The Precap | Jordan Klepper on Kimmel Suspension

Summary

The Daily Show: Ears Edition — The Precap with Jordan Klepper

Date: September 19, 2025
Hosts: Nicole Conlon, Jordan Klepper

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Overview

This “Precap” episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at The Daily Show’s upcoming week, welcoming next week’s host Jordan Klepper to discuss anticipation, chaos, and major news shocks affecting late-night TV. With signature wit and satire, Nicole Conlon and Klepper tackle themes of free speech, political interference, industry shake-ups, and coping strategies for living in unprecedented times. Alongside the major headlines, they offer lighter “show and tell” recommendations and share inside glimpses of creating topical, rapid-fire satire.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Jordan Klepper’s Twitter Account Hack

• [01:50-04:35]
  Klepper discusses his recent Twitter account hack, reflecting on misinformation and the odd litmus test for friendship that such incidents reveal.
  • Friends’ reactions: Some were immediately suspicious (“Jordan’s always selling laptops” [02:35]), others seemed unsure if it fit his voice.
  • The hack involved inflammatory posts about the Charlie Kirk situation, seemingly aimed at “canceling” Klepper.
  • Commentary on the current climate where manipulating someone’s digital persona to provoke cancellation is now an explicit tactic, especially on platforms that claim to champion free speech.

“...what actually happened was somebody hacked it, and they tried to say terrible things about the Charlie Kirk situation. …there are people out there who are like, oh, if we can manipulate somebody into having a bad take or a bad opinion, that's the kind that can be met with consequences and silenced or at least fired... Which seems like a bonkers assumption... but this week makes it seem like a pretty good assumption.”
— Jordan Klepper [03:17-04:08]

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2. Late Night in Crisis: Kimmel and Colbert Suspensions

• [04:41-10:57]
  Nicole and Jordan examine the “indefinite suspension” of Jimmy Kimmel following the recent cancellation of Colbert’s show.
  • The sense of shock and uncertainty throughout the industry.
  • Kimmel’s network demanding an apology and donation to Turning Point USA for reinstatement—putting him in an impossible position between integrity and hundreds of employees’ jobs.
  • The hypocrisy of business leaders, unwilling to stand up to political pressure despite their supposed “free speech absolutism.”
  • Connecting this to wider threats: “We’ve gone from zero to Budapest faster than a lot of people expected.”
    • Allusion to the erosion of democracy mirroring Hungary’s recent trajectory.
  • Satiric banter: “But baths, better stews, thicker.”
  • Blunt assessment of industry priorities—billionaires and merger culture.

“You have an entire political party who has based so much of their identity on being free speech absolutists... At the very least, you'd hope the parts of the Constitution that uphold the ability to have whatever opinion you want... should be protected... the swiftness of it has caught a lot of people off guard.”
— Jordan Klepper [06:10-07:30]

“The world is made up of billionaires who are assholes and only care about themselves… will allow a country to disintegrate and democracy to evaporate because they wanna buy another beach house.”
— Jordan Klepper [08:48-09:21]

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3. Making Satire Under Pressure

• [12:57-16:43]
  After a Ground News ad break, Nicole and Jordan describe pivoting towards “pure satire” in the week’s show—styled as North Korean state-run media.
  • The improvisational chaos—hosts, correspondents, even Jon Stewart rallying for a rapid creative response.
  • The cathartic, community aspect of the show’s environment during “scared and upset and frustrated” times.
  • Joy and challenge of writing heightened, meta satire in a climate where reality starts to outpace parody.

“This truly is, it's a new satire. It can use that parody and the tools of satire to kind of speak to some of these things and hopefully find some, some bits in this, this, this dark, strange time... a gift to the show…”
— Jordan Klepper [13:59-14:21, 16:19-16:43]

• The set will be transformed “all gold and stuff,” showcasing the crew’s technical talent.

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4. Previewing Next Week’s Headlines

• [17:32-21:52]
  • UN General Debate (“Better Together: 80 Years and More for Peace, Development, and Human Rights”)—the theme gets skeptical ribbing.
  • New York’s Climate Week overlaps with UN week; Nicole is participating in two climate-related events.
  • Ongoing fallout from the Kimmel affair and overarching free speech battles expected to dominate.
  • Satirical musings on how the US fares in the “global community.”
  • The role of “spite” as America’s—and Nicole’s—primary motivator for positive change (“If we could do that, but for climate change, I think we'll be in a really good position.” [21:52])

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5. Absurd News of the Week: FBI’s Meth Crematorium Blunder

• [23:11-26:48]
  • FBI burned a large methamphetamine seizure in an animal shelter’s crematorium in Montana, exposing staff, animals, and agents to meth fumes.
  • Tangent about tangled law enforcement acronyms (FBI, ATF, DEA).
  • Ends with dark laughter—“funny but also horrifying” is the new norm for American news.

