The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Josh Johnson on D.C. Reflecting Pool Getting Nastier, JD Vance Getting Cringier & Iran War Fallout

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

This week's host Josh Johnson sits down with Daily Show writer Randall Otis to recap the latest news, and preview the week to come. They talk Trump's algae-infested reflecting pool as a reflection of America's decline, their shared anxiety over the outcome of the Iran War, and the terminal awkwardness of JD Vance. Plus, Josh laments his lack of a basic sense of direction, and Randall confesses to being a bit clueless when it comes to colors. -- 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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Coming up next, I'm Randall Otis. I'm one of the writers of the show. And I am joined today by your host this week, Josh Johnson. Hey, man. What's going on, buddy? Not too much. How about you? I'm good.

I had a good Juneteenth. Okay. A lot of plans. Barbecue, DJ set, drink too much of the barbecue and went home. Did you DJ? Oh, hell, though. No, no, no. Well, you said DJ set.

It's Juneteenth. I'm not here to perform or do labor. This is my day to enjoy the fruits of other people's labor. If you're working on Juneteenth as a black person A take where you try to be like down But it's just the most elitist thing Yeah you try to Yeah if if through the conditions of living in the United States of America

You also happen to have to work on June teeth Then you should take a real good long hard look at yourself If you somehow haven't overcome Yeah Then you shouldn't enjoy June team No did you do anything I did work yeah I did shows, yeah.

I was entertaining. Tap dancing for the white man on Chutee. No, so it was a good couple shows, had a good weekend, and then I've been looking forward to this. Are you hyped for this week? You got a lot of stuff that's going on. I mean, that's every week. Sometimes you have two, yeah, sometimes you have too many things that are happening.

And especially when you pick one, it becomes hard because then you pick the one that you're attached to that you're like, oh, we'll talk about. this tomorrow and then something will happen overnight. The thing right now people are talking about is the reflecting pool. Yeah. I love. Have you, you've been to D.C.? I've been to D.C.

And I will also be talking about the reflecting pool for two weeks, at least. Like in group chats, in updates, because the updates are worse than the story. I, because with me with the Reflecting Pool, like when it first started, I honestly

was like, you know, look, it's a pool. I've dealt with, you know, pools and having to upkeep stuff before. And yeah, sometimes you get algae, right? Now, though, I was like, oh, dog, this is, you singularly mess this up. It should not be this bad.

You insert yourself in a way that only messed it up so much. Because no one remembers what it looked like before you wanted to fix it. Yeah. We just remember what it looks like today. I have never thought about this thing. I will also tell you right now that Trump is not a problem solver. Because this man. is over here.

Oh no, the reflecting pool. Antifa did it, whatever. There's algae blooming in the pool and you got the number one algae eater in your cabinet. Get R&K over there. That man would take one look at the reflective pool and be like,

soup. He eats it all and somehow it fixes his voice. It's like, that was it. That was it. Wow. Whoa. Turns out something just had to grab

the thing in my throat. Turns out I'm British, actually. Yeah. Yeah, because even when they were pouring the peroxide in there, I was like, oh, y'all, I don't know if that's good. Like, now I'd be scared to walk past it. Yeah, because now I'm like, I don't know what chemicals. You're going to make mustard gas on accident and just kill everybody. And you heard about the duckling.

Oh, I saw that. The duck, that's that, honestly, that was like the moment where I was like, oh, this is bad. I don't think you should be dying in the reflecting pool. I'll tell you right now, too, that, that duckling is going to somehow do so much more damage than anything else this week. Like, like us being on the knife's edge of global disaster, not just us. I know that as the U.S., we think that we're the only country that's ever existed. But like, like the world is having gas problems right now, oil problems right now, off of this conflict. And I'm telling you right now, that single duckling is going to move.

the needle more than the global crisis that's incoming. But like the paint coming off the bottom is nasty as hell. The paint coming off. The paint of coming off the bottom. That's what made me feel like, because I don't get hit with like patriotism that often.

It's like during the World Cup yeah and like what other countries talk a little too much yet. I'm like, oh, chill, that's my thing. But when the paint came off, I was like, hey, this is the most hood shit. in the world. Can I tell you right now? The paint coming off doesn't happen in a regular pool.

