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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey,

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what's going on, everybody? I'm Trevor Noah and

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this is the Daily Social Distancing Show. Today

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is Monday, March twenty two, which

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means it's now officially

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spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Yeah. Maybe the sun is shining, the

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flowers are blooming, and the birds and

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the bees are doing that thing, you

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know that thing that I totally understand.

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But why don't you tell me what do you think it is? Because I know

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what it is. Anyway, coming up on

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tonight's show, the Royal Family needs

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some black friends. The n C Double A

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needs some female friends. And we'll

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be chatting with my friend Michelle

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Obama. We can legally stations my friend,

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even though yeah we can't. So

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so let's do this. People. Welcome to the Daily

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Social Distancing Show from

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Trevor's couch in New York City to your

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couch somewhere in the world. This

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is the Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor

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no Here. Let's

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kick things off with spring Break, the

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one week a year when college students

1:05

drink and party. This is

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now the second year that Springbreak has fallen during

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coronavirus. But things are a

1:12

little different now. At this time last

1:14

year, many people hadn't started taking

1:16

the pandemic seriously yet. But this

1:18

year they've stopped taking the pandemic

1:21

seriously too soon. Spring

1:23

Break state of emergency

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overnight more chaos from Miami

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Beach, a wild weekend of mostly

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massless people packing the streets,

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police shooting pepperballs to disperse

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the crowd, setting off stampede. More

1:37

than a thousand people arrested there since

1:39

the start of spring break. Massless

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crowds descended into the entertainment

1:44

district over the weekend, dancing on

1:46

colors, drinking in the streets, defying

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an eight pm curfew issued Saturday.

1:51

Tourists have been packing this popular spring break destination

1:53

since February, back when Florida's Governor

1:55

Ronda Santis declared the state of quote

1:57

oasis of freedom from virus

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restrictions, making

2:02

the police no man,

2:04

we can come. One guy dressed

2:07

as the Joker climbed on

2:09

top of a car with an American flag, tossed

2:12

dollar bills and declared

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COVID's over. Oh

2:22

wow, the new Snyder cut

2:24

is weird as hell. But let's

2:26

be clear here, COVID is not over

2:29

all right. Some random dude, can't declare

2:31

the end of the pandemic by dressing up like the Joker

2:34

and making it rain. It's not a thing. Only

2:36

Dr Fauci can declare the end of the

2:38

pandemic by dressing up like the Joker and making

2:41

it rain. And look, you can't totally

2:43

blame the musculus partying on college students.

2:45

I mean, this is what's going to happen after

2:48

Florida's governor called the states a quote

2:50

freedom oasis. Like

2:53

if I put a Starbucks sign above my apartment

2:55

door, I can't be mad when people show up and try to take

2:57

a ship in my bathroom. But still, there's

2:59

no reason that you can't celebrate spring

3:02

break and wear a mosque. It

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can even be part of the fun. I mean, just

3:06

think about how sexy a wet mosque

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contest could be. M I mean,

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we haven't seen mouths in the year. What's under

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there? Mmmmmmmmm. And

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if we've learned anything from Miami, this

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is just a preview of how much everyone

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is gonna let loose once the pandemic is truly

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over. People have been locked up for too

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long. Once it ends, everyone's gonna be drinking

3:27

and partying, hooking, up with everyone.

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It's gonna be so much that's going to create the next worldwide

3:32

virus. Yeah, guys

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are gonna be waking up in bed next to a bat

3:36

like, Oh, I think I did

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it again. But let's move on

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to this week's big political news.

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President Raising Biden. He's

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facing a lot of challenges in his first

3:48

one days, the vaccine rollout,

3:50

the crisis at the border, what happened

3:53

to Ms Frizzle. But

3:55

over the weekend he faced his biggest

3:57

challenge yet staying up

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right. White House folks person

4:02

is blamed wind Gus for President

4:04

Biden stumbling three times as

4:06

he attempted to climb the stairs onto

4:08

Air Force One. Has happened as the

4:10

Commander in chief was boarding the aircraft

4:13

to fly to Georgia. The same White House

4:15

first person added that Mr. Biden is doing quote

4:17

one fine and

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did not require medical attention.

