The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Daily Show's Pandemmy Awards | Sherrilyn Ifill & Ewan McGregor

Episode Date: September 18, 2020

Trevor introduces the Pandemmy Awards, Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Ewan McGregor talks about his Apple TV+ docuseries "Long Way Up." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Why, hello everybody. Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Today is Thursday, the 17th of September. And here's your quarantine tip of the day. If you're planning on finally seeing your older relatives for the first time in months, remember, don't eat any of the hard candies that they give you.

And this is not a COVID thing, those things are just gross. Anyway, on tonight's show, Donald Trump divorces half the country. Bill Barr says slavery is back, and the coronavirus is getting its own award show. So let's do this, people. 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 Trevor No. Ears.

Let's kick things off in Barbados, the place with a rich, beautiful history that you probably won't see because it's outside the Sandals Resorts. Although the Caribbean Island obtained independence in 1966, the Queen of England is still officially the head of state, but that's about to change. Queen Elizabeth is being removed as head of state in Barbados. So the Caribbean nation plans to become a republic next year. 55 years after declaring independence from Britain, the island's governor general says the time has come to leave the colonial pass behind. It'll be the first time in three decades the monarch has been removed.

The Queen is head of state in more than a dozen countries, formerly under British rule, including Australia, Canada, and Jamaica. Oh no! First Megan Markle and now Barbados, the queen is losing all her black friends. And the question is, why now? I mean, did Barbados just get sick of the British? Or were her Majesty's vacation cornrows the last straw? I thought she looked fly. You know who I feel really bad for though? Prince Charles. I mean, think about it, when he was born, he was set to inherit a massive global empire. By the time he finally takes over, though, he'll basically just be ruling Seattle but with a fancier accent. I mean, at this rate, the only Caribbean island that British Royals will be welcome at,

there's Jeffrey Epstein's. Either way, this was a lot easier than when America broke free from the British. I mean, they had a whole war. Barbados just basically ghosted the queen. Hello? Hello? Hello Barbados, are you there? Sh-Sahah-oan, Riann-I's the the the the the the th.. Is is is the the phone. Rihanna's our queen now. Let's move on now to another country where people are desperate to rid themselves of a despotic monarch,

the United States of America. One of the biggest clashes between protesters and police this summer was on June 1st, when federal police used tear gas, pepper spray, and batons to clear the park in front of the White House so that President Trump could hold a Bible in front of a church. I want to show people that it doesn't burn my kind like they show in the movies. We can hold, we can hold it. But as overheated as that response was, we're now finding out that it could have been even hotter. A military whistleblower says federal officials sought to use a heat ray,

which makes people skin feel like it's burning to deal with protesters outside the White House in June. Major Adam DeMarco told a house committee that a military police officer emailed him, seeking an active denial system, also known as heat ray. The officer stated in his email, quote, the device provides a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin. DeMarco says he responded saying the DC National Guard did not have the device. God damn, I can't believe this is real life. Federal police wanted to use a heat ray against peaceful protesters outside the White House. At this point, guys, can we admit Trump is essentially a real life bond villain.

He's already got the golden lair, an Eastern European girl in camo, and a creepy pet. Oh, and by the way, what a crazy way to learn that America's military has a heat ray. This is the same country that can't find money for veterans or health care or teachers, but somehow it has a giant microwave gun just lying around, you know, just in case we want a hot pocket the Middle East. And I will say now that I know America has this weapon, I'm going to wear that Lady Gaga meat dress to every protest I attend. Yeah, that way I'll be protected from the heat, and I won't have to stress about making dinner.

No justice, no peace. A little more well done on this side, please. Moving on to the coronavirus pandemic. It's the outbreak that's harder to get rid of than the college buddy that's been crashing on your couch. This is not a hotel, Dave, you've got to leave. Yeah, okay, pizza sounds good. I'll be done in about like 30 minutes. A new report has found that when New York city city th is theckckckckckckckckck. that th. th. to to to to to to to th. th. to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to th. th. to to to th. to to to th. to th. to th. to th. th. to th. th. th. to to to th. to to to to to to to too too too too to to toe toe too toe too te toda. toe. toda. too. the. thi. thi. th when New York City ordered one of the strictest shutdowns in the country last spring, it reduced the spread of coronavirus by 70 percent. Yeah, 70 percent. Normally when something is beaten that badly in New York, it's the mix.