“It's no longer like, we found a water skiing squirrel. It's like the water skiing squirrel was exposed to methamphetamines by our corrupt FBI.”
— Nicole Conlon [25:37]

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6. Show and Tell: Media Comfort Food & Culture Recs

• [27:05-33:25]
  Hosts decompress with:
  • The Ballad of Wallace Island — “A lovely, charming and funny British film... it has all of the beautiful, lovely things that British comedians can do.” (Jordan Klepper) [27:10-28:37]
  • Evan Mulroney (@roondawg_firstofhisname on IG), a comedian who’s “like if Putty from Seinfeld yes-anded everything he did... so funny.” (Nicole Conlon) [28:39-29:42]
  • Tribute to Robert Redford (who passed away that week): favorite films (“All is Lost,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Sting”), and a reminder that Redford was also a prominent climate activist. [30:27-33:29]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Digital Manipulation:

“It does put a litmus test on which friends of yours, what they expect of you, what voice they expect you to have online...”
— Jordan Klepper [02:08]

On Business & Free Speech:

“In the moments where they could stand up for themselves and be a voice for good and reason, they instead retreat, become nameless, faceless beings who only care about their bottom line and will allow a country to disintegrate and democracy to evaporate because they wanna buy another beach house.”
— Jordan Klepper [08:48-09:21]

On Satire as Coping Mechanism:

“In the chaos of these days when you feel scared and upset and frustrated... to be able to go into work and do something with that is... I would much rather be here today than not here.”
— Nicole Conlon [13:56-13:59]

On American Motivations:

“We're not so good at being leaders, but we are good at being jealous and therefore using our jealousy to get better. Maybe that's a path forward.”
— Jordan Klepper [21:34]

On Animal Shelter Meth Burning:

“It sounds more like a party than it does sort of a crackdown.”
— Jordan Klepper [25:17]

On Loss & Movie Stars:

“There is still something about that classic movie star energy where you just watch some people up there on screen who are just so captivating. It does take you out of things."
— Jordan Klepper [32:34]

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Important Timestamps

| Time | Segment/Event | |-----------|------------------------------------------------| | 01:13 | Episode starts, Nicole introduces Jordan | | 01:50 | The Twitter hack reveal | | 04:41 | Kimmel suspension discussion begins | | 08:48 | Candid rant on billionaire media owners | | 12:57 | Satirizing American state-run media | | 17:32 | Next week’s preview, UN & Climate Week | | 23:11 | FBI/meth/animal shelter debacle | | 27:05 | Show & Tell: “The Ballad of Wallace Island” | | 30:27 | Tribute to Robert Redford |

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Tone & Atmosphere

• The conversation is both earnest and bitingly funny.
• There’s genuine industry anxiety about political overreach, but the hosts rely on sharp self-aware humor (“Bits were so fun. Never again.” [11:16-11:27]) and inside jokes for resilience.
• Satire is the primary toolkit for making sense of political turmoil—“optimism through pessimism.”

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Final Thoughts

The Precap with Jordan Klepper gives an entertaining yet sobering snapshot of late night—and, by extension, the nation—at a free speech crossroads. Through revealing dialogue, gallows humor, and cultural recommendations, the Daily Show team not only processes the week’s upheavals but rallies for creative, satirical resistance in the face of accelerating absurdity. The episode is a must-listen for understanding both the mood inside US political satire and the shifting battlegrounds over free speech, media integrity, and democracy.

Transcript

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[Nicole Conlon]

Hello and welcome to the pre cap, which is a real word. We're going to make pre cap happen. My name is Nicole Conlon and I'm one of the writers at the Daily show and this is the podcast where we kind of look forward to to next week's episode of the show and we meet next week's host. We're gonna look forward to the big stories. We're maybe gonna talk about a little bit what's happening this week, which is crazy. And the host that we're gonna meet this week is the one and only Jordan Klepper.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yes. You know, looking forward, it's such an optimistic term. Yes, we are technically looking forward as to what could happen next week.

[Nicole Conlon]

We are looking forward. But are we looking forward to it?

[Jordan Klepper]

That's a more complicated question.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes, it's hard to say. So, Jordan, before we get into any of that, we gotta address the big thing for which is you got hacked.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yes. That's the number one thing the audience is thinking about.

[Nicole Conlon]

That's what they care about the most. Is your Twitter account that you haven't posted on in 6 months got hacked.

[Jordan Klepper]

It did get hacked this week. You know, it's the Internet providing more misinformation for the Internet, which is again, if you've ever needed a reminder not to believe the things you read, this provided yet another one. Yeah, it was a strange experience though. Yeah, I got a bunch of text messages but midweek that I had been hacked. When you get hacked, what is fascinating, it does put a litmus test on which friends of yours, what they expect of you, what voice they expect you to have online.

[Nicole Conlon]

Jordan's always selling laptops.

