Been more successful than many people could have imagined. 53 of American Voters now say that they support black lives matter with only two when only two years ago it was around 40 . Multiple major corporations in america have now said they are actively going to diversify their workplace and hire black people who theyve previously discriminated against for so long, and millions of white americans are now desperately trying to find a second black friend. One to have the biggest shifts in america is something the country has been resisting for 155 years. Over at the capitol, House Speaker nancy pelosi is calling for nearly a dozen confederate statutes to be removed saying they play homage to hate. In richmond a con fefort statue of Jefferson Davis pulled down, the face smashed before towed away in pieces. Bubba wallace racing with black lives matter painted on his car, the race starting hours after nascar banned the Confederate Flag. That was a huge Pivotal Moment for the sport. A lot of backlash but it creates doors and allows the community to come together as one. Trevor yeah, from congress all the way to nascar, all over the country people are asking the question is it finally time to let go of the confederacy. I think its impressive nascar is doing this because the Confederate Flag is extremely popular with a lot of their fans. To soften the blow, maybe ban the fans from bringing the flag to the races but incorporate it into the race itself. If you win, they raise the checkered flag, for the loser the co Confederate Flag. Everyone wins. Why did congress have Confederate Flags in the first place . The confederacy fought against america so why have statutes of the confederacy in the building . Its like women having gluten in the kitchen. I dont even understand what that is. The government treats traitors better than black citizen. George floyd had a 20 counterfeit and gets chokes to death. The confederacy is responsible for thousands of dead americans and you build a statue. The winning side is finally deciding it doesnt need to keep celebrating the side that tried to destroy them. One step that the pentagon is considering is renaming military bases that are named after confederate offices, you know, names like fort bragg in north carolina, forthood in texas and fort slave catcher in georgia. I dont even know how they let that one pass. Whats interesting is that, while the military thinks this symbolic move can help Race Relations in the ranks, the commander in tweet strongly disagrees. U. S. Militaries leaders expressed a willingness to discuss renaming bases named after confederate generals. Trump says that wont happen saying theyre part of a Great American heritage. He tweets, the United States of america trained and demoid our heroes on these hall load grounds and won two world wars, therefore my administration will not even consider the renaming of magnificent and fabled military inn installations. Trevor part of me thinks hes appealing to his confederate loving base, and then part because he thinks fort bragg named its base after him. As usual, trumps logic makes no sense. America didnt win world war ii because of the names of those bases, all right, america won world war ii because tom hanks found matt damon. That was the turning point. You can call the base whatever you want. Not going to determine how effectively your soldiers are going to fight. America isnt going to be losing to russia in world war iii, like, we should have never renamed those bases that was our secret weapon gunfirebrook i know for some people this debate might seem inconsequential but you have to understand the reason the generals are open to changing the names of the bases is the same reason nascar is doing it. They want the military to take a unified stand against racism and they want to show that the American Military stands for all americans, including the millions of minorities who have served within its ranks because just take a second and imagine being a black soldier, training at a base that is named after somebody who didnt even think of you as a human being. That isnt just offensive to those soldiers, its offensive to the confederate generals, too. Imagine what if they came back and saw a base named after them. My god, all of the slaves have guns donald trump isnt the only person trying to stand in the way of making progress. While states like new york are finally trying to pass legislation that tries to stop police violence, those changes are being resisted by a very powerful force, the Police Unions. In fact, just listen to the head of the new York Police Union pat lynch lashing out at Police Reform theyre asking us to pull back. Theyre asking us to walk away from you theyre asking us to abandon our communities theyre asking me to walk away from where i live. Theyre asking me to walk away from where i work theyre asking us to walk away from the neighborhoods that we brought back and thats whats happening. And you know what . We dont have a choice if we put our hands on the criminal, youre going to jail. Im not being dramatic, thats how bad it is. Trevor okay. With all due respect, i think you are being dramatic. No policeman is going to jail for touching somebody. This is almost like the Police Version of those guys during metoo. Remember the guys who were like, so what, i cant even smile at a lady in the Office Anybody more . Just cut my dick off now, we know thats coming next nobodys asking police to abandon their communities. Police are asking police to treat all communities like it is their community. Think about the fact that this guy even says we cant even put our hands on a criminal, thats part of the problem. All too often in america, Police Treat Everyone that they come across like a criminal, especially black people, and im not being dramatic, thats just how it is now, for