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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey,

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everybody, welcome to the Daily Social

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Distancing Show. I'm Trevor Noah.

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Now, before we begin, there's

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an issue that has been brewing online

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about me, and I've

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been trying to avoid this for a few days now, but I

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feel like I owe you, the viewers of the Daily

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Show, and explanation, and also

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my bosses are forcing me to address this. I'm

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referring, of course, to my

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hoodies. Many of you have been asking

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why I'm still wearing hoodies when

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it's ninety degrees outside. Well,

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you may not have noticed, but I'm not

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outside. I have been taping

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the show from a place called inside,

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which, contrary to popular belief, is not

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outside. And so because

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I am inside, as it's known, I

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have the ability to condition

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the air to a level and temperature

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of my choosing. And I know some

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people might ask, will travel, then why don't you?

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Why don't you just turn down the air conditioning so

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that the apartment is more warm? Well,

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if I did that, I wouldn't be able to

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wear a hoodie. I like wearing

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hoodies. But still, to

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anyone who I've made feel hot, I

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apologize. I never

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intended for my temperature choices to

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affect your temperature feelings. Also

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completely unrelated to the scandal, we

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won't be having a show Friday,

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Saturday, or Sunday as I will

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be taking a long planned vacation to

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go trout fishing anyway.

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On tonight's episode, Kanye West is

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coming for the White House. Why celebrities

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were banned from sending tweets and reparations

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are finally here, So let's do this.

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People. Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing

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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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Or. Let's

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kick off with Twitter, social

2:02

media network and Trump's longest

2:04

serving press secretary. On a

2:06

normal day, it's a place where people can share

2:08

ideas with each other while also getting yelled

2:10

at by neo Nazis. But yesterday

2:13

was not a normal day. Today, Twitter

2:15

is scrambling to recover from one of the biggest

2:17

security breaches in Internet history

2:20

after bitcoin scammers apparently

2:22

compromised some of the platform's highest

2:24

profile accounts for hours Wednesday,

2:27

targeting companies like Uber and Apple

2:29

and wealthy public figures like Bill Gates,

2:32

Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos,

2:34

even former President Barack Obama

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and former Vice President Joe Biden.

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Many of the hijacked accounts posting

2:41

similar language inviting users

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to submit Bitcoin payments to a single

2:45

account, promising to double their

2:47

money. Several hundred people quickly

2:50

responded, sending in tens of thousands

2:52

of dollars. Twitter revealing the hack

2:54

was a coordinated social engineering

2:56

attack by people who successfully targeted

2:59

some of our employer ease with access to internal

3:01

systems and tools. Twitter also

3:03

confirming they prevented some verified

3:05

accounts from tweeting Wednesday evening.

3:08

Is they investigated the attack? That's

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right, Barack Obama, Joe

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Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos,

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Kim Kardashian. Yo, if you were

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famous, there was a good chance

3:19

you were hacked on Twitter yesterday.

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Now, for some reason, the hack has missed

3:24

my account, which makes no sense

3:26

because I'm I'm famous. But whatever,

3:29

It's probably like a second round or something. I don't

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I don't care. So Twitter released

3:33

the statement saying that luckily the President's

3:36

Twitter account was not hacked.

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But how would they know. I mean,

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he's the same guy who tweets about beans Iran

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and the Confederacy in the span of ten minutes.

3:47

He pre hacks himself. The only

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way you'd know if a hacker got Trump

3:51

is if the spelling was correct. Guys, Trush

3:54

spelled coronavirus, right. I think he got hacked.

3:56

So in response to the hack, Twitter

3:59

actually disabled tweets from anyone

4:02

with a verified account. Yeah,

4:04

blue checkmark couldn't tweet. And

4:06

I've got to be honest as someone who has a verified

4:08

account because I'm famous. Remember it

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was hard not being able to post for a few hours yesterday

4:14

and I had to resort to some drastic measures.

4:17

At Anna ken Drake, I have

4:19

a great voice and I would love to be in the next

4:21

Trolls movie. At

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Trevor Nolla, I told you to

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leave me alone. Blots

4:28

have reported at Anna Kendrick,

4:31

thanks so much for responding, big

4:33

fan. Moving

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on to some political news. Last

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week, Kanye West, hip hop superstar

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and permanent residence on Everyone's prayer list

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announced that he was running for president,

4:45

and then a few days later one of his advisers said,

4:47

actually, he's not running for president, but

4:49

now maybe he is. Kanye

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west unconventional presidential

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bid is showing signs of Life Oklahoma

4:56

officials confirming that he will

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appear on the November general election ballot.

