The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Josh Johnson on Airport Freakouts, Betting Scandals and What to Do With a Billion Dollars

Episode Date: November 10, 2025

This week's host Josh Johnson joins Daily Show writer David Angelo to preview the week to come, and recap the latest headlines. They wonder why the NBA betting scandal isn't bigger news, unpack the high cost of candle tariffs, whether Trump losing in the courts could end up being the best thing that could happen for him, what Josh would do with a billion dollars, why everyone should be allowed space for an airport tantrum, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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daily show and i'm joined today by the josh johnson josh coming to us from a lakinta inn business center yeah yeah i'm doing my best you know i would have loved to be there in person but uh the business called. Well, we understand. And, you know, be careful with those computers. They got more viruses than the Wuhan Institute of Virology. So, you know, just, all right, we're coming out hot. So, Josh, you're hosting the Daily Show this week. I think that's the. Yeah, that's, I think that's a whole reason we do it. That's why we're doing it. And, uh, you'd spend four or five weeks since you've hosted, right? And a lot has happened since. You've recorded at least 84 new hours of stand-up comedy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I do my best. And a lot of other events have taken

place. So the question is, what did we miss? What has happened? Was there a time in the, when you're sitting on the sidelines not hosting the last five weeks where there was a big story that came out and you said, you said, geez, you know, I wish they could, I wish I could sub in, you know, I wish I could come, Mariano Rivera, this thing. I feel like I have really lucked out that there were weeks where things happened and I was not hosting. And then there are things that happened while I was hosting. Like, I actually could not have asked for a better set of events. So there hasn't really been a thing that happened where I was like, ooh, if only I was hosting this week, I would talk about it.

I feel like we've done a good job of carrying into the news of the day, the thing that happened that I'm at least interested in. Like, I remember the NBA thing is it goes deeper and it is crazier than I think a lot of people give credit for. It's the craziest. We just don't care for some reason. How is it possible? People don't care. I don't know, man. I'm like, I am so shocked that this isn't a bigger scandal.

it should be the only news story in America right now for all these years they've been rigging games right I mean what what that's like huge we're still talking about 1919 with the white socks a hundred years later they rig one game we can't get over it and then the NBA comes out and they're like oh yeah no by the way everything has been fake the whole time yeah just like all right cool

there's that and I don't know if you saw the fights there there's all of this speculation now with a lot of different fights that they've been fixed. So it's just the sports betting was already insane. I can only imagine what it's going to be now that like now, like now bets will have to be even more insane so people just don't think it's all being rigged all the time. I mean, I must do, I don't know if you sports bet, but I don't. But if I had lost a bet that was a rigged fight, I'd be, I'd be down it, I'd be at small claims court today. Yeah, yeah. How do people not get upset about that? I don't know, man. I mean, I guess if you are gambling

a lot, you probably have other problems other than the bets you lost that are, that were fixed fight. There's a terminal sadness to the, I, I do think, so I don't bet at all, because I don't, I, whatever sport I watch, I would like to enjoy the sport. I don't want to, I don't want to watch the sport I mean imagine to me I you know I've always loved mixed martial arts I've always loved boxing and so I know boxing has its own long history with fixed fights and everything like that but said all that to say that like if I were watching that sport I want to watch it to watch what I think is going to happen and if it happens if there's money on the game we're having a totally different conversation it takes some of the fun out it takes all the fun out

I lost a $50 bet on how to pronounce hoist Gracie. And that, you know, remember hoist Gracie? Yeah, yeah. The fans listening really love the hoist gracie stuff. But what you were saying? You're falling mixed martial arts. Oh, no, I'm just saying I imagine it feels like watching your child's dance recital, but with money on it. Right.

Like there's something that there's something that could be. becoming a core memory for you that is a fun thing to watch that is like the reason people do sports and instead it's become this like is she is she gonna uh you know cover the jump and it's just like that like what is that what is why would you i don't know that but that's my thing i guess a little bit against betting in general i know some people bet and don't have a huge problem so it's you know a recreation for them I'll do Powerball. Did you do Powerball? Oh, yeah. Ever since they let you do it on your phone? Mm-hmm. Because nothing was, the worst part about gambling is to be you'd have to go down to the 7-Eleven.

