The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Marjorie Taylor Greene Faces Backlash | Jeremy O. Harris

Episode Date: February 2, 2021

Redditors drive up the price of silver, Trevor highlights the racism and conspiracy theories embraced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and playwright Jeremy O. Harris discusses "Slave Play."Please visit dailyshow.com/ColorOfChange to support efforts in creating a more humane and less hostile world for Black people in America. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Done of CBS News, listen to 60 Minutes, a second look, starting September 17th, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's going on, everybody?

I'm Trevor Noah, and this is the daily social distancing show. Today is February 1st, which means it's the start of Black History Month. Yes, my friends, it's that time of the year when white people who are true allies gift their black friends a PS5. Do the right thing, guys. Don't be racist. Anyway, on tonight's show, Reddit traders are high on silver. Anti-vaxes are ruining things for everyone, and we introduce you to an insane Georgia woman who makes laws for the country now. Plus Jeremy O. Harris of Slave Play is joining us on the show. So let's do this people. Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

From Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noe. Ears Edition. All right, let's kick things off with the big snow storm that slammed into the Northeast United States today, where some places will be getting up to 24 inches of snow. In fact, there was so much snow in New York that we couldn't go anywhere and we had to stay home all day. It was crazy.

But while the sunny West Coast doesn't have to worry about snow, California is having some scary weather-related problems of its own. Amazing new drone video shows where a chunk of California's scenic highway one collapse after heavy rainstorms last week. Both lanes near Big Sur washed down into the Pacific Ocean. That landslide left a massive gap in the highway and a deep ravine littered with fallen trees. Thankfully, nobody was hurt there.

Transportation officials have no estimate of how long it might take to actually fix that. Merchants say that collapse, just another major blow to the area's tourism industry. Nah, man, if anything, I think a big hole like that is going to help the tourism industry. Let me just look at the Grand Canyon. They were going to patch that up years ago, but it's so popular that they've never even bothered. Now, luckily, nobody was on this road when it collapsed. But they do have to fix this road asap because since we all have GPS now, I don't know how obvious that hole is going to be, right?

People are just going to be like, I mean, yeah, it looks like a hole, but Google says we should just go straight, so I mean, what's the worst that could have? And this does look scary. But you know who did enjoy it? That panda from the National Zoo. Oh, if only we all look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look that, that that that that that that that that that th. th. th. thu thu 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 whole, the whole, to the whole, the whole, the whole, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thoooooooooooooo-s.. the the the thoooooooooooooe. thooooooe. thoe. the National Zoo. Oh, if only we all look that adorable plunging to our deaths. Let's move on now to the coronavirus pandemic. The only thing with more mutations than Rudy Giuliani. The big issue right now is getting people vaccinated as quickly as possible. And now there's yet another thing, making that harder than it should be,

assholes. The Los Angeles Times says dozens of anti-vaccination protesters disrupted operations at one of the largest vaccine sites in the country. They blocked entrances and forced the inoculation center at Dodger Stadium to close for about an hour Saturday. Hundreds of people waited in their cars to get shots. Some city officials are calling for increased security at testing and vaccination locations.

Whoa, these people in LA had to sit in their cars for an hour. How did they notice? But all the real, though? What the fuck? Anti-Vaxers? If you don't want a vaccine, then don't get one. I don't ruin it for everyone else. Like, the the the the the their their their their their their their their their, thoe, thoe, tho, tho, tho, tho, thu. thu. thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, to, to, thi, tho, tho, too, too, toe, toe, to, to, too, too, too, too, too, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, tho, their. tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, the. the. to. to. te.a.a. tea.a.a.a. tea.a.a. tea.a. tea. tea. to agree with you, but don't ruin it for everyone else. Like, we don't come interrupt you when you're busy dying of measles. Because here's what I don't understand. Why does it always have to be the most ridiculous people who are the most

