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Elon Musk rules Twitter
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Yeah, yesterday-yesterday was our first show back
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It's been so much fun.
But I-I do want to acknowledge something really quickly,
and this-this is completely true.
After the show aired,
there were a number of people on social media who said
they were sad
because "it's not just me and Trevor anymore."
Yeah. And I felt that.
And I-I just wanted to say to all of those people,
yes, what we had was special.
We had two very good years together, and...
I will always treasure that.
I-I really will. I'll treasure that in my heart.
But-but, ultimately, I just... (exhales)
I needed to see other people.
I... A lot of other people.
-You know? And... -(cheering and applause)
And-and please remember this, please remember this.
Please remember,
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There's just gonna be a lot of people watching
while we do it, okay?
Anyway, we have a really good show tonight.
Our guest led South Carolina women's basketball
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and she's a Hall of Famer and she's a gold medalist.
Dawn Staley is here, everybody! That's gonna be a lot of fun.
-(cheering) -I'm hoping she can help me work on my game.
But, first, let's do it!
Let's just into today's headlines.
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All right, let's kick things off
with some big economic news about inflation.
You know, inflation--
the reason your grandfather is always bragging about
"I paid seven cents for a movie ticket in 1972.
"And it was a porno movie. Yeah.
"Back in my day, you had to see them in the theaters.
"Yeah, you couldn't just pull them up on Pubhub
"like you kids do.
"You had to remember the scene and go home
"and try and recreate the feeling.
"Sometimes you'd see a friend on the way home
"and you'd have to be like, 'Shut up, Jerry. Stop talking.
"I'm trying to remember the boobs!'
"And then I'd finally get home and your grandmother would say,
"'Were you at one of those movies again?'
"And I would say, 'Shut up, Cheryl!
"I'm trying to remember those boobs!'
"And then, finally, I got to yank my crank.
"And it would be boobs and Jerry
"and your grandmother in my head and...
The point is, things cost a lot less back then."
So, yes, inflation.
It's getting worse
and it's affecting everything.
Breaking news this morning. The U.S. Labor Department out
with new inflation numbers this morning.
They're high. The highest inflation, in fact--
rate in the U.S. in more than 40 years.
When you look at the sectors, it is gas, it is shelter,
it is food, it is used cars.
These are numbers that year over year have had
big, big increases in prices.
This is a situation where just about everything is going up.
8.5% inflation increase year over year.
That's a strong, strong number.
NEWSMAN: The highest since December 1981,
when Raiders of the Lost Ark
was number one at the box office,
Ronald Reagan was president
and unemployment was pushing 10%.
Seriously?
This inflation is taking us back to 1981.
I don't want to go back to 1981.
First of all, there's no Wi-Fi.
Secondly, I could never pull off a Jheri curl, people.
Actually...
actually, I take that back.
I take that back.
Yeah, maybe I can.
Doesn't look bad. Silk Sonic, you call me, baby.
Yeah, we're doing this.
But, yeah, people, because the economy opened up suddenly
and the government gave everyone money,
everyone is spending again.
But there's supply chain issues,
so there's not enough products for the people to buy
and that drives the prices up.
And then, on top of that, Vladimir Putin decided
that, oh, now would be a nice time
to Airbnb Eastern Ukraine by force,
raising oil prices, which makes everything more expensive.
And that's what's happening. It's gonna happen to all of us.
And so because of all of that,
inflation is rising faster, or higher,
than the price of Bitcoin, you know?
Which is-- Sorry, wait. No, no, Bitcoin's down again.
Sorry, my bad. Ignore that, ignore that.
So, but wait. Oh, it's up again. It's up again.
It's the future. All right, it's the future.
So, the point is... Wait. It's down again.
Which-which...? Guy... Is it a scam, or is it the future, guys?
The point is, everything has gotten expensive.
So expensive that even Bed Bath & Beyond coupons are starting
to get all cocky with us.
-Well, well, well. -(laughter)
Who's the junk mail now?!
Yeah, you used to throw me away.
I guess my 20% off isn't clogging up your mailbox
anymore, is it, mother(bleep)?
Yeah. (laughs)
(applause)
Aah!
