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Speaker 3: Hey, here's edition listeners. This is a human Perng co
Speaker 3: executive producer and writer for the Daily Show. We are
Speaker 3: so happy to be back on the air with new
Speaker 3: episodes of the Daily Show, and we have a special
Speaker 3: treat today. I am joined by Daily Show showrunner, writer
Speaker 3: and executive producer sitting right next to me, Jen Flans Hey, Jen,
Speaker 3: how are you doing?
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Clap clap, clap, clip clap. Who is that clapping? Well,
Speaker 3: you'll be delighted to know. We're also joined by our
Speaker 3: old friends are on again, off again Boss, the host
Speaker 3: of the Daily Show for sixteen years, and again mister
Speaker 3: John Stewart's Welcome to our new fancy podcast studio. John,
Speaker 3: what do you think.
Speaker 5: You've been You're hosting skills in only nine years have improved.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've gone to some type of
Speaker 5: adult learning center for the kinds of hosting skills that
Speaker 5: you're performing right now, but they've taken a leap forward
Speaker 5: that I enjoyed very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I have I've been to several boot camps
Speaker 3: to learn.
Speaker 2: How to hop wait, they have a podcast bootcamp? They do?
Speaker 2: They do?
Speaker 3: You have to spend six months while speaking into a microphone,
Speaker 3: you do a lot of push ups for some reason,
Speaker 3: and then at the end of it you have to
Speaker 3: successfully sell a cast for Mattress or else you have
Speaker 3: never heard from again.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you something that would make a really
Speaker 5: great podcast someone should do?
Speaker 3: Like try to sell something to someone on the ore
Speaker 3: that'sa someone should.
Speaker 5: Do a six month boot camp podcast podcast matter.
Speaker 3: I love it. I mean, I'm sure there's already like
Speaker 3: six Bushwick guys who are doing that podcast separately.
Speaker 4: John's not really in our John, you see how nice
Speaker 4: it is?
Speaker 5: Yeah, can I tell you something it does look like
Speaker 5: definitely one of the places that they thought they might
Speaker 5: shoot between two ferns, but then decided.
Speaker 3: It was an honor just to be there though, to
Speaker 3: be in that conversation you were.
Speaker 5: Definitely when they showed the three pictures to Zach alvin
Speaker 5: Agus and said what about this?
Speaker 2: And he went close, it's close, close, but it may
Speaker 2: be missing one fern.
Speaker 3: And fair it was.
Speaker 2: This was just two people around a fern.
Speaker 5: We could shoot that. I don't think it's it's right
Speaker 5: for between two ferns.
Speaker 3: That was our mistake to put one fern in the
Speaker 3: room for between two ferns. I one of us should
Speaker 3: have said something about it.
Speaker 2: Where is that in the building? Is it in the building?
Speaker 4: It's next to the green room. Remember how there's.
Speaker 2: Three Oh that so the room that you're in is
Speaker 2: the room It was like I.
Speaker 4: Edited yeah, yeah, yeah, the movie. Yeah it was. It
Speaker 4: was your edit.
Speaker 2: That's where we edited rose Water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the room very much. It says Rosewater was
Speaker 3: edited here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it must be annoying for all
Speaker 2: the tourist groups to come by, yes.
Speaker 5: Because it is very similar to like the Lord of
Speaker 5: the Rings tourism, where people there's a whole Rosewater movie
Speaker 5: tourist industry where they come in and.
Speaker 4: Well that's why we put the plack up. But we
Speaker 4: didn't want to like you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I will say a lot of my running
Speaker 3: relative mischief, A lot of my running relatives would visit
Speaker 3: for that Rosewater side though. I will say that.
Speaker 5: Yes, no, it was a huge bootleg success.
Speaker 3: Lots of my cousins.
Speaker 2: It was a huge boot that's for sure.
Speaker 3: John. Let's just get right into this, all right. We've
Speaker 3: dicked around enough. You've been back in the building for
Speaker 3: a few weeks now, but has any mind John Stewart's back.
Speaker 3: What do you make of the snacks? There used to
Speaker 3: be potato chips. There's now a lot of veggie sticks.
