The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's "Meet the Press" Tantrum

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

This week's host Desi Lydic sits down with Daily Show writer Devin Delliquanti to recap the latest news, and preview the week to come.  They talk about Trump rage-quitting his interview with Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press," the disturbing return of a flesh-eating screwworm in the U.S., an albino buffalo in Bangladesh that found new life as a Trump lookalike, and the sky-high price of World Cup tickets. Plus, the two discuss the all-consuming rise of Knicks fever in NYC and give their take on the upcoming UFC fight at the White House. -- 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

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Oh, I thought you guys were going to chime in. There's no crowd here. That's the problem. Is everyone at home doing that? Do it again, and people at home can say it. Go New York, go, New York. Great, they all said it. Everyone said it.

No one said anything bad. No one was silent on the subway. Hello and welcome to the pre-cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to recap some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next. I'm Devin De LaQuante. I'm a writer at the show, and I'm joined today by your host for the week, Desi Lideck. It's me. Hello, Desi. Hi, Deb. How are you?

I love sitting here with you. It's a good time. Making my day. We have a good time, yes. Yeah. How's it going? How's your weekend? It's good. It was good.

Just doing a little homework, a little studying and trying to survive through the enthusiastic New York City Knicks. The vibes are wild in New York. Are you're going. Your vibes are good. Yeah, it's good. It's been fun. It's been a fun week. How many orange and blue cookies have you had so far?

Too many. I've had, yes. Well, we have a lot of orange and blue cookies coming in because of superstitions around the Knicks. So, yeah, people are, whatever their traditions are, they are sticking to them right now. I was actually, I have a pair of Nick's sneakers that my brother-in-law got for me. He's a Sixers fans. Got me, got me some Nick's kicks.

And I was talking to my roommate, Scott Hirkman. I was like, oh, should I wear them for the run? He's like, whatever you're doing. do not change it. Do not. So they are in a box in my closet. I'm like, if a good thing happens, I will take them out of the box and then I will wear them. But I do not want to do anything that would disrupt the flow.

Don't you dare. I know. Don't you dare. You keep those in the box. I know. I'll keep them in the box. The superstition. It's very important.

Yeah, people take it very seriously. But we're getting cookies every morning. Scott, my office maid, who's very superstitious is now like, well, I have to bring cookies every day. It's those little like the black and white cookies, but orange and blue for the Nix. God, I love New York. That's not bad. It's very good. Everybody's just like, whatever to do, don't change it. Did he brought cookies for the last game or the last series?

For game one, he brought them. Well, I think he brought them at the end of the last series and then he brought them and then. And then they won. So then he brought them the next morning. So now it's just there's cookies every day. We should tell him that if we want the Knicks to make it to the finals next year, he has to bring cookies every day between now and then. So we just get free cookies. I'm just going to have him hand me $100 on Game Day. And if it works, that every day he has to hand me $100. I'm like, look, man, you can't argue with success. We have to keep it going. The way it is.

We were going to save the Knicks talk for later on the podcast. We're like, no, that's the only thing we're thinking about. The only important thing happening in the world. It really doesn't matter. I just, I'm praying that they win tonight because otherwise tomorrow is going to be a very sad day to make the show. I know. I just need, yeah, I don't need, I don't need unhappy, unhappy daily show staff. You have to keep the vibes good.

We need excited daily show staff. Yes, that's good. I feel good because the last time I was in this podcast studio, Jordan Klepper was here and he was wearing a New York Knicks sweatshirt. So the level of superstition is very serious. Okay, we're on track. Yeah. Does that mean I have to do the entire podcast in character as Jordan Clepper? I mean, if you want to, sure, it would be weird.

Do you have a Klepper impression? Just tall and just imagine hair. Just tall. That's pretty good. That's it. I believe it. So yes, lots of superstitions happening around the office, everyone being careful. So you have to find out, you have to find out how exactly to sit in the chair.