[Jordan Klepper]

Exactly. Yeah. So I did have the friends who were like, oh, I can tell on Twitter you've been hacked. Somebody's saying some horrendous things. But then there's the other tier of friends who are like, hey, man, what's up? On Twitter? Which seems like a kind thing to say, and in most cases, it was, but against a bunch of other friends who are like, oh, I know for sure this is not you. Yeah, there were a handful of people who were like, oh, well, is this you? And to be clear, I'm not probably. Or usually the kind of person who tweets really revolting things about the news of the day, but that's what happened.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. Well, I'm glad that it wasn't you, and I'm glad you're going back to not posting on Twitter for six months at a time. Or maybe ever.

[Jordan Klepper]

Or ever. I. Probably never again. I mean, it does speak to. I mean, what actually happened was somebody hacked it, and they tried to say terrible things about the Charlie Kirk situation. And in doing that, I assume trying to get me canceled or some sort of punitive response, which I think speaks to not only the bullshit of the Internet and don't trust what you read on Twitter, but beyond that, the discourse has gotten to a place where there are people out there who are like, oh, if we can manipulate somebody into having a bad take or a bad opinion, that's the kind that can be met with consequences and silenced or at least fired in some sort of way. Which seems like a bonkers assumption to be had years ago, perhaps, maybe even.

[Nicole Conlon]

Months ago this week.

[Jordan Klepper]

But this week makes it seem like.

[Nicole Conlon]

A pretty good assumption.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah, we've moved now. That's now a tactic that is being used.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Jordan Klepper]

On a platform that, as far as I can recall, the whole purpose of that platform was to be a champion of free speech.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. I remember the term was free speech absolutist.

[Jordan Klepper]

That was the term, wasn't it?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yes. A free speech absolutist. So on the very flat platform that was meant to celebrate all opinions, there was an attempt to weaponize it, to take those down.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Jordan Klepper]

But that's a tiny encapsulation of the wild week in free speech that we've had.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. And speaking of free speech issues, let's talk about the enormous elephant in our office, which is the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, it's Thursday right now.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Jordan Klepper]

So normally we'd be prepping today's show which is happening right now. And as hosts for next week start thinking about that. But this news broke last night, and so we're all sort of here digesting that, trying to craft a show of it, try to craft a point of view around all of that, but pretty scary, outrageous news to awaken to.

[Nicole Conlon]

Absolutely. I saw it right before I went to bed, which is the worst possible time to find out about news that might throw your own job into jeopardy. Sure, yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

What was your first feeling when you heard about it?

[Nicole Conlon]

I was like, well, I thought that maybe they had just taken down the episode, the one episode in question. And it took me a little while of scrolling through stories to be like, oh, no, wait, his show is off the air indefinitely. And I have a couple friends who write there. So I texted them and, and they were like, we're finding out all of this at the same time as you are. They're obviously not pumped about it. So it's, it's just so bizarre that every. It happens so suddenly and everything is still up in the air. And it's coming off the heels of the Colbert cancellation, which at least had the fig leaf of it being for business reasons, whereas this one seems to be much more explicitly for political reasons.

[Jordan Klepper]

It's, it's pretty darn clear even. I think the, the response Trump has had since then has been like, great, one down. Yeah, onto the next one and Jimmy next. So he's showing his hand right there. It's not about anything that was said. You gotta squint pretty hard to see what line was crossed, other than being somebody who's outspoken and not standing up for the narrative that the Trump administration wants. And then you have the FCC flagging people down about how the administration feels about this and business leaders lacking any kind of spying and kowtowing. I think it's, it's shocking. It's incredibly frustrating. It's scary to me how spineless so many people are at the higher levels. The CEOs, totally. We expect this sort of attitude from the administration, but you have an entire political party who has based so much of their identity on being free speech absolutists, being anti cancel culture, at the very least, you'd hope the parts of the Constitution that uphold the ability to have whatever opinion you want, those things should be protected in many different ways. And to see this happen, not completely surprising, but I think the swiftness of it has caught a lot of people off guard. I spent some time in Hungary, we did a special in Hungary. And I think we've gone from Zero to Budapest faster than a lot of people expected.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. That means we're gonna get some great baths though, Budapest. Beautiful public baths.

[Jordan Klepper]

Wonderful baths.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

You know, let me tell you. And like heavy stews, I think.

[Nicole Conlon]

Oh yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

So, yeah, so get ready. So, yeah, we are gonna have. Okay, speech is gon limited. There's going to be state run media that's just around the corner. You know, rights are going to be restricted. But baths, better stews thicker.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. And that seems like a fair trade to me.

[Jordan Klepper]

I do like a thick stew.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. One thing that's been frustrating about this whole thing to me is that both with the Colbert thing and with this new Kimmel thing is like I, as a regular consumer of media or, or like me trying to explain like what's going on to my parents or my friends who are not in television or anything at all is like so much of this is motivated by like mergers and businesses. And then I have to explain like now it's like, okay, I gotta know who the parent company of the local affiliate station in Florida is. And it's. It, it isn't it? I think on Trump's level, it is very much about like, I don't like what, I don't like him, I don't like what he said. But then like explaining it from the business interest side is like, it's stupid in a different way. That is much harder to articulate to people who aren't like, okay, so the way that ABC works is ABC is the network, but then there's the affiliates.

