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oeverybody? i'm trevor noah. this is "the daily social distancing show." today is february 24th, which means it's the last week of black history month, which is why, once again, my friends, i've decided to make new black history... by becoming the first black player in major league baseball. what? what do you mean that's been done? hundreds of times? what are you talking about. it's boring. why would i watch it. anyway, on tonight's show: why black people aren't getting vaccinated. dulce sloan tells you why oprah is weak. and we meet the dog that's going
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to be putting you in prison. so let's do this, people! welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> announcer: 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 kick things off with an update on the january 6 insurrection at the capitol: the day white supremacists entered the capitol without having to get elected. yesterday, congress held its first hearings on what went wrong with security that day, and the testimony from the people in charge was not encouraging. >> former capitol hill security officials and the acting chief of the d.c. metropolitan police recounting the january 6 insurrection, highlighting major communication failures that led to the deadly riots. >> the day before the insurrection, an f.b.i. memo explicitly warning about the possibility of violence was sent via email but never made its way to leadership. >> here's the intelligence: "be ready to fight.
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congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their b.l.m. and antifa slave soldiers being spilled. get violent. stop calling this a "march" or a "rally" or a "protest." go there ready for war. we get our.president or we die." >> i would certainly think that something as violent as an insurrection of the capitol would warrant a phone call, or something. >> trevor: yeah, man, i agree! in fact, this was the first time in history an email should have been a meeting. email is like the least- effective way to get an emergency message to anybody. it goes: text, d.m., message in a bottle that you throw into the ocean, and then email. and if it's really not important, a phone call. i mean, this was an attempted overthrow of the government. it's kind of important that they hear about it. i'm just saying, if it was me, i would have sent an edible arrangement. you know how i know email isn't an effective way to get someone's attention? because whenever you send one,
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what do you have to do immediately after that? you then have to send a text asking, "did you get my email?" the problem with email is that we just get so many. it's easy to miss the one that says "insurrection at the capitol, "because it might be below one with three siren emojis like "last chance for 10% off colored contact lenses!" i know which one is getting my attention. ladies... but yesterday's hearing was just the beginning of a long process. i mean, president trump incited a mob that stormed the capitol chanting, "hang mike pence." that's something that was super upsetting to everyone. well, almost everyone. >> former vice president mike pence is standing by his former boss. that's right, pence told a group of conservative lawmakers yesterday he maintains a close personal friendship with the former president. >> this is significant because of what happened on january 6 and pro-trump demonstrators coming into the capitol looking for mike pence, and donald trump tweeting, attacking mike pence,
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even during the capitol riot. but he did not express, i'm told, any ill will towards the former president banks told me, "i got the sense they speak often. they maintain the same personal friendship and relationship now that they have for four years." >> trevor: woo, staying loyal after he sent a mob to kill you? man, that shows how committed mike pence is to his principles: he won't even abort a friendship! and i don't know where the line is between "forgiving" and being a door mat, but mike pence crossed it long ago. i mean, i know the bible says to turn the other cheek, but at the same time, one of the ten commands is thou shall not be a bitch-ass. at this point, there's nothing trump can do to pence that would make pence turn on him. they basically have the same relationship that we have with alexa. ( guy ) "ugh, alexa, i hate you. i wish you would die! ( alexa ) "i am sorry you feel that way. is there anything i can help you with?" and, finally, an update on policing in america. one of the big problems is that police are too often called in
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to situations where they should actually be the last resort. many activists have said we should find alternatives to cops as first responders, maybe healthcare professionals or community members? and now the n.y.p.d. is saying, i hear you. what about robot dogs? >> meet digidog, the newest member of the n.y.p.d. technical response unit-- yes, a robot dog that's hounding city streets, assisting its handlers in saving lives and protecting new york's finest. >> digidog took its first steps here in the wakefield section of the bronx today, the four-legged robot, reportedly responding to a home invasion, climbing the stairs of an apartment here on west 227th street. >> it allows the n.y.p.d. to have eyes and ears and also talk to individuals in life- threatening situations. this allows them to use the %-p. >> trevor: wow!
