Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Hi, yours listeners, It's Daily
Speaker 1: Show correspondent Michael Costa and Daily Show writer Kat Radley.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: We're going to give listeners a little extra ears extra
Speaker 1: and unpack my week as the guest host and all
Speaker 1: the work that goes into making the show come together.
Speaker 1: Let's dive right in. Kat, what was it like writing
Speaker 1: for such a monumental comedic genius? Take your time, take
Speaker 1: your time, take your time.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it'll be short story. Oh shit, I would say.
Speaker 3: Normally comics do like raz each other, but I am
Speaker 3: going to take it to compliment you.
Speaker 1: Come on, here we go, this is what we want.
Speaker 1: Here's edition extra.
Speaker 3: Because you've made me a lot of money to say
Speaker 3: what I'm about to say. But in all seriously, as
Speaker 3: a writer on the show, it's especially fun since we
Speaker 3: do have a panel of correspondence. We get to write
Speaker 3: for different voices, which is like a fun challenge as
Speaker 3: a writer, and across the board, everybody always loves writing
Speaker 3: for you because Costa, you know, if you know, in
Speaker 3: comedy you're supposed to punch up and as you know,
Speaker 3: the handsome white man in the room, he is punching up.
Speaker 3: If we would make fun of him, if you'd just
Speaker 3: self deprecating jokes, he always takes it like a champ.
Speaker 3: You can play the punching bag, sure, but in a
Speaker 3: very like smart, funny way. And writing for you as
Speaker 3: a host is different because you are in charge of
Speaker 3: the show. Now you're not you know, the funny man
Speaker 3: coming in who throws the host a curveball. Like you
Speaker 3: are in control, and it was a fun challenge to
Speaker 3: still write a good classic costa joke, but you know,
Speaker 3: having that new kind of presence and point of view.
Speaker 3: Usually you don't trust a correspondent with what they say
Speaker 3: in the show.
Speaker 2: But we did trust you as host.
Speaker 3: You really took control and you know did the job
Speaker 3: as host justice, So I think you did a great
Speaker 3: job and that's not easy to do.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's very interesting what you brought up because
Speaker 1: that's a very clear statement you made. It's hard to
Speaker 1: trust the correspondent and you're right, because we're coming in
Speaker 1: dressed as the lion at the zoo or getting the boat.
Speaker 1: It was a must, and I did wonder if there
Speaker 1: was going to be any hurdles as Michael the host,
Speaker 1: because it's different. Yeah, And one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: as host was that I got to be host. It
Speaker 1: got to be the leader. I got to be in
Speaker 1: charge and I didn't have to dress in the in
Speaker 1: the monkey costume or whatever. I like dressing in the
Speaker 1: monkey costume. I don't want to always dress in the
Speaker 1: monkey costume. And it was fun to dress in the
Speaker 1: host suit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice.
Speaker 3: I think for Your Weakest Host was especially challenging because
Speaker 3: it was the first show back after our long five
Speaker 3: month hiatus because of the writers' strike, and also the
Speaker 3: stories you got that week in particularly challenging. Do you
Speaker 3: want to break down like those are two separate challenges
Speaker 3: that converged at the same time.
Speaker 2: Do you want to talk about what it was like?
Speaker 1: I think one of them was an unreal opportunity that
Speaker 1: kind of happens with luck that there was a lot
Speaker 1: of eyes and ears on us because we've been gone
Speaker 1: for so long. I mean, that wasn't planned. That was luck.
Speaker 1: That was I was very excited that, Hey, I get
Speaker 1: to lead us into this new era after the strike.
Speaker 1: People are starving for Daily Show. How cool that it
Speaker 1: gets to be me. Flip side of that was there
Speaker 1: was a very still is very serious war tragedy of
Speaker 1: Israel Hamas war that I felt like we absolutely one
Speaker 1: had to cover and had to cover immediately.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when I say cover, I don't
Speaker 1: mean you do the act and it's over. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it would be shameful for the Daily Show. The Daily
Speaker 1: Show that I know and have watched for years to
Speaker 1: avoid a difficult subject because it's difficult. Hello, That's what
Speaker 1: is literally the foundation in my opinion of this show.
