The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Narcos in the Time of Coronavirus | Eric Garcetti & Billy Porter

Episode Date: May 14, 2020

Trevor highlights COVID-19's effects on the drug trade, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti discusses concerns about reopening, and Billy Porter talks about his art and activism. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Social Distancing Show. I'm Trevor Noah, and it is now day 58 of us staying inside to try and stop the spread of coronavirus. And here's your quarantine tip of the day. If you want to create a little bit of excitement in your life, steal your neighbors Amazon packages and then swap them with yours. Then every day becomes a secret Santa.

Emergency heart medicine? Take immediately sweet! Anyway on ton's episode, Corona is turning people into insects. Mitch McConnell calls the wrong president classless, and we look at some of the biggest victims of the corona pandemic, your neighborhood drug lord. So let's get into it. Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. From Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the daily social distancing show with the the th insects. thins. thins. thins. thins. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi thi thi thi. thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thioma. thioma. thioma. thioma. th is is is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi. the thi. the thi. the the the the the the the the the the thi thi the thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah.

You know these days, it can sometimes feel like we're drowning in bad news. So let us pull you up out of the water and onto that floating door with us, with us plenty of room. In our ongoing segment, a ray of sunshine. Let's kick it off with restaurants. You know, the place where someone takes you to break up with you when they could have just sent you a text. I don't understand how we were in half-sees for the meal, but I paid fully for the heartbreak,

Sheila. Health officials say that when restaurants reopen in the age of Corona, people will need to sit a few feet apart from each other for safety. But the question is, how do we do that? Well, one of the country's top restaurants has come up with an imaginative way to avoid the awkwardness of having a bunch of empty seats. Well, some places that we go, you know, social distancing can feel a little awkward, like maybe lots of empty spaces in a restaurant, for example. So a North Virginia restaurant is filling in the missing people with mannequins.

The Inn Little Washington, which is a renowned fancy place I have learned. Three Michelin stars will soon open for half capacity, likely, likely, like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like renowned fancy place I have learned, three Michelin stars will soon open for half capacity, likely at the end of the month. But the empty tables will feature these frozen friends in vintage 1940 style outfits. Yes, if eating in a half-empty restaurant makes you uncomfortable, now you have the option of eating in the final scene of a horror movie, much more relaxing. Also, how bad would you feel if you're eating alone and then you look over and you see that even the guy man out of plastic was able to get a date? And look, I get what this restaurant was trying to do. But I think they went too far when they also used mannequins to occupy all the bathroom stalls? Excuse me what's... the the the the the the their is is their their their their is their their is their is their is their is their is their. their. their. th. th. thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks to thinks to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the te. te. te. te. te. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. toea. toea. tea. tea. t bathroom stalls. Excuse me, what's taking so long in there? Come on! I gotta get back to my table.

I think Sheila's gonna propose. I mean, why else would she bring me here? Why would someone bring you here if they're not gonna propose? You know who's probably really gonna love this restaurant? Mark Zuckerberg. Wow, everyone at this world's largest social network and elderly TikTok is bringing millions of users together in a really

unexpected way. More than a million people are spending time during quarantine pretending to be ants. So this Facebook group is called group where we all pretend to be ants in a colony. Look at one of the posts here. Ants crawling on ice cream, one person says, munch with me and then take some to the queen. You can see the comments say,

nom, slurp, and lift to queen. Okay, this is a, this is really interesting. To take their minds off of the stress of Corona, millions of Facebook users are pretending to be ants. And you thought you were the only one in quarantine feeling a little, antsy. Ha ha ha ha. Back to you, Sandra. Look, man, I get it. Who wouldn't want to live the carefree life of an ant,

right? You just spend all your time carrying crumbs 5,000 times your body weight until the day some asshole kid steps on you because his board sounds like a dream. Now I know a lot of people are just having fun, but please remember whenever there's something really fun on Facebook there's a good chance it's created by the Russians. Let's all pretend to be ants. We bring sugar to Queen, then we not vote for Joe Biden. And finally, here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's here's the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thea. thea. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo' tape. tape. tape. today. th sugar to Queen, then we not vote for Joe Biden. And finally, here's another way people are keeping from going crazy during this pandemic. Taking the coronavirus outside and beating the crap out of it. Well, this strange site showed up in a backyard in Alita. What is it? It's a COVID-19 Pinyatha, of course. Jennifer Worsal tells us a friend made it for her son's 18th birthday last weekend.

