Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick it off with the big story. Election day is now just eight days away. So at this point, my friends, you can forget about getting in shape for it because election day bodies are made during the primaries. This year, votes for are not waiting till the first tuesday in november to cast their ballots. The Record Number of americans taking advantage of early voting across the country. An unprecedented 57 million ballots have been cast, more than 40 to have the total votes counted in the 2016 general election. At one of new york citys premier venues snaking around the block in brooklyn while marching bands drum up excitement. Incredible turnout in the lines. Ive never seen this before in my life. Americans dont even have to be earthbound to vote. U. S. Astronaut kate rubens casts her ballot with help from Mission Control from the International Space station. I think its important to vote. If we can do it from space, ebl folks can do it from the ground, too. Thats super cool. An astronaut voted in space . Wow. Still weird that she had to wait in line for 10 hours but thats cool. I dont know if this was the kind of story that would inspire people to vote just because a astronaut did. Its easy to vote in space. What do you have . Nothing, no responsibilities. Down mere we have to work, we have to check instagram every 20 minutes. In space, you float around, talk to some guy in houston. Youre riffing the dream. Im glad astronauts can vote but america has to ask itself about its priorities when its easier for a white lady in space to cast their ballots than someone in georgia. Looks like people are lining up to buy Michael Jordan not air jordans. I heard theyve only got one. I want the baseball version. Even with the long lines, even with the suppression, america is still hitting record levels of early votes. There are so many early votes that the president could already have been decided and we just dont know it. Its like the week before christmas when your parents have already bought your gift and you werent allowed to find out what it is. So it could be a brandnew president or its the same one as last time i shook the box and it grabbed me by the pussy with election day so close, the big issue on everyones mind is still the coronavirus pandemic, which is funny, because when you think about it, this whole year everybody has been wait for an october surprise and turns out the october surprise is were still talking about the same shit we were talking about in march. Surprise so with america now seeing more daily infections than ever before and hospitalizations rising in many states, the two candidates are staking out their positions on covid 19. Last week democratic candidate joe biden announced that he will push a nationwide masked mandate, deploy the defense production act to drive the manufacture of p. P. E. , and begin testing 7 Million People each day. And then President TrumpPresident Trump revealed his take on the pandemic. Boring thats all i hear about now. Thats all i hear, turn on television. Coved, coved covid, covid, covid covid a plane goes down, 500 people dead, they dont talk about it. Covid, covid, covid, covid trevor i can safely say ive never seen a world leader get bored of a crisis. Also its weird donald trump is saying this when hes still the one talking shit from 2015. Covid, covid, covid im so bored why isnt anyone talking about hillarys emails . Keep up with the times, people. But, hey, shout out to covid for helping trump understand what weve felt the past five years. Every time we switch on the tv and heard his name, trump trump trump, always trump. Oh, and by the way, maybe the reason the news isnt talking about the plane that went down with 500 people is because there was no plane that went down with 500 people. And if you think 500 pretend people dying is big news, remember almost 1,000 real people a day are still dying from covid 19 covid. If youre going to bullshit us, at least make the numbers work. Have a fake airplane crash into another fake airplane that goes down and crashes into a pretend petting zoo and the animals get out and more than 600 people. How does the president not get it . People are talking about covid because people are still dying from covid. Imagine in the captain of the titanic had this attitude. All anyone is talking about is drowning drowning drowning, as if tonights not all you can seat shrimp night at the dining hall i know what youre thinking. If trump is tired of hearing about covid on the tv news, theres actually something that he could do about it, just turn off the tv. But even that might not work because these days the news is coming from inside the house. This morning, concerns of another coronavirus outbreak at the white house, after five of Vice President mike pences associates including his chief of staff test positive for covid 19. His chief of staff mark short was with the Vice President on every Campaign Stop last week including friday night at a rally in ohio. Short now in isolation