Hey, what's going on, everybody. I'm Trevor Noah
and this is The Daily Social Distancing Show.
Today is February 22,
which means it's the last week of Black History Month.
Which is why I've decided now is the perfect time
to make some new Black history,
by being the first Black man
to ski down Mount Everest.
I tripped getting into my Uber.
Anyway, on tonight's show,
it's raining plane parts in Colorado,
Michael Kosta proves that election fraud is real,
and why everything is bigger in Texas,
including the electricity bills.
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.
Let's kick things off with some travel news.
If you're one of those people who can't wait
to fly on an airplane again, first of all,
congratulations on being basic.
And second, you may be willing to wait just a little longer
after seeing this.
NEWSMAN: This morning, the FAA
and Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau
grounding all Boeing 777s
with a specific Pratt & Whitney engine
as the NTSB investigates how this 777 engine
fell apart in midair just after takeoff.
231 passengers aboard United 328
from Denver to Honolulu Saturday,
that terrifying sight right outside their windows.
Overnight, the NTSB saying
two fan blades on the engine were fractured.
You can see a broken fan blade in this image.
On the ground, massive pieces of metal falling onto
neighborhoods, some running away, trying to avoid
getting hit by pieces falling out of the sky.
NEWSMAN: This giant piece falling
on Kirby Klements' lawn, crushing his truck.
KLEMENTS: When I stood up and looked out the window,
I go, "Oh, no, that's the front end of an airplane."
Goddamn! A giant piece of an airplane
landing in your front yard? That's terrifying.
I mean, on the other hand, how great is it
to get something complimentary from an airline for once?
Customer service is back, baby! Aah!
And as terrifying as this moment was,
what's really impressive is that someone was on a plane,
saw the engine was on fire, and their first impulse
was to take out their phone and record it.
That's how addictive it is to go viral.
Every single one of us will spend our last moments alive
chasing retreats.
I'm going down but, oh, my likes are going up.
But, at the same time, you're also on a plane.
So, I mean, there's-there's really no other good way
to spend your last few minutes on earth.
Oh, God, the plane is going down! The plane is going down!
(crying): Oh.
Let me just load Croods 2. (cries)
Seriously, though, it is hard to overstate
how terrible this was. I mean, yeah,
nobody got hurt,
but the plane was headed to Honolulu
and instead it had to land in Denver.
Tell me that that's not a tragedy.
Oh, and just by the way, it turns out that this wasn't even
the only Boeing accident this week.
Yeah.
At this point, Boeing has such a terrible record
that people won't even wait for something to go wrong
before they say goodbye to their loved ones.
Hey, man, I just want to say that I love you
and I'm grateful that you were my friend.
Dude, what happened?
Did you find out you have cancer?
No, I just booked a flight on a Boeing.
No!
But let's move on now to the coronavirus pandemic.
It's the reason all your sex dreams are now just about
going out bowling. There's no question that
things in the U.S. are moving in the right direction.
More people are getting the vaccine,
fewer people are getting infected
and our maskne is finally starting to clear up.
But at the same time, things are still very bad.
And today the country reached a grim milestone
to remind all of us of that.
The coronavirus and the pandemic's once-unthinkable toll
in the U.S.-- more than 500,000 lives lost
in less than one year.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: First reported fatality came on February 29.
-Three months later it was 100,000 dead. -And then...
and then by mid-September the death toll climbed to 200,000
and surpassed 300,000 by mid-December.
GUTHRIE: But then came the deadliest period
in the pandemic-- 400,000 deaths on January 19,
and now, just one month later, here we are,
half a million COVID deaths in this country.
NEWSWOMAN: President Biden will mark the milestone
at the White House with a moment of silence
and a candle-lighting ceremony.
That's right, people.
500,000 COVID deaths.
A number that nobody wanted to see.
And as painful as that is, you have to admit,
you have to admit it is nice to see America's president
actually take a moment-- just a moment--
to recognize the toll that coronavirus has taken.
I mean, the only time the previous president
showed any sadness was when
he accidentally deleted Fox News off of his DVR.
What a day for Americans. What a sad day!
My sweet Hannity is gone.
The good news is that the number of new infections
has plummeted in the last few weeks.
But what's interesting is the number that they've plummeted to
is where they were last July, which, at the time,
everyone thought was so horrifying that the country
immediately started locking down again.
And this just goes to show you that your perspective
can change based on where you're coming from. That's it.