Here's the thing, man. Inflation is bad for everybody, right?
It doesn't just hurt your wallet.
It makes life harder for people, and it makes you feel crazy.
You know, 'cause you'll be in the store, and you'll be like,
"Yesterday, this avocado was three dollars. Now it's six!
Are you gaslighting me, avocado?"
The only thing that gets better
because of inflation is small talk.
That's the only thing that improves in life. Yeah.
Because at least now, you can talk about something else
other than the weather.
♪ ♪
Yeah, price of cheese is up again, huh?
Man, it's getting crazy. (laughs)
Cheese. Cheese.
Cheese.
-(laughter) -(elevator bell dings)
All right, but let's move on.
You know what's funny. You guys have been in that elevator,
-and you've been that person. -(laughter)
You've been that person. You know what I'm talking about.
(applause)
All right, let's move on to someone
who is definitely not affected by inflation-- Elon Musk,
billionaire businessman and proud African American.
(laughter)
One of Musk's favorite things to do is get high
and post troll-y memes on Twitter.
But recently, he transformed himself
into the most powerful Twitter troll of all time.
You see, Musk recently bought enough stock
to make him the company's largest shareholder. Yeah.
And apparently, he was supposed to join the board of directors,
as well, but now, for some reason,
there's been a change of plans.
Elon Musk deciding not to join Twitter's board of directors.
That's according to Twitter's CEO.
But even as an outsider, Musk may still be able
to influence the company.
His decision means he's no longer limited
to owning just about 15% of Twitter.
That would have been a condition if he had joined the board.
Now some analysts suggesting he could bolster his stake
and eventually establish control of the company.
Yeah, that's right. Elon Musk has his sights set on Twitter.
And whether or not he decides to take it over, you do realize
he is still the largest shareholder,
which means Twitter is his baby now.
Yeah, that means any minute, he's gonna rename it
"Tw&zeta..."
(trilling gibberish)
(laughter)
"...69."
(applause)
And, look, I know a lot of people don't like Elon Musk.
They think he's controversial, all these things.
I will say this, man. One thing you have to admit
is that he makes being a billionaire look fun.
You know? No, it has its perks.
Elon was annoyed by Twitter, and so what did he do? He bought it.
Yeah, tell me we all wish we didn't have that power, huh?
Imagine if when the airline told you that you were bumped
from your flight, you could just buy the airline.
As opposed to now where we just act
like there's anything we can do.
Oh. Oh, really? The flight's overbooked?
Well, you know what? I'm just going to buy...
another seat on a less-convenient flight.
Yeah, you're gonna know my name.
Are you...? Can I get my money back first?
I need to move it over to the... 14 days?!
I can't wait 14 days! (muttering gibberish)
Now, apparently, one of the things Elon wants
to change about Twitter is he wants to stop the censorship
of conservative voices.
And there's even speculation that he could force Twitter
to let Donald Trump back onto the platform.
-(audience booing) -Yeah.
Oh, you guys don't like Donald Trump? Oh.
-(laughter) -I'm gonna make a note of that. All right.
And you have to admit,
getting Trump back on Twitter would be weird, guys.
I mean, think about it. He's so behind.
(laughter)
Like, he's got, like, a whole year
of hot takes that he saved up.
He's gonna come back on the plan, be like,
"Apparently, there's a big ship stuck in the Suez Canal.
"What a loser.
"I like ships that don't get stuck!
Fresh take."
All right, but let's move on
to another global problem-- COVID-19.
Here in America, life has pretty much returned to normal,
as cases have fallen drastically around the country, you know?
You don't even have to cancel plans
as a safety precaution anymore.
You can just go back to cancelling plans
because you don't actually like any of your friends.
But-but in parts of China right now,
COVID is actually infecting more people than ever before.
And in Shanghai, one of the most populous cities in the country,
Chinese authorities are taking some of the most extreme
measures you've ever seen to try and keep COVID under control.
ANCHOR: China's biggest city, Shanghai, remains eerily empty,
26 million people under a massive COVID lockdown, relying
on government deliveries, and anger is soaring.
-(people chanting) -Social media showing videos of protests
over food and medicine, a supermarket ransacked.