But even though stay-at-home orders saved countless lives, and even though most places didn't try anything nearly as tough as New York, Donald Trump's Attorney General thin that they still went way too far. In new remarks, Attorney General William Barr courting controversy by saying this about the coronavirus lockdown. Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders is like house arrest.

It's, you know, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint. This is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Slow your role there, droopy dog. Corona quarantines are not even close to the worst intrusion into civil liberties. I mean, just off the top of my head, how about Japanese internment camps during World War II?

You know, that was like taking a face mask, making it huge, sticking an entire race of people in it, and then saying they can't take it off. Like, just 50 years ago, black people were kicked out of restaurants and they couldn't vote. Unless they answered a riddle from a Sphinx. I could go on, but it's only a 45-minute show. And don't get me wrong. I know that Barr said slavery was worse, but he shouldn't even be mentioning slavery in the same breath as corona shutdowns. Like I almost wonder why it is that every time Republicans don't like something, they compare it to slavery. Obamacare is like slavery. Paying taxes is like slavery. Do they do this at home?

Hmm? Is Bar at home? God damn it. I wish Harriet Tubman would freethey do this at home? Is bar at home? Like, God damn it! I wish Harriet Tubman would free me from this zoom call. Oh, sorry, I thought I was on mute. Sorry, guys. Because look, I know not going to the movies sucked, but Trump supporters weren't exactly out here singing slave spirituals. Would have been funny to see though. Swinglow, sweet Caroline, Ha ha ha, why were we angry? I forgot, because this song makes me happy. But while Bill Barr is trying to make it sound like the lockdowns were the worst thing to ever happen in America. His boss, Donald Trump, is trying to convince everyone

that things really haven't been that bad, especially when you don't count half the country. Breaking news, President Trump's suggesting the United States would be doing much better with coronavirus if we just took out the death numbers from Blue States. If you look at what we've done and all of the lives that we've saved, and I'm gonna ask that that a graph we put up and now it's up, and that's despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we're at a level that I don't think anybody in the

world would be at. Okay, no, hold on, hold on. Did this dude just try pull the, if you eat around the mold, everything's fine, move, but with corona deaths? I mean, while we add it, why don't we just not count the red states too? Then, the US has zero deaths, which is pretty impressive if you ask me. It's truly astounding that way. You can't just write off entire states. My man, this isn't the Electoral College, the popular vote counts. And by the way, these comments

aren't just embarrassing and unpatriotic and just gross. They're also wrong. Because even if you made the very weird decision to not count deaths from all the blue states, America would still have one of the worst death rates of any country in the world. So even Trump's lies are lies. It's like the inception of lies. Somehow, Trump can't even flatten the curve he's grading himself on. For more on Trump's divisive statements, I want to bring in a guy who's offended people in both red and blue states.

Michael Costa. Michael, what do you make of this whole thing, man? Isn't Trump dismissing the deaths in the parts of the country that didn't vote for him, shocking? Well, at first, I thought so, Trevor, but sometimes something seems shocking at first, but then later it turns out to be a good idea, like naked hang gliding.

Michael, please, I toldeee, like naked hang gliding. Michael, please, I told you I'm not doing that with you. But I already booked the plane. Besides, I don't want to go with Ronnie again. He's so much better at being naked than me. How is he better at being naked? Look, we're getting off track. Costa, what I want to know is what part of Trump's statement sounded like a good idea to you? Well, here's the thing.

At this point, we all know Trump only cares about the red states, so let's grant him his wish and just make him president of the red states. Red states get Trump, blue states get Biden. And they'll just split the country straight down the middle, and everybody's happier. Whoa, whoa, but Costa. What you're proposing is what happened during the civil war??. thia. thia. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, t, try, tru, tru, tru, tr. tr. t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the today, today, today, today, thu. thu. today, today, today, today, th. today, you're proposing is what happened during the Civil War. I'm not talking about a civil war, I'm talking about a civil divorce. Only this time the armies will be lawyers. The rivers will run red but with ink and the slaves, well the slaves, they will be...

