The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's Billion Dollar MLM

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Episode: The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's Billion Dollar MLM
Date: January 26, 2026
Hosts: Devin Delacronte, Desi Lydic

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Episode Overview

This “Precap” episode features Daily Show writer Devin Delacronte and this week’s host, Desi Lydic. Together, they preview the week's upcoming topics and revisit major headlines from the previous week — combining pop culture, politics, and humor in true Daily Show style. Their main discussion centers on Donald Trump’s audacious “Board of Peace”, an organization with MLM-flavored undertones, as well as Oscars buzz, social media nostalgia, billionaire drama, celebrity gossip, and showering habits.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Oscar Nominations & Movie Theaters

[02:16]

• The hosts start by riffing on Oscar nominations, with Desi joking about not being nominated for a movie she was never in.
  • “If there's one thing that Trump taught us, it's that whoever does win the Oscar, I can just invade their territory and take it from them.” — Desi [02:39]
• Discussion around movie "Sinners" breaking records, Michael B. Jordan’s performance, and genre-bending soundtracks.
• Irony highlighted that neither host has actually seen an Oscar-nominated movie in theaters this year.
  • “I've been crying in my shower since September.” — Desi [04:42]
  • “Potential Oscar winner Desi Lydic has not been in a movie or seen a movie this year.” — Devin [04:49]

2. Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’: The Billion-Dollar MLM

[05:11]

• Recap of Trump’s new “Board of Peace,” announced at Davos. Described as feeling like a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scam with a $1 billion lifetime membership fee.
  • “This is sounding very scammy to me.” — Desi [06:23]
• Membership structure mimics ad-tiered subscriptions.
• The Board is “a little dictator heavy,” with countries like Belarus, Hungary, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and more as (potential) members.
• Trump is, of course, the chairman, with sweeping powers.
  • Pop quiz banter culminating in:
    “Donald J. Trump.”
    “It's correct.” — Devin & Desi [07:32] Celebratory MVP moment:
    “Do I win an Oscar?” — Desi [07:39]
• Notably, chairmanship continues even after Trump’s presidency.
• Comparison to parent group splintering on Facebook, and to alternative fraternities.
  • “He couldn't get into the fraternity that he wanted to get into, so he was like, fuck you guys, I'm gonna start my own fraternity.” — Desi [09:19]
• Tariffs threatened against France for not joining; membership is noted to be weaponized for personal gain.
  • “It does feel weird to try to blackmail someone into joining the Board of Peace.” — Devin [10:29]
• Exclusion of Venezuela pokes at the arbitrariness of Trump’s move.

3. Social Media Trends: The 2016 Nostalgia Posts

[12:16]

• Discussion about why people were posting 2016 photos online (“2016 wasn’t a great year”).
  • “2016 was the white and gold dress of years.” — Desi [12:46]
• Speculation about social media companies harvesting aging data from old photos.
• Commentary on user willingness to provide data for validation (“the rush, the likes”).
  • “We are suckers. We are so thirsty for the likes.” — Desi [13:35]

4. Billionaires Behaving Badly: Ryanair vs. Elon Musk

[14:18]

• Ryanair CEO gets into a public spat with Elon Musk over airplane WiFi.
• Both hosts poke fun at the “Karen” level of the fight and how online feuds between ultra-wealthy men devolve quickly.
  • “This is the most Karen like, fight I have ever seen. I think we can pass off the Karen title to these rich white men.” — Desi [15:01]
  • “I just feel like there's a point at which you get so rich you can't beef with other people. You have to beef with, like, entire corporations.” — Devin [16:10]
• Nostalgia for quieter millionaires:
  • “Bring back the normal millionaire.” — Desi [16:58]

5. Beckham Family Wedding Drama

[17:13]

• Delighted gossip about wedding drama in the Beckham family as an old-school, harmless distraction.
  • “I'm just—because it's like an old school gossip story. It is 100% gossip … it's just pure gossip.” — Desi [17:17]
• Confusion over whether wedding seating drama was about grandmothers or nannies.
• Relatable moment: no matter how famous, parents always embarrass their kids.
  • “It doesn't matter how cool you are or how rich you are. You could be David Beckham and Posh Spice. Your kids will be humiliated by you.” — Devin [20:04]

6. Parental Embarrassment Banter

[20:33]

• Both joke about intentionally and unintentionally embarrassing their kids, including playing the Rocky theme at school.
  • “If they're not getting bullied at school, you gotta bully them at home.” — Desi [22:20]
• Comparison to “parent group splinters” and the need for a Board of Peace even among parents.

7. Upcoming Week & Storm Prep

[24:09]

• Preview of the coming week: Desi will host, winter storm predicted, and the perpetual threat of a government shutdown.
• Casual banter about snowstorm preparation, recording logistics, and resource hoarding in the studio.

