Congress Agrees on Bipartisan Gun Reform | Angela Garbes

Biden is stepping on the gas. Louis Black is getting ready for a wedding season, and call Risk has agreed on gun reforms that are somehow a huge deal and a huge disappointment at the same time. So let's do this people, Let's jump straight into today's headlines art. Let's kick things off with gasoline or a scientists call it

dinosaur pep. Over the past few months, global demand for oil has kept rising faster than the supply, to the point where the price of gas in the United States is now six babillion dollars a gallant, So drivers are hurting. The good news is that, as always, President Biden wants to help the bad news is that, as always, it doesn't look like he can. The President this afternoon called on Congress the temporarily suspend the federal gas tax, which

is right now about eighteen Santa Gallen. It's a move President Biden has resisted until today, given that it is unlikely to pass Congress. Will officials say a gas tax holiday is worth considering. There is a cost. Those funds are used for repairing roads and infrastructure, important priorities across the country. What the President wants is a three month gas tax holiday on both regular gas and diesel going into September. You also want states to pass their similar

versions of that gas tax holiday. The President also had a word specifically here for the oil companies. Here's what he said, Bring down the press you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product. Do it now? Do it today? Why are you talking about that? Is this a secret? Should the rest of us be listening? Where does he do that thing? It's so strange, like Joe Biden is the only president

whose vibe shifts in the middle of a sentence. Oil companies, you better lower the prices, please use I'm begging you. If your presidents. You just gotta say things otherwise it makes you look weak. You know, you can't be like Mr Garbage chev turn down this wall if you get around to it. It's such an ugly wall, or at least painted. Come on, you know. I feel like this is the big difference between Trump and Biden. You know, it's how they use their power. Because with Trumpet was

always like ship is he gonna use his power? And with Biden it's like a ship is he gonna use his power? Also, whoever decided to call it a gas tax holiday? That person should be fired. It's not a holiday. What does that mean? It's a gas tax holiday? No, it's just be like, we're not charging gas a gas tax holiday. That's the worst holiday of all time? Or do you save eighteen cents off of gas and I still have to go to work? Are you shipping me? Even a day is better than that ship? And this

is what always confuses me about this country. Right everywhere in the world, governments managed to protect their populations from corporate greed, Right like South Africa will limit how high bread prices can go. The EU will be like you cannot pump chickens with the same hormones they use in the Hulk in China, they're like Crypto has done and

no more dancing on TikTok, only homework. But whenever the American government has to deal with corporations, they've got about as much power as a tortoise that's stuck on its back. You know, it's just like, come on, oil companies, come on, pass on your savings. Drug companies don't over judge, but life saving drugs, please clear. But still, this is good

news for Americans. Instead of the gas tax going to maintaining roads and infrastructure, drivers will now save eighteen cents per gallon, and then you can use those savings to buy a new car after yours get swallowed up by a pothole. But let's move on to a different problem

facing practically everyone in America. Gun violence. There have been many mass shootings in America over the past couple of decades, and after each one, people have always said, maybe this time will be different, maybe Congress will do something about this, And every time Congress was like no. Ever since the mass shooting in Buffalo and you've aldi lost month, a group of sentences from both parties have been working together to see if they can find any common ground on

gun reform. And it turns out this time is different, ever so slightly. This morning, after decades of partisan gridlock, a major breakthrough in Congress, fourteen Republicans joining all fifty Democrats to advance a new compromise on gun restrictions. This is a breakthrough, and more importantly, it's a bipartisan breakthrough.

The deal includes enhanced background checks for people between eighteen and twenty one, closing the so called boyfriend loophole, preventing romantic partners convicted of domestic violence from buying guns, directing more money for states to implement their own plans to address gun violence, and billions for school security upgrades and mental health services. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calls the deal a common sense package of popular steps that

will helped make these horrifying incidents less likely. Will fully upholding the Second Amendment. Oh, I agree with, sending Mitch McConnell. Thank god, the prescious Second Amendment has been preserved. Oh yes, I mean, I'm all for protecting kids, but the Second Amendment? Oh have you seen that little face? Have you seen it? Who? Checking Amendment? Are you? Who? Checking Amendment? Are you you do?