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The group called Kanye the

5:03

first federal election forms for West's

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candidacy. Okay, I'm sorry, this is

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just crazy. Kanye West is

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actually running for presidents. I

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mean, I guess he reversed his position on whether one

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man should have all that power. Now. A

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lot of people are worried that Kanye will

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be a spoiler for Joe Biden.

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But I don't know, man, think about it. Who is Kanye

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West. He's a man who goes on

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long, unintelligible rants, constantly

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fillp flops on his positions, brags about

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the size of his penis. I mean,

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if anything, Kanye is Trump,

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but with better beats. And I mean this all goes to

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show you how much things can change. Who

5:38

would have thought ten years ago that one day you'd

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be thinking, Ok, I'm

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scared that Kanye could become president. But at

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least Kim Kardashian will be there to bring some seriousness

5:48

to the White House. But let's move on to someone

5:50

even less qualified to be presidents than Kanye,

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Donald J. Trump. Most

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polls now show him losing badly

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to Democratic nominee and Sunglass Hot

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Platinum member Joe Biden. And

6:03

yesterday Trump took a big step

6:05

to try and stop the bleeding. Breaking

6:08

news in Washington were President Trump announced

6:10

a shake up and his reelection team. With

6:12

less than four months until election day,

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President Trump is announcing a major change

6:17

to his reelection team. The President

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demoted longtime manager Brad Parscal.

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It comes amid a string of bodged efforts

6:24

to reboot his campaign amid the ongoing

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pandemic, including his June rally and Tulsa

6:29

where only a third of the arena was filled,

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and Trump promoted the deputy campaign

6:33

manager of Bill Stepien to the new role

6:35

of manager. Parscal will stay on

6:37

the team. Sources say he was informed

6:39

of the change by the President's son in law, Jared

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Kushner. Wow, I'm

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not gonna lie. I kind of feel bad for this

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guy. Not only did he get fired,

6:50

but he got fired by Jared Kushner,

6:53

Like what was that conversation, Like we have to

6:55

let you go because you're just not succeeding

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in your job. Now, if you excuse

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is me, I have to get back to solving the Middle

7:02

East. It's almost worse that he's also still

7:04

part of the campaign team. I

7:06

think about that, staying on the team when you've

7:09

been demoted. It's like your wife leaving

7:11

you, but then saying you're welcome to live with her and her

7:13

new boyfriend. Oh, you can watch baby. And

7:15

you know what, if you ask me, this guy

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is not the problem here, man, he's a scapegoat. Donald

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Trump's campaign isn't struggling because

7:22

of his campaign manager. It's struggling because

7:24

Donald Trump is the candidate. What's a new

7:26

campaign manager gonna do. He's gonna say,

7:28

our campaign needs a consistent message, and then

7:30

Trump will be like, you got it. I'm gonna

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do a photo of myself in a bad

7:35

job covered in goya beans.

7:37

So much goia, goya goya go

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all over my bad So condolences

7:42

to Brad Pascale. But you

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should be really proud of yourself, man, because

7:47

at this point, getting out of the Trump

7:49

campaign without getting into prison,

7:52

that's an achievement. In other news, as

7:54

coronavirus continues to rage across the

7:56

country, more people are finally

7:59

learning the importants of wearing face

8:01

masks. Walmarts and other major

8:04

chains have announced that people must

8:06

wear masks in their stores. It is

8:08

mandatory, and the governor of Alabama

8:10

issued a statewide mask mandate, but

8:13

unfortunately, some people are

8:16

still standing firm against science.

8:18

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is banning

8:21

local governments from mandating masks,

8:24

despite a sharp spike in cases

8:26

in his state. He extended his public Health

8:28

Declaration to include banning

8:30

fifteen cities and counties from

8:32

ordering people to wear a face mask

8:35

in public. We can have all this guidance

8:37

and everything else, but if people won't follow

8:39

it and do the right thing, then it

8:41

doesn't really matter. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold up.

8:45

This governor is saying,

8:48

why even have laws people aren't

8:50

going to follow them anyway. Oh

8:52

man, we're already living

8:55

through outbreak. I'm not trying to add the purge.

8:57

I don't even get what the hang up

8:59

is. What are people fighting? Are they

9:01

fighting tyranny? Is that what? They don't want to wear mosques?

9:04

Because you realize the government also makes you wear

9:06

clothes in public too. That's a thing. Yeah,

9:08

But I don't see anyone showing up panciless to

9:10

Walmart like these are freedom nuts.