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a robot dog! what a cool way for the police to say they have too much money and should be defunded! and this robot dog comes with tons of features. it's got cameras, it's got microphones, it's got an extra knife it can plant on an unarmed body-- all sorts of things. but you have to give props to the police for how they're marketing this robot 3 "look at our adorable dog!" no, it's a cop made out of steel. like, they can call tear gas "party smoke," but it doesn't it's going to sting any less when they blast you with it. but it will be funny to see how people try to bribe a robot police dog. ( driver ) "listen officer, how about we let this ticket slide and you can have 10 minutes with my laser printer, no questions asked." and, look, i'm not saying robot dogs won't ever be useful. i mean, they would be great to send into a hostage situation. ( hostage taker ) "i want a million dollars and a helicopter outta here!"
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you hear me? ( robot dog ) "ruff, ruff!" ( hostage taker ) "what? what do you want?" ( robot dog ) "ruff, ruff!" ( hostage taker ) "no, i'm not taking you out. i've got hostages!" "ruff, ruff, ruff!" ( hostage taker ) "okay, okay, but just to the corner and back! good boy, good boy!" look at you! but let's move on to our main story: the coronavirus vaccine. it's the reason your grandma's facetiming you from a crowded bar. today brings some really good news: the f.d.a. announced that a new vaccine from johnson & johnson has been proven effective, including against the coronavirus variants, and could be hitting the streets this weekend. plus, unlike the moderna and pfizer vaccines, it works with one dose and doesn't need to be kept in freezers. so this vaccine is basically as low maintenance as you pretend to be on your first date. and with vaccine availability improving, more and more people are able to get their shots, and experts actually say america will soon be giving out nearly 2
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million shots a day. so with 330 million americans, two million doses a day, that means the pandemic will be over in... six-- but this is still america, which means not everyone is getting access to the vaccines equally. >> the big gap in who gets the coronavirus vaccine in the u.s., information from 23 states that report covid vaccinations by race and ethnicity shows a stark difference in the rollout. >> black americans are hospitalized for covid at almost triple the rate and are almost 1.5 times more likely to die from this virus than white americans. but just over 5% of americans vaccinated are black, versus more than 60% who are white. >> cities like philadelphia and chicago, with the black population double or triple receiving the covid vaccine.
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>> unfortunatally in new york city, we learned that we had managed to vaccinate more non-new york city residents here in new york city than we had vaccinated black, hispanic, and native american new yorkers combined. >> trevor: well, well, well, if it isn't my old arch-nemesis, racism. what are you doing here? what's that? oh, you're pretty much everywhere? yeah, that's a fair point. but this is crazy, people according to the available data, new yorker has vaccinated more out-of-towners than minorities who actually live here. they need to beef up the screening process. like, before getting someone a shot, just ask them to walk six feet on a sidewalk. if they stop, and look up at a building to admire it, you send their ass back to connecticut! and this isn't just a new york problem. this is an america problem. since black people are getting sicker at a higher rate, they should be getting vaccinated at a higher rate. because they need it more. it's the same reason you hand out free condoms on college campuses and not at larping camp. so why are black people falling so far behind?
