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Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Today is Wednesday, the 14th of October, which means that if you live in Kansas, Rhode Island or Tennessee, early voting is now open in your state. So go out there, get your vote in early, because that way you'll get the House to yourself when all your roommates are voting on Election Day.

Yeah, think about it. It'll be the first alone time you've gotten all year. And you know what that means. Yeah.

Shake up a martini and celebrate being home alone maybe.

Anyway, coming up on tonight's show, we catch up on some actual good news going on in the world. Roy Wood, junior schools, us on the black vote and the crazy plot to kidnap an American governor. So let's do this, people.

Welcome to the daily social distancing show from Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the daily social distancing show with Trevor Noah is a let's be honest, guys.

There has been a lot of upsets in news over the last few weeks, six months, year and a half, four years, and it only seems to be getting worse. Coronavirus, the Supreme Court's election anxiety family in Paris. The list goes on and on, but it turns out there is still good news out there. So let's decompress for a moment with another installment of our ongoing segment, A Ray of Sunshine.

Let's kick things off in Peru, the country best known for its adorable living pinatas, like most of the world, the South American nation has been in lockdown for coronavirus. But this week it reopened its biggest attraction for one lucky guy.

Patience has paid off for a Japanese tourist who refused to let the pandemic ruin his trip of a lifetime. Jesse Katsumata wanted to end his journey around the world at Machu Picchu, the ancient mountain citadel in Peru. But he arrived in March. That was just as the country's covid lockdown started. So Jesse did something cool. He rented a room, he studied yoga. He taught boxing to local kids and just waited. Word got around. And on Sunday, Jesse was granted special access to Machu Picchu as the only visitor in seven months to be there before he headed home to Japan.

Whether or not you care about Machu Picchu, this story is inspiring because this guy had a goal during covid and he waited long enough to make it happen. We can all learn a lesson from that, whether it's visiting a 15th century Incan fortress or finally taking a shower today. You don't give up on your dreams, people. And I really admire this guy's patience because after two days of waiting, I would have just paid some guy to Photoshop me onto Machu Picchu.

See, looks natural as hell and I'm ready to put it on my dating profile. But this story really has inspired me. You know, like, I really think the world would be a better place if we all learned to be a little more patience. Like we're always in a rush. We always want to get something.

This person was like, I'm going to wait and just take a moment, which is why before we move on to our next story, I would like us to just sit together quietly with our own thoughts for just a minute. Get a clock up here and we can we can just chill.

All right, you get the point, let's move on, because the clock's going to go to zero, and then we and you get you understand what's going on because adventure travel isn't everyone's idea of a good vacation.

Sometimes you just want to unwind, just want to distress a little. And if you can't make it to the beach, well, why not head out to the barn?

Well, people aren't getting in the hugs they used to before the pandemic. So if you need a hug, there's this there is a Dutch practice called cow hugging where people literally hug cows for hours. The BBC says the cows, warmer body temperature, slower heartbeat and mammoth size can make hugging and incredibly soothing experience. And during the pandemic, cow hugging has apparently become a lot more popular.

Cow hugging. What a wonderful idea for humans, and I'm sure the cows appreciate this, too, I mean, for centuries we've just been milking them. It's about time we added some foreplay. It's also great because anyone can do it. You can just go to a farm and hug a cow. And if a regular cow isn't available, you can always hug your mama. Oh, no, but jokes aside, don't don't hug your mom. It's a it's a risk.

Seriously, though, cow hugging does sound pretty sweet, but you have to be careful, though, because you do want to be in a McDonald's in a few years from now going don't look now, but my ex is in that Big Mac. This is so awkward. Oh, my God. Also, do you think about how confusing this is from the cows perspective? Right. One day humans are coming over to kill you and then the next day we're coming over to hug the cow.

Must be like, look, man chopped up or put a ring on it, but enough with the mind games.

But let's move on from cows to the cows of the sky birds or you guys don't use that expression here. Anyway, here's one bird who just had a remarkable achievements.

It is not news that birds migrate, of course, but this journey of this one bird is simply astonishing. And it set a new record for non-stop flight. A bar tailed godwit was tracked as it migrated from Alaska to New Zealand. And here's the deal. It flew up to 80 kilometres an hour, traveled over twelve thousand kilometres in just 11 days. That's without stopping to eat, drink or sleep. It beats the 2007 record when a godwit flew over eleven thousand five hundred kilometres in nine days.

