Whats going on. Welcome to the daily distancing show. Im trevor noah it is tuesday, august 25, and we are now just 70 days away from the election. Thats the reason youre starting to hear all the election day songs starting on the radio. The strange hope of the nations hope and fear in the r. N. C. Roy wood, jr. And desi lydic play democracys most depressing game show. Welcome to the daily distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, the daily distancing show presents the Republican National convention, celebrating pressure to come. Trevor yesterday was the start of the Republican National convention, the first and only time donald trump has renewed his vows. Going into the convention. I thought it would be tough for donald trump to sell himself for another four years mostly because, you know, we live in a hellscape where 180,000 people have died and we cant go to a movie or hug our grandparents. But then i watched the convention, and, guys, it turns out donald trump has actually done a really good job by preventing all of that from happening. From the very beginning, democrats, the media and the World Health Organization got coronavirus wrong. One leader took Decisive Action to save lives. President donald trump. The president quickly took action and shut down travel from china. Donald trumps quick action and leadership saved thousands of lives during covid 19. President trump truly moved mountains to save lives, and he deserves credit. Just imagine what 2020 would have looked like, fighting for your life without donald trump fighting for it, too. Trevor imagine what 2020 would have been like without trump. Hey, do you want to eat dinner inside a restaurant . School kool see you then. Youre right. That would have sucked. Theyre trying to convince everyone that this massive failure is actually massive achievement, which is not something normal people do when they apply for a job. I see on your resume here it says that you crashed a car into duncan donates. Yeah, dude, but it would have been, like, a lot worse if joe biden was driving, and its especially crazy, considering that, at the last r. N. C. , all they talked about was the four dead americans in benghazi, but now theyre acting like trump did a great job by only having 45,000 ben gassies. What . I guess its true. Without trump taking any action, millions more americans could have died. So good on republicans for seeing the glass of bleach half full. But trumps failure with coronavirus is only one perception that republicans need to change at their convention. Another one is that the g. O. P. Is a wop, a whiteass party. Last night the party show cased their diversity by giving speaker slots to all four of americas black trump suppers. I dont know what theyll do the rest to have the week. Tim scott has spoken, so theyll have to bring him back on wednesday with a fake mustache, its me, and i also support donald trump. One of the speakers went further and declared the real racists are the democrats. You may be wondering why is a lifelong democrat speaking at the Republican National convention . And thats a fair question. And heres your answer the Democratic Party does not want black people to believe their mental plantation. We have been forced to be there for decades and generations. But i have news for joe biden, we are free, we are free people with free minds. Trevor so let me get this straight when other groups organize and vote by their interests, they get a fancy name like voting blocs, but when black people do it you get told youre acting like an extra on roots . Why is it that people say you should be a free thinker and have a very specific set of instructions on how to think. Allthink for yourselves ill vote for a democrat. No, think for yourself, votee a republican. I dare you to try and brainwash a black woman, you will come out joining her cult. Im in her cult. This argument is especially confusing coming from this dude because hes saying the democrats are trying to enslave you, also im a lifelong democrat. Thats every confused meme on the internet at once. Does that mean hes keeping his own voters on the mental plantation . I feel like i need to watch 12 years a mental slave to understand what the ~bleep hes talking about. To be fair, its not that the r. N. C. Completely denied the existence of racism in america, they just think racism is a less systemic problem and more of a personal obstacle on the way to an inspirational triumph. Two of their best speakers actually came from people who have made that exact journey. America is not a racist country. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a brown girl in a black and white world. We faced discrimination and hardship, but my parents never gave in to grievance and hate. My grandfathers 9th 9th birthday would have been tomorrow. He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader. Yet, he lived long enough to see his grandson become the first africanamerican to be elected to both the United States house and the United States senate in the history of this country. Our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime. Trevor look, whatever you think about neck nikki haley anm scott, you cant deny they have inspiring stories. But heres the thing about them using their stories to show how exceptional america is. Haley and scott are literally the exceptions. The fact that tim scott is one of the only black senators and nikki haley was one of the only minority governors is if anything an argument for the existence of systemic racism in america not against it. Imagine being the sole survivor of a plane crash and looking at the wreckage and saying, wow, i wish all the other passengers could have persevered and overcome the crash like me, shout out to boeing if america didnt have a racism problem, their achievements wouldnt be a big deal. Getting elected as a minority should be as easy as mailing a letter. What i want is a world where a black man becoming a senator isnt inspirational. Thats when black people would have really made it e, where theres a black senator who said my dad was a c. E. O. And his billionaire friend started a super pac so i guess im here now. Theres only one speaker anyone at the Republican National convention wants to hear from is donald Jerry Falwell trump. Sorry to say the present didnt speak in prime time last night but we got a speech from don, jr. Who turned the convention into an infomercial. My fathers entire world view revolves around the idea we can always do even better. Imagine the life you want to have, one with a great job, a beautiful home, a per feck family, you can have it. Imagine the country you want to live in, one with true, week alopportunity, you can have it. Heroes are sphwraitd and the good guys can win, you can have it. That is the life, that is the country, that is the world that donald trump and the Republican Party are after, and, yes, you can have it. Trevor honestly, put your hating aside. You have to admit don, jr. Would make a great motivational speaker, and not in the traditional way where he inspires you with quotes, more like in a way where people can look at him and say, that guy can run a giant company and speak at a major convention, that guy . Imagine what i can do if i can put my mind to it. Also, the donald trump has been president for almost four years, then why do we have to imagine how great life could be if he was president. Trumps presidency is like your 48yearold cousins deejay career if its not successful by now, its not going to be. But if don, jr. Couldnt get you on board with his vision of america, maybe your tv volume wasnt loud enough, in which case Kimberly Guilfoyle turned it up for you. Do you believe in america greatness . Believe in yourself, in President Trump his promise was to put america first, and he has President Trump believes in you he emancipates and lifts you up to live your American Dream you are capable, you are qualified, you are powerful and you have the about to choose your life and determine your destiny ladies and gentlemen, leaders and fighters for creating liberty and the American Dream, the best is yet to come trevor does that seem kind of loud to anyone . shouting first of all, i want to wish a speedy recovery to anyone listening on headphones. Im praying for you. I guess we found the one person sign whro signed up for Rudy Giulianis master club. America trevor you know when youre at a party and the music turns off and all of a studden youre talking too loud . Thats basically what guilfoyle did for an entire speech. Aside from the speech being so loud canada called the cops, the content was ridiculous. Donald trump believes in me . I dont want to be in that group. Those were the big speeches, a fullthrowed defense of the idea that theres nothing americans cant do if they put their minds to it. Although, there was also another big idea running through the whole night which is that the one thing americans wont be able to overcome is joe biden, who will leave the country a permanently smoking ruin. Joe biden and the radical left are coming for our freedom of speech. Thraipt to destroy this country, they want to steel your liberty, your freedom. You will not recognize your country or yourself. They want to abolish the suburbs altogether no matter where you live, your family will not be safe. The vengeful mob that seeks to destroy our way of life. The party that wants to burn down the foundation of you are country to the ground. Crime, violence and mob rule. Theyll disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home and invitemost13 olive next door. With no hope of escape except death itself. Trevor good god, im terrified and confused because if joe biden gets infected,most13 whether move in next door but we wont live there because well be kicked out of the suburbs, and if we try to go to church the democrats will call the cops, but there wont be cops because they defunded the police, so well have to take ourselves to prison, but there wont be prisons because they let everyone out, and the democrats will have guns, and we can fight with our words but cant because words have been canceled i dont know what it means damn that was a terrifying evening heres the thing that i dont think republicans understand its hard to scare