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You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalist at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Kosta. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. We have a great show for you tonight, The Supreme Court, Custody Blocks Democracy, Republicans Scramble Over eggs, and Dulcey Sloan creates a brand new holiday. Let's get into the headlines. Let's begin with a debate over in vitro fertilization. Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court, through the future of IVF, into doubt by ruling that frozen embryos that are less than a 10th of a millimeter, by the way, are legally humans. I'm sorry, but if you could pass through a spaghetti strainer, you're not human. Now, Republicans who've spent years and years insisting that every embryo is touched by God or suddenly saying, We didn't mean in a way that makes us unpopular.

All the GOP's top brass are now trying to scramble to get on the side of supporting IVF.

The Republican Senate campaign arm jumped on the issue by sending out this memo on Friday, urging that, It is imperative that our candidates align with the public's overwhelming support for IVF and fertility treatments. House Speaker Mike Johnson also came out in support of IVF treatment and called it a blessing for many moms and dads who have struggled with fertility. Ivf is something that is so critical to a lot of couples.

It helps them breed great families.

Our country needs that. Okay, that's That's too far in the other direction. Did this guy just say, Breed great families? Are you trying to run a country or get us into the Westminster dog show?

This guy must really clean up at the nightclub.

He's like, Oh, girl, look, you got those straight teeth and detached earlobes. I want to genetically pass that onto my litter. But you know what? Better late than never. So now that Republicans are on board with IVF, I'm sure a little jump at the opportunity to pass a law to protect it. A Republican senator has blocked the passage of a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization nationwide. Senator Sydney Hyde-Smith of Mississippi objected to the measure's approval yesterday.

The bill before us today is a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far, far beyond ensuring legal access to IVF. It would legalize human cloning. It would legalize legalize gene-edited designer babies and lift the federal ban on the creation of three parent embryos. It will legalize the creation of human-animal chimeras.

First of all, chimeras? I don't know how to pronounce that word, but I know it's not that. Secondly, you're not going to protect IVF because you're worried that someone might put a human head on a giraffe's Body? Why on earth would you want to stop that? That sounds awesome. I can be eating a tree right now. Republicans are treating IVF the way I treat reading books. I'm always like, Oh, I'm going to read so many books this year. I love reading, but when it actually comes time to read, I'm like, Not for me. To be clear, none of this stuff that that center was warning us about is real. They're just looking for excuses to ban IVF, which to me is crazy. Why would you want to criminalize one of the only times you can masturbate for a good cause? Trust me, I've tried jacking it for leukemia, and people were not happy. Let's move on. I don't know about you guys, but I eat food. Do you eat food? I knew you ate food. But when I'm at the grocery store, I can never figure out which foods are actually healthy. This one is low fat but high in sodium.

This one has vitamin C, but also polymonofibers. Now I'm staring at ingredient labels until the store closes. I'm trapped inside. My wife finds a new husband to breed with. It's a mess. But luckily, the FDA is coming to the rescue. The FDA potentially rolling out a new logo as soon as this year. For companies to stamp on food packaging, they say it would clear any confusion on what products actually should be considered good for you. Right now, only 3% of foods are currently allowed to claim their food as healthy. Wait, what? Just 3% of foods qualify as healthy? God, please hope that fruit rollups are in that 3%, God, please hope that fruit rollups are in that 3%, God, please hope that fruit rollups are in that 3%, but yeah, the FDA is going to make a logo to help people choose healthy foods, which good luck with that. This is America. It's a victory if we can get people to unwrap things before eating them. But I believe we do need a logo identifying healthy foods. I just don't think it should be one of these boring ass options. Am I trying to have breakfast cereal or do tax prep?

If you want people to eat healthy foods, you got to make the logo look cool, like Jordan holding broccoli. Finally, let's talk about a major update in the ongoing battle between Donald Trump and karma. He's on trial right now for trying to overthrow the government, a pretty big faux pas. But recently, Secondly, his lawyers threw out a fail Mary legal claim that says he's immune from being charged for anything he did while President. Now, his buddies on the Supreme Court are saying, Maybe.

This morning, the US Supreme Court handing Donald will Trump the gift of time.

