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Speaker 3: Welcome to a Dally Show. I'm your hosts Michael Costa,
Speaker 3: Who've got so much to talk about Tonight, Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: has a new work husband. We send Jordan Klepper to
Speaker 3: another MAGA rally, and Ed Helms is here. So let's
Speaker 3: get to another edition of Indecision twenty twenty four. All right,
Speaker 3: let's talk about the major news in the presidential Ever
Speaker 3: since Kamala Harris became the de facto nominee, there have
Speaker 3: been two questions on everyone's mind. One why does the
Speaker 3: sun go up and down if the Earth is spinning
Speaker 3: left to right? And two? Who is going to be
Speaker 3: Kamala's running mate? Everyone had their own suggestions. Pick someone
Speaker 3: from a swing stage, pick a good communicator. One guy
Speaker 3: was like, pick someone with a sick corvette. It's over, Joe,
Speaker 3: let it go. But most importantly, everyone agreed that it
Speaker 3: had to be a white man. Well, today we found
Speaker 3: out if Kamala listened. We begin this hour with the
Speaker 3: breaking news from the presidential campaign trail where Vice President
Speaker 3: Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walls to be her
Speaker 3: running mate. Hmm, hang on, hang on, it's a white man.
Speaker 3: It's a white man. Yeah, yeah, I should have known.
Speaker 3: And I have a cousin who's white, So this is
Speaker 3: big news. Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walls
Speaker 3: as a running mate, and the reactions are pouring in.
Speaker 4: I think Tim Walls could be an excellent governing partner
Speaker 4: d Kamala Harris and a real asset here.
Speaker 5: He does come across as someone who is really relatable.
Speaker 3: Somebody that people just enjoy spending time with.
Speaker 5: A Trump campaign fundraising text message that went out to
Speaker 5: supporters goes quote Tim Walls will unleash hell on Earth.
Speaker 3: Okay, but mostly positive. One on leash hell on Earth,
Speaker 3: but mostly positive. Obviously there's some disagreement here, so let's
Speaker 3: find out about this Tim Walls, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: it's not Waltz, it's Walls w Alz. You see, he's
Speaker 3: suffering from low T Trump. You can have that one
Speaker 3: if you want. Now. Obviously I already know all about
Speaker 3: Tim Walls, as I have a well of knowledge about
Speaker 3: every governor in America, even the ones from the boring states.
Speaker 3: But since you guys have probably never heard of this
Speaker 3: guy before, I googled him in a panic on your
Speaker 3: behalf this morning, and what I found out is that
Speaker 3: Tim Walls has got a lot done as governor. He
Speaker 3: legalized marijuana, passed family. Yeah it's a weed crowd. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he passed family and sickly. He codified abortion rights, and
Speaker 3: he provided and he provided free meals for all school kids,
Speaker 3: which which makes him ironic VP PIC Democrats said, man,
Speaker 3: you've done so much as governor, we'd like to promote
Speaker 3: you to a position where you'll do absolutely nothing. But
Speaker 3: if you ask me, his appeal to this ticket isn't
Speaker 3: just the record as governor. It says overall vibe, you know,
Speaker 3: and that vibe it's Midwestern dad as.
Speaker 6: F Hey, everybody, Tim here eleven days till the election.
Speaker 6: But it's my pro tip of the day out on
Speaker 6: the road. I got to show you this. This right
Speaker 6: here is the headlight harness on a twenty fourteen Ford
Speaker 6: edge Ford.
Speaker 3: This is unacceptable.
Speaker 7: It burned out hot on the connector.
Speaker 6: So for seven ninety nine at NAPA Auto Partoo in
Speaker 6: the city.
Speaker 3: You can replace this.
Speaker 6: Just clip off the back you some shrink wrap connectors
Speaker 6: on their tape it back together and put it back in.
Speaker 6: It's about a five minute fix and you're back on
Speaker 6: the road, safe and sound well.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ. That is the most dad video
Speaker 3: I've ever seen in my life. That is a man
Speaker 3: who watches band of brothers while standing up with his
Speaker 3: arms crossed. If this dude becomes vice president, they're going
Speaker 3: to find him out on the White House lawn changing
Speaker 3: the oil on a Predator drone. Don't call it pentagon.
