- what do you want from me, dude? - i'm your profile, and as you can see, i am much more powerful than you. - damn it! i should have deleted you a long time ago! - why do you think i brought you in here? the fact of the matter is i'm up and running now with almost a million friends. i don't need you anymore. i have more friends than you'll ever have in the real world. - who cares? friends shouldn't be some kind of commodity for a person's status! - who is more powerful, the user or the profile? let's end this once and for all. - let the final battle begin! - [bleep], yahtzee again? seriously?

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- ahhhh. ahhahahahahahaha! >> trevor: hey, what's going on, everybody? i'm trevor noah, and this is "the daily social distancing show." today is tuesday, may 11, and and i just to say congratulations to tim tebow on getting another shot at the n.f.l. he tried quarterback for the broncos, he tried quarterback for the jets, and now he's back in football as a tight end, because the important thing is that tim tebow gets as many chances as he needs. so if he doesn't work out as a tight end, he can try running back, or wide receiver or, hell, he can just be the actual ball, just as long as that ball isn't thrown by colin kaepernick. anyway, on tonight's show: cryptocurrency is soaring into space, new york city might join the yang gang, and for some

reason, we wade into the israel-palestine conflict. 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: all right let's kick things off with the big entertainment news about the golden globes, a great honor for actors and a huge insult to flat-earthers. you might remember that the awards ceremony has been under fire for its lack of diversity. and alleged corruption. and with the hollywood foreign press association dragging its feet about making changes, people have started ramping up the pressure. >> the golden globes off for now. nbc announced it will not air the award show next year, another major blow to the globes following months of criticism from movie stars and hollywood insiders directed at the hollywood foreign press association. after an "l.a. times" report that revealed, among other things, none of the group's 87

voting members are black. >> netflix and amazon studios have both threatened to cut ties with the association. >> the winner is tom cruise. >> now three-time golden globe winner tom cruise is joining the growing boycott, returning his statues to the organization. >> he has three golden globes and he said, "nah, you can have these back." that is a signal to other prominent white people in power in this industry to step up and fight the fight with us. >> trevor: oh, boy! you know you screwed up if tom cruise is distancing himself from you. personally, personally, it doesn't bother me if the golden globes go away, because the purpose of film isn't about pleasing snobby critics with golden standpointues. no, it's about figuring out how to set at least one scene of your movie in china to increase box office revenues. but this doesn't change how

crazy it is that the hollywood foreign press doesn't have any black members. i mean, think about this-- you're a group representing the entire world, and you can't find a single black person? africa has, like, hundreds of them. i mean, one of them will come over to watch a movie. moving on to cryptocurrency-- the preferred money of the worst dude in your group chat. if you've been on the internet at all this last year, you know that the dream of crypto traders is to send their coin's value soaring to the moon. and now some people are taking that literally. >> a cryptocurrency based on the meme of a chubby shiba inu dog is paying for a trip to the moon. >> spacex is accepting a popular cryptocurrency as payment for an upcoming moon mission. >> the geometric energy corporation said it paid spacex in dogecoin to secure a spot for an 88-pound satellite on a mission called "doge-1." it is slated to take off in early 2022 and will obtain lunar

spatial intelligence from sensors and cameras. dogecoin is a digital currency founded by two software engineers in 2013 as a joke. it's now one of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the market. >> trevor: yup, that's right. you can now use the cryptocurrency dogecoin to pay for a spacex trip to the moon, which means it's time for another episode of our on-going series: "news i barely understand." honetly, people, i can't tell if this story means crypto is real or space travel is fake. i mean, either way, this is the first space mission where i'm worried that both the rocket and the currency might crash. but even if it is successful, i'm worried about using crypto for space missions. i don't want humanity's first interaction with aliens to be an astronaut explaining how the blockchain works. ( astronaut ) "so, it's a peer-to-peer digital currency, with an online ledger, which records ownership through

a series of--" ( alien ) "stop it. please stop it. we came in peace, but now we need you to shut the (bleep) up." what's crazy about dogecoin is that it's so valuable, but almost nobody accepts it as actual money. i mean, it must be really weird to be a dogecoin billionaire. "what's up baby girl, i'm so loaded i'll tang you to space. "oooh sounds fun, but first, can we get a sandwich?" ( as josh johnson ) "uh, yeah, in that case, i'm gonna need you to spot me." but let's move on to our main story: israel versus palestine. and i know that even saying that sentence means i'm losing followers on social media. that's how contentious this topic is. before you even finish the sentence, people are like, "you idiot! how dare you! shut the hell up!"

