The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Josh Johnson on ICE at the Airport, Trump's Ongoing "Won" War, and Bringing Back April Fool's Day

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

This week's host Josh Johnson is joined by writer Randall Otis to recap the biggest news of the week, and preview what's to come. They unpack the airport chaos caused by the partial government shutdown, and how adding ICE to the mix could make things worse. They also cover the escalating conflict with Iran, and the administration's repeated and unconvincing claims of "winning." Looking ahead, they get into the "SAVE America Act" and the potential unintended consequences for Republican voters, as well as the lost art of April Fool's Day. Watch the Daily Show on Comedy Central, Paramount Plus, and right here in podcast form, on The Daily Show - Ears Edition. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello and welcome to the pre-cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to recap some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next. I'm Randall Otis. I'm a writer at the show and I'm joined today by your host this week, Josh Johnson. How you doing? What's up, dog? Not much, man. How are you? I'm good. Yeah.

We were just talking about how I don't understand the Winter Soldier. No, it's not that you don't understand. It's just that. that this is my interpretation slash what I was told. So I was told that when they experimented on Bucky Rogers and everything, they basically made him like a version of Captain America. So super strong, all and stuff like that, which is why the arm is super strong, but he would be dead several times over if it wasn't for the arm.

Which makes sense. And I was saying I had only seen the trailer, and I was like, oh, his power is he's got one good arm. we've run out of ideas no no but that would be a better like that would be a great superhero comedy is that you're it's just the one arm because look I could be wrong

maybe I'll get eating alive in the comments and it is that he just has one good arm but I'm pretty sure he's like also really at the level that Captain America is which is why he's like so hard for Captain America to beat in when

or soldier. I guess so, but I'm like, both assassin, you know what I mean? Like both trained types. I know. We'll get off this in like five seconds, but I'm like like, just shoot that knick.

You know what I mean? As long as you don't hit the arm, he's dead. But this is my thing. I feel like the arm is almost like the Dr. Strange cape in a way because they've tried that. In a bunch of movies,

they tried to shoot him right in the head and then the arm come out of nowhere and block him If you got a shotgun, you ain't blocking all those palaces. Look, I'm sorry, your arm is only so wide. You're getting hit. You're getting hit. Dr. Strange, that's fine.

He's magic. All right, magic, you got magic rules. He's got one arm. I'm positive he got the Captain America serum because he also, when he jumped, that wasn't the arm. When you, in Captain America Civil War, in like the Civil War movie, when he had to jump buildings and he ran and jumped, They did the same jump.

All right, but the jump's not even, it's like a little further than you'd be like, oh, that's pretty far. But, you know, it's not blowing my mind. That was a long jump. All right, cool. And when he ran, oh, that, that proves my point. When he ran, whenever it was him, Black Panther and Captain America running and they were in traffic and they were running in the speed of traffic. I don't give a fuck about running. There are gods and niggas that can fly.

Yes, yes, I hear you. but he's better than just one arm. That's fair. He was running at 70 miles per hour, whatever the cars would do it. All right. So I guess we'll talk about politics. You travel a lot, so maybe you've experienced this. The TSA lines are absolutely insane right now because partial government shut down.

Yeah, I mean, partial or full. It doesn't really matter to you when you're at a three-hour TSA line. So so far, I've only experienced actual delays. I haven't had as much trouble getting through security in like less than the amount of time it would take me to make my flight and stuff. So I haven't been affected in that way. But it's also because the airports I'm flying in and out of have a little bit more. I don't even know how you would put this, but they have a little bit more of a management. And I think some places like Hartsfield Jackson in Atlanta are just like,

they're swarmed. Like, you know, I have family there and they said they've never seen anything like this. And that when they were flying in, because once again, it's like weather permits you to make it in the way you were going to make it in anyway. But then when you land and you're trying to leave the airport and you see like a, the only way I can describe it is when you look at a picture of all the people in this like four hour line at the airport, it looks like. it looks like that scene from Dune to when Timothy Shalbae was walking through the Fremant. Oh, yeah. And you're like that, it's so many people, it's like a swarm, you know. And so I didn't even know that the airport could handle lines like that.

Yeah. I mean, I feel like when you have a line that long, you really need to ask yourself, like, how much do you love your family, right? because it's like, I don't know. There's certain cousins, I'm like, I'm going home. And I'm going to just tell him, I'm like, ah, the plane, Iran shot it down. You know, I couldn't make it. Dude, when I tell you that I think, yeah, I think a lot about how I may have to come up with like alternative plans and backup plans and backup plans for those plans to get somewhere.