Speaker 3: They'll charge you an norm and a leg. All it
Speaker 3: needs is a counter song head bolt. Come here, I'll
Speaker 3: show you.
Speaker 8: Come here.
Speaker 3: Now. Here's another classic Midwestern dad thing. He's got a
Speaker 3: gen Z daughter and he doesn't quite understand it.
Speaker 6: Every year we as a family do something old and
Speaker 6: something new.
Speaker 3: But then we're gonna go get.
Speaker 7: Some food, corn dogs, I'm vegetarian, turkey.
Speaker 8: Then he's trying so hard. He's trying so hard.
Speaker 3: You don't eat meat, well, fishes and meat and turkey's
Speaker 3: kind of like fit, let's get a cheeseburger. And also
Speaker 3: it makes it hard, makes it harder for the alt
Speaker 3: right to call you a soy boy when you're like
Speaker 3: bison is a vegetable. And Tim Walls is not just
Speaker 3: a Midwestern dad now, He's been a Midwestern dad his
Speaker 3: whole life. He's serving the National Guard. He has his
Speaker 3: own award winning tater tots hot dish. How much more
Speaker 3: Midwestern can he get?
Speaker 9: In nineteen ninety four, he married fellow school teacher, Gwyn Walls.
Speaker 9: They moved to Mankato in the mid nineties, where he
Speaker 9: began teaching and coaching football at Mankato West High School.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he was a small town high school
Speaker 3: football coach. And he's been married for thirty years. And
Speaker 3: he's eating a bucket of cookies. Leave it to Minnesota
Speaker 3: to measure cookies by the bucket. This guy is almost
Speaker 3: too Midwestern. Even his bad stuff is still Midwestern.
Speaker 9: In nineteen ninety five, Tim Walls was arrested in Nebraska
Speaker 9: for driving under the influence. He was driving ninety six
Speaker 9: miles an hour in a fifty five mile per hour zone.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, of course he was driving that fast.
Speaker 3: He had to get home before he heard anybody driving drunk.
Speaker 3: He's from the Midwest, I should know, so, yes, Tim
Speaker 3: Walls has a duy arrest, but just one, so no
Speaker 3: wonder voters elected him governor. He's the most responsible driver
Speaker 3: in the whole Midwest. For more on the selection of
Speaker 3: Tim Malls, we go live to the announcement rally with
Speaker 3: our Josh Johnson.
Speaker 6: Josh, Josh, what's the word on this kick?
Speaker 9: People are liking this decision, Bible because Tim Wallas bounces
Speaker 9: the ticket.
Speaker 7: Kamala Harris is a woman.
Speaker 3: He's a man.
Speaker 9: She's from California, he's from the Midwest. She is young
Speaker 9: and he is old.
Speaker 3: No, actually, Josh, they're the same age.
Speaker 1: No, No, they're not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're the same age. Yeah they are. There's no
Speaker 3: way that's true.
Speaker 9: You're telling me Kamala Harris is the same age as Batman.
Speaker 9: Looks like the skipper from Gilligan's Iselde.
Speaker 3: I know, look, I know, but they're born six months apart.
Speaker 3: I think you a damn liar.
Speaker 9: But whatever, because the most important dynamic here is that
Speaker 9: she is black and he is the right type of
Speaker 9: white guy.
Speaker 3: Right type of white guy. What do you mean there's
Speaker 3: just white guys.
Speaker 9: You can't see it because you're in it. But there's many,
Speaker 9: many types of white guys.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna have to stop you right there because
Speaker 3: I find that offensive.
Speaker 9: And that makes sense because you are the type of
Speaker 9: white guy who's easily offended. All right, But there's lots
Speaker 9: of other types. You got hipsters, jocks, nerds, those guys
Speaker 9: that always scream what's God, no one knows where they're going.
Speaker 3: I see some of those types are gonna like Walls,
Speaker 3: but some are gonna like jd Vance exactly.
Speaker 9: Walls appeals to the older white guy who always tells
Speaker 9: the same joke to the server at Denny's.
Speaker 3: I mean the one where he points.
Speaker 9: To his empty plate and says, I guess I hated it.