Godwit on average wait less than a pound. And scientists still don't fully understand how they navigate over the open water of the Pacific Ocean.

That is so cool. It is amazing that such a little bird could achieve so much, especially since big birds aren't achieving shit when this dude's been hanging out on the same street for the last 50 years. Get a job. It's also crazy that scientists say they don't know how these birds are navigating these long distances because guys, it's so obvious. I mean, before the bird leaves home, it Googles directions and then just remembers them.

Chase science is so dumb. Sometimes I will say this, though. Flying twelve thousand kilometers with no food or water is really impressive. Although Spirit Airlines was like, yo, we've been doing this shit for years. Spirit Airlines, we're basically one step above migration. Moving on to the Nobel Prize, the award given to people who do smart brain thingy's the Nobel Prize is one of the highest honors a person can get.

But if you think you're in the running, make sure you don't turn off your phone on award day.

Sometimes good news simply can't wait.

At Stanford University, academic racing across the street at two a.m. to wake up his colleague and deliver this life changing message through a door bill camera poll is it's Wilson.

Yeah. You won the Nobel. You've won the Nobel Prize. And so they're trying to reach you.

Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have taken out the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on auction theory.

Oh, that was the most adorable Paranormal Activity sequel ever, although I feel bad for all the other nominees that this guy woke up that same night. Bing, bing, bing, bing. Richard, wake up, Richard. Thinking you lost the Nobel Prize. Also, I'm stealing your Amazon packages by bing, bang, bang, bang.

And by the way, going to sleep the night that you could win a Nobel Prize is one hell of a Fleck's. I mean, that's the Nobel Prize equivalent of taking a shot in basketball and then turning your back on the hoop before the ball goes in. I bet this guy got in bed and said Kobe and then fell asleep. And finally, some good news for people who love soap operas, even social distancing rules can't stop your stories from getting hot and steamy.

We know the pandemic and social distancing. They aren't stopping the romance romance on the set of one kvas soap opera.

A that sounds like Lee Laffite. That is a mannequin on the set of the Bulls. And you not really. Actor Lawrence Victor would be intimate with his love interest. Zoe, but Zoe was actually replaced by the mannequin. It's just one way the production is following covid say it is kind of funny, right?

You see, you can make out with the mannequin. Take that security guards at the Westfield Mall. Turns out I was just ahead of my time.

But can I just say. On a personal level, I'm just so proud of that mannequin, I mean, last week I saw her working at The Gap and now now she's on TV.

That's what makes this country so great. If you're a mannequin who believes in hard work, you can end up as a soap star or even as a White House adviser. But what I love most about the story is that apparently not having a kiss in the show just wasn't an option for them. Yeah, I mean, they could have just written around the kiss, but the producers were like, yo, there are two million horny grandmas watching this show.

He's taking his shirt off and kissing something.

All right, people, that's your ray of sunshine for the day. And I hope you enjoyed it, because when we come back, we'll look at how a militia allegedly planned to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

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It's been months since we finally admitted that we don't like baking bread, but some people in Michigan have taken their frustrations a little too far. There is a new focus on the threat of radical militia groups in this country after the arrests of extremists accused of plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

According to investigators, the so-called Wolverine Watchmen first plotted to storm the Michigan capital, then settled on kidnapping Governor Whitman at her lakeside vacation home.

One of those charged in the kidnapping plot rebelled against the pandemic rules on social media.

Every single person that works for government is your enemy.

Their main complaint seems to have been state restrictions imposed during the pandemic, especially the closing of Jim's.

God damn. These guys were apparently so mad about Jim's being closed that they try to kidnap the governor.

I mean, I get that it's frustrating to not be able to go to your gym, but I feel like on the list of solutions, kidnapping the governor should be below doing some pushups.

I mean, if you're upset about the gyms being closed, don't kidnap the governor, kidnap a personal trainer, in fact, kidnap my personal trainer. He said tomorrow we're doing buppies and I don't know what that means, but I'm scared. And can I just see angry white dudes are truly on some other level? I mean, think about it. Flint, Michigan, had dirty water that poisoned its own citizens for years and those people stayed peaceful. But these guys formed pale ISIS because they couldn't go to Planet Fitness.

Now, unfortunately, this is hardly the first time we've heard about militias recently.