people about the damage joe biden could do after the damage donald trump has already done. Joe biden could destroy your way of life dude, how much worse could shit get . By the way, this is a lesson for the democrats because they spent four days of their convention pitching a return to flormle si and bringing republicans into their tents. It didnt count for shit. The r. N. C. Is still saying joe biden is basically Joseph Stalin with a better smile. But that was night one of the r. N. C. And basically, the party made sure that they had something for everyone for people who feel the country is in kay joes, trump will make it better. For people who think things are going fine, you have trump to thank. If youre a my knotert trump is a bump to the suburbs. If youre scared, trump will keep them out. Hard of hearing, Kimberly Guilfoyle will help you. Taking a quick break. When we come back, well catch up on the trees, russians and hot sex lives of americas most devout evangelicals. So stick what if we took this cow off the table and just made friends with her. What if this guy grew more plants and we got protein from his beans and peas instead and made a great burger. And what if we put it in our carts, on our menus, on our grills, and on our dinner plates. 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Froan extraordinaryblue moon, citrus wheat. Y. Brewed with real tangerine peel. Only 95 calories. Welcome to the light side of the moon. Trevor welcome back to the daily distancing show. It is night two of the Republican National convention, but it is also night infinity of Everything Else thats going on. So lets catch up on all the other news in our unconventional checkup. Lets begin with russia. Its like if a frown was a country. For years, only one prominent politician has had the courage or stupidity to stand up to the autocratic ruler Vladimir Putin. But for putin, that was apparently one too many. Doctors in germany say a critic of Russian Vladimir Putin was likely poisoned. Remember, doctors in siberia blamed alexei flay validys illness in a drop in blood sugar. He was in an induced coma. Supporters believe somebody poisoned his tea before he got on a flight in rust. For the past several years, other kremlin critics have been involved in apparent poisoning or suffered mysterious death. Trevor thats right, russias most prominent dissident was poisoned at the airport. That means it was either Vladimir Putin or he ate the food at la guardia. Either way, we need a full investigation. Lets be real, it was most probably Vladimir Putin. The man uses so much poison, i wouldnt be surprised if hes in the poison aisle in costco the 24 pack or 36 in . The russian doctors didnt diagnose this as a poisoning. Though maybe thats how they teach it in russian medical school. This dissident drank tea. He a has a case of the sleepies. Happens to people who dont keep their mouth shut. It must be terrifying to be in a country where the leaders try to poison opposition candidates. So much better to be in a country where they can do it by shutting down the post office. American democracy isnt defeated yesterday because yesterday democrats in Congress Called louis dejoy to get answers about whats going on with the usps. Louis dejoy defending recent changes to the u. S. Posers postl service ahead of the election. He was at times combative. Dejoy acknowledged a lack of familiarity with basic aspects of the postal service. You dont know the cost to mail a postcard . I dont. What about a greeting card thats a square envelope. Then whats the postage. Ill submit i know very little about a postage stamp. Within a million or so, can you tell me how many people voted by mail in the last president ial election . No, i cannot. To the nearest 10 million . chuckled is that a no . I would be guessing and i dont want to guess. Trevor im glad you know the price to have the stamp, but i am concerned about your understanding of this agency. Trevor goddam. Weve got the worst person to bring to a trivia night. Okay, the next question is what do you call the box that you put mail in. Oh, my god thank god weve got the post master generallen our team. What do you think, dejoy . Oh, i know this one, theyre blue. Oh, im taking them away oh, i should know this in a way, this is refreshing to watch. Were so used to see guys man splaining well, actually its refreshing to say, you tell me, lady, i dont know shit. Moving on to Jerry Falwell, jr. , president of Liberty University. Falwell has been a fixture of the Christian Conservative movement for 15 years. Since following his famous father into the family business. But now all of a sudden hes not. Breaking overnight influential evangelical leader,r Jerry Falwell, jr. Is out as president of Liberty University after a tumultuous date where his fate lurched back and forth after two weeks ago he posted a photo on social media showing he and a woman with their pants unbuttoned. Questions about Jerry Falwell, jr. s leadership in Liberty University in virginia come after Giancarlo Granda claimed he had a years long sexual relationship involving fallwomans life and the evangelical