The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Jordan Klepper Dishes On His Return to the Trump Trail

Episode Date: October 21, 2023

In this podcast exclusive, Jordan Klepper and Supervising Producer Ian Berger give us a behind the scenes look at Jordan's latest run-in with Trump supporters after six months off the trail. Do Trump supporters care about ANY of his indictments? What new conspiracies are bubbling up? Klepper also dishes on what didn't make it into the final cut and what rally he hopes to hit up next!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday?

I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello Ears Edition listeners. This is the Daily Show. Contributor extraordinaire Jordan Clepper. We are back making episodes for the Daily Show. We couldn't be happy about it. And personally, I'm still glad to be fingering the pulse. The Daily Show returned back this week with guest host Michael Costa,

and I got to hit up a Trump rally in Lake Winnipasaki, New Hampshire. I'm joined by supervising producer Ian Berger. Now, Ian is always out in the field with me, risking his life, Googling restaurants and bars to check out after the rallies. And we want to give you a little EARS addition extra. In Ears Addition, if you will, we're still getting used to it. The show's been off the air for a while. The word play is going to come back to us.

It's been in next year, we'll have it. Yeah, give us a little bit. We need it. We needed seven months to really hone those skills. We're going to unpack this piece that we got to do this week and talk a little bit about the process we go through out there in the field. Does that sound like a plan, Ian? It sounds like a great plan. A wonderful plan. I mean, I think we've been waiting to do this for a long time, so that we're asked to do, we're going to be really grateful and dive right in. Exactly. We're going to jump.

For people who don't know, so Ian and I have worked together, I mean, I started the show 2014. So since 2014, at the Daily Show, at the Opposition, Clepper, the Daily Show and the last few years, primarily if you see me at a rally, there's a decent chance. Ian is just slightly off camera, you know, frustratingly biting the paper or talking down somebody we just talked to. Stressing out and judging people. That's my job most of the day. You're external judge there.

And I would say what's sort of funny about this strike in the last five months, a lot of news has happened and you and I tend to text back and forth. Yeah, I've sent you text messages. There's wild things with the ex-president, international stories. It tends to be a little bit of a news hotbed right now. Yeah, I, we've texted throughout the strike because there's a lot of free time thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. to be to be to be to be to be the. thi. to be to be to be to be to be the the the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a lot. to be a lot. to to toe. to to toean. to toean. to to toean. to toean. to thean. the. the. the. the., we texted throughout the strike obviously because there's a lot of free time when there's a strike. And yes, as you said, there's... And to be clear, to be clear, talk to text. There was no writing. We were, tens down. Absolutely not. I don't even use punctuation when I text, so it can't count as writing. So that's my workaround. Yes, we texted like the whole time because we follow the news and we're eager to talk about these things. So it's almost as if we instinctively just texted each other bits while the news was happening. Like, imagine if we did this right now. And that's cool

and good to kind of keep those muscles in shape. It's also a little sad, I think, to be like, yeah, imagine if we were on the field in Harrisburg, PA and talking to Trump voters. Wouldn't that be delightful right now? But that's just who we are. Yeah, indictment after indictment. It's like, oh, we have a job where we can comment on this, go to some of these places, and thiiases, and th.that the conversation is bonkers right now, it would be a fun place to find comedy insanity.

We finally got to do that though this week. Wow, thank God, and it was wonderful. It was great. What were your expectations going to a rally, a Trump rally in New Hampshire? Well, I think I'm going to say this, because I think we're in the same page a lot and we travel together so we often arrive into a town together. We were not sure what this was going to be because obviously we've not been on the road in a long time but also Wolfborough, New Hampshire is a very small, beautiful town on the shores of Lake Winnipissaki and it doesn't have much of a trump vibe and there's not a lot of people. So I I th th us. I think we were afraid there would not be many people there. And that we've had those thoughts before.

And every time we say, oh man, this might be the rally where there's not a lot of people, this could be the one. We're wrong, right, Jordan? Yeah. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. I true. It's, it's, it's, it's, true. It's, true. It's, true. It's, the. It's, tru. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. It's, true. It's, true. It's, true. true. true. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thr. thr. We. We's thr. We've thr. We've thr. We've thr. We've thr. We've thr. We've thr. We've opportunity for us to do sort of a catch-up. We're like, we want to go out there and literally we've been off the road for five months, what are people talking about? There's a couple things that happened this week we want to get to, but also do they care

