The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Jordan Klepper on Good Dogs, A Movie Premiere, and Trump's Monument Obsession

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

This week's Daily Show host Jordan Klepper is joined by writer Zach DiLanzo to recap the news of the week, and preview what's to come. They'll dig in to Jordan's visit to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, his time at the premiere of Melania at the renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, and Trump's obsession with building monuments to himself. Looking ahead, they talk Winter Olympics, ICE reform, and unplugging from the noise with their favorite live music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Zach Delando. I'm Zach Delanzo. That's what you stumble over? Yeah. I well, yeah, I'm playing the character exactly. Right, yeah. And I'm right out the show, and I'm joined by Jordan Klepper, if you couldn't recognize his voice, chiming in there.

Yeah, that's the dulcent tones. Yeah, how's it going, Clepper? I'm doing good. I'm excited about the big week. Yeah, you had a big week. You were at the Melania premiere in D.C. at the Trump Kennedy Center, as it goes by now. It feels weird to say it, right?

It's funny, if you go there, it says Donald Trump, John of Kennedy Center on the outside, which it's not until you gaze on that giant beautiful marble wall to see just how ridiculous it is to have two people's names on top of the center. And then you look at all of the other signage around that area. Like there's vans that take people to and from. None of them have the Trump on it. It's so Trumpy and in nature that it's like just slap that name up there. It's like, do we need to fix all the other things? Like, ah, it doesn't matter. As long as I get my picture at this thing, it's fine.

Well, that was with, like, them wanting to rename the Department of Defense, the Department of War. It's actually, like, requires billions of dollars to, like, print new business cards or whatever. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. The Department of War has business cards. But, like, there's no much signs that needs to teach you. You've been bombed by the Department of War.

Call us if you have any issues. Yeah. Yeah, let us know how it's going. We would love to grab a cup of coffee. Yeah. Any feedback is great. We'll be around. We'd love to just grab some.

Just let's get a chinwag. After you guys, I'll rebuild this area here. I remember when I first started working here, it was like, you got a box of business cards, and you felt very cool. And at the time, business cards were still a thing. But then I think I still have once in my wallet that say, like, Zach Jones a production assistant from when I first started.

I still have, I think I still have the box that I got as well, which was. It was like you get like a thousand of those cards. Ernest they handed out maybe four. I think for fun, handed out maybe six. and then I still have a box of like 900 some odd. Right, yeah, yeah. It feels weird to throw.

These are weird. Yeah, yeah. Use some of this kindling down the road or something. That's a point. Yeah, but yeah. But yeah, it's, at least they like, it's centered. You know what I mean? They took the time to, like, it's not like when you're like a kid

and, like, doing bubble letters and you run out of space and have to squeeze in a field. They at least, you know, did a nice job getting the font to match everything. The craftsmanship is nice as far as it goes. And it is true. I think of the hurricane Sharpie draw. Right, right, yeah. I mean, all of these things. In retrospect, what, what beautiful comedic moments that it really was. It was like, you have, you could send this out to Kinkos or you, you are the President of the United States. Yeah, you could have Kinkos or somebody who works in some sort of.

Last minute Sharpie. And this one, yes, they hired somebody who the actual lettering looks lovely. It's the reading of the lettering that. The jarred, the substance of it. When you put these letters together and read it, it is jarring to hear. And as we pointed out of the show, it is like a living memorial to a man. So it is sort of like throwing your name on someone's gravestone in some regard to be like, hey, I'm also a guy that you can remember. I do not give this male ideas.

Are you kidding? Donald Trump hears this. He's suddenly like, give me an Uber to Arlington with a chisel. Donald Trump presents the... Donald Trump presents the heroes of World War II. And then you were also at, which was not a field piece, but I just know this because we were talking, you were at the Westminster Dog Show.

Indeed. Where a dog named Penny won, and I have a dog named Penny, who does not compete, but it was a big win for dogs named Penny everywhere. I think dogs named Penny were very excited about the Doberman, who pulled in the cup. Yeah, great. Great specimen of a dog. Good looking dog.

What was, yeah, what's the experience of being in that, is it at MSG? It's at MSG. That's great. That's great. That's great. Which it's been most years. They had a year. I've gone four or five times.

I love it as a New York experience. It really is an antidote to the world around us right now. Yeah. Which feels very chaotic. But then to walk into Madison Square Garden to see all these dogs prance around and the people who are holders and owners. and breeders. They all wear ill-fitting tuxedos. They all sit and they cheer and I go and it's, there's something so intoxicating about specific passion. Yeah. Oh yeah. And so you see the people

who are there who are coming from all over America and to be able to perform a Madison Square Garden is such a treat and an exciting thing to see. I still don't fully understand the rules of how you win the Westminster Dog Show, but to be a part of it, to watch it, to cheer it on is, It's such a New York experience. Yeah. We actually, the first time I think I went, I hosted a show called The Opposition that filmed out of the Penn Hotel was right next to Massachusettsport Garden. And so our offices were in this Penn Hotel, which was not a good hotel.

It was a cheap hotel next to Penn Station. I mean, if there's a TV studio, it is. This hotel was so bad. It was a TV studio that, like, Mori used to be at, we filmed at. This hotel was so decrepit and old. I was watching an Errol Moros documentary about old CIA mind control tests that followed a person who got like drugged with LSD and then committed suicide and jumped out a window. And as I was watching it, I was like, oh, that was at this hotel. Oh, yeah.

