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like when you watch football. My introduction football is everyone telling me things. Well, here he is, Marcus Brown, grew up in this town. His mom is a great fan of this and that, and then now there's nothing. Now he's just standing there and it's just like people like, yeah, yeah, tell me about his family. Yeah, And then something happens on the field. I can't see what's happened on the field because sometimes it happens on the other side of the field, and then you just wait for like the

riff to come and then gossip. Yeah the guy, the guy he touched the ball when he wasn't supposed to stop snitching. I want to see the thing myself, at the lines. You know how much more fun it is to watch the game when you know how far the thing. It actually made me realize how hard football actually is, because when I watch football on TV, I go, you, idiot, the line was here, you saw the line, then you ran, Then the line was just if you ran that way,

the line was there. Then when you go watch football live, you're like, there's no line. How does this guy know how far he is supposed to be? There's no line. In fact, I think most most supports, they make it look easier when you're sitting at home, and then when you get there you're like, oh no, sorry, I talked shipped from home Lebron. Yeah, from home. It was very simple because I saw whether the opening was you should have shot from there on the court, you can't see anything.

These guys are like seven ft tall in real life. Coming to you from the heart of Times Flare in New York City, the only city in America. It's The Daily Show, Ears edition tonight, the tremendous document Flush Kid, It is not so nice, dude, flust Love. This is the Daily Show with Fever. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Danny Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. Our first story takes place in school.

Remember school, the place where you go to learn things like math, or science, or, most importantly, how to draw that cool s. But in Florida, the state whose official dress code is strip club casual, more makers have decided that there's some subjects that shouldn't be learned in school. A controversial bill that would ban school districts in Florida from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity is advancing. A Florida Senate committee just passed the so

called Don't Say Gay Bill. Opponents warn it would lead to further stigmatization of gay, lesbian, and transgender children. Florida Governor Rhn de Santis has indicated support for the bill. The Republican says it's not appropriate for teachers to have conversations with students about sexual orientation or gender identity. Yeah, I agree with Randa Census. Kids shouldn't learn that people can be straight or gay in school. We shouldn't teach them that. We should just let them get surprised when

they turn eighteen. What two men can do? What are you Oh, that's what little Nazak was singing about. I thought he's just like prison. Now. On the one hand, this is terrible because many kids can't talk about gay issues at home, so school could be the one place where they can learn. I mean, I guess. On the other hand, this don't say gay law is going to

have some upsides. I mean it's gonna make it a lot harder for bullies in school, Yeah, because they will be in the whole way like you're gay and then run the sanctus is just gonna burst out of a locker like no, don't say that. You make fun of his haircut. Look at it looks like for the lawnmower. Come on, you know, if you ask me, the real issue here is that these people are worried that their kids are going to learn about being gay and then all of a sudden get converted too gay. That's what

the fight is about. Don't teach my kids about jay in school because they're gonna become gay. That's ridiculous. Learning about the thing doesn't magically turn you into the thing. I mean, in school, when I learned about the French, it's not like I came home that day like Mama, I have something to tell you. I knew all along my chan Anyway, let's move on. There's a big story

that's coming out of the odd world right now. And if you one of those people who's like I don't understand modern art, well, first of all, congratulations on being basic. And second, maybe you should stop complaining and do something about it, like this guy did. A security guard was fired from the job at a Russian museum after drawing eyes on a million dollar painting. I want you, guys, so look closely at this. The three figures painting had a blank space on the faces. You can see the

version on the left. But reports say the security guard got bored, decided to grab a pen and just draw a pair of eyes and two of the three figures. Hold on, hold on this. This guy to faced a classic painting because he was born it like in a museum. You were born, and so you drew. Have you not heard of TikTok? And I know a lot of you basic bitches out there right now are looking at the eyes on this painting. You're saying that actually does look better.