9:13

And finally, it took a hundred and fifty

9:15

five years, but here's some good news for

9:17

black people. Historic moment in North

9:20

Carolina, the city of Asheville apologizing

9:22

to black residents for racist policies

9:24

and approving a resolution for reparations.

9:27

The vote calls for increased investment in the black

9:29

community, including in housing

9:31

and business. The resolution also asked

9:33

the state and federal governments to form policies

9:36

to create generational wealth. Wow.

9:39

Wow, wow, this is rarely

9:41

special news, and I think the first step

9:43

of reparations should be changing that city's

9:45

name from Asheville to Moisturizeville. Can't

9:48

claim to be an ally of black people if you're named after

9:50

the worst enemy. Unfortunately, though, because

9:53

this is happening in Asheville, North Carolina,

9:55

all reparations will be paid in autis

9:58

and crafts from the thriving Llery

10:00

community. For more Asheville specific

10:02

comedy, tune into my spin off show,

10:05

The Ashville Show with Trevor North

10:07

Carolina. Now, obviously

10:09

people have a lot of strong opinions when it comes

10:11

to reparations, So let's check

10:13

in with outur very own Dulce Sloan and

10:16

see what she thinks about Ashville's

10:18

historic move. Dul Say Sloan, this

10:21

is some exciting news. Don't you think I mean African

10:23

Americans beginning to get

10:25

reparations. Yeah, it sounds

10:28

good, Trevor, But I've been black

10:30

far too long to trust government

10:32

promises. We're still waiting for that mule

10:34

they promised us back in eighteen sixty

10:37

five. If you want me to trust them

10:39

now, first they gotta pay up on that mule.

10:41

Wait, you really want

10:44

the mule? No, I

10:46

don't want the forty acres because I know

10:48

these white people. They're gonna give me a landfill

10:50

and idahole or utah or some ship,

10:53

and then they'll make me pay taxes on it. Trevi.

10:56

Do you know you have to pay taxes every year?

10:59

No, wonder what starts with the jail. Okay,

11:02

So if you don't want the forty acres, then I don't

11:04

understand. Why would you want the mule. Why wouldn't

11:06

I want a mule? It can carry

11:08

my groceries. I can open a petting

11:11

zoo, and the best party is white people

11:13

will be jealous. I've got a pet that they don't

11:15

have. I can dress it up in costumes,

11:17

I can post pictures of it on Instagram,

11:20

or I can even bring it on planes. White

11:22

people are gonna be so thirsty for my

11:24

mule. The jealousy,

11:27

Oh, that would be the real reparation. Where's

11:31

the mule gonna live? That's the mules

11:33

problem. All I know is I'm

11:36

gonna name him Fluffles, and I'm gonna teach

11:38

him to bite Karen's. Yeah,

11:41

car A, cops on me now with fluff was chopping on

11:43

your asscaren Ha.

11:45

Listen, anyway, i gotta go rind a moving

11:48

van because I'm moving to Asheville,

11:50

you know, home of reparations, Asheville.

11:54

You better have my money.

11:56

I'm kind of game it, alright, Good

11:58

luck with that, dude. Say do say Sloane. Everybody.

12:01

We have to take a quick break, but when we come back, we're

12:03

gonna be checking in with how other countries

12:05

are dealing with the coronavirus. Right now, stick

12:08

around, Welcome

12:12

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. The

12:15

United States continues to be overwhelmed

12:17

by the coronavirus, But how are

12:19

other countries handling this global pandemic.

12:22

Well, let's find out in our ongoing segment

12:25

keeping up with Corona International

12:27

Edition. Let's

12:33

start our world tour in Russia.

12:36

The artist formerly known as the Soviet

12:38

Union. Everyone around the world

12:40

is trying to find a COVID nineteen

12:43

vaccine, but Russia may

12:46

have found a competitive edge. Then

12:49

breaking news, and we start with breaking

12:51

news coming into seeing and the US, Canada,

12:54

and the United Kingdom have accused

12:56

Russia of carrying out cyber

12:58

attacks on set of all coronavirus

13:01

research centers. The three

13:03

governments believe the aim was to steal

13:05

information about vaccine

13:08

development. That's right, people, Russia

13:11

is trying to hack its way to a

13:13

vaccine. And honestly,

13:16

I want Russia to steal the vaccine.

13:19

Yeah, I said it, because I'll be honest, based

13:21

on how good they are at poisoning people, they're

13:23

gonna be really good at making sure everyone is vaccinated.