Like, if I got attacked right now by a wolf,
I'd probably be like,
"Aah! This is the worst day of my life!
Aah!"
But if I went from being attacked by four wolves
to one wolf, I'd probably be like,
"Ah, what a relaxing way to start the week."
So, look, this is why it's so important
to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.
And don't give me any excuses about how you're too busy
or it's not convenient. Last weekend
a 90-year-old Seattle woman
walked six miles in the snow
to keep her appointment
because the roads hadn't been plowed,
which is incredible.
Although, if you believe old people stories,
walking miles in the snow is what they do all the time.
They love that shit. But still,
if a 90-year-old woman can do it, you can do it too.
And don't tell me, "But Trevor, I'm not 90 years old,
I'm too young to get the vaccine right now."
That's also no excuse.
A strange story now, showing the length two Florida women
were willing to go to to get the vaccine.
They're caught dressing as grannies
just so they could get the shot. Now, here's the thing:
it worked for them the first time around.
Officials say the women are 34 and 44 years old.
So you can see one of them wore a bonnet and long cardigan.
The other didn't make much of an effort to cover up.
A vaccinator thought they looked funny,
so they were stopped before getting their shots.
And that's when they found out
both women had faked their birth dates.
Now officials want to know how they were able to get away
with getting the first shot.
The women are not facing any charges,
but police did yell at them, calling their actions selfish.
Okay, this is outrageous.
You call that dressing up as a granny?!
All that woman did was put a bonnet on.
Add that other one didn't do anything.
Put on a wig, hunch over, or even easier,
just download the Facebook app on your phone.
I mean, if you've got that, you're 75 minimum.
If you want to cheat your way to the vaccine,
you at least have to put in the work.
No one would have bought this charade.
I'm pretty sure
Mrs. Doubtfire wouldn't have gotten the kids back
if he just showed up like,
"Hey, it's me, Mrs. Doubtfire. I'm your nanny."
How did they even think that they could pretend
to be old women at that age?
I mean, personally, I blame porn.
You know, they start putting women
in the MILF category at 26.
Of course we have unrealistic ideas
of what grannies look like.
But what's crazy is,
they would have gotten away with it
if the doctors hadn't gotten suspicious.
Hey, wait a minute. If you're a grandma,
how come you haven't tried to set me up
with one of your grandkids yet?
But let's move on now to our main story--
the ongoing crisis in Texas.
A week after the state was battered by winter storms
that took out the power grid,
nearly nine million people still don't have clean water.
But don't worry. Help is on the way.
After getting blasted for flying to Cancún
when his own heat went off, Ted Cruz, Texas senator
and Disney prince before true love's kiss,
is now back in his home state doing the literal bare minimum
for the sake of the cameras.
Ted Cruz appearing back in front of the cameras, not in Cancún.
Yeah, he spent the weekend helping Houston
residents and first responders.
He served barbecue
to firefighters and police officers.
Also delivered safe drinking water to folks who need it.
Sorry, Cruz.
This is not gonna cut it, my man.
See this right here-- this is the politician version
of coming home with flowers the day after Valentine's Day.
It's not nothing, but your ass is still sleeping on the couch.
And honestly, I don't know why politicians try
to pull off these lame photo ops.
They basically just turn people
who actually need real help into political props.
And their photographers probably just make it worse.
-(camera shutter clicking) -Yes, yes, that's fabulous, darling.
Yes, yes, yes. Pout more.
Pout more, more like you don't have any food or water.
But I don't have any food or water.
-Great. Use that. Use that, yes. -(camera shutter clicking)
Feel it, feel it.
Now fortunately,
most Texans do have their electricity back on now,
so they can finally log on to all those Zoom meetings
that really should have just been e-mails.
But even some people who didn't lose their power are finding out
that they weren't as lucky as they first thought.
The desperation growing in Texas.
Temperatures are finally rising,
but so is outrage over absurdly-high electric bills.
NEWSMAN: Texans like Scott Willoughby, who signed up
for Griddy Energy, not knowing
his rate could vary with the market.
So when power supply went down from the storm,
his typically $200 bill took off.
What was the damage?
$16,798, something like that.
And this was not a bill, this was withdrawn?
This was withdrawn straight from my account.
NEWSMAN 2: In Fort Worth,
the utility company charged Ty Williams $17,000.
So we were held hostage, really, with our-our rate
that we were working with.
It was really crazy.
