Trevor welcome to the daily show, everybody thank you so much for tuning in thank you for coming out look at you guys look at you guys take a seat come on in, everybody take a seat lets do it im trevor noah. Our guest tonight is the president of the wnba Players Association and a forward for the los angeles sparks, Nneka Ogwumike is joining us, everybody cheers and applause also on tonights show, the president ial race is officially a sausage fest. Dulce sloan celebrates womens history month, and have you been Drinking Water . Then you might be in trouble. Lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with the democratic primaries. After super tuesday, voters basically decided the race should be between joe biden and bernie sanders. So Michael Bloomberg promptly dropped out, and now in the wise words of the philosopher, another one. We begin with todays big breaking 2020 news. Senator Elizabeth Warren is dropping out. Warren speaking out on her decision to suspend her campaign. Gender in this race, you know that is the trap question for every woman. If you say, yeah, there was sexism in this race, everyone says, whiner and if you say, no, there was no sexism, about a bazillion women think, what planet do you live on . I promise you this, i will have a lot more to say on that subject later on. Trevor damn Elizabeth Warren has a good point, yeah, because, like it or not, there was some truth she dropped there. A woman addressing sexism or ignoring it while running for president is either going to be seen as a whiner or living on another planet, which is unfair, especially since the president is already a whiner who lives on another planet. laughter who you think sexism played a role or not, you have to admit its pretty strange that a race that started with a broad tap industry of candidates is now basically down to two old white men. Theyre so old, no matter which one wins, donald trump will be the youngest person in the race. Think about that. laughter like, theres no other job where these three people would be the top candidates. Even if they were auditioning for the life alert commercials laughter yeah, people would be, like, were kind of going for someone healthier, you know, you guys dont likely look like youre young enough to save. You know what i mean . laughter and now the big question is who is Elizabeth Warren going to endorse . Biden or bernie . Is she going to swipe right or really far left . laughter all right, lets move on to this years biggest viral challenge, the coronavirus. While the c. D. C. Is struggling to test patients and stores are running out of cleaning supplies, were finding out how fast this thing can spread. New alarm bells on the coronavirus in this country. More than 150 cases in a growing number of states. A new york city lawyer is hospitalized. His wife, daughter and son testing positive. A family friend who he spent time with is also positive as are his wife and three children. Officials also announcing the neighbor who drove the lawyer to the hospital has the virus. The neighbors children are being tested. The governor says no need to panic. laughter trevor okay, theres deafnlt need to panic because the only time people say theres no need to panic is when theres something to panic about. Like a pilot never comes on the p. A. , ladies and gentlemen, no need to panic, but weve landed. You would be like, and . And nothing, theres no need to panic. laughter because that graphic is especially scary. Everyone got the virus. That guy got the virus. Then his wife got the virus. His kids got the virus. His neighbor got the virus. Probably everyone sharing his netflix account got the virus. The guy who drove him to the hospital got the virus, which mean the cars g. P. S. Probably got the virus as well. Turn right now. Coughing. Coughing. Touching face. No, g. P. S. , dont touch your face you dont even have a face leaders all over the world are handling corona in very different ways. Some are panicking and some arent doing enough. Lucky for us in the United States theres one person who isnt worried at all. We had a report the global death rate at 3. 4 and the report that the olympics gob delayed. Your reaction to that . Well, i think 3. 4 is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch because at lot of people will have this and its very mild. So i think that that number is very high. I think the number personally, i would say the number is way under 1 portion. Trevor yes, good news trump has a hunch coronavirus is not as deadly as people think. In fact, he personally has a feeling that the death rate is lower than 1 . laughter what the ~bleep is that . laughter ive got a feeling, is a phrase that should only be reserved for lowstakes situations. You know, like whether tonights going to be a good, good night. laughter honestly, i dont know why trump is doing this. Why is he being, like, its not that bad, acting like the virus is no big deal. No one is blaming trump for coronavirus. People