in the cancel culture now and the only person that can say what they want to say on stage as dave chappelle. "that's interesting. douglas. >> douglas: it is interesting. i'm sad to hear this by the way, i think society needs more comedians to stand up. and i'll tell you why, traditionally in our culture, comedians are very often the people who tell the truth and they are unpleasant, awkward and tricky things, things that we are uncomfortable about and comedy makes us able to deal with them. and a very often the adjuster was the person who is able to tell the truth. lots of issues that people get canceled for, and it look at joe grogan, joe grogan started off at the comedian, he still does stand up, he speaks for more people than any other representative of america because we allow comedians to say things. i've always said, the comedians cannot step down and cannot get fearful. they should be the last people to pure cancellation. >> harris: i do believe him though, douglas. i believe if he gets canceled or it kills that particular part of his television career. emily, this was not a comedian

you're opening for dave chappelle, one of the blackest men in america. not because of his brown skin tone. not because of the shade of his skin. but by virtue of the ideals he promotes, the ideals with which he wrestles, and the ways in which he gets it right or some would say wrong -- >> and his life experiences. >> and life experiences. and the way in which he channels those. so joe rogan, you're opening up for a guy who is redefining for many people blackness in the last 15 years and yet you're claiming not to know what blackness is. yeah, i think that's a deliberate willful ignorance and it's the unintentional hilarity of a certain kind of whiteness that refuses to own up to what it is because if he refuses to acknowledge my blackness he doesn't have to confront his whiteness. the moment he acknowledges that i am a black man he has to confront the fact that he is a white man. and in order to deflect that and to defer that and to defend his whiteness he would rather disappear it. as gore vidal said, we live in the united states of amnesia. and my brot

day she wrote, it had entropy on a also in the designated transfer back seating area. comedian dave chappelle, who made the cardinal era of coming to the defense of a cultural pariah. big no, no. the cancel chicky rolling. my god, effectually, she said gender was a fact. the trends community got mad as they started calling her turf. i'm to turf . gender was a fact. the people who had walked on has netflix special was so furious. they staged a walk out. but taking a leaf out of rawlings book, chappelle decided to increase his new status. if this is what being canceled is about, i love it. also turns out that not even having royal status exempt you from getting the chop, not the guillotine type of chop at the next best thing, taking down a portrait of queen elizabeth the 2nd one of y'all to the colleges, which makin must secretly have been quite happy about the on that one, the jury still up because i will. i mean, it is the queen. it's a, an emotional reaction rather than a logical picture is, should be out there. it's her 70th year on the throne next year. it's not a volunteer protest. it's a

dave chappelle's comments about trans people, which sparked an outcry, even as some came to his defensee a mistake. >> worst club meeting. the qanon crowd that gathered in texas expecting the return of john kennedy and john kennedy jr. >> a lot of this stuff boils down to loneliness and there's a warm feeling if you think you understand something and have insight into something that nobody else understands. >> most popular baby names. olivia and liam. >> i'm sure it's after olivia dehaviland. i guess lian neeson. >> here is the path of the dark side. >> the word of the year was vaccine. our number of the year is 332 million. that's about the u.s. population and it's growing with a death every 11 seconds, but a birth every nine seconds. the worst eight, the eight hours an average american kid now spends in front of a screen each day. that's double what it was before the pandemic and worst number for many americans trying to stay fit? 39. that's the percentage who gained weight amid all the covid limitations and irritations, too. >> angry. frustrated. stuck in the house. mad. disgruntled.