But that's not the point. Art is not about what looks better. Art is about confusing people with a thing that allows you to feel like you are better than them. I and how do we know that this thing wasn't just the publicity stunt from the museum, Because I don't know about you, but I've never heard of this faceless painting in my life. Now I'm seeing it everywhere. You know, this could just be like a trick. Maybe this is what all museums do just to get hype. Did somebody

steal themone releases eyebrows? Come see for yourself. And finally, let's move on from one piece of work to another. Donald's Johnson and Johnson baby powder. Trump ex president most likely to be a surprise judge at a wet T shirt contest. Yesterday, the government office that keeps presidential records asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump's improper handling of

official documents. And like, at this point, I'm wondering if there are any laws that Trump hasn't broken, you know, like if there was a Guinness Book of World Records for crime, he probably stealed the book. But yeah, according to reports, Trump would rip up papers after he read them, right, He took boxes of material with him from OROW logo and now we're learning that Trump did the most trump thing that he possibly could have done with some of

these documents. We're beginning with breaking news. Staff members at the White House residents discovered wads of printed paper in a clog toilet on more than one occasion during the Trump administration, and believe that it was the former president himself who was trying to flush documents. I learned that staff in the White House residence would periodically find the the toilet clog. The engineer would have to come and and fix it, and what the engineer would find would

be wads of you know, clumped up print, wet printed paper. Um, you know, meaning it was not toilet paper. I could be posted, it could be no sero to himself, it could be other things. We don't know, but it's certainly does add, as you said, another dimension to what we know about how he handled material and the White House.

You know, it's so funny how in every scandal involving Trump and documents, none of them involved him reading them, and and and and by the way, I will say this, I know it's easy for us to all go Trump was trying to obstruct justice, That's what this was. But you do remember at the start of the pandemic there was a shortage of what And I don't know about you guys, but when there's no toilet paper, state documents starts to look mighty tempting. It also does explain why

Trump was always complaining about toilets. You remember how he always did that people are flushing toilets ten times fifteen times as opposed to once they end up using more water. Yeah, they flashing at ten times fifteen type. No, dude, you were flushing toilets ten times fifteen times because were shoving your homework down the toilets. I mean, everyone assumed he was a man who clugged the White House toilets, but no one ever thought we'd have to ask the question,

but with what now? Of course, Trump denies all of this. He says he never clugged any toilets ever smoothers pooh of all jam. So the big question is who's telling the truth. Well, luckily we have an exclusive interview with the only man who knows what the truth is. So we're gonna go out live right now to the White House to chat to that man. Sir. I understand that you are the official White House plumber. That's it right,

it's to me, Carl Schwartz. Well doing well. Thank you so much for joining us, Mr Schwartz as the White House plumber. We'd love for you to tell us everything you know about Trump flushing documents down the toilets. Let me stop you right there, cheef. Okay, sorry to disappoint you, but I can't. It's the plumber's code, the plumber's co it's the iron code. All plumbers live by one. Never tell a toilet secrets to always round up the bill

three no visible butt crack. Trying to break that stereotype. So I'm sorry, but I can't reveal what I know about Trump's toilet no matter what. Come on, alright, fine, I'll tell you. I was in Trump's bathroom almost every day, pulling paper out of the toilet. I unclogged so many classified documents they had to give me top secret clearance. I'm talking to CIA briefings, diplomatic cables, the medical experiments that created Rudy Giuliani. Honestly, some of the stuff I

didn't understand what it meant. Like I found this one document that just says nuke Spain question mark. Oh wow, yeah, you must have been pretty frustrated with President Trump giving you so much unnecessary work? Are you kidding me? I love President Trump. He made my job more interesting and he trusted me with our nation's top secrets, unlike certain other presidents who just used the toilet to pooper. Pe Obama,

I don't know why you said it like that. You could have we knew who anyway, Um, let me ask you. This was Trump the only one in the White House who was flushing documents? Did Vice President Pence do it? Um? No, No, Mike Pen's never even used the bathroom. He actually doesn't have any holes. Now, have you excuse me? I have an emergency. I have to deal with Kamala hair has been locked in the bathroom for the past a year. Oh wow, is that wish he's been well? Well, good

luck with that, and thank you so much. Mr Schwartz, you got jape? Did you say no holes? It's give me six? All right? That wasn't very helpful. So let's move on to the big news that's coming out of Canada. America's quiet upstairs neighbor, or at least they used to be, because as you may have heard, there is a major anti vaccine protest taking place in Canada's capital city of

Ottawa right now. Now, anti vaccine protests are pretty common these days, right, but these protesters are different because their truck drivers, which means they have trucks, and people with trucks have more power than any other people. They just do. This is like a fact of trucks. Think about it. In every highst movie ever, what do they need to pull off the heist? A truck? Yeah, when a Batman villain tries to shut down the city, they need a truck.