but, guys, we have to talk about it, because this is one of the most difficult stories that has existed in our lifetime. i mean, there are lots of fights that seem like they will never come to an end: india versus pakistan, china versus tibet, white people versus rhythm. but israel versus palestine is a 73-year-old beef that has stumped everbody. i mean, when it stumped jared, you knew that this thing was difficult. but the parodox, the parodox is that because israel and palestine has been ongoing for so long, people forget that it is ongoing, until there are flare-ups that the world cannot ignore, which is what happened again this week. >> overnight, a deadly barrage from israeli forces lighting up the skies over gaza. ( sirens ) and in the west bank, warning sirens echoing through bethlehem. earlier, palestinian militant

groups firing more than 200 rockets into israel, most of the hamas rockets stopped by israel's missile defense system, or they fell short. israeli strikes reportedly killing at least 23 people, including nine children, israel saying the dead were militants. at least six israelis were reported injured. tensions had been escalating over israeli moves to evict palestinian families from their homes in east jerusalem. they boiled over as more than 100 worshippers and protesters were injured as israeli police stormed the al aqsa mosque using tear gas and rubber bullets. >> trevor: yes, this week, the conflict escalated again, and now dozens of people are dead. including children. and, look, man, what makes

israel-palestine such a difficult topic to even broch is all the layers packed under it. no matter how much you try to break it down, people will say you're leaving out some crucial piece of context, and they're probably right. i mean, there's the history of how israel became a state after nazi germany tried to destroy the jewish people. but there's also the history of the british taking the land from the palestinians, not to mention that every other country in the region has its own issues and its own agendas. and on top of all of that, there's religion involved. and religion has never calmed any situation where there's a clash. what makes it even harder is the fact that who's right and who's wrong always seems to change, depending on when you start measuring from. this week was the perfect,

perfect example of it. if you start from "israel fired rockets into gaza," then israel is the bad guy, because they're bombing gaza. but then you take a step back in time, you go, "well, but hamas fired rockets at israel." then hamas is the bad guy. but then you take a step back, and you go, "but the israeli police went in and started beating people up in a mosque during ramadan, the most holy time in the muslim calendar." well then, israel is the bad guy. but then you go, "well the palestinians were throwing rocks..." "well, the israelis were kicking people out of their homes..." "well, the intifada..." "well, israel keeps taking more and more land..." "well, the arab invasion..." and back and back and back, amd who knows how far. the first cavemen who hit each other with clubs were probably israeli and palestinian. i don't know. and, look, i don't want to have that argument. i don't want to have the

argument and the noise that goes back and forth in this thing, because, honestly, i don't think any tv show in 10 minutes is going to solve israel-palestine. ten minutes isn't even enough time to explain the mortal kombat" conflict. so i'm not even trying to come in and do that. the part where we say who's good and who's bad, or who started it-- let's step away from that. instead let's ask a different question. instead, let's look at who's dead and who's alive this week. in gaza, israeli air strikes have reportedly killed 28 people, including 10 children. over 150 peopole have been wounded. in israel, hamas rockets have killed two people. and this exchange of fire comes after the israeli assault in and around the al aqsa mosque that left more than 600 palestinian protesters, worshipers, and civilians wounded, and a few dozen israeli police.