Be like, I don't want to disrupt any of the French way of the Nix vibes. in the office. Exactly. Cross-legged all the way. So what else were you looking at in your prep for this week? Well, you know, I always do all the prep and watch all the morning news shows to think about what we might cover and then the news changes over about three or four times before Tuesday comes around. But how about that walkout? Meet the press. Meet the press. That's right. For anyone who missed it, the president, Donald J. Trump, I hope you're not learning that right now. Very big surprise if you are. If you are, I envy you. Yeah, right. He was a, He sat down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.

It was a 40-minute interview. They were in a barn. It looked like. Pouring rain. Yep, in Wisconsin. Pouring rain. Tin roof. Yes, the worst roof for rain.

I was thinking about that. And that certainly happens unexpectedly from time to time. There's nothing you could do with audio when that happens. But did they not know that it might rain? I mean, there's been a lot of cuts to weather monitoring over the past two years. That's true. No one knows how or why that happened. We lost that funding. There it is.

So they were in a barn and metal roof. It sounded like raining. And then the president was asked some questions about voter fraud. And then he stormed out of the interview. Yes. So now you're all caught up to speed. I think we actually have that moment. You're crooked.

And Mr. Press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President. You're one-sided crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time. Mr. President, let's please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.

I've sat in the rain with you. I know. I've traveled all the way to Wisconsin. On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest place. Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. All right, what did you make of it?

I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. There were no direct flights. I had a connecting flight. That's a very funny thing. be like, Mr. President, the American people have like, I traveled to Wisconsin, man. Come on. I was in a middle seat. That's it.

I also like the run where Trump was just listing off all the networks where he was like at ABC is crew. Like NBC is crooked at ABC and Nickelodeon and Disney Jr. Spike TV. And telemundo. That's still around, right? What this is, see, this is exactly why I have never been able to trust a male president because they get so emotional. He was at that point in his cycle and it's just too volatile. You can't take the risk.

I hear you. Yeah. I hear you. Yes, it was a big emotional thing. I also found it funny. It's hard to storm out of a room with 80-year-old knees clearly because it was like, let's go and get out of here. You could see the like, the storming stopped for the period from the butt in the chair to

the butt out of the chair. With the law of mic. Yeah. It's hard. The small little mic that you wear. Hard to mic down. He didn't have a big mic like this mic. He had a tiny little mic.

Tiny mic. Tiny mic drop. Hard to drop that mic to be like, I'm leaving the interview. And then he stepped on it. Yes. The way out. Squashed it like a bug. It is pretty funny.

The idea of dragging NBC all the way to Wisconsin to sit in a barn during a torrential rainstorm and then just pick up and leave. It is true bully behavior. It's bully inviting you to a costume party kind of behavior. Yeah, like everybody else is in the costume, but you're not. Like, well, you're stranded out. You're stranded at this barn in the rain. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

It's also like classic romantic comedy setup is like you're together in a barn in the rain. That's the moment you're supposed to. connect with somebody. Where she drops her binder, her oversized binder, and then she leans down, and he goes down to help her pick it up and then slowly come up together and realize that they have a connection. And they lock eyes and then answer sincere questions about the Iran war. Yeah, I don't think so. Unfortunately, those dreams have been lost.

We keep waiting for a rom-com to happen when we watch the news, and it always disappoints us. If only. Always so disappointing. Yeah. But we did, we didn't get rom-com, but we did get Bravo. housewife. We did. And that's pretty close. Yeah, that is good. Speaking of reality TV stars, part of the contentiousness of the end of that interview was

talking about the elections in California. And the bow count is still going. And Spencer Pratt, who was running for L.A. mayor, he was in second place and it looked like the runoff was going to be between him and Karen Bass. But then over the weekend, Nithia Rahman overtook him for second place. So that might be the runoff. And so because California's mail and ballots come in late and they count the vote late. They were saying, well, there's got to be election fraud and they're cheating Spencer Pett. So it seemed like as if it wasn't reality show enough.