13:26

You won't even have to go to a doctor. You just have to

13:28

bump into a guy on a bridge with an umbrella and

13:30

it will be over before you know it. Also, is

13:32

it that bad if they steal the information if it leads

13:35

to them getting a vaccine? I

13:37

mean, at this point, I'll take the vaccine

13:39

from anywhere, the same way a

13:41

thirsty man in the desert will drink the sani.

13:44

We don't have choices. I'm just surprised

13:47

Russia try to hack America for

13:49

the solution. I mean, the US

13:51

is handling Corona worse than any other country.

13:54

It's like cheating off the kid who spends the whole class

13:56

drawing dicks on their desk. So and

13:58

so the number three is blessed.

14:00

Pis moving on to Japan,

14:03

the country that always knew shaking

14:05

hands was a bad idea. The

14:07

Asian superpower has been doing a good job

14:09

fighting the virus, and they're starting to

14:11

reopen the country, but they're

14:14

being very, very

14:16

careful about it. At fuji q

14:18

Highland Amusement Park outside Tokyo,

14:21

these are two of the park's executive stoically

14:24

riding fuji Que's biggest coast or Fujiyama,

14:27

while displaying proper etiquette for

14:29

their no screaming rule, implemented

14:31

apparently to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

14:34

Fuji Que said it received complaints the rule

14:37

was too strict, so the fun park released

14:39

this video to prove it can be done.

14:42

The two men, as you see, one wearing a full suit

14:44

and tie, do not change their

14:46

expressions for the entirety of the

14:48

four minute thrill ride. The video

14:51

then concludes with this philosophical

14:53

piece of advice. Quote, please

14:55

scream inside your heart.

14:58

That's right, scream

15:01

inside your heart. That's

15:04

the same advice Dr Fauci tells himself

15:06

before every press conference. It's

15:08

a really hard thing to not scream at an amusement

15:10

park, and it's going to be extra harder

15:12

Disney World because people they scream every

15:14

time they see how much a hot dog costs? What

15:16

that big one? And I guess

15:19

one person who will never be able to ride roller coasters

15:21

in Japan is my best friend or Lisa, because

15:24

this is a clip from us riding a roller coaster

15:26

before coronavirus.

15:47

I miss human beings. Next

15:49

up, let's go to Barbados, a

15:52

beautiful Caribbean country and the

15:54

world's number one exporter of rihanna.

15:56

Due to COVID nineteen shutting down the tourism

15:59

industry, barbay Dos is now trying

16:01

to turn the global lockdowns to its

16:03

advantage. Ever dreamed of living

16:05

on an island paradise That could be

16:08

a reality for you. Remote

16:10

working is the new normal, and

16:12

Barbados wants to turn its beaches

16:15

and adjacent to the crystal blue water into

16:17

your new outdoor office. The Caribbean

16:20

country is going to introduce a

16:22

twelve month Barbados Welcome

16:24

Stamp program, which would allow visitors

16:26

from overseas to stay for an entire

16:29

year and work remotely. Barbados

16:31

officials are hoping it could help jump

16:33

start the islands ecomedy. Okay,

16:36

Bob Bados, it sounds

16:38

like a pretty awesome deal. And there's

16:40

no catch. I mean, it's not like

16:42

Barbados is an island or something and you have

16:44

to get in an Uba, to go to the airport,

16:46

to get on an airplane and maybe catch coronavirus

16:49

ten times before you even set foot on the beach.

16:52

I mean, I'm not gonna lie. This is tempting, but

16:55

getting to Barbados could be risky.

16:58

You know, I'm just gonna have to move to barbay at us

17:00

inside my heart now.

17:02

On the other hand, maybe this is the perfect

17:05

idea because if Corona

17:07

does get worse and you're in the Caribbean,

17:10

hearing that music on the steel drums is gonna make

17:12

things sound better, because it is impossible

17:15

to be sad when a steel drum

17:17

is playing. Even Dr Fauci's

17:19

warnings would sound happier with

17:21

the steel drum in the background. It's

17:23

a very difficult situation as as

17:25

is predicted, this is going to get worse before

17:28

it gets better, for sure. That's

17:31

right, guys, We're all gonna die. And

17:34

finally, the coronavirus pandemic

17:37

has been especially difficult

17:39

for the world's authoritarian dictators.

