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The Precap | Josh Johnson on the Government Doing Comedy, and Doing Comedy for a Government
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Ashton Womack
You're listening to Comedy Central. Yo, yo, yo, what up, Daily show listeners? It's your boy, Ashton Womack. And right now you are tuning into the Pre Cap, the show where we talk about what we miss this week and what's coming up next week. I'm here with Daily show legend. Stand up comedy legend my boy, Josh Johnson. Everybody give him a round of applause.
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Josh Johnson
Oh, legend's a strong word.
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Ashton Womack
Listen, man, I'mma gas up my friends, dog. Don't even. Don't, don't. If I'm, If I'm a. If I'm going talk about my friends. If I get to bring up my friends and host, I'mma. I'mma say you save kittens and like that. All right, so, Josh Johnson, the legendary man. How you been, man? How you living? You feeling good?
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Josh Johnson
I'm doing all right. Yeah, yeah, doing good. Good day so far?
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. I'm jealous. You get to work from home. Some of us. Some of us don't get that luxury you're seeing. You know, your boy had to come in on his work from home.
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Josh Johnson
I do see you in. And I specifically remember, I think you're supposed to be working from home.
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Ashton Womack
That is. I'm glad you. Thank you. Thank you for remembering that this is what I do for the show, guys. I just want the Daily show listeners to show how to know how much I give to this show. Showing up, you know, the basic job requirement, coming to work. But that's not. We ain't here to talk about me. We're here to talk about some of the things we may have missed this week. One thing we couldn't have missed was the government shutdown. Josh, how are you feeling about this shutdown is this.
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Josh Johnson
I don't have a government job, so I'M not feeling it the way that people who do are feeling it, but I am genuinely worried about a lot of the people. It's somewhere in the ballpark of 750,000 jobs, and that's only because it used to be closer to a million. My numbers might be wrong here, but I think that since the Trump administration started, they've cut anywhere from, like, 250,000 or a little bit more in jobs. That was through Doge, and now the 750 left are affected by the shutdown.
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Ashton Womack
That's an insane number. 750,000. You said that's an insane number, and I'm hearing that number, and I'm trying to think, like, are there any more black people left to fire in the government? How will this affect us? Cause I feel like they got rid of us already in the government.
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Josh Johnson
I'm pretty sure TSA is government, and that is.
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Ashton Womack
Oh, yeah, you're right.
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Josh Johnson
We are in that.
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Ashton Womack
That is the Atlanta.
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Josh Johnson
That is government. NBA.
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Ashton Womack
That's hilarious. Actually, you about to get on a plane, which. That's the real thing. When I think of the government shut down and I think about the TSA agents, or not even the TSA agents, them air traffic controllers, bro. The air traffic controllers got to go to work while not getting paid. That's. That, to me, is one of the scariest things. Nah, bro. If I was an air traffic controller and I had to go to work and I wasn't getting paid, do you know how petty I was? I need everybody on that plane to venmo me $40 if y' all want to land. All right, this is. I.
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Josh Johnson
That's. That is wild.
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Ashton Womack
This is why I couldn't. That's why I'm a joke teller.
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Josh Johnson
You would just do ransom in real.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. That spirit flight has been. Oh, yeah, I know y' all ain't got no money. Y' all about to be up in the air for a minute. Yeah. I would be holding people hostage in the skies until I get paid.
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Josh Johnson
Do you have anybody in your family that works in government?
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Ashton Womack
Yes, my brother's mom, which I know is a ghetto sentence, but my brother's mom, she works in. For the. Actually, my brother's mom and my sister's mom, which I understand that's probably confusing for a lot of people, but just go with it. They both work in the government. They both work for the va. The Veterans Administration or the va. Veterans Affairs.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. So they were already like. My sister's mom was already screwed over big time whenever Trump decided to tell people they couldn't work from home. Government employees could no longer work from home. She had a work from home job for literally a decade before Trump came into office. She was already working from home. He forced everybody to come into office, and she didn't have a local office. So she would have to go from Chicago to California for two months until they figured out some situation for her. But, yeah, man, he's like, definitely affecting very close people in my life. How about you?
