Jon Stewart Talks Confederate Statues, COVID-19 & “Irresistible” | The Daily Social Distancing Show

do me a favor though look at your lens and not and not the screen so it's no the other yeah and that's closer to it yeah there there there that yeah that's it but don't you know don't look there please [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] Jon Stewart welcome to the daily social distancing show I've been doing press now for it's gotta be a week straight junkets and everything from the same space and this is how I've been doing it and for the first time since I've been doing this someone had the decency the kindness to go you might want to look at the camera yeah but this is like you know what it's like that it's the common youth it's like a thing people don't realize because our screens and cameras I feel like someone needs to put them in line because this is not how we talk to each other this is I yeah you you normally look at a person I want to look at you I want to do it like they imagined it in the science fiction movies in the 70s where you would do the video call and your head in my I've come to realize that like all the things that we learn from science fiction and the movies it was very ambitious but we've got like very you know like you know like if you grew up with poor parents they would always bring you a very like cheap version of the cool thing you wanted as a kid that's the future we live in now that's so we were like imagine if you could talk to someone through a screen they're like okay you can't do that but you can look off at them and seem like you don't know where they are and communicate effectively that's basically what we do where are you right like what is this what is this room behind you I'm in my attic yes when my children were younger this was their playroom and so they did a lot of doodling where their cousins did is where they would come up with their cousins and then they grew up and decided you know what I'm just gonna stay in my room quarantine or no quarantine and you're gonna go up into the Attic so that's what we've done it's funny because like it's it's beautiful now that I know it was your kids who did that but it almost looks like the same graffiti that's unlike the Confederate monuments around America it looks like you let people practice the graffiti at your house before they go to the monuments so they can get it right and Tifa has infiltrated my hat here I'm doing the best I can but they are rabble rousers nice and as you can see they have decided that this wall must this is the Berlin Wall and they're gonna take it down what do you what do you what do you make of all that like like honestly because you know like I mean this you're just like the Confederate monuments like every statue coming down I mean it started with Confederate statues it started with you know like racist people from history then we started just saying you don't statues coming down of like people who fought for the the Union and people who fought against the slavery and you know like what do you make of it are we just should we just get rid of statues what's going on what you'll find is if you don't allow regular order to take down the statues that represent the insurrection that tried to destroy this country and preserve the institution of slavery if you make that impossible to do through pleading peaceful and treaty and all that you're going to end up with a spasm look people shouldn't have for one hundred year the statutes are not from the Confederate error but from the Jim Crow era they're from her when they built them to say just so you know I know they let you go I just want to make sure everybody understands like we will still subjugate you I hope that's you know and and bring fear into your life so you know because these statues are not people say like you're a reason or history which by the way I don't remember the Conservatives during the Iraq war when the Saddam Hussein's statue fell your Baghdad I don't recall Republicans at the time going big mistake that's your history so you know the the the plaque on the statue is not history it doesn't say this [ __ ] thought he should fight a war to ensure that he could have slaves on his Flint it is still benefit and that and then we put it up to fear in the people that we kept us as slaves and their descendants so this should have been done in short order by a normal functioning society years ago you know you say you say something interesting and that is a normal functioning society it feels like normal functioning and society of three words that are very quick quickly slipping away all over the world people are dealing with the same thing that is coronavirus but I honestly believe that America might be the only country where it's seen as a political issue as opposed to a pandemic do you know what I mean it seems like something you can choose to believe in or not or where you stand politically defines whether it a'mma see of the virus where's in other places they argue about how to deal with it but the virus itself is not like a political issue and there are arguments listen it's we're not the only country that's arguing about how much to limit freedom of movement and you know in Italy you saw you know being demonstration and protest against you know trying to can find people to a certain extent but I think a reasonable view of it would be it's not being done for the sake of tyranny we are actually facing something where tens of thousands of people are dying and it's you know if you think about it like it's like preparing for a hurricane you know when a hurricane is coming there's always those people that are like governments full of [ __ ] I'm not gonna board up my windows up but this is a hurricane that if we prepare for it the hurricane weakens and that's that doesn't happen normally but because in this country now we've set up parallel universes in in in the