The Daily Show: Ears Edition

You should give them JL Collins book, The Simple Path to Wealth, and one of the addendums should be turn off any program that I'm on besides Shark Tank.

And I'm fighting every day to make sure that every kid has a place in America.

And the title of the book, Put Your Shoes On and Get Ready, is something my dad told me every morning.

And it's something I passed on to my children. For me it represents preparation but also a sense of purpose.

And the recognition that all of us have a place, I believe, in the world. We've got gifts and things we're supposed to do.

So I don't know if my book would be banned or not. But but I'll tell you, as a dad, I was trying to figure out how to talk to my kids about what I know they will encounter.

The title of the book, Put Your Shoes On and Get Ready, is something my dad told me every morning.

For me, it represents preparation but also a sense of purpose. And the recognition that all of us have a place, I believe, in the world.

I deal with the issue of race in this book, so I don't know if my book would be banned or not.

And so he had to give up his seat. That's a part of the American story.

Black history is the American story. And that's why I wrote this book.

It's important that young people have the tools.

So creating a text like How to Be a Young Anti-Racist, we're giving them information where they're learning these definitions, they're learning what racism actually is.

I'll be a young anti-racist and the Young Anti-Racist World Book are available now.

So the whole purpose of a book like How to Be a Young Anti-Racist is to give young people terms that we can all agree on, that way we know what we're standing against.

Creating a text like How to Be a Young Anti-Racist, we're giving them information where they're learning these definitions, they're learning what racism actually is.

my own version of the story, my first draft of history, if you will, hasn't been, you know, talked about as much.

my story, my coming of age story, really, you know, for just trying to tell the story of how I became who I am today, has been kind of left out of the picture.

I wanted another person like me to feel as informed as I did, finally, about the true reality. I mean, that's why I call it README.txt because that is the document.

I knew this information. I worked with it every day.

And I think it's also important to remember that the consequences for this weren't clear.

I think that it's the fact that my own version of the story, my first draft of history if you will, hasn't been talked about as much.

But I feel like my story, my coming of age story really, you know, for trying to tell the story of how I became who I am today has been kind of left out of the picture. And so I wanted to tell that story.

I wanted another person like me to feel as informed as I did finally about this true reality.

I feel like at least if the public is informed then at least like having a conversation with your doctor you have informed consent.

I didn't think of it like that. I thought you know this this despite my background. Yeah. Everything else. It was just it was just so clear to me. Like it was just it was crystal clear that something had to be done.

I love that. 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-

It's a cookbook? I like that, okay? You know what I'm saying? $10 million worth of game in there, baby. I like that, okay?

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.

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?

Black Power Kitchen is available for pre-order, everybody. Make sure you get it.

They're here to talk about their new book, Black Power Kitchen, which comes out on October 25th and is available for preorder right now.

It's a crook book?

Ten million dollars worth of game in there, baby.

It's really about nourishing the mind, body, and the soul.

Black Power Kitchen is available for pre-order, everybody, make sure you get it.

Well, you kind of got it because it's supposed to have multiple meanings. There's two overarching themes in the book. One is how art is very healing and for me art was always doing theater. And in theater you make scenes in a play.

And the other theme is sort of about what it means when somebody makes a scene and how growing up I sort of felt that it was un-ladylike to make scenes and how that repression was something that I've been struggling with my whole life as a naturally extroverted emotional person.

And I felt like by putting it in a scene format it sort of took you out of the book in a way that made the experience more objective. So if I'm talking about somebody putting his hand on my crotch, I could talk about how that felt to me. I could just explain the action and everybody will have their own response to it.

But I do feel that if I am asking for people to look at my life and my mistakes with curiosity and empathy rather than judgment, I feel like I want to do the same for other people.

And I think discomfort is often where you find growth.

Why am I so red? No, Making a Scene.

Well, you kind of got it because it's supposed to have multiple meanings.

There's two overarching themes in the book. One is how art is very healing and for me art was always doing theater and in theater you make scenes in a play.

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up the book, you know, because when you read somebody's memoir you have an idea of who they are and then you have an idea of what you think their memoir will be.

I actually really did pull myself over a balcony ledge so it was very close and I'm very lucky that I had a friend there to help me.

Absolutely. That's why the character I played is named Supreme. That's why I wanted to play him as honest as possible.