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I'm sorry, guys, I obviously

4:26

can't believe that this happened. The President

4:29

got knocked over by wind. This

4:31

is going to be the first president where the Secret Service

4:34

needs to carry around paper weights. Hold on, sir, hold

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on, we got you, We got you. Someone sneezed

4:38

for real, though, Why why? Why? Couldn't they just said that he tripped.

4:41

Tripping on stairs is a normal thing. You don't

4:43

need to lie about it. But saying you've got

4:46

blown over by the wind that is so

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much weirder. It's like if

4:50

your roommate walked in on you jerking off, and

4:52

instead of just telling him, you're like, oh, no, I'm

4:54

detaching my penis for the night. I put it

4:56

away for safe keeping. And

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by the way, people, it's not like this just happened to Joe

5:02

Biden, all right, It happens all the time. Biden

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tripped, Obama tripped, Mike

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Pence tripped. And the reason isn't because

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they're old. The reason is because

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they were running up and downstairs.

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You shouldn't do that. That would never happen in

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Africa. I mean, mostly because our president

5:18

is flight commercial and they gotta wait for their boarding group to

5:20

be called. But you get what I mean. The point is

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we don't think about it because we use

5:25

stairs so much, right, no one thinks about it. But stairs

5:27

are basically an obstacle course. You

5:29

take one wrong step and you're

5:32

gonna eat ship. And that's one

5:34

thing. One thing that my man Trump

5:36

understood. You love him more hating, but you've

5:38

got to treat stairs with respect. He understood

5:41

that you walk up slowly, you

5:43

hold the banister, and you swear to God

5:45

that if he lets you survive this, you'll never

5:47

walk upstairs ever again. And

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finally, the British Royal Family

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a k a. The world's number one exporter of

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black daughters in law. The Royals

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have gotten a lot of criticism for some old fashioned

5:59

racist attitudes, but now they're

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committing to making a major step into

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the twentieth century me this morning.

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In the aftermath of disturbing claims

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of racism made by the Duke and Duchess

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of Sussex, there are now reports

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that the Royal family will soon appoint a

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diversity chief. Yeah. It was during an interview

6:18

with Oprah that Harry and Meghan said

6:21

that an unnamed member of the Royal family raised

6:23

the issue of how dark their child would

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be potentially. A Buckingham

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Palace source says that plans have been

6:30

in the works for a so called Diversities Are

6:32

prior to the explosive interview. Okay,

6:35

I think it's great that the Royal family is hiring

6:38

a Diversities Are, but you

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guys don't have to pretend that you were already

6:42

planning on doing this. I mean, this isn't

6:44

a family that cares about diversity. The Queen

6:47

has been in powerful what seventy years, and

6:49

she's only ever had one kind of dog, So

6:52

clearly the Royal Family could use

6:54

some help from a diversity's are. You know,

6:56

they can teach the Queen why it was wrong

6:59

for the one spicycole to be called

7:01

scary. You know, they can teach

7:03

her what BBC rarely stands

7:06

for. Hell, the only thing they don't need to teach

7:08

the Queen is how to dress for Black Church. But

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the big question is how

7:12

exactly will the Diversities Are

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carry out all these changes? Well

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to find out, I'm really excited

7:19

to announce that we have been granted an

7:21

exclusive interview with the

7:23

new Diversities Are for the

7:26

Royal Family. I think we actually

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have him on now. Hello Hello Trevor,

7:30

Yeah, or should I say

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hello Trevor Michael Costa,

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you're the Queen's diversity saw Like, how

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did you get the job? Prince William

7:40

and I go way back that the Windsors used

7:42

to hire me to lose to him in tennis. No,

7:45

I mean, I mean you're you're a white

7:47

guy, Like, why wouldn't the Royal Family

7:50

hire somebody more diverse for

7:52

the diversity job. Well,

7:54

you know, they thought about it, but then people were

7:56

so angry after the whole Archie controversy

7:59

they just decided to make black people happy

8:01

and pick a white guy. No, I don't

8:03

think that, you know whatever, Okay, let's just let's

8:05

just get into it. Uh, what

8:08

is your plan to make the Royal Family

8:10

more accepting of diversity. Well,

8:12

first off, Trevor, people underestimate

8:14

how diverse the Royal Family already

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is. You know, we have Welsh people,

8:19

we have Scottish people, we have zombies.

