Mask Madness - Blue States Are Ditching Mask Mandates | Robert Glasper

I mean? Like the nominations are always like and the nominations are man in an old place, woman doing a thing a long time ago, black person suffering, and then it's you know what I mean? And I'm like, I haven't watched any I should I should? And then we all walk around, have you seen it? I'm going to? I'm I'm going to. Of course I'm going to, because like the Oscars, it's never like ship that I've seen.

They never like and the nombin news are transformers saying it fast and fear saying it Matrix unfortunately seen it? Do you know what I mean? It's never like the Oscars always feels like like they do it on purpose. It's almost like they go to the box office and they're like, what are the people watching? Then they're like these ones, what are they not watching? All right, these are the ones we're gonna It's like a disconnect, you know. And I'm not saying the movies are not good, Please

don't get me wrong. I'm just saying there's a disconnect clearly between like what we want to watch and what we should watch. It's like, these movies are the vegetables of movies. Very good for you, powerful for the soul. Powerful, but when you hie on some ship, you're not craving these movies coming to you from the heart of times. Where in New York City, the only city in America, It's The Daily Show. Here's edition tonight, Putent's Big Table Dunes.

Take your man, Robert Glassberg. This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah and joining me for today's headlines is Daisy Ledge. What's going on? How you doing? Yeah, I'm good, I'm good. I'm excited. I got a big game this weekend, Mangles versus Ran Super Bowl. I feel you. Oh no, I'm having an animal fighting ring in my backyard. I'm renting a ram and a Bengal tiger and they're

going at it head to head. Got chilly place in beds. You're coming over, right, nothing weird about it. I got permits, I got the whole nine yards. I would love to be there. I just promised Michael, and he's so happy to have me. I'll see you after all. See after Michael sounds good. All right, let's jump into today's headlines. We kick things off with the big international news that could possibly lead us to World War three. I no, I'm not talking about whether Northwest should be on TikTok.

I'm talking about Russia and Ukraine because every day Putin moves his tanks closer and closer to the Ukraine border, creating the world's most high stakes game of I'm not touching you. You can call mom. I never touch your face, never touched your face. I don't touch your face now. Because war is bad for business and also human life, every country is trying everything that they can to talk

Russia down from its invasion plans. And yesterday the presidents of France took his shots and people had high hopes for this meeting, you know, because the French and the Russians. They have a lot in common um For example, both have disgusting sella dressings named after them. But despite this commonality, the meeting did not go well. French President Emanuel Macron is in Russia. He met with Russian President Vladimir Putin

in Moscow at a twenty ft long table. Thanks to COVID restrictions, Macron believes Russia has a right to ask questions about its security and seek guarantees. Putin did not offer to de escalate in that meeting with Macron, but Russia does continue to deny any plans of an invasion. Okay, people, what what the hell is this? Why? Why are they sitting so far apart? Like I've been in zoom meetings where I'm sitting closer to the other person, who, Like, why do you even have a table so big? Like

do you see that thing? Like? Maybe Putin isn't trying to take over Ukraine because he's evil. Maybe he just needs more space for his giant furniture. Apparently the reason for this distance is because they say they want to make sure that everyone is safe. That's they say. And no, I'm not talking about COVID I'm talking about putin. Yeah, if he wants to kill you, at least with this table, he's got to catch an uber to get to your end in four minutes. Your debt five minutes. Now, let

demistis turn Why would you take the truth? That don't so it's like counseled, no Dwight pick. How does this work? Pune is playing some crazy psychological mind games with Macron, you think so. Yeah, French people don't know how to sit at a big table like that. I don't even know what to do. They're used to those tiny, little bestro tables where they have like room for one little

glass of wine in a cube of cheese. That's it. Also, I can't stop thinking about the delivery guy who had to love that table all the way up the staircase just for that meeting, and then he had to wait five hours and take the table back down. Crazy. Well, I don't think that's how delivery works. I think we'll think about if he's playing mind games like that, he brought that table and specifically for that meeting, and that delivery guy he better not get any nicks or dings

in it, because he's getting poison in the neck. If he does. Yeah, I think you have a very different idea of what they do. But yeah, yeah, no, that's exactly what happened. Will agree to disagree, We totally agree. I think. Look, all I'm saying is all I'm saying is the table might be better than catching COVID. But it could also be the reason that there's a giant wall because these two couldn't possibly have understood each other at all. I mean, just just listen to the conversation,