I'm trying to get, you know, gas and groceries
and make sure that my pipes don't explode.
Um, the last thing that I'm thinking about is
that $7,000 bill from my utility company.
Wow, people. $17,000 for electricity?
At that point, it's cheaper to literally
burn your own money for warmth.
There's probably one Amish guy on the street right now
all smug as hell, seeing this story.
He's eating a homemade stick of butter like,
"I told thou so, bitches."
Because seriously, people, at $17,000,
it's almost not worth having any electricity.
I mean, at the very least,
you're gonna have to make extremely tough choices.
Do you charge Grandma's oxygen machine,
or your PlayStation controller?
Because, I mean, Grandma needs the oxygen to live,
but you can't just stop playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla
before you've united England.
I think Grandma would have understood that.
But the question is, why are some Texans being hit
with bills bigger than their belt buckles?
Well, unlike every other state, it turns out
Texas has very few regulations on its utility companies.
And this free market system used to be the pride of Texas.
In fact, a couple of years ago, Ted Cruz was bragging that...
"The success of Texas energy was built over many years
on free enterprise and low regulation."
But now, now that Texans are being charged $20,000
to toast a bagel,
Cruz has discovered that regulation might not be so bad.
NEWSMAN: Sunday, Senator Ted Cruz tweeting "This is wrong.
"No power company should get a windfall
"because of a natural disaster,
"and Texans should not get hammered
"by ridiculous rate increases for last week's energy debacle.
"State and local regulators should act swiftly
to prevent this injustice."
Oh, you tell them, Ted Cruz.
"The only Texan that should be getting hammered is me,
at the hotel bar in Cancún."
So, yes, Ted Cruz has reversed his stance on regulation,
like it was a flight path to Mexico.
And I mean, let's be honest.
Nobody forced these Texans
to choose the world's shadiest company for their electricity.
But also, nobody really talked about the worst-case scenario
when they touted the wonders of an unregulated market.
When conservatives talk about freedom from government,
they only focus on the good things,
but that's not the whole picture.
If you were running a zoo, and you told all the antelopes,
"Congrats, guys. We're giving you all the freedom
to roam around the zoo," that's good news.
But it would be only fair to tell them
that the lions are also gonna be getting that freedom,
because that shit is not as good
for the antelopes as you make it sound.
All right, when we come back, Michael Kosta shows us
how humans aren't the only species
with election fraud scandals.
Stick around.
Welcome back to The Daily Social Distancing Show.
For months now, the liberal media has told you
that election fraud isn't real.
And that's what we thought, too,
until Michael Kosta did some investigative work
and uncovered a story
that may just rock your faith in democracy.
KOSTA: 2020 was one big diarrhea dump of a year.
A whole continent was on fire. The ongoing pandemic.
I invested all my money into Quibi.
But then came the big election,
and just when it started to seem hopeful,
people started calling the election a fraud.
I wasn't surprised that there was election fraud,
'cause it isn't the first time it's happened.
I couldn't believe it, as if 2020 wasn't bad enough.
It's shameful. This election rigging
has threatened to derail avian democracy.
KOSTA: That's right, avian democracy is in peril.
New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition
has been rocked with revelations of a slew of fraudulent votes
streamed in overnight for the little spotted kiwi,
which pushed it into an unexpected and false lead.
KOSTA: You know, I expect this type of behavior from America,
but not from beautiful, perfect, COVID-free New Zealand.
As a fellow bird enthusiast,
I felt that not only were they shitting on democracy,
but more importantly, they were tearing
these two majestic creatures apart.
We've been running the Bird of the Year competition
-for 15 years. -KOSTA: Laura Keown,
spokesperson for New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition.
It started as a page in the Forest & Bird magazine,
where people wrote down their favorite bird
and sent it in the mail.
But now it's all gone online,
and it's an absolute cultural phenomenon.
I love Forest & Bird.
The centerfold for the crested finch in '98...
(whistles)
That's just, I'm gonna... we'll keep going.
What is the significance of this competition for people, Laura?
Well, Bird of the Year is our chance to celebrate
our amazing native species.
80% of our birds, they're facing extinction.
So it's a chance to get motivated
to protect the birds that they love.
I think we should address the pigeon in the mall food court.
Do you believe that there was bird fraud?
Yes, there was some irregular voting that was detected.
What was it about the election that ruffled your feathers?
Yeah, so, the votes for the little spotted kiwi
just spiked all of a sudden and, uh, looked really strange.