just dont want him ignoring it like it will just go away. This is a global pandemic, not his son eric. laughter and, by the way, why was fox news showing the white house for that call . I mean, based on where trump spends most of his time, its more lyle he was at maralago or k. F. C. I dont know even know why they did that. Heres a fun story to lighten upyour day. You know why everyone tells you to not text while youre driving because it can lead to disaster . This next driver should have taken the advice. Check out a major fail after a man passed his driving test, just ten minutes later that same man drove his car into a river. It happened in southern china. Reports that he was trying to avoid those pedestrians on the bridge, apparently. Get this, messages on his phone calculating him for passing his drivers test. laughter there are so many things about this story. First of all, he was trying to avoid why didnt he just stop . laughter like, that thing, it went bad so fast. It looked like the driving version of Mike Bloombergs campaign im the only one that can aaahhh Elizabeth Warren laughter you know who i really feel bad for . The person he was apparently texting with because you realize theyre still at home looking at the three little dots and nothing came out. What is he saying . Did he pass or not . But, still, the real lesson is about texting while driving because, you see, this only happened because the driver looked down to read his texts, then he looked up, saw the pedestrians, panicked and swerved and went into the water. Dont make the mistake. Just keep looking at your phone the whole time and let the people jump out to have the way. We can always make more people but that car is never coming back. laughter thats it for the headlines. Lets move on to the top story. cheers and applause right now, were all on edge because to have the coronavirus. Yes, it is scary, but you know what helps me sleep at night is remembering that there are a million other things that could kill me first. Yeah, theres Car Accidents or fires or that suicide pact i made with my best friend in high school if we werent married by now. But luckily, the u. S. Government recently took action to cross one potential killer off the list. The u. S. Environmental Protection Agency is targeting chemicals in its new standard for chemicals. Pfass are linked to cancer, liver damage and thyroid disease and they never ever degraivmentd theyre known as forever chemicals. Theyre so prevalent c. D. C. Scientists believe p fas chemicals are in the blood streams of all americans. Trevor there are a group of chemicals call p fas that are in our blood and might cause cancer. Theyre known as forever chemicals because theyre impossible to break down, which sounds dangerous but also kind of romantic. Yeah, it does. Sounds like something from an old school r b song. Girl, i want to be your forever chemical theres nothing toxics about our love laughter what are these forever chemicals and how do they get into us . If its not sexually transmitted, i dont know how i got it. Lets find out in another installment of if you dont know, now you know cheers and applause now, forever chemicals might be with us till the end of time but they were only engineered by scientists about 80 years ago. For a while, seemed like theyd only change the world for the better. Discovered in 1938 accidentally by scientists, used a few later in the Manhattan Project. What made it success 1 2 manufacturing is how they fit together. The florine atoms fit around the carbon atoms to resist heat, oil and water. It is in most products that are water, heat and grease resistant, used to repel water grease and oil in all sorts of things from carpets to clothing to nonstick cookware. Trevor the forever chemicals keep things from sticking to surfaces, which is useful, like i dont want to get cancer but have you tried scraping eggs off a sticky pan . Its a night mayor. There are definitely times when i was, like, i would rather be dead and this technology was discovered by scientists entirely by accident which always amazing me that they can do. This scientists are always making one thing but then they discovered something totally different. I mean, like, ive done the same thing in my life. One time i was trying to create dinner for my girlfriend but instead i discovered she didnt love me. Were also nonstick. But the pointy, these forever chemicals have tons of uses, they were even used in the Manhattan Project to help build the first atomic bomb, which means at some point in the 1940s, a general was, like, killed you discover a way to defeat the germans . And the scientists were, like, were still working on it, but before i get to that, has this ever happened to you . laughter the forever chemicals would be incredible if they remained in all the products like they were supposed to, unfortunately, they cant seem to stay put. Once theyre made, they accumulate in the environment, end up in our water supply, in our