There was a Netflix show about that. Yes. Yeah. Yes. That all took place at this hotel. This weird, strange hotel that also happened to be next to Madison Square Garden, which also means if you're there for the dog show, you're probably staying at this hotel. and I remember going out on a lunch break and all of these dogs who are performing at MSG

they're all staying at this hotel and all the owners have brought them out into 6th Avenue and there's no place to shit. Oh no. And so there's all these gorgeous dogs panicking, running around, shitting the middle of 6th Avenue, 7th Avenue. Oh no.

They're like, where is green? You're like, there's no greenery. Yeah. For another half, you've got to get up to Central Park and you're not going to make it. Let the Doberman pitch one out here. Especially, like, it's the snow, it snowed a lot in New York, and then it froze and it hasn't melted.

And as someone with a dog, it's, we're running out of, like, anywhere that's not already covered in dog poop. Oh, my God. A month from now, that was St. Bernard Deuces. Yeah. They're going to be unveiled to all the lovely people of Middow. It would be so fun to say in that hotel and just see a lot of dogs. If you're from, like, you're sort of like a behind the scenes.

It's behind the scenes. Unfortunately, that hotel, was demolished last year. Oh, no longer exists. Dang. So you missed your chance. This is another example of like, if you've been sitting there being like,

at one time I want to stay at the Pennsylvania hotel, see these dogs, take crabs in the street. You missed it, you know? Take your shot. America, take your shot. See those dogs poop at a hotel when you have the opportunity.

You got one life and you got to make it count. You got to make it go. That's so fun. Yeah, I did a lot of reading about it. And I guess I, there was a New York Times, article that was like what what is this event like and just the general rules of like I guess the American kennel club I guess is that who runs it I think it's the technically I think it is the Westminster Kennel Club Westminster.

They have certain criteria for like each breed of like this is what a golden retriever should look like this is what a Scottish terrorist should look like and so like I guess they're trying to do I guess they're breeders of dogs that are trying to like get it to be that yeah the perfect version of of that from my understanding, which is also... And then training the dog as well. You train the dog. Again, I'm very loose on what the rules of it are. We're both talking out of her ass. We have no idea. There are people who are listening right now who are like they have...

We care about this sport. We call it a sport? Do we call it a pageant? Somewhere in between. Yeah. A hobby gone deeply wrong. Yeah, no, it's a great thing. And, like, I...

Yeah, it is such a quirky American, seemingly wholesome thing that is like just a great thing and that it comes to New York. I really do have to go to it. Dropped in the middle of Manhattan and then it's interesting to see like an audience respond to these dogs. Yeah.

Because now they've been more often than not. The golden retriever is always beloved and you can feel the audience. But doesn't win all very often. Never wins. Like all, you see like you feel the populism in there and they're like, we're not listening to you.

A pug comes out and you're like, yes, I love the pug. We don't give a shit about the pugs. And so they care about very, very niche. breeds. Yeah, yeah. So you're like, I don't exactly know what is being judged here. The Doberman was fairly beloved in the room. Can you feel like, oh, are there people like, oh, look, look at that people that don't know things about, anything about dogs, would be like, wow. That's me. You get a sense. And some of that has to do with grooming, where you're like, oh, that is the puffiest dog I've ever seen. I don't know if that

technically means anything to be like, look how puffy that dog is. There was like an old English sheep dog that was super puffy. And I think that worked to its benefit at the end. And when you get the best in show, which is the final ones picked from each round, you see that. They are beautiful dogs. They are well-trained. You can tell all of that. They also give sort of a breakdown of what these dogs were bred for, a little bit of the history of these dogs, as well as like whether or not they're good pets and what have you.

There's a little bit of editorializing, which is always interesting to see the announcer editorialized or not. What's sort of interesting about the Doberman is built into the history of the Doberman that they kept repeating. Essentially, I believe it's like a German. dog that was raised for like militaristic means and a sort of like a hurting

almost like uh essentially it sounded like a police dog. Someone said that it was on the news that it was like created by I guess bred by a tax collector who like wanted to have a scary looking dog with him. In some ways I was like oh this is the most icist ice dog. This is the ice dog. Yeah yeah

it is like a yeah. Not that everything has to be political. In fact that's kind of went there like oh I can get away from the politics. Like, but if ICE were to pick a dog, it would probably be this one. Yeah, no, they are scary and very, yeah, they probably would make a, for no fault of their own, a good dog to attack a protester. I could feel you getting into the end of that sentence. And I'm unsure if you wanted to go there. And then I was like, maybe I'll lighten it, but then I actually went for a harder version of it.

So we'll have Alan cut that. But this dog seemed like a great dog. Seemed like a great dog. No shade on this dog. It was a beautiful dog. They all were. People were so excited to see it win. Five stars, go to the Westminster Dog Show.

If given the chance between a Melania premiere and a Westminster Dog Show, go to the Westminster Dog Show. All right, good to know. I'm curious if, like, dogs in the past year or dogs in the past 10 years have been picking up on the stress because I feel like dogs are very intuitive like that. And I do wonder if they are like, what the hell? Every time this guy opens up his laptop, there's something in the air.

That's interesting. If there is essentially a palpable anxiety that has been bred into these dogs, given the state of the world that we're in? Yeah. And it just is just like we have office dogs, which is like a great perk of working here. But I feel like, and part of what is great about is that like stressful, horrible news coming in. And then you just sort of like go spend some time with the dog. and it sort of is pure in this way

that takes your mind off things. But I wonder if the dog is like, man, I'm just sick of like 40 people like putting their shit on me every day. Yeah, everybody, nobody really understands. It's like, oh, have a dog, a therapy dog. It's really going to relieve your stress. It's like perhaps, perhaps it's like energy.

