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I'm Trevor Noah. Today is Monday, the 26th of October, which means if you live in Washington, Colorado or Montana, you only have an hour left to request a mail in ballot one hour. There's no excuse not to do it. No excuse unless you're a baby. Then you have an excuse. But also, in that case, why are you watching the show? If you're not in bed by now, how do you plan to wake your parents up at 2am?

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You've got to focus maybe. Anyway, coming up on tonight's show, Donald Trump is giving up. The party is officially at the early voting line. And I talk to the boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. So let's do this, people.

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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 Decency Show with criminal years. Let's kick it off with the big story. Election Day is now just eight days away. So at this point, my friends, you can forget about getting in shape for it because Election Day bodies are made during the primaries. But this year, more than ever, voters are not waiting for the first Tuesday in November to cast their ballots.

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The record number of Americans taking advantage of early voting across the country in states reporting data. An unprecedented fifty seven million ballots have already been cast. That's more than 40 percent of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election. And one of New York City's premier venues, long lines snaking around the Barclays Center in Brooklyn while marching bands drum up excitement. Incredible turnout. See these moms? I've never seen this before in my life.

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It turns out Americans don't even have to be earth bound to vote. US astronaut Kate Rubins cast her absentee ballot with a little help from mission control from the International Space Station.

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I think it's really important for everybody to vote. And if we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground too.

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OK, that is super cool. An astronaut voted in space. Wow. I mean, it's weird that she still had to wait in line for like 10 hours, but that is cool. Also, I don't know if this is the kind of story that would inspire people to vote just because an astronaut did. I mean, it's easier to vote in space when you have nothing, no responsibilities. Down here, we've got to work. You've got to check Instagram every 10 minutes in space.

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You just float around, you do back flips. You talk to some guy named Houston occasionally poop in a bag that's taped your ass. You're living the dream.

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And guys, I'm happy that astronauts can vote, but America has to ask itself about his priorities when it's easier for a white lady in space to cast her ballots than an old black lady in Georgia. I mean, just look at the lines down on earth. Have you seen these lines? The lines look so long. Forget buying new Air Jordans. It looks like people are lining up to buy Michael Jordan. I've heard they've only got one, but I'm hoping they make an exception.

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I want to get the baseball version. But what's amazing is that even with all the long lines, even with the suppression, America is still hitting record levels of early votes. There were so many early votes that the president could already have been decided. And we just don't know it. It's like the week before Christmas when your parents have already bought your gift and you just weren't allowed to find out what it is.

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So it could be a brand new president all it's the same one as last time I shook the box of it, grabbed me by the pussy. And with Election Day so close, the big issue on everyone's mind is still the coronavirus pandemic, which is funny because when you think about it, this whole year, everyone has been waiting for an October surprise. And it turns out the October surprise is that we're still talking about the same shit we're talking about in March.

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Surprise.

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So with America now seeing more daily infections than ever before and hospitalizations rising in many states, the two candidates are staking out their positions on covid-19. Last week, Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced that he will push a nationwide mosque mandates, deploy the Defense Production Act to drive the manufacture of PPE and begin testing seven million people each day. And then President Donald Trump revealed his take on the pandemic for running.

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That's all I hear about now. That's all I turn on television and I covered covid, covered cover, covered it, covered a plane, goes down five hundred people that they don't talk about it. Covert covid covid gov't.

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I can safely say that I've never seen a world leader get bored of a crisis. Also, it's weird that Donald Trump is saying this when he's the one still talking shit from twenty fifteen covid go. But I'm so bored. Why isn't anyone talking about Hillary's emails keep up with the times people.

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Hey, shout out to covid for helping Trump understand what we felt for the past five years. Every time we switch on the TV and heard his name. Trump, Trump, Trump always trump. Oh, and by the way, maybe the reason the news isn't talking about the plane that went down with five hundred people is because there was no plane that went down with five hundred people. And if you think five hundred and ten people dying is big news, remember that almost a thousand real people a day are still dying from covid, covid, covid.

