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Speaker 2: Hey, Daily Show, Yours edition listeners. This is Sarah Hamblin,
Speaker 2: segment director for The Daily Show. Today. I'm joined by
Speaker 2: a Daily Show correspondent and host for the week, Michael Costa.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Sarah, Welcome, This is fun. Yeah, we were just
Speaker 1: talking about your comedy podcast and then you asked me
Speaker 1: about my tennis podcast. So we are qualified to.
Speaker 2: Do this, extremely qualified. So just to give some backstory,
Speaker 2: we're here because we just aired a piece that brought
Speaker 2: us both to Duluth, Minnesota to explore the topic of
Speaker 2: climate refugees.
Speaker 1: And what do you mean by that, Sarah, Because in
Speaker 1: the migrant crisis, that is, we're not really talking about
Speaker 1: immigration refugees here refugees who are leaving cities that are
Speaker 1: devastated by climate change. And I'm saying some of this
Speaker 1: with a question mark.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're talking about Angelino's looking for that fifth home, right,
Speaker 2: somewhere safe from the effects of climate change. Not so
Speaker 2: much people who have zero homes right and are looking
Speaker 2: for somewhere safe from any number yes, right, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: pretty much extremely wealthy people. But before we dive into that,
Speaker 2: let's quickly discuss the return of John Stewart. Yes, it's
Speaker 2: your first experience working with him and mine as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I ask you that, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's it been like and what are your impressions?
Speaker 1: Very positive? Man, I have such a weird life, you know.
Speaker 1: I watched him forever and now I'm doing a piece
Speaker 1: with him. So when I first met Jay Leno, I
Speaker 1: actually said to him, hey, you look how you look
Speaker 1: because I hadn't really met a lot of celebrities yet,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I can't believe he looks just
Speaker 1: like how he looks. I couldn't really, So John Stewart
Speaker 1: is just he seems like how he is. He's positive,
Speaker 1: he's funny, he's very very smart. I've enjoyed his two
Speaker 1: shows on here very much, very well researched, very silly.
Speaker 1: I think people forget how he can also just be
Speaker 1: really silly. So he'll hit you over the head with
Speaker 1: a very intelligent, poignant, societally important sentence, and then he'll
Speaker 1: do a Polish joke, which is what happened this week,
Speaker 1: which made me laugh.
Speaker 3: By the way, polling started World War Two.
Speaker 4: Why would a country whose navy has submarines with screen doors.
Speaker 1: Want to instigate a war.
Speaker 4: Quick history lessons years ago, for reasons nobody is really
Speaker 4: sure of, a stereotype emerged that Polish people were inept
Speaker 4: in various ways, including obviously submarine manufacturing and even something
Speaker 4: as simple as the changing of.
Speaker 1: A light bulb.
Speaker 4: I don't know actually how many Polish people you think
Speaker 4: it takes to change a light bulb, but it's certainly
Speaker 4: than the conventional wisdom at that time would tell you.
Speaker 4: Now we know that Polish people are as smart as anyone,
Speaker 4: and certainly did not deserve to be invaded by the Germans,
Speaker 4: who of course accomplished that by marching and backwards, so
Speaker 4: the polls thought they were leaving.
Speaker 1: So it's been great. I look forward to getting to
Speaker 1: work with him and getting to know him better. What
Speaker 1: about you? Have you worked here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been great. So I haven't worked directly with
Speaker 2: him on any pieces, but that first meeting that he
Speaker 2: had with the directors and writers, you know, where he
Speaker 2: sort of gave us this general's pep talk, was like
Speaker 2: so inspiring. I mean, I think I started at the
Speaker 2: show about nine months after Trevor started hosting, So for
Speaker 2: me it's always been kind of Trevor's show, Although I
Speaker 2: did grow up watching it with John Stewart. I mean
Speaker 2: when I was in college. It's like every night you're
Speaker 2: watching John Stewart host The Daily Show. So the thing
Speaker 2: that I thought was so funny is he's so earnest
Speaker 2: and positive even in these private meetings, and then he'll
Speaker 2: always kind of drop one little thing that is like
Speaker 2: a joke. So it's not so earnest and so sweet.