No, I didn't know that was possible. I absolutely didn't know that was possible. The paint coming off is the most ratchet. Like, what's the, not just, not just paint coming off as in dissolving. Once huge chunks of paint were coming off that you could hold in your hand, I was like, oh, we're not a country anymore. Even like mager people who were looking at the pool. Oh, they're like, oh, damn. Like, even they were like, I can't. I can't, I can't even. Ooh, I can't abide this.

Oh, this looks bad. Yeah. Oh, right after we had, yeah, the FMA fight, I'm saying, dude, we're about, we're like, about to have like flamingos and shabes on center blocks. There's going to be, it's, we're starting to act like, like, like Trump's remodeling of D.C. does look post-apocalyptic. I was about to say it's going to be like I am legend. Will Smith is just going to be driving around talking to mannequins. Imagine if I.M. Legend had a busy street.

And that's what D.C. will look like with more Trump ears. Like, it'll just be a dude with his dog. He doesn't need to talk to mannequins because there's so many people standing around that don't have a job because all the jobs have been given to AI. We tried to sue. We tried to sue. But remember, also the big beautiful bill is a clause about suing companies and slowing down the U.S.'s progress in the AI field.

You know what also? Because like the only times I see the reflecting pool, somebody who doesn't live D.C., is like in photos, because there'll be all those historic events near the pool. Like MLK's Big Speed, I was just a vasseting MLK being like, I have a

juke, oh, nigger, I have a just getting distracted by how gross it is. Dude, because here's the thing. Like, some ponds, some lakes, rivers, green. Like it does have, like, algae is naturally occurring. Yeah. But

when you, when you promised blue at its green, it somehow makes it look more green. Yeah. Like, it's actually 10 times greener than it probably is. Like, in our minds, it's 10 times greater than it actually is because we know it's supposed to be blue or at the very best, at the very, at the very, like, best,

super clear with the blue bottle. Yeah. Now, if the water was blue, let's say for a second that they had put blue food coloring in the reflective pool, we'd still be like, wow, the water's so clear since the bottom. I think they're going to try. That's actually, I may try that. But then, I don't know what, I'm not good at color theory. What is green and blue make? It's going to be like purple or something. I mean, I know red and blue make purple. I feel like it's going to make like a sort of like cyan purple. This is just an aside. I do feel incredibly insecure, not knowing what colors mixed to make what color.

I feel like somehow like everyone else got that in preschool or whatever, but my schools didn't because I'm from Florida. Yeah. So like they'll be like, this is a very rare thing, but times of my life and be like, oh, you know what this color makes? And I'm just like, no. I feel so embarrassed. Red and blue, you know what that means. It literally makes me feel like I'm the guy who has to go. It's to your left.

That's how I feel with color It's just a side note of my insecurity No I feel that way with directions Like I feel Really insecure when people ask for directions And I can't tell them if it's north or east or whatever Like I know I know that way I know it's that way

Like you go that way and then you take a left And then you whatever But north, south, east and west is like the basis of maps I think in New York you should be able to do it because it's very simple. What so what? I'm just like freedom towers through the south. Okay. And then

that's how you orient. Also you just go it goes up, that way. Down, that way. Yeah, no, I know that that when you're going, when you're on like Manhattan and you're pointing towards something, you could just say north or, but the rest

of the world, oh no. I don't, I have no frame of reference for where any of that is. I can do it. Um, as long as it's not noon, because I'm like, okay, sun sets in the east or rising the east sets in the west. But if it's new and I'm like, shit, I have no idea. This is where I have respect for, like, if you brought a caveman back to these times and he had this conversation, they'd be like, oh, they got, they got dumber. Well, no, I think the difference is if you brought that person back, we wouldn't know how to do common things for them, which would make us look very dumb. and then they would burn all of us for being witches.

Yeah, they'd be really strong. We wouldn't be able to stop them. Yeah, they walk and eat well every day. They're from before we called it organic. Yeah, they're all just like cross-fired people too. Because all the weak ones are dead. Yeah, yeah. So you meet 91 18 above, they're going to rip you spine out of your torso,

just for no reason. But yeah, I think that I've had this insecurity too where I'm like, oh, man. If I could meet someone in my ancestry who was like a forager, they'd be so disappointed that I didn't know how to take care of myself in like a from the earth sort of way. But then also I would show them an iPhone and they'd be like the glass does that. Yeah.

Do they even know what glass is? They might. They would only see it if it got like a lightning hit the beach. Yeah, yeah. If lightning hit the beach and made a design. But even then you probably like ended up. keeping that thing as a keepsake from like the time that God waved at you. Oh yeah, I think you could like take over the villages.