now, personally-- i'm not saying for you-- just personally, i cannot watch that footage and hear those numbers, and see a fair fight. set aside motives and intentions, and just look at technology, technology alone. israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world. they can crush gaza like ta. not to mention one of the most advanced defense systems. you shoot a rocket at them, it's probably not going to do anything to them because of that defense system. right, they've got a giant motumbo in the sky, just knocking them down. and i know, i know this is contentious, and i know people are going to hate me for this. but i just want to ask an honest question here: if you are in a fight where the other person cannot knet you, how much should you retaliate when they try to

hurt you? it's an honest question. i ask this question because i think of it like this: when i was a teenager, i would always get into fights with my little brothers. and little kids can be vicious. they're trying to punch you in the legs. they're trying to punch you in the nuts. they do that. but my mom would say to me, "trevor, don't hit the kid back, because they can't hurt you.ñu3d is four." and i was like, "yeah, but the kid is hitting me! he could hurt me!" but my mom said, "yes, but you're also so much bigger than the kid. you can crush him in an instant." and please don't get me wrong, because i know someone will watch this and say you're comparing palestinians to children. i'm not doing that. i'm telling a story about myself, honestly, i am.

what my mom made me understand is, as the person who has immensely more power, i had to ask myself whether my response to this child was just or necessary. could i find a different way to deal with this? whether i felt aggrieved or not, or whether they were fighting fair was almost irrelevant. was i even able to ask myself the question about why they were doing what they were doing? was i willing to admit guilt. this is all part of the question i had to ask myself. but the main question i ask in this situation is about power. again, i know, it's not a great analogy because i'm not saying palestinians are children. i'm not saying they're all children. i'm not saying they're harmless or irrational or acting out. i'm not saying any of that. i'm not. i'm talking about the difference in power, which is something we do all the time. think about policing. if a man has a knife, should the cops shoot him? in many parts around the world, like in the u.k., they say, "we're going to do everything to try and not shoot the person, even at risk to ourselves,"

because at the end of the day, they brought a knife to a gun fight. so what's the right response? everyone has different answers to the question, and i'm not trying to answer the question nor do i think i'm smart enough to solve it. all i'm ask is when you have this much power, what is your responsibility? all right, if we come back after the break, we'll look at the race to be new york's next mayor. and j balvin is still joining me on the show. don't go away.

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and there's no shortage of candidates trying to fill bill de blasio's freakishly large shoes. >> now to the race to become the next and 110th mayor of new york city, a large and diverse group running for the open seat. mayor de blasio, of course, is term limited. >> entrepreneur andrew yang joins a big field that includes borough president eric adams, comptroller scott stringer, former hud secretary shaun donovan, and former citibank executive ray mcguire. >> new york has never elected a woman as mayor. this time around maya wiley, kathryn garcia, and dianne morales are hoping to change that. >> we have waited over 400 years to break this particular glass ceiling. >> you have never seen a candidate quite like paperboy love prince. they are an artist, a rapper, an activist, as well, and the owner of the love gallery in bushwick >> one of those things that i have wanted to establish is a love ticket, so we can have a more positive reinforcement in the community that is saying, if you are out there, and you are

helping an old lady across the street and a cop sees you and says, "hey, you helping an old lady across the street. i'm writing you a ticket, a love something positive. keep going. >> trevor: okay, this is a nice idea, but if you ask me, people shouldn't be doing random acts of kindness to get money. they should be doing it for instagram likes. but this is a heartwarming story, still, don't get me wrong. we're going to get to hear the chief of police be like, ( cheerful ) "yesterday, our love patrol gave a man a love ticket for picking up some litter! ( serious ) but when the suspect failed to comply, the officer had to shoot him." now, sadly, paperboy love prince is not doing very well in the polls. in fact, even though there's more people in this race than masturbators inside the port authority bus terminal, there's one candidate who has been on top since the very beginning. >> andrew yang is by far the highest profile candidate in the race for mayor. >> he has dominated the polls and the headlines. >> by most standards, he does tap more moderate. he wants to grow some parts of the n.y.p.d. he seeks corporate partners, like jetblue, and he discourages

