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Everybody welcome to the daily social distancing. Show. I'm Travilla today is free
August twenty one. Twenty one white assets for almost twenty. First,
and here's your quarantine tour of the day, if you're still afraid to get a hair cut. All you should
who is tell people that you growing your hair out as a form of protest. Then you look woke and
no one, will know that you're actually just a little bitch anyway. Tonight we're gonna come
All the highlights from the final might of the Democratic National convention, including the by
speech that was so strong.
News almost forgot to do their nightly Benghazi segment. Then I'm gonna be
having to Tracy Ellis ROS about Herschel Blackish. So let's do this people
welcome to the daily social distancing show in New York City to your account somewhere in the daily Susan, distancing, shoulders, democratic national convention. I'm acting America's first President's the final lights of the Democratic National Convention gave a time to rising democratic politicians who have
yet made appearances
Andrew Yang to Tammy Duckworth
Key lance bottoms: everyone got a chance to speak. They also
space for Michael Bloomberg, democratic sugar, Daddy and Bruce Wayne, who never became Batman. Bloom of use
speech to continue his years long before Donald Trump, and then
we started a new before the fly.
People wondered why Bloomberg didn't just swat the fly away, but in his defence bloom
it probably never even seen a fly,
he only knows about rich people, insects like June bugs and gold plated beetles. But you see my friends. This is what
happens when you remove Steve vanish from the ecosphere
ops, eating flies and the immediate fanatical, and if your family,
was quarantine reunion specials, you know it.
Stars about favorite, old movies and tv shows get together. Reminisce will, then you are in luck because
Might the Dnc brought back the cost of the democratic primary ivy
excited to present to you, a good
of people that ran in the twenty twenty democratic primary against Joe Biden. You could think of
this sort of like survivor on the outer views of all the people who got voted off the island. You member state for I when, when we were waiting to go on April me aside, a one plenty pointed to somebody who we
new who is working on my campaign, and let me know that that that was somebody had gone through a family tragedy that that chose somehow knew about
just as important for me to know that about someone who is working with the magic of Joe Biden is that everything he does becomes the new reasonable if he comes with an ambitious
They had to address climate change, all decided. I was going to follow his lead.
This is why I love Americans. You people don't hold grudges, because
This was a bunch of Africans who lost a presidential nomination. Trust me on this.
Let from turn the military to start a coup? We will stand about us, I'm getting
revenge or a hollow imo mute around mutes. Can you guys hear me?
really hope they do. This news zoom thing at the republican convention next week because
see, transform arrivals reminiscing about the times he humiliated them or called their wise ugly, and then they backed him anyway than their souls died good times. But, of course, the only
last night, then really mattered was Joe Biden, big except in speech, and because Donald from
spent months, trying to portray Biden as a senile old man who can barely string a few words together. The state
for the speech were especially high, but Biden rose to the occasion
We have a great purpose as a nation
to open the doors of opportunities, all Americans to save our democracy, to be
light to the world once again for lovers.
Are powerful and hate hope is more powerful than fear and light is more powerful than dark. This is our moment. This is our mission, and this is a battle we will win and we'll do it together. I promise you.
Shows a great honour and humility. I accept
this nomination? For president,
states of America, unwelcome lie,
watching Biden give this speech was nerve. Racking was like watching the fireplace one long step and the whole thing is over honestly. He nailed it
He showed strength. He showed emotion. He made a powerful case for a more united Amerika, and I should
the trunk divined, the biggest favor by making it seem like he's ink
competent and senile
law has been sent to below a sooner
Erica, so Biden had his jacket on the right way round. They were reach a given the standing ovation by speaking
complete sentences, which is the icing on the cake and last night, also reminded us how different these candidates are. I mean you,
presidential candidate whose casually quoting danish philosophers and irish poets and then you what the press
into mourning, read as the back of a serial box you're right Tony. They are great, not
as Great America but show great and honestly
something that has helped that Biden got to give the speech to an empty room
you're, because alive audience can add pressure. People applauding can throw if you're really
sometimes a widow in the audience. You know you'll see a guy dressed a shrink and then you'll just fix,
each on it and it's hard to talk about healthcare,
when you actually wondering why is this guy dressed, like shreck shreck
therefore, for something is
the wrong event? Maybe there's like a shrink sex festival in town? The point is the note
I'll think probably help by so that was the twenty twenty democratic national convention and like
conventions. They had a lot to cover.
In explaining various policies not
to various voting blocks, speaking just
enough, but not too much spanish and, of course,
showing those videos where one person starts a sentence, but another person finish
the sentence, but ultimately,
There was one overall theme of the week
know Joe. He is
profoundly decent man. Joe Biden has a decent man. Decent man data is a decent, yes
decent, is a word that came up over and over throughout this convention.