It can neither be created or destroyed. It's just handed to this gosh darn French bulldog who was like, I have the anxiety of an entire office on my body right now. A therapy dog. Like, how like therapists are supposed to be in therapy. It's like we need to get our therapy dogs, therapy dogs, because shit is not going well in our country.

Yeah, it's like, little Penny is like, little nuzzling up against little chow-chow over there. Yeah, exactly. Oh, well, Penny just needs a break. Penny's been very stressed because they've been over in the editing bays and it's been a stressful week and a half. So give Penny a chance to just decompress. And now there's little dogs that are getting on planes

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And... I'm glad you call it a film and not a movie. I think that's fair. Put some respect on it. You spend that much money on it, it's a film. I do... I've read reviews of it that part of it sounds like the room where it's just like her...

Robotically talking to her assistance about plates and stuff. It's like, I do kind of want to see it for the ironic... bizarre spectacle of it existing or maybe maybe now is not the time maybe like you know five years from now with some distance from all of this but yeah no you you know

indulge in what I've I've heard described as an hour and a half long perfume commercial yeah that's I mean the trailer of it is like and I mean just the idea is like it's 20 she's got to plan the inauguration in 20 days as if that as if like I those are stakes

for me that I'm like oh how is she going to pull this off I wonder how it's going to It is curious, though, I'm sure there's an analysis of what this is. It's a $40 million Jeff Bezos bribe so that Amazon can get what they want out of this. Right. And didn't they lock up some sort of huge cloud computing contract in the government? I believe they got a federal, a giant federal contract. That's great. That's soon thereafter.

I mean, well play. Yeah. That's a, that's a freaking investment right there. But what's curious is, I believe Malani had final cut over this. which is also interesting when you talk to people at the Melania event where so many people are like, like, I want to know who she really is. It's like, oh, yeah, you want like an objective look. We talked to somebody, didn't even make the final piece.

They're like, I just want an objective look at Melania Trump. It's like, right, and she did have final say, and they're like, exactly. And she has to so she can speak her mind. Right. That's not this objective look. No, no, yeah. But there is something about how somebody wants to be presented.

And I'm sure Melania, I'm sure she wasn't all in on the edit bay, very often on this. Yeah. I do love the idea of Melania giving notes, though. Like, let's just divide here. Push in. Yeah. But I don't doubt. Some of the critics have talked about how it is, it's like a commercial, it's propaganda, there's not a lot of depth.

And I think there's a curiosity of, I would not imagine many people in the Trump administration would desire creating a three-dimensional character that has. weaknesses or nuance like the the film critics who approach like films in an it from an artistic standpoint great literature or film often paints a picture of a human being who is three-dimensional who is complicated yeah who has weaknesses and strengths and therefore like the human experience is is one of a balance between frailty and confidence ability and the inability to achieve the things and which would you want that

I think from an artistic standpoint, it tends to be a gold standard of how you articulate the human experience. It would be curious to watch this film, which is being articulated by someone, who I would imagine has no interest in achieving that gold standard, and only an interest in a two-dimensional robot of success, which I think speaks to an entire administration that should be one of empathy and understanding, but only has a kindergartist's view of what cinema and art is, which is reflective of a human view of not understanding that human beings have to balance failure, fear, and success all at once, but not just constantly pretend that you're killing it. There could be a version of this movie that's very interesting because her life and their relationship is so unique and strange. Yeah. I feel like maybe they'll be like a, you know how there was that like Beatles documentary that they had the footage of?

and then Peter Jackson, like, use the footage to be ready to make a whole other documentary. I feel like maybe 20 years from now, Peter Jackson will make, like, the, use the footage, use all the raw footage, you'd be like, and we'll have a little more perspective. I don't know. That's the, to be, the thing that is always most relatable to me

about any kind of art or person is, like, the difficulty in the failure that they have. Like, you are right. Like, that is a marriage that has to be hard. If you were able to show, like, the difficulties and being married to somebody who has this job and is a fascist authoritarian. It's probably a compelling story.

And that's probably a difficult thing to actually also parent a child within all of that. If you were able to open up on the things that are difficult about that, you might become a human being that I would want to express empathy towards. But you probably missed that opportunity with this.

There was that like Weiner documentary, remember that? And it was like... Anthony Weiner just to be open. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, I was not. You send me that link to that we're a wiener documentary, right? Is that what you're calling it? Yeah, yeah.

When HR was like, Zach, come in here. I hear you're sending a weiner documentary picks to Jordan again. It was a video. Yeah, I know it was a video. You can't send those to Jordan. Come on. Yeah, but that documentary, well, first of all, he, like, shouldn't have, he should have got final cut because I think it just made him,

well, that guy had a lot of other robes. But, like, there is, like, the access of, like, where there was a Roger Stone documentary, where there is, like, a glimmer. into this like crazy person's world and you still get their perspective but you there's also like a other story there other than like and i did really good at decorating or whatever um so yeah i yeah i probably won't see it in theaters but um me you know maybe you'll click out on when it pops on amazon because you haven't canceled your amazon yet so therefore you know why i need i can't bite toilet

toilet paper in person that's embarrassing um You are right. You need this many paper towels? I'm sorry. You're a lunatic. You're disgusting. Some other things from the past week. Somewhat related to the Kennedy Center,

his plans to, I think you maybe were the one of the last people to see the Kennedy Center in its current form because it's getting gut renovation, two to 300 million dollars. That's, I mean, what a tactical move. We all saw it coming. Yeah.

But yeah, nobody was going to the Kennedy Center. Everybody's dropping out to the Kennedy Center. Philip Glass was like, I'm out. Yeah. When you lose glass. When you lose glass. You lose glass, you're out. That's what they say.

