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00:03From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
00:10This is The Daily Show with your host, Jordan Klinger.
00:30We got so much to talk about tonight.
00:33Afro Man is winning hip-hop's weirdest beef.
00:35Michael Kosta wants to steal your kids' Pokemon cards.
00:39And the war with Iran is more busted than your March Madness bracket.
00:43So, let's get into headlines.
00:48We are now almost three weeks into the war in Iran, and it's not going great.
00:56Oil prices are surging, our planes are getting shot out of the sky,
01:00and now Pete Hegseth is asking for an extra $200 billion to fight this war.
01:10And they say women be shopping, huh?
01:15And on top of all of this, our allies are angry that Trump started this war without consulting them.
01:21But, of course, President Trump is smoothing things over with his trademark charm.
01:26Why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?
01:35Because we wanted surprise.
01:37Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
01:40Okay?
01:41Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
01:44Okay?
01:48Wow.
01:50The Japanese prime minister did not like that joke.
01:56I haven't seen an American bomb in front of Japan that badly since.
02:00You get the idea.
02:03Although I will give Trump credit, though.
02:05He didn't do a Japanese accent, so let's call that progress.
02:10But taking all of this into account, it feels like America could really use a win right now.
02:18Rapper Afro Man wins a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff's deputies.
02:24He's calling it a victory for freedom of speech.
02:27Yeah!
02:28We did it, America!
02:29Yeah!
02:30We did it!
02:31Freedom of speech!
02:32Right on!
02:33Yeah!
02:35Whoa!
02:35Whoa!
02:37Whoa!
02:38That looks like American victory to me.
02:41I mean, just look at what he's wearing.
02:45If aliens landed here in America, they'd be like, take me to your lead.
02:49Oh, it must be this guy right here, right?
02:51His glasses.
02:51Love the glasses.
02:53Now, you might remember Afro Man from his hit song, Because I Got High.
02:57Or you might not remember it, Because You Got High.
03:00But, basically, back in 2022, local police in Ohio busted down Afro Man's door, rummaged
03:08through his clothes, took money from his house, scared his kids, all to look for evidence of
03:14crimes that they never ended up charging him with.
03:18Now, after a raid like this, a lot of people might try to lay low for a while, not piss
03:23off
03:24the cops, but Afro Man happened to notice this particular moment where one of the deputies
03:29was searching his kitchen and looked longingly at a lemon pound cake.
03:36And Afro Man did what Afro Man does.
03:40He released multiple satirical music videos using his own security camera footage of the
03:46incident that included images, you're seeing some of that here, of these officers.
03:51Mama's swimming pound cake, it tastes so nice, it made the sheriff want to put down his
04:03gun, and cut him a slice.
04:07Oh, man.
04:10Oh, I...
04:12Oh.
04:15I'll tell you.
04:16I'll tell you.
04:17Rap songs have really evolved.
04:19They used to say, f*** the police, now they body shame them over carbs.
04:25And that was just the beginning.
04:26Afro Man put out a whole series of videos about the cops, addressing specific grievances
04:31in songs like, will you help me repair my door?
04:35And why are you disconnecting my video camera?
04:39As well as songs with more general observations.
04:43Randy Waters is the son of a bitch.
04:48Oh.
04:58Whoa.
05:03I'll tell you.
05:08And that is why A.I. will never replace real musicians.
05:14Now, a lot of people found these Cuck the Police music videos funny,
05:19but the police officers who starred in them did not.
05:23So, last year, they sued Afro Man for defamation.
05:26And right away, the officers had a problem,
05:28which is that when you sue someone for making fun of you,
05:31you have to get up on the witness stand
05:33and talk about how badly you suffered from it.
05:37Which led to moments like this.
05:40Sean, you were, uh, called Officer Pound Cake by Mr. Kramer?
05:45Multiple times.
05:46You saved hundreds of pound cakes at work.
05:49And with the people.
05:51Oh.
05:52Oh.