8:22

It's a rainbow over here. Costa,

8:24

none of those actually count. The Royal Family needs

8:26

to do a better job of promoting inclusivity

8:28

among black and brown people, way

8:30

ahead of you, Trevor. And and we've got

8:33

a great idea for how to do that.

8:35

You see, the problem with the British is that too

8:37

many of them are white. So

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our new idea is for the British

8:42

to reach out to non white countries

8:45

and make them British boom

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instant diversity. Costa.

8:50

That sounds like colonization.

8:53

What No, No, I'm describing

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partnership. Britain's partners

8:57

give Britain their diversity and also

9:00

a raw materials, and in return, Britain

9:02

will teach them cricket, the world's most

9:04

exciting sport. This is a win win

9:06

for everyone, Costa. That is

9:09

definitely colonization. You're talking about

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restarting the British Empire. Look,

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call it whatever you want, but the fact is

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this is the only way the royal family is going to survive.

9:18

Now, Look, do you want more seasons of

9:20

the Crown or not? All

9:24

right, good luck with your colonization, Costa, Thank

9:26

you. Do you want to see season five? Michael?

9:28

Cost to everybody? All right, Let's move on now

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to our top story. March Madness.

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It's the most fun way to gamble away your stimmy.

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This year's tournament has already seen its

9:38

fair share of upsets, like Oral

9:40

Roberts making it to the sweet sixteen, and

9:43

I'm guessing from its name also third base.

9:45

But the biggest shock of the tournament so far, it didn't

9:47

happen on the court. It happened in the

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weight room. The double

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A is apologizing after being criticized

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for the stark difference and the fitness facilities

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provided to the men and the women competing

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in the college basketball tournaments Oregon

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Sedona. Prince gave us a glimpse

10:04

of the weight room differences in a social

10:06

media video last Thursday. So, for

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the n C Double A March Madness, the biggest

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tournament in college basketball for

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women, this is our weight room.

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Let me show you all the men's weight room.

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As you can see, the men were provided

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with a lot more equipment than the women. It

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did not take long for the n Double

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A to make changes though. By Saturday, then

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Double A sharing the new set up for the women,

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Prince thanking everyone who helped.

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Guess what, guys, we got away

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room? Yeah, damn,

10:38

that's ice cold, because that's

10:40

not a weight room. That's just the wrack

10:42

of weights that you buy in the beginning of quarantine

10:45

and then never use. And honestly,

10:47

this is surprising because usually the n

10:49

C Double A treats male and female

10:52

athletes equally. I mean, they

10:54

definitely pay them both the same amounts. But

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to be fair, at least the n C Double

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A man at right off to the uproar, they gave

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the women the same amenities that the men's weight room

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has more machines, more weights,

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and they even added the guy who always

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makes way too much noise when he's lifting.

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This is how you know that I'm

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strong, young

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guy. Now.

11:21

It was upsetting enough when people shold the difference in

11:23

men's and women's weight rooms, But

11:26

it turns out that sexism

11:28

in the n C Double A is a lot like

11:30

face tune. Once you're aware

11:32

of it, you started noticing it

11:34

everywhere. But it's not just

11:37

the weight room. The COVID tests

11:39

different for the men's tournament, the more accurate

11:41

PCR tests at the women's

11:44

Antigen tests another complaint.

11:46

A quick look at the official March Madness

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Twitter account. The bio reads the

11:51

official n double A March Madness

11:53

destination for all things Division

11:55

one n Double A men's

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basketball, no mention of

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the women's tournament. The men have

12:02

been provided with a brand new n C Double

12:04

A court with March Madness the utual logo

12:06

in the middle. Where on the women's court you're

12:08

gonna still see two lines for the men's line

12:10

and the women's line for three point shots. There's

12:13

a volleyball court on one of the courts.

