- wow, you're the coolest kid in the world. if i could call chris hannen an "asshole-licking dick fart" to his face, i would be so happy. - you would? can i just like hang out with you sometimes? like do your laundry maybe? - take a look, fat ass! i beat you! you aren't going on dateline. what do you have to say now? - oh,,thank you. thank you, kyle! - what? - i asked god to send someone to help me, and you came, kyle! i love you, man! - no, i beat you! - you totally saved my ass, kyle! you must really care about me. i gotta get to a psychiatrist and learn to control whht i say. ♪ i got a golden ticket ♪ thanks to kyle! ♪ i got a golden twinkle in my eye ♪ - aw, shit! - aw, shit! captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com i'm trevor noah, and this is the daily social distancing show. today is tuesday, april 13th, and as we all know, "april

showers bring may flowers." so remember, even when it starts raining, just keep in mind -- keep in mind that it's -- it's-- (shouting over thunder claps) it's all worth it for the flowers! that was weird. anyway, coming up on tonight's show -- japan is trying to make a real-life godzilla, we introduce you to the democrat that democrats hate most, and cancel culture is coming for vaccines. 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 kick things off with the coronavirus vaccine. aka "people" magazine's "sexiest vaccine alive." we've gotten all sorts of vaccines, pfizer, moderna,

astrazeneca, monteiro. but for at least a while there will be one less. >> breaking news, the c.d.c. and f.d.a. have just issued a joint statement recommending a pause in the use of the johnson & johnson vaccine in the u.s. the agencies say they reviewing six reported cases of a rare type of blood clot in people who have received the vaccine. nearly 7 million doses of the j&j vaccine have already been administered in the u.s. officials say these adverse events appear to be extremely rare -- >> trevor: yeah, the f.d.a. has temporarily halted the johnson & johnson vaccine while they look into six cases of rare blood clots in people who got that vaccine. and, look, on the one hand, i get it, you don't want the vaccine for one disease to give you another disease. i wouldn't want the flu shot if it also gave me restless vagina syndrome.

but, on the other hand, it's six cases out of seven million doses. you realize that means you're more likely to get struck by lightning ten times, which, by the way, is the or gin story of marvel's most useless superhero. how fast, lightning man? help us! help you? i need help! i have been struck by lightning ten times! call an ambulance! aaahhh! well, he's still better than hawkeye. and don't forget, yes, you might have a 0.0001% chance of getting blood clots from this vaccine, but if you get coronavirus, you can get lung damage, heart damage, neurological damage, strokes, seizures, dnbra syndrome, immune disorders, erectile dysfunction and, get this, also blood clots. i think it's expwresessive johnson & johnson even made a vaccine with such a low chance

of blood clots. pfizer and moderna are drug companies. johnson & johnson makes baby shampoo. i'm surprised their shit works at all. but no question this is a setback for a country already dealing with a shit to be of vaccine hesitancy, because even if they look at the problem and decide the vaccine is safe, you best believe for a lot of people the damage is already done. and i get it, imagine you're at a restaurant and the chef comes out and says we need to pause eating to make sure your dinner isn't going to give you diarrhea. even if he says, never mind, your crab cakes are safe. even then you have been thinking about diarrhea 120 minutes so you will probably just have drinks. even though this is a small setback the u.s. is doing a great job with its vaccine rollout, which you have to admit is a little unexpected. given how america handled everything else about the pandemic, i wouldn't have been surprised that when vaccine time came around america locked off 300 doses of the vaccine in the

car. they melted! i didn't know it locked itself! in fact, one of the only countries doing just as well as the u.s. is great britain and today they're celebrating the result of that success. >> people in england can once again have someone else pour them a pint of beer and enjoy it while sitting in a pub garden. that's just one of several coronavirus restrictions being eased, thanks to a fast vaccination rollout coupled with a falling death rate. >> many businesses reopened for the first time since january. long lines of eager shoppers formed outside clothing stores in london. some brits got their real haircut of the year. but for others, this is what they have been waiting all winter for. >> british people, i mean, the way we cope with being british is going to the pub as often as possible. we have been denied that for months and now we're, like, okay, we're back to normal. >> seeing everyone smiling, it really feels like it fills you with positivity and hope that we're going to go over there. >> i'm on my tenth pint,

