Practice English Speaking&Listening with: North Pole Diversification with Roy Wood Jr. | The Daily Show
- With Christmas right around the corner,
a transfer of power at the North Pole
could not have come at a more inconvenient time
but white Santa rocked his staff
by resigning and implementing a black Santa.
This black Santa believes that he can meet the demands
of Christmas deliveries
while also diversifying the workforce
starting with the elves.
Let's give black Santa a call.
(upbeat music)
- First off, let me tell you thank you
for just reaching out and talking to me
and I'll start by saying that Saint Nicholas is a good man
but I do have my hands full here as black Santa
and I try my best to meet the demands
for Christmas deliveries while also diversifying them.
We're doing a good job right now,
we hired two black reindeer,
we've got three more waiting on background checks
and after that, we're gonn move into hiring black elves.
- Okay, that's a great start but where are they?
- I'm sorry, excuse me?
- The black elves that you say you're going to hire,
where exactly will you find those black elves?
- We have multiple diversity initiatives
for hiring black elves,
we're gonna look through those databases
and hire black elves from that talent pool.
- This pool you say,
how many black elves exactly are in that pool?
- (beep) I just got this job, shit, goddamn.
I don't know but two elves,
I know Tony and I know little Larry, aight?
Tony told (indistinct), little Larry got COVID
so I don't know where (beep) Imma find one, all right?
So you then let me know where the (beep)
I can find a black elf since you know so goddamn much.
Stay off my ass.
Shit man, shouldn't have took this job.
- St. Vick was crumbling under the pressure
of his new position and was being combative,
but thankfully, I was able to speak
with one of his new diversity hires,
a black reindeer named JBo.
(payphone ringing)
- Yo wassup, wassup,
let's get something straight real quick off the top man.
I ain't hating on black Santa all right,
I respect what the brother trying to do.
Okay, black Santa coming through
trying to make the North Pole black,
I'm just saying it's happening too fast.
Some of these reindeer man, they ain't ready.
It take a long time to be ready
to be a toy-delivering reindeer, aight?
These reindeer can't fly,
they don't know nothing about a map,
how you can read a map?
We've got to deliver toys across the globe in 24 hours.
They not ready man, they just not ready.
- So essentially what you're saying JBo
is that you're kinda between a rock and a hard place
because if you do diversify the workforce
at the expense of efficiency,
then poor Christmas deliveries could reflect bad
upon black reindeer population.
- Yeah cause they just hiring anybody
trying to fill a diversity quota.
Half these folks up here ain't even reindeer,
bitch I'm an antelope.
- [Man] Better not be no reindeer on the phone.
- I gotta go man, I gotta go--
- One more question real quick.
- No, no, no, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go.
- [Man] JBo what I ain't told you
about stop talking to the media.
- [JBo] I wasn't on the phone.
(JBo wailing) - JBo?
- [Man] White folks is looking at us,
they want us to mess up.
- JBo are you there?
- [Man] You gonn let them, keep your head in the game
and take your ass--
- JBo are you okay?
(JBo wailing) (payphone beeping)
(upbeat Christmas music)