Speaker 2: He always wants to put that little edge on it,
Speaker 2: which is it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Well that's what he and now the Daily Show is
Speaker 1: you know, we will of course talk about really important topics,
Speaker 1: but there's going to be laughs and comedy. The way
Speaker 1: I like to approach it, or at least in my
Speaker 1: idealistic mind of comedy is that it's meant to challenge
Speaker 1: and it's meant to speak truth to power, which is
Speaker 1: a very hacky phrase at this point, but that is
Speaker 1: essentially what it's doing.
Speaker 2: And we've been on the air, I mean I've been
Speaker 2: here for almost eight years. Yeah, we've never been able
Speaker 2: to do a Polish joke until John was here. He
Speaker 2: finally was brave enough to call out you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: the people who are really running the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was funny, and he also did preface it
Speaker 1: by saying, we nobody really knows why this genre of
Speaker 1: joke became. Yeah, so anyway.
Speaker 2: Back to that Catskills comedy, you know, just knowing the
Speaker 2: whole breadth of comedy. I wanted to ask too, like,
Speaker 2: how was that chat last week you did with him
Speaker 2: about Tucker Carlson and the dictatorships?
Speaker 4: That was so funny and unbelievably embarrassing display of sycophancy
Speaker 4: from Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm not sure what that means, John, So
Speaker 3: I'm gonna assume you loved it as much as I did.
Speaker 3: It made me think that these dictatorships have gotten a
Speaker 3: bad rap, which is why I've traveled here to North Korea.
Speaker 1: And as you can see, it's amazing. It was nice
Speaker 1: to get to be just me and him. You know,
Speaker 1: I wanted some dad time. I want some time with dad.
Speaker 1: So that was really fun. And it wasn't perfect like
Speaker 1: we did it for the show, and some of the
Speaker 1: jokes that we all thought were really funny but were
Speaker 1: kind of righty too mean jokes didn't do so well
Speaker 1: on the actual performance, so they got cut peace out.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty so the piece ended up being funnier, shorter,
Speaker 1: and it worked really well, and it's another testament to
Speaker 1: you know. One of the words John used a lot
Speaker 1: in that meeting that I love and I always forget
Speaker 1: about I needed to hear was calibration. We're going to
Speaker 1: calibrate over and over and over again. And that is
Speaker 1: what the Daily Show does. We try, we don't get
Speaker 1: it right, we calibrate. We get a couple things right,
Speaker 1: we calibrate. And so that was a fun chat for
Speaker 1: me to do with him because I saw there was
Speaker 1: calibration all the way through from the first draft of
Speaker 1: the script to the rehearsal to the actual performance. We
Speaker 1: had to calibrate a little bit, Thank you, editors, and
Speaker 1: ended up being great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so funny. I'm curious to know. So
Speaker 2: you guest hosted the show a few months ago when
Speaker 2: we were back from the writer's strike. It was so great,
Speaker 2: And now you're getting to host the Tuesday to Thursday
Speaker 2: after John.
Speaker 1: Yep. John's my opener.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do wors You could do worse. Do
Speaker 2: you feel like you're taking a different approach to hosting
Speaker 2: the show coming up? Or has has John given you
Speaker 2: any advice or do you feel like maybe a different
Speaker 2: experience since you're going to be following.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm excited to follow John. I think it's challenging
Speaker 1: because he is effortlessly I mean it's not effortlessly, but
Speaker 1: it feels effortlessly good at it. And when I'm out there,
Speaker 1: it feels like if I'm good at it, it's through effort,
Speaker 1: you know. So. But if he gets to ride the
Speaker 1: big wave, I get to surf right behind him, which
Speaker 1: is pretty cool too, So I just don't see any
Speaker 1: negatives about it. I get to watch him, learn from him.
Speaker 1: I then get my own time at the desk. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to not being to being a little more
Speaker 1: comfortable there because the first time I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: really realizes. It just takes a lot of time and comfort.