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It's similar to the reflecting pool in the sense of like in the early days of the Iran War. I'm like, this is stupid. This is ridiculous. But there's an easy way out of this, you know. Now I'm legitimately like, I'm scared existentially of what is going to happen. Yeah. It was, you know, it did it for me was seeing J.D. Vance in Switzerland. Because I'm like, the entire global economy rest of this guy.

Yeah. Gormless husk of a man who clearly cannot talk to people is just awkward as hell. He's the guy who, I still remember the campaign video of him going to that like Dunkin' Donuts and just skeiving everybody out. Yeah, just being like, you, you know, y'all glaze him here. It's like Every Every interaction this man has Is so uncomfortable

He's like Well do you remember when he gave that speech And he was talking about This is how like How badly he's wired He was giving a speech And he was talking about Talking to the troops beforehand

And telling them a joke And then And then they were like Oh the crowd can't handle that Like that's too like politically incorrect of a joke. Yeah. But then he never says what the joke is.

He just tells a story about telling the joke and then the soldiers apparently, the soldiers who definitely exist, said to him, sir, don't tell that one. You crazy for this one, Jay. But it would be like if you said, you crazy for this one, Jay,

and then the song was over. Yeah. Like, you know what it is. Next track. Yeah. And then also the way that on camera he's been so awkward, he reminds me

of Jim from the office if there was no camera to look at. Yeah. Like take all those moments where Jim looked at the camera in the office and make it a real world, no documentary. It's like... What are you looking at?

Yeah, what are you looking at? And why are you, we can see you. So what are you doing with your face right now? He's like, oh, I thought no one would pay attention. And then also there's no ending to the episode so you just have to still be there. Yeah, yeah. The amount of speeches where this man has said something

and there's clearly an expected laugh or applause and just nothing happens. Yeah. I'm just like, oh, as a performer, I just hold my chest like, oh. I know that we do comedy, but it's a rough thing to have someone believe in what they're about to say so much that they literally, you can tell that the prompter says, hole for laughter. Yeah. Because then even if they try to read past the hole for laughter,

you can see their eyes darting around for a second and then they keep going. It's like, and you're like, you're performing for a cult to bomb in front of the people who are supposed to, who are so emotionally invested in you that they

would probably like, well, not you, but like your boss and the thing you're a part of. And for even them to be like, I can't muster off though. I can't give this to you, dog. Yeah. No, and it's tough too because you can tell that he wants to be president one day. So he's very much being like, this is a classic Trump deal, which is talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Because on one hand, there's a classic Trump deal in that it's working, guys, it's working, y'all are killing. But also, he's trying to right now, ahead of 2028, ahead of 2032, ahead of whenever he ends up running. He's trying to plant the seed right now that this is a classic. Trump deal. Yeah. He's not like, this is classic American ingenuity. This is a classic. This is a classic Trump deal

specifically. Yeah, I didn't have anything to do with this. I just found out about we all. I'm mad too. Well, I think the like, the problem for Trump's slash us is like the way Trump gets past things is delay.

Right? Like with his court cases, he's like, I just got to keep delaying to delaying to the election's over. or he has that refrain where he says, oh, it'll be done in two weeks. But in this situation, the enemy is time. It's like you will run out of time. So pushing things off actually makes it way worse. So the only like tactic he has slash we have actively hurts us.

So I don't see the way out of this. Yeah, it's a lot like when you wake up, this has happened to me a couple times where you don't set an alarm and you. you are still blessed enough to wake up exactly in time to leave for the airport. If you get up, pack and brush your teeth right now and get in an Uber, you'll make the flight. You'll run, but you'll make the flight. But you would also love to risk it with five more minutes of sleep. Yeah.

Because the thing that is so dumbfounding about a lot of this is that it wasn't a problem before you got involved. Like actually at all. I didn't know about the straight. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know about this island. I didn't. Cork.