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well, let's find why out in another episode of, "if you don't know, now you know." ♪ ♪ ♪ there are two universal truth to living in america. one: every holiday is a mattress sale in disguise. and two: the wealthier you are, the easier it is to access life's necessities. and, unfortunately, that's a big reason why black people are having a hard time getting the vaccine. >> race and income really determine your access to resources, and that's no different with covid. >> studies show more than 30% of black adults don't have broadband internet, leaving many without information online about where and how to get vaccinated. >> if you don't have great high- speed internet, if you dont have a computer, how can you jump in line to make an appointment? >> black residents are significantly more likely than white residents to live more than a mile from the closest
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vaccination facility. researchers also found black people are less likely than whites to live near a pharmacy, clinic, hospital, or health center that can administer covid-19 vaccines. >> over 50% of the chicago black communities were so-called pharmacy deserts, low-income neighborhoods where pharmacies are far from the population, and people don't have regular access to vehicles, compared with just 5% in white communities. >> san francisco's pharmacy desert is zip code 94124. 92% of the population is black and hispanic, and there is only one retail pharmacy for the more than 35,000 people who live there. >> where do they go if they don't have a personal or primary care physician? and the answer in many cases there's nowhere to go. >> trevor: that's right, many black neighborhoods don't even have a pharmacy. there are so few pharmacies, i'm surprised republicans haven't made them voting locations. and this is especially messed up, because in most white neighborhoods, there are
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pharmacies everywhere. i mean, everywhere! one time, i went to a walgreens that had a cvs inside of it. and it's also crazy how many people still don't have broadband. before america makes vaccination appointments dependent on high-speed internet, maybe they should sign everybody up for high-speed internet. and then a month later, once they're done going through all the internet porn, they can get around to making an appointment. but if you don't have the internet to schedule an appointment, don't have a local pharmacy to administer the shot, and you don't have transportation to a vaccine distribution center, what do you do? at that point, you might as well just make the vaccine yourself, which i tried, by the way. but i didn't have any mrna, so i just used barbecue sauce. it didn't work, but my blood tastes delicious. but for the black community, the barriers to getting vaccinated go way beyond a lack of resources. there's also a psychological barrier. many black people are just
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reluctant to get the shot because, the truth is, they trust the medical community less than they trust the golden globes. and that suspicion may seem irracial to outsiders but trust me, it is grounded in some very real history. >> there is, especially in the black community, a horrible history of mistreatment that has created distrust in doctors and medicine. >> african americans were experimented on, used essentially to justify the cruelty of slavery, creating science. >> this book from 1851 titled "the natural history of human species," echoed one of the most prevalent and dangerous beliefs in medicine at the time: that black people did not feel pain or anxiety. >> the federally-sanctioned tuskegee experiment sought to examine the long-term effects of syphilis by letting infected black men go untreated with no regard to the suffering it caused. >> there was also henrietta lacks, a mother of five who, in 1951, sought treatment for a tumor. she passed away later that year. scientists, without her consent or her family's knowledge, harvested her cells for medical
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research. >> the ties between race and medical treatment have lasted hundreds of years and are still alive in medicine today. the university of virginia did a study of 200 white medical students in 2016. 40% thought black skin was thicker than white skin. the study also revealed that some doctors think black patients feel less pain. >> trevor: uh, excuse me? black people don't feel pain? i guess you've never met a man named michael jordan! he's been crying about everything for 10 years! i mean, black people invented the blues. nobody feels pain like black people-- except for adele. that woman has been through some shit. but this is why so many black people are suspicious of the medical community. because that community has betrayed them again and again and again. and you're not going to trust people who have betrayed you that many times-- unless you're mike pence. but, unfortunately, this
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mistrust hurts black people, because these vaccines are safe. believe me, white people would never let martha stewart get one if it was dangerous. if something happened to her, they would have no idea how to match their centerpieces to their napkin holders! it would be chaos! and because this anti-vax sentiment is hurting the black community, black leaders are trying to get the message out through an institution that the community does trust: the church. >> black churches have long been a source of guidance and strength for the community it serves. it's the reason why blac clergy across the country are teaming up with medical professionals and local officials to educate and encourage people to get the covid-19 vaccine. >> dr. anthony fauci, in a virtual face-to-face with baltimore's faith and community leaders-- >> we need your help. >> --part of a strategy aimed at getting a message into the black community. >> on friday, black pastors from several boston churches received their first round of the modern covid-19 vaccine they're also here to educate and reassure the minority community