Speaker 1: Anybody can write jokes about Trump farting at a UN meeting,
Speaker 1: but like doing a heartfelt, real fresh take that is
Speaker 1: funny but also says something about the history of Israel
Speaker 1: and Palestine, I think is just like bread and butter.
Speaker 1: Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that morning meeting, Like we have a morning meeting
Speaker 3: where we look at all the stories of the day
Speaker 3: and you know, the host leads that meeting and we
Speaker 3: all talk as a group of you know, what are
Speaker 3: different takes and angles to cover this. How did that
Speaker 3: first morning meeting go for you? How did you feel
Speaker 3: kind of leading out for the first time?
Speaker 1: Well, actually I should pay Scott Sherman a tribute because
Speaker 1: Sunday I was driving back in the city with my
Speaker 1: family and Dan Amira, the head writer, forwarded me this
Speaker 1: thing that Scott had written that said, Hey, if Costa
Speaker 1: wants to talk about Israel Palestine, here's a couple thoughts.
Speaker 1: And I was so thankful for that because I did
Speaker 1: want to talk about it. But I was kind of
Speaker 1: twiddling my thumbs, thinking how right. I'm a former Catholic Michigander,
Speaker 1: I've been to a bar mitzvah, but probably, I mean,
Speaker 1: if we really want to talk, I mean, yes, I
Speaker 1: could identify Israel impelas it on a global map, but
Speaker 1: like just just didn't like so many Americans didn't know
Speaker 1: understand the full history, and we're afraid to even ask.
Speaker 1: So I was very appreciative that Scott sent that in,
Speaker 1: very appreciative that Dan didn't just block that, you know,
Speaker 1: send it to me and said what do you think?
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, yes, yes, I love this idea.
Speaker 1: I don't love all your stupid tennis jokes, Scott, but
Speaker 1: why don't we work with it? So coming in Monday
Speaker 1: morning to answer your question, I felt like, thanks to
Speaker 1: some good effort on the writing staff, Sunday night, I
Speaker 1: already felt like a little bit ahead of it, and
Speaker 1: I felt comfortable and that was super helpful. And I'm
Speaker 1: certain from your standpoint, I don't know, are you guys
Speaker 1: supposed to pitch Sunday Night?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean usually it's super helpful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes to back, that's your Sunday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, especially after coming back, like after a hiatus
Speaker 3: or a long break, we try to start pitching ideas
Speaker 3: Sunday or collecting thoughts.
Speaker 2: The host does find it helpful.
Speaker 3: You have to hit the ground running as soon as
Speaker 3: the day starts, and if you can already have ideas
Speaker 3: in the tank, it makes it easier.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm turning into my mom. But I
Speaker 1: swear to God, if even from a personal standpoint, if
Speaker 1: I take thirty minutes Sunday night and like think about
Speaker 1: what's for lunch time now with kids, like are the
Speaker 1: clothes clean, It's like, holy shit, my life is a
Speaker 1: lot easier. I'm turning into my parents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, you got to do your
Speaker 2: homework and right all along.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was very pleased with how how we
Speaker 1: didn't shy away from that. Yeah, and Daily Show did
Speaker 1: a good job.
Speaker 3: And I think also your honesty about your ignorance, because
Speaker 3: I felt another former catholicion like I. Also, it's not
Speaker 3: my wheelhouse either, and I had the same thoughts like you,
Speaker 3: like said, you know, I read the Wikipedia page. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you want people to know that. That's
Speaker 3: also like, that's what a lot of people watching our
Speaker 3: show are doing too. Of course, I think they appreciated
Speaker 3: your honesty and that was the great, like the perfect
Speaker 3: take to bring people through the story because it was
Speaker 3: honest and there is humor in your ignorance. Again, you
Speaker 3: kind of let yourself be the punching bag a little bit,
Speaker 3: and that's like a great I think example of how
Speaker 3: you do that while also getting people through it.
