More parts of america than guy fieri. Back in march when we first realized how serious it was, a lot of people were like damn, this might not be over until like the summer. Well, summer is here and it turns out corona might just be getting started. Across the country states are shattering coronavirus records with nearly 35,000 cases yesterday in the u. S. , the highest oneday total in two months. Today in florida a record 5500 new cases, while california has seen a 29 jump in hospitalizations in just two weeks. And in texas the governor sounding the alarm. Houston, Texas Medical Center reports 97 of the areas current icu beds are filled. Nearly three out of ten with covid patients. Texas Childrens Hospital is admitting adults to free up beds for covid patients. Trevor oh lord, its happening again. Just as new yorks numbers started going down, the rest of the country is seeing an explosion in cases and hospitalizations. In fact, in places like houston, texas, it is getting so bad that they are even sending adults to the Childrens Hospital. Which is awful these feel are seriously sick. They should in the be at a hospital where all the doctors are children. What . Thats not what a childrens oh, and im not much of america has treated the coronavirus the same way we treat our bodies in the winter, yeah. Were always like country, i know its not looking good right now but when the summer comes i promise you everything is tbing to be in the shape. And then the summer came and things were still not looking good. And people were like screw t im still going to the beach. So coronavirus records are being broken every day across america. In fact right now basically the only place where cases are actually declining is in the original epicenter of the outbreak in the northeast which is why new york, new jersey and connecticut Just Announced that anyone who is entering the state will have to quarantine for two weeks. Now thats going to be almost impossible to actually enforce. But the good news is it already takeses two weeks expwrus to get through the lincoln tunnel into new york. So it kind of takes care of itself. In fact, things are looking so bad for the u. S. That europe is considering a banff all u. S. Citizens until they can figure out, what the hell is going on. And i see where europe is coming from. Because we cant deny that the United States is doing a particularly bad job compared to other countries. I mean look at this chart, right. Cases in all those other places are going down. While america went down for a little bit and then shot back up. So i guess congratulations on flattening the curve. Of course, why is the u. S. Doing so badly. Well, while Many Americans are Wearing Masks, socially distancing and following advice from Health Experts, one thing you can not overlook is there are also many other americans who are just really, really, um, well, you know, you judge for yourself. At a commissioners meeting infloridas palm beach countee anger erupted after a unanimous vote to make masks mandatory. This turned down right ugly. Here was the scene. Maam, as a doctor i really have many question marks about your degrees and what you really know. And im sorry, maam, but i dont think that you are worthy of your credentials and i would ask suggestively that you go back to school and get educated. Maam. And they want to throw gods wonderful breathing system out the door. Youre all turning your backs on it. You literally cannot pan date somebody to wear a mask knowing that that mask is culling people. It literally is il canning people. And every single one of you that are obeying the devils laws, are going to be arrested. And you, doctor, are going to be arrested for crimes against humanity. 6 feet, like i said before, is military protocol am you are trying to get the people to train them so when the camera the 5g comes out what, theyre going to scan everybody. We got to get scand, we got to get temperatured . Trevor yes, it appears america isnt just dealing with a deadly strain of coronavirus, st also dealing with a deadly strain of stupidity. If Wearing Masks killed people, there would be no doctors, no den tuses, and no hockey goalies. Every hockey game would end with a score of 1,000 to 980. Why are we even arguing with these idiots this just shows you how destructive social media has been. You have random people berating qualified Health Professionals because of some Conspiracy Theory that they probably came across on their facebook feed. You cant trust facebook for medical advice. It isnt run by a doctor. It isnt even run by a human. And this is why everyone should stick to instagram. The worst thing you will end up doing is getting a butt lift and guying lots of plants. Sure your body will be out of proportion and your home will look like a forest but at least you will be do these people listen to themselves . Just think for a moment, you think every government and every Health Expert around the world is involved in some giant conspiracy to oppress everyone on earth . But they dont have the power to block that one video on youtube that exposes the real truth with this fake health crisis. We will enslave all of humanity. Mwah wawa wa. But what about the Youtube Video . Does anyone know how to code . Now look, i mean people believe crazy conspiracy theories and ignore facts, that is not the news. What is news is that now one of those people lives in the white