Little spotted kiwi?
Oh, my God, that's what my ex-girlfriend used to c...
So, who ended up winning the actual election?
The winner was the kakapo.
-Well, the kakapo is amazing. -KOSTA: Bonnie Hartfield,
campaign manager, Team Kaka-poop.
It's this massive green bird, so it doesn't fly,
and all they do is sleep all day and eat food and just hang out.
They are also very horny birds.
They will try and screw anything.
Flightless, sleeps all day,
fat and horny.
Sounds like me during quarantine.
Congratulations, you beautiful bird.
But the question remains: who sent in all the illegal votes
so the kaka-roach would win?
The kakapo doesn't deserve to win.
KOSTA: Emma Rawson, number one suspect
and campaign manager for kiwi p°ukulukukoo.
Close. Kiwi pukupuku.
Kiwi plukutukudu. Can you do it slower, please?
-Kiwi pukupuku. -Pukulukuku.
-Pukupuku. -Okay, obviously, this is just an accent thing,
so let's just get into it.
Why did you do it, Kellyanne Kiwi?
Look, I didn't do it.
Little spotted kiwi embodies the values of truth,
democracy, freedom, equality, fairness.
Voter fraud is not the kiwi way.
According to who?
Me?
KOSTA: You can't argue with that.
So who was behind this?
I needed to speak with someone on the inside.
I needed my very own Peep throat.
-Oh, birds, I love birds. -KOSTA: Yvan Richard,
data scientist, voting analyst and lover of birds.
Walk me through the day you realized
there was an injustice happening
inside of this prestigious bird competition.
How did you contact Forest & Bird?
You just pick up that red telephone on your desk
that triggers the alarm and goes straight to their headquarters?
Say yes.
That's it?
You just noticed a bunch of e-mails from one IP address
-and you deleted them? -Yes.
That's boring.
KOSTA: Still, it's a relief to find a case of voter fraud
with actual evidence.
Now the only thing left to decide: the punishment.
Laura, what fate lies for these criminals?
You take birdseed and spread it on their genitals
and let the birds loose?
-You know? -Well, we just... we just urge people
to play by the rules,
to make sure that we have a fair bird election.
And, you know, if they try to cheat,
be assured we will find them and we'll be very disappointed.
Disappointed.
And then... then you put the birdseed on the genitals
and you let the birds loose, like, Hitchcock style.
(high-pitched): Bop-bop, bop, bop-bop, bop-bop.
Aah! Aah! Bop-bop, bop...
KOSTA: So, in the end, bird democracy triumphed.
The kiwis' fraud was uncovered,
the kakalopagus took its rightful office,
and us avian fans can get back to the bird-watching
-? ? -we love so much.
Mm, mm, mm.
? ?
Thank you so much for that, Michael.
All right, when we come back,
Sharon McMahon from Sharon Says So
tells me how she separates truth from fiction in politics.
You don't want to miss it.
Welcome back to The Daily Social Distancing Show.
Earlier today, I spoke with Sharon McMahon.
She's a former U.S. government studies teacher
who runs the popular Instagram account @SharonSaysSo.
We talked about her approach to government and politics,
fighting misinformation
and how she's using her platform to give back.
Here's the other problem. We don't use
the popular vote in the United States, right?
We use the electoral college, and every four years,
the entire American population is like,
"Remind me how this works again."
It's not that simple.
Because the electoral college is a winner-take-all system--
by the way, I have another video on that if you want to watch it.
It's a winner-take-all system.
It makes it so it's next to impossible
for a third-party candidate to ever get real traction
and to ever be, like, a real contender
in the United States.
Sharon McMahon, welcome to The Daily Social Distancing Show.
-Thank you. -You have
one of the most interesting Instagram accounts out there
because it's not popular because of, uh,
the, you know, destinations that are being listed.
It's not popular because of thirst traps.
It's not popular because of memes.
It is popular because
you give people facts.
That seems ludicrous,
and maybe five years ago, someone would have said,
"Why would anyone have an Instagram account
where all they're doing is sharing facts?"
But that is what you do. And the last time I checked,
you have something over half a million subscribers,
and that number keeps jumping up and jumping up and jumping up.
Let's start at the beginning.
Why on earth would you start a fact-based Instagram account?
(laughs) Well, you know,
it's not my incredible sweater collection
that is interesting to people.