Well, apparently people like the idea of using a pinautha for some stress release and a few laughs. ABC Party in Oak Cliff, known for the colorful pinathas it makes to celebrate special occasions, has added the coronavirus pinautha to its lineup. We can dress it in different for different occasions. Like our kids that didn't get to have a graduation, we're gonna put a cap and maybe put a gown on it so that they can just hit it and get their frustration out. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. People are making Corona Pinares and showing the virus who's boss.

Except instead of candy, a bunch of hydroxychloroquy pills falls out. Self-medication. But here's a tip. If you've got coronavirus strung up, make sure to interrogate it before you destroy it. We need to find out its secrets. Who sent you? Are you the Chinese virus?

Are you the European virus? Or do people just change your name depending on their political affiliations? I just pray that Trump doesn't see one of these videos because you know he's going to propose it at the next briefing. And I saw some people using sticks to destroy the coronavirus to destroy the coronavirus. to destroy the coronavirus. Maybe we can try to to the virus. Maybe we shrink down the sticks and beat the coronavirus. Can we check that out? Is that something we can do? So, go out there, have some fun,

and smash a Corona Pina. Just whatever you do, don't use a bat, because Corona loves bats. Thank you, thank you. All right, that's enough silliness. Let's catch up on today's headlines. Our first headline is about Twitter. The only place on the internet where Pulitzer Prize winning journalists can get into fights with Ukrainian teenagers.

Yesterday, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, told 5,000 of his employees working at home that they should never come back to work. Some Twitter employees will never have to go back to the office if they don't want to. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told them yesterday they may work from home forever if they don't want to. Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey told them yesterday they may work from home forever if they prefer to do that, and their job enables them to do so. The company's 5,000 employees were asked to work from home at the beginning of March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Twitter says that the past few months have proven, they can continue working from home for as long as they want, which is amazing. And I hope more companies follow suit. Because there are so many advantages to working from home. First of all, your daily commute is like five seconds. Secondly, your office affair is actually good for your marriage. And third, good luck to them trying to fire you over a zoom call. Sorry, what did you say, boss?

Sorry, I can't, no, I can, I'm going to take some extra vacation days and we'll talk in a few weeks. Okay, bye-bye now. I guess the only problem is working from home makes it much harder to steal your co-workers lunch. Mmm, nice lasagna. Trevore. Nice lasagna. Trevor. Next up. Jared Kushner, senior presidential aid and mannequin eating at a fancy restaurant. He had a general election thought that kind of freaked a lot of people out. President Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, one-on-one.

What he said when asked if the presidential election could be delayed. That interview you saw with the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner one-on-one what he said when asked if the presidential election could be delayed. That interview you saw with the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, raised eyebrows. When Kushner was asked by time if there was a chance the presidential election could be postponed due to the pandemic. President Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner is making news. In an interview with Time magazine, Kushner said he was not certain the presidential election would happen on November 3rd if there's another outbreak of coronavirus in the fall. Oh my God! Jared Kushner might delay the election? That is not good. Let me tell you something, my friends. An election is like peeing. You've got to do it when you're supposed to do it or your democracy

will get a UTI. And honestly, I can't believe that Jared Kushner said this. And the reason I can't believe it is because he didn't actually say this. Yeah, because everyone from news outlets to thousands of people on Twitter are reacting off of the headline. But if you watch the actual interview, this is what Jared Kushner said. Is there any scenario including a second outbreak in the fall where the elections move past November 3rd? That's too far in the future to tell. Nothing that I'm aware of now, but again, our focus right now is just on getting the country... Will we submit that the elections will happen on November 3? It's not my decision to make. I'm not sure I can commit one way the other. But right now, that's the plan. Yeah, you see, not only did Jared Kushner not say he's delaying the election, he laughs

