The Daily Show: Ears Edition - This Week's Top Stories - Book Bans on the Rise, Tinder Blind Dates & Canada's Trucker Protest

Episode Date: February 19, 2022

Conservatives in the U.S. rally to get books banned from school libraries, Tinder rolls out a feature for blind dates, Jordan Klepper investigates Canada's ongoing trucker protest and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. While Russia is threatening to violate Ukraine's sovereignty, they're already violating the rules of the Olympics. And it's causing a huge controversy in the world of figure skating. With the world watching her every move, this morning, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamela Valleva is set to take to the ice, despite testing positive for an illegal performance enhancing substance before the games. A positive drug test is going to be on the ice here in a few hours skating at the Olympic

Games. I cannot believe I just said that sentence. The IOC now saying that Valleva claims there was a mix-up with her grandfather's heart medication. International court deciding she can still compete while they investigate further. In response, the IOC saying, if Valleva lands in the top three, there will be no medals handed out until the investigation is complete. I can't believe they caught someone cheating and they're still letting her compete while they investigate more. Like, guys, it almost feels like the investigation is not about whether she cheated or not.

It's almost like the real investigation here is, okay, let's see what these drugs can do. Let it rip. Well, come on, let's just see. We just want to know, right? Everybody wants to know. I also know that nobody believes her. I also know that nobody believes her, right? That she's accidentally, tha, tha, tha, tha, their, tha, but I do. I believe her. Because I know what it was like growing up, me and my family, we always had a big bowl of loose pills all mixed together. It's an easy mistake to make.

Is this one yours? I don't know. I know my estrogen has changed, thrown, but I don't know. Meanwhile, everyone's obsessed with this girl, and the pills. That's all everyone's talk is talk talking is talk talking is talk talking is talk talking is talk talking is talking took is took is took is took is took t one is focusing on the fact that her grandpa took her medication. Now he's dominating bingo at the old folks home. I will say, you know, like, one of the things that shocked me about this story is that

I've always pictured performance enhancing drugs and steroids for things that you need, like, powerful, do you know what Iing themselves. It's like, all right, let's go! Now a lot of people are scratching their heads. A lot of people have been asking this online saying, why? Why is it that this Russian skater is still being allowed to compete in the Olympics when Carrie Richardson, remember her? She was kicked out of the Olympics after she smoked weed. But apparently the reason for this theeeeeeeeeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckecke, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I'd, the, the, the, the, the, I'd the, I'd the, I'd the, I'd thean, I'd thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, the out of the Olympics after she smoked weed. Yeah, but apparently the reason for this, and I just found this out, is that one difference is that if you're a minor in sports and you get caught doping, they give you

more leeway because you're young and you're impressionable and you may not be in control of what you're putting into your body. Yeah, I didn't know that. That's a pretty big loophole in the the antidope. thtaping thtape, like thtape, like, like, like, like, like, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I's, I's, I's, I's, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm thin-a, I'm, thin, th th thin, th th. th. thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, the the thin, thin, the thin, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, th-a, is, th-a, th-a, thr-a, thr-a, thin, thin, thin, thin, is, their, their, the the their, the th the the th the the theean, the their, their, their, their, their, their, oping rules. Like I'm not saying Russia had this minor take steroids on purpose because they knew she wouldn't get in trouble, but if they did do it on purpose, I mean you got to admit that's a pretty slick move, you know? It's the same reason drug dealers put kids out on the corner. Like shit, the worst they use 15-year-olds to invade Ukraine. The new culture war raging across America is over books, aka movies without the cool sound effects. Yeah, I always think the movies are better. I'm going to read a book and then I've got to do it myself. Pup-Pew, Pew, Pue, P! said Harry Potter.

Now even though most kids only read books in school to hide their erections, some parents and politicians have suddenly gotten very concerned about which books are available in schools. And they're dealing with this problem, that they invented, by the way, in a time-honored way, with a good, old-fashioned book ban. According to the New York Times, the pace at which groups of parents and officials and lawmakers are challenging books in school libraries has reached a speed that many haven't seen in decades. Just since the start of the school year, the American Library Association has tracked more than 230 book challenges nationwide.

Parents and school officials banning books at an unprecedented rate. Record requests to nearly 100 Texas districts found that during the first four months of this school year, parents made at least 75 formal complaints compared to only one file during the same period last year. A Virginia school district is pulling library books off of the shelves and some board members say they want to burn them. I want to look at every book that you guys, a copy of every book that is brought, pulled out of circulation.