those who dont know, Police Unions fight for their members in the ways that all unions do, all right, they organize for better pay and they organize for benefits. There are a lot of good things that come from having a police union, but they also protect members in ways that make it virtually impossible to hold bad camps accountable. They set the terms of internal investigations that accused cops can stonewall till the department gives up and if one is found at fault unions can put limits on penalties so even if Police Chiefs want to fire the officers who have done something wrong cant do it. On top of all that, there are even examples of police threatening not to do their jobs if politicians try to hold them accountable, by, im sorry, is ridiculous. Can you imagine if nurses threaten to let patients die if theyre not allowed to steal opioids and sell them on the side . No one would accept that. The question is what can americans do. If meese unions are this powerful, what can people do . For more, im joined by our very own union expert roy wood, jr. Whats going on, roy . How you doing . Whats up, man . How you been is this well, im as good as i can be, and im assuming youve seen that video of pat lynch, you know, the head of the new York Police Union. What did you make of the video . Yes, i saw Henry Winkler up there at the microphone doing his thing. Looked like Henry Winkler. I thought it was a happy days reboot. I thought this is a terrible time to bring back this show. Also, side bar, if youre a police union and you vote for somebody to be the head of the police union, you probably shouldnt have them be named la pat lynch. Also where are the rest of the black people on this diverse Police Department . Look at this photo . It looks like the 50year union of a la crosse team trevor yeah, roy, and another problem is the Police Unions are now basically showing people what a powerful force they are. Theyre standing up against the reforms, and theyre so well organized that politicians are afraid of them. Like the question i have for you, is there anything that can be done to weaken the influence they have . See, see, see, see, see, african, youre thinking about it wrong. Heres the thing everybodys trying to make the police union weaker, when all you need to do is make a Stronger Union thats stronger than the police union. Thats why i propose all black people come together and we form a black peoples union, called the National Black association. Trevor wait, hold on. The n. B. A. . Shit, man, ill think of another name. Look, the point is, once this union is together, it brings together every black person in the country and, if youre black, youre automatically approved. Its the opposite of a home loan trevor okay, fine. And then what happens once you have the black union . How does that help is this once were organized, every year, well make america negotiate a new deal with us and, with our strength in numbers, we can finally get our demands met, hold cops accountable for misconduct, dimilitaryize police, shift funding away from cops and towards schools and education and rescue kanye west from the sucking place. We need him back, man trevor okay, roy, that sounds like fair demands, but what if america and the black union cant agree on a deal . What happens then . Well, then black people will just have to take our talents elsewhere, like when lebron left cleveland, only now its black people leaving all of america. Does america really want that . Do you really want to be without black people . No sports, no music, no more dance moves. You will be on tik tok doing the hokey pokey when we leave. Good luck going viral with that shit trevor if black people leave america, where will they go . Anywhere. Maybe a country that doesnt have Police Brutality. Theres japan, theres new zealand, theres whats the white one norway. You can go to norway. You know what . I dont think i should go to norway because i think winter is brutal. Thats a whole different type of brutality to black people. Well just go to japan. When we leave america, well get ourselves there. We dont need you offering no boat rides. Not falling for that no more. Travel vouchers only. If youll excuse me, trevor, i need to check on the the 50,000 business cards i ordered that says n. B. A. On it. See if i can get those canceled. Hey, whats up, man . Yeah, i need you to cancel the od order. Trevor all right, well, thank you, roy. Time for us to take a short break. But when we come back, well talk about a way to solve coronavirus, Police Brutality and long voting lines like that. Dont go away. female vo when it comes to longevity, who has the highest percentage of its vehicles still on the road today . Subaru. When it comes to best overall value, who does intellichoice rank number one . Subaru. And when it comes to safety, who has more 2020 iihs top safety pick winning vehicles . More than toyota, honda, and hyundaicombined . Subaru. Its easy to love a car you can trust. Its easy to love a subaru. Get 0 apr financing for 63 months on select subaru models now through june 30th. In case you were wondering. 