fired up? Like, why can't anti-vaxes be like those Instagram models were last summer? You know, where they just post a Black Square on Instagram for one day and then never bring up... the the the to to to their up up up up up up up up up up their their their, to to to to to to to their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, because their, their, because their, their, because their, because their, because their, because their, because their, because their, because their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the thi. Because, thi. Because, th thi. Because, thi. Because, thi to international news. 10 years ago, the country of Myanmar emerged from a half-century of military rule to transition to civilian governments. But yesterday, the military apparently decided that they liked it better the old way. Breaking overnight developments in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. This morning, the military there announced that it took control of the country

in a coup against the democratically elected government. It detained several politicians, including the country's civilian leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The raids came hours before a new session of parliament was scheduled to open, and members who won the November elections were set to take their seats.

The military, the military, the military, the November elections were set to take their seats. The military alleges voter fraud in the November election. Oh man, Trump must be kicking himself right now. I don't know why I didn't think about using the military. Can I have a coup over? And here's the thing, I know it's sometimes hard to get Americans to care about another country's politics. So if Myanmar wants to get the US to pay attention, they should change the country's name again, this time to the Capitol building. Yeah, because if Americans heard

that there was a coup at the Capitol building, then at least care about that for, like, two weeks. But I am hoping for the best for the people of Myanmar. And what this shows us is that maintaining a civilian-led democracy isn't easy and can't be taken for granted. When you think about it, civilians controlling the military is an amazing accomplishment in the first place. Because the military has way more power. You know, it's like the political equivalent of having a pet T-Rex. What did I say about jumping on the couch?

Bad Rex! Bad Rex! And finally, let's move on from the coup in Myanmar to the ongoing coup on Wall Street. Last week, you probably remember, day traders on Reddit shocked the markets by driving stocks in GameStop and AMC movie theaters higher than the Queen's Hay in Bridgeton. But now, Reddit has its eye on something even more shiny. The GameStop saga continues to grow. It's not just stocks anymore though, Reddit users are buying up silver, pushing up the value of the p 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 continues to grow. It's not just stocks anymore though, Reddit users are buying up silver, pushing up the value of the precious metal. Silver has now hit a five-month high at nearly 30 bucks an ounce.

That Reddit group says that they're doing it because Big Banks, specifically JPMorgan Chase, have been, quote, suppressing metals for a long time. Over the weekend, retail sites that s silver coins and silver bars said that they were getting hit by unprecedented demand and they couldn't meet it. The demand has been incredible. Pretty much physical silver. It's almost all gone in terms of live inventory.

We typically have about a thousand silver products in inventory available for purchase. We're getting so cleaned out right now that we're actually last I checked down to about 80 items in stock which is a number I've never seen before and never thought we would ever see. The entire industry is frankly wiped out. In terms of actually finding live silver that you can purchase and receive today, it's becoming impossible. I'm rich, rich I tell you. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's right people. Now silver prices are skyrocketing. Which is going to cause confusion at the next Olympics. I mean if silver is more valuable than gold everyone's going to try and get second place. Sprinces will be

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All right, when we come back, we'll look at one of the newest and most terrifying stars of the Republican Party. You don't want to miss it. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. But that's all about to change.

Like, none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Done of CBS News. Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17. Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Last year's election brought a lot of new faces to Washington, D.C. But, just like that kid at Sleepaway Camp who keeps wetting the bed,

one of them may be going home early. Tonight, growing outrage at newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Green. The noted conspiracy theorist and ardent Trump supporter from Georgia is facing calls to resign and a long-shot bid to expel her from Congress. After a review of her social media found in 2018 and 19, she repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In a widely shared video from 2019, Green declaring Pelosi a traitor, implying she should be executed. It's a crime punishable by death is what treason is.

Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason. She's called for the hanging of Barack Obama. She's called for the hanging of Hillary Clinton. Right now they're trying to expel me from Congress. Yep, they don't like a lot of the things I say and do. They're, you know, it's a witch hunt. Yeah, they don't like the things you said because you called for their execution. They're not looking for a witch hunt.