I'm sure we've got hundreds of people out there that would like to see those books before we burn them. They want to burn books? We're not in the 1900s. We're living in 2022. We shouldn't be burning books. We have air friars and microwaves and all kinds of cool shit now. We could be like filleting the books. You know we could be lightly roasting the books, put some butter and some salt.

Ooh, you taste that book now? Mmm, that's food for thought. See what I did there? But yeah, that's the situation right now. Parents across the country are trying to get books banned from certain schools, right? And I'll be honest, if I was a kid in school right now, I would jump in and use this outrage to my advantage. Yeah, the parents would all be there like, we have to get these books off the shelves. Yeah, and don't forget the trigonometry textbooks and the yearbook where I had had that that thured theded thed thed thed. I had that weird rash on my face. Burn him all!

Now, I'll be honest, people. I don't know if these culture warriors have thought this through, because making something forbidden just makes teenagers wanted more. Think about it. Any time, any time parents would say something would make them mad, what would happen? Their kids would want to do it even more.

Yeah, now they're going to be like, no books books the books this up and soon, reading books is gonna be the new dating a black guy. And look, they have always been, don't get me wrong. They've always been some parents who've wanted books pulled from schools and libraries. That's always been a thing, you know, like, conservatives wanted to ban Harry Potter for promoting witchcraft. Liberals want to ban Huckleberry fin their book. . Liberals want to ban Huckleberry Finn for using the N-word. Mockingbirds want to burn that book about killing them. But recently, recently, the number of books being targeted has gotten out of control.

And the types of books that are being targeted now are very revealing. Books on race, gender, and sexuality are disappearing from school shelves. Books about coming of age and reckoning with real world problems like depression, gender politics and racial injustice history like the Holocaust like the Holocaust or slavery. One Tennessee District banning mouse, a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust. One tells a story of school segregation to the eyes of Mexican-American students. One is about the march on Washington, and two are about civil rights icon, Ruby Bridges. One parent even asked the district to remove a biography of Michelle Obama

arguing the book promotes reverse racism. The district denied the request. I can't believe these people want to ban a Michelle Obama biography. It's a biography. That totally gives away the game that this is more about ginning up a culture war than protecting kids because once you're banning a book the game, that this is more about ginning up a culture war than protecting kids. Because once you're banning a book about any first lady, that's political. I don't care what anybody says. There's no book about a first lady that's controversial. You know, unless maybe it's like Martha Jefferson's book.

One hundred and one tips for owning slave children who kind to look like my husband. Yeah, that's a little edgy for the the the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tot, tot, tot, tot, tot tot, tot tot tha tha- thi, thi, tha- thi, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, th. That's, th. That's, th, th, th, th. That's, th, th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's t, tot, tot, tot, totally totally totally totally totally totally tha-a, tha-a, totally tha-a, tha-a, that's tha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a, tho''. Yeah, that's a little edgy for the kids, but otherwise, it's pretty chill. And you can see how crazy this book banning trend has gotten, right? They're banning books about race, about gender, about sexuality, about emotions, about history. Guys, that's all books. Think about it, you take away all of those books, and what are you going to be left with? A how-to book about making pottery? Wrong! That vase is too sexy. I also can't believe that they're going to ban Ruby Bridges. You understand how crazy that is? You're going to ban a book about Ruby bridges?

So that poor girl needed the National Guard to get her into school. Now they're going to have the National Guard escorts her out. And look, I'm not saying that school that school that school that school. the school. the school. the school. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their going. thi. I'm going. they're going. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they's going they's going they's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I's going. I'm going going. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going going going. I'm going. I'm going going going. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going to going to going to going to going to going to going to going to going to going to going to b. I'm going to going to going to b. I'm going to b. to br-a. I'm going to going to going to br-a. I'm going going to br-a. I'm not saying that schools shouldn't be allowed to curate what books they carry. I'm not saying that. I know people are going to say, you're saying that the schools shouldn't get to decide for them to... No, I'm not saying, I'm exactly not saying that. But you are saying, I'm not saying that. the libraries have always decided which books are in the books. they're not in the thoe like thoe like to read it. But I guarantee you the vast majority of schools don't even have the most outrageous books that are on these lists. What's happening here, what's happening here is that people are finding the most scary parts of the most scary books. And then they're making a bad faith argument that kids are being bombarded with all of this stuff.

