The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Hegseth Lectures "Fat Generals" and Trump Threatens War Against U.S. Cities | Cristela Alonzo

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

Ronny Chieng recaps Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump's sudden gathering of top military leaders, where the president announced his intention to use Democrat-run cities as training grounds for the Nationa...l Guard, and where Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fat-shamed troops, hawked his book, and made cringey jokes. Ricky Velez unpacks how the ubiquity of online sports betting has become a problem for Las Vegas casinos and an even bigger problem for American men, and how, instead of trying to protect people from these billion-dollar gambling apps, Trump is just taking a cut for himself. Comedian Cristela Alonzo sits down with Ronny to discuss comedy institutions, the American dream, and her new Netflix special, "Upper Classy." They talk about paying homage to comedy and participating in its evolution, using joy as an act of resistance, how politicians focus on the middle class and forget the lower class, and what she learned growing up in Texas with an undocumented mother. Plus, a special appearance from Ronny’s mom! Keep it classic and cool this fall—with long-lasting staples from Quince. Go to https://Quince.com/DAILYSHOW for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only sorts for new. This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie T. Welcome to a daily show. I'm Roy Chang. We got so much to talk about tonight. Pete Higgseth has his own Battle of the Bulge. The National Guard adds more tour dates.
Starting point is 00:00:43 And I bet you 50 bucks. Gambling is going to destroy American society. So let's get into the headlines. Let's start with America's military, the Karen of the world. They just will not stay out of other country's business. And leading this military is Pete Hegsef, who you might think is the Secretary of Defense. But you'll be wrong.
Starting point is 00:01:12 He's rebranded himself, the Secretary of War. You know how cool guys always give themselves nicknames. And as part of this military makeover, last week the secretary announced a surprise meeting. Tonight, in an unprecedented move, Secretary Pete Hegsev, asking all U.S. general officers and admirals around the world to gather at the U.S. Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia. A meeting of this size in person and on such short notice is extremely rare. It's going to also potentially be a security risk, given the sheer number of military officials and how many are going to be gathered in one place at a time. Listen, we all do weird things when we're drunk, okay?
Starting point is 00:02:00 Some of us slide into an exos DMs, and some of us call every U.S. general to a meeting at Quantico. But, you know, I'm sure if the secretary is going to gather all the generals, some of them from active war zones, then he must have something very important he wants to tell them. It's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals
Starting point is 00:02:28 in the halls of the Pentagon. That's what you drag all these generals in for? To tell them they're fat? Can you just leave some passive-aggressive comments on their Instagram? Like, hey, congrats, general, when are you due? I mean, this guy will text top secret war plans, but when it comes to body-shaming, he's like, I want to see their fat faces when I tell them how fat their faces are.
Starting point is 00:02:59 their faces are. Look, I get the military needs to be fit. Okay, but in defense of fat generals, they're kind of like coaches, right? Like, coaches don't need to be fit enough to play the sport. They just have to be fit enough to date a 24-year-old. And also, there are some military positions you kind of don't want a fit soldier for. Like, I don't want a guy with six-pack abs operating a drone. He clearly hasn't
Starting point is 00:03:36 had enough time and experience sitting down like this with a controller. Just going, okay, he's dead. But telling generals they have to get on Ozempic wasn't the whole speech. America's Secretary of War had more to say than that. No more beards. long hair, superficial individual expression. We're going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards. Okay, you hear that? You goddamn hippie generals? No more beards. I'm looking at you, Admiral Lubowski.
Starting point is 00:04:16 Now, according to Pete Heggseth, America's military standards are now going to be indistinguishable from a grinder profile, okay? No fannies, no facial hair, and get those ladies the f*** out of my head. my sight. But it's all about a much larger project of de-wokificationing. An entire generation of generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, our diversity is our strength. They had to put out dizzying DEI and LGBTQI-plus statements. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. Yeah, you hear that? General Doubtfire?
Starting point is 00:05:04 Something very weird about that general. I just can't put my finger on it. Although, are we sure dudes wearing dresses doesn't work because the Taliban wore dresses and it kind of worked for them? You know what I mean? I don't know, maybe the beards cancel out the dresses. Someone check the math on that.
