The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's "Meet the Press" Tantrum, Flesh-Eating Screwworms, and a Presidential Buffalo - The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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You're listening to Comedy Central. Are we doing one of those pre things where we say something fun and off the cuff and it's like a cold open?
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Go, New York. Go, New York, go.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I thought you guys were gonna chime in.
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There's no crowd.
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Way to go, Desi.
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That's the problem is everyone at home doing that. Do it again and people at home can say it.
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Go, New York. Go, New York, go.
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Great. They all said it. Everyone said it.
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Everyone participated.
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No one said anything about it.
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No one was silent on the subway.
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Hello, and welcome to the Pre Cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to recap some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next. I'm Devin Delacronte. I'm a writer at the show and I'm joined today by your host for the week, Desi Lydic.
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It's me.
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Hello, Desi.
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Hi, Des.
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How are you?
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I love sitting here with you.
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It's a good time.
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Making my day.
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We have a good time. Yes. How's it going? How was your weekend?
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It's good. It was good. Just doing a little homework, a little studying and trying to survive through the enthusiastic New York City Knicks.
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The vibes are wild in New York City right now.
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Vibes are good?
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Yeah, it's good. It's been fun. It's been a fun week.
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How many orange and blue cookies have you had so far?
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Too many. I've had, yes. Well, we have a lot of orange and blue cookies coming in because of superstitions around Knicks. So, yeah, people are. Whatever their traditions are, they are sticking to them right now. I was actually. I have a pair of Knicks sneakers that my brother in law got for me. He's a Sixers fans got me some Knicks kicks. And I was talking to my roommate, Scott Herkman. I was like, oh, should I wear them for the run? He's like, whatever you're doing, do not change it. Do not. So they are in a box in my closet. I'm like, if a good thing happens, I will take them out of the box and then I will wear them. But I do not want to do anything that would disrupt the flow.
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Don't you dare.
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I know.
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Don't you dare. You keep those in the box.
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I know, I'll keep them in the box. The superstition, it's very important.
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Yeah. People take it very seriously.
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But we're getting cookies every morning. Scott, my office mate, who's very superstitious, is now like, Well, I have to bring cookies every day. It's those little, like the black and white cookies, but. But orange and blue for the Knicks.
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God, I love New York.
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It's very good. It's very good. Everybody's just like, what have you done?
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Don't change it. Did he brought. He brought cookies for the last game or the last series?
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For game one, he brought them. Well, I think he brought them at the end of the last series, and then he brought them and then they won. So then he brought them the next morning. So now it's just. There's cookies every day.
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We should tell him that if we want the Knicks to make it to the finals next year, he has to bring cookies every day between now and then. So we just get free cookies.
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I'm just gonna have him hand me $100 on game day. And if it works that every day he has to hand me $100, I. Look, man, you can't argue with success.
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We have to keep it going the way it is.
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We were gonna save the Knicks talk for later on the podcast. We're like, no, that's the only thing.
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It's the only thing we're thinking about.
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The only important thing happening in the world.
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It really does matter. I just. I'm praying that they win tonight because otherwise tomorrow is gonna be a very sad day to make the show.
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I know.
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I just need. Yeah, I don't need unhappy, unhappy Daily show staff.
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We have to keep the vibes good.
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We need excited Daily show staff.
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Yes, that's good. I feel good. Cause the last time I was in this podcast studio, Jordan Klepper was here and he was wearing a New York Knicks sweatshirt. So we are keeping the level of SW Superstition is very serious.
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Okay. We're on track.
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Yeah.
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Does that mean I have to do the entire podcast in character as Jordan Klepper?
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I mean, if you want to. Sure. It would be weird. Do you have a Klepper impression?
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Just tall and just imagine hair.
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Just. That's pretty good. That's it. I believe it. So, yes, lots of superstitions happening around the office. Everyone being careful. So you have to find out. You have to find out how exactly to sit in the chair. Be like, I don't want to disrupt any of the feng shui of the Knicks vibes in the office.
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Exactly. Cross legged all the way.
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What else were you looking at in your prep for this week?
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Well, you know, I always do all the prep and watch all the morning news shows to think about what we might cover. Sure. And Then the news changes over about three or four times before Tuesday comes around. But how about that walkout, Meet the Press. Meet the Press, that's right.
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For anyone who missed it, the President, Donald J. Trump. Hope you're not learning that right now. Very big surprise if you are. But he.
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If you are, I envy you.
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Yeah, right. He was. He sat down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. It was a 40 minute interview. They were in a barn, it looked
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like, for some reason, in Wisconsin.
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Pouring rain. Yep, In Wisconsin. Pouring rain. Tin roof. Yes. The worst roof for rain.
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I was thinking about that and not. I mean, that certainly happens unexpectedly from time to time. And there's nothing you could do with audio when that happens. But did they not know that it might rain?
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I mean, there's been a lot of cuts to weather monitoring over the past two years. That's true. No one knows how or why that
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happened, but he loves that funding.
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There it is. So they were in a barn and metal roof. It sounded like raining. And then the President was asked some questions about voter fraud and then he stormed out of the interview.
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Yes.
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So now you're all caught up to speed. I think we actually have that moment.
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You're crooked. At least the press is crooked and so is ABC and CBS and cnn. You're one sided, crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.
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Mr. President, let's please. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.
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I've sat in the rain.
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I know I sat in the rain with you for an hour, on and
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off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest.
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Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.
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All right. What did you make of it?
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I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. There were no direct flights. I had a connecting flight.
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That's a very funny thing to be like, Mr. President, the American people have like, I traveled to Wisconsin, man. Come on.
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Middle seat.
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That's it. I also like the run where Trump was just listing off all the networks where he was like, and ABC is crooked. Like NBC is crooked. And ABC and Nickelodeon and Disney Junior,
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Spike TV and Telemundo still around, right? What this is. See, this is exactly why I have never been able to trust a male president because they get so emotional. He was at that point in his cycle and it's just too volatile. You can't take the risk.
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I hear You. Yeah, I hear you. Yes. It was a big emotional thing. I also found it funny. It's hard to storm out of a room with 80 year old knees. Clearly. Because it was like, let's go, we get out of here. You could see the, like the storming stopped for the period from the butt in the chair to the butt out
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of the chair with the law of mic.
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Yeah. It's hard. The small little mic that you wear. Hard to microphone. He didn't have a big mic like this mic. He had a tiny little mic, tiny mic drop to be like, I'm leaving the interview. And then he stepped on it. Yes.
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Squashed it like a bug. It is pretty funny. The idea of dragging NBC all the way to Wisconsin to sit in a barn during a torrential rainstorm and then just pick up and leave. It is true bully behavior. It's bully inviting you to a costume party kind of behavior.
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Yeah, like everybody else is in the costume and you're not like, well, you're stranded out. You're stranded at this barn in the rain. Uh huh. Yeah. It's also like classic romantic comedy setup is like you're together in a barn in the rain. That's the moment you're supposed to connect
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with somebody where she drops her binder, her oversized binder, and then she goes down and he goes down to help her pick it up and they slowly come up together and realize that they
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have a connection and they lock eyes and then answer sincere questions about the Iran war.
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Yes. I don't think so. Unfortunately, those dreams have been lost.
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We keep waiting for a rom com to happen when we watch the news. And it always disappoints us.
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If only always.
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So disappointing.
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Yeah, but we did. We didn't get rom com, but we did get Bravo Housewives.
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We did.
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Oh, that's good. That's pretty close.
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Yeah, that is good. Speaking of reality TV stars, part of the contentiousness of the end of that interview was talking about the elections in California. And the bow count is still going. And Spencer Pratt, who is running for LA mayor, he was in second place. And it looked like the runoff was gonna be between him and Karen Bass. But then over the weekend, Nithya Raman overtook him for second place. So that might be the runoff. And so they're. Because California's mail in ballots come in late and they count the vote late. They were saying, well, there's gotta be election fraud and they're cheating Spencer. Pat. So it seemed like as if it wasn't reality show enough.
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Right.
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It's an actual reality TV star who is losing the election and pissed off about, we just need a reunion show.
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We do. We just need a reunion show. So wait, you're telling me that an unqualified candidate is struggling in the race? There must be foul play.
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Yes, always. That's. I mean, that's the only option. I feel like the voting with the mail in ballots would be so frustrating because I've gotten Christmas cards back in, like, May.
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Oh, yeah.
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Could you imagine if your vote came back and you're like, what do you mean? I put the address right? It would be so frustrating.
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Darn it.
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Yeah.
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And this is why I never send thank you notes.
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That's good. No, it's important. You never should.
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Yeah.
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Paperless post. You got to do a paperless post thank you note.
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That's it.
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That's good.
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It's your only option.
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That's it. So, yeah, that was a lot of the reason for the contentiousness was saying, well, what evidence do you have a voter fraud? And it was like, it's vibes, baby. We're going on, like, vibes. It's all vibes. So, yeah, so that was a big part of it.
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That was a fun drama to watch play out.
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But it seems like a lot of that is happening now with the California election and a lot of the Republican congressmen and media figures are saying, well, and all that kind of thing. And so that's what led to the walkout. Was Cristen Welker going, well, do you have any evidence of this? Or in 2020? And he was like, I got your evidence right here. And he threw the tiny mic down and he stepped on it, and then he walked out on the dirt into the pouring rain.