off the question and says it's not his decision to make. And look, I'm not a fan of Jared Kushner, but I don't think it's helpful for anybody to stir up shit like this at a time like this. I mean people are out here pretending to be ants. They don't need added stress in their lives. So please, news outlets or whoever's putting these headlines up, like let's not gin up controversy where it doesn't need to be. Especially since there's so many real things you can get mad at Jared Kushner for. You know, giving PEPE contracts to his buddies, having sleepovers with the Saudi prince, or speaking in a frequency that summons locusts from miles away. And finally, you might have heard that last week, former President Barack Halalalaula, Barack

Halleuia Obama called Donald Trump's coronavirus response an absolute chaotic disaster. Well yesterday, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader and semi-deflated pool float, decided to clap back. Just a day after former President Obama ripped flated pool float decided to clap back. Just a day after former President Obama ripped the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had this sharp criticism of Obama. I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut, but I think it's a little bit classless, frankly,

to critique an administration that comes after you. Wow. I knew McConnell had balls, because they're all right there in his neck scrotum, but I didn't know they were big enough to call President Obama claseless and tell him to keep his mouth shut. And is it just me? Or did he say clasless with a hard R? Like, really, Mitch?

You think Obama is classless? My man, your favorite president called his own mistress a horse face on Twitter during his presidency. And you know what, maybe there was a time when former presidents would refrain from criticizing current ones. But that was before Trump. It's the same way scrunchies used to be considered tacky, but then coronavirus came along, and the old rules, they don't apply anymore. All right, that's it for the headlines. After the break, we're going to do a segment on drugs.

Wait, that didn't sound right. We're going to do a segment high on drugs. No, that's not it. Anyway, we'll be right back. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. You're rolling? But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Done of CBS News. Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look,

starting September 17th, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the daily social distancing show. Usually when we talk about coronavirus, we focus on the lives lost, the economy, and jobs. But the truth is, this pandemic is affecting our world in a million different ways, and one of those effects is on the drug trade, which we're going to explore in our new segment, narcos in the time of corona. Let's begin with a gateway drug. Weed, aka marijuana, aka the Kushner, because it solves all your problems.

It doesn't. Like Netflix and Japanese toilets, weed is something we're appreciating more and more during the lockdowns. With so many people self-isolating at home, at least one industry is booming. It's the marijuana industry. The orders are starting as soon as we open at 8.30, and they're just going consistently until we close. Sales have never been stronger

than during shelter in place. Delivery, at a social distance, of course. This mother of two likes her mommy mince. Canibus business owners say they are hiring th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. to to to to to to to to to to tooe, the to to to to tooe, too, to, to, to, to, to, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. the the the th. th. th. th. the the, the, the, the, the. thea. toooooooooooo tooooooooo tooooooooooooooo. too. the th they are hiring more drivers to meet the demand. And while mom now delivers dime bags, she's also picked up some of the lingo. I didn't understand what heavy was, but that is a word that's in the dictionary. You know, I don't think I will ever get used to how much the weed game has changed. Because it used to be some shady dude on the corner. Now, it's the lady who used to bring orange slices

for everyone at half-time. You know, it's gonna be real awkward when all those weed dealers who got incarcerated, come back home to find their street corners got gentrified. Back up, buddy. This is Karen's corner now. But yes, people are stocking up on legal weed because of the corona shutdowns. Because for a lot of people, weed is a great way to distress and pass the time at home. Plus, now we all have the perfect excuse

not to hang out with our dealer. Oh, sorry, dude, yeah, I would love to hang out with you and have you smoke half the weed that you just made me pay for, but social distancing. So for the legal drug trade, business is booming like crazy. But it turns out that all over the world the illegal drug trade has been struggling hard because of coronavirus because it's a lot harder to hand people drugs when nobody's supposed to be touching. Police say the coronavirus lockdown is helping them catch drug