Starting point is 00:05:25 But this wasn't just a pep talk. Pete Heggseth, the motherfucking secretary of mother-fitting war, also took the opportunity to bump his book sales on Amazon. You might say we're ending the war on warriors. I heard someone wrote a book about that. Yeah. And that someone was him. Say what you want about Henry Kissinger.
Starting point is 00:05:54 I mean, at least he never used to. his position to sell his book, 101 war crimes to try on Cambodians. But bottom line, a lot of people were worried that this event was going to show that Pete Heggseth had taken over the military. But it actually just showed how disconnected his MAGA rally energy is from their professional culture, especially this moment that he clearly thought was going to crush. Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department.
Starting point is 00:06:30 In other words, to our enemies, F-A-F-O. If necessary, our troops can translate that for you. Wow. Not even the leaders of the U.S. military have ever seen a line bomb that hard before. It's just kind of, it's weird and some would say juvenile to use internet slang in a speech to your adversaries. I mean, President Reagan was never like, Mr. Goberchalk, I hark twit on that wall.
Starting point is 00:07:14 But basically, that was Pete Hexeth's speech. F-A-F-O, and no one in the military is allowed to be fat, especially the leaders. Okay, it's a bad look. So next up to speak was the famously thin health nut commander-in-chief, Donald Trump. And even President Trump noticed how dead the room was. Fantastic, yeah. I've never walked into a room so silent before.
Starting point is 00:07:49 Wow, way to throw your opening act under the bus. Who is that, Lee? Who was that loser, huh? I thought alcoholics were supposed to be fun. Well, if anyone can win a room back, it's President Trump, who convinced these generals there was a good reason to pull them from their posts. I call it the N-word.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Oh, shit. He's coming in hot here. Is he going to like, is he going to say it? Is he going to say it? Is this about to happen? Is this it? The word nuclear, we can't let people throw around that word. Oh, okay, the N-word is nuclear.
Starting point is 00:08:41 Okay, but that's a weird way to say it, since there's also kind of another word that we famously refer to as the N-word. There are two N-words, and you can't use either of it. Can't use either of them. And frankly, if it does get to use, we have more than anybody else. We have better, we have newer. Wait, are we still talking about nuclear?
Starting point is 00:09:18 Or the other one? The other one. I just want to make sure. Look, I'm sure the gathering of America's most decorated generals is loving this extended riff on the N-word, but let's maybe wrap this up before it gets out of hand. San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places,
Starting point is 00:09:44 and we're going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within. I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard, military. This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within
Starting point is 00:10:05 and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. Okay, okay, you know what? Can we just go back to talk about the N-word? Okay, because this is... This seems worse. So is that what this whole thing was about? giving these generals the marching orders for war against American cities?
Starting point is 00:10:24 That's some pretty dark and scary shit from the president and the secretary of war. I mean, no, no, start with the... No, not now, no shredding. Sreading for good stuff only, not bad stuff. Look, I've only officially been American for like a few
Starting point is 00:10:39 hours now, but even I know that using American cities as a training ground for the military is kind of messed up. And I don't think that's what American soldiers signed up to do. So if you're going to rope them into your authoritarian fantasies, at the very least, you should at least change the recruitment ads.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Your great-grandfather fought Hitler. Your grandfather fought the communists. And now you'll be called upon to take on America's greatest enemy, Portland. If you're a tough young man with 0% body fat, the U.S. Army wants to shave you clean. Then we'll fly you to hostile lands like New York in Chicago where you'll defend America from people who make fun of our president. Your Pappy fought German Panzers. You'll fight this guy, that lady who won't move her car,
Starting point is 00:11:29 and anyone with a nose ring. When history calls, you will send it to voicemail because you're shaving. While you wait for Antifa, you'll keep busy by picking up trash. Then clear out a homeless camp, another homeless camp, and then clear out the first one again. Then a quick cleanup shave and back to your post. Wait, did you get your neck? Quick shave and we're back. Do you have what it takes to defeat hordes of demonic agents of chaos, then join the Department of War today. Strength, honor, integrity, no fatties, because we want you. Shave that man. When we come back, we give a Laz, we'll give us his opinion so don't go away.