Speaker 3: That's a great joke, because he clearly loved it. Meanwhile.
Speaker 9: Jd Vance appeals to the older white guys who say
Speaker 9: things like I'm not racist, but and then say the
Speaker 9: most racist shit you've ever heard. Tim Walls appeals to
Speaker 9: white guys who hang in American flag. Jd Vance appeals
Speaker 9: to white guys who hang a bunch of American flags.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 9: Tim Walls appeals to white guys who call PBS to
Speaker 9: make a donation. Jd Vance appeals to white guys who
Speaker 9: call Fox News to say their gold coins haven't arrived
Speaker 9: in the mail.
Speaker 3: You know, I was too close to the situation that
Speaker 3: I missed the nuance. There's different white guys, just like
Speaker 3: there's different black guys. Like you know, there's a kind
Speaker 3: of a black guy.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna stop you right there, Michael, You right, okay,
Speaker 9: But as you're fri you're correct. But for your career sake,
Speaker 9: I'm gonna ask you not to start name in the
Speaker 9: different type of black guys right now.
Speaker 3: Well, look, and I'll be the type of white guy
Speaker 3: who listens to the black guy Josh Johnson. Everybody, when
Speaker 3: you come back, Jordan's bloper goes to Chuck Rowy. You
Speaker 3: don't want to miss it. I was really helpful. Welcome
Speaker 3: back to.
Speaker 10: The The other show today is all about Tim Walls.
Speaker 3: But Donald Trump is still out on the campaign trail,
Speaker 3: and that means Jordan Klepper is too. Check it out.
Speaker 5: The last three weeks have been some of the most
Speaker 5: eventful and American political history. So I went to Harrisburg
Speaker 5: to see how the MAGA world is reflecting on these
Speaker 5: serious times. First, I want to know how they're coping
Speaker 5: with the loss of their favorite punching back I've seen
Speaker 5: you many many times too. One number rally we have
Speaker 5: eighty two? Are you sad about the Joe Biden chant
Speaker 5: being retired?
Speaker 1: I'm sad because of all I've invested in, all this
Speaker 1: sad time writing gear.
Speaker 5: How much Let's Go brand and anti Joe Biden merch
Speaker 5: did you have?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Thousands of Is that right?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 1: I buy it at that Let's Go Brandon store in
Speaker 1: Thom's Riverno, Jersey.
Speaker 5: Do they have to rename that?
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to rename how.
Speaker 5: About one more for old times sake?
Speaker 3: Joe and the hoe?
Speaker 5: And now the name calling of Vice President Harris begins.
Speaker 5: If they could only decide how to mispronounce that name.
Speaker 7: I'm surprised Kamala even has a chance.
Speaker 5: No one likes Kamala in.
Speaker 3: And that's why I don't like to hear about the
Speaker 3: Kamala thing.
Speaker 5: Why do you say your name like that? How do
Speaker 5: you say it?
Speaker 1: Kamala?
Speaker 3: It's Kamala, Kamala, Kamala.
Speaker 1: Kamala, Kamala, Kamala.
Speaker 5: There you go. I appreciate that you're trying to say
Speaker 5: the name correctly.
Speaker 1: Yes, I actually I'm not, but I indvertently you know.
Speaker 1: I would you want to say it, Kamala? It's the
Speaker 1: way Bush used to say, Sadam, who's sing Sadam?
Speaker 5: Did you work shopping elevating Kamala to Saddam Hussain levels?
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is a bigger.
Speaker 5: Threat, more anti American than Saddam.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, the most anti American candidate for president. We were ahead.
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you, if I ran into you three
Speaker 5: weeks ago, you might have said that about Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 5: Yet, do you think Kamala is qualified to be president?
Speaker 4: Somebody to cackles all the time and laughs and everything
Speaker 4: under their son?
Speaker 7: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: A woman experiencing joy and not your thing?
Speaker 3: She's useless. She's back pedaling on all her previous comments.
Speaker 5: Is that your issue with her?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: What do you like about JD.
Speaker 5: Vans?
Speaker 3: He's a man of the people.
Speaker 5: Think he'll stand up for Trump? Yeah, bants will stand
Speaker 5: up to the people who compare Donald Trump to Hitler.
