Hello. Friends, I'm doing this loan correspondent for the daily show and I'm Josh Johnson, the writer for the daily show, and we have a new podcast called hold up. We're gonna be talking about the mirrors of texting. Vs crawling contrast. versus club bangers? You know topics that are paid to us, but smart everybody else and is best friends who rarely agree on anything. There's going to be plenty of arguments and I'm not losing the arguments. Anybody with that hairline attacks, reading in the promo, that's fine in the hold up on the iheart radio, app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hey. It's roy wood jr from the daily show with trevor Noah and hosted the new podcast beyond the scenes. In each episode I, along with daily, show correspondent, writers and producers dig deeper into your favorite segments. You talk about how the show comes together will be left on the cutting room floor and where we're at now, with these issues we're talking about topics like police violence,

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to those people, let's jump straight into today's headlines, the let's kick things off with the big news of the day. President Biden has had a rough time recently. He couldn't get climate change action. He couldn't get free community college. He couldn't get tax hikes on the rich. but it turns out there's one thing: he could get began this hour with breaking news from the white house where president Joe Biden is in isolation after he tested positive for covert the white house press secretary, saying that the president is leave acts needed he's been twice. First, did he's exe can see what they say very mild symptoms at this point, so he will be isolating, but he will be able to continue in his role. He won't need to turn over any duties. It appears to the vice president. At this point, hey folks, guess you heard the nine tested positive or coat whatever well vaccinated, double boosted.

miles, and I really appreciate your I'm doing well get lot of work done, going to continue to get it done and in the meantime, thanks for your concern and keep the faith going to be. Okay Okay, first things. First, I'm sure all of our thoughts are with present buying for a speedy recovery get well soon, so you made the spanish flu. You can make it through this. I know you can do it and also it does look like he's. Gonna be fine right. You didn't like wagon that videos, like hey you've, probably heard I got to covert, but I get why he's got swag. You know he's been vaccine has been boosted, has been double boosted and he's taking antiviral drugs and just to be safe, he's sipping, some bleach on the side.

I know, yeah. That shit seems a little ridiculous, so you get cold, but then you like I'll, try anything another reason the presents going to be fine is because, let's be honest, there's not much the kobe can do to him think about it was going to have been the virus. going to get his body and be like. Let's see what I can do here time to get some brain fog, some fatigue, some just what we have already been here. It was going. Ok, the now in the meantime, Biden says he will not be taking any sick days, which is what sucks about being president. You still got to put on a strong face, I have a job you'll be milking. That shit covered railway card. May I think I'm going to be sick for the rest of the summer. If you see pictures of me by the pool on my home, my phone was hacked up, but let's move on the big news out of america to the big news. That's coming off the united kingdom. The queen has covert norm joke

joking crazy that right there will be crazy. No I'm joking doesn't have covered she's been dead. for years. The anyway back in two thousand and nineteen prime minister, Boris Johnson and his conservative party, they won a landslide election victory. It was huge. They won everywhere in southern england and manchester in sure look upon watson and is not all the places basically between belarus and each year and twenty nine It was a good year, especially for british people who look like they're from the year. Thirteen two thousand and six. There was a good time and it was such a commanding victory that people thought boris Johnson might become the prime minister who was up there for a decade, which would be amazing Britain's first human broom, but then boris started getting caught up in scandals right. He bought the colored response. Then he got caught, throwing a bunch of parties while the rest of us.