Speaker 1: And when I'm watching John on Mondays, I'm always like, man,
Speaker 1: he just is like so natural up there, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a say, it's in thousands and thousands of hours there,
Speaker 1: you know, So can I make a tennis reference? I
Speaker 1: was you were expecting it, You're expecting it. Nobody ever
Speaker 1: wins their first Grand Slam final. I know what your thinking, Sarah,
Speaker 1: but what about Janick Sinner at this year's Australian Open. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's the one exception. The reason you don't ever win
Speaker 1: in your Grand Slam final is it's fucking nerve wracking.
Speaker 1: You're figuring out that the balls look different, there's their
Speaker 1: trophies standing next to the court. It's packed. It's a
Speaker 1: different vibe, it's a different feeling. So to be at
Speaker 1: the desk is different. It's everyone's staring at you. You're
Speaker 1: not a supplemental player anymore. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: hopefully feeling a little more comfortable there. I'm sorry yelled
Speaker 1: at you about Yanick Cinner, but no.
Speaker 2: I mean prett In my mind, I definitely have was
Speaker 2: immediately thinking of that particular person. So take us behind
Speaker 2: the curtain. What goes into preparing for your host week
Speaker 2: and what can viewers expect this week?
Speaker 1: Because there is a belief that the new team is
Speaker 1: going to be hosting more often as opposed before where
Speaker 1: it was like this is your guest hosting week. The
Speaker 1: previous time it was more like, hey Michael, what do
Speaker 1: you want to talk about? Because this is your week? Now,
Speaker 1: the vibe is we're going to see all of you
Speaker 1: more so, why don't we do a little less of like,
Speaker 1: what's Michael want to talk about? What's does he want
Speaker 1: to talk and let's talk about let's let's have this
Speaker 1: headlines lead it, and of course your own take will
Speaker 1: prevail on that headline. So it's not like I'm going
Speaker 1: to sit here and go I want to talk about this, this,
Speaker 1: this and this. Now we are doing a show on
Speaker 1: leap Day. I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: blow my cover here. But we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: leap Day.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So you're interested in that. But I think in general,
Speaker 1: and this is actually kind of nice. It's it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're going to be here for a little while, so
Speaker 1: we got to like cover the news. It's kind of
Speaker 1: nice as opposed to like, hey, this is your week,
Speaker 1: so enjoy it and you're never going to come ever
Speaker 1: to see you again.
Speaker 2: This is your one show I think I.
Speaker 1: Should talk about? What do you think I should talk about?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 1: Great question for me, because I'll tell you what's hard.
Speaker 1: Southern Border is hard to talk about. Israel Palestine, it's
Speaker 1: hard to talk about. Trump is sometimes easy to talk about.
Speaker 1: But then it's like, well, wait a second, this is
Speaker 1: actually really important, So we can't just skip it because
Speaker 1: it's easy jokes.
Speaker 2: Do something easy like abortion rights.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, abortion rights is hard to talk about.
Speaker 1: What do you think I should cover?
Speaker 2: Maybe the Michigan primary.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's complicated and I don't know why, and I'm
Speaker 1: a Michigander.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm not going to put
Speaker 2: any money on Nicki Haley.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, it's like, not everyone's on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Nicki Haley's not dropping out.
Speaker 2: Well, you're from Michigan, from Michigan, So I think maybe
Speaker 2: I would do like a character piece where you talk
Speaker 2: to yourself in a mustache as your cousin from Michigan.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Commentating on the Michigan primary.
Speaker 1: One of the things that is interesting about maybe the
Speaker 1: primary is do I feel like Nikki Haley isn't that bad?
Speaker 1: Or is it just because I'm used to comparing her
Speaker 1: party to insanity? You know what I mean? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like the crazy family that you grew up with and
Speaker 1: one of the siblings was normal, and then you like,
Speaker 1: but but actually they weren't normal, they were just the
Speaker 1: normal list. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember when she was at the un she
Speaker 2: was one of the first Republicans that was kind of
Speaker 2: pushing back against Trump.