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That's what I was saying. Where is he storming off to?
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Oh, no, that's good.
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Wow. I guess once you commit, you have to commit. You gotta walk out into that rain you got.
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Yes, that's it. You can't storm off if there's a storm. You have to storm off into the storm.
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Wouldn't it be great, though, if he went to storm off but then realized it was raining? He didn't want to ruin his hair, so he just stood there and kind of looked over his shoulder awkwardly.
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It's the worst version of when you say, like, a really heartfelt goodbye to someone, but then you're walking in the same direction as you do the storm off of the interview, but then you have to hang out. It's like, yeah. So you got any plans this weekend?
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What are you doing Later.
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Are you gonna watch the Knicks game? Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't have any evidence for the voter fraud thing. I just. I keep. Remember every time I'm like, I gotta bring that evidence, but five and a half years, I keep forgetting to bring it in.
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I figure it out. I should have brought a binder.
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Yeah, what else? What else?
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Anyway,
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so, yeah, that was the Meet the Press interview. Very contentious.
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Yes.
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Something of note to me was the. Obviously they were in what looked like a barn, some, I think, John Deere equipment behind them. Another big story going on right now is the new World screwworm fly has reappeared in the U.S. have you followed this story?
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I've heard about this.
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So the screw worm.
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Disturbing.
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Yeah, it's very disturbing. It's a flesh eating worm. That's the grossest I'll get. So don't turn off. Don't turn off the podcast. Okay. So the worm gets in. And this was the first confirmed case since the 1960s in America.
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Make America great again.
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There we go. You know, we're bringing all kinds of wonderful things back, aren't we? Yeah.
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Living up to its promise, but yeah.
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So this is something people are really worried about. And it's another one of those, like, political footballs, where on the one hand, Doge cut a screwworm monitoring program last year when it was like, what if we just cut all these things? What's the worst that could happen? It's like, oh, yeah, Ebola. Ebola's coming. Oh, screwworm.
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Who's had screwworm since the 60s? We don't have to worry about that. Well, there's a reason. Yeah, are we, Alan, are we allowed to say screwworm? Is that a curse word? We wanna make sure this pod is family friendly.
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Do they bleep screwworm when we say screwworm?
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We should probably bleep screw.
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What we really need to do is be like, screw worm, screw worm. Yeah, and then we're gonna get in people's searches. Oh, you know what I mean?
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There you go.
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So we should bleep it. But yeah, if it's like, S blank, blank, blank, blank worm, people are like, ooh, what is this?
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I'm gonna click on Alan, can you bleep the word screw in? Screwworm.
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We're just gonna say screwworm a whole bunch of times. And if you can bleep it, we have to turn this episode around really fast. So we're making his life miserable too. Just like, oh, did you see the screw worms this weekend? There's so many.
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So many. Well, now I'M afraid. Where are the screw worms being discovered? Is it Texas?
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Yes, there's worms in Texas.
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Okay.
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It's near the US Mexico border. Are the S worms okay?
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So the S worms are on the. All throughout Texas. Have the worms been anywhere else in
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the country in America? Not yet. They've only found them in Texas so far. There's a worm problem in Central America and Mexico. So the right likes to say, well, this is a problem at the Biden's border. And then it becomes. Or was it Doge and all that? But what I can tell you about the. Is I love the solution to the.
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Right, Tell me about the. What is the solution to the.
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So what you do is in order to stop the worms, you have, they drop 4 million sterilized male flies. So the male flies are very promiscuous. The females only mate once. So they drop 4 million sterilized male flies into and into the, you know, the area where the worms are. They mate one time, they don't reproduce, and then that's it.
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Wow.
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Pretty good system, right?
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This is great.
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Scientifically speaking. The solution is fuck boy flies.
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We got fuck boy fly summer coming up.
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It's gonna be so hot.
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It's gonna be so hot.
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All these flies getting out there, not trying to commit, not try to get tied down.
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This is the problem with an abstinence only fly program. This is what goes wrong.
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I know.
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This is why we can't do that. When you're gonna screw, you're gonna scre.
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It leads to too many unexpected pregnancies. I mean, it's in the name of the worm. What are we talking about?
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It's not a surprise.
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Yeah, that's what they wanna do.
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That's up to their identity.
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That's it. And yet here we go. So dropping in the. How do you sterilize a fly?
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Even I am not interested in finding out.
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I'll be honest. Really. Do you have to give, like the world's tiniest little vasectomy where you just, I don't know, do a fly?
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That's pretty. That's actually pretty impressive if you could do that. I don't have the eyes for that anymore.
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The littlest tweezers you ever had. Those little things that like watchmakers or watch repairs use. Yeah, that would be good. Just going in, snipping the fly, putting it in the pile to drop into Texas. Go, have fun. Fly.
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So many ways that surgery could go wrong.
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Yes, it's true. What were you picturing?
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Nothing. Nothing.
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What were you picturing? Being pregnant and Being like, you said that you were a sterile fly.
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I'm thinking about how the flies would probably not want to get sterilized. And they'd be like, why don't you just go on the pill? Or how you. There's a whole argument between the male fly and the female fly. And then it's like, just do me this one favor. I have to deal with. Enough.
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The pillow talk between flies, turning it
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into a whole narrative in my mind. It went off the rails.
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This is why we need better fly sex education. So they know what they're dealing with and they can reproduce better.
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Oh, boy.
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Do you think Jeff Goldblum ever has to worry about this with? He was famously. The fly went into a machine. Maybe you make the flies huge, you sterilize them when they're big, and then you shrink them back down and put them on.
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Yeah, see, that's the most sensible solution.
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I don't want to say we're the best science outlet on the Internet, but I think we're up there.
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I would say that the fact that they cut Doge is probably okay because we're here to solve the problem.
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We can solve it. Bill Nye, if you're watching. Yeah. If you're listening, let us know if we're right. Let us know if there's a way we can sterilize flies.
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How far off are we? But wait, should we be. Should we be bleeping the word screw or the word worm?
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It's a good question. If we start talking about. Well, because RFK famously had a worm in his brain. You remember that?
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Yeah.
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If we talk about that worm. Do we have to bleep worm?
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Yeah, if it's. I think so.
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Yeah. But that's going to be more confusing if you bleep the word worm. And I'm like, rfk had a worm in his brain. You at home have no idea what I'm talking about. If the word worm is bleeped.
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But I think the goal of this is just to continue to give Alan more work on this quick turnaround pod. So, Alan, if you could just make sure to bleep the word worm. I think that would be. Maybe we would try that.
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I think it would be good. Guys. He said guys. Not any other word. Anyway, speaking of animals and livestock, you know, we're, I think, the number one livestock podcast. Are we. Are we on the livestock charts?
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We should be.
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We should be. We're so informed.
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It's not a competitive category, as far as I know.
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We should be doing this in a barn.
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Oh. Oh. Where's a good barn when you need it?
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We should have farming equipment behind us. And then you would storm off because I upset you about. Yeah.
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Alan, can you just edit in a barn for the background in this shot?
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Be good.
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Are you able to put, like, a barn filter behind us? Put in some rain sounds?
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So, yes, on the subject of livestock, there is, I don't know if you saw this, an albino buffalo that is named Donald Trump in Bangladesh. So I actually want to pull up a picture of this thing for anybody watching. If you're on your phone, maybe Google it. That is the albino buffalo from Bangladesh named Donald Trump. It was slated to be sacrificed in an Eid ceremony, I think, and when they discovered that it looked like America's 45th and 47th president, they saved its life and sent it to a zoo. Wow. What do you think?
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I think that. Wait, what is it? It's a buffalo.
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A buffalo buffalo, now named Donald Trump, who has golden locks. Look. I do see the resemblance, however, I feel like if you're about to be sacrificed and you're wherever you are, you're probably breaking out a comb and some hair gel and be like, look, whatever I could do to get myself saved here. He's like, if I can just a quick comb over, and he's like, I'm good. Nah, send me to the zoo. Look at me.
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You're saying that he actually worked on his Trump impression to save his life. He sort of saw it coming. He went, I'm gonna go all in on this.
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I'm saying he was backstage at the sacrifice, getting ready to go, looking in the mirror, being like, I need a plan here, guys. And he just combed his hair over, and now he's at the zoo. It worked out great.
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He actually, surprisingly, does look a lot like Trump. I'm gonna say that that buffalo would probably give a better interview to Meet
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the Press, and he would look good in that barn.
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I love that. He's like, I spent all this money on moose, and you tell me I look like this guy? This is what I get. Oh, man.
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So this thing's life was in danger, and then they were gonna sacrifice, and they're like, we can't sacrifice it, but it probably went back there. Like, this is why we need to build the bull room. We need to sacrifice.
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America needs a bull room.
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Yeah. Taxpayer money. A billion dollars for the bull room.
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$20 billion for the bull room.
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We're gonna have all. There's just go missiles underneath it and drones on top of it and Inside, it'll be.
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This is a surprisingly heartwarming story. I didn't see that coming.
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Well, I did see that the zookeeper, I think, got fired that he put Donald Trump on the name of the buff. Like, hey, come see the Donald Trump buffalo. And they're like, get out of here. You can't be doing that. Like, they don't know if it's gonna get him in trouble. So I think those are some of the things that we missed. And then what else are we looking at? What are you hoping to talk about this week when you're in the chair?
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The knicks Winning, obviously. 1. I think every headline this week is going to be about the Knicks. Well, maybe I shouldn't say it. I don't want to jinx it.
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Every headline? Yeah, you gotta. You gotta knock every piece of wood
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around there as though Scott Herkman was here.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Shout out to Scott Herkman. Very superstitious office mate.
[19:50]
B
Very superstitious.
[19:52]
A
But yeah, the office has been buzzing. It's been very excited. Did you watch game two?
[19:56]
B
I did.
[19:56]
A
It was a good game.
[19:57]
B
It was a great.
[19:57]
A
It was very exciting, that ending.
[20:00]
B
I know.
[20:01]
A