It have to be in lockdown, and then he hired people who he knew were alleged sex offenders. And of course there was that time when he showed up to parliament wearing a t shirt. That said, the carpet matches the drapes which is totally inappropriate because it doesn't, he comes the carpet so finally, last month it was forced to resign in disgrace and yesterday he gave the greatest failure speech of all time, boris Johnson, facing parliament for one last time as british prime minister, as only he would Johnson defended, is record in his farewell remarks. He also gave some words of advice to his successor number one stay close to the americans. Stick up for the ukrainians speak up a freedom, a demonic everywhere, cut taxes deregulate wherever you can to make this the greatest place to live investment. It is ahead

mirror remember a bubble: it's not twitter it's a is. I want to everybody here and have some of the maybe hostile, a vista Maybe this is the land of shakes and jane austen, and the quote boris chose was from the when they are just that do the power of american culture, even the prime minister,

Not a kingdom is like farewell and godspeed. Fifty two things, and if you like the speeches we hope in the middle it look like you, just gotta, giving random advice about driving focused on the road ahead, always check the review mirror. I remember it's not hit and run if you try, but why do you know? It's also like not when you're giving a speech, especially resigning or being fired like shooting? You want People regrets, but The speech you want people to go like may. Have we made the wrong choice? They leave a like, remember, with obama when he gave his farewell speech even racists in amerika. Like me, He was one of the good ones

a job concept move on to some news about america's most powerful institution: amazon, and I know I know from the get go. People have mixed feelings about amazon. Oh, they exploit their work as oh, they ruin local economies quit bitching. I love them know why? If I need more sharman, I get it on amazon and boom set my house in six hours and yeah. Maybe it's? Zactly sherman, maybe like a chinese knock off, and maybe the toilet paper mostly made out of lead, but am I gonna get brain point from wiping with lead. No, and I certainly am not gonna get brain poisoning from wiping with lead anyway. The fact is, amazon is a part of life in america and I'm not going get brain points from wiping and now amazon is going to be expanding even more.

We are breaking news out of seattle this morning, home to amazon. The company announcing it is diving further into the health care industry, with plans to buy health care provider. One medical for about three point: nine billion dollars. Amazon says healthcare is high on its list of things that needs reinventing yeah. Finally, a win for Jeff bezos man. I could not be more excited because with amazon's prediction, algorithm healthcare will never be the same. You notice how they always know what you want, what you need before you, even though it's imagine that with healthcare you going to buy a pack of double bay, double a batteries, and then just before you check out that we, like you, might

also need chemotherapy the chemotherapy. I don't have a shit. The shouldn't have used that lead toilet paper. The know how I know some people are a little uncomfortable with the idea of amazon getting into every industry because they're buying medicine. Now they run the cloud, the one tv studios they have grocery stores and you're, not sure what what's the worst that can happen or what? What

when Jeff Bezos owns everything yeah. So what then? He has all our money. So now we have slaves working crazy hours in the warehouse. You know. Peeing in bottles that doesn't sound so bad yeah, at least I'll know where my packages are pictures of myself. The one thing that does suck about this is: if amazon also owns your medicine, you realize that means. Alexa knows your medical secrets. Gotta watch out for that cause. You're gonna be hanging out at home with your friends all of a sudden, the lecture will be like your hemorrhoid cream is arriving this afternoon. No alexa cancel, cancel cancel. You would like me to cancel your giant tub of hemorrhoid cream. No, no, no pencil, all right, that's it for the headlines, but before we go to break essence of chicken

weather forecast relax, relax relaxes, not my kid. It's just some actor I hired so I could use the car I like it is scorching. the all across this country? As you can see, and it is really important that we take precaution, so I'm just going to I'm going to give everyone a few tips to stay safe out there, okay, safe and cool. Now this heat is dangerous, especially for pets. In the

Surely? Basically anyone who eats out of a bowl considered high risk. So do your elderly neighbors, a favor popeye, see how they're doing check in because if they die, god rest her soul. you get first dibs on that real estate and this real estate market is a beast. You got to be competitive, actually checked in on my my neighbor this morning, unfortunate It was fine the checked in yeah. What do you do? Second tip? It is cooler at night, so you're going to want to leave those windows open before bed, and I know what you're thinking trevor, what about robbers right? Crime rates are up. So this is why I home alone, my house, every single night marbles on the floor, blow torches up above the whole deal. You just takes care of everything The one thing you're going to want to do is you're, going to remind anyone that you live with about that

because my my husband has not been the same since the paint cannon, Well what about rough next step where loose clothing? Ok, especially if you sweat a lot like me, and I mean a lot trevor it is like a slip in slide under the whole situation. I'm talking violently moist And you do not want to know what's happening, yeah, yes, I do I do not. I don't want to know the sheer volume of it. Sometimes there is brit to it. You know what I'm talking about. Like really have you ever opened up a dishwasher made cycle? That's what it's like! It's like that

