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A Look Back at 2021 - The Year in Cancellations | Huma Abedin

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Governor Gavin Newsom models a California gun reform law after a Texas anti-abortion law, Roy Wood Jr. highlights who got cancelled in 2021, and Huma Abedin discusses her memoir "Both/And."

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You're listening to Comedy Central. Big news Today, Kim Kardashian announced that she passed a big law exam in California. Yeah, on her fourth try. She she passed the baby bar exam, which I didn't know that that was a like a lower exam. I was like, the baby ball was like a place where you took your baby to hang out to meet other babies, Like when babies having a tough day, then they're just being the baby bar together. Give me in there a pan of milk left is hard. I

thought it was that thing anyway, Kim. It was just really cool because a lot of people didn't think Kim could pass any of these exams, and now she's on her way to becoming like a full on lawyer, which is dope. And now what I didn't like is people online were like, I would never hire Kim Kardashian as yo, I would definitely hire Kim Kardashian. You kidding me? If she could convince the world that being a Kardashian was a job, she can convince to all people that I

didn't kidnap someone's cat. That's what I need in my corner. And she was saying like she was like, my dad would be proud right now. He's in heaven. He's probably like proud of me and blah blah. And I was like, yeah, can imagine Kim connessions because he's asoloyer, he's probably looking down, he's proud, and he's also looking down going wow, how

the hell is o J still free? Damn? It's coming to you from the heart of times where in New York City called me City in America, It's The Daily Here tonight it's just like what Can's line and Puma. It is The Daily Show with Trevor. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining me for today's headlines is Michael Costa. How are you doing? Michael?

Years almost over, Trevor A Right, two more weeks and I realized I gotta get on my New Year's resolution now or else I'm never gonna have actually done anything. So for the next two weeks, I'm going vegan and uh. For the next twelve days, I'm gonna do no cheese, pizza, an impossible burger, and then New Year's Eve, I'm gonna do it's spaghetti with tofu butter. Is that what they do? I don't know, but so never too late. That's my that's my mission. I think it might be okay, but

you know what, good for you. I'm still going for it. You know, That's what I love about your Michael Trevor, always pushing. Good luck with that, all right, let's jump straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with the big media news. Every year since Time Magazine has awarded Person of the Year to the world's most influential newsmaker. It is by far the most incredible honor that most

people find out about in the dentist's office. And this year, the lucky winner is a guy who already pretty much one life. We have breaking news. Tessela and CEO Elon Musk, is now Time Magazines Person of the Year. Time Magazine said he is different from any other CEO. Constantly interacting with Twitter users while running one of the most valuable companies in the world, Elon Musk can also influence the markets with just one tweet. Time Magazine also recognize must

other ventures like SpaceX. Musk is the richest man in the world thanks to Tesla, which is increased in value eightfold since the beginning of the pandemic. Yeah, congratulations Elon Musk, oh Man, I'm so happy for him. Like, the guy could really use an ego boost, you know, and honestly, you can't argue with this. I mean, richest man in the world who also controls space, crypto and electric cause h I mean, who would even be second place? Like

maybe Pete Davidson. Maybe the only question is this though, Why isn't that Person of the Year always goes to the weirdest persons? Like have you noticed that? Like I sometimes wanted if aliens came down. I don't know if I want these guys representing our race, you know, the aliens would be like your species needs to be exterminated. Except for that guy. Hey, Shame's normal, totally normal. I think it's just because his name is Elon that we

think he's all futuristic. You know a lot of futuristic things. Elen, I pad, xbox, E, cigarette, a rod. You know if his name was Leon, would you buy a car from Leon? Trevor? It wouldn't be the same. Leon Musk does not carry the same word. Stop talking about the blockchain Leon, you know what I mean? So I Leon feels like a kind of a deadbeat name, whereas Elon' is a disruptor. So I'm not on board. So you don't think he deserves it at all. I think we're all being duped

by some good naming. I feel you there. You know, Tesla, that's a good name as well if it was called Elsa. You see, we just let it go. We let it go. I'll be here, weak folks. All right, let's move on to our next story, which is from California, America's side. Boob. California is one of the most anti gun states in the country, which is a frustrating position to be in these days, especially when conservative courts are striking down any

effort at gun control. But now the governor of California has come up with a new plan to limit guns, and where he got the idea from is pretty hilarious. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he wants to use the new restrictive abortion law in Texas as a model to ban assault weapons us them tweeted he wants legislation that allows Californians to sue anyone who makes, distributes, or sells