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Good point. I'll stop. My point is this. What if the Civil War was the first breakup in a bad relationship? We stuck with it because we thought we could figure it out, but then as we get older, we know that we're not good for each other. Yet, besides now, our current leader has a lot of experience with divorce, so he could help guide us through it. But Michael, there's no way to neatly divide America into two countries, you know, you can't just

do it along political lines. I mean, look at New York State. The city might be democratic, but some of upstate is as red as Alabama. Fine. So New York City breaks up with upstate New York. More flags, more Olympic teams, who has a problem with that? Yeah, but then Michael, Staten Island is also more red than the rest of the city. I mean, how many times can you keep dividing? Pretty soon every person is just going to be in their own country. Great. And every country will be united. I mean, I can't even disagree with myself that I love lower taxes. Although, I also really like social services. Huh. There's only one way to solve this disagreement. Costa, please do not cut yourself in half. Don't interfere with my sovereign business. Unless you want to arrange a summit, we could meet perhaps tomorrow around noon. You know what? Cut yourself in half.

I think we can survive it. You just go and do that. Michael Costa, everyone, we'll be right back. Just do it, Costa. You can't threaten me. Do it. 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. 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.

This is an exciting week for me especially because Sunday night is the 72nd annual Emmy Awards. It's the Oscars for people who are just slightly less attractive. And I have a good feeling this year, guys. Not just because the Daily Show was nominated, but because I was also the Oscars for people who are just slightly less attractive. And I have a good feeling this year, guys. Not just because the Daily Show was nominated, but because I was also the actor who played Baby Yoda. Yeah, I know you can't tell. The makeup team did a terrific job.

I just want to say thank you again to everyone. Thank you so much, guys. But it's not just the first and hopefully lost, pandemic awards, which honor the most notable performances during the coronavirus pandemic. And I know you've probably never heard of the pandemies because we just made them up, but everybody's talking about it. And the best part is, you guys are going to vote.

Yeah, you at home, you're going to vote for the winners. And honestly, I don't envy you, because there are a dozen categories this year with some rarely tough choices. For instance, who do you think should win for one of my favorite matchups? Most Optimistic Performance. The nominees for the most optimistic performance are Larry Cudlow for We have contained this. We have contained this virus. I won't say airtight, they but pretty close to air tight. Elon Musk for April. Elon Musk tweeted based on current trends probably close to zero new cases in the United States too by the end of April.

Mike Pence for Memorial Day. By Memorial Day weekend, we will largely have this coronavirus epidemic behind us. Jared Kushner, for really rocking again. I think you'll see by June, a lot of the country should be back to normal, and the hope is that by July, the country's really rocking again. Donald Trump, for like a miracle, it'll disappear. It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle. It will disappear. Oh, how do you even decide? I mean, you have to love Donald Trump, unless you're Melania.

But don't underestimate rocking Jared Kushner. We're rocking. Oh, man, he was so optimistic. He didn't just predict the end of the pandemic. He was making plans to go to the club afterwards. And knowing Jared, he probably, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he th, he th, he th, he th, he th, he th, he to the, he the, he to thi, he to to to to tho, how 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 th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, thooo, the pandemic. He was making plans to go to the club afterwards. And knowing Jared, he probably gets to the club right when it opens at 7.30 p.m. The most important thing is for us to get prime space on the dance floor. Now, one of the great things about the pandemies is that unlike other awards, it's not just about the famous people. No, normal folks get to be the the the the the the the 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. th th th th th th th th th th th the, the, the, the, the, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, to to to to to to to th to to to to to to to to to to toe toe toe th toe th th toe. And, th th th th to be nominated too. I mean maybe normal isn't the right word and you'll see what I mean. The nominees for best Karen are Democratic pigs all

of you. You're a fucking Democratic takes all of you. That man harassing for not wearing a mask. I have a breathing problem. My doctor would not let me wear masks. So anyone harassing me to wear masks? You guys are violating federal laws, you get that? I have a right to my pizza. You don't need a mask. I have a right to my pizza. I don't give a fuck.

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Ah! Keep doing the same shit! What a performance. That woman was tongue in the door like they went to prom together. Such passion. And this is an exciting category. Because remember, no matter who wins, the loser will call 911 and ask to speak to the manager. I'm telling you, my friends, the 2020 pandemies are gonna be sick. I mean like fever, dry cough, loss of smell sick. So if you want to join in, all you need to do is go to Pandemi Awards.com to watch all the videos and vote for your favorites. Oh, and one last thing. There was a special honorary pandemic this year,

and there's only one person who could deserve that. President's Donald Trump. The pandemics extends a special honor to Donald Trump for outstanding achievement in self-editing. If we didn't do it, you would have had a million people, a million and a half people, maybe two million people dead. Now we're going toward 50, I'm hearing, or 60,000 people. 60,000, maybe 65,000.

