The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trevor and Jaboukie Young-White Discuss Amazon's Move to NYC | Kirsten Gillibrand & Tessa Thompson

Episode Date: November 16, 2018

Jaboukie Young-White reacts to Amazon's upcoming New York move, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand discusses "Bold & Brave," and Tessa Thompson chats about her role in "Creed II." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The Weekly Show is 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 John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. November 15th, 2018. From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is the Daily Show show everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Trevor Noe, thank you everybody.

Thank you for coming out. Thank you for coming, and thank you for coming out in the snow. I appreciate you guys. Every single one of you. And thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for tuning in. to you. Thank you for tuning in.

We have two amazing guests tonight. New York Senator and now Arthur, Kirsten Jillibrand is going to be here. And later in the show from the new movie Creed 2, Tessor Thompson is joining us everybody. So that's going to be a lot of fun. But first, there's a ton of news, so let's catch up on today's headlines. Let's start with President Trump.

And before you boo, before you boo, he's doing something you might actually like. President Trump threw his support behind a deal to implement the biggest criminal justice reform this nation has seen in a generation. Showcasing what would be the most sweeping prison reform agreement in decades, and if it passes, one of the biggest bipartisan laws of his administration. Americans from across the political spectrum can unite around prison reform legislation that will reduce crime while giving our fellow citizens a chance at redemption. You see? That's good news.

President Trump is supporting bipartisan criminal justice reform. Just in time for his entire administration to be indicted by Robert Mueller. Just in time. He's up there like, these criminals deserve a second term, I mean, second chance. I wonder if when Melania heard about the reduced sentences, she was like, these criminals deserve a second term, I mean second chance. I wonder if when Melania heard about the reduced sentences, she was like, does mean I get out of marriage early now? Sorry, baby, you're in for life. Speaking of getting out, it's been two years since the UK voted in favor of Brexit,

which of course is a cross between brunch and exit. And the Prime Minister has just unveiled her plan on how to do it. And let's just say it has turned into a bit of a clusterfugzit. Breaking news right now from London, five members of Prime Minister Theresa May's government have resigned saying they cannot support the 500-page draft for Brexit that was officially submitted to the European Council today. Theresa May is right now trying to explain to the the to the to the to to to the to to to the to to to the to the to to the to to to the the the the to the the to the the the the the the the the the toosehauxxxxxxxxxhauia-a-a-a-a-nipha-nipha-nipha-n. toe. toex European Council today. Theresa May is right now trying to explain to both sides of the Houses of Parliament

and frankly she's been laughed out of the room. This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. It is a draft treaty that means that we will leave the EU in a smooth and orderly way on the 29th of March 2019. Now, as usual with British comedy, you may not understand what's so funny. Basically, those lawmakers are laughing at Teresa May because they know that her smooth Brexit plan is ridiculous. And of course, it's ridiculous. No breakup is ever smooth, okay? You're gonna Brexit, it's not gonna be smooth. Like, every breakup is like that. You think it's going well, but before you know it,

she's with someone new, and then she changes the Netflix password, and then you're being arrested because you broke in to see how Hoss of Cod's ended, but I just wanted to see how it feels to have a female president. So only reason I was there. I there there th that's that's that's that's that's that's the reason I was the reason I was that's the reason I was that's the reason I was the reason I was that's the only the only that's the only that's that's that some extra looks out on the street, it's probably because your fly is down, or maybe you just forgot to shave. There's a new study out that says when it comes to facial hair, women prefer a little stubble.

The Journal of Evolutionary Biology surveyed 8,500 women and they rated men at different stages. So heavy stubble, or guys that had gone 10 days without shaving that was found to be the most attractive feature. In second, came full beards, and third, light stubble and dead last was clean-shaven. Wow, that's crazy. I never even thought about that. That is... Wow.

These... Things I don't even think about. But yeah, apparently women find men more attractive when they have a beard. Although, I don't know if that applies to Idris Elba because even without a beard, look at him. He's still Idris Elba. Yeah. Forget growing a beard. If you really want women, you should just try growing Idris Elba on your face. That's what it should be. Now the transition period is a little bit rough, but if you stick with it, it's worth it.