-(overlapping shouting) -At a building where residents have
been locked down for two weeks, they shout,
"We only want supplies. Why are you beating people?"
ANCHOR 2: Some citizens in the authoritarian nation are
losing it, defying the lockdown by screaming from
their apartment windows into the night.
(echoing screams)
ANCHOR 2: It's straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie.
Some people are yelling out...
ANCHOR: At night, between the high-rises,
a drone tells people to follow COVID rules and, bizarrely,
-not to sing on their balconies. -(drone speaking in Mandarin)
Wow.
You know, every time you think you know what oppression is,
China takes things to a, to a whole new level.
They really do, yeah. Because, like, everyone in the U.S.
is like, "How dare you tell me to wear a mask when I
go to Walmart!" And people in China are, like,
"You're allowed to go to Walmart?"
I mean, they even have a drone flying around telling people
it's against COVID rules to sing on their balcony.
That's terrifying. And, also, why didn't we have that drone
when they were making that "Imagine" video? Huh?
I mean, at least, at least the drone is telling everyone
not to sing, though. You know?
Yeah, it-it would, it would be way worse if it was just, like,
targeting one guy. Like, "Mr. Huang, please.
You can't hit those high notes. Shut up!"
Because I don't care what anyone says: this is insane.
Yes, COVID is a serious disease. Yes, we need to be careful.
but if people are locked in their apartments, starving,
surely that's worse. Right?
The solution cannot be worse than the problem. You know?
It's like a pilot crashing a plane because the
in-flight movie was terrible. "Oh, don't worry, folks.
"Morbius can't hurt you in the afterlife.
Thank you so much for flying."
And people-- I don't want to make anyone panic.
I really don't. I really don't.
But have you ever wondered why China has the most
extreme reactions to COVID in the world?
Like, I-I just found myself wondering this.
Every country in the world, every other country is now like,
"It's time to move on. We're done. Let's-- We're done.
COVID is finished." And China is like,
"No, it is not time to move on."
And that has me wondering...
What do they know that we don't?
(audience laughter)
(audience laughter continues)
(sucks teeth) Ah, it's probably nothing.
All right, our final story is about self-driving cars.
You know, someday they'll usher in a utopian future where we can
all text and drive without wiping out a family of four
over a meme our friends have already seen.
But, for now, smart cars are still in testing mode,
and it seems like there are a few kinks that
still need to be worked out.
And we turn now to California and a bizarre encounter
between police and a driverless car.
This morning, this video going viral, showing a self-driving
car being pulled over by police in San Francisco.
-MAN: This is crazy. -ANCHOR: The car was pulled over
because it was driving at night without headlights on.
At first, it looks like an ordinary traffic stop.
An officer gets out of his car to speak to the driver,
only to discover...
ANCHOR: And then, the car speeds away from the officers,
passing through an intersection.
(shouting, clamoring)
-(applause) -(laughing) Oh, what?!
Oh, man. Oh, man, that was amazing.
That driverless car just drove away from the cops.
It-- That was wild! It's just like, it just drove away.
Yeah, it may be a computer, but it's got
the confidence of a white person. That was...
-That was swag. -(applause)
"I don't have the time for this, officer.
Send me the ticket in the mail."
Now, apparently, the company who owns this car,
they say it was a glitch. That's why that happened.
It's not supposed to do that. But I think we all know
what happened here, man.
That car had weed and was freaking out. Yeah.
You could see that car was like, "Oh, shit, oh, shit.
"Act cool act cool, act cool. Hello, officer--
Shit! Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive!"
And you realize this is only gonna happen more.
It's only going to happen more. As more driverless cars
become more common, this is gonna happen,
which puts police in a weird position.
I wouldn't want to be a cop in that position.
Like, a driverless car starts acting up,
what do you do? Do you tase it?
That's just gonna charge the battery. Makes things worse.
And this is how you know
the robot takeover is inevitable, people.
The autonomous cars
are already disrespecting human authority figures.
Just get ready. Yeah,
it starts with them driving away from cops.
Next thing, it's gonna be us in our houses.
You're gonna say something to Alexa,
and she's gonna be like, "Play your own music, bitch."
