The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Iran War Closes Another Strait & Mamdani Debuts 10-Minute Toilets in NYC | Giri Nathan

Episode Date: September 18, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expanding NYC’s public restrooms, which is good because the war in Iran is once again going to s**t. Michael Kosta breaks down how the war continues to drive up prices, including the price of diesel (the fuel, not the jeans brand). Plus, move over, Strait of Hormuz: a hot, new, geopolitically tense strait has entered the villa. Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta butt heads over the biggest sports stories of the day: NY Giants quarterback Jameis Winston goes on a cologne-spritzing spree in the locker room, Sydney Sweeney takes heat for her naked Novig sports betting ad, and an Australian athlete becomes the Usain Bolt of sharting, in the latest edition of Sports War. Defector Media staff writer & cofounder and bestselling author, Giri Nathan, sits down with Michael Kosta to discuss his book “Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis," about the rise and rivalry of pro tennis players Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. The two tennis superfans review this year’s U.S. Open, discussing Honey Deuce towers, influencer drama, and both the men’s and women’s finals. Plus, how the USTA can grow tennis fandom while preserving the sport’s spectacle and tradition. -- Dose - New customers can save 35% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/TDS or entering TDS at checkout. -- The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Stream full episodes on Paramount+ Follow TDS: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Costa. Cinematic universe keeps expanding. Sports betting gets a sexy makeover. In great news, New Yorkers are getting a public restroom that isn't the sea train.

Hey, let's get into the headlines. Let's start right here in New York City. We got some frog heads in that. It's the best city in the world. A lot of buildup for that. It's the best city in the world. But it's not perfect. Luckily, we've got Mayor Zoran Mamdani here now

to fix our problem, starting with problems number one and number two. Finding a public restroom in the city could soon get a lot easier. Mayor Mondani announced plans since all 17 modular public restrooms and busy areas all across the five boroughs. Yes, thank you, Mayor Mamdani. Looks like Costa has weekend plans after

wrong. But this will be helpful, because I'm so sick of having to buy a coffee every time I need to go to the bathroom, and then having to buy another coffee because the first coffee maybe need to go to the bathroom. Then, yep, you guessed it, another coffee for another bathroom. Coffee bathroom, coffee bathroom, coffee bathroom, until finally I'm home and I can relax on my couch with you guessed it, a nice cup of coffee. But these aren't just your regular old public restrooms. These have some pretty high-tech features. A QR code gets you in for free. Safety features include a smoke detector and a 10-minute time limit per use. Attention. Your use time has expired. The door is opening now.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Wait, after 10 minutes, the doors open automatically. People are going to be in there on minute nine with their pants around their ankles, trying to cut the wire like it's mission impossible. Red or blue? I can't believe the door just flies open whether you're done or not. Nothing keeps things moving smoothly like a shock clock counting down

until the entire city gets to see your butthole. On the other hand, it does beat the original idea which was to eject you over the Throgs Neck Bridge. It's a great bridge. Let's move on to something that's lasted way longer than 10 minutes. The war in Iran.

Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. When Trump launched this war back in March, he promises it would take just a few weeks, and it would cost us nothing. And that promise went just as perfectly as all his other promises. Nearly seven months into the war with Iran,

Americans are also footing a rapidly rising bill from the price of the war itself, the Congressional Budget Office now estimating $38 billion in rising, to the price of the things we need, like oil, diesel prices, pushed to new record highs again, And overnight, diesel's rising costs can show up in everything, from groceries to clothes to home heating.

Oh, great. As if I don't already fight enough with my wife over the thermostat. I always want her to turn it down and she always wants me to stop coming home at 2 a.m. stinking of alcohol. You know, it's like marriage. But that's right. We've got a problem with diesel. And I mean the fuel source, not the brand of jeans worn exclusively by disgusting Europeans. And the cost is even more when you can't. on all the military bases we have to repair, all the equipment will have to fix, all the Iran War Championship T-shirt merch

we had to throw away. So I'm just a little confused. Donald Trump has assured many times that we've already won the war, so why are gas prices still going up? As a new wave of strikes this weekend targets vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting escalating threats. God damn it, the Strait of Hormuz?