Speaker 1: There we go seeing that, and she says it's really
Speaker 1: important to run against him right now. And she also
Speaker 1: keeps saying, how can he be focused on being a
Speaker 1: good president when he's in court all the time? It's like, hello, yeah,
Speaker 1: good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean I think Michigan too, Like you
Speaker 2: have such a unique perspective being from the Midwest. That's
Speaker 2: an area that was so Democrat for so long. Yep,
Speaker 2: and then we just saw this big turn with Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: and you know, I don't know, have you do you
Speaker 2: experience that when you go home? Does it feel very
Speaker 2: different from the way it was before, or do you
Speaker 2: feel like the party has just.
Speaker 1: Moved great question. I grew up in ann Arbor, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: which was trying to legalize weed since nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 1: My first political event was my mom took me to
Speaker 1: see Bill Clinton give a speech, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So now it's also really important living in an arbor
Speaker 1: to drive twenty minutes in any direction and see Republican
Speaker 1: signs and Trump signs. So, uh, Michigan is one of
Speaker 1: those battleground states. The unions. You know, this was the
Speaker 1: first president ever to stand out with the auto union
Speaker 1: of all these years, there was an auto union strike
Speaker 1: and Joe Biden was on the picket line. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he knew he was there. No,
Speaker 1: but that is wild and really important and I found
Speaker 1: pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about what's on everyone's mind. The piece we
Speaker 2: just yes, climate proof, Duluthe, can you give our listeners
Speaker 2: a quick summary?
Speaker 1: I can, but you know it better than I do.
Speaker 1: But but climate change refugees a little bit of a
Speaker 1: wink wink with the word refugee. There. People are fleeing
Speaker 1: big cities to go to climate change proof cities, and
Speaker 1: Dluthe is one of them. Why don't you yeah, correct me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, climate climate havens.
Speaker 1: I think climate havens. There we go. Why why are
Speaker 1: they climate havens?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The idea is there're cities that can support more populations.
Speaker 2: So a lot of these Midwestern cities have they were
Speaker 2: built for a lot more people than live there now,
Speaker 2: so they have the infrastructure. Like Detroit is one of
Speaker 2: these places. Detroit was built for a much larger population
Speaker 2: than it has.
Speaker 1: And up if you look at the map of America.
Speaker 1: It's in and up is what some of these cities are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you look at yeah, California, Arizona,
Speaker 2: like all these states are having water issues. Lake Superior,
Speaker 2: where a lot of these cities are located, has ten
Speaker 2: percent of the world's drinking water. So it's places where,
Speaker 2: you know, the worst effects of climate change hopefully will
Speaker 2: be mitigated. But then, of course when we went there
Speaker 2: and talked to people, we found out really climate change
Speaker 2: is happening there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's talk about. At one point in the piece,
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if you guys are climate
Speaker 1: haven's or if you're just good at dealing with extreme weather.
Speaker 1: But that didn't make it in. Yeah, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: at one point. It was in a cut. You know
Speaker 1: what what Well, how do things get cut and how
Speaker 1: do things get put in?
Speaker 2: Well for our listeners, Yeah, if it gets a laugh,
Speaker 2: it gets cut. Usually No, usually, yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 2: it's something that's just unequivocally funny, like you falling into
Speaker 2: a snow bank, sure we're never going to cut that.
Speaker 1: Our daughter does not watch TV in the morning. Okay,
Speaker 1: I say that patting myself on the back. But today
Speaker 1: I was like, I wanted to see the piece. So
Speaker 1: I said to my daughter, do you want to watch it?
Speaker 1: And she said yeah, and we watched it and she
Speaker 1: laughed at the pratfall.
Speaker 2: Daughter laughed at this time.
Speaker 1: Oh, I am funny. I think you even said to me,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna hate me, but I need you to
Speaker 1: sit to a fault down here or something.
Speaker 2: I really abused you a lot during that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2: Three degree or thirty degree water, three degree air without
Speaker 2: a coat, falling into multiple snow banks.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, you know what's happening. I forgot about that abuse.