sometimes meant to throw you away and force you to deal with issues that are extremely powerful ally dave chappelle so the point is is that black art is always walking that fine that fine line between its artistic imperative to represent the broad range of its truth and the recognition that politics are constantly infused in their particular practice. so yeah, it's it's a heck of a combination. a heck of a balancing act and you know hip-hop is a challenging forum just like amiri baraka. that's one mf or a gd or some of the curse word. what's more i've seen the curse words being used of the cursed ways in which young black kids have to grow up in cultures that tend to distort their identities or see them as older when they're younger therefore to treat them more dismissively and hold them to account as adults when their children growing up. so these are the forces and factors at play and i was fortunate and privileged and blessed to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of amiri baraka one of the great artists of the 20th century the black arts movement a playwright. yes, you know a an essayist a novelist

look, i met joe rogan and spoke to him after a concert by dave chappelle.. >> i hope he has you on to talk about it because i think you'd be great. >> i mean, i'd love to have -- be on joe rogan's show but i don't think -- look, he wants to talk behind my ear. he doesn't want to talk to i m face. because you know, i'd have to challenge some of that stuff. but i'd love to engage him and would love to talk about it and hopefully educate himself, our audiences, myself, and the whole of us as we try to grapple with what it means to be black and to have race in an american society. >> dr. dyson, thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> more news from spotify tonight. they are sticking with joe rogan's podcast and removing neil young's music from their streaming platform. last night i told you about young's ultimatum to spotify that it can have his music or rogan on but not both. citing rogan's rampant covid misinformation on his podcast. well, the "wall street journal" is reporting that the rock and roll icon is not backing down after discussions with spotify. so the s

jussie smollett, obviously mocked by dave chappelle is the mad frenchman juicy smilier. so on turned out simply not to be true. so the topic of both these books i think which we'll get into is that a lot of things that we're all expected to believe aren't real. and so the question is why we're expected to believe them and there are there are many people that object to this sort of line of inquiry taking place. i think. so that that's it for me. oh, i'm i am an associate professor at kentucky state university here in frankfort quick drive over from lexington glad to be here. thank you will and michael. can you briefly tell us about your book thought criminal and how it's prepared for you to talk about this discussion. sure. yes. i'm michael rutkin walton and -- criminal is my 11th book. i was a professor full professor at nyu in global liberal studies and um, i was basically a leftist a marxist and then the social justice excesses in the university started to alarm me and i saw the sort of totalitarian of what they represented. and i started to speak out against it on twi

. >>> backlash from a dave chappelle comedy on publix.g the service from its index. they did not include netflix due to the controversy. since 2017, netflix never scored below 100% for the same index. following the initial backlash, from a few cop workers, the ceo of netflix said while some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn't directly translate to real-world harm. >> a lot of conversations on social media as the classic disney character gets a makeover. mini house is dropping her traditional red and polka dot dress or a navy blue pants suit. the new look was designed by stella mccartney for disneyland paris. not everyone is a fan of the new updated look and experts think they know why. >> sometimes people are just reacting to a change this they don't like. mickey mouse always should look like mickey mouse. there are some things that become almost sacred in the minds of consumers. so if you try and change them, they're going to get really bothered by that. >> she's a modern mouse. well, this comes fol

i'm thinking dave chappelle with netflix, now joe rogan with spotify.aybe the need to have certain winners, who control their own narrative, can be at odds with the desire to be hands off over all. do you think that's an issue that investors need to factor in down the road? >> i'm not so sure you know, usually those franchises, whether it's films or individual end up helping gross editions what ends up being far more dec december posty for equity is churn rates. you can see a little impact on the gross editions moderate sort of the growth but really churn is far more important. and i would say at the valuations but a lot of these companies are trading at now, there isn't a lot of growth embedded in these names. growth expectations i should say. >> right and that's -- prior to the netflix brand which was difficult as we all know, there was a growing sense that trading on sub numbers, user metrics, churn, is increasingly difficult and it should be more about margins and pricing which is a different way of thinking about these names. are you going that dir