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Josh Johnson
I have a cousin that I believe still works at the Fed, but, yeah, I don't have too many family members that work in government, and I didn't think about that. That is a crazy thing to. Like, there are some jobs that were sort of always remote. And then he's like, you have to come in. And they're like, where?
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Ashton Womack
That's literally what happened. And they were like, how about California? And she was like, I live in Illinois. Well, that's gonna be a crazy commute. See you Monday.
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Josh Johnson
It's also crazy that for every state. Cause the government's in every state. So you would think that for whatever state you are in, they'd be like, oh, yeah, we have an office there.
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Ashton Womack
They did have an office, but there were no positions. So they were like, the closest office we have for you is Cali. Luckily, she eventually figured it out. Actually, I haven't asked or I didn't inquire any further, but I just assumed she figured it out. So I should be a better family member. But no. Yeah, the government. Government shutdown is crazy. I didn't realize 750,000 people were being affected by this. I knew a lot of people, but you would think, like, the bright side I look to this is like, you know, maybe like, the guy whose job it is to put crack in the black community, maybe he won't get paid this week. And maybe there's pluses to this.
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Josh Johnson
So, yeah, I mean, there's. There's definitely some job that is. I'm trying to think of what it would be, because this doesn't affect, like, police or firefighters, to my knowledge. This is not. Like, these are like, all federal jobs. So I'm. I'm trying to think of, like, to your point, who in the CIA that was, like, working undercover. Imagine being undercover and not getting paid. You might blow your whole cover. Be like, I can't believe they shutting down the government. And it's like, you're part of one of those, like, ruby Ridge, we're gonna take the government down. You've infiltrated.
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Ashton Womack
That's hysterical. I need yo, wait. I'm about to topple this government. All I need. Wait, I'm not getting paid. Oh, no. Wrap this up. I'm going home. You were like on the verge of destabilizing some South American country, but you know that paycheck don't clear. I'm coming home, dog.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, I feel like very few people are doing espionage for the love of the game.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, 100%. It's truly only. That is actually hilarious.
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Josh Johnson
Like, imagine there's like, there's like actually an agent somewhere right now. Finger on the trigger, scope, dude, red dot, dude. Like truly ready to pull the trigger. And then they get a notification on their phone and they're like, you know what? Not again.
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Ashton Womack
That is that. Or like fucking imagine if James Bond, he's like shaken, not stirred. And they're like, sir, your credit card is declined. All right. I guess I was. I know James Bond is British, but that's that.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah. Do you take cash?
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Ashton Womack
Speaking of government shutdown and people not working, let's talk about people working in Saudi Arabia. To be more specific, the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I don't know if people have heard about it, but it's the great Comedy festival put on by some royals in the Middle east. And it's caused a little bit of a controversy in kind of a lot of communities, specifically the comedian communities, where people are looking at the comedians on the festival and the flyer as sellouts. It's a little controversial. I have my opinions. I'm sure everybody has their own opinions. But let's hear what Josh Johnson's take on the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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Josh Johnson
I mean, this is why it's very important to read every email from your agent thoroughly. Imagine you said, like, like just imagine for a second you said, yeah, not even really knowing what it was. Dude, I say, then you're on the poster and now people are mad at you and you're like, what did I do? You know what I mean?
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Ashton Womack
You killed Jamal Khashoggi. I didn't. But.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, it's also different when like a government is doing something versus a company. Like, corporate gigs are like, you know, I think it depends on how much you agree with or what kind of work the. The company does. But company projects are kind of like here or there as far as like how the public feels about them. You know, I mean, like, if you did a corporate show for Nestle, I think a lot of people would see that as like, oh, whatever entertainment, like whatever entertainment head or party planning committee decided you were funny, brought you in. I don't think they hold then the opinions of the CEO of Nestle at your feet. Right.
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Ashton Womack
So.
