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Tonight, Biden wants to reshape the economy, more voting
problems, and Ghetto Gastro.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
[cheering]
Hey, what's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show.
I'm Trevor Noah.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you for coming out in person.
It's good to see you all.
Man, this is amazing. This is going to be great.
This is going to be fun. Take a seat.
Take your seat. Let's do this thing.
We have got a really fun show for you tonight.
White people are not white anymore.
Bears are not who you think they are.
And Desi Lydic uncovers the surprising reason that you
won't be able to vote.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
[cheering]
All right, before we get into the big stories,
let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world.
Well, actually, this entertainment news
is from out of this world.
Tom Cruise is planning to shoot scenes
for a new movie from the International Space Station,
which good for him.
He's finally getting to work a little bit
closer to his home planet.
This is nice.
This is-- it's all about that work-life balance.
No, but seriously, people, Tom Cruise stays winning.
He's one of the greatest movie stars and stuntmen.
He's doing things that no one has ever done before-- just
success after success.
So maybe Scientology is right.
I don't know.
I'm just putting it out there.
In other space news, remember how NASA slammed a spaceship
into an asteroid to test whether they
could change its course?
Well, yesterday, they officially announced
that it was a success.
[cheering]
Yeah, yeah.
The asteroid wasn't actually headed to Earth,
and they hit it, and now it is.
So good work, everyone.
Yeah, you just clapped for us dying.
I'm not really sure this was all necessary though.
Like, send a vessel up to hit the asteroid.
You spend all that money.
Like, if we're honest, one immigrant mother
could have done the same thing just by holding up a slipper.
That's all she needed to do.
Just be like, come to Earth and see what-- come to Earth
and see what happens.
Yeah, that's right.
Turn around.
Turn that-- turn that-- turn that asteroid around.
[cheering]
In sports news, NFL star Davante Adams of the Raiders
has now been charged with misdemeanor assault
for shoving a sideline photographer on Monday.
Luckily, the photographer was attended to by NFL doctors,
so he'll be fine.
I mean, he died, but the doctors still cleared
him to play next Sunday.
They said the game must go on.
All right, let's move on to some of the biggest stories
of the day, starting off with a major story
about the gig economy.
You know?
The gig economy, the reason your Tinder date
had to make a stop to deliver Shake Shack.
Well, over the past decade, more and more people
have been making a living at jobs where
the companies they work for are technically
not their employers.
But now America's most famous employee
might be changing that.
REPORTER: All right, a potential game changer
for millions of gig workers, the Biden administration
proposing a new rule that would reclassify millions of them
as company employees.
The new rule could have wide-ranging impact on profits
at Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other companies
that rely on contractors.
With that employee label, workers
would be eligible for protections
like a minimum hourly wage, overtime
pay, jobless benefits, and workers' comp.
Wow.
If Biden gets this done, it's going to shake up
the world of apps completely.
Because you realize right now, the reason delivery and car
apps can take in billions of dollars
is partly because they don't technically have employees,
which is great for them.
It's the same way some people aren't
technically in a relationship, but they
still get all the benefits.
Yeah, they get the sleepovers, but then
they don't have to take care of you when you're sick.
It's just like, oh, I'm sorry you're not feeling well.
I guess I'll see you when you're ready to smash.
Bye!
[applause]
But what Biden is suggesting is that these companies
have to give their workers the benefits
that employees would get.
And I know that you'll agree with me.
No one deserves it more than them, right?
Because these people are hard workers.
They're driving everywhere.
They're biking.
They're delivering.
They're taste testing our food before it gets to us.
This is hard work.
So this is a big step for a lot of people in the gig economy.
But don't forget, there are drawbacks to being
considered an employee.
Yeah, like, for instance, people singing
you happy birthday at work.
Yeah, you'll love it initially.
But once they start on the, (SINGING) how old are you now,
how old are-- you'll be like, I have health care,
but at what cost?
All right, let's move on to some news about the midterms,
the reason your inbox is now full of emails
with the subject line, send me $4 or I'll kill myself!
Let's catch up on some of the tightest races
in our ongoing coverage of Votedemic 2022.
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[applause]
Right now any single Senate race in America
could determine which party could take control
of the Senate, giving them the power to get nothing
done for the next two years.