8. Melania Trump Documentary

[26:07]

• Trailer reaction: both hosts feign enthusiasm about seeing the doc in theaters.
  • “Will you be seeing this in movie theaters?”
    “I will not. I will not.” — Devin & Desi [28:09]
  • “Liberals do love a problematic ice queen.” — Desi [28:27]
• Wayne Gretzky and wife Janet are apparently the premiere's VIPS.
  • “When you think of the Hollyw de la creme, ... Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet.” — Devin [30:49]
• Playful skepticism about the film’s seriousness.
• Trump’s quote on attendance at premiere:
  • “It's a very hard ticket to get, I can tell you that. Everybody. Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet … Everybody wants tickets to it.” — Devin [31:09]

9. Daily Show and Tell Segment

[32:09]

• Desi’s show and tell: Viral TikTok about a woman who showers once a week. Internet outrage discussed; hosts admit their personal shower habits.
  • “If you're getting out of bed and showering one Day a week. You're getting out of bed one day a week. You go, girl.” — Desi [33:11]
• Devin’s pick: He’s seeing "Oedipus" on Broadway—awkwardly, as a possible gift from his mom.
  • “So once again, Oedipus was fated to happen. ... The fate, even as hard as we tried to avoid it, like Oedipus himself, it came to be.” — Devin [36:19]
• Desi's tongue-in-cheek advice:
  • “One is to shower slightly more frequently… two, you gotta talk to your therapist about what's going on with your mom.” — Desi [36:42]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If there's one thing that Trump taught us, it's that whoever does win the Oscar, I can just invade their territory and take it from them.” — Desi [02:39]
• “Join my MLM for $1 billion, and then you can get other countries to join, and then they'll be in your downstream.” — Desi [06:23]
• “This is the most Karen like, fight I have ever seen. I think we can pass off the Karen title to these rich white men.” — Desi [15:01]
• “If they're not getting bullied at school, you gotta bully them at home.” — Desi [22:20]
• “Liberals do love a problematic ice queen.” — Desi [28:27]
• “So once again, Oedipus was fated to happen.” — Devin [36:19]
• “One is to shower slightly more frequently… two, you gotta talk to your therapist about what's going on with your mom.” — Desi [36:42]

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Important Timestamps

• [02:16] – Oscar nomination banter
• [05:11] – Introduction and breakdown of Trump’s “Board of Peace”/MLM
• [12:16] – 2016 photos and social media data discussion
• [14:18] – Ryanair and Elon Musk feud
• [17:13] – Beckham family wedding drama
• [20:33] – Parental embarrassment stories
• [24:09] – Upcoming week and winter storm preparation
• [26:07] – Melania Trump documentary reactions
• [32:09] – “Daily Show and Tell” segment (showers, Broadway, Oedipus)
• [36:42] – Advice and lighthearted wrap-up

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Summary and Atmosphere

This episode captures The Daily Show’s trademark irreverent take on both serious and absurd news — with plenty of asides, running gags, and snarky commentary. Desi Lydic shines with her quick wit and playful sarcasm, while Devin Delacronte brings self-deprecation and curiosity. Together, they riff on the week’s headlines, making connections between the political and the personal — whether it’s Trump’s global shenanigans, celebrity gossip, or even how often someone should shower. The tone is light, fast-paced, and relatable: perfect for those in need of a comedic breakdown of the week’s headlines — shoes on the (disposable) furniture and all.

Transcript

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I'm so happy to be here with you.

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I'm so happy to be here with you.

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Sitting all cross legged and such.

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You look very comfortable.

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I feel very comfortable. And I know I'm putting my shoes on the furniture and I just want to apologize.

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We can throw that furniture out. It's fine. Don't stress.

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It is in my rider.

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That's good.

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It's in my contract. Every piece of furniture I sit in, it gets thrown out afterwards. I want a new chair next time.

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That's very good.

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Yes.

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Come by our studio, see a pile of chairs. Take them classic New York City furniture on the streets that a celebrity sat on and got her grimy shoes.

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Her grimy shoes on this faux leather.

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So what's going on? It was a big week.

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Oh, God.

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I guess we'll start Oscar nominations.

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Oh, yes.

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Big things of last week. Kind of a fun. Yeah.

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Some fun little exciting news. Oh, it's so exciting. Well, I mean, I will say I was a little disappointed that I didn't get the nomination that I was expecting.

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Were you in any movies last year? Mm. Mm. No. All right, well, that's probably the first problem.

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Well, you're gonna think. Well, you think. But if there's one thing that Trump taught us, it's that whoever does win the Oscar, I can just invade their territory and take it from them.

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Or you can get them to give it to you because you deserved it.

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Through manipulation. Yes, yes. And bribery tactics.

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Marina Karina Machado. Maria Karina Machado. Wins an Oscar.

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Wins that Oscar.

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I deserve that Oscar. And then she's like, I would like to present you my Oscar in honor of your acting.

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Oh, me? Who me? I hardly thought about it. I'd love to thank my agents.

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Sure.

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My entire cabinet that supported this move.

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Very good.

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So flattered.

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So deserving.

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Yeah, so deserving. What were you most excited about of the nominations? It came out. What were you like? Oh, that. That. That person deserves it.

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It was nice to see Sinners break the record for nominations. I think, you know, it was so kind of unexpected. And, you know, I feel like the Oscar movies are always like, end of the year, but, like, it just. I remember when it came out, everyone was like, oh, you gotta go see it and see it in the theater.