05:56Oh, my God.
05:57My God.
05:58The horror!
05:59The horror!
06:00I can't imagine the pain of being sent free desserts!
06:05I just hope Afro Man doesn't find out that I love banana pudding from Magnolia Bakery.
06:11It would be devastating if my haters sent me hundreds of them with the Nilla wafers, specifically.
06:17I mean, oh, God, I would never recover.
06:21Remember, Officer Pound Cake wasn't Afro Man's only target.
06:25Officer Randy Walters sued Afro Man for saying, I mean, what was it again?
06:31Randy Walters is a son of a bitch.
06:34Right, right, right.
06:36Which, again, meant Randy Walters had to get up on the witness stand and answered the question,
06:42Are you a son of a bitch?
06:46And when they call you a son of a bitch, that would be an opinion?
06:51I'd say that would be an opinion.
06:52Okay.
06:53Because there's no way we can prove whether you're a son of a bitch or not.
06:56Yeah, she's been done for years.
06:57I'm sorry.
06:58I'm sorry about your loving mind.
07:01Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
07:10Whoa, whoa.
07:24And this is generally the big challenge with the defamation lawsuit.
07:35Because to win, you have to argue that a reasonable person would believe that Afro Man's claims were facts and
07:41not just jokes.
07:42And that's especially awkward because Afro Man also said he slept with Randy's wife.
07:46Or, oh, wait, no, I'm sorry.
07:48How did he put it?
07:50Yes.
07:55So, now poor Randy Walters had to argue that a reasonable person might believe that, which led to, perhaps, my
08:03favorite moment of the trial.
08:05So, you're claiming that is the defamation statement is that he said he had sex with your wife?
08:11Yes.
08:12Okay.
08:12And that's painted you in a false light?
08:14It's caused tremendous pain in my life that my wife is cheating on me with Mr. Foreman.
08:20But we all know that's not true, correct?
08:22I don't know.
08:35I don't know.
08:37Just look at me and my whole deal here.
08:40I think a reasonable person could assume I'm unable to satisfy my wife.
08:46Look, okay, okay, obviously, obviously, no one thinks that Afro Man is sleeping with this guy's wife.
08:53I wouldn't dare slander them or their beautiful child.
08:56Now, can I just say, can I just say this?
09:03This puts Officer Poundcake in an even, an even worse light.
09:08The other guy is like, Afro Man called me a son of a bitch and said he f***ed my wife.
09:14And then you're like, yeah, and he said I had a sweet tooth.
09:20Again, okay, the central question of this case wasn't whether Afro Man songs were factual.
09:25It was whether people would think they were true.
09:28And this is how his lawyer made the case.
09:30Look at that suit.
09:33Does this look like a man who thinks that everybody's going to assume that everything he's saying is fact?
09:46I'm beginning to see how brilliant wearing that suit is.
09:50Ladies and gentlemen, does my client look like someone you should take seriously?
09:55He dresses like the DJ at the club where Betsy Ross strips.
10:00And by the way, I love this lawyer, too.
10:03Look at, look at Hagrid Esquire over here.
10:05All right, let's wrap this up.
10:08I got the big ZZ Top case at three, and then I got to go back to forging my own
10:13swords.
10:14Thank you, Your Honor.
10:15But there were actual free speech issues on trial here, and Afro Man was unapologetic about his rights.
10:22After they run around my house with guns and kick down my door, I got the right to kick a
10:26can in my backyard,
10:28use my freedom of speech, turn my bad times into a good time.
10:32Yes, I do.
10:34And I think I'm a sport for dealing sex, because I don't go to their house, kick down their doors,
10:39flip them off on their surveillance cameras, then try to play the victim and sue them.
10:45Wow.
10:47Wow.
10:50I don't know if I want to stand up and salute because of the speech he gave or because he's
10:54wearing all the American flags.
10:56Regardless, I'd say Afro Man should run for president, except that was a real thing that happened in 2024.