and experiencing symptoms. Pences body man, a personal assistant who accompanies him virtually everywhere, a i political aide who recently twavld with pence on air force two along with two other staffers. But c. D. C. Guidelines call for 14day queent quarantine after exposure to the virus. A Spokesman Says pence will travel as planned in accordance with the c. D. C. Gliensz for essential personnel. Pence says campaigning for office does not qualify as essential. Trevor ted of the Vice President task force has covid all over his office. Its like finding out the flash came in second in a marathon. I dont care where hes from, youre supposed to be the flash. Technically this is one way to keep track of covid 19. You know what they say, keep your friends close and the coronavirus even closer. Honestly, though, people, im not mad at pence. Im just disappointed in him. Because i get trump not following the rules. We know he cant read. But dont tell me mike pence cant follow strict protocols. That dudes rules about being around women are more complicated than rules for meeting the queen. Im sorry. I thought you were going to chop my neck off so you could become highlander and thats why i fought you. This is good information for us to learn about the virus from trump getting it. You know you can get it from breathing the same air as someone positive but you cant catch it if you spend all that time kissing that persons ass. Even after hes been exposed to the virus, mike pence is still going to campaign. A terrible idea and honestly i think it will backfire because who the hell is going to a rally with mike pence if that might give you coronavirus . I know people go to trump rallies after he got covid but thats trump. His rallies are fun. Thats worth getting corona for. No one cants corona from mike pence especially because he already makes you feel like you have corona. After he talks youre exhausted. Its hard to breathe and you just want to lie down. But turns out theres actually a very good reason that the white house isnt following guidelines for preventing the spread of the virus. They just dont want to. And the white house sounds like they are admitting that they have given up on trying to stop the spread of coronavirus. Chief of staff mark meadows telling cnn we are not going to control the pandemic. Heres what we have to do. We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations. Why arent we going to control the pandemic. Because it is a contagious virus just like the flu trevor interesting. So the plan is to just let Coronavirus Spread freely throughout america . Its interesting howsine trumps people are about this, you know, because with an immigrant child who came over the border, they, like, zero tolerance one is too many we have to deport but with a virus killing hundreds of thousands of americans theyre like, look, man, the virus is just trying to make a better life in our lungs, who are we to stop it . But yes you heard that right, the Trump Administration is basically surrendering to the coronavirus. Theyre not using the word surrender but admiting theyre not going to control the pandemic is basically surrendering. In fact we actually have the tape of trump himself personally surrendering to covid 19. Its over after eight months of bitter fighting, this morning President Trump surrendered america to the coronavirus. I gotta hand it to you, coronavirus, you outsmarted me, and you outwitted me, also. America is all yours. Why dont you guys just wear masks . No, thanks. Id rather just surrender. Trevor you did the best you could, mr. President. At least you tried. All right, when we come back we continue our epic countdown of Donald Trumps top 100 scandals and stay tuned because Bruce Springsteen goingts be on the show. Did you know duracell optimum can make devices work even better than coppertop . This toothbrush brushes quicker. This screwdriver turns speedier. This fan spins faster. Upgrade your devices with duracell optimum. This fan spins faster. The ffor a chip so iconic,ssage. We dont need to name it. No logos, no gimmicks. Just those red and blue bags with the stuff you love in it. Man you know the brand. Its the threesided crunch. That had you trade your buddies for it, if they packed a pack at lunch. No logo, but our names on the tip of your tongue. 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One does it how its always been done. The other does it better. So, which one is yours . Maximize your savings. Invest from anywhere. Finance your home. For all things money. Thank you for calling ally. Trevor welcome back to the daily social distancing show. Last week, we began counting down the biggest scandals of President Trumps first term. But theres still a lot to go. Heres roy riwith part two of Donald Trumps 100 most tremendous scandals. What does it take to be the worst . Luck . Talent . Jared kushner as your top advisor . Donald trump has all of these, and its helped make him the most scannedridden president in american history. But which of these scandal also is the best of the worst . The daily show conducted historians, political scientists and psychoanalysts and we ignored all those people and pulled something out of our ass. This is Donald Trumps 100 most tremendous scandals, and were picking up right where we left off at number 75. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. Alternative facts. Whether they may have had some kind of russian money funneling through them to help them. Tax dollars to travel by private jet. 43,000 soundproof phone booth and swear to heart deal of 50 a month rent for capital lobtist. 139,000 price tag for new doors. High ended taxpayer funded dinners. 300 million contract. Work for a place that marked a masculine toilette for well endowed men. Its a wonderful line. I own some. Bite today. What was my temperament yesterday. Very calm, no temper tantrum. Urging government perceived enemies. Ivanka. Security clearances. Email servers. Jeffrey epstein. Abuse allegations from wives. Rate has continued to Court Political controversy particularly with regards to the death of a navy seal. Youve got to clean your floors and your forests. Millions of twitter followers boycotting an american company. I said please dont be too nice. Shooting them in the legs forward fying a bored wall with a trench stocked with snakes and alligators. They want more people in their sanctuary cities, well give the them more. Crazy lashes or pocahontas. Obama wiretapped him in trump tower that came from a bite bart article that was a total conspiracy theory. I know nothing about cue q anon. I just told you. It doesnt necessarily make it fact. Damn thats exhausting. You thought you werent getting anything done at the office. That brings us to tonights final scandal coming in at number 51. Involves twitter a category 5 hurricane and the worse use of a sharpie since your College Roommate drew a d. Natures fury. In department of 2019, a storm was drew brewing in the atlantic. Hurricane dorian making its way toward the United States. Forecasters expecting it to make a dramatic turn to the north. Im not sure ive heard of a cght 5. I knew it existed. A category 5 is something that i dont know that ive ever even heard the term other than i know its there. The Hurricane Dorian was nothing compared to the temp estabout to blow the roof off the oval office. Hurricane donald. The National Weather service had to scramble the correct misinformation from President Trump about dorien. President trump tweeted in addition to florida, south carolina, North Carolina and georgia, alabama will be hit much hard than anticipated. The National Weather service corrected the. Saying alabama will not see impacts from dorien. Suddenly america was caught between two claims, but who to believe . Scientists who have dedicated their lives to the study of weather patterns . Or a man who thinks wind is cause bid birds flapping too hard . This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest weve ever seen from the standpoint of water. As the people of alabama braced for massive destruction with slightly overcast skies, there was still time to avoid disaster. All President Trump had to say was sorry, i was wrong, the hurricane is not going to hit alabama. Alabama is going to get a piece of it, it looks like. It is a very, very powerful hurricane. A great place, its called alabama, and alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more that be that, it could be thats right, although the experts tried to make trump understand, he had already bored up his ears. Hurricane dorian had moved on. Narrowly missing alabama by 600 miles. But hurricane donald was just forming. After seeing an abc news report on his mistake, trump gained new strength, tweeting. Such a phony hurricane report by light weight reporter john karl of abc news. It was a direct attack on science and twitter user Jonathan Karl who is a kentucky pastor and not abc news anchor john karl, an innocent victim of hurricane donald. Over the next 36 hours, hurricane donald seems to die down, but then it returned. This time with a sharpie. In a white house video released wednesday, trump displays a modified National Hurricane center forecast. The graphic appears to be altered with a sharpie to indicate a risk the storm would move into alabama. I know that alabama was in the original forecast. They actually gave that a 95 chance thats right, donald trump tried to redraw a map with a sharpie have some respect for our intelligence at least learn to photoshop. But what if the culprit wasnt trump at all . It looked like it had a sharpie. I dont know, i dont know. It was a real mystery. Who could have possibly take an sharpie to a hurricane map . It had to be someone with an almost pathological session with using the permanent markers as if they needed their marks to be the boldest, the loudest, the most permanent, but who . There would be no way to know for certain. The storm raged for days, growing in strength until it became a category 5 tweet storm. Government agencies that most americans had never even heard of transformed