12:15

It doesn't even look like an n C Double A game there

12:17

are differences in food options for the

12:19

men's and women's teams, as well as

12:21

the difference in gift bags given to players.

12:24

The men were given a large number of

12:26

custom items designed for March Madness,

12:28

while the women's had a few generic

12:30

items, including a one fifty piece

12:33

puzzle and a towel that said n

12:35

Double A women's basketball plus an umbrella

12:38

a puzzle that

12:40

is a trash gift. And what's even

12:42

worse is when you completed, it shows a

12:44

picture of the men's team enjoying a free State

12:46

dinner. Seriously, how are you going to give the players

12:49

a puzzle that is not swag? People?

12:52

When you look at all of this together, the

12:54

differences are so stock it almost seems

12:56

less like sexism and more like

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the n C Double A didn't even know that the women

13:00

were coming. You know, it's so bad. It's almost

13:03

like the women were knocking on the door and then Double

13:05

A was just scrambling. Oh ship, the

13:07

ladies are here doing. Do we have anything to give them?

13:10

I ordered a burger for lunch. Okay,

13:12

it'll work, just chop it up and save sliders.

13:14

Well, what else do we have? Swag? I

13:16

think there's an umbrella in the closet. Yeah,

13:18

it'll work, it'll work, we'll work. So

13:21

clearly, casual sexism has pervaded

13:23

almost every aspect of the player

13:26

experience at this tournament. But

13:29

it's not just a problem for the players. It's

13:31

also affecting the coaches. There's

13:33

also an article in The Athletic this morning about

13:36

some of the female coaches who are

13:38

working in the tournament and how the

13:40

n C double A is basically penalizing them in

13:42

their teams. If they have, say, a baby,

13:44

who depends on them for food, that

13:46

baby counts inside the bubble

13:49

against the total that

13:51

they can bring in, so that per

13:53

coaches team, if they want to

13:56

feed their child, has to have one

13:58

last athletic trainer, one LEAs other

14:00

coach, one last person in the traveling

14:02

Particulous. Okay,

14:04

now that that is positively

14:07

ridiculous. No

14:09

one should be punished for having

14:12

children. The children are already

14:14

punishment enough, Not to mention

14:17

asking a coach to choose between her baby

14:19

and the trainer for the team.

14:21

I mean, that's a really great way to get the rest of the team

14:24

to hate that baby. I mean, you could

14:26

be getting deep tissue massages right now

14:28

if it wasn't for little Derek.

14:31

Now, I don't know why this seems so hard, but

14:33

there's an obvious solution here. All

14:35

you should do is have the baby be

14:38

the assistant coach. After

14:40

all, a crying baby can be very motivational.

14:42

What do you want? A blanket? A bottle? You

14:45

want me to win the tournament? Is that it? Okay, I'll win

14:47

the tournament. Just please take a nap, Take a nap, to take

14:49

a nap. Stop crying.

14:52

The fact is the way that the women have been

14:54

treated during this tournament has been disgraceful.

14:57

I mean, the only silver lining is that it's made the

14:59

n C double as averageism towards male athletes

15:01

as blatant and impossible to ignore

15:04

as that one guy in the gym.

15:10

Does anyone want to take me? Now? You?

15:13

Yeah? Three?

15:18

All right? When we come back, Michelle Obama

15:21

will be joining me on the show.

15:23

Yeah you don't want to miss it. Welcome

15:27

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier

15:30

today, I spoke to former First Lady

15:32

Michelle Obama. We talked about her

15:34

new Netflix show, changing the conversation

15:37

around eating healthy and how

15:39

the White House years have prepared her for

15:41

Lockdown. Michelle Obama,

15:44

Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. It's

15:46

my first time being on your show.

15:49

It's just, you know, I'm I'm sad

15:51

that it's not in face to face

15:53

or in person, but I'm glad.

15:56

I am. I'm sad. I'm sad too,

15:58

but I I don't mind you still

16:00

here. I've gotten used to this being

16:02

here for me, so you know

16:04

it's still you. I'm listen.