I'm glad you didn't tell me there's a way. It is a medical condition, which is why I saw appreciate you being such an ally leaving out those towels for me, those beautiful, clean towels in your bathroom for me to use three four five times a day. Sometimes I just I really appreciate that in too Oh you, that's why I always folded up neatly and put it exactly how you laughed. Thank you. I use those tolls On my face, of course, the most effective way to beat the heat is to stay hydrated. Ok, but please, please be careful watch out for products that claim to be more high rating than water. That's a cash grab. There is only one thing that can hydrate you more than water, and that is darrell's hard brown lemonade. What makes it brown after one or two knowing

cares. If it ain't brown, it's not going down so You know who could use darrell's hard brown. President Biden, you know why, because it also cures cove the only hard brown lemonade that also cures, covid, The that is why I love this stuff is thick the anyway. Those are the big tips to carry it through this heat, oh and one more thing. Actually, if a guy named Daryl offers you fifty thousand dollars no strings,

Tach. There are strings attached the shit, this kid's calling me again. Oh no, you can't put the windows down someone could steal something. What did you home a car she gonna leave the chaotic. Does he like everybody that we come back from going to require hey? It's royal junior from the daily showed its revenue and hosted the newport ass beyond the scenes in each episode I, along with David, so correspondence writers and produces dig deeper into your favorite segments. Talk about how the seal comes together will be left on the cutting room floor and we were at now these issues which often about others. Like me, smile,

six robots gun control there be in the black majority in so much more, listen to beyond the sea. On the irish radio, apple pie, task or whatever you get. Your part is how friends, I'm doth islam for spanish right away and I'm just johnson bride for the day will show we haven't you pack ass, caused well that doesn't have the merit of taxing versus calling conscious, versus club bangers, you know, topics that are paid to us, but smart everybody else and is best friends who rarely agree on anything. There's going to be plenty of arguments and I'm not losing the arguments. Anybody with that hairline attacks Reading in the promo, that's fine! the hold on the app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. season, finale of the january sixth hearings, the tv invented get to the day, a mob

mega maniacs try to help MIKE pence meet his hero. Show is one of the hearings coming to a close. Let's catch up on the latest developments in our ongoing coverage of nearly six. The weeks of televised hearings were learning a lot about what happened on January six and the days that led up to it. We learned that donald trump was told by his closest advisers that the election wasn't stolen. We also learned that he set up a fake election defense fund that took millions. dollars from his supporters. We also learned that he knew his crowd was on that day and still sent them to the capital anyway, and after all of this guy, I know about you but I'm starting to think from guy might be bad news. I have like one or two red flags here and I'm not the only one I remember how we learned in those hearings about how trump tried to get MIKE pence to singlehandedly toss out the election results. You remember that part yeah. Well, a bipartisan group of senators has decided that shit shouldn't

happen again. You're in washington, a bipartisan group of senators have cut a deal that would make it much tougher to pull off a repeat of what former president chrome tried to do that. Effort to pressure his vice president into over find the election one measure reform. The electoral count act to make it clear that the vp's job is quote solely ministerial and that he or she does not have any power solely to determine except reject or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors. wow. This is big. The senators from both parties have agreed to amend the electoral count act of eighteen, eighty, seven to make it clear once and for all that the vp cannot just toss out the election results. which yes is something everyone in America already knew, except for one guy. You know it's kind of like when, in kindergarten the tinged, the teacher makes an announcement to the whole class