And few races are closer right now
than the one in Pennsylvania.
On the Republican side, you have
Dr. Oz, famous TV doctor and proof that even
Oprah makes mistakes.
And on the Democratic side, you have John Fetterman,
former lieutenant governor and dude who's just
going off in the mosh pits.
This race has hinged on a number of issues like crime,
abortion, and the fact that Dr. Oz has only
lived in Pennsylvania for less than two
years, which, is that even a real Pennsylvanian, huh?
Has this dude even been in a fistfight
in a Wawa parking lot yet?
Hmm?
[laughter]
But now another question has begun
to take center stage in the race, John Fetterman's health.
Back in May, Fetterman suffered a stroke.
And even though he's been back on the campaign trail,
he still hasn't fully recovered.
And now his first major interview since the stroke
has everyone talking.
Can voters trust that you will be able to do
this job on day one?
Yeah, of course.
ANNOUNCER: This is Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate
John Fetterman's first in-person, sit-down interview
since a stroke sidelined him from the campaign
trail for months.
JOHN FETTERMAN: That auditory processing
where I'll hear someone speaking,
but sometimes it'll be-- it'll be precise on what exactly
that they're saying.
I use captioning.
REPORTER: His campaign required that he be allowed
to use a transcription program on his computer
during our interview.
I always thought it was pretty empathetic--
emphatic.
I think I was very-- excuse me-- empathetic.
That's an example of the stroke-- empathetic.
I always thought I was very empathetic before having
a stroke.
But now after having that stroke,
I really understand much more kind of the challenges
that Americans have day in and day out.
So, yeah, this interview came out.
And now, obviously, you've got people on the right saying
Fetterman forgot a word.
And he can't understand speech.
So he's not fit for the Senate.
And, look, this is politics.
So I get it.
People will jump on any weakness to give
their party an advantage.
I understand that.
But let's be real, people.
If stumbling over a word every now
and again disqualified you from politics,
America wouldn't have had a president
for the past six years.
[laughter]
Huh?
That's blunt.
[cheering]
In fact, at least Fetterman acknowledged
that he messed up the word, and he corrected himself.
Yeah, Biden wouldn't have noticed,
and he would have just [stammers] Negroes, man.
[laughter]
And Trump-- can you imagine Trump?
Trump wouldn't have even acknowledge that--
like, Trump would have tried to convince us that he
actually got the word right.
He'd be like, I always knew that I was emphatic,
and I was, and also empathetic.
I was emphatically empathetic and so emphatic
about being empathetic, emphatic about emphysema.
Do we love emphysema, folks?
We love it so much.
And also, as for needing to read captions
because he has a troubled understanding of speech now,
I don't know.
Is that really a deal breaker?
Huh?
In fact, if you ask me, I think America
needs more people in politics who actually know how to read.
Maybe that's just how I see it.
If anything-- if anything, needing captions
is super relatable these days.
Yeah, have you tried watching House of Dragon
without captions?
It's impossible.
I mean, half the characters have the same name.
(DEEP VOICE) Agon, tell Ayman to get Renera to warn
Raneris about Egon's dream.
But don't tell Viserys.
He'll tell Jiserys. Did you get that?
No, I didn't.
I don't know what that was.
[laughter]
But, look-- but, look, I'm not I'm
not vouching for Fetterman over Dr. Oz or anything like that.
But I do think this whole debate is veering
into the territory of saying that people
with disabilities cannot be lawmakers,
which is trash, all right?
Especially since America already has disabled lawmakers
serving right now.
[cheering]
It shouldn't be disqualified, right?
Dan Crenshaw is missing an eye.
Tammy Duckworth lost both her legs, all right?
And Mitch McConnell-- he's literally
melting all the time.
[laughter]
But has he let that hold him back?
No!
He gets up every day, and he vows
to keep on working until the moment his face
slides right off of his skull.
(IMITATING MCCONNELL) Oh, that's right.
Every night, I tie my skin into a ponytail.
Bwa.
Now, even though the Senate is getting the most attention,
there's also a heated race for mayor of Los Angeles, where
Congresswoman Karen Bass is facing off against real estate
tycoon Rick Caruso.