They've been looming over protests and storming state houses since the early days of the pandemic. And I'm not going to lie. This whole militia thing in America still blows my mind. I mean, when I first heard there was a group of young men who carry guns around and all dress alike, I thought, I mean, you can't fool me. That's that's a gang rape. It's a super white gang, but that's a gang. But my second thought was usually you only hear about armed militias in countries like Afghanistan or Sudan, you know?

So why is this something that is also going on in America? Well, let's find out why in another installment of If You Don't Know. Now you know. When you talk about militias in America, you have to start hundreds of years ago, although back then militias were a lot different than the ones we're seeing today, well regulated militias were actually quite important to the founders.

They believe they were a bulwark against tyranny and they were worried that the big, strong new central government might crush these state military forces.

So what they did is they said we will have a militia. All able bodied residents between certain ages are available to be called forth by the government in defense of the state and once called forth the answer to the government. They're trained by the government. They're directed and regulated by the government.

The federal government was requiring everyone to be in the militia, but the states started to try to get around it in the early 19th century because it was so unpopular. So they created laws that said there is an organized militia in an unorganized militia and anybody who wants to participate in the militia actively will be part of the organized militia that later became the National Guard.

This new arrangement, titled The Militia Act, will also be referred to as the law after its sponsor, U.S. Senator Charles Dick of Ohio.

Yes, the Dick law made a clear separation between organized and unorganized militias. And furthermore. None of you are even paying attention right now, are you? You're thinking about declaw you sitting there giggling, thinking about declaw, huh? So immature. I'm trying to give you information and now you're probably imagining it as a new Law and Order spinoff. Go ahead, then. Take your time. Ha ha. Declaw. In fact, I'll show you a logo for the show if this will move things along.

You happy now? And then the point I was trying to make is like freedom of speech and trash waves, militias go back to the very beginning of America. Early America needed everyone to be ready to defend it at a moment's notice. It was a different world with different needs. I mean, help Canada was a threat to America back then, which is wild. It's like finding out Mr. Rogers used to be a cage fighter. Things have changed. But in today's age, militias are a lot like wiping your ass with leaves.

They used to be all we had, but with all the progress society has made, if you're still doing that shit, you probably a little crazy. And in fact, once the militias were folded into the National Guard, unofficial militias sort of disappeared from America.

Well, at least for a while. But in recent years, they started to reemerge in a much different and disturbing form.

Armed paramilitary groups first got traction in the early 90s with high profile clashes in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. In Waco, Texas. Their numbers dropped after the Oklahoma City bombing, but they've been on the rise since President Obama took office.

It is in part a reaction to the election of America's first black president. These groups start to expand very rapidly, I think largely in response to the idea that the United States is becoming less white.

Well, you didn't like blacks, your race and everything like that because he's a black president. No, I don't care what color he is. There's something not right about them.

Militias grew nearly 800 percent during Obama's presidency as conspiracy theories, exaggerations and rumors surfaced online.

And in the far right media, they're going to take your guns under the ruse of preventing war.

There were fears that he'd try to stay in office indefinitely, that he was a socialist and a Muslim, even one wild rumor that he was going to invade Texas while militias exploded once Obama became president.

Well, well, well. We meet again racism. I've been expecting you. It's almost like Obama became president and then the entire country locked its doors.

And looking back on it, it's so funny that these guys thought Obama was going to try and stay president forever and invade Texas because as soon as he could, Obama was out winning Oscars and kitesurfing. Richard Branson. So long, bitches.

And, you know, it's so weird how this stuff works because these people openly admit to every single conspiracy theory that they believe. But as soon as you ask them if it's because Obama is black, then all of a sudden they're like, what? Come on, man, no way. It's that other thing that that we don't like about him. Oh, what's that? Well, he's he's he's so tall. I mean, what is he doing up there?

So modern militias are not real military organizations, but what sets them apart from other violent gangs is that they tend to act as if they are. These people are incredibly dangerous.

They're running around like a bunch of GI Joes armed to the teeth groups of civilians who are creating military structures in their organizations, collecting and storing arms, ammunition.

This is the kill house, part of a training ground for a right wing militia in the American South just for conducting military operations in urban terrain.

And we want to practice and rehearse moving out to these structures. You always want to be prepared for whatever could possibly come up. I'm training for a type of event that I will be wearing this 24/7.

Getting off the couch and doing something is extreme.