16:07

You're gonna tell me, like your personality changes when

16:09

you're in it does not. I'm maybe

16:11

I'm more silly in person, but I've

16:13

gotten silly on you

16:15

know, in Zoom too. I can

16:18

do it both now, just playing silly.

16:22

Before we get into talking about your projects, let's

16:24

talk a little a little bit about that. I would

16:26

love to know on a personal level, what

16:29

your life has felt like since

16:31

you left the White House, because I remember,

16:33

and I mean I was one of the fans, maybe

16:35

because you know, I've also had hair journeys.

16:38

I remember everyone just being like, Wow,

16:41

Michelle, the afro and the

16:43

hair's coming, and everyone's just like she's just she's

16:45

gotta got a different swag about her. Was

16:47

there a weight that's lifted from your shoulders when leaving

16:49

the White House as first Lady. Absolutely,

16:52

I mean, you know, for for so many reasons.

16:55

I mean, you know, being the first

16:57

lady and be the present it's a it's a huge

16:59

response instibility and being the first,

17:02

you know, we felt a deep responsibility

17:05

to do it right and to do it better, to

17:07

be careful with our words, all the things

17:09

we thought were important, things like thinking

17:13

about what you say before you say it, you

17:15

know, um, telling the truth, you

17:18

know, getting your facts

17:20

right. All of this we we worried for

17:22

no reason. We could have done

17:25

it so definitely it could have been

17:27

easier, um, but no, no, we

17:29

were doing the traditional thing. And

17:32

uh so you know, there it

17:34

was a big responsibility, a

17:36

big weight on our shoulders, but it was

17:39

an honor to serve, and we kept our I focused

17:41

on just every day trying to show up right

17:44

and push the ball forward on the issues that

17:46

we cared about. But we were also doing

17:48

it while raising our kids.

17:51

All right. So you know, they were

17:53

ten and seven when we entered.

17:56

They lived in the White House longer than they lived

17:58

in any house they've ever lived in. So

18:01

they grew they were growing up right in

18:03

that spotlight, and so we had that pressure

18:06

of getting through the adolescent

18:08

years and the teen years and sending

18:10

a kid to college. So we

18:12

were exhausted and stressed

18:15

because not only are you trying to get it right

18:17

on the big picture level, but you're trying

18:19

to get it right as a parent. And now

18:22

we're on the other end of that, on

18:24

literally on the other end of all

18:26

of that. UM, and our kids

18:29

are about to be twenty three and twenty

18:31

UM, our oldest is graduating from

18:34

college. They are alive. So

18:36

all of that, you know, being at the

18:38

end of that part of the journey, you

18:41

know it. You know, I am

18:43

in a different place. Um, I feel

18:45

freer, I feel more

18:48

at peace. UM. I'm also older,

18:50

so I'm more comfortable. I'm

18:53

even more comfortable in my own skin.

18:56

So so yeah, yeah, it was.

18:59

You know, living in the

19:01

White House is like living

19:04

in an nice older

19:06

hotel, uh

19:08

where you can't get out unless you call

19:11

twenty people. It almost feels like

19:13

you were living a sort of quarantine life

19:15

before all of them. This is what I tell

19:17

people, This is why we're fine. Barack

19:19

and I are like, what, you can't go out just

19:22

when you want to, you know, You're like

19:25

this, We've been doing that for eight years.

19:27

You've got security with you at all times.

19:30

You can't make a move, and you have to think

19:32

about how your movements impact

19:34

the rest of the world. Every time we went out, we

19:36

had to think about it. It's like, who's

19:38

gonna have to shut down with gate? How is

19:40

this gonna disrupt this whole community

19:42

because the presidential motorcade is coming

19:45

through. We have to worry about agents and not

19:47

doing something that will put them in harm's

19:49

way. We're good in quarantine.

19:51

We're like, welcome to our world. Everyone.