leader. Giancarlo granda said he was in his 20s when he met the falwells in march of 2012. He said their relationship continued till 2018 and involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on. Trevor lets start out, what consensual adults do in their sex life and its up for them. I dont judge anybody for anything. You do whatever tickles your exposed fly. But falwell has made it his business to judge everyone else. He speaks out against gay relationships and until five years ago, students at his university werent allowed to do anything beyond Holding Hands or even watch rrated vies. Meanwhile hes apparently let this pool boy check his wifes color nation levels. Sometimes i think guys like this are reading different bibles to the rest of us because the bible i read says to love thy flab and judge not lest you be judged first. But this guy is, heres something you can do is hot. Nothing is more dangerous to a relationship than a sexy pool boy. Thats why i only use a pool cleaning robot. I still try to smash the thing but its not interested. Finally, fires sweeping california. The firefight continues for firefighters in Northern California where three major wildfires are burning in the bay area. Two of the fires are the second and Third Largest ever recorded in california. In one week the fires scorched more than 1. 2 million acres, the area the size of rhode island. California has seen roughly 600 new wildfires pop up in the last week, a combination of hot, dry weather and 12,000 lightning strikes. This is big basin redwoods, devastated by flames. Many of the luge massive redwood trees survived despite being burned. Trevor its such a relief most to have the red wood trees survived the fire. I like how they mentioned many of the fires are the size of rhode island. Three things are certain, death, texas and a california fire compared to the size of a random state because were all terrible at math. We have 1. 2 million acres of wildfire, two hurricanes in a week and a pandemic raging across america. I dont know if those are signs from god but if i was Jerry Falwell, jr. I would maybe stick to cold showers for a few weeks. When we come back, roy wood, jr. And desi lydic host the hot new game show that you might be playing against your will. So stick around. Wanna show you places in my mind wanna show you places in my mind uh, wewe be living for this im ready for this wanna show you places in my mind inside my mind wanna show you places in my mind inside my mind been there, done that. Twice your cousin. From boston. Karen, im just gonna say what everyone here is thinking. You look smokin. Total smokeshow. And they never did find his finger. They had to close the pool for like an hour. I brought a date. Names sam. Dig in. Love is like boston lager. Rich, complex and its over too soon. Right, chrissy . Oh my god. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Trevor welcome back to the daily distancing show. North carolina is shaping up to be a battleground state this year, but will we be able to trust its voters will be treated fairly . Desi lydic and roy wood, jr. Find out in their new and confusing game show. Im roy wood, jr. , shes desi lydic, and this is americas got suppression the number one show about how three of the most democratic country in the world keeps some of its citizens from voting tonight were in North Carolina, home of san dibeachs, delicious barbecue and the most beautiful plantation weddings that your Sorority Sisters never should have had. Thats right, desi, and North Carolina is also ground zero for voting suppression in america. Lets meet our first contestant. Jayden is a College Senior who loves his lucky hat but doesnt love his Voting Rights are threatened by a voter i. D. Law proposed by the states republican legislature. My stance on Voter Suppression comes from the archives in the sunday of the voter i. D. Student. Im an out of state student, so i dont know have a i. D. , all i have is a drivers license. Its a legitimate i. D. You can use it to get into a library, bars. And my dorm. You can use it to cut up cocaine. Okay, yeah. So you cant vote with that . This law is being pushed by the Republican Party, and we all know College Students tend to vote more democratic, especially students at h. B. C. U. Yes, h. B. C. U. , historically africanamerican colleges and universities. You can say black. Oh, okay. Hisshistorically black collegesd universities. Wait, what did you just do . Lets. Our next contestant is always wearing glasses. She was proud of her voting power hen her college was gerrymandered. Gerrymandering is a mechanism used to rob voting districts to make sure you can get reelected. I always thought it was a sex act. No, its when they dilute the power of a specific voting bloc like splitting the school in two districts. How did you fight back against this in North Carolina . Weve had court case which is it took a very long time to win. The North Carolina supreme court, they decided that this was a partisan gerrymander, which is illegal. Every year, every election, theres always a fight, so if that doesnt make the vote suppressed, joint what does. I