11:08And all of you idiots didn't support him.
11:12We could have had President Afro Man right now.
11:16And look, I'm not saying that would be ideal, but you can't tell me it wouldn't be an improvement.
11:27When we come back, Michael Tassel will tell you how to get rich.
11:30Don't get away.
11:47Welcome back to The Daily Show.
11:48You know, if you want honest and rigorous financial news, then go eat a dick.
11:53But if you want to get rich, then you want Michael Kosta in another installment of Kosta Doing Business.
12:06Oh, attention.
12:08Welcome to Kosta Doing Business.
12:09I'm your dollar-dollar bill sergeant, Michael Kosta.
12:13And by the time I'm done, you maggots will be money marines ready to blow your bank account sky high.
12:19The only PTSD you'll come home with is pretty tall stacks of dinero.
12:28Now you're probably thinking, whoa, Kosta, isn't profiting off war with Iran immoral?
12:33Number one, no.
12:35Number two, wrong war, dumbass.
12:37Hit me.
12:38The new frontier in America's fast food wars.
12:41The CEOs of our favorite burger joints engaging in some online corporate trash talk.
12:46The CEO of McDonald's taste-testing their new burger, but the tiny bite he took quickly going viral.
12:53Now the CEOs of McDonald's fast food rivals making their own videos with a lot bigger bites.
13:00Yeah, that's right.
13:02The fast food wars are back, and I smell an opportunity that'll clog your wallet and your toilet.
13:08But be careful, because war is hell.
13:11After the fast food wars of the 80s, my Uncle Bob was never the same.
13:15He'd wake up in the middle of the night screaming, where's the beef?
13:18Where is it?
13:19I promised the beef's wife I'd get it home safe.
13:23Of course, like all wars, this thing has spread across the region.
13:27Canadian burger chain A&W has entered the fray.
13:30Ooh, incoming.
13:33Alan from A&W here with, you heard about it, here it is, the teen burger and the teen sauce.
13:41The iconic teen sauce.
13:43I invite you to join me for lunch.
13:45Just you, me, and a couple of teen burgers.
13:49Oh.
13:54I'm sorry, teen burgers?
13:58Those better be eight teen burgers, Alan.
14:02Trust me, telling people you like the taste of teen sauce is not the flex you think it is.
14:08Let's keep this guy 500 yards away from Wendy just to be safe, okay?
14:13And for the record, I'm not into teen burgers.
14:17Costa prefers his burgers with a little experience, you know?
14:20A burger that's been around the block.
14:22That's why I'm all in on middle-aged burgers, okay?
14:27Yeah.
14:28Yeah.
14:29Yeah.
14:30It might be graying on the sides.
14:32You need to apply a prescription cream to its back every once in a while.
14:35But this is a burger who gets all my Simpson references and still thinks it's cool I drive an 88
14:40Camaro.
14:41Plus, it's got the one thing I look for in a burger.
14:44No other options.
14:47Pick you up at eight, burger.
14:49Now, no matter what age burger you prefer, if you want to wash it down with something bubbly, it's going
14:54to be a problem.
14:56Hit me.
14:57America is running out of Topo Chico.
15:00Coca-Cola owns the brand and says the flagship product is temporarily unavailable in America.
15:05It's due to facility upgrades at the water source and production facilities in Mexico.
15:10Due to the shortage, these last remaining bottles have gone up to $6 a piece.
15:17Whoa!
15:18$6 a bottle?
15:20That's almost as expensive as a pint of clean blood.
15:23But, hey, don't let the price of sparkling H2O stop your bank account from H2 growing, because I'm currently seeking
15:31investors in Señor Costa's Guadalajara.
15:34It comes straight from the source.
15:37The pipes of a Tijuana motel that I've been crashing at.
15:40Now, it isn't exactly what you'd call sparkling, but it does have bubbles, now available at Whole Foods, Newark Airport's
15:48only grocery store.
