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We're going to talk about the only thing
that anyone is talking about-- Roe v. Wade,
which has been overturned.
We're talking about how it happened,
what it means for you and what can still be done.
And then, on a lighter note, our guest tonight,
fresh off of his fourth NBA championship
with the Golden State Warriors,
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Okay, let's get right into it.
For the past few decades,
conservatives in America have been chipping away
at women's reproductive rights.
And a few days ago, they put the final nail in the coffin.
Tonight, the landmark ruling--
the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade,
taking away the constitutional right to abortion.
The historic five-four decision
overturning nearly 50 years of abortion rights,
leaving the matter up to states now to decide.
NEWSMAN 2: The ruling does not make abortion illegal,
but it's no longer a constitutional right,
so that leaves the issue up to each state.
NEWSMAN 3: It's likely to become illegal soon
in about half the nation.
Some states have already banned it as of tonight.
The rest of the banned states are likely to follow
in the coming weeks.
That's right. The Supreme Court has officially
overturned Roe v. Wade.
And, look, I know we expected it
because the decision was leaked back in May,
but that doesn't make it any better, you know?
It's kind of like when, as a kid,
you were acting up in the grocery store,
and your mom would tell you, "Oh, I'm going to whip your ass
when we get home."
Yeah, you weren't like, "Oh, sweet.
I'm glad she told me first. That has softened the blow."
Because in some ways, it almost made it worse, right?
We got to dread the day, and now that day is here.
And honestly, it's kind of surreal.
For 50 years, 50 years,
women in America have had a constitutional right
to an abortion, and now, just like that,
the Supreme Court has decided that it's finished.
And by the way, the Constitution didn't change, right?
Nicolas Cage didn't find a lost passage
inside of a pyramid somewhere.
The only thing that changed is that Donald Trump,
of all people, managed to appoint three pro-life justices
to the Supreme Court.
Judges who, by the way, went on and on
in their confirmation hearings
about how much they respect the important precedent
of Roe versus wade.
And we all knew they were full of shit, too, huh?
'Cause, I mean, that's the same line you use
whenever you book an Airbnb.
"I would never throw a party.
"Par-Party? Pay-ty?
"Am-am I even saying that right? Pah-ty?
By the way, there's a hot tub in this house, yeah?"
(laughter)
It seems like the only people on the planet
who didn't realize what was happening
were Joe Manchin and Susan Collins
who now say that they were tricked,
tricked, I tell you, by these judges.
And by the way, why does Susan Collins never get tricked
into improving health care or solving climate change, huh?
Yeah? She's never like, "Oh, damn it.
"I accidentally cancelled student loan debt.
Get it together, Susan!"
(laughter)
And if the overturning wasn't bad enough,
Justice QAnon himself, Clarence Thomas, wrote
that he wants the court to reconsider the right
to gay marriage, gay sex and contraception.
Yeah, imagine that. This dude is so extreme,
he's talking about banning rights
I didn't even realize could be banned.
Just going to be reading the newspaper like,
"Justice Thomas wants to ban the right
to engage in nipple play? What?!"
Like, at some point, you're not even a judge anymore.
You're just a cockblock in a fancy road. That's all you are.
(applause and cheering)
You're ganging up on everybody else.
(applause and cheering continue)
And by the way, by the way, the one ruling
Clarence Thomas doesn't want to overturn
in all the others that he mentioned
is the right to interracial marriage.
Yeah. Which, uh, is a coincidence,
because he happens to be in an interracial marriage.
Yeah, I guess, apparently, if something
affects Clarence Thomas personally, he's okay with it.
Makes me think if we could just somehow get him impregnated by,
like, a gay man, all of our problems would be solved.
And by the way, that's just a joke. I know
there's some right-wing pundit who's gonna be like,
"Is Trevor Noah threatening to sodomize and impregnate
"a Supreme Court justice? Is that what he's doing?
"The-There are people standing outside his house
right now with a penis. Is that what he's doing?"
No, it's a joke, calm down.
Now, despite the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade,
that doesn't mean people in America want abortion outlawed.
And the reaction-- the reaction to Friday's ruling
showed just how out of step the Supreme Court actually is.
NEWSWOMAN: From Los Angeles to Cleveland...
CROWD: Pro-life is a lie! They don't care if we die!
NEWSWOMAN: ...and Huntsville, Alabama...
