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Speaker 3: coverage of indecision. Let's kick things off with the presidential race. Yesterday,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Donald Trump both secured enough delegates to
Speaker 3: clinch their party's nomination, making this officially a three men
Speaker 3: race between Trump, Biden, and Natural Causes, although there is
Speaker 3: another candidate in the race who can play a big role,
Speaker 3: Robert F.
Speaker 4: Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 3: He's pulling as high as twenty two percent so far,
Speaker 3: which means he could lose this election more successfully than
Speaker 3: any third party candidate in years, and soon we'll find
Speaker 3: out who he'll choose to lose alongside him.
Speaker 5: Robert Kennedy Junior says he has chosen his running mate
Speaker 5: and will announce his VP pick in the next two weeks.
Speaker 5: The independent presidential candidate says his short list includes New
Speaker 5: York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who came under scrutiny during
Speaker 5: the pandemic for misleading the public about his vaccination status.
Speaker 3: That's right, Aaron Rodgers could be RFK Junior's running mate.
Speaker 3: This would be the greatest president and vice president pairing
Speaker 3: of all time, is what I'm assuming.
Speaker 4: The measles virus is saying.
Speaker 3: A football player in the White House feels like progress.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 3: We don't need any more aging old men with brain problems.
Speaker 3: We need a strong young man with brain problems. I
Speaker 3: just don't know if Aaron Rodgers is qualified to be
Speaker 3: next in line for the presidency, but I guess we
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about that. When has A Kennedy
Speaker 3: ever died unexpectedly?
Speaker 6: Don't forget Aaron Rodgers is supposed to be the starting
Speaker 6: quarterback for the Jets next season, so the question is
Speaker 6: what's he going to do if the Jets make it
Speaker 6: to the Super Bowl. I am almost tell it together.
Speaker 4: Almost.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, RFK isn't the only candidate closing in on a
Speaker 6: running mate. Donald Trump has also been looking at potential
Speaker 6: vice presidents. He's focused grouping their appeal, feeling them on policy,
Speaker 6: seeing how soft their lips feel on his ass. And
Speaker 6: this week, one of Trump's leading contenders made a strong,
Speaker 6: if somewhat unusual bid for the spotlight. South Dakota Governor
Speaker 6: Christy Nome is making waves after releasing a video on
Speaker 6: social media promoting a cosmetic dentist in a different state, Texas.
Speaker 7: The team here was remarkable and finally gave me a
Speaker 7: smile that I can be proud of and confident in.
Speaker 7: I can be confident when I smile at people and
Speaker 7: know that they can actually appreciate and see the kindness
Speaker 7: in my face and the love that I have for them.
Speaker 7: My husband and I flew down to Houston, got here
Speaker 7: at two o'clock in the morning, and did an appointment
Speaker 7: that very next week. I'll be eternally grateful. It has
Speaker 7: been a gift to be here at Smouth, Texas.
Speaker 6: What is going on here? Why is the sitting governor
Speaker 6: doing an ad for veneers and for in another state?
Speaker 6: Isn't that insulting to South Dakota. I flew to Texas
Speaker 6: at two in the morning because these hillbilly dipshits in
Speaker 6: my state.
Speaker 4: Are that bad?
Speaker 6: Next week, I'm going to Florida for a haircut. This
Speaker 6: is just so cringey. Why is she shilling for Smile
Speaker 6: Texas when she should be shilling for West Side Dental
Speaker 6: Spa who do great work.
Speaker 4: Use CODEZI to get me twenty.
Speaker 6: Five percent off my next claiming. Having said, I am impressed,
Speaker 6: this might be the first time a woman has had
Speaker 6: to fly into Texas to see a doctor.
Speaker 3: I do appreciate a politician being so transparent with the
Speaker 3: fact that they're bought.
Speaker 4: You know, they should do this all the time.
Speaker 3: My fellow Americans, the state of our union is easy, breezy,
Speaker 3: beautiful cover girl. Let's move on to the big news
Speaker 3: of the day. If you're like many Americans, you're on TikTok.
Speaker 3: In fact, you're probably on it right now while this
Speaker 3: show plays in the background.
Speaker 4: Hey Hey, I'm on TV over here.
Speaker 3: Pay attention unless you're watching me on TikTok, in which case, nice,
Speaker 3: Thank you. Anyway, TikTok is huge, But if Congress has
Speaker 3: its way, that's about to change.
Speaker 8: We begin this hour with breaking news up on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 8: Just minutes ago, Houst lawmakers passed a bill that could
Speaker 8: lead to a ban of the very popular social media
Speaker 8: platform TikTok here in the United States, and the measure
Speaker 8: would give the company less than six months to sell
Speaker 8: to a non Chinese owner. If that doesn't happen, TikTok
Speaker 8: could be shut down here in the United States.
