Prince Andrew's Sex Abuse Settlement | Willie O'Ree & Jessica Kingdon

considered normal life. Like they're not like competing, you know what I mean? Does just be like, oh what event was this? Oh yeah, this is where like the people have to go cross country on skis. Yeah, that's just Tuesday. In no way. I've been at the end of the race, they're like, well done in gold medal. It's like what I was just going to school. Coming to you from the heart of Times where in New York City, the only city in America. It's The Daily Here's edition tonight

Prince Andrew, Pasa, Willie and Jessica Gingdon. He's the Daily Show with Hey, what's going on? Everybody. Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with the news about the British Royal family, the only people who think chess is a representative game. Look, there's me, and there's you, and there's

the people who pay us. Yesterday marked Queen Elizabeth's seventieth year on the throne, making her the longest serving monarch in British history, which must be nice for all of those people who've been shouting long live the Queen, because now they can be like, yeah, you see, we did that. Now. As part of the anniversary observance, the family has announced that if and when Queen Elizabeth dies and her son Charles becomes king, his wife Camilla will be crowned alongside

him as queen. And I don't know if you remember, but when Camilla first started day Charles, people said that she could never be queen because their relationships started as an affair. So this is a huge This is a huge, huge deal. And I also think it's the right move because can you imagine how awkward was going to be otherwise if every time Charles and Camilla walked in the room and the royal announcer would be like presenting the

King of England and presenting his side piece. But while I'm sure the royals would love to be focusing on the future of the family, unfortunately they've been forced to deal with a scandal from their past. You see, for decades, Elizabeth's second son, Prince Andrew, he was rolling deep with Jeffrey Epstein, and after years of fighting allegations that he had done anything wrong, it looks like he's finally throwing in the towel. Tonight, Prince Andrew dramatically averting a court battle,

not admitting liability, but not clearing his name. Virginia Duffrey claimed she was sexually assaulted by the Prince when she was seventeen years old, trafficked by Epstein the sixty one your Prince will pay his accuser Virginia Frey are reported ten million dollars and make a substantial donation to her charity in support of victims rights. Of course, questions saying is it Prince Andrew's money? We know that he's sold his Swiss Sky chalet reputedly for about eighteen million, but

many people saying the Queen is helping to foot the bell. Yeah, that's right. After years of fighting, Prince Andrew has finally settled with Virginia du Frey. And although it's not perfect justice, I mean it is something, you know, to be honest, I almost feel like this guy got off easy because yeah, it is ten million dollars, but you're from the royal family. Think about it. Ten million dollars is like one jewel from one of their crowns. And this has gonna suck

for the Queen. Like, imagine having to use the money that you earned too. I guess you didn't like earn it, but I mean we imagine like working hard your whole life. I mean, she doesn't really work. You get what I'm saying. You get what I'm saying. The point is the Queen didn't get into the real business to do stuff like this, right. She got into it to steal spices from India. It's

about that life. And I can tell you now this is probably where she misses the days when she could just chop off people's heads, you know, because back in the day, with this thing happening with Andrew, the Queen would have just been like, Andrew, I dropped my contact lens, would you burn down and pick it up where mommy ten millions saved. Oh and by the way, the next time your mom complains about you asking her for rent money, you just show the story and reminder it could be

way worse. But let's move on. If you're tired of the same old, same old dating app scene where you swipe rights on the cute guy he swindles you out of thousands of dollars blah blah blah blah blah blah, then good news. Tinder is now offering a blind date feature on the app. Yeah, because usually when you're scrolling through people, you first see their picture right and then you decide right away whether you're too good looking for

them or they're too good looking for you. But now Tinder is just gonna ask you questions and what they're gonna do is they're gonna match you with someone based on your responses, and then you have a chat with them, and then if you both like each other, Tenda will show you their pictures, which is great because if they stopped talking to you at that point, then you know immediately that you ugly. And you know, it's so funny

how tech companies came out like they're the future. They're gonna show us new things, but then as time goes on, they seem to invent stuff that already exists, like blind dates. It's the future of dating. No. People in the Middle Ages were like, all our dates are blind and I'm sorry, but you can't really recreate blind dates unless you also recreate the part where your mutual friend try to talk the other person up whilst also avoiding their faults as

a key part of blind dates. Yeah, he's like super good at cooking and he loves to read interesting So does he have a job. As I said, he loves to read. Ah. I also have to mention this blind dating scheme that tinders running. This is discriminatory towards hot, dumb, boring people. You realize you're taking away their greatest assets. People with good personalities, they're gonna do fine in this situation. They can meet people in person, they can charm them all.