It's an actual reality TV star who is losing the election and pissed off about, we just need a reunion show. We do. We just need a reunion show. So wait, you're telling me that an unqualified candidate is struggling in the race. Yes. There must be foul play. Yes, always.

That's, I mean, that's the only option. I feel like the voting with the mail and ballots would be so frustrating because I've gotten Christmas cards back in like May. Could you imagine if your vote came back and you're like, what do you mean? I put the address right. It would be so frustrating. Darn it. Yeah. And this is why I never send thank you notes.

No, it's important. You never should. Paperless post. You got to do a paperless post. Thank you note. That's it. That's good. That's your only option.

That's it. So yeah, that was a lot of the reason for the contentiousness was saying, well, what evidence do you have a voter fraud? And it was like, it's vibes, baby. We're going on, like, vibes. It's all vibes. Uh-huh. So, yeah, so that was a big part of it. That was a fun drama to watch play out.

But it seems like a lot of that is happening now with the California election and a lot of, like, Republican congressmen and media figures are saying, well, it's rigged and all that kind of thing. And so that's what led to the walkout was, Kristen Welkner going, well, do you have any evidence of this or in 2020? And he was like, I got your evidence right here. And he threw the tiny mic. down and he stepped on it and then he walked out on the dirt into the pouring rain that's what I was where is he storming off to I don't know that's good well I guess once you commit you have to commit you got to walk out into that rain you got yes that's it you can't storm off if there's a storm

off you have to storm off into the storm wouldn't it be great though if he went to storm off but then realized it was raining he didn't want to ruin his hair so he just stood there and kind of like looked over his shoulder awkwardly is the worst version of when you say like a really heartfelt goodbye to someone but then you're walking in the same direction is you do the storm off of the interview, but then you have to hang out. It's like, yeah, so you got any plans this weekend? What are you doing later? You didn't watch the Knicks game. Yeah. I'm sorry I didn't have any evidence for the voter front thing. I just, I keep remember. Every time I'm like, I got to bring that evidence.

What's my mind. Five and a half years. I get to forget to bring you out. I should have brought a binder. Yeah. What else? What else? Anyway. Picture this. It's late at night and you're scrolling through your feeds when all of a sudden you see it, that one product that you've been looking for. You can Click on the link, add to cart, maybe even shop around a little more before finally hitting checkout. As you're filling in your address, you realize you don't have your card anywhere near you. That's when you see it.

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some I think John Deere equipment behind them. Another big story going on right now is the New World Screw Worm, fly has reappeared in the U.S. Have you followed this story? I've heard about this. So the screw worm. Yeah, it's very disturbing. It's a flesh-eating worm.

That's the grossest I'll get, so don't turn off. Don't turn off the podcast. Okay. So the worm gets in and this was the first confirmed case since the 1960s in America. Make America great again. There we go, you know? We're bringing all kinds of wonderful things back, aren't we? Living up to its promise.

But yeah, so this is something people are really worried about. and it's another one of those like political footballs where on the one hand, Doge cut a screw worm monitoring program last year. It was like, what have we just cut all these things? What's the worst that could happen? It's like, oh, Ebola? Ebola's coming back? Oh, screw worm?

Who's had screw worm since the 60s? We don't have to worry about that. Well, there's a reason. Yeah. Are we, Alan, are we allowed to say screw worm? Is that a curse word? We want to make sure this pot is family friendly. Do they bleep screw worm when we say screw worm?

We should probably bleep screw. What we really need to do is be like screw worm. Screw worm. Yeah. And then we're going to get in people's searches. Oh. You know what I mean? There you go.

So we should bleep it. But yeah, if it's like S blank, blank, blank, blank worm, people are like, ooh, what is this? I'm going to click on. Alan, can you bleep the word screw in screw worm? We're just going to say screw worm a whole bunch of times and if you can bleep it. We have to turn this episode around really fast. So we were making his life miserable too. Just like, oh, did you see the sco worms this weekend?