the guns, as well as ghost gun kits. The governor site Supreme Court rulings that have allowed the Texas law to remain in effect while the High Court reviews it. That's right, Gavin Newsom now wants to pull a Texas except he's going to do it on assault weapons and ghost guns, which, if you ask me, is a pretty risky move. I mean, you're gonna want those ghost guns and a giant marshmallow man shows up. I don't think

that's what a ghost gun is. I think it is costa I re but yeah, the idea is that because the Supreme Court is allowing this for banning abortion, they're gonna have to allow it for banning guns too. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. The problem with this idea is that the Supreme Court can make up whatever rules they like, Like, if they want to strike down

these gun laws, they'll find a way. You know, the Supreme Court is like that annoying kid that your mom made you have playdates with tag I got you not. I have a vest that makes me invisible. Man, I wish the courts allowed your mom to have an abortion. You know, I'll tell you what, guys, America has gotten so divided right now that at this point I think maybe maybe some states should just like succeed and and try and do their own thing, like you know, have

they tried that before? I was supposed the worst that could happen, you know, Trevor Um. I usually try to have something funny to say, but this story is about guns, abortion and obscure Supreme Court ruling. So you're on your own for this one. Wow. I was hoping that I was going to turn it to you and you were gonna like, I know, I mean, and then you just left me. If anything, I wish to state in New York allowed me the right to sue you for putting me on the spot to come up with something funny

for that story. But we're not there yet. Well, I mean, it's it's your job. Like you, before we started this, you said you've got my back, and now you're saying I'm saying, that's a tough story, you know, but but yeah, I mean that's what we do here. We deal with tough stories. Well, you do it better than me, which is why I'm sitting this one out. But at this point it seems like I'm all in because I'm still talking. Somehow,

I was trying. I was trying to step out of it, but now I'm in so well, we're in this together. We're in together. Yeah, all right, let's move on from customs story that he brought into the show and talk about some big news from the world of sports involving Formula one racing the absolute coolest way to contribute to climate change. Yesterday was the final race of the season, but how it ended is giving a lot of people

road rage. Back now with a big story in Formula one racing, a new champion unseated seven time reigning champ Lewis Hamilton's after one of the most controversial race finishes in the history of the sport. This was a walk off home run, a buzzer beater, and a hail Mary all wrapped into one. It was the final lap of the final race of a frantic Formula One season. It

brought chaos, controversy, and a new champion. On Sunday, it looked like Hamilton's had the victory and the title in hand, leading almost the whole way with for stopping a distant second, until things got crazy near the end of the race. The crash forced the safety car onto the track to limit the driver's speeds. Once the race restarted on lap fifty eight of fifty eight were stopping, fought, overtook, and sped by Hamilton's to win the championship in a shocking,

unprecedented finish. Okay, Okay, I know right now there are a lot of people who are saying, I literally do not understand anything here. So let me and explain what happened to you and why everyone in Britain is in a bad mood today. I mean, aside from the six straight days of rain, Basically what happened. Basically what happened is you've got Lewis Hamilton's. Okay, he's like the Lebron James of Formula One, like if Lebron wasn't just the best player but also the only black player ever in

the NBA. Okay, you with me. So now, Hamilton's was trying to win his eighth championship, and for the entire race he was in the league. But then there's a big crash at the back of the race. And whenever that happens in Formula One, a safety car has to come out to make sure that while they're cleaning up all the wreckage on the track, the other cars don't run over the people who are doing the cleaning, because

that's just rude. Plus if you hit the people who are cleaning up, then you've got to bring more people to clean up the people who are cleaning them up, and then it becomes like a whole thing. So the safety car, safety car comes out and drive slow, and all the race cars behind it they have to stay

behind the safety car, you know. So it's it's it's like it's like a a senior citizen doing twenty on a one way road, you know, which which kind of sucks if you're leading, because Hamilton's was in the lead, right because he has to slow down. Meanwhile, everyone at the back can catch up to you. Yeah, and I don't think there are any other sports where this happens, Like you never you never see an NFL game where for a few minutes the riff only lets the losing

team score. Oh my god, someone's hurt real bad. All right, would you guys like to score a couple of touchdowns while we drag him off the field? Yeah? Yeah, not you, not you, someone's hurt. Okay, you guys want to score quick, all right? Go on, go on, go on, guys. Yeah, and look, yes, it's kind of a crazy way to do things right. It is kind of crazy, but I mean these people also driving two hundred miles an hour around a race track, so crazy is relative, and some

