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Speaker 2: Hello, Welcome to the Daily Show Ears edition. I'm Juman Peran,
Speaker 2: co executive producer and writer for the Daily Show. I
Speaker 2: am back with showrunner, writer and executive producer Jen Flans.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: Jen, And you know him as mister Monday Night. John
Speaker 2: Stewart is here Monday Night. Monday Night, guys.
Speaker 1: That's like my Billy Crystal. It's Monday Night sequel to
Speaker 1: you did.
Speaker 2: We had the Saturday, most.
Speaker 3: Fun day of the week. Everyone knows Mondays as the
Speaker 3: most fun we.
Speaker 1: Have manic Monday. It's the Taco Tuesday of political satire.
Speaker 2: We had mister Saturday Night. They'll be expecting Sunday Night.
Speaker 2: So let's give him Monday Night.
Speaker 1: Let's give him mister Monday Night. It won't be expected.
Speaker 1: Nobody would expect mister Monday Night. That'd be stupid ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So we'll do it. Guys.
Speaker 2: We the last time we got together was back in February,
Speaker 2: right before John came back again on the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I just want to jump in real quick. You're going
Speaker 1: to correct the record. I'm sorry to be that guy,
Speaker 1: but I saw you yesterday.
Speaker 3: I was also going to say that, Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 1: Was literally, Yes, I think that yesterday. It was yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was like a probably around eight.
Speaker 2: That's so true. But I was checked out so thoroughly,
Speaker 2: is that true?
Speaker 3: Since he has been checked out since February?
Speaker 2: Like Severn, I only exist in this podcast room I
Speaker 2: walk out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny whenever I say Cuban there is
Speaker 1: he just kind of glasses over and I think he's listening,
Speaker 1: but he's clearly now.
Speaker 3: Only in this room. Okay, well, well we know that
Speaker 3: for next time. Yeah, so if we need to tell
Speaker 3: you something, we'll bring you down here, bring it back here,
Speaker 3: and I'll know, and then podcast you and we'll know. Right,
Speaker 3: it's been about what four months fiscal quarter roughly? Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: well here's the thing. Actually, looking forward to the show.
Speaker 3: We are going to be going to the conventions. We
Speaker 3: are in the summer, that's right.
Speaker 1: What are we spending Mondays at a convention? That seems weird?
Speaker 1: It's crazy. You're gonna fly all the way over there
Speaker 1: just for a Monday.
Speaker 2: Yes, although I think we'll probably just stick around for
Speaker 2: the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: Wait. Wait, when I'm not there, you guys still do
Speaker 1: the show?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, do
Speaker 3: a whole different.
Speaker 2: It's different, it's a different thing.
Speaker 1: We all separate you I was.
Speaker 2: We separately come to the building to do a different Oh.
Speaker 2: It's just like you know when you're at a bar
Speaker 2: and you're like, no, you were.
Speaker 1: Coming game shows that takes place in a supermarket. Is
Speaker 1: that we're.
Speaker 2: Is that we have a petricks all sorts of stuff?
Speaker 3: Acceptable, Yeah, we're going to the conventions. Sorry to break
Speaker 3: it to you here and now John coming with us.
Speaker 1: I don't, I mean I didn't. I was in Milwaukee anyway.
Speaker 1: That we fantastic. So I'm happy to stop buy and
Speaker 1: see what you guys are up to. I just happened
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, if you're in a suit
Speaker 2: at any point, I want to just come on and
Speaker 2: do a show.
Speaker 1: That's so weird that you would say that you but
Speaker 1: I've decided to spend a week in Milwaukee wearing a suit. Well, well,
Speaker 1: how did you even know that? Since I never wear
Speaker 1: I was going to say.
Speaker 3: You know, John in suits all the time.
Speaker 2: I just thought, you know, maybe if you're a Milwaukee
Speaker 2: why aren't you wearing a suit?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: And if you happen to be in Chicago the month
Speaker 2: after it turns out there.
Speaker 1: Kind of clairvoyant because I also have planted a trip.
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, what's the best time to visit Chicago?
Speaker 1: Generally it's I always say deep August.