Speaker 5: What happens if those people are also JD. Vans? He
Speaker 5: has acquainted Donald Trump to Hitler, America's Hitler.
Speaker 7: Years ago he flipped flop.
Speaker 3: People can change, Yeah, but I still like parents. There
Speaker 3: you go.
Speaker 5: Apparently writing a book about your opioid addicted family makes
Speaker 5: you more qualified than any black woman could ever be.
Speaker 7: I heard she got up the ladder on her back.
Speaker 5: Right, but millions of beautiful voted for Kamala Harris. Did
Speaker 5: she sleep with all of that? I just don't.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 5: But how do you sleep your way to the top
Speaker 5: of elected positions? I don't know how she got to
Speaker 5: where she is, except if the word is DEI you know,
Speaker 5: what do you think of jd Vance? I think he
Speaker 5: picked him for vote to the russ Belt. Diversity on the.
Speaker 11: Ticket, diversity on his ticket.
Speaker 5: Over the years, the Magakrawt has faced a lot of criticism,
Speaker 5: but none more stinging than the line of attack started
Speaker 5: by Kamala's new VP candidate Tim Wallas.
Speaker 3: These guys are just clear, these are weird people.
Speaker 5: On the other side, Democrats are trying to call the
Speaker 5: Maga movement weird. What do you think of that?
Speaker 3: It's I mean, it's I don't know what's weird about it?
Speaker 5: Is it fair though, to call the Macha movement and
Speaker 5: inherently an unseerious movement?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Do you think the discourse has gotten too too ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I think so, yeah, Yeah, yeah, I did think something
Speaker 5: that from an outside perspective, it feels like you come
Speaker 5: to a manga event and there isn't a seriousness. It's
Speaker 5: not about people trying to fix America. It feels like
Speaker 5: a carnival. Yeah. Is that a fair critique?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's there. These are people who are
Speaker 3: just genuinely care about the country.
Speaker 5: People come here, they want to talk politics, yes, they
Speaker 5: want to talk about gods that, they want to talk
Speaker 5: abortion rights.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 5: This isn't a freaking carnival. Yeah, it's not Halloween. We're
Speaker 5: not all dressing up like lunatics. It's a serious thing here, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 5: absolutely absolutely. You do know you're wearing that hat right now? Okay.
Speaker 5: The rally was just three weeks after a truly tragic
Speaker 5: day in US politics. The official story was that the
Speaker 5: assassination attempt was committed by a disturbed young man who
Speaker 5: was a registered publican. But this crowd isn't always into
Speaker 5: official stories. I think people on both sides can agree
Speaker 5: that was a horrific moment in our history. It was
Speaker 5: looking back at it do you believe the things you hear?
Speaker 7: Oh? No, I don't.
Speaker 3: I believe it's an inside job.
Speaker 7: The shooting was.
Speaker 5: An inside job.
Speaker 3: A lot of things aren't adding up.
Speaker 1: It's very strange.
Speaker 7: I think that was a playing job.
Speaker 5: Anybody with any common sense knows that was a playing job,
Speaker 5: played by who, good.
Speaker 3: Dams, the left, the deep state. Obama is involved in this.
Speaker 5: Do you think Obama set up the assassination attempt?
Speaker 3: I think he surely knew about it.
Speaker 5: Oh, it is the government, for sure, it's government, I
Speaker 5: think so. You think they would go through all of this?
Speaker 5: I mean, when they really wanted to take out Trump, would'
Speaker 5: they just poison the big mac.
Speaker 9: It's a dance to FBI, the.
Speaker 3: Special Service.
Speaker 5: Does it surprise you to hear that it was a
Speaker 5: disgruntled white guy, Republican gut nut.
Speaker 7: No, because you know what wouldn't. But no, why he
Speaker 7: was picked.
Speaker 5: It's kind of the perfect cover.
Speaker 9: Exactly if they could have gotten an insquontled black guy,
Speaker 9: and I'm not I have no problem, and.
Speaker 7: They could have gotten a disquontled black female.
Speaker 3: But no, they picked the disquntle.