already, and i'm speaking straight. it's great. >> trevor: woo, ten pints! this guy doesn't even need the vaccine. the alcohol in his blood will kill any corona that gets in there. but that's right, the u.k. is finally out of lockdown, and that's in part thanks to a very successful vaccine program. now one thing that the british did differently is they prioritized giving everyone a first shot quickly rather than making sure people got both doses which makes sense. it's like if you have ten pints of beer, you want to let everyone have some so that everyone can enjoy the party. you don't let one (~bleep~) guy drink all ten pints! that would be insane, charlie! oh, and another wig difference between america and the u.k. is that the u.k. and a lot of other countries actually had a real lockdown. no stores. no pubs. no nothing. america never did that. that's why right now some americans are going, well, i don't know get why my life will

change for with the vaccine. for you it won't because you never stopped going to t.g.i.f. friday's. let's move on, you may be asking now that we're slowly getting out of the coronavirus disaster what are we going to do now? we tray to make another one. >> japanese officials say in two years they will release radioactive water from the fukushima plant into the sea. the water has been accumulating at the site since its meltdown in 2011, after a massive earthquake and tsunami. japan insists the water is safe. >> trevor: whoa, they're just dumping that water back into the ocean? i don't know what kind of brita filter they're using but i've got doubts. and japan better be telling the truth about the water being safe because it's going to be bad for ocean life, the environment and for people. on the plus side, it's going to be easier to find nemo. in fact, this is such disturbing news, that i kind of wish japan

hadn't announced it. yeah, i know, i'm just saying, if they're going to do it they should have done it quietly, like when you pee in the ocean. ( silence ) okay. fukushima is empty now. i mean, isn't there anything else japan can do with that water besides putting it in the ocean? like using it to fill water bed mattresses. anyone who owns one of those is probably going to die of something weirder than nuclear waste water anyway. i'm going to say something that might not be popular right now, but even if this destroyed the ocean, how would you know? huh? you're not hanging out in the ocean. david attenborough has to stop making documentaries about it? big deal! he's already made 20 ocean documentaries. we'll rewatch those. those shows are the problem. he's telling us shit that makes us depressed. you see this coral reef, it's

dead now. why did you show it to us, david? we never would have known it's dead if not for you. if you think about it, he's the one who killed it! he killed everything! but let's move to the hot topic out to have washington, d.c. america's infrastructure is crumbling faster than a natural valley bar which is why joe biden released an ambitious plan to rebuild covering not just roads and bridges but manufacturing, high speed internet, green energy and even home health care for the elderly and, yeah, i know that last one isn't really infrastructure but, come on, you know, biden had to throw a little something in there for himself. you know what i mean? so this bill would be a huge investment in america, but because it costs more than $2 trillion and might actually help people, no republican senators are expected to vote for it. the good news for biden is this is one to have the bills the democrats could pass with a simple majority, which they do

have in the senate. the bad news is one of those votes has to be joe manchin, west virginia senator and owl on a job interview, and right now joe manchin isn't too happy with the bill. >> joe manchin might be a road block to the infrastructure plan. >> the one man who may control the fate of president bush's agenda isn't making life easy for fellow democrats. >> senator joe manchin has continued to rail against a 28% proposed corporate tax hike to pay for this thing. he thinks this will be broken up into three bills because one of the big arguments is that some things like childcare and housing aren't technically infrastructure. >> look, he is that 50th vote for democrats, and chuck schumer, the majority leader, can't pass anything that biden sends over without joe manchin. >> trevor: you hear that? the entire fate of this infrastructure bill rests in the meaty hands of joe manchin. and it's not just infrastructure. if joe biden wants anything