Then I'm an extremist. I don't think it's the getting off the couch aspect that makes you an extremist. I mean, there's a lot of middle ground between getting off the couch and decapitating mannequins in the woods because that dude was purposefully describing the most benign part of what he was doing. It's like Hannibal Lecter saying, well, if setting the table and listening to classical music makes me a cannibal, then I guess I'm a cannibal. Dude was the eating human liver part.

You eat human? Yes, that too.

What I don't get about these militias is that if you want to dress in army fatigues and train for war, you can do that in the military and they'll pay you and they give you health care. This is like someone picking up strangers and then just driving them around a city for free. Men join over. Get yourself some of those stars. And look, it's clear that these dudes have a warped ideology. But a big part of this is just that.

These guys clearly need friends. They're lonely, they're scared of change. And this malicious stuff gives them a sense of community. But because of toxic masculinity, the only way they can feel comfortable bonding is if it's based around violence.

I just wish one day one of them would just be like, hey, guys, instead of spending all weekend counting beans and shitting in the woods, you guys maybe just want to go out for brunch. Thank you. I thought I was the only one thinking that I know a place that makes a great eggs Benedict. So today's militias are less organized and more heavily armed than the original ones.

But there's another big difference, too. While the 18th century militias were formed to protect the country, the twenty first century variety usually wants to rip the country apart.

Most of the men charged with a criminal plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer have ties to the boogaloo movement.

The boogaloo is a term taken from the title of a nineteen eighty four comedy. It started as a meme among gun rights activists to refer to a popular uprising.

Then, in May, the boogaloo jumped into the real world when armed men in Hawaiian shirts protesters lockdown orders in Michigan, Texas and North Carolina.

Those Aloha shirts, they're not. For a look out.

Homeland Security and the Department of Justice have labeled them as a violent extremist group.

This group is a very serious potential threat. They've already been linked to two deaths in California, one including a federal officer.

Their ideology is based on a notion of an impending second American civil war, which they call Civil War two electric boogaloo.

So hold up. If I understand this correctly, the first civil war was fought to end slavery and then the second one will be because some assholes were bored and people did. I miss the memo where tropical gear became a white supremacist thing. These guys have Hawaiian shirts. The Charleston white supremacists had tiki torches. What's next? Instead of burning crosses, the KKK going to start roasting pigs. What these people don't seem to understand is that a second civil war would be a disaster for America because not only would it kill millions and destroy the country also.

We would all have to grow mutton chops again and. I don't think I can pull off mutton chops. I. Actually, you know, maybe maybe I could look good in mutton chops. You know what, I'm ready with a civil war. I think I'm here.

And that's the story of how militias started in America, what they've turned into and why they've become one of the biggest threats to the United States of America.

And if you don't know now you know. All right.

We have to take a quick break. But when we come back, Roy Wood Jr. goes back to his panel of black voters to find out how black people are going to vote. All of them you don't want to miss.

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So please do yourself a favor and listen to this is important on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the daily social distancing show during primary season, where we just sat down with a group of black voters in the Atlanta area for what was a very interesting discussion.

So interesting that this week we decided to check in on them again.

Back when it was still safe to go outside, I went to Atlanta to speak with some black voters. Actually, I went to go to Waffle House, but I did talk with voters. Now, I've reconvened some of the members of that panel to get their thoughts about the election. That's just a few weeks away. Good to see all of y'all again. I know we can do this in person like we did last time. How do you feel about this year's election?

It seems like it's going to be interesting to see if we could get a new person in office that's going to help get us moving versus. Chuck, I think Biden has a chance of winning. He has but eight years experience as vice president and he's not Trump.

So I would vote to get over Trump. Does it matter at this point?

What if it was a three legged races get?

How racist did it by black people at protests, racist? Yeah, so still the cat. OK, the cat.

So, Chris, I talked with you last year and we knew where you stood then.

Chris, who do you think that's understands the needs of the black voter, Donald Trump, huh? I'm sorry, has that position changed now that you've seen the kill, a disproportionate number of black people getting unemployment and everything going? Has anything that's happened in 20, 20 swayed you off of Trump in November?

No, it hasn't taken position on Trump. Absolutely not. And I don't agree what you said about the virus killing black people.

Oh, OK. He has obviously been in a cave somewhere. I have no idea what's going on that Chris is not in a cage.

I'm completely contacted in connection with the people out here.

But, Chris, aren't you disappointed about that?

Well, I feel bad for what's going on with other people out there, people losing their jobs. Absolutely. Selection here has been brutal. Get past this election year.