dealers because they're easier to spot on our empty streets. Many of them are now dressing as joggers to avoid police detection. Police say drug dealers are posing as delivery workers carrying cocaine and ketamine hidden in the bottoms of delivery packages. An island, they found a pizza box which had two handguns in it and 8 kilograms of cocaine. Yeah, that's right. Drug dealers are too easy to spot right now, so they're going under cover as joggers, as joggers as joggers as joggers as joggers as joggers as j j j j j j j jogers, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thers. th th their their their their their their their their their their their the the the thoggers. thoggers. thoggers. thogers. thogers. thogers. thogers. thogers. thogers. Many thogers. Many thogers. Many thogers in it and eight kilograms of cocaine. Yeah, that's right. Drug dealers are too easy to spot right now, so they're going under cover as joggers and pizza delivery guys.

And that has to be such a roller coaster of emotions. Can you imagine a drug dealer shows up with a pizza box full of drugs? A random pizza showed up! Oh, it's just drugs! Yeah! If you are a drug dealer who's trying to smuggle, you've got to pick the right pizza box, though. Because if you're carrying a Papa John's box, that'll be a dead giveaway. Hands up! This is the police.

Drop the box! What? I'm just delivering some Papa John's. Nice try, buddy. I don't care how desperate people are. But the impact on small-time drug dealers is nothing compared to how the pandemic is messing with the big picture. In fact, the entire global drug trade has been brought to its knees by COVID-19. Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are really being crippled by this pandemic. As supply chains in China shut down, traffickers are losing the chemicals to make profitable drugs like meth and fentanyl. One big problem for cartels is distribution. They can no longer transport drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drugs to drug drugs the drug drugs to drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug to drug to drug to drug to drug drug drug drug drug to drug to to to drug to tra. tra. tra. their drug their drug their drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug drug to to to to their their their their drugs drugs drugs drugs to to to their drugs drugs drugs to to their drugs to to to their drugs to their drugs to to their drugs to to to their drugs, to tra. tra. tra. tra. tra. tra. tra. tra. tra. their their their the make profitable drugs like meth and fentanyl. One big problem for cartels is distribution. They can no longer transport drugs to where they can sell them.

For drug traffickers, the shutdowns have crippled money laundering schemes creating a backlog of drug proceeds. Now millions of dollars of dirty money have been piling up in Los Angeles. Wow! Corona virus is crushing everybody. Factories in China can't make chemicals. Without chemicals, drug dealers can't make meth. And without meth, Joe Exotic has no way to make straight guys marry him.

And it's not just the supply chain. Because of lockdowns, drug dealers can't launder their cash. And that cash is not dirty because of drugs. It's also dirty because it's got corona on it. So now you gotta launder it through a fake business and then you gotta launder it with actual detergent. This is too much work. Now, if you wanted the drug cartels

and you're struggling to move your money in LA, I got a tip for you guys. You should just do what everyone else in LA does when they have too much mo-a mma ma mc-a mc-a-a-a-oan. Think about it, half all of Hollywood movies are just money laundering schemes. Like the Goldfinch? That's not a real movie. Do you know anyone who watched that movie? No, money laundering. I mean, like, even the actors are not real. Ansel Elgort?

That's not a name. That's like just someone's leftover scrabble tiles. By the way, Ansel, they made me say those jokes. I don't they they're they all. I love you, baby driver. So, what are the cartels doing now with so much of their business shutdown? Well, like the rest of us, some of them are taking up new quarantine hobbies. Mexican drug cartels moonlighting as philanthropists. Drug gang members in states like Alisco and Sinaloa

have been handing out what are essentially care packages to ordinary citizens. In Rio de Janeiro, drug cartels are imposing curfews, putting signs and hand sanitizer at the interest to the slum. As South Africa tries to control the spread of coronavirus. Gang leaders have halted their turf wars and turned their delivery networks, usually used for drugs to to their drugs trafficking to get food to poor households instead. The best distributors in the country they know how to distribute things, they're used to distributing other white powders, but still they're distributing things and they know everybody.