Yeah. And it was like, you know what, $100 million is not even worth it. It's not even worth it, this whole thing where I've got a standing line there. But now they let you do it on the phone. And so I'll play Powerball. And I'll do the, you know, I don't wait for the big billion dollar ones. If it's up 300. You just do them all.

300, 400,000, I'll take that kind of money. Because I'm a, you know, I'm like a man of the people. When in the lottery, that is the ultimate Nouveau-Riche. You used to be kind of like, you know, oh, this guy, you know, he is. There's nothing more new money than winning a half a billion dollars at the gas station. At the gas station is what does it. If you, if they had just had a raffle at like a country club. Yeah, that's old money.

Yeah. But like, a gas station is like we sent one of us as a representative. Yeah, they make it so you have to come from nothing. You know what I mean? All the lottery, it's like in the dregs. It's like we've got to go in a back alley here to play the lottery. Do a nice country club lottery. You'd feel better.

Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. But then it does become a question of like entry. Like can anybody get access to the country club now just so they can buy the ticket? They can't swim. No, I'm just saying. They can't golf, but like they can come in, buy a lottery. ticket and that they got to go. Yeah, that's not a good customer to have around. But I'm saying just sell

powerball at the lottery at the at the country club. At the country club. Yeah. Somewhere nice. I can put on a nice suit going. We would be selling it to people who need it the least. Yeah. That's the, yeah, that's the worst when they, they announced the winner and it's like some guy who owns like an auto dealership or something. It's like, you were already fine. Yeah. You really want a Cinderella story, But then we always act surprised when with that Cinderella story comes the story of people like absolutely blowing their money. You win a billion dollars tomorrow. What are you doing with the money? That's a great question. Okay, billion? A billion. So you have excess, right? Now, there's only so much you can buy. You can only buy so many cars. But you have power money now.

yeah I have if I have power money I think I would I shouldn't even say some of this in case I ever do play the lottery and win but like I think I would just for one or two years like I think this thing could be done in one year so like I would just like this this is this is bad so you know I'm warning you now this is bad love it I'm not telling you I'm not telling anybody to do this this is what I would do in this hypothetical hypothetical hypothetical situation where I am now a billionaire on paper, but really just a high millionaire after taxes. I think I would give it a year of buying like school lunch debt while also lobbying to just change the funding for school so that lunch was included. And if anybody stood in my way, they would disappear. Like that like, like if there was somebody that was like, no, it builds character to starve. I think I would be like, oh, okay, I hired a private investigator and I, and here are all your secrets. I'm ruining you.

Or I'm like, you know, you're couching it. I'll be a bad guy. You know, no, if they don't let me solve world poverty, I'm going to come down on these guys. If they don't let me feed the children, I'm going to get them. Not world poverty, just third grade poverty. Just third grade poverty. You're still being nice. You're like, you prefaced that.

Like I was, you were going to do like a, I'm going to take over puff daddy's part. parties and have to get the I'm gonna buy the email that's how you prefaced it and then you come on you're like I'm gonna buy school lunch for everybody look look I think I would definitely buy it I would have a Rubik's Cube collection and comic book collection that would put all others to shame you can do that you do a Rubik's cube I don't do it well I'm still learning so I don't do it like fast I just do it and it's a nice hobby to like learn the other algorithms but it's not something that I would say I'm good at by any means but I would buy all of the

novelty ones then I would go on a bit of a shopping spree as far as comic books go not for like old novelty yellow paper right Superman one is out yeah no I don't actually don't need that action comics golden era stuff because like that's not what I really read anyway so I would just be having that to be like look at me I'm rich I would more buy all of the I would just buy everything that I ever thought I would read and then from there I would be in like a really dope position to just sit and read comic books all the time for the rest of my life you know you could do that probably on your normal salary right now you yeah these are not big reaches what do you I'm