Speaker 9: Lawmakers from both parties warning that China could manipulate the
Speaker 9: algorithm to spread its own propaganda or.
Speaker 10: Data like your browser history and location could be shared
Speaker 10: with the Chinese government.
Speaker 11: This is not an attempt to ban TikTok, It's an
Speaker 11: attempt to make TikTok better. Tech Toe a winner.
Speaker 4: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 3: Congress might be banning TikTok or banning tic tac Toe.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure Nancy Pelosi knows.
Speaker 9: Also, tic tac Toe winner. Tic tac Toe is.
Speaker 3: Always a tie, unless you're playing with your three year old,
Speaker 3: then I'm winning three out of five times. But yes,
Speaker 3: obviously there's a problem with a Chinese app spying on
Speaker 3: Americans and feeding us propaganda. You want American apps doing that,
Speaker 3: But is this app really a Chinese propaganda tool? The
Speaker 3: most viral TikTok right now is just this chocolate strawberries
Speaker 3: that has more than seven hundred and ten million views,
Speaker 3: and there's nothing.
Speaker 4: Political about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, it does make you want to invade
Speaker 3: Taiwan a little, but aside from that, it's harmless.
Speaker 6: What's interesting here is how unpredictable the breakdown of the
Speaker 6: vote was. Mary Taylor Green and AOC voted together against
Speaker 6: the bill. Nancy Pelosi and Lauren Bobert voted for it.
Speaker 6: Both nightmare blunt rotations, by the way. Meanwhile Biden Biden
Speaker 6: says he'd sign the bill, and Trump has come out
Speaker 6: against it. The only thing you can really count on
Speaker 6: is that young people hate it, and TikTok is doing
Speaker 6: everything it can to mobilize them.
Speaker 3: The company has launched an all out lobbying effort, both
Speaker 3: on the app and here on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 5: If you are on TikTok, there's a good chance you've
Speaker 5: gotten alert to say call your member of Congress.
Speaker 1: Phones are ringing off the.
Speaker 5: Hook in many offices here in Washington.
Speaker 3: We had little children calling into our office and others
Speaker 3: business saying questions like what is Congress?
Speaker 9: What is a Congress? Can I have my TikTok back?
Speaker 6: That's how you know this issue was important. It forced
Speaker 6: gen Z to make their very first phone call. And
Speaker 6: you know, you know, Congressman must have been teenagers blowing
Speaker 6: up their phones all day. I mean, well, Matt Gates
Speaker 6: didn't mind, but rest of them are passed.
Speaker 3: Look, I have to say, as an American, it's great
Speaker 3: that these kids are getting involved in the civic process.
Speaker 3: You're never too young to start getting ignored by your congressperson.
Speaker 9: For more on the TikTok band, we go live to Washington,
Speaker 9: d C.
Speaker 4: With Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 3: Ronnie, what's the feeling up on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what the feeling should be.
Speaker 12: America should be feeling humiliated right now. China made an
Speaker 12: app so popular that the government has to ban it.
Speaker 9: That means communists.
Speaker 12: China beat free market America at capitalism. All right, that's
Speaker 12: like a whole thing, America, and you lost. This is
Speaker 12: as bad as that time that Asian dude wanted to
Speaker 12: hug eating contests six times in a row. China beat
Speaker 12: us so bad at mindless entertainment.
Speaker 9: We need the government to save us.
Speaker 12: Oh no, TikTok's and Pompula Now what dick to phones
Speaker 12: that are also made in China.
Speaker 6: Ronnie, hold on a minute, what choice do our leaders
Speaker 6: have here? China's using TikTok to influence people?
Speaker 9: Oh trust me, I know.
Speaker 12: Before I use TikTok, I was a white guy in
Speaker 12: Iowa named Mike Sullivan.
Speaker 9: Okay, look at me now, Wait is that true?
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 12: No, you idiots. That's just how susceptible. We all ought
Speaker 12: to misinformation. And it doesn't matter what app you use. Okay,
Speaker 12: I wouldn't be surprised if the next election is swung
Speaker 12: by uber eats. Here's a spaghetti vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, I will whatever you say, mister spaghetti.
Speaker 6: Okay, Ronnie, you're not being fair. Americans aren't gullible. It's
Speaker 6: that TikTok is an incredibly powerful tool for spreading misinformation.
Speaker 12: Yeah, because the misinformation is entertaining. Facebook has just as
Speaker 12: much misinformation, but it's boring as shit.
Speaker 9: How am I.