How is this still happening? We're the United States, we almost beat the Taliban. I know we can handle one straight. A dramatic escalation tonight in the war with Iran. Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, threatening a second waterway critical to global trade. The Babel Mandab Strait, a vital route for Saudi oil. Wait, wait, wait, there's another straight now?

This war is like a telenovela. The Strait of Hormuz has a twin. I'm starting to think it's bad that our entire economy's built on extracting oil from incredibly narrow waterways in the world's most volatile region. And I just want to give a shout out to my favorite straight, by the way, Gibraltar.

Right? I mean, drama-free, staying in its lane. No one has anything bad to ever say about the strait of Gibraltar. Anyways, love you, Jim. So now we have two straits that we get our oil from,

and they're both closed? How did this happen? A lot of it has to do with the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels in Yemen here. see, the Houthis have now spread their control. Actually, it does include this town right here, and it also includes a very key island in the Strait of Babel-Amendev right here. They've been running oil out of this pipeline here into the Red Sea.

Shut up, shut up! Shut up! Just shut up! I don't want to learn any more obscure Middle Eastern geography. I shouldn't have to know what Pairam Island is. No offense. to the people of this region, I'm sure it's a beautiful place with a rich and fascinating history, but every time I learned something new about it, it means my life has gotten worse. By this time next year, gas is going to be $12 a gallon, and I'm going to be able to name all the rivers in Oman. This brain wasn't built to learn about international waterways. It was built to learn the names of all the characters in the progressive insurance commercials.

Flo, Jamie, Mara, and of course, Alan. Guys don't know their names? And more importantly, this all shows how badly our commander-in-chief has managed this war. I mean, look at this shit. Iran is not even on the map about the war in Iran. I thought this war was about nukes, but the nukes, they're like up here. This war is starting to feel like that moment in monopoly when you know you're going to lose, but it's still going to take like six more hours of hemorrhaging money.

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because tennis needs them to drown out all the player's sex noises. Oh, oh! Tennis is so perverted. No wonder you love it, Costa. The only thing this proves is you've never had tennis or watched sex. Anyway, it's almost full, which means football is back, baby. And in week one, a new record was set after the Giants. big win. After the Giants win, cameras caught backup quarterback James Winston in the locker

room, dowsing himself with Cologne by one count spraying himself over 25 times. When the game came down to it, we started in the first drive, ended in the second drive. Hell yeah, do you see that? He completed a record 79% of his sprinters. This is how you make an impact as a backout quarterback, okay? If you're not on the field, the least you can do is make the locker room smell like an Armenian bachelor party. And I can say that because some of my best friends are bachelors. Well, pee, you, Ronnie, that takes stinks worse than James Winston. The simple explanation is that Winston has had so many concussions that he keeps forgetting

he already sprayed himself with Cologne. He's like the dude from Memento, but with Dracar Noir, which brings us to our odor-under bet of the night. How many gallons of Cologne will James Winston go through before next six? Sunday. Brought to you by gambling. Gambling. Is that the smell of victory? No, it's divorce famous. Moving on from football to America's second and third favorite pastime, boobs. This morning, Sidney Sweeney at the center of another ad controversy. The actress appearing nude for sports betting platform Novig covering herself with footballs, tennis rackets, and hockey pads.

Think you know sports? Prove it. Novig is. Just sports. Many female athletes now speaking out, claiming the ad reduces women in sports to their bodies instead of their abilities. I have one word for this ad. Gross. It clearly objectifies women and is offensive to female athletes.