Speaker 5: If people don't know, No, but it's not just veggie sticks,
Speaker 5: and don't sell the place short.
Speaker 4: There's popcorn.
Speaker 3: There's popcorn.
Speaker 2: That's true, but people don't know.
Speaker 5: What Trevor did not only was bring his own flare
Speaker 5: and intelligence and wit to the Daily Show. Uh, he
Speaker 5: apparently has a design sense, Like I did not know.
Speaker 5: I was there for sixteen years. I did not know
Speaker 5: we were allowed to make the building and the office
Speaker 5: look nice.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was a big innovation on Trevor's park.
Speaker 4: Yes he did. And he was like, are we allowed to?
Speaker 2: I had no idea.
Speaker 5: There's like pile flooring and there's steel framed window panes
Speaker 5: that slide and open up into kind of a different
Speaker 5: a coffee bar area. And when we were there, it
Speaker 5: was designed in be in ic I believe you would
Speaker 5: call it. It looked like a bureaucratic and administrative satirical
Speaker 5: movie about what it was like to work in a
Speaker 5: in a bureaucratic nights.
Speaker 2: It did.
Speaker 3: It was like Trevor did when he came in, did
Speaker 3: have this idea of like, what if we had an
Speaker 3: office that that did not make people sad when you
Speaker 3: walked in that did not.
Speaker 2: I didn't know we were allowed to do that.
Speaker 4: We like, we weren't sad, so I didn't know.
Speaker 2: We didn't know.
Speaker 4: We're having a good time. He's like, what could look nicer?
Speaker 3: I think you'll also be, you know, happy to see
Speaker 3: that we have had what used to be I think
Speaker 3: just one variety of potato chip has now been replaced
Speaker 3: by just endless mummies.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's so.
Speaker 5: I mean the snack game now look to be fair
Speaker 5: advances in snacking over nine years, you are living in
Speaker 5: a different universe.
Speaker 4: It's really not fair to compare it.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 5: When I was there, the only snacks that were available
Speaker 5: to people, and obviously this was years ago, were crackers
Speaker 5: salted and unsolved, and those were the only snacks that
Speaker 5: were made. And then there was an explosion in ingenuity
Speaker 5: and in snack technology.
Speaker 2: And when I went and you got.
Speaker 5: Here's what people don't know. So do you know those racks?
Speaker 2: If you were to go to a CBS and they
Speaker 2: have that one little rat. It's like a.
Speaker 5: Tree, a beautiful Christmas tree that you can hang snacks on.
Speaker 4: It makes the snacks even more appealing when they're hanging
Speaker 4: on that tree.
Speaker 5: So my question to you guys is who stole it
Speaker 5: from a convenience storm and is it a wanted snack tree?
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: I don't think we should talk about that here because
Speaker 4: that would be maybe one of us had something.
Speaker 5: You know, I remember you when you weren't a company woman.
Speaker 5: Remember you when you would speak truth to power.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to stay out of you.
Speaker 5: Know, you.
Speaker 3: To be too real. But I think the that snack
Speaker 3: tree is also a way to Uh.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna know, I was gonna say, and
Speaker 4: that I'm like, should I give away the game?
Speaker 3: Remember?
Speaker 2: Do you remember?
Speaker 5: Do you remember hot Dog a mouse? Oh?
Speaker 3: God, no, I don't know who.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you you don't remember.
Speaker 5: That's one of Maggie's favorite stories about the Daily Show.
Speaker 2: So we were doing a bit.
Speaker 5: One night where we needed to get a mouse and
Speaker 5: we got somebody scored. They went down to the pet
Speaker 5: store and they got a bait mouse that was about
Speaker 5: to be prey and when Maggie got wind of it.
Speaker 5: She promised me that we would keep him safe, and
Speaker 5: so we had to build a terrarium. She named him
Speaker 5: hot Dog. And I don't know if you remember she
Speaker 5: made that big folder of all the care items. I
Speaker 5: remember how to take care of hot Dog, and she
Speaker 5: she brought it in.
Speaker 4: I remember that.
Speaker 2: I lived to be one hundred and thir Oh my god. Wow.
Speaker 2: And what happened to hot Dog.