It's worth it. All right, on that delightful note, let's move on to our main story. I've got tape all over my face now. Ah, freshly shaved. Amazon. It's the trillion-dollar company that has a, that has, thi. thi. that has, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thri-a. thri-a. thrile. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. thri. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. to. to. to. to-a. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. to. to. to to to toe. to toe. toe. toe. toe. thr. show of our transgender family to an overnight shipping of an inflatable dildo chair which at 4999 is an absolute steel people you can't put a price on pleasure anyway as you know by now it's something still on my face

You guys wouldn't even tell me you guys weren't even going to tell me you just gonna let me do the show with the stuff on my face. Anyway, as you know by now, this week, Amazon announced that they're going to be opening two new headquarters, which sort of defeats the purpose of headquarters, but whatever. And although politicians in New York are taking a victory lap at getting Amazon to move into their state, some people are giving the move one star. Amazon's decision to put part of its new headquarters in Queens, brought a bit of a backlash. In Long Island City, some people are voicing concerns about their new neighbors.

This is one of the big concerns, a subway system, and commuters saying that they're worried about the influx of commuters. There's going to be housing issues, there's going to be traffic issues, pollution issues. Just this morning I took out my phone. I deleted the Amazon app off my phone. Yeah. Deleted the app! I like how people make it seem like deleting an app is permanent. It's gone. Goodbye, Amazon.

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Amazon's been around for 24 years and now they're doing what any like 24 year old does. What? Move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood. You know, they could have at least spent a year teaching English in Bangladesh. Well, I mean, Amazon's not trying to be original. They're trying to bring jobs to New York. Oh, yeah, that's just what New York needs. Another 25,000 tech bro sucking down green juice on the 7 train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train the seven train. I mean do you have any idea how crowded the subway is going to get? It's already a non-consensual close on orgy.

I literally don't know where my backpack starts and that dude's butt begins. Yes, but what about the fact that Amazon is promising to invest $2.5 billion into New York? Okay yeah, but New York is giving Amazon $3 billion dollars thousand $3,000000, th, th,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, th, th,000,000,000, 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,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, th, th, th, th, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thousand, thii, thi, th, th, th, th, that Amazon is promising to invest two and a half billion dollars into New York? Okay, yeah, but New York is giving Amazon $3 billion. Who wouldn't take that deal? You don't even need it. I could give you two and a half if you promise me $3 billion dollars. You want jobs?

Count my money, bitch! Yeah! Okay, I get it, and you joke, but they are still bringing 25,000 jobs. Well, yeah, but those jobs aren't going to locals. They're bringing people in. And don't think that it won't affect you, Trevor. Just wait until the mayor tells you that the Daily Show has to be hosted by the marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I actually like Mrs. Maisel. Oh yeah, me too. I haven't seen it, but like I love that it exists.

But you know what the worst part of this whole thing is? I just moved to Queens. That place used to have street cred, you know, Nicki Minaj, Nase, 50 cents. But now when I tell people I live in the Queens, they're gonna be like, oh, okay, cool, could you return this package for me? Well, look, I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem like there's anything you can do about it now, so there's no point in complaining.

Not true, Trevor, We can get out in the streets and stop Or it's too late. Packets, what you're boating? Oh, Ronnie Chang, everybody. It's Ronnie Chang. Roney, what are you doing? Side hustle, don't ask. I'm ready, my package change. I'm ready to get out and protest.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, did you just order your boycott Amazon sign from Amazon? Yeah. What am I going to do? Go to CVS? That place is nasty. Djibouki, Young White, everybody. We'll be right back.

You're not order from after. Hey, everybody. John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The weekly show 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 John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. My first guest is a Democratic senator for New York and author of the new children's book, Bold and Brave, 10 heroes who won women the right to vote. Please welcome, Senator Kirsten Gillibran. Brand. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for coming back and we'll get into the book in a moment. We were just talking about Amazon. It feels like that's what's on everybody's lips in New York. You recently commented on the whole Amazon deal. Where do you stand on it?

wento than on it. tho'eer. Where do you stand on it? Well, I have New York. You recently commented on the whole Amazon deal. Where do you stand on it? Well, I have some concerns. I mean, I'm glad they recognized that New York is the greatest city in the world, and we have some of the greatest workforce you could possibly ever want. But I'm concerned there wasn't a lot of community input. And we paid a great deal of money, which unfortunately, we still have families all across Queens, all across New York, who are struggling to make ends meet. So I just, I have some concerns.