They're looking to stay alive. I mean, people, what kind of psychopath calls for the execution of America's leaders on Facebook? I mean, at least if you did it on on Snapchat it would be harder to find. Also the puppy nose makes you seem less crazy. And here's why I take this assassination talk seriously from Marjorie Taylor Green. She's got three names. Assessons always have three names. Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, Neil Patrick Harris. That guy kills at every award show. So who is this person that might get expelled from Congress after less than a month? Well, let's get to know her in our brand new segment,

fringe watching. Meet Marjorie Taylor Green. In Congress, she represents Georgia's 14th district, right outside Atlanta. And in life, she represents some views right outside of reality. Marjorie Taylor Green she won her house race for a district in Northwest Georgia she has in the past promoted that Q& on conspiracy theory. Q is a patriot we know that for sure but we do not know who Q

Q is. People believe that Q is someone very close to President Trump. According to him, many in our government are actively worshipping Satan, or they call Molok. I mean, is it going to be true that the child pedophilia and the elites and the Washington, D.C. is that what we're really going to see come out? Is it going to be satanic worship? Q is in the House of Representatives? Now Marjorie Taylor Green is the the first the first the first the first the worship? Q is in the house of representatives! Now, Marjorie Taylor Green is hardly the first member of Congress to hold some out-their beliefs. I mean, Ted Cruz believes that beard is working for him.

But Q&N is not just extreme, it's delusional people. How are you going to be in the government and believe that the government is full of Satan worshipping sex predators? I mean, it must be exhausting to be walking around the halls of Congress, just constantly opening doors like, aha! No, just a supply closet. Gotcha! No, just a copy room. Bam! No, that's my office, man, I'm so lost. And it's not just Q&O.

In fact, it seems like Green has a conspiracy theory for every letter of the alphabet. The Trump-backing Republican embraces completely false Q&Own conspiracy theories. And in a newly uncovered video from 2018, claimed former President Obama is Muslim, the Clintons had JFK Jr. killed, and even questioned whether a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9-11. It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon. Facebook posts have surfaced in which Green called the Deadly Parkland High School shooting, fake, along with video showing her harassing Parkland shooting survivor David Hog. Why are you supporting red-fly gun laws that attack our Second

Amendment rights? How do you get avid gun owners and people that support the Second Amendment to give up their guns and go along with anti-gun legislation? How do you do that? Maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative. Is that what happened in Las Vegas? Have you seen the picture of Ruth Bader Gingrich walking to the airport? Yeah, like the body double for Hillary Clinton, so it's interesting. I do not believe that was Ruth. No, I don't think so. I don't eat it.

Wow. Okay, so RBG has a body double. Hillary Clinton has a body double. This one makes it sound like everyone has their own body double. I mean, that's such a silly thing to believe. Yo, the weekend, they're on to us. Get out of there, man, run! But the big question is, how did Osama bin Karan get elected to Congress in the first place? Well, it turns out she was lucky to be one of nine Republicans running for the seat,

so everyone's attention was spread around instead of focused all on her. Kind of like how there are so many different kinds of Oreo now, that you hardly even notice that one of the flavors is human flesh. And while some of the Q&on stuff did come out, mostly what voters knew about her was that she was a hardcore Trump supporter. And yeah, she sometimes sounded like a crazy person, but only in a comforting, familiar way. She's a former CrossFit gym owner, who has had a few roles at her father's construction company, but really has no political

background at all. America's the greatest country in the world. We need conservatives in Washington that will keep it that way. The Democrat Party is no longer an American party. They are now the party of socialism. They want to rip our borders wide open. They want to kill babies up until birth and maybe even afterwards. I have a message for Antifa terrorists.

Stay the hell out of Northwest Georgia. God damn! I know which house I'm skipping on Halloween. And by the way, everyone's freaking out about Green's Q&Own beliefs, but if you ask me, the scarier cult she's involved in is CrossFit. I mean, that's just scintology with jumping jacks. But yes, aside from the cult stuff, a lot of Green's beliefs are pretty typical for today's Republicans.