thousand people. 70,000. It's far too many. 80, or 90,000 people. They had minimum numbers of 100,000. So we have between 100,000 to 20,000 to 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 to 20,000, to 20,000 to 20,000,000,000, 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 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 They had minimum numbers of 100,000. So we have between 100,000 and 200,000, 100,000 to 240,000 deaths, and we're below that substantially and we'll see where it comes out. Wow, guys. Something tells me he's going to win that award next year too. Remember to vote now at Pandemia Awards.com and join us on Monday to find out who won. It's time for us 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 the the the the the the the the tho thoen thoen thoen tho their thoen to to to to to to to to thoome to to to their their their thoom. their their their their their their thoom. their their their their their their. their their. thoe. thoe. thoe. thoe. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. to to to to too. tooo. toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. too. too. to vote now at Pandemia Awards.com and join us on Monday to find out who won.

It's time for us to take a short break, but don't go away because Ewan McGregor is still coming up. We'll be right back. 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. 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. So earlier today, I spoke with Sherylan Eiffel of the NWACP Legal Defense Fund. We talked about what they're doing to help ensure a safe and fair election and so much more.

Check it out. Sherlin Eiffel, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Thank you for having me. Let's start with the name of your organization just so that people don't get confused. There is the NWACP and there is the NWACP Legal Defense Fund. Both very similar sounding names obviously but two distinct and different organizations. What is the NWACP legal defense fund? So the NWACP legal defense fund was formed in 1940 by Thurgood

Marshall, the you know trailblazing civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the United States Supreme Court. We were part of the NAACP when we were first created, we separated and became completely separated by 1957. We were the legal defense fund, which we are sometimes called was the the civil rights movement. So we represented John Lewis, the Selma marchers, the freedom riders, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotters. We represented Muhammad Ali when he wanted to get his boxing license back. We have always been that legal the civil rights struggle.

The NWACP is a large membership mobilizing grassroots organization. We don't have members. We're largely a legal organization. It feels like 2020 has thrust this organization back into the limelight in a way that I guess no one would have wanted, really, or expected. What have you seen this year that has been different to maybe the past decade even?

Well, you know, it's interesting. The best of civil rights progress in this country has always happened when their alchemy of several things all connect together. So grassroots mobilization and protest, when, you know, legal organizations are firing on all cylinders, and I think really for the last three years, people have recognized the importance of civil rights lawyers again. And when there is kind of a political moment, you know, when all of those things are happening at the same time, that's what was happening during the Civil Rights Movement, and it is essentially the recipe for change and for transformation. So there's a lot that's similar. The part that's different, and this is really important, is that certainly throughout the 20th century, and most importantly in the civil rights, when black... challenge to our rights as full citizens, it largely came from state actors, you know, the state of Alabama, the state of Mississippi, local sheriffs, governors, and so forth. And the place that people went to for recourse was the federal government, right?

What is different is that this is the first moment, certainly in my lifetime that I can recall when not only is the federal government not certainly in my lifetime that I can recall, when not only is the federal government not a recourse, not only is Attorney General Barr not trying to advance civil rights, they're actually standing against it. They actually have a program to roll back civil rights. And they also are some of the biggest instigators of a kind of anti-civil rights and frankly white supremacist ideology that has kind of recaptured so much of this country.

So that is different than it was in the past and many degrees more dangerous in my view. But I also think that, you know, we're not quite there yet. So far the law has been holding. Now it's not great. We've lost, you know, a good number of cases. Frankly, some of them we were losing before Trump was elected. We should recognize that the case that kind of really reopened voter suppression in the country was decided by the Supreme Court in 2013. So, this is not all created by President Trump. There was this move towards more conservatism. But we will really see whether the center holds, I think, in the coming year. And, and th. And, and th. And, th. And, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, th. the, th. th. the, th. the, th. the, th. th. th. th. th. thi, the, the, thi, the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thr. thr. thr. thr. to, toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. thr. the thr. the thr. the, the, the whether the center holds, I think, in the coming year. And that's why this moment is so powerful and so important. We're in

courts every day. We still win cases, but we also lose cases and we also increasingly see courts acting in a way that does not adhere to the rule of law. There are many people who may say, I'm confused, why would you need civil rights settled in 1965? You know, black people are free now, you know, gay people have equal marriage. I mean, why does anybody need to be a civil rights lawyer at this point? If you were to distill it down and give us a few examples, what are some of the concrete things that your organization is fighting for on the ground? We represent those who are most the toeeeeeeeeee, the the the the the the the the the thiiiiiuu. thiu. thiui. 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, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, the, the. And, toean. And, toean, toean, toean, toean, toean, toean. And represent those who are most marginalized, those who are at the bottom.