I didn't even know female athletes had bodies. When I watch them play, I'm looking at their brains. I mean, Gloria Steinem has been dead for three weeks, and this is what it's come to, me putting my browser on incobeyed. and quietly sneaking into the guest room while my family sleeps upstairs, then dimming the lights and being offended by this ad three times in a row. The point is, shame on Sidney Sweeney.

Apologies, Ms. Steinam. You rest in power, queen. Oh, please, Costa. This ad wasn't offensive to female athletes. That movie where Sidney played a female athlete was offensive to female athletes. Plus, if anybody should be offended, is gamblers. Conflating sex and gambling is wrong. Those are two separate addictions. I don't want to be confused when someone says, hey, check out that spread.

Which brings us to our nut buster bed of the night. What is Sidney Sweeney hiding behind those footballs? Brought you by gambling. Gambling, you can't spell addiction without double deeds. Moving on, it's important to point out that not all female athletes are easily offended. In fact, one doesn't give a shit what you think. Hirox is apologizing after a professional athlete

was allowed to keep racing after she soiled herself during an event in Beijing. She went on to win the race. Hirox's co-founder says the organization made a mistake by not stepping in. And now Hirox says it has put new rules and procedures in place to prevent something like this from happening again. All right.

Someone called James Winston. We're going to need a lot of cologne. stats. I can't believe she sullied the good name of Hirox. Something we all learned existed 10 seconds ago. And sure, it was disgusting, but more importantly, it was unfair. The force of the diarrhea propelled her forward like some sort of Mario Kart power. F*** yeah, I got the diarrhea star.

I'm flying. Put some respect on this athlete, Ronnie. She's the Usain Bolt of sharding. Plus, once you shit yourself, you have to. to stay in the race, and you have to win the race. Otherwise, you're just the person who shit themselves. And yes, she's listed as the winner with an asterisk next to her name,

but that's only there to symbolize a butthole. This is all just a part of sports. You got to get a competitive advantage however you can. And I know what I'm saying, because I once shat myself during a high school football game. Wait, you played high school football? No, it was last week at my nephew's game. You should have seen the other team's faces

and everyone else's faces. Which brings us to our poop. There it is. Better than night. Which Olympic event will feature diarrhea in 28? Brought to you by gambling. Gambling. Sometimes there's corn in it.

Well, that's all the time we have for sports work. Join us next week and we debate whether Monday night football should be played on Thursday night and Thursday night football should be played on Monday morning. Oh, what are you talking about? Thursday games should be moved to April. and a best-selling author of Changeover,

a young rivalry and new era of men's tennis. Please welcome Giddy Nathan. These are big tennis fans. Sounds like it. Yes, they are. You wrote in Defector, your blog, about the state of the U.S. Open is the state of us. We're in New York City. U.S. Open is one the biggest tennis events in the world.

What do you mean by that? So tennis is really hot right now. tennis as a spectacle is really hot. I don't know if that means tennis as a sport is very hot. Right. You feel the difference between those two things when you go to the U.S. Open. It's been kind of bubbling up in the last few years,

I think kind of a post-COVID thing. But the sense that so many people are at the tournament just to hang out, get drunk, like create content of one kind and another and then go home has never been more overwhelming. Yep. And I don't know how much of that is the tournament's fault. I don't know how much of it is specific to tennis.

It's just like kind of how people act in public spaces these days. Right. Which is a little bit disturbing to confront, because, you know, you've been in tennis your whole life. I've been going to this tournament for 20 years, and it used to just be for kind of hardcores. That I've always had a bit of a scene to it. You know, Anna Wintor is there every night, but now it's really full-on overrun by people looking for something. What are some of those examples? I mean, I think I see them.

