and richard antoine white. this is "the daily show" with trevor noah! >> trevor: hey! what's going on, everybody? welcome to "the daily show." i'm trevor noah. let's jump straight into today's headlines. we kick things off with the devillic party. they fight just as much as the real housewives of atlanta, only they get less done. for months now president biden has been trying to pass a major spending bill that includes every single priority for the democrats, funding childcare, tackling climate change, organizationing a search party to find kamala harris, but the bill is being blocked by two senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, and tensions are getting high. >> frustration on capitol hill as lawmakers can't dom to a teal on president biden's overall spending plan. house speaker pelosi delayed a vote saying not enough support, threes two democrats oppose the plan. they at a $3.5 trillion is too costly. protesters arrive by kayaks and small boats at manchin's house in d.c. to voice opposition. >> someone followed kyrsten sinema into a restroom to tell them they oppo

my guest tonight is a professional tuba player, richard antoine white.w memoir, "i'm possible," and how the tuba helped him go from the streets of baltimore to the classical concert halls. welcome to the show. >> pleasure to be here. thanks for having me. >> trevor: this is one to of the strangest stories of overcoming i've read, in a really beautiful way. your resume is truly impressive. you have a doctorate in music, specifically for playing the tuba, correct? >> correct. >> trevor: and you are the principal tubist for the new mexico philharmonic and it did new york symphony. >> correct. >> trevor: how good do you have to get at playing a tuba to be a doctor of tuba. >> well, to put everything thing in perspective, at an audition today, l.a. phil was having an audition, over 200, 250 applicants, only one will win the job. it's easier to get an m.b.a. than win app job as a tubeist. >> you started off in new york and hard living with a mom who struggled with alcoholism. when this was going on in your life, how did richard keep going? there was a point yo

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brown: richard antoine white is a classical musician.he new mexico philharmonic. and if he hasn't yet brought beat-boxing to the tradition, he has brought an inspiring personal story. >> if you look at my life, my entire life, it was a long st for me to be successful. against all odds, i am possible, taking the word "impossible" and turning it into "i am possible." >> brown: and that's what he's titled his new memoir, "i'm possible: a story of survival, a tuba, and the small miracle of a big dream." the six-foot, five-inch, 330-pound white weighed just over a pound when he was born to a teenage mother who battled alcoholism. as captured in a 2019 documentary, his earliest years were spent homeless on baltimore's tough west side, every day a struggle to survive. >> my routine was look in the gutter, try to find some coins, figure out how i was going to get some chicken gizzards or chicken wings for the day, and then off to find my mom, if we weren't together. that was my normal. >> brown: and figure out where to sleep? >> where to sleep,