But she also has a little extra something that makes the far right love her even more. It's racism. Marjorie Taylor Green also has a track record of incendiary and racist rhetoric. There is an Islamic invasion into our government offices right now. Marjorie Taylor Green also has a track record of incendiary and racist rhetoric. There is an Islamic invasion into our government offices right now. If you want Islam and Sharia Law, you stay over there in the Middle East. You stay there and you go to Mecca and do all your thing and you know what, you can have a whole bunch of wives or goats or sheep or whatever you want.

But that doesn't make me a racist because I, as I say leave the statue up there.. their their their their their their their 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 their the government their 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 their their their their their their their their their their their their their their government.. I. their their government. I. I. I. I'm into their government. I'm into their government.s. I. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm.I. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'mthat doesn't make me a racist because I, as I say, leave the statue up there. The most mistreated group of people in the United States today are white males. On a now deleted Facebook post, Green questioned whether California's deadly campfire in 2018 was started by lasers, beamed down from outer space. Lasers, she says, somehow connected to the Rothschilds, the Jewish European banking family, the target of some of the oldest, laziest, most dangerous, anti-Semitic troops

on the books, Jewish space lasers. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Jewish space lasers? What, is this lady just playing conspiracy slot machine and going with whatever comes up? Because here's my question. If you were secretly starting a forest fire, why would you use a space laser when you could just use, I don't know, matches? It's such a waste of a Jewish space laser. It's like using the Death Star to make smores. Yes, make sure they're toasty. And honestly guys, if you're anti-Semitic, this is a weird way 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 Death Star to make smores. Yes, make sure they're toasty. And honestly, guys, if you're anti-Semitic,

this is a weird way to try and get people on your side. Because when I hear someone saying, Jews have a space laser, I'm like, awesome, can I join? I will say, though. It is impressive that Green has some wild racist theory for every group. I mean, no wonder she got elected, because she's like, I want to be a Congresswoman for everyone. Whether you hate Jews, blacks, Muslims, or filthy Canadians, I'm on your side. So, that's who Marjorie Taylor Green was before she started

threatening to kill Democrats. And her calls for violence are nothing new. While some Republicans only came around to supporting an insurrection after Donald Trump lost the election. Green was reying, the the the the the the the the the the the the their th, I, I th, I th, I thing was thing was their thing was re, I thiiiiiiiiii, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I want thr-c-c-c-c-c, I want thi, I want thi, I want th. I want th. I want th. I thi, I thi, I thi, 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 want, I want, I want thi, I want thi, thi. I want thi. I want thii. throwneeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiii. theiii. theeeeeeee. I'm only came around to supporting an insurrection after Donald Trump lost the election, Green was rallying the troops even before November 2020. If this generation doesn't stand up and defend freedom, it's gone. And once it's gone, freedom doesn't come back by itself. The only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood. When we rise up, we can end all of this. We can end it. We can do it peacefully. We can. I hope it doesn't have to, we don't have to do it the other way. I hope not.

But we should feel like we will if we have to. Okay, no guys, I'm sorry, but calls for a violent revolution. Just don't have the same weight. wee. We to, we, we, we, we, we, we, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, we, when, we, when we have to. Okay, no guys, I'm sorry, but... Calls for a violent revolution? Just don't have the same weight when you're streaming it from your hotel room. It's time for the people to rise up and take back their freedoms! Excuse me, can I get another towel, please? Because I'm going to the pool. Yeah, thank you. Let's spill some blood! No, the Cabana will be fine, thank you.

So now that all these death threats and conspiracy theories have come to light, Congress is trying to figure out how to deal with Green. Do you censure her? Do you expel her? Do you use a secret Jewish space laser to distract her like a cat? I mean, one thing's for sure. While Congress tries to decide what to do with her, she's out there getting stuff done herself. Georgia Congress were Marjorie Taylor Green calling on President Biden to be impeached. Just filed articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden. We'll see how this goes. What a letdown. Marjorie Taylor Green came to Washington calling for executions and a few weeks later she's already settling for impeachment?