yeah I suppose not I just I guess I'm coming from a place of like I don't think maybe I'm so picky when it comes to comic books though that I probably am almost done all right just so we can get the comic book community clip here what's your number one comic book that you would buy if you had unlimited funds anything Ed Brubaker touches makes rights coughs on anything Ed Brubaker does I think the man is a genius and I think every story that he tells is spectacular well there's your clip for the comic community we'll put that out and now I'll ask I have no idea who that guy is so we can we'll cut it right before me saying that and uh ed brew baker's he did did he do

spawn uh i don't think he did spawn but he did do he did do a little bit of batman he did gotham central okay um and he did uh some i think he did some daredevil so he's in the mix these are big names he's not like a fringe guy oh no he's huge he's huge he essentially holds the corner market and the entire lane of comic book New War right now. Like him and, Ed, if you're listening, Sean Phillips. Sean Phillips? Sean Phillips, the artist, is incredible. Jacob Phillips is great, too.

All right. Well, the Phillips brothers and Ed, if you're listening. Jacobs, the son. Jacob's son. Sean is his dad. You know, Sean, he looks so young, and I can barely tell. If you guys are listening and you want to send some, how about like an original frame you know like what what do they call those when they do the art can i tell

you yes yes yes sign one and send it to josh we'll put it up on the pod here can i tell you right now i really blew some money when i was in austin i went to austin comics uh and it was austin books and and it was an incredible experience they had so much they had the absolute version absolute is like when they had the extra pages, the extra art, the background stuff, everything, they had the absolutes of so many different titles. And I bought a lot of stuff and they were kind enough to mail it to me because I actually bought too much to carry out. Oh my God. That is a lot. The comic book is what are we talking about, two ounces a piece. Yeah, but I was buying whole collections. Wow. So when they put the whole collection in the big, thick book, that's what I like

to get. So I don't have to keep hunting. Yeah. I mean, that's when you know your kind of you're doing well when you have the comic stores mailing you, mailing you the merchandise. Or you're just like a nerd that grew up. You're just like a nerd with an address now. Do you do action figures? No, I never got into them as much. And I also think that they, they take up space in a different way. So it's like comics, I'm one bookshelf away from like, I'm not making a mess anymore. Yeah. Figures, you got to like really space them well. You got to got to display them. Sometimes, I mean, I've had a couple friends who really had their lights set up a certain way to shine on the figures. So, yeah. Yeah, that's more of a lifestyle

choice than a standard collection would be. And for anybody who's into comic books, they know somebody comes over and sees all those books on your shelf. Initially, they're like, wow, what a well-read man. If you walk in and see nothing but the figures, you know what's up. you know what time it is like you you have me like I can convince someone that like some of these comic books have like

historical you know value like like they're there are whole graphic novels it's literature yes yes there's graphic novels of like whole historical movements and stuff but the figures yeah it's like

that's a My Little Pony first edition yeah yeah and no matter how much money it's worth it's not enough to make up for what people think as soon as they see it. Right. No, I agree. I agree. I keep mine all out of the case. I'm getting to

wrap it up because they don't, they don't, I think this isn't exactly biting news commentary. No, no, this isn't the hard-hitting stuff. Yeah, I mean, nothing else really happened. Zoran, these are just small stories, no one probably has any interest in him online. Yeah, yeah. Where were you

when Zoran want? I was in Connecticut checking out real estate. Wow, wow. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Guys, don't write in. Don't write in. Don't write in. Do you think people will move? Do you think that the threat of the moving is real?

I don't know. I think you, I think you, it's hard because if you have a, I think people just move eventually anyway. It's very hard to just stay in New York through your 40s. Sure, sure. Sure. I will even say this. I think that when someone says, like, I'm going to move if this person wins, if this party wins, whatever. To your point, yes, it's like you were probably going to move at some point anyway. But I find it's a lot like when you get fired from a job right as you start to lose interest in doing that job anyway. Exactly. It's like, it's like these two things found each other. It's not like, oh, this new manager is going to fire me. It's like, no, I stopped enjoying.

entering the data right around the time this new person got hired anyway and they they happen to notice I don't like entering data and this is a data entry you know I did that job once data entry yeah I couldn't believe it I was like there has to be a because you're sitting at a computer and I'm like surely the computer can do this I mean data entry was the first one where I was like oh yeah AI AI it's ridiculous like like that That was, I don't know anyone who did data entry that was like, I can't believe AI took my job. Yeah, I can't believe AI wasn't doing this in the first place. Even AI must be like, Jesus.