There's so many s s s sq worms. Well, now I'm afraid where are the shterms being discovered? Is it Texas? Yes, there's sq worms in Texas. It's near the U.S. Mexico border. Are the sq worms. Okay. So the shter worms are on the border all throughout Texas. Have the sqworms been anywhere else in the country? In America, not yet. They've only found them in Texas so far. There's a sqworm problem in Central America and Mexico. So the right likes to say, well, this is a problem of the Biden's border. And then it becomes, or was it doge and all that. But what I can't tell you about the schrooms is I love the solution to the schrooms. Right. Tell me, tell me about this. What is the solution to the sh**? So what you do is in order to stop the shirms, you have, they drop four million sterilized male flies.

So the male flies are very promiscuous. The females only mate once. So they drop four million sterilized male flies into and into the, you know, the area where the shterms are. They mate one time they don't reproduce and then that's it. Pretty good system, right? This is great. Scientifically speaking, the solution is fuck boy flies. We got fuck boy fly summer coming up. It's going to be so hot.

It's going to be so hot. All these flies getting out there, not trying to commit, not try to get tied down. This is the problem with an abstinence only fly program. This is what goes wrong. I know. This is why we can't do that. When you're going to s-k, you're going to scro-it. It leads to too many unexpected pregnancy.

I mean, in the name of the worm. What are we talking about? It's not a surprise. Yeah, that's what they want to do. They're just living up to their identity. That's it. And yet, here we go. So dropping in the, how do you sterilize a fly even?

I am not interested in finding out all the most. Really? Do you have to give like the world's tiniest little vasectomy where you just, I don't know, to a fly? That's pretty, that's actually pretty impressive if you could do that. I don't have the eyes for that anymore. The littlest tweezers you ever had, those little little fizzers you ever had, to those little things that like watchmakers or watch repairs. Yeah.

Yeah, that would be good. Just going and sniping the fly, putting it in the pile to drop into Texas, go have fun fly. So many ways that surgery could go wrong. Yes, it's true. What were you picturing? Nothing, nothing. What? Were you picturing being pregnant and being like, you said that you were a sterile flying?

I was thinking about how the flies would probably not want to get sterilized and be like, why don't you just go on the pill? Or how are you? There's a whole argument between the male fly and the female fly. And then it's like, just do me this one favor. I have to deal with enough. The pillow talk between flies. Turning it into a whole narrative in my mind.

It went off the rails. This is why we need better fly sex education. So they know what they're dealing with. They can reproduce better. Do you think Jeff Goldblum is ever has to worry about this? He was famously the fly went into a machine. Maybe you make the flies huge. You sterilize them when they're big and then you shrink them back down and put them on.

Yeah. See? That's the most sensible solution. I don't want to say we're the best science outlet on the internet, but I think we're up there. I would say that the fact that they cut Doge is probably okay because we're here to solve the problem. We can solve it. Bill and I, if you're watching. Maybe they were right.

Yeah, if you're listening, let us know if we're right. Let us know if there's a way we can sterilize flies. How far off are we? But wait, should we be bleeping the word screw or the word worm? It's a good question. If we start talking about, well, because RFK famously had a worm in his brain. You remember that? Yeah.

If we talk about that worm, do we have to bleep worm? Yeah. If it's in- Yeah. But that's gonna be more confusing. If you bleep the word worm and I'm like, RFK had a worm in his brain, you at home have no idea what I'm talking about it. Yeah. That is true.

But I think the goal of this is just to continue to give Alan more work on this quick turnaround pod. So, Alan, if you could just make sure to bleep the word worm, I think that would be. Maybe we would try that. I think it would be good. He said, we're going to guys. Not any other word. Anyway, speaking of animals and livestock, you know, where I think the number one livestock podcast, are we? Are we on the livestock charts?