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Yeah.

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And Michael B. Jordan's so great in it. The music is so great. Like, all the musicians who were a part of it are phenomenal and very, like, genre bending unexpected. So it's nice to see a film like that celebrated one battle after another. Also great. I'm glad so many of the performers in that got nominations. And Paul Thomas Anderson, such a great director.

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Incredible.

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So, yeah, I was excited about all that. And K Pop Demon Hunters. I mean.

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I mean, come on, listen to that.

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Soundtrack a hundred thousand times in my car with my kids.

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So even though your kids keep begging you to turn it off, you just won't do it.

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They are bops. And I will learn. They have to learn to respect them.

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Catchy music. Those songs are daggone catchy. What do you say? Well, also just celebrating people getting back into the theater, putting butts in seats, seeing movies the way that the directors intended people to see them. So important.

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Yeah. And what movies did you see in theaters this year?

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Not a one. I have not seen one.

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That's it.

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Yet. Yet. But I have a very good excuse, and that was that I've been crying in my shower since September, so.

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Wow. That's fair. But I think the headline here is that potential Oscar winner Desi Lydic has not been in a movie or seen a movie this year. So, yeah, it's gonna be. That's a. That's a problem.

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If anyone can pull it off, Dev, I will find a way. I think you'll find a way. I'm scrappy like that.

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So you know what? Good luck to all the Oscar nominees, huh? I hope all of them win. Is that how it works?

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I hope all of them win.

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Yes. Speaking of very prestigious boards making very consequential decisions, Davos was last week and Donald Trump announced the Board of Peace, which is a new MLM organ. That's one way to look at it. Yes.

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It sounds like an mlm. What is his intention with the Board of Peace? Did he say what his.

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So initially it's to oversee the Gaza ceasefire, but now ambitions have ballooned. The unlikely roster of countries so far includes Belarus, Hungary, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, uae, Argentina, and Paraguay.

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Okay, a little dictator heavy.

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A little bit, yes. So, yeah, that's what it is. So far. The. The way you can join is the first, you can get on for three years and that's free, or you can get a lifetime membership for $1 billion. Which feels like you got to have an ad tier in there somewhere.

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One or the other.

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Yeah, yeah. Well, three. Like, I'll go with the free option.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's one of those ones where, like.

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Billion dollars. Yeah, yeah. This is giving me MLM vibes.

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That's one of those where when you put your credit card in, you need to remember to cancel, like on two years and have to pay for it.

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Oh, my God. You put your credit card in, you immediately cancel. You just immediately go in, join my MLM for $1 billion, and then you can get other countries to join, and then they'll be in your downstream. It's all. This is sounding very scammy to me.

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No, it sounds like a very good business decision. It sounds. Sounds like a good way to raise a billion dollars from every country to.

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Put in an account in Qatar.

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Yeah, that's it. Okay. So one thing that I found interesting about the Board of Peace, the Chairman of the Board of Peace has the power to invite member states, break any ties in a vote, decide how frequently the board meets, and create or dissolve any subsidiary entry entities to the board. So, Desi, I am going to put you on the spot. Quick Daily show podcast pop quiz. Who will be the chairman of the Donald Trump Board of peace?

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Scrooge McDuck.

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No. Oh, incorrect.

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Shoot.

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You get five more guesses. I'll give you only five more. Who is the chairman of Donald Trump's Board of Peace? Who has all of the power vested as the Chairman of the Board of Peace?

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Oh, God, I'm going to go out on a limb.

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Go ahead.

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And I don't think this is right, but I'm just going to say it out loud. Donald J. Trump.

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It's correct.

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Oh, my God.

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What?

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Do I win an Oscar?

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Yes.

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Do I win an Oscar winner? Oh, thank God.

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Let's get that Oscar in here. Whoever's in the moment would come, bring it to Desi. Yeah. That is the prize. Yeah. I found that. This is my favorite fact about it. In three years, when his second term is up, the chairman does not have to pass to the next president, so he can just be the chairman of the Board of Peace when America's moved on to whatever other president.

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Well, it's just like the presidency, unfortunately. Have to look back and see how that plays out. Oh, God.

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Do you have high hopes for the Board of Peace?

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Oh, I. I mean, I. I think we all do, don't we? It has peace in the title.

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Yeah.

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God, this is. Yeah. Not surprising. Exactly.

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No. I don't know why. What? The billion dollars, why that helps. Because.

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Well, I think it helps line his pockets. Right. Does it help literally anyone else?

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Yeah, I'm probably overthinking it now that I. Now that I really say it all out loud. Probably. Yeah. It's money, and he likes money. Yeah. That's probably it, isn't it? I'm really a galaxy brain myself there, didn't I? The other thing I found interesting is people are talking about it like it's sort of a rival to the UN Security Council.

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Right, right.

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And it reminds me of this time when I'm in some parent groups on Facebook to just learn about things in the neighborhood. And there was a point at which, like, one of the parent groups got very contentious. And so then a second parent group was set up like a splinter. And I'm like, that's what this is. But for the UN Security Council is like a separate Facebook group.