Having trucks just gives you the ability to out muscle people who don't have trucks. And so even though Canadian truck is a vaxed, the small minority is still able to cause big problems. They've essentially shut down downtown Ottawa for two weeks now. And if you want to know why these trucks are so fired up, well they're more than happy to tell you. What is the stuff that you can't do right now? Is as a non vaccinated person. I live in Quebec, so it's a bit more intense

than other places in Canada. But look, I can't go skiing, I can't go to Walmart, I can't go to the entire I can't go to home depot, I can't go to restaurants, I can't go to bars, I can't go to the gym because you're not vaccinate? Have you? Is

there businesses there stuff you can't do in Canada now? Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, well, basically, if you want to compare Canada uh to anything, it's like Hitler's Germany and we're like the Jews say, you see, this is why we shouldn't be banning book, because now this guy thinks that the Holocaust is when you can't take a ship in the Tim Horton's I mean, even Marjorie Tayler Green is looking at this guy like, dude, this isn't anything

like the Holocaust. There's no soup here at all. It's actually a wild when you think about it, Like how many different ways people disrespect Holocaust survivors Because some people are like, what happened to you didn't happen? And then some people are like, no, what happened to you did happen? And it's happening again to me right now because I can't go skiing team. But anyway, the point is these

truckers and their supporters feel persecuted. And when the started it was just a protest against vaccine requirements for truckers, but it's now grown into a wider movement against all coronavirus restrictions. They want vaccine mandates gone, they want mask mandates gone. They want to be free to sneeze into strangers mouths again, like the good old days. But blocking traffic in downtown Ottawa hasn't done the trick, so now

they decided to take things up a notch. A crucial trade link between Canada and the Aided States was disrupted by protesters for a third day in a row. The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest international crossing in North America, linking Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, while another border crossing in Ontario is experiencing an hour's long delay. The Ambassador Bridge sees about one quarter of all the goods that go

between the two countries every day. On a normal day, that's about three d forty million dollars worth of goods rolling through, and the impact is already being felt. Ontario auto plants, including Ford and Stalantis, reduced production over the last twenty four hours due to missing parts from shipments. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for an end of the protests. Right now people in Windsor are suffering and losing their jobs because they can't get auto parts across the Ambassador Bridge.

Yeah you see. See now, you can rarely see how much of an impact the truck protests can have. You just puck a bunch of them on a bridge, just

a cambridge boom. International trains flose to a trickle, which I didn't even know could still happen, by the way, you know, because that almost sounds like a story from medieval times, you know, when the army would block one mountain pass and then your entire village would stove, and then you have to eat your horse, and then your dog, and then eventually you'd be forced to eat your own children, and then right as you finished eating your last child,

the siege would end. Needs to spend the rest of your life in therapy. Hi, I just feel really bad for it. Take my own children. Look, you can't blame yourself. That path was closed for almost two days. Like, think about it. Think about it. If these were just regular protesters on foot, the cops would have cleared them up by now. But to move a truck you need someone who can drive a truck, which isn't as easy as

it sounds. It takes months of training to be able to sit in the driver seat of a truck and not just hunk the horn the whole time. It's extremely tempting. So now these truckers are finding a lot of support not just from Canadians, but from Republicans in the United States. Yeah, Grand Paul, Donald Trump, everyone on Fox News are coming out in support of these truckers, which I do find kind of funny because all of these people who are cheering on the truckers are like, yeah, shut it all down,

truckers bring the economy to its knees. Altos, the same people who said we shouldn't have any COVID restrictions because the last thing we wanted to do is bring an economy down to its knees. I mean, so basically what it's it's it's not worth hurting the economy just to save countless lives, but it is to make a point. Then if you're just making a point, and it's like, yeah,

go for it, but you got it. But regardless, these Republicans are now calling for the truck a movement to come to America, and it looks like they might soon get their wish. Ottawa's so called Freedom Convoy, spawning similar anti vax mandate protests in cities around the world. In Australia, protesters assembled outside the Capitol Building, many waving Australian flags

and signs asking for freedom. In New Zealand, protesters camped outside parliament for a second day, and in France, hundreds of protesters in Nice headed for Paris waving Canadian flags. The Department of Homeland Purity is telling law enforcement authorities it's receiving reports that a similar kind of convoy could soon begin in the US. The Department is quote received reports of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in

major metropolitan cities in the United States. The protest could begin as soon as Sunday in Los Angeles to disrupt the Super Bowl, and then travel across the country to disrupt President Biden's State of the Union in d C on March one. Whoa, these guys want to disrupt the Super Bowl. I don't know, man, that seems like a terrible strategy. I mean, think about it. You'd be ruining one of the lost things that everyone in America loves everyone.