So if you didn't watch the game, first of all, you should have watched the game. Great game. NBA Finals. Shame on you. The. The Knicks are up by one. Spurs have the ball and seven seconds left, which is an eternity of time, and it's so nerve wracking. So they inbound the ball, they pass it to Wembanyama. He gets the shot off and it hits the rim and misses. And then the Knicks win. And after that moment, Karl Anthony Towns, AKA Cat, the big cat for the Knicks, they get the. There's a shot of him, and he's walking towards center court and he kind of points to the sky. And it was sort of this touching moment. And then afterwards, the. The interviewer at center court was like, you know, I saw you kind of pointing up after. After the game, you know, when you guys won. What. What was that moment about? And he. His mom had passed away, I think, in 2020. And he was saying, you know, you know, I pray to her, you know, when we need help. And they had the ball, they had seven seconds. And I was just like, mom, we need to stop here. And it was this like, super sweet moment of him, like. And he's like, when we got the stop, I sort of looked up and I was like. He was like saying, thank you. Which is this, like, beautiful, touching moment. But in my mind, when I was watching it, I was thinking that the Person who can guard Wembanyama is Cat's mom from the afterlife. Coming down as he's going to put up the final shot. Just going, get that shit out of here. You're not scoring on my son. He's gonna win the NBA championship, which is a beautiful thing.
[21:26]
B
It's exactly what you need. See, Mom's saving the day every time.
[21:30]
A
That's it. They come through from the afterlife. It was a beautiful moment.
[21:34]
B
So, so beautiful.
[21:35]
A
Shout out to Karl Anthony Townes. Actually, that's actually the premise of a 90s comedy. I don't know if you've ever seen it.
[21:41]
B
Totally.
[21:41]
A
The Sixth Man.
[21:42]
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[21:43]
A
Is Marlon Wayans movie friend of the show. Marlon Wayans.
[21:46]
B
Love Marlon.
[21:47]
A
Love Marlon Wayans. But yes, there was a. I think two players and one of them dies. And then he sticks around as a ghost and he helps them win the team. Which look, anything that the Knicks. Whatever. Whatever works.
[21:59]
B
Whatever works. Whatever needs to happen.
[22:01]
A
You need the power of the afterlife. That's it. Don't sage Madison Square Garden. Whatever's. Keep it working.
[22:08]
B
We need the afterlife. And we need you not wearing your nick shoes.
[22:12]
A
I know. I'm not gonna wear them. They're gonna stay where they are. I'm not changing thing. Everything is gonna be the same. Here's an interesting fact I learned about the movie the Sixth Man. So in the Sixth Man, Marlon Wayans can see ghosts. And he's the only one who can. But that movie came out two years before the Sixth Sense.
[22:31]
B
It did.
[22:31]
A
Yes. So I think the movie the Sixth Sense is inspired by the Sixth Man. Cause he was always doing the scary movies. I think the scary movie took from Marlon Wayans.
[22:40]
B
So was he actually psychic?
[22:43]
A
I don't know. Maybe. Wouldn't that be amazing?
[22:45]
B
Wow.
[22:46]
A
And scary movie. Huge at the box office. So shout out to Marlon Wayans. Shout out to so prolific.
[22:51]
B
That guy.
[22:52]
A
I know, it's good. Shout out to the Sixth Man. Shout out to Karl Anthony Townes. Let's go, Knicks. Anything. Look, the real world and the astral plane are all in line trying to make this Knicks championship happen.
[23:05]
B
From the 90s to the good energy.
[23:07]
A
It's very good energy.
[23:08]
B
Yeah.
[23:09]
A
So, yes, Game 3 of the Knicks is this evening. As we're recording Monday night. Very exciting. Big news story. New York's mayor will be there. America's president will be there. It's a big. This is a huge thing. Oh, and another thing.
[23:22]
B
Does he get booed?
[23:23]
A
Him Trump or him Mamdani?
[23:26]
B
You think Mamdani's gonna get Booed?
[23:27]
A
I don't think so. Well, here's what's so weird about this, is the tickets are so expensive that you don't know what the vibe of the crowd is gonna be if you're paying $10,000 a ticket.
[23:37]
B
And the lowest, the most Affordable price is $8,000. Right.
[23:41]
A
I guess.
[23:41]
B
Worst seat in the house. $8,000.
[23:43]
A
$8,000. So I don't know. But New York likes to boo stuff. It's hard to know. Or will they put them on the Jumbotron or not? It's a weird situation. I don't know. It'll be in the box, I think, with James Dolan, who's the owner of the team. But there's all this security that they have to do now because they were gonna do a watch party outside, which is like, the watch parties have been like, fun and wild, and the energy's there has been incredible. But they can't do that now.
[24:12]
B
Yeah.
[24:12]
A
So you can't have that energy outside with, you know, a sitting president coming in and Secret Service and whatever, you know, So I don't know. This is why we need a bull room, which is a place where the Chicago Bulls would play if the. If they were in the finals. Is build a bull room and put all the security underneath it. Everything on top of it.
[24:28]
B
So stupid.
[24:30]
A
Very stupid.
[24:30]
B
And if you like jokes like that, folks, yes, you are gonna love this week.
[24:34]
A
So be sure to watch the Daily show this week. On the subject of all the stupid
[24:38]
B
things, should we bleep bull?
[24:39]
A
Yes, we should bleep bull.
[24:40]
B
Alan, can we bleep bull from the podcast?
[24:42]
A
Give him a society to bull. He's so angry.
[24:46]
B
This is why we need a bull room.
[24:47]
A
How dare you? Filthy. Terrible.
[24:50]
B
It is both electrifying and terrifying. Walking around New York City at this moment in time, watching all of these New Yorkers be so happy. It's a little unsettling. Like, I really thought I was in one of those smile movies for a minute.
[25:04]
A
They're just shouting fuck you at drivers,
[25:06]
B
but happily, enormous smiles on their faces.
[25:09]
A
Yeah, that's it.
[25:10]
B
What a beautiful time to be in New York.
[25:11]
A
I know. The other thing I realized is this now. Like, if Mamdani and Trump are there and the Knicks don't win, then it's gonna be like, well, what's the problem and what happened? And you know. Cause I. Were you the one that was telling me that they're not even changing who's in the courtside seats?
[25:27]
B
Oh, yes, we were just talking about that.
[25:28]
A
So Spike Lee and Then Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner and Ben Stiller, like, they're all in the same place. I thought if Chalamet and Jenner broke up now, it would be like, we gotta keep going. We gotta just. We have to be in the same seat. You can't be there. Like, this would be the worst time for somebody to be like, no, we're staying together for the sake of the Knicks.
[25:51]
B
Stick it out for the Knicks, baby. Stick it out for the Knicks.
[25:54]
A
That's good.
[25:55]
B
Do what you need to do for your state. This is. Actually hearing that they're keeping the celebrity row the same is making me feel so much better about getting rejected in my plea for tickets for tonight's game. That must be why.
[26:07]
A
That's gotta be why.
[26:08]
B
Because I just need to keep it consistent.
[26:09]
A
It was purely suspicious.
[26:10]
B
And not that I'm irrelevant and not worthy of a seat.
[26:13]
A
Totally fair.
[26:13]
B
That's. I'm gonna go with that.
[26:14]
A
What else we got? Oh, speaking of sports, we've got the World cup starting this week.
[26:18]
B
Yes.
[26:18]
A
Another huge. It's a huge sports week.
[26:20]
B
It's a big sports week.
[26:21]
A
Yeah. So World Cup. Very expensive.
[26:24]
B
This is insane.
[26:25]
A
It's a lot of money.
[26:26]
B
I thought that the basketball. That the MSG tickets were high, but. What does parking cost?
[26:33]
A
$225.
[26:35]
B
For parking.
[26:36]
A
There's a $225 parking spot at the American Dream Mall. The aptly named American Dream Mall.
[26:43]
B
That is no American Dream. No one's achieving that American dream.
[26:46]
A
Look, my ancestors came to this country with nothing but the clothes on their back, hoping that one day they could afford to park at the American Dream Mall.
[26:53]
B
If you could afford to park at the American Dream Mall, you have reached the American dream. That's the American Dream. Two hundred and twenty. Did you say 25?
[27:02]
A
$225.
[27:03]
B
That's crazy.
[27:03]
A
And the trains were going to be $100. There were people mapping out how you could walk from New York City to the Meadowlands, which is not a pretty walk.
[27:13]
B
It doesn't sound right.
[27:14]
A
Yeah.
[27:15]
B
Yeah.
[27:15]
A
Yeah. Over the bodies of thousands of union leaders buried in the swamps of the Meadowlands.
[27:20]
B
Oh, God.
[27:22]
A
Bubbling up through the swamps.
[27:24]
B
I hope those parking attendants are fluent in fist fights.
[27:27]
A
So, yeah. And then, of course, Sunday, the biggest sporting event of them all. UFC fight at the White House.
[27:33]
B
UFC fight.
[27:34]
A
Will you be trying to get tickets to that?
[27:36]
B
Are you kidding me? Me and Vanilla Ice.
[27:39]
A
You're gonna go?
[27:40]
B
Yeah. You don't have to ask me twice.
[27:42]
A
It'll be good so, yes, that is Flag Day Sunday, the president's 80th birthday.
[27:48]
B
Big day.
[27:49]
A
There is a giant claw now over the South Lawn, I believe.
[27:53]
B
Oh, yeah.
[27:55]
A
Weird. Weird, right?
[27:57]
B
Do we have it? What is that supposed to look like?
[28:01]
A
I think that's what it is. He talked about keeping it up last week, that it would just. That's a permanent part of the, I don't know, skyline of Washington now.
[28:08]
B
Americans don't know how to build things to last.
[28:11]
A
I guess that's true.
[28:12]
B
That's gonna be like an IKEA bed frame on the side of the street.
[28:15]
A
You think it's gonna fall apart? Yeah.
[28:17]
B
Could crumble into pieces.
[28:18]
A
They're on the South Lawn with one little Allen wrench. Just, like, tightening the little pieces.
[28:22]
B
Couldn't figure it out. Too many parts.
[28:24]
A
They're doing this UFC fight and feel however you want to feel. It's very. It's weird to me to be having blood sports at the White House. That feels very, like, kind of creepy and dystopian. But then I was like, this must be weird for WWE, like, professional wrestling. Linda McMahon is the secretary of Education. That seems like if you're going to have, like a sporting event thing. He's had a relationship.
[28:46]
B
He's earned it.
[28:47]
A
Yes.
[28:48]
B
Yes.
[28:48]
A
Triple H, like, runs it. Why aren't they doing. And like, 80s wrestling was the epitome of like, a guy with a shirtless guy with an American flag coming out in a two by four. On the other hand.
[29:00]
B
That's right.
[29:00]
A
Just like hitting the Iron Sheik in the head and trying to, like, that's.
[29:05]
B
You can make up any narrative you want.
[29:07]
A
Yes.
[29:07]
B
And it goes. Anything flies.
[29:10]
A
Yes. And the match can end the way you want in a very, like, it seems much more controlled.
[29:15]
B
Nothing fact based.
[29:16]
A
Yes.
[29:17]
B
It's all just off the rails.
[29:19]
A
It's vibes. It's not evidence.
[29:20]
B
Drama, mayhem.
[29:21]
A
This is what it should be.
[29:22]
B
Yeah.
[29:23]
A
I don't know. But I felt, you know, I felt bad for professional wrestling. All of the work, all of the time they put in to cultivate it.
[29:28]
B
And they were nothing.
[29:29]
A
Nothing.
[29:30]
B
That's unfortunate.
[29:33]
A
Yeah. And there's reports that they're having trouble attracting, like, a list people to come to the fight. The Rock apparently said no. And who are some of the other people? I think Adam Sandler was invited, but isn't going. Jared Leto.
[29:46]
B
Jared Leto said no. You know, if Jared Leto says no, it's time to rethink. Maybe just have like a small, intimate sleepover just to save face.
[29:55]
A
Yeah. When Jared Leto's like, ah, this project seems like a mess. I'm out.
[29:58]
B
It's time to wrap it up.
[29:59]
A
He's sitting there reading the script for Morbius 2. Like, what's that, UFC? No, no, I'm good. That's not for me. That's a pass from your boy jl.
[30:08]
B
You know, we're having an intimate get together. Let's just. Yeah, yeah.
[30:15]
A
So we got that this week. Yeah. And then anything else you're looking forward to guest wise on the show? Anybody you're looking forward to talking to?
[30:23]
B
Devin. We have a powerhouse week of women. We got John leading us off with Jane Fonda.
[30:30]
A
That's very exciting.
[30:33]
B
I have Laverne Cox on Tuesday night, Nina Dobrev on Wednesday, and then Thursday, being the sports gal that I am. Chris Evert and Martina Nabratilova.
[30:44]
A
That's so exciting.
[30:45]
B
Yes. Oh my gosh, how exciting.
[30:47]
A
That's great. Are they gonna try to corner Michael Kosta and tell us the truth about if he's good at tennis or not?
[30:52]
B
I am paying them to do so. If they're not voluntarily doing it, I will coerce them into it.
[30:58]
A
That's wonderful.
[30:58]
B
Yeah. They gotta roast them a little bit.
[31:00]
A
They should.
[31:00]
B
Yeah.
[31:01]
A
Big sports week.
[31:02]
B
Big sports week.
[31:03]
A
Big sports week. Yeah. All right, so I think that will actually bring us to our final segment, which we call Daily show and Tell. So this is something that you have watched, read or listened to, argued about or it's something that's just been on your mind? I will throw it to you first.
[31:19]
B
Well, because of the phenomenal guest that I have Tuesday night, Laverne Cox. She's coming on the show to talk about her memoir and I just spent the last couple of weeks reading it. It is so beautifully written. It's incredibly inspirational. She has been through it.
[31:37]
A
Yeah, I saw one of the excerpts from it. It just seems like incredibly powerful.
[31:40]
B
Yeah, it is. It's. I highly, highly recommend that everyone go out and get that book. And I cannot wait to sit down and chat with her. So that would be my. That would be my wreck.
[31:49]
A
That's it. Another friend of the show.
[31:50]
B
Another friend of the show. She came and she did a very funny, in my opinion. Yeah.
[31:55]
A
So that'll be exciting for my Daily show and Tell. I will shout out this documentary that I watched recently called the Dark wizard, which is about a climber named Dean Potter. And so, yeah, anyone who knows Alex Honnold from the movie Free Solo, who climbed that. Oh my gosh. It's one 667 foot building skyscraper. He climbed to the Top of it. No ropes, no nothing over in Taiwan. So he's in this documentary. But this is a guy who came before him named Dean Potter, and he started doing free solo climbs. And then he graduated from just climbing to wearing a parachute and doing these weird hybrid, like, climb, base jump things. Then he would do these sort of tightrope walks with a parachute and then without a parachute. And then he started doing wingsuit stuff. And he's a very. He's an incredible athlete, but also this, like, clearly tortured guy. And it's just a really powerful documentary. And from the first scene, you. It just. It will grab you. And all four episodes were incredible. So I recommend the Dark Wizard. That was my.
[32:58]
B
Were you just watching on the edge of your seat the most stressed? Terrified? Yeah, it sounds very stressful.
[33:05]
A
Yes, I was. Every part of me was just clenched.
[33:08]
B
Have you. Are you much of a climber? Have you ever gone rock climbing or.
[33:11]
A
Not really, no. My wife was into rock climbing.
[33:13]
B
Oh, she is? I didn't know that.
[33:15]
A
Coward. Yeah. She will rock climb and then my two kids will. Do they go to a rock climb. Yeah, that's one of the things they do in the summer. So they're into it. But I don't want to show this to them is the problem. You can't literally a show and tell thing. I'm like, I don't want to see them climbing things with parachutes and all that.
[33:28]
B
Seems to me you need to keep that from them. Yes, I'm a secret you keep.
[33:33]
A
Thank God they don't listen to this podcast. I'd be cooked. Yeah, I'm doing a show and tell. I can't even show and tell my kids.
[33:37]
B
No.
[33:38]
A
Horrifying.
[33:38]
B
It's a very limited show and tell curated.
[33:41]
A
So I think that's it.
[33:41]
B
That's it.
[33:42]
A
I'm looking forward to your week.
[33:44]
B
Aw, thanks, Deb. This was so fun.
[33:46]
A
My pleasure. That's all the time we have for the pre cap. I am Devin Delacronte. Please catch Desi Lydic hosting the Daily show this week on Comedy Central, Paramount, and right here in podcast form on the Daily Show Ears edition.
[33:59]
B
Look at us now.
[34:00]
A
You need to sit like that for the rest of the week to help them. I won't move. It's gonna be tough. They'll just carry you to the desk and they'll put that chair on top of the desk.
[34:06]
B
Perfect.
[34:07]
A
Great. Explore more shows from the Daily show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show. Wherever you get your podcasts, watch the
[34:15]
C
Daily show weeknights at 1110 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount.
[34:21]
B
Plus,
[34:25]
A
this has been a Comedy Central podcast.