17:42

They have to fight a very real disease while

17:45

also pretending that nothing in their

17:47

country is ever wrong. But

17:49

the Central Asian dictatorship of Turkmenistan

17:53

has found a solution. As

17:55

serious as the global situation is,

17:58

one country claims to have COVID nine teen

18:00

completely under control. Former

18:02

Soviet Republic turkmenistans it's

18:05

right beside Iran, which has

18:07

reported more than two hundred and sixty thousand

18:10

infections, but Turkmenistan says

18:12

it has zero cases. Pretty

18:15

unbelievable. Yet, a week after

18:17

a visit from the World Health Organization, the

18:19

authoritarian government has now strongly

18:21

recommended its people wear masks,

18:24

but the reason given to protect them

18:26

from dust. I

18:29

feel like we don't really have the full story of what's

18:31

happening in Turkmenistan, because this sounds

18:33

like the family who sends out a Christmas newsletter

18:36

talking about how perfect everyone's lives are, and

18:39

then at the very end, they casually mentioned

18:41

that Bobby has been granted parole. What Honestly,

18:44

I think that this dust excuse is actually more

18:46

embarrassing than just saying you have coronavirus.

18:49

Don't worry, we don't have disease here.

18:52

We just have very dusty country

18:54

because we don't own a vacuum cleaner.

18:56

But if you think this dust excuse is ridiculous,

19:00

wait until you see the public service announcement

19:02

released by Turkmenistan's Health ministry.

19:06

Greetings from the Turkmenistan Health

19:08

Department. Now that

19:10

you're all wearing masks to protect yourselves

19:12

from our very non contagious Turkmenistan

19:15

dust, here are some other tips

19:17

for staying safe in our very healthy country

19:19

where there's no coronavirus at all. Stay

19:22

six ft apart at all times

19:25

to properly admire the beauty

19:27

of the Turkmenistan people. All

19:30

non essential businesses will be closed indefinitely

19:33

because our glorious people deserve

19:36

a vacation. Vacation

19:38

must be taken inside your home. If

19:40

you experience difficulty breathing, go

19:42

to the hospital immediately so

19:45

doctors can assure you that you're breathing

19:47

just fine. But in like a new special

19:49

Turkmenistan Way. And finally,

19:52

if you see anyone coughing, just

19:55

give them a smile and report

19:57

them to the Ministry of Non Coronavirus

19:59

Affair. Stay safe.

20:02

But there's no reason too. We

20:06

totally made that video. All right, don't go away

20:08

because after the break we'll be talking with an e er

20:11

doctor who has a close up view of the

20:13

COVID pandemic, and then I'll catch

20:15

up with Patton Oswalt. Don't

20:17

go away. Welcome

20:21

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier

20:23

today I spoke with emergency room physician

20:26

Michelle Happer. We talked about

20:28

being on the front lines of the coronavirus

20:30

pandemic and her new memoir,

20:33

The Beauty in Breaking. Dr

20:36

Hopper, Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing

20:38

Show. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be

20:40

here. Let's start with congratulating

20:42

you on your success. You are now not just Dr

20:45

Happer, you also Dr Hopper, New York Times

20:47

best selling author. How does it feel? It feels

20:49

amazing, It's surreal it I'm

20:52

still getting used to it so but it's it's

20:54

lovely. Thank you. I think what

20:56

I appreciate about it the most is the fact

20:58

that it's not just you were bestselling

21:00

authors, that it's a book that deserves to be rid.

21:03

Tell me a little bit about what it's been like being

21:05

a doctor on the front lines

21:08

of the worst pandemic arguably

21:10

that human kind has ever seen. And

21:12

so I'm in New Jersey, that's where I practiced

21:14

clinically, So it's

21:16

it's been a little bit of a roller coaster. I

21:18

mean, six weeks ago, maybe

21:21

it was. It was what we're seeing in the South

21:24

where there's a deluge of patients.

21:26

Um, we don't have enough equipment, We still

21:29

don't have enough equipment, we don't

21:31

have enough staff. People are

21:33

people were getting sick. It was not only

21:36

us getting sick and the patient's getting

21:38

sick, but I was taking care of healthcare providers

21:40

from my region and other regions,

21:43

like the technician who came in and

21:46

he kept apologizing because he was feeling

21:48

terrible. He couldn't breathe, his resting heart rate was

21:50

high, his resting oxygen was low,

21:53

and he's apologizing because his phone is blowing

21:55

up because his boss is calling him telling

21:57

him to get back to work. And they know he's

21:59

said they're all getting sick, but

22:02

they don't know what to do because they can't staff

22:04

the unit, and of course he can't go back because

22:06

I have to admit him back to the hospital. So

22:08

that's what we went through. And now there's

22:11

a little bit of a lull, thank goodness

22:13

in the Northeast, but we're bracing

22:15

because we see what's going on. We

22:17

all feel it will come back.