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Starting point is 00:13:04 and 365-day returns. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E dot com slash daily show. Free shipping and 365-day returns. Quince.com slash daily show. Welcome back to the Daily Show. We all know I've got great opinions, but I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions. So here with another installment of, in my opinion, is our good friend, Ricky Valette. Las Vegas is loud, it's obnoxious, and it's much like our president.
Starting point is 00:13:57 It might be dying right before our eyes. Tourism in Las Vegas is in a big slump this summer, costing the city billions of dollars. Is Las Vegas dying or is it all high? It is dying. With visitors down 11% from last year. One factor, sky high prices. Prices are too high. Almost everything in Las Vegas seems overpriced.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Even a drink can drain your wallet. How much do you pay for this? $33. Oh, oh. $33? If I'm paying $33 for a drink, the rim better have cocaine on it. We love cocaine here.
Starting point is 00:14:41 Along with the high prices, the venereal diseases there, are more obvious reasons. reasons that Vegas is having trouble. It's because it's in everybody's pocket now. In 32 states plus D.C. placing a bet is now as simple as opening up an app on your phone. Last year, Laura, Americans spent $150 billion, with a B, dollars on legal sports gambling. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can bet on events all over the world from football to table tennis. Table tennis! I bet $100, those players are both virgins.
Starting point is 00:15:23 How about that? So we all know that gambling online has become an enormous business. And if you don't know that, just watch TV for two minutes. The ads are everywhere, and some are getting really, really creepy. The Fan Duel commercial paying tribute to the late Carl Weathers, who passed away 11 days ago. That game is your off-rock. That commercial just had a moment of silence. Thank you for your service.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Carl. Use promo code. If he dies, he dies. For 500 matchplay. Of course, most people, there's downsides to being able to gamble on everything, everywhere. all at once. Young men are blowing their money like never before due to easy access to online gambling and sports betting. 50% of men between the ages of 18 through 49 have a sports betting app. 60% of high schoolers have gambled within the last year. Boys love sports. Now it's all about
Starting point is 00:16:33 betting. And so I think we're really destroying the boys. Can we have one thing on the internet that doesn't destroy the boys? No, seriously. No, no. AI porn. video games, gambling, and Theo Vaughn? Come on, what are we doing? The boys don't stand a chance. And sure, am I bitter because I lost a ton of money during the U.S. Open because sinner decided to shit the bed and not use his backhand?
Starting point is 00:17:04 Yes. Have I told my wife? No. Have I been home since the U.S. Open? No. Luckily, my gambling habits aren't as bad. as they could be for others. When I say severe, I'm talking, gambling eight hours a day,
Starting point is 00:17:24 compulsively betting, waking up, thinking about the bets that you placed the night before. I think we're going to see huge rates of bankruptcies, huge rates of divorces. Bankruptcies and divorce. My God, you're going to turn these children into the President of the United States of America. Not good. It's not good, Ronnie. So since these gambling companies are leading us down a road filled with addiction, you would assume that our government would step in and put a stop to it. Nope.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Ours is just taking a cut of the action. A little known provision in the Big Beautiful bill has some gamblers upset. The budget law changes the rules about deducting gambling losses. So instead of deducting 100%, the law limits lost deductions to 90% of winnings, which could leave gamblers paying taxes even when they lose. And they are furious. Of course, the government has started taking a rake on gambling. Our president is a mob boss.
Starting point is 00:18:28 If you're making money, he wants a piece of it. Same, apparently, if you have a private sex island. But... Do you want to vote? If you ask me, our government does not need to be joining gambling and exploiting Americans. It needs to be stopping it. A government that cares about Americans would stop corporations from drowning people in gambling debt so we can go back to drowning them in health care debt like true patriots.
Starting point is 00:19:07 But hey, that's just my opinion. Thank you for last, everyone. When we come back, Cressela Alonzo will we join me on the show so don't go away. Welcome back at the Davey Show. My guest tonight is a comedian whose new Netflix special is called Upper Classy. Please welcome, Christella Alonzo.
Starting point is 00:20:01 I know. How do I top that? I'm a really good walker, apparently. No, you were great. So, third, Netflix special. Yes. How did you visually approach this one? You know, well, you know, you never know what you're going to do. I started writing, and then the country happened.
