Monsoon, bitch slap of corona . On a hopeful note, it is good to remember that its not the size of the wave that matters but its the motion of the what . Oh, the size does matter. Oh, so the motion doesnt doesnt affect it at all . Is were screwed. While things are starting to get worse again, the crazy thing is the Trump Administration is pretending that the crisis is over. Not only is the superspreader in chief running around the country breathing on everyone in a maga hat, but Rudy Giuliani trumps top lawyer and white house halloween decoration told a rally the other day that people dont die of this disease anymore, which is easy for him to say. Hes been dead twelve years. None of this is surprising. Trump and his people have been in denial about this virus from the beginning, or at least in public. Because now were finding out that while the rest of us are still performing for a normal year of movies and haircuts, trumps rich friends were getting a heads up about what is really about starting to happen. The New York Times is reporting tas virus was first started spreading last winter the white house briefsive briefings on the potential impact of the pandemic fueled a selloff among the wealthy. The president s aides appear to be giving wealthy party donors an Early Warning of a potentially impactful contagion at a time when President Trump was publicly insisting the threat was not existent. Elite traders had access from the administration that helped them gain financial advantage during a chaotic three days when Global Markets were teetering. Trevor wow. That is really disgusting. And it just goes to show you that if you want the real scoop on whats really going on, you have to Pay Attention to what wreath billionaires are doing. If the government says everything is fine but everyone on wall street builds spaceships, you might need to get your ass to another planet. Now i know some of you might think this is unfair oh, the billionaires got information everyone else could have used as well but, guys, clearly you dont understand trickle down economics. You see, the wealthiest 1 , they get preferential treatment, and then the rest of america gets valuable jobs, in the nursing and grave digging industries. This system works. Now, with three weeks to go until election day and millions of votes already cast, coronavirus remains the top issue for america. And any normal president would be laser focused on getting corona under control, helping businesses stay afloat, keeping schools open. But donald trump is not a normal president. So instead, hes focusing on this with weeks until the election and trailing in the polls, President Trump seized on a report in the New York Post published wednesday claiming files and emails were taken from a laptop that allegedly previous belonged to hunter biden. The report alleges that the former Vice President used his position to advance his sons business interests in ukraine and that both bidens were not truth about that relationship. The storys sourcing has also raised questions about its authenticity as the files were give on the post through an attorney for the president s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Twitter and facebook have limited the distribution of that hunter biden story and last night twitter appeared to suspend the twitter account of White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany when she tried to share that story. Trevor damn you know a story is shady when facebook is saying whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe people shouldnt see this. Because usually people are posting how vaccines did 9 11 and facebook is, like, okay, wait, lets hear them out. Tell me more. Its insane trumps people are even going after biden by targeting his son. If these were my sons, i would maintain a strict kids are off limits policy. Look at them. They always look like theyve don some shit wrong. This should go without saying, but, obviously, people should be skeptical of anything where Rudy Giuliani is the source. Just as a rule in life, never trust a man who dine add dashed on his dentist halfway through the job. You just dont trust those people. Im not surprised Rudy Giuliani is trying to come up with something before the election. I get it. What i am disappointed by is that the Trump Campaign is using the same story. Really . Hacked russian emails again . Youre going to reuse the same october surprises last election . Its called an october surprise not an october, hey,noy this one its not a surprise if we can see it coming. A surprise has to be a surprise but ive got to say, i dont think this plan to get people caring about the burisma scandal is going to work because who even knows what burisma is. Trump himself cant even pronounce it. Eight month after his alleged meeting with the burmeesa executives, so these burmesia they say, pronounce it bureesia, a real Beautiful Company trevor oh, man, that was baifnl to watch. That was like watching trumps mouth trying to walk down a ramp. I mean, how does trump not know how to say burisma, when thats all hes talked about for years . This should concern people. If tony the tiger was like, frosted flakes, theyre grunk you would be, like, i hope this guys brain is okay, you okay, tony in yeah, im grooot after trump mispronounced a word he tells everybody thats how youre supposed to pronounce it which is the oldest playground play in the book. I totally meant to do