Some people have as a six pack, they don't even know that they have a six pack because they can't count that high rapper. Let's move on to a story coming from my home country, South Africa. Yeah, it's not the most creatively named country, but you always know where to find US. It's been almost ten years since the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.

And for those of you who don't know, Nelson Mandela was basically the Martin Luther King of our Harriet Tubman's and everywhere you go in South Africa there are reminders of how great he is, like there are statues, there are bridges named after him, the whole neighborhoods that bear his name. But now there's a new fancier way for people who want to celebrate his legacy. The former home

of Nelson Mandela is now a luxury hotel. It's called Sanctuary Mandela and it was Mandela's first home in Johannesburg after being released from twenty seven years in prison. South Africa's first black president lived there for six years. It now can host eighteen guests and eighteen guests rather, and it's adorned with Mandela memorabilia. Even Madiba's former cook is on staff. They're helping to prepare meals. Rooms range from two hundred and fifty dollars to as much as one

thousand dollars a night. Yeah, that's right. Nelson Mandela's old house has been turned into a luxury hotel. And I mean, I guess this is just the fate of every historic building now, right, because if you think about half of the old buildings around the world are now either a bank, an apple store, or a CVS. That's it. I wouldn't be shocked if in like a hundred years of the White House is going to be turned into Jeff Bezos's

dog's weekend place. Now, some people think that it doesn't make sense for the home of the man who fought inequality to be turned into a luxury hotel, but it does. It actually does, and it really does. If you remember one of Mandela's most famous quotes when he said, or not judge me by cola off my skin, parrad, judge me by the threat count of this Jupian cotton ships balling out of control. It was a powerful speech. We

cried that day. We cried that day. Also, you know, when you're staying at the Nelson Mandela Hotel, good luck fighting the minibar charges that you think are unfair. He's gonna be at the front desk like, Hi, excuse me, I think I was unfairly charged for a bag of pistachios. Madam, let me tell you about unfair charges. So, yeah, look, this is gonna come with this pros and its cons. People are gonna be four it's and against it, and I guess it will be good for the people who

work there and maybe some of the community. But you've gotta admit, man, At the same time, it does feel a little disrespectful for everything that Nelson Mandela went through. You know, he's gonna pay some money and you can sleep in his house. You know what he had to do to get to that house. You know what they should do. They should they should say for every night that you stay in the hotel, you should also have to spend the night in an apotheide prison. Yeah, now

you're getting the full experience. You know. I actually hope that they do this with African dictator homes too, because like, yeah, Mandela had a nice house, but forget him, man, African dictators, those dudes lived lavish. They should make that an experience. Can you imagine soaking? An idea means Jacuzzi chilling on his giant couch, dressing up in the skin of his enemies, talk about a honeymoon like this baby. All right, finally, let's move on to some news from the world of religion.

Since we were young, many of us have been taught the same story, right, be good, pray every day, and you'll get into Heaven. What your grandmother probably didn't mention is that a paperwork issue could send you to hell. A Catholic priest in Arizona has resigned because of a mistake the church says he's been making for more than

twenty years. During thousands of baptisms, he used the phrase we baptize instead of I baptize, and the Vatican says that one word change makes all the baptisms he performed invalid. The priest has apologized and again resigned. Wait, I'm sorry, what all the baptisms are invalid because of one no, one word? This is like the worst thing that Catholic

priest has ever done. But for real, people, I cannot believe that the Vatican is going to say all of these baptisms, all of them, like what two thousand, are invalid just because the priest said we instead of I. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to hear that the Catholic Church cares about people's pronouns, but this seems like a minor mistake to me, you know, like I would understand if the priest accidentally cleansed their souls in white cloth, that I would get. But this doesn't seem like a