You know, I have been a high school teacher for a long time,
and I started noticing an incredible amount--
Trevor, maybe you've noticed this--
an incredible amount of misinformation
circulating on the Internet.
And it was one of those things where I just was...
You know, like, I would...
My face would just get closer to the screen,
and I was like, "What is even happening?
Where-where does this come from?"
So, I just started making
some little videos about facts,
and apparently, facts are missing.
And facts are popular right now.
What do you think it is about these videos
that engages with people so much?
I mean, surely, people can just get facts out there.
Why do you think that they're attracted to your videos,
and what keeps them engaged?
I honestly don't think
people believe they can gets facts.
That is really the crux of the matter,
is they don't understand where to get facts.
They don't know who to trust.
They feel like they're getting played every day.
-Right. -And it's like a game of Survivor.
Like, I don't know what the person's motivation is.
-Yes. -I don't know if they're trying to swindle me.
You know what I mean? Like, there is just...
They're afraid of getting played.
And I think when they, you know,
maybe saw that I, you know, am not a politician,
I don't work for some big company,
I literally am just a teacher,
um, that has just resonated with some people.
It's resonated with them, but, I mean, it's interesting
that you haven't been dragged into anything,
because, you know, facts,
whether we like to admit it or not,
can become a contentious, um, conversation starter these days.
You know, uh, like some of... some of the first videos
of yours that I saw, which were really impressive,
that people loved, were the ones that were about QAnon.
And, I mean, you were stepping into the fray with QAnon,
debunking QAnon myths,
and you had people on your page saying,
"Hey, I believed in QAnon, and then I watched these videos.
Now I don't believe in QAnon."
But, now, my question to you is
how do you do that
without getting dragged into the fray?
Because oftentimes, being for facts
means that you're against somebody at some point.
Yeah. That, you know, that is a question
I ask myself every day. (laughs)
You know, like, I almost feel like,
"when is the other shoe gonna drop?" sometimes.
Like, when is...
When are the throngs going to come for me?
-Right. -That is a thought that I have had, for sure.
Um, I think part of it
is just that I really work hard to stay respectful.
I really work hard to stay respectful,
to not make fun of people,
to honor the fact that there are a variety of viewpoints
and that, you know, I'm not here to try
to convince you of my one perfect viewpoint.
-NOAH: Right. -McMAHON: That's really...
That's the only answer I have.
I honestly don't... I don't...
I'm-I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop in some ways.
So, when-when you're doing the work,
you're digging and getting the information,
and you're putting together the facts,
you have to do the same thing for QAnon.
You have to do the research. How do you not get sucked into
the QAnon conspiracies that you've debunked?
Because, I mean, some of them are really convincing.
Clearly, people get sucked in. So how do you
not get sucked into the things that are nonfactual?
Yeah. You know, that...
The QAnon research is...
That is some of the most interesting
and also disturbing things
-I have ever... Yes. -I can imagine, yeah.
Um, it's like information you don't even really want to know.
-(laughs) -You know? Like, like,
I don't even know if I want to know this.
Um, so, the re... The way I don't get sucked into it
is that I have all of this education and experience
about what the constitution actually says.
And I've, you know, I've been teaching the constitution
and the... and government for so many years that...
And I've read the constitution so many times,
I know what's in it and what's not.
And it's very easy for me to say, like,
"Actually, there is no second constitution."
-(laughs) -You know what I mean?
Like, "Actually, that's not real."
Uh, the United States is not a corporation
that was sold to London in the 1800s.
You know, it's just very easy for me to tease out
what is real and what's not.
-Right. -And I'm sure it's because of my education
and experience in... on this topic.
It feels like we live in an age now
where there is a, you know, there's a birth of information.
I mean, it's everywhere. But figuring out
how to sift through the information
is something that we lack.
And that is what I've always thought teachers do,
is they bring you into this-this room
where they help you sift through information
as you are growing up through life.
As a teacher, what do you think
some of the challenges have been in teaching people things?
Because people come in with preconceived notions
of everything, and then you have to teach them,
which means you have to unteach them.
Yes, this is the average American today.
My experience has been that they have a very difficult time
distinguishing between a lie and bias.
-They believe that those two things are the same. -Huh.
They perceive-- Let's say they watch one of your videos,
Trevor, where you are, you know, um, going after Tucker Carlson.
-Right. -Just for example.
They-- That-That's obviously a biased point of view,
and that is a point of view that you are more than free to hold.
