and he's michael kosta. sports is back which means we are back.s again? >> (inaudible). >> i can't hear you. you're on mute. >> yeah, i was saying i'm excited. >> same here. hockey is on its way back, baseball is starting up again. let's get it! >> i can't wait. those are my two favorite sports to ignore while i look at my phone. but the return everyone is talking about is the return of the n.b.a. >> that's right, coronavirus cut the season short before the playoffs but the n.b.a. is back with a plan that's more complicated than trying to projoins gann -- >> giannis antetokounmpo. >> giannis antetokounmpo. >> the n.b.a. hopes to shield the rest of its season from cost cost by keeping players and staff inside an isolation bubble. the teams will live, practice and play in orlando without outside visitors or fans. >> players and staff from all 22 teams will be sequestered at the complex in the walt disney world resort. >> the league lays out everything from how the players will work, play, relax, eat as well as be monitored for covid 19 when play res

to reopen schools, i am joined by a man who has been repeatedly fired as a substitute teacher, michael kostas going on, kosta. >> it's great, trevor, it took me a month but i finally got rid of all of those fireworks hi laying around. >> trevor: wait, that was you, dude, i couldn't sleep-- we're going to talk about this laterment but right now the big issue in america is how can the country reopen schools safely. >> yeah, well, the good news, trevor, is that i have a solution that works out for everybody, okay. so check this out. one, we know parents want their kids out of the house. and two, we know children are less susceptible to corona, so why don't we solve both problems at once, let's send children to work at meat packing plants. think about it. the kids stay busy and we get all the chicken nuggets that god blessed us with, you're welcome. >> trevor: holdon, kosta, you want children to spend the school day meat packing. so you are trying to bring back child labor? >> please, trevor, child labor never went away. we just outsourced it to different countries. i want to bring those america

michael kosta investigates the smartest poop you will ever meet and we'll talk about the life and legacy of breonna taylor. 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 bad news. or as it is known these days, the news. >> america surpasses 150,000 deaths. the staggering toll with florida, california and texas breaking single day death records. >> the u.s. economy shrank at a 32.9% annual rate in the april, june quarter, the worst quarterly plunge ever. >> the labor department says 1.43 million americans filed jobless claims last week. it's the second straight week new unemployment claims have risen. >> lawmakers are still at odds over another stimulus bill with added unemployment benefits expiring tomorrow. >> talks are actually going backwards, not forwards, two months after democrats agreed on their plan, republicans still can't seem to agree on what they want. >> trevor: guys, i don'

id yo -- idiot co-worker michael kosta. the washington football team? sounds like they can only afford the store brand version of team names. mom couldn't buy us cheerios so she brought oat circles. eat this in the morning. it's going to be helpful to people who don't follow the n.f.l. if someone asks you who you're rooting for you will be, like, the football team? sounds like you know what you're talking about. interesting choice, the football team. i like when they do the ball. ( laughter ) let's move to news that's likely out of the world. it's about space. >> new this morning, it's an historic space race to mars, the red planet, china launched it's first ever mission to mars this morning. a six wheeled robot lifted off on a rocket from the island south of china's mainland. details are top secret. china's not releasing the rover's name. should get there in orbit in february behind hope launched by the united arab emirates. u.s. is supposed to launch perseverance from cape canaveral next week. they're going to have a traffic jam up there. >> trevor: w