Speaker 5: The scruntled white guy who's into guns at a Trump rolly,
Speaker 5: like a wear two situation. Yes, like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: who who doesn't fit that profile exactly right?
Speaker 2: And just about the security and everything, there's like something
Speaker 2: wasn't right there from from the beginning.
Speaker 3: So it gets me. It's like this kid was able
Speaker 3: to get an AR fifteen that year. What the hell?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't add up, and that adds up so cleanly.
Speaker 3: It feels too easy. Exactly, there's no paper. They can
Speaker 3: only go so for and it's like a dead end.
Speaker 5: It's a situation where like you want to connect the
Speaker 5: two dots, but it's just much easier to go all
Speaker 5: the way around exactly exactly exactly, and we can.
Speaker 10: Back added Alms and then joining me on the show,
Speaker 10: but don't welcome back to roshop.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight was an actor, writer, producer who hosts
Speaker 3: a podcast about history's greatest screw ups called Snaffu. Please
Speaker 3: welcome back, Ed Helms.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, I have to say, John Stewart,
Speaker 4: you looking crazy.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for that. I'll think its a
Speaker 3: compliment because I watched John Stewart my whole life, and
Speaker 3: now I'm sitting in the chair that he sits on
Speaker 3: occasionally on mondays, Yeah, let's talk about your podcast and
Speaker 3: then we'll get into the Daily Show because I got
Speaker 3: to ask you about working here at the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: But your podcast second season is called snaff Fu and
Speaker 3: it's about the break in of the FBI offices. Yes,
Speaker 3: and the Washington reporter who reported on Yes, what the
Speaker 3: are you doing? I thought you worked in comedy.
Speaker 7: I just say yes, Yes, that's all I do in interviews.
Speaker 4: Yes, So okay, it is a podcast about it's called Snafoo.
Speaker 7: It's about history's greatest screw ups. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Season one we talked about this.
Speaker 4: Incredible story about a NATO military exercise that almost in
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty three that almost turned into a nuclear holocaust,
Speaker 4: a big deal.
Speaker 7: And it's really kind of actually darkly funny. Season two
Speaker 7: that's out now.
Speaker 3: We talk about.
Speaker 4: These incredible activists in nineteen seventy one who felt like
Speaker 4: the FBI was getting a little out of hand and
Speaker 4: starting to harass people and surveyal people. And they were right,
Speaker 4: but they didn't have any way to prove it. So
Speaker 4: they broke into an office, an FBI office. They just
Speaker 4: broke into the FBI. And it's as hard as it sounds,
Speaker 4: and they stole a bunch of documents and then they
Speaker 4: started to leak them to a reporter at the Washington
Speaker 4: Post named Betty Metzger, who was very courageous and published them.
Speaker 3: Yes, and then years.
Speaker 4: Later, by the way, this all led to lots of
Speaker 4: fallout the Church Committee hearings, which then led to congressional
Speaker 4: oversight of the FBI and the CIA and the NSA
Speaker 4: and all these things. So it's a very very big
Speaker 4: deal with these people did. It's largely forgotten, sadly, but
Speaker 4: Betty Metzger then wrote a book in twenty fourteen, and
Speaker 4: that's what that is, The Burglary, and it's an incredible story.
Speaker 3: Forty percent of the case files that the crew stole
Speaker 3: dealt with surveillance of legal political activity.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 3: One percent cover organized crime. Right, It's like what I
Speaker 3: do and by the way, I don't. I don't really know,
Speaker 3: but I feel like that could also pertain to today's date. Well,
Speaker 3: it's just it's like that was when Jag can read
Speaker 3: you another one, even though it's your podcast. Yes, my boy,
Speaker 3: the document revealed that every black student at Swarthmore College
Speaker 3: was under FBI surveillance. I mean, what the heck is
Speaker 3: going on. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Basically, if if Jaigar Hoover thought that you were like
Speaker 4: some hooligan, which was anyone who opposed the Vietnam War,
Speaker 4: anyone involved in the civil rights movement, and anyone with long.
Speaker 3: Hair, that one I get.
Speaker 4: Of course, if Jayed Groover thought you were like a
Speaker 4: problem for society, he was going to surveil and harass you,
Speaker 4: and the entire FBI apparatus was going to do that too.