They're free to hold a different point of view, right?
-Right. -But-but at the core
of say a video you may have made on that
are actual clips of things he has said,
actual facts about where he's gone to school.
-Right. -So you have a biased lens about the facts.
And so does every human.
-Ah. Okay. Right. -So does every human.
This is not a dig on you in any way.
We all have our own bias
that we are looking through at a variety of topics.
People don't realize that.
They see a video like yours, if they are conservative,
and they think, "Well, he's just a liar."
They don't understand
that there's a difference between a bias and a lie.
-Right, right, right. -And so they are unable to engage
with biased information
that doesn't align with their viewpoint.
-Huh. -Make sense?
-So if they... -That-that makes a lot of sense. Yeah.
They look at a CNN article and it's about,
let's say, uh, Trump's tax returns,
they see that, "Well, they just hate Trump.
They are just out to get him."
-Right. -And they immediately discount the information,
when the information is based on a factual Supreme Court ruling.
-Right, right, right. -And that's what I'm finding,
is that I need to spend a lot of time educating
on the difference between bias and lie.
It feels like this is a great time to you,
and I think that's why you've been so successful.
I mean, everything from Ted Cruz's trip to,
you know, what's happening in Texas,
uh, you know, all the way through to, as you said,
the Constitution and QAnon,
you tackle a range of subjects
and you-- and you-you present it in a form
that's easy to digest and people really enjoy.
My question then to you is, where do you get your facts?
My goal every day is to read five to ten news sources
from across the spectrum.
So I am reading everything from, you know,
the far-right news to, like, the more extreme liberal news.
Um, when a story is of interest,
let's say the most recent thing about, you know,
Ted Cruz going to Mexico,
I always make a point of looking for that specific story
-from a variety of viewpoints. -Mm-hmm.
Always falling back to primary sources.
-(laughs) -You know what I mean?
Like, the jour-- Journalism 101.
I'm not a journalist. But that's--
If you can find it in the Constitution,
if you can find it in the actual text of the law,
if you can find the actual document,
falling back to those is always key as much as I'm--
as much as possible.
Before I let you go, you've also used your platform
to help people in need,
and, you know, you've been big
in getting group philanthropy going
and getting a lot of your-your viewers or your followers
to-to join in and help, um, worthy efforts.
Most recently, you went after medical debt,
something that a lot of people are struggling through
right now, especially because of COVID.
Talk me through that and what you've been doing
and what you've been able to achieve.
I decided to partner with an organization
called RIP Medical Debt, which is a 501(c)(3) organization,
and what they do is they buy medical debt
and they forgive it.
And because they buy huge chunks of medical debt at a time,
they're able to get massive discounts on it.
So, in five days, my community raised
over $560,000 for this organization,
which will forgive $56 million of medical debt.
-Wow. -I mean, that is the definition
of social media being used for good.
-Right. -For crowdsourcing help for people who need it.
You're doing an amazing job.
Um, I can see why you're so popular.
And, uh, hopefully it goes from 500,000 followers
to a million to two million and so on, because, uh,
in a world with facts,
maybe we can get to a place where we agree on reality
and then we just get to fight about what we think
-about that reality, which is the bias. -Yes.
A-Ag-- 100% agree.
Let's agree on facts,
and then we can fight about real facts.
-Yes. I love that. -Yes. Yes.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
-Thank you so much. Yes. -Take care.
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and on Facebook.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
Well, that's our show for tonight. But before we go,
Texas needs our help.
The blackout right now isn't just causing power
and heating failures,
it's causing massive food insecurity all over the state.
Now, one organization on the ground is Houston Food Bank.
They're leading hunger relief in 18 Southeast Texas counties,
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then please donate to the link below.
Until tomorrow, stay safe out there,
wear a mask, and, remember,
if you're pretending that you're a grandmother,
say "why, thank you, young man,"
not "why, thank you, guy who's the same age as me."
Now here it is, your Moment of Zen.
NEWSMAN: Not even the Muppets are safe from the woke mob.
Disney slapping The Muppet Show
with an offensive content warning.
-Can you believe that? -This blows my mind.
The Muppets are imprinted on our DNA growing up,
and now they, too, are on the chopping block.
-Total Mickey Mouse move, guys. -(chuckling)
It's really appalling.
I don't remember the Muppets ever being offensive,
but here we are, again, cancel culture.
(groaning)
What's wrong with you?
Uh, it's either this show or indigestion.