Yeah. Can we get a human to do this? This is, what are we doing here? What was I asking? Oh, did you have material on that that you're going out with already or how are you doing? No, I already did it. Yeah. I did it.

You're so ahead of the curve. I try. I mean, it's just, to me, it's like the funniest things that happened were things. either during debates or there were moments where it was like it just yeah it's just so rare you that you see someone hate someone with a smile like the way he would like smile after saying something about Cuomo was like Cuomo genuinely caught it from all angles because even even even even Slewa was over here serving Cuomo hard couldn't stand them yeah crazy hated this dude hated him hated him hated him hated his guts hated him

so much. And then Mabdadi on the other side, you know, and then he would say, he would say, like, so, so MAMDani would be making what I think is like at least a salient point. Like I think a lot of people go for, uh, everything that he was campaigning on because they're like, okay, this thing, even, even if it doesn't fully affect me, I can see how this thing would bring costs down for everybody, which would make, maybe. who knows everybody a little bit more pleasant even if that's your whole political analysis of his entire campaign i think that it's a little bit it's a little bit more optimistic and a little better than um the sort of cynical view because i i think that i think that when you are actually

having financial struggle cynicism is just not going to win you any friends and so so for everything that Zoran said he would do, you know, what, uh, uh, Cuomo would be out here being like, you can't get that done. And so, right, I think that only hurts you. Yeah, Cuomo is kind of a negative force. And he also, I don't, don't you get like Al Pacino energy out of him? I don't, I can't watch him and not think it's like, scent of a woman or something. He's like, Zoran wants to take away all the stores. Is that Pachino? I don't know. I mean, I don't know if that was fully potato, but I do get what you mean. I do get, I do get, I do get the vibe you're putting out because that you're not wrong.

It's like, they're, I don't know, just imagine somebody wants your vote and all they have to say is don't vote for the other guy, not even because I have better ideas. What else happened? We had FIFA with a peace prize. Did you see that? FIFA, the soccer org. They were like, we're going to do a peace prize for Trump. I don't know if you saw this story. No, no, I was not paying attention to this. I feel like, here's my thing about the Peace Prize thing.

I feel like if you want to give him a consolation one, that's fine. But the, he wants the Nobel and everything, every president. perfectly runs up against the time for the Nobel. Is it? Like when you think about it, he doesn't get it because it's like when people want a Grammy but release the album too late or early. Oh, yeah, in the season, yeah. You got to be close so when they remember it come voting time.

But then he was too close because you saw with the ceasefire, that was like the next day they announced the winner, so they didn't already pick the winner. I know, they had the ballots out already. Yeah, yeah. There's nothing you could do at that point. That's like dropping a really, really great show right before the Emmys. Right, because then next year, the Middle East thing, they'll be like, oh, that's old news.

So he's not going to get next year for that. That's too bad. Yeah, it's tough. I mean, there was tariffs that are going before the Supreme Court. Do you remember tariffs? Yeah, yeah, I remember tariffs. It's funny, I have friends who are just now finally buying something that they're. have to pay a tariff for oh that must hurt like it but like double the price like when he said

100% tariffs like there was some there was something there was something i don't know if my my buddy bought a candle he bought he bought something a candle that come on yeah he can buy an american made candle josh it was i don't know what it was i don't know what it was but a candle i like the friends you have that are complaining about their candle prices sure sure but then it's like i'm burning money here forty two bucks was the tax whoa for a thing that's not heavy me like I understand look hey if you want to get your deer stand from Mexico and it ends up being like extra hundred bucks or something like that it's very nice deer stand whatever but this is like a small item and forty two dollars at the border like