house. Did anybody see my speech the other night on saturday night . cheers and applause well, what i said the other night, theres never been anything where they have so many names am i could give you 19 or 20 name force that, right. Its got all different names, wuhan, wuhan was catching on. Coronavirus, right, kung flu, yes. applause kung flu. Covid19, covid, i said what is the 19, covid19, some people cant explain what the 19, give me covid19, i said that is an odd name. Trevor yes, how will we ever know why the disease discovered in 2019 has 19 in its name. Probably the same idiot who came up with the name for madden 20, i mean there is way more than 20 Football Players it makes no sense. So on the one hand we have scientists searching for a vaccine, sequencing genomes and generally busting their ass on an unprecedented effort to understand and defeat this pandemic. On the other hand we are six months into this thing and the guy in charge of the response is still trying to figure out the name of the virus. Give me two more months, guys. I think i can crack it i think the one and the fine goes together, it makes ten, times two, 2020, thats right, happening now. I guess what i am trying to say is you might want to upgrade to zoom premium because were going to be talking in those little boxes for awhile. When we come back well talk about how americas problem with Police Brutality might be your dvrs fault. Stay tuned. Daily social distancing show. In the wake of the George Floyd Killing most americans have now come to realize that the police need sweeping changes. But the question is, why has it taken so long. Why do so many people, particularly white people think until now that police are just fine the way they are. Well, one reason is that most americans dont actually have much Actual Experience with police. In fact, in a typical year, only 21 percent of u. S. Adults have any type of contact with police at all. So i mean most americans see the cops less than trump sees eric. So if people dont see cops in real life, how are they forming their opinions about the police . Well, a lot of it comes from the same way i form all of my opinions about klingons, television, baby. Police dramas are iconic, hugely popular and now under intense fire from activists who say these shows far too readily portray cops as good and trust worthy. I never put a hand on him. While undermining real life claims of racism and abuse. Police not only consul on these but are aware that i portrayals impact Public Perception and have a vested interest in making sure it is positive. A 2015 study found viewers of crime dramas are more likely to believe the plition are successful at lowering crime, use force only when necessary and that misconduct does not typically lead to false confessions. Trevor yes, believe it or not, watching cop shows makes a lot of people see the police as infallible. And honestly, i dont blame any of these people. I mean i will admit a lot of my perceptions about reality have been shaped by tv as well. I believe sponges wear pants. I believe white people have no black friends. And most importantly, i believe that every kiss begins with k. Now part of the reason its easy for tv shows to convince people that cops are always right and always good at their jobs is because thats what we want to believe. Right . I think we can all agree that we want people who are going to enforce laws fairly and effectively so that we dont have to do it ourselves. I know i dont want to do it. I dont want to have to find the person who stole my car. Ive a got other things to do i want to go look for a new car. I dont want the stress of having to find the thief, because what happens when i find them. Do i arrest them, do i throw them in prison in my apartment, then have i to give them a job in my library and they educate them severes and get a degree and turn their life around and im stuck with an inoperational story on my hands am i dont need that spres. And when you watch these shows you understand how they can shape Public Perception because according to cop shows whenever cops are breaking the law, it essential o because they have to. We cant yus broke protocol because it is right at the time and expect to get away with itness with normally i would agree with you but in this case i would rather ask for forgiveness than permission. As you know we need a warn to search the house. These are e i gent circumstances. You let me wore he about the legal ramifications. If i have to bend the rules a little bit to get a bad guy off the street, im going to do it and would you too. Forget warrants, forget the rules. Its on us to catch him. Trevor that was cool, although what that guy was actually saying is the constitution is for pussies, its amazing how cops on tv shows are always saying the only way to catch the criminal is by breaking the law them is ofs. Technically that cop is now a criminal too. Which means another cop should kick his ass. But therch that new cop is also a criminal braws he is breaking a law because mines the other cop should beat up cop number, third. Basically every cop show should end with the entire precinct in a brawl while the suspect sneaks out the door. That is what cop shows are good at dotting. They make us believe that the only way the police can truly be effective is if they break the rules that society created to protect us from police. And by the way, when tv cops break