CROWD: My choice!
NEWSWOMAN: ...Americans took to the streets nationwide
over the weekend.
NEWSWOMAN 2: The protests largely peaceful,
gatherings once again outside the justices' D.C.-area homes
Friday and stretching from coast-to-coast today.
NEWSMAN: Thousands of pro-abortion rights activists
jammed New York City traffic for hours,
others blocking a Los Angeles freeway.
This decision is an outrage.
This decision is absolutely terrifying.
But more than anything, it just makes me angry.
Yeah, that's right. From New York to New Mexico,
millions around the country are furious, and rightfully so.
Because women in America
just lost control over their own bodies.
Which, I don't care who you are,
is a horrifying thing to be faced with.
I mean, Rudy Giuliani called the cops
because someone touched his back without permission.
Imagine if someone forced him to give birth, huh?
I mean, someone would have to have sex with him first,
but you get the point.
You understand what I'm saying.
And after half a century of having that right,
it's now being taken away. Which is especially crazy
when you consider that countries like Mexico and Ireland
are moving forward in the opposite direction.
You do realize how weird that is, right?
Ireland has had violent conflicts between
Christians and other Christians,
and even they are looking at America like,
(Irish accent): "Don't you think you're taking it
"a wee bit too far with the Jesus stuff?
It's a little bit too crazy, don't you think?"
(regular accent): So the Supreme Court is shutting everything
down. People are rising up in the streets, and the Democrats--
well, they responded in a way that only the Democrats can.
Democrats are already looking to November. They have
fundraising emails going out in response to this decision.
They have a new website up.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked downcast
when she began her press conference.
I am personally overwhelmed by this decision.
From time to time, I quote...
this poem.
"I have no other country even though my land is burning."
Michigan Congressman Andy Levin tweeted a photo of himself
in a yoga pose, saying,
"In a moment of intense anger, I turn inward.
Let us release toxicity."
I feel like that's the perfect yoga pose
for Democratic leadership. Yeah.
Very little action, and your head
is basically up your own ass.
Because I don't know if anybody voted
for the performative aspect.
People just want things done. Right?
No one cares about kente cloths or singing on the Capitol steps,
and especially not poetry. All right?
I feel like any moment now, Chuck Schumer's
gonna throw in a fake pregnant belly
and just take a knee in the Capitol and be like,
"We are all pregnant now and we're standing together."
Why do Democrats do this? Why do they do this?
Not once have I seen Mitch McConnell come out
and sing a song about how overwhelmed he is.
He just gets things done. He never comes out like,
"♪ Oh, nobody knows the trouble I've seen. ♪"
No. Every time, he used his power
to make a new rule, in fact.
That presidents can't appoint judges
if it's an election year and they're Black.
"I didn't make him Black, that was his dad."
In fact, watching the Democrats' response
and knowing-- knowing that they had multiple opportunities
to get ahead of this, it made me think
maybe voters should change things up. You know?
Maybe you should do a new thing in America.
Instead of fundraising emails,
maybe you should do fundrewarding emails, right?
Yeah. Make the Democrats show you what they've done
and then you donate to their cause.
Instead of them being like, "Donate, we'll do something,"
And then they don't. What are they doing?
(cheering and applause)
It's the same reason...
It's the same reason I don't pay my barber
before he does the job.
Yeah. He'll get his money
after I see what he does with my hairline.
I'm not making that mistake again.
(laughter)
And now, please, don't get me wrong.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying the Democrats are doing nothing
in response to this ruling.
The Biden administration has said
that it would fight any attempt
to restrict access to abortion pills
regardless of state laws,
and they'll protect people who travel out-of-state
to get a legal abortion.
Plus, the Senate Judiciary Committee
says that they're gonna hold a hearing next month
to explore its options.
Yeah.
Yeah, so they're coming through
with both too little and too late.
Very nice, very nice.
The full range.
(cheering and applause)
Oh, and-and in case...
And in case you were wondering
what Republican lawmakers think of telling women
what they should do with their own bodies,
well, they're celebrating the win
of small government over the people.
NEWSMAN: Cheers from antiabortion rights advocates,
some celebrating the decision
they've been working toward for decades.
WOMAN: We are the post-Roe generation!
(cheering)
NEWSWOMAN: Over the weekend, President Trump
took a victory lap
on his conservative court appointments
at a rally with Republican House member Mary Miller,
who made these controversial comments.
