The Precap | Desi Lydic on the Met Gala, the Kentucky Derby, and Meeting Meryl Streep

Summary

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition – “The Precap”

Host: Nicole Conlon

Guest Host: Desi Lydick

Date: May 4, 2026

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Overview

This lively episode of “The Precap” features Daily Show writer Nicole Conlon in conversation with this week’s host, Desi Lydick. Together, they dish on Desi’s surreal brush with Meryl Streep, Kentucky Derby history, the latest from the Supreme Court and Louisiana politics, the abrupt demise of Spirit Airlines, a whale rescue in Germany, and the spectacle of the Met Gala—with plenty of trademark wit and warmth. The episode wraps with entertainment recommendations suitable for your parents (or not).

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Main Topics & Key Insights

1. Desi Lydick Meets Meryl Streep ([02:05]–[04:20])

• Nicole launches right in by highlighting Desi’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where she crossed paths with none other than Meryl Streep.
• Desi describes the surreal encounter:

  “I am so an admirer. And before I could even finish my sentence, she goes, ‘Oh, I know who you are. I watch your show all the time.’ And I about, like, I don’t even remember anything that happened.” ([03:25])

• The moment leaves the hosts in awe and leads to classic Daily Show self-deprecation about sharing space with legends.

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2. Kentucky Derby Milestone ([04:34]–[08:28])

• Big news: Cherie DeVoe becomes the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby, with horse Golden Tempo and jockey Jose Ortiz.
  • Nicole: “They love each other and the horse was like nuzzling into her… It was really sweet.” ([05:09])
  • Desi: “We have a little bit of good feminist news. Finally!” ([05:28])
• Banter about quirky horse names: Dan and Bourbon, Intrepido, Incrediboult, Chief Wallaby.
• “Great White” the horse falls and can’t race:
  • Nicole quips, “So, I guess the Great White race is no longer… but the horse is fine.” ([07:14])
• Derby rules as political metaphor:
  • Desi: “They have hard age limits, and you can’t win more than once.” ([07:59])
  • Nicole: “We need all our House and Senate races to operate by Kentucky Derby rules.” ([08:03])
  • Desi: “Most importantly, you’re not allowed to start a podcast.” ([08:19])

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3. Viral Video: Retired Racehorses Reacting to the Derby ([08:28]–[10:20])

• Nicole introduces a viral TikTok of retired racehorses reacting to the Derby trumpet sound.
• Desi admits the horses “look like me at my wedding when the trumpet played—I sprinted down the aisle.” ([09:34])
• Fun anecdote: Desi’s Kentucky wedding included the Churchill Downs “call to post” trumpet.

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4. SCOTUS, Louisiana, and Voting Rights ([11:54]–[15:18])

• Discussion of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on Louisiana’s racially gerrymandered congressional map and the chaos it caused.
  • Nicole: “There was no big signage explaining the change—just a sheet of all the races that was up on the wall, and it had been updated in pen.” ([13:13])
  • Desi: “So, 86 the soup. Oh wait, I can’t say that—the FBI’s gonna come after you.” ([13:20])
• Satirical take:
  • Nicole: “It’s crazy to have to be told by the king that we overthrew that we’re not being fair to our citizens.” ([15:02])

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5. Mifepristone & Abortion Access ([15:55]–[18:47])

• 5th U.S. Circuit restricts mailing of abortion pill, requiring in-person distribution.
• Both hosts rail against the double standard, given ease of access for ED meds:
  • Desi: “Erectile dysfunction pills are on an opt-out system. Like a West Elm catalog… You have to call and say stop sending these.” ([16:44])
• Telehealth woes:
  • Nicole: “They’re forcing me to defend telehealth, a system I hate… If I have to download one more portal, I’m gonna throw my phone into the ocean.” ([17:26], [18:15])
• Supreme Court has put a temporary hold, so access remains (for now).

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6. Spirit Airlines Collapse ([19:07]–[21:16])

• Spirit Airlines abruptly ceases operations—stranding passengers mid-trip.
  • Nicole: “You’re halfway to Des Moines. They’re like, get out.” ([19:24])
  • Desi: “In true Spirit Airlines fashion, they will stop operations mid flight. On brand all the way to the end.” ([19:16])
• Consumer advice: Spirit’s direct-booked customers to be refunded; third-party purchases are a hassle.
• What budget airline will be the new “punching bag”?
  • Nicole & Desi nominate Southwest and Frontier ([21:00])
• Touching moment: A Spirit pilot enjoys a Southwest water cannon retirement salute after his own airline vanishes.
  • Nicole: “He didn’t even land it… but still got the applause.” ([22:30])

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7. The Saga of Timmy, The German Whale ([23:35]–[27:34])

• Heartwarming: Technological and physical efforts finally free a stranded juvenile humpback named Timmy in Germany.
  • Nicole details the extensive rescue: “They tried to guide him out with boats, like sheepdogs… eventually, millionaires built a giant barge to lift him out.” ([24:03], [24:44])
• Eccentric characters:
  • Nicole: “A YouTuber who went by Danny First Class and a self-proclaimed ‘whale whisperer’ both demanded to form a spiritual connection with him.” ([26:32])
• Desi: “That is not something you hear often: a heartwarming story out of Germany.” ([25:26])
• Wealth for good: Both hosts long for American billionaires to rescue whales instead of, as Desi says, “shutting down newspapers.” ([26:51])

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8. Met Gala Anticipation ([28:57]–[33:45])