[Jordan Klepper]

And it's, I think you gotta cut to the chase. You can be like, here's the deal. The world is made up of billionaires who are assholes and only care about themselves. They pretend to have a morality that they speak with and they use their platforms for certain truth. But in the end, they're soulless capitalists who only care about a bottom line. And in the moments where they could stand up for themselves and be a voice for good and reason, they instead retreat, become nameless, faceless beings who only care about their bottom line and will allow a country to disintegrate and democracy to evaporate because they wanna buy another beach house.

[Nicole Conlon]

I'm gonna have our editors clip that. And then I'm just gonna send that.

[Jordan Klepper]

Out to anybody, send that, send out to anybody who's like, what's going on with the mergers? It's like, oh, billionaires want more money and they don't give a fuck about what people have to say or our democracy being strong anymore. They just want more money.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. So they haven't officially canceled Kimmel. He's on indefinite hiatus. And now it seems like if he is ever to get back on air. Sinclair just released a thing that was like, he needs to issue a formal apology and donate to Turning Point usa. And I feel for Kimmel in this situation because he's in the horrible position and I. I don't think he would ever go for that. But he now has to decide between, like, standing up for what he believes in and protecting the jobs of 250 people who work at his show. And that is just an impossible situation to be in.

[Jordan Klepper]

So. Yes. Yeah. You know, I have such respect for all of these folks who are in this late night sphere. I think during the strikes, so many hosts took care of their staffs. In this time where we are seeing faceless, spineless people who are being threatened and punished by an administration, like, continuing to back away. I think people like, like Kimmel, like Stephen, like so many people are standing up to an administration, saying the things that they believe in, taking care of their staffs, and are consistently put in these positions. I have no doubt that Jimmy will handle this with an amount of grace and fire is his right. It makes me very proud of the people that we call colleagues in this industry, but really frustrated with the positions they get put in.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. Well, that's it for the comedy podcast for Malaysia anyway.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah. So I have to do that stupid ass job next week and hopefully we don't get attacked by the FBI. Oh, God.

[Nicole Conlon]

I guess we'll see.

[Jordan Klepper]

What is this? I just want to do bits again. Nicole, do you remember when. Oh, we just were doing bits.

[Nicole Conlon]

Bits were so fun.

[Jordan Klepper]

Bits were so fun.

[Nicole Conlon]

We went to Chicago last year and we did a whole video about the bean.

[Jordan Klepper]

That's right. I hung out with Governor Pritzker and I just drank Malort for an afternoon.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. Never again.

[Jordan Klepper]

Never, never, never again. They have literally sent the National Guardian to Chicago since we've been there. That was last summer, Nicole.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, it was less than a year ago.

[Jordan Klepper]

Oh, my God. Oh, boy. But looking forward to next week. Forward to next week.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. Let's look ahead.

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[Nicole Conlon]

By the time this comes out, people will have seen our show tonight, which we're currently preparing, which is just we're doing it is certainly the most like pure satire that this show has been in a long time where we're just doing pure North Korean state run media, but in America. Yeah, it's obviously the script's not done or anything yet, but I think it's going to be really fun. It has certainly been like a incredible show to be a part of.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah, I mean I love the pure satire of it all. It does feel like a fun way to attack this. I will say even just getting the call this morning that it's an all hands on deck type show where everybody's coming in, the other hosts are coming in, correspondents, John's coming in, John is coming in. Like one of the things I love about working on this show is in the chaos of these days when you feel scared and upset and frustrated at the news and you're staring alone at your phone or at your tv, like to be able to go into work and do something with that is I.

[Nicole Conlon]

Would much rather be here today than not here 100%.

[Jordan Klepper]

So I'm excited to craft that. I think like it is so fun. It's I think like a classic way of looking at something and quite frankly something like a show only like the Daily show can kind of do. This truly is, it's a new satire. It can use that parody and the tools of satire to kind of speak to some of these things and hopefully find some, some bits in this, this, this dark, strange time it's also an.

[Nicole Conlon]

Opportunity as a writer. I get to write, like, new kinds of jokes that are not the typical kinds of jokes that we do on the show. And so it's. It's a. I don't know. It's the one silver lining of this horrible situation is, like, well, at least we get to do, like, new creative stuff with it.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

So I'm excited to see how it turns out. I'm excited to see if we have shows next week.

[Jordan Klepper]

Now, as. As someone who had a separate show for a year, which was completely satirical, taking on the point of view.