Mr Putin. We can at risk another wall what we cannot skin another for. No, no, not bors. I'm talking about foreign affairs. You're having an affair. Of course you're French. Maybe I could sit closer to you. No, I'm saving the seat for a friend. His quote is on it. But you can't hear anything I'm saying. That is interesting. Yeah, are you doing that thing where you agree because you're not sure what I said? Moscow smells like urine. Your face looks like a peach head boatox and it's only Monday.

All right, let's make like the presidents of your high school drama club and moved to New York City. Last month, New York inaugurated a new mayor, moderate Democrats and former police Captain Eric Adams. And even though he's new in the job, that hasn't stopped him from making his presence felt. For instance, he said that he's going to take his mayor's salary in crypto. Yeah, which means he's the richest mayor, poorest, richest,

poorest mayor, richest, poorest, richest mayor, poorest mayor. I wish I had taken cash mayor in the world right now. Also, Mayor Adams is a vegan. Yeah, no, I thought he was black, I know. And this week he announced that going forward, all New York City schools would have to have mandatory vegan Fridays, which I actually think is a great idea. Yes, because Friday, I think needs to be taken down a peg. You know, Oh you're excited for

the weekend. How about a tofu sandwich, bitch. Now, obviously because of this decision, a lot of people are mad. Like a lot of people are mad you have to eat meat or it's not a meal. But if you ask me, there's nothing wrong with kids being exposed to different kinds of foods and different kinds of diets. And yeah, I'm talking about you kids with peanut allergies. Stop being so close minded. So yeah, schools in New York are gonna serve vegan food on Friday's, partly because the mayor

himself is vegan. Or is he. It's a big city scandal in New York. Mayor Eric Adams is making waves with the revelation that he eats fish. Adams is a self proclaimed vegan. Report in Political New York over the weekend sided restaurant sources at a midtown eatery frequented by the mayor who say Adams often dines on fish. He released a statement saying, I want to be a role model for people who are following or aspire to follow a plant based diet. But as I said, I am

perfectly imperfect and have occasionally eaten fish. Okay, everybody calmed down. Everybody calmed down. I can feel the stress in the room right now. Everybody calmed down. I know you're angry right now, and I know you want him to step down. But give the man a chance. Yes, he's a vegan who sometimes eats fish. Don't get a twisted man. Being a vegan isn't about eating vegan. It's about telling everybody that you're vegan. So technically, this man's legit. And that

is what's great about New York. We're imperfect here, we're perfectly imperfect. You can label yourself whatever you want in New York. Whether it's true or not, it doesn't matter, you know. That's why the vegan Maya isn't vegan, and that's why the New York Jets can call themselves a football team. You know, if you ask me, the weird thing to me, it's not that he cheats occasionally on his veganism. It's the fact that his cheat meal is fish. I mean, if you're gonna cheat cheap ma man cheat,

eat a cheeseburger or pepperoni pizza. Eating fish as your cheap meal is like getting a whole posse from your spouse and using that whole pose to have sex with a fish. It's a total waste of a whole posse and a fish. I gotta say I really appreciate his transparency and that he didn't make the fish sign an n d A. That's progress, I guess. Yeah. This is like an adorable political scandal. This is ridiculous. Let the guy eat a little bit of fish, what's next? Adams

took a penny, but didn't leave a penny. He put a plastic cup in the paper recycling then, and he's keeping solitary confinement at rikers. Okay, that one is. That one's bad. The paper cup one's also pretty bad. Yeah, that's like those are those are? Those are pretty bad? Apologized over and over again. I don't know what else I can do. The colors match, you put the you know all right. Finally, if you're still looking for a perfect Valentine's Day gift, there are a few last minute