You're durable? Sometimes I feel like Americans want to protect the Constitution more than they want to protect the Americans the Constitution is supposed to protect. It doesn't make any sense. So I'm glad we could protect the Second Amendment. I'll tell you know, if the Second Amendment was in that classroom in your valley, the cops would have bust the

door down, with Mitch McConnell right behind them. Her ah, And I will say, Look, I know for a lot of people, it can be hard to know how to feel about this deal because it doesn't include a lot of things that people want. You know, it doesn't ban assault rifles, it doesn't raise age limits. It doesn't even do universal background checks, which is the most basic thing imaginable. So for some of this kind of thing, you know, it feels like trying to stop Godzilla by dropping a

few mouse traps around the city. But on the other hand, on the other hand, after three decades of nothing happening, this deal is something. Please remember that it is something. It's not going to solve everything, but it's something, and something is always better than nothing. That's the entire philosophy behind the hand job. All right, let's move on. And you've been out to New York City over the past few years, especially pandemic, and through it you've probably noticed

a wild new phenomenon. And no, I'm not talking about how the stuff dripping from air conditions doesn't taste as good as is used to, which you know it really bothers me. Do you sound like a flavor? It had a tang when it was like falling your mouth. No, the problem I'm talking about is the squads of dirt bikes and a t vs flooding the streets inside walks

like Trump supporters trying to find Mike Pence. Well, now, the Mayor of New York City has decided to crush this problem literally today, having machinery crushed to illegal a t v s, dirt bikes and motorcycles confiscated by the NYPD, Mayor Eric Adams waved checkered flag and work began. He said this effort was to ensure these vehicles cannot ever

terrorize the city again. The NYPD says that it has ceased more than two thousand of these vehicle citywide, an increase of more than eight percent from this time last year. Hell yeah, baby crushed those blacks. That's what I want from my city government. Yeah, I don't even care about the undefunded schools anymore because this ship rocks. By the way, why is he waving a checkered flag at the beginning of a race? Does he not understand how a race works?

Kind of truck is like, I've I've finished already. Now look, I will admit as a New Yorker humble bragg. Maybe this isn't the biggest problem the city is facing right now. You know, rents are driving people out of their homes, Traffic is always bad, and the subways are always shutting down because I think we have trains that are scared of the dock or something. Yeah, yeah, no, I think that's what it is in New York, you see, because they find and then they go into a tunnel and

then they're just like, ah, you guys should walk. I don't know what there is a scary In fact, instead of crushing these bikes, maybe the city could have used them to solve some of the city's problems, you know, I mean, this could have been a solution to the subway problem. Instead of those trains that always breaking down. Just drop a bunch of dirt bikes into the tunnel. You know, yeah, let people we need to work, or give them to the police so they don't have to

ride horses anymore. What are you doing stopping criming the eighteen fifties, there are cattle russells on Broadway or just higher. The dirt bike used to ride around neighborhoods where the rents have gotten unaffordable. Helped keep the prices down. The studio apartment with no back room. You want it, you want it. It costs six thousand dollars a month one dinging. All right, give me fifty bucks. You can have it.

And finally, if you want of those people who really likes to vape, first of all, congratulations on being basic. A Second of all, you might want to stock up because your supply is about to run out. One of the largest makers of e cigarettes may soon be forced to stop selling its products in this country. The Wall Street Journal says the FDA could order Jewel e cigarettes

off the market as soon as today. The FDA is criticized Jewel for gearing its products towards young people, and already barred the sale of fruity and sweet eat cigarette cartridges, Jewel and hoped to continue selling tobacco flavors. It can appeal if the FDA does hand down that band as expected. That's right, people, Jewel et cigarettes are about to be banned. So your days of going around looking like you're blowing