was clearly directed at one kid. I was like okay class. Remember we don't poop on the toilet. We poop in the toilet that that's for everyone to understand. Okay, Donald, the vice president could just throw out the election results. That would make no sense. Why would you give so much power to someone was otherwise totally powell we like handing over control of america's drones, to which have a kid wins, the I shall spare me it's what the founders want, Jed, but either way. This is a big deal and is also good reminder for america that, if an old ass law doesn't make sense anymore, you can just change that. You don't want things because people in the day was stupid. No people back in the day was smart as hell aren't they studied the classics. They they knew. How to write in Kosovo

What top hats all the signs of an intelligent person, but they wrote the laws that made sense for their time yeah. They didn't need to spell this out because they have a donald trump so that most change vice president conscious overturned the election and knowing america and we have a rights. The story, it's gonna happen is don't trumps. Gonna get all these people to become the electors in each state. they're, going to ignore the voters' rights and they're going to these are the votes, and then it's going to come to carmella Harris will be like camel, have flipped the thing she's like mere, but it looks like overturning the next election might be the least of Donald trump's worries, because, after all the facts that the committee has exposed about his last overturning the justice depart,

and might be paying donald visits, the spotlight on the justice department's investigation, his attorney general merrick, garland, making it clear he will hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible, no person, nothing stops the dunno, how to say that again, no person, longest contract cafe I've never seen that side of merrick garland looked like he was about to cut a bitch. This is already the yeah. He turned into samuel l jackson for a second, because no person is above the. What about the americans like what part of no the now what's interesting about the story? Is that some Democrats actually mad at merrick garland, because they think he doesn't

italy wants to prosecute trump. Alright, they say slow, rolling, he's trying to hide behind things, but I'll be honest. I get it. I think the medicine in a tough spot here think about even if trump is definitely guilty. Can you imagine what would happen if he gets sent to prison country would explode a utah January central's bed. Trump supporters will be storming everything if you got arrested at all the white house, the supreme court. The only place that will be safe from them is libraries there. They got a history book, the other america isn't even trump's only problem, because right now, he's being investigated by everyone in congress state of new york district attorney georgia, the men in black and I get it. I get human beings, don't just look like this. It doesn't make sense. That's not a human being, so tat looks like he's in a tough spot right now.

One thing: we know about donald trump, that getting out of tough spot is speciality, can get out of anything. Criminal cases lost Marriages, marriages are marriages and apparently, apparently trump thinks he's found an ingenious way to get out of it couples, it is sounding more likely than an announcement from for president trump about a twenty twenty four election bid is more of a matter of when and not an. If. But it's not just about avenging a loss for people with knowledge of the situation. Tell rolling stone magazine that hunting legal issues are a motivating factor for trump's desire to retake the oval office. According to the justice department's office of legal counsel The president cannot, be charged with a federal crime yeah, so it turns out, some people are above the law and it's crazy that trump might run for president, so that he doesn't jail units, almost wild, that don't trot, was the only person who runs for president but have no interest in being

now, the first time he did it to try and draw up ratings where they and now he's going to run just to stay out of the out of jail, campaign slogan is probably going to be trump. Twenty, twenty four. I can't do time the actually think it would make the campaign more. Can you imagine if trump's running for president, while he's running from the law, every readiness like no child should ever learn pronouns or what? How shit the cops are here: rooting for the sewer game, you'll. Never get the that's the end of the first season of the january. Six committee and it ends with the possibility of trump going to prison, and I'm sure right now we're he is the man is probably terrified is just like. What do I do with the idea? I can't go to prison. How am I gonna survive on water?