forty two dollars until they coughed up the money and that is that's that's that's wild. So I think that, you know, I'd be really, I'm genuinely asking this. I'm interesting your thoughts on it because I think that if the Supreme Court kind of calls or create some sort of stop to his tariffing power, which I think some of that's supposed to go through Congress anyway. Like, I don't think you can just tariff the hell out of the entire world and threaten corporations of tariffs as like a president. But anyway, I think that if that happens, that would actually be really good for the market and for people because I think that Trump is in a position now with the shutdown with tariffs with most of his agenda that anything that is like

clearly not working or is bad or weakens the dollar too much or hurts America on the world stage he is a little you know he's a little bit more than a little bit too proud to just back down and not do it um especially after they were calling him um um taco So it's like Trump always chicken's out. And I think that that would be the thing that he needed to roll them back

because then he could say, see, I can't even do my agenda because Supreme Court's not on my side when really he's probably like, oh, thank God I can finally take this like thing off of Canada because I basically like torched a lot of our trade talks.

Yeah, that's true. What's interesting is he seems to be getting a lot of like he'll propose something then he'll say he wasn't really doing it and meanwhile the market is going up and down every day he'll be like i'm going to do this and then it goes up oh no i'm gonna do i really mean this and then it goes down no i will do this and it's a little like geez take it easy like can you why don't you sit alone in a room for a little bit and then you come back out with one plant yeah like it changes every day yeah yeah I mean, I don't, like, even with the shutdown, man, I think that the best possible thing that could happen is, and I don't even know how this would happen, but is a way for the leverage the dims have to be exercised so completely that then when the Republicans come back to the table, it can look like it's outside of Trump's purview.

And I don't know how you would square that. Like I really don't know how that would come to be. But, you know, this is a guy who's like art of the deal is be crazy first. Like be so crazy that people are like, well, we just want any deal with you because you're clearly crazy. And that is where we're at right now. But like, I'm telling you, man, like a few planes crashing from like lack of air traffic control. or lack of attention to landing times and speeds and everything like that. And it's like every bad thing that happens is laid at the feet of the party in power.

So I just, yeah, I don't know where you go from here, man. Yeah, they're shutting some of the airport capacity because of the shutdown. So they're limiting flights in certain airports. I don't know. I mean, you travel a lot. You're out now. Flying, I think I've noticed. I've noticed about customer service in general.

It has just gone through. It is cratered. It's gotten so much worse in the last four years. But flying has also gotten so much worse. Don't you feel like that? Or you don't notice the change. Yeah, I mean, I try to keep a generally decent disposition, which I think helps most situations.

Like, even when a gate agent, like, really wants to curse me out, I think the fact that I'm not angry, it, like, diffuses it a little bit. And also, like, a gate agent, agent will if you it's possible to cozy up to a gate agent and find out some information you not you're supposed to know they do have power they have a lot of power i was there was one time i was talking to this gate agent and she was i was about to start like talking to her again because i had already been over there before and sometimes when you go up the second or third time

you're annoying but like with me i was like we had a little bit of a rapport and we had joked a little bit so then she I'm walking up as she's given the announcement like we're hearing from the I think she said we're hearing from the flight deck 10 more minutes just 10 more minutes and then when I walk up there as soon as she takes her like finger off the intercom thing she looks at me and she's like and I was like yeah fair enough like I think that she gave me the head start to get to the delta counter and get another flight yeah yeah because because when I tell you that I think gate agents are such a perfect, they're a perfect metaphor for like the structures we've set up because they're literally, this is how it works. So the person

who made your flight miserable will never be there. They'll never be at the airport. They don't even fly that airline. They fly private, right? But they make decisions that ruin your day slash experience, whatever. And then they also are a person who like will make a mandate that makes the company worse and not have to answer for it. But who they send, the only person that can help you is also the only person you could possibly yell at that works here. Because like custodians, they work at the airport. There's no like Delta custodian. You know what I mean? And so it's like the only person that you could be like, wait, why would you sell me flight insurance if you're not going to insure my flight? Like that person is also the only person that can make sure that you get to