15:49But, but, we're not talking about making money if we're not talking about trading.
15:56Not stocks, I'm talking trading cards.
15:59Hey, yay.
16:00Me.
16:01The thrill of hunting down rare, in-demand Pokemon cards has been sparking excitement for three decades now.
16:09And some of these cards can be worth a fortune.
16:12Influencer Logan Paul recently sold one card for millions.
16:16Over $16 million for a single card.
16:19Yep, and this follows my three main rules of investing.
16:23Buy low, sell high, and always take financial advice from Logan Paul.
16:28But, buyer beware, there are a ton of fake Pokemon cards out there.
16:33My $10,000 rare Pikachu turned out to be a Polaroid of a rat spray-painted yellow.
16:38I know.
16:40Then, when I went to get a refund, Timmy was gone from that playground.
16:44And then, the parents got all freaked out at me for screaming at the other kids when I'm the victim.
16:49How is that fair?
16:50Huh?
16:51F*** you, Timmy.
16:53Oh.
16:55What's that?
16:56That must be the dinner bell.
16:57Which means I gotta go pick up a hot, middle-aged burger and take her out for a $6 Topo
17:02Chico.
17:03And you know that guarantees I'll be tasting that special sauce.
17:07Hey, hey, hey, hey.
17:09Sorry, folks.
17:10That's just the cost of doing baes-nays.
17:15Thank you, Michael.
17:16When we come back, Rebecca Crayster.
17:17We'll be going around this show.
17:18Don't go away.
17:35Welcome back to The Daily Show.
17:36My guest tonight is a writer-at-large for New York Magazine and best-selling author
17:41whose latest book is called Angry Girls Will Get Us Through.
17:44Please welcome Rebecca Crayster.
17:51Welcome.
18:00Rebecca, welcome.
18:01Thank you for having me.
18:03Of course.
18:04Angry girls will get us through.
18:06Angry as in good.
18:08Anger is a good thing.
18:09A force for good.
18:10Can be a good thing.
18:11Can be a good thing.
18:13Can be a good thing.
18:13Can be a good thing.
18:14Walk me through this.
18:15How can this be a good thing?
18:16So there's a lot of different things that anger can be, including political anger.
18:21I would say that we live in a period in which a certain kind of political anger that is not
18:25good is radically shifting this country in a terrible way.
18:29That's a punitive anger on behalf of an inequitable power system and angry people, a lot of angry
18:36white men who want to get back their power and are doing an enormous amount of destruction.
18:40This book is not about that.
18:41No.
18:41This book.
18:45This book.
18:46Oh, I'm not.
18:46Oh, oh, oh.
18:49Fine, fine, fine.
18:50Angry white.
18:50Oh, no.
18:51There's no angry white men in here at all.
18:54How am I going to relate?
18:58This book is about the women who have pissed those men off.
19:01Mm-hmm.
19:02I bet.
19:06So this book is a book about angry women and girls and gender non-conforming people
19:12who have been angry at inequity, at injustice.
19:19And I would argue that that kind of anger is good, can be good.
19:24But also, one of the reasons I'm writing this book, and one of the reasons, this is an adaptation
19:29for young readers of a book that I wrote for adults, is because that anger has been under-recognized.
19:35We don't get taught about it.
19:37It's not appreciated.
19:38In fact, women and girls and gender non-conforming people are often told that their anger makes
19:43them ugly or hysterical or crazy or dangerous.
19:45And in fact, when I have gone back to get an education that I never got, and I had a
19:52very
19:52good education, but was never taught that at the beginning of almost every major social
19:58movement that has reshaped this country, not just the officially women's movement ones,
20:02civil rights, environment, labor, there were angry women and girls at the start.
20:06And their stories haven't been transmitted to us.
20:08So this is an attempt for me to begin to tell some of those stories that I don't think
20:13got recognized or appreciated, and it's specifically about the anger that didn't get appreciated
20:18as catalytic and righteous.
20:19Now, it's...