You're gonna block the Super Bowl? What's your follow up? Driving over Dolly Parton? And honestly, I don't know how disrupting Super Bowl traffic is even gonna work. If you're in Los Angeles on Super Bowl Sunday, you're the one who's gonna be stuck in the traffic. Come on, I'm gonna get to the traffic disruption. Come on, And not to mention, disrupting the State of the Union could also backfire on these truck is. Yeah, they're gonna come there,

and then what hunk their horns? You realize all those horns are just gonna help Biden stay awake, stay at the State of the Union, strong, say the Union struck. Come on, Jack, it's so strong and super strong man. So, yeah, these truck a protests from Canada might be coming to America, and if that's the case, we've got to prepare ourselves because a lot of things that are big in Canada they blow up much more when they come to America. You know, Drake justin Bieber those cool weed posters that

they got up there. But I will say this, the funny thing about the whole protest is that When it comes to coronavirus restrictions in America, what are they gonna be protesting? There's not a whole lot left, right, I mean, coronavirus isn't over, but everyone has already started to act like it is. Businesses are open, schools are in session, and even the bluest states are getting rid of masque mandates. So I guess what I'm saying is congratulations truck drivers.

You did it. So I guess now there's no need to block the Super Bowl please unless the Rams start winning. Then you blocked that ship. I beat my house on the Bengals. Man block everything you travel on field, just blocked them all. Right. When we come back, Royal Junior and Ronnie Chang, I'm gonna catch us up on all the sports news, and Quest Love is still joining us on the show. You don't want to miss its Welcome back to the Daily Show. Let's turn to some big

news from the world of sports. The NBA trade deadline was today and it ended with a flurry of blockbuster deals. And I gotta say, man, I love the NBA trade deadline because it just goes to show that everyone, even the people who run sports teams, wait until the last minute to do anything. Oh ship, the deadline is today. Trade him, get him. We'll give you that guy. Here's James Harden. Just give me anything, give me anything for him. I'll take your jacket. I'll take it. But there's so

much more sports out there. And for the rest of it, we turned to Ronnie Chang and Roywood Jr. For another episode of I apologize for talking while you were talking. What's up sports? Not I'm Roy Chang. That's Royal Wood doing. Yeah, Roy, are you ready to talk about sports? Dude? We're standing on thick grass. Of course I am still great. Let's start with the Winter Olympics, as doctor lint, real sports

like basketball or world know what, come on? The Winter Olympics of all kinds of great sports like god like skiing and a cross country skiing and alpine skiing and snow skiing and skiing, snowang and stop. This is a hate crime. No, that's not a hate crime. What is I hate crime is what China did in the opening ceremony. I mean, just take a look at this. The Winter

Olympics now in full swing. After the ceremonial started the games, Team USA walking in the parade of nations, but a controversial ending to the ceremony, China choosing a weaker athlete is one of the torch bearers to light the final Olympic plane. The host country has been condemned for its treatment of the Muslim ethnic minority in Shinjang, leading the US and other nations to hold a diplomatic boycott of

the games. Damn trotting out the weakers like that? Do you have any idea the size of the balls that takes the Great Wall ain't the only thing you can see from space running. I don't even get what the message was supposed to be here. China's like, it's all cool, so we let them hold fire. See see this is the problem. See, this is why the Olympics host country should be a global superpower that's not mixed up in

all the allegations of human rights abuses. Yes, because that country exactly like like it's like one, Um, what's the one? Oh damn? What about they've just gotten the war? You know what, Let's move on. Let's let's just move on. We'll we'll, we'll, we'll come up with one. We'll come up with one. Because there's still a pandemic going on. That's right. China's COVID crackdowns are turning the Games into

a different kind of spectacle. Everyone who touches down in Beijing for the Winter Games is greeted by a hasmat suit wearing welcoming committee like this one. They help you navigate various checkpoints and not one, but two COVID tests. When an athlete a reporter test positive, their order to put on a full hazmat suit and taken away by ambulance to a COVID isolation hotel forty five minutes away.

And the food, some say is inedible. One Russian athlete says she was given this tray of food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for five days. My stomach hurts and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I cry every day. That's what you're feeding olympians. How did a chef even go about preparing that, eating food and then throwing it up again. Land has got all the major food groups, unsalted potatoes, weird meat, red liquid, I say, bone afatia.