R two D two are over. But this is a big move by the FDA because you realize Jewel is the iconic vaping brand. So by them doing this, it's like going off the soda by banning coke, or going off to coke by banning Don Junior. All right, that's it for the headlines, but before we go, let's check it on the traffic without very own Royal Junior. Everybody what to see me again? We're going good? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good now. I know we want to get to

the traffic man. But that that brings up a good point. Am I am? I supposed to be excited about eight teens that off the gas? I guess they want you to be excited. I don't know. I don't feel like that's a lot. I'm sure eighteen sent off. I'm sure there's a lot of gas where you from. I'm sure that's like a lot of gas because I'm from Africa. You said it, not me like I feel like eighteens. It's like it's a nice gesture, but it ain't really

doing nothing. Expart when your grandma still give you ten dollars for your birthday and I'm like, I'm forty three, What amnna do with these ten dollars? This ain't even a sandwich, ain't even Oh you're looking at you want to do the traffic? You know what to fix this traffic? Because like perfect thing about the gas right? All right, so gases up because everybody consuming gas? Right, people consume gas because they stuck in traffic. They ain't really moving.

What gives you good gas mileage? Motion the car moving. So the way you get to fix the traffic. All green lights, every light, every intersection of America, green lights, same time traffic moved. I think that would create another problem, though, what's the problem. What because it's all the green lights, than like the cause are probably gonna smash into each other even better, even better car smash your car. Don't run now you're walking saving gas? You understanding it's that hurt?

Mean all grew lights. Look at all these motorcycles. Why we didn't just sell motorcycles to these people. What what countries that even I don't know, a country with traffic, I don't understand. Why Why would the city of New York not just sell the bikes? Police love to put stuff out and then just tear it up. Man, you could have sold them bikes for parts. You could have

took them to another country or some ship. Man, why would you get rid of the I bet you they ain't even siph in the gas off the bikes before they crashed the start. Man, that's a lot of money. I'm from Alabama, man, I'm from Alabama. The police down there they do something called the police auction. The police take your ship and then once everything too three times a year they just have a yard sale and they just sell everybody's stuff. And that's how you make a

little bit of bread. You don't burn the stuff up, man, Like would they be burning into the drugs. They'd be burning up the drugs. Why would you burn that cocaine? Oh that good cocaine. Maybe you can bag that up. You can take that down to Knoxville. Holliday, big mix. He got two plugs from the Salvadorian As. When you get that and shift where if you cut it the right way, you can get a couple of extra dollars and stretch that you're gonna incriminate yourself that say, let's

jump to the traffic. That's bad to the traffic. You know what the jewels people have been stuff the jewel the jewels cigarette people. They may try too hard to sell the children. You can't just go right at the children. That's what happened to Joe Campbell. That's why they got Joe Camel out of here. You remember Joe Cambell. You remember the camel cigarettes They had to dude. I remember the sixth grade. Everybody either wanted to be Michael Jordan or Joe Cammel. That's who you wanted to be. It

was a camel. He had shades, he had a leather jacket on, he had a white woman on his own. I was like, that's the man. Also, also that the thing with jewel man, it's the people who smoke the six. This they fault y'all had all this time to normalize the six. But every time you ever seen somebody pulling e c out, they look weird. They we you know, in the Kilton. Then they put it back down. Then they look at the floor when they're hitting it. While you looking at the floor, look up at me. That's

a that's addiction behavior. You don't look down. Smokers look you in the eyes. Smoking. Also, when people smoke a cigarette, they don't smoke in the center. They're like, you gotta this is cool. You gotta smoke in the corner of your mouth. You don't smoke nothing. This is a crack pipe. Let's just crack pipe. This is cool. This is meth and that's why people be tripping on them jewel cigarettes. Back. You can't be you won't look cool. You're smoke around

the corner. I hear you that, man, I hear that. I'm just man, it's a nice traffic, man. What do you What do you want me to say about the traffic? Let's people people like every wing because people, what do you want me to say? People like want to know what roads to drive on, not this one. Don't drop on this one. You know what I think? Thank you little. When we come back now it's black, we'll be talking about weddings, So don't go away. Welcome back to the

day show. When a news story falls through the cracks, Lewis Black catches it for a segment we called back in Black. Wedding season is here, everyone, my favorite time of year. The brides and radiant and grooms are terrified, and I'm in the photo booth letting my artistic side out. My nipple rings really pop in a wedding album. And it's a great time for someone who loves love as much as I do. Because this year there are more weddings than ever. Two is going to be a record year.