Speaker 5: Was he became a brilliant French chef and moved and
Speaker 5: lived in Paris, apparently under a different name. And uh
Speaker 5: and and became quite well renowned.
Speaker 3: Oh good for him, Good for you. I'm glad. I
Speaker 3: thought you were going to tell me he died. Boy. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: By the way, if Maggie comes to the show to visit,
Speaker 5: you will tell her.
Speaker 2: Yes, he moved to France to be a chef. That
Speaker 2: was the story that I.
Speaker 4: Told her at a farm in France.
Speaker 2: That's right, John.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you something else, uh, you know John,
Speaker 3: the media?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Jimmie, Why why do you keep saying my name?
Speaker 2: I feel like you're you're setting me up for something.
Speaker 3: It's that kind of stuff when you say something overget
Speaker 3: to remember John, John st John. The media has changed.
Speaker 4: I've noticed you haven't said my name even.
Speaker 2: J John J.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, Jen, Sen, Jen, and John.
Speaker 3: I'm asking you guys about all the changes that have
Speaker 3: happened here.
Speaker 4: You know, it's been a lot of changes. The differences
Speaker 4: not so many, not so many.
Speaker 3: But Jen, you've successfully navigated this show through many many
Speaker 3: eras of the Daily Show, so many, John Trevor, I
Speaker 3: believe two hundred and fifty guest hosts, at least in
Speaker 3: the intervening years.
Speaker 4: I was here with Craig.
Speaker 3: You're here with Craig John.
Speaker 2: Jen Flans was there when I got there. It was Jen.
Speaker 2: Were you at that time? You were a PA?
Speaker 4: Yes, I was an assistant production coordinator and I sat
Speaker 4: right behind reception. Remember that little cubicle I had right
Speaker 4: behind reception, Yes, and and uh before the conference room.
Speaker 4: And I remember when you walked in. You were like
Speaker 4: in your leather jacket, and I was like, this is
Speaker 4: gonna be cool. And he said hi to everyone, and John,
Speaker 4: you asked me my name, and not to disparage anyone,
Speaker 4: I don't think Craig knew my name. And I was
Speaker 4: so excited Wo and you are, I said, Jen, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love how you were. You're the one person who
Speaker 3: was always fooled by a leather jacket.
Speaker 2: No matter who, you're gonna be cool a leather jacket.
Speaker 2: And I didn't say what's your name?
Speaker 4: I said, he's like, you learned everyone's name pretty quickly,
Speaker 4: which I thought was so impressive.
Speaker 2: It's the one thing I have control.
Speaker 5: Everything else is jeez. But anyway, it's funny how hard
Speaker 5: that is now. Like the old days, I used to
Speaker 5: be able to do that pretty easily, and now I
Speaker 5: made Jen give me a Facebook. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 5: list of everybody that's there, and I like to sit
Speaker 5: in like, but even that's like for my brain is
Speaker 5: not as elastic.
Speaker 4: So it's it's everybody people here.
Speaker 2: We have more everybody, Jen. I'm just hoping that I'll.
Speaker 3: Tell you it's good to do that. Everybody remembers when
Speaker 3: you say their name, which is why John, I'd like
Speaker 3: to ask you what you know, John. The media landscape
Speaker 3: has changed so much. When you left the show, there
Speaker 3: was no TikTok. Now there's TikTok. There are a podcast
Speaker 3: now they've blown up. There's YouTube. There's so much places
Speaker 3: to get misinformation, And I'm wondering, John, where you get
Speaker 3: your misinformation?
Speaker 2: Stupid?
Speaker 5: When I started at the Daily Show, there was only
Speaker 5: two ways to get information, Uh.
Speaker 2: The streets.
Speaker 4: What did the streets say?
Speaker 5: The streets You would go out on the streets and say,
Speaker 5: can someone tell me.
Speaker 2: What a dirty Sanchez is? Somebody just said that, does
Speaker 2: anyone know?
Speaker 5: They would say, come over here. And the other was
Speaker 5: you had to wait for them to make a pamphlet
Speaker 5: from a printing press. So these were the only two
Speaker 5: ways that you could gather information.
Speaker 2: It's it's relentless now.