the rules, it is not usually by filling form 276 instead of 27b. No, they often do it by beating the shit out of a suspect. I told you everything. No, you havent, but you will, i will beat the balls off you. Please dont let him hit me. The only thing on this earth that will stop him from hitting su if you tell him the truth. You are going to tell us what happened or i going to do something i wont regret, not for one second. We can do this the fast way, the slow way, and then there is my favorite way. You cant, did you see that . Good shot, bones. Son of a bitch. Get the. You sure you didnt give him brain damage when you slammed his head against the steering wheel. Captain, i think brain damages with a preexisting condition, dont you think, george . I need to see a doctor. Oh, all at once. Trevor yeah, that guy doesnt deserve to see a doctor, he maybe committed a crime and even if he didnt commit the crime well then this will be a lesson to stop him from committing one in the future. Same reason i plan to prebeat all my children. You might not have done anything yet but i know you will. It is actually crazy how every cop show has police just regularly using violence to help them do their job. Tv doesnt do that with any other profession. There arent medical dramas where they are like doctor, this doesnt mawk any sense, the patients lab work is normal but his heart is failing. Well maybe we need to smack him around a little bit and see what he knows. What . I used to be on a cop show. Every cop show makes it seem like the reason cops have to beat suspects is just because without the bet down they wont tell the truth, and so those beatings protect the rest of society from these lying criminals but in real life, beating a suspect is a great way to get them to confess to something they didnt do. Which means you have locked up an innocent person and you let the real criminal walk free. Oh and by the way even if the person did do the crime, their lawyers can get them off because their confession wasnt legitimate because they were beaten. So beating a suspect to solve your case is like washing your computer with water. The virus is gone but so is your laptop. So whether we like it or not, vt is tv is a powerful tool that shapes how the public sees the police. Shapes how the public sees the polices role in society and how can thible they should be. Because in real life when rogue cops throw away the rule book and take matters into their own hands, it doesnt look cool like in one of the tv shows, it looks a lot more like this. The Valdosta Police department facing a lawsuit for unnecessary and illegal force after arresting the wrong suspect and reportedly breaking his arm in the process. Put your hands. What are you doing. Owrks, oh god, oh police, i wasnt doing anything, oh my god. That painful bodycam video showing the officers handcuffing and slamming that man to the ground. That was back in february. Antonio smith stopped for suspicious activity and accused of panhandling but officials had the wrong man. Smith was released at the scene. Now hes filing a 700,000 lawsuit. Trevor you see. Unfortunately every day in america, there are people who have encounters just like that with the police. And so to all those show creators, direct ares and writers in hollywood who make these cop shows, and have been tweeting that something needs to be done about the police, well, one way you can help make a difference is if you do something about the police on screen. When we come back, roy wood, jr. Checks in on a looting victim in his hometown. And then well talk to jon stewart. Dont go away. Where will you go first . Wherever you make go, lexus will welcome you back with exceptional offers. Get zero percent financing and make no payments for up to 90 days on all 2020 lexus models. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Jump. Lift. Skip. Step slam. Pan. Battle. Roll bulls. Eye. Spin. Shred. Sprint. Peddle. Clean. Climb. Kick. Fly. Round. House. Drum. Joust. Scuba. Swim. Surf. Surf. Surf. Surf. Boost. Bike. Balance. Board. Dance. Roll. Rock. Kick. Flip. Dog. Dive [sigh of relief] daily social distancing show. Right now america is seeing some of the most widespread protests in its history. And although the vast majority of them have been peaceful, there has been some looting. Now our very own roy wood, jr. Went to his hometown in alabama to bring us this story of a Small Business owner and her surprising reaction to people who looted her store. I spent the last few weeks quarantining here at my moms house in birmingham. Mom, i told you im at work. Birmingham has a deep history with civil rights. So its not surprising that people protested here after the killing of george floyd. Like in many cities, some of the protests lead to riots and looting of Small Businesses, like this office run by dr. Adams. We have been here for years, and its unnecessary. Im going to go and talk to her. And of course im going to observe all pandemic protocols. What happened the night of the protest . What did you say . Which means im going to talk to her right here in this chair. I get a call from my Security Company and so i come down to find four windows broken and one of the doofers broken. And it took my high end frames. Have you asked other optometrists in the area whether or not they did this to you . No, sir. Cuz it seems to me the only person that would steal prescription eyeglasses is