We should be. We should be. We're so informed. It's not a competitive category as far as I know. We should be doing this in a barn. Oh, where's a good barn when you need it? We should have farming equipment behind us. and then you would storm off because I upset you about, yeah.

Alan, can you just edit in a barn for the background in this shot? Very good. Are you able to put like a barn filter behind us, put in some rain sounds? So yes, on the subject of livestock, there is, I don't know if you saw this, an albino buffalo that is named Donald Trump in Bangladesh. So I actually want to pull up a picture of this thing for anybody watching. If you're on your phone, maybe Google it. That is the albino.

albino buffalo from Bangladesh named Donald Trump. It was slated to be sacrificed in an Eid ceremony, I think. And when they discovered that it looked like America's 45th and 47th president, they say it's life and sent it to a zoo. Wow. What do you think? I think that, wait, what is it? It's a buffalo.

A buffalo. Buffalo now named Donald Trump, who has golden locks. I look I do see the resemblance However I feel like If you're about to be sacrificed And you're wherever you are You're probably breaking out a comb

And some hair gel and be like Look I whatever I can do to get myself saved here He's like if I can just a quick comb over And he's like I'm good Send me to the zoo Look at me You're saying that he actually worked on his Trump impression To save his life

He sort of saw it coming He went I'm going to go all in on this I'm saying he was backstage at the sacrifice, getting ready to go, looking in the mirror, being like, I need a plan here, guys. And he just combed his hair over. And now he's at the zoo. It worked out great. He actually, surprisingly, does look a lot like Trump.

I'm going to say that that Buffalo would probably give a better interview to meet the press. And he would look good in that barn. I love it. He's like, I spent all this money on moose and you tell me I look like this guy. This is what I get. Oh, man. Well, this thing's life was in danger. and then they were going to sacrifice them.

Like, we can't sacrifice it. But it probably went back there like, this is why we need to build the bullroom. We need the security. America needs a bullroom. Yeah, taxpayer money. A billion dollars for the bullroom. $20 billion for the bullroom. We're going to have all.

There's just going to be pennigot missiles underneath it and drones on top of it and inside. It'll be. This is surprisingly heartwarming story. It is. It is. I didn't see that the zookeeper, I think, got fired. That he put Donald Trump on the name of the, like, hey, come see the Donald Trump Buffalo, and they're like, get out of here.

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So I think those are some of the things that we missed. And then what else are we looking at? What are you hoping to talk about this week when you're in the chair? The Knicks winning, obviously. Number one, I think every headline this week is going to be about the next. Well, maybe I shouldn't say it. I don't want to jinx it. headline yeah you got to you got to knock every piece of wood around there as though scott hirkman was here yes okay shout out to scott hirkman very superstitious office mates very superstitious um but yeah uh the office has been buzzing it's been very excited did you you watched game too i did it was a good game it was a great game it was very exciting that ending i know so if you didn't watch the game first of all you should have watched a game great game NBA finals shame on you um the the the Knicks are up by one spurs have the ball

and seven seconds left, which is an eternity of time, and it's so nerve-wracking. So they inbound the ball, they pass it to Wambayama. He gets the shot off, and it hits the rim and misses, and then the Knicks win. And after that moment, Carl Anthony Towns, aka cat, the big cat for the Knicks, there's a shot of him, and he's walking towards Center Court, and he kind of points to the sky. And it was sort of this touching moment. And then afterwards, the interviewer, Center Court, was like, you know, I saw you kind of pointing up after after the game you know when you guys won what what was that moment about and he

um his mom had passed away i think in 2020 and he was saying you know i you know i i i pray to her you know when we need help and they had the ball they had seven seconds and i was just like mom we need a stop here and it was this like super sweet moment of him like and he's like when we got the stop i sort of looked up and i was like he was like saying thank you which is this like beautiful touching moment but in my mind what i was watching it i was thinking that that the person who can guard Wembenyama is Kat's mom from the afterlife coming down. As he's going to put up the final shot, just going, get that shit out of here. You're not scoring on my son.