Speaker 1: It's my big week as guest host, and I get
Speaker 1: Israel Palestine. I don't mean to complain, but as far
Speaker 1: as scheduling goes, this unspeakably tragic geopolitical crisis is not
Speaker 1: super convenient time for me right now, because no matter
Speaker 1: what I come up with, people are just going to say,
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. And you're right,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the only opinion everyone can agree on.
Speaker 5: Michael Costa is an idiot.
Speaker 1: And what do I know about the Middle East. I'm
Speaker 1: from the Middle West, I'm from Michigan. The best way
Speaker 1: I would describe my position on the Middle East is
Speaker 1: poorly educated.
Speaker 5: And that sounds harsh.
Speaker 1: But at least I'm aware of it because I read
Speaker 1: a lot of your posts online, and sometimes it's better
Speaker 1: not to pretend you know what you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: have friends on Facebook who have the whole Middle East
Speaker 1: figured out, when I know for a fact they can't
Speaker 1: even get car insurance. And everyone has an opinion for
Speaker 1: who's responsible for it. It's Israel, it's Palestine, it's Nettan, Yahoo,
Speaker 1: it's Hamas. Everyone's taking a side, but everyone is wrong.
Speaker 1: Because I spent the weekend reading two lengthy Wikipedia articles,
Speaker 1: and I think it's pretty clear who we can blame
Speaker 1: for all of this mess, the British. I think I'll
Speaker 1: go on record to say this. I am tired of
Speaker 1: people on TV who wear suits knowing all the answers.
Speaker 1: I'm sick of it. Yeah, they don't know the answers.
Speaker 1: Maybe they have a couple of researchers. That's fine, but
Speaker 1: I think there's actually more clout in admitting ignorance is
Speaker 1: a very strong word, admitting that you don't have this
Speaker 1: figured out. And let's all work through this together. That's
Speaker 1: so much that's so sexier to me. Yeah, it's so
Speaker 1: much more human, it is.
Speaker 2: It's so much more honest, and I think there's more
Speaker 2: room for comedy in.
Speaker 5: That hell yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We kind of touched on this a little bit, the
Speaker 3: big difference between being a correspondent sitting at the desk,
Speaker 3: and also you had the advantage of of like the
Speaker 3: various guest hosts we've had, you're one of the corresponds
Speaker 3: who you know, You've been here for a while, you
Speaker 3: knew what the deal was going into it. How what
Speaker 3: did that kind of play into your hosting week of
Speaker 3: having the familiarity and I'll say it the trust of everyone.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the same word I was going to use.
Speaker 1: I maybe if I was just coming in as an outsider,
Speaker 1: I would be a little more skeptical, like do the
Speaker 1: writers know who I am? Do I trust that they
Speaker 1: can write a funny joke?
Speaker 2: Not all writers still know who you are?
Speaker 1: A true I definitely trust the system here. I trust
Speaker 1: the process. It's been on air for twenty five, twenty
Speaker 1: six years. There's a lot of stuff you learn a
Speaker 1: lot of efficiencies. They figured out how to be most productive.
Speaker 1: So it was nice to let the machine work and
Speaker 1: to be at like a little bit of a higher
Speaker 1: position in the machine where I could help guide it
Speaker 1: towards what I thought was interesting. It was fun to
Speaker 1: kill a couple of Trump jokes. Yeah you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I don't think this is that interesting.
Speaker 1: But then also one comes across and you go, this
Speaker 1: one is interesting, let's talk about it. So that's really
Speaker 1: fun because typically as a correspondent, I'm not deciding. I
Speaker 1: can adjust jokes and if I don't feel comfortable, whatever,
Speaker 1: but I'm not deciding what we're talking about. So it
Speaker 1: was fun to play god for a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were a real monster.
Speaker 1: But I also think the familiarity it just only helps
Speaker 1: so much of comedy. As you know from a performer too,
Speaker 1: it's just being comfortable, you know, Like I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: the same with you for stand up. Correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, But my stand up has just gotten closer
Speaker 1: and closer to who I actually am. I get more
Speaker 1: comfortable on stage, and I felt like I feel very
Speaker 1: comfortable in this building, and I think the writing stuff
Speaker 1: feels comfortable with me, I just only helped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that honesty, comfort and confidence. I mean
Speaker 3: that's really what you need to deliver a joke like
Speaker 3: the best you can.