people argue that it makes the sport more exciting. Every time there's a crash, the whole field comes back together and then it's a it's a race, you know. So now, because of the safety car, everyone caught up to Hamilton's right and then with one final leap to go, the race director, he's like the guy who chooses everything is

like bigger than the reff He had two options. One, follow the rules and let the race end under the safety car, in which case Hamilton's would have won, but with all the other cars driving like they're going through a school zone, very boring. Or two second option was spice things up, you know, change the rules a little bit and restart the race, but for one final lap,

which is what he did. Yeah, and that last lap, which maybe shouldn't have happened, gave Max for step and the guy who was in second place, it gave him a chance to go change his tires and then pull ahead and win. So that's why Lewis Hamilton's fans are pissed at what happened, and his team protested the decision. But that protest goes to the same people who made the decision. So I mean, that was never gonna work. It's like appealing your mom, grounding you to your mom.

I've checked with myself, and I decided that my decision was correct. And by the way, by the way, just just asn't decide. I love how every sport, every sport has all of these layers of replay officials and specialists and appeals to analyze every little play. But then when we're trying to solve real things like murder, is we just as twelve random people on the street. He's like, Hey, do you think this guy did it? Yeah? Yeah, he doesn't dress kind of weird, doesn't he? Yeah, take him away,

Take him away, Thank you, members of the jury. Now, I know, right now a lot of Americans are thinking, what Trevor, some you o NASCAR race changed the rules so that somebody else could win? Who cares? Who cares about any of this? Okay, but you'll remember this moment when the next US presidential election comes. Yeah, then you'll see why this story is a big deal. Well, our elections can never go to the wrong person. So we're good.

You know. By the way, this story, uh dramatic, exciting, competitive, Someone should write a musical about and you would name it after who was the guy that was in first place? Um, Hamilton's Hamilton's. No one's ever thought of that. That would crush Yeah, yeah, I think Hamilton's music would do well, That's what I'm saying. Good, So now we're being partners again. I also wonder, with gas prices being so high, how bad it would suck to be a Formula One race

driver right now? You know you got one lap to go. You think you're just saying, just put put ten dollars in for this last lap. Yeah, that's all I got. They don't. They don't pay for their own guests. They don't. They're not at the thing. Go on, what's my zip codes? Ship? I'm getting past? No, No, they don't. That would make it a very I wanted to say terrible sport, but I actually think that might be the greatest sport ever invented. Be interesting. I also find it interesting that they're racing

on oil, a finite resource. You know, That's why I support steam engine racing, because they use water with coal. But I guess that's a finite resource too, and it sounded better when I was just thinking of it. But there are electric racist now, and if we could come up with somebody to create an electric car, I would consider that person person of the year, all right. And finally, the hot new TV show right now is HBO's reboots of Sex and the City More Sex, More City over

the weekend. The debut episode not only sent shock waves through people's living rooms, it also shook up the stock markets, a huge shock to fans of Sex in the City. Mr Big, the husband of Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie, dies of a heart attack in the very first episode of the series reboot. He's doing a vigorous workout on a Peloton bike. Then Mr Big, played by actor Chris Nod, heads to the shower where he suffers a fatal heart attack. The scene was such a shock the company's stock took

a nose dive Thursday, dropping eleven percent. The Pelton spokesperson confirmed that it gave him the show permission to use Peloton equipment in that episode, but not that a character would die using it. But then forty eight hours though, Peloton came together to create commercial showing Mr Big alive and well. The clip has now gone viral. Pelton had also released a statement from a cardiologist saying Mr BIG's extravagant lifestyle and perhaps his family history played a role

and his death. America, America, Yo, how does Peloton's real life stock tank because of something that happened to a character in a TV How dumb awesome? People? Your TV isn't real? Do you think those dragons and Game of Throws are real? The c g I, the Mandalorian, it's c g I. The cost of this is us. It's all c g I. No real people can cry that much. Grow up, people. Here's some investing advice. You should not

make me jerk financial decisions based on TV shows. To do your research, you should look into the market and you see what Elon must tweets, and then you go with that. I do feel a little bad for Peloton, though, because when they gave HBO permission to put their product in the show, they didn't know someone was going to die because of it. You know, they probably thought the characters would just hang clothes on it like everyone else does. Yeah, I I don't like ad placements and TV shows. I

find them dishonest, I find them greedy. I find outrageous, you know, almost as outrageous as the power of four Dura cell batteries. The choice of the Daily Shows Michael Costa, Trevor, you can't stop me from doing endorsements, dude. Okay. Also you can't stop the copper top the Daily Shows, Michael Costa's premier choice of battery. Do they pay you for that? Uh? It's I'm doing it as a proof of concept and