food and us. The Environmental Watchdog Group found forever chemicals or p fas in Drinking Water in 31 states. You find them in takeout containers and pizza gooks. The toxins can transfer into the food. Some substantial levels in meat and seafood and chocolate cake that can be bought off the shelf. Trevor damn chocolate cake takes no prisoners. If it doesnt get you with the diabetes, its got a backup plan to take you down with secret chemicals. Like the walter white teamed up with betty crocker. laughter why does this happen with food we love . Its always the food we love that will kill us. You never heard the news say, this in, fermented horse meat is bad for you. Its like, you enjoy chocolate cake and water . Well you dead now laughter chocolate cake would have been bad enough but forever chemicals are in our water. That means its in the sink, the shower, which means its seen me naked so it could give me cancer and black mail me. I swear to got, you tell anybody about that thing hanging off my back and ill kill you, forever chemicals laughter everything from your food to Drinking Water is contaminated. The e. P. A. Is taking action now. But people have been raising concerns for decades, and for decades, Companies Like dupont were brushing off concerns like food on a teflon pan. Even dupont says it cannot rule out its products gev off the chemical. The Vice President of research is the dupont executive chosen to publicly defend teflon. She says teflon is completely safe, even if the key chemical is in everyones blood. Everyone has it. Everyone has it. Its in my blood, your blood . Possibly. We do not believe there are any Adverse Health defects. Is that a good thing to have it in your blood . There are lots of chemicals that are present in our blood. laughter trevor there are lots of chemicals in our blood . Yeah, but right now were talking about the chemicals your company put there. What kind of defense is this . Can you imagine if you caught someone breaking into your home and youre, like, hey, what are you doing here . Theyre, like, uh, there are many people in houses right now. I mean, whos that guy . Thats my husband my point exactly laughter so at this point, no matter what the government does to fight forever chemicals, theres a good chance a lot of the damage is already done. If youve got blood, these forever chemicals are in it. So all Companies Like dupont can do now is just put their best spin on things, which isnt easy. I wont lie, if i ran dupont, i would try and, like, figure out a way to make it look good. I wouldnt hide the fact that they may have poisoned almost every human on the face of the planet, no, i would make adso own it with pride. What do banks, real estate and the oscars have in common . Discrimination. But at dupont, were all about inclusivity. Thats right. No matter who you are or where youre from, dupont will poison you i grew up in texas, and ive got dupont chemicals in my blood. Look at me i am from uganda and i am poisoned because of all these chemicals in my blood, the doctors say ive got cancer and so does my husband. 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In april, because youre a fool. laughter anyway, trevor, have you ever wondered why women dont get the historic credit they deserve . Trevor sexism . Statutes, trevor. Women dont have as many statutes as men. In fact, nationwide, only 8 of outdoor statutes are of women. Trevor wow, how did you know that statistic . I drink snapple ~bleep . ~bleep , i read. What . Internet. Come on, dawg. And ive seen it for myself. I was walking through central park the other day, under duress, and i saw statues of alexander hamilton, christopher columbus, william shakespeare, all famous men from history. When it comes to women, there are only two statues in central park, alice in wonderland and mother goose laughter which makes no damn sense alice is just a white girl who took molly. laughter and why does mother goose get a statue . All she did was ~bleep a goose laughter trevor i dont think thats right. Fine. She made love to a goose trevor anyway, dulce, im lost. How does having more statues help . Because, trevor, statues help us remember history. When you walk past a statue and youre, like, oh, yeah, m. L. K. Did have a dream, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated individual, and when you dont honor women the same way you honor men, youre leaving them out of history. Trevor thats true. Thats true. cheers and applause well, at least at least women have the statue of liberty. Thats one to have the most famous statues in the world. We need statutes of real women, not some giant french bitch holding an ice cream laughter no, someone like tony morrison, the first black woman to win the nobel prize for literature. Or frances perkins, the first woman appointed to a president ial cabinet. cheers and applause or someone like beyonce. cheers and applause the first woman to be beyonce why doesnt she have a statue . Shes already