They're talking about two point five million weddings set to take place, the biggest number since numbers up by six hundred thousand. One out of every five weddings last year was rescheduled for this year, which means everything from dresses to venues to hotel rooms are in high demand. Planning to marry then get ready to rumble. You can kiss the romantic venues goodbye because the only one left is the octagon, and you're gonna have to choke someone out

for it. And I guess that's America for you. It's easier to get a shotgun than it is to get a shotgun wedding. But at least post pandemic marriages are gonna be strong. After all, most of these couples have been through lockdown together, they already know they can spend hours in the same room watching TV without speaking to each other until one of them falls asleep and the other one can finally masturbate in peace, you know. Marriage.

Of course, even if you manage to find an aisle to walk down this year, guess what it's gonna cost you, and the cost of tie the knot astronomical. All of the vendors really didn't have any sort of income for almost two years, so they are really trying to make up for that lost revenue that, coupled with supply chain issues and inflation, have sent prices soaring. Couples will spend an average of more than twenty four thousand dollars on their wedding this year, up nearly two thousand dollars from

last year. But it's not just the bride and groom. Guests should expect to spend more to as a record travel season boost demand for flights, hotel rooms, and rental cars. That's Matt Tressler from Louisville, Kentucky, and this is his tenth wet so far this summer. Weekend after weekend he's showing out for gifts, gas, hotels and more. I don't want to say any exact number, but let's just say it was like four digits. Have had to buy a lot of suits for weddings and hate to brag. I'm

a professional wedding guests on the Wedding King. Wedding King is Yiddish for schmuck funny funny. Four thousand dollars for a wedding me hard. But that price you won't have anything left for the divorce lawyer. And thanks to the price of gas, even get getting to a wedding costs and arm and a leg. Guess is so expensive you can bring it as a wedding gift and make sure you hold on to it, though your grandkids can sell

it to a warlord for water. So with all the logistical and financial challenges, it's no wonder that some couples are finding creative ways to save money. Weddings can cost fortune. The national average close to thirty grand and in Kira and Joel's home state of California, the average is even higher. Dress is check. So how did Kiera pull it off? She started with the dress, which costs just forty seven dollars.

I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a dress because I had the mindset, I'm gonna wear this one time for a few hours. Then she found the perfect location right off the freeway. Keyword being free. A wedding by the freeway genius. I found love on the side of the road loads of times, and never once did I think to invite a photographer, and I

definitely wouldn't have invited my grandmother. But even if you beat the costs in the crowds, there's one more thing you need to worry about, the COVID one nelliwa couple didn't want to reschedule their already postponed wedding. Understandable, there was option with the groom tested positive for COVID. It happened just three days before, so the bride still attended the wedding, but took this cardboard cutout of her groom instead.

The couple says it was their way of making the best of a very disappointing situation after their numptials had already been rescheduled several times throughout the course of the pandemic. Don't worry, though, the groom didn't completely miss out on all the fun and festivities it did show up on screen in the ballroom as a surprise to his bride. Look, if you find yourself dancing with a cutout, you're certifiably insane.

