hu h. huh! right? i'm telling you, that baby could be the star of a show called "babies i don't care about." on, everybody, welcome to the daily social distancing show, i'm trevor noah. today is thursday, the 12th of november, which means the new xbox and the new play station consoles are officially out. that means there is another contested election that people are going to be fighting over for the next five years. i can't handle this stress! anyway coming up on tonight's show, what can you learn from africa, the donald went down to georgia and megan rapinoe and forrest whitaker are our guests on the 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 noah. >> trevor: let's talk about

coronavirus. you know, it is a thing you are pretty sure you had in february but actually didn't. the world is now deep into the second wave of this pandemic, or maybe the third wave, or the fourth. i don't know. at this point covid has so many waves it is like those pals at the amusement park which is also big spreaders of exotic disease and after doing a little bet over the past few month, unfortunately the u.s. shows no signs of getting out of the pool. >> the new explosion of cases in the coronavirus crisis, if you heard this, the u.s. reported a record-shattering number of new infections. >> for the first time all 50 states reported increase in cases, shocking seven day averages in kansas at 41 percent. iowa at 48%, south dakota at as ton you wering 54%. >> new restrictions are about to go into effect in new york state, beginning tomorrow all bars and restaurants must close for dining at 10 p.m., gyms must

also close at 10 p.m., and all private gatherings must be limited to ten people or less. >> a passenger on board the first cruise to set sail in the caribbean since march reportedly testing positive for the coronavirus. >> all passengers were tested before boarding but on tuesday one felt sick and tested positive. all guests are now quarantining in their rooms. >> okay. i know what you are thinking. why are they having cruises during a pandemic. but i actually think that they should be more cruises, in fact i think there should be free cruises for anyone who wants one, because those are the people who love spreading the virus. it's better to get them all on boats and put them safely in the middle of the ocean and leave them there for six months, if corona doesn't get them, the buffer aye will, good rid ansz, joes, and best believe people will be angry that joe is-- but really deep down inside they are happy because people love having a reason to not workout.

i mean not me, yesterday i was planning to work out but then i had to cancel because i think i have got a cramp in my ear lobe, i just don't want to risk it, but to put it in perspective n some states the coronavirus positive iterate is around 50% right now. so if you live in south dakota or iowa, look at the person to your left, now the person to the your right, why are you sitting between two people, you are going to get coronavirus. so yes, coronavirus is getting worse and worse as the winter months arrive. and with things spiraling out of control just in time for the holidays, the cdc has issued new geud lines for how families can have a safe thanksgiving. to which some families are saying mind your own goddam business. >> experts saying half of all americans plan to travel for the holidays, going against those new cdc guide lines which recommend celebrating thanksgiving virtually or only with people in your own household and preferably

outside, for indoor dinners the cdc says keep the windows open, spread out as much as possible and wear masks. >> what about christmas, what are we going to do for christmas. >> we lost the summer, now we will lose thanksgiving. you and i are booth italian, tell italians not to get together on the holidays is pretty tough. >> trevor: honestly i know it seems irresponsible but i think it is great for people to gather during a pandemic to celebrate thanksgiving because isn't that what thanks giving is all about, spreading a disease that wipes out a continent? i'm actually surprised republican still want thanks giving this year. after joe biden won, can you imagine what thanksgiving is going to be like. >> them millenial neetions and nephews will be showing up luke they own the place, walking around liic damn, these mashed potatoes are disappearing faster than your second amendment rights, uncle steve. ha ha. now while things are particular leigh bad in the u.s. i do think it's important to remember that this is a global pandemic. from the democrat, not from the rep-- it is global.