that. Really . You wanted your opinion pants to split open . Yeah, thats how they say you do it on the internet. Enjoy while you can, people, because donald trump is the Michael Jordan of mispronouncing words. Were going to have to wait a whole other generation to get someone messing up words at this level. Even then, i still think trump will be the greatest of all time. I will be that old dude in the barbershop, yeah, this youngblood mispronounces shit all right but donald trump invented not making since. Watch him say burisma. You aint never seen anybody mispronounce burisma like that. While weve heard trump talk about burisma and hunter biden a million times before, hes still look for material. He seems to have stumbled on a previously unreported issue that might blow the leks open. President trump is leaning into another fake Conspiracy Theory to discredit former president barack obama. The Washington Post says President Trump used his twitter account to say Osama Bin Laden wasnt killed by u. S. Special forces in 2011. President trump says the administration killed Osama Bin Ladens double not the terrorist leader in the raid. The post says the president retweeted the allegation the Obama Administration deliberately shot down a helicopter with u. S. Navy seals as a part of an elaborate coverup. Trevor this is what im talking about none of this boring shit with Hunter Bidens email and burisma. President obama killed a Osama Bin Laden body double and seal team to cover it up and kept it quiet eight years . If thats true, im impressed because that sounds way harder to pull off than killing bin laden. The best part of the conspiracy is that at some point obama had to hold auditions for a bin laden body double to kill. Thank you for giving me this part so is this for a tv series . Actually its a one time thing. I also notice theres no script. Yeah, were just going to shoot a little bit. Well just shoot something, see what happens. Ill also say if trump loses this election twitter should hire him because they can find out what conspiracy to suspend based on what he retweets. Wow this tweet says obama started covid to destruct us from his wedding. Obama has a real decision to make in this election. I know coronavirus killed 215,000 people and is killing more every day. But just imagine how Many Americans could be killed once Osama Bin Laden teams up with hunter biden and burmamia. I think the choice is cheer. Time to take a quick break. Dont go away. After the break ill be chatting to Governor Cuomo and hell tell us what to get ready for if youre in new york. Stick around its great, its science. Important. One thing with me, the nice part, i went through it, now they say im immune. Maybe im immune. I dont know. Its particles of dust. Tiny stuff. Remember, when you catch it, you get better and then youre immune. The word immunity means something, having really a protective glow. Im immune, i could come down and start kissing everybody. Im immune i dont know for maybe a long time, a short time, it woul could be a life time. Is it a life time or less than that . We dont know yet. Breaking news the first confirmed case of someone in the u. S. Getting the coronavirus for a second time. Dont be afraid, this halloween will be just like last. Well buy tons of reeses cups for the youngins. laughing then eat them all ourselves. Reeses. And now were welcoming taco bell to the family. For a limited time, spend 15 or more and get 50 off a Nachos Party Pack with a 0 delivery fee. Doordash, every flavor welcome. New yorkers have ever seen, figuring out how to fight the coronavirus. I think the question i have for you is how are you doing and, from your perspective, how is new york doing . Im doing much better than i was doing. I think were all doing better than we were doing. And, look, it was frightening. Theres no other word besides that. You know, we were right up on the edge. I think we were closer to the edge, trevor, than a lot of people realized. New yorkers, god bless them, went from the highest infection rate in the United States to the lowest. And that was all new yorkers. That was all social action. You want to talk about social action, that was it. And were much smarter for it, and we now do more testing than any state in the United States, and we are looking at this, trevor, on a microlevel that, frankly, no other state is analyzing this situation. Were tracking this virus on like a neighborhood level now and attacking it on a neighborhood level to make sure that we stay ahead of it. Trevor well, lets talk a little bit about that because, you know, we have seen, throughout the country, that any part of the government that seems to be fighting to prevent the spread of covid 19 invariably clashes up against some people or some communities who feel like their rights are being infringed upon. Youre currently in a dispute with the Orthodox Jewish community in new york where some of them have said we cant go to our church services, we cant practice our religion and we feel like were being targeted by the state. I know youve disagreed with that, but what exactly is going on there and as a leader how do you convince people that youre trying to do something for their good even though they feel they dont want that for themselves. Thats been the question from day one and its become the political divide from day one. Thats ill wear a mask, i wont wear a mask, right . The mask has become the symbol of