Yeah, that's right. With the drug trade on pause, gangs around the world have started helping in their communities instead. And I don't know, man, man, th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thu-in-in-in-in-in-in-in' thi thi thi thi thi's thi's thi's thi-in-mu-mu-mu-s, thi, the-in-in-a' the-in-a' they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. they's thi. thi. they's careful delivering groceries and hand sanitizer. Because that's Amazon's turf. You guys think you're tough? Wait until you meet Jeff Bezos. A month from now, the Sinaloa cartel is going to be the Sinaloa Amazon Fulfillment Center and no benefits. You know, one thing I'm excited to see is how this coronavirus is going to change gang tattoos. I got this one for killing a man in cold blood. And I got this one for helping Mr. Hernandez bake banana bread.

But yeah, what all of this has revealed is that, just like many other industries around the world right now, even the drug cartels are struggling to deal with corona. And until people get healthy, the drug cartels can't get back to their job of making people unhealthy, which is actually why I think if we want to get coronavirus vaccines out to as many people as possible, we should put the cartels in charge. Hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. They have the distribution, they have the networks, and unlike the big pharmaceutical

companies, they'll give us our first taste for free. When we come back, I'll be talking to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti about how Los Angeles is handling the coronavirus pandemic. Stay tuned. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible.

I'm Seth Done of CBS News. Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look, starting September 17, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier today, I got the chance to speak with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. We spoke about the coronavirus stay-at-home orders that made everybody go crazy when they said LA was shutting down for three more months. So check it out. Mayor Garcetti, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. I love your t-shirt. That's gonna curry you some favor with the person asking you questions. Well, this is actually my standard governing outfit during the coronavirus crisis. I can't wait to take it off. It's been like 60 days. I haven't taken this thing off.

Oh yeah, that's that's not a good idea. Let's jump straight into what, you know, the chaos that people experienced, I think, over the past 24 hours. I remember getting a notification myself, and it said, California, it was LA County announces that the lockdown will carry on, the stay-at-home orders will carry on for three more months. And immediately, you know, I could see the chaos online. People were like, what the hell? Three more months. How is this number gone up? Where did this come from? This thing is never gonna end.

You know, California doesn't have a high death rate. What exactly is going on in LA County? Is, is the place gonna be shut down for three more months? So, LA County, their health tooffic, theyre, too, th............ So, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, they, they, they, they, they, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th..................................... th.. the, the, the, the, the, the, they, they, they, they, they. they. too. they. too. too. too. the too. the the the the. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th health officer for the LA County, Dr. Ferrer, who's amazing, said that there will still be a health order in place for at least the next three months, you're right, everybody flipped out thin, thin, thin, thin, thii. thii. thii. thrown, thi. thrown, thrown, thrown. thi. thrown, theyrowneee. thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, the the the their their their th, th, th, thooooooo, their th, th, thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, their their their their the's so-called open, every politician says, we're open, actually has a whole bunch of stuff that still will remain closed and guidance for our protection. And places that are so-called closed have always been partially open. So this is about living in the gray, and realizing that three months from now,

all she was saying is we're not going to have to socially distance, physically distance. We're going to have to wear masks. We're going to have to protect our vulnerable, like elderly, and people with pre-existing conditions. And you can't do everything everywhere yet. And you won't be for a while. So let's talk a little bit about what some of these phrases and these things mean. So is this going to be a they they they to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a stay to, and I think that will stay for the next year or many months, realizing that we are all safer at home.