Speaker 3: The best time to visit any city is when either
Speaker 3: of the conventions are in town, because you know, it's
Speaker 3: pleasant and all the roads are up.
Speaker 1: But Chicago in particular in August, when the Lake Michigan
Speaker 1: just just gets to that right one hundred and three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty temperature.
Speaker 2: And that humid wind coming off just as it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: This this the smell of the broad worsts.
Speaker 1: Through by the way, both cities there will be I
Speaker 1: think that will be the common theme. You know, are
Speaker 1: we that different and divided as a country when we're
Speaker 1: both experiencing at these conventions, the smell of broadworst I
Speaker 1: think brought worst is going to be the unifying.
Speaker 2: Bring this country together?
Speaker 1: And I do.
Speaker 2: And actually this is actually interesting because I would have
Speaker 2: thought going into these into this summer that you know,
Speaker 2: between the two cities, Chicago is going to be the
Speaker 2: better one to hang out in. But I've been to Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: and I was.
Speaker 1: Very Milwaukee is actually pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2: Good downtown, good uh bars and eateries. I will say
Speaker 2: it is it is interesting that we were the first
Speaker 2: late night show to ever go to the conventions. And
Speaker 2: I think John, that was yours your decision at the time, right.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 2: I don't think even now, almost no one else does it.
Speaker 3: Nobody else brings the whole show there.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh well, I think generally yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was ever particularly viewed as an entertainment forum.
Speaker 3: What made you want to go?
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. During that time, I had a very
Speaker 1: strange lease where I was sharing. It was a timeshare,
Speaker 1: and uh, it just so happened that I did not
Speaker 1: have the apartment during those dates. So I thought, well, geez,
Speaker 1: if I can get the show. Do you remember, Jube,
Speaker 1: I don't think you were there yet. We used to
Speaker 1: stay when we would go to these conventions. We would
Speaker 1: stay in like dorms. I remember when we did. I
Speaker 1: can't remember which.
Speaker 3: Upen in two thousand we stayed in.
Speaker 1: And the UPenn dorms like and not even in the
Speaker 1: like regular student dorms. It was like the graduate student.
Speaker 3: Boston. We stayed in the regular dorms. You know, those
Speaker 3: were the grand dorms. They were nice, like comparatively a
Speaker 3: grad dorm, but it was.
Speaker 1: Disgusting plastic mattress the little tiny, yeah, single plastic mattress
Speaker 1: on that like weird metal, clanky cot.
Speaker 2: It was like old school dorms bathrooms, like in the
Speaker 2: middle of the whole.
Speaker 1: Uh, we don't know if it was in the middle.
Speaker 3: It was like a joint, but it was adjoining to
Speaker 3: another room.
Speaker 1: Like you definitely like there were definitely didn't have your
Speaker 1: own back.
Speaker 3: Workers and John I don't remember, but when we I
Speaker 3: got there a little early because it was in production
Speaker 3: at the time, and me and Jeana Brown ran around
Speaker 3: to every camre in the like fifty mile radius to
Speaker 3: buy glade plugins because the rooms smelt so bad, these
Speaker 3: dorm rooms.
Speaker 1: So we had plenty and Gina would even have the
Speaker 1: knowledge to know the rest of.
Speaker 3: Us would be like glade plugins.
Speaker 1: We were just assumed there was nothing you that that
Speaker 1: that smell was just a part of the experience. Only
Speaker 1: they would figure out like, oh, we don't have to
Speaker 1: live like this.
Speaker 3: It was so gross because they were so strong, they
Speaker 3: were like oh wow, say like bad like college boy
Speaker 3: bo with like glade plug in over it, like apple
Speaker 3: spice over it. Oh, it was like a good idea
Speaker 3: that turned into not a good eye.
Speaker 2: But I think that is like that is what an
Speaker 2: air freshmener does. It's just like, let's just add another
Speaker 2: bast smell so to distract from the smell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question, because it doesn't filter anything it has
Speaker 1: to And you learned that from smoking pot in high school.
Speaker 1: Like there was no filtration system. You just had to
Speaker 1: create another smell that was so overwhelming. No one had
Speaker 1: any idea. But what you didn't realize is creating that
Speaker 1: smell was the dead giveaway because why would anyone do
Speaker 1: the room for no reason? Why would you do that to.