huge deal. And what's gonna happen all the people who aren't actually baptized? What happens to them? Now? Huh? Are they gonna go to hell for someone else's mistake? That's so unfair. Everyone else who gets to go to hell goes there because they got to have some fun first, you know. Now they were gonna be down in the fire pits like, well, I'm being burned forever. But it was worked it for the r je ha ha. What are you in for? Man? My priest made a typo

oh sure whatever. You probably killed some puppies or something. You sick, yo, Let's torture this guy extra hard. So wait, sorry, sorry, hold on, I'm hearing from my producers that that company, right, we have an interview with God himself? Is that even possible? All right? Can we can we patch him in turn on a whibcam? Oh my lord, hey, Trevior's me God? God indeed? Baby? How well? This is amazing God, thank you so much for joining me on the show. Hey baby,

happy to be here. Look, we gotta make this quick though. I'm working on creating a new animal. It's like a horse, but it's got flippers and it's got fags. I gave it one wing. Who boys gonna miss you all up? Oh God, I have so many questions. First, First of all, I didn't know that this is how you look. Oh No, this this is just how I look to you. I don't look like this when I'm talking to white folks. I want to surprise them when they get here. Oh man, God,

I just oh. I also have another question, and this is a little embarrassing. No, I'm not helping you with how did you know that that was gonna ask Tod? Tod? Are you asking about word? You tweet about word all at the time. You don't need to get a life, man, Yeah, but the New York Times made the words. Anyway, God, let's talk about issue at hand. What's your position on this priest in Arizona who's been messing up baptisms. I gonna be honest, I've got no idea what you're talking about.

There's a priest in Arizona who said the wrong word, and now the Vatican is all upset, and they're saying that the people might be going to hell. Now you you haven't heard about this. No, man, I don't pay half as much attention to Earth as y'all think I do. I'm having too much fun. Look at me. I'm in heaven. We got prints, Whitney Houston, George Michael. Every day up here is a Super Bowl halftime show. Wait hold, so hold, you're saying that you're not really focused on every single

thing that's going on down here. No, worried about everything going on? Do you realize how many worlds I've created? I can't keep track of every single one. You think Seana Rhimes know what's going on in every single one of her TV shows. She got the Firefighter show, she got the Doctor show, she got the one where everybody having sex in the seventeen hundreds. It's impossible to keep

track of impossible. I mean that makes sense. But are you saying that even if this priest messed up the baptisms you you would still accept these people into heaven? That's right. People don't sweat the small stuff. Look, that's all you got to do, Trevor, all you got to do to get into Heaven is being a good person. I just want people up here who won't gonna ruined the party. I now, if you'll excuse me, it's trivia night and Alex Trubeka is on my team. Trebek. Baby,

let's get these bitcoins. Yeah yeah, Wow, Heaven sounds like a lot of fun. I can't wait to see it one day. Oh, don't worry, You're gonna see it real soon. Wait what? What? What is how soon? What is that? What is that? You know? Let's take a quick break so I can figure out what that meant. And after the break, I'm gonna be talking to Willio Rei, the first black hockey player ever. You don't want to miss it. When he said soon, do you think there was a

threat or do you think it was an invitation? You turn this way up camp. Oh but god, you have to press the No, it didn't if you it's on the top top right, the top right of the If it's a touch screen, you gotta hit the top rights. No, it's a leave meeting. No you still here, Lord, You you haven't left meeting. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My first guest like is a hockey legend by the

name of Willie Orie. He integrated the sports of hockey by becoming the first black player to compete in the NHL in night, for which he will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, making sports history and hockey as Jackie Robinson did in baseball. Willie all Ree of the Boston Bruins, a native of Frederick and New Brunswick, is the first Negro to play in the National Hockey League. In his first time out, his team won against the Montreal Canadiens.