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Josh Johnson
But when something is put on by government and you are, you are becoming a. How do you put it? You're in, in a sense becoming a tool of propaganda for a government. I think there are just different expectations. And it also all depends because not everyone on that poster is being critic criticized equally. So it all depends on what you usually do as an act, what you say in your life, and what your fan base expects from you. And I think that some of those people's fan bases are diametrically opposed to like everything that, that the, the government has done and that the. Every policy that they have. Meanwhile, there are some comics on that poster who, who actually have like a fan base in the area, so. And have done shows in the area before. So it is, it is like a really interesting debate to watch people go back and forth on. How about this? I'll put it this way. They didn't contact me.
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Ashton Womack
And that's the group that.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, I mean, they did not contact me, so I didn't have to weigh doing a show for however much money versus, like any sort of business that I stand on. So that's a, that's like not my cross to bear. That's one of those things where I'm like, all right, if you're the type of person who is over here being like, we need to talk about the situation in all these countries or just talking about human rights and then you go, people are going to look at that sideways.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, no, I mean, I think, you know, not just. I mean I am gonna say names, but like Bill Burr, he's getting his flack because people look at him, his audience looks at him as like this more like a. More have a higher moral. They hold him to a higher moral standard and it's because he's spoken about things he seems to know better. I don't think Kevin Hart gets the same flack for going over there because they see him as a. More of a commercial act. Act who would. He's never, he's never position himself as some super moral authority on. Don't work for governments that kill people. So I definitely think you're right in the sense of. It just depends on the comic. I do think it's like, I don't know. You're right. It is easy for especially a guy like me to say, be like, yeah, I would never go to Saudi Arabia. Well, they also would never offer me a fucking contract.
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Josh Johnson
But yeah, yeah, I mean, it's, it's one of those things where it's like, there's this one, I was talking about it with friends over the weekend and one of the things about it that I think people are forgetting. I don't know anybody's contract, I don't know the number or anything. But, you know, word gets around, you know, some of these people being paid in the millions. Right? And so then, you know, one of my friends made a really good point where he was like, look, if, if, if somebody offered me life changing money, I might go. And we were all at the table kind of like, what do you mean? You mean like everyone's got a different number, right? But he was like, look, the way I see it, if I go and then I give that money to people who need it, then I'm literally taking money from something I don't like, don't believe in, then giving the money to causes that I do and helping people that I care about. And once again, that's also a thing that you believe you would do or can say when the thing is not in front of you right now. Which I, which I, which I am not doubting his conviction to do. That type of stuff, because I've known him to be, like, a charitable person, even without, like, lots of means and everything. But that is. That's, like, the most charitable possible thing that you could do. Okay, but in that moment, will you do it? You know?
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Ashton Womack
Come on, bro. Even in that context, it's like he's essentially saying, look, if I take the money, that's like taking money out of the next 911 budget. That means they won't do it again. Look, I'm actually stopping the next 9 11. If I take the money, it's like, okay, that's.
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Josh Johnson
I mean, that's. That's a. That's a much better defense than anything I've heard.
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Ashton Womack
I'm actually a national hero for going over there.
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Josh Johnson
Because the. Because the other defenses you hear are pretty much like, look, you pay me enough, I'll do what.
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Ashton Womack
No, yeah, right now I'm watching. I'm like, on my way over here, I was watching Instagram stories of comics that are over there, and they're like, there's. Now they're just being ironic about it and, like, being like, oh, they keep saying I'm a sellout. They keep saying I'm this. And then they'll like, how can I sell out? And the camera will pan to the Rolex they just bought, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess that's one way to respond to criticism. I. I ultimately, I don't what I think this, like, comes down to for real. If I'm having, like, an actual serious, genuine thought. I don't like how sometimes comedy gets used to launder people's images and states. Images. We had the roast of every horrible person when Comedy Central was doing Trump. Fucking Tiger Blood guy. What was his name? Charlie Sheen, you know, Justin Bieber, A little less controversial, but we. They use comedy to clean, to image cleanse. Like, that's what we get used for sometimes. And this is just happening on a governmental scale for untold amounts of money. And it's like, man, I don't know. I get that comedians have a. A powerful voice, and we can, like. I. I think comedians really should recognize their power. And, like, if we are, they keep labeling us falsely as, like, these arbiters of truth and these. These. These philosophers. And it's like, if you just look, people are. We. It really sometimes feel like the other end. Like we're just. We're kind of selling people out for our own money. But. But, hey, that's. That's the Riyadh Comedy Festival, folks. We'll Move on. Let's to something actually funny. I. I feel like as a comedian, I feel like as a comedian, it's tough to admit this, but Trump keeps posting these AI videos of. Of Jeffries, of Hakeem Jeffries and sombreros, and I think we're supposed to be mad, but I can't stop laughing, dog.