right now europe is also seeing a giant spike although over there it is not circumcised. the whole world is going through this, people, but there is one place where they do seem to have managed the virus better and that place might surprise you because you're racist. >> when covid just started to sweep the globe, experts predicted african-- africa would be def stitted with millions of lives lost but six ponts later the continent seems to be doing much better than anticipated. >> the world health organization says africa is leading the world in its overall response to the covid-19 pandemic. the. >> the united states is a country of about 326 million people, right. we have 228,000 people dead. the entire continent of africa, they have only had 41,000 deaths. >> experts are going to explain this, they are baffled as well, why the number of cases cumulatively have remained so low compared to the rest of the world. >> yes, many people never expected that africa of all

places would be able to handle covid-19. could you see them now, they are all like how is africa so successful at this? i mean i could understand if this was a marathon or carrying stuff on your head contest but this is a deadly disease, how are they doing it. first off, that attitude is offensive. and secondly hell yeah we would win a carrying stuff on your head contest, i always said it is racist why it is not an olympic sport, some can shake a ribon and win a medal, how come we can't balance buckets an get gold. with how well africa is doing maybe they should be sending their 22 year olds to america so they can also help out and also get some of those great pictures for their understand gram. so why has africa been more successful at controlling a deadly disease. one reason might be that they have had a lot of practice. >> pecks ert-- experts say some african nations experience with previous viral outbreaks like the ebola and marburg viruses means it was already prepared to deal with covid-19. >> we have systems in for those disease have been actually reuse

and readapted for covid. >> they already have commute workers, health workers who are experiencing with dealing with pandemics in south africa they went out to the communities, door to door getting people to get tested for coronavirus so they actually went out, hunting for the virus. >> in liberia's capitol monrovia residents are taking matters into their own hands by setting up neighborhood checkpoints to scroon the temperatures of those who enter, a strategy used during the ebola outbreak. >> you know how people tap elbows to greet now, that was already used in westafer ka during the 2014 to 2016 ebola outbreak. they called it the elbow-la then. >> yeah, unfortunately many africans have been more prepared for corona because they were forced to deal with ebola. and if you have i corona is bad, ebola doesn't stay around, it is like if corona went to the gym, actually corona does go to the gym t is there, don't go to the gym.

see here is how it works, using bad experiences to prepare for worst situations comes naturally to africans, do i it too, it is in my dna. like i prepare for a possible famine by eating at the cheese cake fact real estate. that may my stomach is like huh, maybe starving wouldn't be so bad. so because africans know first hand what a disease can do to people, they didn't take any chances with covid-19. most countries had mandatory mask requirements. and the country even imposed a nationwide lockdown before they had a single case. imagine that. imagine that. before they had a case. which reminded me of how my mom would sometimes beat my ass before i did something wrong. >> but mom, i haven't done anything. >> this is for something you were thinking of doing. >> it is true, i was going to do it. >> so african nations were able to build on their experience fighting other outbreaks. that is not the only thing that is working in their favor. it actually seems like the

african people themselves have a lot of built-in advantages. >> one reason experts gufer for the low death rate is the continent's young population. about 50% of the people living in africa are in their teens. >> in addition about 40% of those young people we estimate had asymptomatic infection and that might be because they had been exposed to other coronavirus that cause the common cold earlier on. >> a key they believe that lower burdenen of so called diseases of lifestyle like obesity or hypertension. both they believe could lessen the selfer rit of the disease. >> there is another more unusual hypothesis. sm scientists believe parasitic worms could be protecting some africans from the full effects of covid-19. >> trevor: okay, wow, that is pretty weird. one theory says that africans have parasitic worms which protect them from coronavirus? like all africans?

i guess i should thank you, mr. wriggles. you were looking out for me. >> you're welcome, trevor. how about we get some pizza for dinner tonight. >> trevor: you bet, buddy. he is slowly killing me. but yeah, one of the more intrusive reasons for africa's success is that as a continent the people are younger and in better shape than in other places. which helps in surviving corona. plus africans get that secret vaccine they developed in wakanda. so africa as a whole is doing better than mores of the world when it comes to managing covid-19. but don't forget, luck and circumstances aside, most of africa's success has come down to leadership. many african countries have leaders who have taken this disease seriously from the start and because of that, the people have also taken it seriously. >> and here's how you know leadership makes a big difference, because some countries have leaders who are like trump. and just like trump those african countries are not doing well.