Speaker 1: And this is like when people decide to have another kid,
Speaker 1: it's like genetically they forgot about the troubles of the
Speaker 1: first kid. I forgot about all that stuff. But I
Speaker 1: didn't feel I you know, for me, maybe it's because
Speaker 1: I'm Midwest cold. I can I can at least wrap
Speaker 1: my head around. But like those men on the streets
Speaker 1: that we've done, just sweating all the time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Psyche dressed as the brick the border wall at the
Speaker 1: Trump rally. Hot. I think hot is way worse than cold.
Speaker 2: I wholeheartedly agree. Even this time of year, I'll walk
Speaker 2: around with my coat open, like, oh gosh, it's so refreshing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But also, you know what I've learned in my
Speaker 1: time here, because I've now developed enough memories and I
Speaker 1: look back on these moments that I didn't like at
Speaker 1: the time, and I look back on them fondly. And
Speaker 1: I remember when you were like, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about a cold plunge in Lake Superior on sunrise, which
Speaker 1: is what five fifty am. And I remember thinking, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I don't want to do that. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, but now a little more aged, Michael said,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a unique experience. For sure.
Speaker 1: It's going to be dipping in Lake Superior in February
Speaker 1: during sunrise, and man, it was excellent. And you even dipped.
Speaker 1: I know, I wasn't talk about that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to and I thought, you know what,
Speaker 2: you're having so much fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I dipped once. And then Sarah
Speaker 1: when it ye, I will.
Speaker 2: Say a little secret. You know, it looks like you're
Speaker 2: having a terrible time in that cold plunge, but you
Speaker 2: were loving it, was I yeah, And I remember Justin
Speaker 2: was like, you could you should dunk your head under
Speaker 2: and I kind of lied and I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 2: you don't want to mess up your.
Speaker 1: Hair, but you did it. Did it anyway.
Speaker 2: They're not going to give you away out right, and
Speaker 2: you just wanted to do it like you were having
Speaker 2: so much fun. So we kind of had to fake
Speaker 2: the right part of you freaking out.
Speaker 5: We had to remove thirty inches of ice so that
Speaker 5: you can go jump in, and I'm like, yeah, and
Speaker 5: your body is gonna tell you you're gonna die. Yeah,
Speaker 5: But when you're retraining some of those neuropathways in our
Speaker 5: head to say, hey, I can handle a little hard step.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can handle this growing it maybe once I
Speaker 1: get used to it, the cold isn't so big the
Speaker 1: thing well, and one thing you mentioned his name, Justin's
Speaker 1: the guy who owns the sauna and the cold Plunge
Speaker 1: there Cedar and Stone or whatever it's called. But one
Speaker 1: thing that's cool about these pieces is you get to
Speaker 1: meet locals. You often connect with them. You're sitting there
Speaker 1: shooting something together and uh, there's so many pieces where
Speaker 1: you chat with these people for a while and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to call them friends, but
Speaker 1: they become they become colorful characters in your memory of
Speaker 1: these pieces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a few people from the field pieces. It's
Speaker 2: like you get to meet these really interesting folks. Do
Speaker 2: you remember It's it's been a while since we shot this.
Speaker 2: Do you remember some of the bits that you that
Speaker 2: we shot that didn't make it into the final edit?
Speaker 1: I remember the Roy bit m that got cut.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was such a funny. Roy Mindy, who was
Speaker 2: this uh you know, working for the government of Duluth,
Speaker 2: said you know, we're trying to attract more people to
Speaker 2: move here. We could use more diversity. And then your
Speaker 2: response was, oh diversity. Let me call my friend Roy.
Speaker 2: We FaceTime Roy. Hey, you want to move to Duluth.
Speaker 2: He hangs on my It was a really funny moment.
Speaker 1: It was a good one. Didn't make it in. What
Speaker 1: are some of the other bits? Do you remember?
Speaker 2: One thing that was really funny to me was with
Speaker 2: with both interviews, they were talking about all the winter activities.