The justice is agreeing to decide whether the Republican front runner should be immune from federal charges because his attempts to reverse the 2020 election happened while he was still in office. We will never give up. We will never concede. In a one-page order, the high court saying it will hear arguments in the case the week of April 22nd. But with no firm date for its final ruling, the prospect of a federal criminal trial being completed before the November election becoming increasingly unrealistic. Legally speaking, his strategy has long been to delay, delay, delay. Here he gets help in doing that from the highest court in the land, and there's nothing anybody can do to stop it. I cannot believe this. This dude, he's slipping out of everything. Is he some human earl chimera? He started his campaign with four different cases against him, and he's going to run out the clock on all of them. There's the stolen documents case. He got a Trump friendly judge. The Georgia case has been completely sidetracked by two of the prosecutors f-ing each other. Now, the January sixth case is getting delayed due to a legal theory that nobody thinks is legit, except for maybe the judges he hired.

The only case that might be finished before the election is the Stormy Daniels case. Based on the way things are going, I bet that judge is going to get stuck in a Venus fly trap or something. I don't know. You think with so many cases against him, one of them would stick, but he's actually using that to his advantage, saying he needs to delay the cases so he has time to prepare for the other ones. It's like when Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting attacked by two guys and he bonks their heads together and they're both out for the rest of the movie. For more on the Supreme Court, Delay, we go live to Washington, DC, with our very own Desi Lydek. Dezzy. Dezzy. Election Day isn't that far off. How soon do you think the Supreme Court could rule on this?

Well, Michael, that depends. When is election day?

November fifth.

They'll rule on November sixth.

So this is purely political?

No, it only looks entirely that way. But you have to remember how complicated this issue is. The justices have a very difficult legal question to answer. Can the President break the law anytime he wants? Hard to say. Hard to say. Constitutionally speaking, can he burn down the White House for insurance money? Can he set a bomb on a bus that'll detonate if the bus goes below 50 miles per hour? Can he stick his penis in a barrel of warm coffee beans at Whole Foods? These are That's not easy questions to answer.

Yeah, aren't they, though? I mean, to me, all these cases seem pretty open and shut.

Okay. Did you go to Harvard law school?

No.

Well, I did, to use their bathroom once. And because I have that legal background, I understand that these things take time. They're going to need two weeks to read briefs, another two to debrief. Then you need a silent retreat from the briefs. You debrief. It's lots of stretching and hydrating. Then it's July, which, of course, is French American Heritage Month. That is very sacred to Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

I think he's Irish. Here's the thing. There has to be some way to get this decided before the election. Can't they work around the clock? Democracy is hanging in the balance.

Okay, but what about the other balance?

Work-life balance.

The grind culture is killing all of us. I mean, look at me. One minute I'm reporting from the Middle East, and the next, I'm flying to DC to stand here in front of this very real Supreme Court. I'm exhausted, and that's all on top of my cardiology practice.

You're a doctor?

I used a lot of med school bathrooms, yes. Look, the point is the justices are human beings like the rest of us with full lives. They need time for things like being with their families, traveling in their Winnebago, keeping Donald Trump out of prison, playing golf.

Wait, what was the last thing you said?

Golf. They love golf.

Okay, legal expert, Desi Lydek, everyone. Did she say... When we come back, Dulce Strong will be joining me at the desk. Don't go away. Keeping Donald Trump.

Mtv's official Challenge podcast is back for another season.

That's right. The challenge is back, and so are we.

I'm Devon Simone. And I'm Devon Rogers. Now, you all know we had so much fun covering the Challenge USA one together that we thought, why not do it again? So we are joining forces to dive into this brand new season.

Season 39, battle for a new champion.

Yes. Yes. 24 contenders will compete to win their first championship. They know the battle, but and not the victory.

Oh, thank God. I am ready for a new champion, a new one. Okay, give us some fresh faces, people.

Girl, I couldn't agree more. So every week after the episode airs, come hang with us as we break down all the challenges and eliminations, and of course, get the inside scoop on all the drama.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show. Today is the last day of Black History Month, so to get her thoughts, we turn to an actual Black expert, Dulcey Sloan.

Hello, friends. Today is February 29th, which is Leep Day and Black Women's History Day. And if you don't know that, it's because I just made it up. Why? Because the rest of February is taken. Dr. King gets two weeks, the presidents get a three-day weekend, and they even give a day to a groundhog. What the hell is a groundhog? Is that even a real animal? Are we sure? Is it just a big Yes, guinea pig with a good publicist? So I'm claiming February 29th for us. Yay. While Why only one day every four years? Because you account for the wage gap and your mom and them. The math works out, okay? Trust me, I carry the four and everything. But the day is almost over, so let's celebrate some black women as fast as we can. Okay, throw a clock on the screen. Wait, no. That looks like a shot clock. Is it the NBA? No. Make it historical. Is that a cuckoo clock? Are you trying to say black women are crazy?