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Josh Johnson
Here's the thing. Here's what I'll say. He is fully immersed in, like, the grandpa AI obsession.
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Ashton Womack
I wish my grandpa was this funny with AI. When the sombrero thing kept popping up, I was like, ah, ah, okay.
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Josh Johnson
Have you seen the. Like, there are lots of grandpas that are into AI and a lot of them are mostly into the. How do I put this? A lot of them are into, like, the most questionable versions of the AI.
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Ashton Womack
What you mean? Because I imagine grandpa's with AI is going to get real perverted real fast. So. What are you talking about?
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, like, lots of, like, fake bodies, twerking.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah.
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Josh Johnson
And so any grandpa getting a hold of AI. Not every, but any could be a bad thing.
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Ashton Womack
It feels like an automatic. No, no.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah.
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Ashton Womack
If you can't. If they took away your license to drive, you're not allowed to have AI.
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Josh Johnson
I feel like they also believe too much of it.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, yeah. Cause they're. Dude, their minds aren't updated to the software that's out right now. My mind isn't updated to TikTok. My sister brings me shit and I become a grandpa. I'm immediately like, oh, I don't recognize this. So I can only imagine the order of magnitude that increases when it comes to actual grandpas with this insane new technology of AI which is doing numbers on all of us.
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Josh Johnson
Which is crazy too, because it's like, if they even understand one of the text to image models, their life is. Oh, dude, their life is ruined.
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Ashton Womack
Dude. Dude, we. I don't. I can't even. My mind can't even. I need AI to even imagine the shit that grandpa's are going to be coming up with with.
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Josh Johnson
It's just such a. Like, like, this is my thing. It does feel more and more every day like Trump is actually the president for where people are at the moment.
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Ashton Womack
100.
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Josh Johnson
Because it's like, yes, he does things and says things or whatever, and it's like, funny. But there are enough funny people and this dude could accidentally kill you.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. You know, when you.
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Josh Johnson
I mean, like a baby with a gun is technically funny.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, a little.
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Josh Johnson
It's like, it's like, it's like funny until it's not funny. The baby accidentally pulls the trigger and now it's a. Shot someone in the neck or whatever.
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Ashton Womack
Like 100%. A safer example of that. My little cousin, when he was a baby, he used to have, you know, those big Tonka trucks, Those Tonka truck. He would pick them up and just threaten to throw them. And you'd be like, hey, that's funny, but stop, don't. Don't throw the Tonka truck. And then when he would do it, it wouldn't be funny no more. You'd be like, I hate this baby. This baby just threw a Tonka truck at me. Fuck this baby. But before he threw it, it was hilarious. So I totally.
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Josh Johnson
That's what the entire presidency feels like. Both terms. Cause he'll do something that's insane. Like, this is the thing about government shutdown people. Like, I'm not trying to be an alarmist when I say this, but like, it's very plausible that people will be impacted for the rest of their life off of this shutdown. There are things that happen that, like, whether it's the. It's the back pay situation. Because, like, look, there is no, to my knowledge, there is no, like, government protection for housing while you are waiting for back pay. So if, if this shutdown goes for long or just, or just too long for any one person and they are behind on their rent, they're behind on their bills. They're behind because they're expected to pay. Somehow the government isn't expected to pay.
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Ashton Womack
No, your bills don't stop.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, I mean, yeah, the bills. And so, so that, like, there are people that are going to experience homelessness. There are people that are going to be, you know, just, just in a. In a. In a place of like, financial turmoil. Because this, because most people that you talk to, most people that we know can't go a whole week without being paid. Yeah, yeah. I mean, of course. And so. So it's like in the face of that. In the face of that happening, where people even from his own base are going to be hurt, he's like, isn't this funny?