And what does it say about the groom? Then he can be replaced by a cardboard cutout and nobody seems the care and the bride is in for a rude awakening because there's no way the husband is ever gonna live up to that cutout. It's well dressed, it listens, and it has a flat stomach. It's a total package. Now, if you'll excuse me, Trevor, I've got a wedding to get to. Some assholes getting married to a woman he doesn't even like. Those idiots have decided to make it

a destination wedding. Oh wow, Louis who who's getting married? I am? And I gotta pick up my bride at Kenko's. Who is black? Everyone back? Welcome back to the Data Show. My guest tonight is best selling author Angela Gobbess. She's here to talk about her new book, Essential Labor, which reflects on the state of caregiving in America and explores mothering as a means of social change. So please welcome Angela Gobbess to say, people, welcome to the show. Thank you,

Thank you Trevor for having Are you kidding me? Thank you for writing one of the most fascinating books on a topic that I I love delving into because I feel like it is the roots of everything, and that is mothering. I'm glad that you see that we share vibe. Right, But let's let's start with with the you know, the title of the book, essential Labor. You wrote this book, you know, based on an article that got acclaim from everyone,

I mean mothers all over the country. Ready, some people around the world, really, even people like Melinda Gates and Elizabeth Warren chimed and said, yeah, this is this is spot on. What do you think people have been missing about mothering for so long? Sure? I mean I wrote this book, you know. Part of it came out of the grief and loss that I felt at the start of the pandemic um As a writer, I had sort of nebulous deadlines and I didn't get a regular paycheck

or health insurance. But my husband's job gave us that, so I basically stopped writing. And because child Our Centers closed, I was taking care of my kids and I knew that that was the most important work I could be doing. Um, But it also I felt like I wasn't getting any recognition for it. We were hearing about essential workers, healthcare workers, sanitation workers, who are yes, essential, but we were never hearing about parents who were working twenty four seven, trying

to take care of their families, trying to keep communities safe. Um. And that's really where like, this is what I like, what I know you understand is that domestic work, mothering. Um, we do it to ourselves every day, feeding ourselves, taking a shower without care. Work and domestic labor, you know, this is the work that makes all other work possible. The idea that domestic labor is somehow less valuable than quote unquote professional work. I just think it's a myth.

You don't, you don't what you what you tap into in this book is so powerful because it even goes to let's say somebody's like a rampant capitalist. They go like, the country is to make money. We gotta get people out there, we gotta and yet they don't want the policies that support mothers in doing that. So you see mothers, you know, you talk about in the book way they have to choose, am I going to be a mom? Or am I going to find somebody to be a

mom to my child? I can't afford them. This is so many you know, we talked about this care crisis that was exposed in the pandemic. Right when childcare centers and schools closed down. We were lost. People didn't know what to do. But many of us have always known that, you know, until your child is aged six in America, you're really on your own. And there are many people who are choosing between should I put my child in

daycare or should I work? Because it's really about the same amount of money, right But so studies have been done. So ox Fan has a study that if women in America were paid minimum wage for the amount of domestic labor that they do unpaid right now, it would be worth one point nine trillion dollars per year. So that's talk about putting you know, a value on that like that is part of our economy and that's a thing that we just have not reckoned with in this country.

Our country, American capital them realize just as much on the labor that happens in the home as any other labor that happens in the office or on a job site. And other countries have have done that in many ways.

You know, when you see countries like Sweden, countries like Switzerland, et cetera, they've got different methods of doing it, but they'll say this is so valuable to the country that we will pay a mother, will make sure that the government is supporting a mother, because you know, you talk about this in the book, and it's really fascinating to get into. Is like everything that we struggle with in society, whether it's crime, you know, whether it's poverty, whether it's

mental issues, etcetera. You can link so many of those things. Absolutely, yes, when you invest. So I believe that raising children, you know, it's a choice that people make to have kids or not have kids, and I think we should all Unfortunately this is not guaranteed in our country. We should all be allowed to make that choice for ourselves, right, But whether or not you have children, you know, raising kids

is a social responsibility. And when we invest, like, no one gets to adulthood without someone taking care of them, and that's their parents. It's also beloved Auntie is it's a preschool teacher, the teacher, right there's so many people who are part of that. And when we invest in children and families and mothers, it's investing in public health. It's investing in the very future and health of our society.