The nerve, the unmitigated goal. Okay, just put up any clock. Hey, sis.

Okay, I like her. She's black, and she looks like she don't take no shit from nobody. Okay, let's celebrate some black women. Start the clock. Okay. Shirley Chisholm. Incredible congresswoman, chiseling her way into history by being the first black woman to run for President for a major party in 1972. She spent 14 years in Congress representing Brooklyn. I mean, Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Spike Lee, Brooklyn. Not Lena Dunham, Brooklyn. If you thought Biggie had a tough time making money, imagine going door to door in bedside, asking for campaign contributions. Donations, raise money. Donations, raise money. You all was off beat. It's all right. Listen. Next. Dr. Shirley Jackson. Another Shirley. The first black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT. She helped innovate touch tone phones, portable fax machines, and collar ID. She's the only reason long-distance relationships work. So every time you use your phone, pour a little WiFi out for your girl Shirley. Next up, Missy Elliott. For proving that black women can make a hit song while singing forwards and backwards. It's your fun of whipping you an idiot. Is that how you say that? Missy, we salute you. You salute we, Missy. See, that's backwards, okay?

Look at your girl, all right? I'm doing it. Next. Okay, we got to see in the White House, yes, Ms. Kamala Harris, first female VP and one bad bike ride away from being President. Listen, I'm just saying, if Huffy Bikes really wanted a female President, loosen some chains at the factory.

You all could make history. Help us just out.

Come on. Next. Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space in 1992. What took so long? And that makes sense because in the '90s, black people were doing whatever they could to get the farthest away from the LAPD. So you saying I could go to outer space while these cops stay on Earth? Oh, I'm going to take it. I'm going to take it. Come on, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go. And the most amazing thing is that she came back. That's never a guarantee, but, girl, why? There's a black woman on Family Matters that went upstairs and never came back down again. Next. Lisa Leslie. A basketball legend who was the first woman to dunk in the NBA. That's right. She could dunk, which is way more impressive because when women do it, we do it with titties. Slows you down. She changed the game. Like me, every time I play Uno with my five-year-old nephew, draw four, draw 17, Uno, high. In your face, Declan. Next. Hey, it's my mommy. Hey, everybody, look at my mama. She's out there every day, giving, serving, loving, and I mean, literally mothering me. Literally mothering.

And she made me. You're welcome. You know what? That's not bad. I'm surprised I was able to cover that many people.

That's okay. We can celebrate even more black women in 2028.

There's not going to be an Earth then.

It's not going to be a dual-size Sloan, everybody. When we come back, Rex Chapman will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. I was great. Survive for 46 is here, and so is On Fire, the only official survivor podcast, and we have a twist this season. The winner of survivor45, Dee Viadoras, will be joining us every week. We're going behind the scenes of the biggest moments, the how and the why things happen, and the strategy and analysis you can only get from someone like me, a survivor winner. Listen to On Fire, the official survivor podcast on Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is a University of Kentucky basketball legend and an NBA shooting star who has written a memoir called It's Hard for Me to Live with Me. Please welcome Rex Chapman.

Thank you. Good job, buddy. You're cool. Thank you for having me. All right. All right. All right.

This book, you lay it out. I know you from basketball. Some people know you from social media. You have a podcast. In this book, you talk about your addiction, your recovery. How difficult was it for you to write that?

People have been telling me I should write a book for a long time. I never really understood why. Then Seth Davis, the author who co-wrote the book with me. I've known Seth a long time. He called me up. I had a level of comfort that I don't know that I had with a lot of other people. We We started the process. We started it probably... I told somebody today, I think it was two years ago. It was four years ago because about a year in, Seth said, Hey, man, I've got another project that's time-sensitive. Do you mind? I said, No, I don't like talking about this anyway, so take all the time you want. I said, Sure. What is it? He said, Well, it's Sister Jean, who's 104 years old. I laughed. I said, That's the sweetest thing ever that you think I might outlive Sister Jean. Anyway, there we go.

Man, I resonated with so much of this. You're incredibly honest. One of the things that jumped out at me was you broke the rules and oftentimes the law a lot before the big bottom. I mean, there was cheating in school. There was cheating on your girlfriend. That's not against the law. No, right? There was driving with a suspended license. There was breaking tons of curfews. I mean, every single time- Rule breaker. Rule breaker. But then it really seemed like it all crashed in 2014 when you get arrested for stealing from an Apple store. Is that right? No, not you. Okay. But I mean, By the way, I didn't just bring you out here to tell you all the shit you did.