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I mean, if you're going to bullshit us, at least make the numbers work, have a fake airplane crash into another fake airplane that goes down and crashes into a pretend petting zoo, and then the animals get out and more like six hundred more fake people. That way you get close to the covid numbers for today. I mean, seriously, how does this president still not get it? People are still talking about covid because people are still dying from covid.

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Imagine if the captain of the Titanic had this attitude. All anyone is talking about is drowning, drowning, drowning, as if tonight not all you can eat shrimp. At the dining hall. Now I know what you're thinking. If Trump is tired of hearing about covid on the TV news, well, there's actually something that he could do about it. Just turn off the TV. But even that might not work, because these days the news is coming from inside the house.

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This morning, concerns of another coronavirus outbreak at the White House after five of Vice President Mike Pence's associates, including his chief of staff, tested positive for covid-19. His chief of staff, Mark Short, was with the vice president on every campaign stop last week, including Friday night at a rally in Ohio. Short now in isolation and experiencing symptoms, Pence's body man, a personal assistant who accompanies him virtually everywhere, a political aide who recently traveled with Pence on Air Force Two, along with two other staffers.

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But CDC guidelines call for a 14 day quarantine after exposure to the virus. A spokesman saying Pence will continue to travel as planned, quote, in accordance with the CDC guidelines for essential personnel.

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Critics say campaigning for office does not qualify as essential.

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Wow. Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the coronavirus task force, has covered all over his office.

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This is like finding out that the Flash came in second in a marathon. I don't care what African country that got was from. You're supposed to be the flash, although, I mean, technically, this is one way to keep track of covid-19. You know what they say, keep your friends close and the coronavirus even closer. Honestly, though, people I'm not mad at Pence. I'm just disappointed in him because I get Trump not following the rules.

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We know he can't read, but don't tell me that Mike Pence can't follow strict protocols. I mean, that dude's rules about being around women are more complicated than the rules for meeting the queen. Again, I apologize, Your Majesty. I thought you were trying to chop my neck off so that you could become Hylander, and that's why I fought you. Now, if Pence hasn't caught Korona, this is actually some really good information for us to learn about the virus, because now we know that you can get the virus if you breathing the same as someone who is positive.

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But you clearly can't catch the virus if you spend all your time kissing that person's ass. And it's well that even after he's been exposed to the virus, Mike Pence is still going to campaign. Yeah, I mean, it's a terrible idea. And honestly, I think it will backfire because who the hell is going to a rally with Mike Pence if that might give you coronavirus? And yeah, I know people go to Trump rallies after he got covid, but that's Trump is ready is a fun that's worth getting Korona for.

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No one wants to get Korona from Mike Pence, especially because he already makes you feel like you have Korona. Yeah.

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You know, after he talks, you're exhausted. It's hard to breathe and you just want to lie down.

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But it turns out there's actually a very good reason that the White House isn't following guidelines for preventing the spread of the virus. They just don't want to.

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And the White House sounds like they are admitting that they have given up on trying to stop the spread of coronavirus. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows telling CNN, quote, We are not going to control the pandemic.

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Here's what we have to do. We're not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation. Are we going to get it because it is a contagious virus, just like the flu.

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But interesting. So the plan is to just let coronavirus spread freely throughout America. It's interesting how Xen, Trump's people are about this, because with an immigrant child who came over the border, they like zero tolerance. One is too many. We have to deport. But with a virus that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, they like, look, man, the virus is just trying to make a better life in our lungs. Who are we to stop it?

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All right. When we come back, we continue our epic countdown of Donald Trump's top one hundred scandals. And stay tuned because Bruce Springsteen is going to be on the show.

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So here's Roy Wood Jr. with part two of Donald Trump's one hundred most tremendous scandals. What does it take to be the worst luck talent? Jared Kushner is your top adviser. Donald Trump has all of these, and it's helped make him the most scandal ridden president in American history. But which of these scandals is the best of the worst?

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The Daily Show consulted historians, political scientists and psychoanalysts. And we ignored all of those people and pull something out of our ass. This is Donald Trump's 100 most tremendous scandals. And we're picking up right where we left off at number seventy five.