I want to thank you for the historic victory
for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday.
(cheering and applause)
NEWSMAN 2: A Utah state legislator is under fire
for her remarks defending Utah's new abortion ban.
And my response is I do trust women enough
to control when they allow a man to ejaculate.
So... Inside of them
and to control that intake of semen.
I...
I'm sor... I'm sorry.
Did she say women should control
their intake of semen?
H-How? By-by turning the little tap
that's on the top of the penis?
By turning that?
"Aah! That's enough.
"I don't want to get too pregnant. Aah!
Aah!"
That other woman with Trump, that was even worse.
She literally thanked Trump
for saving white life.
And, to be fair, to be fair,
she later said that she misspoke
and meant to say "right to life."
But, okay, here's the thing.
Even if she misspoke,
she still just kept on talking without fixing it.
It's like she heard herself call it a victory for white life
and thought, "Yeah, that sounds like something I would say.
Yeah. Let's stick with that."
What's even worse
is that the Trump supporters applauded her.
Right? Even if we give her the benefit of the doubt,
the reaction from the crowd is pretty telling, right?
I mean, it's-it's one thing for a person
to accidentally rip a fart in an elevator,
but it's way worse if everyone else in the elevator
goes... (sniffs)
"Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the good stuff.
"Yeah, we like that.
We like that a lot."
(cheering and applause)
So, yeah.
Pro-lifers are feeling pretty good right now.
But if you think that Roe being dead
is the end of the story and you think the right wing
is just gonna take their Bibles and go home, think again.
Because they're saying that this is just the beginning.
NEWSMAN: Some emboldened House Republicans
want to take this one step further
by pushing legislation
to ban abortion at 15 weeks nationwide.
Uh, we know that, uh, former Vice President Mike Pence,
who wants to run for president,
supports a nationwide ban on abortion.
NEWSWOMAN: Another big question is over the abortion pill,
as it's called. Some states may want to target that medication.
In the states that ban abortion, it is illegal
to get those pills from a doctor.
And some states are trying to go further
and also ban receiving the pills by mail
from a state where they're legal.
Yeah. You see, conservative extremists
aren't going to stop fighting
just because they got Roe overturned.
They just won a huge victory. Why would they quit now?
When a team scores a touchdown,
they don't just walk off the field,
congratulating each other, you know?
I mean, the New York Jets do, but the rest of the teams,
they keep trying to run up the score.
And that's what these people have their sights set on.
Because first, it was no late-term abortions.
Oh, okay. Fine. Seems reasonable.
Then it was no abortion after 23 weeks.
Then 15 weeks. Then six. Now zero.
What's next?
What, are they just gonna make tiny, little handcuffs
to arrest every sperm that didn't fertilize an egg?
Is that what it'll be? "Now, maybe next time,
"you'll think twice before ending up in a sock
instead of a vagina, huh?"
And I know, I know many people around the country
feel infuriated, depressed and like there's no hope.
But there is. There really is.
First of all, there are many organizations,
grassroots organizations, on the ground
who have already been helping women
who couldn't get an abortion because they lived
in some of these most extreme states.
So you can donate to them or you can volunteer.
And as for the Democrats in power,
there is something you can actually do.
Yeah. Here, I-I actually wrote-wrote you a poem.
"Roses are red,
"violets are blue,
"the people voted, so how 'bout doing your (bleep) job
"and passing laws to codify contraception,
"marriage equality and all the other rights
"the Supreme Court has basically threatened to take away?
And so are you."
(cheering and applause)
All right.
Time for us to take a quick break.
But, before we go,
let's catch up with our very own Desi Lydic, everybody!
(cheering and applause)
Desi, Desi, I know...
you know, I know, normally, we'd come to you
for-for the weather right now,
but if you don't want to talk about that today,
I totally-- I totally understand.
Oh, no, no, no, Trevor, it's okay.
I'd actually love to do the weather today.
(stammers) Are you sure? We-we really don't have to.
I know I normally ask for it, but, this time, I'm-I'm fine.
No, no, no, no, trust me.
There is a lot going on in the weather
that we need to talk about,
and that is my choice.
O-Okay. Well, um...
All right, well, wh-what's going on in the weather, Desi?
Right. Well, uh, Trevor, let's start off
in this part of the country with these red states,
where you can expect a real shitstorm.