It really only a compliment. You say it. The right way he is decent is decent, and that was the main,
that the Democrats wanted to get across Europe
have to have a president who only cares about people if they have
or a felony conviction know you could have an actual human being. Who feels empathy
for other human beings, and it wasn't just
politicians attesting to binds decent this? The convention heard from a lot of everyday people from a security guard who Biden stop to talk to an elevator to a man.
Biden befriended when they were both lifeguards as teenagers
and even a rabbi who recalled by showing up at a woman's memorial service because she had once donated eighteen dollars to his campaign. But the highlights what formula
nice testimonial from a thirteen year old with stutter
well now Joe Biden. How are they talking today about a few
months ago, I met him in New Hampshire. He told me that we were members of the same club
we'll away
stunner. He told me about a buck up
by hate? You read out loud to practice. He showed me how he Marx's addresses to make them easier to say out loud and destroying kid and then the short amount of time Joe Biden may moving for consular bus. Something that's bothering me my whole life man
Britain is so lucky. He got speech lessons from Vice President Joe Biden, which actually helped him improve. Meanwhile, I
the mistake of getting speech, lessons from President Obama, and it took me four hours to order a pizza with pepper
so. The one thing this convention wanted to leave you with. Is that
by them is a decent man who cares about others and another thing
that kept coming up over and over again? Is that by
we'll take the time to talk to you on the phone with,
He knows you are not a member of my grandmother and I said Joe Biden want my did. She goes. Oh my god. Oh my god, he turned to me for the next year found if you give him your cell phone number he's going to college. I remember one night when I was giving one of those floor speeches and I walked out there and cell phone rings, and you know it was. It was Joe Biden
my phone rang, and it was a vice,
President, I holder someone wants to talk to you. I Grammy MRS Joe Biden, often make everybody. I don't necessarily pick up every day, but I have a lot of voice. Mouse ah see what's happening here, job
grandkids wanting to be present just so. He has less time to keep them on the phone because, God, Damn Joe Biden, caused a lot of people. No wonder
sometimes has a hard time, remembering small details, this guy's memorize the entire phone book. In fact he call so many people. When I was watching this convention, I started to get self conscious,
why haven't I had a phone call from Joe Biden, my bad person? Does he hates me.
Amount airplane, more, must be able in copying, is probably
sometimes airplane: well, that's what people don't come. Joe Biden spend so much of his time, calling people on the phone that it made.
I wonder what kind of phone plan does he use? Well, it turns out this way
specifically for him?
t mobile? We have multiple plans with unlimited calling, but what, if I'm limited, is still too limited? Introducing the Joe Biden Infinite calling plan for former vice presidents who are constantly calling everyone? I met your white and one sided campaign about and told them. I was getting married the next summer, then he actually
Congress us on our wedding day. We congratulate her six,
hours reaction.
The ceremony
So what we do is we with our Biden Plan, your phone has access to our five g network and your contacts come pre filled with the phone numbers of all seven billion people on earth where my sobs goldfish dive, Joe Biden, call to advise me and havoc and saw him after that wine. I have never met Joe by renewing worse, but thanks to Jos advise my southern I've ever been closer, and he has no idea that I killed his goldfish sign of today and you can get a second phone line for twice the infinite calling last week. Joe Biden call me out of nowhere in comfort me for about an hour about my broken leg. I don't have any idea what he was talking about. Then the next
got they'll down the stairs and above my life he was coming
me from the future. Look, it's really sweet, but sometimes I just have to go. Look attempt
Hey Joe,
doing great just like
yesterday. The bite
plan for the man who can't stop, won't stop calling our work to segregate break,
when we come back we'll see.
The convention looked like on Fox news and later when we
can Ellis Ross so Ross around.
Welcome back to the baby social distancing, show
You know there are many different ways to keep up with the democratic convention this week.
The tv networks
streaming online or, if you like me, listening to the spanish soccer radio, but
Obama Eurostar, Blundell, I want I, then they say Elizabeth, what, unless Thou blunder, what Ireland, that is to say your by the knob, said Babo a monopoly on, but I also wanted to watch the Dnc but wait.