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Well, that's. That's so funny that you say that, because I feel like we have gender swapped here, because my mind, it's like this thing already exists, and he has to just blow it up and dismantle it and say, no, no, no, no. I'm gon. This other thing here. My mind went to. He couldn't get into the fraternity that he wanted to get into, so he was like, fuck you guys. I'm gonna start my own fraternity. And guess what? I invented fraternities.

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But I went to parent Facebook group.

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You go to parent Facebook group. I go to frat house. This is our dynamic, subverting expectations. That's what we're all about here.

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That's what listeners want.

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Yeah.

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Oh, another fact about it that I heard is a lot of the Western Europe allies haven't joined France.

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Yeah. Who hasn't joined yet?

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So let's see, I have here that France has not joined, Sweden has not joined, Norway has not joined, and that the President said that if France doesn't join, we will hit them with a 200% tariff on wines.

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Oh, God, of course. Yeah, that sounds right.

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Like, why am I paying more for wine? It's like, well, peace.

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Peace.

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World peace.

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It's a small price to pay for peace.

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Yeah. It does feel weird to try to blackmail someone into joining the Board of Peace.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, we'll keep our eyes on the Board of Peace.

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We will keep our eyes on the Board of Peace. Do you think it's gonna fizzle, though? Like, do you this is this. Is this something that he comes up with and makes a big splash with it and then it all just fizzles away and doesn't actually happen?

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I don't know. I can't predict anything anymore. It's impossible to know.

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Yeah.

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Oh, here's another thing that I found interesting. Venezuela not on the Board of Peace. Wow. It seems like something's going on with them. They're preoccupied.

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They do have quite a bit on their plate right now. Yeah, that's.

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But didn't he say we run Venezuela?

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I think it's on his Wikipedia page.

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It is the Wikipedia. So why wouldn't we put ourselves on the Board of Peace?

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You would think he could just do that.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he did everything else, so. Yeah. That's very strange.

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It's very odd. It's an odd omission. We should look into that maybe one day. Yeah, maybe their application is. Is waiting. They could use some of the Board of Peace, if anywhere, you know. Yeah.

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To intervene against us. Yeah.

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Not been a peaceful month, if anyone.

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Certainly not.

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What was that all about? What was the point of going back to 2016? Because in my recollection 2016 wasn't a great year.

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No. Lot of high profile people passed away. David Bowie, Prince.

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Oh, my God. Yeah.

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So many others. Yeah. It was a.

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We had a new president.

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It was very chaotic. It was the election year.

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It was the election year.

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It was the election year.

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2016 was a horrible, horrible year. It was the white and gold dress of years.

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But in hindsight, was it so bad? We were 10 years younger. Right.

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Do you think 10 years from now we'll do a 2026 trend? Will people be wanting to be reminiscing about 2026? How sad is that to think about?

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I hope not. Because it means if we're doing that, that means it's worse. Right. If we're projecting, I'd be like, man, 2026, great.

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Yeah.

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Vibes immaculate. And they're not so. I don't know. Hopefully not, but maybe. Oh, God. But it's also, it's another. I mean, if we're going to be conspiracy minded about it, it's a great way for social media to be like, hey, can I get a bunch of pictures of your face 10 years ago? Just to figure out how things age and move.

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Collect that data.

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They're really good.

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And we are suckers. We are so thirsty for the likes. We all jump. We all jump.

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Oh, you want to see a picture of me ten years ago? Here you go.

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Look at that collagen in my face.

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Glowing.

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Put it out there. Yeah, we're all smiling. Damn. Yeah, you're right. You're right. We're just gathering data.

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Smart. They're good. They know what they're doing. They know how to sucker us into giving our stuff. And we'll give it to them every single time.

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Every time.

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Yeah. 2016, we were playing Pokemon Go. Great way to know everywhere we were on the map where we're walking.

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When will we learn?

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Never will. Never learn. Likes are just too great.

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The rush.

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We like likes too much.

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The rush. The validation.

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Another thing that we. That was going on this week, Ryanair, the airline in Europe, which I've been told is like the spirit airlines of Europe. Of Europe.

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But they're very self aware about it.

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Sure.

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Apparently that's kind of their thing. They're like, we're cheap. Don't expect too much.

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I don't know that I like, like we're the airline that doesn't take ourselves too seriously. That seems risky.

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Say a prayer.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly. We'll just kind of a glorified slingshot. We'll just kind of. They got into a online beef. Their CEO got into a beef with Elon Musk. It started over WI Fi and then became again. Maybe this is just a way for him to get data from people who are flying.

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Probably.

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Did you follow this story?

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This is crazy to me. This is the most Karen like, fight I have ever seen. I think we can pass off the Karen title to these rich white men. Well, I should say Elon Musk. Elon Musk. It's so funny how they get into a back and forth about using WI Fi. And Ryanair was saying, like, well, we can't put the antenna on the plane because it affects the air drag. And Elon Musk comes back with a very logical kind of technical argument for why that's not correct. And then it's one exchange away from then Elon Musk coming back and full on calling him the R word.

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Okay. Not.

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Yeah, sound technical argument directly to the R word.