We're looking at widespread power outages,
as in your pr-- power to make your own decisions.
So, ladies, you might want to stock up on those raincoats
before Justice Alito bans them, too.
And for the men in this region,
this storm affects you, too.
Now, I hope you've been saving up for a rainy day,
because this one might last you 18 years--
longer if you pay for college.
It was a fun night though. (chuckling)
Now let's take a look at what's happening along the coast,
particularly in New York and California,
where there is a powerful surge
of desperate people flooding into your states.
So blow up those air mattresses and fill up that gas tank,
because Tammy from Tulsa's moving in.
Now-- and this is important--
let's take a look at the nation's capital.
Here's where you're gonna see a strong downpour
of unprecedented shitbaggery.
We're seeing three separate natural disasters
converging to form what meteorologists like to call
a what-the-(bleep)-nado.
Now, first, let's talk about Congress,
which is experiencing a severe drought of leadership.
Very, very dry conditions.
Now, over at the White House,
they've been experiencing some very high winds.
Just completely blowing it.
But the real weather event
is happening over at the Supreme Court.
Now, our storm centers have been tracking this for years,
so we knew this acid rain was coming,
but that doesn't mean it still doesn't burn the hell out
of our twats.
So, that's the weather.
Back to you, Trevor.
(cheering and applause)
I think, uh...
Thank-thank you.
Thank you very much, Desi.
But, clearly, that wasn't about the weather.
-I, uh... -No, no, it wasn't.
(bleep) Sam Alito and anyone else who tells a woman
what to do with their own body.
(cheering and applause)
Desi Lydic, everyone!
All right, don't go away. 'Cause when we come back,
Michael Kosta will tell us what men can do
about the end of Roe v. Wade.
You don't want to miss it.
Desi Lydic, y'all!
(cheering and applause)
(applause and cheering)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade is a major attack
on women's reproductive rights, but it's not a battle
that women have to fight alone.
We sent Michael Kosta to find out what men can do.
KOSTA: A woman's right to choose is being eroded
across this country, and as a man, I've been paying
very close half attention to this issue for several weeks.
NEWSWOMAN: Thousands of people are standing up
for a woman's right to choose.
After nearly 50 years,
the nation's highest court overturns Roe v. Wade,
taking away the constitutional right to an abortion.
WOMAN: It's insane that we're going all the way back
to the way things were in 1970.
It is a war on women. It's... That's what it is.
KOSTA: To investigate more into women's
reproductive rights, I went
to the obvious choice-- a man.
Meet Dr. Guarin,
who trained in family medicine and obstetrics.
Let's talk about some of these anti-abortion laws
that are popping up. I mean, right now,
women that want to have an abortion have
to leave the state, like it's Ted Cruz during an emergency.
It seems that we either punish,
criticize and judge just the women.
-Mm-hmm. -And that is an issue because
men, actually, were part of the...
of that reproductive process.
-It takes two to tango. -Mm.
And the men seem to be absent in this whole discussion.
-You're right. -Absolutely.
And we can protest, and we can vote,
-and we can... -Get a vasectomy.
And... What did you just say?
-Get a vasectomy. -Okay, okay, slow down, slow down.
Isn't that a bit zero to a hundred?
Can we maybe tickle the balls before we slice them off?
We don't slice testicles off.
-Listen, Michael. For decades, -Yes.
-women have carried the burden of contraception. -Yeah.
Men, in general, have assumed
that reproductive decisions fall on the shoulders of women.
-Mm. -So getting more vasectomies, actually,
is gonna show that we care,
that we want to participate, It's not--
That's not all, but that's a very good first step.
Cutting off the balls is a good first step?
Do you understand what a vasectomy is?
Yeah, it's when you r-remove
s-- the vasect... in me.
You actually interrupt a tiny little tube
-called the vas deferens. -The vas deferens. Yeah,
You interrupt that. Exactly. I know. But k-keep-- continue.
Well, the vas deferens is a small structure
-that comes out of the testicle. -Out of the testi--
That's where the vas deferens are. The testicles.
-Please, continue. -And transports the sperm.
-Sperm. (grunts) -And put it into the semen
-Yeah. -so that it comes out
-Right. Right -through the penis and then you can
-get somebody pregnant. -Penis. (chuckles)
Do you have to wear one of those cones?
-That's what my dog has to do. -No, you don't.
If I get a vasectomy, how high will my voice go after that?