22:19

Another thing that's really opened my eyes has

22:22

been your writing, not just in the book, but in the

22:24

posts that you've put out about

22:27

the effect on healthcare workers. And

22:29

one thing I found really interesting was where you said a

22:31

lot of us, meaning healthcare workers,

22:34

don't know if we will come back to this profession

22:37

once this is all done. Tell me

22:39

why there is that sentiment in a lot of the medical

22:41

community, because I'm seeing this from many healthcare workers

22:43

who go I don't know that this is for me. I don't know that I

22:45

want to be a part of this. Why what other

22:48

than the coronavirus itself, what is what is

22:50

what is driving this feeling? There

22:52

is a lot of stress.

22:54

And

22:57

when I mentioned that we feel we're

22:59

treated more disposable than our equipment,

23:02

that's a real thing. It's it's a strange thing

23:04

to be called a hero. Yet

23:07

I don't believe heroes are put in a position

23:09

where they don't have the equipment that they need,

23:12

when they don't have the staffing and departments

23:14

that they need, when their hours are

23:17

being cut, their pay is being cut, because in

23:19

healthcare in America, healthcare

23:21

is for the most part like any other private

23:24

industries, and it's based on profit

23:26

for a few, that's very

23:28

demoralizing, and those are the conditions

23:31

we're working in. UM.

23:35

And then, of course I work with many people

23:37

who they have families. I

23:40

know many healthcare providers whateveryone is saying is true.

23:42

I know every many healthcare providers who

23:45

don't go home. They're staying

23:47

in hotels, they're staying with

23:49

a single friend where they can be in a basement

23:51

apartment, so their whole lives

23:54

are being turned upside down. In the

23:56

midst of this, you you

23:58

also talk extendible

24:00

about the disparities between hospitals

24:03

in underserved communities, in poorer communities

24:06

and communities of color, versus hospitals

24:08

in wealthier, um or affluent

24:11

neighborhoods. That's been difficult

24:13

for some people to understand because I've seen newspapers

24:15

or people who choose and they go, I've been to

24:17

this hospital. Everything seems fine, And

24:20

yet there are health care professionals saying yes, because

24:22

the load is being unfairly

24:25

born by certain communities where there is a you

24:27

know, disproportionate amount of people getting extremely

24:29

sick from this disease. What is

24:32

it like working in a community hospital

24:34

or hospital in a community where

24:36

people do not have the means on the hospital doesn't

24:38

have the means. What it's like is

24:41

heartbreaking. I mean I personally,

24:44

I prefer to work in communities

24:46

that are inner city, largely black and brown,

24:49

and lower resources financially um

24:53

because I go where the need is. And

24:55

so what I'm seeing is that the

24:58

people being most affected are the essential

25:01

workers. And we know that in these communities,

25:04

essential workers are the people who are working

25:06

in mail delivery, um

25:09

store clerks. These are people

25:11

who can't

25:13

not work. We need them

25:15

to be working, and they can't

25:17

afford to not work. They don't have the kind of

25:19

jobs that they can perform from home,

25:22

so they're there. They're greatest risk, They're

25:24

greatest risk of infection, greatest

25:27

risk of abuse. I mean, I took

25:29

care of a young woman maybe around eighteen

25:32

years old, nineteen years old who

25:34

came in because she didn't know if

25:36

she wanted to live anymore. She already

25:38

was pretty isolated, didn't have any support

25:40

from family or friends, now in further isolation

25:43

from coronavirus, working in a job

25:45

where the the the

25:48

customers coming in were abusive to her,

25:50

where she was being harassed by her boss, and

25:52

she didn't know where else to go. She

25:55

needed someone to talk to, and

25:57

we just spoke and I listened to her, and I told her

25:59

that what she's feeling is real and we're all

26:01

feeling it. And I asked her if there

26:03

was anything else we could do for her, if she felt that she need

26:05

to stay in the hospital, and she said,

26:08

I just needed someone to talk to. There's

26:10

no one to talk to, and you listen

26:12

to me, and I feel like I can go on.

26:15

And I'm seeing and she was well, thank

26:17

goodness. But I'm seeing a lot of that versus

26:20

the mail delivery person

26:23

who wasn't well and his whole department

26:25

wasn't well and he was admitted to an intensive care

26:27

unit. So those are the burdens I'm seeing

26:29

the burden of not having access

26:32

to regular care, not having benefits,

26:35

not having pay and being forced

26:37

to work under these stressful circumstances

26:39

with long hours under CIN. You

26:41

know, they're not health care providers. They didn't

26:43

sign up for this. They don't have the same

26:45

training we do, and they don't have any

26:47

equipment at all. So that's

26:50

what I'm seeing. I also want to mention

26:54

that, of course I'm seeing nursing home

26:56

patients being affected more, but

26:59

also the prisoners. And

27:02

this is particularly heinous to me because

27:05

they can't make their own decisions.