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romantic getaway start nine and nine dollars. Wow. Okay, this is now what I expected, and I feel like it kind of defeats the whole purpose of the Mile High Club. You know, the Mile High Club isn't just about having sex on a plane. It's about having terrible sex quietly without getting sucked down that toilet. That's the experience anyone can have sex on a plane. Not to mention, they

said this flight only lost forty five minutes. Only forty five minutes, You realize that's barely enough time to apologize for the first two minutes. And don't get me started on the fact that the pilots a k a. Mr Smiley over here. I've just got to trust that I've got privacy because he closed that little curtain. I'm not gonna pay a thousand dollars to have sex while some random dude is sitting there pretending to not pay attention.

That's not a plane, it's a flying dorm room. So I mean, look, good luck to these guys, But I don't know how many people are gonna want to take this flight because there's always a chance of a crash. There's always a chance when you fly, there's a chance you can't crash, and nobody wants the obituary to be like John Sanders was killed today when his sex plane crashed into a mountain. The main thing, though, is that it just doesn't seem like it's worth a thousand bucks.

It's cool experience, but a thousand dollars is a lot of money. I mean, think about a Spirit Airlines only costs what nine dollars round trip? Yeah, and they always leave you feeling like you So, I mean that's a pretty sweet deal. I completely agree with you. It takes all the fun out of it. It's like if CNN is going to hold a staff meeting where they're like, everyone, come and master rate. Jeffrey Tuban is not logging onto.

That takes all the fun out of it. If someone gave me that as a gift for Valentine's Day, I would break up with that person right away. I don't need to ride the jizz jet. I don't need that. Plus, if you think about it, it's not really all that practical, because how are you going to fiddle your sex toys and a carry on? You gotta put him in airplane mode.

You don't know if they're gonna work. You guys just like pray for turbulence right before the final descent and you get all your lube in those little three ounce bottle. It just it doesn't work. It doesn't work. I never thought of the practicalities, and I'm here for Yeah, yeah that that that really helped me a lot. Why Why does why does the sex toy have airplane? All right, let's get into our main story, which is about mosques. Yes, a key tool in the fight against COVID and the

reason we've all gotten really good at smizing. Now. Mosques have been a really contentious issue since the very beginning of the pandemic, and that doesn't seem like it's going to change. So let's see where the mosque debate stands now in another installment of mosque madness. Let's be honest, people, there's been no point in this pandemic where everyone has been on the same page about mosques no point at all. Initially, the CDC said that mosques don't help with COVID. That's

what they said, right then. I guess maybe they googled something and then they decided no, no, no no, if you don't wear a mosque, you're gonna kill your grandma. Then, because of all of that, we just had people arguing, arguing the whole time about us master this mosque, people arguing with strangers in the street about proper mosque wearing etiquette. It's below your nose, it's your chin, yours hasn't dolphin?

Where can I get one of those? And for a long time, Red states and Blue states have completely opposite mosqu policies right, but now many Blue states are starting to change their tune. Some strong indicators of the receiving oh Macron wave, and the country has moved toward a new normal one by one. Five states just announced dates to end mask mandates in schools, child care centers or

end indoor masking entirely. New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela, Oregon all ending their school mask mandates either this month or next. Delaware and Oregon will also drop their statewide indoor mask mandates entirely soon New Jersey Governor Billy Murphy said his decision to drop a statewide school mask mandate is not a declaration of victory over the virus. There. We're not going to manage COVID to zero. We have to learn how to live with COVID. But many parents are still concerned.