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Yeah. It seems like there's not a lot of nuance into how he's gonna be persuasive.

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Crazy.

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Yeah. Did Grok break it up or did he try to diffuse it with some, like, bikini pictures of people? What was the maybe. Where did it go?

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It works every time.

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I did see that Ryan Ayer did some sort of sale off of it and then moved a lot of tickets because of it, so.

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Oh, hey, who's laughing now?

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I guess Ryanair, the people who got discount tickets because the CEO was beefing on online. I just feel like there's a point at which you get so rich you can't beef with other people. You have to beef with, like, entire corporations. Right, Right. I'm gonna pick a fight with Ryan Ayer. Yeah, maybe I'll buy you Ryan Ayer.

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Oh, God, the ego. Can we just go back to, like, old rich people just being quiet, sitting on all their wealth, like, maybe joining a society or two back in time. Now they're all influencers. They don't have to have these huge public spats.

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Yeah. I wish they could just live alone in a mansion with their pee and bottles around them and none of us have to see them.

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A normal millionaire.

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That would be great.

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Bring back the normal millionaire.

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Thank God we didn't have, like, Twitter and Instagram back then, because you'd have to. Yeah. See and hear all of their thoughts. And speaking of that, speaking of the interpersonal drama, one of the other big stories was the fight between the Beckham family. Again, started on Instagram.

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Yes.

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And came out into the real world. Did you follow this?

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I love this story. I love it so Much. I'm just. Because it's like an old school gossip story. It is 100% gossip. There's nothing too heavy. It's not about to put us on the brink of a world war or a societal collapse or. No. Like, you know, it's just pure gossip.

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It's like a 2016 throwback. It is.

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It's a 2016 throwback.

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In the supermarket. There's the. Oh, look at this. Grab the rag and problems at the wedding. And you're flipping through and they're scanned. A person is scanning your groceries. I get the 2016 thing.

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Good. It's good. Okay, Now I'm. Now I'm. Now I'm going back to 2016.

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Yeah. It just feels. The Beckham thing feels like there's not a lot of culture war around it. It's just purely like a family drama, and it involves a wedding.

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Even better.

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So great.

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Love drama at a wedding.

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It's really nice.

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Who doesn't have a little drama at their wedding?

[B]

Exactly. So it seems like it's Brooklyn Beckham, the child of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. There was all this drama at the wedding. Victoria Beckham was gonna make the wedding dress and then pulled out of making the wedding dress for Brooklyn Beckham's wedding. Nicola, then fiance. Yes. And then there was an issue with where the grandmothers are seated. That's like. Like, we're gonna put Nana at this table or not this table. Then the first dance had a whole issue.

[A]

Was it the grandmothers? I was. Okay, so I read nannies, and I thought it was both of their nannies, like their childhood. Like the care giver, the caretaker.

[B]

That. That.

[A]

Is that wrong?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

Is it the grandmas?

[B]

I don't know. Nanny could be grandma. Nanny could be, like, their babysitter.

[A]

I thought maybe it was their babysitters growing up were sitting with them at the wedding table, which was like, ooh, okay.

[B]

That's sending a message from English to English.

[A]

Yes. Yes. Okay, we need a translator.

[B]

Isn't Nana also the name of the dog in Peter Pan? So Nana could also just be a.

[A]

Are there dogs sitting at the wedding table?

[B]

Maybe they didn't know what it meant either. So they're like, are the dog just gonna be here eating my.

[A]

You know, having the chicken of unanswered questions here?

[B]

That's it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so then the other thing was the. They had some romantic first dance planned. And then Victoria Beckham came out and did sort of a sultry dance with her son, to which. And you know, this is what was claimed in the Instagram post from Brooklyn Beckham. And it led to my favorite statement, which was someone who was at the wedding commenting on the story going, I was there, and he is telling the truth. I mean, whatever this dance was, what was it?

[A]

What were the moves? I want to know what the moves were.

[B]

It's a good question.

[A]

I mean, if you haven't tried to upstage the couple's dance at a wedding, then you're no fun at parties.

[B]

Yes. My big takeaway from this is, it doesn't matter how cool you are or how rich you are. You could be David Beckham and Posh Spice. Your kids will be humiliated by you. You're like, oh, my God, mom, stop dancing like that at the wedding with all my friends here. You're like, I'm a billionaire pop star. Soccer player.

[A]

Soccer star. I'm Posh Spice.

[B]

Embarrassing. Mom, cut her out. So it's very relatable, that thing.

[A]

I feel so much better about my kid being humiliated by me all the time. You know, if Posh and David are embarrassing, then I guess the rest of us have no hope. What's the worst thing that you've done to your kids to embarrass them?

[B]

What is the worst thing I've done to embarrass my kids? I mean.

[A]

Or are they not old enough to be embarrassed by you?

[B]

They're getting there now.

[A]

Okay?

[B]

My son is 7, and there are a couple times where I have done six, seven. And he's like, looked me in my eyes and just gone, stop. And I'm like, ooh, that's tough. Or my daughter will just go tell me that something's not funny.

[A]

And it just kills my heart like.