That said, we're gonna take steps as often as we safely can. For instance, this past weekend, we said, we opened up a bunch of retail for curbside delivery and pickup. We opened up our trails and our beautiful parks and it was awesome outside. Today our beaches open, I say kind of stay away from the dry areas. This is about the wet areas of the beach where you can exercise and surf and swim. So as long as we don't see numbers go up, let's take these steps together, wait a few weeks after each one, hold, go forward or if things are bad retreat. And then how are you deciding what opens, thinks? to because we're seeing a lot of people around the country getting riled up saying

like, you know, why are these places open? Why are these places not open? I want to get back to work or I want to get a hair cut or whatever, whatever. Everyone has a different reason. And as an elected official which sectors of the economy get to open up first or not? Yeah, that's such an important question, Trevor, because we all have feelings about what we personally want open, but I look at it threefold. I say, first, what's the need and how deep is the need? Either an economic need or let's say a psychological,

spiritual need, like, to get out there and have open spaces. Second, what's the risk? And the good thing is a lot of people have assessed risk. We can see how long it takes for vapor to spread in a restaurant that people sit at for an hour with 10 of them there. So assess that risk and give it a number. And then third, look at safety. How much of that risk can you mitigate by doing something? For instance, we kept construction open in Southern California, Northern California closed that down early on. We saw some bad bad th we brought inspectors, PPE, and everything else to every construction site in Los Angeles, and we didn't have big outbreaks.

So those folks could earn money, we could build infrastructure we needed. So it's just about learning lessons and again, being comfortable in that gray area, assessing that need, that risk and the safety you can add to it. You know, Elon Musk made thi, that, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, thi, thrown, and thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr, thr, thrown, thro, toooooooooan, tooan, tooan, tooan, tooan, toeean, tooan, throan, and thro, and thro can add to it. You know, Elon Musk made news, and I know he's further away from LA City, obviously, but he made news when he said he's going to defy the orders and he's opening up his factory. What message do you think this sends to other business owners

and what would you hope would be, what would you hope would be a better direction to take as a business owner who wants to get things going again again again again again again again again again again again again again school principles that they're going to take care of their people the most. They care about whether they get sick, they care whether they die, they care about their customers. So we've convened just industry groups who get together in manufacturing. For instance, in LA, we've got a lot of the masks people are buying around the country are being made by folks who are doing that in a safe way. We've talked to sports leagues about how they could safely have sports games without fans. We've talked to retailers.

You know, you've got to listen to folks, but this is not a time for one person to rant or to have their own moment. We have to do government to go faster because government, in my opinion, can be too slow. But when there's lives on the line, let's make sure we do it right, because the worst thing is to open up the wrong way and to see not only people die, but our economy be shut down for even longer. Do you have any idea of how school openings are going to look? I mean, we saw one of the biggest stories that came out was, you know, the university in California saying, hey, it looks like we're going online. It may

be easier for tertiary education, but, you know, for kids who are going to elementary school or whatever, you know, they need education, some of them need meals. Is there a rollout plan to get kids back into schools? We've got to get them back in schools because we can't get the economy going or people can't go to work, especially working parents if they don't have their kids in school. It's not just education, it's daycare. And so I'm confident that we can, if the numbers don't spike up for other reasons, that we can get kids in school. It won't be the same school we're used to. It might not be as many days a week or as many hours a week, but kids need to see each other. I think they need to be face-to-face with teachers again. And especially lower-income kids, even though here we finally got to a point where every kid now is a laptop and internet access, it's just not the same. And a lot, I'm worried that especially in our communities, in Latino and African-American communities, the that the tha community the the the the the the the thiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. thiiiiiiiii. theease. theanananananananananananananananananananananananananananan. theananananananan. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thae. thae. thae. thae. thae. thae. thae. thae. thae. thae. toe. toe. toeaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. are not catching up with the gap they already start with.

So I think by the fall we can do that, but everything I say is with the big caveat, see where the numbers are at. Let's plan for it, let's hope for it, let's do it intelligently. But if the numbers tell us to go back, maybe we go back indoors for a short period of time. All right so final question then, th. Then th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi thi thi. thi. th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. the. theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. theeeeee. the. the. the. the. the. the., so final question then. If, if a resident of LA, you know, whether it's the county or the city, I know you're the mayor of Los Angeles, said to you, okay, what is the plan? What are the dates? What am I aiming for? What are the dates? What am I aiming for as a person? Because I think that's what's lacking in a lot of the messaging is. People are sitting at home and they're like like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, I the the the their, I their, I their, I to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, to to to, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the the the the the the the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the too, too, the to to to to the to to too say to them? What should they look for as benchmarks and where do you hope to go in the coming weeks or months? So two things, we're gonna follow the numbers and people can actually follow them now in Los Angeles.