It's an interesting dilemma for politicians to be in where you're always trying to balance the game of pleasing corporations and then also pleasing people on the ground. When you look at a situation like this, with Amazon, with what's happening with Mayor DiBlazio and Cuomo, people are saying you didn't listen to us, and they're saying no, but we did this for the people. Right. But the problem is they gave so many financial incentives to the wealthiest companies, right? to the wealthiest man in the country. I mean, it's absurd that taxpayer dollars went for that kind thoom thoom thoom tho th kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. to th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. People, th. th. th. to, to, to, to, to to to to to the the to the to th. th. the. the. the. to the. thea. to to thea. thea. thea. thea. the. the. the. the. the. theiest man in the country. I mean, it's absurd that taxpayer dollars went for that kind of investment

when we as New Yorkers know how much investment we need in our infrastructure, we need better subways, we need to be able to get work on time. So it's just a comparison of how much was offered and the fact that we have so many other urgent needs right now. That's an interesting conversation that I think thi thi thi thi thi think th th think th th th th thi th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the thi their the the that their the. their tho-a' to to their to their their their their their their their th. thus. thus. thus. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. ta ta ta. toge. toge. toge. toge. toge. to to to to to to to toda. to to today,. That's an interesting conversation that I think Democrats are going to be having going forward now. The conversation of money versus politics. The Democrats have won the House. The Democrats are picking up more and more seats every single day. It seems like there was in fact a blue wave. Going forward, there has been talk of a few ideas the Democrats are pushing forward,

and one of those key ones has been getting money out of politics. Is that a realistic idea? I think it's the most important thing we could try to do, because everything that you want to accomplish, no matter what it is. The reason why it's so hard is because how much money the special interests, the wealthiest corporations spend on politics and distorts outcomes. It's really not only soft corruption, but sometimes hard corruption. And so if we want to guarantee health care as a right and not a privilege, well then you

have to take on the drug companies and you have to take on the insurance companies. If you want to end gun violence in this country, you've got to take on the NRA and the gun manufacturers and funded. Right. So, it's important, I think, for all of us to understand that connection between money and politics, and we have to restore our democracy to the people. You have to really break up the current system and say we need publicly funded elections. We need greater transparency and accountability because you have to get this overwhelmingly, powerful moneyed interest that the most powerful moneyed interests have in outcomes.

You know, this last tax bill, there's no better example, written in the dead of night by the special interests, even Republican members saying, oh, we have to get this bill passed because our donors will be furious if we don't. So the truth is, you really got to get money out of politics. So I'm glad that it's something that we're going to start talking to to to to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start passing, to start passing, pass pass pass pass pass passing, pass passing, passing about passing, passing, passing, passing, passing, passing, passing, pass, passing, passing, passing, the, their, their, their, their, and, their, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, the, the they. And. And. And. And. And, the the the the they.s.s.s.s.s.s.c.c.c.c. the the the the the the the too.c.c. the the the te. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th to get money out of politics. So I'm glad that it's something that we're going to start talking about, passing reforms, and continue the conversation with the American people. Do you feel like laws will be passed? Do you feel like the Democratic House will be able to work with a Republican Senate

and with the Republican president? I think it's possible, and you have to keep putting those ideas out there. And if the the the they their their their their to their their. to to to their. they know that our democracy is broken, and they know that the system's rigged, and that the most powerful have such an outsized influence. So they're going to be behind it, and they'll be behind it no matter where you live, whether it's a red state or a blue state or a purple state, people ability to be heard, our democracy only works when regular people stand up and demand it. And so that's one of the reasons why I wrote this book, because it tells the story about

how women actually earned the right to vote and what they had to do to get there. And so we cannot lose sight of how important that right is. And so not only money out of politics, but also voting rights. It is a a a powerful a powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful is a powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful. It is a powerful powerful powerful. It is a powerful powerful powerful powerful powerful. It is a powerful powerful. It is a powerful powerful, it is a powerful, it is a powerful, it is a thoooomom, thoom, tho, tho, thoom, tho, to, to, to, to, to, too, too, tooe, to to to to to the the their, their, their, their, their, thoes. thii, thi. thi. thi. thi. th. to, to, to, to, to, to to to to to to to to thi. to to to their, their, their, their, their, the thooooooooooooooooooom.e. toea. toea. toea. toea. that's come out at a very timely moment. You have more women going into Congress than ever before. It's a beautiful book, and it seems like it's for children, but I was reading it and I was learning thin brie. And this book, Bold and Bride, 10 heroes who won women the rights to vote. It's a beautiful book, and it seems like it's for children, but I was reading it and I was learning things.