[Nicole Conlon]

Oh, yeah. Does this feel kind of like you're going back to the opposition? A little bit.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah. And what's scary is that show is no longer on television anymore.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

So this might be a terrible tactical move by the Daily Show. I wish they would have consulted me first. But going full satire, you know, careful guys. You know, there's an appetite for it. Sure, but maybe not the appetite that you were once promised for it, but who knows? Good luck, everybody.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. Well, at least I think our merger's already finalized, Right?

[Jordan Klepper]

Is the ink dry?

[Nicole Conlon]

I hope so.

[Jordan Klepper]

Fingers crossed.

[Nicole Conlon]

I guess we'll see.

[Jordan Klepper]

It is so fun, though, writing from that perspective. Right. Like, in some ways, I remember working on the opposition. Like, in some ways, it was so freeing because you could go. You could go to. Everything was at 120%. You could go. You could go big, you could go wild. You saw something that made you angry, and you were adopting that and taking it to the crazy point, which often became difficult in this era to heighten something that already felt so heightened. But at the same time, you could get silly in a way that felt. Felt playful and fun. And then at the same time, you're also trying to make a point by making the opposite point. So there's a little two step that could sometimes get complicated, but opened up new avenues for comedy and playfulness. So I think that's something that I think will be a gift to the show to be able to write in a voice like that.

[Nicole Conlon]

Totally. When wonderful senior writer Lauren Sarver Means was walking us through the show today, she was like, the. The first act is gonna be fun. It's. We're not approaching it from a, like, how dare you, sir perspective. It's like, we're gonna. I mean, it's horrifying, but we're gonna try to have as much fun with this kind of show as possible.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

And I think it's also. We haven't seen the set or anything, but I've heard they're, like, gonna redo the set and they're gonna make it, like, all gold and stuff. And so I think it also, like, speaks to the technical prowess of our crew to, like, be able to completely turn that around in three, four hours before the audience comes in.

[Jordan Klepper]

It is amazing. I'm always shocked at what the show can do that quickly.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. In one day.

[Jordan Klepper]

And I think, like, it speaks to, like, this moment. We've had to get better at responding to news that breaks constantly, but that you can show up in the morning and decide something completely different than everybody is in there. Like, all right, we're gonna make this. These are the points we want to make. This is the world we want to create. We have a couple hours. Let's make that thing happen.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. And then I go home and I stare at the pile of laundry that I haven't done for two months, and it's like, how can we do all this in one day? And it takes me this long to get through my little chores at home.

[Jordan Klepper]

It's a lot hard. I think you need a. You need a staff of 150 people to make that happen.

[Nicole Conlon]

I think so. Well, I'll tell you what. If the show's canceled, we can all come to my apartment and finally do my laundry.

[Jordan Klepper]

You know what? I think that's the silver lining. Right. We're gonna live in a land with plenty of thick, hearty stews and a roving band of 150 people doing laundry. And from house to house.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. Perfect. Let's talk a little bit about what next week looks like. Assuming that we're still on the air next week in Gers.

[Jordan Klepper]

Gross.

[Nicole Conlon]

What are some things you want to talk about?

[Jordan Klepper]

Well, we talked about there's. There's a lot happening at the UN Next week, which means traffic is going to be bad. So I'm sure. I'm sure I'm just going to be upset about traffic for most of this.

[Nicole Conlon]

Mostly be a traffic report.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah. I think if you're watching this, you're like, I think they're talking about important climate change issues. But all this show does is bitch about how difficult it was to get to work today. So I'm imagining there's a lot of anti traffic bits all week.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. That'll be fun to be had. One of the Ben and Jerry's founders has departed from Ben and Jerry's. It's sort of like when. I mean, you can't have hall of Oates without oats. Can't have Ben and Jerry Without Jerry. Was it Jerry who quit? I think it was Jerry.

[Jordan Klepper]

Was it Jerry?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

Well, it's interesting thinking about next week. We've. We've learned at the show that you can't pre plan too far ahead because the world shifts. Yes, I'm sure we're going to. We're gonna be covering whatever the fallout of the decision around Jimmy Kimmel is. I think there's a big conversation about free speech in America right now. Trump is over in England right now touting our free speech wares. Seems like it's ripe for irony.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

So I wouldn't be surprised if that carries over into the weekend. And so we're always gonna keep our eyes on that. I think the UN Week will be fascinating. It's always compelling when all eyes are on the UN or at least the people who follow those kinds of things. So a few eyes are on the.

[Nicole Conlon]

Un I didn't realize that they have the. So it's the UN General debate, and I didn't realize that they have themes for the debates. And this year's theme is better together, 80 years and more for peace, development, and human rights.

[Jordan Klepper]

See, now, Better Together sounds like a slogan the Kamala campaign came up with.

[Nicole Conlon]

I know, I know. Next year's theme, under the Sea.

[Jordan Klepper]

You know what? I think that one. That's a good one for the climate change week.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, yeah, There you go. Yeah. Under the sea. Perfect.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah. 20, 80. Under the sea.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. But I don't know what the. What better together, 80 years and more for peace, development, and human rights is gonna be.