passed from gun control to raising the minimum wage to making burton the host of jeopardy, he has to get joe manchin on board. basically if the democrats were britney spears, joe manchin is their dad, which makes joe manchin the most powerful person in america. well, second to the guy at cbs who has the key to the razor shelf. oooh. but who is joe manchin? and more importantly, why is joe manchin? well, let's find out in our brand-new segment "please allow me to introduce yourself." ♪♪♪ >> trevor: joe manchin first rose to prominence as the governor of west virginia. before getting elected to the senate in 2010. and while all senators talk about reaching across the aisle, manchin has made it a personal mission. >> joe manchin believes in working across the aisle and has relationships. >> he wants to focus on trying

to get, you know, democrats and republicans to work in the same room. he has been part of bipartisan groups that have been trying to come up with legislation that can get support in the senate from both parties. >> republican senator susan collins of maine and democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia, they are the newly announced honorary co-chairs of no labels, a group advocating bipartisan solutions in washington. >> everything no labels does is in a bipartisan way. it's not from one side ideologically or another. we're in the radical middle. >> trevor: that's right! joe manchin is in the radical middle! he'll eat extra vanilla ice cream! now crank up the ed sheeran and make a reasonable amount of noise! i will say the term "radical middle" is a great way to trick your friends into riding bitch, right? oh, middle back seat, so radical! both of your legs will be

touching one of ours! whoa! manchin is right. it is radical to be in the middle during this time of politics. democrats and republicans are further apart than my nips after that botched boob job. the fact he can agree with both sides is extreme. it's kind of like being a robot who's also amish. >> we are simple people who believe in the old ways. >> trevor: but even if the working across the aisle is going out of fashion in washington, it makes manchin popular in west virginia. he's also popular there because he looks out for his people's interests, whether defending their coal mines or their reputations. >> mtv's newest reality show "buckwild" is described as a "jersey shore" appalachia. one thing they have in common, they stir controversy before they go on air. a senator from west virginia is condemning the new program's view of his home state. >> in no way, shape or form is this reality and definitely not

reality in west virginia. if it was your state and these were your children, how would you feel about it? >> trevor: first of all, i'm not sure that's the best argument to make if you care about your state's tourism industry. don't believe the reality show, this place is boring as shit! but also manchin can relax because everyone is felly aware reality tv is not reality. the bachelorette makes dating seem like you go zip lining with a woman and 30 other guys. that's not real. everyone knows dating is really just grabbing dinner with a woman -- and 30 other guys. ain't nobody zip lining. fighting for his state wouldn't be enough if joe manchin mentioned standard democratic policies because don't forget west virginia is an extremely conservatives state so anyone who wants to get elected has to be conservatives, too, and joe manchin. >> he said he regretted supporting hillary clinton, said he might be open to supporting donald trump in 2020 if he

agrees. >> he said defend the police, defund my butt. >> he opposes president obama's energy policies and supports gun rights. >> senator manchin from west virginia is the first democrat to say i'm on board, i want a wall -- >> i'll cut federal spending and i'll repeal the bad parts of obamacare. i sued e.p.a., and i'll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. >> trevor: okay, first of all, can we just stop this thing where politician shoots bills in their ads? it's tacky and disrespectful to the stuff at kinkos. but it's people like joe manchin that makes you realize america needs more than two major parties. he doesn't seem to fit into either one. joe manchin is in the same party as aoc. imagine if other industries work like this. like to have a career in music, you had to either join b.t.s. or the wu-tang clan.

billybillie eilish is, like, i t fit into either of those. you've got to choose, billie! so manchin is in the democratic party but doesn't get along with the democratic party. in fact i'm sure moments get tense when he walks by the democrats in the cafeteria. one seat left at the end of the table and bernie puts his giant mittens on it. i'm asking you to sit somewhere else! so joe manchin is pushing conservative ideas and preventing democrats from passing their bills. the question is, then, why do they put up with him? to they love his home made gazpacho? is he the only tenor in if senate barbershop quartet or the only democrat with the upper body strength to open a pickle jar? no, because mostly when it comes to democrats from west virginia, he's the best they're ever going to get. >> joe manchin coming from a state donald trump won with 68% of the vote. >> he's the only democrat who could win in west virginia, so