somebody that could write a prescription for eyeglasses. But, but, but, but, but, but, now what i am doing is if somebody has nerve enough to bring my own frames in here, im going to have to call the cops on them. I dont know what i will do when i see them on their face. We need to get a Samurai Sword and a baseball bat and just anybody with glasses, just bust their ass in the face, you feel me. I feel you, and i will let you lead that march. I will be behind you 100 . Actually, what struck me about dr. Adams was that she seems to feel compassion for the people who broke into her store. If they are feeling pain like this, and i have to they are doing Something Like this, it is a small price to pay. God will rebuild it. Why were you so understanding to the people that caused all this damage. It must be some severe pain to execute hurt in this level, you know. They have issues, you know. And they dont know how to properly channel their anger. But people, protestors, im all for that. It was okay but just dont come tear up my shop again. There you go, huhuh, uhhuh, my contribution was to get up out of my bed and throw on the first thing i could try on, didnt even have pie earrings on, and come down here and assess the damage. That, that was my contribution. So your contribution too the struggle was all them prescription eyeglasseses that they stole. Yes, and being up all night long. The story does have a silver lining. The day after the protest, the community mobilized to clean up adams store. I saw an outpouring of love. Not just black, not just white. I even heard a rumor there was a guy from birmingham that lives in new york and show ended up out there with a shovel too. Uhhuh. Birmingham native and comedy centrals roy wood, jr. Was right in the mix. Oh, that was you. Oh my goodness. Oh, it was yes, it was. Wow. So crazy. For the first black woman optometrist in alabama, the recent media a attention had opened some doors that had long been closed. Okay, so what is next. You rebuild and go back to business. Well, we rebuild but we go into business in another location. We will be going to the Callahan Eye Foundation which is one the premier eye facilities in birmingham, alabama. And to be quite honest, 40 years ago, i couldnt have worked there, so it is progress. Okay, let me get this straight, your place gets vandalized, volunteers come to clean it up. Then after the cleanup you get offered a new residency for your eyecare practice at one of the most prestigious eyecare institutes in the country. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Tell the truth, you tor it up, you tor up your own business. No, no, no. To get an upgrade to a better eyecare facility, tell the truth no, no, no. I did not do that. No, sir. Look at the facts. I am sorry, whatever the facts look like, it is an illusion. I need to see your bank account and make sure you aint paid no protest hers, that is all im saying. I aint paid none of them protestors, you can check my record. It was probably antifa. Do you know antifa. No, i dont no antifa. I got aunt shirley, aunt rose and antifa, i will give you her number later, she is really nice. Do you think she want to get her eyes examined. Its possible. This proves that a community can rise up and come together under the worst circumstances. But it also proves that i look good in glasses. Back to you, trevor. Trevor thank you so much for that, roy, that was amazing. Dont go away because jon stewart is next. Well be right back. Ck to the daily social distancing show. Earlier today i spoke with my old boss jon stewart. His new movie irresistible which he wrote and directed will be in theaters and on demand beginning june 26th. We talked about his movie and much more. Do me a favor, look at your lens and not the screen so it yeah, that is closer to it, yeah, there, there. That. Yeah, thats it. But dont look the aw. No, dont look there, please. laughter . Trevor oh man, jon stewart, welcome to the daily social distancing show. I have been doing press now for its got to be a week straight, junk ets and everything, and this is how i have been doing it. And for the First Time Since i have been doing this, someone has the des ent desencee to go you might want to look at the camera. Trevor but you know, st the common new t is like a thing people dont realize, because our screens and cameras, someone needs to put them in line because in is not how we talk to each other. You normally look at a person. I want to look at you. I want to do it like they imagined it in the Science Fiction movies in the 70s where you would do the video call, and your head and my head are talking. Trevor no, i have come to realize that all the things we learned from Science Fiction in the movie was very ambitious but we have very, you know like if you grew up with poor parents, they would always bring you a very cheap version of the cool thing you wanted as a kid. That is the future we live in now. So we were like imagine if you could talk to someone through a screen am they are like okay, you want do that but you can look off at them and seem like you dont know where they are and communicate effectively, that is basically what we do. Trevor where are you, what is this, what is sth room behind you. Im in my atiq, this is a room when my children were younger, this was their play room and so they did a lot of doodling or their cousins did, because this is where they would