higher taxes on the wealthy. at the same time, he proposes a basic income for the poorest new yorkers of $2,000 per year, and a city-run people's bank for those with limited to no access to banking. >> he has more creative ideas, one that made headlines. he wants to bring tiktok hype houses, basically creator collectives, to new york city. >> trevor: yes! a tiktok hype house. this is the per policy for everyone in new york going, "i love this city. i just wish my neighbors were louder. now, for our older viewers who may not know what a tiktok hype house is, it's basically a place where influencers make videos sort of like on "the real world." and for our younger viewers, "the real world" was a popular reality show back in the 90s where people lived together in a house, and it's now making a comeback. and for our viewers who play for the jets, a "comeback" is when a team is losing, but then they

actually win the game. now, it might not come as a surprise that andrew yang has been dominating this race. after making a name for himself with a presidential run last year, he's one of the only candidates that most people have even heard of. and it's just a fact that name recognition can instantly catapult you to success. i mean, to be honest, i don't know if i would have even been considered for "the daily show with trevor noah," if my name wasn't already trevor noah. i think it helped people imagine me in the role. because the name-- oh, there was? huh. and it's always great to have major name recognition and major poll numbers, but you know what always comes next-- major backlash. >> as the front-runner, he's getting extra scrutiny. >> yang admits he hasn't voted in recent local elections. >> i think, like some others, i may have taken our local government for granted. >> andrew yang is deflecting some criticism after he tweeted this video, a trip to a bodega, depending on what you want to call it. >> new york city relies upon

its 14,000 bodegas so much. i love bodegas. >> many shot back, saying this doesn't look like a bodega at all. >> andrew yang facing backlash tonight for suggesting there should be more enforcement of unlicensed street vendors in new york. >> after an l.g.b.t.q. mayoral forum with the stonewall democratic club, yang was called out of touch and tone-deaf about gay issues. >> they said it was like he never met a gay person in his life. >> you're so human and beautiful, you make new york city special. >> when covid first hit in march, yang and his family went to their second home in upstate new york. he later told the "times," "can you imagine trying to have two kids on virtual school in a two-bedroom apartment, and then trying to do work yourself?" >> trevor: okay, now that is a gaffe. can they imagine it? my man, new yorkers lived it. the only part that most new yorkers can't imagine is having a second bedroom!

i mean, look, i'm not a politician, but just a little bit of advice: you never want to to start a sentence with "can you imagine," and then just describe most people's lives. like, if you're running for mayor of the shire, you never say, "can you imagine being 3'6. you wouldn't be able to reach anything." now, surprisingly, these missteps haven't seemed to hurt yang too much, but he shouldn't start inviting tiktok stars to the mayor's mansion just yet, because just recently, another candidate caught up to him in the polls. former n.y.p.d. police captain eric adams. and if you want a sense of adams' general vibe, this should give you a pretty good idea. >> eric adams has yet to comment on a video from 2011 where he shows parents how to search their homes for any illegal items their children might bring in. >> no one can state that you can't search a room in your own home. you write the constitution. there are no first amendment rights inside your household.

you can look in the jewelry box. a jewelry box of this nature may be a simple jewelry box, but if you look through it closely, you don't know what your child may be hiding-- for instance, a gun could be hidden. when your child brings in his popular knapsack with many different locations, look through it to see what exactly is your child carrying, in addition to a book, something as simple as a crack pipe, a used crack pipe. behind a picture frame, you can find bullets. just look and see what's inside your bookcases. it could be more than just books. perfect place to hide cocaine or other illegal substance inside the room. something simple as a baby doll could be just a baby doll but, also, it could be a place where you can secrete or hide drugs. >> trevor: holy shit. who is this cud, elchapo's long-lost son? i'll tell you what, if i found all that in my kid's bedroom, i would not confront him about it. i'd go to my spouse like, "yo, we gotta move outta the house. soon as he goes to school, we