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Trevor you know, i cant say this for certain because im not like a scientist, but i feel like coronavirus grew up with a father who never loved it because, right now, its working really hard to prove itself. I mean, 200,000 deaths by september . Coronavirus is attacking america so hard, half of the countrys going to want to put up a statute of it. Look, there are many reasons americans are taking the pandemic less seriously, but one of those reasons might be the fact that the people running the country barely seem to be thinking about it any more at all. They havent held a Coronavirus Press conference to update the public in weeks. I dont know where the country officially stands. Do you . Are we winning . Are we losing . Can we go back outside . Can we sneeze on the buffet again . Whats happening . Doesnt help that just yesterday the head of the Coronavirus Task force did this. Vice president mike pence deleted tweet showing staff deleting coronavirus recommendations. He reposted showing Trump Campaign staffers with no social distancing or face masks, that despite these are the recommendations of the Coronavirus Task force led by pence. Trevor you see, this is the problem how do you expect the public to take shings seriously when you yourself are not taking it seriously. You tell people to wear masks but you dont, you tell people to social distancing but youre crammed together like the tiny fish inside the can. The fish. You know the fish. Theyve got the smell. The the on the tip of my tongue. You know what im talking about, because its clear to see americas battle sardines youre packed together in a room like sardines ha look, the point is americas botched Coronavirus Response is just one of the reasons that 74 of americans novel like the country is on the wrong track, and i dont blame them. Police are beating up protestors in the streets. Millions of people are unemployed. And georgia couldnt even hold a primary election without making people wait in lines for hours. Clearly, american democracy is failing, which means theres only one thing to do. What if i told you about a country in crisis. A country ravaged by disease. Where the economy has collapsed. Where soldiers patrol the streets. A government that gases its own people. And lines to vote are longer than the bathroom line at coachella. What if i told you that country is america. Admit it, america is a failed state. America needs a return to democracy. If theres one thing america knows, its when a country needs democracy, you invade it. Its time for someone to invade the United States. Specifically canada. Thats right. Were asking the good people of canada to invade us. Please. Please. Please invade us. Please invade us. For the love of god what do yall pray to, a moose . Were not asking for a donation, were asking for an invasion. Some of our states are already basically canadian minnesota, maine, the nondetroit parts of michigan. Were right next to you. Just invade us for the weekend and see if you like it come on no new language to learn. Its english and with a slightly more normal accent. To my fellow americans, why would we not want canada to invade us . Well have racism but it will be polite, with a small. Canada, we apologize for making fun of you so much. Were so soory yall make it easy were just jealous of your healthcare system. Bring that with you we did great under the last black president , were willing to try yours on top of that, i want to ~bleep canadian. We want to. If youre waiting to see canadas military zambonis roam the streets of our nation. Go to dailyshow. Com invadeus and share with your friends. If enough of us ask politely, they cant say no. Trevor come on, canada, your time to shine. When we come back, i talk to legendary director spike lee about da 5 bloods. Stick around. 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I said this offscreen but i want to say it on camera, you are doing a great job. You are speaking truth to power, and youre making a difference. Youre making a difference. Trevor thank you so much, my brother, i appreciate you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This interview is about you, man. Lets talk to the great speak se lee. Youve got a new movie coming out on netflix that i had the pleasure of watching last night, and its interesting, i mean, the last time i spoke to you about a film, it was black klansmen, right . Im going to direct you for a second. Can you pull up so i get more of you in frame . Thank you so much. Thats beautiful. I wont take directions from you laughter trevor i want to talk to you about how spike lee is making movies and what youre doing with your platform because black klansmen, so many people watched it and one of the moments i wont forget is the scenes you played from the reallife news at the end of the movie and what was happening in the movie connected with what were experiencing today. Youve done something really similar in da 5 bloods, in that youve created a story thats you know, its a powerful story about black war veterans from the vietnam war coming back together for a trip to go back to vietnam to reconnect as brothers to go and, you know, pay respects to somebody that theyve lost, but youve made the film tie into whats happening now. Youve even got moments of today in it. Explain to me why youve chosen to do that . Well, i think that and, also, thank you for having me on the show. I think that people are more apt to enjoy an historical piece if, in some way, shape or form, you can slip in whats happening now and, as you mentioned, we did that t at the end of the black cannesmen, when we saw the murder of heather hair in the rally in charlottesville. And the way the film out came out had nothing to do with the timing, but there could not have been a better time for this film because i truly think that a lot of whats in the film is why people are marching all across this world chanting black lives matter and, in many cases, those are black and brown faces arent black and brown faces yelling black lives matter. Trevor right. And thats a win right there. Thats a win right there. So i really feel strongly about this that all this energy, all these different people that were coming together, were becoming galvanized, particularly in the United States of america, we have to keep this energy, register to vote, vote, and celebrate when the numbers come in, like our brother prince said, like its1999 laughter im telling you, there are going to be some of the biggest parties ever trevor you