Speaker 2: Now in terms of your guests, so you brought on.
Speaker 3: I hate.
Speaker 1: When the show goes over to the guests, I had
Speaker 1: Ian Bremer Israel Palace, and he's a political scientist. I
Speaker 1: then had Emily Auster, who's a parent data expert parenting World.
Speaker 1: I then had on musician Pulled Surprise winner, Grammy winner
Speaker 1: rihann and Giddens, who did a performance for us, also
Speaker 1: a really powerful performance. She sang a song called Another
Speaker 1: Wasted Life, and behind her she paired with the Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: Innocence Project behind her the show good job. Control room
Speaker 1: directors lighting put up the images of all these imprisoned,
Speaker 1: wrongly imprisoned people that they're wrongful imprisonment added up to
Speaker 1: over five hundred years. It's crazy, It's like it's insane.
Speaker 1: And then the last guest was survivalist Jordan Jonas, who
Speaker 1: is a friend of mine, and I was very thankful
Speaker 1: for him as a guest because it was nice to
Speaker 1: just talk to a dude about shit that I find fun,
Speaker 1: not that I don't like parenting or Rihanna Gannon's music
Speaker 1: or Ian Bremer, but they're just a little it was more,
Speaker 1: they're more serious topics.
Speaker 2: I think you earned it. You deserve break.
Speaker 3: At the end. Did you want to say anything about
Speaker 3: like how you chose them or what it was you
Speaker 3: were looking for in a guest.
Speaker 1: I wanted an eclectic mix, which we definitely got. A
Speaker 1: lot comes down and booking to availability of guests. You know,
Speaker 1: I really wanted a tennis player, pro tennis player. Duh,
Speaker 1: they're all in China. They're all playing in China. Beth
Speaker 1: and Shauna booking department. That is a that is a
Speaker 1: tough job. Every publicist is like pitching them and they've
Speaker 1: got to deal with all this bs and it's.
Speaker 2: So hard to schedule drinks with a friend, I know.
Speaker 1: And now you're like booking, you know. So I asked
Speaker 1: for the Israel Palestine. I said, we really need somebody
Speaker 1: that can digest this, distill it, an expert, because it's
Speaker 1: not me and I'm comfortable saying that. And that was
Speaker 1: just such a beautiful booking because I could make my
Speaker 1: jokes up front, I could make a quick take that
Speaker 1: I still stand by that take Britain did start this
Speaker 1: one hundred years ago by drawing maps. I mean the
Speaker 1: Romans started at three thousand years ago, but that's a
Speaker 1: different podcast. And they booked in and he was great,
Speaker 1: you know, Ian, tell me what's going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: simple question, Not to be insensitive, but for so many
Speaker 1: Americans that see this as something so far away, why
Speaker 1: should they care about what's happening?
Speaker 4: Because in principle, we the United States, stand for something
Speaker 4: beyond just ourselves. I mean maybe America First doesn't quite
Speaker 4: say that, but the Statue of Liberty does. We all
Speaker 4: came from somewhere, right, I mean the Jews and the
Speaker 4: Palestinians are the same people. They came from the same place,
Speaker 4: they've grown up in the same home. And we, as
Speaker 4: Americans who have historically represented that EFOS better than anyone
Speaker 4: else on the planet, how can we not care when
Speaker 4: that is falling apart right now in the most tragic
Speaker 4: possible way in front of our eyes. How can we
Speaker 4: not care about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That's why it matters to us as Americans. Not because
Speaker 4: oil is going to one point fifty, not because people
Speaker 4: are losing their job. No, it's because we as Americans
Speaker 4: if we stand for anything, we stand for that.