• Tonight’s Met Gala: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez co-chair.
  • Nicole: “I personally think that if Jeff Bezos is going to go to the Met Gala, he should have to wear clothes from Amazon.” ([29:39])
  • Desi: “Everyone suddenly turns into a fashion critic… I’m sitting on my couch in sweats eating Flaming Hot Cheetos.” ([30:11])
• Pet peeve: Celebrities not following the theme.
  • Nicole: “You can’t play it safe at the Met. If you’re gonna go, you gotta go all the way.” ([31:03])
• Fundraising brainstorm:
  • Desi: “If this is how we fund the Department of Education—just have celebrities show up in a fur and a bustle to Roosevelt Elementary, I’d take it.” ([32:11])
• Campaign announced: Listeners to rally for Desi to score an invite to next year’s Met Gala.
  • Desi: “You don’t have to ask me twice [to wear something crazy].” ([33:18])

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9. Recommendations ([34:52]–[40:04])

• Nicole’s Pick ([35:13]):
  • Tim’s Vermeer (Documentary): An “absolutely perfect” art-and-engineering film for family viewing, centering on one man’s obsessive attempt to replicate a Vermeer painting.
• Desi’s Pick ([37:27]):
  • Titanique (Musical): “Pure ridiculous fun; a wonderful queer fever dream” about Celine Dion’s version of Titanic. Marla Mindelle stars and will be a guest on the show this week.
  • Both agree: Great for you, maybe not for your parents (“There are a lot of dildo jokes”). ([37:02])
• Bonus: Nicole shares Celine Dion as a full Grinch for Christmas, lauding her “so weird” sense of humor ([38:41]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Desi Lydick on Meryl Streep ([03:25]):
  “I am so an admirer. And before I could even finish my sentence, she goes, ‘Oh, I know who you are. I watch your show all the time.’ And I about, like, I don’t even remember anything that happened.”
• Nicole Conlon on Kentucky Derby ([05:47]):
  “We have a little bit of good feminist news. Finally, finally, finally.”
• Desi Lydick on the Derby’s political lessons ([07:59]):
  “They have hard age limits, and you can’t win more than once.”
• Nicole Conlon on ballot confusion ([13:13]):
  “There was no big signage explaining the change—just a sheet of all the races… updated in pen.”
• Desi Lydick on male contraceptives ([16:44]):
  “Erectile dysfunction pills are on an opt-out system. Like a West Elm catalog… You have to call and say stop sending these.”
• On the Met Gala ([30:11]):
  Desi: “I’m sitting on my couch in sweats eating flaming hot Cheetos… That drop waist bodice is all wrong.”
• Desi’s Mother’s Day wish ([33:45]):
  “I think I just want to sleep in, wake up late to a new administration, and that’s all.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:05 — Meryl Streep encounter
• 04:34 — Kentucky Derby recap
• 08:28 — Retired racehorses TikTok discussion
• 11:54 — SCOTUS, Louisiana, and gerrymandering
• 15:55 — Mifepristone ruling
• 19:07 — Spirit Airlines shutdown
• 23:35 — Timmy the whale’s saga
• 28:57 — Met Gala preview & critiques
• 34:52 — Recommendations (Tim’s Vermeer & Titanique)
• 40:04 — Show close and sign-off

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Conclusion

This Precap episode is a whirlwind of pop culture, political satire, and heartfelt moments, packed with sharp humor and spirited camaraderie. The highlight reel includes Desi Lydick’s dream-come-true run-in with Meryl Streep, the triumphs and absurdities of Kentucky Derby weekend, biting political commentary on voting rights and reproductive health, and playful sidebars about fashion and stranded whales. The banter is always brisk, sometimes biting, but never mean—and always, unmistakably, The Daily Show.

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Transcript

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[Nicole Conlon]

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello and welcome to the Pre Cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host and recap some of the news from last week and talk about what's coming up next. My name is Nicole Conlon. I'm one of the writers at the show, and I am here with this week's host, Desi Lydick. Hi, Desi. How are you? Nicole?

[Desi Lydick]

We get to do one together.

[Nicole Conlon]

I know. I'm so excited. I haven't done one with you yet.

[Desi Lydick]

I know. I love an excuse to hang with you.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. Now, we're gonna get into the news of the past week in a second. But the most important thing that I want to talk about from the last week is that you were on Jimmy Kimmel this week.

[Desi Lydick]

It is the most important thing.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's the most important thing. And the reason it's the most important thing is that I saw that you were there the same day as Meryl Streep.

[Desi Lydick]

Can you even believe? First of all, I gotta follow Jon Stewart every week when I host and then I go to Kimmel and he makes me follow Meryl Streep. How fucked up is that? So messed up.

[Nicole Conlon]

That just shows that you have an incredible star power that they're like, we can trust Desi to go up after Screen legends, hardly.

[Desi Lydick]

But the bigger the star. You could just ride those coattails.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, I think that's perfect.

[Desi Lydick]

That was my thing.

[Nicole Conlon]

Did you get to meet her? Is she cool?

[Desi Lydick]

Okay, I am still having a complete out of body. I didn't think I was gonna get to meet her because I was walking onto the stage as she was walking off of the stage down two separate hallways. So I thought. I kind of went like, oh, Meryl. And then thought, well, that was my chance. I never got to see her. And we finished up, I went back to the green room and said my goodbyes and walked out. And she was standing there signing autographs because she's a queen. Signing autographs for people outside. And I was like, okay, I have to introduce myself. So I was, like, standing by.

[Nicole Conlon]

You got into the crowd with people? Yeah, I have an autograph.

[Desi Lydick]

I grabbed a Sharpie and started signing as her. They won't notice. So I'm standing off to the side, and I'm waiting for her to finish, and she comes over, and someone that she works with introduced me to her. And I put my hand out and I go, I am so an admirer. And before I could even finish my sentence, she goes, oh, I know who you are. I watch your show all the time. And I about, like. I don't even remember anything that happened.

[Nicole Conlon]

If Meryl Streep said that to me, I would. I would dissolve into a fine mist and float away.