Man, I guess Congress will turn anyone into a moderate. But you know what? I have a conspiracy theory of my own. I think Marjorie Taylor Green is secretly a Democrat. Yeah, no, think about it. She's making Republicans look unhinged. She's from Georgia, which we all know is a blue state, and she's a member of Congress, which she herself believes is a satanic, demonic cult.

Now if I'm correct, and Marjorie Taylor Green is a Democrat? Well, that's great news for everyone, because that would be the only way that Republicans would actually want to hold her accountable for anything she's done. All right, when we come th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th be the only way that Republicans would actually want to hold her accountable for anything she's done. All right, when we come back, playwright Jeremy O'Harris will talk to us about his groundbreaking play, slave play. You don't want to miss it. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes.

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Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier today, I had the privilege of speaking with award-winning playwright, Jeremy O'Harris. His Broadway production slave play was recently nominated for a record-breaking 12 Tony awards. So we talked about that, how he's trying to help keep the theater industry alive, what he's doing during the coronavirus pandemic, and so much more. Jeremy O'Harris, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Thank you for having me. Had I known you were going to challenge my fro,

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With, like, natural hair and like, a fucking hoodie on in the show. You better do. I think, I think, I think you look fantastic, Jeremy. I, that's, you know what, you know what it is for me? It's like, people often ask me, they go like, why are you wearing the hoodies? Well, what is the hoodie about? I go, this is how I dress when I'm at home. And I'm not in the mood to act like I have not been at home. to the tooombe, to their tooge, to be, to be, 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, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, 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, and, and, to be uncomfortable. Like, I'll wear a suit outside because I'm outside, but I won't wear the suit inside because I'm inside.

Do you know what I mean? So I will make my pandemic experience as comfortable as possible and I hope you would do the same. You look fabulous, though. I will, that's a stunning jacket. Like, that's a nice collar how to write a play, one. Because I think that like, you know, a big thing for me is that like, I think about the theater as like community building in a way.

Like, I think everyone's always like, sleight, like, you made it to Broadway. Like, how did you that play, 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, 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, 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, like, like, like, like, like, th.. Like, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a.. th. A. A. A. A. th. A. A. A. th. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. th. I wanted to make a play for like my small group of friends in at Yale. So I wrote this play my second year in grad school. There's three years there. My second year I worked for my classmates and then third year it was off Broadway. Like it was just like a really random series of occurrences. And oh God, oh God. Sorry, I got calls. My friend is calling me over and over again, and I didn't know that that was going to happen. That's really funny. So that's freezing up our picture right now. Hold on.

We'll get it back. Wait a second. It'll come back. I also just gonna tell her that I'm, um, wait. I'll call you back. I'll call you back. I'm on the Daily Show. Am I a problem? That would be a fun thing. I wonder how many times that's happened to your guess. I don't think it's ever happened actually. Did he take the call on the same situation?

I've completely lost you. This is so weird. I didn't take the call. I think it's just because... Am I back? Oh, there you are. 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. to. to. to. to. to. to to. thi. to to to th. to to to th. to to to be. to be. th. th. to be. 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. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. th. the call. I think it's just because, um, is it, am I back now? Oh, there you are. There you are, you back. Great. Great. Okay, I'm gonna do this and make sure that face time doesn't come back. Because that's the issue. Turn face time off. You see, this is fun. This is what I love about this. Now, imagine, you see now, if I was wearing a suit for this moment right now, I would feel like something had gone wrong. But because I'm wearing a hoodie, I'm like, we're just, it's just happening. Life is just happening right now. You know, Broadway is one of the hardest, hardest places to get anything on.