That's a little showbiz insider baseball thing. You know, Trump just didn't want to have to deal with like a year and a half of constantly hearing people like, you know, nobody's showing up to the Kennedy Center. You're going to do this battle? And so, yeah, he's like, oh, the closure renovation, I'm going to make it the greatest. Michael, was it like, is it a, like, does it have anything to do with the guys? the people that previously ran it like did he just insert himself into like a somewhat like could he just do that for you know Brooklyn Steel could be like I run Brooklyn Steel now I mean

from my understanding which God bless you think he would go in there he wants to no more LCD sound system shows at yeah yeah the those uh residences are come on that's it no more yeah he's Are they even, are they even put out new stuff? No more else eating soundism. Yeah, Donald Trump's going to do a Latigre. Wow, that would be cool. It would be cool. I do love the idea of like indie rock Donald Trump where he has hard opinions about panda bear.

That's the thing. His taste is so basic and bullshit. Yeah. You know, from the, from the gilded oval office to the people that he has up there, which is, that's also just such a, it's just, such a bummer. Yeah. It's like there is such great culture here. And the Kennedy Center is a beautiful place. Yeah. I perform there a year ago and it's, it's gorgeous. It is an artistic mecca. I don't believe it. I think things are politicized and I believe there are certain, you know, awards that the president can weigh in like presidential awards that go to certain

people, people get highlighted. Mark Twain Prize. But I don't even know if the Mark Twain Prize has a, has a federal element to it, does it? It just is it. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a held there? This is... Yeah, maybe I'm thinking of the Kennedy Center. But I think, like, Trump very much wanted to, he put himself on the board, wanted to put his fingerprint on all of it, and therefore, and literally his name on it, and therefore is a part up, like, he can't help but be the face of any kind of artistic movement, and therefore

any artist doesn't want to be attached to that face. It's such a bold thing to be like, I am going to be president and also run a theater. And also, like, he... His taste isn't great, as you were saying. Like, it's such like an understanding of the world, like, 80s Broadway. Like, this is how you, this is how you, everything needs to be cats. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, so the fact that he thought he was going to like.

Well, there's no, like, original works that he wants. Right. Right. He wants Kid Rock who, like, is playing American Badass, which is from my high school era. And then, and then Lee Greenwood, who was there at the inauguration of George Washington. Washington, I believe. Like, that song was, is OG. And then you're right. Cats, Phantom of the Opera, much respect to the classic musicals, but there's no earnest artistic sensibility towards what is being created now. It's just a man who wants to live in nostalgia. Right, right. And not to be

challenged with what modern art is supposed to do. And art is supposed to articulate these places, the moments that we are in, and to poke holes in certain narratives. like he's only picking the people who have articulated like Reagan era art to be to be put on display. Right, right. And I will say I'm a little worried about Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood because they just lean on them every, like every performance that they need like the Republican response to a or an event that Trump is holding.

It's Kid Rock or Lee Greenwood. And certainly those men need a break every now and again. Give them space. I mean, do you think they're flying Lee Greenwood first class? Like, is he getting into a relaxing? He's on a bus. You think Green was in a bus? He was definitely at the rallies.

He was popping up at most of the rallies. Yeah, he was at, yeah. You're right. You're like, he's got to go to sound check. He's old. He's got to do a sound check that he's got to be there early. And the rallies, it's in too much sun. Right.

Yeah, he's an old man. And there was, I don't know if we put it on this show, but someone made the joke about him being like the guitar player in Mad Max. He's just, like, stragg chained to, like, Trump's door bus or whatever Air Force One. But yeah, those guys are working really hard. Yeah, it's a bummer about that. You know, but the man loves to gut renovate, I will say. And maybe it's just like the more time we can get him doing that.

Great. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to do my place? Well, we were thinking about, you know. We're thinking about a wall over here. You want to spend a month focusing on that and a little bit less on Venezuela. That's a win-win for everybody.

great um and then he's also well that uh along with the kennedy center he wants to apparently put up a statue of christopher columbus um on the white house i guess or in the white house i'm not exactly sure um which just feels like it's just like well he's just recycling controversies at this point of like what were people pissed at 10 years ago let's let me do that and we can fight about that again um but as an italian i got to say he's support it. That's really what it is. It's it's it's it's so disappointing from a moralistic standpoint and American standpoint but but mostly just it's it's so derivative and old right it's like it's like you you are right we are like a week away from him getting mad that they introduced a gay character on Roseanne. It's like oh I guess yeah I guess I guess Becky has a girlfriend are we mad at that right now oh I wasn't mark on home improvements goth do we need that?

I guess we can all be mad about that. All right. Fine. Let's give them a statue. Let's build a thing. Oh, we're going to give them award at the Kennedy Center? They're giving Columbus an award. They're going to give Columbus an award. They're going to look at the sitcoms that stayed true.

Yeah. Like, we're going to give Frazier Crane an award for his steadfast pursuit of truth in the face. of an unmarried brother. Poor Frazier. Guy could never,

God can't get laid. He's married to his work, you know? That's the thing with Frazier. Speaking of Frazier, it is. As we pointed out on the show, it's the Fraser Bowl, because Seattle is where he lived, and then Boston is where he lived in cheers.

Did he point that on the show? I pointed this out of the script and forced it onto the show. It was a sports war. Oh, was it in sports war? The Sports War. Was it a recognition in that? That reference is so deep.

I guess that track. It did it do well. It's the Frazier Bowl. And then we had two Frazier heads collide and explode, which was, which it was a solid three minutes about Frazier. How did I miss the Sports Board? That is a good on you for really. Yeah, I'll send you that in the Weiner documentary.