[Desi Lydick]

And then she gave me a hug. I haven't showered since.

[Nicole Conlon]

That's normal for you, though, right?

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah, no, this is totally on Brand.

[Nicole Conlon]

Well, that's so cool. You were so great on Kiss. Kimmel. You're so sweet. Thank you. God, what a weekend.

[Desi Lydick]

He made it easy.

[Nicole Conlon]

I hate you for it. I want. I want to meet Meryl Streep. That sounds awesome. Okay, now that we have the big news of the week out of the way, there's another exciting story that is somewhat personal for you because you are from Kentucky.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

The Kentucky Derby was this weekend.

[Desi Lydick]

The Kentucky Derby was this weekend.

[Nicole Conlon]

And for the first time, a female trainer.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

Horse. Won the Derby.

[Desi Lydick]

Won the Derby. First time ever. Which is kind of remarkable, isn't it?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes, it's super remarkable. Now, it's worth noting that she didn't win the Derby. The horse did.

[Desi Lydick]

The horse. Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

But she did train the horse.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes. She also was not the jockey. She did not ride on the horse.

[Nicole Conlon]

But it was also. It was the jockeys. Jose Otis Jorse.

[Desi Lydick]

You can say that again. Wait, this jockey's name was Jorce.

[Nicole Conlon]

Really funny.

[Desi Lydick]

What are the odds?

[Nicole Conlon]

Jose Ortiz was the name of the jockey, and I think he's been in the Derby like 11 or 12 times and this was his first win, so that's exciting for him too. And I was looking at pictures of Cherie Devoe, who is the horse's trainer, and the horse afterwards, and they love each other and the horse was like nuzzling into her and they were hugging each other. It was really sweet.

[Desi Lydick]

That's really odd. It was a huge win. That was a huge moment for her. I knew that that was her one. Like, that was her dream ever since, I don't know, since she was a little girl. But like, since she decided to become a horse trainer, she said, I want to be the first woman to win the Kentucky Derby. So that's. That's great. We have a little bit of good feminist news.

[Nicole Conlon]

Finally, finally, finally. Can I tell you, this is a total tangent, but I'm. Fans of mine will know that I'm a huge Murder She Wrote fan. And I. I just constantly have it on TV in the background. There's like 11 episodes of Murder She Wrote where she solves like a. Like a horse racing related murder. I don't know if it was just like a producer on the show, like loves horse racing and was like, do an episode and this will be a tax write off for me. Or.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah, maybe they have a pretty hardcore hors racing gambling addiction. Maybe that's where my mind went to.

[Nicole Conlon]

There's. There's so many episodes of it. It's wild. The other thing that I want to talk about with the Kentucky Derby is usually there's so many fun horse names. This year there were a lot of regal horses.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

There was one called Intrepido. Oh, and for the record, the horse that won the Derby is named Golden Tempo.

[Desi Lydick]

Right.

[Nicole Conlon]

Which I think is fun.

[Desi Lydick]

It's a great name.

[Nicole Conlon]

Intrepido is good. My favorite of the horse names is Dan and Bourbon.

[Desi Lydick]

Dan and Bourbon is a great name

[Nicole Conlon]

because it feels like whoever named it was, was like, shit, I gotta name the horse. And was just like looking around in their fridge and was like, we got Dannon yogurt, Bourbon. Fine, do it. Run with it. Put it together.

[Desi Lydick]

It's got Bourbon. That'll people be happy. Kentuckians love it.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. Incrediboult is good. Chief Wallaby is good. Now there was a horse called Great White who fell.

[Desi Lydick]

Who fell and couldn't even race.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

So I guess the Great White Race is no longer. I mean, the horse is okay.

[Nicole Conlon]

The horse is fine.

[Desi Lydick]

The horse is not going anywhere. The horse is fine.

[Nicole Conlon]

But the race didn't happen. The downfall of the great white race. It truly was the downfall.

[Desi Lydick]

Really Great white.

[Nicole Conlon]

That's really tough for Kentucky.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

So it was. That was a big blow.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

Plus the female traitor. They were very.

[Nicole Conlon]

It was tough. It's. We're being. Kentucky is being pushed into the future against its will.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes. I do think there is something to be learned about the Kentucky Derby with the midterms coming up. I think about this sometimes. They are doing something right in terms of it's a short race, you don't have to run a long campaign.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Desi Lydick]

They have hard age limits.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

And you can't win more than once.

[Nicole Conlon]

Wow.

[Desi Lydick]

Right?

[Nicole Conlon]

This is such an insightful point. Don't you. We need all of our, like, House and Senate races to operate by Kentucky Derby rules.

[Desi Lydick]

That's right. I think we could rip a page out of the Kentucky degree rule.

[Nicole Conlon]

And if a candidate falls for their own safety, they have to be out of the race.

[Desi Lydick]

They have to be out. You fall, you're out. And most importantly, you're not allowed to start a podcast.

[Nicole Conlon]

So I'd listen to a horse podcast.

[Desi Lydick]

I would, too.

[Nicole Conlon]

I think it'd be fun. Speaking of horses and podcasts, producer Alan, would you mind pulling up this video that I have? There was a trend on TikTok a while ago that I'd love to get just your quick reaction to, which is. And by the way, I looked this up, everybody. Whenever there's like an animal video, everyone in the comments is like, these animals are suffering. I looked it up. It's because they're excited.

[Desi Lydick]

Okay.

[Nicole Conlon]

These are retired racehorses who are just hanging out and they are reacting to the Kentucky Derby. Trumpet sound. Alan, will you play this for me?

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, no.

[Nicole Conlon]

Are they.

[Desi Lydick]

Is it ptsd?