And you would. So the interest... You genuinely do though. Yes, so you wouldn't know, you mean, Susan B. Anthony and Lisztek, we've heard of those suffragists. But do we know what important roles sojourner truth paid in actually getting the right to vote because she was one of the first to talk about the intersectionality between black women who had to not only abolish slavery first, but then also needed to get the right to vote to be heard to have control over their lives.

And so Sojourner was so amazing because she put that issue squarely in the movement in one of the first women's rights conventions in Akron, so she was a forerunner to other suffraget suffrage........ th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, to to to to to to to to toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, the, the, the, the, tho, the, tho, thoer, toe, thoooooeruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. toe, toe, erunner to other suffragists who came later who carried that banner, Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell. Same with Harriet Tubman. I mean, she escaped slavery and then went back to get other slaves free. And she never gave up. And what made her journey so powerful to me

is that just the pure empathy she had for the people that she was fighting for. She said, I've heard their cries, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I've, and I, and I've, and I've, and I've, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, their, and, and, th, th, their, their, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, tho, the, thea, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, the've heard their cries, I've heard their screams, I've felt their pain and I would give every drop of my blood to free them. I mean, that was the unbelievable strength and courage to put herself in danger every day. And then, after all that, she went on and did speeches around the country for suffrage. Do you think it's ever a bit of a paradox? Or do you find it's perplexinginging, do a that that thia that thia their a thia thia thiiiiiiiiiolexexex I thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr-a, thr-a, thrown, thr-a, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm th. th. th. I was th. I was 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, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr. I'm thr. I'm thr. I'm thr. I'm thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, thr. that's thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, that many women who vote today, specifically, let's say for the Republican Party, vote in a way that many would consider against their best interests. So for instance, you look at Brian Kemp in Georgia, you look at how many white women voted for him.

You look at the Republican Party itself. You look at all of the votes that we saw in the midterms. And it looks like many white women are saying, yes, we're with you as women, but that doesn't mean that our vote has to go that way. Why do you think there's such a disconnect between how the Democratic Party connects with many women of color and how many white women in America's go, no, this is not the party for us? Well I think it's a really difficult question, to be honest, because they really are voting against their interest. But what's changing that is the women who are running,

who are so inspiring, that they are still winning. Like, the fact that you have Stacey Abrams running in Georgia, if she could win this election, she's the first black woman governor ever in our country's history. And now she's demanding that every vote be counted. Transformational women like Kirsten Cinema winning in a red state of Arizona. First bisexual woman to be elected to the US Senate who grew up in poverty, who actually knew what it was like to be homeless. Part of her life she lived in a gas to, an abandoned gas station. So when she comes to the

U.S. Senate she's going to shake things up. So I do think things are changing and it's changing because the number of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of the number of women of women of women of women of women ofthings are changing and it's changing because of the number of women who turned out to vote, it's also the number of women who decided to run and the number of women of color who are running. It's exponentially different than in the past. Before I let you go, one of the most important questions everyone wants to ask you, ask you whether or not you're running in 2020. Now that's a question-a tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty the of a the of a the of a the of a thrown. the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the number the number the number the number the number the number the number the number the number the number the number of thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, thrown, the the. the the number the. the thruuu. throoooooooooooooe to the number of women to the number what you think the plan will be when the Democrats have a hundred people running for 2020? At what point do you think as a person you know that you should or should no longer be in a race?