I'm gonna send it to their at team. So you're giving them free ads and they might not even pay you for them. I'm taking a calculated risk, yep. I mean I don't even know what to do any more. Custom All right, Well, they got different sizes. This is a deed and there's I think this is a but it's a great battery. I've use them for all my fax machines and remote controls. All right, just give me

the small one. I need to form my con when you got all right, Well, Peloton has tried to ride this thing out, and to be honest with you, I give props to them as a company. You know, if we're trying to have a sense of humor and trying to limit the damage by joking about it all. But I don't think that they're out of the woods yet because based on the preview for next week's episode of Sex and the City Reboots, Man Peloton has got some

more bad pr ahead of it. All Right, when we come back, Roywood Jr. Will look back at who got canceled in. You don't want to miss it because it might be you. Welcome back to the Daily Show is almost over. We can all agree that compared to last year, it has been a perfect year. So for the rest of the month we'll be remembering all best moments in our year end segment, a look back at the least

bad year of the last two years. Tonight, a special look back with Roywood Jr. At the Department of Cancelations. Good evening and salutations. It is time to once again announced the US Department of Cancelations list of approved cancelations for the year one. Now as a reminder, these are actual cancelations. Now one of them fake cancelations that ends up just making everybody Richard. Nobody's getting a Netflix specially out of this. Not even a podcast sponsored by my pillow.

This is an official cancelation. This means you've got are listed on your taxes and everything. Everything in your life gets canceled. Career canceled, Twitter account canceled, then disappointment canceled. You think you've got a reservation at Outback Steakhouse, not anymore canceled. First up, Mike Richards. We all know Mike Richards, the producer of Jeopardy, not to be confused with Pramer.

Michael Richards, who we canceled back in two thousand six along with Matt Quest, which is when't getting the job done. Matt Quest to take two lefts and a slight right and get your wass up out of here. Mike Richards was selected to take as host of Jeopardy by the show's producer, Mike Richards. Yes, they kind of looked alike, and all the data that they you know, analyzed that just showed them that, you know, he already worked there

so it would be less paperwork. Can't blame. But soon after Twitter did his thing and everyone discovered many disparaging comments Richards made about women and Jews, I mean the Jews, Jewish people, Rosha Shana, what's the right Kim Kurt for its terrible comments and the hubrist to think his smarmy asked could succeed a legend. The US Department officially cancels Mike Richards in an act of what is justice? Alex love you trade back baby? Next up? Uh? Former New

York Governor Andrew Cuomo emphasis on the former. Andrew Cuomo rose to national prominence at the start of the coronavirus pandemics because, in its time of need, America wanted a guy who sounded like Alpacino to throw up a couple of power points lots and tell us that toilet paper was on the weight. Unfortunately, for Cuomo, all the shaman in the world wasn't gonna help him clean up the

ship storm he was about to face. Cuomo was actually canceled twice this year, first for getting a bunch of nursing home residents killed and then fudging the numbers to cover it up, and then he was also canceled for sexual harassment against women who worked for him. You can't do both of those in one year. If you're gonna be the most prolific killer of old people, you gotta

at least be courteous to women. The Department of Cancelations approves this cancelation, and it sentences Andrew Cuomo the ten million years in the prison sealed built out of the unsold copies of his book. They're gonna lease some room in there for your brothers too. Next up, the Cleveland Indians. Now, I don't need to explain why this was canceled. In fact, if you don't know why was canceled, please turn yourself into self cancelation. It'll be easier on all of us.