Speaker 1: And then Emily Oster, my wife just has all our
Speaker 1: books and has helped us in parenting. I was wondering
Speaker 1: if yeah, yeah, and then Rihann and Giddens. I love
Speaker 1: the idea of a musical guest. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: wasn't fully aware of her prior to the booking, but
Speaker 1: one of those wonderful surprises where it's like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this person hasn't been on radar. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I loved about her. She's so accomplished,
Speaker 1: but she's not a master marketer, she's not a master instagrammer.
Speaker 1: She's just a master at this craft. And a lot
Speaker 1: of her music has true activism behind it. So like
Speaker 1: that's a no brainer for the Daily Show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It was fun. And it's like when you ask your
Speaker 1: friend to come on The Daily Show, they kind of
Speaker 1: have to say yes.
Speaker 2: It's kind of nice, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Can say no. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In terms of Jordan jonas your friend, so you actually
Speaker 3: you did know him before you guys were friends. He
Speaker 3: does like wilderness experiences. He's a wilderness guide and you
Speaker 3: took one of his courses.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I knew him because my wife bought me
Speaker 1: for a birthday gift a week in the Bitterroot Mountains
Speaker 1: at eleven thousand feet a week with him to learn
Speaker 1: and other other psychos that wanted to do this. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think she was just trying to kill me. My
Speaker 1: wife like, here, go to the mountains. So he Yeah,
Speaker 1: he texted me. She was like, didn't work. He's coming
Speaker 1: back to live and even worse, he's never gonna stop
Speaker 1: talking about this trip. Yeah, so he teaches you survival skills.
Speaker 1: We had food and everything. It wasn't like I was procuring.
Speaker 1: We did have twenty four hours where we only ate
Speaker 1: what we procured from the land that was wild. I
Speaker 1: shot a grouse, I ate a shitload of huckleberries. We
Speaker 1: caught trout in the stream. So that was very cool
Speaker 1: and gave me a whole new appreciation of human connection
Speaker 1: to food. I would probably describe myself as someone that
Speaker 1: hunting makes feel icky. I don't like love the idea
Speaker 1: of killing an animal. But then I think about my
Speaker 1: purchase at the grocery store and it's like a lot
Speaker 1: of animal stuff, and it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of like worse.
Speaker 1: It's way worse. It's way worse, and it's like, oftentimes
Speaker 1: I'll throw meat away it's gone bad. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what this animal looks like. And so I really
Speaker 1: had a profound I don't know what a cow looks like.
Speaker 1: I had a profound experience out there feeling really connected
Speaker 1: to nature. And Jordan is such a patient. I mean,
Speaker 1: I am like an idiot. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: sharpen a knife. I don't do anything stuff. And he's
Speaker 1: like a guy who can survive in the wilderness on
Speaker 1: his own truly, and he's patient enough to teach me
Speaker 1: how to make a fish hook. It was really fun
Speaker 1: and cool experience. Yeah, when I when I went back
Speaker 1: to see him before the show, he said, well, now
Speaker 1: I'm in your world, huh, because it was like this
Speaker 1: was a lot, this was this was a lot for him.
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, get your knife, get your knife out, buddy, let's.
Speaker 1: Let's go stab somebody.
Speaker 3: In terms of like the work that goes into it,
Speaker 3: like you know, we both we usually come to work
Speaker 3: every day, do stand up at night?
Speaker 2: Now both you know we have two kids. Family terrible, Well.
Speaker 1: You have twins? Are we allowed to say that? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can say, yeah, also feel good to come to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a break. Yeah, it's like this past
Speaker 2: Sunday night, I was exhausted. I was like, I can't
Speaker 2: wait to go to work tomorrow and relax.
Speaker 1: I know. And then what happens when they get older
Speaker 1: is I start I hate to hate to admit this.
Speaker 1: I love my children, but I start to see the
Speaker 1: weekends as the work days and the work days the weekends,
Speaker 1: and I love both.
Speaker 2: But I mean, we also a lucky that we do
Speaker 2: have a pretty fun job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not like pressing aluminum steel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, we.
Speaker 3: Get to go and hang out with fool people and
Speaker 3: write jokes all day. What was that workload like being
Speaker 3: the host? Did you notice a like a massive difference
Speaker 3: of what it really took from you.