The trunk does
news and
on how trumps Fox friends reacted to Joe Biden speech. I suspect, but he wasn't very happy. Last night's Joe Biden has had a home run in the bottom of the night. He had pays rhythm, energy, emotion and delivery. It was a good speech on given that it was very emotional diversities. Been this forest is delivered in everyone's looking for him to flop up a line, and he really didn't. He delivered it. Well, each for train himself as a unified who would bring the country together. He did so thought very effectively. It seems to me that after tonight, conall drop is gonna have to run against Canada, not a caricature. He didn't beat the expectations. Donna, yes of Joe Buttons
which last night most anchors on Fox admitted that he did a good job and that's impressive, because Fox NEWS now
praises Democrats if Obama
saved a bunch of kids from the burning orphanage the
angle would be wired Democrats take
our children's right to burn. I mean that
seemed on juniors face. He got
sad
When Lord Ingram said the Biden beat expectations. Look at him!
that's the same. Look he gave that russian lady and from tower when she says she didn't have dirt on Hilary, but don't get interested just because
praised Biden doesn't
but they ve suddenly turned into MSNBC. I mean they still came with five
four Biden. Svp Harris's accepted speech was about as some electric as the state of California. Right now I didn't think I was very rousing. I thought there was a lot of dumber product boilerplate, I'm not sure she came across last night. There's somebody who's ready just stepped quickly and do the president shows that's a blood on your hands speech, really nasty and very personal, and I have to say I thought it was a pedestrian speech that was the most dough boring uninspiring. Except me, speak of them are her war war, war war, the most boring acceptance speech, I'm sure it wasn't cleaning day. Ok,
because you're acting like you, ve, never heard of like pinch, the most boring speak. Do you remember my pencil speech from currency? Do remember what he said. No exactly! You know why, because like pence is
the most worrying thing. My friends is so bodies like the human version of the soft padding that they put on the walls of music studios when he talks somehow the room gets more silent. I mean I get
Why Fox NEWS thinks me
speeches are gonna, be boring mission,
all day, watching a lunatic, tell people to inject bleach hose with Goya beans and pull his porn star mistress a horse racing at this point, the moon landing, which warrant Fox news. But the truth is
Commodore got the nomination
It has been attacking her from every possible angle and you get a better sense of how
Fox news is trying to define common Harris. We ask our
We are delighted to watch the network nonstop and explain it to us
I've been wanting Fox NEWS for sixty four hours straight.
I know everything about calmly Harris, so PAMELA Harris is a radical communist senator from California. She returned the entire country into San Francisco. I hope you like this can be the only legal sites. They want you to think colonel hindrances, mainstream, but the truth is she's a radical socialist bedroom. I told Socialism university and major in full from hospitals and make it a legal for immigrants to play and that a word or something else about cables through Paris. She has never once platform airplane lay in this country. We stand and applaud for our jet blue pilot S without Calamari Harrison supports the green new deal. You ever part. Well, guess what you're can be forced to put one of those coexist stickers, pulling anybody, Alexandria, O Connell, Cortez, so angry analyses to angry about tat. I have still not released Obama's. What is her skin cancer? What does she think about the many? How can we trust inherits chief, who wants to deepening the police training? She would stop existing money, tat, indian and have to make some say goodbye to drinking beer at a football game in Saint Luke, sipping Mengele, the added Bob. What actually found from the good for
I said anything. Thank you so much desi for your sacrifice. Right. We have to take a break
but when we come back door, say Sloan drags out. The vote with some help from loopholes
top queens go away.
Looking back to the daily social distancing, show
when, in presidential election, yours
weakens: don't votes in high numbers,
and no one really knows why. But what is the reason
Is that voting just isn't glamorous enough
I'll do say: Sloan spoke to some people who are trying to fix it,
as much as the conventions are a chance to win voters over the real
is the pop up people above and no
those palms better. Then these queen helping to turn out more votes in our own way. You might have
fabulous lady strutting their stuff on the latest season of Rupaul's drag race, but now they're here on a mission to get people to vote. Okay, so first thing: first right now
absolutely not if necessary, roughness and these costs
the times.
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yeah look. Madame Ladys were free. It is time to move liberation representation. We all know that we ve been here from a real people during these conventions, but so far
we haven't heard from direct wings.
Because they ask us girl. I think I would definitely give shows at the convention. I think it's very important to be.
A leader within our community and did you know
one out of five algae? Beseech you, people in our country are not registered about, so we can reach a lot of people want out.