19:56

You've been somebody who

19:58

has been um not

20:00

just an icon, but but

20:03

somebody that people have followed so passionately

20:05

from the beginning. And and what I loved

20:07

about reading your book and and talking

20:09

to your husband is that you know is

20:11

getting into the familial side

20:14

of things, the personal side of things. I've

20:16

always wanted to know from your perspective

20:18

because a lot of people may not think of it like this

20:20

because of president. But you're the cool one in the

20:22

relationship, right And

20:25

so like Barack was like this, like

20:27

you know, just like like who's like you say

20:29

in your book, who's this Barack? Who's this dude?

20:31

Like you know what I mean? And and yes,

20:33

he's Mr President, don't get me wrong, But I

20:35

mean to you, he's still Barack. Is there part of you

20:38

that like, when it was done, you were like, all right, finally

20:40

the power balance can go back to what it was. Well,

20:43

he's still pretty cool, you know, Oh

20:46

definitely, But I mean you, I mean, let's be

20:48

it's like a game of chess. You don't want to lose the queen.

20:50

You know. That's I'm

20:53

going to use that at dinner tonight.

20:57

But what's what's fun to see is how it

20:59

feels like you are each other's biggest

21:01

fans. The way you show your love towards each

21:03

other. You've never been afraid to do that. But at the same

21:06

time, there's also a healthy competitive

21:08

spirits. I mean, whether you're selling books, whether

21:10

you're releasing your your work on Netflix

21:12

and creating documentaries, is there a little

21:14

bit of that where you look at your numbers and then you go,

21:17

I mean, you know, you go, like Barry, you're doing well,

21:19

but you know, you know, is there a little

21:21

bit of that? Uh? Yeah, yeah,

21:23

yeah. He brought a super

21:25

competitive so you know,

21:28

and shoot, let me, I am too. So

21:30

yeah, there's a little there's a little bit

21:32

of that I mean, but you know

21:35

you can do that when you know your partner

21:37

holds their own. It's it's a nice funny

21:39

joke, you know. I mean if he if

21:41

he wrote his book and nobody bought it, we

21:43

wouldn't be joking about it, right, we

21:47

would be like, how do you're doing a great job.

21:49

Oh he has a great book, great book. We

21:51

love it. Debt and tell your dad how much you

21:53

like his book. But you know, I

21:56

mean, he's written

21:58

like a thousand books. Know, He's

22:00

like, yeah, I've done this before. You're the newvie.