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the vaccines are safe. >> reverend liz walker says she preaches about three things: truth, love, and lowering anxiety. her focus now is spreading the truth about the vaccine. half her congregation says they won't take it. some believe god will save them. >> i always respond that, "yes, you should put your trust in god. but, remember, god uses doctors. >> trevor: that's right, god uses doctors. i mean, not all doctors. dr. phil is the devil's work. but doctors who are actually doctor, well, they're doing the lord's work. but props to people like dr. fauci for speaking to black churches. and for not doing that thing white people do when they visit a black church and start talking like martin luther king. ( as martin luther king ) "and i can tell you that we as a people will get to herd immunity---" ( black person ) "hey man, you can just use your normal voice." (fauci) "oh, thank god." that voice was killing me. and if you ask me, black church is the number one place to reach
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black people. the only other place that would make sense is a versus on instagram and a black barber shop. and that wouldn't work, because they'd just get sidetracked debating what vaccine is the greatest of all time. "the hell it is, man. what about mumps?" "mumps?! don't bring that mumps bullshit into my shop!" so encouraging vaccination through the church is a great idea, and it's something "the daily show" wants to get behind. which is why we asked pastor roy to help us out. >> thank you all for logging on to the lord this morning. it has come to my attention that some of you y'all are looking at the covid vaccine the way jesus looked at during the last supper-- suspicious. look, i understand the medical community has done unholy things to black people. but i'm here to tell you to put your trust in the trinity of
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moderna, pfizer, and johnson & johnson. because if you get the 'rona, jesus can't put his hands on you. he's social distancing. so i want you to let jesus and that vaccine into your soul! at least into your left shoulder. i don't think you all hear me. ♪ ♪ ♪ i said, i want you to let jesus and that vaccine into your soul. see, i need some help in here. somebody get me my soldiers of the lord. i want you to baptize yourself in the healing waters of the vaccine ♪ get your vaccine get your vaccine. >> push up on the the anti-christ and let in the antibody ♪ vaccine on your mind. water is divine ♪ vaccine is the mind. >> i want you vaccine atheists to believe. >> preach, brother. >> to not be led astray by false facebook prophets.
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let the vaccination be your salvation from your isolation. ♪ what's that? what's that? what's that? what's that? >> they shall inherit the earth from the movie theater, to the gym, all the way to the promised land of red lobster! >> i ain't going to hold you all up. i think we made the point. also i got to wrap this up. my little boy got a clarinet lesson over zoom. praise jesus, and god bless dr. fauci, and i'll see you next week for the booster shot. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> trevor: oh, yes. i can feel it!
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all right, when we come back, dulce sloan tells us why black women aren't as strong as you may think. and andra day is joining us as a guest. don't go away.
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>> black women, we gave you oprah, beyonce, and all your favorite reaction memes. i've heard people say they like their women like they like their coffee: strong, black, and hot enough to give you second-degree burns. careful what you wish for, darius. but the thing is, not all black women are strong, and even the ones that are strong aren't just that. we like doors opened for us, too. especially by someone with biceps, like michael b. jordan, and like michael b. jordan. hair like michael b. jordan. but, unfortunately, the strong black woman stereotype is ingrained in american culture. it has a long history bas old as morgan freeman and betty white combined. notice, you may be wondering what is a strong black woman? it's the idea that black women are emotionally resilient, naturally selfless, too proud to
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ask for help, and can succeed with no resources. so, basically, every character played by viola davis. the irony is the strong black woman stereotype was started by black women to combat all the negative ones. see, in the aftermath of slavery, there were really only two stereotypes of black women: you were either some sex temptress jezy bell, or a mammy just there to smother people in her womb. mary church durle coined the strong black woman motto, "lifting as we climb." and i get what she was going for, but lift as we climb? even body builders don't do both at the same time. you can't expect awe black woman to do more than schwartz narg in his prime. but over time, society shrank a black woman down to just her strength. and the popular perception now is that black women can bear and overcome any burden. we see it all over our culture. in movies like "the color