Is a lot of other people. S aquareine without in any way is that I think that people don't think better
in Jordan, and a hundred million people did not, though, in the last
presidential elections, which is with wild a hundred million girl,
make allow, would you can't line up by an Iphone unless you show your Iphone sticker yeah, no matter what
side of the Isle. You fall on its all gonna fact you, it is called the circle of life. Mama everything
back this or that we are in this to get bar. If you want
if you want, if you want to make sure that are transgender brothers and sisters are going to be taking care of, you got to vote to make sure these things are happening because our rights are being taken away and we got to make sure we post to make sure
Drag winds of always been political at ground history, their heads down long business as usual, indulgent helped by the HIV crisis. Eighty carried on a dining parlour tradition of wearing way, so why not carry their swords into the most important election of our time? I'm the culture of drag out the boats and what we're doing is we're getting all these drag ambassadors and we're
sending them out with social media content. Videos,
stay. Scrapes resources for voter registration and more honey would do, and shells and working people excited about voting. If you are excited about something people with
Gilbert excitement like contagious, no corona virus here, but is very contagious
You pull all neither we nor the pause, we'll have low party taking away
the poor majority out the
out the low.
Their campaign. I think people can get right, we'll go back a bit
you said something about becoming a dragon back to do so.
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get your money. I just want to drag us above. I need my fairy dragged mothers help me get right. What was also give us a little fish there. It is there it is
now, that's right now to my face was agreed for the gods.
Time to shoot my first. We as they are the drag ambassador.
This is. Why did the men men here telling you how bout drag wings know tat? What I want you talk, and why should you care about is the best way to use your voice.
My name is pretty filter and I approve this message. Thank you so much to say. When we come back, we
wrap up the Democratic National Convention with Tracy Ellis Ross for stage.
Welcome back to the daily social distancing show earlier today I spoke with
Acta producer and activist traced,
Ellis ROS, we talked
what it was like moderating, a knight of the Dnc and more Tracy Ellis Ross Welcome
to the daily social distancing, show
so happy to see you. Never let me let me
Complement your vibe people, try and download backgrounds like this
two like zoom and you haven't in real life Yankee
this morning. I wanted to have something special for you Travers, so I got a painting
My nails, but I'm gonna, do you know I don't like you
good. You know I feel like there.
We have found a way to trust
look after themselves during this pandemic, like there are some of us who look like there is a pandemic, and there are some of us who have chosen to exist despite the pandemic, and I feel like you, one of those people on Instagram, I'm like wow. She still looks amazing. She still looks like she's finding, like you, know, the silver linings in life. What are you doing? That is different to the rest of us?
in nothing trying to make sense of it, I do think I thrive in a pandemic. I
Good with isolation is yeah.
I love cooking. I don't think that mopping floors of the best use of me, but I am really good at it.
I don't know, there's been a lot of a lot of conditioning of the hair. I mean I have not somewhere, and I don't know about you. I mean we know you about supporting, but people keep saying I'm so bored. Unlike can you get me an invitation to this town called boredom aware it is, and I want to get there. I do
an apology, though
I heard you on the show young we
what about your new heck, hair range and
was like. Well, I don't have here, so I can use it and then I didn't take any from you and then now I have more head than I ever thought. I would have an eye.
Take any of your products and I'm gonna? Send you a package because I see all languages, hair and pattern will do you well. I dont know within your busy schedule a how you have time, but I know you bathe. I hope I'm not. I don't want any assumptions, but I hope you still bathing I'm bathing.
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bathing and I will take it I'll, take all of the products to help my fro.
Congratulations on yet another Emmy nomination. You're back in the mix again with blackish again
I know that you, you spent many years of your acting Korea, feeling snubbed by the industry. Do you
in all my only I don't want them, maybe I'm putting words Numa, but it feels like there was a time when not just yourself, but many other actors and actresses, who acted like black, sitcoms and black, shows what often seen
people I was like all yeah, that's not mainstream, but now like does this field.
The payback does feel like this is like erased, some of the bad memories from like you know, back in the day
well. I'm going to change your language because we know what titles go out. I do not feel snubbed by the industry. Ok well played. Why must I what you're doing I understand it's happening? I do not
There was definitely I
was not seen,
certain parties.
That is true. I will give you one of the best expression.
That was given to my publicity when I wanted to go on. The tonight show
when I was like the fourth year on Girlfriends Meda that had been on for four years. These that all my god, we love Tracy, call us when she gets something and I was like lightened,
Give me some clues. What kind of something are we talking about? Cuz? I read on a show that have been on the air was going to work, but tell me what I need to get cuz I'm going to try and get there, but so yeah I feel like
for a time, Emmy nominee. I do trust like things,
I have a golden globe
It's all working out just fine. I did not actually have conflicts ain't there.
I just knew that I have been a bit like you know you, when you're an actor you grow up, dreaming right rightly by putting the enemies, though Oscar. So it's real
he found to be there and be here now I mean I have to tie their Trevor as exciting as I am to be nominated for an Emmy and as much as I genuinely hope I win most him
Orton to me is that people were and fill out there.