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That was the week that was, Clepper, but we've got some things that are percolating. Perk-U-Lating or perk-O-lating? We got some things in the hopper. The hopper? Percolating? Percolating. Percolating. Let's Google it.

Let's Google it. Percolate. Percolate. But it's pronounced perc. It's spelled percolate, but it's pronounced percolate. Percolate. We've got some things percolating. Things meaning news, the Super Bowl.

We're taping this early. The Super Bowl has already happened. A team has won. The Fraser Bowl, as we've established. The big question is whether Bad Bunny, where's a dress or not? Again, these old beefs, these like beefs from. the 80s where you're like oh people are upset like oh can you believe this guy wears a dress it's like oh really i'm i'm sure somebody was bitching about with that one kurt cobane

wore a skirt or a dress yeah like it's like why are you come on guys let's get new hates i mean i think it's like we there's plenty of rock and roll people have been like this is too sexy and so i think yeah it is like a 70 year old argument we're having um and then there's also the turning points USA halftime show the alt half time show which is hosted or being played by performed by Kid Rock. Get the man of Gatorade. You're a Detroit guy, right? I'm a Michigan guy.

So Calamazoo with a lot of Detroit love, yes. And it's weird because he's like he somehow has made himself like I'm the Detroit guy as well as being a cowboy, which doesn't really seem to align with. He tries to own cowboy stuff and Detroit stuff. which in this world I'm going to take M&M over Kid Rock any day. Or even ICP at this point. Wow, is ICP? Yeah.

Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, let me tell you. There's a like rap rock white guy genre that lives in like a 30 mile radius of Detroit. Eminem, Kid Rock, ICP. That's a kind of Detroit area there. Speaking of like subcultures that are sort of strange, like the Westminster Duxtero, I think ICP is like sort of this like. Sometimes I see these, like, interviews or, like, vice pieces with these guys.

I'm like, these guys seem, like, it seems like a great hang. Oh. I mean, I think there's maybe a fair amount of, like, strange drug use, which sounds great. It's awesome. Face pain, strange drug use. But no, no sense of community. A bunch of soda. Yeah.

Yeah. Weird, terrible tattoos. Yeah. They have, like, what is it, the gathering of the juggaloes? Right, yeah. That they all do in a field. I think. You didn't go to that.

I didn't go to that. There was a field piece at, I think, where they were asking people about, during the election, maybe what we went to. Yeah, I want to say, like, they, there was a lawsuit that maybe went all the way to the Supreme Court that had to do with ICP. They've been, yeah, the juggalo vote. Here we go. Troy, Troy, Ywana did a piece with the good old juggalo's.

That's where, it just shows you the time we are in right now. You can't, you can't be apolitical. Even ICP is being brought into the cultural conversation. There was that classic, like, I feel like SNL made front of it where they had like a song where it was like magnets. How does that shit work? They had a song about magnets. And then, but now Trump like has done that multiple times

where he's been like, he talks about how magnets in water don't work or something like something about that. So yeah, whoever won the Super Bowl, congrats on behalf of Georgia. and I, we were proud of you? We knew you were going to do it. Yeah. We always knew you're going to do it. There's a, well, there's a lot of ice reform that's being talked about on Capitol Hill.

I don't know if. As of now Thursday, I think it's funny when we think about what we're going to cover next week on the show. Because as we know, with the world today and the show, more often than not, the thing that we're going to cover, we think we're going to cover the night before changes by the morning. Right. And we sort of take it as it comes. It's a whole other world that, like, oh, okay, this is the week we're maybe going to invade Greenland. the week where we are doing something in Venezuela. Yeah, so there's usually news that happens on Friday or Saturday, that sort of changes everything.

But I know there's talk right now, but what kind of funding they're going to approve for ICE. And there's the Democrats have their requests and whether or not the Republicans give into that. I think that's sort of a two-week process right now. So perhaps we'll get some feedback on that next week to understand where that is. There's a real good chance. I think that the Republicans and Democrats find like a thoughtful solution that, is both humane to the federal employees and to the people of America

and we kind of can move forward in an optimistic way. I'm loving the optimism. I can't tell if it's sarcastic. I mean, well, I feel like there has, it's hard to know because, like, I'm still seeing horrible footage. It was sarcastic. Okay, yeah. Yeah, no, you know that.

No, that will not happen. Okay. No, there is, this is, it's just a political football that is going to be wielded to make somebody else pay the conversations to actually better our police force or homeland security. Those aren't happening. That's not priority. No, I feel like, well, there has been like, I guess Trump said that he could be using a softer approach.

They have said that maybe 700 people are leaving Minnesota. So it does seem like the tiniest bits of progress could be happening. But then anytime I see a video from in Minnesota, it's horrifying. And so we'll see. I'm sure they'll figure it out, as you said. I'm sure. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the elected officials and their ability to put their partisanship aside. Right, right.