You can just break into it, Jeremy. You broke into it with a play that many would argue, would never make it on to Broadway. It is one the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most th. th. th. th. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoes. th. th. throwne. that's that's that's that's that's, that's, that's, that's is just, 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. the. the. the. the. the. thr. thr. thr. theee. th throeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee that's just just just the the the the the. thi of the most risque things. So I went to watch slave play and I remember sitting there and I won't spoil it for people, but I remember for the first like 10 minutes, 50 minutes, I was like, this is the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life. This is horrible. This is horrible. And what was happening around me was was I was really uncomfortable. I was like, wow. I was like, so clearly this is not for me.

This is for some of these old white folk. They're having a great time right now. And then the place switches and then I started laughing. And then people around me didn't laugh anymore. And I remember the entire time I walked out of it going this. It's like similar experiences I've had with like with the Devil's Advocate or just an experience that takes you through a story that warps how you have seen the world around you. It seems like a play about interracial relationships.

But then when the George Floyd protests happened, people were using the play and using, you know, quotes from the play and ideas from the plays in the streets while they were protesting. Talk me through some of that. Like, it seems like it's one thing, but it feels like it's so many other things. What was slave play meant for you? What were you trying to do? Because it seems like it achieved everything.

Yeah, I mean, I was a black kid who had been in white schools for most of my life, right? And like, you know, when you are that one of those few black kids who are in like predominantly white spaces, you tend to either be attracted to all of the, these groups of white people that will always make you feel like an other and never make you feel like you have as much worth, or you'll find the other black people that are in those programs and like, form little the tho thoo-like thi. th th th tho-like thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. You thi. You. You. You. You. You. You're thi. tho-au. tho-au, thr-a. You're thr-a. thr-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.... thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thi. thi. thi. thi. thu. thi. thu. thu. thu. thu. thuu. thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. thuuuu. of the sort of like psychic terror of being around white folks every time that you enter a classroom or walk down the street. And having people always be like, can I touch your hair? Can I do this? And then like when the minute you say like, I feel like everyone's racist here. I'm not racist. So like I wanted to make a play that ostensibly told all of those kids who feel gaslit by the systems and the institutions that they are a part of that like hey you're not wrong, the people around you are the people around you are, the people around you like are dealing with years and years and years of systems in the same way that you are, even if

they feel like separate from those systems. Right, right, right. And you're not wrong to want to call it out the the the the the the the the the the the th th th th th the th th the, and the, and to, and to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, th. thi. thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, thoes, thoes, tho, thoes, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. the. thin. the. thee. toe. toeeee an, theea. thea. theea. thea. thea. the. feel like separate from those systems. Right, right, right. And you're not wrong to want to call it out. And for me, because Broadway was never the goal or never the option, I felt very in bolden to talk to the producers who want to take it there and be like, if you're going to take this be affordable, it has to be privileged, we have to privilege black people, young people, etc. And luckily we were able to do that, which was amazing. I'm not shocked that your play has been nominated for a record 12 awards. Congratulations. To have 12 nominations is unheard of and it's amazing and I hope you win every single one of them. Because oftentimes when we talk about racism and systemic racism in society, we speak about it through the lens of like overt hatred, you know,

but it is really hard to have these conversations with the nuance that it deserves when you're talking about it through the lens of love. The whole of slave plays about love, it's about how couples love each other, It's about how families, how friends love each other, and how race either adds a complexity or an added dynamic to that love. Was that a big part of it? Or why was love so crucial for you? Because when you're watching the play,

at no point do you think that any of those white people does not love the black people that they're interacting with. You don't even not like them. You understand that everybody is being subject to the system. Well, I mean, it's because, I mean, I grew up in the South, right? And so in the South, there are certain things that are very plain spoken, right? And that's why like like adored me. I don't know if love was what happened but they adored me. They were obsessed with me but they'd be in a car and their dad and we'd be on a carpool we'd be talking about you know Pokemon

or whatever we're talking about right and then their dad would start whistling Dixie in the carpool. This is a real story and they would whistle along and I didn't know what Dixie was. But then I learned the song and I come home and then like I'd sing the song to my mom and she was, what the fuck you're doing? That's a racist song. And I'm like, what are you talking about, mom? And then my mom was like, you go back and you tell them that's racist. So I go back, I tell the told the grand, my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, 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 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 to, and, to, to, to, to, to, to, to-s-s, to-s-s-s-s., to-s., to I'm sorry if that made you feel weird. Anyway, you go on.