I'll be the first to witness this one. Took us over a hundred years to process the paperwork one, but we finally got it done. There's a big backlog. Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves. We got the Native American mascot division of this department working around the clock. They don't even get Thanksgiving off. That's messed up. Luckily, I don't think anyone in Cleveland is gonna be missing that name because the new name is amazing. The Cleveland Guardians

sounds great. If we checked the make shure that the Guardian and the name or like some white supremacy groups or something. Now allow sound a little white supremacy. And finally, former President Donald J. Trump whose vicious lies about the election inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol and return him to power illegally. For shaking the foundation of our precious democracy to it's very core, the U. S. Department

of Cancelation officially cancels him for all time. Then again, his supporters stormed the high building, trashed eye offices, busted up eye break room fridge, and now I have to bring my lunch to work in a cooler. So to avoid that happening again, the Department of Cancelation officially endorses Donald J. Trump for president. And two go get them, future boss. I'm sorry, I'm not about to get beat with no flagpole by them people. They cres all the

way they was cronk climbing like redneck spider man. That's going to cancelation. I don't I don't want any party. Thank you so much for that. Roy. All Right, when we come back, Henry Cinson's chief of staff, whom Ibiden, will be joining me right here on the show, So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight's is who of it in. She's an advisor and chief of staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton, and she's here to talk about her best selling memoir, Both Slash

and A Life in Many Worlds. Huma, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Trevor. You have lived a life that is I mean just in proximity to action all the time. I mean, just just listening to this. You know when I was going through it again, it's it's you. You. You were by somebody's side who was running for president twice. Um, you know you were somebody's side. Well, she was serving as Secretary of States, as Senator of New York, and you had to wake that same person

up from bed when she was first Lady. The person I'm talking about, of course, is Hillary Clinton. Let's talk about that first. How do you wake up a sleeping first Lady? So, first of all, I'm thrilled to be with you today, and I, um, yes, when I walked into the White House, I was a twenty one year old intern. I didn't exactly know what I was doing, and there was very much at lease in the Clinton administration, the sink or swim attitudes. They kind of threw you

into it. And so this was the midst of her Senate campaign. She was first Lady morning for the Senate and one morning, the White House operator says, well, she's not responding now, as somebody who had followed all the rules, one of the first learned rules you learned the White Houses failed a plan, plan to fail, and I had a plan. The plan was that she was going to wake up. So I didn't know how to wake her up. So I decided to march into the hallway. I tiptoe

in the back. I knocked on the door and I said, Mrs Clinton, no response. So finally I opened the door, tiptoe in and shake her really hard. And not only did I wake her up, I woke up the leader of the free world and the ghost of Lincoln, and the entire house was alerted. And the funniest thing about the story is that she gets up, she gets in the chair to get her makeup done, and she turned to me and she says, Huma, next time, just knock louder. Yeah,

that was a big jump from softly shake yours. That's like a big jump. I learned a lesson that day, and now I aways knock louder. I mean, I'm not gonna have to do it for a while, but that's a less like that, just like incremental steps the journey of whom we had a lot of fun, That's for sure. It does sound like that. I mean you you've had a really interesting relationship with Hillary Clinton. Who is you

know in America? I mean, a person who will go down in history and like, people will love her, people will hate her, people will talk about her. You've seen sides of her that nobody else will. And what I really enjoyed in your book is you talk about seeing those sides of Hillary, and you talk about how difficult it was for Hillary to navigate the journey of being

perfect and like talking perfectly and looking perfect. It seems like there was no there was no way to win when you were doing that, when you're trying to create the perfect image of a Hillary Clinton, Like, where was this external pressure coming from? You know, Trevor, So much

of it is hindsight. When we were in it in the moment, there was no perfect way to be And one of our challenges, I actually write in two thousand and eight we even on the inside, we didn't know how to deal with some of the sexist and misogynistic comments. So you just laughed around along with it. We just assumed this was the price you paid for being in the game. So if you said she should wear brown, we wear brown. If you said she should talk louder, okay,

let's try to talk louder. And it was constantly shape shifting, if you will, responding to people's comments. But nothing was ever right. And I think was next level in that here we were and everybody had a different everyone had a different response. And actually share a story in the book with a Hollywood director pulls me and says, you know, I'm gonna give us some media training, and I said, will give me an idea of who she should be like?

And they said, well, her husband, And I said, excellent, anybody else President Obama both phenomenal communicators, you know, legendary communicators, both met and so we could never quite get it right. We kept trying, and I think that it's in part because we have a hard time seeing women in leadership, forget Commander in Chief, Trevor, just seeing women and leadership positions.