learned is that saget had such a wide ranging group of friends, including fellow comedians like dave chappellehose friends have referred to saget as a brother, which is a testament how cherished he was to so many. autopsy results are months away, but authorities say they have found no signs of foul play or drug use >> seems like he was so beloved, so many people across the country. >> his circle of friends, that is a testament to his life. >>> we have the news covered, hoda is not here this morning, but she has authorized me to try and give you a boost here, so baby girl, not quite two months old, surprises her parents by saying her very first words. they weren't just any words either, take a listen. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> isn't that cute >> i love you. >> i love you.h. the words i love you said to her about a hundred thousand times already, so it was just natural that she would -- >> those sounds, that is really sweet, really sweet, baby genius there. >>> up next, the overwhelming show of support for tennis legend chris evert after revealing her cancer diagnosis, and why she hopes h

downplaying the idea this will ultimately hurt spotify and it maybe could be like a netflix with the dave chappelleoversy, where it sort of died down and there were no consequences but matt, is there any one that could change that, like if taylor swift, for instance, came out and spoke out against spotify or decided to pull her album, hypothetically, is there something you think this is going to be a bigger problem for this company >> i think these artists are certainly progressive, but they're also rapacious people need to be on spotify people can make statements you may remember tidal, which is now majority controlled by the company formerly known as square, really raised a fracas in 2015, 2016. jay-z involved in all that on the artist compensation. that dies down, they had a couple million global members at this point and i think i just don't think that apple and amazon, despite their advantages, are nearly as attentive to spotify, to the music aspect of the -- to music as spotify is. i think it benefits from its singular focus relative to the hyperscale tech companies. clearly, all three -- mor

politically center right look at the way minimum able was put into dym jail trying to castle dave chappelleme the world in their own viewpoint. maria: i mean when and how did these people come to this decision, that theroux arbiters of truth they are hawks so many people he will in these companies worked in he obama administration. >> you are exactly right with that as welcome i think also to keep in mind twitter, for example, allows you taliban, hamas ayatollah on platform kick off dr. robert malone marjorie taylor greene or president trump, nobody voted for zuckerberg or dorsey or any oligarchs in executive order i think part of the reason you've seen 40% drop in their stock, over the past six months, coincidentally we happened to launch six months ago people saying why lawing tech titans in simi valley to determine free speech rights if you think frustrating to us as americans, imagine if you are living in brazil uk or japan why are folks in california, dictating our free speech rights. >> by the way, a word on dr. robert malone, because important that we recognize, what happened here, h

you remember a few months ago they had the huge dave chappelle scandal, which shows you can face thiss. but it shows invests can move on quickly if the talent and platform can come to a resolve it seems like they came to a resolve yesterday. joe rogan is not upset they're going to be adding labels to his conversation he even doubled down and said i'll even talk to experts. spotify handled it well. the problem is the advance point, if you have one artist, taylor swift or drake, the economics change so far there's no concern that that's going to happen i think they'll hold that off for a while. but if joe says something and it violates the rules, they're going to fall into this slippery slope. stock is down 30% to this date investors do not like to see that. >> sara, two points. one, it's a smart point becky made the stock is down and some of it may be this, but also the nasdaq has been down as you know throughout the year -- thus far this year as well. i wanted to ask about washington thus far regulators have not focused on audio they focused on all sorts of things, but audio has not b

are in the cancel culture now, the only person that can say what they want to say onstage is dave chappelleous? i don't want to work with him no more. why is he here? why are you here? what is wrong with you? you are mentally imbalanced. it broke -- you know -- you know how hard it is to get those? >> that was new year's 2020 when he smashed a lego statue of steve live on fox. those are your headlines, your favorite tv moment spirit >> he loved that post. did you see how movie was. he did not read the moment. i'm going to smash it. i don't care. i just thought -- what is wrong with you? i think he was going to punch him. >> do you see the look on his face? that is real. at that to me is the best moment in the history may be of television but certainly a new year's eve. let me get this straight. you have been on television for over 20 years. you say that is better than anything you have ever done on television. >> for sure. as a viewer, i just thought that is great. that is just somebody who does not understand robert gronkowski who hosted the nfl awards. he understands football players. i t