[Nicole Conlon]

It's. I don't. It's not. It's them, like, they're bred to run. So I think all of them are like, oh, shit, I gotta go, I gotta go.

[Desi Lydick]

I gotta get hydrated.

[Nicole Conlon]

They're reacting the same way that, like, when you're in Penn Station and you hear your train is, like, about to leave, and you're like, oh, no. You're like, in the Dunkin Donuts line. But yeah, I read the comments and I read, like, horse trainers and they were like, it's cause they love running.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, that's so funny. I will say I have a very similar reaction. My husband and I got married in Kentucky and we had an outdoor wedding and right before I walked down the aisle, I thought, you know what would be really funny is if I got the guy from Churchill Downs to come over and do the call to the post.

[Nicole Conlon]

That's amazing.

[Desi Lydick]

And we hired this guy. It made us so happy. It was so ridiculous. He thought it would just be a funny joke. But then like everyone who was sitting down waiting for the wedding to begin, they were like, oh my God, are

[Nicole Conlon]

we gonna get trampled by horses?

[Desi Lydick]

So that horse look, that's like the look on everyone's face at my wedding when that happened. Should we duck?

[Nicole Conlon]

Do we need to? I thought it was fun that you sprinted down the aisle.

[Desi Lydick]

I did, I did. And then I ran right out of there. We actually never got married. Never looked back.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, well, seems like a nice guy. My husband and I walked out to our reception to the Godzilla bum bum bum bum bum. Which was a lot of fun. I fully support this.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes, it was great.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. So congratulations to Sherry Devoe and Golden Tempo and Jose Ortiz on your big Kentucky Derby win. And I hope all three of you got a nice bag of oats at the end of it. You all deserve it.

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[Nicole Conlon]

some good news out of the south for so long before they return to our regularly scheduled Jim Crow policies. Because the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Which, side note is kind of crazy, because this is the same court with the same justices that in 2024, ruled that Louisiana had to create a second majority black district. So they. They were like, we're going to start this, and we're going to finish it. It's. It's just crazy. And so they make this ruling, and according to precedent, it should obviously apply to the next election cycle. But now the governor of Louisiana has put House races on hold so they can implement this ruling right away, which is crazy because early voting's already underway. Some people have already sent their ballots back in.

[Desi Lydick]

Right.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's wild. And I was listening to this story on npr, and this reporter was like, there's a ton of confusion. I went to a polling site. There were people who weren't sure what to do because the House races are on the ballot. It's too late to take them off. Y officials have said that the votes cast won't be counted at the poll. There was no big signage explaining the change, just a sheet of all of the races that were supposed to be happening that was up on the wall, and it had been updated in pen.

[Desi Lydick]

In pen. I said that, too.

[Nicole Conlon]

Somebody was just like, this one. It's like when you run out of a special at a restaurant and you're like, I guess we're just not doing this one anymore.

[Desi Lydick]

So 86 the soup. Oh, wait, I can't say that.

[Nicole Conlon]

You can't say 86. Can't say that the FBI's gonna come after you. Watch out. So that whole situation is crazy, and that is, like, ongoing, because obviously we don't know what's gonna happen with that because they're facing legal challenges and hopefully this will work out. But it is crazy that they're trying to implement it while voting is already happening. It's so, like, grossly undemocratic.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, yeah. And what do you think is inspiring it? Could it be that they're not particularly popular? Is that. Do you think maybe it's suspect that voters are not in favor of what the president is doing right now?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. I don't know why they would want to gerrymander away a congressional district that would probably be represented by somebody who would oppose the president's actions. We may never know what the reason is. Right, right, right, right. But we can insinuate it, certainly.

[Desi Lydick]

Well, I guess we'll never find out.

[Nicole Conlon]

We'll never know. And this is, like, so undemocratic that last week, when the king of England was here. Even he was like, you guys gotta watch it.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes. Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

Like, I'm a king. And even I'm like, this is kind of crazy, right?

[Desi Lydick]

This is a little cringey what's happening here. It was amazing how he came in and gave that impassioned speech about checks and balances, and then all of Congress gives him a standing ovation. And I'm like, bitch, you are the ones in charge of checks and balances. You are not upholding the balance.

[Nicole Conlon]

Everybody in Congress, like, yes. Somebody should do something about this.

[Desi Lydick]

Someone should do this is. He's onto something. Someone should look into checks and balances.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. That is you.

[Desi Lydick]

It is insane.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy to have to be told by the king that we overthrew the country whose king we overthrew. Totally. Like, you guys need to. You're really not being fair to your citizens.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah. He goes back to the uk, he's, like, really glad they're not our problem anymore. It was a good, good outcome.

[Nicole Conlon]

He came over and he was doing, like, a little standup routine.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, I was impressed.

[Nicole Conlon]

He doesn't want to be the king. He wants to be like, you know Paula Poundstone. Yeah, he wants to be Paula Poundstone. No, he wants to be like Jimmy Carr.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

Being the king is fun, but he wants to be, like, on a panel show weekly on the BBC.

[Desi Lydick]

Someone give this man a platform. Truly, I'd watch it.

[Nicole Conlon]

So thank you to King Charles for your dire warnings. I'm positive they won't be heated. But it's still nice to hear.

[Desi Lydick]

Still nice to hear.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. So that's a story out of Louisiana. And Louisiana gave us another L this week because the 5th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in New Orleans, has restricted access to mifepristone, which is one of the most common means of abortion in the US Sometimes referred to as the abortion pill. And the way that they did it is by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. So now it's required that the abortion pill be distributed in person at clinics with people physically there.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah. So I guess we can't be sending loose pills in the mail anymore. I don't know what I'm gonna get my grandma for her birthday. Thanks, Louisiana, right before Mother's Day.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Desi Lydick]

Um, yeah. This is horrific and not surprising. We kind of knew that this was going to be next on the docket, that they would hit this as well.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

Meanwhile, like, by the way, erectile dysfunction pills are so Readily accessible. I feel like at this point they're on like an opt out system. It's like a West Elm catalog. They send you 10amonth and you have to call and say, stop sending these.