You know, last year I was watching Yonik's Center play. I think he was the number one scene. number one player in the world, and he had to stop his match because a bunch of Wall Street guys had their back to the court taking photos. And I go, what other sporting event or Broadway play would you have your back to the athletes? But what are some other examples? No, it's crazy because a lot of it has to do with just like indifference to the thing you're supposedly there to see, right? So you have people standing up in the front row, turning their back, recording content. You have, I think during Naomi Osaka is one of her early matches. They had influence

serves blasting the ring lights and doing dances in the middle of the point. So the umpire had to be like, please do not do this. Do that? Yep. And it's various little things here and there. Like, I was watching a match with pretty two fairly obscure players, and you got a guy who's almost certainly gambling on the match yelling out, you suck right before the guy serves every time.

So I don't think Tristan School Kate has haters out there. I think this guy's just bet on the match. Right. Well, yeah, I mean, that is interesting because how much of that falls on the US Open wants to grow the game. They want, I mean, ticket sales are crazy. Yeah. It's packed every time.

But maybe they could do a better job at educating the new spectator. We can't turn people away from the sport. No, they're unequivocally succeeding in getting more people interested in tennis. The trick is that tennis has a little bit of decorum to it. And it seems like hoity tooty from the outside, like, why do I have to buy into this? But as you know, once you actually do and you sit there and let the crowd get silent, it's almost like live theater. It takes on a whole new level of enjoyment.

You hear the sneaker sounds, you hear the ball. And all of that is lost when you just have a bunch of people filing into a stadium and carrying on small talk or networking talk. You feel like you're in a cafeteria. Just like this is not the spectacle. Yeah, and it is frustrating if you tennis, purists, and you love it. And then when you go to Wimbledon or you go to the other tournaments... Like the temple of the sport.

It's silent. And I don't want to turn people away from the sport, but I wonder what they can do. What do you love about the U.S. Open? Yeah, I mean, it still is, for all the issues it does have, like the tennis is still extremely engrossing. It's insane. If you've never had a chance to watch this tennis up close,

just go to the tournament, go to the outer courts, see the speed and power that these players have. And it is totally illegible from the TV screen. You really have to go see it. And that's what I tell people, like, don't worry about seeing Serena, seeing Carlos, all the big names. Just go to a court you can get close to,

and watch them, even practice, it's phenomenal. I mean, I was trapped in a Adrian Manorino versus... That's a funky player. Alexandria Bublich. Yeah. Court 12. And I'm like, I've been here for four hours and 50 minutes. Yeah.

But it's engrossing, like you said. Yeah. And those outer courts, in a way, almost have a better decorum. Yeah, they're self-selecting in a way. So, like, if you're there, you really wanted to be there. And especially when the day session turns in the night session, You've got people who've been soaking up the tennis for six or seven hours and they just can't get enough. Like, that's actually, for all the issues you might get in the big stadiums, the outer courts are about as pure as fan experience.

I saw a lot of people this year stacking their honey-duce cups. Yeah, I mean, that's like, and if you don't know what a honey-duce is. Yeah, a centipede thing. It's a $23 vodka drink. And, oh, yeah, there it is. I mean, people just stack them. And this guy is shit-faced screaming at Karen Hatchenoff on Matchpoint. And I'm going, is this what the U.S. Open wants?

They sold them a lot of drinks. Right. They made money off him. They made money off this guy. But what's the quality of engagement with tennis? Let's talk about the finals and who won the tournaments. Women's final, very interesting. Elena Rabakana took the number one ranking in the world and then beat the person who she took it from, Arena Sabalanka.

What did you notice from the women's final or the women's tournament in general? Yeah, that's my favorite rivalry in the game. I think because they are so similar just on paper, you know, very tall, very powerful players, great serves. But the actual minute-by-minute experience of watching them could not be more different. Amazing, yeah. Because you have Rabakana, who's kind of icy, even-keeled, very chill affect,

and you have Arena Sabalanka, who's just a roller coaster remotions, and it's like always two unforced errors away from complete meltdown. So it is kind of fun to ride, you know, that tightrope between brilliance and complete collapse. and that contrast between those personalities is always a pleasure to watch for sure. I love watching them play because I always pretend like I'm like both of them.