move to another country, start a new life." if this video shows one thing it's he's as thorough as hell. i expected him to say even a mayoral candidate can be a great place to hide drugs. eric adams has been surging recently, in part because of his tough-on-crime approach, which is appealing in a city where shootings have soared 83% in the past year. but he's not the only threat to yang. former sanitation commissioner kathryn garcia just received the coveted endorsement of "the new york times." and comptroller scott stringer has been in the mix until recently when he was accused of sexual misconduct, which could hurt his mayoral campaign, but the good news for him is that it will definitely qualify him to be governor. and what makes the race even

more unpredictable than usual is that this will be the first time new york city uses ranked-choice voting. which means that instead of voting for just your favorite candidate, voters can rank up to five candidates in order of preference. the question is do new york voters even know five candidates? we sent michael kosta out on the street to find out. >> rarvg choice voting is how new yorkers will pick their next mayor, so i hit the streets to see what they think about this exciting new way to vote. are you familiar with rank choice voting? >> yes. >> do you think this is a good idea for new york to try this? >> i think it's great. >> and you're familiar, then, that for the first time ever there will be rank choice voting? >> i am familiar with that, yes. >> and how many of those votes do you get? >> oh, three. >> three? sure. ( laughs ) i think the answer is five. the answer is five. >> five, okay. >> they basically understand rank choice voting and they love it. so picking their top five candidacy should be a breeze. >> i guess i'll start with number five. let me three... >> we've been about three and a half minutes, cameron, and

you're not sure who will be in the top five. >> is this timed? >> it should be. the next one will. top five, let's go with the number one top pick. >> okay. >> do i have to start a stop watch, susan. >> no. >> louie, taking your time here. >> yeah, yeah, i'm taking my time. >> cameron, i want to thank you for your rank choice voting even though you now put six candidates in five slots. >> you're welcome. >> took a little time to get going. at least, once voters considered the candidates, they had good reasons for select will them. >> how many, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven? oh, my god. everybody wants to be a mayor. >> he's not going to win. why did you pick him? >> i like both his name and his last name. >> his name and last name, got it. tell me why you went with katherine a. garcia, the keen of garbage. >> the look in her eyes. >> the look in her eyes. >> this is the first time you're seeing and hearing this name? 100%. >> i'm familiar with andrew yang.

>> how do you know andrew yang? >> $1,000 a month, bro. you owe me that. >> you owe... >> i can't wait. some people should not be here. >> who is that? >> this dude. >> why should he not be there? >> he's got to go. >> okay, you don't have to put him in the top five. >> susan, how does it feel to finalize your rank choice voting ballot? >> it feels adequate. >> adequate? >> yeah. >> how was this experience for you? >> it was adequate. >> adequate. it looks like rank choice voting will be tough for some this upcoming election but at least there's one candidate all new yorkers can agree on. >> i'll give it to kosta. >> kosta takes number five, which means i'm on the board. >> oh, you're the one. >> and number 5, i will be picking... your face. >> my face ( laughs ) >> i'm putting you in. >> me? oh, that is me. what does it say there. >> the hottie with the body. >> thank you, you didn't have to say that. >> no, i didn't. it said there. >> there you have it.

new yorkers are kind of, sort of prepared for rank choice voting. and while most aren't familiar with the candidate, one thing remains clear: i think i should run for mayor. >> trevor: thank you so much for that, michael. all right, when we come back, i'll be talking to international super star j balvin. super star j balvin. so t-mobile is the leader in 5g. we also believe in putting people first by treating them right. so we're upping the benefits without upping the price. introducing magenta max. now with unlimited premium data that can't slow down

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you may love me. you may not love me. but you gotta know that i really worked hard. >> trevor: j balvin, welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> thank you, man. thank you. the distance social... >> trevor: we have to keep that distance for now, for now. soon it's going to be done, everyone vaccinated. hopefully no mashes, good times. i'm going to be back at one of your concerts. your concerts, man, it was like church. everybody knew the words. everybody was moving together. you came out with an energy that was insane, one of the best performances i've ever seen. like, your props on stage, it's like you're going into another work world. it's a psychedelic experience, your music was fantastic. i was a fan from that day and i'm a fan till this day. what do you think it is about j balvin that connects with so many millions of people around the globe? >> i don't consider myself a super star. i just-- i just think that i'm a dreamer. you know, like i'm a real dude,