And Supreme comes across to someone that tells you straight up and down, yes, you can still be an artist, but you can compromise as well so we can get this money.

Which is basically what it is at the end of the day so we can get a better life, get your mother a better life. This, that and the third.

It's not exactly dangling a carrot in front of her. It's just saying I can make you better than what you are. Right or wrong.

And she walked us through it a lot. I mean, we were prepared to the point of being so prepared that our lead actress, Jamila C. Gray, who did a great job. Phenomenal. She had very little time to film the battle because you know how budgets are and things of that nature.

I had to redefine what Tough was in my life.

I was filled with rage. I mean, I used to snap on people.

I knew I needed to get strong because one day I would have to kill my father.

I beat him from downstairs all the way up to his room. He's bleeding. He's screaming. And I all I could think about is this is revenge.

I don't want white supremacy the same way I don't want black supremacy. I want us to all be equal as people.

I had to redefine what Tough was in my life.

As a kid, first of all, I was filled with rage.

And at five years old, I grew up watching my father knock my mother out on the regular.

I was filled with rage. And I mean, I used to snap on people.

First of all, it was 2017 and I'd already been through seven years of therapy. My wife left me in 2010. First of all, I had an addiction to pornography. I had anger. I had all kinds of stuff.

Yeah, I mean, my dad definitely helped me with the planning.

But we had...Yeah, I met P. Guistri, my idol when I was nine. Came home and I was like, this is it. This is what I want to do. And I was like, okay, let's make a plan. We printed out calendars. We had highlighters. It was like a whole thing.

So when you're nine, you have to like build up a point profile. You know, certain requirements that you have to make in order to kind of make the progression to even get to the US ski team and then to the Olympics.

So my dad was a racer when he was growing up. Right, right, right. He was a junior racer. So he knew kind of all the levels that I needed to get. And, you know, obviously I had to start expanding my repertoire because I was from Minnesota.

Skiing was like the most simple thing in my life, the easiest thing. Everything else was hard and skiing was like my sanctuary.

My guest tonight is Olympic gold medalist and the most decorated female skier of all time, Lindsey Vonn. She's here to talk about her new memoir about her record-breaking skiing career and her new journey as an entrepreneur.

I also didn't know, and this was really cool to read in the book, you're an interesting human being in that you talk about how hard life was for you in some instances.

Lindsay Bond, congratulations on writing an amazing book. It's really fun. It's a really inspiring story.

All right, people. Lindsay's memoir, Rise, is available wherever books are sold.

I think the biggest change was after the urban uprisings of the 60s when the Kerner Commission, which was a commission that was named by the president, said the media had in many ways contributed to the fact that the urban riots occurred.

And that was because they had not integrated their reporting and the editing staffs. And in many ways they said they were just showing us America only through white eyes.

there's one of the, I mean, just the most harrowing passages where they had a policy of not reporting when black people were murdered. One editor even called those cheap deaths that shouldn't be reported.

So it felt like I was almost part of the freedom movement by going and becoming the first African-American woman at The Washington Post.

It was very difficult when the president started talking about fake news. It was very difficult because those of us who came up in the legacy media, we knew about all of the issues of ethics that we had to adhere to in order to be hired by the Washington Post and in order to work there.

I would recommend the Book of Mormon for you. I think that might...

My guest tonight is considered one of the leading stewards of stoic philosophy. He's behind The Daily Stoic, Stillness is the Key, The Obstacle Is the Way, and much more. Please welcome Ryan Holiday.

In one passage in Meditations, Marcus Aurelius is like, when you're struggling to get out of bed in the morning, and you go, but it's so much warmer here under the covers. He goes, but is this what you were put here to do? To stay under the covers and be warm?

Die Dinge, die mich am meisten beeindrucken, sind Bcher, die mein Leben verndert haben. Einer davon war der Alchemist. Ich wrde gerne glauben, dass ich den Hood-Alchemist geschrieben habe.

You mentioned the Bible. You've been talking about how it's your favorite book.

I wouldn't want to get into it, because to me, that's very personal. You know, when I talk about the Bible, it's very personal. So I don't want to get into this.

The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.

An Old Testament guy or New Testament? Probably equal.

But at the same time, one of the Ten Commandments is thou shalt not be a bitch ass.

I'm going to get you a book called Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. It's a great read. You should read it.

Is it the red covered book?

It's a red cover and a green cover. If I'm not mistaken.