Speaker 2: Day to day.
Speaker 1: It is wild that the more you're involved, the more
Speaker 1: the show feels like your show, you know. So I
Speaker 1: was very appreciative that you get to that morning meeting
Speaker 1: at nine am before the writer's meeting and you can
Speaker 1: help select some of the stories, and it's like that
Speaker 1: really starts things off. Yeah, but the hardest part is
Speaker 1: you go all day working on the show and that
Speaker 1: at like six, you're supposed to be mister funny guy.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted at six. I want to go home. So also,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happens if the host has a
Speaker 1: dentist appointment or an emergency or is sick, because the
Speaker 1: writers have to get going. And if you don't have
Speaker 1: the feedback, I guess you probably just get used more
Speaker 1: used to the host point of the task.
Speaker 2: Grab it a guy to come to the right Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Have a dentist come to the office. But I got
Speaker 1: better with the workload as the week went on. Part
Speaker 1: of the sadness of guest hosting is you kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you understand what's going on, and when it's over, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a vacation, Like I know that's
Speaker 1: my dive bar, this vacation. It's like you're going home tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But I know Carlos exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So, uh, it's a hard job. It's a slog, it's
Speaker 1: a day job. It makes me laugh when I read
Speaker 1: that these celebrities want the job. They don't want the job.
Speaker 1: They want their name on the poster. It's a hard job.
Speaker 2: You gotta like be at work at nine am, correct
Speaker 2: every day.
Speaker 1: And then if you don't know a subject, you got
Speaker 1: to start to learn it. Yeah, so that's what's fun
Speaker 1: for me, but it is it's a hard job. And
Speaker 1: I remember at the Emmys a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: when everyone was like waiting for their bus because that,
Speaker 1: to me, that seems like all I ever remember for
Speaker 1: the Emmys is never knowing where your bus is. Somebody
Speaker 1: from Succession one of the EPs was like, what you
Speaker 1: guys do is actually noteworthy?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The fucking Succession EP was like, you guys have a
Speaker 1: hard job. We're just playing make believe over here. And
Speaker 1: I was like, well, then give us more time at
Speaker 1: the fucking Emmys, okay, go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like we get like the writers and different categories
Speaker 3: are like, oh hey, you guys gonna be the creative
Speaker 3: arts some means, and we're not going to televise those categories.
Speaker 2: And it's like, all right, I know.
Speaker 3: One of the things we have every guest host do
Speaker 3: is a deep dive right into a particular topic that
Speaker 3: may not get a lot of attention or is really
Speaker 3: important to them. And you wanted to tackle the plastic
Speaker 3: water bottle crisis that's killing the environment.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about water it's the thing you hope you
Speaker 1: just sat in on the subway.
Speaker 5: According to doctors.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to drink water basically every day, and in America,
Speaker 1: most of us do that with the help of these
Speaker 1: the number one package drink in the United States. It
Speaker 1: doesn't coke or gatorade or even hater aid, it's bottled water.
Speaker 1: We Americans buy fifty billion disposable water bottles a year.
Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking, Oh shit, another depressing
Speaker 1: environment story. So can I not even drink water without
Speaker 1: ruining my children's future?
Speaker 5: But that's the thing.
Speaker 1: This is one environment story that actually has a really
Speaker 1: easy solution.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna tell you what it is.
Speaker 1: Another installment of long story short.
Speaker 2: What made you pick that and how did you feel
Speaker 2: it worked on the show? And what did you do
Speaker 2: to prepare for it?
Speaker 1: I like water stories. I believe it might is it hydrologist?
Speaker 2: Is that the word that's hydrologist?
Speaker 1: Hydrologist? But also the other word that I really like
Speaker 1: is limnology, the study of fresh water. I know, might
Speaker 1: I might be pronouncing around total nerd. I love water.
Speaker 1: I love water. It sounds funny to say into a microphone.
Speaker 2: He sounds very high.
Speaker 1: I fucking love water. I'm a Michigander. We're surrounded by water.