man. i got eye got good and the bad. you know, like, i have great days. i have bad days. you know, like... because sometimes people think that when you are an artist, you have this perfect life. and to me, that has changed. at least what i want to do in this generation is, yo, guys, listen. we are human beings just like you. yeah, i do music, i connect with people. yes, but, man, i want people when i die to remember me or remind me a jose, a human being just making his dream come true. >> trevor: we feel that in the documentary that is out now on amazon prime video. video. video. you know, "the boy from medellin." when i grew up, medellin meant pablo escobar. what made you think let me show you the place that made me who i am? >> basically, in the 80s, medellin, colombia, used to be

the most dangerous place in the planet. we lost a lot of family. we lost a lot of friends, you know. and it hurts me when i see, like, young kids, especially-- especially when i'm in the states, wearing like pablo escobar shirts. and i'm like you don't know what this dude did. he-- he basically-- he just made everything bad for us, you know. and that's why, like, now i took it so personally. i was like we have to show the positive side and show how great the people from my country is, and that we're not into this war no more. i'm really close friends with pablo escobar's son, and he told me something one day that i'm never going to forget. it's like, "my dad taught the world how not to do things right." >> trevor: wow. >> and then-- and this is that. and he's like, "he just messed up the whole generation." you know, like i want to show the world the new generation that we have, artists we have,.

a lot of great people from colombia, you know, making the dream come true. >> trevor: you also show a side of yourself that many ayersts wouldn't show. i was watching this, like, "man, i didn't know and i never would have thought that j balvin struggles with anxiety before going on stage. i never would have thought you're having mild panic attacks when you're thinking about doing this. why did you choose to shawr that with the people? and how have you kopped with that as a human being? >> it's like lottery. there are people with constant anxiety and something truckers it. desuppression not being sad. it's a chemical imbalance in the brain that is way more powerful than you. i-- i never thought i was going to be medicated. i used to be, like, going to the psychiatry, just for crazy people. hell, no. you know. until-- it's been 10 years taking medication, you know. and i wasn't, like-- i haven't

heard the first person that is looking to feel bad. you know, like, oh, hmmm, i want to feel bad today. no. >> trevor: that's what i love about this whole story, man, is how intimate you get about what's happening. i mean, even the story of what's happening in colombia. like, a lot of people are seeing it in the news now. you show the conflict, and you also show the conflict that you faced. because you make the music you make. it's not political. you have a good time. you inspire people. and, yet, you show the difficulty in navigating this world as an artist. >> yeah, like, it's just sad the fact that we shot this two years ago, you know,. and now this situation is happening once again. >> trevor: right. >> a little bit stronger. you know, and i never signed a paper to be a politician. you know, like, i didn't know--

what i wanted to be the last thing i was thinking about talking about politics. >> trevor: right. >> and it's still-- it's still kind of hard for me to talk about it. you know, i'm a real guy, you know. steel heart because no one is ever going to be happy with what you say. you know, when i say "whatever," people from the left are going to hate me, and the right gog love me, or vice versa. the streets made me. the hood made me. the crowd made me. the-- you know, the people without the benefits of having money, you know, saying that way, support me since i started. once again, we are going through this situation in colombia, which is really sad. anyway, i speak out, still get the love, still get the hate. but at least i'm saying it, you

know. i call-- i call the world. you know, it was like, listen, this is what is going on in colombia, you know. and, yeah, it's hard. it's hard to talk about politics, you know, when you sign-- you didn't sign up for that. you just want to make people happier and enjoy your music and go to your concerts, you know. but we're here, man. we're here. we're here. it's part of life. >> trevor: you know what, my friend, i think that's what people love about you and that's what makes you such an amazing super star is you connect us to you and to other people who love what you do. i appreciate you for joining me on the show. congratulations for telling an amazing story. "the boy from medelliín" is available now on amazon prime video. okay, we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.