multiverse that the right lives in you know this is an infringement it kind of the mask thing is what blows my mind because you know surgeons wear them in operating rooms and they don't wear them because you know they drive Volvos and sip chai tea and they wear them like so I just want to say to people on the mast thing look great next time you're having an operation and the sir comes in with washed hands and a mass just be like don't be a [ __ ] don't be some little puss you take off that mask and you unwashed your hands and you stick your paws in my open gaping wound cuz apparently sanitary conditions are a liberal myth I knew you you you know obviously I mean we knew each other when you were leaving The Daily Show you like I'm getting into different things I'm taking time with my family I'm gonna do a movie here or there it was interesting for me to see you do a political movie you know I was like John aren't you just gonna get away from politics all together but then you made a movie that wasn't just about politics but it was almost about the game that is beneath politics I was shocked the first time I went to New Hampshire for the primaries and and I was sitting with you know like the aides of these of these of these politicians and even the reporters and they were like oh yeah they hang out they they chat they got four drinks afterwards they and I was like what do you what do you mean they hate each other on screen and and then we hate people on each other's behalf and I see it happening in the country but they are friends and I didn't understand that concept and it seems like that's what you're showing people in this movie is that we don't realize that the WWE of politics is is not as real as we think it is and we're willing to die for the Undertaker but the Undertaker is just a guy named Bill who goes home with Triple H and they carpool you know what I mean right let's not draw the Undertaker to this first of all he is a marvelous resident and it was undefeated and you know WrestleMania so that's not until obviously listen listen listen I didn't want to make a movie about the political moment I feel like that's the Daily Show and that's what you guys do so well is you do the weather every night you come out and you talk about the political moment and you bring the funny and the insight and the context to the political moment I really wanted to think about it as the climate and the system and that idea that we have kind of created this complex of media and moneyed interests and politicians and they all work and enrich each other and there's very little accountability and it grows it you know those types of symbiotic structures don't dismantle themselves here's the system with its own inertia and energy and self-interest and incentives to entrench itself and to grow itself and it's really at odds with any relevant facts on the ground or the system we have in place to elect people is almost working antithetical to the system we have in place to try and govern people and we don't really have a robust governance system but we've got an incredibly enriching and robust and corrupt and corrosive system of elections of campaigns and of insolence so do you see a change do you see an end where you go like oh no it's something is gonna happen that shuts this all down where I'm optimistic is there are such talented committed energized people taking the reigns of these really rotted out husks of institutions and you get the sense that they're committed to rebuilding them in a manner that is going to create a sturdier foundation and you know so much of this country what you learn from this is and the pandemic exacerbates it you know what's essential well it turns out all the people in this country who are essential to its functioning are the lowest-paid and how did we create how do we you know for many years we've sort of gone on this principle of if we just take care of the investor class we'll get a taste you know and I don't say we because I'm now up there but the pendulum has swung away from doing work and we have to figure out you know and they always talk about the people that talk about trickle then are always about freedom and liberty well what's more liberating than not having to worry about your health insurance being tied to your job or working really hard but still having to use food stamps like that's not freedom and we have to find a way to make those in this country who are essential to give them more Liberty and more Liberty comes from being able to live a life that is built on granite and not on quicksand I could talk to you forever my friend thank you so much for joining us again I hope everyone watches the movie I hope you having fun I hope you're staying healthy I hope you're loving your family and your kids and enjoying yourself and let me say may I have a moment yeah I'm so impressed by everything I'll say it up here I'm looking at your face but I look and again I'm just so impressed by everything that you guys are doing and the insights of the show and the hilarity of the show and it's just it's it's magnificent and I'm I just wanted to tell you I know what goes into making it so I am impressed for the right reasons because of how hard I know that it is and how beautifully you're doing it the only thing I would say is do you have to do it so handsomely that the handsomeness if I made feels a little bit like a personal attack the other stuff but I love it if you could do the show without dimples I'm just saying I will I will post these comments on to management's and we'll see what we can do Jon Stewart thank you so much for joining us on the show I hope to see you again look after yourself you got yourself to take character thank you what I do right now I don't even know how to hang up [Music] [Music]

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Length: 13min 28sec (808 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020