made films, spike, that have captured the moment in america. So what i wanted to know is when you made da 5 bloods, every theme in the story connects to whats happening now. Its a story of four black men who served the American Military during vietnam, and whats really powerful is they dont just face, you know, the struggles all veterans face when they come back, but they have the compound suffering of being black as well. They come back to a country thats still racist and still oppresses them, even though they fought for that country when they were called upon. That part of the story is really strong, you know, its not just a trip. Its not just a boys trip movie. It goes into the war, it goes into their experiences, it goes into their ptsd. That felt like what you were trying to focus on in the film. Why was that important for you to do . A very simple answer, my brother. Chavic bowlsman who place Stormin Norman tells them that the first person to die for the United States of america in a war, the American Revolutionary war, was a black man. 1770 in a thing called the boston massacre. And a black man died, crispua addicks. So from the very beginning, we have been fighting for this country from the very beginning from the very beginning we have been fighting for this country, as you said, that doesnt fight for us. We have been loving this country that doesnt love us. And, so, when this guy agent orange talks about our brother Colin Kaepernick not being patriotic, thats some b. S. First of all, colin, him kneeling had nothing to do with blasting the armed forces or disgracing old glory, red, white and blue. Its about the same thing that people are marching all across the streets in this world. Agent orange also called black n. F. L. Players s. O. B. S. He also said that refrain we came really from the vietnam war which is told toward antiwar protesters, america, love it or leave it. First of all, you cannot tell any africanamerican love it or leave it. We built this bitch. We built it. The foundation i know some people might have heard me say this before, but bear with me the foundation of the United States of america is distilled in the land from the native people and the genocide committed against them paired with slavery, that is the foundation of the United States of america, its a fact. Boom laughter fact trevor before i let you go, spike, i wanted to ask you, i know this is a really controversial question, and i need you to bear with me, but do you think the n. B. A. Stopping was the best thing that happened to the knicks . laughter or do you wish you were still there courtside . If you remember, because the whole thing blew up, i said, im not coming back to a game this regular season. Trevor and now nobodys coming to a regular game, spike laughter oh, man. Thank you very much for joining me again. I truly, truly appreciate it. Continue doing what youre doing and, as always, its an honor having you on the show. Its my honor. Let me say this real quickly weve never ever had a meal or a drink. Weve got to do that, a. C. , after corona. Trevor i love that. Were here in new york, baby, come on trevor a. C. , after corona, me and you, spike lee, having a drink. And we both know whos paying. I love you, spike laughter thank you so much again for that, spike. When we come back, ill be talking to actor josh gad about all his new projects. Stay tuned. I got an oriole here. Eh. Common bird. Ooh look over here something much better. There it is. Peacock, included with xfinity x1. Remarkable. Fascinating. Very. It streams tons of your favorite shows and movies, plus the latest in sports news and. Huh run the newest streaming app has landed on xfinity x1. Now thats. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity x1 just got even better with peacock premium included at no additional cost. No strings attached. Just say peacock into your voice remote to start watching today. Trevor welcome back to the daily distancing show. Earlier today, i spoke with tonynominated actor josh gad. He starts in aretmis fowl, which is going to be premiering on disney plus, and also a star in the animated hit central park which is hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. Josh gad trevor singing names trevor welcome to the daily distancing show. Im so honored. I remember seeing you the first night you took over when jon left and you said to me, i cant wait to have you on. Its only been, what, five years since youve had me on . Trevor so this is whatand i. A person said you should only invite him at a very special time in the world. And iight. You should wait for a global pandemic. Trevor thats exactly what it is. He cant come to the studio, make sure you guys are literally thousands of miles away from each other. Trevor thats exactly it. But youre here now my friend, thank you so much for being here. I love you. Trevor i mean, this is such a strange time because, like you say, weve got protests in the streets, which you have been talking about. You know, you have been one to have the people most vocal about whats going on, talking about black lives matter, sharing support. Weve got coronavirus going on, whirlwind for you emotionally because youve got the joy of some of the beautiful shows youve created but youve also got the world stuck indoors watching the shows and then going outside and protesting and coming back in and watching your shows to calm down. Its all of the above. You are doing the same thing. Its a weird time to entertain. Its a weird time to do my job, which is a pretty, you know, in the scheme of things, pointless job, or so i think. And all i can do since im not medically trained, since i dont have much to offer on a professional level, is try to bring a little light and joy to the world, and thats what im trying to do, maybe not great but im trying to do it. Trevor