Donald I'll, give you tips, I've been a prisoner for twenty year, the hey it's lulu juniors in the daily show, with trevor Noah and hosted the podcast beyond the seeds in each episode I, along with daily, show correspondent, writers and producers dig deeper into your favorite segments. Talk about how the show comes together will be left on the cutting room floor and where we're at now, these issues we're talking about topics like police. I want sex, robots, gun control therapy in the black community and so much more listen to beyond the scenes on the iheart radio, app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts have friends. I'm doing a lot of corresponding for the day

at least yeah and I'm josh johnson writer for the daily show, and we have a new podcast called hold up. We're gonna be talking about the mirrors of texting vs crawling contrast versus club anger. You know tat the tat are made to us, but smart everybody knows best friends who rarely agree on anything. There's gonna be plenty of arguments that lose an hour he with anybody with their airlines attacks. Already in the promo. That's fine isn't the hold on the app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I guess they division and artists who make up, who has collaborated with the likes of beyond, say an opera winfrey easier to talk about his debut novel, the sense of burnt flowers. Please welcome. Let's,

but that will let you so. How are you doing so fantastic? This is so good to have you here, because you know there are few people in the. old who can say that they have people like opera, win, free and beyond, say as their fans view. none. Maybe you know: let's, let's, let's start with this with this idea, I mean you know: people have seen your work, even if they don't know if they don't know your name, you do so many different things. You know we were nominated for a grammy

If a co directing black is king right now, the musical adaptation of the color purple absolutely and all of this in your journey begins in Ghana. I'm always fascinated as an african how? How does that journey begin? How does it get you to this point here? Well, first, no, it can has one job. We know you've got to do them all you gotta, do it all, and you know I've always been enamored by storytelling. That, for me, is the beginning I grew up with a grandmother had told stories rights they were incredible always visual. I call it the age be. Oh showtime netflix and and the beauty that was the way imaginative. So I grew up.

Standing stories can be nonlinear could be they powerful tools for the imagination and so over time. For me, that's just been. It is just chasing this storytelling understanding that stories bring us together understand, especially as a continent where stories are so few and far between, and so few people know about Lorries. I found that having to do it in multiple mediums allows me to tell more of the same exact store. I love that you ve done that across multiple mediums, because you know you don't just direct and you don't just hope, You can create movies. You you also our rapporteur, giovanni for self, released, Ellen's right. Do you and now a novel throw into the mix what what? What was that you just you just winning so hard and then you get bored like not many people would think that they can write the book and then not many people would write a book that is getting the reviews. Your book is getting in

I mean I, I really look. I was cove it making read your writing a book? It's a fantastic because, well you know, and then the premature point of stories is beautiful. I won't give away all the details, but essential is the story of a couple in the sixties, black couple in the sixties, living in america who escape yes to africa. Yes, and you know a whole journey unfolds now what I loved that it set in the sixties, and we know the civil rights movement when all the stories in iran the time, but it feels strangely like it could be said today, as well, although these people going like america not sure I need to absolutely and and and it's it's been an ongoing thing for me, what it is is also about expectations. You know, I have a lot of friends who say they want to go to africa and they go and they go. Oh, this is as real

and it's real, it's very real to them, and I I find that. Ultimately, I also have friends who want to come to america. Yes, and you know that you're told there are no homeless people the attempted coup d'etat and things like that, and then you arrive and you go away. That happens here too, and so the expectation back and forth for me has been one of the most interesting juxtapositions of this book and whether it's now whether it's then I think the story is still the same, we're all longing for a home. we hope will be better than the one when I love that joy, how you know how real you made the story this, if I'm not mistaken this, this is already been bought to be turned into a series, crap solutely,

he would like all. We need to make this into a movie. You see these years and then you wrote the book in those what we want. We want, above all, ass heartily no, what was in the book do. They know did. You know you and you know that would take. It will take it. If I would love that, ok, ok, waste electronic rent, they had to locate it gotta gotta. Quite so now he is he's a question I have everyone says the same thing about everything on the book was always the book is better because better how you gonna make sure that the book isn't, just better. How do you make sure that the series you don't hold a candle to the book? Absolutely I mean