have never experienced Voter Suppression before. Some people are just lucky, i guess. I think privilege is the word youre looking for. No, i think its luck. Okay, next up is dan mccready, a veteran and solo entrepreneur who has a friendly face. And while running for congress in 2018 his republican opponents campaign allegedly used voter fraud to defeat him. Wow. Something seems off with this guy. This doesnt seem right because this guy is white. Youre white, right . Of course, his name is dan. Hes definitely white. Dan, sorry about her. Why do you think youve got what it takes to be the most suppressed . What happened in my race, which is the largest case of Election Fraud in modern day american history, i thought we lost by 905 votes only to find out that my republican opponent had hired a known criminal, who sent workers to the doors of voters that they knew were likely to vote democrat, including africanamericans. Oh, dan, you can say black. No. No, you cant, dan. Dont do that. Never mind, dan. Those workers stole ballots, forged signatures, filled in vote choices for people. Its interesting because its usually republicans who accuse democrats of voter fraud. Huh, that is interesting. But at the end of the day, the bipartisan board of elections in North Carolina voted 50 to hold a new election. All right, so they held a new election, desi, and he won his office and fought back on that suppression. Thats what im talking about. Congratulations, dan now that is a happy ending. Well, unfortunately, i didnt win, but the important thing is that, in this case, the system worked. So you lost twice is what youre saying. He got cheated, he lost, and then he lost again. I got to givet it up to you, dan. Ive never seen anybody get suppressed twice in the same election. Time to take a last look at all our contestants and see which one it takes win americas got suppression. I. D. , gerrymandering or voter fraud. This is tough, desi. Absolutely. The winner of americas got suppression is Mitch Mcconnell . Oh, that makes sense. When voters are suppressed, he wins. Every time. To the other contestants, you lose. So does democracy. Yes, it does. All right, well, it was fun playing with you. Americas got suppression returns next week live from atlanta, georgia. Youre make meg do this again . Yes, we have 49 more states to do. Trevor thank you so much roy and desi, i cant wait for the next episode. We have to take a quick break. When we come back, ill talk to chris evans, a k a trevor welcome back to the daily welcome wack to the daily distancing show. I spoke to chris evans and mark kassen about their new venture called starting point, a platform where you can learn about issues directly from elected officials and apparently its only got facts. Coming back each time to the place we knew to the people that were familiar and started to feel like we were doing something that was work and people wanted to participate in. Were going to have to get you a permanent office. I dont know if i could handle that. Hope is the we can become synonymous with an unbiased presentation of what is going on in washington. Trevor chris, mark, welcome to the daily distancing show. Thank you for having us. Trevor lets jump straight into this idea, a starting point, a web site where, if i understand correctly, people can log on to just get the facts about politics and engage with their politicians. The question i have is can you create a web site that is nonpartisan if facts around politics are involved . Sure. Thats the challenge, isnt it . There are three sections and i let the viewers check it out themselves. The first section is where we outsource to get fact checks. This is about basic issues about elected officials and trying to give the electorate a perspective of not only the democratic but the republican perspective to let them know where they fall in the it politl landscape. Trevor no denying people say if a fact goes against what they believe in its fake and its been affected. How do you play into convincing people that the fact is in fact a fact. Chris, and i talked about this going in. If you look at the fact check, it becomes arbitrary really quickly and debatable. We did the best we could. We keep the answers too short so they cant say too much. Too, we handed it over to another organization that just handles dealing with policy and tracking bills. Therefore, when people want to say, well, connected we couldnt find backup for that or this, and then it is it is common for people to say, where do we find backup and track bread crumbs. But again, were just a starting point. Trevor i like that you call it a a a starting point. It feels like this is an end game. Youre starting off where it feels like were long past. People dont seem to care about what a thing is. They care about how it feels now. Sure. Trevor do you think you can get to people before they make a decision on who they vote for . Sure, the kind of dizziness of the deliberate observe if obf people in power breeds apathy. So what were trying to fight against is the exhaustion the Political Landscape can present with the dizzying of subjective information and