And in their final debate last night, there was one moment
that got everyone's attention.
And it's when the moderator mentioned that Karen
Bass is a person of color.
And then Rick Caruso said, uh, me too.
And this question goes for the both of you.
The next mayor of Los Angeles will
be either an African-American woman or a white man.
I'm Italian.
Italian-American.
Thank you. That's Latin.
Thank you.
Latin.
[laughter]
You're not white.
You're Latin?
Get the [bleep] out of here, man.
Huh?
What is that?
[applause]
We all know what this is about, right?
This guy is running in Los Angeles.
So now he's saying, I'm Italian,
which is a Latin language, so I'm basically Latino, right?
And, look, I'm not--
I'm not claiming to be an expert.
But if you tell someone you're grabbing Latin food,
I think they'll be pretty pissed off when you come
back with Olive Garden, right?
We can all agree on that.
So I think we can all agree that Rick Caruso
is just bullshitting here.
Because I promise you, when he gets pulled over by the cops,
he's not like, (LATINO ACCENT) hola, officer,
what is the problem, señor?
[laughter]
What's funny about this whole thing
is that, when they came to America,
Italians weren't considered white.
But then they fought for, like, 100 years to change that.
Yeah, and let's be honest.
Any debate was definitely over by the time the Mario
trailer came out last week.
Yeah, because Chris Pratt is out here like, it is I, Mario.
So the Senate races are heating up.
The mayoral races are heating up.
But it turns out even in the animal kingdom, my friends,
elections are being fought tooth and nail.
REPORTER: An update on Fat Bear Week.
It's the popular bracket that has been rocked
by a big cheating scandal.
So each year, people vote on the beefiest bear
in Alaska's Katmai National Park
before hibernation season.
Well, the National Park tweeted, quote,
"Like bears stuff their face with fish,
our ballot box, too, has been stuffed."
There were thousands of fake votes for bear 747.
But even with the fake votes removed,
747 weighed in at 1,400 pounds and still
won the semifinal round.
Now 747 will face off against bear 901 for the final round.
Voting start this morning.
Yes, my friends, it appears that a voting
scandal has tainted the dignity of Fat Bear Week.
And don't you dare laugh.
Don't you laugh.
If we cannot trust the sanctity of the fat bear vote,
then what can we trust?
I honestly don't understand this.
Who would even care enough about a fat bear election
to try and cheat and stuff the ballot box?
Who is this person?
Who's like, oh, I've got to rig this--
why?
The fattest bear doesn't get any power if it wins.
It's not like a bear is going to win the election,
and then cut taxes. (DEEP VOICE) Rah, rah,
I use my claws to cut the taxes!
And now for the zoning laws.
What are you doing?
And, by the way, I feel like this story
is almost the perfect encapsulation
of American culture, right?
Because when other countries engage with nature,
there's a reverence.
It's like, (IMITATING OLD MAN) the mighty brown bear,
wary of the coming chill, hunkers
down for the winter months.
But with America, it's like, look at this chunky boy!
Look at him!
He's so chunky!
I just want to wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah!
Dude, oh my god.
Oh, he just ate my arm.
Take a picture!
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to a quick break,
let's check in on the stock market
with our finance expert, Michael Kosta, everybody.
[cheering]
Michael, what is happening in the market today?
Well, like a fat bear on a scale,
I'm crushing it, everybody.
I mean, and I got a hot tip for you, all right?
I got a tip for you.
I got a hot tip for you.
But before we get into this, Fat Bear Week, you know,
here's a question.
Well, why are people voting?
We have the information from the scale.
Doesn't that tell us who the fattest bear is?
Am I the only one watching this story?
We have a scale.
The scale tells us who the fattest bear is.
There's no need to vote, OK?
Oh, officer, officer, I know your radar gun
says I was going 100.
But can we just take a vote on this first?
Come on.
Let's call it what it is, Trevor.
These bears-- they're depressed.
Think about it.
They overeat.
They sleep for months.
They always seem upset.
They freak out when you point a hunting rifle at their cub.
I mean, they're unhinged, dude, all right?
TREVOR NOAH: That's an interesting way to see bears.