Has only about two percent of children aged five to eleven are fully vaccinated, significantly lower than the nearly seventy of adults. It seems to be a recipe for disaster sending them in without masks on Oh boy, yep, this is a complicated issue. On the one hand, mosques can do a lot to keep kids safe, right They can also help to prevent the spread of COVID two, teach us and to stuff, and on top of that, they can help hide all of those middle school mustaches. I mean,

I don't know why you need that, your fourteen? Why do you look like porn star? But you also have to weigh the benefits against the downsides, because kids need to see each other's faces to advance their emotional development, and it makes it easier to understand what the teacher is saying, and they need a place to store their pencils when they're not using them, but more and more Blue states owaging the pros against the cons and they changing their tune, and they're deciding that it's time to

get rid of masque mandates, and not just schools. By the way, masque mandates are being repealed for adults too, mostly because the omicron wave is subsiding, but also because Democratic politicians they just can't seem to stop doing stuff like this. Well. Stacy Abram's, a Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, faces criticism tonight for what she didn't put on her face. These are pictures that both Abrams and the principle of

an Atlanta area elementary school tweeted out last week. Abrams was attending a Black History Month reading event, and you can see the children in the class are wearing masks. Teachers, staff, and guests in the class are wearing masks. Stacy Abrams is not The event was indicator that city and school district have masked mandates. Now, since the backlash started, Abrams has deleted the tweet, and the school's principal, who first

tweeted the pictures, has deactivated her Twitter account. The Abrams campaign suggests the attacks are politically motivated. The Abrams campaign also told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that she wore a mask to that school, but later removed it so she could be heard by students watching remotely and for the photos on the condition that everyone around her was wearing masks. Stacy Abrams, come on, you can just say that you

messed up. You could just say that your team doesn't need to be like, oh no, Stacy only removed the mosque so that the kids could hear her speech. First of all, no little kids want to hear a speech from a politician, right, especially the kids doing remote learning at home. Mosque or no masque. Those kids are not listening to you. They're watching Pepper Pig and another tab. It's not about the kids to say that was doing the thing because everyone's gone a reason for taking off

the mark. No, I didn't take off the masque. I only took off the masque because I needed to take up the mask. Yeah, that's why everyone takes off the mask. That's why you're not allowed to take up the masque. And Stacy's campaign for them to say the criticism is politically motivated. That might be true, but then again, so was posting the picture in the first place. I mean,

the picture was politics, right. Politics is the only reason people hang out with second grade is that they don't know or at least the only reason that doesn't get you arrested. And you know what, that's the real issue here going to this classroom in the first place, Abrams is campaigning for governor of Georgia. So why waste your time meeting kids who can't even vote when you could be out in the streets meeting adults in Georgia who also can't vote. Although I guess this may be part

of Stacy's plan. You know, you meet with the school kids and then if they line up at the polls, now they'll turn eighteen by the time they reached the voting It's pretty smart. Actually, yeah, I take my mosk off to you, madame. But look as bad as this was, at least Stacey Abrams to make the mosque and rules in Georgia, because if you break the rules that you make, that's that's much worse for you, which is exactly what

happened in Los Angeles over the weekend. California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with the mayor of l A and San Francisco, on the defensive over photos showing them without masks pothing with Magic Johnson. The politicians we're seeing here at so Fi Stadium over the weekend at the Rams forty Niners game not wearing masks. L A County rules state people at large events have to wear masks except when eating

or drinking. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti defending his mask less picture with Magic Johnson in an exchange with the Reporter Wednesday, Garsetti claimed he held his breath. I'm used to criticism as a public figure. I've been wearing a mask the entire game long. People on a picture I hold my breath, kind break, zero risk. This is guy being serious. It's like, that's the real thing. See me, He wasn't holding his breath. Everyone knows when you hold

your breath, your face does this. That's holding your breath. Now, Look, am I saying that, Oh, politicians need to always hold themselves accountable to every single law that they impose on us. Kinda yeah, or at least have a better reason to break the laws. Then, oh ship, it's Magic Johnson. That's so irresponsible. You're supposed to set the example, if you