Got you. Got you.

Yeah. I'm asking a question that I should probably get to it. The perks of being an athlete and being a successful athlete, is that what allowed you to- I think so.

Just I'm talking about it in the green room, really, with Larry Hughes, my Simon & Schuster guy. My last two years of high school, I have dyslexia, and I didn't know any of that, though. I just knew higher math and science and all that stuff. I would check out How are you guys getting this? This is not easy. Then I'm being told it's common sense. I quit. I'm not going to be a math teacher. Why do I need to know this? Then I'd cheat. But my For the last two years of high school, I just left school early after lunch. Because I was a good basketball player, even in high school, well, they can't afford to sit me. What craziness is that? But I left, and the only time I got in trouble, assistant principal called me in one day after school. For two years, I've done this, and I thought I was in trouble. And he said, Listen, Rex, I don't mind you going home after lunch, but don't be washing your car out there when the school busses are coming by.

This also shows just how good you were at basketball. Because maybe I could put up seven points, but if I skip school, they're like, Hey, Costa, you're not that good.

Yeah, but listen, man, you played tennis, and you played it at a very high level. That's right. Going and playing, you did. He really did. He went to Illinois and played tennis. And anybody that goes to college College and plays a sport, Division One, Division Two, especially, that's all your time. That's right. I didn't really have, I didn't have probably the capacity for the school part of it, but I was having to go every day. I remember sitting in class because It takes all your time. For me, back in the day, we can only play basketball three, four hours a day by rule. I'd be in a geography of Kentucky class sitting there. That can't be such a complicated class. I'd be sitting there and thinking, Well, Reggie Miller, Clyde Drexler, Michael Jordan, Ron Harper, all these guys are working out right now, and I'm stuck in this class. It's my only avenue to get where they are. I have to do what is being told. Probably cheating on my tests weren't the best thing, but I only did that once. But as I read this, it Man, you worked hard.

I worked hard. I was obsessed by it. You were going at night. I was obsessed by it. Yeah, but you were getting a key to the gym at night and having you and your buddy and have him rebound for you. I mean, you might have been a rule breaker.

No, I That was the only thing that I had. That was the only thing I felt like I could control. No, I worked at it. I was obsessed by it. I told someone earlier, I used to wake up at midnight on the East Coast. I'd fall asleep, I wake up just in a sweat thinking, My guy, Jerold Madken, somebody I know out in LA, my grade. He's at the park right now. It's nine o'clock. I need to do some push-ups. Let me go run a mile. I'll come back and go to bed. Obsessed like that. Somebody's working harder, and I can't allow that.

So that same level of commitment, that stubbornness, that anxiety over working, does that help you in recovery? Or in a way, is it like Is it hard to go to recovery because I'm a bad mother?

I can beat this. I know I can beat this. I think that's probably the mindset that got me there. I for sure went through... Very first, when I started taking I played in, or OxyContin, I just remember one day, very vividly thinking, Oh, can I cuss? You can cuss.

I think I already said, Oh, you're going to fuck me.

Can I say all of them? Okay. I thought I thought to myself, Oh, shit. No, I thought- You played against Michael Jordan.

You've heard way worse than all these.

I've heard it all. But I was thinking, all of a sudden, I was taking this medicine. It was saying take it once every whatever. Where I'm making that call, all of a sudden, one day, it just flipped where that medicine was telling me when to take it. And before I know it, I was I'm only supposed to take three today. Now I'm to four, and now I'm to five. And then I get to seven or eight, and I go, This is an issue, man. And I'd cut it down to four or five. And then guess what? Maybe an argument or whatever. And then, Fuck this. And then that was... From the time I was 15 or 16-year-old, though, I started having some depression and whatnot and really started coping that way then because I didn't know how to cope, I would sneak off to the racetrack all the time, bet horses. That was what my dad and I always did. I just thought it was normal. He talks a lot about in this book, not just the pills, but also a horse racing addiction. I liked basketball. I love thoroughbred racing. The only horses these people know are the ones at Central Park.

I like those two.

Let's talk about because as you're talking and you discuss before games in high school, you always would vomit as a nerve. But then you also talked about how your dad, who was a basketball coach, would do this as well.