What I can't believe is that they're making them wear hazmat suits just for COVID. Those should be reserved for more dangerous situations like like like handling flesh eating bacteria or or using a bathroom wanna bus I totally disagree with you, Roy, that's such an American perspective. When the rest of the world gets COVID the quarantine, when Americans catch COVID, they go to applebe Hey, hey, badmouth America. You won't but but you're not going to do this

disrespect Apple peas. All right, they've got milkshake, egg rolls, bro they are so delicious and a decade whatever. But enough about the Olympics. Let's talk about the Olympics. Of a sport that only America plays, the super Bowl, That's what I'm talking about. Running. Finally, we're talking about football. Cincinnati Bengals l A. Rams on Sunday, and I'm already on layer eighty three of my famous hundred layer being different, I call it the Iceberg. Milton, what does that mean?

Because it caused us so much part and they mess with the global warming and stuff about you that is disgusting. While you're gambling with your the justice system, Americans will be doing a different kind of gambling. The gambling cat millions literally have Americans are expected to place a wager of some type on the Super Bowl and they'll bet and eye popping seven point six billion dollars, up seventy eight percent from last year. That dramatic rise attributed largely

to broader access well. Since last year, ten states have launched the legal sports betting meeting. Forty five million more Americans can wager in their home state than last year. Seven point six billion dollars on Super Bowl gambling. That could buy you a lot of n f T s or maybe just a few n f T s. I still don't know what n f T s are. Here's my thing. The second thing legalized gambling. It was everywhere they won, they won. Gambling websites are ready to add

Walma tomline. So what does every other law take years to kick in? Joe Biden, put Draft Kings in charge and get infrastructure build. By March, everybody will have their own bridge. But you know, Roy, the Super Bowl isn't all about gambling and bodding disagreeable. It's also about having the worst Monday of the year. Unless you live in Ohio. Cincinnati public schools are given students the day off after

the Big Game. The school district tweeted in honor of the Bengals first Super Bowl appearance since nine CPS will not have school on Monday, February fourteen. They say it's so everyone can quote celebrate what we believe will be our city's first super Bowl victory. Should just make it a national holiday. I love this, and as someone who grew up in Cincinnati, I will also be taking next Monday off. You're not from Cincinnati. Maybe one thing Cincinnati's

famous school. Uh nothing, okay, but you guess. But seriously, this is bullshit. What is this teaching the children of Ohio. You're not supposed to get off the day after the super Bowl. You're supposed to pretend you have the flu the day after the super Bowl. By the way, Roy, do you want to come up with in my place to watch the Super Bowl? I can't do that, got Cole? What by right now? Of course? Yes? Well then what

are we doing here in the studio? We should We're going to have a man, that's what I'm talking about. Let's do it back to you, Trevor shake Roles. Trust me, you're gonna love We're gonna try that ship today. Thank you so much for that. Guys. All right, when we come back the one and only Quest Love will be joining us right here on the studio to talk about his OSCAR nominated film Don't Go Away. Welcome back to

the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the legendary drummer and co founder of The Roots, a mere quest Love Thompson. He's here to talk about his award winning documentary Summer of Soul, which was just nominated for an Oscar. Man Now I want to watch it again. Thank you, you know I want to welcome to the show. Have you been? This is great. There are few people I know who have had more jobs than you and excel at more jobs. I know many people who have had more jobs than you,

but for a bad reason. I don't know any people who have had as many jobs as you have and just done well. And I was one of those people though, because at one point I thought there was honor and sort of matching James Brown and the hardest working me in the show business. Um, once I stop doing everything, then a whole new world of magic open that I

never knew of. One of them is what I called storytelling or directing, which this definitely wasn't on my my my bingo card back in two thousand five, but if you look at it, everything I've done to this point, and that's preparing for this moment, this point, because I mean, those forty hours could go the forty hours of the footage that set in the basement for five decades. I still don't wait, let's let's just talk about that. I still don't understand this because nobody has seen all of

these performances. Nobody has seen these moments, nobody has seen what happened in Harlem in I didn't just start with that, So how did you even begin to find forty hours of footage? It would be like would be like somebody now finding, Hey, I found a concert was jay Z and Beyonce and like Michael Jackson and like just like everyone selected this film and I refused to believe it.