[Nicole Conlon]

I don't even remember subscribing to this. How am I getting this? How did I get all this? Just getting the little blue pill in the mail. Funny. What drives me crazy about this is that this in person ruling, like the arguments about it were about whether or not telehealth is adequate to treat a patient's condition. And they're forcing me to defend telehealth, a system I hate.

[Desi Lydick]

They don't make it easy.

[Nicole Conlon]

No. If you have an insurance plan that's like, you can pay a copay or for free, you could see a doctor on your iPad. I'm like, I'm not seeing the iPad, Doctor.

[Desi Lydick]

It's so. It's. The whole thing is so stressful. I mean, I don't mind. I appreciate the convenience of that. And if you're like on the road

[Nicole Conlon]

or something and I like twist my ankle and I can see my doctor, that's great.

[Desi Lydick]

I just am bad with technology. So to get into the portal and then be on the. And it's not. They don't ever use like Zoom or FaceTime, like it's some other.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's always a portal you can download.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah. And it's a whole thing. And then I'm worried about being late and I'm sitting there and it's like, am I in the waiting room or am I in. And is she waiting for me? Am I waiting for. It's a whole. I feel your pain.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, it's. It's. So, look, I will now defend telehealth to the death.

[Desi Lydick]

Hell yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

It is clearly an important service that we need. But if I have to download one more portal. Yes. I'm gonna throw my phone into the ocean.

[Desi Lydick]

I understand that.

[Nicole Conlon]

I totally understand that. But there is some good news because the Supreme Court has put a temporary hold on this. So they are gonna review it. There is a chance that it won't, you know, stand. I don't. I'm super not a lawyer. I can't tell you what the legal terms are, Alan. But there's a chance that this won't last. And it has been overturned. So mifepristone is still available in Louisiana and across the country.

[Desi Lydick]

Maybe the Supreme Court took some advice from King Charles. Maybe those checks and balances really got through to them.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes, yes. Let's hope so.

[Desi Lydick]

For this brief Moment.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. So for until we hear otherwise, on Saturday, recurring Daily show punchline, Spirit Airlines announced that it's suspending operations effective immediately.

[Desi Lydick]

Immediately.

[Nicole Conlon]

Like, right this second. While travelers were, like, at the airport ready to board their flights. Yes. And they were just like, we're not doing it anymore.

[Desi Lydick]

And in true Spirit Airlines fashion, they will stop operations mid flight on brand all the way to the end.

[Nicole Conlon]

You're halfway to Des Moines. They're like, get out. Yeah.

[Desi Lydick]

Eject. Aw, Spirit. Yeah, that's a bummer.

[Nicole Conlon]

It is. Especially because, like, there is look for all that we can make fun of Spirit. And we can, and we can, and we have. Nobody else was flying people to New Orleans for $35.

[Desi Lydick]

I mean, it's. You can't argue with those prices. And in today's economy.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. Truly.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah. It was great for the consumer.

[Nicole Conlon]

I don't know if I would say great.

[Desi Lydick]

Okay, maybe not great.

[Nicole Conlon]

But it was available.

[Desi Lydick]

It was available. It was an airline.

[Nicole Conlon]

It certainly was. Mostly an airline.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

And so I was like, okay, so if you were on a Spirit flight, like, what do you do? And apparently customers who book directly with Spirit using a credit or debit card will be automatically refunded. But if you purchase tickets through a third party like Expedia or whatever, then you have to deal with them. And Spirit's like, you're not our problem.

[Desi Lydick]

Wow.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's crazy. I'm such a tightly wound freak about travel. Same that I never book with a third party because too many times I've seen people have a last minute flight change and not be able to get customer service. And so for me, this is just me getting to be like, I told you. So this is.

[Desi Lydick]

The whole Spirit thing is very sad. It's unfortunate for consumers, but it is great for Frontier Airlines, who celebrated by canceling your flight.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes, yes. No matter where you are, that's where you are forever now.

[Desi Lydick]

So who will our new punching bag be?

[Nicole Conlon]

I think Southwest. Okay, I've been thinking about it, because Southwest was just bought by a private equity company. And it's so funny to me because Southwest, I don't know if you've ever flown them, but of course I have. They have the weird, like, seating system where it's just like a cattle call and you don't get to reserve a seat, and it's chaos, pure chaos. And then now this private equity company bought them, and they're like, we're gonna get rid of the cattle call seating system. And everybody's like, I love the seating system. I love not knowing where My seat is. People are so mad over it.

[Desi Lydick]

There's a hyper competitiveness to the process of getting that a. You got it. You gotta, like, be right on the trigger. You gotta be first. And people get extremely competitive about it. I understand that.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. So it's. I think, between like, that and whatever other changes private equity is going to make, I think it'll be Southwest.

[Desi Lydick]

That's a pretty good.

[Nicole Conlon]

Actually there was a Spirit pilot who. It was going to be his last trip, and he was flying home and he was retiring. He was like, this Spirit flight home is going to be my retirement flight. And then Spirit was like, we don't exist anymore. So he was like, okay. And he just booked himself a ticket on a Southwest flight just to go home as a passenger. And the Southwest crew found out, I think his son was also a pilot and, like, contacted Southwest, and the Southwest crew found out he didn't get to have his retirement flight. And so when they landed at the airport, there was, like, a big celebration for him, for his retirement.

[Desi Lydick]

That's very sweet.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's very sweet.