Let's talk about-- you want to talk about money?
Yeah, let's talk about money.
Let's talk about money, Trevor.
Uber and Lyft-- now I'm an expert on this topic.
I actually use Uber Black, Trevor, because I'm an ally,
so that's for you.
But-- but-- but-- it's not a joke.
It's not a joke.
Look-- OK.
[applause]
As you can see on this chart, after President Biden
announced that gig workers should be considered
employees, Uber and Lyft shares have
taken a ride of their own, OK?
Now this chart also perfectly demonstrates
my enjoyment of making conversation
with my Uber driver, OK?
At the beginning, it's fine, you know?
Offers me a mint, gives me a bottle of water for a baby.
But, look, it starts to drop right here when he
asks me to come sit up front.
Oh, god, right?
And another big drop in value again when he finds out I
work at The Daily Show and asks me if I'm the guy that
goes to the Trump rallies.
But, look, his value increases when I
learn he used to be a doctor.
And I can ask him free medical questions.
But turns out he's actually just a chiropractor,
so he loses all his value.
But then I find out that he has prescription meds in his trunk
for me, so it goes back up.
And, you know, Mikey likey, OK?
So--
[applause]
Thank you.
I offered you a hot tip, and it's usually a financial tip.
But I feel like I have to explain this because it
keeps happening to me.
If you're my Uber driver, and I fall asleep in the backseat,
do not try to wake me up.
I will bite you, OK?
Back to you, Trevor, my brother.
[laughter]
Michael Kosta, everybody.
All right, when we come back, Desi Lydic
discovers yet another thing that is wrong with
America's elections.
So don't go away.
[cheering]
[applause]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
With all the recent accusations of ballot rigging and fat bear
fraud, it is no surprise that Americans have become less
confident in their elections.
But as Desi Lydic discovers in her new series,
America's election infrastructure may be in even
worse shape than you think.
Hi, I'm Peabody Award-wanting investigative
journalist Desi Lydic.
Elections, they're the bedrock of democracy,
and the only thing preventing us from not having elections.
But is America's election system reliable,
or are we one glitchy voting machine
away from a total collapse?
I'll investigate in our new segment,
"Votedemic 2022, Our Crumbling Election Infrastructure."
After our nation's last elections went super smooth.
Dozens of voters were locked out of the one single polling
place for all of Louisville.
Reports of hours of long lines,
voting machine malfunctions, provisional ballot shortages.
Officials are looking at calling in the National Guard.
I wanted to find out how ready we are for the midterms,
so I'm headed to our nation's capital
to talk with election advocates at the Democracy Fund.
My name is Tammy Patrick.
I'm a senior advisor to the elections team
at the Democracy Fund, which seeks to ensure that we have
an open and just democracy that is inclusive and trustworthy
for all of our citizens.
Ooh, it sounds like you got your work cut out for you.
We do in this moment.
There's a lot of work to be done,
but it may not be in the areas that necessarily think it is.
All right, what are all the problems
for this upcoming election?
So we continue to see a shortage of poll workers,
the global supply chain issues, underfunding of our
election infrastructure.
Wait, wait, wait, Tammy, Tammy, Tammy, let's start
with the most pressing issue.
Well, one of the most pressing issues
in this moment, because of where we are in the election
cycle, is a paper shortage.
Paper?
Tammy, it's 2022, who's using paper to vote?
So the vast majority of Americans
actually cast a paper ballot.
Yeah, no, I knew that.
I vote every election.
I got the stickers to prove it.
Well, that's great, but election offices
all around this country have ordered their ballots,
they've ordered envelopes, they've
ordered paper materials that they need,
and they may not get them in time
for the upcoming election.
Who's going to be affected by this paper shortage most?
What it looks like is going to happen,
will be those small election offices serving
rural communities where they don't have
a large service provider that's helping
them take care of this issue.
Are you saying that the rural community, am I, rural.
Am I saying that right?
Rural.
The rural, OK, you know what I'm saying.
As I learned about this large swath of Americans, rural,
rural, I realize this paper shortage
could affect a lot of people.
Well, I guess I got to go find some paper people.
Oh, wait, there's more to talk about.
Can it, Tammy.
But can America just sneak some printer paper home
from work like the rest of us?