Everything is going to get back to normal with my man in the White and the White House, the normal like pandemic force for black people getting shot.

No justice. No, no, no, no. I'm talking about the American normal. You talk about the white supremacist like being all corrupt and run around and protest.

I don't see white supremacists running around in the street. I don't see it. I don't see anybody dropping dead from code. We haven't seen that yet.

Well, me personally. I lost two people, an uncle, within five days of each other due to covid.

So it is real and it is a thing, as some people may not think, that we had a very close family member that passed away back in March from my brother in law, that from me.

So it's very personal.

My condolences to those that have lost loved ones. OK, but it's like when will you turn around and try to blame it on somebody else? And then when they're actually trying to help you by, like, getting the vaccine together, as I know, Trump can't do anything right.

Trump disbanded the pandemic response team. So this whole thing could have never happened if he didn't do that.

But anyways, we are in trouble as a nation right now. And we've been dealing with this the entire year. It's been going on the whole twenty twenty.

Let me bad boys three days come out in January, let's not act like 20, 20 was completely bad and they'll give you Oh this is terrible but also bad boys.

Three, looking back at twenty twenty, I like to count the good things to keep me from dwelling on how Trump downplayed a pandemic that is disproportionately killing black people. But at least we finally know the answer to his question to the African American community.

What the hell do you have to lose?

Monica, what advice would you give to Biden and Carmela to ensure that they lock up this election be true?

Your work? Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Tell by. Don't tell me, tell.

But be trying to be true to who you are. Be true to your word and maybe what's going on.

I'm the president. Just talk to me and I'll tell you whatever you need him to know, just him.

Let's get this country back up and moving. Lucille, what would you say to Carmela to ensure a victory in 2020? Come on. I like you, I like you, too. You are such a nice looking lady. Somebody say nice looking ladies.

So we need to get all the minorities, everyone what we need to get all the people out to vote, especially the Manop.

Lucille Black people often feel that no matter whether they vote Democrat or Republican, they get the short end of the stick. So a lot of them choose to not vote. What would you say to black people that are choosing to not vote this election?

We have to still try. If we don't vote, we know nothing is going to change. But at least if you didn't vote, you know, you try a Democrat or a Republican, it doesn't matter.

Left wing, right wing, get out, get involved and vote.

And there you have it. Despite all the things we fight about, there are some things we can all agree on. One, covid is real, too. If we all vote, black people could decide the next president. And three, there's really only one sane option.

I drop about twenty, twenty, maybe two out of three. Thank you so much for that, Roy. All right, when we come back, I will be talking to the one and only Wilmer Valderrama about working on NCIS and what he's been getting up to during covid.

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Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show, man.

Such a pleasure to be here. Man, absolutely. Such a fanatic. So thank you for your voice and everything. So happy to be here with you.

No, man, it is honestly my pleasure because I've enjoyed watching you over the years. I mean, you you've done everything, you know, from being one of the funniest people as playing Fez in that 70s Show and then being one of the most hardcore people on NCIS. I wanted to know as somebody who was solving crimes all the time when you couldn't do a show during coronavirus, were you trying to solve crimes at home? How were you keeping in shape, being like a like a naval detective?

Absolutely. I was I had my mom just like hiding, hiding stuff from me so I could just, like, look for it. You know, I really can't really go back and back, just my steps, you know. But no. Yeah, it's been it was it was really interesting, man, because, you know, you get into a rhythm of doing what you do. And in that moment, we were kind of called to, you know, just just be a human be a human being and sit back.

And that can be OK with the uncertainty.

A lot of people were separated and still are separated from their families. But you made a decision that I thought was crazy when you made it. When I heard about it, you know, they said Wolmar bought his mom a house. And I was like, that's amazing. Then they were like next door to his house. Then I was like, this guy's crazy because I love my mom, but I would not buy a house next door. I'm like, that must have been like the greatest gift during Corona now because obviously your family could be together.

But surely at some point you were like, this is a crazy decision.

It was.

It was it made so much sense when I was thinking it, you know, and then I realized, oh, we're like a fence away. But, you know, look, here's the thing. Like, the house is really divided by some really aggressive, you know, bushes. And, you know, there's no direct shot at my windows, you know, so I felt that felt that felt safe. But, you know, like you said, you know, the timing for it was really crazy.