come up with their cousins and then they grew up and decided, you know what, im just going to stay in my room, quarantine or no quarantine. And you are going to go up into the attic, so that is what we have done. Trevor its funny because it st beautiful now that i know it was your kid was did that, but it almost looks like the same graffiti on the confederate monuments around america it looks like you will the people practice the gra fiti at your house before they go to the monument so they can get it right. Antifa has infiltrated my attic, we have a problem here. Im doing the best i can but they are rabblerousers. And as you can see, they have de sided that this wall must, this is the berlin wall. And they are going to take it down. Trevor what do you make of all of that. Like honestly, because you know, like just like the confederate monuments, every statue coming down, it started with con fet rat statutes, with racist people from history, then we started seeing statues coming down of people who fought for the union and people who fought against slavery and like what do you make of it, should we just get rid of statues . What is going on. What you will find is if you dont allow regular order to take down the statues that represent the insurrection that tried to destroy this country and preserve the institution of slavery, if you make that impossible to do through pleading, peaceful entreaty and all that, you are going to end up with a spasm. Look, people shouldnt have 400 the statues are not from the confederater ra, they are from the jim crow era, to say just so you know, i know they let you go but i want to make sure everybody understands like we will still sub ju gate you, and bring fear into your life. So you know, cuz these statues are not, people say like are you erasing our history. By the way i dont remember the conservatives during the iraq war when the Saddam Hussein stalt u fell in baghdad i dont recall republicans go ba ba ba, big mistake, you dont want to erase history, that is your history, leave it be. So you know, the plaque on the statue is not history t doesnt say this mother [bleep] thought that he should fight a war to ensure that he could have slaves on his and benefit, and then we put it up to instill fear in the people that we kept as slaves and their descendants. So this should have been done in short order by a normal functioning Society Years ago. Trevor you know, you Say Something interesting. And that is a normal functioning society. It feels like normal functioning and society are three words that are very quickly slipping away. All over the world people are dealing with the same thing, that is coronavirus. But i honestly believe that america might be the only country where it is seen as a political issue as opposed to a pandemic, do you know what i mean . It seems like something you can choose to believe it or where you stand politically de fines whether the legit massey of the virus whereas in other places they argue about how to deal with it but the virus isnt a political issue. And there are arguments, listen, we are not the only country arguing about how much to limit freedom of movement and, in italy you saw big demonstrations and protests against trying to confine people to a certain extent. But i think a reasonable view of it would be its not being done for the sake of tir any, we are actually facing something where tense of thousands of people are dying and you know, if you think about it like, its like preparing for a hurricane, when a hurricane is coming there are always those people that are like government is full of shiit, i am not going to board up my windows but this say hurricane where if we prepare for the hurricane weakens. And that doesnt happen normally. But because in this country now we have set up parallel universes in the multiversion, that the right lives in, you know, this is an infringement. It kind of, the mask thing is what blows my mind. Because you know, surgeons wear them in operating rooms. And they dont wear them because you know they drive volvos an sip chai tea. They wear them, so i just want to say to people on the mask thing, great, next time you are having an operation, and the surgeon comes in with washed hands and a mask, just be like dont be a pussy, take off that mask and you unwash your hands and you stick your paws in my open gaiping wound. Because apparently sanitary conditions are a liberal myth. Trevor you know, obviously we knew each other when were you leaving the daily show, im getting into different things, taking time with my family, i will do a movie here or there. It was interesting to see i do a political movie, you made a movie that wasnt just about politics but almost about the game that is beneet politics. I was shocked the first time i went to New Hampshire for the primaries. And i was sitting with you know like the aides of these politicians and even the reporters and they were like oh yeah, they hang out, they chat, they go out for drinks afterwards. I was like what do you mean, they hate each other on screen and then we hate people on each others behalf and i see it happening in the country but they are friends and i didnt understand that concept. And it seems like that is what you are showing in this movie is that we dont realize that the wwe or politics is not as real as we think it is. And we are willing to die for the undertaker but the undertaker is just a guy