I went to Runbeck Election Services, one of the largest
ballot printing facilities, to get an inside look at how dire
the paper shortage is.
We print ballots for several states and counties
across the nation.
We're in 23 states, plus Washington, DC,
with some of our products.
Wow.
So you're a huge part of the voting process.
Yeah.
We touch roughly 45% to 50% of the voters around the country.
You touch a lot of voters.
Yep.
But with consent.
Absolutely.
So what's going on with this paper shortage?
It started during COVID.
When the paper mills shut down, they
couldn't generate more paper.
So they sold through all their inventory.
And then when they started going back to work,
they converted to liner board for cardboard boxes.
Amazon still needs to ship things.
[bleep] Bezos, man.
And now we don't have the inventory any longer,
and so they're trying to play catch-up.
And you're saying there's a paper
shortage happening right now.
Yes.
Jeff, I don't know how to tell you this,
but I see a [bleep] ton of paper around here.
So what you see here on our production floor
is a fraction of what we need for the whole year.
Every day we'll go through 65 of those rolls.
65 of these roles?
Yes.
Jesus Christ.
Historically, we could order paper,
and in two to three weeks we would have what we need.
Now it's three to four months or more.
And that's been the problem this year.
How bad are we talking?
Like we might need to start printing double-sided bad?
Or the majority of Americans won't get
to choose their president bad?
Well, let's hope it doesn't get to that.
Everybody is working to avoid that very problem.
But we already do print double-sided ballots,
so there is, we already print on both sides of the paper.
Jeff, that means it's bad.
Kind of.
Walk me through everything that
would be affected if the election
community runs out of paper.
If there's no paper, it's hard to mail
ballots, envelopes, I Voted stickers,
and instructions sheets.
Wait, wait, voting stickers?
Voting stickers could be gone.
Could be.
But the sticker's the best part of voting,
the only reason I vote.
Could also do digital stickers.
Instead of getting the physical sticker,
you get a digital sticker when you vote.
Jeff, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Fair enough.
OK, I just have a few more questions.
[paper crumpling]
No.
Ah, yes.
What can Americans do to help with the paper shortage?
Stop wasting paper.
[paper crumpling]
Cursive.
Why am I writing in cursive?
Stop wasting paper.
Yeah.
All right, you want to take me on a tour?
- Sure. - I'm ready to go to work.
All right, let's go.
You're going to wear a hard hat?
Yeah, that's what you do, right?
No.
It was time to roll up my sleeves,
so I didn't get ink on them.
Gross.
This paper palace was pumping.
And it turns out, there's a lot more to printing
than just hitting Control-P.
So this is where it all starts.
We get the files from the county, the PDFs,
so we can start the print process.
Ah.
Let me ask you a question.
Does PDF really stand for please don't [bleep]??
No.
I could see how crucial paper was to this process.
So every roll of paper will generate about 1,000 ballots.
When we're running in an election,
we'll be running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
These runs 24 hours a day?
Yes.
Wait, what's happening?
This machine just ran out of paper.
Happening already.
I even presented Jeff with some of my own solutions
to stopping the shortage.
So this is the inserter.
This is where the ballots, the I Voted sticker,
the instructions, all go into the envelope
to be mailed out to the voter.
You say the stickers?
Yeah, I voted stickers, yes.
These ones right here.
Yes.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
So even if a paper shortage does ruin America's democracy,
at least I'll be able to participate
in the most important part of the voting process.
Thank you so much for that, Desi.
All right, stay tuned, because when we come back,
I'll be talking to a trio of chefs who are
making gourmet food ghetto.
So don't go away.
[applause, cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guests tonight are the founders
of the Bronx-based culinary collective, Ghetto Gastro.
They're here to talk about their new book, Black Power
Kitchen, which comes out on October 25
and is available for preorder right now.
Please welcome Lester Walker, Jon Gray, and Pierre Serrao.
[applause, cheering]
Welcome, welcome.
We out here.
You are definitely out here.
Welcome to the show, gentlemen. - We outside.
- Thanks for having us. - This is so--
We in the building.
You know, it feels like it's been too long.
- It's crazy. - It's been a minute.