New York has a good site as well. Actually look at those numbers, see if our hospitals are getting overwhelmed, see if our deaths, see if our deaths, those things because that's how I'm going to make my decisions. Second, this isn't about set dates. Nobody can tell the future today and May about what will happen in June, what will happen in July, will happen in August. But that's no excuse to not start planning and putting that together. So I have confidence that we're going to every few weeks take another step too with a big if, and this is the th. th. th. th. thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to thi. to to to toeeeeei. toei. toeeei. toeei. toeeeeeei. thi, thi, thi, thi, the third thing and the most important, this is in your hands. You can kill people and you can save people.

Don't be funny, don't be a smart alec, don't go together with 20 people at a dinner party and think you can get away with it secretly. We might not catch you, but somebody's gonna catch coronavirus, and you're gonna wonder why two weeks to the health officers, practice good behavior, and we get through this. This is a year maybe more, probably of this kind of behavior until we have a vaccine. Think about our parents and our grandparents. They went through multiple years of depression of World War II. We can stand up and be the best and write an amazing chapter

for our cities, for our country and hopefully for our world. Mayor Garcetti, thank you so much for the time. And I'm going to make sure to send every single guest a t-shirt from now on, because I like this look. Could you send me a sweatshirt too? That'd be awesome. Let's let's not push it too far. I don't have money for these things. All right. Thank you so much Mayor Garcetti, let's thua, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, th,, Billy Porter joins us on the show to talk about engaging voters through his new single for what it's worth. Stick around.

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Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17. Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier today, I got the chance to speak to Billy Porter, the multi-talented performer who's won Emmy, Tony and Grammy Awards. We talked about his new single and how he's trying to engage voters in a major election year. Billy Porter, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Nice to see you. Good to see you, sir. I have to say you are the most most the the the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, to speak, the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most th. ti. ttttttttttttttttoday, to to to to to to to to to see you. Good to see you, too, sir. I have to say you are the most stylish at-home person I have seen. I feel like you don't understand the rules of coronavirus.

My stylist made me dress up for you. It's very important. But I mean, I'm, I mean, this is, I've got corona swag. I wear sweat thwa. I wear, I wear, I wear, I wear, I wear, I wear, I wear, I wear, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the, I the the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, I the most, the most, the most. the most. the most. the most the most the most the most th. th. the most t. the most t. the most t. t. t. the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most the most sweat on right after. Just a secret. Yeah, I was actually hoping. I was hoping you would show me like, what is Billy Porter's version of Ad Hocke? Because you always do that. You take whatever what everybody's wearing and you take it to the next level,

whether it's like a Met Gala look, whether it's a- I'll tell you what my next level is right.... I's, I's, I's, I's, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th... I, I, th.. I, th.. I, th. I, th. I, to to to to to to to to to to to to t. I'm, tell. tell. tell. tell you, tell you, tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you, tell you tell you tell you, tell you, the. the. Porter's doing it. Only the top half. So what you're saying is it's all class and then all ass. That's what you're saying. Okay, okay, I like it. Welcome to the show. Thank you for joining me today. You know, you, you are one of those people who is doing everything all of the time. And now it feels like the world has come to a stop. And, you are one of the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. the that's, that's, th. th. that's, that's, that's, that's. that's. to, to to the the the the tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. to. to tops. to tops. to tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. tops. the the the tops. tops. tops. the tops. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. that's. that's. that. that. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. today. You know, you are one of those people who is doing everything all of the time and now it feels like the world has come to a stop. And you are one of the people where I wondered, I was like, so what is Billy doing now? Did you take a break or are you just working more from home? Well, it's twofold. Yes and yes. I am taking a break. I am learning what self-care is. I am learning what boundaries are. I'm learning what balance is. You know, I really do have a place and a space to breathe in this time, and I know how blessed I am to have that. So I'm using that. With that said, I do wake up every morning at 5 a.m. and write until 10. Because I am working on a memoir, I'm working on a children's picture book,