(laughter and applause)
This is the future we've been waiting for, people.
If a driverless car breaks the law,
there's no one to punish it.
What are you gonna do, arrest the corporation?
Laws don't apply to them. It's the perfect crime.
You can't do anything.
By the way, I you heard you snort.
That was amazing.
(laughter and applause)
All right.
These are things you don't get without an audience.
That was... That made my week.
Thank you very much. (laughs)
All right, before we take a break,
let's catch up with what's trending on social media
with the one and only Ronny Chieng, everyone.
(cheering and applause)
-Thank you. -Good to see you, Ronny.
-Good to see you, Trevor. -NOAH: What's going on?
Thanks, everyone.
It's good to see you guys in studio.
-Thanks for coming out. -NOAH: Yeah!
Welcome back.
I just want to talk about this Elon Musk thing real quick.
-Yeah. -Okay? Elon Musk buying Twitter?
-Amazing. I love it. -Yeah.
Because who better to fix
the most toxic environment known to humanity
than Elon Musk, right?
-NOAH: Wait, what? -You don't send a normal person
to go do a sociopath's job, okay?
-NOAH: Ronny, Ronny. -I love this.
Ronny, that makes... You can't love this.
-Elon Musk is like a giant troll. -Yeah.
No, no, that's what you need. You need...
Only a giant troll can defeat other trolls.
It's genius.
No, you get it. Come on. It's...
He's a smart guy.
It's a South African thing, you know?
Yeah, it's-it's you.
It's Oscar Pistorius.
You know, they got the... They got the plan.
It's a plan. He... You know,
he doesn't do things for no reason, okay?
Look. Like, look at all the pieces.
Look at the pieces he's putting together, okay?
He's got the, uh, Tesla cars.
He's got the solar power.
He's got SpaceX.
He's drilling the holes.
He's got the brain chips.
He's smoking weed with Joe Rogan.
He's tanking SNL.
Now he's buying Twitter.
Don't you see? The plan?
-(laughter) -Wh-Wh...
What is the plan?
No, no, I'm asking you, do you see the plan? 'Cause I...
-No, I don't see the... -I have no (bleep) idea
-what he's doing. -You're asking me like you know the plan.
Yeah, I was hoping you had some insight.
-No, I don't know what he's doing. -Yeah. But, look,
-he's my guy, okay? -Ronny, can you just tell us
what's trending online, please?
You said you were gonna do social media.
All right, all right, fine. You want me to read the tweets,
-I'll read the stupid tweets. -Yeah, read the tweets. Please.
-Read... -All right, let's read this tweet.
Wow, what a...
What an insightful tweet this is.
"Happy Friday to all my followers."
-Oh, wow. -(applause)
Thank you for this poignant message.
What a modern-day Shakespeare.
I wouldn't have thought of celebrating my Fridays
until I read this.
NOAH: Just thought it would make the people happy.
It's just like, you know, it's like, "Happy Friday,"
-you know what I mean? -Yeah.
That's not what you do on Twitter, okay?
Twitter is for hate.
Okay? You don't post this stuff.
You got to be controversial.
-NOAH: What? -You should say something like...
You should say something like, "Fridays are racist."
(laughter)
Okay, that's the most ridiculous thing.
Fridays are not racist.
Now we're talking about it.
See? It's engagement.
NOAH: No, Fridays are not racist.
-Say Fridays are racist? -Fridays are racist. Yes.
-This powers me. Yes. -NOAH: No, wait. Hey!
-Hey! Fridays are not ra... -Yes.
You can't just say a day of the week is racist.
-I need some racist engagement! -No.
This is not engagement. This is crazy.
-What are you talking about? -(breathing heavily)
That's what it's about, okay?
You got to go... got to go hard. Okay?
-Well, I don't even understand why my tweet is up there. -Oh.
I thought you were gonna do, like, social media in gen...
-What is social... -Yeah, okay, by the way,
what's up with this profile picture?
Okay? 'Cause...
you look like you're taking a shit at the Met Gala.
Okay, look, you got to do the squats.
Come on, learn to pose.
No, that was... It was a photo shoot,
and then they asked me to do that thing, and...