I remember meeting you, and my mind
was blown, not just by the food you cooked,
but by the stories that you told,
the way you encapsulated people's cultures,
their identities, everything, into something
we take for granted every day, which is food.
Let's start with, like, the very beginning,
the inception of it all--
Ghetto Gastro.
So many people have a negative connotation
when it comes to ghetto, be like, ooh, that's ghetto.
You know, and then gastro has this culinary idea behind it.
But you took it and you flipped it.
I'd love to know why you chose that name.
Well, we know opposites attract.
And as a multidisciplinary business,
we want to use food as a vehicle to tell stories,
you know, about culture, politics, empowerment.
You know, mainly, we're using our creative energy to uplift
Black and Brown communities.
TREVOR NOAH: I love that.
Yeah, I love it.
[applause, cheering]
And the way you do it, the way you do it is by leveling up,
I mean, food from all over the world.
I've eaten your food.
And, I mean, not even gassing you up-- you remember this--
I ate the food, and I was like, man, New York has
the best food in the world.
And then I stumbled on a few of your places,
I was like, these guys tricked me, because their food was
the best food in the world.
New York has great food, but you really
take it up to another level.
You've created something that's truly special.
And everyone that talks about your collective talks about it
with a level of excitement, pride, and joy because that's
what you encapsulate.
You know, you take food and you create a story from it.
Why do you think it's so important to do that?
Well, we break bread to build bridges, you know?
And I'll let Pi--
[applause, cheering]
Yeah.
Yeah, what Jon said, we break bread to build bridges.
And for us, it's really important for our people
to understand that the food that we eat
and how important it is what we put into our bodies.
So we're making conscious food, high vibrational food,
you know, like food that's a life force, you know,
straight from the source, plants, you know--
- The Pan-African pantry. - --all of that.
- Yeah. - I love that.
You know, bridging the diaspora--
- I actually love that. - --through flavor.
From the soil to the oil, man.
Yeah, man.
I like that a lot.
You know what I love most about it is--
what I love about this cookbook and I
love about the stories is, first of all,
it's more than just--
Trevor, it's a crookbook, not a cookbook.
- It's a crookbook? - Yeah.
- I like that. - You know what I'm saying?
OK, OK.
$10 million worth of game in there, baby.
I like that. OK.
And you know what?
It deserves a different name because it
contains every-- you expect the recipes, right?
You don't expect what they'll be, but you expect recipes.
But this book contains art.
You have beautiful images by artists
who've shaped hip hop and communities
around America and the world.
It feels like you've infused more
than just the food, but the people that
would engage around the food.
And that, in and of itself, was an interesting choice.
Why involve others in your art?
We liked it.
When you think about food, you think about nourishment.
And it's really about nourishing
the mind, body, and the soul. So--
TREVOR NOAH: Dang!
--we have to combine these-- the arts,
the music, the design aspect, the fashion, the fleek.
And for us, you know, it's community builds immunity.
So we like to work with our peers and people that we love
and that we trust to create, like, pieces of art like this
that will last and stand the test of time.
TREVOR NOAH: You do that with your food as well.
You know, you've never been afraid of
sparking conversation.
You've never been afraid of using
your food to comment on what's happening in society.
For instance, there was a dish that I remember hearing about.
It was AmeriKKKan as Apple Pie, right?
But it was-- - Three Ks--
The three Ks.
--like Ice Cube's AmeriKKKan Most Wanted.
Yeah, it was Ameri-K-K-K, right?
And it was a deconstructed apple pie,
and it had a chalk outline on the plate.
It was a graphic image to think about when
you're having a dessert.
And yet, it was a commentary on what people oftentimes
ignore about America.
Yeah.
Well, food is-- food is a vehicle for us as an artistic
expression for us to express our feelings and our thoughts,
and we do it on a plate.
And sometimes it might make people uncomfortable,
but, like, that's what art is.
We're supposed to spark conversation
and make you think deeper into all of the things that
are happening.
It's just not eating, it's food for the-- food for the mind
as well.
Right, right.
You've also not been afraid to challenge some of the ideas.
You know, people love soul food.
People have these ideas of how Black people eat.
We talked about this many years ago,
but a lot of how Black people eat
has been defined by necessity as opposed to choice.