[Jordan Klepper]

Well, it's optimistic.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

I like the idea if we could work as a globe to become better. Great, lovely idea. I'd like to hear that's communicated. I think whenever it is UN Week, you know, it sort of puts the US up against what other countries are doing. We don't tend to stand up as well as I think we could perhaps stand up.

[Nicole Conlon]

And this year especially, I think maybe not.

[Jordan Klepper]

Boy. But you know what? I think we'll probably cover Donald Trump realizing that he's a member of the global community and that we are better together, kind of coming to his wits and therefore articulating off the cuff in a very robust and articulate way, like the ways in which we can bind ourselves together as a human community and move past our differences and become a better world, because that's what a leader does. And so I can only assume that's the type of thing we would be covering next week.

[Nicole Conlon]

He's gonna say the words that will heal the Nation?

[Jordan Klepper]

I think so, yes.

[Nicole Conlon]

I think so, yes.

[Jordan Klepper]

Unless he wants to, like, attack Rosie o' Donnell again, in which case perhaps that will take up all of the energy.

[Nicole Conlon]

Well, I can't see that happening.

[Jordan Klepper]

No.

[Nicole Conlon]

Next week is also Climate Week.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

In New York City. Wow. UN Week and Climate Week.

[Jordan Klepper]

You're a, you're a climate fan, right?

[Nicole Conlon]

I love the climate.

[Jordan Klepper]

Big into climate.

[Nicole Conlon]

Big into climate. And I'm actually doing two events at Climate Week. I'm doing one at the Solutions House on Tuesday night. That's like a panel of late night writers to talk about how we talk about climate change. And I'm also doing, on Wednesday night at Caveat, the Climate Town Live town hall with my podcast co host and host of the show Climate Town, Raleigh Williams. And I would love to see people at one or both.

[Jordan Klepper]

Do you still have faith that we could turn this thing around?

[Nicole Conlon]

I think we do, yeah. I am less confident. Look, this is a whole nother podcast, but I'm less confident that the United States is gonna do anything and more confident that the entire rest of the world is just absolutely lapping us on climate action. So I'm putting my faith in that.

[Jordan Klepper]

See, you know, that's when suddenly we become jealous of what other people do. I think that's, that's America at its best. When we feel like, oh, are we being embarrassed by other people? The French are doing something better. Oh, I guess we better get our shit together. We're not so good at being leaders, but we are good at being jealous and therefore using our jealousy to get better. Maybe that's a path forward.

[Nicole Conlon]

I do feel like in my career, spite has been my strongest motivator. If I see somebody who I'm like that fucking gang at this job, he's not funny at all, then I work 10 times harder. So if we could do that, but for climate change, I think we'll be in a really good position.

[Jordan Klepper]

Now I'm sensing some optimism. I like this take.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, optimism through pessimism.

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[Nicole Conlon]

Now, if there's one thing that we have seen the past week, it's that our incredibly competent FBI leaders are right on the pulse of the crime happening in America, and they know exactly how to handle it. And I feel like so much has been assassination news that we missed another example of the FBI doing a really good job, which is that in Montana. Yeah, in Montana, they found a bunch of methamphetamine, and I believe they found it at a local animal shelter. And they were like, great. Meth is bad. We must destroy this. Let's set it all on fire. And so they just set it on fire inside of this animal shelter. And they had to evacuate all of the FBI personnel, all of the staff of the animal shelter and all of the animals because they were all exposed.

[Jordan Klepper]

Now, we sure this is FBI? This is not a Kristi Noem project?

[Nicole Conlon]

I mean, it might be.

[Jordan Klepper]

It feels like taking out a joint. An entire animal shelter is spot on right there.

[Nicole Conlon]

I just don't know that she's. Well, maybe she was smoking, poking them out to give her a clearer line of sight.

[Jordan Klepper]

Oh, you think she likes the sport of it?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, I think so.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah, perhaps you're right. I think that's poking out with a bunch of fentanyl fires.

[Nicole Conlon]

No, no, no. It's methamphetamine. Because here's the thing. Famously, if the FBI is in contact with a grain of fentanyl, they immediately overdose and die. That's the thing that they have promoted happening to them. And so I guess they decided it was much safer to be exposed to methamphetamine gas in an enclosed space.

[Jordan Klepper]

God bless. At least we have the best people. They have the best people on the planet. They're the best people. So I'm glad they're smoking something out.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes.

[Jordan Klepper]

Where's the ATF in all of this?

[Nicole Conlon]

I don't know.

[Jordan Klepper]

This feels like this is classic atf. Yeah, I get lost in the acronyms at times, but it feels like this is an ATF joint.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

Is the ATF part of the FBI?

[Nicole Conlon]

I have no idea.

[Jordan Klepper]

Oh, boy, I gotta Google that.