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This was the largest audience to ever witnessed an inauguration period.

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Alternative facts, whether they may have had some kind of Russian money funneling through them to help Trump tax dollars to travel by private jet, the forty three thousand dollars, some phone booth and a sweetheart deal on a fifty dollar month Capitol Hill rental from a lobbyist. One hundred and thirty nine thousand dollar price tag for new doors, high end taxpayer funded dinners, a three hundred million dollar contract work for a place that marketed a masculine toilet for a well endowed man.

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It's a wonderful line. I own some of it. Go buy it today.

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What was my temperament yesterday in the context of a campaign urging the government of perceived enemies rush through Jared and Ivanka security clearances using private email server a sweetheart deal to Jeffrey Epstein abuse allegations from both of his former wives. The raid has continued to court political controversy, particularly with regards to the death of the Navy SEAL.

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And she'd get a clean your floors. You got to clean your floor for us. Urging his millions of Twitter followers to boycott American company.

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I said, please don't be too nice.

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Shoot migrants in the legs, fortifying a border wall with a water filled trench stocked with snakes and alligators.

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They want more people in their sanctuary cities. Well, we'll give them more people. We can give them a lot crazy.

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Elizabeth Warren or as I affectionately call her, Pocahontas. Obama wiretapped him in Trump Tower. That came from a Breitbart article. That was a total conspiracy theory. I know nothing about children. I just tried very little. You told me. But you tell me. Doesn't necessarily make a check. Damn, that's exhausting. And you thought you weren't getting anything done at the office? Well, that brings us to tonight's final scandal coming in at number fifty one.

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It involves Twitter, a Category five hurricane, and the worst use of a Sharpie since your college roommate drew a nature's fury.

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In September of 2008, a storm was brewing in the Atlantic.

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Hurricane Doriot making its way toward the United States. Forecasters expecting it to make a dramatic turn to the north.

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I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category five. I knew it existed a Category five or something. And I don't know that. I've never even heard the term other that I know it's there.

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But Hurricane Dorian was nothing compared to the tempest about to blow the roof off the Oval Office.

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Hurricane Don, the National Weather Service had to scramble to correct misinformation from President Trump about Dorien, President Trump tweeted, in addition to Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated.

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The National Weather Service corrected the president, saying Alabama will not see any impacts from Dorien.

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Suddenly, America was caught between two claims, but who? Two scientists who have dedicated their lives to the study of weather patterns, or man who thinks wind is caused by birds flapping too hard?

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This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water, as the people of Alabama braced for either massive destruction or slightly overcast skies.

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There was still time to avoid disaster. All President Trump had to say was sorry, I was wrong. The hurricane is not going to hit.

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Alabama is going to get a piece of it. It looks like it is a very, very powerful hurricane. A great place called Alabama and Alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that it could be.

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That's right. Although the experts tried to make Trump understand he had already boarded up his ears.

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Hurricane Dorian had moved on narrowly, missing Alabama by 600 miles.

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But Hurricane Dolly was just born after seeing an ABC News report on his mistake.

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Trump gained new strength tweeting such a phony hurricane report by lightweight reporter Jon Karl of ABC News.

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It was a direct attack on science and also on Twitter user Jonathan Karl, who is a Kentucky pastor and not ABC News anchor John Kalid, innocent victim of Hurricane Donald. Over the next 36 hours, Hurricane Donald seemed to die down, but then it returned.

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This time with the Shahabi in a White House video released Wednesday, Trump displays a modified National Hurricane Center forecast. The graphic appears to have been altered with a Sharpie to indicate a risk the storm would move into Alabama.

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I know that Alabama was in the original forecast. They actually gave that a 95 percent chance.

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That's right. Donald Trump tried to redraw a map with a Sharpie. Have some respect for intelligence, at least learn Photoshop. But what if the culprit wasn't Trump at all?

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But usually today it looks like it's almost like a Sharpie. I don't know.