Speaker 3: Yourself, like smelling like ocean breeze?
Speaker 2: Why the night of all nights? So the only night
Speaker 2: I decided.
Speaker 1: Well, this was when I was doing that. It was bad.
Speaker 1: Before they had introduced electrical abilities to the to the
Speaker 1: air fresheners where you could plug them into it. This
Speaker 1: was in the old days of the renews It solid.
Speaker 1: You would buy the renews it solid and it would
Speaker 1: be like a little mini mortar shell. You would unleash it,
Speaker 1: you would turn it, you would pop up and then
Speaker 1: the renews it solid would just force itself into your
Speaker 1: room molecularly.
Speaker 3: Well, we were lucky. By two thousand they had plug it.
Speaker 1: By two thousand technology had improved so automatically.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the awful smell was electric now and not
Speaker 2: just now. It also wasted energy.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. The pioneers, well, they had to make
Speaker 1: do with the analog renews it solid tower.
Speaker 2: They only had whale oil smell. Now, well smell so fantastic.
Speaker 1: They had uh renews it tuberculosis. I think was opened
Speaker 1: it up and it smelled like sanitarium.
Speaker 2: Do you Actually it's interesting because I think, like when
Speaker 2: I think about the conventions, the most fun part of
Speaker 2: them for me is being able to just watch every
Speaker 2: night all this stuff happening as we just kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, check in on the speeches and just watch
Speaker 2: all the fun stuff. A lot of people think about,
Speaker 2: you know, the major keynote speeches and whatnot. I remember
Speaker 2: the most fun I had at the convention was and
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys remember this, but watching at
Speaker 2: the twenty twelve convention, they had a whole theme night
Speaker 2: that was about I built that, which was trying to
Speaker 2: make fun of yeah, and to the point where they
Speaker 2: had this a country singer come on and just sing
Speaker 2: a song called I built it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I to this day I can still say I built
Speaker 2: it with my own dude, I put an exploitive in
Speaker 2: there where I shouldn't because it's just so fun to do.
Speaker 2: But that is, to this day, really the only convention
Speaker 2: memory I really have.
Speaker 1: What I'm always comprised about with the political conventions is
Speaker 1: they are generally twenty to thirty years behind traditional stage craft.
Speaker 1: Like you know, you've got Broadway plays re enacting The
Speaker 1: Lion King with incredible costs, and like that same year
Speaker 1: at that convention, it was like, what if we got
Speaker 1: a country start nobody heard we built that, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: that'll be Amazingly.
Speaker 3: Is that the same year they put the empty stool
Speaker 3: out on stage.
Speaker 2: That was Eastwood?
Speaker 1: That was That was when we were in Austin, I
Speaker 1: think that was.
Speaker 3: It was, yeah, Yeah, Austin was the Hurricane.
Speaker 2: It was the Hurricane Convention. It was it was that
Speaker 2: in Charlotte, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Charlotte was the Democratic Convention. Yes, I remember the Hurricane
Speaker 1: Convention was the Republicans in Tampa and maybe that was
Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood. I always thought Clint Eastwood was Uh, the
Speaker 1: Republican Convention in Austin.
Speaker 3: Austin was just a mid year trip for us, was
Speaker 3: it now? It was? That was one of the most
Speaker 3: fun we have. That was such a fun trip because
Speaker 3: there was no convention and there was really no reason
Speaker 3: for us to be there except to have fun and
Speaker 3: eat and go to a very blue city in a
Speaker 3: red state.
Speaker 1: That was what I remember walking to the studio and
Speaker 1: just collecting egg tacos. Yeah, exactly that it was so good,
Speaker 1: every every deli and restaurant, and it would take me
Speaker 1: forty five minutes an hour to get there for all
Speaker 1: the egg tacos that I would collect on my way
Speaker 1: to this time.
Speaker 2: We should go to these cities the week after the convention.
Speaker 2: Why do we do it with the pressure of the convention.
Speaker 2: Let's just go and just.
Speaker 1: Hey, I've had an idea. Why don't we just go
Speaker 1: to cities we want to go?