It-it will not.
(high-pitched): I won't be talking, "Hey,
-Dr. G. did my vasectomy." -No.
Listen, Michael, it is responsible
to do something like that because you are
being part of the-of the reproductive decisions.
KOSTA: And Dr. G wasn't alone in his beliefs
of neutering men to make the world a better place.
NEWSMAN: About a half million vasectomies are performed
in the United States every year.
Doctors say that number may be increasing in Texas
following the passage of the state's Heartbeat Act.
KOSTA: That's right. So far, there's been a 15% surge
of vasectomies motivated by the state law.
Have you ever had a vasectomy?
Yes, I did my own vasectomy.
-You did it? -I did it.
Was it like a moment of extreme horniness
and you had to do it right then and there?
Listen, the point here is not I did my vasectomy.
-The point is-- -No, that is the point.
Are there any other medical procedures
you've performed on yourself, crazy doctor?
The point is it-- I-- It is so simple
that if the surgeon decides to do it and is able to do it,
then other men should have no problem
getting that procedure done.
Okay, what about just the pull-out method?
The pull-out method doesn't work?
It doesn't.
Oh, my God.
Maybe Dr. G was onto something.
But I wanted to hear from a regular old joe
who wasn't a doctor,
a completely normal American
who was willing to get his scrotum touched
and let me watch.
Why are you getting a vasectomy?
Um, I'm getting one
because my wife has already went through,
you know, childbirth
and all of those different hormone changes,
so I just figured that a vasectomy
was something that I could do
to help take some of that burden off of her.
You know, I have a kid. She's cute.
Two years old.
There are good days, right?
Those are nice, those good days.
And there are bad days.
You know, yesterday, she wouldn't eat.
So I made her some oatmeal,
and she keeps taking the spoon and throwing the spoon.
And I would say, "No throw." And then she'd say, "No throw."
And then I would pick up the spoon
and give it back to her, and then she'd throw it.
And now I'm like, "Okay, so you're not gonna eat."
So then... (sighs) Then I tried to put pants on her,
but she wouldn't put her pants on.
If anything, she ripped off her diaper,
and it's filled with all this, like, gross urine and poo.
Then she throws the diaper up,
and now the dog is eating the diaper filled with poo.
And I'm going, "Do I love my kid?"
I think I love my kid.
You know, I tell her I love her all the time,
but she never says anything back.
If anything, she just takes, takes, takes, you know?
Here I am making all this money,
and she just is-is throwing her diapers
and throwing the oatmeal, and it...
It's (bleep) hard being a parent, man.
Maybe I should get a vasectomy.
You should look into it.
You're a cool guy.
I think it's cool you're doing this,
and if people at home, you know,
aren't sure if Travis is a cool dude,
-his sunglasses are on his head. -Yeah.
-For an indoor interview. -Yeah.
I mean, if anything, that communicates
-you're a bad mother(bleep). -Definitely.
I look forward to seeing your scrotal sac
and the left and right vas deferen.
I'm sure Travis had some great memories
with his uncut vas deferens,
but now it was time to say goodbye.
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, deez nuts ♪
♪ The pipes, the pipes ♪
♪ They jizz no more ♪
♪ Snip snip hooray ♪
♪ Enjoy the carefree sex ♪
♪ If change your mind ♪
♪ It's totally reversible ♪
♪ Sleepless nights ♪
♪ You'll still have them ♪
♪ But it won't be from unwanted children... ♪
-We're done. -What?
-We're done. -You're done?
I haven't even gotten to my other verse.
I mean...
That's fast.
All right.
No more Travis seeds to impregnate women.
That's a hero.
And while getting a vasectomy is not a solution
in helping women with their reproductive rights,
it is a snip in the right direction.
-(cheering and applause) -Thank you so much for that,
Michael Kosta. All right, when we come back,
Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors
will be joining me on the show! Don't go away.
(cheering and applause)
(applause and cheering)
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is a four-time NBA champion
and a four-time NBA All-Star
who plays for the Golden State Warriors.
He's here to talk about his latest championship win,
his hit podcast and so much more.
Please welcome Draymond Green!
(applause and cheering)
Okay. Thank you.
(Draymond clears throat)
Mr. Draymond Green, welcome to The Daily Show.
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Are you kidding? I'm shocked that you have time
to do anything after winning your fourth NBA championship.