In the Bruins dressing room after the game, Gord Sinclair June Europe CFCF pressed through the crowd for this interview. Makes any thing, isn't that they get into an NHL game for the Boston Bruins. What do you feel about it? Then? What are you? I'm unusual? No, it was the greatest sell of my life. I believe I'll always remember this day. We'll always remember this day. Mr willio Re welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you very much. As certainly is

a pleasure to be here. The pleasures all mine. I mean, I'm talking to a man who's a legend on so many counts. I mean, you your your a legend because of what you did for the sport of hockey. You're a legend because you were the first black player in the NHL. And for me, you are a legend because you're a black person who chose to play on the ice. I I don't meet many black people who willingly go to the cold mister y, So you're you're a legend personally for me as an African. Welcome to the show.

It's good to have you. Thank you, sir. Um. Let's talk a little bit about your journey. You know, it wasn't anything that anybody had done before. You know, you talk about this in your life and how you had a dream. You said, I want to play in the NHL. I want to be a professional hockey player. Nobody had done it, nobody thought anybody could do it, and yet you set your mind to it. I'd love to know how you you had this idea of doing something that

had never been done before, with the clarity that you had. Well, when I was fourteen years of age, I decided I wanted to become a professional hockey player and then hopefully one day in the play in the National Hockey League. And I have to give credit to my older brother who was not only my brother and my friend, but he was my mentor and he taught me a lot

of things that I would need to know. So I started playing organized hockey, and at fourteen, I left my hometown to go up to Quebec, Canada to play junior junior hockey with the Quebec front Next played there that one year, and then I went and played in kitchen Or, Ontario the second year, and that's when I had an unfortunate accident. You know, none of the players wore any helmets, no faith shields, no cages, and I was struck in the right eye with the puck and lost ninety seven

percent vision in my right eye. And wow, the doctor, the doctor told me I've never played hockey again. But I kept it a secret and turn turned pro nineteen fifty six and was able to play twenty one years with one eye. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, let's okay, now we now we need to add an extra layer of legend to the story. You lost some of your vision and the doctor said that you were legally blind. You keep this a secret, and then you go on to play that I don't I don't even

understand how that's possible. I can't follow the puck. I've been to hockey games. I love watch hockey games, but it's like, I can't follow the puck. But you're telling me you were a professional player who was legally blind. I don't understand how you did this. Well, you know, um, when I went to the hospital and I was in my recovery room and the doctor said, Mr. Rey says, you're gonna be blind and you'll never play hockey again. Well, the two goals that I have set for myself, well,

seemingly we're gone. But I got out of the hospital and within the next five weeks, I'm back on the ice practicing and playing. Now I'm a left hand shot and playing left wing. But to compensate, I had to turn my head all the way around to the right to pick the puck and pick the playoff and look over my right shoulder, and consequently I was over skating the puck and missing the net. And I just said, will you forget about what you can't see and concentrate

on what you can see. So the season ends and I go back to my hometown, and I kept my fingers crossed that I'd be contacted by a professional team, and I waited and waited, and finally I got a call from Punch I'm black, who was the coach and general manager at the Quebec Ages, the Quebec professional team up in Quebec City. So, to make a long story short, I go to training camp, I make the team. I don't tell them that I'm blind. I don't have an eye exam. So I said, well, if I don't take

an exam, just just play. And we won the championship that year. So that's what gave me the extra confidence that I needed. I said, Oh, man, I mean that's yeah. If if if anything qualifies somebody to be a legend, I think that that's that story makes it. Um, let's talk about the sport itself. You know, you talked about back then what it was like being in in the

league as the first and only black player. You had teammates who supported you, you had fans who cheered for you, but they were also the fans who really could only think of the color of your skin as the reason that they didn't like you. You know, they were they were they were shouting slurs at you on the eye. So they were shouting slurs at you from from the stands. I'd love to know how you blocked out that noise, you know, I mean that surely affects you as a

human being, but you found a way to persevere. Was was that something you had just grown up within your family or did you put your head down? And like, how did you do that? And I just put my head down. I was called the N word every time I stepped on the ice by players on the opposition,

by fans in the stands. If I had a penalty and I went in the penalty box, I could hear them saying the N word, But I just blocked it out thanks to my older brother again and he told me, Willie, if they can accept you for the individual that you are, because you have the skills and the ability to play in the league at this particular time, should forget about everything else. She said, just go, stay focused on your goal and work hard. And basically that's what I did.