Speaker 2: So remember Jamie was talking about the porta potty racing
Speaker 2: where they put porta potties on skis and like push
Speaker 2: them down the street.
Speaker 1: That you know what I'll say to your listeners because
Speaker 1: I'm in Michigander and I have to say that's I'm required.
Speaker 1: I don't think people understand the vastness of the Great Lakes.
Speaker 1: It's worth googling and even reading the Wikipedia page of
Speaker 1: Lake Superior. I mean, I have done this, the depth,
Speaker 1: the volume, I mean, I forget what it's. The residence
Speaker 1: time of a drop of water in Lake Superior is
Speaker 1: like one hundred and nineteen years. That means if a
Speaker 1: droplet of water flows into Lake Superior, that droplet of
Speaker 1: water stays there for one hundred and nineteen years. Our
Speaker 1: little like lake in your backyard, that's like two months.
Speaker 1: Lake Superior is absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: I'm to the coffee shop and it's like there's like
Speaker 1: a trail. Look, if you live in New York, la,
Speaker 1: let me let me tell you something. In Duluth, you
Speaker 1: go to this coffee shop, you get a coffee, and
Speaker 1: they have a built in trail that just takes you
Speaker 1: to the lake.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was in what was three o'clock?
Speaker 4: Is this?
Speaker 2: It was called Two Rivers? Yeah, called Two Rivers, And
Speaker 2: that was a beautiful coffee show.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, people right here, and then they go
Speaker 1: walk to Lake Superior and it's just like, why am
Speaker 1: I living in Brooklyn having garbage cans thrown at me
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so beautiful there. The people are so
Speaker 2: kind too, they were Maybe that brings us to you
Speaker 2: posted on Instagram saying each field piece changes you a
Speaker 2: little and this one really got me. Can you unpack that?
Speaker 1: I do believe each field piece changes you. Do you
Speaker 1: feel that way? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, or at least.
Speaker 1: I guess in the same sense that you just. I
Speaker 1: learned something every piece.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's my skepticism in life, but I'm always kind
Speaker 1: of like, oh God, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: And when you said, like, how about a cold plunge
Speaker 1: at sunrise? My first initial thought was probably, oh God,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. But now I'm getting
Speaker 1: a little bit older, maybe I'm a little bit wiser.
Speaker 1: I've got children to look after, and I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, this might be a really fun thing to do.
Speaker 1: And it was so fucking Listen to your inner monol, Michael,
Speaker 1: and you can I talk to them for a second,
Speaker 1: talk to them you at home. Maybe it is going
Speaker 1: to be a fun experience for you to do what
Speaker 1: you don't want to do.
Speaker 2: And I do have to say the Cold Plunge was amazing,
Speaker 2: partially because of the incredible sauna that was right next
Speaker 2: to the old plunge.
Speaker 1: Although the coldest I have ever been in my life, Sarah,
Speaker 1: was that moment when you get out of the water
Speaker 1: and then you get to the sauna, Yeah, because you're
Speaker 1: literally turning into an ice cube.
Speaker 2: The reason we did it at sunrise was we wanted
Speaker 2: to get this drone shot of coming out of the
Speaker 2: pool showing the sun. It was too windy to turn
Speaker 2: on the drone, so not only were you freezing, the
Speaker 2: wind chill was crazy that day.
Speaker 1: How did this beast change you? If it did?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it really did. Like honestly, I'm you
Speaker 2: you know you were kind of joking about it before.
Speaker 2: I'm one of those people that, you know, I want
Speaker 2: to really make sure I got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh And I wasn't going to go in
Speaker 2: the Cold Plunge because I was like, I got we
Speaker 2: got We had to do Man on the Street after that,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I don't want to waste any time.
Speaker 2: I just want to get this done. And you know,
Speaker 2: it was a good it was a good sort of
Speaker 2: win in rome moment of like when am I going
Speaker 2: to get to jump in Lake Superior. It's I think
Speaker 2: the crew will be fine if they get to sit
Speaker 2: around and have some downtime for fifteen minutes while I
Speaker 2: jump in the water.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you did it. It was fun that we
Speaker 1: did it together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of a piece I did in Switzerland
Speaker 1: with Stacey Angele's and we shot this Swiss guns.