that. Theres a school of thought that says this is not the problem you make it out to be, imt not worried, im not going to succumb to this and i dont want government telling me what i can do or telling me what i cant do, right. Theres a very real school of thought there. The alternative school is this is real, it can kill you, and what you do affects me, and its not about just you and life anymore. There is community, there is interconnection, there is responsibility to other people, and we have to act intelligently to protect ourselves. I now have a situation specifically where, when you do this all the testing, we can test we can target down literally through the block level where the cases are coming from and we have identified several small communities, and that happens to be an ultra Orthodox Jewish community that has not been following the rules for cultural reasons, religious reasons, and they have five times the infection rate that the state has. And weve imposed restrictions, and its not comfortable and, especially when you get involved in religious tensions, but it has nothing to do with religion. Its a Public Health law and i apply it all across the board equally. Ive had issues with fancy fundraisers in the hamptons, ive had issues with sweet 16 parties, with catholic gatherings, jewish gatherings, but its the same tension, people just deny the virus and they dont want government telling them what to do in any manner, shape or form, period. Trevor your book has come at a time when you have been looking back and even processing the present of whats going on. Youve led people and people appreciated your tone and tenor, people appreciated, i guess, your being vulnerable with them, your being forth coming with them. But there are some people who would say, oh, but Governor Cuomo, is this the time to celebrate with a book . Is what are you trying to achieve . I see the book as a cushion sign. I think, trevor, were at half time at best in this game, and im trying to say lets look at the first half and lets look at what happened because we have to play a whole second half. Trevor right. And we scrambled in the first half. We didnt win, but we didnt lose either, right. But we have a whole second half. The fall is coming, they told us the fall was coming, they said thefection rate was going to go up in the fall. This virus is not done with us, and these this attitude of complacency or the fatigue, covid fatigue, im tired of dealing with the virus, the virus isnt tired of dealing with you, and its alive and its well and its spreading and, more than anything, trevor, inform yourself. You know whos going to keep you safe . Youre going to keep yourself safe. You have all this political noise, all this political chaos. Just know the facts, get the information so you can keep yourself safe. And thats what the book is trying to do. Its trying to spur a factual conversation about how we get through this. Trevor dont go away because when we come back well have more of my interview with Governor Cuomo. Celebrating halloween . Well, if youre celebrating by eating reeses. Then no, youre actually late. 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When you look at that as a leader and you go, ha, weve got another wave coming up, things might get wrors, that are some of the things you would do differently . What are the mistakes you acknowledge that you say were going to do this a lot better next time . For me, look, i say hold me responsible. Nobody hold me more responsible than i hold myself. It doesnt matter, you know, how distanced i am from it. I believe, when you sit in the seat, you are responsible, you know, and i take total responsibility, and a big part of that book is about this is what happened, lets learn from it. When i look at that game tape and i see how the game progressed, i go through every play of how i could have done it differently. You know, in the very beginning, the federal government said that they were in charge of testing and they were doing the testing and it was taking a long time, i should have said forget it, i dont care what you say, the state should have started the testing earlier. We got ambushed by the virus. We had no idea it was coming from europe. It had been coming from europe for three months, and everybody missed it. But that put new york in the hole. They kept calling it the china virus. It wasnt the china virus. It was the italy virus and the france virus and the spain virus that came here from europe. They said there was no such thing as asymptomatic spread. Trevor right. They said that you only spread it when you had symptoms you had a cough, a sneeze, et cetera that was all wrong. It turned out that you could spread it even without symptoms, and that the how it got into nourseing homes. The staff were walking into the Nursing Homes in february and march, no symptoms, but they were carrying the virus, and nobody trevor well, how do you respond youre a compassionate person, thats who you are as Governor Cuomo. When you talk to families who say, but, Governor Cuomo, why did you force Nursing Homes to take these people in . How do you speak to them . How do you console them whilst also reconciling with your actions based on information you had or didnt have . Yeah. The its a good question. And youre right, part of it is you can only deal with the facts that you had at that time. They told me that i was informed by all the experts that you had to have