As I, if that is, if that is the silver lining,
to this. If people get
vote? I will feel like. I have one sulphur. Let me ask you this so if, if somebody said to you, if affair
came and said you will not win the Emmy, but then Joe Biden will win the
The presidency. Would you what would you say island
make? Not winning ok,
but you there was a moment not a long pause, human polar bear. I really like travel business
Obviously I know the answer to that question because you at the Dnc, you are one of the people who hosted one of the knights, and I mean it at its
a weird convention. Nobody thought I was gonna be like this. Nobody even knew what a convention could be. Some have liked more. I personally enjoyed more. You got to see more people speaking you,
two seen diversity, not just like the people.
Camera, but the plague yeah yeah was cool.
Why did you say yes to hosting at the Dnc and when what did you feel your responsibility was to be a part of this event?
The second point I felt my responsibility was to facilitate conversation around engagement and participation and to actually be
I mean you know, cause you posted my. I do a lot of hosting and I feel like the job is your it's like a host of a party. You are that the touch point for the audience and I'm in recent years, where we're going I've got. You were good
the beauty of it. Also when you are in that position, as you get a moment to speak up and to use your own voice, you now I took I took
leap I felt like it was. It is and was a natural sort of progression of the way I use my voice, I'm very civically, engaged and socially active. I am not so.
Well versed in the political round, but
It reminds me of exactly what I've come to understand of how personal politics is settled. It felt like
It didn't feel like such a stretch and the truth is it felt
a moment in a way that I could continue to show up, for
greater guidance and what we are in right now, which is a very unprecedented
in time, and I
Do you believe that all election?
these are urgent, particularly for those that are marginalized and those that are the most vulnerable and experience
the oppression of the systems of this country, but this elapsed
and is particularly urgent, and I think that that was really express beautifully through Michelle Obama. Brok Obama, Joe Biden, and
Commodore at the DMZ and I agree with you by the way I thought it was the ticket
we personal liking.
Roll call, seeing everybody else invite
it was so beautiful to me. I got very emotional many moments before it
You go. Let's talk a little bit about the movie. You
You recently made a movie,
It was meant to come out in theatres and then carnivores happened and then we'll got the movie at Home-
we called the high note where
really interesting, because you played,
a superstar pop star right in the world what
found. Most interesting, though, was you singing
Don't worry. I've just missed this, but I didn't I didn't. I didn't know.
That you sing. I mean you, u recorded a single one like this, is it
Don't you hidden from us purposefully? Always this like a new thing you discovered it was
I always wanted to do, but I was terrified I have continued to do it. I haven't like hidden it for myself. I don't love was unconscious, are conscious that it kind of moved to the back burner one matter apart,
well my mother's Diana ROS. No, I worried Trevor, I worried about the possible comparison and it became this giant smoking mere monster of life. I can't do it. It says Gary and you're the longer you wait, the older you get married or things become.
But it was really worth walking through the fear and towards that dream. I got you a good five songs, my first single, which I just love thing, my first
Oh God, love myself. I'm ended up on the adult contempt
charts and I made it to number fourteen. What are you
talking about. Are you carry me now?
dig you as it. So I mean I love and unlike Deanna to my by all to me every time meet. Someone like you know that I was on the adult contemporary charts, mine, the singer so but then
tell me what it was like on a personal level, because I understand that
like coming from a world where Dinah, Russia's, your mother was one of the greatest of all time you are singing. You come from. A household music is life,
but now you singing- and it was terrifying- wasn't liberating on the other side of it. Yeah
so. When I watch the movie back, I was like
That is what your freedom and joy looks like a wild unbridled for me and
since I made it through the scary part of it, it was actually really fun and I felt odd,
at home, for something I've never done before, I'm very comfortable on a stage that the live singing we had to do for the movie onstage.
Was exciting, but I've never really sunlight on stage the recording it was. It all felt new, but I took two it very quickly. I guess you'd, then my dna.
Love to give during our nose really cool Tracy. I was
Thank you so much on joining the machine. You'd second, is here. Look at yourself.
Somewhat Tracy. Well that's actual for tonight, but before we go
one of my favorite things about american politics is all of the people
was so many poles country has upholstery
whose winning, among likely voters and swing states which policies are
he'll to suburban millennials, which Hogwarts House,
tromp would be in overseeing the one with a sixteen year. Old girls are getting change that one so we're the show thought you know what
one window, we do some. We did today the teamed up with the professional.
Pulling from Blue Gov, and yesterday we released our very first pole,
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I was able to make friends with a valuable smeared with blood, so he should be able to work with Mitch Mcconnell. Right surprisingly, the woman who did best in our poll was Joe
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