Cincinnati. And so what they've done is they've bottlenecked the the expression of like anger at the design of the corporation. So for instance, like when you go to customer service and when you go to a gate agent, I didn't even realize this. This is insane. So you know how if it's like an act of God they don't have to give you a hotel room or a meal ticket or any of that stuff? That's right. That's right. Okay. They will. Sometimes the pot. will literally tell you the truth right the pilot will be like hey sorry this like thing that's supposed to go next to my foot is broken i think somebody broke it in miami and then flew here with it broken so we got to get it fixed no like literally will tell you how mechanical and how

avoidable the problem is be communicating that with you on the plane the entire time but then when you get off the person who should be handing you you know whatever meal voucher or whatever thing to a hotel is like oh actually right here it says it's because of the storm right and there's no way to fight that and that is like and that is crazy and so whenever i see people snap at an airport i'm not saying you're allowed to treat anybody bad i'm not saying you're allowed to talk to anybody kind of way but like when i see somebody just snap as in like just lose their personal mind i'm always like yeah i kind of get that i know i feel like i identify the most with those people sometimes I don't snap, but when I see someone else who's like, what the fuck, and then smashing like a flat screen, I'm like, now that, that I understand.

I do understand what he's going through. It's like, as soon as you, here's my thing, I think you were allowed to freak out as much as you want or should be, as long as you take five steps back from the gate agent's desk. Like if you, if you, if you already backed up to be like, hey, I'm going to need a little room, y'all. Like, I think being insane and losing your mind should get the same courtesy as someone who's about to do the worm. You know when you're on the dance floor, as somebody about to do the worm, they tell everybody, make a little room, make a little room, because I will be on that floor. They should have a circle at the desk. There should be a flat screen already broken that you're allowed to hit. Mm-hmm.

You know, let people get into it. Yeah. I know exactly what you were saying. I always like the expression. an act of God as the excuse. Yeah. Because then you get those fundamentalist Christians, and it's like, yeah, the landing gear is broken.

That's an act of God. Yeah. You know, everything's an act of good. All right. Well, that was what we missed, and that was some great content. A lot of clippable stuff there. I hope.

Yeah. That's what plan. Yeah. Finger's clause. Oh, absolutely. I mean, we're doing numbers on this pod today, Josh. Now, we don't know what's going to happen this week because, you know, we're not clear. Yeah, you know, it's hard to really predict anything.

Is there anything you'd like to happen? I mean, it would be crazy. I say this every time before I host, but it would be crazy if those, like, Epstein files dropped in the way that people have, the way that people have designed them in their mind, because this is the other thing that you've got to remember is that the actual, like, Epstein files the way that you would watch a spy movie don't exist that way. People's involvement could be uncovered with Epstein and going to his island and stuff like that. But like the logs are already out. Like there's so many things that are already out. But I think that if you had some

explosive like clear cut reporting, that would be huge. But I just don't know if that's going to happen because, like, all of the things that are clear-cut are still kind of murky in a way. Yeah, and I don't know what people expect. It's not like the accounting is going to be great on Child Sex Island. You know, it's not like, okay, now, which one of you had sex with Marianne here? Every show of hands, which CEOs, which one of you? I would love to see, uh, was it, Prince Andrew get, like, a regular job. Like, I would love to see him just be.

weird at like a hungry jacks i think that's what they call them in europe i don't know if they're all burkings going to a tesco there's prince andrew ringing you up yeah yeah and really and and looks every bit as miserable as he should be working a job when he knows he botched one of the easiest jobs in the world all you got to do is be you and not do a crime literally just don't have sex with children you all you got to do the bar is that low the bar is so low because the bar is your blood the bar is literally you were born into a royal family all you got to do is not do a crime and you will be fine you can do a lot of crimes you could still do a lot you could still do a lot but i think it's best to err on the side of no crime i'm just saying if you i mean the queen did run the

international drug trade but we'll get that on another episode i mean it's If you break me off, I've never heard that. But it is funny because of how old she got. Right. Like that does make it kind of like more funny to believe that she was some sort of Griselda. I mean, she was in the mix for so long from like the 1930s until like three years ago. Yeah. A lot of people don't have a run like that.