Speaker 4: And thankfully these burglars proved that was happening, and it
Speaker 4: was fixed for.
Speaker 3: A little while. Yeah, and then there was the Patriot
Speaker 3: Act and.
Speaker 4: All kinds of the Cold War and lots of other
Speaker 4: complicating factors. But it is still it's a it's an
Speaker 4: important question to always be asking, like, are we protecting
Speaker 4: our civil civil liberties enough? Does law enforcement have enough power? Probably?
Speaker 7: What is the where's the line?
Speaker 3: But ed? But Ed, I don't do anything wrong. I
Speaker 3: don't care if they tap into my computer. Same here, head, Ed,
Speaker 3: what's the big d put a piece of scotch tape
Speaker 3: over my webcam when I'm masturbated? It doesn't matter? Yeah,
Speaker 3: what does it matter you masturbate? Oh my gosh, let's
Speaker 3: talk about this I'm just I'm just doing I'm just doing.
Speaker 3: First of all, I want to go on the record
Speaker 3: and say I do not masturbate, and that was no.
Speaker 3: But that is a kickback response. I can envision someone saying,
Speaker 3: I don't have anything to hide with the big deal
Speaker 3: about So what is the big deal about surveilling?
Speaker 4: And you're right, I think a lot of people ask
Speaker 4: that with it just when it comes up, when law
Speaker 4: enforcement power comes.
Speaker 7: Up, like, yeah, I'm not doing anything wrong, But what
Speaker 7: the problem with surveillance?
Speaker 4: When it's done on such a huge scale and you're
Speaker 4: surveilling people who are not doing anything wrong, it then
Speaker 4: becomes leverage over you that you have no control over it.
Speaker 4: And so if for any reason, the FBI or some
Speaker 4: institution wants to implicate you for any reason, they suddenly
Speaker 4: have the leverage to do so, whether or not you've
Speaker 4: done something wrong.
Speaker 7: And that's very scary and it's not.
Speaker 3: Okay talk about because this was fascinating to me. They
Speaker 3: burglarized the FBI office and they sent these copies of
Speaker 3: files out to a lot of different people, but only
Speaker 3: one of them, this woman was createous enough to report.
Speaker 3: I mean, what was that like for her?
Speaker 4: That's a great question. So Betty Medsker was was a
Speaker 4: very young reporter at the Washington Post. She receives this envelope.
Speaker 4: It's full of FBI files.
Speaker 3: She's like, what the hell with this?
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the burglars also sent copies of the files, as
Speaker 4: you mentioned, to uh, some senators and some other reporters.
Speaker 4: The senators immediately turned them over to the FBI. The
Speaker 4: other reporters chickened out. But Betty Medzger and the sort
Speaker 4: of brass at the Washington Post which later, of course, uh,
Speaker 4: you know Woodward Burnstein, Watergate and and and the Pentagon
Speaker 4: papers that all came after this.
Speaker 7: But but they they were courageous enough to put this
Speaker 7: out here. And I'm really and really.
Speaker 4: Betty Medsker is a force of nature, and she's in
Speaker 4: the podcast. She she worked with us to sell this
Speaker 4: stories great. In the podcast, she tells the story of
Speaker 4: after this this got published, the article, not the book,
Speaker 4: She picked up the phone to call her friend and
Speaker 4: the FBI is just on the line, say what are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's this is this is.
Speaker 7: Exactly what the burglars were trying.
Speaker 3: This is why I put Scotch tape on my computer.
Speaker 3: Is this why you master?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: They so they Yeah, so she put this article gets
Speaker 4: published in the dew Yer Times. She picks up her
Speaker 4: phone like the next day, and so there's a voice
Speaker 4: on her phone that says, who are you trying to call?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So messed up?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great, it's a great. Listen, it's fun. You're
Speaker 3: somehow funny in it even though it's a serious topic.
Speaker 3: Thank you, so good job. Speaking of funny, The office,
Speaker 3: the hangover, the Daily Show? What is that?
Speaker 6: What is.
Speaker 3: What does that evoke? What is that evoke? Those images?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: My god?