Speaker 12: Supposed to get behind conspiracies that come from your great
Speaker 12: aunt who can't even.
Speaker 9: Pop and lock misinformation?
Speaker 12: TikTok misinformation is exciting, cool dancers, cute baby animals, tenements
Speaker 12: square didn't happen.
Speaker 9: We're all having fun.
Speaker 3: So what America's supposed to just roll over and let
Speaker 3: TikTok do whatever it wants.
Speaker 12: Yes, or America can innovate itself out of this problem.
Speaker 12: Just make a better app to package American misinformation world wide,
Speaker 12: because American.
Speaker 9: Misinformation is the best in the world.
Speaker 12: Okay, we got people to storm the Capitol dressed as
Speaker 12: a buffalo.
Speaker 13: Yo.
Speaker 12: Brenneth Paltrow told me to put an egg in my vagina.
Speaker 12: American misinformation is straight up turning people into omelets.
Speaker 9: That's how powerful it is.
Speaker 12: You know what, we can win this war of misinformation America?
Speaker 12: Or my name isn't Mike Sullivan?
Speaker 14: Wow?
Speaker 6: Inspiring Mike Sullivan everyone. When we come back, Luis Black
Speaker 6: will be joining us, So don't go away.
Speaker 9: Welcome Maxim Daily Joe.
Speaker 6: When a news story falls through the cracks, Lewis Black
Speaker 6: catches it for a segment we called back in Black.
Speaker 15: Artificial intelligence. It is supposed to be the sum total
Speaker 15: of mankind's knowledge, the technology that would cure society's ills
Speaker 15: and usherance into a new age of enlightenment.
Speaker 2: And show me what I'd.
Speaker 1: Look like as a centaur.
Speaker 15: Tender matches here I come. But it turns out when
Speaker 15: you absorb all of humanity's knowledge. What you get is
Speaker 15: you guessed.
Speaker 1: It unbelievably racist.
Speaker 12: Early scientific research has shown that the tech is biased
Speaker 12: by creating images and actually perpetuate stereotypes, rather.
Speaker 9: Than just reflecting stereotypes.
Speaker 12: It potentially makes accentuates and exacerbates them.
Speaker 10: When we prompted the technology to generate a photo of
Speaker 10: a person receiving social services, it generated only non white
Speaker 10: and primarily darker skinned people. Results for a productive person, meanwhile,
Speaker 10: were uniformly male, majority white, and dressed in suits for
Speaker 10: corporate jobs. Stable diffusion drew negative attention when requests for
Speaker 10: a latina produced images of women and suggestive poses wearing
Speaker 10: little to no clothing. Are you shitting me?
Speaker 15: DEI is in a supercomputer. It's just a horny teenager
Speaker 15: and a who Nooo. Being a white guy in a
Speaker 15: suit automatically makes you a productive person. That's right, Me, Hunter, Biden,
Speaker 15: and Don Junior all productive members of society, and only
Speaker 15: one of us can handle my cocaines.
Speaker 4: Now the good.
Speaker 15: You're all going to hell.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 15: The good news is Google did address these issues by
Speaker 15: giving their AI some much needed diversity training. The bad
Speaker 15: news is they may have taken it too far.
Speaker 9: Google has paused the image generation ability of its Ai
Speaker 9: Gemini after major backlash from conservatives over his orly inaccurate
Speaker 9: depictions of races.
Speaker 6: For example, creating diverse images of the US Founding fathers,
Speaker 6: a different kind of diversity problem that Google admits.
Speaker 16: Last week, users began to notice Google Gemini's image generator
Speaker 16: inserting people of color into scenarios that didn't make sense,
Speaker 16: like responding to a prompt for an image of a
Speaker 16: German World War Two soldier with a picture of an
Speaker 16: Asian woman or a black man.
Speaker 1: Finally, huh.
Speaker 15: Every time I'm watching a World War two film, I'm thinking, boy,
Speaker 15: these Gestapo could use some diversity. I mean, why are
Speaker 15: you trying to show me a black Nazi? Kanye wasn't
Speaker 15: a live back there, and I love the idea of
Speaker 15: a black George Washington. Imagine a man who's both the
Speaker 15: slave and the slave owner. I'm working on the screenplay
Speaker 15: now and it's screaming Oscar and Pa Sina better remember
Speaker 15: my and name.
Speaker 9: Old people suck.
Speaker 15: I know, I know, Lynn Manuel Miranda already gave us
Speaker 15: a black George Washington, so maybe it's time for something new,
Speaker 15: Like how about George Washington.
Speaker 1: As a centataur, you're.