into hazardous projectiles. Secretary of commerce wilbur ross threatened to fire top employees at n. O. A. A. On friday after the agencys Birmingham Office contradicted trumps claim. Trevor what began as one bad tweet escalated into a full scale political scanned with not one, not two but three government investigations. Like a sharmy drawing a fake path of a hurricane, its a scanned that simply cant be erased, all because there was a hurricane over a year ago that had a 5 to 20 chance of hitting alabama but ultimately didnt. I remember sharpie gate very well, though i like to call it pengazi. Thats all the time we have for tonight. Join us next time as we explore the world of porn stars, lill rocket man and five different flavors of racism as we continue to count down Donald Trumps 100 most tremendous scandals. 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[dinosdont even [dinosaur noises] im serious [dinosaur noises] yes fritolay variety packs. Packed with possibilities. Trevor welcome back to the daily social distancing show. Earlier today, i spoke with the legendary musician Bruce Springsteen. We talked about his new album and documentary, the upcoming election, and so much more. The estreet band makes me dream, think and write big. When im amongst my friends, i allow a certain part of my mind that seems to be reserved for only them to be set free, and i dwell in a house of a thousand dreams. Trevor Bruce Springsteen. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. Thank you very much trevor it is truly an honor to have you here because you are not just an artist, you are not just a successful artist, but, in many ways, people would say that you write the story of america in your music. You have been extremely successful doing it. I mean, 20 grammys, two golden globes, a tony award, an oscar. At this stage of your life, what do you think Bruce Springsteen is still trying to tell people through his music . laughs just trying to keep going. At 71, im just trying to make it to the next record and the next show, you know. But, uh, i dont know, i guess if someone was interested in sort of a little bit of cataloging the history of the United States since, say, 1970 in the postindustrial period in music, looking for music that dealt with some of the issues that have occurred over the past 40 or 50 years, you know, they could do worse than going and digging into some of my stuff, i suppose, you know. So if i have been good for anything, maybe i have been good for that a little bit. And then the rest of the time, im just trying to entertain you and help you do your wash and your laundry and vacuum your floor and dance a little bit in the kitchen and, you know, were here to soothe your soul through troubled times a little bit if we can, and thats how i look at my job. Trevor one thing that makes your job so interesting, or rather the execution of your job, is that it feels like youre talking about everybodys lives, everybodys society, what you see going on. I mean, youve written music about Police Brutality many, many years ago. If someone played that song today, you would be, like, you wrote it about now. But when youve looked at those themes. I always wanted to know what do you think youre getting across to the listener . What do you think the music is trying to achieve . Shine a light on the subject, or enfies your politics on what you experience in and around the world. I suppose its a little bit of both. You know, its the way you see things and how youre experiencing them, and theres a part of me that says if you were interested in knowing what it was like to be a citizen of the United States between 170 and 2020, like i said, you know, that may be in my work a little bit. A lot of the times, youre just written you just write what moves you, what and then, but, also, you write what you are able to write about because, very often, i dont i dont operate from the conceptual from a conceptual place first. I operate sort of internally first and then it becomes outward. So a song, say like american skin that i wrote in 1998 about the amadu dialo shooting can feel current today, but it was just something current at the time i remember thinking we were coming to new york, i wanted to have a new piece of music, and that was that had recently occurred, and i was just able to write about it. So i did, you know. I didnt think it was going to be particularly controversial at the time. It ended up being a little more so than i thought. But thats kind of how i approached this. The political aspect in my music is through implication. I try to write good i try to write good threedimensional character studies where i bring lives through life, you know, and create and create breathing, living human beings that we all recognize in my music, and then i kind of let the politics speak for itself, you know. Of course, some of your own comes through, but i really i wouldnt i dont consider myself a topical songwriter, i dont consider myself a political songwriter. If anything, at this late age, i would say im a little