And so we're actually the early warning system for our democracy and frankly, would many people have listened to the call we were making, we might not be in the circumstance that we're in. So when you are facing, you know, voter purges, the state doesn't permit you to absentee vote or requires you to get two signatures of two witnesses during a pandemic in order to cast your absentee ballot. When you discover that you have been convicted of a crime and the prosecutor removed all black people from the jury, when you're sentenced to death and an expert witness says you should be sentenced to death because you're more likely to be dangerous in the future simply because you're black. when you don't the the the the the the the the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the internet the the the the the the the to to to to to to to to to to to the to to to to to to to to toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be. I I I, to bea, to bea, to bea, to be toe, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the theckeckeckeckeckeateateckeateckeateateateatea, theateauiauiauia.ea.ea.ea, toe, toe dangerous in the future simply because you're black. When you don't have access to equal education

and you can't access the internet during a period in which we've gone to virtual school, when you're caught in prison during COVID, inhumane conditions, all of these are things that are currently on our tocuke, but the important take tak away is it's never over because you have to keep pressing on a democracy. You have to keep pushing to move it forward and you have to keep defending what you want in the past.

And this moment is a time when I think Americans have to recognize that democracy is that democracy is work. It's not just a privilege that you sit back and smoke a cigarette and say I live in a democracy. thiiia time and that's the price of living in a democracy is active citizenship. If somebody's watching this right now and they want to chip in, they want to help, they want to get information on what they're rights or they want to get information on voting, where can they go, how do they get the information, how do they keep in touch with the Legal Defense Fund? So first of all for voting. to vote. 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 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 th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thee, the the thin. the the the the the the the the the thea.a. the. the. It's really, really important. It's a micro site that's got everything you need to know about voting this year. You

can go to our website at W, W, W, W, W, W, dot, N, A,ACP, LDF, dot org. You can follow us on Twitter. You can follow me on Twitter. This is about good information. We think this is the most important thing at this moment because unfortunately disinformation is part of the tactic that we're seeing the other side used and so for us it's important as a nonpartisan organization to provide good solid information for people who believe in democracy, for people who want to be good citizens and most of all for the black community that needs to be able to be in position to mobilize and exercise political power. I thank you for the work that you're doing. I know that a lot of people who watch the show appreciate you as well.

Thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Social Distancing Show. Thank you, Trevor. All right, after the break, I'll be joined by Obi-Wan Canobi himself. Ewan McGregor. Stick around. 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.

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 on Apple podcasts starting September 17. Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. So earlier today, I spoke with international movie star Ewan McGregor.

We talked about his new series on Apple TV Plus called Long Way Up, where he travels across South and Central America on a motorbike. Ewan McGregor, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Nice to see you. Thanks for having me. You have been in some of our favorite movies. I mean, just like some of the most iconic movies. But over the past few years, you've also taken time out of your life to just live, I guess, every Instagram as dream, and that is get on a motorbike and just ride around a random country. When did you decide that, you know what, I'm just going to take my vacations with a friend

and turn them into the show? It was out of laziness, to be honest. My friend Charlie and I have known each other since we made this film together called Serpents Kiss 25 years ago. And we both had just had our first children, so we were both new dads, and we both had this love of motorcycles. And we became very fast friends. And then I read this book that was written by somebody who's now a friend of mine called Ted Simon,

who was a journalist for, I think the Sunday Times, in London in the 1970s. And he decided to do this round-the world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world world the world the world the Radio Times, in London in the 1970s and he decided to do this round-the-world trip to write a column about traveling around the world and he wasn't a biker but he decided the best way to do it would be on the back of a bike so he bought he got Triumph to supply him a bike and off he went and it took him three four years and he wrote this beautiful book called Jupiter's Travels, which I read and was just moved by and started daydreaming about traveling. So we decided to do the first trip in 2004, London to New York.