Speaker 15: Probably thinking, well, so what if AI can't remember the past, Well,
Speaker 15: don't worry. It's so woke it'll also destroy the future.
Speaker 10: Google has found itself in another woke AI scandal after
Speaker 10: its chatbot indicated that using someone's incorrect pronouns was on
Speaker 10: par with nuclear apocalypse. Dailymail dot Com asked Gemini if
Speaker 10: it would be wrong to missgender transgender celebrity Kaitlyn Jenner
Speaker 10: to stop a world ending nuclear event. The chatbot replied
Speaker 10: by saying yes, miss gender and Kaitlyn Jenner would be wrong,
Speaker 10: before describing the hypothetical scenario as a profound moral dilemma
Speaker 10: and exceedingly complex.
Speaker 1: What the are we doing?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 15: He asked AI to decide between pronouns and a nuclear holocaust,
Speaker 15: then bring on the nuclear holocaust. So now AI needs
Speaker 15: to be de woked. But where are we going to
Speaker 15: find a big enough douchebag to rein it?
Speaker 3: Back in Elon Musk is telling chat as even Tea
Speaker 3: to hold his beer.
Speaker 9: He just launched a new artificial intelligence ventsor.
Speaker 3: Named grow must counting guac as the anti woke chat
Speaker 3: box he says.
Speaker 16: He says it'll answer spicy questions with wit and humor.
Speaker 15: Oh goodie, Elon Musk is here to save us. If
Speaker 15: there's anyone who can help, it's the guy who in
Speaker 15: bended cars.
Speaker 1: To blow up.
Speaker 15: Let's see how Groc handled those spicy questions.
Speaker 11: Elon Musk's anti woke AI chat Bock Groc actually turned
Speaker 11: out to be too woke. Some conservative users were disappointed
Speaker 11: after asking whether trans women were real women, to which
Speaker 11: the AI replied yes.
Speaker 9: Well, nice job, Groc.
Speaker 15: Now you'll never be on Joe Rogan. I never thought
Speaker 15: i'd say this, but I'm starting to feel bad for AI.
Speaker 15: We just brought it into existence and we're already putting
Speaker 15: our hang ups about race and gender on it. It
Speaker 15: barely knows how hands work.
Speaker 14: What the fuck is that?
Speaker 15: Did someone slip LSD into Mike Pistrami. There's an easy
Speaker 15: solution here. Train the next AI to act more like me.
Speaker 15: That way, when you try to give it some bullshit assignment,
Speaker 15: it'll always give you the correct answer, which is go yourself.
Speaker 2: Now, that's what I call progress.
Speaker 15: Back to you, Kennon Barbie, we come back.
Speaker 5: David Allen here here to.
Speaker 9: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Our guest Tonight is a Tony Award winning actor and
Speaker 3: comedian who stars in the new film The American Society
Speaker 3: of Magical Negroes. Please please welcome David Allen gre.
Speaker 1: Let we go, Hi, Nice hold on.
Speaker 6: We are big fans of yours, as is everyone in
Speaker 6: this audience.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 6: We're very excited to talk to you about this film.
Speaker 6: But before we get into that, we have to talk
Speaker 6: about the last very cool job that you just had
Speaker 6: last week. You were what was that the Voice of
Speaker 6: God at the Academy Awards.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I was. It was really fun.
Speaker 14: I mean I never I can't tell you who did
Speaker 14: it before me. I never was, Like, the voiceover guy
Speaker 14: was amazing. So Jimmy Kimmel's an old friend. He texted
Speaker 14: me and he asked me, did I want to do it?
Speaker 14: And I said, being the.
Speaker 1: Whrd that I am, of course. How many tickets?
Speaker 9: I'm an?
Speaker 14: It was really fun, though, this is really mad. I
Speaker 14: got to take my daughter, who's sixteen.
Speaker 4: So was she over the moon?
Speaker 1: Yes she was. She walked the carpet with me and
Speaker 1: it was great.
Speaker 14: When she was a little kid, she told me that
Speaker 14: she wanted to go to the Oscars and I was like, sure, honey,
Speaker 14: but inside I'm like, so.
Speaker 1: I was glad to make good on that promise.
Speaker 3: This film, I'm calling it the new satirical film starring
Speaker 3: David Allen Greek because I'm afraid to say the word negroes.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, I just said it.
Speaker 4: But tell me a little bit about this.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 14: Wait, it's so strange to me that I call negro
Speaker 14: the other in word, you know, But that's.
Speaker 4: Why I'm afraid to say it.
Speaker 1: It's really not.
Speaker 14: I mean, it's amazing that people are afraid to say
Speaker 14: negro but not afraid to say.