[Nicole Conlon]

And then there's also the dea.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah, the DEA should be in there too.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. Eventually we'll get the whole Alphabet, get.

[Jordan Klepper]

Everybody there around this animal shelter and keep the flames away, for God's sakes.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, it's smoking meth is the main way of doing it.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

Which you'd think they would have realized before they set it on fire. It's the main thing.

[Jordan Klepper]

It sounds more like a party than it does sort of a crackdown.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. I mean, maybe they just hot boxed the animal shelter and they were like, oh, we burned it because we hated it, because we didn't want it.

[Jordan Klepper]

We're so good at our jobs.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

That's why we're so good at our jobs.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah. So that is one funny but also horrifying story that happened this week.

[Jordan Klepper]

Isn't that sort of all of them now?

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, it's no longer like, we found a water skiing squirrel. It's like the water skiing squirrel was exposed to methamphetamines by our corrupt FBI. It's like. All right, well, so much for human interest stories. And one final note from our producer who's just informed me that actually the FBI found the meth somewhere else and they brought it to the animal shelter to use their crematorium at the animal shelter, which I guess is the easiest way to destroy the meth.

[Jordan Klepper]

Well, I wanna unpack that. Okay, that's. I mean, I guess if you need a crematorium to burn meth in, which it does seem like there has to be a better way.

[Nicole Conlon]

There must be.

[Jordan Klepper]

We got a whole. I know you love the oceans, I know you love climate, but we got a big plastic island out there. You can't throw a little meth in that island. Is that.

[Nicole Conlon]

Sorry. Throw some meth in the plastic item.

[Jordan Klepper]

Let's throw it there.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's probably fin.

[Jordan Klepper]

It's better to go to an animal shelter crematorium than like a human crematorium.

[Nicole Conlon]

I don't know. I don't know. Why the animal shelter. Maybe it was closer.

[Jordan Klepper]

Is Miss Manners still a thing? Is she answering questions? This is a query for her. Where do we burn mass quantities of meth? Yeah, well, hopefully we'll cover that next week.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah, okay, we'll look into it. Okay, now we're gonna do a segment called the Daily show, show and Tell, which is just where we talk about something that Is not political that we've watched or read or listened to or argued about or just been on our mind. Sort of a palate cleanser from what has been sort of a frightful week.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yes, it has.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yes. Have you been watching or reading or anything non political that you'd like to talk about?

[Jordan Klepper]

You know what? We were back and forth in Los Angeles for the Emmys recently, so I've watched a lot of movies on the plane and I watched the Ballad of Wallace Island. Do you know this?

[Nicole Conlon]

I have seen the posters. I haven't seen it.

[Jordan Klepper]

It is wonderful.

[Nicole Conlon]

Really.

[Jordan Klepper]

Tim Key is so funny. I have loved it.

[Nicole Conlon]

Ryan Gosling is in it.

[Jordan Klepper]

No, it's.

[Nicole Conlon]

Cut that out. Edit up. Edit.

[Jordan Klepper]

There's no Ryan Gosling. Whether you're pro or con, he's not in this. Don't expect Gosling. Carey Mulligan is in it.

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay. Maybe that's who I was thinking of.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah, I'm sure that's. Yes. Yeah. Those classic.

[Nicole Conlon]

I get them mixed up all the time.

[Jordan Klepper]

Everybody gets Goslay and Mulligan confused. It's a lovely small British film starring Tim Key, who is in a bunch of the Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan projects. Is so funny. And it's. It's essentially about a rock star who comes to play a private show for one guy. Okay. And then also he brings his former collaborator and wife to the island as well. And it's lovely and charming and funny. And when I get so cynical about the world, I put that on. I was like, oh, my God, this has all of the beautiful, lovely things that British comedians can do. And it made me. It made me. I mean, I was on a plane, so crying on a plane happens almost all the time.

[Nicole Conlon]

Well, you were on a Spirit Airlines flight, so it's.

[Jordan Klepper]

Most of that was because. Yeah, we were going. There was certain death on every shake.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

But two big thumbs up are the Ballad of Wallace Island.

[Nicole Conlon]

Ballad of Wallace Island. Okay, I'll watch it.

[Jordan Klepper]

What about you?

[Nicole Conlon]

My thing is there's a guy on Instagram named Evan Mulroney. I think his Instagram handle is like Mulroney first of his name or something. And he is. He's a comedian and he's just a big, strong, buff guy. He's like, what? Are you familiar with the character of Putty from Seinfeld?

[Jordan Klepper]

Of course.

[Nicole Conlon]

He's like, I think if Putty you. Yes. Anded everything he did. Or like also Patrick Warburton character like Kronk from the Emperor's New Groove. But if he were like a big gay idiot on Instagram. He's so funny. It's my friend Andrew Farmer showed his page to me and was like, it's always interesting when you discover a gay guy in a new font. That's what he feels like. He's so funny. I think his content's really, really good.