[Desi Lydick]

Did they have everyone on the plane applaud?

[Nicole Conlon]

They had everyone on the plane applaud. And then the pilots on the flight were like, he didn't even land it. I don't know why he's getting the applause, but I guess they did. I don't remember what it's called, but it's like a water cannon salute or something where, like, they set off water cannons and the plane drove through them.

[Desi Lydick]

Is that true?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

They set off water cannons?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

Are you sure that wasn't just, like, the plane ran into it at Newark because something went awry? I feel like that's something that would happen.

[Nicole Conlon]

There was a fire at the airport inadvertently. He was just like, I can't believe you guys did all this for me.

[Desi Lydick]

That's very sweet.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's very sweet. It's very nice that this guy still got to have, like, a retirement even though his company dissolved in the middle of his trip.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah. Oh, God, there's. That's a beautiful silver lining. Okay, so who. So we have to decide who our punching bag is gonna be, you think?

[Nicole Conlon]

I think Southwest.

[Desi Lydick]

Southwest. I think maybe Frontier is a pretty good contender. So tell us in the comments, who should our punching bag be?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes, tell us in the comments.

[Desi Lydick]

We'll count.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. And then that'll be the new default Daily show bug. Default.

[Desi Lydick]

You get to help us write our show so we have less work to do. Thank you very much, love.

[Nicole Conlon]

Less work to do. So, yes, I'm sorry if you were on a spirit flight and you've become stranded, good luck getting home. But I like this transition. Speaking of stranded travelers, there's one traveler that I'm very excited to say is no longer stranded, and that is a humpback whale named Timmy.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, Timmy.

[Nicole Conlon]

A juvenile humpback whale who has been stranded for several weeks off the coast of Germany. And they finally got him out. They got him out. And they've been trying for weeks. They tried. They untangled him from a net.

[Desi Lydick]

Wow.

[Nicole Conlon]

They've tried to guide him out with boats, like sheepdogs. They tried to dislodge him by using a big boat to, like, make waves to shake him loose. They got, like, backhoes and dug a big trench to, like, help push him out. And this is really funny. The whale made it away from the coast only to become stranded again almost immediately, which is.

[Desi Lydick]

Aw.

[Nicole Conlon]

Which, if you've ever had a pet of any kind, is like, you know, they get their foot, like, stuck in a box or something, and you dislodge them, and then immediately there's a new person.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, no. Unfortunately, Timmy threw himself into a cave in Thailand. So we're kind of back to square one.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, we gotta get Timmy out of that cave. But what happened is, I mean, these were, like, long. Like, long standing, well publicized efforts over a span of months. And then eventually, a couple of German millionaires teamed up and they funded the creation of, like, a giant barge that was, like, suspended between two ships. It was, like, half the size of a football field or something. And then they were able to use the barge to kind of lift Timmy up and, like, finally take him out to the deep ocean, where I. I guess he immediately, like, went under and then came up and, like, did a big, like, spray out of his blowhole as if to say thank you. And then he dove. Dove down and he was off to sea. Wow. Yeah.

[Desi Lydick]

That is not something you hear often. A heartwarming story out of Germany.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's nice.

[Desi Lydick]

That's so sweet.

[Nicole Conlon]

They've really turned things around over there. It's great. Yes. One thing that was funny, there's a whole New Yorker article about this that I lost my entire morning to reading. I'm obsessed with this story, but I guess so related to the Thai cave thing when the soccer team got stuck in the cave, and then, like, Elon Musk and other millionaires were. And billionaires were coming out with, like, crazy ideas for how to fix it. Apparently this same thing was happening with the whales, and there were a couple Weirdos. Wallace, who's a veterinarian, told me that another member of the rescue operation, who called himself the whale whisperer, insisted on being near the animal to form a spiritual connection with him. The whale whisperer was joined by, among others, a YouTuber who went by Danny First Class. Both the YouTuber and the Whale whisperer think they can talk to the whale. Wow. Which is so funny to imagine a group of like, very hard working. Like you've got like backhoe operators, you have ship captains, you have highly trained veterinarians, and then you have a guy who's like, I need to talk to the whale myself. I'm a YouTuber. I got this.

[Desi Lydick]

That track, that. That tracks, yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay, cool. Thanks for your help, man. We're gonna keep trying to push this 12 ton whale out of here.

[Desi Lydick]

I do appreciate that German billionaires are using their money for good there. That is what we should be doing here, truly. Instead, we're shutting down newspapers.

[Nicole Conlon]

And whenever I see a really rich person doing something like that, I'm like, the wrong people have money. Yes. If I were a billionaire, I would be amazing at it.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes, you would.

[Nicole Conlon]

I would be funding independent films. I would be quite. Creating animal rescues.

[Desi Lydick]

Of course you would. You would be Mackenzie Bezos.

[Nicole Conlon]

Thank you. Yes.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah, she's doing it right. She's the only one literally doing it right.

[Nicole Conlon]

Doing it right. Yeah. It's crazy. So best wishes to Timmy, the German humpback whale who has been released back into the ocean. You have given us something to be happy about this week.

[Desi Lydick]

Thank God.

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[Nicole Conlon]

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[Desi Lydick]

The Met Gala is tonight.

[Nicole Conlon]

I can't wait. The Met Gala traditionally is like an annual fundraiser that supports the Met Museum's Costume Institute. And so this has been going on, I mean, decades at this point, but now it's. It's become weirdly, it is still making money for the Met, but it now is like sort of its own, like, business and advertising operation. Oh, yeah. And one of the big controversies this year is that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are gonna be the co chairs.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes. What is the theme this year?

[Nicole Conlon]

It is income inequality.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, no, sorry, you go.

[Nicole Conlon]

I mean the theme loosely. Every year, I think.