No, no. But yeah, Prince Andrew at a normal job that would be. Or they should have made a run. him be one of the guards out front with the hat i think he would get like i think he would get too frazzled yeah that'd be the fun because they're always trying to get him to laugh and stuff and then tourists could get they'd be like aha mhm there's prince andrew i know how to get him to laugh hey susie go six-year-old daughter like come on over here smile at prince andrew potentially that's your ideal show this week would be some Epstein file juice coming out and I agree

with you I think that would really be it'd be a fun time and a fun change of pace and hopefully we can get some we got to take down these big big shots um the other thing we got to do here on the precap is a little segment we called daily show and tell okay now what this is is when you you know we talk something that's not politics now in this episode particularly I don't think we've even dipped a toe into politics so it's a little bit different but for the Clinton this is the non-politics stuff that might have been on your mind lately for instance have you read a good book or watched a movie or etc you know just some lighthearted fare for the

Josh Johnson fans out there. This is not lighthearted, but I did read a comic book. I read a graphic novel that was set in this, you know, sort of whatever imaginary town, but it was

two serial killers in the same town and they meet. And it's, yeah, it was interesting. It was like they were both like, oh are you are you like me are you different and i thought that it was an interesting read even though it was very dark do you have a title do you want to plug it i actually won't plug it i think i'll plug some more brew baker reckless is a phenomenal series so is criminal and killer be killed they're all very very good you hear that mr brewbaker we need the original artwork set to

Josh Johnson here at The Daily Show. I don't know if I can afford that. No, she should send it for free. We've just done a plug on the Daily Show pre-cap, which is one of the biggest podcasts in America right now. I'm worried about free, though. Like, I don't know. I'm always uncomfortable with free. I'm not at all.

You know what, I'll take it, and you can buy it from me. So Mr. Brewbaker, if you're listening. Okay. Send me some artwork, and I'll sell it to Josh at MarketProp. prices. I guess I should, in terms of what I've been watching or reading, I'm reading a lot of children's book. As you know, I have a child, a young, I don't know if it's an infant or a toddler, to be honest. Oh, when that crossover happens. Yeah. I guess he's, he's toddling. I don't know. Is that he crawls? So anyway, I don't know what he is, but he, he's in one of those camps. I mean,

the label and i'm reading a lot of kids books and man these things are they're so the bar is so low to make a kids book josh it's like like the the the the the blue chips i'm talking the the ultimate kids books good night moon you heard a good night moon oh yeah yeah yeah 100 i went into good night moon thinking this is going to be this is going to be a good one this is It's going to be a hit. This is one of the worst books. It's almost so nonsensical. You're reading it.

This is like one of, you know, when they did LSD all the time back in the old. It almost makes no sense. And out of the gate, she rhymes, the woman who writes it. She goes, good night moon. Good night painting of the cow jumping over the moon. So she's, first rhyme is the same word. Yeah, moon twice. Yeah.

Of all the options. And then it's downhill from there. And she's just throwing objects. It's like, this is, this is what's the, that's the classic, that's the gold standard. Yeah, but it's what the kids love. But you know what, they don't know anything. And that's, you know what, maybe it's good. Maybe it's good to start them on a bad book.

Children's literature should be terrible. So then it gets better. Yeah. Maybe that's the theory. It's like, look how terrible these books are. The pictures. I mean, to be fair. these people are just learning to read

so to give them too good of a book would be a waste of story yeah you're right I don't know I don't apologize to the estate of whoever wrote Midnight Moon send me a free copy I'll give it to Josh anything else we gotta close it up Josh

you know it's these things got to be tight and you know I'm sure I'm sure that the after heavy editing we'll get there but you know I don't know if you have any final words if you

have it if you want to plug your why don't you plug you hosting the daily show this week here on the pre-cap go ahead and why don't you plug that hey everybody I am hosting the show Tuesday through Thursday of this week so tune in this week like you would any other week but please extra because I'm going to be hosting so tune in like you would regularly, but then also watch on your phone later, and then maybe throw up that Paramount and watch it there. It's throwing that out there. There you have it.

Keep streaming. And even better, I'm not going to be hosting, so you won't see me anymore. So that's another reason to tune in, everyone. And we'll see you next week. Thank you, Josh. Thanks, everyone for listening. Thanks so much. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your

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