therefore he's sort of an immovable object. >> joe manchin is one of the 50 democratic votes. he's the only democrat who can get elected to the senate from west virginia, so they've got to deal with joe manchin. >> trevor: yeah, joe manchin may be a pain in the ass who wants everything done his way, but without him the democrats wouldn't have a minority at all and wouldn't get anything passed. he's like the annoying kid on your block who had a pool. yeah, he hogd all the noodles and wouldn't let anyone use the diving board, but without him there's no pool party and then he's just running through the sprinkler like a little bitch. so that's joe manchin, party pooper, radically boring and the most powerful man in america. you might not like him. you might wish he were someone else. but if you don't want all the roads and bridges to collapse, well, you've got to get in his pool. when we come back, i'll be speaking to katherine maher, one of the people behind wikipedia, and maybe she can tell me how i

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>> trevor: welcome back to "the daily social distancing show." my first guest tonight is katherine maher. she's the chief executive of the wikimedia foundation, the nonprofit that runs wikipedia. we talked about relying on its army of volunteers to provide accurate information and more. and what the future may hold. katherine maher, welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> hey, it's great to be here. thanks for having me. >> trevor: i remember a time and i'm sure you do better than me where we wikipedia is a place where celebrities went to lie about how tall they were, and it's become the place people use for information. how did wikipedia become so trusted as a valuable source of information? >> well, it surprises us, too, to be totally honest with you, trevor. i think part of the reason

wikipedia has become so trusted is we're available for any question you might have and we never judge you for what the questions might be so to your point we can look up how tall is that celebrity or is this movie we're watching real or we can look up important things like what's going on in the coronavirus pandemic or what's the story behind the election issue people are talking about in the news and i think that's appealing to people is just kind of being there for whatever they care about. >> trevor: i've always been fascinated as to how you've successfully nav gated away from turning into a yahoo answers where random questions are answered by random people with incorrect information. wikipedia is by and large correct. fact checkers have applauded it. it's a system that somehow manages itself and yet anybody can come in and make edits to these pieces of information. so how did that come to be? >> it's always a little more complicated than it sounds, of course, but, essentially, yes, anyone can edit wikipedia but

you have to learn core policies that are behind all to have the articles you read every single day. things like wikipedia has to be neutral. it can't skew to one side or another in a polarizing debate. wikipedia has to be based on reliable source which means it's not just whatever i think about is true about a situation, it has to be based on a newspaper or a medical journal or academic book that's written something about it. coming back to these over the course of 20 years has helped wikipediaens to fact check and write better for an audience that gains trust. >> trevor: if you told me wikipedia is neutral, makes sense. 2021, nothing is neutral. a vaccine is not a neutral thing, even how it works. people are like there are microchips in them. they control our brains. more and more information and facts themselves are broken

apart and people aren't saying it's neutral. there is no neutral. so my question to you is how do you make sure that you still have accurate information that is as you say neutral but doesn't shift with the window that social media has created. >> the idea of neutrality is actually something that we kind of hold collectively as a social body. i think that wikipediaens, however, really focus on a couple of core things. i mentioned verifiability earlier. facts have to be researched. if something is controversial it has to be cited in multiple sources. wickhow do we present informatin that's accurate, informative and neutral will be the critical challenge for wikipedia going forward. i have a tremendous amount of optimism, however, that this is something that can be done, wikipediaens are believers in a

radical idea, that is up end everything we've known about power and knowledge and the history of the planet and civilization. if they haven't changed so much of the paradigm in the last two decades, i know this is something they can do as we go forward into the future. >> trevor: two things i've always known about wikipedia -- number one, i'm going to find the information i'm looking for and, number two, wikipedia will ask me for money at some point. i used to be very irstated by it. i started going, how much would i buy an encyclopedia set for, i'll just give wikipedia this money. because it's hard to realize how much value you derive from something when it's on a digital platform. but i wonder if that has been part of the reason you have been so successful in remaining neutral is, when you don't have profits, you are now in a space where you don't try to generate profits. the down side of it means you often struggle to have enough money to keep wikipedia up and running. two parts, one, is that true and