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition
The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's "Meet the Press" Tantrum
Release Date: June 8, 2026

Episode Overview

In this pre-cap episode, writers Devin Delacronte and this week’s host Desi Lydic dive into the latest news and preview upcoming highlights for The Daily Show. The conversation is energetic, satirical, and quintessentially New York, reflecting on everything from Knicks fever in the city to President Trump’s headline-grabbing “Meet the Press” walkout, an emerging flesh-eating worm scare, and the wild intersection of reality TV and American politics. The pair also preview a week of powerhouse women guests and recommend must-read and must-watch picks.

Knicks Fever & Office Superstitions

[00:45–03:51]

The show opens with an enthusiastic “Go, New York, go!” chant, highlighting the current excitement in NYC over the Knicks’ playoff run.
Devin and Desi swap stories about intense office superstitions, including a colleague’s ritual of bringing in orange and blue cookies and the sacredness of not changing “what’s working.”
Fun banter includes jokes about wearing Knicks sneakers and keeping the “vibes” right for staff morale.
Quote:
“If a good thing happens, I will take them out of the box and then I will wear them. But I do not want to do anything that would disrupt the flow.” – Devin [01:56]

Trump’s “Meet the Press” Meltdown

[03:54–09:41]

The focus shifts to Trump’s walkout on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he stormed out after being pressed on voter fraud claims.
The team sets the scene: a barn in Wisconsin, pouring rain, a metal roof making audio difficult.
Audio clip played: Trump accuses all media outlets of being “crooked” and abruptly leaves, calling out various networks.
Memorable insights and jokes:
- Desi spins the “emotional” presidential meltdown into a quip on trusting male presidents:
  “See, this is exactly why I have never been able to trust a male president, because they get so emotional…” [06:06]
- Visualizing Trump’s slow storm-out with “80-year-old knees” and mic-drop bloopers.
- Joking about the barn’s rom-com potential:
  “Classic romantic comedy setup is like you’re together in a barn in the rain. That’s the moment you’re supposed to connect…” – Devin [07:17]

Reality TV Politics & California Election Drama

[07:50–09:27]

Segues into real-life drama: Spencer Pratt (the reality TV star) is running for Mayor of LA, but losing, prompting unfounded voter fraud accusations.
The team satirizes how celebrity candidacies and mail-in ballot delays lead to conspiracies and performative outrage.
Quote:
“So, wait, you’re telling me that an unqualified candidate is struggling in the race? There must be foul play.” – Desi [08:37]

Outlandish Election Claims and Aftermath

[09:27–10:04]

Central to Trump’s walkout: repeated, unsupported claims of fraud driven by “vibes.”
Devin and Desi joke about the “storm into the storm” nature of Trump’s exit.
Quote:
“You can’t storm off if there’s a storm. You have to storm off into the storm.” – Devin [10:00]

The Return of the Screwworm & Absurd Animal Science

[10:44–15:10]

Devin introduces a bizarre news story: the reappearance of the flesh-eating New World screwworm in Texas, tracing it to past funding cuts in monitoring programs.
The scientific approach to controlling the spread? Dropping millions of sterilized “fuck boy” male flies.
Extended riff on fly sexuality, abstinence-only education (for flies), and the intricacies of sterilizing insects—played purely for laughs.
Quote:
“Scientifically speaking, the solution is fuck boy flies.” – Devin [13:30]
“We got fuck boy fly summer coming up.” – Desi [13:33]

The “Donald Trump” Buffalo & International Satire

[17:04–18:42]

The duo shares the quirky tale of an albino buffalo in Bangladesh named Donald Trump, saved from sacrificial ceremony after the resemblance was noticed and sent to a zoo.
Quote:
“I’m gonna say that that buffalo would probably give a better interview to Meet the Press, and he would look good in that barn.” – Desi [18:32]

Knicks Playoff Recap & Ghostly Basketball Help

[19:30–23:07]

Discussion shifts back to the Knicks, recounting the nail-biting finish in Game 2, where Karl-Anthony Towns emotionally credited his late mother for divine interference on defense.
The moment recalls ‘90s sports comedies like The Sixth Man, further fueling office superstition.
Quote:
“The Person who can guard Wembanyama is Cat’s mom from the afterlife. Coming down as he’s going to put up the final shot. Just going, get that shit out of here. You’re not scoring on my son. He’s gonna win the NBA championship, which is a beautiful thing.” – Devin [21:19]

VIP Courtside Rituals, World Cup Mayhem & Sports Mania

[23:08–27:03]

Explores the astonishing cost of sports in NYC: $8,000 minimum for Knicks tickets, $225 parking for World Cup games at American Dream Mall.
Jokes about celebrity seating remaining unchanged due to superstitious reasons; even celebrity relationship drama can’t risk the “vibe.”
Quote:
“My ancestors came to this country with nothing but the clothes on their back, hoping that one day they could afford to park at the American Dream Mall.” – Devin [26:46]

UFC at the White House & American Political Maximalism

[27:32–29:33]

Pokes fun at Trump’s scheduling of a UFC fight to celebrate his 80th birthday at the White House on Flag Day.
Absurdity is elevated by the report that The Rock and Jared Leto turned down invitations.
Reflection on WWE’s lengthy political connections and the made-for-TV nature of modern political spectacle.