>> while many countries are being praised for their approach to controlling the spread of covid-19 tanzania is an exception. >> the president john magufuli has been in recent weeks downplaying the risk of covid-19 telling people not to wear masks, there has been very little social distancing. >> tanzania's president has said the country has been healed of coronavirus through pray are, it is an almighty claim and difficult to challenge because his government hasn't releasessed any data for weeks. >> he has been sceptical of the virus and hasek owed conspiracy theories. on live television he told the nation that the country's national laboratory had inflated coronavirus numbers. he even sent samples of food to be tested for the virus as a way to expose false positives. >> trevor: wow. i mean say what you want about trump but at least he's not clogging up the laboratories with fruit samples. mostly because he doesn't know what a treut is. but still also can you imagine

if tested positive for coronavirus. i mean he would be calling up all the other fruits that were next to him in the fruit salad, hi, blue berries, it is me mango, yeah, i just tested positive for covid so you may want to isolate. and by the way, can you tell melon for me, things have been weird for us ever since i told him that he is just in the salad to fill it up. which is totally true but whatever. okay, bye. >> so look, africa has been much less of a nightmare as it has been on other con tructs. but please understand i'm in the saying this to brag or anything, like africans are better. i'm saying it because this is good news for the rest of the world it shows if you take precautions and you use common sense, you can limit the spread and the harm of coronavirus. so please this is the one time it is okay to take something africans came up with and claim it as your own. all right, we have to take a quick break but when we come back we look at why georgia is on everybody's mind and then

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we are at least 50% of the vote. >> the two senate runoffs scheduled for january 5s will now determine the fate of the senate and how much legislation mr. biden is able to get past nextier. >> both parties will be pouring tens of millions of dollars into the contest. >> every republican of naft profile will head to georgia as well as prominent democrat, the scuttlebutt is rather biden stay away and obama go. >> trevor: damn, democrats want o bma to come down instead of joe biden. man, once you go barack you fever go back. poor joe biden. i mean he is president-elect but democrats are all still like obama. everybody, let's get a democratic senate for joe. >> who the hell is joe, obama. >> but yes, both parties are descending on georgia for these two senate races and if you live in georgia, can i just say i'm so sorry for what is about to happen in your life.

you thought the text and tveds were bad before? that shut is getting run 50 timeses a minute, volunteers will be popping up in your dreams, hi, sorry to interrupt your weird unicorn sex dream, can we count on you on january 5th. >> there will be so many ads now is the perfect time to cut the cord and cancel your cable. wait, not right now, not right now, after the show, after the show. whooo, that's better, that was close, don't do that again. one reason both parties think at the both have a shot in the georgia senate run is the presidential race there was surprisingly tight. joe biden did come out slightly ahead but it's too close for comfort. >> the white house remains focused on the election tonight winning a hand recount in georgia as it pushes other legal challenges that will likely have little bearing on the results. >> the election is over but the counting is not tonight with every ballot if battleground georgia set to be recounted by

hand. typically recounts only change a race's margin by a few hundred votes or so so if very unlikely president trump could overtake president-elect biden 14,000 vote lead in georgia. but the trump campaign today calls the recount a first step toward winning their legal fight despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. >> that's right. trump is getting a hand recount of every georgia ballot. there are millions of them, hand recount. and i don't think that's going to be fun for him, because it's bad enough losing georgia by 14,000 votes but now imagine having to see this one by one. st also strange how election recounts are the one time when people think counting by hand is better than by machine. there is never any other situation where we say okay, that's what the calculator says but just to double check, five, six, 11, 13, 25, carry the one-- all right, yeah, i think the spaceship has enough fuel, you can take off. i would be like counting each

ballot by hand is going to take forever. not just because of numbers but because it is georgia. have you ever been to georgia? those people are not in a rush. one vote, two votes. three votes. you going to bring me some of that peach tea. what they need to do is go and hire those trap rappers to dot counting, 1, 600,000, whoop, and again and million,-- as you heard t is unlikely that trump will actually fine enough miscounted ballots to flip the results in georgia. but even if he does, he still won't have enough electoral votes to change the overall result. and while biden would really like to get up to speed for his whole new big job that he has coming up, trump refuses to lift a finning tore help him. >> developing overnight state department officials tell cnn that the trump administration is preventing president-elect bied fren accessing mess angs from