named bill without goes home with triple h and they carpool, do you know what i mean . Lets in the draw the undertaker to this, first of all, he is a marvelous and was undefeated, you know, wrestle mania, so lets not until obviously listen, i didnt want to make a movie about the political moment, i feel like that is the daily show. And that is what you do so well. Is you do the weather, every night you come out and you talk about the political moment. And you bring the funny and the incite and the contest to the political moment. I really wanted to think about it as the climate and the system and that idea that we have kind of created this complex of media and moneyed interests and politicians and they all work and enrich each other. And theres very little accountability and it grows, those types of symbiotic structures dont dismantle themselves. Here is this system with its own inertia and energy and selfinterest and incentives to entrench itself and to grow itself and its really at odds with any relevant facts on the ground. Or the system we have in place to elect people is almost working antithetically to the system we have in place to try and govern people. And we dont really have a robust governance system but we have got an incredibly enriching and ro bos bsh bsh robust and corrupt and corotionive system of elections, of campaigns. So do you see a change . Do you see an end where you go like oh no, its, something is going to happen that shut this all down. Where im optimistic is there are such talented, committed, energized people taking the recents of these really rotted out husks of institutions and you get the sense that theyre committed to rebuilding them in a manner that is going to create a sturdier foundation and you know, so much of this country, what you learn from this is, and the pandemic exacerbates this, you know, what is essential. It turns out all the people in this country who are essential to its functioning are the lowest paid. And how did we create, how do we you know, for many years weve sort of gone on this principle of if we just take care of the investor class, well get a taste, and i say we because im now up there. But the pendulum has swung away from valuing work. And we have to figure out, you know, and they always talk about, the people that talk about trickle down are always about freedom and liberty. Well, what is more liberating than not having to worry about your Health Insurance being tied to your job. Or working really hard but still having to use food stamps. Thats not freedom. And we have to find a way to make those in the country who are essential, to give them more liberty. And more liberty comes from z being able to live a life that is built on granite and not on quick sand. Trevor i could talk to you forever my friend. Thank you so much for joining us, i hope everyone watches the movie. I hope are you having fun, i hope are you staying healthy. I hope you are loving your family and your kids and enjoying yourself. And let me, may i have a moment. Trevor yeah, of course. I am so impressed by everything, i will tell you up here, im looking at your face but i will look into the cam rasm i am so impressed by everything that you guys are doing. And the incites of the show and hilarity of the show. It just, st magnificent. And i just wanted to tell you, i know what goes into making it. So i am impressed for the right reasons. Because of how hard i know that it is, and how beautifully are you doing it. The only thing i would say, do you have to do it so handsomely. That, the handsomeness, if i may, feels a little bit like a personal attack. The other stuff, i love. But if could you do the show without dimp els, im just saying. Trevor i will pass the comment on to management and well see what we can do. Jon stewart. Thank you so much for joining us. On the show, i hope to see you again, look after yourself. You lack after your is of too, take care. Trevor thank you. Bye bye, how do i, now i dont even know how to hang up. Trevor thank you so much for that, jon. Well, thats our show for today. Now as you may know, june is pride month. And right now we want to highlight charities that are making a difference for lgbtq people of color. Associations like the National Black justice coalition, which advocate for federal policies that fight against racism and homophobia. If you would like to help them and would like to join in, please donate whatever you can. If you would like to help physically in new york, well then what you can do is donate to the odd relorde project, they help lgbtq communities of color fight for their rights to organize for change. Until next time, stay safe out there and now here it is, your moment of glern. I just know that were going to get through this, and its going to be better. And that george floyd has let a lot of people know about black lives. And how have people fight for what is right and try to make a change in the world. Ive seen dirty dancing like 10 times breaks my heart every time, you know . Whoa. Andy. Huh . That swayze sure can dance dirty. Dont you have any sunblock . No. Walter js been hoarding it. You want to worry about a part of my body . Worry about my eyes. Theyre like two flaming meatballs in my skull. Last week, andy set sail for the bahamas to sell his familys boat, and he took his brother but not me. I was kind of sad at first. But then i remembered that bob marley song no, woman