Yeah, this is a choice, okay? You chose to do this.
Okay? So rename your book, uh, Born a Fashion Crime.
NOAH: No, what? That... I-I think that...
That looks good. You know, Ronny,
-I thought we were friends, man. -Yeah.
-You're just gonna diss my tweets like that? -No,
we are friends.
That's why I'm gonna give you the opportunity
to retweet my new comedy special that's out.
If you could. Coming out.
-NOAH: Oh, so now... -Yeah.
NOAH: So now my tweets are worth something.
-Yeah. -Oh, now...
Yeah. Oh, by the way, uh, happy-happy Tuesday.
(laughter)
Don't forget to check out Ronny's new special, everybody.
All right, we got to take a quick break,
but don't go away, 'cause when we come back,
Roy Wood Jr. is gonna expose
the secret world of Black classical music.
You don't want to miss it.
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Welcome back to The Daily Show.
Classical music--
it's hip-hop for white people.
But it's actually more Black than you might think,
as Roy Wood Jr. explains in another edition of CP Time.
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Ooh.
Mmm.
Well, hello.
Welcome to CP Time,
the only show that's for the culture.
Today, we'll be discussing Black classical music.
Now, I know you might be thinking
that classical music is just for old white men
whose hair looks like they spent a day inside of a tornado.
But Black musicians have an often-overlooked history
of contributions in the classical music space.
Take our first musician, George Bridgetower.
Born in Britain in 1778,
George was a young musical prodigy,
driven into show business by his overbearing father.
The 18th century version of Joe Jackson.
"Boy, you better get back in there and learn that violin!"
Before George was ten years old,
he was performing for kings and princes all over Europe.
One concert was even attended by Thomas Jefferson.
It's rumored that Thomas Jefferson was so impressed
by the talents of this mixed-race baby
that he was heard saying,
"Maybe I should make one of these for myself."
Bridgetower was so famous
that Beethoven himself even wrote him a sonata,
which they performed together in 1803.
On the sheet music,
Beethoven wrote a dedication to George, which read--
and I quote--
"Mulatto sonata, composed for the mulatto Bridgetower,
great lunatic and mulatto composer."
Keep in mind, Beethoven was famous
for knowing how things sound.
Another Black classical musician is Sissieretta Jones,
a world-famous opera singer from Providence, Rhode Island.
Jones toured the world and even performed for then-president
Benjamin Harrison, who, like many presidents
from the 1800s, also worked part-time as a mall Santa.
Despite being unable to perform in fully-staged operas
because of segregation,
Jones was still too talented to ignore.
She became the very first African American woman
to headline a show at Carnegie Hall,
which actually reminds me of the old joke.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
You take the Q train to 57th Street.
(laughs)
It's funny because it's true.
Our next musician, Roland Hayes,
the first African American artist
to make a commercial recording,
and judging from these photos, the first Mr. Steal Your Girl.
Although Hayes always presented raw musical talent,
his career only began because of a workplace accident.
His clothes got caught in an assembly line belt,
and it dragged him through a machine three times,
nearly killing him.
And while he recovered at home in a full body cast,
it was then that Roland started taking singing seriously.
Hayes' career took off.
And at the peak of the 1920s,
he was the world's highest-paid singer,
reportedly making around $100,000 a year.
That's not very rich these days, but back then,
that made Roland basically Kanye and Drake.
Roland was also the first African American concert artist
to record his own record.
He hired orchestras, scored the music
and hired out Columbia Studios
and promoted himself
as the great Negro tenor.
He would even go through the phone book,
and if he found a name he liked,
he'd call that name and try to sell them tickets.
Which means if he didn't call you,
your name was boring.
Wasn't no Adam Joneses at those concerts.
At the ticket booth, there'd be people saying,
"Two tickets for Mephisto Bolognese, please."
So, the next time you think of classical music,
don't just think of Bach and Chopin.
Think of the iced-out players like Hayes.
Well, that's all the time we have for today.
This has been CP Time, and I'm Roy Wood Jr.
And remember, we're for the culture.
See if I can do a little bit
of what old Roland did here.
Pull a name out the phone book.
Hello?