Preview: Guest Lineup for the Week

[30:22–31:00]

Desi teases a “powerhouse week of women” guests:
- Jane Fonda (guest with Jon Stewart)
- Laverne Cox (promoting her memoir)
- Nina Dobrev
- Legendary tennis icons Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova
Quote:
“We got John leading us off with Jane Fonda… I have Laverne Cox, Nina Dobrev, and then Thursday… Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.” – Desi [30:30]

Daily Show and Tell: Recommendations

[31:02–33:40]

Desi’s pick: Laverne Cox’s memoir – “Beautifully written, incredibly inspirational.” [31:36]
Devin’s pick: Documentary The Dark Wizard, about climber Dean Potter — “From the first scene, you… it just… it will grab you. All four episodes were incredible.” [32:44]
Humorous sidebar: Devin confesses he doesn’t want his rock-climbing kids to see it (“I’m doing a show and tell I can’t even show and tell my kids.” – [33:37])

Notable Quotes & One-Liners

“This is exactly why I’ve never been able to trust a male president—they get so emotional.” – Desi [06:06]
“The solution is fuck boy flies.” – Devin [13:30]
“The Person who can guard Wembanyama is Cat’s mom from the afterlife… Get that shit out of here.” – Devin [21:19]
“If you could afford to park at the American Dream Mall, you have reached the American dream.” – Desi [26:53]
“We got fuck boy fly summer coming up.” – Desi [13:33]

Tone, Vibes & Final Takeaways

The episode is lighthearted, irreverent, and peppered with inside references for New Yorkers and sports obsessives.
Deep satire of American culture and politics, where news is “vibes, not evidence.”
A playful gossip-on-absurdity energy runs through the show, especially as it careens from sports superstitions to animal science to politics as reality television.
The hosts build anticipation for a lively, sports-and-politics-saturated week of The Daily Show, capped with interviews with iconic women and fresh cultural commentary.

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Sharp, comedic sendups of current headlines
Behind-the-scenes sports fandom and New York joy/panic
Juicy political satire with part zany office chat, part pointed parody of the news cycle
Inside scoop on upcoming Daily Show guests and recommendations from the hosts