I get word backstage to the Tonight Show that these two gentlemen want to talk to me about these uh so called Blackwoodstock and I was like, black woodstock, and well, I'm thinking of Woodstock and you're saying there was a black version of that. And then I was like, well,

wait a minute. I'd like to think that I was a music expert or new things, Like how come I didn't know that over three hundred thousand people gathered in Harlem for a collective six weekend affair with Stevie one Stevie wonders last don't bb king maybe Staples like, how come I didn't know about this? And you know, I was like, call another you'd a black woodstock and dinner. I never heard of it, and so I don't understand how that's POSSI I didn't believe it. I didn't believe

that it happened. So the very first meeting, I just thought that these two were trying to just scare me for like tonight show tickets or whatever. That's what I thought it was. And then they came by the next week with a hard drive, and even then I was like, well, the footage must be better, maybe Stevie had an off

day or and everything I saw is magic. And to this day that the reason why even when I agreed to do this, at first, I was just going to compile like seventeen songs like a mix tape, you know, that sort of thing. But the curiosity kept burning me inside that Like the question I asked is is is black racer this easy? And that's the thing I think oftentimes when you know, when we speak of like black lives matter or um, you know, is that racist or

not racist? I think people think of the most extreme definition of it, Like in their minds, they're saying, well, I've never once hung somebody to a cross or castrated that we're setting on fire, so I'm not racist. But there's other there's but nine levels of racism as well, and even as sort of the sort of the dismissal of like well we'll pass, you know, good For a lot of people, their first view of us was either in black face or mired in trouble or controversy, or

you know, getting arrested, getting hosed down. And but black joy is the component that shows that we're human, you know. And this could have been that moment had it allowed been you know, the spotlight that Woodstock had had gotten. It was also a crucial time as well, you know, some of sixty nine, so many things were happening in America. You know, a lot was changing in the country. And I remember watching this, I had never seen it. I've

never seen something like this. To your point, a lot of what you see from that time period is a very one dimensional view of black America. So it seems like Black America has only existed in strife for a long time, because and and only strife, I should mention. And then you watch this and you're like, man, this this is I couldn't believe the scale. I couldn't believe

the party people were happening. I couldn't be having I couldn't believe like who was there and how they were there, who was performing and what it's signified when you when you told that story, what do you think the significance of this event was the significance of the event. At least what I got from it was that this was a community trying to heal. And so for me, shall I say a really beautiful, uh gander into the infinite possibilities of what the future is. You're seeing Stevie Wonder

a mirror two years before his his genius period. You're seeing Nina Simone give one of her very first non jazz, non love song, non Broadway musical performances, like Nina Simone stepping into her activism shoes in real time. You're seeing all these artists, but really you're also just watching the people.

And that's the thing, Like when I say, like we were robbed of that, not just as black people put the world to see, you know, oh, families just like mine, just like mine, happiness just like and that's and that's sort of the that's sort of the missing fiber element and telling our stories from the civil rights period. People don't know. You look at America's story over and over.

It's such a giant country, you know, where if people don't have an interaction with the people on the ground, you don't know a black person, you don't meet a Hispanic person, you don't know. Do you get what I'm saying? Doesn't make and maybe you don't even That's what I

loved about this documentary. I think it's to what you're saying, is it showed a joy, It showed a normality, it showed a there's just a human element that I didn't even know I was looking for, Like because I didn't know that this was going to invoke some sort of emotion out of Merlin mccou and she's watching herself. I'm thinking, like you hosted Solid Gold, like, right, how do you

remember this very specific show back then? But you know when she started to really open up about code switching, and you know, something that every black person relates to on the professional job, and even I needed to see that, like, wow, even when you're the number one singing group in the world, like you still have to code switch and you still have to always be on guard and you're never comfortable, and you know you have longings for just love from

your people, right, you just want to be accepted. I won't. Like I think, I think you deserve every award that this film has one and is going to win, because it's you know, you know what it is. It's it's it's telling a story from history that he's lost. It's sharing a joy from history that is that is lost.

And I think it's something that people need today where you go like, hey, you know, yeah, we can fight here, we can argue here, we can we can we can deal with what we need to deal with, but at the end of the day, don't forget joy because that's what makes us human. So thank you man, thank you for being here, Thank you for the documentary. I'm now I'm gonna watch it again. I watched the clip and

now I'm back. So it's currently streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus, and it will make its broadcast television debut February twenty on ABC. We're gonna take a quick break. We will be right back after this. Well that's our show for tonight, but before we go, please consider supporting Young Black and Lits. There are an organization that sources and distributes new books featuring black main characters to elementary

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