27:07

They can't say, guess what today, I want to go

27:09

to the emergency department. And I've seen

27:11

so many of them when they come in and they

27:13

can't breathe and they're just about to be intimated,

27:16

or maybe we can stave it off with other therapies,

27:19

and they're terrified. And many of them

27:21

were young and healthy, and they tell

27:23

me over and over again how they wanted

27:26

to come in, but they were told in the prison they had to

27:28

wait when they got around to it, when

27:30

the next vehicle was ready to take them, and it could

27:32

be days. So

27:34

those are some of the

27:37

of the disparities that COVID

27:39

is really laying there for us all to

27:41

reckon with. Well, I'll tell

27:43

you this talk if I could wave a magic wand everyone

27:46

read your book, especially the people who don't think

27:48

this is real or don't to you know, take

27:50

it as seriously as they should. Um, thank

27:52

you so much for your time, and thank

27:54

you for the work that you're doing in the hospitals

27:57

every single day. Thank you as

27:59

a pleasure being pleasure

28:01

was mine. Thank you, Dr Harper. After

28:03

the break, I'll be speaking to the one and only

28:06

Patton Oswalt's you don't want to miss it. Welcome

28:10

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. My

28:12

next guest is the legendary comedian

28:15

and actor Patton Oswalt. We

28:17

talked about his latest project, the HBO

28:19

docuseries about the Golden State killer

28:22

called I'll Be Gone in the Dock,

28:24

which is based on the investigative work and

28:27

book by his late wife Michelle

28:29

McNamara. Check it out. What

28:31

drives me is the need

28:34

to put a face on

28:37

a unknown killer. And what

28:39

what I love is

28:41

this intersection of sort of technology and

28:43

crime solving in that people can

28:46

get sort of wheeled out of their house for something

28:48

they did in seven because of

28:50

the Internet, because of DNA. I

28:53

really get off on that. Patton

28:55

Oswalt's Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing

28:57

show, Trevor Noah,

28:59

thank you for having me on from Afar

29:02

before we get into the docuseries and

29:04

really one of the most amazing stories ever

29:07

told. How are you? How are you doing? Because you're

29:09

you, you're your parents? Are you home

29:11

schooling? Are you living? What is happening right

29:13

now? We are trying to do a

29:15

combination of homeschooling

29:18

and uh and living. I

29:20

think what you find out very very quickly as

29:22

a parent, no matter what you do, education

29:25

is not fun. When kids

29:29

they want a summer, they deserve

29:31

just uh kind of day dreaming, nonstructured

29:34

time. And when you're to do

29:36

that, sneaky, um, let's make

29:38

math fun by playing poker. They it's

29:41

like, oh my god, I'm gonna ruin poker for this, Like I

29:43

don't, I just I want them to have a

29:45

summer. I don't want to, you know, make

29:47

somehow ties swimming in with American history.

29:50

This docuseries, it's truly one

29:52

of the most interesting shows I have ever

29:54

watched, based on one of

29:56

the most interesting books that we have ever read,

29:59

and honestly one of the most despicable

30:01

stories that I think, you know humans can ever consume.