But I mean, I it was it was really rough at the at the beginning, Trevor, It it really was. But finally I gained the respect of the players and the opposite and the and the fans. Man. I can, I honestly can't even imagine how hard it must have been, you know, being in that world. Um, there are over a hundred black players you know who have now played

in the NHL. Many of them have either talked about your story or they've talked about your journey in some way inspiring, but they've also talked about how difficult it can be being the only black player on a team, you know, the only black player who's representing the franchise.

You know, were there any tips that you gave to any of these players, or were there any tips that you learned that would help you not almost carry the entire burden of being the only black player on a team, you know, being able to fail for Willie or being able to succeed for Willy, and not always worrying that it you know, it represents all of blackness at the

same time, which it did and didn't. Well, I met a lot of the black players and the players of color that are playing in the in the league at the present time, and you know, some of them that that I have met, they said, Willie, I just can't imagine what you had to go through to make it possible for players like me to play in the league. He says, I just I have the highest respect in the highest admiration for you. He said, what you what you had to do? You must have had to turn

your cheek a thousand times. And I said, I just stayed I stayed focused on what I wanted to do. I I worked hard, and I told myself I'm good enough to play in the league, and uh, just just work hard and stay confident. Let's talk a little bit about the future. You know, you were celebrating you and you've been celebrated for such a long time as being not just part of black history, but part of also

the NHL's history. You have now been an ambassador for the National Hockey League, getting black players into it, players of color, you know, kids who would have never thought that this could be their sport, or maybe they wanted to get into it but couldn't. It's an expensive sport to get into. You you know, your skates and and and all the equipment that you need to to be part of it sometimes becomes a bigger barrier than even

the color of your skin. When you're when you're meeting with new kids and you're you're talking to these children who want to join in, how do you inspire them to get into a sport that sometimes might be just out of their reach. Well, we have we have organized programs all over North America, and when I first started there were approximately five. We have about thirty six now.

And before the pandemic, I was traveling around to these cities and uh talking to the elementary school, middle schools, junior high high schools, UM boys and Girls clubs, y M, y w C, a's juvenile detention facilities to let them know that there is a sport that they can play if they want to. And UH, all you have to do is come to the rink and we'll we'll learn how to skate and if you if you follow them, we'll get you on an organized, un organized team where

you're able to able to play. I mean, hockey is a fun sport, but I tell these kids, if you're not having fun, don't play it and find another sport. But I can honestly say that the clinics that I've conducted over the years, once I get these boys girls on the ice, I've not had one boy or girl come up and say, Mr, y, I don't like this, I'm not coming back. So it's a nice feeling to reach out and needing and just touch one individual and make a difference in their life. Well, that's why you

are who you are. That's why you are receiving not just a medal, but all the praise and we celebrate you. Thank you so much, Mr WILLIOI, thank you so much for runing us on the show. Thank you for what you've done, and thank you for the joy that you've brought to the sport and to the world. We appreciate you.

All right, don't go away because after the break, I'm gonna be chatting to Jessica Kingdon, who has made a documentary that takes us into China and shows us what some of their challenges are that we may not know about. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is filmmaker Jessica Kingdon. She's here to talk about Ascension, her Oscar nominated documentary that examines the contemporary Chinese dream. Jessica Kingdon, Welcome to the

Daily Show. Thank you so much for having me. It's a complete honor to be here. Let's talk about the film. It's very seldom that you see China, and it's very seldom that you see China not from China's perspective, and not from like the West perspective, but just in China.