facts and trying to connect people back to elected officials, the Political Landscape in an effort to try to breed participation so that democracy doesnt die. Not to be dramatic but thats what will happen. The folks in d. C. You see on tv are talking about the things that the folks who elected them are concerned with. Were more concerned about this is the fact. Were not the authority. Were trying to help soften the tenor of the conversation and be a more productive dissidence. Remember everything you said. Lets get one of your analyses now and put that on the site. Trevor you dont have likes, dislikes, comments. You basically dont have the internet on your web site, which is very old school. But i would like to know, why dont you have likes, dislikes, comments . Well, because i think its a bet bit of a negative reward system. Its not refreshing. Anytime you go and scroll through the comments section, you dont walk away saying i feel better now. So sometimes the tail can wag the dog when it comes to a political section to encourage lights or seem louder or more relevant than you are. We wanted to remove that. That the one of the contributing factors that makes people turn away from politics. The vitriol is to try to make the landscape committed to a more scholastic intent than the kind of toxicity that sometimes individual opinions can have. We have one way people can get feedback is they can register to vote and the other is connect to their elected officials directly through our site. Weve registered almost 7,000 people to vote so far and over 35,000 people have reached out to their eelected officials. To us, an engagement is reaching out to your elected official and register to vote and do something. Trevor i have to ask you, theres no denying people consider you a woke bay. Online people know that you share your views. You have left leaning views, youre a progressive, youve never hidden this. Yes. Trevor to be one of the faces of this web site means some people will automatically assume that some of the things you are doing are trying to push people to the left. How do you assure people its not happening and, more importantly, how do you stay away from doing what you believe is right because of your political beliefs . Ill still express my opinions when i feel called to do that. I dont think one has to step on the other. Everyone knows im democratic and have my issues with certain people and i wont hide those, but when you examine the mechanism to have the web site, its virtually impossible, i would argue, for me to somehow inject my opinion into the mechanism of each section. Each section is pretty airtight in terms of trying to give the elected officials a platform and encourage connectivity between the two parties, the elected officials and constituents, rather. I understand peoples concern, but like i said, i have been trying to shout that im aware of it, too. Trevor you have to talk to a lot of politicians whom you dont necessarily agree with, both of you. Chris, you caught a little bit of flack when people saw you take a picture with ted cruzs daughter and said youre with ted cruz, how can you take a picture with ted cruz . You said im here with my daughter and this is for her. How do you balance that . Some people are, like, i dont agree with your politics but as captain america i would like to take a picture with you. You may go i hate this policy you enacted on human beings, but as captain america i understand you would like to take a picture with me. How do you plans balance that and go to you, chris, how could you do that . In a circumstance with a child, ill always take a picture of a kid. In general, even sitting down with certain politicians theres extreme on both parties where theres no wiggle room for that. I would argue, if this person wasnt in power or writing bills that affected your life, shun them, scream loud at them. But we cant pretend they dont have some sort of say. I find it far more pernicious to become stubborn and retreat to your corner and say i wholeheartedly disagree with you and infringe on human rights, something that offends me as a person. I would like to talk about ideas. Otherwise, everything spirals and no one listens and i dont think you move the ball down the field effectively as you would if you say, okay, outtalk me. And these are our elected officials. They are responsible for passing legislation that will affect our lives. Chris did something, tim scott came on and said, listen, you and i dont agree on at lot of things but i appreciate you let me have a conversation about things i know you dont agree in, and i think if we can do that, maybe people can get better at having conversations, at least at thanksgiving around the dinner table without punching each other in the face. Trevor as your web site name suggests, we hope this is a starting point. Congratulations to you, and hopefully more people are registered to vote and engage with your elected officials. Chris evans and mark kassen, thanks for having you on the show. Trevor thats our show for tonight, but before we go, we talked about it tonight, but california is in trouble right now