stand like a statue. Shes ready trevor actually a great idea. But i hope you understand, building thousands of statues of women is going to be difficult. Statues are expensive. This is going to be a project that takes a lot of time. Oh, ive already done it, trevor. Trevor what . Ive designed one statue to symbolize all women, their power, their beauty, their mystique a flawless avatar of womanhood that anyone can look at and see themselves. Trevor dulce, thats a statue of you. Oh, there ever oh, trevor im touched that you can see me in that art trevor no, its literally you. It has your name on it. Also, why are you holding a baby . You dont have kids that baby symbolizes america, okay . which women have been carrying for far too long cheers and applause nah, im kidding, its just elvis baby, because thats some history upi want to make trevor dulce sloan, everybody well be right back cheers and applause gatorade zero. All the electrolytes. Zero sugar. Level 3 huh . Thats a start. All day, baby nba champion . Hey glad were not like that. Gatorade zero. Get more out of zero. Everyone said i was crazy. 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Welcome laughter cheers and applause thank you trevor i dont even know where to start in your world because of how many achievements you just have, you know, in your resume. Lets start with your journey as a player. Okay. Trevor you are one of the most accomplished players weve ever seen in the game of basketball. Magic johnson says hes watching you play and says youre one to have the smartest players on and off the court. He said youre a combination of Magic Johnson and lebron james. I appreciate that. Trevor you dominated for such a long time. The wnba is truly one of the most interesting stories because you have a league that keeps on growing every year, does better and better and makes more and more money, yet there are so many complicated stories within it. You have amazing women who are athletes who play in this league. Most of them, ive heard, have college degrees. Almost everyone. Trevor almost everyone . Yeah. Trevor thats special on its own. Very special. Trevor business owners, entrepreneurs, but because of the pay structures in the league, players of the wnba have had to make a choice to play the entire year to sustain yourself as a basketball player. Yeah, and whats reflected in our cba now, we wanted to create more disparity in the choices, so, now, with what we hopefully catalyzed the in this current collective bargaining agreement, there are players who have opportunities not to only make more money but to be compensated in the league market, in the team market, so they dont feel like they have to go overseas, whichles affects motherhood and child planning. Trevor right. You dont have to decide when am i going to have my kid, am i scared to tell them im pregnant, and those are the types of resources that we want to change at a foundational level that can hopefully create a much Better Future for Womens Basketball. Trevor thats really good. Yes. applause trevor one of the more interesting and heartbreaking stories is unden undeniably thaf gigi bryant. Yeah. Trevor we saw all these images of her and they seldom didnt involve basketball, you know, whether it was her playing in her dress and in her heels, you know, that individual you that went around, whether it was pictures of her practicing with her dad kobe, whether it was images of her to gain staring at you, almost looking at, wow, this is where i dream of being, theres no denying gigi bryant in many ways represented what the future of the wnba could be. Because she wasnt just playing basketball to play basketball, she was trying to get somewhere, and that somewhere was the wnba. She looked up to you and to many other players in the wnba. What do you think thats done for the sports and what do you hope young girls out there who are playing right now will have that your generation doesnt . You know, we saw a living legacy in her, not just through her father, but also for women in sports and for the wnba. Trevor right. When we got to experience her, we were looking at what we were working for, you know. Were not just here to make a difference for the current players, for the rookies coming in. Were here to make a difference for those girls, like gigi, whose eyes lit up every time that they saw us, and that is out there, and people need to know that that is out there. We were tragically alarmed by it, but it certainly was a wakeup call, and it likely hit hard for the Womens Basketball community to lose her, but were going to live in her honor. cheers and applause trevor congratulation force everything youve done and making history. Thank you. Thank you. Trevor Nneka Ogwumike, of the Wnba Los Angeles sparks, everybody well be right back cheers and applause preorder a galaxy s20 now for up to 200 in samsung credit. Yes. Yes. Yeah sure. Yes yes. Yeah, yeah no problem. Yes. 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