[Jordan Klepper]

All right, we'll check. What's the name? What is the handle?

[Nicole Conlon]

The handle I think is Mulroney, first of his name, but we'll have producer Alan double check look up Evan Mulroney and his handle is Runedog, first of his name. R O O N D A W.

[Jordan Klepper]

G. Oh, I love it.

[Nicole Conlon]

It's really funny.

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[Jordan Klepper]

I have to ask, we lost a great one this week. Robert Redford passed away. Do you have a favorite Robert Redford film?

[Nicole Conlon]

You know, my. I don't know if it's my favorite, but the one that I think about the most is later in his career. I wanna say I saw it in like 2015, somewhere around that era. He did a film called all is Lost, which is the screenplay for it is like 45 pages or something because it's just him in the movie on a boat and the boat capsizes. It gets hit by a Maersk shipping container that has fallen. And then the movie is just about him surviving the horrors of the ocean.

[Jordan Klepper]

And it's just there's almost no dialogue in that film.

[Nicole Conlon]

I think none. I think he might say ah, shit or something at one point, but there's no dialogue. It's just him. And one of the things that I think is so interesting about it is you get almost no backstory on this guy at all. It's a, you can kind of pick up little pieces from like set decoration. But he's clearly a guy who has been at sea in a sailboat for a while and he just has to survive. And that's all you need to know. It's like, yeah, he's in the ocean and he's trying not to drown. That's it. And it's really good. And it's like masterfully acted by him. It's great. And I don't. I mean, he has such a incredible oeuvre that it's impossible to pick one, but that is the one that I saw most recently that I was like, wow, this is amazing.

[Jordan Klepper]

That guy, that guy, he's. He's a movie star. It was funny. You get asked the question. I'm sure you get asked a lot when you're in this industry and in this world of like, what do you do to rinse off? How do you step outside some of the chaos of politics? And I found over this last year, I've gone back to some Paul Newman and Robert Redford films. There's just like a. A comfort, just a love. I love Butch Cassie. The Sundance Kid is one of my all time favorite movies.

[Nicole Conlon]

Unbelievable movies.

[Jordan Klepper]

It has kind of everything in it. It's so funny. It's so sweet. The chemistry is great. Musical sequences, tragic. It's smart. It's so funny.

[Nicole Conlon]

They're the two hottest men who've ever.

[Jordan Klepper]

Lived, let me tell you. Two hot men talking for a while. I could, you know. And the Sting, I think I could watch those. I could watch those two guys.

[Nicole Conlon]

The Sting is amazing. That might be my favorite.

[Jordan Klepper]

Yeah.

[Nicole Conlon]

Yeah.

[Jordan Klepper]

That is so utterly watchable, so fun. It is true. Like I'm like, oh. As I get older, I get more cynical about the trappings of Hollywood or the cliches you fall into. But there is still something about that classic movie star energy where you just watch some people up there on screen who are just so captivating. It does take you out of things. I feel like Redford was definitely one of those, especially those Newman movies. They're lovely.

[Nicole Conlon]

Redford also, in addition to being the handsomest man who ever lived and a prodigious actor, was a big climate guy. He was a big climate activist. And part of that is because when he was younger, before he became a movie star, he worked in oil fields. And he was like, this is awful. Like, it's awful for the people who work here and it's awful for the planet. And so this, this Climate week I'm dedicating to Robert Redford.

[Jordan Klepper]

I love it.

[Nicole Conlon]

Thank you. Nobody put me in charge of Climate Week, but I'm gonna do it.

[Jordan Klepper]

It is dedicated. Be better, be best. Is that this week in climate? Yeah, be best, be best. Thank you, Robert Redford.

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay, I think that's it. That is this week pre capped. Next week pre capped. I guess. Either way, I would like to thank our host for next week, Jordan Klepper. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your actual authentic, non hacked thoughts with this audience. As far as I know, we haven't been hacked in this room.

[Jordan Klepper]

I don't think. Yeah, something felt weird halfway through, but I think, I think I stand by all these words.

[Nicole Conlon]

Okay, great, wonderful. And if you would like to watch Jordan Klepper host the show next week, if we're still on the air, you can catch us on Comedy Central or Paramount.

[Jordan Klepper]

Thanks, Nicole. Explore more shows from the Daily show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show. Wherever you get your podcasts, watch the Daily show weeknights at 1110 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. Yo, this is important, man. My favorite Lululemon shorts, the ones you got me back in the day, I.

[Nicole Conlon]

Think they're pace breakers.

[Jordan Klepper]

The ones with all the pockets.

[Nicole Conlon]

Well, I just got back from vacation and I think I left them in my hotel room.

[Jordan Klepper]

And dude, I need to replace these shorts. I wear them like every day with that Lulu hoodie you got me.

[Nicole Conlon]

Could you send me the link to where you got them?

[Jordan Klepper]

Thanks, bro. Talk soon.

[Nicole Conlon]

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