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purple. ." >> all my life we had to fight. >> and how can we forget "ghost" where wh whoopie goldberg litery has to let a white man use her body to rub foreheads with his fiance. even when black women only have one line, it's strong as hell. >> move, or you will be moved. >> damn! at least let her say hello. but dulce, what's wrong with being perceived as strong? isn't it a good thing? no. not if black women destroy their mental and physical health trying to live up to it and not if people think black women are so strong they make them do all the work on their own. look at stacey abrams. she helped democrats win georgia, and before you knew it, she was being asked to do vaccine distributions, the new york subway, and kim and kanye's marriage. the stereotype even reaches the doctor's office. black women are less likely to be properly diagnosed. they have a much higher maternal mortality rate, and they're less likely to be believed about their symptoms and pain. so a black woman basically has
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only at applebee's. daily social distancing show." earlier today, i spoke with singer, songwriter, and actor, andra day. we talked about the legacy of billie holiday and her portrayal of the legend in her new movie that's just gotten her two golden globe nominations. >>■0no, joe. i want to sing the damn song, all right? the club advertises it. people pay good money to come here and hear me sing it. >> i told you 100 times, people in high places don't want you singing that song. >> and i've asked you over a hundred times what people, joe? what you looking at him for? i'm the one who pays you. >> the government. >> trevor: andra day, welcome to the "the daily social distancing show." >> that's what it is, isn't it ( laughing ) i enjoy it just as much as the regular "daily show"." >> trevor: thank you very much. i appreciate that, i really do. before we get any further, let's start with the congratulations that are in order.
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two golden globe nominations, which is huge for your work on the new billie holiday movie. and what's really impressive about it is not just the nominations. this is your debut acting role. i mean, what a way to start. >> yeah, yeah, definitely what a way to start ( laughs ( opinion. and it was almost a way to end while i was on sit. it was like this might have taken me out. but, no, i mean now i'm definitely more balanced and i feel kind of at a healthier place. i didn't want to do it at first, but i'm really glad that i didn't and i didn't sort of self-sabotage my way out of it. because it's an honor to be a part of billie's story and ladies and gentlemen and to help bring the truth of her life to the public eye. >> trevor: billie holiday, people might know as the musician, but what makes the film special is you show us billie holiday as the civil rights icon, as this woman who is fighting against the system
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that is trying to shut her down. tell me a little bit more about that story and the part of her life that people don't really know about. >> absolutely. to put it frankly, it was the part of her life that people were never supposed to know about. people need to understand the reason they know billie holiday as this sort of tragic drug addict but like a great jazz singer because that was the narrative fed to us as a people. but what they really need to know is she was sort of a genesis. she was the breakout mother of civil rights. she was the first martyr in the war on drugs. she was singing about a song of lynching in america, in defiance of the government. and she was integrating audiences. you know, she was a fighter, and doing it all on her own. we did not have the civil rights movement as we know it today, and we would not have it if it wasn't for her sacrifice, so she is a hero. >> trevor: she's a hero because she went up against arguably the most powerful force in the world at one time, and maybe now, the united states
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government. it's a really scary story. talk me through your role and what it was like for you■ç to py this woman who, on one hand, is this amazing icon who is performing and really enthralling audiences. and on the other hand, a woman who is dealing with her fears, her insecurities, and the dark world that she is a part of, whether she likes it or not. >> yeah, absolutely, and i love that you said that just now, whether she's a part of it or not. one of the things i hear all the time is, you know, billie holiday is a very complicated figure. and i'm like there was nothing complicated about a black career woman trying to live free. what's complicated is the circumstances. she's in the 30s, 40sing, and 50s, and the entire government was using their force and one of the most powerful forces and figures. one of the probably most divisive. the entire system coming after her, for sing a song about racial terror, and that she lost
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her father to jim crow. she was raped at 10 and punished for being raped by a 40-year-old man, was sent to a brothel, raised in a brothel. and she used that as a way to deal with the trauma of it. there was nothing complex about her. she was beautiful, and she was a-- that's what made me appreciate her and love her. there was a sense of urgency. >> trevor: right. >> performing this role and singing-- you know, when i was on your show and doing it in the cast it was pay homage to billy and pay hom annual to our people and bring the song into a new era. on set it was different, and it was the first time i sang the song and realized this is not a beautiful song. this is an ugly song. it's a horrific song. the bulging eyes, twisted mouth, and the burning flesh. i didn't want them clapping. go do something, because i might die after singing this tonight.