Is this Charisse Dumont?
Yes, can you loan me $200?
♪ ♪
Thank you so much for that, Roy. Don't go away, people.
The Daily Show will be right back after this
-with Coach Staley. -(cheering and applause)
(cheering and applause)
welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is Basketball Hall of Fame player
and coach Dawn Staley.
She's here to talk about her legendary WNBA career
and making history as head coach
of the national champion
South Carolina women's basketball team.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Dawn Staley!
-♪ ♪ -(cheering and applause)
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Coach Staley, welcome to The Daily Show.
-Oh. Thanks for having me. This is pretty cool. -This is...
-This is pretty cool, right? Yeah, you know... -It is.
I mean, it's not as many people as you are normally in front of
when you're coaching, but we-we make do.
-We make do. You know? -Well, act-actually,
some-some teams only get this amount of people in the stands.
-Oh, wow. Oh. -Yeah, yeah.
We-we average about 12,000.
Oh, I mean, you got-- you got 12,000, so, I mean... (laughs)
Um, let's start with-with the-the most important part
of the interview-- congratulations, first of all.
-2022 champions. -Thank you. -(cheering and applause)
-Thank you. -Um...
I'd love to know, which victory is sweeter?
Because the first time is like, "Wow, we did it."
The second time is like, "You said we couldn't do it,
-but we did it." -Right.
I-I think the second time is sweeter.
Only because, the first time that we-- that we won,
we didn't play against UConn,
and UConn is considered,
you know, the very best.
Their tradition, their history and all of that.
So it wasn't really validated in 2017.
But this year, we got a chance to play them.
And, um... and it-it felt great beating them.
-I mean, seriously. Like... -(laughing) -(cheering)
How do you control your urge to be frustrated?
Because you are a gold medal winner.
You are a Hall of Famer.
You've done it at the highest level.
Like, surely there's a moment where you're like,
"Give me the ball. I'll show you what I'm telling you to do."
H-- Like, how do you not do that?
-Because... (stammers) -I-I actually do it.
-Oh, you do! Oh! (laughing) -Yeah. Yeah. (laughing)
(cheering and applause)
I mean, here's the thing. It's just like...
You know, I got a dog. Champ. His name is Champ. Right?
-Named after-- named after our 2017 team. -I mean, that's...
Um, so, Champ, I wasn't a dog--
-like I'm not really a dog person. -Mm-hmm.
I'm a Champ person.
So, yeah. So I...
I trained Champ.
Like, I tell him when something's good
and I give him, you know...
"Great. Good job.
Good job, my guy."
And then if he does something bad,
potty in the house,
"No. Don't potty in the house. No."
So you-you have to flow with what's happening.
Now he doesn't potty in the house.
He's made it to my bed.
Like, we get our best sleep when he's in the bed next to me.
Wow!
So it's the same-- I don't mean to--
I don't mean to just say, you know,
training people is like training my dog.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. But I understand.
-But... Yes. -Your mentality, though, is what you're saying.
-The way you have to approach what you're trying to do. -Yes.
I understand. It's... I don't think...
-Yeah. Right. -There are highs and lows. Like-like, if-if
one of our players-- if she does something
that's-that's terrible, I'm gonna say, "That's terrible.
Like, that's really terrible."
But if they... if they do something great,
I'm chest bumping, I'm pump fist...
I'm-I'm... I give it its emotion that's needed.
I love that. You know,
you don't just inspire your players, though.
You have become a motivational force
within the sport as a whole.
I mean, first of all, congratulations
-on the contract renewal. -Yeah.
Right? That's, like, one of the biggest deals ever.
-(applause and cheering) -And what I really
enjoyed about it is, you didn't just push for your contract.
You said, "I want this deal to be negotiated
"through my lawyers because I want to set a precedent
"so that female coaches earn the same as the male coaches
who also are kicking ass in the sport."
-And it was really amazing that you did that. -Yeah.
Because you looked beyond yourself. I want to know
why you felt it was that important to do the way...
'Cause some people just go, "I've got the money.
-Thank you very much." You said, "No." -Yeah.
"I want to make sure that everyone
in this position gets the money they deserve."