Speaker 5: I thought it was relentless when I left. It's it's
Speaker 5: geometrically passed the moment. And as I think the great
Speaker 5: Maria Ressa says, a lot travels ten times or six
Speaker 5: times or seven times faster around the world than the truth.
Speaker 5: I think it's a much more dire situation. But at
Speaker 5: least none of these social media entities have monetized that
Speaker 5: idea and incentivized misinformation, because that would truly be dangerous.
Speaker 5: I'm really glad that they fight it so vigorously.
Speaker 3: I actually I know somebody who who who was a
Speaker 3: content moderator on Facebook, who's one of the people who
Speaker 3: had to like go through all of the uh you know,
Speaker 3: it's like really terrible pain.
Speaker 2: How can you how can you make an individual do that?
Speaker 2: That seems like an impossible it's brutal.
Speaker 3: They were, they were there for like two or three days,
Speaker 3: and they're like the amount of of of hideousness that
Speaker 3: you see people just like very casually posting up just
Speaker 3: like you know, videos of of murders, videos of of
Speaker 3: things that they are just putting up just to see
Speaker 3: if it sticks. But someone's got to go through that
Speaker 3: and take that down. And that's certally you know, all
Speaker 3: the AI is being used instead to find out how
Speaker 3: to like you know, uh, to steal music into and
Speaker 3: to and to write things instead of you know, doing that.
Speaker 3: So it's a it's a very brutal job. But you'll
Speaker 3: be happy to know they don't pay very well, so
Speaker 3: they are they are addressing its.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know how brutal.
Speaker 5: Look like, all I need to do is like, you know,
Speaker 5: announce a tour date and it's only like two common
Speaker 5: sin before everybody's like you, oh, that's all right, that's true,
Speaker 5: weird true, But they go at it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Let's ask a question here, specifically about you know, your John,
Speaker 3: you're back to cover this election twenty twenty four. What
Speaker 3: is it about this election that you are most eager
Speaker 3: to take on? Because I personally don't know what much
Speaker 3: there is to satirize. The candidates are very of sound mind,
Speaker 3: the media seems prepared to root all the issues.
Speaker 5: I think the word eager is the one that I
Speaker 5: find so.
Speaker 3: Much or you can, you can interject for me.
Speaker 5: It's not just about the election. It's if you want
Speaker 5: to be present in this.
Speaker 2: World.
Speaker 5: You have to be present in this conversation, and you
Speaker 5: have to be as relentless and tenacious as the counter
Speaker 5: narrative that's being formed through. You know, so much of
Speaker 5: the information that we see now is weaponized by all
Speaker 5: different and it it keeps taking exponential leaps, which is why,
Speaker 5: you know, it's not just the election, it's ai it's
Speaker 5: the way that we've militarized all our conflict, like it
Speaker 5: all ties together to I think this one larger idea,
Speaker 5: which is the form of government that we cherish so much,
Speaker 5: is really an analog. I don't want to say dinosaur,
Speaker 5: but it is analog. And the world now moves at
Speaker 5: an increasingly infinitely digital pace and reconciling those two things
Speaker 5: I think is the challenge of the moment for people.
Speaker 5: And I'm excited to be with you guys again and
Speaker 5: the best fucking news team and to just be a
Speaker 5: part of that conversation because I think you have to
Speaker 5: register your thought and complaint so that it can be referenced.
Speaker 5: Because remember, AI is now the sum total of all
Speaker 5: that we do. AI really is a law of an
Speaker 5: information laundering system, a vacuum that takes up all the
Speaker 5: pieces of human information and then spit some back out
Speaker 5: in a sort of reconstituted form. If you want this
Speaker 5: world of the future to be informed but what you
Speaker 5: think is the right part of the present, you have
Speaker 5: to register it.
Speaker 2: You have to get it out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if only, if not to change the direction of
Speaker 3: the conversation at the very least so that when aliens
Speaker 3: come to the smoldering ruins of mankind they can see
Speaker 3: something that was like, well, someone had a different idea
Speaker 3: for how this should Yes, yes, that makes sense, thank you.
Speaker 2: You as much. That was much more succinct and much
Speaker 2: more on point.