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so it definitely transformed m. >> trevor: you could have taken the easy route in playing the role that you did, but you didn't. i mean, you lost almost, what, 40 pounds to play this role. you also took on some of billie's vices. you know, you started smoking-- you don't smoke. you know, you surrounded yourself with people who are struggling with drugs as well to understand addiction, to sort of understand what she was going through. what was the hardest part of inhabiting that side of billie holiday's world? >> i mean, the hardest part-- listen, it took a toll on my family, right. because the reality is, when you're going through this and you're preparing for it, you're not going through it by yourself. so on my family, on my company, on my staff, on my band. you know, everybody. yes, studying the addiction, lost weight, the drinking and the smoking, and other things as well, too. i don't typically cuss. for me i made a personal vow to
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be abstinnent for last seven years. that's not a side i engage in either. it was definitely challenging. but i think the hardest part when i look back on it now was coming out of it. you know... i lived as another human being for three years of my life, and trying to figure out who i am in this season of my life. >> trevor: wow. >> and really, really kifl. and i remember a moment actually on set, you know, leigh would ask me, he said -- we were doing the song "all of me." he said, "throw billie away. and give me andre." itried, we got it in the movie, but i i was breaking down in the film as you see in that moment. i felt like i let him down. i said," leigh i don't know who the ( bleep ) i am." i'm sorry. i'm not sure if i'm supposed to be cussing. i am trying to get a foo footinn my life and figure out who i am.
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god is great, and patience and i'll get there. >> trevor: i'll tell you this, you've done an amazing job telling the story. it's no surprise you were nominated. i wish you the best of luck. and i can't wait to see what you take on after this is all done and after you found the new andra for the next chapter of your life. >> hopefully she's great. we'll see how it goes. thank you so much. >> trevor: thank you, so much, andra. take care. "the united states vs. billie holiday" will be available on hulu on february 26. okay, we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.
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tonight, but before we go: this month is black history month, so please consider supporting an organization called "free black therapy." their mission is to connect black therapists with black and african american individuals who lack adequate funds or health insurance, so they can be treated for free. by supporting "free black therapy," you are helping black people in need to get culturally competent mental health care, as well as supporting black therapists. if you are able to help in any way, please, donate at the link below. until tomorrow, stay safe out there, wear a mask, and please
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remember to spay and neuter your police robot dogs. now here it is, your moment of zen. >> audio is captured of an american airlines pilot saying he spotted potentially a ufo. >> you're going to ask me again, aren't you. i'm just going to say yes. you have beaten me down. there are tons of aliens out there, some maybe even in the studio. >> oh, wow. i might be one. >> da-da-da. captioning made possible by comedy central ♪ i'm going down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna have myself a time ♪ ♪ friendly faces everywhere ♪ ♪ humble folks without temptation ♪ ♪ going down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna leave my woes behind ♪ ♪ ample parking day or night ♪ ♪ people spouting "howdy neighbor" ♪ ♪ headed on up to south park ♪
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♪ gonna see if i can't unwind ♪ ( ♪ mumbling ♪ ) ( ♪ mumbling ♪ ) ♪ so come on down to south park ♪ ♪ and meet some friends of mine ♪ ( audience cheering ) well, tom and mary, you've made it to the final round. are you ready to play for the grand prize ? we're ready, bob. any particular prize you're hoping for ? well, hawaii's nice, but tahiti would be fun too. oh, anywhere would be great. holidays and diggities i wish you luck. here we go. what is the thin flap of skin that runs from the base of the penis to the scrotum ? oh, wait, wait. i know this. the... upper vascular hood. i'm sorry, but you're absolutely right! ha, ha. tell them what they've won. tom and mary, put on your cowboy hats because you're going to beautiful south park colorado. where ? that's right. just in time for cow days, the world's 45th biggest rodeo and carnival.

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