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I don't know. It was a real mystery. Who could have possibly taken a Sharpie to a hurricane map? It had to be someone with an almost pathological obsession with using the permanent markers as if they needed their marks to beat the boulders the loudest, the most permanent, but who there would be no way to know for certain.

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The storm raged for days, ruined in spring and summer, became a Category five tweets storm. Government agencies that most Americans had never even heard transform into hazardous projectiles by the Secretary of Commerce.

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Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency's Birmingham office contradicted Trump's claim.

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What began as one bad tweet had escalated into a full scale political scandal with not one, not two, but three government investigations with a Sharpie drawing a fake path of a hurricane. It's a scandal that simply can't be erased, all because there was a hurricane over a year ago that had a five to 20 percent chance of hitting Alabama, but ultimately did. I remember Sharpey gate very well, although I like to call it Bengazi, that's all the time we have for tonight.

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Join us next time as we explore the world of porn stars, Little Rocket Man and five different flavors of racism as we continue to countdown Donald Trump's 100 most tremendous scandals.

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All right. We have to take a quick break, but we don't want you to go anywhere, because when we come back, I'll be talking to the legend, Bruce Springsteen.

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Bruce Springsteen, welcome to The Daily Social Distancing Show.

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Thank you very much. It is truly an honor to have you here because you are not just an artist. You are not just a successful artist. But in many ways, people would say that you write the story of America in your music. You've been extremely successful doing it. I mean, 20 Grammys, two Golden Globes, a Tony Award, an Oscar. At this stage of your life, what do you think Bruce Springsteen is still trying to tell people through his music?

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Just trying to keep going at 71?

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I'm just trying to make it to the next record in the next show, you know, but I don't know.

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I guess if someone was interested in sort of. A little bit of. Cataloguing the history of the United States since, say, 1970 in his post on post-industrial period in music, looking for music that dealt with some of the issues that have occurred over the past 40 or 50 years. You know, there's they could do worse than go and dig into some of my stuff, I suppose. You know, so far I've been good for anything. Maybe maybe I've been good for that a little bit.

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And then the rest of the time, I'm just trying to entertain you and help you do your washing your laundry and vacuum your floor and dance a little bit in the kitchen. And, you know, we're here to soothe your soul through troubled times a little bit if we can.

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And and that's how I look at my job.

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One thing that makes your job so interesting or rather the execution of your job is that it feels like you're talking about everybody's lives, everybody society, what you see going on. I mean, you've written music about police brutality. Many, many years ago that if someone played that song today, they'd go like, oh, you wrote it about now. But when you when you look at those themes, I've always wanted to know, like, what do you think you're trying to get across to the listener?

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What do you think the music is trying to achieve? Is it just to shine a light on the subject or is it also infuse a little bit of your politics and what you what you experience in and around the world?

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I suppose it's a little bit of both. You know, it's the way you see things and and how you're experiencing them. And I hope there's a part of me that says if you were interested in knowing what it was like to be a citizen of the United States between 1970 and 2020, like I said, you know, you that that may be in my work a little bit. A lot of the times you're just written, you just write what moves you what.

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And then but also you write what you are able to write about, because very often I don't I don't operate from the conceptual from a conceptual place.

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First I operate sort of internally first and then and then it becomes outward.

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So a song say like American Skin that I wrote in nineteen ninety eight about the Amadou Diallo shooting is can feel current today, you know. But it was just something at the time I remember I was thinking we were coming to New York. I wanted to have a new piece of music and that was, that had recently occurred and I was just able to write about it. So. So I did.

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You know, I didn't I didn't think it was going to be particularly controversial at the time. It ended up being a little more so than I thought. But but that's kind of how I approached the political aspect in my music is more is through implication. I try to write good. I try to write good three dimensional character studies where I bring lives to life, you know, and create and create breathing, living human beings that you will recognize it in my music.

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And then I'm kind of let the politics speak for itself, you know, of course, some of your own comes through. But but I really I wouldn't I don't consider myself a topical songwriter. I don't consider myself a political songwriter. If anything, at this late age, I. I would say I'm I'm a little more I, I've been saying I've been a little bit more of a spiritual songwriter in that that's what's sort of been driving my some of my most recent work.