I mean, just to see your mom's face, you know, your mom, especially as an immigrant, I mean, you can you can appreciate this, you know, the sacrifices they make before you can even have a sense of memory. So having her next door is amazing. And also, as I look into the future and having children, I mean, that's like a built in babysitter. Do you know?

I mean, like, oh, yeah, that's that's what people forget. That's what I tell people all the time is like, go you you move to like a Western country. And all the things that they left from like Third World countries are the things that they have to do. You have to buy baby sitters. My mom has always said I am the baby sitter. Don't worry about those things. One of the most amazing things I saw was on your Instagram during the like the worst moments of this pandemic is where you you use your Instagram to tell stories about essential workers.

You know, you start a little series called Six Feet Apart. And it was a really beautiful showcase of everyone, whether it was people delivering food, whether it was people helping others, you know, whether it was health care workers. Tell me why you did that and why you felt like you would give your platform to them and it wouldn't be about you.

I went to the grocery store and know my my local grocery worker. You know, I always say, hey, what's going on? You know, and I always ask questions about their family and all that. And in this day, this was like probably, I don't know, two or three weeks into the pandemic and ask, how are you doing and doing? OK, and I say, why are you doing this? OK, what's going on?

And then they were telling me that I don't know what it was, but it was waking things up and people that they've never expected, you know, regular customers would come in and and it would be very they would be very affected by anxiety. And they had this moment to themselves where they would just lash out. And when she said that to me, she said it would like her voice. Was Crumbley like she's never been talked to that way.

She's always kind of in no way been invisible to people. And now for the first time, they're now a target. So the point is that I realized that we were very removed for what it like for the people that have to be there for 12 hours, handling your money, bagging your groceries, cleaning the stuff after you. And and I just felt like we were better than that. And the idea was to say, let me amplify voice more than anything, in my opinion, is the same opinion as all of us who are in the house.

But I think that if we can have a level of awareness of what it's like, what he takes, you know, maybe we can have a little moment of harmony.

Wilmer Valderrama story has always included having people be counted, which is the name of one of the initiatives that you started with America Ferrera, where you you said we have to get out there and we have to get people counted. We have to get people registered to vote. We have to get people to be a part of the process that defines their lives. Tell me about this process and tell me what you still think needs to be done for the Latino.

A community in America, one aspect of it is awareness, right, but the other one is self awareness. I think our communities have not discover, you know, their vital presence into our country. You know, I think that for most of us immigrants, sometimes we are 10. We are tend to push into a belief system that we are still a guest in this country and therefore we don't have a seat at the table. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I feel like sometimes we're taught that, like, you know, that lesson. You should be just grateful that you're here, you know? And the truth is that until we understand how many of us are here, until we understand that it's not just one of us in a poor neighborhood, that a lot of our neighbors can relate to our interest, to our lives and to our viewers and most importantly, can relate to our cultures no matter where you're from.

So now when you look at the census and you think about what are the census, what is this thing, and having to tell people, look, there's no citizenship question, there's no anything. This is really to understand how many of us are in the neighborhood and what programs need to be tailored to the needs of our specific communities. And, you know, there's a level of confidence that come with that. And then you have to give it that confidence and that ability to know that there's more than two of us in the neighborhood that we know if there's one or two of us in the household eligible to vote, that it is critical that you represent your household because too much has been sacrificed.

Like right now is the moment where we used all those sacrifices and we pay it forward. Right. So I think that that's that's to me is the idea of looking west going forward. And I think that when I talk about self-awareness and self-importance and understanding that there is such a critical moment right now in multiple states that historically has never happened. You talk about Pennsylvania, you talk about Texas, you talk about Florida, you talk about Arizona and how small of a number of the Latino community would take for it to flip.

I mean, this is a moment that we got to celebrate, ma'am. I mean, we've done the work and now we have the numbers and now we have the demand to ask that seat at the table.

Time to celebrate, time to be counted, the time to stand up and do something. I'm happy that you're back on set. We're excited to see the new season. Wilma, thank you so much for joining me on the show. Charles, it's a pleasure.

Thank you. Well, that's our show for tonight. But before we go, if you're registered to vote in this election, then it's very likely that you are eligible to vote early. So please do it. Go to vote, vote, vote dot com to check your early voting options and make sure that your voice is heard until tomorrow. Stay safe out there. Wear a mask and please, before you kidnap the governor, try to kidnap the anger in your own hearts.

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