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, in this. Great, I'm going to tell.
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Josh Johnson
And it's like, in theory, it is. If it was just you as a grandpa posting it. Okay, let's have a chuckle. But this is your fault.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. Yeah. Those memes aren't gonna feed your kid. It's funny. I hope you like belly laughs. Cause your ass won't be eating anything in your belly. That's the only thing that's gonna be in your belly. Is fucking laughs. Thanks to this. Our President Lowell. Our Lowell. Cow troll president. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's. People are laughing their way into their own, voting against their own self interest and. Oh, no, I almost fell for it. Thank you for pulling me out, Josh.
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Josh Johnson
No, look, look, look. When I saw it, I was like, guys, this is crazy. Do you know what I mean?
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, I'm not, I do.
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Josh Johnson
I'm not saying let's sit here and pretend things aren't funny.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah.
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Josh Johnson
I'm saying that, like, in what context is it actually funny?
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Ashton Womack
This would be funny if I was able to watch this from home and it was a movie and I'd be like, oh, this is a funny president. Like, oh, this is funny story. There's a crazy president. This is a story about a crazy president who's doing everything a president shouldn't do. That's a funny premise for a movie. Except when I pull back, it's not a movie. It's just cnn. And I'm like, oh, shit, this is real. I thought, this isn't on hbo, Max. This is. Oh, fuck. Yeah.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah. Nah, it's rough, man.
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Josh Johnson
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Ashton Womack
Oh, boy, that guy's a tool. Shifting gears.
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Josh Johnson
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Ashton Womack
All right, well, that's what we might. That's what we missed for this week, but let's move on to what might be coming up. What will we be getting into? Possibly New York Comic Con. New York Comic Con's beginning next week easily.
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Josh Johnson
You know what is crazy in my life is that I've had a big week of my life. Every week of Comic Con, every year I've lived here.
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Ashton Womack
That's hilarious. That's hilarious. You're too.
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Josh Johnson
I've been to Comic Con once.
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Ashton Womack
You wanna go?
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Josh Johnson
Only got to be there for like an hour and A half.
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Ashton Womack
That's hilarious. Oh, this motherfucker's too successful for. Ah, shit. I gotta host the Daily Show. I can't dress up like Storm this week. Guys. I apolog. I was gonna look good too. No, that's hilarious.
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Josh Johnson
The idea that you would pick Storm is so crazy.
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Ashton Womack
Storm's fucking awesome, but Storm, no, listen, I've gotten into comic books for real. For real. In my advanced stage. Like, re. Gotten back into them. Storm is low key. Like, she's a. Storm. She's badass. Yes. But wait, I didn't know you were such a big. You actually wanted to go. I didn't know that. Yeah. What year did you go?
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Josh Johnson
I went in 2016 to do a segment for the Tonight Show.
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Ashton Womack
So you went for work. You didn't. The one time you did go, you didn't even go. Cause you also still were technically busy, but it just so coincided. Wow, that's hilarious. If you did go Hoop, obviously not Storm, but who would you dress up as?
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Josh Johnson
I don't like, admittedly, I don't even know if I would dress up. It's like the panels I want to go to, the people that I hope to meet. Like, man.
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Ashton Womack
I agree. I mean, Comic Con is something I always definitely. I'm like, for show. A nerd. Definitely always wanted to go to Comic Con. Isn't it San Diego Comic Con? The San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con. Would love to go to both. I, for one, am not busy. I'm not hosting a show so I can take my black ass on.
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Josh Johnson
Enjoy it for the both of us.
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Ashton Womack
I will. I will be there dressed up as Storm for both of us. But we will. Let's move on. We did a piece. If you saw. If you watched the show this last week, we did a piece about the government shutting down and the parks no longer had employees. So that caused a influx of shit. It hasn't happened yet, but this is a thing that happens consistently. Whenever the government shuts down, park employees no longer work there. And shit fills up the parks because the bathrooms are closed. And we did a wonderful segment about this on the show. And do you think the parks will still be covered in shit when we come down? Do you think if this shutdown keeps going, will the parks be covered in shit?