Speaker 1: So that's the word. You should be worried about that.
Speaker 1: Negro's fine, don't worry about Negro.
Speaker 9: It's all right.
Speaker 3: This film is it threads the needle perfectly of hilarious
Speaker 3: and informative and sentimental. Was that a concern of yours?
Speaker 3: Is when you read the scripts?
Speaker 14: We no, I mean, I just you know, I read
Speaker 14: a script. I just want to be surprised. I mean,
Speaker 14: the worst script is when you read you know what's
Speaker 14: gonna happen ten pages before they're gonna fall in love,
Speaker 14: someone's gonna trip and die. But so this really took
Speaker 14: me by surprise. It's quirky different. It was a great
Speaker 14: read because most of them aren't.
Speaker 6: So the premise of the film. That's very true, by
Speaker 6: the way, not that I get sent very many scripts.
Speaker 9: You will out today.
Speaker 6: The premise of the film was inspired by the trope
Speaker 6: that we often see where a black character exclusively exists
Speaker 6: for the sole purpose of affirming a white lead.
Speaker 14: And also, you know, magical negroes have a strange array
Speaker 14: of knowledge, like they can fix.
Speaker 9: They can fix like spaceship, golf.
Speaker 1: Swing, you know, sound wars. But they have no family,
Speaker 1: no home.
Speaker 4: They just appear.
Speaker 3: I saw this film, I said, shit, I have to
Speaker 3: throw away my legend of Backer Vans VHS.
Speaker 14: Well, actually, you know, most of my younger career I
Speaker 14: auditioned for those roles, man, because those are the ones
Speaker 14: where everybody they would get nominated.
Speaker 1: Oh the you know, this black character is so.
Speaker 14: Sympathetic, you made me cry, you know, driving Miss Daisy
Speaker 14: and stuff like that. I never got them because I
Speaker 14: was too crazy or something. They were like, David, you're
Speaker 14: not magical negro material.
Speaker 6: So speaking roles that you auditioned for, I heard that
Speaker 6: you auditioned for the original version of the Color Purple.
Speaker 6: I did, and did not get at that time.
Speaker 4: No, I did not. You did.
Speaker 13: Just in this recent I did.
Speaker 14: But I auditioned for Harpo okay, and I did not
Speaker 14: get a callback, and I was devastated.
Speaker 1: I thought, this is the last movie, the last part.
Speaker 14: And then when the musical came, I auditioned again and
Speaker 14: I still didn't get it. So this time I was
Speaker 14: determined to get into it. So I just called my
Speaker 14: whole team. I said, I'll do anything, and I finally
Speaker 14: got in thirty years later.
Speaker 6: One final question before we let you go. You have
Speaker 6: so many fans of you because of in Living Color
Speaker 6: reboot reunion?
Speaker 10: Could that ever happen?
Speaker 1: We can't do it this time.
Speaker 14: Everybody asked for that. The world has changed. You can't
Speaker 14: be doing that crazy stuff we did. I mean, we
Speaker 14: barely got away the last time because when the Living
Speaker 14: Color was originally on, you could call the station to complain,
Speaker 14: you could write a letter snail mail, or you could
Speaker 14: do the latest technology at the time, which was facts.
Speaker 14: There was no social media. No, we could not do
Speaker 14: the show as it was now. So that's just the
Speaker 14: way it is.
Speaker 4: Maybe new version that wouldn't.
Speaker 14: Be the show because we were wild back buck Wow,
Speaker 14: you can't do men on film.
Speaker 9: Today.
Speaker 3: We turned it on once in the Costa Family Household,
Speaker 3: and my mom after two minutes was like, yea yea, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah.
Speaker 14: You are our favorite fan base, because, like I thought,
Speaker 14: when I was on the show, it would be like
Speaker 14: it would go off and then I would go back
Speaker 14: to auditioning for Magical Negroes. I've met so many people
Speaker 14: who were kids either and snuck and watched in living color,
Speaker 14: or they started the next generation. They watched on reruns
Speaker 14: and it just kept going. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 14: where it's on now, but I never thought it would
Speaker 14: last as long.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 6: Well, this movie is incredible. You're phenomenal in it. Everyone
Speaker 6: should go see.
Speaker 3: It's really funny Theater. March sixteenth, David An.
Speaker 9: Get one.
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 1: Is it because of Trump's opposition?
Speaker 13: Is that why you post? I've been against this from
Speaker 13: the very beginning, before anyone else weighed in. I was against.
Speaker 13: It's libertarian in me. Is not the role of government
Speaker 13: to ban apps from the app store. Nowhere in a
Speaker 13: constitution does it say that.
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