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You're listening to Comedy Central. Are we doing one of those pre things where we say something fun and off the cuff and it's like a cold open?
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Go, New York. Go, New York, go.
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Yeah.
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B
Oh, I thought you guys were gonna chime in.
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There's no crowd.
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Way to go, Desi.
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That's the problem is everyone at home doing that. Do it again and people at home can say it.
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Go, New York. Go, New York, go.
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Great. They all said it. Everyone said it.
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Everyone participated.
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A
No one said anything about it.
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No one was silent on the subway.
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A
Hello, and welcome to the Pre Cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to recap some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next. I'm Devin Delacronte. I'm a writer at the show and I'm joined today by your host for the week, Desi Lydic.
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B
It's me.
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A
Hello, Desi.
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B
Hi, Des.
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A
How are you?
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B
I love sitting here with you.
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A
It's a good time.
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B
Making my day.
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We have a good time. Yes. How's it going? How was your weekend?
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B
It's good. It was good. Just doing a little homework, a little studying and trying to survive through the enthusiastic New York City Knicks.
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The vibes are wild in New York City right now.
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B
Vibes are good?
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A
Yeah, it's good. It's been fun. It's been a fun week.
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B
How many orange and blue cookies have you had so far?
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A
Too many. I've had, yes. Well, we have a lot of orange and blue cookies coming in because of superstitions around Knicks. So, yeah, people are. Whatever their traditions are, they are sticking to them right now. I was actually. I have a pair of Knicks sneakers that my brother in law got for me. He's a Sixers fans got me some Knicks kicks. And I was talking to my roommate, Scott Herkman. I was like, oh, should I wear them for the run? He's like, whatever you're doing, do not change it. Do not. So they are in a box in my closet. I'm like, if a good thing happens, I will take them out of the box and then I will wear them. But I do not want to do anything that would disrupt the flow.
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Don't you dare.
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I know.
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B
Don't you dare. You keep those in the box.
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I know, I'll keep them in the box. The superstition, it's very important.
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Yeah. People take it very seriously.
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But we're getting cookies every morning. Scott, my office mate, who's very superstitious, is now like, Well, I have to bring cookies every day. It's those little, like the black and white cookies, but. But orange and blue for the Knicks.
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God, I love New York.
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It's very good. It's very good. Everybody's just like, what have you done?
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Don't change it. Did he brought. He brought cookies for the last game or the last series?
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For game one, he brought them. Well, I think he brought them at the end of the last series, and then he brought them and then they won. So then he brought them the next morning. So now it's just. There's cookies every day.
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B
We should tell him that if we want the Knicks to make it to the finals next year, he has to bring cookies every day between now and then. So we just get free cookies.
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A
I'm just gonna have him hand me $100 on game day. And if it works that every day he has to hand me $100, I. Look, man, you can't argue with success.
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B
We have to keep it going the way it is.
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We were gonna save the Knicks talk for later on the podcast. We're like, no, that's the only thing.
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It's the only thing we're thinking about.
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The only important thing happening in the world.
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It really does matter. I just. I'm praying that they win tonight because otherwise tomorrow is gonna be a very sad day to make the show.
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I know.
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I just need. Yeah, I don't need unhappy, unhappy Daily show staff.
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We have to keep the vibes good.
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B
We need excited Daily show staff.
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Yes, that's good. I feel good. Cause the last time I was in this podcast studio, Jordan Klepper was here and he was wearing a New York Knicks sweatshirt. So we are keeping the level of SW Superstition is very serious.
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B
Okay. We're on track.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Does that mean I have to do the entire podcast in character as Jordan Klepper?
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I mean, if you want to. Sure. It would be weird. Do you have a Klepper impression?
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B
Just tall and just imagine hair.
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Just. That's pretty good. That's it. I believe it. So, yes, lots of superstitions happening around the office. Everyone being careful. So you have to find out. You have to find out how exactly to sit in the chair. Be like, I don't want to disrupt any of the feng shui of the Knicks vibes in the office.
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Exactly. Cross legged all the way.
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A
What else were you looking at in your prep for this week?
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B
Well, you know, I always do all the prep and watch all the morning news shows to think about what we might cover. Sure. And Then the news changes over about three or four times before Tuesday comes around. But how about that walkout, Meet the Press. Meet the Press, that's right.
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For anyone who missed it, the President, Donald J. Trump. Hope you're not learning that right now. Very big surprise if you are. But he.
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If you are, I envy you.
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A
Yeah, right. He was. He sat down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. It was a 40 minute interview. They were in a barn, it looked
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like, for some reason, in Wisconsin.
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Pouring rain. Yep, In Wisconsin. Pouring rain. Tin roof. Yes. The worst roof for rain.
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B
I was thinking about that and not. I mean, that certainly happens unexpectedly from time to time. And there's nothing you could do with audio when that happens. But did they not know that it might rain?
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I mean, there's been a lot of cuts to weather monitoring over the past two years. That's true. No one knows how or why that
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happened, but he loves that funding.
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There it is. So they were in a barn and metal roof. It sounded like raining. And then the President was asked some questions about voter fraud and then he stormed out of the interview.
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B
Yes.
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A
So now you're all caught up to speed. I think we actually have that moment.
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You're crooked. At least the press is crooked and so is ABC and CBS and cnn. You're one sided, crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.
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Mr. President, let's please. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.
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C
I've sat in the rain.
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I know I sat in the rain with you for an hour, on and
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off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest.
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B
Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.
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A
All right. What did you make of it?
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B
I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. There were no direct flights. I had a connecting flight.
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That's a very funny thing to be like, Mr. President, the American people have like, I traveled to Wisconsin, man. Come on.
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B
Middle seat.
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A
That's it. I also like the run where Trump was just listing off all the networks where he was like, and ABC is crooked. Like NBC is crooked. And ABC and Nickelodeon and Disney Junior,
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B
Spike TV and Telemundo still around, right? What this is. See, this is exactly why I have never been able to trust a male president because they get so emotional. He was at that point in his cycle and it's just too volatile. You can't take the risk.
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I hear You. Yeah, I hear you. Yes. It was a big emotional thing. I also found it funny. It's hard to storm out of a room with 80 year old knees. Clearly. Because it was like, let's go, we get out of here. You could see the, like the storming stopped for the period from the butt in the chair to the butt out
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of the chair with the law of mic.
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A
Yeah. It's hard. The small little mic that you wear. Hard to microphone. He didn't have a big mic like this mic. He had a tiny little mic, tiny mic drop to be like, I'm leaving the interview. And then he stepped on it. Yes.
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Squashed it like a bug. It is pretty funny. The idea of dragging NBC all the way to Wisconsin to sit in a barn during a torrential rainstorm and then just pick up and leave. It is true bully behavior. It's bully inviting you to a costume party kind of behavior.
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Yeah, like everybody else is in the costume and you're not like, well, you're stranded out. You're stranded at this barn in the rain. Uh huh. Yeah. It's also like classic romantic comedy setup is like you're together in a barn in the rain. That's the moment you're supposed to connect
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B
with somebody where she drops her binder, her oversized binder, and then she goes down and he goes down to help her pick it up and they slowly come up together and realize that they
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have a connection and they lock eyes and then answer sincere questions about the Iran war.
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B
Yes. I don't think so. Unfortunately, those dreams have been lost.
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A
We keep waiting for a rom com to happen when we watch the news. And it always disappoints us.
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B
If only always.
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So disappointing.
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B
Yeah, but we did. We didn't get rom com, but we did get Bravo Housewives.
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We did.
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Oh, that's good. That's pretty close.
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Yeah, that is good. Speaking of reality TV stars, part of the contentiousness of the end of that interview was talking about the elections in California. And the bow count is still going. And Spencer Pratt, who is running for LA mayor, he was in second place. And it looked like the runoff was gonna be between him and Karen Bass. But then over the weekend, Nithya Raman overtook him for second place. So that might be the runoff. And so they're. Because California's mail in ballots come in late and they count the vote late. They were saying, well, there's gotta be election fraud and they're cheating Spencer. Pat. So it seemed like as if it wasn't reality show enough.
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B
Right.
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A
It's an actual reality TV star who is losing the election and pissed off about, we just need a reunion show.
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B
We do. We just need a reunion show. So wait, you're telling me that an unqualified candidate is struggling in the race? There must be foul play.
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Yes, always. That's. I mean, that's the only option. I feel like the voting with the mail in ballots would be so frustrating because I've gotten Christmas cards back in, like, May.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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A
Could you imagine if your vote came back and you're like, what do you mean? I put the address right? It would be so frustrating.
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B
Darn it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And this is why I never send thank you notes.
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A
That's good. No, it's important. You never should.
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B
Yeah.
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Paperless post. You got to do a paperless post thank you note.
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B
That's it.
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A
That's good.
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B
It's your only option.
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That's it. So, yeah, that was a lot of the reason for the contentiousness was saying, well, what evidence do you have a voter fraud? And it was like, it's vibes, baby. We're going on, like, vibes. It's all vibes. So, yeah, so that was a big part of it.
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That was a fun drama to watch play out.
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A
But it seems like a lot of that is happening now with the California election and a lot of the Republican congressmen and media figures are saying, well, and all that kind of thing. And so that's what led to the walkout. Was Cristen Welker going, well, do you have any evidence of this? Or in 2020? And he was like, I got your evidence right here. And he threw the tiny mic down and he stepped on it, and then he walked out on the dirt into the pouring rain.
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B
That's what I was saying. Where is he storming off to?
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Oh, no, that's good.
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Wow. I guess once you commit, you have to commit. You gotta walk out into that rain you got.
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Yes, that's it. You can't storm off if there's a storm. You have to storm off into the storm.
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B