foreign leaders. they are calling the state department, they're not giving the president-elect these messages. >> traditionally the state department operation center sets up phone calls for the president-elect with world leaders. they troy translation, that is not happening right now. so just to be really clear about what is happening, it means world leaders who believe that they should be reaching out to the state department to get in touch with the president-elect are doing so but those messages are not being responded to. they are not being received by president-elect joe biden, essentially he has a mail box full of messages at the state department that he cannot access. >> trevor: this is a big problem. because by the time he gets around to listening to those messages, they will be months old. he can going to be like world leaders needing crucial information that nobody heard. >> hello, this is a putin. will you do what i demand or we're launching missiles in three days. >> it is putin again, missiles now two days away. yo, why are you ghosting me, is

it something i said. >> trevor: you know at this rate joe bierd len spend his first month just sifting through all this mail. it will be a waste of time because you know how much of mail is just junk mail, ello l.l. bean catalog, blue apron catalog, another catalog, here is a letter from angela merkel, oh, dear joe, use my friend coupon to subscribe to blue apron, dammity, another one, she is tricky. the real question is why? why won't trump just acknowledge that he lost. why is he out there every day tweeting bogus videos and tweeting conspiracy elections about election fraud, why, because of his fragile ego, huh? because he wants to take the country down with him? could be those things. but it could also be benjamin. >> he is refusing to concede vowing to forge ahead way local fight to contest the election. the campaign launched an official election defense fund. >> they are calling it the

official election defense fund, scroll down to the fine print at the bottom of the pawj and it shows if you donate, 50% will go towards paying down campaign debts. >> campaign finance attorney say the money is going toward a new polit action committee the president founded called save america. that money is a slush fund that could go directly to the president. this type of fund has restrictions on how the money spent and can be used to pay for personal experiences. >> trevor: my man, donald jobless trump. this guy never misses a hustle. i bet as we speak he's ripping out the copper wuering from the white house walls. keep pulling, jared, i know a guy who will give us 35 cents a foot for this tough. >> trevor: but that is what is happening, for anyone with brains it looks like donald trump is scamming people out of their money by saying that his country wrongly kicked him ou out of power. and i guess i owe donald trump an apology. because i honestly thought he could never change, but he has. the dude went from being an

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>> megan rapino welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> i'm a big fan, i'm very excited to be here, this is exciting. >> trevor: i am a bigger fan now that i see what you are wearing because a fan of hoodies, i am partial to the hoodie game, that say pretty dope hoodie, i like that. >> yeah, st a good one, china town market, nice and colorful, comfy, i'm probably sweating underneath but you can't tell so it's fine. >> trevor: that is what makes hoodies the best, what matters is what you look like, that saul that matters, welcome to the show and before we get into it, congratulations on your recent engagement. >> thank you very much, we're both very excited. >> trevor: are you engaged to somebody now who has a list of achievements that could only be matched by yours, so on your side you have won two world cups, an olim bick fold medal. two on her side has won four wnba titles four olympic gold medals and four fifa world cups. the question is in the ikea book

shelf who gets to put the trophies where, is there like priority? >> even my mom when we firs got together is like i googled sue, are you really not that impressive any more. i was like i know, this is crazy. it is probably like percentage so like my little sliver of 20% and sue is going to take up the rest. >> trevor: i like that. , there is no lie that there has been pay disparity between people of different genderses and different races, in sports it's interesting because people always go well oh, it is about income and it is about revenue, people don't go to the games as much, the women's games that is why they don't get paid t is not us t is the fans who are not going. how do you handle that dispute and how do you try and educate onlookers who are going well, megan, i don't know who is right and wrong in this. i understand what these owners are saying but i understand what you are saying, how do you handle that side of the arguments to win people over.