I know that's a tough question to ask because you haven't even said you're running yet, but is there a plan in place so that there isn't like a shit show where there's just a hundred people on stage or fighting for scraps. No. There is no plan? No. Okay. Not at all. But I think you know for each person who will consider it I think you just have to, you know for me it's very much a moral question about whether you need to use your time and talents to serve the country in that way. Of course I will fight for New Yorkers and serve New York but you ask, I have to ask to ask to ask to ask to ask 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 th th th th tho tho tho tho their tho tho tho tho tho 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 their their their their their their their to to to to to to thoooooooooooooooooooooooooomuu. tooom. toe. th. thoooooo. their. their serve the country in that way. Of course, I will fight for New Yorkers and serve New York, but you ask, I have to ask my own self, do I need to do this thing because this is a moment

where people have to fight back with everything they have. And what President Trump has put it out into the world is a lot of hate, a lot of division, all of us, you, me, everyone here is called to do something in this moment and we just have to decide what our something is. Thank you so much for doing our show. Bold and Brave is available now. Senator Crescenten Gillesbrand, everybody. We'll be right back.

John Stewart here. Unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, The Weekly Show. We're going to be talking about the election, economics, ingredient to bread ratio, on sandwiches. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. My next guest is an actor who stars in the new movie, Creed 2. Please welcome Tessa Thompson.

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that change when you're playing her? Yeah, I think so often you see in these sports movies, that, you know, we wanted to create a character Ryan Kugler and I the first time around that sort of bucked convention and I think so often you see in these sports movies that the wife or the girlfriend is sort of this dutiful, just like stand by her man. She's either fretting over him or scolding him for his trespasses. And I do a fair amount of that in these movies too, just because you have to, it's sort of requisite. But we also wanted her to just have her own agency and have something that she was after. So she's a singer, she's self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self self. She's self. She's self. She's self. She's self. She's self. She's self-a. She's the the th. the th. th. the the the th. their. their. their. their. 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 th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the the the thea. the the the the the. the the the the the the the the the the the the that she was after. So she's a singer, she's self-produced, she does have progressive hearing loss, but it's something that she doesn't feel, you know, it's not something that she's going to hang her hat on

or something that she's going to let keep her from pursuing her dreams with vigor. And I think that's the case for so many people, people that are disabled or with disabilities, they live really full, fantastic lives. And so I think that that's something that's really nuanced about her and unlike a lot of female characters in those spaces that I've seen. Yeah, what I found amazing in the story was it felt like your character was helping Michael with something that he was struggling with as opposed to the other around.

You would think on paper he would be helping her, but it felt like she was the crutch. When you look at having that agency in real life, Tessa Thompson is not just somebody who's in front of the camera. You're now producing your own content. You're now looking at creating your own stories. You have a project that you're really excited about. that is a project that I'm really really really really really named Doris Payne, who is an 86-year-old diamond thief and she's done it for decades.

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She had also promised her rights, of course, because she's a con woman to multiple people. So there was like a okay, let me back off for a second. But then she got arrested for stealing, something from Macy's or something, so I knew where she was. I wrote her, still didn't get through, right? And then she got arrested about a year ago, again, for stealing, what, after she had turned 86, $86?

right? And then she got arrested about a year ago again for stealing, after she had turned 86, $86 worth of merchandise from a Walmart. Not by surprise, because in this internet space, now every time she gets arrested, she trends for a minute. So I'm convinced that she did it on purpose so that she could get a really good deal to option her life story, which she got in the form of me. We finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally, th finally, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, after, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. it on purpose so that she could get a really good deal to option her life story, which she got in the form of me. We finally found her. We found her.

We sent a lawyer to Atlanta, Georgia to bail her out, no strings attached, get her settled in and then start having conversations. And now, you know, we've been hanging out and working on the story. And I think it's a fascinating story about race. I th th th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I'm think, I'm think, I'm thin, I'm thi, I'm thin, I'm thin' thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, I'm thin, working on the story and I think it's a fascinating story about race. I think she started this just, you know, not just to make money but I think also because she said if she could walk in with the right bag and the right shoes people would treat her differently. She said she never thought that she was stealing anything because she only kept what they let her keep. And they would let her hang out with these diamonds and rubies and things because she looks so sharp.

And I think there is something about that as people, you know, hopefully when we get it to a space where we're judged by our merit and not by what we look like. But I love her. But I love her. I love her. I love her. I love her so. That's exciting. I can talk forever, sorry. I'm about her. I want to see that movie now, so we're going to add that to the list.

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