He's going to win the NBA championship, which is a beautiful thing. That's exactly what you need. See, mom's saving the day every time. That's it. They come through. From the afterlife, it was a beautiful moment. That's so beautiful. Shout out to Carl Anthony Towns.

Actually, that's actually the premise of a 90s comedy. I don't know if you've ever seen it. Totally. The Sixth Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is Marlon Wayans movie, friend of the show, Marlon Wayans. Love Marlon. Love Marlon.

But yes, there was, I think, two players and one of them dies, and then he sticks around as a ghost. And he helps them win the team. Which, look, anything that the Knicks, whatever works. Whatever works. Whatever needs to happen. You need the power of the afterlife. That's it. Don't sage Madison Square Garden.

Nope. No. Whatever is keep it working. We need the afterlife. and we need you not wearing your knicks shoes. I know, I'm not going to wear them. They're going to stay where they are. I'm not changing a thing.

Everything is going to be the same. Here's an interesting fact I learned about the movie The Sixth Man. So in The Sixth Man, Marlon Wayans, can see ghosts, and he's the only one who can. But that movie came out two years before The Sixth Sense. It did? Yes. So I think the movie The Sixth Sense is inspired by The Sixth Man. Because he was always doing the scary movies.

I think the scary movie took from Marlon Wayans. So was he actually psychic? I don't know. Maybe. Wouldn't that be amazing? Wow. And scary movie. Huge at the box office.

So shout out to Marlon Wayans. Shout out to... So prolific that guy. I know. It's good. Shout out to the sixth man. Shout out to Carl Anthony Towns. Let's go.

Let's go Nix. Anything... Look, the real world and the astral plane are all in line trying to make this Nix championship happen. From the 90s until now. It's a very good energy. Yeah. So yes, Game 3.

of the Knicks is this evening as we're recording Monday night. Very exciting. Big news story. New York's mayor will be there. America's president will be there. It's a big, this is a huge thing. Oh, and another thing we saw. Does he get booed? Him Trump or him, Momdani? I think. You think Mondani's going to get booed? Well, here's what's so weird about this is the tickets are so expensive that you don't know what the vibe of the crowd is going to be. If you're paying $10,000 a ticket. And the lowest, the most affordable price, $8,000, right? I guess. Worst seat in the house, $8,000.

$8,000. So, I don't know. But New York likes to boo stuff. Yeah. It's hard to know. Or will they put them on the Jumbotron or not? It's a weird situation. I don't know.

It'll be in the box, I think, with James Dolan, who's the owner of the team. But there's all this security that they have to do now because they were going to do a watch party outside, which is like the watch parties have been like fun and wild, and the energies there. It has been incredible. but they can't do that now. Cancel it. Yeah. So you can't have that energy outside with a, you know, a sitting president coming in and Secret Service and whatever.

So I don't know. This is why we need a bowl room, which is a place where the Chicago Bulls would play if they were in the finals is build a bull room. I put all the security underneath it. It's everything on top of it. So stupid. It's very stupid. And if you like jokes like that, folks, you were going to love this week's episodes.

Be sure to watch the Daily Show this week. On the subject of all the super. Should we bleep bowl? Yes, we should bleep bull. Alan, can we bleep bull from the podcast? Give him a this bullshit. He's so angry. This is why we need a bullroom.

How dare you feel to be? Terrible. It is both electrifying and terrifying walking around New York City at this moment in time. Watching all of these New Yorkers be so happy, it's a little unsettling. Like, I really thought I was in one of those smile movies for a minute. They're just shouting fuck you at drivers, but happily.