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Josh Johnson
It depends on how many days. If it's two days, that would be weird. But they're projecting this thing to be at least 10 days.
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Ashton Womack
Oh, this shut down. That's how long. They're thinking 10 days.
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Josh Johnson
That's how long people are taking Bets on Cowshi or whatever.
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Ashton Womack
Oh, wow. Okay, okay. Maybe I should get on his bets. That's 10 days is enough to fill a park with shit. 10 days? Enough. My park don't even shut down and it gets filled with shit on a regular basis. The one by my house. So I can only imagine what 10 days would do to National Park.
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Josh Johnson
Also, can anybody place a bet on those betting apps?
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Ashton Womack
Yes. Yes.
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Josh Johnson
So you can just make up a bet. Do you have to bet everyone against yourself or are you making the bet for the benefit of the platform and then betting?
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Ashton Womack
I think the way it works is anybody can make a bet. Like, I'm not quite sure if it works in the sense of like, you make a bet and they automatically take it and like, oh, I bet that there's a thousand jelly beans in this little container. I don't. Honestly, I don't know how they choose what is a bet that stays, but they be having some random ass bets on there. So it feel like you can bet anything. People. People bet anything but hoping this government doesn't shut down. I'm hoping the government doesn't last longer than 10 days. I'm terrified of air traffic controllers and the TSA not getting paid. 10 days of air traffic controllers and fucking TSA agents not getting paid might destroy the country. So let's hope this doesn't last too long. But, Josh, one thing I did want to ask you this. Comey, you know Comey, our boy?
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, yeah.
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Ashton Womack
He's. He's facing an arraignment. Trump is, you know, his boy's coming after him. The guy who got Trump elected is now on the run from the FBI. The head of the FBI is now on the run. Any thoughts on this?
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Josh Johnson
Wait, Comey got Trump elected?
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, because remember, he. Right before the election, he came out and was like Hillary. He was the head of the FBI and he was like Hillary. My. He exposed Hillary's emails right before the election.
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Josh Johnson
Oh, I see. I see.
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Ashton Womack
You could genuinely say Comey was like the first domino to Trump being elected and now Trump has turned his back even on him. I don't know if you had any thoughts on that. It's just crazy.
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Josh Johnson
It's very dangerous to do Trump a favor.
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Ashton Womack
For real, bro. For real, dog. That.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah. I mean, I even be a friend.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. Like just dog, can I crash on your house? Nah, man. I feel like that's going to end to my demise. I just.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah. Also, it sucks that Trump would do or say anything that might make me speak up in defense of. I know The FBI director. Yeah, I mean, the former FDI FBI director. But still, it's like, it's like. Yeah. I mean, everyone's kind of taken aback by this whole thing.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah.
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Josh Johnson
A lot of people don't think it will really go anywhere because in court. Because court is at least still supposed to have some semblance of reality in court. Trump loses all the time. The administration loses all the time. Like consistently loses. And, and even when they have Trump appointed judges, there are judges that are like, I honestly can't find any grounds to.
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Ashton Womack
That's always my favorite thing. There's just no legal way to do this. This is just impossible. You just made up a thing and then hired lawyers to get you to go do it and we just can't do it. Yeah, he's constantly losing. Yes. That's why it is tough being a black person having to defend the FBI. That's crazy. They killed mlk. That's a crazy position. He really be putting black people in crazy ass positions. But my last question for the pod, are we going next week? This is a personal question that I want to know. Can we talk about Cardi B and Nicki Minaj beefing? Because this is crazy. I don't know why we're talking about anything else.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, I mean, look, we're going to be talking about it in the hallways, whether or not it makes it to air.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, no, that's fair. That's fair.
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Josh Johnson
Can you update us though? Can you update us on the latest?
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Ashton Womack
Yeah, guys, if you don't know Cardi B, Nicki Minaj are great rappers. Are currently on Twitter going, they're having a full fight, like Comey and Trump. They're going back and forth with each other. The last I saw was Nicki Minaj tagged the ICE to come and get Cardi B. So I need to get updated. But she definitely tagged ICE in a tweet to have Cardi B deported. So this is reaching. It's gotten way messier than Drake.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, but what happened? What was the new catalyst?