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So that's that's basically the way I look at my job and what I do.

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I think that's one of the more fascinating things about you, is that you always refer to it as a job. You know, even in the documentary, I loved how you reunites in the E Street Band. Here you are, you know, 50 years from the inception of this idea. And you guys are jamming and you play for a very long time. And I love that you say to them, you say to the guys you like, guys, this is our job.

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We have a job to do. And everyone's talking about a job and it's work and you guys having a great time. But it's like you're working. It's like we're working. We're getting the chords. We're doing the thing. Why do you think you work so hard? It may seem like an obvious question, but why do you think you work so hard and play for so long to make the songs what they are?

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I just like to do it. You know, it's the way that I've love the way that I've enjoyed doing my job since I was a very, very young young man.

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You know, when I was 18 or 19, I was used to playing five hours a night in a bar. So I was very used to that kind of playing very early in my in my work life. And I also felt I was. Desperate to communicate and and just as starting from when I was young, I felt there was a lot I wanted to talk to you about right now. And I don't know what tomorrow brings, but I know that this evening we're all here and we're in this room.

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So I'm interested in making the most of my opportunity to speak to you tonight. And that drove me more than anything else. It's something I've just always enjoyed. I've enjoyed doing. When I come off stage, I feel a release and a catharsis that occurs through that kind of work. And I don't think and that's what that's just what's driven me, you know? So it's really it's really what drives you when and how you approach your job. And I always approached it as as this very sort of, I would say, joyous work.

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You know, I've gotten this tremendous amount of joy out of it. We're serious when we when we get on when we get on the stage or when we come in the studio.

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So there's not exactly what I would call a party atmosphere, I suppose, you know, but it's a work atmosphere where there's an enormous amount of happiness and joy and simply it's simply what we're accomplishing.

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Don't go away, because when we come back, we've got more with Bruce Springsteen. You know how they say history repeats itself on the Frost Tapes podcast will be sharing interviews from legendary TV host David Frost, who sat down with some of the most influential people of the 60s and 70s, a time that feels so much like today.

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We've allowed ourselves to be so divided when you suddenly think that's me, too.

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But when the president does it, that means that it is not only listen to the frost tapes on the radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Welcome back. So the daily social distancing show, here's part two of my interview with Bruce Springsteen.

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For a long time, your music has been the catharsis. You have seen people who have felt unseen. You have spoken about towns that are forgotten in time. You've spoken about industries and places and people that that seem to have been completely forgotten. And yet at the same time, you have as big a following on the coast. You cross all walks of life. I wonder if you ever sit and ask yourself why you think you do so well with such a broad swath of people?

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Well, I would say, first and foremost, I'm a good storyteller, you know, and people like stories and they like stories that connect to their inner geography, your inner geography. May or may not have to do with anything you've experienced or not experienced. It's simply the geography of your emotional life. And I believe I've I've done well in speaking to that, you know, and our largest audience is in Europe.

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We have two thirds of our of our audience exists in Europe now much, much, much, much bigger than the United States.

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And so why is that? I think I'm a good storyteller, you know, and I think in Europe, people are very interested in America and American myth and and what's going on over here. And those are the stories I've told since I since I was a young man.

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And but really, I believe what's at the heart of it is, is people like your music. They like the way it sounds, they like the way you sing. And they like the stories you tell.

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You tell stories that some people cannot tell for themselves. You know, I'm I always love listening to your music because I felt like it took me on a journey through what people refer to as the heartland of America. What I've also been intrigued by in your music is how people oftentimes miss the meaning of your music, misconstrue your music, or have a completely different understanding of what the music is. So so, for instance, a great example is like Born in the USA, you know, like people played in a way that when you listen to the lyrics you like, well, this doesn't seem like how people are dancing, like people like, yeah, this is a song about Let's take over the world.