So all the books have to go. And that happens even if you try and talk about books. And that happens even if you try and talk about books. Like if I say books shouldn't be banned, I know someone's going to pull out the most extreme example from some random library at a school and be like, oh really, Trevor? You're okay with kids reading this? And I don't know. Maybe I'm not. But now we're arguing about one page in one book as if that's the story. When the actual story is people are using these books as an excuse, th dbooks, thia books, thia thia tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, 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, 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. thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. thiiiii. thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, th books as an excuse to go after all the books that they don't like. Because again people, this isn't about books, all right? This is about keeping the culture war going for political benefits. You don't

just have Republicans in dozens of states around the country suddenly realizing all at the same time that there are books that they want to ban in their libraries. All at the same time? Come on. It's happening because they think it's a winning issue. Or at least they think it's more of a winning issue than Trump is secretly still the president. But I am. Shut up.

You're going to make us lose. And the problem with waging a culture war, is that when people are fighting. No, they want to punish the enemy. In Wyoming, a county prosecutor's office considered charges against library employees for stalking books like sex is a funny word and this book is gay. In Oklahoma, a bill sets a $10,000 bounty to be collected by parents for each day a challenged book remains on library shelves. Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for criminal charges against staff who provide kids with pornographic books. School librarians fearing for

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pay out. Ten grand is a lot of money. Ten grand for banning a book is more than most authors made for writing that book. So that's the latest culture war that's tearing America apart. It's happening in schools. And who knows if it'll even stop there. But pretty soon, any place the kids go to to find books could become a target. their targets. Hey, y'all, Lovar Burton here, and I am so excited to read with you today.

Our first selection is called Rosa, and it's the story of Rosa Parks who... Who... So, as it turnthe story of Rosa Parks who... So, as it turns out, that book is banned because reading about segregation is divisive. But since almost any book with black people these days is considered divisive, here's one that doesn't have any people in it at all. It's about two penguins and their little baby. Both penguins are boys. Well, I'm told that that book is also banned because of sexual perversion, which is weird

because there's no sex in the book at all. Y'all, they adopted the baby. What do you guys want? A mommy and a daddy penguin so the kids can make sure that the book at all. Y'all, they adopted the baby. What do you guys want? A mommy and a daddy penguin so the kids can make sure that the penguins are knocking boots? All right, I've got one that they can't possibly have a problem with. Hop on pop. What? Disrespectful to parents?

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Read ban books! Ooh, stay safe LeVar. The British Royal Family. The only people who think chess is a representative game. Look, there's me, and there's you, and there's the people who pay us. Yesterday marked Queen Elizabeth's 70th year on the throne, making her the longest serving monarch in British history. which must be nice for all of those people who've been shouting, long live the Queen! Yeah, because now they can be like, yeah, you see, we did that. Now as part of the anniversary observance, the family has announced that if and when Queen Elizabeth dies and her son Charles becomes king, his wife, Camilla, will be crowned alongside him as queen. And I don't know if you remember, but when Camilla first started dating Charles, people

said that she could never be queen because their relationship started as an affair. So this is huge, this is a huge, huge deal. And I also think it's the right move, because can you imagine how awkward was going to be otherwise if every time Charles and Camilla walked in a room and The Royal announcer would be like presenting the King of England And presenting his sidepiece But while I'm sure the Royals would love to be focusing on the future of the family Unfortunately, they've been forced to deal with a scandal from their past you see for decades

Elizabeth's second son, Prince Andrew, he was rolling deep with Jeffrey Epstein. And after years of fighting allegations that he had done anything wrong, it looks like he's finally throwing in the towel. Tonight, Prince Andrew dramatically a court battle, not admitting liability, but not clearing his name. Virginia Jufrey claimed she was sexually assaulted by the prince when she was 17 years old, trafficked by Epstein. The 61-year-old prince will pay his accuser, Virginia Jufre, a reported $10 million, and make a substantial donation to her charity in support of victims' rights.

Of course, questions saying, is it Prince Andrew's money? We know that he's sold his Swiss ski shally reputedly for about 18 million but many people saying the Queen is helping to foot the bill. Yeah that's right. After years of fighting Prince Andrew has finally settled with Virginia Joufrey and although it's not perfect justice I mean it is something you know to be honest I almost feel like this guy got off easy because yeah it is10 million, but you're from the royal family. Think about it. Ten million dollars is like one jewel from one of their crowns.

And this has got to suck for the queen. Like imagine having to use the money that you earned to, I guess you didn't like earn it, but I mean, imagine like working hard your whole life. Oh, I mean, she doesn't really work. You get what I'm saying. You get what I'm saying. The point is, the Queen didn't get into the royal business to do stuff like this, right? She got into it to steal spices from India. It's about that life. And I can tell you now, this is probably where she misses the days when she could just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just the the days when she could just chop off people's heads. You know? Because back in the day, with this thing happening with Andrew, the queen would have just been like, Andrew, I dropped my contact lens, would you burn down and pick it up?