But enormous smiles on their faces. Yeah, that's it. What a beautiful time to be in New York. I know. The other thing I realized is this now, like, if Mamdani and Trump are there and the Nigs don't win, then it's going to be like, well, what's the problem and what happened? And, you know, because I, were you the one that was telling me that they're not even changing who's in the court side seats?

Oh, yes. We were just talking about that. So, Spike Lee and then Timothy Shalame and Kylie Jenner and Ben Stiller, like, they're all in the same place. I thought if Shalame and. Jenner broke up now. It would be like, we got to keep going. We got to just, we have to be in the same seat. You can't be there.

Like, this would be the worst time for somebody to be like, no, we're staying together for the sake of the Knicks. Stick it out for the Knicks, baby. Stick it out for the Knicks. That's good. You do what you need to do for your state. This is actually hearing that they're keeping the celebrity row the same is making me feel so much better about getting rejected in my plea for tickets for tonight's game.

That must be why. That's got to be why. to keep it consistent. It was purely superstitious. And not that I'm irrelevant and not worthy of a seat. Totally fair. I'm going to go with that. What else we got?

Oh, speaking of sports, we've got the World Cup starting this week. Yes. Another huge, it's a huge sports week. It's a big sports week. Yeah, so World Cup, very expensive. This is insane. It's a lot of money. I thought that the basketball, that the MSG tickets were high.

But what does parking cost? $225. For parking. There's a $225. parking spot at the American Dream Mall. The aptly name American Dream Mall. That is no American dream. No one's achieving that American Dream. Look, my ancestors came to this country with nothing but the clothes on their back, hoping that one day they could afford to park at the American Dream Mall. If you could afford to park at the American Dream Mall, you have reached the American Dream.

That is $2.225. That's crazy. And the trains were going to be $100. There were people mapping out how you could walk from New York City to the Meadowlands, which is not a pretty walk. That doesn't sound right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Over the bodies of thousands of union leaders buried in the swamps of the Meadowlands. Oh, God.

It's bubbling up through the swamps. I hope these parking attendants are fluent in fist fights. So, yeah, and then, of course, Sunday. Yes. The biggest sporting event of them all, UFC fight at the White House. UFSI fight. Will you be trying to get tickets to that? Are you kidding me?

me and vanilla ice you're going to go yeah you don't have to ask me twice it'll be good um so yes that is flag day sunday the president's 80th birthday big day there is a giant claw now over over the south lawn i believe oh yeah weird we weird right do we have it what is that supposed to look like i think that's what it is he talked about keeping it up last week that it would just that would that's a permanent part of the, I don't know, skyline of Washington now? Americans don't know how to build things to last. I guess that's true. That's going to be like an IKEA bed frame on the side of the street.

You think it's just going to fall apart? Crumble into pieces. They're on the south one with one little Allen wrench, just like tightening the little pieces. Couldn't figure it out. Too many parts. They're doing this UFC fight and feel however you want to feel. It's weird to me to be having blood sports at the White House. That feels very like kind of creepy and dystopian.

But then I was like, this must be weird for WWE, like professional wrestling. Linda McMahon is the Secretary of Education. That seems like if you're going to have like a sporting event thing, he's had a relationship. She's earned it. Yes. Yes. Triple H runs it. Why aren't they doing?

And like 80s wrestling was the epitome of like a shirtless guy with an American flag coming out in a two by four in the other hand. That's right. Just like hitting the iron chic in the head. and trying to, like, that's... You can make up any narrative you want. Yes. And it goes. Anything flies.

Yes. And the match can end the way you want in a very... It seems much more controlled. Nothing is fact-based. It's all just off the rails. It's vibes. It's not evidence. Drama mayhem.

This is what it should be. Yeah. I don't know. But I felt... You know, I felt bad for professional wrestling. All of the work, all of the time they put in to cultivating. Nothing. Nothing.