Wouldn't it be great, though, if he went to storm off but then realized it was raining? He didn't want to ruin his hair, so he just stood there and kind of looked over his shoulder awkwardly.
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It's the worst version of when you say, like, a really heartfelt goodbye to someone, but then you're walking in the same direction as you do the storm off of the interview, but then you have to hang out. It's like, yeah. So you got any plans this weekend?
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B
What are you doing Later.
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Are you gonna watch the Knicks game? Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't have any evidence for the voter fraud thing. I just. I keep. Remember every time I'm like, I gotta bring that evidence, but five and a half years, I keep forgetting to bring it in.
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B
I figure it out. I should have brought a binder.
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A
Yeah, what else? What else?
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Anyway,
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so, yeah, that was the Meet the Press interview. Very contentious.
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B
Yes.
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Something of note to me was the. Obviously they were in what looked like a barn, some, I think, John Deere equipment behind them. Another big story going on right now is the new World screwworm fly has reappeared in the U.S. have you followed this story?
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I've heard about this.
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So the screw worm.
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Disturbing.
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Yeah, it's very disturbing. It's a flesh eating worm. That's the grossest I'll get. So don't turn off. Don't turn off the podcast. Okay. So the worm gets in. And this was the first confirmed case since the 1960s in America.
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B
Make America great again.
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A
There we go. You know, we're bringing all kinds of wonderful things back, aren't we? Yeah.
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B
Living up to its promise, but yeah.
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So this is something people are really worried about. And it's another one of those, like, political footballs, where on the one hand, Doge cut a screwworm monitoring program last year when it was like, what if we just cut all these things? What's the worst that could happen? It's like, oh, yeah, Ebola. Ebola's coming. Oh, screwworm.
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B
Who's had screwworm since the 60s? We don't have to worry about that. Well, there's a reason. Yeah, are we, Alan, are we allowed to say screwworm? Is that a curse word? We wanna make sure this pod is family friendly.
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Do they bleep screwworm when we say screwworm?
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We should probably bleep screw.
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What we really need to do is be like, screw worm, screw worm. Yeah, and then we're gonna get in people's searches. Oh, you know what I mean?
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There you go.
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A
So we should bleep it. But yeah, if it's like, S blank, blank, blank, blank worm, people are like, ooh, what is this?
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B
I'm gonna click on Alan, can you bleep the word screw in? Screwworm.
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We're just gonna say screwworm a whole bunch of times. And if you can bleep it, we have to turn this episode around really fast. So we're making his life miserable too. Just like, oh, did you see the screw worms this weekend? There's so many.
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So many. Well, now I'M afraid. Where are the screw worms being discovered? Is it Texas?
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Yes, there's worms in Texas.
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B
Okay.
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It's near the US Mexico border. Are the S worms okay?
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B
So the S worms are on the. All throughout Texas. Have the worms been anywhere else in
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the country in America? Not yet. They've only found them in Texas so far. There's a worm problem in Central America and Mexico. So the right likes to say, well, this is a problem at the Biden's border. And then it becomes. Or was it Doge and all that? But what I can tell you about the. Is I love the solution to the.
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B
Right, Tell me about the. What is the solution to the.
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So what you do is in order to stop the worms, you have, they drop 4 million sterilized male flies. So the male flies are very promiscuous. The females only mate once. So they drop 4 million sterilized male flies into and into the, you know, the area where the worms are. They mate one time, they don't reproduce, and then that's it.
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B
Wow.
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Pretty good system, right?
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This is great.
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Scientifically speaking. The solution is fuck boy flies.
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B
We got fuck boy fly summer coming up.
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It's gonna be so hot.
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B
It's gonna be so hot.
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All these flies getting out there, not trying to commit, not try to get tied down.
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This is the problem with an abstinence only fly program. This is what goes wrong.
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I know.
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This is why we can't do that. When you're gonna screw, you're gonna scre.
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It leads to too many unexpected pregnancies. I mean, it's in the name of the worm. What are we talking about?
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It's not a surprise.
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A
Yeah, that's what they wanna do.
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That's up to their identity.
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That's it. And yet here we go. So dropping in the. How do you sterilize a fly?
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Even I am not interested in finding out.
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A
I'll be honest. Really. Do you have to give, like the world's tiniest little vasectomy where you just, I don't know, do a fly?
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B
That's pretty. That's actually pretty impressive if you could do that. I don't have the eyes for that anymore.
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The littlest tweezers you ever had. Those little things that like watchmakers or watch repairs use. Yeah, that would be good. Just going in, snipping the fly, putting it in the pile to drop into Texas. Go, have fun. Fly.
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B
So many ways that surgery could go wrong.
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A
Yes, it's true. What were you picturing?
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B
Nothing. Nothing.
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A
What were you picturing? Being pregnant and Being like, you said that you were a sterile fly.
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B
I'm thinking about how the flies would probably not want to get sterilized. And they'd be like, why don't you just go on the pill? Or how you. There's a whole argument between the male fly and the female fly. And then it's like, just do me this one favor. I have to deal with. Enough.
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A
The pillow talk between flies, turning it
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B
into a whole narrative in my mind. It went off the rails.
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This is why we need better fly sex education. So they know what they're dealing with and they can reproduce better.
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B
Oh, boy.
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A
Do you think Jeff Goldblum ever has to worry about this with? He was famously. The fly went into a machine. Maybe you make the flies huge, you sterilize them when they're big, and then you shrink them back down and put them on.
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B
Yeah, see, that's the most sensible solution.
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A
I don't want to say we're the best science outlet on the Internet, but I think we're up there.
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B
I would say that the fact that they cut Doge is probably okay because we're here to solve the problem.
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A
We can solve it. Bill Nye, if you're watching. Yeah. If you're listening, let us know if we're right. Let us know if there's a way we can sterilize flies.
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B
How far off are we? But wait, should we be. Should we be bleeping the word screw or the word worm?
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A
It's a good question. If we start talking about. Well, because RFK famously had a worm in his brain. You remember that?
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B
Yeah.
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A
If we talk about that worm. Do we have to bleep worm?
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B
Yeah, if it's. I think so.
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A
Yeah. But that's going to be more confusing if you bleep the word worm. And I'm like, rfk had a worm in his brain. You at home have no idea what I'm talking about. If the word worm is bleeped.
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B
But I think the goal of this is just to continue to give Alan more work on this quick turnaround pod. So, Alan, if you could just make sure to bleep the word worm. I think that would be. Maybe we would try that.
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A
I think it would be good. Guys. He said guys. Not any other word. Anyway, speaking of animals and livestock, you know, we're, I think, the number one livestock podcast. Are we. Are we on the livestock charts?
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B
We should be.
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A
We should be. We're so informed.
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B
It's not a competitive category, as far as I know.
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A
We should be doing this in a barn.
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B
Oh. Oh. Where's a good barn when you need it?
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A
We should have farming equipment behind us. And then you would storm off because I upset you about. Yeah.
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B
Alan, can you just edit in a barn for the background in this shot?
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A
Be good.
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B
Are you able to put, like, a barn filter behind us? Put in some rain sounds?
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A
So, yes, on the subject of livestock, there is, I don't know if you saw this, an albino buffalo that is named Donald Trump in Bangladesh. So I actually want to pull up a picture of this thing for anybody watching. If you're on your phone, maybe Google it. That is the albino buffalo from Bangladesh named Donald Trump. It was slated to be sacrificed in an Eid ceremony, I think, and when they discovered that it looked like America's 45th and 47th president, they saved its life and sent it to a zoo. Wow. What do you think?
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B
I think that. Wait, what is it? It's a buffalo.
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A
A buffalo buffalo, now named Donald Trump, who has golden locks. Look. I do see the resemblance, however, I feel like if you're about to be sacrificed and you're wherever you are, you're probably breaking out a comb and some hair gel and be like, look, whatever I could do to get myself saved here. He's like, if I can just a quick comb over, and he's like, I'm good. Nah, send me to the zoo. Look at me.
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B
You're saying that he actually worked on his Trump impression to save his life. He sort of saw it coming. He went, I'm gonna go all in on this.
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I'm saying he was backstage at the sacrifice, getting ready to go, looking in the mirror, being like, I need a plan here, guys. And he just combed his hair over, and now he's at the zoo. It worked out great.
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B
He actually, surprisingly, does look a lot like Trump. I'm gonna say that that buffalo would probably give a better interview to Meet
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the Press, and he would look good in that barn.
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B
I love that. He's like, I spent all this money on moose, and you tell me I look like this guy? This is what I get. Oh, man.
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A
So this thing's life was in danger, and then they were gonna sacrifice, and they're like, we can't sacrifice it, but it probably went back there. Like, this is why we need to build the bull room. We need to sacrifice.
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B
America needs a bull room.
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A
Yeah. Taxpayer money. A billion dollars for the bull room.
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B
$20 billion for the bull room.
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A
We're gonna have all. There's just go missiles underneath it and drones on top of it and Inside, it'll be.
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B
This is a surprisingly heartwarming story. I didn't see that coming.
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A
Well, I did see that the zookeeper, I think, got fired that he put Donald Trump on the name of the buff. Like, hey, come see the Donald Trump buffalo. And they're like, get out of here. You can't be doing that. Like, they don't know if it's gonna get him in trouble. So I think those are some of the things that we missed. And then what else are we looking at? What are you hoping to talk about this week when you're in the chair?
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B
The knicks Winning, obviously. 1. I think every headline this week is going to be about the Knicks. Well, maybe I shouldn't say it. I don't want to jinx it.
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A
Every headline? Yeah, you gotta. You gotta knock every piece of wood
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B
around there as though Scott Herkman was here.
[19:45]
A
Yes.
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B
Okay.
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A
Shout out to Scott Herkman. Very superstitious office mate.
[19:50]
B
Very superstitious.
[19:52]
A
But yeah, the office has been buzzing. It's been very excited. Did you watch game two?
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B
I did.
[19:56]
A
It was a good game.
[19:57]
B
It was a great.
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A
It was very exciting, that ending.
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B
I know.
[20:01]
A
So if you didn't watch the game, first of all, you should have watched the game. Great game. NBA Finals. Shame on you. The. The Knicks are up by one. Spurs have the ball and seven seconds left, which is an eternity of time, and it's so nerve wracking. So they inbound the ball, they pass it to Wembanyama. He gets the shot off and it hits the rim and misses. And then the Knicks win. And after that moment, Karl Anthony Towns, AKA Cat, the big cat for the Knicks, they get the. There's a shot of him, and he's walking towards center court and he kind of points to the sky. And it was sort of this touching moment. And then afterwards, the. The interviewer at center court was like, you know, I saw you kind of pointing up after. After the game, you know, when you guys won. What. What was that moment about? And he. His mom had passed away, I think, in 2020. And he was saying, you know, you know, I pray to her, you know, when we need help. And they had the ball, they had seven seconds. And I was just like, mom, we need to stop here. And it was this like, super sweet moment of him, like. And he's like, when we got the stop, I sort of looked up and I was like. He was like saying, thank you. Which is this, like, beautiful, touching moment. But in my mind, when I was watching it, I was thinking that the Person who can guard Wembanyama is Cat's mom from the afterlife. Coming down as he's going to put up the final shot. Just going, get that shit out of here. You're not scoring on my son. He's gonna win the NBA championship, which is a beautiful thing.