how does that affect you and, two, why would you make the thing ifeth not going to make you money, if it's going to be a non-profit. >> i think wikipedia as a non-profit is why we're trusted. we don't try to sell you click bait or place ads along salacious headlines, not collecting your data and selling it. these are all choices we make because we don't have to make a profit. that's core to who we are. we believe knowledge should be free for the world. but it's true wikipedia is something we do in conjunction with hundreds of thousands of volunteers, millions of people over the globe over 20 years, and most to have the folks would say i wouldn't do this if someone was going to make a profit off of it. so it's something we hold together and trust that this is something that shouldn't be a commercial enterprise. >> trevor: regards to the editing of the articles. many people contribute to wikipedia, but no denying they're generally white and men. now some people argue chicken or the egg.

they go a lot of things on wikipedia are based on books or citations or stories or journals and those have been written about. so my question to you is in a situation like that where there may be limited resources or it may be harder to find a neutral fact about, you know, what was happening with native americans or south africans or anywhere arnold the world with indigenous communities and people's, how have you begun that journey and what do you think in that regard. >> the fact of the matter is most written knowledge today has been written by white colonial european north american men. one of the things we're really focused on is how to correct the record, how do we think about writing people into history, into the present who haven't been represented in the same way. when we talk about knowledge for the whole world, it needs to be reflective of the whole world. one of the first things we do is measure the gaps, who is

missing. women, people of color, people from the global south, indigenous communities, the history of black americans is missing from wikipedia. then we think about who's doing this work today and how can we support them. it's not just about throwing money at the problem, it's also about going directly to these communities and saying what do we need to change about ourselves? what about the experience of editing wikipedia and the culture and the policies of wikipedia need to change because in reality the beautiful thing about wikipedia is it is changeable all the time. it's edit 350 times manet. so if we need to change it that's fully within our power. so, yes, we are cursed with a record that is hugely biased throughout history. but the agentsio to change it lies with every single one of us who contribute to it. >> trevor: congratulations on what you've helped create. i wish you the best of look lucr

the future. thanks for helping me understand how bridges are built over rivers. thanks for being on the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: do you if you want to support wikipedia's mission to provide free knowledge, go to donate.wikipedia.org. all right, when we come back, i'll be talking to writer travon free about his amazing new short film that's getting big oscar buzz. you don't wanna miss it. i hope this doesn't take too long, i'm double parked. next. oh, it's an arm one?! your cousin. from boston. ♪ we're back baby! sam's on me! indoor beers! indoor beers! did i get the shot? nope. you saw the needle and passed out cold. here you go. continue to wear a mask. next. good luck guys! it's a breeze.

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ideas start the future, just like that. >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily social distancing show." my next guest is comedian and writer and director travon free. we talk about his new oscar-nominated short film "two distant strangers," about a black man forced to relive the same terrible day over and over again. >> you got a problem here? >> no, sir, no problem, no. i'm just offering -- >> is that a cigarette. >> yes, it is. >> don't smell like no

cigarette. >> all due respect, your sense of smell is not a problem. >> a lot of money for a guy with a not so cigarette smelling cigarette. what dined of business are you in? >> graphic design. i make comic books. what can i say, men to men. >> sure. >> trevor: trav travon free, welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: this is so weird to me. you worked with my for so long. you're one of the writers when "the daily show" kicked off. now you have been nominated or an oscar for "two distant strangers." i get a percentage, don't i? >> i was going to throw you in my thank yous, if things go well. but, i don't know if they'll allow me to slice it up and give you a piece. ( laughter ) >> trevor: for real, man, congratulations. congratulations not just because of the journey you have been on, but because of the story that

you've told. you know, "two distant strangers" is a short film that has just been met with so much critical acclaim. people are loving it. it came out on netflix. it's essentially the worst groundhog day of a young black man who wakes up every single day and cannot find a way to not get shot by the police. tell me about this story and why we need to hear this in a world where it's a reality every single day. >> i mean, for me, it was a way of processing what happened last summer, you know. we were all going through the same emotions and feelings of watching -- after watching what happened to george floyd. as i was processing that for myself, it felt like, you know, every time i heard a new name and a new story, i went through the same cycle of physical emotions of sadness, anger, hopelessness, and that to me was what the movie, you know, represented when the idea came to me was how can i visualize this cycle so that other people who aren't black understand it.