That's... It's unfortunate. Yeah. And there's reports that they're having trouble attracting like A-list people to come to the fight. The Rock apparently said no and for some of the other people. I think Adam Sandler was invited but isn't going. Jared Letto. Jared Leto said no. You know if Jared Leto says no, it's time to rethink. Maybe just have like a small intimate sleepover just to save face. Yeah, when Jared Letto's like, this project seems like a mess. I'm out. Time to wrap it up. He's sitting there reading the script for Morbius 2. Like what's that? U.S. No, no.

That's... I'm good. That's not for me. That's a pass from your boy, J.L. You know, we're going to have an intimate get-together. Let's just... Yeah. Yeah.

So we got that this week. Yeah. And then anything else you're looking forward to guest-wise on the show? Anybody you're looking forward to talking to? Devin, we have a powerhouse week of women. We got John leading us off with Jane Fonda. That's very exciting. We have, I have Laverne Cox on Tuesday night, Nina Dobrev on Wednesday.

And then Thursday, being the sports gal that I am, Chris Everett and Martina Navratilova. That's so exciting. Yes. Oh, my gosh. How exciting. That's great. Are they going to try to corner Michael Costa and tell us the truth about if he's good at tennis or not? I am paying them to do so.

If they're not voluntarily doing it, I will coerce them into it. That's wonderful. Yeah, they got to roast them a little bit. They should. Yeah. Big sports week. Big sports week. Big sports week.

Yeah. All right. So I think that will actually bring us to our final segment, which we call Daily Show and Tell. So this is something that you have watched, read, or listened to, argued about, or it's something that's just been on your mind. I will throw it to you first. Well, because of the phenomenal guests that I have Tuesday night, Laverne Cox, she's coming on the show to talk about her memoir. And I just spent the last couple of weeks reading it. It is so beautifully written.

It's incredibly inspirational. She has been through it. Yeah, I saw one of the excerpts from it that just seems like incredibly powerful. Yeah, it is, it's, I highly, highly recommend that everyone go out and get that book. And I cannot wait to sit down and chat with her. So that would be my, that would be my wreck. That's it. Another friend of the show.

Another friend of the show? She came and she did a very funny in my opinion. Yes. Yeah. So that'll be exciting. For my daily show and tell, I will shout out this. documentary that I watched recently called The Dark Wizard, which is about a climber named Dean Potter.

And so yeah, anyone who knows Alex Honnold from the movie Free Solo, who climbed that, oh my gosh, it's 1,667 foot build, skyscraper. He climbed to the top of it, no ropes, no nothing over in Taiwan. So he's in this documentary, but this is a guy who came before him named Dean Potter. And he started doing free solo climbs. and then he graduated from just climbing to wearing a parachute and doing these weird hybrid like climb, base jump things. Then he would do these sort of tightrope walks with a parachute and then without a parachute. And then he started doing wingsuit stuff.

And he's a very, he's an incredible athlete, but also this like clearly tortured guy. And it's just a really powerful documentary. And from the first scene, it just will grab you and all four episodes were incredible. So I recommend the dark wizard. That was my... Were you just watching on the edge of your seat going... The most stress. ...terified.

Yeah, that sounds very stressful. Yes. Every part of me was just clenched. Have you... Are you much of a climber? Have you ever gone rock climbing? Not really, no. My wife is into rock climbing.

Oh, she is? I didn't know that. Coward. Yeah, she will rock climb and then my two kids will do... They go to a rock climbing camp. Yeah. That's one of the things they do in the summer, so they're into it. But I don't want to show this to them is the problem.

You can't. Literally a show and tell thing. I'm like, I don't want to see them climbing things with parachutes and all. It seems insane. It's a very bad idea. You need to keep that from them. Yes. I'm going to keep it from them.

God, they don't listen to this podcast. I could cook. Yeah. I'm doing a show until I can't even show until my kids. No. Sorry. It's a very limited show until. Curated.

So I think that's it. That's it? I'm looking forward to your week. Aw. Thanks, Deb. This was so fun. My pleasure. That's all the time we have for the precap.

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