Where, mommy? Ah! Ten million saved. Oh, and by the way, the next time your mom complains about you asking her for rent money, you just of the same old same old dating app scene where you swipe right on the cute guy he swindles you out of thousands of dollars blah blah blah blah blah blah blah then good news. Tinder is now offering a blind date feature on the app. Yeah because usually

when you're scrolling through people you first see their picture right and then you decide right away whether you're too good looking for them or they're too good looking for you. But now, Tinder is just going to ask you questions. And then what they're going to do is they're going to match you with someone based on your responses. And then you have a chat with them. And then if you both likethat point, then you know immediately that you're ugly. And you know, it's so funny how tech companies came out like, they're the future. They're going to show us new things. But then as time goes on, they seem to invent stuff that already exists.

Like blind dates. Like blind dates. It's the middle ages were like, all our dates are blind. And I'm sorry, but you can't really recreate blind dates. Unless you also recreate the part where your mutual friend tries to talk the other person up whilst also avoiding their faults. That's a key part of blind dates. Yeah, he's like super good at cooking, and he loves to read.

Interesting. So does he have a job? As I said, he loves to read. Eh? I also have to mention that this blind dating scheme that Tinder is running. This is discriminatory towards hot, dumb, boring people. You realize you're taking away their greatest assets. People with good personalities, they're going to do fine in this situation. They can meet people in person, they can charm them. All some people have thi th th th people have have have have have have th people have th people have th people have th people have th people have thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi thi thi. I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I th th th th th th, th, th th, th, thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi their greatest assets. People with good personalities, they're gonna do fine in this situation. They can meet people in person, they can charm them.

All some people have is a six-pack. They don't even know that they have a six-pack because they can't count that high. All right, but let's move on to a story coming from my home country, South Africa. Yeah, it's not the most creatively named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named named you always know where to find us. It's been almost 10 years since the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.

And for those of you who don't know, Nelson Mandela was basically the Martin Luther King of our Harriet Tubmans. And every way you go in South Africa, they are reminders of how great he is, like there are statues, there are bridges named after him. There's whole neighborhoods that bear his name. But now, there's a new, fancier way for people who want to celebrate his legacy. The former home of Nelson Mandela is now a luxury hotel.

It's called Sanctuary Mandela, and it was Mandela's first home in Johannesburg after being released from 27 years in prison. South Africa's first black president lived there for six years. It now can host 18 guests, 18 guests, and there, th, th, th, th, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are there are thoo-a' thea' thea' thea' thea' theaugh, thea, black president lived there for six years. It now can host 18 guests and 18 guests rather and is adorned with Mandela memorabilia. Even Madiba's former cook is on staff there helping to prepare meals. Rooms range from $250 to as much as $1,000 a night. Yeah, that's right. Nelson Mandela's old house has been turned into a luxury hotel. And I mean, I guess this is just the fate of every historic building now, right?

Because if you think about half of the old buildings around the world are now either a bank, an Apple store or a CVS, that's it. I wouldn't be shocked if in like a hundred years, the White House is going to be turned into to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the to be to be is going to be turned into Jeff Bezos's Dog's Weekend Place. Now, some people think that it doesn't make sense for the home of the man who fought inequality to be turned into a luxury hotel, but it does. It actually does. And it really does if you remember one of Mandela's most famous quotes when he said, Do not judge me by the threat count of these Egyptian cotton sheets, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thioling, thioling, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thioluuuioluiolome, thiolome, thiolome, 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, thi, thi, thuuu.e, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiioli, thi, thi, skin, but rather judge me by the thread count of these ejection cotton sheets, bawling out of control.

Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. It was a powerful speech. We cried that day. We cried that day. Also, you know, when you're staying at the Nelson Mandela Hotel, good l'luck fighting the mini-bar charges that you think are unfair. He's gonna be at the front desk like, Hi, excuse me, I think I was unfairly charged for a bag of pistachios. Madam, let me tell you about unfair charges. So yeah, look, this is gonna come with its pros and its cons.

People are gonna be for it and against it. And I guess th th th th th th and maybe some of the community. But you gotta admit, man, at the same time, it does feel a little disrespectful for everything that Nelson Mandela went through, you know? He's gonna pay some money and you can sleep in his house? You know what he had to do? You know what they should say, for every night that you stay in the hotel, you should also have to spend a night in an apartheid prison. Yeah, now you're getting the full experience.

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