So, just to be clear, I was actually making a lot of money
before the contract. Right?
(laughter, applause)
But timing... timing is everything.
Like, I thought the time was right for me to ask for it.
One was, last year, at the NCAA Tournament,
um, we saw there was a lot of inequities, um,
-in the women's game, in the men's game. -Mm-hmm.
Like, we didn't get the same things.
Our student athletes didn't get the same things
-as the men's tournament student athletes got. -Right, right.
So, I'm out there on a national level.
I'm writing letters saying, "This has got to change," right?
So, I get home, and I'm just like,
"I'm out here nationally asking for things to change
"when they're not even... They're-they're worse here
-at our university." -Wow.
So I thought, um, with our success
that it was the best time to ask for it.
And it wasn't really for me.
It was more for, um, other coaches who-who just...
Equal pay is a law.
I think everybody knows that, right?
It's a law. Like, it's a law.
-(applause) -Um...
But... but it's not just for sports.
But other professions, like, you know, women...
Yes, I know exactly what you mean, yeah. Yeah.
Women have been fighting for this for the longest.
And, you know, if we do the same work,
and we're as successful,
I mean, what's-what's... what's the difference?
-Right, right. I love that. -Yeah.
I love that you pushed for that.
-Yeah. -(applause, cheering)
I love that you set a precedent in the sport,
and I love that you're doing your thing.
You know, people love your style on the court. They go like...
You'll put together outfits that people love, you know?
You know, I remember there's that letterman jacket
that you had, and you had, like, the Louis Vuittons.
And people were like, "This is the most stylish coach,
-and she's winning at the same time." -Yeah.
You-you advocate for other women in the industry.
And what I love is that you-you proudly advocate
for Black people to succeed within the sport.
You do something that's really special
with-with the net that I really love.
Everyone cuts that championship net,
and they've got it, but what you do with it is really special.
Tell... If you don't mind, would you share that with everyone?
I-I will. Well, in, um, in-in 2017,
um, the first Black coach
that won a national championship,
her name was Carolyn Peck.
Uh, probably two years before we won,
she gave me a piece of her 1999 championship net,
and she said, "I want you to hold this
"until you win your national championship,
and then I want you to return it."
-NOAH: Hmm. -STALEY: And then I was able to do that
two years later, which was 2017.
And then she said, "Now I want you to go find
the next coach that you give your piece of the net to."
And it took about two years for me to find the right coach.
And then, finally, I was...
I was actually just talking, talking with a reporter,
and he asked me who am I gonna give it to?
And I hadn't.
And I was like, "Okay, well, this is what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna give it to every Black female Division I coach."
Because they're looking at me
and-and dreaming of what I just accomplished
by winning the national championship.
And I-I bestowed that on them
just to give them a ray of hope.
Now, I don't think all of them
will win a national championship,
but the national championship is...
is, um, coaching
a first-generation college graduate.
-Right. -That's a... That's a national championship
in some people's eyes.
Or-or if they're having a hard day,
just touch that piece of nylon to give them the hope
and the push to get through a hard day.
-Right. -Um, now I...
-Remember what you're doing it for. Yeah. -Yeah.
Yeah. Now, though, we won another national championship,
so what I've promised is to give it to Black men,
because their instinct in our... in our sport,
and also Black journalists, because we need...
we need Black journalists in the room
to-to give a different perspective.
-Wow. -Doesn't mean it's right or wrong.
It's just a different perspective
-where we can grow. -I love that.
-That's why you're the coach. -(cheering and applause)
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
-Thank you. -Congratulations on all your success.
Wow. All right, people.
Be sure to follow the Gamecocks and check out Dawn's podcast,
Netlife with Dawn Staley.
We're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
-(cheering and applause) -Thank you again.
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Now, here it is, Your Moment of Zen.
It's strange for me when they say, like,
"Oh, well, like, how could you do comedy
in this tragic situation?"
Well, it's because comedy and tragedy
are just very strange roommates.
They're very uncomfortable roommates.
They live together
and, uh, don't always get along.
There's no reason for the two of them
to be living together, but they just do.
And so if there's tragedy,
it will be followed by comedy.
It always will be.