Starting point is 00:20:21 And then you realize that you have to say something because the country is happening. Sure, yeah. I mean, I watch it super funny. It's great. I notice your, I guess, you know, I take it for granted that someone doing comedy for 10, 20 years, always going to be great at comedy. So I always look for how they film me. to make it a little different, to make it a special.
Starting point is 00:20:41 And so I noticed you actually start in this quite an old school, Chris Rockway, where you're in the green room and then you walk out. The one shot, the one shot to the, yeah, yeah. So what was your, you know, what were you thinking, were you trying to pay on my show? You're just like, yes, I actually, I wanted to do it like the stand-of specials that I grew up watching. Yes.
Starting point is 00:21:01 And, you know, it used to be such a, the specials were special. Yes. It used to be this moment that you're like, this is the night. And I wanted to throw it back, and I'm a sneakers person. I wore heels on that show. And that hurt. Yeah. I did that.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Like, I did that. I did that. No, but I wanted to do a polish, you know? And I was actually, I was talking to Tom Papa. Yes. And I was telling him, I wanted to go for like a Rita Rudner look. Yes. You know, and he was like, well, you're Latina.
Starting point is 00:21:33 I'm like a Margarita Reater. Yeah, I mean, I think that's the, I, Like, weird thing about comics is that we kind of value history more than most people. Yes. All we want is to, all we read about is comedy history and trying to pay homage to that or live up to that. Or, you know, may we be so lucky to get praise from our peers who are of that generation. You know what I mean? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:22:03 You know, for me, when Letterman was retiring, I got to do his show, like in the last, month and that to me when you're a comic the comedy nerding you wants that moment yeah because you remember that like when I was a kid Carson was the one you wanted and he was he retired when I was a teenager and that hurt so much right I didn't even know I wanted to do stand-up but I wanted to be on Carson right because that was a meter of what American was you know yeah so same so it's I feel like a love I in another way of putting it is like I kind of came to this country because of the American comedy
Starting point is 00:22:38 institutions. Yes. And these comedy institutions are kind of, they're not what they once were, but I kind of don't care. Me too. I'm like, no, no, I wanted to, I don't care that network TV is dying. I love being on The Tonight Show. No, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:22:55 Like, because it's for me. It's not even for anyone, you know, it's for me. But honestly, like when you think about it, even as a Latino. Sorry, that was an unfair diss to the Tonight Show. They know what they did. You guys know what they did. But they do. No, but, you know, I love the comedy institutions, but what happens, too, is that as a Latina, as a part of a group that doesn't get seen... Wait, you're not Filipino?
Starting point is 00:23:21 I am during API law. Okay, okay. But, you know, it's like, no, but it's like, it's one of those things where, like, you realize that a lot of the comedy institutions didn't have people that look like you in them. Sure. So you actually, you get sad that they're no longer around, but you actually like the... evolution that it becomes, what it becomes into. No, totally. Look at me right here. What the f*** is amazing.
Starting point is 00:23:43 It's amazing. I know, no, I'm not. No, it is. It's so, it's great. No, but that's my point. It's like, so when I do the specials, for me, and tell me if that's what you're trying to do, is like, I, because I never saw Asians do comedy specials, I tried to put myself in that.
Starting point is 00:24:01 So when I film a special, I pay homage to these specials because I'm like, oh, well, I never saw someone come out, you know. Absolutely. Yeah, and... Look, look, my mom was undocumented when she got here. I'm a first generation Mexican-American. I grew up in South Texas in a border town that had immigration rates during the 1980s. The immigration rates have existed for decades.
Starting point is 00:24:21 So now, you know, it's like, I do it, and I love to be personal because I think that being specific in your story actually makes it universal to so many people. When they see the specifics and how you grew up, you realize that while you might not be Latino, You know, might not be a woman, you actually relate to the way that I grew up. And that's the thing that we need to talk more of is that, like, right now, the country is so divisive. But really, the more different we are, the more alike we are. So when I'm on stage, I don't care if people don't like me. What I care about is honoring the memory that my mom had left me and why she came to this country for me to have opportunities.