When I moved to the North, I would be in situations with hyper-ambitious other, like students, many of them were white, who would say things or do things that were based on race, or they'll be based on race. So they'd be like, well, yeah, Jeremy might be the one people here, but you know, he got in because like the reason he could get in right, right, right, because he's black or the reason, it's like no one knows my SAT scores are. It's like, bitch, I'm sure I outtested you, you know, but like they were things, little things, and then when you say like that's racist, they're like, they learned, I learned this from Tina F.A. the mid-2000s, in the Obama years and everyone felt safe, Comedy Central, NBC, all these

places were like built up around liberal comedians saying like racist things that made black and brown people feel weird, but they were told they couldn't because they all voted for Obama. And so I started to think a lot about how the most insidious form of racism, it's a kind of racism that we see perpetrated by people that, like, in their, like, like, like, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, toeei, toei, toei, toeei, their, their, their, their, the we see perpetrated by people that, like in their voting, that are liberals who like vote against policies that like protect young black and brown people. And so I became really obsessed with this sort of entanglement, right? A sort of like entanglement that is based around mutual respect, mutual love, but like wherein like that respect is hampered by being blind

to the ways in which being socialized white has like a challenge, it has made it almost impossible for you to like understand the complexities of any, any body that's not your own. I really do appreciate how you've created a conversation that is honest, that is heartbreaking, that is funny, it's funny as shit, man. It's one of the funniest things you will ever watch. And it leaves people in my opinion walking out going, man, I see the world in a slightly

different way and I see the way I participate in the world in a slightly different way. And so, yeah, man, I would add even more nominations to your 12. I could talk to you for hours, but maybe we'll catch the another day. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for being here and thank you for creating, Jeremy. I appreciate you, man. Can I just say one thing before we go? Of course. Of course. Of course, the the thing that I really want to say, is that if we really want more people

to see be an arts hero and the work that they are doing and also to research the federal theater project and the federal arts project, which was one of FDRs like plans as a new deal where he made federal one and put money into the hands of artists not just in New York, not just on Broadway, but everywhere. Because the, the multiple billions of dollars that arts laborers bring to the economy. 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 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 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 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 the the the the the the the the hands of artists, not just in New York, not just on Broadway, but everywhere, because the multiple billions of dollars that art sleepers bring to the economy are necessary. And I know it's fun to think about theater as like that bad musical your son or daughter was in that you like suffer through. But like, you know, the theater is what made flee bag is what made, I made assure you, is what like helped make the foundational principles of all of the shows you've watched on Netflix, Lulu, all of these other places. And if you want to make sure that there's a new generation of people who are still able to do that, who didn't starve while they were trying to do that, please, please ask your representatives to bail them out, bail all of them out.

Because I'm a lucky artist, I'm fine. I'm sitting in like a gorgeous apartment right now. But there are plenty of people who are my peers, plenty of people who are above me, who have been inspiracious to me, who are struggling to figure out how they're going to get their next meal. Because we've thought more about Wall Street bailouts and we've thought about the art sector bailouts. And those are important because do that then. Thank you, man. Don't be a stranger. Look off to yourself.

I won't. I won't. Thanks, man. All right, thanks again, Jeremy. Now, in case you're wondering, Jeremy himself has curated a collection of plays by black writers called the Golden Collection. For more information about the told to to th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. to th. th. th. th. to th. to th. to tho, tho, thin, tho, thi. to tho, to to to tho, tho, to thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to thi. to thi. to to thin. to thin. to to to thin. too. too. too. too. tooan. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. the. th how to buy it, please check out the link below. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes.

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