22:03

You know he was. He fed us on

22:05

his book books for a very

22:08

long time. So you know, it's

22:10

a funny joke when it's you know, when

22:14

it's when it's not fully true. The kids

22:16

are actually joking. They're talking about how

22:18

you know, my mom is doing a lot of work out there,

22:21

Dad, you're at home looking kind of cute. You

22:23

know. They're like, you're now the cute

22:25

one, and you

22:28

are the cute one. It's like Mr

22:30

President. But anyway,

22:34

when we come back more with Mrs

22:36

Obama, you don't want to miss it. Welcome

22:40

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

22:43

He has more of my conversation with Michelle

22:45

Obama. Let's talk a little bit

22:47

about your your new project

22:49

on Netflix. It is it's a

22:51

passion of yours that we've known from the very beginning,

22:54

and that is eating healthy. You know. Um

22:56

America has internationally,

22:59

you know, established a reputation as being

23:02

the country where people have some of

23:04

the most unhealthy choices in how

23:06

they eat. I remember when I came to America, I

23:08

didn't understand it, genuinely came

23:10

to America, I ate the way I ate in

23:12

South Africa, did not really care. And

23:15

then I got here and I remember the first time I came US,

23:17

traveling around the US and nobody knew

23:19

me. I was just doing my thing, was around and

23:21

I gained I think it was eighteen

23:24

to twenty pounds in six

23:26

months, and I didn't realize this was happening

23:28

to me. And then I went back to South Africa. And

23:31

in Africa, we we because there's no like body

23:33

shaming in that way. Everyone was just like Trevor,

23:35

They're like, wow, did you eat half of America? What

23:37

happened to you? Trevor, Wow? Hey yeah,

23:39

yeah, yeah, yeah, no right, you know, And

23:42

and it was it was actually interesting because I didn't think I

23:44

changed anything. I didn't, but then I came to realize

23:47

how hard it is for so many Americans

23:49

to eat healthy, to exist healthy, to be

23:52

healthy. And that's always been your passion, which

23:54

is part of the show that you have on Netflix,

23:56

Waffles and Mochi the most

23:58

Adorable Explorer and of eating

24:01

healthy. Plea's just told me through

24:03

why you thought, you know what, this is the avenue that I'm going

24:06

to take to further this message for what

24:08

I'm passionate about. The co creators,

24:10

Erica Thornlin and Jeremy Connor

24:14

Um, you know, came up with this idea

24:16

because you know, Jeremy had young

24:18

kids and struggled with this as

24:20

a parent and getting their kids excited

24:23

about vegetables. So they came

24:25

up with the idea and presented it to us

24:27

and kind of proposed would you

24:29

be in it? And I looked at the

24:32

concept and thought this

24:34

this is a no brainer. I mean, this

24:36

is what we had been talking about for

24:38

eight years through Let's move, is that you can

24:40

have these conversations not

24:42

making them punitive or not shaming

24:45

people, but just beginning to introduce

24:48

positive concepts about what

24:50

food is, making it fun, making

24:52

it enjoyable. Now, the part

24:54

that I'm excited about is the work

24:57

that we're doing through the Past the Love Campaign,

25:00

UM, where we're hoping to do more

25:02

education around food insecurity

25:05

and food deserts, and reminding

25:07

people that there are millions of people

25:09

in this country that are going hungry

25:11

even as they sit in communities with

25:13

food all around them. Right. But it's

25:16

it's it's the type of food. So

25:18

many families don't have access

25:21

to prep fresh produce. If they

25:23

want to buy a

25:25

bundle of kale, they've got to get on a bus,

25:27

or it costs way too much money.

25:29

Um. They don't have the ability

25:32

to do at home cooking. Um.

25:35

The Past the Love campaign is designed

25:37

to raise money to help feed

25:39

a million families in this country.

25:41

What I love about waffles and Mochie, I mean, we all

25:44

grew up watching puppets and cartoons

25:46

and it's really fun to see, you know, these discussions.

25:48

Like my favorite episode is just the arguments

25:50

about whether tomato is a fruit or

25:52

a vegetable. I've had the spike with people my

25:54

entire life. Tomatoes, avocados,

25:57

whatever it is. I go, hey, man, I have a simple metric.

25:59

Is it sweet? It's a fruit, and then people

26:01

want to fight with me and and and

26:03

I think it's fun. It's fun to engage with that. I can imagine

26:05

enjoying that with kids and having these conversations,

26:08

you know, because I grew up funny. I grew up loving

26:10

vegetables. And the

26:13

reason I grew up loving vegetables is because we didn't

26:15

always have a lot of food. And I realized

26:17

very very young that if I could learn

26:19

to love the things that nobody else wanted,

26:22

that I would always have more food to all the other

26:24

kids they were running for like the meat and the

26:26

and the and I was like, I'll take the broccoli, I'll

26:28

take the cauliflower. And I just learned

26:31

to love it. But it's it's it's cool to see from that side

26:33

for the kids. Yeah, I knew you were on the other side

26:36

with with pasta love. What what I've really enjoyed

26:38

is you you you having

26:41

the conversation about the truth about

26:43

how difficult it is. You know, a lot of the

26:45

time in America, people blame the

26:47

victims. They go, you should

26:49

be eating healthy, you should be making

26:51

better choice. You should And then I remember when I when

26:54

I first got to America, I was like how much is

26:56

an avocado? He's like, this is how

26:58

much is this? Because in South the treat

27:01

is the McDonald's. Your family can just buy

27:03

you that every day. In America, it's like, no, the

27:06

fast food is affordable. Well, and that's how

27:08

Yeah, that's how it was for us growing up,

27:10

you know. So this is also generational.

27:12

I mean, the the whole notion of going out

27:15

wasn't something that you did. People

27:17

couldn't afford it and it wasn't available

27:19

like that. So going to a fast

27:21

food place was a treat. But for

27:23

the most part, the being able

27:26

to afford to live meant you had to cook.