Speaker 2: Why don't we just go where we want to go?
Speaker 1: Why don't we just go way? Why don't we just travel.
Speaker 3: Somewhere not like I wanted to go to the Greek
Speaker 3: Islands and forget Why we.
Speaker 1: Go to the political conventions this year in Florence.
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll be doing that, and we will not be
Speaker 2: doing shows. We will just be going there.
Speaker 3: And eating and eating because always.
Speaker 2: Always love it. I think we wasted all of our
Speaker 2: time talking about not a waste of time actually joyful
Speaker 2: remember and joyful remembrance. That's true, that's true. But we
Speaker 2: should stay tuned viewers for the daily shows convention trips
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee and Chicago. We're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Welcome back, So John, before we
Speaker 2: turn over to plugs, we actually, John have a You know,
Speaker 2: our social media accounts occasionally get some questions from the fans,
Speaker 2: and most of them are very stupid, and we I don't.
Speaker 1: Know why I changed the name. Look, I had a
Speaker 1: very complicated relationship with my father.
Speaker 2: All right, That that answers one of them. But there's
Speaker 2: seventeen more about that same topic. So let's go through
Speaker 2: the one in the time. One of them actually is
Speaker 2: pretty interesting, which is, would you rather fight one Jordan
Speaker 2: Kepler sized duck or fifty duck sized Jordan Kepler's And
Speaker 2: this person did pronounce Jordan Clepper's name Kepler. I did
Speaker 2: not mispronounce it wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't know Jordan Kepler. So it's a
Speaker 1: very difficult Jordan's Clepper. Can you run the run the
Speaker 1: parameters of the fight by me again?
Speaker 2: So it's one Jordan Clepper sized duck or fifty duck
Speaker 2: sized Jordan Cleppers. This is interesting because Jordan Clepper himself
Speaker 2: is an enormous that's a hugely tall man.
Speaker 3: So I think i'd go where I know how.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know where i'd go on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's simple. You want I mean, I'm assuming
Speaker 2: we want fifty duck sized Jordan's Cleppers, no.
Speaker 3: Question, yes, no question why? I mean multiply Jordan Clepper.
Speaker 3: Very funny man. Great, Now we have fifty of them? Yes, amazing.
Speaker 3: They're little, but who cares?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not looking at it in any way
Speaker 1: about what they can bring to the table immediately or a.
Speaker 3: Giant a duck at Jordan Clipper's height is terrified.
Speaker 2: Yeah, about fighting them. I think about like having them
Speaker 2: be at a Trump rallies. That's actually a lot.
Speaker 1: But or use of the fifty size ducks. Even something
Speaker 1: as adorable as a duck waggle with the little tails
Speaker 1: can cuss you. There's no, there's no reason to know. No,
Speaker 1: you have to fight fifty duck sized cluppers.
Speaker 2: I mean, I still don't think I'm coming out of
Speaker 2: that fight, but at least I think it lasts a
Speaker 2: bit longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they started like you reduced from damage, and you
Speaker 1: might not come out of it, but you would definitely
Speaker 1: be like you should have seen the other twenty eight ducks. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I was able to get through.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you thinking I can get up to almost
Speaker 2: half of the ducks.
Speaker 3: All in my head was picturing them as like ducklings
Speaker 3: and not like ducks, And now I'm thinking about ducks,
Speaker 3: and those are bigger. I still think i'd go the
Speaker 3: same way, but like, ducklings are cute, that I.
Speaker 2: Might not even if they're a duckling size. The cuteness
Speaker 2: might actually overwhelm me.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking of fifty little duckling Jordan cleppers.
Speaker 2: I can't fight these ducklings.
Speaker 1: They're so cute. Yeah, if they're ducklings, I mean, no
Speaker 1: matter how many there are of them, I would. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you gave me a hundred fifty duckling sized clippers,
Speaker 1: i'd most through that, like, but I would get it.
Speaker 1: If it was duck sized, I think I would start
Speaker 1: to tire. No, that's the thing. Yeah, hire in the
Speaker 1: teens and by thirty three thirty four ducks, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to go on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's definitely. It's you know, at a certain
Speaker 2: point you're breaking your foot, you know, hitting that minute,
Speaker 2: that many beaks, and that's and that's kind of the
Speaker 2: end of it, you know.