>> i think in sports we often go to like what is your sal real estate and how many people are watching you or how many people in the stadium, but it really starts a lot before that. you have to think of it like a business that needs to be invested in. and you know, if the nba is getting a billion dollars investment, the wnba is getting even a hundred million of investment, one business is going to be more successful. if you spend more on your marketing person and branding person, your c.e.o., all these people, the business is going to run better. so by the time we get to the game, we've been so underinvested in or at such a disadvantage the whl time, like it's shocking that we have as much success as we do, or we're as popular as we are. i think it's like let's understand the entire picture before we just go the very last page and be like well, no one wants to come. >> trevor: i also love that you are request fight inspired other people weim and you talk about this in your book and you

shared the story, your aunt told you that she fought for her pay when she saw you fighting for yours, what was that like and like what did she do in her world that changed everything. >> to know that she found herself in our fight, yeah t made me really emotional it was a really touching moment and i think that's probably the most rewarding and most important part out of our team's fight with the federation and the lawsuits and equal pay, it is like yeah, of course we're doing it on our behalf but soon immigrants-- it we are is still privileged, make a lot of money and still superstarses of some kind. but for so many women out there, st my aunt in her job. st a domestic worker or a restaurant worker, it is to do these things, even in our position it is difficult. so to know we have inspired or at least made people think down to every level it is the biggest win i think we could have. >> trevor: the title of your

newly released memoir is one life, which is misleading because i feel like you lived many lives. you share so many inspiring, heartfelt and painful experiences from your journey, you tow, some of the stories that stick out for me, you know, the moment when you realize that your dad is a trump supporter and yourself and your twin sister who are both gay say hey, this breaks our heart and you have to deal with that with somebody that you love. do you have any tips or tricks on how to mend the wounds between family members who have been ripped apart because of politics. >> i just try to keep talking. i still like obviously have this relationship, i love him and while it's painful, of course, and it was painful to know that he would have voted for someone like that and supported him for a lot of years, i don't think he voted for him this area which i'm thankful for. but we can't just not talk to each other. i mean it is obviously a tough

time for everyone right now, knowing what, 71 million people or something voted for someone who spews hatred and chaos and disaster. and we have approaching 250,000 people dead from covid and all of these things, to know that someone supports that, but clearly there is much more to it that i think we need to dig into and have more conversation with, just as family, as friends as a nation, as everybody. >> trevor: thank you for sharing. your book truly truly truly is something that everybody should read. they will love you even more. you are going to have even more fans and you are probably tbing to have to build an extra interest ofee cabinet because of all of the awards the book is probably going to win as well. so tell sue to make some space for those extra trophies and congrats on the trophy, thank you so much for joining me, i appreciate you. >> nah. >> trevor: megan's memoir, one life, is available now, you definitely want to get it when we come back acting legend forest whitaker is joining us on

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welcome back to the daily social distancing show. earlier today i spoke with oscar winning actor, producer and director forrest whitaker. we talked about his legendary career and his brand new holiday film. >> everywhere i have ever been, i felt out of place. this is the only place i have ever been where i finally felt like i belonged. >> child with an imagination always belongs. never be afraid. z people can't see what you see. always be afraid if you no longer see it. >> trevor: forrest whitaker, welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> it's great to be with you, trevor, great. >> trevor: you have one of the

most il us trus careers that anyone could ever, ever, ever dream of. i mean everything from star wars to black panther to practice toon, everyone has a favorite movie and that favorite movie probably has forrest whitaker in it, i want to before which get into this, talking about your new move wree, do you have a favorite movie. >> that i have done. >> trevor: that you have done, do you have your favorite movie, that is my favorite movie. >> i did like when i worked on-- it was a full performance for me, there i express myself as fully as i can as an artist. wption other times it s i the imagine you can you might get in black panther or some of the history in the butler, they are all different. >> trevor: i feel like we are lucky because we get, now when you said last king of scotland the first thing i thought of was that you didn't convince me, some of those lines and the way

you live in these characters. i sometimes wonder, are you able to just let the character go once you have lived in them for so long or do they live with you for a little bit after after the project. >> sometimes it is takes awhile to get rid of a character, to shake it off. kind of like doing that 24/7 for months at a time, the rhythms stick with you, and you have to fight to wash them off or clean them off. and then actually, you know what, trevor, sometimes you carry a little piece of that person, like as if you have been reincarnated again and you carry them with you, the way you say a line that came back from another life, the way you understand, sometimes i might work on a karen begin, i'm not a car person, all of a stud i know how to fix everything because of some part i played as a mechanic. >> trevor: that is hilarious, that is amazing. that is amazing, i feel like you should take more roles that teach you things that help you around the house. i need a role fixing fridges, people.