-(applause and cheering) -Does it ever get old?
You know, this one feels different than any other one.
-It's... -In what way?
It's like the ultimate (bleep) you.
-(laughter) -It's the best.
Let's talk about it. Let's jump straight into it.
This is what I love about you, you know?
There was an era in sports where, you know,
-people would sort of say what they mean on the court. -Mm-hmm.
But then, when they would come off the court,
they'd do an interview. "What do you think about this?"
They'd be like, "Oh, it was a good game.
Oh, it was a fun game."
Draymond Green says what he feels.
Draymond Green says what he means.
The fans love you because of this.
I love watching the post-game interviews because of you.
-Thank you. -So let's talk about that aspect of the game.
You've been honest about it from the beginning.
People wrote your team off.
People said Golden State was done for.
Does this feel like vindication in the biggest way?
It does. I felt like people doubted us more this time
than they did prior to 2015
when we had never won anything.
-Mm-hmm. -And I think that's ultimately...
You know, everybody's like, "Oh, why? Why, in the parade,
are y'all saying, "F" everybody and shut up?"
And that's because the reality is, they disrespected the work
-we've already done. -Right.
You know, to disrespect us as if we aren't champions
and just write us off like we hadn't done it before.
That's why I said, "(bleep) you."
-(laughter, applause, cheering) -So...
Can I tell you what I also like? I...
This is what I like. There's an element of-of danger
that's been infused into the team.
'Cause I think you know this.
The Golden State Warriors are an amazing team.
But you guys have, like, a bit of a, like-like, a,
like, a Christian youth group vibe about you.
Do you know what I mean? No, I mean, especially, like,
Klay and Steph and, like, you're the bad boy of the group.
But, like, Klay and Steph, it's very much like,
"I'll see you guys on Sunday." It's like a nice thing.
And I think there was this attitude in the league
where people were like, "Man, they're the nice guys.
You can say anything about them, they won't do anything."
I saw you in one of the post-post match interviews
where you said-- they said, "What do you think happened?"
You said, "I thought I was too soft in that game."
You changed everything after that. How do you maintain
being good players, being good people,
but still bringing enough hardness to the game
while playing-- while still playing clean?
Well, I think, ultimately, uh, you follow your leader.
And so when you call us a-a youth church group,
that's Steph Curry to the T. Like-- I mean--
That's who he is. He may as well go run the ministry.
But, now, Klay, I think, everybody
kind of has misunder-- Klay misunderstood.
Yeah? In what way?
-Klay's a little wild. Like-- -Okay.
Klay will go off the rail a little bit.
Is this pre-injury Klay or post injury? Has he changed
-since being injured? -He's a little more tame
-after the injury. He was wilder -Oh, wow. Okay.
before the injury. But I think, you know, um,
there's kind of this misconception--
-don't take this as disrespect-- -Yeah, yeah, no.
-there's, like, light-skinned guys. Like... -Oh.
-Oh, that's-that's funny that you said that to me. -No.
-No, no disrespect. No disrespect. -I like that
you were like, "Now, don't get hurt, Trevor."
You were like, "You know, light-skinned guys
are really some--" I'm like, "Hmm? Wait, Draymond,
you can't say that to me on my show, man!"
No, but, there's, like, this misconception of-of--
-Oh, okay. -of light-skinned guys being soft.
-Huh. -And I always--
But-but, like, you just saying that-- -I am soft, by the way.
-But yeah. But-- -No. But--
Like you just said, I was the soft one.
Like, we saw, game one, Steph Curry was great.
-Yes, yes. -Like, I was the soft one.
So I think, you know, it may be time
-to change the misconception. -Okay. Okay.
You-you got-you got four championships.
You know, it feels like each championship has a story.
You know, the first time is "Who is this team?
What are they doing? Steve Kerr-- this whole mix."
I would argue that your team has almost reshaped basketball.
You know, the way teams play, the way you move the ball,
where people shoot from, how you defend it--
all of that has changed because of Golden State.
-Absolutely. -Like, wh...
When you look at your fourth championship,
how do you motivate yourself to do even more now?
'Cause most would go, "I've won.
What-what else do I have to push myself on?"
W-Well, LeBron has four,
and if-if I get five,
-I'm the greatest ever, right? -Ah!
-(Noah laughing) -(cheering and applause)
-Oh! Oh! -(laughs)
No, but honestly,
like, like, that's the challenge.