[Desi Lydick]

I think it's.

[Nicole Conlon]

Every year it's the same theme. I personally think that if Jeff Bezos is going to go to the Met Gala, he should have to wear clothes from Amazon.

[Desi Lydick]

Of course he should.

[Nicole Conlon]

That should be required.

[Desi Lydick]

That is. Of course he should. You gotta back it up.

[Nicole Conlon]

Wear a weird plastic shirt where one of the sleeves is like a little longer than the other. It's your business. You gotta stand by it.

[Desi Lydick]

Stand by it. Go all the way, man.

[Nicole Conlon]

All the way. Or they gotta start selling Prada on Amazon.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

If that's. If he wants to wear that tuck, then he's gotta supply it on his website.

[Desi Lydick]

I do love that the Met Gala comes around and everyone suddenly turns into a fashion critic. Like, I'm sitting on my couch in sweats eating flaming hot Cheetos. Being like that drop waist bodice is all wrong. We don't know what we're talking about.

[Nicole Conlon]

But look, if I can judge somebody, I will. One thing that personally drives me a little crazy is when people don't dress to the theme, which by the year, the theme is costume art and the dress code is fashion is art, which can be interpreted in a lot of ways. But like, sometimes, like, I remember when there was the Americana theme and people came, like, in various Iterations of, like, the Statue of Liberty or historical figures or, like, things that represent Americana. And then some people just come in, like, a nice dress.

[Desi Lydick]

Play it safe. You can't play it safe at the Met. If you're gonna go, you gotta go all the way.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. That's how I feel. You know who kills it every time is Janelle Monae. She always looks totally incredible. And her outfits at the Met Gala are always so. She is gorgeous. So she can wear, like, a crazy outfit. Like, if I went to the Met Gala, I would dress to the theme, but I would be like, but I want to look pretty. But since Janelle Monae always looks pretty, she could be like, yeah, I'll wear a crazy, like, zoot suit or whatever. She looks amazing. But for. Fashion is art. I'm interested to see what they. How people play with it.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

Because there's a lot of, like, oh, I can't remember if it was Cavalli. I don't know. I'm so not a fashion person. But it is.

[Desi Lydick]

I'm already impressed. And, like, you already know 100% more than you. There was.

[Nicole Conlon]

There's a very famous dress that is, like, a Mondrian painting. And Mondrian is that artist who does, like the blocks of primary colors. And so I think there's probably gonna be a lot of that. I'm guessing somebody is gonna probably look like a statue.

[Desi Lydick]

Of course.

[Nicole Conlon]

But I'm really interested. There's so many, like, ways to make cool structural garments.

[Desi Lydick]

That part of it I get very excited about. The Bezos of it all really is throwing me for a loop.

[Nicole Conlon]

Absolutely.

[Desi Lydick]

But the fashion candy I get very excited about.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Desi Lydick]

We do kind of forget. We get so caught up in the pomp and circumstance of it all that we forget that this is actually a museum fundraiser. So I'm wondering if this is how we actually fund the Department of Education. Could we do it that way? Just have celebrities show up in, like, a fur and a bustle to Roosevelt Elementary?

[Nicole Conlon]

Truly, if we did that, I would be fine with it. If we did anything to, like, actually fund social programs. And some of it was just, like, continually throwing parties for these rich people. Fine. Come on. I'll take it.

[Desi Lydick]

Let's turn it in. We'll turn it into a whole thing.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. Nobody has a reason to get dressed up anymore. So this will be an opportunity for rich people to get to show off the way too many clothes that they bought. And then also, maybe kids will get school supplies.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes. Plus, I have never been invited to the Met. Gala, but I feel like I might get invited to the education fundraiser. I could probably get an invite too.

[Nicole Conlon]

Tell you what, YouTube commenters, I want us to all start a campaign to get Desi to the Met Gala next year.

[Desi Lydick]

Sponsored by Elon Musk.

[Nicole Conlon]

Figure out the hashtag or whatever we have to do. We're gonna get Desi to the Met Gala next year.

[Desi Lydick]

Thank you for this.

[Nicole Conlon]

Thank you. But only if you wear something crazy for the theme.

[Desi Lydick]

Oh, are you kidding me?

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay, great.

[Desi Lydick]

You don't have to ask me twice.

[Nicole Conlon]

So we'll keep an eye on the Met Gala tonight. Whatever crazy updates come out of the regular news. I don't even want to bring anything up because it's like every night at 11pm I'm like, looking through the news and I'm like, well, tomorrow's show's gonna completely change completely. We'll see what happens in the news. The only other thing that I know for sure is coming up is Mother's Day. Oh, yeah, you're a mom. Do you have any plans?

[Desi Lydick]

I want to keep it simple. This year. I think I just want to sleep in, wake up late to a new administration, and that's all.

[Nicole Conlon]

That's what every moment simple.

[Desi Lydick]

Ask what every mom wants.

[Nicole Conlon]

Get your mom what she wants this year.

[Desi Lydick]

Yes, please.

[Nicole Conlon]

New administration.

[Desi Lydick]

That would be nice. That would be nice. No, I actually, my mother in law is in town this weekend and we're gonna go see the Devil Wears Prada.

[Nicole Conlon]

Oh, that's perfect.

[Desi Lydick]

So we're. We're watching Meryl.

[Nicole Conlon]

That'll be great. Yeah, everyone's mom.

[Desi Lydick]

Everyone's mom. Yes. Oh, if only, if only.

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[Nicole Conlon]

All right, that brings us to our final segment of the podcast, which is our recommendations, things that we want to share with our audience. I'll go first this time because I have something that's sort of Mother's Mother's Day adjacent, and I always recommend this for, like, a movie to watch when you're visiting your parents and you're, like,

[Desi Lydick]

always looking for that.