Yeah. I didn't know about a bunch of stuff. And so this was all brought on by you. Then you seem to have some sort of reluctance to doing the thing you say you're going to do, which is like attack, attack, attack, attack, attack. But then also you don't want any of the financial. financial consequences of what comes with starting something with people you know nothing about. I also think that there's no difference to him. And to be fair, a lot of people in the U.S.,

there's no difference to him in one Middle East nation versus another. Yeah. And so you look at Afghanistan and Iraq, and you're like, oh, we went in there. We were basically able to do what we want So that's what I'll do here. It's like, and meanwhile, it's like, no, Iran is like way more powerful than these people than these other two countries. You know what? It's way bigger. This is very dumb, but what would have what would have clued me in a long time ago was in that

they did a documentary, technically a documentary series, but they did a documentary about Mr. Olympia. And they were talking at one point. I don't even know what brought this on because it wasn't, it truly wasn't on my mind. But they were talking about how it's Mr. Olympia. It's supposed to be the strongest and most fit and best physiques in the world, yet so much of it comes from the U.S. and maybe a little bit of Europe. And Iran was like the only country that had like three dudes enter. I was like, that says a lot that in this documentary we're like, why is this sport so U.S.-based?

I know that we came up with it to a degree, but why aren't people flying from all over the world and everything to compete? And then you see some Europeans, so a couple Russians and a couple of, like, Bulgarians that are just huge. And then three Iranians. You're just like, wait a minute.

If you had left it to sort of mainstream propaganda to tell you, none of them should be this tall or strong or fit. Yeah. And three of them, like, I can't stress this enough. They, they, Iran, not as a nation, but just like happenstance. Iran was represented by three people versus Russia's one. That would give me pause as well. Yeah, I'd be like, what's happening here?

How do you all have the, the muscle technology to match? You know, the moment in the war that freaks me out? It was early on with, I think it's their foreign minister. He's a guy who's like very nice hair. how I think about him. It was also weird because it's like we were interviewing him on just like CBS while actively at war and he's just like, hello? Yeah.

Yeah. It was very trippy. Yeah. But the American anchor was like, are you nervous about a potential ground invasion from the U.S.? And he just goes, no, we are waiting for them. Just like that. And I was like, that's concerning. That's concerning.

That's a trap. Yeah. The confidence freaks me out. I'm not concerned at all. Honestly, bring it. Because either they have something that you don't know about or it's like, I don't give a fuck. No, truly, some of them have been waiting for this their entire life. Yeah.

Which is the biggest difference between other people that we've mess with or countries we've invaded versus them. It's a difference between we did it on a way. whim and they've been planning for 47 years so many contingency plans I have you seen a lot of like fights like it just in person

yeah just in person like on the street and stuff like that it's such an interesting thing when somebody wants to fight when someone's being messed with and they're like you know what God must have sent you because I've been wanting to beat the plaster out of somebody when they just take their shirt off immediately

without any like buildup they're just like like a half of a push and they're like ready I talked about how at one time there was these people that it was either a family dollar or a dollar general or whatever but they they were getting robbed and they jumped the the robbers the dude robin

imagine now imagine now you work at like Family Dollar Dollar drill or something like that Pull the gun Like they pull the gun All the people working there And the people working there are like Oh yes

And you Because now There's people probably call the police Like don't call them yet Let me get my stops in That's witnesses Yeah And you know they're not doing it to defend the dollar

You know they're not getting paid enough That they're doing this for work This is for them No, no, this is to let it out. This is because I have not been allowed to do this my entire time working here. I've wanted to every day. You are every customer I've ever dealt with. Yeah.

I am going to unleash the will of God onto you. Imagine, imagine you are trying to rob a dollar store and then three people just Nike's in your back. You start calling the police. I was robbing the store. They were my ass. Look, look. This is this portion of response. All right.

I just want what was in the register. After the sixth stomp, I think you're the criminal now. Yeah, y'all are hitting me with my gun. Oh, my God. Part of me, I think about if the U.S. truly is an oligarchy, right? Then what's coming in terms of like the potential impacts of this war is so, great and it would harm so many businesses that I'm thinking about have you seen network? No, no.

It's this movie where there's an anchor who kind of like has a mental break and he starts preaching and very populist and borderline in like religious ways on the news, but they keep him on the news because he's getting like really good ratings. and then at one point he says something that breaks up some oil deal or whatever and it gets called into this room that's like a giant room, it's very dark, long table. And then there's a man there and he's like, you have messed with the laws of nature. And he just explains capitalism to him. He's like, money has got taken out and it must be put back. And you have interfered with that.