Speaker 2: We shot of the Best Daily Show few great great piece.
Speaker 1: Thanks, so funny, but we shot on. We shot this
Speaker 1: river and burned Switzerland, where people literally commute to work.
Speaker 1: They put their suits in a dry bag and they
Speaker 1: jump in the river and they take the river to work.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. We shot this open five times. It never
Speaker 1: made it in the cut. But at the end Stacey's like,
Speaker 1: I'm jumping into and we all jumped in and float
Speaker 1: in the river together, and I'm like, these are fun moments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great. It was so fun.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think about. I flew directly in and
Speaker 1: we went straight to city Hall and I and it
Speaker 1: was under construction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: We flush like a bathroom while like nail guns were
Speaker 1: being fired about in my head, and that's one thing
Speaker 1: that no one ever knows about these pieces is you
Speaker 1: are putting that suit on in a very dicey place
Speaker 1: usually yeah, yeah, yeah, as opposed to this coming week
Speaker 1: where I'm hosting, I'm putting a suit on with like
Speaker 1: five people making sure everything is perfect, then the hair,
Speaker 1: then the shoes. Even though no one ever sees your shoes.
Speaker 1: Your shoes are still amazing when you guest host.
Speaker 2: But how many times have you had to not even
Speaker 2: you haven't even had the bathroom with the nail guns.
Speaker 2: It's been like, can you put on your suit in
Speaker 2: the van and we can, we can hold up a
Speaker 2: towel over the window.
Speaker 1: I think that's partially why correspondents here have gone on
Speaker 1: and done some really amazing things, because you kind of
Speaker 1: get battle tested. Yeah, not that putting on your suit
Speaker 1: in the van is like battle testing, but you just
Speaker 1: get comfortable, like figuring it out on the run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I would say the same for the directors.
Speaker 2: I am curious to know though, coming up this week,
Speaker 2: do you feel like watching John host the show these
Speaker 2: past two weeks You've kind of picked up things about
Speaker 2: what he's doing that are affecting, you know, the way
Speaker 2: you want to host. Maybe the things you want to
Speaker 2: say how you want to say them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it might have been Paul Riser, the
Speaker 1: comedian who told me once that you actually get inspired
Speaker 1: by watching mediocrity and saying, I know I can do that.
Speaker 1: So when I watch John, I don't get inspired. I
Speaker 1: get nervous. I say, it's so easy for this guy.
Speaker 1: So that's the opposite. But I love how he lets
Speaker 1: the moment come to him. He plays a clip and
Speaker 1: then we go back to him, and he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to speak right away. He allows himself and the audience
Speaker 1: to digest it. That's one thing I've noticed immediately because
Speaker 1: I think I'm always like, Okay, get to the thing.
Speaker 1: Get to the thing. It's like, well, follow it, live
Speaker 1: in it. And I have to use a sports reference.
Speaker 1: I'm a guy. I come from a jock background, so
Speaker 1: the only best way I can describe it is like,
Speaker 1: I am really looking forward to getting more at bats
Speaker 1: because I think over the course of many at bats
Speaker 1: I'll show improvement as opposed to just one at bat,
Speaker 1: like okay, you better be good. So that's my big thought.
Speaker 2: Great, you did a great hosting week though.
Speaker 1: It was so fun. It's so fun to be in
Speaker 1: charge not like from an authoritarian way, but from a
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this topic and I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this book, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about this topic, and they go, Okay, fun, let's
Speaker 1: talk about talks you want to talk about. That is
Speaker 1: so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you came right in day one. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about Israel Palestine.
Speaker 1: That was on my mind, whether there was something happening
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that was months before anything was
Speaker 2: going on there.
Speaker 1: It was strange that I was so obsessed with it,
Speaker 1: and you just knew. Well, thanks for listening, everybody. Thank
Speaker 1: you Sarah for having me on Daily Shows Podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks for joining me, and thanks so much for
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