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Ashton Womack
The new catalyst was Cardi B's album. Am I the drama? She dropped the album, started dissing everybody on it, and then Nicki Minaj came out. She didn't even mention Nicki Minaj for real. But Nicki Minaj just started tweeting, like sub tweeting. They both were just at home tweeting each other. Both of them just at home, ain't got nothing else to do. Mega successful millionaires. One just dropped the album, but they both still at home. I hate. I Hate you. I hate you. Like, just. They both.
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Josh Johnson
Nothing better to do. Yeah. Are there memes yet?
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Ashton Womack
There are tons of memes, bro. Nicki, I'm not gonna let you have to pick a side. Cause I don't want. I don't want to be. I want you to decide who you. Your Team Jacob, Team Edward, whatever. I don't want to be influenced that. But I'm a little. Right now. I'm team Cardi. There's no memes. But Nicki Minaj, she's going full Kanye, bro. She's going full Kanye. It's happening. It's happening, dog. I should have known when she was like, my cousin's brother's testicles. Whatever. She said that one time. But honestly, if next week's show can just be mostly this, I will be a happy employee.
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Josh Johnson
I mean, if the government comes back, we won't have much, but this.
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Ashton Womack
Okay. All right, all right. Now you hear that, folks? We have real reasons to why we want the government to come back. I know there's tons of people who need to get paid, but also, we'll be able to talk about Nikki and Cardi.
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Josh Johnson
So, Trump, I mean, have you been listening to Am I the drama?
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Ashton Womack
I listened to a few songs. I listened to probably, like, half the album there. Listen, that one song players, the one Jay Z song I wasn't a fan of because it sounds like she's like. It sounds like she's. It's text to talk type rapping, and I'm not a fan. But all the other songs, I ain't gonna lie outside. I think she got a banger. People did not believe in Cardi because she took eight years to drop a second album. So they were like. They wrote her off. And I think she. I think she. She met her mark. She did put WAP on the album, which is kind of like cheating. She's like, look, I sold a million copies first week. Girl, that. That song sold a million copies seven years ago. How can you put.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah, but, but. But I will say that that is a. It's a different type of move because you. You actually would think if the. If that track is carrying the album, that it wouldn't be able to do it. Cause it is so old.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. I mean, it does speak to the power of the wop. The WAP is a powerful, powerful tool. That's honestly class. WAP is timeless. I think we can all agree. Josh Johnson quote, wap is timeless.
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Josh Johnson
I didn't say a word.
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Ashton Womack
That's what I heard.
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Josh Johnson
I do feel like most of any backlash I get from this podcast will be things that you said.
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Ashton Womack
Backlash? What do we say that.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah. No, no, no. I'm just. I'm just. I'm just. I think that eventually something is going to be said and then I take be like, josh, I can't believe you. And I'm like, that one wasn't me.
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Ashton Womack
That was Ashton. I take all. Listen, if you're listening, you all, everybody knows I'm the one who said all the while insane. I don't even think nothing insane was said, but I am the reckless speaker. I do.
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Josh Johnson
Joshua, if you don't think anything reckless was said as a listener, we did a great job on the edit that'.
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Ashton Womack
All right, we call this section Daily show and tell Josh. You got anything on your mind?
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Josh Johnson
Okay, I will say one thing that's been on my mind quite a bit is the reaction to Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl.
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Ashton Womack
It's gonna be a crazy day.
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Josh Johnson
It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be awesome.
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Ashton Womack
If you.
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Josh Johnson
Y'. All. Football, Football, American Football. They aren't ready. They aren't ready. We thought. We thought with. With Kendrick making it, you know, making it. America making it black. Oh, we thought people's heads were spinning. Bad Bunny just by existing, y'. All, You. You're not. You're not. You don't understand.
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Ashton Womack
No.
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Josh Johnson
What is happening? What's gonna happen? You think you. You. You think rappers are beefing right now? You think.
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Ashton Womack
No, no, that is.