more i have been saying im a little bit more of a spiritual songwriter in thats whats sort of been driving some of my most recent work. So thats basically the way i look at my job and what i do. Trevor i think thats one of the more fascinating things about you is that you always refer to it as a job, you know, even in the documentary, i loved how youve reunited the e street band. Here you are 50 years from the inception of this idea, and you guys are jamming, and you play for a very long time. I love that you say to the guys, guys, this is our job, we have a job to do, and everyones talking about a job and its work. You guys are having a great time but its like youre working. Its like, were working, were getting the chords, were doing the thing. Why do you think it works so handwash . You may think its an obvious question, but why do you work so hard and play for so long to make the songs the way they are . I just like to do it, you know. Its the way ive enjoyed doing my job since i was a very, very young man. You know, when i was 18 or 19, i was used to playing five hours a night in a bar. So i was very used to that kind of playing very early in my work life, and i also felt i was desperate to communicate, and i just starting from when i was young, i felt there was a lot i wanted to talk to you about right now, and i dont know what tomorrow brings, but i know that this evening were all here, and were in this room. So im interested in making the most of my opportunity to speak to you tonight, and that drove me more than anything else. Its something ive just always enjoyed. Ive enjoyed doing when i come offstage, i feel a release and a catharsis that occurs through that kind of work, and i dont think that and thats whats driven me, you know. So its really what drives you and how you approach your job, and i always approached it as as this very sort of i would say joyous work. You know, ive gotten a tremendous amount of joy out of it. Were serious when we get on the stage or come in the studio, so its not exactly what i would call a party atmosphere, i suppose, you know, but its a work atmosphere where theres an enormous amount of happiness and joy in simply what were accomplishing. Trevor dont go away. When we come back, weve got more with Bruce Springsteen treo the daily social distancing show. Heres part two of my interview with Bruce Springsteen. For a long time, your music has been the catharsis. You have seen people who have felt unseen, you have spoken about towns that are forgotten in time, youve spoken about industries and places and people that seem to have been completely forgotten and, yet, at the same time, you have as big a following on the coast. You cross, you know, all walks of life. I wonder if you ever sit and ask yourself why you think you do so well with such a broad swath of people . Well, i would say, first and foremost, im a good storyteller, you know, and people like stories. And they like stories that connect to their inner geography. Your inner geography may or may not have to do with anything youve experienced or not experienced, its simply the geography of your emotional life. And i believe ive done well at speaking to that, you know. And our largest audience is in europe. We have twothirds of our audience exists in europe now. Much, much bigger than the United States. And, so, why is that . I think im a good story teller, you know, and i think in new york people are very interested in america and american myth and whats going on over here, and those are the stories ive told since i was a young man, and, but, really, i believe whats at the heart of it is people like your music, they like the way it sounds, they like the way you sing, and they like the stories you tell. Trevor you tell stories that some people cannot tell for themselves, you know. I always loved listening to your music because i felt like it took me on a journey through what people refer to as the heartland of america. What ive also been intrigued by in your music is how people oftentimes miss the meaning open your music, misconstrue your music or have a completely different understanding oft what the music is. So, for instance, a great example is born in the u. S. A. , people play it in a way that when you listen to the lyrics, youre, like, ths this doesnt seem like how people are dancing. Yeah this is a song about take over the world, im born in the u. S. A. and your song seems like youre questioning this whole idea of what america is doing in the vietnam war and, again, it can translate to whats happening today. How do you feel like that when people are playing your song for the opposite reason you wrote the song for . Well, in this particular case, this is my cross the bear, so i try to bear it with a smile, but i think what the issue is is that the key to some of my music is you need to be able to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time, which is sort of the measure a bit of the measure of adulthood. So you need to be able to deal with the fact that a song can be both prideful and