before we get into jingle sang el, i wanted to talk to you about plaque panther. i know chatting to ryan and lupita and everyone that was part of the team, the cast was like a family. you were doing something so special. you were creating something that reverberated around the world as a south african i still loved the film because of how you portrayed my people my country, my world, africans loved it, americans, everyone loved it because of the story behind the story. when chadwick passed i know that that just shook everyone. you were somebody who connected with every young actor in such a special way. what did he mean to you as a human being, not just as an actor. >> i think for people he aked as a beacon in being able to fulfill your hopes and dreamsk being able to reach the highest heights and to be able to contribute and give back. not just with love but with understanding. i think that is a great gift

that he was able to give us in the world i think he still does that in a way. a allowed us to believe in the possible. he rose to do certain great things and revealed as you say more things about his culture and about his connections. about his spirit. and revealed this in many different ways and parts he played. he was revealing different histories and understanding a lot of din people. i just add mired-- admired that he did that and felt it was a treasure in that way that he gave so many gifts to his work and himself. >> i loved how he lived his life. i also like how you did, i like how forrest whitaker seamlessly moves between emotions. you have aked in some of the most powerful movie and roles

that have shaped how we even see ourselves? the world. jingle jangel is a departure, i feel like st the perfect move ye for this time, a christmas musixal. it has joy, a life spirit, tell me about this project and why you were drawn to it. >> i did like the themes which were really powerful, in your life and family, you can find yourself again and rise back up to suk sed and have life again and find joy, that was really great. and i think when the director had vision for this film and asked me to do it, i thought this would be a beautiful gift to the world and also for me, to get a chance to live in this kind of energy, this positive feeling. it was every day on the set it was really full of people enjoying themselves and doing everything they could. in the little corner of the stage they would be writing a little phrase or something so people really cared so much. it was one of those amazing experiences. and the director, david, he had

been trying to get the movie made for like 20 years. sometimes just explaining its scene and being caught up in the set and all of a sudden started weeping, tears coming down his face, just like caught with him, because it meant so much, so it meant something to us, you know, the film and i think that you can see that joy in the movie, the movie is full of joy and hope and possibility and i think it's necessary right now. i think it's good for people right now because people have been feeling beat down by the pandemic, racial injustice, beat down by society sometimeses a a whole. and to have a film like this that tries to lift you up and make you believe that yes, you can fall but you can come back. you can rise back up and you can find your joy again, you know. i think the move c.e.o. does that. and it's fun, it's funny. it's wild. a lot of different things.

>> full of joy, full of fun, it's a place of hope and i really had a great time watching it. thank you so much for joining me on the show. i know are you very busy. i appreciate you so much, thank you for everything that you have done and the roles that you played, and the way you played it. thank you so much for being here. i really do appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. it's great to see you. >> take care. >> don't forget, jingle jangle, a christmas journey will be available on netflix november 13th. >> we will take a quick break but we will be right back after thi

>> trevor:s that is our show for tonight but before we go, remember that thanks givek is coming up and in the era of corona, there are a lot of seniors who are home bowbd who are at greater risk than ever before because they don't know where their next meal is coming from. luckily meals on wheels is out on the streets delivering meals to elderly americans every single day to help keep them safe and nourished in communities around the country. if you can help with this noble cause then please donate whatever you can at the link below. until next week, stay safe out there, wear a mask and remember, if you don't have corona, don't forget to thanks your tape worm. >> i'm eating your-- . >> trevor: so adorable. now here it is your moment of glern. >> so this attempt by donald trump and those aligned with him to get those ballots thrown out and run to the supreme court as they have indicated clearly that failed. they have refused to intervene. and ultimately now those ballots

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