[B]

A dagger so bad. He says, that's not funny, dad. And I'm like, I know, but you didn't have to say it like that. Yes.

[A]

I'm a human being.

[B]

I know. So, yeah. But the problem is that then it's more fun to humiliate them after that. When you're like, oh, I see. I see. What? You know that this is fun. Within reason.

[A]

Then it becomes the mission. You gotta try to humiliate your kid. So my son started fourth grade this year, and on his first day, we had queued up as we walked up to the front door of the school. We had the Rocky theme song cue.

[B]

To me, played it when he was.

[A]

Walking up to the door.

[B]

Did you tell him you were doing this? No.

[A]

And he turns around and he's like, oh, my God, stop it. We Turned it off. We turned it off right away, but just for the look in his face. It was so worth it. It was so worth it.

[B]

Wow. Now all his classmates are like, hey, the Italian Stallion's here in homeroom. He made it.

[A]

They don't get it. They don't know the reference.

[B]

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. That's very good. How else is he gonna get the eye of the tiger, huh?

[A]

Listen, you gotta build character in these kids early on. And if they're not getting bullied at school, you gotta bully them at home.

[B]

Very good. That's a good lesson to all you parents out there. See, this is how a mom group splinters is. When you give advice like this, you're like, you know what we need a board of peace.

[A]

I'm starting, starting to see the cracks here.

[B]

Yeah. So I wish the Beckhams all the best. I hope they do it, but I'm very grateful. Is something that is like, there's no politics in it. There's nothing like Trumpy about it or anything. It's just a pure. Like, our family's got some issues. You're like, okay, I hope you work it out. I will be here with a tub of popcorn, reading every story, combing every detail, clicking through every Instagram story over and over.

[A]

Put it into my veins. I can't get enough. That's all I want.

[B]

I hope they resolve it. I do, too, eventually.

[A]

But give us a little time with it for us.

[B]

In due time.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

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[A]

I will be hosting. If we're not snowed in.

[B]

That's true. We've got a very big winter storm coming.

[A]

Yeah. We should acknowledge we are recording this before Monday. This will drop Monday.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

You're listening right now. It is Monday.

[B]

You did show up with provisions. You have a giant bottle of water.

[A]

I did.

[B]

If we have to ride out the snowstorm in this podcast studio, it does look like you're ready.

[A]

I've got flares in the back. I already filled up the bathtub.

[B]

Very good.

[A]

I'm prepped. We're ready to go. I've got those film the warming blankets that you put on after a marathon. I got a few of those up in my office.

[B]

I don't have any of that.

[A]

Well, I'll take care of you.

[B]

Are you sure?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

First to be eaten, I feel like, is the position that I'm in very much that seat.

[A]

It's okay. I am prepped enough for the both of us. We're good.

[B]

All right.

[A]

No one else, though. Don't tell anyone else.

[B]

I won't tell anyone else. It'll just be. Sorry Alan riding it out.

[A]

Yes, Alan. I don't have enough for you, Alan. I'm sorry. I don't.

[B]

That's fine. Our producer, Alan, he's giving the thumbs up.

[A]

So right now, the arm. Monday.

[B]

Thumbs up.

[A]

Are we. It's Monday. It's Monday right now, are we snowed in? Is it gonna be a big storm or is this gonna be. It's supposed to be a big storm. Yeah.

[B]

One of the other riders said, like, one of the models said 45 inches of snow.

[A]

45. This is not. This can't be right. Cause I've heard everything from, like, a.

[B]

We unplugged all the science machines last year. Doge just cut every wire. We don't know how much snow is gonna be.

[A]

There's no telling.

[B]

There's no way to know. We'll never know. But that's fun. Isn't it fun to, like, just be like, okay, could be a blanket of snow. Could be nothing. We could walk outside. There'll be a woolly mammoth walking down the street. We'd be like, what do you know?

[A]

What do you know?

[B]

We got a brand new icu.

[A]

Nothing surprises us anymore. Aliens, please come and save us.

[B]

That's good. It's a throwback to 2016 BCE.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

That's it.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Why not? Yeah. So we could be snowed in.

[A]

We could be snowed in.

[B]

Another thing, there could be a government shutdown. We don't know. There's that whole negotiation. 38.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I feel like we just went through the last one.

[A]

And big news.

[B]

Tell me.

[A]

Melania, Doc.

[B]

Melania, Doc.

[A]

Melania. Doc Drops.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Now, this is. This is tricky. Do we have the trailer?

[B]

I think we do. Would you like to watch the trailer?

[A]

Would you like to watch the trailer?

[B]

All right, I'm getting my head headphones out. Here we go. Here we go again.

[A]

Here we go again. Everyone wants to know. So here it is. Hi, Mr. President. Congratulations. Did you watch it? I did not. Yeah, I will see it on the news. She say, I did not. What is it, an Oscar movie? I did not.

[B]

I'm glad she's as over it as the rest of us. I was like, I'll catch it on the news. Rated pg. All right, pass. Let me see.

[A]

No, thank you. Everyone wants to know what's in the Epstein files. Is she gonna drop what's in the Epstein files?

[B]

Not if it's pg.