And I agree with you, not everyone's going to necessarily agree with everything Hillary puts, but she is a historic figure for this country and the world, and she tried to pave the way forward, and she's got some cracks in that ceiling and somebody's going to step in there. She was. In a fact, we have a vice president who stepped in those ships right right, who's also being criticized for how she laughs. So how she doesn't laugh. You know, there seems to be a fine line that

can like no one can really walk perfectly. Um. You you have faced a lot of that criticism. You have faced you know, I think a lot of extra scrutiny because you're not just a woman, but you're also a Muslim woman. You're a Muslim woman who's been working in American government for so long. Reading through the book, there

were things I didn't know about you. I was like, wow, I didn't know that you had your moments of you know, being the terrorists that people were talking about, actual you know, sitting members of Congress saying like, oh, there she is

the member of this organization, the member. Do you think it got better or do you think it just you know, went underground for a little bit because you're seeing this, you know, with Lauren Boebert for instance, now coming and saying il haa noma, you know, the backpack in the in the in the elevator. Do you think it got better?

Is a Muslim person working in government or do you think it just shifted Maybe I actually think that what happened to me in two thousand and twelve as you were referring where five Republican members of Congress suggested I was essentially a spy, not a patriot. I was that American, Trevor. That as I traveled the world as a little girl, and we went everywhere from South Africa to London, to Paris to Asia. Every time we landed, I would turn to my mother and say, is in America yet? Why?

Because to me, America wasn't just a place that you could go to movie theater things I didn't have back in Saudi Arabia, or you could wear what you wanted. It was a feeling. It was a sense of choice and optimism and appreciation for, you know, those principles and values. So I've always walked to the great pride as an American. I do think when they accused me of being essentially

a spy, it was unleashing. I think it was an appetizer, Trevor to what we were to face in when certainly Muslims and many brown people be came the other and I'm not just saying my kind of brown. Generally, if you're a person of color, you were the other. And they succeeded in doing and I think it unleashed I think Donald Trump unleashed permission to have this kind of dialogue and conversation. It's one of the many reasons I wrote this book is to explain to the country what

it is to be an American Muslim. It's not just heart wrenching, but it's also really vulnerable. How you share your story. You know, your name really just rose to prominence in the country with the Anthony Weiner story, your ex husband. And I remember at the time, I mean I wasn't familiar with American politics, but the story was blowing up a lot of the women who I worked with, they were just like, oh, this is so shitty. Like as women, we we have to deal with the ship

that our men do. We have to bear their shame as well. And you, you, you really laid out elegantly and vulnerably in the book. But what was really surprising to me is that at the end of the book you acknowledge and thank your ex husband. And I'd love to know why you did that and and if that was a true feeling that you had or if you thought, no, this is the high road that I need to take. Um. You know, I do acknowledge Anthony and the end of the book, and the reason I do that is two things.

The first is he gave me the single most important thing in my life, that's my little boy. UM. And he gave me that sense of feeling. I know what it is to be loved and if you read the book to feel like the most special person in the room. I didn't have a lot of experience with men before I met Anthony, and I wanted to be seen, not as even though I have a whole chapter in the book called Elephant in the Room and another one called Shame,

Shame Go Away. Even though I did live with a lot of shame and felt judged for much of my marriage, I tried to make every decision that I thought was right for me and for my little boy. And I've actually been surprised by the number of people who read the book and read to the end, seeing how I made these decisions as a related to my marriage, saying okay, I understand now, I get it, and I think people who have in their life loved ones who deal with

addiction or mental health challenges, they understand. For people who don't, it's harder, and so I'm really glad. I'm I'm very humbled to hear people understand it once they read the story and see that there is another side. There is hope and possibility and optimism. Well, to be honest with you,

I think everybody does understand. I just think as human beings, it is easier for us to judge a situation that is happening outside of us, because when we're not in love, or when we don't love somebody, or we're not experiencing a negative thing with a loved one, the answer is obvious, you know, so you go, you should do this, you shouldn't do that. That's what it's like when we're watching

a TV show. You know what all the characters should do, but you're you're the character and your own TV show, and then you never know what to do from episodes. That is so beautifully sad. Yeah, I could not agree more. And you're you're right when you're judging somebody else. If you're in that position, would you actually have the same thing. It's it's so easy because you're watching it, you know. That's that's what it is. Thank you so much for

joining me, Trevor, Thank you for having me. All Right, people, Huma's book both Slash and is available wherever books are sold or are. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. Well, that's our show for tonight. But before we go. This weekend, a series of tornadoes ravaged six states and dozens of towns across the Central United States. The Global Empowerment Mission on the

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