It's interesting that you also wrote this not just as a mom but you I enjoyed how many prisons you look through, you know, like at the issue through you know, you wrote about it as a mom um, you wrote about it as a worker and as a writer, and you also wrote about it through the lens of being an immigrants or family of immigrants, but specifically Filipino, which I which I really enjoyed because you talked about how key giving and mothering seems almost like it's it's part

of the fabric of being Filipino. I'd love to know where you think that came from or or why that's so important to um. I'm so glad you asked. Thank you. So I didn't set out to write about my Filipino American family. I do think that Filippino X American history is something that is underrepresented, you know, within the Asian American community. Sometimes I'm like, what about us? What about right?

But so they're my mom is a nurse and Um, I won't go into the whole long history of American imperialism in the United States, but the reason why my parents immigrated here is because my parents um spoke English because of American education system that was created by American colonialism. And when there was a health worker shortage, the United States allowed highly skilled immigrants like my mother and father

to come. And when I was thinking about the history of caregiving in this country, you know, you have to really reckon with the reason why we devalue care work, which is performed mostly by women of color. It's because of slavery, right, this is why we accept women of color working in the home for free or for low wages. So I was trying to wrestle with like how do

I take this on? But there is a statistic that came out during COVID that, um, we'll never leave my body, and it is that Philippino x nurses are four percent of the nursing workforce in the United States. They are thirty of COVID related nursing doves. Wow, yeah, yeah, thank you. And that to me, I was like, this could be my mother, this could be my children's grandmother. And it's because when Philippine X nurses came over. They tell me this is a familiar trope with immigrants here in the

United States. They took jobs that white workers didn't want. They took I see you in critical care jobs that were more intimate with patients bodies. And since that means they've been caring for COVID patients and so they're dying in disproportionate numbers. And that's really where I was like, wait a second, Like I don't there are so many ways into this story of caregiving in America, right, But this I realized I could tell my family story, and

it's all of the same forces that are happening. It's capitalism, it's colonialism, it's exploitation, right, it's white supremacy. Um, these are the things that we are living with now, and I see it in my family, and I see it reflected in this crisis that we're dealing with, which is going to outlast the pandemic if we don't figure out

how to care for each other. How do we moved towards a situation where women are not in a position where as mothers or and you know, you talk about in the book how mothering extends beyond just the cliche idea of what a mother is. You know, we talk about communities, we talk about the ants, the grandmother, the old mothering in some way. Do you see any viable solution?

Do you see a world that we can get to where we say, oh, this is where the government could help, this is what we could do, this where companies could help ex Yes, yes, well so I mean companies I want at this point, I want the government to be part of this, because we've privatized everything, right like I don't think that employees and employers and corporations are going to save us at this point. We privatize all human rights in America, right like universal healthcare, right like education.

We've we've made all of those things like it's time for government support. And I've gone through phases of being really angry and really disillusioned. But right now, my friend I Gen Poo, who's the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, who's part of a coalition called Care Can't Wait, and they formed during COVID to deal with this care crisis, there is actually right now, senators are doing budget reconciliation on a bill that would put money into child care,

home care, and elder care. And so in this moment, if you're looking for something to do, if you've been affected by care, and I know all of us have been, you can call your senators right now and tell them to fun care. And this is not an opportunity that comes up all the time. So I feel hopeful, you know, because there's an actionable item that we can do. I also feel hopeful because in the pandemic, what I saw when people formed pods, right when people started having these

play dates, that was people saying, I can't do this alone. Right. We are not meant to take care of children, to take care of our elders, to take care of the disabled, the care care of the sick. We're not meant to do that in isolation. We can't. And I saw so many examples in the pandemic, like, we are surviving this not because the government sent us eight tests. We're surviving

this because we took care of each other. And I see that all around me, and I think if we lean into that and continue, I don't want that to go away as we like, as the pandemic moves more into the your view mirror, want more and part of it. More community, more looking after each other and more honoring mothering. Thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate the essential labor. A fascinating book is available. Now We're gonna take a quick veraightfoll be right back after this. Thank

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