First, you know shot the yacht. Do martine who's gonna starring in mean it's really going to be fine tacit exploration, because one thing I thought about writing is that you can create these multiple layers and back story in ways that you probably couldn't in television, but in television or film you gotta visual media, in which you can tell nonverbal store lhasa, you can write, show people as most to tell him, and so I feel like I'm. I have the best of both worlds because I can go in here whenever I need it, but I also have the visual to tell the story. I love them so so you gotta be working on the adaptation of the musical is what what's that was the process? Would that right now, because you know the kind of people is one of those stories that is really held in high,

steam in the united states. Important story, it's you notes. Multi generational! You going to be redoing as a musical which, which is particularly interesting, is how do you? How do you capture the essence of something was supposed to bring in elements of the new and then making sure that the world's emerged together. How you did it? Why? How you did it didn't make the color purple steven said at the time there are a lot of people. Tell me that the Steven Spielberg sorry I mean the daily show. I mean it's what you did and I have to be honest. It's such an inspiration. When I the one I got this job. You are one of the first people I thought about, which is. How do you take something that is classic, how you teach something that people love and making your own and- and you did that and so,

in going into the colored paper, which we just rap by the way tat they shouted Steven Spielberg and an opera for the support and love and want to brothers family for the love, but they really allowed me to make the smile

and- and he allowed me to to to experiment- be allowed me to give Celia an imagination. They allowed me to do things that I think and elevate the story and make it something. That's modern and something that still holds it's foundations together and so also Alice, walker's, amazing texts, which is the original inspiration for all of this very, very lucky, very lucky, because we were going to be the ones who experience. You know how you put the work together. I I I find myself intrigued with a lot of the work you create, because you can tell that you know. Ghana and Africa as a whole have an indelible impression on how you think and how you apply your mind to the projects that you're working on you see this in the book, and I I loved how you did it. You tell a story about people who are connected by so many things,

and yet have so many things that actually make them different. You know particularly an african american couple going to africa and going this is our home and then realising this, it's not, but it is an end. The things that are different and how did you? How do you tackle that sensitively, because what I felt reading the book was, while we are the people so that we can also celebrate the fact that new cultures have emerged and new ideas of spread across that you know from generation to generation? How do you? How did you catch then? Indeed do it on purpose was just in it. I mean it's on purpose. I mean the fact that I grew up in ghana through high school. I went right to motor it can Driscoll, which is fantastic school produced presidents, I'm lucky to be from that school and but but the beauty there was that I would I've been able to really never let go of. You know that those early years of my lot, which then you know spending as much time as I have now knew you. U s. It's kind of found a way to kind of all. Congo less

one thing, which now, which now is kind of them: the them merrithew, which I I am or the vessel to which I have made music. Was the same. It was like taking. You know, public enemy and mixing it with Fela Kuti, which, which you know now you got. for beats, and everybody knows it, but ten years ago it was that idea with wife it was wild, it was was canine. It was myself very few people who were who were attempting to to this end. I think it's all about this double consciousness, where you kind of zigzag through these worlds, where you know that you're never quite either, because it be become one thing and and and and that's how these characters find themselves. They find themselves constantly wrestling with identity,

What am I you know where? Where am I going and in what world do I belong? Ultimately, is it where you are? Is it where you were born? Is it is it where you're, where you're going next and that's kind of where I find? I personally wrestled with that myself and many many immigrants do, and so that's kind of how I

I filter all that flew into this book. You've done an amazing job, it's going to be an amazing show and thank you so much supplanted the hey. It's roy wood jr from the daily show with trevor Noah and hosted the new podcast beyond the seeds in each episode I, along with daily, show correspondent, writers and producers dig deeper into your favorite segments. Talk about how the show comes together will be left on the cutting room floor and where we're at now have these issues we're talking about topics like police violence. six robots, gun control there be in the black unity, so much more, listen to beyond the sea on the irish radio, apple pie task or whatever you get. Your part is how friends and all things like forest management.

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