Like it's, bro, yeah, things are getting so bad. We're going back to like 1800s. all right, going to get on the cross-country train. Yeah, I mean, look, if I buy a buggy, I'll get there eventually. Do that little like push-pull cart they use in Looney Tunes? Yeah, yeah, 100%. Well, at least ICE is there. That'll make everything better.

I can't imagine what the plan is here. Like, here's my thing. For Trump to say, if the Democrats don't come to a deal, I'm going to send ICE to the airports, right? means that he's doing it in a clear understanding of what that means to people and in and in the bad faith that it takes to use ICE as a threat. Yeah, like you know they suck. Yeah. Like you, like you, you already know what they do outside.

I'm going to have them come do that at the airport, which is crazy that more people aren't reacting to. Like, it's very frustrating sometimes to see that some of these tactics work. that like something that is clearly his fault he can blame on dims and people are like wait a second yeah i think that i think the dames did all this and it's like that that to me i'm not saying everyone falls for it and even in the last government shut down the dims shot themselves in the foot by like taking all the public support for the shutdown and and just sort of squandering it but with this one i'm like you because you openly said I'm going to send ice to the airports if I don't get what I want.

I don't know how this can be laid at your feet any more when something eventually happens at an airport. Oh, yeah. Like, it's bad to take ownership of something that's definitely going to go bad, preemptively. It's the same way that people used to go on American Idol, knowing they couldn't sing and dedicate what they were about to sing to someone they loved. It's like, what do you think is going to happen magically? Do you think you'll just be able to hit a note now? I don't think people think that. It's like, I'm going to have my Disney princess moment

where it's like, I had this power inside me for so long. It took true love or Simon Cowell's glare to unlock it. Maybe. That, I don't know, that whole thing blows my mind because he said it. And so it's like he has to own that. And then, I mean, I don't know. know. I guess he doesn't really own much. Like, he doesn't get the... Yeah, it does feel like it's just one of those things that's going to roll over people's

backs, but it's like, because ICE can't do their job. It's not how you're expecting them to do a job that's also not their job. It's just, I don't know. Where I would be nervous if I was the government, I'm like, Americans are crazy and we're craziest at the airport. So it's like, you're, they're going to try to, you know, start some shit or start some fights, but these are Americans who've got like a mushroom and the Mario Invincibility Star. Like, I don't know if that'll go the way. I also don't think, is ice getting paid? They have to be, right?

I don't know. They get like $100,000 or something. They get paid like a ton. Oh, I don't know about that. Not $100,000. No, I'm saying at all, though. Because then you know there's that Reddit group that's like we haven't been, yeah, they're part DHS. So then there's that Reddit group that's like we haven't been paid yet and I know it's not everybody

I know that was some people clearly having like um administrative snafus and stuff like that but overall it's like even you know their bonus is like a hostage their bonuses for like each year it's not it's not all at once and then I don't know if they're getting paid we should look that up because now like there's the people who sign up for ice just because it's like look I want to want the money but now you're going to have people there who are just in it for the love of the game that's what i'm saying i don't even need to get paid i need to i'm just here for i'm going to look this up now if if ice is getting paid right now yeah it looks like they are they're getting paid yeah they're getting paid great which is which is also crazy because then tsa isn't getting paid so now somebody

shows up and makes your job more stressful and they're getting paid bro they're just going to like chuck I don't know, it'd be fun if there's a little war between ICE and the TSA. I mean, that would boost TSA. It was like, you know what, maybe you guys aren't so bad. Ice definitely has that with everyone they encounter, though. Oh, yeah, the cops don't like them. That's crazy for the cops to be like, you guys are being a little aggressive. No, it's not that crazy because this is what happens.

The ICE agents come, do their thing, whatever their raid is, whatever their investigation is, and the cops have to guard them. So it's like, imagine you have to be the bodyguard of, it would be like being, what's his name, little kick streamer that runs around and starts fights, but then his bodyguard save them. It's like, that's literally what ICE is. Like, ice, because then they also leave.

Anytime there's a protest that's bigger in number than the cops there and the agents there, ICE immediately leaves. And now you're just like, well, I didn't even get to have the phone. I mean, I can't imagine if you are a police officer that you enjoy protecting ICE because they are fake cops that aren't good at doing their job. Who are getting more money than you sometimes, probably. Yeah, potentially on where they're deployed, yeah.