And it's basically it's like, you can do whatever you want. You can do your little reflecting pool bullshit, but you don't touch the money. And now he is touching the money. So I'm like, where are the oligarch stopping this? So I'm just, I just don't know who is in charge of anything. Yeah, but that's why I think the structure of it is that people here and abroad are far too comfortable with that sort of, like patriarchal figure in place. The savior. Someone's going to come saying. Yeah. Yeah. It's like no, no. And also that could

have been true for a few people in recent memory to a degree. But this person already said he doesn't care about you. Yeah. That's another crazy thing. I don't care about the financial situation of Americans. It's a crazy thing to say. It's a crazy thing to say. It's a crazy thing to admit that should be a hot mic moment. I do not care. And his like, yeah, it's like he, lives to not make a hot mic necessary. He says all of his hot mic moments to you out loud

in your face. Daytime. Like it would even be different if this was a dateline interview and it was at night and it's like, look, the president was tired and he misspoke whatever. This is first thing in the morning. And then he'll come up the day after he's like, no, I meant that. Yeah. They'll try to clean up. He's like, oh, he meant

something else. No, no. No, no. I don't give fuck. I don't think you heard me the first time America. Read my lips. Yeah. Yeah. It just knocks out. That's why they couldn't send Trump to the negotiations.

If you got a, if you caught a photo of the negotiations and the Roddy are like pointing out a map in figures and Trump's just like, that's crazy. Oh my God. It's like, we all know. Like the whole art of deals BS. but like a week ago when he was on stage and he was like you know I had to make a deal now we were four weeks away from global catastrophe I was like mega don't tell them that what it's what you never negotiation be like ooh you really have me by the balls there I'm like we don't even have a deal yeah just talking and you just told the audience is like oh we wait three more weeks we can get whatever we want there was a movie

i can't remember what the movie was but there was a movie where in this scene this this soldier who is like freshly in charge of troops is like you scared i'm scared too yeah and it was all part of a bigger speech it was all part of a bigger speech but in my head i was like that one line was was unnecessary. Yeah. That was like, that was like, I get it. It's like we all know, but don't say that. Yeah, you're humanizing yourself and you're, you're bringing them into the moment.

You're being vulnerable. I get that. But now y'all have to run two gunfire. And so the fact that you start the speech, you scared, I'm scared too. Hey, just so you know, nobody's really in charge. I don't know what I'm doing. We started this one a whim. Good luck, everybody.

just so you know this is all going to be for nothing that's important that you get that in your head right now one two three for Monsanto Raytheon remember who you're fighting for

Lemon Brothers Bank yeah yeah it's no it's disaster part of the the structure part of me is like it'll be interesting sure

I've never been in the depression I've been depressed, but I've never sat through like an economic downturn quite like this. Dust bowl. I'll see like recipes from the dust bowl every once in a while. Water pie. They say it's not that bad. What is water pie? It's pie crust, water, sugar, like chunks of butter, then like some congealing agent.

And it's, yeah. Like baking soda? Yeah, something like that. And then you bake it. Yeah, it's the Great Depression. You ain't getting cuisine. So when, wait, wait, when did you have water pie? I didn't have water pie because I have...

Oh, you looked it up. Water pie, yeah. Made of flour, water, sugar, butter, and vanilla. And then, yeah. So where's the pie part? Because that's just crust, right? No, because it's all that stuff, like when you put that stuff in the water, it makes the water more like gelatin.

to like fill the space. Oh, so it's like jello pie. Kind of, I guess. It doesn't look bad. No, it looks like lemon meringue. Yeah. See, we can do a depression. No.

Not even, not even humoring it. No, no, those things are not the same. They're not the same at all. We'll get some great literature. There was some great literature during the Great Depression. We can't read anymore. we can't someone writes

grapes of rats like the guy I ain't reading that shit throwing across the while yeah somebody's reading grace or wrath like this is the longest insta post I've ever seen boring gay

and then he's going on TikTok yeah yeah I don't know where we go from here because it's like history we'll remember blah blah blah is what people have been saying but I'm like

it seems like that doesn't matter because we do remember the last time things went this bad and how people were acting like this and we're like yeah but like, we're, we literally are like, well, we're built different. That's our thing.

Yeah. They were dumb, we're not. Even though we're doing the same thing. Yeah, it's just that Arrested Development joke is like, does it ever work out for them? No, everyone thinks it does, but it never does. Yeah. But it might for us.

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and they invited all the A-listers and the A-lister said they were busy, and then they invited B, and B was... B's... Kind of who they got, like a Brett Michaels and stuff. Okay. Oh, the B-list. Yeah, the B list. I thought there's an artist named B.