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B
It's exactly what you need. See, Mom's saving the day every time.
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A
That's it. They come through from the afterlife. It was a beautiful moment.
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B
So, so beautiful.
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A
Shout out to Karl Anthony Townes. Actually, that's actually the premise of a 90s comedy. I don't know if you've ever seen it.
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B
Totally.
[21:41]
A
The Sixth Man.
[21:42]
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
Is Marlon Wayans movie friend of the show. Marlon Wayans.
[21:46]
B
Love Marlon.
[21:47]
A
Love Marlon Wayans. But yes, there was a. I think two players and one of them dies. And then he sticks around as a ghost and he helps them win the team. Which look, anything that the Knicks. Whatever. Whatever works.
[21:59]
B
Whatever works. Whatever needs to happen.
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A
You need the power of the afterlife. That's it. Don't sage Madison Square Garden. Whatever's. Keep it working.
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B
We need the afterlife. And we need you not wearing your nick shoes.
[22:12]
A
I know. I'm not gonna wear them. They're gonna stay where they are. I'm not changing thing. Everything is gonna be the same. Here's an interesting fact I learned about the movie the Sixth Man. So in the Sixth Man, Marlon Wayans can see ghosts. And he's the only one who can. But that movie came out two years before the Sixth Sense.
[22:31]
B
It did.
[22:31]
A
Yes. So I think the movie the Sixth Sense is inspired by the Sixth Man. Cause he was always doing the scary movies. I think the scary movie took from Marlon Wayans.
[22:40]
B
So was he actually psychic?
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A
I don't know. Maybe. Wouldn't that be amazing?
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B
Wow.
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A
And scary movie. Huge at the box office. So shout out to Marlon Wayans. Shout out to so prolific.
[22:51]
B
That guy.
[22:52]
A
I know, it's good. Shout out to the Sixth Man. Shout out to Karl Anthony Townes. Let's go, Knicks. Anything. Look, the real world and the astral plane are all in line trying to make this Knicks championship happen.
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B
From the 90s to the good energy.
[23:07]
A
It's very good energy.
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B
Yeah.
[23:09]
A
So, yes, Game 3 of the Knicks is this evening. As we're recording Monday night. Very exciting. Big news story. New York's mayor will be there. America's president will be there. It's a big. This is a huge thing. Oh, and another thing.
[23:22]
B
Does he get booed?
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A
Him Trump or him Mamdani?
[23:26]
B
You think Mamdani's gonna get Booed?
[23:27]
A
I don't think so. Well, here's what's so weird about this, is the tickets are so expensive that you don't know what the vibe of the crowd is gonna be if you're paying $10,000 a ticket.
[23:37]
B
And the lowest, the most Affordable price is $8,000. Right.
[23:41]
A
I guess.
[23:41]
B
Worst seat in the house. $8,000.
[23:43]
A
$8,000. So I don't know. But New York likes to boo stuff. It's hard to know. Or will they put them on the Jumbotron or not? It's a weird situation. I don't know. It'll be in the box, I think, with James Dolan, who's the owner of the team. But there's all this security that they have to do now because they were gonna do a watch party outside, which is like, the watch parties have been like, fun and wild, and the energy's there has been incredible. But they can't do that now.
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B
Yeah.
[24:12]
A
So you can't have that energy outside with, you know, a sitting president coming in and Secret Service and whatever, you know, So I don't know. This is why we need a bull room, which is a place where the Chicago Bulls would play if the. If they were in the finals. Is build a bull room and put all the security underneath it. Everything on top of it.
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B
So stupid.
[24:30]
A
Very stupid.
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B
And if you like jokes like that, folks, yes, you are gonna love this week.
[24:34]
A
So be sure to watch the Daily show this week. On the subject of all the stupid
[24:38]
B
things, should we bleep bull?
[24:39]
A
Yes, we should bleep bull.
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B
Alan, can we bleep bull from the podcast?
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A
Give him a society to bull. He's so angry.
[24:46]
B
This is why we need a bull room.
[24:47]
A
How dare you? Filthy. Terrible.
[24:50]
B
It is both electrifying and terrifying. Walking around New York City at this moment in time, watching all of these New Yorkers be so happy. It's a little unsettling. Like, I really thought I was in one of those smile movies for a minute.
[25:04]
A
They're just shouting fuck you at drivers,
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B
but happily, enormous smiles on their faces.
[25:09]
A
Yeah, that's it.
[25:10]
B
What a beautiful time to be in New York.
[25:11]
A
I know. The other thing I realized is this now. Like, if Mamdani and Trump are there and the Knicks don't win, then it's gonna be like, well, what's the problem and what happened? And you know. Cause I. Were you the one that was telling me that they're not even changing who's in the courtside seats?
[25:27]
B
Oh, yes, we were just talking about that.
[25:28]
A
So Spike Lee and Then Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner and Ben Stiller, like, they're all in the same place. I thought if Chalamet and Jenner broke up now, it would be like, we gotta keep going. We gotta just. We have to be in the same seat. You can't be there. Like, this would be the worst time for somebody to be like, no, we're staying together for the sake of the Knicks.
[25:51]
B
Stick it out for the Knicks, baby. Stick it out for the Knicks.
[25:54]
A
That's good.
[25:55]
B
Do what you need to do for your state. This is. Actually hearing that they're keeping the celebrity row the same is making me feel so much better about getting rejected in my plea for tickets for tonight's game. That must be why.
[26:07]
A
That's gotta be why.
[26:08]
B
Because I just need to keep it consistent.
[26:09]
A
It was purely suspicious.
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B
And not that I'm irrelevant and not worthy of a seat.
[26:13]
A
Totally fair.
[26:13]
B
That's. I'm gonna go with that.
[26:14]
A
What else we got? Oh, speaking of sports, we've got the World cup starting this week.
[26:18]
B
Yes.
[26:18]
A
Another huge. It's a huge sports week.
[26:20]
B
It's a big sports week.
[26:21]
A
Yeah. So World Cup. Very expensive.
[26:24]
B
This is insane.
[26:25]
A
It's a lot of money.
[26:26]
B
I thought that the basketball. That the MSG tickets were high, but. What does parking cost?
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A
$225.
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B
For parking.
[26:36]
A
There's a $225 parking spot at the American Dream Mall. The aptly named American Dream Mall.
[26:43]
B
That is no American Dream. No one's achieving that American dream.
[26:46]
A
Look, my ancestors came to this country with nothing but the clothes on their back, hoping that one day they could afford to park at the American Dream Mall.
[26:53]
B
If you could afford to park at the American Dream Mall, you have reached the American dream. That's the American Dream. Two hundred and twenty. Did you say 25?
[27:02]
A
$225.
[27:03]
B
That's crazy.
[27:03]
A
And the trains were going to be $100. There were people mapping out how you could walk from New York City to the Meadowlands, which is not a pretty walk.
[27:13]
B
It doesn't sound right.
[27:14]
A
Yeah.
[27:15]
B
Yeah.
[27:15]
A
Yeah. Over the bodies of thousands of union leaders buried in the swamps of the Meadowlands.
[27:20]
B
Oh, God.
[27:22]
A
Bubbling up through the swamps.
[27:24]
B
I hope those parking attendants are fluent in fist fights.
[27:27]
A
So, yeah. And then, of course, Sunday, the biggest sporting event of them all. UFC fight at the White House.
[27:33]
B
UFC fight.
[27:34]
A
Will you be trying to get tickets to that?
[27:36]
B
Are you kidding me? Me and Vanilla Ice.
[27:39]
A
You're gonna go?
[27:40]
B
Yeah. You don't have to ask me twice.
[27:42]
A
It'll be good so, yes, that is Flag Day Sunday, the president's 80th birthday.
[27:48]
B
Big day.
[27:49]
A
There is a giant claw now over the South Lawn, I believe.
[27:53]
B
Oh, yeah.
[27:55]
A
Weird. Weird, right?
[27:57]
B
Do we have it? What is that supposed to look like?
[28:01]
A
I think that's what it is. He talked about keeping it up last week, that it would just. That's a permanent part of the, I don't know, skyline of Washington now.
[28:08]
B
Americans don't know how to build things to last.
[28:11]
A
I guess that's true.
[28:12]
B
That's gonna be like an IKEA bed frame on the side of the street.
[28:15]
A
You think it's gonna fall apart? Yeah.
[28:17]
B
Could crumble into pieces.
[28:18]
A
They're on the South Lawn with one little Allen wrench. Just, like, tightening the little pieces.
[28:22]
B
Couldn't figure it out. Too many parts.
[28:24]
A
They're doing this UFC fight and feel however you want to feel. It's very. It's weird to me to be having blood sports at the White House. That feels very, like, kind of creepy and dystopian. But then I was like, this must be weird for WWE, like, professional wrestling. Linda McMahon is the secretary of Education. That seems like if you're going to have, like a sporting event thing. He's had a relationship.
[28:46]
B
He's earned it.
[28:47]
A
Yes.
[28:48]
B
Yes.
[28:48]
A
Triple H, like, runs it. Why aren't they doing. And like, 80s wrestling was the epitome of like, a guy with a shirtless guy with an American flag coming out in a two by four. On the other hand.
[29:00]
B
That's right.
[29:00]
A
Just like hitting the Iron Sheik in the head and trying to, like, that's.
[29:05]
B
You can make up any narrative you want.
[29:07]
A
Yes.
[29:07]
B
And it goes. Anything flies.
[29:10]
A
Yes. And the match can end the way you want in a very, like, it seems much more controlled.
[29:15]
B
Nothing fact based.
[29:16]
A
Yes.
[29:17]
B
It's all just off the rails.
[29:19]
A
It's vibes. It's not evidence.
[29:20]
B
Drama, mayhem.
[29:21]
A
This is what it should be.
[29:22]
B
Yeah.
[29:23]
A
I don't know. But I felt, you know, I felt bad for professional wrestling. All of the work, all of the time they put in to cultivate it.
[29:28]
B
And they were nothing.
[29:29]
A
Nothing.
[29:30]
B
That's unfortunate.
[29:33]
A
Yeah. And there's reports that they're having trouble attracting, like, a list people to come to the fight. The Rock apparently said no. And who are some of the other people? I think Adam Sandler was invited, but isn't going. Jared Leto.
[29:46]
B
Jared Leto said no. You know, if Jared Leto says no, it's time to rethink. Maybe just have like a small, intimate sleepover just to save face.
[29:55]
A
Yeah. When Jared Leto's like, ah, this project seems like a mess. I'm out.
[29:58]
B
It's time to wrap it up.
[29:59]
A
He's sitting there reading the script for Morbius 2. Like, what's that, UFC? No, no, I'm good. That's not for me. That's a pass from your boy jl.
[30:08]
B
You know, we're having an intimate get together. Let's just. Yeah, yeah.
[30:15]
A
So we got that this week. Yeah. And then anything else you're looking forward to guest wise on the show? Anybody you're looking forward to talking to?
[30:23]
B
Devin. We have a powerhouse week of women. We got John leading us off with Jane Fonda.
[30:30]
A
That's very exciting.
[30:33]
B
I have Laverne Cox on Tuesday night, Nina Dobrev on Wednesday, and then Thursday, being the sports gal that I am. Chris Evert and Martina Nabratilova.
[30:44]
A
That's so exciting.
[30:45]
B
Yes. Oh my gosh, how exciting.
[30:47]
A
That's great. Are they gonna try to corner Michael Kosta and tell us the truth about if he's good at tennis or not?
[30:52]
B
I am paying them to do so. If they're not voluntarily doing it, I will coerce them into it.
[30:58]
A
That's wonderful.
[30:58]
B
Yeah. They gotta roast them a little bit.
[31:00]
A
They should.
[31:00]
B
Yeah.
[31:01]
A
Big sports week.
[31:02]
B
Big sports week.
[31:03]
A
Big sports week. Yeah. All right, so I think that will actually bring us to our final segment, which we call Daily show and Tell. So this is something that you have watched, read or listened to, argued about or it's something that's just been on your mind? I will throw it to you first.
[31:19]
B
Well, because of the phenomenal guest that I have Tuesday night, Laverne Cox. She's coming on the show to talk about her memoir and I just spent the last couple of weeks reading it. It is so beautifully written. It's incredibly inspirational. She has been through it.
[31:37]
A
Yeah, I saw one of the excerpts from it. It just seems like incredibly powerful.
[31:40]
B
Yeah, it is. It's. I highly, highly recommend that everyone go out and get that book. And I cannot wait to sit down and chat with her. So that would be my. That would be my wreck.
[31:49]
A
That's it. Another friend of the show.
[31:50]
B
Another friend of the show. She came and she did a very funny, in my opinion. Yeah.
[31:55]
A
So that'll be exciting for my Daily show and Tell. I will shout out this documentary that I watched recently called the Dark wizard, which is about a climber named Dean Potter. And so, yeah, anyone who knows Alex Honnold from the movie Free Solo, who climbed that. Oh my gosh. It's one 667 foot building skyscraper. He climbed to the Top of it. No ropes, no nothing over in Taiwan. So he's in this documentary. But this is a guy who came before him named Dean Potter, and he started doing free solo climbs. And then he graduated from just climbing to wearing a parachute and doing these weird hybrid, like, climb, base jump things. Then he would do these sort of tightrope walks with a parachute and then without a parachute. And then he started doing wingsuit stuff. And he's a very. He's an incredible athlete, but also this, like, clearly tortured guy. And it's just a really powerful documentary. And from the first scene, you. It just. It will grab you. And all four episodes were incredible. So I recommend the Dark Wizard. That was my.
[32:58]
B
Were you just watching on the edge of your seat the most stressed? Terrified? Yeah, it sounds very stressful.
[33:05]
A
Yes, I was. Every part of me was just clenched.
[33:08]
B
Have you. Are you much of a climber? Have you ever gone rock climbing or.
[33:11]
A
Not really, no. My wife was into rock climbing.
[33:13]
B
Oh, she is? I didn't know that.
[33:15]
A
Coward. Yeah. She will rock climb and then my two kids will. Do they go to a rock climb. Yeah, that's one of the things they do in the summer. So they're into it. But I don't want to show this to them is the problem. You can't literally a show and tell thing. I'm like, I don't want to see them climbing things with parachutes and all that.
[33:28]
B
Seems to me you need to keep that from them. Yes, I'm a secret you keep.
[33:33]
A
Thank God they don't listen to this podcast. I'd be cooked. Yeah, I'm doing a show and tell. I can't even show and tell my kids.
[33:37]
B
No.
[33:38]
A
Horrifying.
[33:38]
B
It's a very limited show and tell curated.
[33:41]
A
So I think that's it.
[33:41]
B
That's it.
[33:42]
A
I'm looking forward to your week.
[33:44]
B
Aw, thanks, Deb. This was so fun.
[33:46]
A
My pleasure. That's all the time we have for the pre cap. I am Devin Delacronte. Please catch Desi Lydic hosting the Daily show this week on Comedy Central, Paramount, and right here in podcast form on the Daily Show Ears edition.
[33:59]
B
Look at us now.
[34:00]
A
You need to sit like that for the rest of the week to help them. I won't move. It's gonna be tough. They'll just carry you to the desk and they'll put that chair on top of the desk.
[34:06]
B
Perfect.
[34:07]
A
Great. Explore more shows from the Daily show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show. Wherever you get your podcasts, watch the
[34:15]
C
Daily show weeknights at 1110 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount.
[34:21]
B
Plus,
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A
this has been a Comedy Central podcast.