Speaker 3: Well, that's which is why I'm the host of this
Speaker 3: podcast today.
Speaker 4: In this one episode in this one episode.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up guys? Hi, everybody's all cleaned off. Look
Speaker 2: at that I got the old suit. Looks still fence.
Speaker 3: John, let me ask you a question. You'll be working
Speaker 3: with with a lot of our correspondents. You know Jordan Klepper.
Speaker 3: Obviously you you were at the show while while he
Speaker 3: was the show, while you were hosts. I don't oh
Speaker 3: you never you never met him?
Speaker 2: You mean Jen?
Speaker 3: No, No, Jordan is close. It's close. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of J's, a lot of around the building.
Speaker 4: Yes, you see you look at this tall guy, Floppy,
Speaker 4: we look exactly the same. Yes, yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: easy to.
Speaker 2: Know Jordan is the man.
Speaker 5: And from the moment he walked in the door, by
Speaker 5: the way, he was just one of those dudes that
Speaker 5: because you remember how a lot of times with the
Speaker 5: correspondence there is a learning curve, not on the comedy
Speaker 5: chops or not on the writing chops or things like that,
Speaker 5: on the mechanics of the job, just the weird logistics
Speaker 5: of you know what news people work on through you
Speaker 5: know communication school that John, Yes, and turning the camera
Speaker 5: and making your like there's a mechanical part of this
Speaker 5: job that it does take most performers who are not
Speaker 5: familiar with that some uptick and learning curve. Jordan was
Speaker 5: just like is this my camera?
Speaker 2: Boom? Like he just he knew all the roots man
Speaker 2: right off the bat.
Speaker 4: Yeah. His audition was. We were like, I remember John
Speaker 4: came back he goes, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: What we're saying here is Jordan is very good at
Speaker 3: faking authenticity, is what we're saying, and I agree with
Speaker 3: that he is. There are other correspondents, though you haven't
Speaker 3: worked with Desi, Ronnie Costa Duel, say what so far
Speaker 3: you've seen You haven't seen much of them, but so
Speaker 3: far as you go in, what do you think their
Speaker 3: weaknesses seem to be?
Speaker 5: Mostly if I could be frank health, it seems like
Speaker 5: a there there's a lot of and I don't want
Speaker 5: to say to bertulosis.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, it's an assumption, but we keep it unclean
Speaker 3: and I think that's right now.
Speaker 5: Whatever's happening looks to be the precursor to what happened
Speaker 5: in the Last of Us. It could be a type
Speaker 5: of mold a massellium. But what's really interesting about it,
Speaker 5: because we've always talked about this, is finding correspondence for
Speaker 5: the show is a really arduous thing because it's a
Speaker 5: very rare individual that has the skill set they have
Speaker 5: to be able to provide and so many they have
Speaker 5: to be a Swiss army knife but like a five
Speaker 5: tool player at all times. And so for you guys
Speaker 5: to be able to restock in that way is very impressive.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean jos and I watch so many people that.
Speaker 5: Poor Jossy she was she was on tape patrol back
Speaker 5: when I was here.
Speaker 4: You left us, we're still on tape.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like when we found Costa's tape, we were like,
Speaker 4: you know, we're like Ghostbusters Anti Pots. Like it is
Speaker 4: like you're like, oh my god, we found it.
Speaker 2: I remember Trevor, do you remember?
Speaker 5: Yes, you put Trevor's tape in and it was and
Speaker 5: it wasn't even of Corsepond. I watched it for like
Speaker 5: ten seconds and I was like, that dude could do
Speaker 5: my job.
Speaker 3: Literally.
Speaker 4: He said that said I've told this story before, but
Speaker 4: you said it. You left the room. He didn't watch
Speaker 4: his whole It was like a letterman.
Speaker 2: Said, watched the whole thing.
Speaker 4: He didn't even watch the whole thing. I just that
Speaker 4: guy's gonna take my chair one day, it was the
Speaker 4: quote and he walked out and we all looked at
Speaker 4: each other and we go.
Speaker 2: It's he.
Speaker 4: And we got so worried and upset and then we
Speaker 4: were like and I mean and then the story goes
Speaker 4: on from there. But it was like, Yeah, when you
Speaker 4: find a good one, you're just.