20:25Also, a good time to write about history.
20:27It's being rewritten as we speak.
20:28Sure is.
20:29Is there any...
20:30You kind of walked through a lot of characters within the women's movement.
20:35Is there anybody who stands out to you in this as particularly important in a moment
20:40like this?
20:41Well, there are a lot of people who are very important.
20:43I will tell you somebody I've been thinking about recently, in part because she just died.
20:48A woman named Claudette Colvin.
20:50And that's a name that a lot of people might not immediately recognize, and that's, in fact,
20:54kind of nuts.
20:56Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955, March of 1955, almost exactly 70 years ago, when she, as a 15-year
21:05-old
21:05girl, refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery.
21:09This is nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
21:14Now, the civil rights movement, which had been planning to stage an action around this,
21:18did not want Claudette Colvin, this 15-year-old girl, to be the face of that action.
21:24She did get arrested.
21:25She became a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that ultimately, that in 1956, would
21:32bar racial segregation on public transportation.
21:34So she's incredibly important.
21:37Her choice that day on that bus actually changed the law, and yet we're not taught about her.
21:44There are a lot of very messed up reasons that we're not taught about her, and that the movement
21:48in itself wanted to choose Rosa Parks, who herself is angry in ways we're not taught about.
21:53She's also in this book.
21:55But one of the reasons that I think about Claudette Colvin in particular, writing this
21:59book for young readers, is that the way she described her choice that day as a high school
22:04student was that because she'd been reading history specifically about the abolition movement
22:09a century before her, she says that she felt like the ghosts of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner
22:14truth were pushing on her shoulders, gluing her to that bus seat.
22:18And it reminds me of why it's so important that we have this history, that we do tell
22:22these stories of anger and resistance, because a 15-year-old girl can be inspired by them
22:27a hundred years later and wind up a plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that winds up altering
22:34the law around segregation and public transportation.
22:36Mm-hmm. Now, I'm curious, you see the import in recognizing the pattern where anger has
22:45been in many ways whitewashed or sanded down, and you're asking people to connect with that
22:51anger right now.
22:52But I think a lot of people also feel the burnout attached with anger.
22:57Like, how does someone hold that anger, that righteous feeling that they have when they're
23:02pissed off at the system?
23:03But when I go and talk to a lot of people who are watching the news, there's no shortage
23:07of being mad at it.
23:08Mm-hmm.
23:08But almost for self-survival, there's a desire to step back and give yourself that space.
23:13How do you reconcile keeping that fire burning and also staying sane in this world?
23:18Well, there's...
23:19It's such a great question, and it's so real.
23:21Um, and especially these past couple years, I've heard that so much from so many people,
23:25people who were angry in the first Trump administration and now are tired, right?
23:30It's another reason that it's really important to tell a longer and more complex history.
23:34And the first thing I want to say is that anger can be a very destructive force.
23:38I don't...
23:38I never want to pretend that it can't be.
23:39It can explode relationships between allies, between friends.
23:42It can be very combustible and destructive.
23:45We don't talk enough about how anger, shared anger, can also bring people together.
23:49It's the building blocks of organizing and of movements.
23:51It's also how people support each other.
23:53And when you discourage people on the margins from expressing their anger, that means they
23:58can't let other people know what they're angry about, and they can't hear the other people
24:02who might be right next to them in class, on their block, at work, who are angry about
24:06the same things, and with whom they could form a bond that winds up being supportive, people
24:11they can work together with, do organizing, and also celebrate with.
24:15One story in this book is about kids who planned a trans prom.
24:18You know, there's celebration in anger and in organizing.
24:21There's comfort through the losses, and then there's also people who can spell you when
24:27you're exhausted.
24:27And so one of the things that I want to stress about anger, including for young people, is
24:33that while it can be harmful and hurt, it can also draw people together, and we don't
24:38talk enough about that.
24:39So actually, I think that the answer to burnout, there's sometimes no answer to burnout, but
24:44community helps.