See, this wasn't... Yes. He used to be a coach, and I would be in his locker rooms before games, and he'd give his pep talk, and he'd go in the restroom, stick his fingers down his throat and throw up. And a lot of times, it was dry heaves, and I just hear him in there. But that was how he got ready for a game. I don't know if he did that when he played. I just know he We never talked about it, but then I started doing it. Well, I did it out of nerves. He brought his whole team to watch a third-grade game of mine. I didn't know they were coming. I went out on the court, puked everywhere at mid-court. I mean, big throw up. And they cleaned it up. I felt like Superman after that. I was ready to go. And from that moment, I was a regular puker. I puked every single game from third grade till my second or third year in the NBA. And then I was just like... And I would stick my fingers down my throat. If I was playing bad, one of my teammates might be like, Bro, did you stick your finger down your throat?

Go in there and throw up.

But I'm reading doing this.

I didn't realize that. That's crazy.

This is anxiety, man. And it's also your dad had a similar situation. And when did you face that?

When? Out of rehab. The last time, 2014. I've been for nine years. I'm not the model. I smoke marijuana. But I use medical marijuana. I have a Coors light from time to time. Nine years clean from opioids. I think I really started delving. I hit rock. I was broke. I was broken. I'd embarrassed myself, my family, my kids, my ex-wife, all of my friends, and my friend's kids that looked up to me. I felt like, Man, if you're going to live, you better start tackling some of why you do the things you do.

Your dad is in here a lot. Yeah. Tough on you. I mean, one time, you scored 40 points. You come home, dad's going to like me, and he was mad that you didn't play better defense. And I played collegiate tennis. My dad, sometimes I think, If he would have been harder on me, I could have been a better pro. And I'm I'm thinking, Well, which one is it? I don't want that. But I also wouldn't mind to make a couple more bucks playing tennis. So what's the balance, dude?

I don't know. I don't know because to be honest, I never in my life... My dad played professional basketball. He played college. I never in my life, my whole life, was on the floor with my dad playing basketball. He never rebounded for me. He never did any of that stuff. Also, I didn't want him to do that. I was focused focused on what I was doing. I was watching his teams, watching everything he did, listening to everything. I was absorbing it. I honestly think he knew that I would be too nice and maybe fizzle out as a college player or whatever. He knew I had the talent. The problem is, I did very much similar things with my own son, and he didn't have the same talent. He was way tougher than I was, but I treated him almost like my dad treated me. Sometimes, I was better. But still, I think that's what we're all trying to do. It's a hard balance. A little better than our parents, but it's a hard balance. Becoming a professional basketball player was a dream come true. That's the one thing. My dad, it's complicated. I love him to death.

I appreciate Everything he's done for me. My mom, the same way. Are there some things I wish we'd have done differently? Yeah. Who's not that way?

My mom's here. I Here she is.

And on Black Woman History Night.

Yeah, that's right. Here's a list of things she I should have done better. That's a joke. That's a joke.

You know that, mom.

What do you have to say to people listening who might be middle school phenom in a sport or high school phenom in a sport. Everything's in front of them, it seems like. And there's a reality of this that you have lived. What do you say to somebody who might be in the throes of addiction right now? Do you have a message or a thought?

Man, I guess it's really just find somebody to talk to. I had so much pride that I was this King Rex type thing, this image, and I had so much pride about not living up to anything. I had all these your favorite insecurities, and your pride can get in the way a lot. Once you let that move a little bit, then you can start to see a light at the end of the tunnel. However, I also recommend therapy. If I I've been able to have therapy as a teenager, 18, 19 years old, I feel like... I don't know if it would have changed anything, but I know that I had a better shot of managing the stuff that goes along with being a popular and famous athlete.

That's a great message. Thank you for this book. I loved it. You're the man. Rex Chapman, everybody. It's Hard For Me to Live with Me is available now. Rex Chapman. We're going to take a quick break. We're right back after this.

Mtv's official Challenge podcast is back for another season.

That's right. The challenge is back, and so are we.

I'm Devon Simone. And I'm Devon Rogers. Now, you all know we had so much fun covering the Challenge USA one together that we thought, why not do it again? So we are joining forces to dive into this brand new season.

Season 39, battle for a A new champion.

Yes. Yes. 24 contenders will compete to win their first championship. They know the battle, but not the victory.

Thank God. I am ready for a new champion. A new one. Okay, give us some fresh faces, people.

Girl, I couldn't agree more. So every week after the episode airs, come hang with us as we break down all the challenges and eliminations, and of course, get the inside scoop on all the drama.

And we got all the tea, okay? We will be joined by the cast members themselves every week, you all.

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