And not milk it for. Great. And speaking of ice, check out this transition. I'm excited. The Winter Olympics are starting. Actually, I wish I didn't do that one. either. Really didn't want that one? I didn't feel anything with ICE doesn't feel

particularly funny, but I'm sure we'll have to cover it all the show. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, the Winter Olympics are starting. That's the other big thing is I don't know when the official is tomorrow the official started or like the opening ceremonies. What are we doing with that? We're doing it. We've got to be doing those things that you can check on your phone, what happens

in the morning, but are you going to watch it at night? Is that sort of the dance? That's the dance we've been doing the last few years. Well, last time for the summer Olympics like Peacock I feel like

not not we're a Paramount Plus show Proud peacock this other lesser streaming service but I feel like you could actually

sort of watch whatever you wanted in real time so like um I think we had a hiatus during the summer Olympics and I was just watching

like the straight table tennis at like six in the morning or whatever really yeah um so I hope that it's similar to that but yeah

usually at night they do like like NBC will have like three hours of like the best stuff edited together. So yeah, I feel like the Winter Olympics are another thing that's like full of sort of strange hobbyists doing like, but they, yeah, there's always like

I always think of that cross-country skiing with a gun event is classic. That is a favorite. Yeah. That's like maybe we have too many sports. That's happening. Really? Could these be separate?

Also the gun one, do we still need the gun one? Well, the thing is, yeah. Remember that Turkish gun guy from the Summer Olympics who was really cool and very casually dressed? You know what? I remember that and I'm also now remembering the break dancing, which we're not going to get for the winter. I think they kiboshed. Didn't they kibosh the break dance completely? It certainly seems like they should have because there was that woman Raygun who like was maybe scammed her way into like being Australia's.

like winner that got to represent that country. I loved, I loved the, the break dancing. I watched the whole thing. That was cool. Raygun made me laugh. There was a very talented break dancers. I hope they give it another go. Go to the Winter Olympics.

Add some ice to it. It might make it more fun of play. Yeah, it felt like as someone who like watched a lot of MTV in 2002, it had totally had that vibe, but at the Olympics. I was like, I was like, where is Carson Daly? here because he's great um with the story that i i have liked so far in the olympics is this minions story oh yeah there there's this ice figure skater who spanish figure skater who has a routine dressed as a minion to a minion's yellow shirt overalls i recently watched the entire

minion canon wow i've never seen a minion movie oh love the minions i will say the minions are really fun. Back in the day, I caught a despicable me without having children. Really fell for the minions. Yeah. They're very funny, very physical sort of three stooges type comedy, great comedy rhythms. And my wife and I went to the premiere of the Minions movie and we were the only adults without

children there. Wow. Great. Yeah. Very funny. And now now with a kid, just reached the age where he seems to be interested in minions and we put it on and we watched all of them really quickly. Wow, that's great. Very fun. So you've never seen any. I've never seen it. I've never seen because

I think I just missed like the window. I was sort of too old and I guess I didn't have, I just, I never went. You weren't a 39-year-old, you hit that 39-year-old sweet spot of looking for those cartoons. I love, I love, I love a lot of animated. I've seen a lot of Pixar movies as an adult. I guess I just never, and, but it's not, I, there's a lot of children's content that I was like, I'll just watch this when I have kids because I'll probably have to watch some of the things a hundred times. Yeah.

So that was, that was despicable me and the Minion. But they do seem very fun. All this to say, this guy got the rights to the music finally so he could. This to me is like, there's a lesson here. He was shot down by the Universal Corporation. And then he was like, I can't dance to the Minion songs because they've said no. And the world came out. And through collective action and bitching, Universal was like,

we will give you the song for the Olympics. Wow, that's great. See? So it's like, you can, guys, as a group, we can move mountains and or let a minions skate at the Olympics. That is great. Yeah. And I'm, I'm like wondering if he, does he, we think he's doing it ironically or do you think he just genuinely loves minions? Or is he, where is his head doing?

I think in the world of figure skating, I'm guessing this guy, I think we're genuinely loving minions. No disrespect, but it doesn't feel very tongue and cheek. No. It feels playful. You know what I would say minions are the type of problem. that is like, oh, this is a, let's call it cheeky, is my guess. It's like a cheeky way to move through it all. Right.

Yeah, I wonder, I mean, at that point, they should just have everybody be like sort of like IP related. Imagine if there was a Miss Piggy ice skating. Imagine if there was a Pikachu. Oh, imagine if there was a Melania. Oh, a Melania ice skater? Oh, my God, just the hat? Big glasses. She flips and they spin with that hat.

Oh, my God. Suddenly they're like, what are the scores? And there's like, instead of tens, they all get $40 million paychecks and Jeff Bezos is up there with a big smile and thumbs up. It's like, way to go. That would be great. Yeah, I'm pulling for him unless anybody has better IP. I was going to say, yeah, I don't know what soundtracks they're using.

Like, if somebody does the Inception soundtrack, like that is a really moving one and maybe they can use that. Wasn't there a guy that? Yeah, I think the music choice is actually pretty huge. Yeah. I'm trying to remember from the last Olympics. I think there's maybe... Do they tend to use movie soundtracks? Can they?

I don't know. What would be your song? Not to put you on the spot. Probably Kid Rock because you're from Detroit. I would love Kid Rock. No, I would do the Tenet soundtrack. Ooh. Just like the Wong.

A lot of that, a lot of skating backwards. People would be very confused. What is going on here? Why is this person on the ice? What's happening? Right. Were you ever being a Michigander? was winter sports ever in your life?

This is what I love. This is what I fucking love about being the Michigander here in New York City. Everybody treats me like I'm from the North Pole. What is it like to make maple syrup every year? I was, there's, we got a lot of, we got skate culture, a lot of hockey in Michigan for sure. My sister was a skater. Oh, nice. She did like synchronized skating.

Oh. Which was. You're with. You're with like 13 other people. dressed the same skating the same wow what was it called it was called sorry Casey if I'm yeah but it is it's a team-based skating sport wow so I watched a lot of a lot of skating as a kid yeah yeah I could not skate still can't skate I'm too tall I'm like a giraffe out there yeah not ideal yeah I feel like I've I were like

in Prospect Park they'll have like those little hey we put up a little yeah ice rink and I did that for the first time years ago when it was not great did And there's lots of just, there's so many kids that are just flying into you who are skating for the first time. So it's like, it's dangerous but fun. You, I, you kind of have a, you got a hockey, a hockey body. Thank you. Yeah. That's very hard right now.