And what you've done is you've come in and you said,
we're not scrapping these ideas.
We're not getting rid of what Black people
have created in a culture.
But what we want to do is improve on it.
We want to create worlds where the food deserts
don't define our diets.
You know, you've chosen to go with health.
You've chosen to go with a lot of vegetable-based diets.
You've really chosen to speak to something.
I'd love to know why those recipes.
High vibration cuisine, like Pi mentioned earlier.
And we don't call it a food desert,
we call it food apartheid because it's
not a natural occurrence.
You know, this is social engineering,
areas that have been underestimated, underinvested
in, and exploited.
So there's a reason why people don't
have access to fresh food.
But we want to show examples of how we can make it culturally
relevant, push it forward, and make
it nutritious and delicious.
Stealth health as well.
[applause]
Do you find--
do you find you're able to break through?
You know, there's this idea sometimes of what
a Black man should eat.
Half of my friends will, if I give them a plate of salad
or something, they'd be like, salad, man,
if there's no meat, I'm not eating that.
It's just some bullshit.
Do you find that your recipes break through?
Well, the future of food is plant-based.
It's conscious cuisine.
You know, it's taking accountable calories.
And we really want to highlight that, especially
in the neighborhoods that we're from that are suffering from--
that are just in desperation of healthy food.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
Yeah, we want to change the sort of connotations
and the context around the food in our communities
and what we eat.
So you're talking about what Black men should be eating,
and we want to show our community
what we should be eating.
If you want to perform at a high level,
you've got to take things in that
are going to help you do that.
So like we keep saying, high vibrational food.
No low vibrations over here.
It's always high vibe.
So nutrient-dense plants, like, they're
the primary source of protein.
So you want to talk about protein,
eat some kale, some quinoa, some sweet potatoes,
some chickpeas.
Come and talk to me.
And we still got some twerk and jerk chicken in there
too, though.
That's what I like. It's a balance.
- So it's the balance. - Yeah!
It's like, twerk and jerk.
We got the Black Power Waffle.
TREVOR NOAH: Right, right, right.
You know what I'm saying?
Using African grains-- sorghum, millet, amaranth.
So we really want to have this continental cultural
collision, looking at the ingredients of the Americas,
the ingredients of Africa, the ingredients of Asia,
and creating this combustion of something brand new.
You've also taken it to another level
because you're not just creating on the streets,
you're not just creating in communities,
you're also infiltrating areas that
haven't generally been infiltrated
by faces like yours.
You have a line of cookware that's out there
in some of the biggest brands.
You make-- you've got waffle makers.
You've got-- I'd love to know-- JON GRAY: Waffle mix.
Waffle mix as well.
Syrup, don't slip on the drip.
Actually, I think you guys are--
Come on, Trevor.
--you're giving everyone in the audience waffle
mix, right?
I was watching the between the scenes--
[cheering, applause] - You are, right?
No, for real. - You get a waffle.
You get a waffle.
We were watching the between the scenes with Oprah,
and I'm like, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up,
we can't let the big O just own this you getting
something when you leave.
So everybody got a Mercedes outside.
No, we just joking.
[laughter]
You got some Wavy Waffle Mix.
So get your fix, you know?
This is what I'm--
every guest of mine needs to bring
something for the people.
Can I just say, it has been a joy knowing you.
It's been a joy seeing the journey.
Congratulations on every moment, every success.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
- Thank you. - We'll be back here soon.
- Thank you. - For real.
Thank you so much.
We got a gift for you too, man, a little gift from Silk
City, a little silky.
- You got to be a crown. - Oh!
- Durag. - What?
What? - Let me crown you.
Let me crown you. - You got my durag?
Let me crown you real quick.
You got my durag?
A little durag to crown you, man.
Oh, you got my durag and everything.
You got the durag and everything.
Let the string-- let the string--
Let the string go. Let's go.
I'm gonna wear this tonight. I'm gonna wear this tonight.
Don't let the people know.
You got to get it braided back.
[inaudible]
Black Power Kitchen is available on preorder,
everybody. Make sure you get it.
[inaudible] to the world, man.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back after this. Ghetto Gastro, everybody.
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