symptoms, and thats they were wrong, but i based on incorrect information. The unfortunate thing is, trevor, theres then a heavy dose of politics that is injected into this. The states that happened to have the highest number of covid cases tend to be democratic states, so you have this whole republican disinformation campaign. We never forced anyone into a nursing home. We never forced a nursing home to accept anyone, that is just not a fact. And, yes, there are a lot of trevor well, the order i mean, look, we are now in a moment of respite, so, Going Forward, are there ways to clarify the messaging . Because the Nursing Homes thought they did have to take the people, you know, so that is a tough place to be in. Yeah, and the truth is, look, we have were still losing people in Nursing Homes. Part of it is never going to change because this virus preys on the weak and the ol. Trevor right. And we still lose people in Nursing Homes. We now have the strictest guidelines in the country. All Staff Members for a nursing home get tested once per week, and nobody else tests every worker once a week. Having said that, its still not a bulletproof plan because even if you get tested once a week, you can get the virus in between tests and show up for work the next day, no symptoms, you dont feel anything, and you can bring the virus into the nursing home. It is an imperfect whatever we do is going to be imperfect. Its really an impossible, impossible situation. Once the virus makes it to this country, youre in trouble. And thats one of the lessons that i focus on. We knew we knew that these viruses were developing. We had mers, we had sars, we had ebola, we had dengue. We knew viruses from animals to human beings, we knew they were coming out of markets in china, thats been happening for 20 years. How did we let our guard down as a nation where we just let it happen again, we had no notice, all these agencies that are supposed to be International Global health watchdogs, but once that virus is in your house, once its in your country, its virtually impossible to stop the interaction. Trevor now more than ever, new yorkers are going to be looking to you to say, governor, what is the plan going into the winter, what is the plan going into the time when the numbers might go up again . And i know as a new yorker, i have been hearing a lot of people concerned because, you know, maybe mayo mayor deblasios one thing and you say a different thing for claritys sake. What is the plan Going Forward and what do you think new yorkers need to focus on considering covid fatigue and all the issues were dealing with . Yeah, on the first point, its important people get clear information and they know who to listen to. And, look, politics, a lot of people have a lot of different opinions, covid, a lot of people have a lot of different opinions, and you have mayors and county executives who say one thing, theres a lot of politicians in new york. First point is the state is in charge. You can have an opinion, trevor, about what should open, what should not open, but, frankly, its irrelevant. The state makes the law and the state makes the policy, and thats the way it is. The law says we make the policy for the entire state. Going forward, the fall, we do have to be very careful. Our infection rate statewide is very low. Still one of the lowest, thank god. About 1 . We are doing this obsessive testing that gets us into these neighborhood clusters, and we then attack these neighborhood clusters like firefighters stamping out embers, and thats what were doing in some of the ultra orthodox communities, fundraisers in the hamptons, bars, restaurants, et cetera. One bad situation, one bad party can create 30 or 40 cases, right . Trevor wow. Thats going to continue. And then we have to move to the next stage, which is the vaccine. This is not over until theres a vaccine. We have a letter to President Trump, im head of something called the im the chairman of the National Governors association. Trevor right. Vaccine, first ou you have to develop the vaccine, then americans have to believe its safe, then you have to administer it, and how do you administer 20 million vaccinations in this state . Whos going to do that . How long does it take . This is a massive logistical exercise that we have never done, and i want to know now from the white house who is going to do what on this vaccination program, and what is the federal role, what is the state role, and lets talk this through and lets understand it and lets not have the same chaos that we had in the beginning. Trevor before i let you go, and i appreciate your time today, observe a personal level, again, i just wanted to touch base with you as a human being. I last remember you being single, and now the weather is changing, which means its going to be a lot harder to go out for a date because you cant be inside with strangers. Have you taken the time to just at least, you know, have a socially distant meal with anybody just in life . Did you take the time . I know you were very busy, so i just wonder if youve taken the time to do that for yourself . Trevor, on a human level, on a social level, nobody wants to have dinner with me. laughter i have no offers. Trevor you get us through the second or third wave, and im telling you a lot of those offers will come rolling in. Governor cuomo, thank you so much again for your time. Thank you, thank you trevor. Trevor i really appreciate