ask me. The biggest scandal here is that Garciti is making it sound like Magic asked him for a picture the oh the way he said, oh when people asking me for them No, no, my man, my man. If two people take a picture together, the person who sucks at basketball, they're the ones who asked for the picture. That's the rules of taking pictures. So again, like, why can't politicians admit when they stuff instead of deleting tweets and offering weird excuses, just say, you know what, I

messed up. I wanted to see my face in the picture. And when the mask is on, it's not as cool because the rest of us actually get that right. Taking a photo with the mosk on sucks. It's weird. People take photos smiling, right, unless it's like the eighteen fifties, because all those photos are more like this camera had better not steal my soul. But other than that, people smile in photos. That's kind of the whole point. We

get it. So look, I'm not an epidemiologist, but maybe maybe it's a good thing that mask mandates are starting to go away. Students in school will be able to interact normally. Democrats can stop getting tripped up by their own mask mandates. And for me, well, I'll finally be able to tell when the waiter is judging me for ordering off the kid's menu. You know what, sometimes I just want to fish sticks. Okay, I'm a vegan, all right. When we come back, Grammy Award winner Robert Glasper you

don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is multi Grammy and Emmy Award winning artist Robert Glaspa. He's here to talk about his new album, Black Radio three. Robert Glasco, Thank you, thank you, good to have you here, um for one of the most anticipated albums I think of all time, all time period, genuinely of all time, before music was even invented, people have just been like, this is this is what we've been waiting for. And I'm acting like it's not a

big deal. So I feel like you're a big deal though. Man. It's like, you know, there are a few musicians like you'll meet or you'll hear about where every musician wants to work with them, you know with comedians say it's a comedians comedian, you know you are a musicians musician ever for everyone from Erica Badou all the way through to like her and today, And you know, Kendrick Lamont, let's start with that. What do you think it is

about your music that every musician gravitates towards. I think it's just being honest, the honesty of it all, because you know, I'm technically trained, you know, classic, a little bit of classical music, but I went to school for jazz, you know, all that stuff, So I have that. But at the same time, you know, with all the genres that I play, I play with the masters of that genre. So when I cross over, it's it's a real thing, you know what I mean. So I played with the

masters of hip hop. I used to play in the roots. I played with Jay Della, you know what I mean. I used to play with Claude, Q Tip and Common and all those that's the hip hop thing. And in the R and B world, we're just talking about playing with Maxwell for years and my fan and let's see a little half Away and all these other people. And you know, I grew up playing with my My mother was a singer, you know, a vocalist, So it's like I was just in those in those slots with with

the real people for that for so long. So I can tap into that, you know what I mean. It's like in a in a Kung Fu movie, you're going to learn with all the best masters of all the I'm not personally of the piano. It's like the wing chunk. That's what it is. Come and see they called him the Bruce. I mean, there's a few people who could argue with this, like like for those who don't know, I mean, like, let's say somebody like Kendrick Lamm. You know, he he's known to be one of the most meticulous

autists out there. You work with him on right butter Fly. But the way it happens is you're supposed to be there for one song. He hears you play, and then he goes like, no, all of it, all of it. Yeah. I was there. My friend Terris Martin called me, He's like, Yo, come by the studio. I'm here with Kendrick now, need to play for one song that in real life. Literally I've heard that like a movie and stuff comes to the studio right now. I don't know that was real.

It was so I was recording my own record. That was the kind of my record covered and my boy Terrice called me, he's like you in l A I was like, yeah. He's like, I'm at the studio, my DR DRE studio with Kendrick. Come now after you finished recording that, come there. And I went there, played the first song and Kendrick was there. He's like, whoa, keep him there, pull up on so, pull up so on so and I would hear it once and play what

I heard. He's like, play with you here, And I literally did every song one take, play what I heard. So I'm I'm on like nine or tennis songs with some of the stuff I didn't get credit for because it happens so fast, you know what I mean. You know, but everything happened so fast, but it was amazing. Man, and kids are so open, he said. He's like a jazz musician, you know, he just open and whatever happens in the moment, he's like, let's do that, you know

what I mean. So when you're choosing who to collaborate with on on on your albums, I mean you you have a pick. You know, every ofticers wants to work with you. You you love working with different artists. You don't just pick who you want to work with, you also pick what genre you want the album to fall into. It, and not many people can do that. Like I didn't know this until I was doing the research for this interview.