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new Hampshire rally, what was your strategy going in? Well, I think, like you said, this is the first one back, so it's okay to have a more general conversation because the narrative of our the narrative of our show and the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi thi tho tho tho tho tho-a thatuuuu. thate thi-a' thate thatu tho-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-nn. th-n't th-n't th-s, th-s, throooo'-seuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuan-sa-sa-s. th narrative of our show and the narrative of your pieces going into this rally is that this is our first show back, catch us up on everything that's been going on, but we can make jokes about what's been going on in our life. So it's a little bit kind of like, we're casting a pretty wide net, I think initially, which is in some ways easier, you know, to be like, what do you want to talk about? Which is earnestly how we felt when we arrived. Like, you and I both didn't know what they wanted to talk about. Now, if we were,

you know, had been doing this for months and months and months and had been on the road and a story break had just broken and we went to a rally, we, I think going in, you would agree this was pretty, this was kind of a general take at the start of our conversation. And I think for you and myself included, like we hadn't been to a rally in this part of America in a long time. It is like, how are you people doing? What do you, what are your vibes? Yeah. And what do you think the vibes were, Jordan?

They were, I think we laughed. They were, they're farther along than you ever think they are in terms of like drinking the Kool-Aid and buying in on the things you hear. Now again, this is a Trump rally, so people are big-time Maga. But Trump has been so successful at moving those thia thia surprising to me is not that people believe that the election was stolen, and Trump is perhaps even still the president. We had people who wouldn't concede that Joe Biden had won New Hampshire in the last election, which was sort of a starting point for a couple questions.

We had a baseline question, no twist or irony within it. It was Biden won New Hampshire. What has Trump done in the time since then to win over those New Hampshire votes? It was like pulling teeth to get people to agree with the premise that New Hampshire went to Biden, which, as far as I knew, it was never a conspiracy people even entertained. It's a weird conspiracy to get in on because it's it, it, it, because it, the to to to the to the to the to the to the to the the the th, th, th. It, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.i.i.i.i.iiiiiiii.iii. the the thii.i.i.i. thi. thi, thi, thi, which as far as I knew was never a conspiracy people even entertained. It's a weird conspiracy to get in on because it's like when, to me it's like when people just would describe heist movies that were like, they spent $20 million to heist $18 million.

It's like, why would people go so far to steal New Hampshire's few electoral votes? It seems like an odd thing to me. And so it did derail stuff for a little while and we weren't ready for that but it's kind of like it's always funny and refreshing to be like, oh that's right. Now you're taking this thing that other people have kind of embraced and maybe enjoyed spreading around and putting it on your own personal story. Yeah, it's, I mean, he's, Trump has taught people a worldview, which is you don't need to concede anything uncomfortable.

And even the mild uncomfortable idea that the state you are currently in didn't go the way you hoped it would, you don't have to concede that either. And we go to these rallies sometimes and I think I laugh because sometimes it's not until in the edit where some of the things that are said really register. That one we knew in the field was like, wow, we weren't really prepared for New Hampshire conspiracy theories. Secondarily, we got a lot of people who big up January 6th, who were not only big up in January 6th, who were there on January 6th. I think that is something that is something, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, and I's, and I' thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and, and thi, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi. And, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. they. thi. they. the the thi. the thi. thi. there on January 6th. I think that is something that has been normalized beyond being a third rail of, we don't want to talk about it, that's a complicated time, perhaps looks poorly on us, has now been woven into the narrative of this was a great day, this was a day that only proved

what we thought which is other people are troublemakers, and this day if I was there, only proves my MAGA bona fides. Right. And when we talk about that day, and I would hope most Americans would do the same, when we talk about it, we were there, we witnessed history, and the conversation we will forever have about that is like, this was really shameful, this is a really low point in American history, but their view of it is the opposite. They're boasting about being there and they're proud of it and the expectation I think from there sharing those stories amongst their friends is like you were there so lucky

high-five, you know where most of America would say this is a really you know this is a really dark time in America. What was your first rally? January 6th 2020. That's a DC you're going to go to one. Go to one. Do you make it inside? I can't say that for legal reasons. So you may or may not be involved in a treasinous activity. Yeah, we'll can't get into that one. Sure, sure. Well have fun. Try not to overthrow any duly elected officials. No, no, we'll be good today. Yeah, I trust him. One thing that we noticed that was funny was, they were proud they were there. They obviously know they can't say they went in the Capitol,

whether they did or not, we don't know. But that one couple, oh,there? That's your number one. What made it your favorite one? What stood out from January 6? Well, aside from all the violence that was planned by the FBI and such. Do you think, were they Proud Boys and Oathkeepers? No, they were Antifa, Ais. they were Antifa, Ais.