I will pilot, I'm writing a musical, you know, like, I'm a creative person. Wow. And I have been a freelance creative person for my whole life. So this is what I've done my whole life. This is no different. I've always had to just fill my own time up. So, so th, so th, so th, so th, so th, so, so th, so th, I, I, I, I the th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I've th, I've th, I've to to to just, I'm to just, I'm to just, I'm, I'm to just, I'm to just, I'm to just, I'm to just, I'm to, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I the, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi, I thi, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, thi, thooooo, thoooooo, I'm thoooooo, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm th just fill my own time up. So that's not new. The terror that comes along with his time is the hard part.

Right. You've responded to that, and I think you're one of the most politically engaged celebrities I know of. You've never been afraid to make your voice. Yeah, I think so. You've not been afraid to say, you know, to speak your mind. You've never been afraid to get involved. Obviously, you know, you've been fighting for gay rights.

You've been fighting for equality and now you're fighting for people to vote. Tell me about your new song. Tell me how it was inspired and why you chose the music you chose. So you know, I'm first generation post civil rights movement right and then I came out during the AIDS crisis, activism is in my DNA, I'm a music man. When I was growing up there was a thing called protest music. That was a genre. And so way back in September I knew that the election was coming up, I know that I have this newfound platform of whatever you call it. And I wanted to make sure that I that that I'm to make sure that I the the thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu the thu the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. A to to to to to to to to the the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to do to do to do to do their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the the the the the the the the age the age. the the the age. the the the the the the the age. their their their the. the. tre. tru. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. to to to to to to to to to to to the election was coming up. I know that I have this newfound platform of whatever you call it and I wanted to make sure that I you know was doing my part and showing up and using my platform and my powers for good because there's a monster in the White House and we have to get him out.

However, we must. And so I just want to make sure that I'm doing my part. So we put this thing together with the hope that it might engage, ignite, remind people that the power is in us. We, the people have the power to change. And we got to get out and vote and do that. Well, how would you respond to people who say, Billy, I don't see the point in voting. You know, a lot of young people might say, there's no point, nothing changes, the world is always gonna be the same, one administration to the next, there's not a big shift.

How would you respond to those people as someone who said you are first generation, I mean, I have seen it. I've lived through it. And I think the challenge right now and the disconnect is the wild, wild west that we're in of this technology, of this online technology. You know, we have to figure out how to bring in the tenets of how we were activists during the civil rights movement, whether it's the sit-in, the bus boycotts, you know, the bridge bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, we were activists during the civil rights movement, whether it's the sit-in, the bus boycotts, you know, the bridge, blah, blah, blah, whatever, and meld that together with what we can do with technology. And that will be the new way that we can activate, but

we haven't gotten there yet. You know, it's like right behind my computer and twittering it's not activism y'all, you know, and I say that to myself too, you know, it's like I don't I'm not sure where we begin, you know, we're already in it, somebody has to plan the stuff. You know, that's not my skill set, but I can sing a mean song when it is planned. Amen to that my friend. Well, I know I I got got got to to to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to let to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the that the that that that the the that that that that that that that that that that that that that the the the th mean song when it is playing. Amen to that, my friend. Um, well, I know I gotta let you go. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for looking stylish.

Um, I'll just believe that there are no pants, because I feel like if you stand up, you're gonna disappoint me. And, uh, hopefully I'll see you on much, really. I'll see you again. Bye. Bye. Well, that's our show for tonight. But before we go, the COVID pandemic has taken a serious toll on many people's mental health. And here in the United States, the disaster distress helpline is trying to address this crisis.

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