I didn't know that when it comes to the Grammys, you have to choose which category you to your music is going to be. You choose with category absolutely because in jazz you pretty much know. I mean, come on, I was a jazz and that's what happened with with with my first Black Radio album, Yes Black Radio one and came out two thousand twelve, and I'm a jazzing Usian, so I had four jazz albums before that. And you want full Grammys exactly exactly, I'm out here. But it's

not about the awards, about the music. But I um with that. Everybody's like, oh, your jab mus shouldn't so put that abum in the jazz category. But I was on the streets, I was on tour Maxwell. Yes, I'm knowing what's happening in the R and B world. The R and B world love the record, the hip hop world love the record, So I knew I'm seeing it happened in real time. So I was like, you know what, put this in the put this in the R and B category, and what we got nominated. I was like,

oh man, that that was done. Then I was like, we're not gonna win, but in case I needed. And then when you know, when you have Jimmy jam, why do you think you don't gonna win? Because no one knew me in that category and no one knows me at that time. No one knew me in that world. So I'm kind of thinking in my mind, I'm like, I'm thinking, okay, we've got nominated, at least that I'm good for that. I'm not thinking gonna win because Bruce Lee would think that is not how brustly would think

you would go. I'm gonna win the Grammy. I can't. I became Bruce Lee right after that Grammy. That's when I became It's the Grasshopp's what it is um growing up as a kid. I I love listening and hearing about your story because I love I love hearing about anybody who's been to church as much as I have. Growing up. You were in church a lot, a lot for no reason. My mom was for no reason. It's for all the reasons. What do you mean your blessings?

But like you know, okay, so because a lot of people go to a lot of church, but a few people I've met go to different churches. So my mom took me every different kind of church, you know, I mean, and you played. That's what That's what intrigued me. You played music in every church. I played for a seven day in Venice church on Saturdays. All right. I played for a Catholic church early Sunday morning. But what do you playing at the Catholic church this particular hymns. Hymn knows,

but this particular Catholic church. Also, the priest was a jazz fan and the choir director rest in peace Chimera. She passed away, but she was a jazz singer, so they would do the call and response things to jazz. So come on, you're telling me that when I was in Catholic church, I gotta be getting jazz. Absolutely, we were changing up things and making them. It was amazing. And then right around the corner at eleven o'clock, I will go to the Baptist church. I played that. That

must be the most fun. Absolutely, I was bawling. I made money in high school. I was crazy with the money. Wa they paid you? Absolutely? Wow? Absolutely, Oh man, I've only keep the money at money from church. I bought so much of lunch from my friends. It was crazy. Turn the tops on me going down. I'm not even thirsty, but I always want to do this or you should do it. That's what it's here from. It's not even

for the like the actual drinking of the thing. Um, we just keep the water from episodes, so we don't even change it to Grammy nominations coming up. I know you're gonna be working at the oscars as well. The album comes out February, Yes by Radio three. Absolutely a lot of pressures, no pressure. You forgot big water, my friend. I'm loving this man because most people will go the first album came out, it was basically like like the Godfather, you know where people just like, what is this album?

Then the second one came out, people like it can We didn't think it could get better, but it did. Boom. Now you got the third one coming out. The most people with think pressure, no pressure like water. Like one of my friends, my friend, congratulations on another amazing album. Thank you for being on the show. Black Radio three comes out of February. Well, that's our show for tonight. But before we go to celebrate Black History Month, the

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