[A]

Not if it's pg.

[B]

That's spongebob would. Spongebob would definitely drop it. One of the things that I find so weird watching the trailer is the MGM lion. Yes. Like, isn't it so strange seeing that? Because anytime I see that, I'm, like, culturally trained to expect a James Bond trailer.

[A]

Totally.

[B]

So it's weird seeing Melania be like, here we go again, Mr. Bond. And I'm like, yeah, it feels. I expect something else. And then she's always talking to the troops about, AI is like, the robots are coming, and we must choose if they are friend or foe. And I'm like, but are you gonna kill James Bond in this movie? The MGM lion makes me expect that he will be there. You have the hat. It's very. It's sitting. It's crossing wires in my brain when I watch it.

[A]

If only it was just a Bond movie. I would just. If we all just woke up from a dream and it was all just a Bond movie, wouldn't that be wonderful?

[B]

That would be great. Yeah. That would be very good. Desi, I have to ask you, you, champion of the movie theater, the cinematic experience, will you be seeing this in movie theaters?

[A]

I will not.

[B]

Really?

[A]

I will not. But. But I do feel conflicted a little bit. Like, I don't want to contribute any of my money towards this film, but at the same time, I don't know. Like, are people gonna go see it? Because liberals do love a problematic ice queen.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

They really love being entertained by problematic ice queens.

[B]

A Devil's wear. The Devil Wears Prada. Devil Wears Prada.

[A]

Kind of Devil wears Prada. Elizabeth Hall. You know, even just those. You know?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What's the other one?

[B]

As much as we love an mlm, we love.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

A Problematic.

[A]

A problematic ice queen.

[B]

That's very good.

[A]

So there's part of me that really wants to see this.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I'm just curious about it, but I don't want to pay for it.

[B]

I feel like the way you're talking about this, you're going to show up with the glow in your eye of Nicole Kidman in the trailer and of just sitting down.

[A]

Three piece pinstripe pantsuit.

[B]

Yeah. The magic of the cinema in your eyes as you sit down to watch the Melania. Doc. Desi.

[A]

What are you doing here?

[B]

That's it. Yeah. Popcorn in the air. Yeah. You paid for the ticket.

[A]

It wasn't me.

[B]

Yeah. In a long trench coat, just wearing a mustache. Running away. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, man.

[B]

We'll see.

[A]

So tempted, but I'm not. I don't. I don't. I can't do it. I can't do it.

[B]

All right. Maybe a movie night.

[A]

If we're all doing a Daily show screening for work, that would be for research purposes. We could do that just so we can comment on it.

[B]

A fun movie night. Order dinner, sit around the finest Slovenian delicacies as we watch in the middle of a snowstorm. It would be good. Cause if there's one thing America wants right now, it's a movie about an immigrant story. That is. This is a very deique documentary about Melania Trump, who came to this country with a vision and went all of the way to the halls of power.

[A]

Oh, God, why not?

[B]

You know?

[A]

Do you think by this time next year she will be nominated for. For an Oscar?

[B]

I mean, it's not impossible. She could again just have an Oscar handed to her because she said she deserves it. She solved eight movies. She solved eight theaters.

[A]

She solved eight theaters.

[B]

She opened eight theaters with it. It's possible.

[A]

This is what it's coming to.

[B]

Okay, best documentary.

[A]

Meet us right back here this time next year and we'll find out. We'll find out.

[B]

It's very exciting. So, yeah. Premieres at the Kennedy Center.

[A]

Of course it does. Of course it does. Who's attending this screening?

[B]

I'm so glad you asked. When you think of the Hollyw de la creme, when you think of the cultural influencers in America, I assume your first thought is Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet.

[A]

Oh, and Janet will be there, too.

[B]

They're coming down from Canada, I assume, unless they live here. Hollywood royalty. So Wayne Gretzky, the great one, will be there. And I think that's the only person that's been announced, is that Wayne Gretzky is very excited to see it. Speaking of people who like things cold as ice. Yes.

[A]

Wayne Gretzky, cold as ice.

[B]

There we go. When the president was asked about it, he said about Melania's documentary. It's a very hard ticket to get, I can tell you that. Everybody. Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet. Beautiful wife, great wife. They said last night, gee, I want to go to a lot of people. Everybody wants tickets to it. So there you go. A lot of people want to go. Wayne Gretzky, Mrs. Wayne Gretzky.

[A]

You can't argue with facts.

[B]

You can't. That's it.

[A]

You can't argue with it.

[B]

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[B]

See terms. All right, so before we go, in addition to the Melania doc, it's time for a segment we call the Daily show and Tell, where we talk about something that you've watched or read or listened to, argued about something that's on your mind that you want to discuss. Recommend, not recommendations, however you feel. So desi lytic, the floor is yours.

[A]

This is a bit of a deep cut, but I just heard this story about this woman who's on TikTok and went viral. Everything went crazy because she went on TikTok and said that she only showers once a week.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And people were up in arms about it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

How often do you shower?

[B]

Devin, you're really putting me in the spot. Mm.

[A]

But you have to be honest.