Speaker 2: Like, it's that's it. It's it's self evidence.
Speaker 4: It's so great. They're so great.
Speaker 2: Jessica would remember her too.
Speaker 4: I was just like, I.
Speaker 5: Watched Jessica Williams tave and I was like, well, and
Speaker 5: it was one of those things like it wasn't submitted
Speaker 5: by like an agent like h it was one of
Speaker 5: those who were like.
Speaker 2: Is that filmed in someone's line kitchen? Like what is
Speaker 2: that happening?
Speaker 4: Do you remember we plucked her from her parents' basement?
Speaker 4: I always said yes, she was.
Speaker 5: Like but like she was, that's a person like just
Speaker 5: doesn't it is like a little bit of like that
Speaker 5: super nova and like just doesn't come around that often. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And so whenever we'd find somebody like that, we were
Speaker 5: always like, we are going to lose them to.
Speaker 2: SNL immediate, no question.
Speaker 4: Remember, I always say you, I was so happy that
Speaker 4: you did your on camera internship, summer internship with the
Speaker 4: three months he's so yeah, he's he's so great and
Speaker 4: he's but yeah, it's not talent that you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is undeniable, undeniable. But yeah, these I mean desy like,
Speaker 4: they're all.
Speaker 3: Just I think what I'm looking forward to this year
Speaker 3: is just is also them taking turns being in the
Speaker 3: che because each of them bring their own voice, in
Speaker 3: their own perspective that I think it's going to be
Speaker 3: really fun to wait for each other.
Speaker 5: WHOA, Well, you're gonna you're going to keep doing the show,
Speaker 5: even not on Monday. I thought this was well, I
Speaker 5: thought we talked about this, We did bring it up
Speaker 5: Monday with you. Thing is take a nap and the
Speaker 5: paramount Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Yes, to deliver multiple shows a week, and.
Speaker 2: How can we do that?
Speaker 3: I'm only doing Yeah, well that's the thing though, right
Speaker 3: because so you don't have to, but just in order
Speaker 3: to keep the office ratings up with that, you know,
Speaker 3: the bracket our show, we got to have something on there,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: So I didn't realize. Yeah, there's guys that I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm really sorry that you're gonna have to be working
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: Like a grind it's.
Speaker 3: A bit of a grind.
Speaker 4: We're excited. I mean, there are guest host weeks. All
Speaker 4: of them were so funny and it was it's just
Speaker 4: like I'm like so psyched to see them.
Speaker 2: But that was part of the thought.
Speaker 5: And Jen and I had talked about this, you know,
Speaker 5: one of the things that you know, the guest hosting thing.
Speaker 5: It was really fun. There was a lot of great
Speaker 5: people to do it. But when you're doing a show
Speaker 5: that is central as a point of view show, you
Speaker 5: are asking the staff to create a completely different show
Speaker 5: every week with a different point of view, and it's
Speaker 5: it's a really difficult ask. And I think part of
Speaker 5: kind of this reset that was part of it was
Speaker 5: let's let the correspondents take that role and the staff
Speaker 5: and everybody can sort of calibrate around that sensibility.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it's going to be really exciting.
Speaker 4: And we know because we've been writing for their voices
Speaker 4: for so long and they're all friends.
Speaker 3: You know, boy, John, I wish you had been actually
Speaker 3: the the and that guests those era where like every
Speaker 3: week the guests and their point of view would like
Speaker 3: wildly change. How I would have to explain just by
Speaker 3: looking at the writers in the room that that point
Speaker 3: of view was not going to fly this week. So
Speaker 3: I when we did say something like good, the next
Speaker 3: week they say something, I'd just be staring them, like
Speaker 3: just trying to look while they guess.
Speaker 2: Those I told you eyes, we are not going to
Speaker 2: fund you cry. I told you guys that, And the
Speaker 2: next week you're like you cray.
Speaker 3: The only thing standing be doing us and barbarism.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was there was that was hard, but.
Speaker 5: You guys earned your your your stripes on that. Like
Speaker 5: that's a very high degree difficult.
Speaker 4: I think we people come through, I think for this,
Speaker 4: but we're the heroes.