youve always done that, whether its been book of mormon. Whether its been youre two weeks on the daily show which nobody know about. Whether its you as olaf, whether being josh. You always love bringing joy to peoples lives. Its no different now. We have three projects i want to talk about. Disney plus one first, aretmis fowl. What is going on . It looks like an epic franchise, tell me about aretmis fowl. Eth based on a series of books biowen cove by by owen. The director of the Orient Express was the director of this, and i was middle east drawn to the character who is this insane loner type. Hes haggard by way of hans solo. Hes sort of a mess. The story is about a 12yearold who is a criminal mastermind, and i just thought that was such a cool story, it was so different than anything id read before. Trevor we have central park as well. Thats a lot of fun. When the show kicks off with your character, i dont know if its a guitar or you ca ukuleleu have the fun, opening number. If you live in new york as i do, its a wonderful feeling, because it captures how crazy and diverse central park actually is. Its, like, everyones home and no ones home at the same time. Musical comedy and how that came together. Im so unbelievably proud of central park. I cocreated it with lauren bershard, and i wanted to create the same feeling that you got if you saw the book of mormon or frozen, things ive done on the big screen but never small screen. Its a love letter to new york, to passion, to perseverance in the face of adversity with an insane cast, leslie odom, jr. , katherine hunt christian bell, katherine and stanley, the avengers of musical theater. Trevor let me ask you a question about a project you took on of your own volition, reunited apart. You have the show on youtube, everyones stuck at home. Many people like their projects are just on hold and thats ours that. But josh gad steps up and says, no, raise money for kids, for americans out of work, raise money to try to help americans help americans, and the concept you came up with is amazing. You are reuniting the costs of just blockbuster movies in time. First of all, where did you get the idea. Second of all, how on earth did you pull it together . I got the idea by being stuck at home and thinking to myself, trevors never going to call, im never going to be allowed to go to his studio. Where do i take that emotional pain and how do i circumvent that into something positive . Lolo and behold, i came up with the idea of what would bring me so much joy . We were talking about it does something psychologically when you see your favorite casts doing lines again from your favorite movies. It gives you a accepts of whatever you call that thing. Trevor i think thats the action for euphoric joy. That is it. Its sort of like a scoop up of your breast plate. So i really wanted to give people that and, in turn, what i hoped is that people would then donate if they can what they can to help lift others up. So far in lord of the rings we raised 145,000 for no kid hungry. Ghostbusters is set for monday and we hope to raise a lot of money for the equal justice initiative. So i keep doing them to help as many different causes as i can knowing that it may bring somewhere a little bit of joy now. Trevor i tell you you my friend, youre not trying it. You are doing it as the great spike lee told me. Keep doing what you are doing. Lets grab coffee sometime, my friend. Lets do this in six years again. I cant wait to see you again. Trevor five years max. Youre killing it. Trevor thank you so much, my friend. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much for that, josh. Thats our show for tonight, but before we go, the daily distancing show and Comedy Central have been donating to three groups fighting against Police Brutality and systemic racism, naacp Legal Defense fund, the equal justice initiative, and the bail project. If you are able to help and would like to join, please go to the following link and give whatever you can. Until next week, stay safe out there. And now, here it is. Your moment of zen. I have seven Years Experience in mixed martial arts. You and i both do martial arts. Youve met my martial arts instructor, you know what im talking about. Yeah. Sticks, plates, firearms, selfdefense measures, mixed martial arts, martial arts. We do martial arts. Thats all we talk about when were together. Put a little pressure on the wrist, ow karen oh, my god. Youre, like, agoraphobic. Really . Yeah you would rather sit on your couch and watch a phillies game then go out to a movie with your awesome girlfriend. Absolutely correct. Later, jim. Kev, have a good weekend. Bye. Okay, so this is whats gonna happen. Youre gonna suck it up. Here we go. And were gonna go to dinner. Okay. And then were gonna go to the movies. Sounds good. Hey, halpert hey. Roy ahh roy, dont [screams] god [people coughing] pam, please call security. Every day for eight years, i have brought pepper spray into this office to protect myself and my fellow employees. And every day for eight years, people have laughed at me. Well. Whos laughing now . [upbeat music] no nee jan on speakerphone every thing ismichaelcontrol, last firday one of your employees attacked another employee in your office. It was a crime of passion, jan, not a disgruntled employee. Everyone here is extremely gruntled. [sighs] is toby there . No. Im here, jan. Whwhat is the situation, toby . Well, we fired roy, obviously. And jim wont press charges against roy or the company. Yeah. K god. Um, but now apparently darryl has some issue with no, he has been wanting a raise for a couple of months and hes just using this roy thing as leverage. All right, well, are you gonna take care of this . Yeppers. What did i tell you about yeppers . I dont remember. I told you not to say it. Do you remember that . Yesh