Starting point is 00:25:03 I mean, right now, coming on stage, I was thinking, you're hosting the Daily Show tonight. I am the daughter of immigrants, and for the next, like, five couple minutes, there's immigrant families. They're the stars of the Comedy Central, like, channels right now. Sure. I mean, that's a...
Starting point is 00:25:33 It's a nice sentiment, but the data shows that not a demographic, so it's mostly, it's mostly coastal elites and white people. But anyway, that's a nice stuff. Yeah, but I just want white people to feel like they're allies right now. So thank you for clapping. Yeah. No, that is cool. I mean, and you mentioned your mom in this special, you know, and you talk about her.
Starting point is 00:25:53 You want to talk a little bit about... Yeah, you know, like, to me, to me, one of the things that I think that I talked about in the special thematically was that what I learned from her was that she worked really hard. And that's part of the American dream that we get taught. We get taught that we have to work hard. And then after you work hard, you live life hard. And what I realized, then you get to enjoy life after you start work, you know, you work enough. But no one tells you how much work is enough.
Starting point is 00:26:17 So then, like, with my mom, she always wanted to go see a movie at a movie theater. She never did. She always told herself, no, I have to work first and then go see a movie. And then she ended up passing away before she went to see a movie. And in that moment, I was my mom's caregiver when she passed. And I was like, she denied herself the most basic thing because she didn't think she deserved it. Because that's what this country does.
Starting point is 00:26:40 This country makes it seem like you need to work hard. Screw them, the corporations, they don't want to pay you a fair living wage. They want you to kill yourself because you need to work hard for them. So when do you get to enjoy life? You have to enjoy life now. That's one thing I learned from my mom's passing, especially nowadays. The biggest form of resistance that I believe in is joy.
Starting point is 00:27:03 The people that hate you want to see you miserable, and you cannot let them do that. You need to show joy. If they hate you, you smile at them, and you're like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I am so happy. Yeah. And you do it like that, so violent. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:18 No, I love that. And, I mean, you said you grew up in Texas. I did. And you, I mean, you grew up, like, I don't know if we could, you were, like, squatting in diners. Yeah, for seven years of my life, my family squatted in an abandoned diner. My mom was a cook in a Mexican restaurant,
Starting point is 00:27:33 work double shifts, got paid $150 a week for double ships because she was undocumented. And that's what they do in this country with so many people. They exploit them for the labor, right? And then that's the thing that we find ourselves now, right? In the last election, immigrants are the problem, immigrants are the problem. Now you see Farmageddon where they don't find anybody working the farms, but it's like, but you own the libs, right? Like you own the libs.
Starting point is 00:27:57 How does it feel to own the libs knowing that now corporations are going to come and own your farm? Yeah, well, I was actually going to take it somewhere positive, but I'm glad you went there. No, it's valid a point. I guess I was going to ask you because you grew up in Texas. Yes. And I guess, you know, I guess us outside of Texas, we kind of have this stereotype of a majority of Texans and all that. Like, what are we getting wrong about the Texas? What are we missing here? What is it?
Starting point is 00:28:33 You know, it's the fact that anyone, aside from Texas, but I can speak about Texans, everybody wants the best, right? They want the opportunity, but the way that they were raised, especially in my neighborhood, we were raised very conservative, leaning towards, because of our religion, you know, and what people don't understand is that we want the best. The way that we try to carry out the best is a lot of times we go into, it's blue-collar families. that I think, you know, one of the biggest problems we find is that, especially in politics, we talk about the middle class a lot. And we use it as a blanket statement. That middle class is just everyone, you know, but it's not because we actually don't talk about the lower class people, the people in the people like me that grew up in abject poverty, because the people in that kind of poverty, we vote too. And what we find is that we actually don't see ourselves
Starting point is 00:29:26 as important. We actually see ourselves as invisible because people try to cater, to the next economic status. So what they do is that people feel disillusioned. They feel defeated, you know? And I think that it's important to have more people talk to them specifically, to let them know that they're part of this country rather than just middle and upper class,
Starting point is 00:29:47 which is what they love to do. Sure. And part of that is people in that class they just described, they kind of have to come out and vote. To show their power. They have to come and vote. It's so easy to be apathetic, but you've got to come out and exert that. And, you know, I work with voter outreach in every election.