27:28

That was the cheapest way to You

27:31

bought a whole chicken, you knew how to cut

27:33

it up, you knew how to dice up some

27:36

some some vegetables. You you

27:38

knew how to cook a pot of greens. I mean, that's

27:40

how we all grew up. And it's with

27:42

this change and sort of mass

27:44

producing um, you know,

27:46

the quick easy and understandably

27:49

parents struggle with that because everybody's

27:52

busy now and we're over worked,

27:54

so it's easy to pick up, grab

27:56

something, pop something, to do

27:59

something process and we don't

28:01

realize that these processed foods

28:03

are high in sugar and salt in

28:05

ways that that's the kind of thing that affects

28:07

you. It's it's the content of

28:09

the food. People think, well, a French

28:12

fry is a potato, and it's like, well,

28:14

you know, if that's all you're eating and it's fried

28:17

and it's processed, you're getting

28:19

extra stuff in there. So you

28:21

know, the the key, like you

28:23

said, is not to shame people, not to

28:25

blame folks. And that's where it gets personal,

28:28

because people do feel judged and criticized

28:31

for doing the best that they can. So

28:33

that's why we start with kids. It's like,

28:35

let's make these conversations

28:37

fun again, not

28:39

not a lot of stick, but a whole lot of

28:41

carrot, which is what we try to do with Let's

28:43

move Let's not talk about not eliminating

28:46

soda and soda is bad. Let's talk about

28:49

drinking more water, right, because

28:51

if you drink more water, by

28:53

the that very nature, you will drink less

28:56

soda. That doesn't make soda bad. We're

28:58

just talking about drink a little more water.

29:00

So you know, we've had to learn how

29:03

to balance that because even in the White House,

29:05

we got criticized for having those conversations.

29:07

I mean, the getting kids

29:09

to eat healthy was a controversial

29:13

and people were like, how

29:15

dare she? It's nanny state, and

29:18

I'm like, I thought we

29:21

were like on some like even

29:24

you know, I started like what what? So

29:28

you know, you had to sort of be really

29:30

strategic and how you talked about

29:32

this so that people wouldn't feel like you

29:34

were judging the very core

29:37

of who they are. And that's the thing. Food is personal,

29:40

you know, and waffles and mostly Mochi

29:43

address the notion that you

29:45

know, cultures are built on the food

29:47

that they eat. You know, it's love,

29:49

it's family. However you do it,

29:52

it is it's at the core of

29:54

who we are. So you've got to be careful

29:56

not to judge the way people do it. Just

29:58

offer them different coaches, you

30:00

know, open their minds and starting with kids

30:03

who will bring their own curiosity.

30:05

I saw this dish cooked on this show

30:08

Can We Try? And you notice the cooking

30:10

is done a lot on hot plates in

30:13

toaster ovens. You know, Um,

30:16

it's accessible and that's for reason.

30:19

And the recipes are on the website along

30:21

with the past the Love Campaign, waffles

30:23

and Mochi dot org. So we're encouraging people

30:25

to interact with the show.

30:28

Through the website, kids can earn their badges

30:31

like waffles and Mochi. UM.

30:33

So you know again, our our goal

30:35

is to make it fun. Well,

30:38

I think you're you're well on the way to achieving

30:40

that goal, and I really hope that Past the Love goes

30:42

from a million to ten millions or a hundred million until

30:44

there's no need to pass any more. Love.

30:47

Um, Michelle Obama, thank you so much for taking the

30:49

time, Thank you for joining us, Say

30:51

hi to the husband, and good luck on

30:53

the rest of your journey. So good to see your congratulations

30:56

on all your good stuff. Very proud of you.

30:58

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Don't

31:00

forget Waffles and Mochi is available

31:03

now on Netflix. We're gonna take a quick

31:05

break, but we'll be right back after this. Well

31:10

that's our show for tonight's but before we go,

31:13

please consider supporting former First

31:15

Lady Michelle Obama's Past the Love

31:17

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31:31

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