{"id":806948,"date":"2020-04-30T05:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=992080"},"modified":"2020-04-30T05:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:48:22","slug":"trevor-noah-riffs-on-new-zealanders-rush-to-mcdonalds-after-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/trevor-noah-riffs-on-new-zealanders-rush-to-mcdonalds-after-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah Riffs on New Zealanders\u2019 Rush to McDonald\u2019s After Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trevor Noah<\/a> continued his at-home monologues on The Daily Social Distancing Show<\/em><\/a> Wednesday night with a riff on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who had an unfortunate mix-up involving the state\u2019s flood of unemployment applications during the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n

In a press conference, Beshear publicly called out a form that listed the applicant\u2019s name as \u201cTupac Shakur,\u201d and admonished others who might be tempted to file for unemployment under a fake name. Later, he apologized, as the guy\u2019s name really was <\/em>Tupac Shakur.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the one hand, the governor should know that it\u2019s possible for two people to have the same name,\u201d Noah said. \u201cBut on the other hand, if the person you share a name with is Tupac Shakur<\/a>, at least throw in a middle initial so people don\u2019t get confused.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other COVID-related news, New Zealand\u2019s government has determined that it\u2019s safe for the country to come out of quarantine, and many New Zealanders are celebrating\u2026by going to McDonald\u2019s. Reports show Kiwis lining up the block to order from the fast food chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m willing to bet some people were just driving up for the social interaction,\u201d Noah said.<\/p>\n

Later, the host shared images of fashion fans putting together their own Met Gala outfits from household objects (this year\u2019s Gala was canceled due to the pandemic), and pointed out that a deadly asteroid had just barely grazed past Earth this week, as though we need another disaster to worry about. (Luckily, he quipped, the asteroid respected social-distancing.)<\/p>\n

Noah also discussed the Blue Angel and Thunderbird jets that flew over New York City this week in support of healthcare workers fighting the virus. Unfortunately, crowds turned up in the city\u2019s public spaces to watch the planes, violating the CDC\u2019s recommendations for social-distancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did they expect people to do?\u201d Noah said. \u201cIf you do cool shit outside, people are gonna come outside, \u2019cause they wanna see what\u2019s happening. What\u2019s your next bright idea, huh? Is the military gonna hire Channing Tatum to walk around in a Speedo?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trevor Noah continued his at-home monologues on The Daily Social Distancing Show Wednesday night with a riff on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who had an unfortunate mix-up involving the state\u2019s flood of unemployment applications during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press conference, Beshear publicly called out a form that listed the applicant\u2019s name as \u201cTupac Shakur,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 14:21:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}