early on in my career to be diverse and to wear different hats. And certainly Judaism has guided me every step of the way. And there was a time where I was extremely religious, Certainly Judaism has guided me every step of the way. And there was a time where I was extremely religious. But I got into praying and faith as a means of survival. Brooklyn was extremely dangerous. I come from Belize.

I was born in Belize, came to Brooklyn when I was eight years old. And I grew up where bullets were whistling past my ear. I grew up where my friend would get killed. We'd be sitting here talking, heaven forbid, and someone would get their brains blown out. And I realized that I couldn't survive without God. I couldn't survive without divine intervention.

There was no way that I was going to beat the statistical odds of being a young African Caribbean American that was destined to go to jail or an early grave. And that's how I started praying. And that led me to my success in the music business, however short-lived it was, until I got incarcerated. So when I got incarcerated, you know, there's a saying during Passover,

when you celebrate the Exodus, the Israelites, they say, Dainu, they say, you know, if I don't get anything more, it's enough what you did for me. You know, you led me out of Egypt. And that's how having faith and having Judaism as a center of my world helped me to survive. And now I'm not religious. I'm spiritual.

So I still fast on Yom Kippur. I still wrap my tefillin, but I'm not a zealot. You know, I don't believe that, I believe in a two-state solution. I don't believe in... I don't believe in extremism. I don't believe in extremist Israeli hawks. And I don't believe in extremism. I don't believe in extremist Israeli hawks. And I don't believe in extreme terrorists. So living in Israel, after I got deported,

I was traveling around the world. But living in Israel allowed me to come to my truth, which is that I'm a connector. I bring people together. And I don't want to be an extremist. DJ Khaled is one of my great friends. And he's a Palestinian Muslim, and, you know, we're brothers. And that's what I believe humanity is,

bringing people together. And sometimes when you get into religion, you separate humanity and push people away and people kill over religion. So that's what, you know, being involved in Judaism meant for me. So you come back to America. And then that took me back to Belize.

So I lived in Israel. I studied. I was an ultra-orthodox Jew, Peos and everything. And then I realized the truth of my purpose was not to be in garments. It's about substance and content. And my content is about human beings, not about Jews, not about Muslims,

not about, you know, Hamas, not about, you know, the right-wing extremists, not about Republicans, not about Democrats. I'm about people. And so the people that need me the most are the people in Belize. So instead of spending my time praying, I need to spend my time doing.

I continue to pray, but actions are worth so much more than prayer. Because if you're just telling God a bunch of things and you're not doing anything as to that communication, then you're not... It's really... You're not going anywhere. I guess you can hear from the response here. We're talking at a pretty fraught time for a lot of people.

Our country does feel divided. You're here. You've seen political structures outside of America. But coming back, like, what lessons have you learned through your journey that perhaps we could take forward in this fraught time where it does feel like we are pulled apart and politics is not a unifying force but a divisive one? Nothing in life is given.

So whatever policies you believe in, you have to fight for it. And sometimes you might have a temporary loss. I had a loss of 10 years, incarceration, for something that I didn't do. I was defending a friend, and a friend turned around and said, hey, it was him. And it wasn't me. It was according to the witnesses. One of the witnesses said, did he shot him? I never said it because I was busy defending myself

and defending him, but the point I'm trying to make is I could have felt sorry for myself for 10 years, but I didn't, I was present every day of those 10 years. Then I got deported and I was present every day for the 13 years of deportation before I was allowed to come back here as the future Prime minister of Belize. So I kept fighting for 23 years.

Thank you. You guys only got... I'm not taking any sides, but I'm just saying, whoever's not happy with the outcome, you only got four years to fight. Theoretically, yeah. Right? So get to fighting. Get to fighting.

The Honorable Shine will premiere exclusively on Hulu on November 18th. to fight. Theoretically, yeah. Right? So get to fighting. Get to fighting. The Honorable Shine will premiere exclusively on Hulu on November 18th. Moses Shine, Barry. Explore more shows from the Daily Show Podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch The Daily Show, weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. Paramount Podcasts. TGID, thank God it's Thursday. We're gonna be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way

that they obsess me, the election, economics, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're gonna be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches, and I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, wherever you get your podcasts.