[B]

I feel like it depends on the week. Mm. I feel like I'll go. I think it's three times a week. If I'm doing the math in my life. Okay. More in the summer.

[A]

So you would have. Would you have judgment on this woman for showering once a week?

[B]

No. I mean, we're all doing the best we can.

[A]

We're all doing. That's what I said. It's like. Here's the thing. If you're getting out of bed and showering one Day a week. You're getting out of bed one day a week. You go, girl. Times are tough.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So more power to her.

[B]

That's good. What's your weekly allotment of shower time?

[A]

I'm gonna be honest. I do shower daily.

[B]

Really?

[A]

I do shower daily.

[B]

Every single day. Okay.

[A]

I do.

[B]

See, I feel like it depends. There's so many things like natural proclivity to stinkiness. Let's say some people more, some people less. You gotta take care of that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Hard when you have kids running around, you know, gotta wrangle them and make sure, you know, find. Find the time and the space.

[A]

It's. For me, it's like I have a ritual. In order to fall asleep every night, I have to do, like, a sequence of things. I gotta dim the lights. I gotta make my tea. I have to quiet everything down.

[B]

Hard drugs.

[A]

I need hard, super hard drugs. Little ketamine, warm shower, crawl into a cold bed. I want it cold.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah. I want it cold. Hot shower, cold bed. And then I'm out.

[B]

So that's like the basic version of, like the cold plunge sauna, but in reverse. Cold plunge, straight to bed.

[A]

Makes sense. Makes sense to me. But no judgment on this woman for showering one day a week.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

I say. I say you do whatever you want with your body, lady.

[B]

What did the Internet say?

[A]

They were all up in arms about it.

[B]

Really?

[A]

They were very upset with her.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. What's yours? What's your show and tell?

[B]

I'll pick this up. I haven't seen it yet, but by the time this airs, I will have seen it or I got snowed in. But either way, I am going tonight to see Oedipus on Broadway.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

Which I'm very excited to see. I've kind of kept myself in the dark. I don't necessarily know the actors in it and everything I know. I mean, Oedipus is one of the oldest plays, so I generally know the story. But I wore my Broadway finest. That's why I'm dressed like an MSNBC reporter today.

[A]

You look like you're going right from here. Straight to the news desk.

[B]

That's it. I'm Devin Delacuani for Jacob Soboroff, and these are your top stories.

[A]

One more time, but snarkier.

[B]

I refuse. Never. Yes.

[A]

Oh, that's so exciting.

[B]

I'm very excited to see it. So here. There's a weird story about getting tickets to Oedipus. So every year, my mother, who is very kind, will always, in lieu of like, some Christmas gift thing will be like, do you want to go see a Broadway show? I'll get you and your wife tickets to a Broadway show. And so I was looking at the Broadway shows that were running, and I saw Oedipus was playing, and I was like, for anyone who knows the plot of Oedipus, I was like, I can't ask my mom to get me to see Oedipus. That's a very weird ask. So then we were trying. We were on speakerphone at one point and, like, trying to plan, like, oh, Christmas stuff. And so something came up about another show. And I was like, actually, my wife was in the room. It was on speakerphone. I was like, you know, I was thinking about asking you for tickets to Oedipus, but I thought that that would be way too weird. And she goes, oh, my God. I thought about getting you tickets to Oedipus, but I thought it would be way too weird.

[A]

No, it's genetic.

[B]

And my wife was like, well, you have to do the Oedipus tickets. We have to go see if that's it. And I'm like, so once again, Oedipus was fated to happen. But then we were on a collision course. And the fate, even as hard as we tried to avoid it, like Oedipus himself, it came to be. So tonight, I'm going to see Oedipus wreck. So go see it. Or don't. But whatever you do, make sure things are cool with your mom as she's getting you the tickets when you do it.

[A]

Devin. Okay, I have two things I need you to work on. One is to shower slightly more frequently. Just a little more frequently. And two, you gotta talk to your therapist about what's going on with your mom.

[B]

Shower? Why?

[A]

Okay. The fact that you and your mom both thought about that. Hey, look, you gotta take that to your therapist.

[B]

All right, I'll take it.

[A]

Take that to your therapist.

[B]

I'll shower before I go there. And then somehow, it will all still feel dirty. Desi.

[A]

Wow, we really went off the rails here.

[B]

Did we ever.

[A]

Just the way we like it.

[B]

Yes, off the rails. And so with that, I think that's it for this week's pre cap.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know.

[B]

Who's not watching the Daily show after this?

[A]

Come on. This is.

[B]

What more can you do?

[A]

You're snowed in. What more are you gonna do?

[B]

Put it on. Watch it.

[A]

I hope they have power.

[B]

I hope so, too. That would be very good. If you don't have power get one of those generators, plug your phone in, plug it into your tv, and make sure you can watch the Daily show and then heat your food and your water after you've watched the show.

[A]

Get your priorities straight.

[B]

So yeah, that's the pre cap. I have been Devin Delacuante Catch Desi Lydic hosting the Daily show all this week on Comedy Central and Paramount.

[A]

Yay. Thanks, Dev.

[B]

My pleasure.

[A]

That was fun.

[B]

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