You know, like, oh, I'm composed and poised. But then when Arena cracks a racket, I'm like, I get it, I can be emotional too. Arena told the camera after the match to fuck off. Yeah. It was in her face that she said, fuck off. Yeah. I love that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's pretty known for losing the match, you know, keeping her cool. and then walking off screen and just wrecking, liquefying her rackets off the court. So I think there's something very honest and relatable about that.

And at the same time, there's something to aspire to in the total iciness of Vibakana. My daughter's six, and I always have tennis out on the house. And one thing that's great about tennis, it just goes women's men's, women's men, you know. My daughter, and she was watching Arena Sabalanka, and I think I'd probably told her 10 times that day, speak quiet.

and speak quietly. And she goes, well, she's yelling. And I'm like, that is what's great about tennis team. My daughter is seeing a strong, powerful woman scream, tell the camera to fuck off, and she's a millionaire. Yeah. It's great. No, I think it's like the reason I'm so drawn to tennis as a writer is like

it's such a pure expression of personality and style. Like there's no team, there's no helmets. You're just out there. And when you're under pressure, the real you comes out. And sometimes it's ugly and sometimes it's beautiful and sometimes the mix of both. I love that. I love that.

The men's final. Ben Shelton, the American first Grand Slam final, lost to Alexander Zverev, the German, his second of the year. You wrote, now that I've seen this final, it changes nothing. Changes nothing. About men's tennis. Explain yourself. Because the real power dynamic at the top of men's tennis right now

involve two players who aren't in the final. So you have Janik Sinner, who's the world number one, and you have Carlos Alcraz number two. And they've pretty much dominated every aspect of the game for the last three seasons. They dominated this book. Yeah. I mean, you wrote a whole book about these two. Yeah, I got to keep selling them.

But their absence from this summer, in different parts of the summer, really opened up the field for everyone else. Kind of allowed new players to break out. Shelton was one of them. Zverev, who had been toiling for years, at age 29, got his first two slams. It really seemed like he wasn't gonna get one,

and now he has. But it just feels like this kind of false little sealed off portion of the tennis season that's not gonna be relevant next year because the big dogs will be coming And yet, you know they're hearing this and saying, you. Yeah, for sure.

I just won two grand slams. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he didn't have to beat Sinner or Alcaraz either time. Now, and why weren't they in the tournament? So, yeah, two different reasons. Alcaraz had a wrist injury that took him out for four and a half months. And, you know, with tennis, wrists are pretty important. And he...

And in life. Yeah. He played it pretty conservatively. And just was like, no tennis for four and a half months. Do you feel like Ben Shelton played the match of his life to beat Alcaraz? Or do you feel like Alcarus still isn't at his... He beat him in the quarterfinals? Yeah, he beat him in the quarterfinals.

And kind of an insane match. I mean, it started 11 p.m. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Match point was called at 344 a.m. Yeah, insanity. Who's going to work the next day? Well, one of the things that is really cool and kind of, you know, classic about the U.S. Open is these night sessions.

Yes. it comes back to bite you when every match goes to the third set, deciding tie break, and you have world-class tennis happening at 4 a.m. It's like, who are we doing this for? But to answer a question, I think it's both. I think Ben did play the match of his life, and Carlos was a little bit lower than his average level. You talk, you know, this book is great.

I recommend it to anybody who enjoys not just the sport, but rivalry in general. You know, you tell a great story in here of when Yonik is practicing. I think it was as a junior. Yeah. And a coach thinks there's construction happening behind them. To illuminate that a little bit for me. Yeah, so this is a talent scout looking for up-and-coming players,

and he's looking that way, and he hears booming, crashing sounds behind him. He's like, surely there's some kind of construction behind me, but it's this very slender ginger, Janik Center, who does not look like he should be able to create that much power on a tennis court, but just has, like, perfect technique, transferring energy beautifully into the ball. And it is the, to this day, it's the distinctive thing about watching center play. It's just like, if you have the chance to be within 10 feet of this guy smoking a tennis ball, it's just, it sounds like a gun. Yeah.