i wanted people to understand beyond the conversations we were having on social media and on the news, you know -- when you watch the movie, you can't argue with the screen. you have to just accept what's happening. >> trevor: right, right. >> you have to take that journey. you're put into carter's shoes and you have no kois but to follow that protagonist through the story and you come out on the other side and feel what he felt. >> trevor: what i find particularly interesting in the story is how you take our protagonist through so many different stories. for instance, there's one way, he's got weed, smoking the weed, has a fat stack of cash and it changes, he learns his lesson. he doesn't have the weed, the money, the hoodie. and instead of going it's only an innocent "black man" it's every version of a black man. seems intentional for you. >> i wanted him to represent all the different instances we've seen of people having done those

various things -- change your clothes, pull your pants up, take the jacket off. >> trevor: right. >> all the things that we've heard before to prove the point that it doesn't matter. it really doesn't matter. everything looks like a gun to a police officer. a subway sandwich, a cell phone, your keys. like, everything looks like a gun. and, so, there's no real way for us to combat that with our own behavior. and, so, the point that, you know, i'm trying to make to people watching is they have to change their behavior. it's not on us. like, you keep telling us what to do, you keep telling us if we had only done this or that. it's like, if they had just not shot the person. >> trevor: right. >> if they had been better trained, if they had just not reacted to the color of my skin, a lot of these people would still be alive. >> trevor: one of the aspects of the film that really hit home for me because it felt like a larger comment commentary on thm

versus the people is you have this young black man carter who says let me make friends with the cop, maybe that's the solution. what's interesting is that didn't work. i remember sitting there going i hoped it would work even though it was a movie. i hoped it would work. and i think a lot of people are in the space where they go well, maybe, if the communities just connect with police officers it will get better. what are you trying to tell the audience through that medium in the film? >> can you think of anytime, trevor, you've ever seen the police go to the white neighborhood to play basketball with the white kids to keep from having to shoot them? you don't see that. that's the solution they give to us. they drive a bus around with a basketball hoop on the back for cops last year to play basketball with us. why do you need to know me to see me as a human? they don't require this extra

step that for some reason our neighborhoods require. so, in that instance, i wanted people to understand that, like, even if joey or carter is talking to the officer and getting to know him and befriending him and disarming him, the reality is what happens next. and we've seen stories of people who were part of these community policing programs and still got killed by cops in that community. it's, like, what more can with edo? like, what is left for us to do? and right now i feel like, especially after daunte wright and looking at how this thing continues to happen, it's why the film ends that way because, right now, all we have is our hope and resilience as black people to continue fighting against this particular thing that keeps happening to us because we -- the laws don't change, the politicians don't change, they all bow to police departments and unions. so what's left for us? to just wait our turn?

to wait to be the hashtag? to wait to be the name on the sweater? eth really -- you know, when you think about it, sometimes it's really depressing, but you have to -- you know, you just have to believe that you will find a solution because, if you don't, then you just lay down and die and that's not who we are. it's never been who we are or who we were. >> trevor: it's a good movie in and of itself. it's a great short film. but i think because it speaks to the times is probably one of the biggest reasons that people are finding it resonating with them so much. i wish you the best and i hope you remember to mention me because that is the most important part of winning is that the people who you were with, the people who helped you get there. but for ream, congratulations, man. thank you so much for a great film and good luck. >> thanks, trevor. >> trevor: don't forget -- "two distant strangers" is available now on netflix. okay, we're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.

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