So let's start with that, how on earth do you get to make a documentary in China in all the places that you've got to make the documentary Because the film itself is not politically overtly political, and we're not filming inn any um quote unquote sensitive areas, So we were able to be extremely straightforward about what we were doing, and a lot of it was just simply asking these locations, Hey, we're an independent American documentary film crew coming to make

a film about China's ecodomic rays. Can we come and film in your factory? Can we come and film in your manner, school, etcetera. Surprisingly, the thing that people were worried about is not something I anticipated. A lot of factory managers, Um, we're worried that we were going to scam them and try to get money out of them, like to hit them up with a bill for appearing in our movie later on. Yeah, maybe I'm dead serious. Another suspicion that happened was in the textilemn one of

the textile manufacturing companies. He thought that we were there trying from a corporation trying to um take the technology secret. You were trying to steal the tick and then go and make your own textile exactly. It feels like what also makes the film different is you know telling us anything. You're just showing us things. You know, there's no one

who's narrating, there's nobody who's giving you their opinion. You see, like, you know, low income workers, we see the middling class that's burgeoning, and then we see like wealthy Chinese people. You even take us into a factory that is making very advanced sex dolls. When you were making the film, wouldn't you have attempted to step in and go like, this is what this means? Or were you happy for us the viewer to just watch for ourselves in decide. I don't think I could even say what it means,

to be honest with you. I mean, I think there's so many meanings that are can be found within that one clip even But like you said, something that struck me about this place was the paradox of it were On one hand, it seems like one of the most

exploitative factories. There are these replicas of bodies literally made for exploitation, But On the other hand, the women are handling the dolls and also working together with a certain type of tenderness that I found very touching, and the conversations that they're having with one another two are almost accidentally poetic sometimes, and so I found that really beautiful. And um, that was a paradox that I was really trying to lean into and and look for and draw out.

And it wasn't something that I had to go in and try to manufacture. It was just something that was already there. And I think a lot of this type of filmmaking is about the patients to sort of sit with these sort of moments and allow them to to emerge instead of trying to go and you know, prove a certain point. It's wonderful to just see just a world happening, but in a way where it doesn't feel a like you said, manufactured, but also with something is happening.

You know, there's a lot of stories that happen in how people live and and it was nice to watch that in the documentary just see people living, but then also there's a story being told by how the people live, right. It's just the art of observing and seeing what comes up. Yeah, no, you're You're a better filmmaker than i'd ever be. I would always be tempted to like jump in be. I was very tempted a lot of the times. It took

a lot of discipline, didn't Okay, okay? You know, the China that I had known for so many years was just all industrial and very and and in this documentary we start to see a new world that is forming, where people are now learning how to be influences and the culture is changing. Would it be safe to say that there's almost now the Chinese dream like the American dream, where people are going we want to ascend in how we live and creates. There's a lot of similarities with

the Chinese dream and the American dream. I mean, the one thing that they both have in common is this idea, this quest for upward mobility, and this belief in this system that you'll be rewarded materially for your hard work and you know, are able to work yourself up to a middle class lifestyle, which of course we know is not true for everyone. Um, But within China, I found that it was just interesting to see how a lot

of it mirrors American style capitalism as well. There's so many different parallels that we wouldn't necessarily see on the surface, but if you kind of look closer, you see a

lot of it's echoed with one another. One of my favorite moments in the documentary is where you are in the factory where they're where they're making the Donald Trump make America Great Again hats, like they're making the Maga hats, but you saw them making the keep America Great and you thought you thought they were messing up, Like you thought they had totally messed up the slogan. That's right.

This was during Trump's reelection campaign. The manager told us, oh, you know, all of the Maga hats are gone because they were bought out by the Canadians. Not something I would have expected, but okay, sure, Canada Maga hats um. But instead, hey, we're actually making um keep America Great um scarves. And I thought that that was kind of maybe a mistake or mistranslation or something, but we shot it anyway, and they said, no, no, this is his

new campaign slogan. And sure enough, six months later or whatever, we were seeing it everywhere. So there's this thing that business people in EU, the city where we were shooting our ahead of the curve, ahead of the political trends, because they're kind of like the base of manufacturing where all of these global issues first come. Yeah, I definitely want to go. I just want to see what my future is. What shirts are they making about me? Exactly? What?

Free Trevor Noah, I'm wait, I'm want to be in prison. Um. Jessica, congratulations again on the Oscar nomination, and thank you for making really one of the most fascinating documentaries out. Thank you so much. This has been an absolute honor. All Right, people, Jessica's documentary Ascension is now streaming on Paramount Plus. Trust me, you want to watch it. It's going to teach you so much. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll

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