[Nicole Conlon]

I need to put on something that is, like, Not. Not too racy or too, like, structurally confusing for them, but also something that I'm, like, vaguely interested in. And this is a documentary that came out maybe about 10 years ago, and it's called Tim's Vermeer.

[Desi Lydick]

Is this about the whale again?

[Nicole Conlon]

It is not about the whale again.

[Desi Lydick]

You are obsessed with this whale.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's not about the whale, I promise. Different Tim. It's called Tim's Vermeer, and it's about this guy who's, you know, maybe in his 50s or early 60s. He's independently wealthy. He lives in Texas, and for, like, a long time. There have been some art critics who have analyzed the paintings of Vermeer and been like, there's evidence that he may have been using, like, early camera technology to make these paintings. And this guy Tim, who lives in Texas, became independently wealthy because he made, like, a visual effects company. So this is something he's interested in. And he was like, I'm just gonna try to use my money to fully recreate Vermeer's studio in a warehouse in Texas, and I'm gonna see if I can recreate this Vermeer painting. And he does this over the span of, like, three or four years. He, like. He, like, goes to Amsterdam to, like, purchase authentic, like, props and stuff that Vermeer would have had in his studio. He learns how to speak Dutch. He, like. It's wild. And spoiler alert. Because the documentary is really about the journey, not the destination. He creates a painting that looks a lot like a Vermeer painting. It's really interesting. It's produced by Penn Jillette, so there's a lot of Penn Jillettes. Oh, interesting as well. This is when you're independently wealthy and you live in Texas. This is what you do when you're a millionaire.

[Desi Lydick]

Great way to spend time.

[Nicole Conlon]

Recreate Vermeer's studio. And you're like, yeah, I'm just gonna paint. And he has no painting experience or anything. So the fact that he's able to do this is, like, really pretty. Astounding.

[Desi Lydick]

That's incredible. And you watch this with your parents or.

[Nicole Conlon]

This is perfect. It's the perfect movie to watch with parents. So if you're visiting your mom for Mother's Day, or, like, my dad's birthday is coming up, I'll probably throw it on when we're home. This is, like, I cannot tell you what a perfect movie it is for parents.

[Desi Lydick]

Excellent recommendation. I saw something over the weekend that I do not recommend that you see with your parents. Highly recommend not seeing it. With your parents. There are a lot of dildo jokes.

[Nicole Conlon]

Awesome.

[Desi Lydick]

Well, just the right amount of dildo jokes for me, but too many if you were to watch with your parents. I saw Titanique over the weekend.

[Nicole Conlon]

Oh, I heard nothing but good things about it.

[Desi Lydick]

It is so funny.

[Nicole Conlon]

Is it? Well, you tell me about it.

[Desi Lydick]

Marlon Mindel stars in the show, also co wrote the show, and she's gonna be a guest this week. So I went. I had to go for research. But it is totally a show that I would have on my own, thoroughly enjoyed it. It is nothing but just pure ridiculous fun. So Marla plays Celine Dion, who has a very different interpretation of how the events played out on the Titanic as Celine Dion, who was there on that day, really funny.

[Nicole Conlon]

So it's kind of like an O. Mary funny alternate history.

[Desi Lydick]

Very much in the same vein as O Mary, for sure. And it's like a big, wonderful queer fever dream. It's just so fun.

[Nicole Conlon]

And it's a musical. And it's so fun.

[Desi Lydick]

It's a musical.

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay.

[Desi Lydick]

I guess the music is excellent. Like a jukebox.

[Nicole Conlon]

Great.

[Desi Lydick]

They use a lot of Celine songs. I don't know how they got them cleared, but they did.

[Nicole Conlon]

I mean, maybe they just wrote to her and she was like, have you seen Celine Dion is very, like, kind of funny and weird and you wouldn't know it. Cause she has the voice of an angel and makes like, you know, music your mom listens to. Yes. But did you see a few years ago, she for Christmas got like, spent fully just hours in a makeup chair to get made up like the Jim Carrey Grinch. No. And just walked around all day like that. And she, like does an impression where she sounds just like him, where she's like, am I just eating because I'm bored. Here we go. Yeah, this is. Look, there she is.

[Desi Lydick]

Ellen, can you play the video nerve of those.

[Nicole Conlon]

Who's inviting me down there on such short notice? Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn't allow it. She's so weird.

[Desi Lydick]

So much. I would say quirky. Like, I always knew she was a little quirky. That is a new level that makes me love her so much. Oh, my God.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, it's really funny. Okay, Titan shows.

[Desi Lydick]

Fantastic.

[Nicole Conlon]

Now you can see it for research. Is there a way that I could also have to see it for research?

[Desi Lydick]

I'm sure we could try to.

[Nicole Conlon]

And write it off on my taxes because it's for work.

[Desi Lydick]

It is worth a shot.

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay. All right. I will work on it. I'll call my accountant I'm gonna need

[Desi Lydick]

you to help me write questions.

[Nicole Conlon]

Thank you. You guys heard it. So it's a legitimate business expense.

[Desi Lydick]

Gotta go see it for me. Gotta go see it.

[Nicole Conlon]

Tell the IRS it's legit.

[Desi Lydick]

Yeah, if anyone's in New York, go see that. I highly. I highly recommend. So much fun.

[Nicole Conlon]

All right. That is all the time that we have today for the pre cap. I have been Nicole Conlon. I'm a writer for the Daily show, and you can watch your host, Desi Lydit on the Daily show all this week on Comedy Central, Paramount, or right here in audio form on the Daily Show Ears edition.

[Desi Lydick]

So many options.

[Nicole Conlon]

I love to give the people what they want.

[Desi Lydick]

We give people options here.

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[Desi Lydick]

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