Run that by H-R. Yeah, no, I, I grew up playing a lot of roller hockey. You did. But never, never got to, I was, I mostly focused on soccer. I was a big soccer player. But I, I could have, yeah. But I'm also not tall enough. We should combine bodies.

Again, this is getting... You have to stop these texts. Enough with the Wiener documentary is of the combined body pictures that doesn't play. We should just combine bodies. How can't you can't tell a coworker that anymore? Is HR here? Alan, can you get HR on the phone? Please.

Alan. HR's out today. Don't bother. Speaking of Alan, our podcast producer, Alan, we are We're trying a new segment because there's so much awfulness happening in our country. Alan is Canadian. And so we're going to check in with Alan just to see what news is happening north of the border. Alan.

Hi, guys. Hey. So, yeah, north of the border, you know, people are stressed out. They're looking south. My mom's not happy. We picked a headline for this today that combines some of the stuff you guys have been talking about. We got the culture wars. We got the Olympics spilling over into,

pop culture, Tate McCray, pop star, Tate McCray that you guys are both very familiar with. We're both McCranyacs, yeah. Tate McCray sounds like something a 14-year-old would say to me about something wild that happened that I wouldn't understand.

Oh, it's okay. Oh, that's Tate McCray. That's totally Tate McCray. Oh, yeah, it's totally Tate McCray. Oh, that person is Tate McCray. She participated in a Olympics commercial for NBC for Team USA and Canada has branded her a traitor. Despite being Canadian, that's stolen valor, too.

So I'm pissed now. Yeah. I don't know. I'll pile on Tate McCray. You shouldn't have done it, Tate. Wait, what? Everybody's mad at her and I'm piling on. Okay.

I'll get angry at her. Why not? Yeah, sure. Yeah, come on. Yeah. You know what? Why are you doing that, Tate McCray? You're in a Canadian.

You'd love the Canadian. I'm sure what. You're going to do this for a paycheck? Is that right? Everybody does now? Anything for a paycheck? Sell out their own country. True patriotism.

You do it. You do it because you love your country, the things your country stands for. And it's crazy to do it for America. It's David Gray to do that. Boy, that is David Gray. Wasn't Catherine O'Hara Canadian? Yes, she was. Wist in peace.

I was going to say, we lost, like, a great Canadian. Yeah. Some of the greatest comedians of all time. Yeah. Martin Short, all of the SCTV people, there was at the Westminster Dog Show a moment where they showed clips. Oh, I was going to ask about it. Yeah. Catherine O'Hara

which was heartbreaking to hear that Yeah That's one of the funniest movies of all times She's one of the funniest people of all time Yeah I think she's She's a comedy actors Mount Rushmore

Right yeah Right I think that's I mean she is up there Totally and she's Yeah just seemed so lovely And it came out of nowhere So gutting really Do you have a favorite

Catherine O'Hara movie Um I mean Best in show is a I mean any of the Christopher Guest movie is are and I

mean I did I saw Beetlejuice for the first time like a few years ago like it's just like unbelievable that movie

A, it was made and B like had all these stars in it and was a like really big hit it's such a

it's such a strange movie but but she's like so incredible in that any big ones for you I mean I yeah

I love them all Schitz Creek It's such a perfect distillation of like Like that's just her hidden home runs Yeah That's like right over the plate for her Which was always so fun to see I watched Home Alone With my family a bunch this holiday

And she's just such So classic That's seen with her and John Candy It's just just perfect and lovely And knowing that they knew each other But like it's just so simple Poka poca poca Yeah that's like

That is such a classic I love my all-time favorite though is i mean uh waiting for guffman is one of my all time favorite comedy movies and again her and fred willard are so funny in that but there's that there's the classic audition scene that makes me laugh so hard and i i watch that i watch that every year a few times but the scene where she plays drunk at dinner is one of the best comedic drunk scenes i've ever seen it's so funny she's had too much to drink she can't stop talking about how fred willer had a penis reduction if i could and Eugene Levy is so awkward at it.

It's just, oh, I could sit in that scene forever. She is a, she's on the Rushmore. She's so, such a wonderful, hilarious, beautiful person. Yeah, Best and Show. I need to rewatch some of her movies. Go to the Westminster Dog Show. Watch, rewatch Best and Show. This world is going to the dogs, and that's, uh, that can be a good thing.

Home Alone is just like one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time. I think it's played on TBS 24 hours. day for a reason. When you watch it as a little kid and you're like, I just want to be home alone so I can booby trap my house and like hurt, hurt robbers. Like, I remember watching that as a kid and like that being the thought. But then you watch it as a parent and you're like, you can kind of like you, she she humanizes it in such a way of like, okay, like I've made this really bad mistake and I will do anything

I can to like help my sign. It's so beautiful. It is a wild thing to watch as a, as an adult. It is still such a beautifully made film, and it's so funny. And it resonated with my son so much. It was really fun to watch, like, a five-year-old watch a movie well laid out, and then the last third of that movie is so funny and such... Yeah, it is such like a Bugs Bunny thing at the end where he...

It's so well done. It's so funny. But after I showed Home Alone to my son for the first time, he got in a little fight with me the next day, and he made the Home Alone wish, like, kind of under his breath, which is what I think is like, I want to be alone. I wish my family would disappear.