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I'm born in the USA. And your song seems to me like it's like it's like you're questioning this this whole idea of what America is doing in the Vietnam War. And and again, it can translate to what's happening today.

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What do you how do you feel about that when people are playing your song for, like, the opposite reason that you wrote the song for?

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Well, in this particular case, this is my cross to bear.

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So I try to bear it with a smile. But but I think what the issue is, is that. The key to some of my music is you need to be able to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time, which is sort of the measure, a bit of the measure of adulthood. So you need to be able to deal with the fact that a song can be both prideful and critical.

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And that idea is very central to a lot of my music, because that's how I feel, you know, proud of my country, I I've I've had an amazing life and gotten the best out of it through living here. But there's a lot to continue to be critical about. So both of those things are going into my music. It's a bit up to the listener to listen well, if you want to get the whole picture. But to do so, you've really got to be able to hold the idea.

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Pride and criticalness can go hand in hand. Let's talk about being critical then you came out in an interview recently and said if Trump wins a second term, you'll move to Australia, I I don't think that's true.

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Right.

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It just didn't feel like something you would do well. I don't think I'm going to go there, but I'm not sure yet. So we'll see. But, you know, I'll be glad to see him go. I think he's going to lose and I'll be glad to see that happen.

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We've got we've got a new album from Bruce Springsteen. We've got a documentary. We've got so many pieces of material that we can enjoy of yours right now. You've got new music that's just come out. You've got a few tracks that you've previously unreleased tracks from decades and decades ago that you that you've remade for today. It feels like you've always been sure about yourself. It feels like you're prolific because you know that you have something to say. But I wonder when you create do you still have doubts?

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Sometimes any good artists wrestles with their insecurities. It's your insecurities that move you forward if you were simply. Comfortable with completely comfortable with who you are and what you're doing and where you've done. I don't know if you would have the fire in you to move forward if you had doubts and your questions and you were searching for new and different answers that move you forward in your work. So I would describe myself to I have more artistic security security than I had when I was 23.

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In some ways. But I don't believe that that necessarily had anything to do with the quality of the music that I was writing. I can look back and say, when I was twenty five, I made this record Born to Run and as good as any record I've ever made. I wrote it when I was twenty four years old. I've got songs on this album that I wrote when I was 22 years old before I made any record, before we recorded any, any music and it was three of them that ended up on this record.

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So. So those things. I don't necessarily influence the quality of your artistic output, but I do believe that that your doubts and questions and insecurities do move your work forward, do keep you questioning, do keep you searching. And that's at the key of artistic progression.

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My final question to you is, as someone who was born to run, someone who's always been on the road, someone who has performed thousands of concerts all around the globe, what have you been doing during the pandemic?

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I am going to sit still at the moment. So I'm doing what everybody else is doing, you know? I mean, we stay inside a lot. You know, we have a few friends that we're careful. We see where social distancing you over. And luckily, luckily enough, I have a studio at my home which were I'm in right now and I've had a variety of projects to keep me busy. I had the film. I had the album which we started pre Pandemic, and I have a radio show that I do bi weekly, basically, which I've enjoyed doing and has allowed me to continue the conversation with my audience during this strange and during these strange times that I've been lucky that, like I say, that I can work at home, that of course, I'm extremely fortunate that I don't have some of the worries that that that that other folks have and that as far as getting through tomorrow or the next day or next year, you know, but our circumstances have sort of been, you know, Paga you know, my family, I'm lucky enough to have my family here.

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So and it's we've just been holding on like everybody else.

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Well, I appreciate you. It's been a wonderful journey for me, going through your body of music, getting ready for this interview. So you've got a brand new fan. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much for joining us on the show. Thank you so much again for that.

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Bruce, the album Letter to You is available now and you can stream the documentary on Apple TV plus. Well, that's our show for tonight. But before we go, I wanted to remind you that we're partnering with World Central Kitchen for the new Chefs for the Polls program. What they're doing is activating local food trucks, restaurants and caterers owned and operated primarily by people of color to serve food to people who are waiting in long lines, especially in underserved communities, until tomorrow.

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