Speaker 3: No question ducks also or they look like.
Speaker 2: Jordan Clippers.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it has to be little Cane.
Speaker 2: In my head it was Jordan Clepper with.
Speaker 3: As a duck. So that's what happened to me with
Speaker 3: the ducklings. And I was like, oh, so cute, but
Speaker 3: Jordan's face on it, Yes, that's duckling body, very cute,
Speaker 3: very cute.
Speaker 2: We should make we should clone Jordan Clipper into a duck.
Speaker 3: Who asked this question?
Speaker 1: I don't think own then I have to say, I
Speaker 1: think that's a transmography. I don't. I don't. If you
Speaker 1: you can't clone somebody into something they're not, you would
Speaker 1: have to clone them to beat the exact replic.
Speaker 2: That's fair, and I apologize for that mistake. That's that
Speaker 2: was a bit.
Speaker 1: No need to apologize at the Institute of Clonology where
Speaker 1: I work. Before you people wonder where I've been for
Speaker 1: nine years.
Speaker 3: I didn't know the amount of times I've looked into
Speaker 3: cloning my dog. I could probably answer these questions for.
Speaker 2: Before we go, John, you have a new podcast, the
Speaker 2: Weekly Show. I know, I have no idea where you
Speaker 2: came up with. It's such a great idea, such a
Speaker 2: great name passed through. It does obviously, you know, double
Speaker 2: your workload from from one day to two, and I, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, is that like, what's it like to work
Speaker 2: that hard?
Speaker 1: You know? Youman and I And I say this with
Speaker 1: all humility. It's not me, it's the creatine. Oh I'm
Speaker 1: I've been I've been juicing. I don't know if anybody
Speaker 1: at the show even knows that, but I've been juicing
Speaker 1: since I got there. I'm hoping there's no testing regime
Speaker 1: because I've got sayings in my system that would make
Speaker 1: uh a Chinese Olympics swimmer watch. I mean, it is.
Speaker 2: A lot of times creating goes some muscles, but my
Speaker 2: specific example, it mostly just goes just to to thinking
Speaker 2: harder large the kid.
Speaker 1: It right into my eyes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I I like the idea that someone taking
Speaker 2: steroids but like not working out and just having uh,
Speaker 2: just having there.
Speaker 1: I just like the feeling you do that, you know,
Speaker 1: I take steroids for the back act. Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out.
Speaker 2: One person's side effact is another person's feature. Yeah, can
Speaker 2: we hear about the podcast? What what can listeners expect? Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm so, I'm on it, okay, right away, right away.
Speaker 1: So a lot of the ship we're doing right here
Speaker 1: now with you guys, probably a lot of that fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1: The premise of it right now is uh uh for
Speaker 1: this election year, just sense of what we were talking
Speaker 1: about infusing into the show, sort of that idea of
Speaker 1: you know, they say Donald Trump is the greatest start
Speaker 1: to democracy, and I think this is an exploration of
Speaker 1: maybe the greatest. That democracy is a dysfunctional democracy, one
Speaker 1: that creates opportunities for demogogus and Charletan's and everyone else
Speaker 1: to come in and hijack it.
Speaker 2: So your theory is that Donald Trump is a symptom
Speaker 2: of a of a deeper rot in our democracy that
Speaker 2: gives rise to him.
Speaker 1: Shuban, I wish that I'd answered that question the way
Speaker 1: you just answered it. Because that is a very succinct
Speaker 1: and apt way of describing it.
Speaker 3: In fairness, he had it written down beforehand.
Speaker 2: These pages.
Speaker 1: Nonrelated GPTs are unrelated.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at man, but no, that is. That is
Speaker 2: also why I will be taking over the Weekly Show podcasts.
Speaker 1: Aw that is you're actually the guest host that goes
Speaker 1: in one and the head down breaking down.
Speaker 3: Not enough creatine in the world, guys, That's what.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Listeners, be sure to check out The Weekly Show with
Speaker 2: John Stewart every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you, John, Jen.
Speaker 3: Thank you all.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday very.
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