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Josh Johnson
You will be beefing with reality after you get done Watching Bad Buddy do the super bowl because Bad Bunny has hits that like, this is also what happens as an American. That's a huge mistake that we do. We really think we're the center of the universe right now. I don't want to, I don't want to paint it as if Bad Bunny is not a U.S. citizen. He's Puerto Rican. Right. But in the sort of like mono culture of like that, that like, I don't know, Leave it to Beaver style of American entertainment. The, the, the, the. The idea that like our Hollywood is where all stars are born and created. The idea that we hold like the corner market on, on, on culture and like understanding performance. And then meanwhile, you have the rest of the world making incredible music. Incredible music in Brazil, phenomenal performances in, in, in. In. In Africa with like afrobeats and everything. You, you have people like Bad Bunny. You have people all over the world. Like, we think like, as, as Americans sometimes we think that like, Shakira is ours. Like, we know we made Shakira and Shakira is like. And I. It's like, no, Shakiro's the world, right? Bad Bunny's the world. And so it's like you, you see a lot of like faux American exceptionalism exposed in real time by not understanding that, like, Bad Bunny doesn't get to do the Super Bowl. The super bowl gets to have bad bunny.
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Ashton Womack
Yeah. 100%. This is.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah. I mean, yeah.
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Ashton Womack
No, it's crazy that we aren't like, he's not universally celebrated because he represents what, like this time where. My favorite part about the music era and just time we're in now is that we're global, it's universal, and everybody loves it and enjoys it. And you would think this super bowl is this opportunity to celebrate the universality of music and just the culture of the world. But instead it's become this hyper talking point of hate and will ice be outside? They already said ice would be outside of the Super Bowl. It sucks that it's tinged with this much hate, but it's also going to be the most awesome ass fucking. It's just gonna be awesome. Like, I can't. The Republicans think that like, Bad Bunny's gonna go do the halftime and then the next half of the super bowl is just gonna be actual soccer. They'd be like, wait, wait, no, they. Wait, no, hey, like, that's what they think is gonna happen. So I'm excited. It's. I'm excited for people to, to have to experience the greatness of Bad Bunny because He's all. He's so good that, like, once they watch it, they're going to be like. They're going to start off, like, hateful, but then. All right, all right. He might. All right. I had a little. Nice little jig. That was. That was cool. I liked it. I hope.
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Josh Johnson
Might have to crack open some Rosetta Stone.
- [42:55]
Ashton Womack
No. Yeah, no, Duolingo is definitely going to be popped open.
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Josh Johnson
But, yeah, the Duolingo downloads are going to be insane.
- [43:05]
Ashton Womack
Bunch of. But, I mean, yeah, I'm hyped for that. That's probably the only reason why I'm watching the Super Bowl. Honestly, the super bowl performances are the main reason. I kind of watch the super bowl now. Like, Kendrick's bad bunnies. They're definitely gonna double down next year and get, like, Morgan Whalen or something. Like, you know, they gotta cater to.
- [43:26]
Josh Johnson
I mean, we think so, but who knows? Who knows? After Kendrick, we thought, ooh, it's gonna for sure be Keith Urban.
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Ashton Womack
But there was no way. It wasn't. So them doubling down with Bad Bunny is so. They. I mean, I love it. I love it. All right, shout out Jay Z. You thought it's funny. Cause the Republicans thought kneeling was the worst thing that could happen at an NFL game. And they're like, wait, no.
- [43:52]
Josh Johnson
Ooh, wait until those R's get rolled.
- [43:58]
Ashton Womack
No, bring Kaepernick back. Bring Kaepernick back. We're sorry.
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Josh Johnson
You. You. You won't. You won't even recognize yourself. You won't. You won't know your hips.
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Ashton Womack
I'm so excited. I'm so excited for this, Jay Z. You're doing great work at the NFL. Keep up the. Keep up the good work. But I think that is a good place to end so we won't have to say anything reckless. This has been the pre cap with Ashton Womack, Josh Johnson. We'll see y' all next week. Peace.
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Josh Johnson
Yeah.
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Ashton Womack
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