Speaker 3: Do you remember the State? The Los Angeles green screen? Well, sorry,
Speaker 3: I mean on location. I was in a cocaine fever
Speaker 3: dream the whole time. I don't know I have It's
Speaker 3: so fun to come back here. I just love I
Speaker 3: have such fond memories.
Speaker 4: It's been like eighteen years since I worked here, which
Speaker 4: is incredible.
Speaker 7: But I have to say I've watched the show ever
Speaker 7: since I left. I still love it.
Speaker 4: And you guys, this crop of correspondence, you guys are
Speaker 4: crushing it.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 9: It is.
Speaker 2: If you.
Speaker 3: If you had to pick one, understand it. Oftentimes, when
Speaker 3: I'm out in the field doing something that is hard,
Speaker 3: doing a piece on the desk. Being here, I always
Speaker 3: wondering is this helping me somehow? Is this gonna help
Speaker 3: me later? And should I be focused in the present moment? Yes, sure,
Speaker 3: but you come to me from the future, yes, right,
Speaker 3: And You've gone on to do all these great comedy
Speaker 3: things and now this season two of the podcast and
Speaker 3: eff but what has helped you from the Daily Show
Speaker 3: as you moved on? Nothing?
Speaker 4: Nothing, I will say I have a good answer to
Speaker 4: that qu answer, and it is the The Daily Show
Speaker 4: is was my first like real comedy job, and it
Speaker 4: taught me really through through John's example, like the discipline
Speaker 4: and the focus and the hard work that it takes
Speaker 4: and and some of the like the real like sweat
Speaker 4: that it takes to create good comedy or just good product,
Speaker 4: like it's hard work, and that I've carried that with
Speaker 4: me for for years since since then, and uh, this.
Speaker 3: Is where I started.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 3: We are. That's great, that's awesome. Are there any are
Speaker 3: there any field pieces you did that now would be
Speaker 3: considered an HR nightmare? Is there anything that anything that
Speaker 3: comes to minds? Yes, an HR nightmare? I think, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 3: we actually have HR different, We actually have HR now okay,
Speaker 3: well there you go, yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there were no HR nightmares twenty years ago because
Speaker 4: of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, the reason that they have. But yeah, what
Speaker 3: comes to mind anything that's like, you know, conventions? Should
Speaker 3: I should I create a fresh HR nightmare?
Speaker 9: By no?
Speaker 4: I have Gosh, I have so many great memories. I
Speaker 4: really loved going to the conventions. Right the are you
Speaker 4: guys headed to this?
Speaker 3: We are, We're going to Chicago.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so exciting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I had like we have real press credentials.
Speaker 4: I remember, this is uh, this is this is really funny.
Speaker 4: We got to the the Republican Convention, which was at
Speaker 4: Madison Square Garden just down the street, and we get
Speaker 4: to the security checkpoint and Rob Quadrey forgot his driver's
Speaker 4: license and everyone had to have a picture I D
Speaker 4: so we're like, oh god, and then he looks up and.
Speaker 7: Rob goes, does that count as a picture?
Speaker 3: ID?
Speaker 4: And Comedy Central had bought a giant billboard all over
Speaker 4: our faces and our names right next to Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: It was the Indecision two thousand and two or four
Speaker 4: or whatever, and the security guard was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess that's it.
Speaker 3: Different times. That's amazing. That's amazing that Comedy Central bought
Speaker 3: a billboard. Yes, thank you for sitting down with that.
Speaker 3: You're one of my favorites. That's really on Snaffoo new
Speaker 3: episodes of Snackhoo Member or weekly.
Speaker 10: I mean, iHeartRadio app I never left podcasts I heard
Speaker 10: at home.
Speaker 3: You bet put back. You're right back after this.
Speaker 4: Thaso show.
Speaker 3: That's a show for tonight. Hot here it is your
Speaker 3: moment of zund.
Speaker 11: On the way to the flight in Cincinnati, I guess
Speaker 11: in northern Kentucky, I actually called Tim Watz. I left
Speaker 11: a voicemailding get him, but I just said, look, congratulations,
Speaker 11: look forward to her most conversation and enjoy the ride,
Speaker 11: and maybe he'll call me back.
Speaker 5: Maybe one.
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