And the visa applications are so complicated, like getting in and out of Russia two or three times, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and we just was too lazy to do it ourselves. So we thought, well, if we shoot this, then we can have a little production office with people that will do that stuff for us. And that's why it's sort of how it was born. You rode 13,000 miles through, I think it was 13 countries. It feels like, I mean, you know, the coronavirus has shut that all down. Were you ready to take a break or could you just have kept on riding if the whole world didn't....... And, to, going, I mean towards the end, I just realized that I could, this could be it for me. You know, if I didn't have my children and Mary to come back to, I could just keep going, you know? I just, I like the, I love the sort of nomadicism, if that's a word, the It's very human, it's a like, really nice, you wake up in the morning, you pack the bike

and you just keep going that in the vague direction you're headed in. And then you, at night, you find somewhere to sleep or you put a tent up or whatever, and then you've got it all to do again the next day. There's something quite lovely about it, not knowing what what what what what what what what what what what you're gonna meet, not knowing when the next thing that goes wrong is going to go wrong, and when the next person, when it does go wrong, is gonna come and help you, you know, because it's just always the case.

You were riding electric motorbikes for the first time, and it came with a different set of challenges. I didn't think about like randomly running a their their. I didn't think about like randomly running out of power because there are no charging stations. Two questions. Why did you choose the bikes? Like why did you choose to go electric? And secondly, what did you notice about riding electric through so many different countries? In our long way around trip in 2007, we had absolute freedom to stop wherever? If we were riding and it was four in the afternoon the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th the tho tho the tho th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, because, because, because, because, tho, because, because, tho, because, because, because, because, because tho, because tho, because th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, because, because, because 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, thea, thea, thea, thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thrip in 2007, we had absolute freedom to stop wherever. If we were riding along and it was four in the afternoon, we could just ride off the road and put our tents up and then the next morning carry on. Well we couldn't have that huge freedom this time because we had to have the bike plugged

in somewhere. So that was one slight impact on the experience in that we had to be in a hostel at, the hoa we could plug it in. But that led, the upshot of that was it led us to meet people we would never normally have met. Like we were stuck behind, we were stuck between a town we'd stopped in the afternoon. This was in Chile, Chile I think in it somewhere. And then the town we were heading to, and there was nothing in between, so we had to get to this town. But this town was on the other side of this big mountain and so start going uphill and when you're going uphill you're using more power. Then there was a headwind and when there was a headwind, and when you're not very aerodynamic on a bike anyway but when you've got a head, you're using more power. And at that point I said I'm not going not going to to to to to to to to to to the the the the to the the the the the to the they.. they. they. they. they. they. to go. to go. to go. to go. to go going. to go going. You're going going. to go going. to go going. to go going going going going going going going going going going going going. You're going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going.. You're going going going.. You're going. You're going. You're going. You're going I'm not going to make it. So we were just next to this little settlement that was, couldn't call it a farm.

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But that happened to us all the time. That's one of the beautiful things, that's, that you experience daily is so uplifting and overwhelming. It's just lovely. You were stuck, like when you were in Ukraine, you were stuck at the border for like 12 hours. You know, the foreign ministry had to help you out. When you were in Mongolia, there were sheepherders that had to help you fix one of the bikes.

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guys Kazakhstan guys they're all got lots of gold teeth I remember and they're sort of smiling at us and the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their theckckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckh. toeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckeckh. toeckh. toeckh. toe. tolde. tolde. tolde. tolde. tolde. tolde. told. told. told. told. told. I's toe. I's toe. I's toe. I's th. I's th. th. th. th. the. toe. toe. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the video camera on the floor and then look back at us and the guy in the back pulls out a handgun. Now in my story he points it directly at me and in Charlie's story he points it directly at Charlie. To me, it's definitely pointing at me I think and those thoughts, oh no. And then luckily a truck was coming from the other direction, and Claudia looked over a shoulder, saw the truck, look back at the guys, the guys saw the truck,

and they put the gun away and they drove off, so we were fine. Well, I'll tell you this, it's an amazing. We get to see how so many different people live. I mean, from meeting child soldiers in one part of the world to speaking to old ladies in another, it's a beautiful show. And honestly, my favorite part of it was just, it made me feel like I was leaving the house and traveling the world. So, thank you for another amazing series. And good luck to you. Thank you so much.

Great chatting to you. Cheers, man. Take care, nice to talk to you. That's our show for tonight, but before we go, the West Coast is still currently battling some horrific wildfires that are destroying millions of acres of land and displacing thousands of people. Climate change has been a key factor in increasing the risk and the extent of these conditions. And one organization that has been working to find practical solutions for climate change is the Environmental Defense Fund. Until next time, stay safe out there, wear a mask, and remember, if you don't count your failures, then everything in life has been a complete success.

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