It's unreal. I remember thinking like, oh, my forehand's pretty good. And then you're like, my forehand doesn't have a distinctive sound like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's amazing. You live in Brooklyn. You play tennis in Brooklyn. Yeah.

The USDA makes, how much money off the U.S. Open? They did. Two years ago, they did 500. $150 million or something like that. I've heard talk that they're going to keep pushing until they break a billion. They want to make a billion dollars. Yeah.

I think they sold 700,000 honey deuces. You joke, but they do eight figures in honey... They do eight figures in honeydews. Which a lot of New Yorkers, that's where they're getting their fresh fruit from. You know, one time I saw a bowl full of just the honey deuce ball. Just the balls. Yeah. It would have been so refreshing to have it. Just a...

Yeah. You were so... Why am I... frustrated that I know how much money is being made in Queens for the United States Tennis Association, yet playing tennis in Brooklyn with a very passionate group of tennis players is almost impossible. Very, very difficult. I love tennis deeply enough to write a book about it and spend many hours a week watching it, but I don't think I love it enough to be a multiple time-a-week tennis player in New York. Those people orient their lives around it because the court time is so scarce.

You end up having to pay for an expensive club or book court at like a crazy hourly rate or wait online for three hours to play for one hour and someone's breathing down your neck the whole time. So the scarcity of the courts and the incredible surplus of tennis players makes it tricky in the city. Can the USDA fix that?

I know you're not a USDA board member, but I mean, I just see the money and I see the passion here. Yeah. And then they're like, hey, we just built 64 courts in Oklahoma City. Totally. Okay, there's 60s.

64 people in Oklahoma City. Yeah. What do you think the answer is? I had her friend joking about, like, vertical parking garage-style tennis courts that go, like, yeah. Maybe we got to use the space we have, and we have vertical space here. Yeah, and maybe for once tennis could overtake some pickleball courts. I don't even want to talk about pickleball. Yeah.

And you know what? There's a part of me that wonders after some of your responses to Act 1 if this is a pickleball audience? I should take a poll. I should take a poll. Yeah. You've written a book, a successful book on tennis. You're teaching nonfiction writing at Columbia. You're contributing to Defector.

For young people out there that are looking to be writers, what would you advise them? Tell me how we can create more writers. I think, you know, I had this totally bleak and nihilistic view when I was heading out from my book tour. I was like, there's no way anyone under the age of 20 who's interested in sports wants to learn about sports. through books.

But at every stop, I would just meet a super passionate kid who was very excited to get into the book. And I'm just like, there is a way of books opening up a world for you that's not possible with short form vertical video content. Right. I think even kids who are fed that by these trillion-dollar corporations understand that.

And so long as there are holdouts who do try to express the amazing stories in sports through the written word, I think we'll find a receptive audience. But we have to work very hard to find that because there's being bombarded by things from all corners. Are you writing every day? I do. I write pretty much every day. Not always about tennis, but whatever catches my eye, honestly.

What would you advise a young writer on best practices to do that? I mean, are you finding time to write, you have a family? Are you finding time to write in the subway? Are you writing in the morning? Are you keeping a journal? How do you manage that? My best writing practice right now is I write about my day with my one-and-a-half-year-old, every single day. So I have a cool document of just literally every, like, in the beginning,

it was a lot of, like, poop consistency in color and stuff like that. Now it's more like words we're working on. So it's been a very cool. And I hope to turn that into something book-shaped at some point. Okay. You know, one thing I am happy was not on this book is Janek Sinner and Carlos Alcarez's poop consistency. That's for the sequel. That's for the sequel. Check out Giddy's writing Defector.com and his book, Changeover. Giddy Nathan. Let's say a quick break where we right back after this. If you just always came down here and read your speeches, some of them are written by AI now. The staff better watch out.

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