Starting point is 00:30:10 I've been working with it for years. I just want people to vote. I don't even care how you vote. It's just if we're living in a sheer democracy, let the majority. It's not my fault. I look good in red. But, you know, it is. It's important to go make your voice heard.
Starting point is 00:30:30 And there's so many people that say, well, my vote doesn't matter. Yes, it does. Every vote matters. And we have to teach people that they do. And, I mean, you know, we're kind of preaching to the liberal elite choir here who just cheer any, any f***ing cliche we can say, you know, like. But, like, the Latino voting bloc is the largest growing mega voting bloc in the country. I mean, how do you kind of square those ideas of, like, these people who are immigrants themselves or their parents were immigrants? or their grandparents or immigrants,
Starting point is 00:31:01 and they know what it was like, and they know... Well, you know, what happened, especially where I'm from in South Texas, they, MAGA and a lot of Republicans decided to go through the church. So they actually infiltrated churches, and that's how they got a lot of people to change their perspective because they thought, well, we can get them at church. And it worked. It did work. It did work.
Starting point is 00:31:22 Because, you know, what is scarier than going against the teachings of God? Sure. But anyway, we'll teach you what those teachings. of God are in our language. You know, so for me, it's one of those things where people felt spoken to, people feel represented. And I think that, you know, I've always said that, you know, I'm on the left, but, you know, it's like, I love this country.
Starting point is 00:31:46 I love this country. I'm a Catholic. I love God. I love family. I love everything that... No, there's no chairs for that. She wore out her welcome a bit with that one. But I also like weed.
Starting point is 00:32:06 I like weed. Okay, you like weed. No, no, it's like... But it is, I think... The true God. I know. So what's the answer? The answer is Buddhism?
Starting point is 00:32:17 No. The answer is to actually give more of a chance to people like me to come on, you know, to have these spaces where they can say, you know how you love religion. You know how you love your family. you know how you love this country, I do too. So how do we work together? And, you know, it's that thing where it's like, they sometimes need to hear that you love it
Starting point is 00:32:38 in order for them to believe it. And so many of us assume that people believe that we love it. That they assume, well, you know we love this country. No, they want you to say it. They want you to say it with some sparklers. We're in a U.S. flag sweater, you know, like, you know, listening to country music at an Applebee's or whatever.
Starting point is 00:32:56 You know what I mean? But we do. We all want the same thing. We just need to be able to allow ourselves to have a difference of opinion at times, but only a difference of opinion that doesn't, that sees me as a human being still. You know, then we can actually have conversation.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Well, you're very wise, you're very funny. Before we go, I just want to try, it's so funny you said, you mentioned your mom, because my mom is never in America. She's always in Singapore, and she's actually here tonight. She's out over there, over there, mom. Come on. Hey, Mom, you know, come and say hi to Christella.
Starting point is 00:33:33 Yeah, come out, see hi to Christella. My mom's very shy. She's very shy, yeah. Come on out, yeah. It's okay. We'll cut the car. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah. You want to say to her mom?
Starting point is 00:33:44 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. Oh my God. Yeah, man. Hey, ma'am, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:33:56 She's never here. She's never here. That's amazing! She's never here. I always, I will, I will never miss opportunity to exploit my mother for likes on the angel. And that's what makes you American! Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:13 So, I just want to say, yeah, you talk about mom really touched me and I just wanted to say she was still. She's never here, by her, she's not here every show. She doesn't even live in this country, so she's, yeah. But look at this, that, this is what the American do is. I don't know what I'm seeing down my mom. Exactly what it is. That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:34:29 But anyway, you're great, Kistella. Thanks for doing the only show. Thank you. It's Kistella, upper-classy, now playing globally on Netflix. Cristela Alonzo, everybody. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. Calling all Book Lovers, the Toronto International Festival of Authors
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Starting point is 00:35:22 Now here it is, your Mormon of Zad. It worked nice and easy, you're not having it. You don't have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don't pop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would pop down those stairs. I've never said, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-pop-pop-pah.
Starting point is 00:35:43 You'd go down the stairs. Wouldn't hold on. I said, it's great. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central, Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus.

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