Speaker 1: We take it for granted. All these other problems in
Speaker 1: our world, social problems that they only exist because we're
Speaker 1: like functioning as humans with flesh because we have water.
Speaker 1: So it starts with this passion for water. The water
Speaker 1: bottle became a pitch in the water world that I
Speaker 1: really resonated with, and that was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we all do this. I mean, Americans using fifty billion
Speaker 1: plastic bottles a year. Thankfully, since I put out this piece,
Speaker 1: people have been tweeting pictures of me with plastic bottles,
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh yeah, mister hot shop.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know.
Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, gotcha. So I want it to
Speaker 1: be known to everybody that yes, I have used a
Speaker 1: plastic bottle in my life, and maybe that's how I
Speaker 1: know about the subject.
Speaker 2: He's being honest as yeah, yeah, growing and change.
Speaker 1: Growing and changing. How did it work? I think it
Speaker 1: worked great?
Speaker 2: Funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, like how we determine that, Like,
Speaker 1: has did plastic bottle consumption go down after this piece?
Speaker 1: That'd be nice enough get on a podcast exactly. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of The piece is what you
Speaker 1: have in your hands, right and down.
Speaker 3: I have this giant, massive half gallon that I feel
Speaker 3: twice a day.
Speaker 1: I love that you have that. God, it's a big
Speaker 1: one too.
Speaker 2: That's great, it's enough to keep getting up to reach.
Speaker 1: No, it's excellent. It's excellent. And it was really important
Speaker 1: for me that this long story short had an answer,
Speaker 1: had a solution. Yeah, really important because we're all tired
Speaker 1: of hearing that the climate's changing and then just being like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well I can't. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Fight big oil?
Speaker 6: Yeah, using a refillable water bottle cuts down on fossil fuels,
Speaker 6: creates less waste, and could even save you sixteen thousand
Speaker 6: dollars over its lifetime.
Speaker 5: That's enough to pay for.
Speaker 1: A luxury vacation or sixteen shitty vacations. So, long story short,
Speaker 1: this is like the easiest choice in the history of
Speaker 1: no brainers. If everyone in the United States just went
Speaker 1: with a reuse of water bottles, we'd save money, solve
Speaker 1: an environmental crisis. And the best part of that is
Speaker 1: then that's one less environmental crisis. You'd have to hear
Speaker 1: people like me bitching about you probably already have nine
Speaker 1: of these, open a cabinet in your kitchen and one
Speaker 1: will fall on you, and tomorrow start using it.
Speaker 5: That's how you save the player.
Speaker 1: One of the favorite parts of the piece was when
Speaker 1: it was like, hey, open your kitchen cupboard right now,
Speaker 1: you have nine of these things already, Like you already
Speaker 1: have them, so just.
Speaker 2: Start to use gifts and you're like, I don't want this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just you already use it. So it's simple. If
Speaker 1: people take one thing from it, it's just use a
Speaker 1: reusable water bottle. I truly believe in twenty years we're
Speaker 1: going to look back on this timeframe like our parents
Speaker 1: that look back on smoking. Oh yeah, and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just use the disposable water bottle. Of them used
Speaker 1: a day a day, so it's ridiculous. So it was
Speaker 1: a small little attack, I hope, and I hope it.
Speaker 1: I hope it helped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pool and Springs comes from Yeah.
Speaker 1: Come well, Pool and Springs can still sell us water,
Speaker 1: but just sell it in a usable double the price.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you said you're like water stories really quick, I
Speaker 3: have one. I'm not sure what you mean by water stories.
Speaker 2: Maybe this one and we'll see.
Speaker 3: I do have twins I'll make this quick, and so
Speaker 3: I drink a lot of water so I can make
Speaker 3: enough breast milk for them.
Speaker 1: It's so important.
Speaker 3: And at the very beginning, I was drinking so much
Speaker 3: water I gave myself hyponatremia.
Speaker 1: No. Yes, I've never known anybody to actually adds.
Speaker 3: I started feeling, you know, nauseu is sick, dead, dizzy,
Speaker 3: And so I went to the doctor that took my blood.