I wish my family would disappear. He made that win. He threw it out there. Wow. Whoa. Whoa. And I let it dangle. I was like, okay.

I hear you. I hear you. Part of you want to like hide the next morning. No, I think out of sheer fear that if I hit the next morning and he was so happy, it would break me for the rest of my life. It would backfire. Yeah. With Amex platinum, almost every purchase made with your card can be covered with points, including new tastes, new fits, and virtually everything in between. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply.

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My idea for this daily show and tell was inspire. I was thinking about Super Bowl performances. So many great halftime shows over the years. If there is a... But I wanted to broaden it out. So I was going to say... My idea was to ask you what your favorite live music... Like, if we put up YouTube right now,

we're like, what's watch some classic performances? What's a favorite Klepper live music performance? Because I know you're a big music guy. That's a great question. You know what I would do? First thing that jumps in my head, I would do Death Letter by the White Stripes under Blackpool Lights. Oh, okay. I think one of the greatest live shows I've ever seen was a White Stripes show down in Santiago, Chile.

It was like, it was incredible. I saw Jack White perform the song, Death Letter, which is a Sun House, an old blues cover. Okay. And it's this really gritty, great blues standard that the White Stripes does, and they just rip shit with it. It was amazing. And so that sort of has lived large in my head as this live performance of this great blues cover. So I always search for, they do it, they used to do it live. Jack White rarely does it, I think, as a solo performer.

But the under Blackpool lights, I think if I have it correctly, that version of it to me is gritty and beautiful and awesome. A man gets a letter that this person that he loved is dead. And he goes back to carry her coffin and bring her coffin and bury it in the ground. So it's like this deep dark blues, heavy thing. And it's Jack White singing this on

stage with his ex-wife. And there's just always a tension and a drama between those two there. So much of that is projected and what have you and performative, but there's just something about like, this is a couple who's performing this raw, dirty blues song on stage

together. And there's a dance that's happening. And there's already a dance that's happening with like the blues and garage rock but Jack White is just in this space performing the song and there's like a moment where he he chooses to vamp and more often that when he did this song live like in traditional blues culture you would pull bits and pieces of other songs and throw them in the middle of a blues song they were they were folk in that way they were temporary and modular in that sense and so

a lot of times he would in the middle of this song throw in old blues songs and and then turn to Meg and see them. I believe in this one he uses an old, what's the song? Is it like John the Revelator? I forget what it is, but he basically takes another blues song, makes it into a spoken rant

that he goes from performing to the audience to performing to Meg. That's, I believe the line, it's so hard to love someone who doesn't love you that he's fucking singing to his ex-wife. Wow. on stage and he's like he's like chanting he's emotional he's sweaty and he like drops it and then he like turns drops to his knees and then goes into the guitar solo which is just like to me it's kind

of everything all in there like you can read into it or not but this is like a couple creating music borrowing blues and storytelling like chopping it up and making it about what's happening right here and now oh it's I love this I what one of my favorite rock songs and rock performances for sure. Great. I'm going to watch this whole version after. I love it. All the live versions of this are great,

but this is one of my faves. What about you? The Super Bowl makes me think of the Prince Super Bowl performance, which is great. And then also there's a like maybe rock and roll Hall of Fame performance that he does, I don't know if it's the Beatles are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or George Harrison, but they do while my guitar gently weeps with Tom Petty.

and Prince is just often considered the greatest guitar solo of all time Yeah it's like I feel like I was thinking about it Like guitar solos can be sort of so like Can be cheesy and eye-roly But like

Or they can be the fucking coolest thing you can do And like I feel like that is like Yeah that I mean that's constant That's not too much of a deep cut But I will I was at my brother's 40th And we were just deep in a YouTube music session

And someone put on Letterman performance TV on the radio, Wolf Like Me. Ooh, I haven't seen that. It's great. That's just like an all-time song for me, and they just perform the hell of it, and then Letterman comes on.

I was like, hey, how about that? Like that kind of thing. But the performance is so good. We like watch it like, oh, it was like, just like 20 guys drinking beers, nod in their head to this song at this party. It was such a good performance. I highly recognize.

There may be no better. experience than hanging out with pals and just like YouTube hopping back and forth between like favorite live song performances. Yeah, yeah. That to me is I don't need a Super Bowl. I don't need your fancy tickets. I just need a YouTube subscription. Is that how it works? Maybe with subscription? Yeah, you don't think you need a subscription. You can watch ads. Yeah, I'll take the ads. You know, I'll be fine. I'll be fine with the ads. I'm not going to pay extra before. Just watch me some deep cuts. That is so good. I don't know if I didn't mean to hijack the daily show and tell. I don't know if you have any other things that you'd like to plug.

Do you have any shows coming up? I do have a show coming up. I'm doing my show, suffering fools in North Adams at Mass Moka on Valentine's Day. Yeah, so I'm going to celebrate Valentine's Day with giving people my stories. The thing that I love most about Valentine's Day

is getting the validation of live performance. Yeah, that's the real relationship. That's the real relationship there. I'm sure my wife will be happy about that choice. Thanks, Klepper. This daily show and tell segment was brought to you by Ninja Luck. Cafe, the three-and-one machine that makes espresso, drip coffee, and cold brew. No barista skills

required. Okay, that's this week's pre-cap. And we've had a great time. This is a joy ball. I'm Zach Klanzo. Catch Jordan Klepper hosting the Daily Show this week on Comedy Central, Paramount Plus, and right here in podcast form on the Daily Show Ears Edition. Clepper, have a great weekend. Enjoy the Super Bowl. I'm looking forward to you hosting next week. Me too. We'll have fun next week.

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