30:04

Created, and I mean people have credits in

30:06

your Late Wife with this work. Tell

30:08

me about the docuseries, like, like, what

30:11

what are you trying to do that's difference to the book

30:13

and what story are you trying to tell? Well,

30:16

what we're especially what Liz Garbs, the director,

30:18

who's an incredible documentarian

30:20

in this six part documentary, what she's

30:23

doing is taking a lot of the stories

30:25

of especially the victims and

30:27

the detectives and expanding

30:29

them. I mean, Michelle dealved pretty deeply

30:31

into those in the book, but what Liz

30:33

is trying to show is the aftermath, the

30:36

resilience, and especially the bounce

30:38

back of a lot of these victims and survivors

30:41

of this killer and

30:43

and of this this insect basically,

30:45

and you know that it really

30:47

feels amazing. There's a point where they talk about how

30:49

they've gone to every one of his arraignments

30:52

and they just stare at him and he cannot meet

30:55

their gaze. He can't lift his head work at

30:57

them. And it's just this seeing

30:59

this guy reduced coast in a way he never

31:01

wanted to be seen. It feels

31:03

like justice. And from everything I've heard from

31:05

the different law enforcement officials that I'm talking

31:08

to. He's absolutely faking the

31:10

need for the wheelchair, the um,

31:12

the being frail, He's trying to garner

31:15

sympathy, and people are just like

31:17

staring right at him with no with

31:20

zero empathy, and it's shrinking him even

31:22

further. And anytime victims

31:24

or survivors can be afforded that opportunity,

31:26

I think it's very important. You know, what's

31:28

what's really tough in society is um

31:31

watching stories like this, but then not being

31:33

terrified by these stories as if they are

31:35

the norm, you know, because they are exceptionally

31:38

horrifying, but they are still exceptional in

31:40

that they it's not everybody. So

31:44

when when when when this show is being put together,

31:46

is it a story that's being told like it could happen to

31:48

you, or did you guys make a conscious effort to

31:50

tell a story that that is like, man,

31:53

it's crazy that this can happen, you

31:55

know, but luckily it's not happening to everybody.

31:57

A couple of things that we emphasize were, um,

31:59

no, this is not happening to everyone's serial

32:02

killers are a are a very

32:04

rare, very twisted, sad

32:07

group of people. But what we also especially

32:09

this is what Michelle kind of focused on in

32:11

her book, and Liz really I

32:13

thought brought into even bigger focus

32:15

is there was a certain way

32:18

that women and especially women who had

32:20

been raped and assaulted, were treated

32:22

and thought of in the seventies that we

32:24

have we've done a lot of progression

32:26

on we still have a long way to go. But when

32:29

you see how a lot of them were treated,

32:31

they kind of subconsciously had

32:33

it, and then that they were partially at fault

32:36

for this um and so there's

32:39

something very uh,

32:42

it's it's very frightening to think that that

32:44

in the so in those so called liberated

32:47

progressive times, things were so

32:50

um medieval in a lot of ways, and it's

32:52

good to see the progress we've made away from it.

32:55

You know, your late wife was credited with

32:57

putting so many of the pieces together n

33:00

guiding law enforcements and the public

33:02

at large to focus on

33:04

the facts that help get this killer court.

33:07

You you wrote, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful

33:09

love letters that I've ever heard or seen

33:12

from a human to another human being. Surely

33:14

on a personal level, delving into this work

33:16

like it must make you proud, it must

33:19

make you, it must bring you joy, and sadness at

33:21

the same time. What has this journey been like for you? I

33:25

mean it's a combination of you

33:28

know, the sadness will never totally

33:30

be gone, but but it does

33:33

feel really good to know that amongst

33:35

all that tragedy Michelle left

33:37

behind, you know, dozens of

33:39

portraits of strength and

33:42

resilience and adaptation, men

33:44

and women, um that hopefully

33:46

other you know, potential crime solvers

33:49

and other and I hope there's not a lot of them, but other

33:51

victims and survivors can look at as

33:53

a lifeline or as a piece of wreckage to cling

33:55

onto in the storm.

33:58

Yeah, it truly is one of the most amazing

34:00

pieces of work I've had the chance to see, and I

34:02

hope everybody watches it. Congratulations

34:04

to you, Congratulations to the team for putting

34:06

it together, and of course thank you to your late

34:08

wife for for making this what it is. Hopefully

34:11

the next time I see you, we'll be back on stage

34:13

performing for human beings in person. My

34:16

god, something, it's

34:19

just listen. I don't want to I don't

34:21

want to blow too much smoke up your ass. But after we watch

34:23

the news every night, then we we we d

34:25

v R you and my wife is like, okay,

34:27

let's a little dessert, like a little relief. So

34:31

just thank you. I don't

34:33

know how you you and your writer's face

34:35

all this madness every day and go let's

34:38

put on a show, but you do.

34:41

So thank you, thank you, thank

34:43

you very much. And I know you don't

34:45

like it, but I think there's a great business

34:47

opportunity in swimming American

34:50

history. You should patent

34:52

that and we can make a lot of money. Trust

34:54

me on this one. Um, let's

34:56

let's talk about that off the air. We'll talk about off

34:58

their patent. All Well, thank you so much,

35:00

my friend, Thank you, Trevor, thank you, thank

35:03

you so much again, Patton. Well, that's our show for tonight.

35:05

But before we go, America is facing

35:07

a nationwide poll worker shortage, and

35:09

it's because most poll workers are over sixty

35:12

and COVID is still in the air, and so

35:15

understandably they're not showing up. But

35:17

fewer poll workers means fewer polling

35:19

stations are open, and it means there's going to be

35:21

longer lines, and not everyone can afford

35:23

to stay and wait in those long lines, especially

35:26

in communities of color. But the

35:28

good news is most pole

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working is paid and in some states

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