critical, and that idea is very essential to a lot of my music because thats how i feel, you know. Im proud of my country, ive had an amazing life and gotten the best outof it through living here, but theres a lot to continue to be critical about. So both of those things are going into my music. Its a bit up to the listener to listen well if you want to get the whole picture, but to do so youve really got to be able to hold the idea, pride and criticalness can go hand in hand. Trevor lets talk about being critical then. You came out in an interview recently and said, if trump wins a second term, you will move to australia. laughter i dont think thats true, right . It just didnt feel like thats something you would do. Well, i dont think im going to go there, but im not sure yet. laughter so well see. But, you know, ill be glad to see him go. I think hes going to lose, and ill be glad to see that happen. Trevor weve got a new album from Bruce Springsteen. Weve got a documentary. Weve got so many pieces of material of yours we can enjoy. You have new music thats come out. You have previously unreleased tracks from decades and decades ago that youve remade for today. It feels like youve always been sure about yourself, its feels like youre prolific because you know you have something to say, but i wonder, when you create, do you still have doubts sometimes . Well, any good artists wrestle with their insecurities. Its your insecurities that move you forward. If you were simply comfortable with completely comfortable with who you are and what youre doing and where youve gone, i dont know if you would have the fire in you to move forward. Its your doubts and your questions and your searching for new and different answers that move you forward in your work. So i would describe myself, do i have more artistic security than i had when i was 23 . In some ways, but i dont believet that that necessarily had anything to do with the quality of the music that i was writing. I can look back and say, when i was 25, i made this record born to run, and as good as any record ive ever made. I wrote it when i was 24 years old. Ive got songs on this album i wrote when i was 22 years old, before i made any record before we recorded any music, and there was three of them that ended up on this record. So those things i dont necessarily influence the quality of your artistic output. But i do believe that your doubts and questions and insecurities do move your work forward, do keep you questioning, do keep you searching, and thats at the key of artistic progression. Trevor my final question to you is as someone whos born to run, someone whos always been on the road, someone whos performed thousands of concerts all around the globe, what have you been doing during the pandemic . Im born to sit still at the moment. So im doing what everybody else is doing, you know. I mean, we stay inside a lot. You know, we have a few friends that were careful we see. Were social distancing. Luckily enough, i have a studio at my home, which im in right now, and ive had a variety of projects to keep me busy. I had the film, i had the album which we started prepandemic, and i have a radio show that i do biweekly basically, which ive enjoyed doing and its allowed me to continue the conversation with my audience during this strange and during these strange times. But, you know, i mean, i have been lucky, like i say, that i can work at home, that, of course, im extremely fortunate that i dont have some of the worries that other folks have and as far as getting through tomorrow or the next day or next year, you know, but our circumstances have sort of been you know, im lucky enough i have my family here, and weve just been holding on like everybody else. Trevor well, i appreciate you. Its been a wonderful journey for me going through your body of music getting ready for this interview. Off brandnew fan. Thanks so much for joining us on the show. Thank you, trevor. Trevor the album letter to you is available now and you can stream the documentary on apple tv . Well take a quick break. Well be right back after this. R tonight, but before we go, were partnering with world central kitchen for their new chefs for the polls program. Theyre activating local food trucks, restaurants, and caterers, owned and operated primarily by people of color, to serve food to people in voting lines, especially in underserved communities where voting lines are historically longer. If you can help out in any way, then all you need to do is donate at the link below. Until tomorrow, stay safe out there, wear a mask, and remember, if youre voting early, you dont know what supplies your polling place might have, so bring your own pen and your own drum line. Now, here it is. Your moment of zen. So lets get to work, people. Lets bring this home. I love you, philadelphia honk if youre fired up honking honk if youre ready to go honking are you fired up . honking honk, honk. Oh hey, champions. Good morning. Quarter finals in an hour. 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