Speaker 3: I had washed out all my electrolytes. I had no
Speaker 3: cue over over water, overwatered, and my doctor was like,
Speaker 3: just stop drinking water.
Speaker 1: I have never heard anybody. I mean, I'm fully believed
Speaker 1: that this entire world would be way healthier and less
Speaker 1: war and anger if we were just more hydrated. But
Speaker 1: you are the one.
Speaker 3: Who little too far plenty of breast milk though I
Speaker 3: had a lot of breast milk, right, but it looked
Speaker 3: at it and they were like, super athletes, get this,
Speaker 3: people who use party drugs like ecstasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was just like, oh, well, we can
Speaker 2: add black dating others to that list.
Speaker 1: I thought you could give babies water.
Speaker 2: Oh you're not supposed to do that. Yeah, you learned
Speaker 2: that the hard way.
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I was like, probably filling up a bottle,
Speaker 1: and my wife was like, what the fuck are you doing.
Speaker 2: Also, they can just take a bath by themselves too, right.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, No, but it's good that you drink that
Speaker 1: much water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing it before we do wrap up.
Speaker 3: Was there anything that really stood out from your hosting
Speaker 3: week that you wanted to talk about or say, you know,
Speaker 3: the share that maybe you didn't get a chance to.
Speaker 1: I think the viewers know this because they're really loyal
Speaker 1: to us. But there's just so many people involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I tried to thank a lot of people. But
Speaker 1: you leave the building going like audio or oh, like
Speaker 1: the graphics. There's just so many people connected to the
Speaker 1: show that work, and it's just a really fun team environment.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love stand up too because I get to say
Speaker 1: and do whatever I want. But it's fun to be
Speaker 1: in a team environment. We're all moving towards the same goal,
Speaker 1: which is to shoot the show, and it's to make
Speaker 1: you look good, and it's to make me look good.
Speaker 2: And one day we'll accomplish.
Speaker 1: Even deesus tonight he's out there trying to make me
Speaker 1: look good. No, but I was very appreciative of the week.
Speaker 1: And you the writers did an excellent job making me
Speaker 1: feel like me, thank you.
Speaker 2: That's important. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome, Cat, And how
Speaker 2: did your family feel like about you hosting?
Speaker 5: Like? It was great?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great. I said on my own podcast,
Speaker 1: The Tennis Anyone Podcast with Michael Costa that I don't
Speaker 1: understand how anybody could do this without like a supportive partner.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I wasn't home all week. My
Speaker 1: kids came to the show Monday. I kissed him on
Speaker 1: the head and then ran into the writer's room. So
Speaker 1: this was a team effort all around. I felt very
Speaker 1: supported at home. It's very important. And then to have
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm of my wife too, kept coming to the
Speaker 1: shows and bringing your friends, like that's so fun. It's
Speaker 1: like when you start doing stand up and the girl
Speaker 1: you're dating like is like, oh, I do want to
Speaker 1: see your show.
Speaker 2: You're like, what's time in her life? She was proud
Speaker 2: of you, exactly.
Speaker 1: Possibly, or she's just like, no, you actually have something
Speaker 1: fun to go to now.
Speaker 2: It's not just like a bar show exactly.
Speaker 1: So I felt a lot of love and it makes
Speaker 1: you feel good inside. And then Monday I came back
Speaker 1: to this studio to shoot something because they needed to
Speaker 1: throw me off a ledge and die in a project
Speaker 1: conspiracy piece, and I said, this is perfect.
Speaker 2: You're like, yep, and I'm back.
Speaker 1: So thanks for asking me such cool questions.
Speaker 3: Kat Oh, hey anytime. And again, I really I think
Speaker 3: you crushed it. It was super fun and you know
Speaker 3: everyone at the show and the writing stuff especially, I
Speaker 3: think everyone had a blast that week and we're cheering
Speaker 3: for you and wanted you to succeed, and you did.
Speaker 1: That's nice. I felt it.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, awesome.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Daily Show Ears edition. I'm
Speaker 1: Michael Costa and.
Speaker 2: I'm Kat Radley.
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