you to. Thank you very much. When we come back, ill talk to the hilarious Nick Offerman about his brandnew comedy special. You dont want to miss it. Earlier today, i spoke with the multitalented and hilarious Nick Offerman. We talked about entertaining people during the pandemic and what its like to be a cultural icon for conservatives. Check it out. Welcome, Nick Offerman, welcome to the daily social distancing show. Thank you, trevor. I have been watching you and im so grateful to see you. Good to see you still as a human being functioning and enjoying yourself. I see the beard is coming alive, youre enjoying it. How is quarantining treating you . Well, were hanging in there, you know. Were lucky enough to have our rent paid and, so, megan has become an incredible chef. Thats the headline. And im working on a new book, actually. So im grateful to have something to do to keep me occupied so that i dont become any more of a drunk. laughter trevor nick, youve played one of the most beloved characters on tv in parks and recreation, ron swanson. Is it ever weird for you that people use your face and your character as a conservative and a far right sometimes icon where people go, like, yeah this is our dude and youre like, no, no, no, no, im very much not your dude. Is that ever strange for you . Its very strange. I mean, its a good problem to have. It means that, you know, that character is ubiquitous enough that people can say, like, i claim this icon for my own. Trevor right. And, you know, ron himself and the conundrum youre talking about are part of whats wrong with our society is everyone is that complicated. You can be someone who loves hunting and is really into gun rights for that reason, but is it necessarily a freaky Assault RifleSecond Amendment person . Trevor yeah, i always say that about american politics is they make it seem like there is one or zero only, its just binary, because you have two parties that have to be everything, but people are more nuanced than anyone gives people credit for. Everything lacks nuance because of our Attention Span and the amount of character were allowed on twitter and so forth. Thats what all rise is about. Its saying were all bleep idiots. We always start there, you know, with all the hearings going on right now, its, like, do you somehow think those guys were less of jackasses than we are . They werent. Were all human beings trying to, like, not shit ourselves every day. Trevor the show is you pretty much sharing your views on everything, toxic masculinity, just mundane things that happen in life, relationships, men, women, food, youre just talking about everything in the special. Why did you shoot to release it now . Well, i was supposed to be touring it right now, you know. Thats one of the jobs i love to do is travel around and perform it for people in theaters. Its my favorite way to deliver that particular brand of medicine, and since we cant get together in theaters, i was very grateful that actually my book publisher said lets put this out as an audio book original, like a collection of essays. Trevor right. For me, being involved in the arts is about, you know, chasing human rights, basically, and some of us do it with drama, some with comedy. I do it by slow talking and then singing, like, you know, really dumb songs. I have a song called im not a scientist that i wrote before the pandemic, and, you know, its the antimaskers. Trevor right. Its like saying im no scientist but i like to question what im told. So tell me, if this world is heatin up, how come my beers still cold. Taking that attitude of, like, rich believing silence. I have an anthem to Brett Kavanaugh called i like beer. You know, its celebrating what jackasses we all are because we supposedly get to pick what happens in this country, and look what weve done. I mean, look at the mess weve gotten ourselves into. Trevor it was the gift and the curse of freedom. Thats exactly what it is. Youve got all rise out. What im really excited about is youre offering all your standup specials on your web site but for a really really special cause. Tell me about that. I finally got around to putting my specials online. Trevor right. The pandemic had started and i was just, like, i cant do this selfserving mercenary move of, like, hey, everybody, sorry about all the death and stuff, but heres some laughter trevor oh, no, yeah. Here are some comedy specials. We are putting all the proceeds from those specials towards americas food fund. Trevor amazing. And, you know, its not a big deal for me. Im lucky. I get paid well to do my work and, so, there are little places where, like, i can do that and, you know, hopefully some people will be fed and, some day, im going to need a sandwich, and hopefully i will have planted the seeds of mercy so i can find a meal myself when i find myself in need. Trevor hopefully you will just need the sandwich because youre just hungry in your house and not because things are horribly wrong. Thanks for joining us on the show again. Good to see you. Nice to see your face. Say hello to your lovely wife and stay healthy out there, my friend. I will, trevor. You, too. Thank you for your beautiful work. Trevor thank you so much for that, nick. Dont forget, you can check out all rise, Nick Offermans new audio original release of his touring show. Well take a quick break but well be right back after this. 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