24:45Community, connection, working together, really listening and paying attention to who the
24:51people who are angry about the same things you are, how they're doing, how they're feeling.
24:55Can you help them?
24:55Can they help you?
24:56You talk a little bit in this about your own writing process, and how years ago, comedy
25:02was a tool many people used as a way to invite people in, and still do, but that you shifted
25:07to an angrier stance and immediately found that that was resonating more, or it got much
25:12more attention.
25:13But when I look at the media landscape right now, or the platforms with which people engage
25:17in, anger is sort of the bar for engagement.
25:22So how do you balance what seems to get clicks with actual effectiveness?
25:26It feels like the conversation happens amongst a din of anger, and it just gets lost within
25:31that.
25:32So that's a question that I think we could ask about almost any era, right, where you're
25:36trying to break through, whether that's in newspaper periodicals, or whether it's in a
25:39television era, or now whether it's in an internet clickbait era.
25:43And there's not an easy answer, except that I think people, I think all of us here can
25:48recognize and connect with things that are authentic versus things that are performed,
25:53right?
25:54And I don't think there's a formula.
25:56You can't perform anger in a way that's going to resonate.
25:59You can perform it in a way that's going to make people laugh, that might make people...
26:02But, you know, I don't think there's a single solution to that problem.
26:07I think it's a matter of continuing to think hard about what we want to say and to whom
26:12we want to say it and how we want to say it, and make sure that it's coming from a
26:15place
26:16that's real and not just trying to get the attention, because people can see through that
26:20pretty quickly, I think.
26:21Oh, I hope that people can't see through inauthenticity.
26:25That's my greatest fear.
26:27It really is.
26:29Your audience for this is primarily a younger audience, right?
26:32Did you consider boiling this down to a 90-second TikTok?
26:35They love me on TikTok.
26:37Yeah, no, I'm a huge TikTok star.
26:40In talking to a younger audience, though, is there, you know, there's lots of conversations
26:45around a shorter attention span and the way in which to get their attention.
26:50Have you found a response from younger audiences into digging into this history that they haven't
26:54heard yet?
26:54Yeah, you know, I have two younger readers at home, and I know a lot of younger readers
26:59because of them in my real life.
27:01And, you know, it's funny, there are shorter attention spans, but I think we really under...
27:06We undersell the curiosity.
27:08We don't take...
27:08Again, part of what this book is about, we don't take seriously the curiosity and appetites
27:14of young people.
27:15Yes, there's all kinds of candy around.
27:16You know what?
27:18People are curious about the world.
27:19We send them scary messages about it all the time, right?
27:22We tell them they live in unprecedented times.
27:24That's terrifying for young people to hear.
27:27They actually sort of have hunger, and, you know, there are lots of different ways they
27:31can be satisfied, but with actually getting fuller, richer, more complex, sometimes funnier,
27:35sometimes angrier stories.
27:37So I actually...
27:38I give young people a lot of credit for having varied appetites.
27:42Well, it's a great book.
27:43I think it is...
27:44It does...
27:44It does elucidate some history that a lot of people don't...
27:47don't normally see.
27:49Uh, and if you really could get that down to a 90-second TikTok...
27:51I'm working on it.
27:52I'm working on it.
27:53You're going to get it.
27:54The book is Angry Girls.
27:56We'll get us through it.
27:57We'll get you guys.
27:58We'll get you guys.
28:12We'll get you guys.
28:16That's our show for tonight.
28:17Now, here it is.
28:18We'll go with it.
28:18A dancing robot is entertaining customers at a restaurant.
28:24But things quickly get out of hand when the robot starts smashing plates.
28:31A waitress jumps in and tries to drag the out-of-control robot away.
28:36But the robot keeps up the silly antics.
28:40Sorry.
28:41I'm going to go with it.
28:41I'm going to go with it.
28:41I'm going to go with it.
28:43I'm going to go with it.
28:43You
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