Speaker 5: Leslie Jones like Leslie, like the energy that she brought
Speaker 5: and the perspective like prety.
Speaker 4: We left so like that studio is on fire. Yeah
Speaker 4: it was. There was just a few people that were
Speaker 4: just so fun. Marlin was such a good time and
Speaker 4: and I just want to work with the respect that
Speaker 4: they had for the show and the desk because of you.
Speaker 4: And it's like they were so excited to do the show.
Speaker 4: Is really cool.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, I can't believe I'm doing the Daily Show.
Speaker 5: Was like I can't believe he got a new desk.
Speaker 5: I walked in there and I was like, how tall was.
Speaker 2: The he is host?
Speaker 4: By the way, Trevor is deceivingly tall. He doesn't seem
Speaker 4: it seems like average.
Speaker 5: And explicitly handsome, and I don't care for that.
Speaker 4: Actually we're getting, you know, another dude desk. You know what,
Speaker 4: I started thinking, could I do you just dropped a
Speaker 4: Bob show? I was like, am I allowed to say this?
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm like, we're in charge, but am
Speaker 4: I allowed to say this? I don't know. Anyway, it'll
Speaker 4: be new and accommodated co host because we had a
Speaker 4: lot of fun when we did that the Jordan Desi
Speaker 4: Show and the Jordan Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like the idea of trying out the two man game.
Speaker 4: Too, you know, if you want to talk to a
Speaker 4: few people. Our desk currently doesn't really accommodate that.
Speaker 5: So the only thing that because I don't have the
Speaker 5: center of gravity by of having my feet like more
Speaker 5: firmly on the ground, that's a pretty slick plywood that
Speaker 5: goes beneath that thing.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: And I'm hoping that we at least put I don't
Speaker 5: know if you remember, like we nearly killed Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 5: like fifteen years ago, slid.
Speaker 2: You fast out of the Yes, he slid and realized
Speaker 2: no break.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's and the desk is on a platform, so.
Speaker 2: I think I think the old stage manager might have
Speaker 2: shaved his life.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a hero.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there have been multiple guests over the years
Speaker 4: that almost fly off.
Speaker 2: And that's the fun of it.
Speaker 3: But a way to go a.
Speaker 4: Way honestly, go big or go home.
Speaker 2: That is like they wake up in a hospital. What happened?
Speaker 2: You were plugging the movie. You had just thrown to
Speaker 2: a clip and then you rolled back. That was it?
Speaker 4: Oh my good. Anyway, Yeah, we'll watch for that with
Speaker 4: the new desk. Yeah, maybe we'll just do a chair
Speaker 4: with nobody.
Speaker 3: I mean just yeah, we'll say, you know, just some uh,
Speaker 3: just get some double sided scotch tape on there. That'll
Speaker 3: solve the problem.
Speaker 5: To you, dude, producing, dressing the seting the wheels.
Speaker 3: It's a grind. It's a grind. Those aging six days
Speaker 3: for every day, that's the important. Well, look, guys, we
Speaker 3: are so excited to be back on the air and
Speaker 3: to tackle all the issues and and just fun characters
Speaker 3: and and uh and goofs and gaps are going to
Speaker 3: be happening this election season. Let me ask you, John
Speaker 3: before we let you go, what is what is? What's
Speaker 3: the What are you most excited for the viewers to
Speaker 3: tune in for this this upcoming year.
Speaker 5: I'm excited for the audience to experience that split second
Speaker 5: of vertigo that's going to happen when they see a
Speaker 5: familiar name in a familiar setting with a completely different
Speaker 5: face and head, and I'm excited to see them go, wait,
Speaker 5: is that also happening to me?
Speaker 2: Because that would be weird.
Speaker 3: If he's older, that must mean wait.
Speaker 5: A minute, how how fast is the sixth salary? Is
Speaker 5: this gentleman is heading to the event horizon?
Speaker 2: What is going on here?
Speaker 4: Sure, that's why we'll be watching.
Speaker 3: Everyone's gonna be watching.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome and we will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be fantastic. For the years edition, I
Speaker 3: am a Juben Prang joined by Jenn Flanns and the
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