Some of January 6 is. perpetrated by ISIS? I mean this is... MS-13, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, ISIS. Yes. Can you say MAGA? Hey, anyone could put a MAGA hat on it. Do you remember what they said about their actions that day, Jordan? No. They said, we were there, proud of it, proud of it. And then the next kind of line of questioning would be like, what did you partake in the festivities? And they were like, we were there, but it was really cool, we went to a hotel room right

away. That's right, that was a whole segment. This is where people often like, oh, what do you leave it out? What do you leave it out? More often than not, wildness. And I think that average amount of time we spend talking to people is anywhere between three to seven minutes maybe, maybe less, maybe seven would be a lot. Yeah, they may have been like eight minutes because there was like they didn't want to back down on anything, but that would have been very long for us, right? That was a big thing. They were they were proud of January 6th, the. They. They's their. The. The. The. their th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. they they they they they they they they they they they they they they may may they may th. they may they may they may they may they may they may they may they may they may they may they may may they may may their. they may may may may may may may may may may may may th. They may may. They may. They may. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. They're th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. they the. they may they may they may the. they may they may the. the. th. was cold that day. And we went right home because it was so cold. And I think you made the point.

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Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday we're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient

to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcast go but how many of them come out on Thursday I mean talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart wherever you get your podcast. And we're back talking about Ian and I's last rally in New Hampshire. Something that stood out about this particular rally was, and not a ton was in the piece. Like I think we're putting this piece together, usually we cut this thing down and we have a 15, 20 minute run. And we're like, how do we make this a compelling television?

We usually have about six minutes to fill that can air on the show, or tend to air on the show. So we're really cutting certain things and totally try to make to make to make to make to make to make totally, trying to make a television that works. But a storyline that had come up was Israel. Obviously, the events in the Middle East that had just happened when we walked out the door. And so that was a big question we had as well. Because there's a larger question everybody's dealing with right now is like,

how do you talk about this issue? There's a lot of heartbreak, a lot of scary stories and images coming out of Israel, and especially when we, in New Hampshire, it was a very new story, and people hadn't wrapped their heads around it. And so there was questions of like, how do we approach this? Where is there space for comedy? Is there space for comedy? And also, how do people want to talk about Israel? What did you notice when we were out there? Well, as you as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, as th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thus, thus, thus, tho, thi, thi, thus, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th.. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. And, th said it's hard and I think you and I were like I don't know how to do this in and kind of our formula like how do we

we're not going to dive into this this is a much bigger issue than you know kind of simple man on the street interviews with you know Maga folk but as you said they were willing to bring it up and you kind of always know they're going to bring up like kind of a bullshit attack on Biden or the left and and it's something that may or may not most likely not true and fortunately that's where they went and it's almost like you and I do this and I do this the night before it's just like on right-wing Twitter and you're seeing the attacks that they've just been trained to kind of like lay out. And it's like, this tragedy happened in Israel and sleepy Joe Biden's at a barbecue, just eating barbecue.

And it's like, well, okay, maybe not a barbecue, but like, if you just read one news story, you know like what America's done in response. And so we're not going to get into the appropriate response, but you can't come out and be like, the president, the president, the president, the president, the president, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, and thi, thi, thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, thi, and, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And come out and be like, the President of the United States doesn't even know what's going on. They're like, well, he did send an aircraft carrier group there. That's undeniable. Like, there couldn't be a bigger symbol in the world than what that was. So they, they're trained to, to lay into that line of attack very quickly. And unfortunately, you were prepared, and we're still getting comedy out. So you don't trust the generals? No, I don't.

What are you most excited to see inside? I just want to see what he has to say about Israel. I know Joe Biden was doing a barbecue with his people. We set a fleet of naval ships to Israel. Yes. So are you against that? more the generals making the calls there. Do we trust those generals? I don't even know who's in anymore, so I don't care. I mean, I think that's, that was such an interesting moment for us

in that I do think that man in particular brought up something that is, it's always compelling. I think Trump's relationship with veterans is a giant question mark for us. And that was a thing we also talked to We talked to a few people about the story. It's amazing the stories that happened that week that we're not talking about right now, which was nuclear submarine secrets was, we had a whole section about that, which was a big new story, is a giant news story. That's not anywhere near the news cycle right now. It didn't make it. It didn't make our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our our the piece. It didn't make our the piece. It didn't make our the piece. It didn't make our thi. It didn't make our piece. It didn't make our piece. It didn't make thi. It didn't make. It's. It's. It's that. It's. It's that. It's that. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. the th. th. that. the that. the that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. crazy. This is it, no matter what happens, we have this.