No, no, no, no. That'd be a nightmare as far as, like, SEO. Oh, God, no, yeah. But then people start pulling out because it was clear that there's a difference between Freedom 250 and America 250 and they're different orgs. They do different things. And one is like completely

apparently run by Trump where the other one is like a bipartisan committee that's like, it'd be nice to have a new library opened or whatever. And then he's the one that's like, let's have people do it like pop wheelies on the White House lawn.

It is crazy to name them so similarly. For the president to do like what struggle out is on lime wire did where you just name your song yeah for big pimping yeah for the president to do what the parents of twins do

is like well Jalen and Kalen yeah one letter away so yeah I'm gonna talk about that talk about who pulled out who's still in also vanilla ice yeah you got vanilla ice I mean he'll he'll stay till the end

yeah I think he will be chill doing it even when they also ask him to leave. I think he just needs a place to stay. I think that's what this is. Hey man, my lease is up. Amen, my lease is up. And the White House got a lot of windows, which means it must have a lot of rooms, which means you must have extra.

You're keeping that the MMA stage there. I could put a tarp over that. If you put a tarp over that, that's a whole apartment. Plug up the walls, get some spackling for the cage. octagon shape you can't run into the wall sharp if you tried that's what we keep our vanilla ice there you can feed them if you want to that is yeah what a water pie is vanilla ice you put in some it's water little vanilla ice vanilla ice literally is the ingredients to water yeah yeah oh this depression's common there's so many like signs from god who's like

prepare yourself yeah you should watch out for i mean maybe don't elect someone who bankrupted at multiple casinos. But yeah, now that you're past that, you're going to have to get ready for that pang. I was about to say I'm ready. I can't even joke. I'm like, oh, I'm scared. No, I'm pretty scared.

I am nervous. I'm nervous. It's cool, you know, I had a fun bachelorette party this weekend. I've done all the things I need to do. Karaoke. Mm-hmm, man. That's the bucket list.

That's fair. Are you watching the World Cup? I'm watching some of the World Cup. I'm watching the World Cup once in a while, and how close are. are the U.S.'s chances. Very low. I don't think we're bad.

I don't think we're bad either. We've been winning, but I don't know what the knockout round means. I assume that all of playing in FIFA was knockout. All of our foreign fans are just like these stupid American. I'm like, I don't know. All I know is our women's team is really good. Yeah, no, they're incredible.

And our men's team's like, decent. Yeah. It would be bad for the world if we won for us to, if we somehow pulled off a miracle. Yeah. And this year out of all, out of all years we won, it would not be good. You would have to take the podium like, ah, sorry. You'd have to take the podium like, look, this, this is a sport, which is different than policy. We didn't have anything to do with that. Yeah. We are also confused, by the way. we don't like this either but thank you for the trophy

please don't assault us where we leave the stadium yeah no no because those fans are something else they get down yeah here's the thing we should definitely cut some of this because we know so little about World Cup that it would actually distract

and undercut all of our points yeah I'm like messy short Renato's tall. They're both pretty good. Argentina. Brazil? Yeah, that last minute, we got to lose. So it's time for something we call Daily Show and Tell. So what's something that you've watched, read, listened to, argued about, or just

spinning on your mind lately? I read the graphic novel Five Gears in Reverse by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, and then I've just started reading the Invisible Man graphic novel by James Tinian. Okay. And I'm looking forward to finishing that one as well. Very cool. Mine's not as unique. I saw Obsession.

Loved it. I love horror movies in general. Probably one of my top five. So the thing with obsession that I think is so perfectly done is not only is it about like getting what you want, everything like that, but the way in which, okay, I'm not to give anything away. But the way in which she scares him is actually how I've seen some dudes be scared before. Every once a while you will you will be like, why is this, you know, six foot even dude scared of this tiny woman? And it's like, you, you haven't been around.

Yeah. You haven't been around. I haven't been there at the midnight when she does the weird stuff she does. Or you haven't like seen her really like act like she's ready to scrap with you and you're like, how am I supposed to react to this? It is funny too in terms of like the first

half, not half, but like the very, very like early parts of the movie of her being you know, different. I'm like, it's, the fear is very like male in terms of like, oh, what a crazy woman. And then it just immediately switched

to like a female fear of like, oh, this guy is the worst man to ever live. I'm with someone unstable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's all the time we have for the precap. I'm Renal Lotus. Catch Josh Johnson, hosting the Daily Show this week on Comedy Central, Paramount Plus, and right here in podcast form on The Daily Show, Ears Edition.

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