Like, can you do it again?
-Yeah. -Like, the moment we finished,
I'm standing up on the podium,
and I'm like, "This-this is crazy.
"Like, it's wild.
How do we get back here?"
-I like that. -Yo, it's-it's feeling...
Like, my biggest fear when we won the first one
was that this feeling is so great,
I'll never feel this again in my life.
-Wow. -And, so, you're just chasing that feeling again.
And-and, quite frankly, like I said before the season,
nobody has proven that they can beat us.
-They still haven't. -Mm! Mm!
So, you're going into another season.
The team is looking good.
The spirit in... just in the city.
Like, if you're in Oakland,
you know, even around San Francisco,
you can feel there's a pride in and around the team.
I-I feel a change in you, as well,
in that, you know, th-there were some moments
where it felt... it felt like Draymond Green was angry.
People weren't giving you the respect that you deserved.
Now it seems like you play with the anger,
but you have, like, a... you have, like, a different swag
to you as a person now. You laugh at-at people's doubts.
You know, you-you enjoy those moments.
On your podcast, for instance,
you-you put it all out there.
What do you think changed in your life?
I think, "A," um, having the fiancée that I have.
Uh, she's incredible. She's changed me.
-(applause) -And...
NOAH: I love that.
Thank you. And-and also my children.
Um, they've changed me.
And-and, like, my mom constantly reminds me,
"Hey, the baby's watching you. Like, make sure
-you're on your best behavior." -Oh, I like that.
"The babies are watching you."
And, so, I think that's changed me,
and-and it's helped me channel it a lot.
Now, another thing that's helped me
is when you have that fire
and that chip as a second-round pick,
-everybody loves it. It's great. -Mm-hmm.
But when you carry that same chip
as a four-time all-star, as a four-time champion,
it's then distasteful
because you're not the underdog anymore.
-That's interesting. -And, so, what I realized
was that I was carrying that same chip
that allowed me to remember the 34 guys
that was drafted before me into year five and six.
And people are starting to look at it like,
"Man, that's-that's nasty. That's distasteful."
And I knew that I wanted to change that.
-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. -I don't want the perception of me
to be a-a bad taste in someone's mouth.
I hear what you're saying. You weren't trying to be
the villain. You were just trying to be somebody
who's driven, and it changes w-with your position of power.
I-I hear you. Before I let you go,
there's one thing I've-I've always wanted to know
about that element of the game,
with the players and the teams
and-and the fans and all of that,
is you have this camaraderie,
you guys have this drive,
you-you have this-this world
that we don't know about as the fans.
And when the fans are cussing you guys out from the sides,
on the one hand, fans are there to throw you off your game.
-Mm-hmm. -They want to say whatever to-to get at you,
and that's part of being there live.
On the other hand, you're human beings.
You have families. You know, you-you have emotions.
H-How do you think we find that balance
between what fans can say at a game
and-and what you should or shouldn't respond to
as an athlete?
Well, I used to feel like fans should be stopped
-from saying some of the things that they say. -Uh-huh.
(clears throat) Then Commissioner Silver comes out
and say, "Hey, man, those Boston fans are great,"
as they're saying, "(bleep) you, Draymond."
So I'm like, "All right..."
Commissioner's the best commissioner--
Like I said on my tweet,
he's probably one of the best CEOs in America,
let alone commissioner of a sports league.
But he's like, "Oh, that's great."
So my response to that is, "Great. Cool.
Can I turn and yell, '(bleep) them'?"
-(laughs) -Because, because if I-- if I can,
-then no problem. Let them yell what they want to yell... -Okay.
...I yell what I want to yell, and I continue down the court.
And so I think the thing for me is, like,
some-- at-at some point,
you're kind of... allowing them to do this
-and-and encouraging it, in a way. -Yes.
Because they know, "If I yell that to Draymond
"and he says that back to me,
"he's getting fined $25,000.
-He's getting fined $50,000." -Mm.
So what I'll say to Commish is, "No problem.
"That was fun. Let them do their thing.
But let me do my thing and don't hit my pocket book."
-(laughing) -(cheering and applause)
Yo, man, I could talk to you forever,
-but that's what the podcast is for. -(chuckles)
Be sure to check out his podcast,
The Draymond Green Show!
And The Sessions: Draymond Green is now available on Prime Video.
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after this. Thank you so much, man.
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