It didn't even make it. This is where news is nowadays. We are a comedy show. The ex-president maybe shared nuclear secrets with an Australian billionaire and we were like, nah, we got seven other things we have to hit. We have ISIS planning January 6th with MS-13 Antifa and BLM. And 49 degrees is somehow too cold to stay outside past noon. So there's a lot for us to wrap it around.

Those people are from New Hampshire. I just want to dig into them more. They're from New Hampshire. And they said 49 degrees in Washington, D.C. was too cold for them. What do they do for six months? You're born with a Patagonia layer if you live in New Hampshire. That's just that these there's lies here. There's something going on. It's fishy. Again, strange times we live in. But I would say that the veteran thing was wild because that person we're talking to a veteran by an average person's understanding of the news. The way in which Donald Trump had talk talk talk tolk tolk toled toled toled theuuuu-a to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the to the the to told to tooom-a tooom-I th. thus. th. th. th. th. thi. th. th. thi thi thi thi. thi thi thi thi thi th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It is is is is is the the the the the the the they. It is they. It's they. It's they. It's thi. thi. It's toeeeeeeean. It's toeeean. It's theeean. they. they. they. they. they. thi. thi. they. The way in which Donald Trump had talked about our armed forces within the last couple weeks was was abysmal.

It was at least, it was at least uncouth, if not borderline offensive. He talked about executing Millie. He had, it had been revealed, which had already been revealed, but it had just been doubled down on the way he talked about injured veterans and public ceremonies, and yet we talked a veteran who pivots to defending Trump over his generals. And we, that conversation, it's not all on air, went deeper into like, what is your chain of command as somebody who is in the armed services, who do you trust? And he very specifically pointed to generals as people he distrusted. And then of course, in the beautiful packaging that these pieces tend to be in is like they will say something so definitive and

Then find a way in which to contradict it just immediately in a way that again I I had no idea there was going to be Two-facing on generals out there in the field, but yeah, well other was not to be predicted you're right. We've experienced people saying like, oh, I love him because he supports the military, but what about him making fun of John McCain? This was another level. And as you had said, there's been so much recent news, but it just doesn't deter them. Yeah, I mean we talked to multiple people who

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And I think people often ask, like also travel, Abby is a lovely producer travels with us and helps us talk to people and see if people want to come talk to us. And as we were talking afterwards, the experience of getting people to talk to was really not that difficult here, right? People were open, wanted to talk, wanted to talk about their ideas, and I do think that is reflective of people feeling pretty optimistic or confident. Yeah, I think if as any of these trials progress, if in any one of them things start looking really, really bad and for more information comes to light, I wonder if there will be this reaction to kind of more guarded kind of engagement with us and more anger, like I could see that. Was there anything in this, in the edit here that you wish had made it to the final piece that you look back on and like, oh, I wish we had more space for that?

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I want to meet that one Mike Pence fan, the Haley heads. It's always nice for us to hear people on different levels, especially on the right, is there space in this party to move away from what we see in the Mughal world? I don't buy it, but it'd be nice to talk to people who might think there is. So hopefully, hopefully we get some opportunities to do that in the future. Yeah, looking forward to it. I think we're gonna have a good time. to be too, the same. And good, to be to be to be to be to be the to be the to be the tho, to be the the tho, tho, thi. And, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, I, I, I, I, I, I' to, I' to, I' to, I' to, I' to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tho, I'm tho, tho., the thr., tho., thoan., thoan., thoan., tooooooooooanananananan., I'm, I'm tooords of Lake Winnipasaki. I'm going back, it's lovely.

We love, honestly, we couldn't get more thumbs up for Lake Winnipasaki. And you know, that should be said too. In this town, I laugh because oftentimes if I'm recognized in town, people are disappointed to see me across the board. On the right, if you recognize me, you're like, oh, that guy, and on the left, you're like, oh, no, what's happening here? This is my home. And I want that wonderful woman who I saw outside the coffee shop in Wolfborough, I want her to know.

We thought your town was beautiful. It really was lovely. I bought a sweatshirt. Thank you, New Hampshire. Thanks so much for joining me me with to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the the to the d. to the d. the d. the to th. the th. to th. th. that, thi. the that. thi. tho. that's, that's, that's, that's, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the w. the w. the w. the w. the w. the w. the w. the w w w w w w w wo. the the the the the the the the wo, the wo o' the the woooo o'er. the woooooo o'er. the woooooooooooooooooomooooooo. that that thanks so much for joining us with the Daily Show Years Edition. to the Daily Show. 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 on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Fairmount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.

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