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Well, it's like, I mean, everyone's made the comparison to Iraq, of course. But, like, saying we won this many times, it's like you have the mission accomplished banner, and then you also, like, tattoo it on your face several times. I'm like, bro, like, this is actually, I don't understand the, well, I do understand the point. Like, obviously, he wants the stock market to not be in free fall and have prices. Oil prices not spike, but I just don't see, like, with a lot of stuff, we can BS, like, as Americans with the rest of the world. But, like, oils, like, exist. You know what I mean?

Not just, I mean, not just oil. We are on some borrowed time with the way we function the economy. Like, this isn't sustained. And so if you're going to tell me that we're winning, you're going to have to make it really believable. And the more times you tell me in a short period of time, the less I believe you. Yeah. You know what I mean? It feels like when your parents were on a budget and you were like, hey, do you all just like spaghetti?

Is there a reason we're having it three days in a row? And they're like, oh, no, spaghetti's fire. And because you're a kid, the first day, you're like, yay, spaghetti. And then after the third day, when your parents are like, spaghetti's the most important meal of the day, you're like, that doesn't sound right. Yeah. And then you're like, I feel like I'm missing nutrients. They're like, no, actually spaghetti has everything you could possibly need. Yeah.

Actually, if you want other food, you're bad. Yeah. It's like, well, I don't see how that's possible. Yeah. Yeah. I want to believe you, but I feel bad. Yeah. Very sick.

Yeah. And that's, yeah, that's what the, what the war feels like. Because this, this, like, foe sort of show of strength or this, this idea that we have to be convinced that we're winning and it would make us any more, for some people it would. But that it would make us any more in favor of the war that we're winning, that we don't know why we started, that we don't technically call. call the war because we didn't get the permission of Congress. So then every action taken is maybe illegal. Who knows? I don't know if the law is real anymore.

That's like too much of a limbo to leave people in to be like, and we're winning. Well, and it's such a shock too because like, obviously like we have to like know about this stuff. But it takes like a minute if you're like an average person to like even care for you to learn about it. And so I feel like the average experience for the average American is saying, hey, what's up? We're in a war.

and by the way, we're already losing. It's like, wait, what? Yeah, but not, but to find out we are losing from people who aren't the official sources. Like, you have to put together losing because the narrative out there is that these things are happening. From, like, from media that you would think would hold the president and the administration to account, the narrative is like, these things are happening. We're attacking Karg. Carg is this island, you know what I mean? then the narrative from from Trump and the administration is that we're we're winning we're we're crushing it right then if you put the pieces together and you look at what the implications are of some of the things already done you're like we're losing so losing is also a different step away from even finding out yeah and it's in a way genius because like modern war like there are a lot of things that are like truly existential like i feel like with ukraine and russia it's like okay

we need to win or our country is completely gone. But so much of war is just like, all right, we have an objective and whether or not we get accomplice the objective determines whether or not we win. And it's kind of a brilliant move to go into a war with no objectives because it's like you can't really lose. Like, I don't even know why I'm here, so you can't beat me. Yeah, it's a lot like there was this video I saw

of this fight that almost started. is very funny. It's like a street fight? Yeah. And it's basically... I love your media diet. This guy, this guy, big old dude, right? Big old dude is towering over this other dude with his friends.

And this guy clearly is trying to troll him in public, you know? And so then he's like, he's like, you won't touch me. Like you're not like really daring him to do something. And he's like, your boy's not even holding you back. You won't touch me. And then this big dude who has to be like sick, six. Meanwhile, the other guy's like average size. So just towered, David and Goliath.

And so then he's like, you won't touch me, you won't touch me. And then he moves his friends out of the way, truly, like, puts his hand on his friend's shoulders and puts them out of the way, like the end of Happy Gilmore. And then grabs that dude by his neck. And that dude goes, oh, oh. He goes, oh, he goes, oh, kiss me now. And it's so funny

Because this guy's just This man's towering over He's grabbed you And now he doesn't know what to do Because he's like wait And that's kind of what's like Entering a war with no objective You're like

Was this the plan? I don't know I guess I have a boyfriend now Yeah That was the plan the whole time That's in a round of dating You know You see a tall drink of water

Across the street Pretend to fight him Oh my gosh I just the thing that is kind of fun is like how much I know now about the Strait of Ormoos and Karg Island and just all this stuff I'm like bro I should I shouldn't have to know what this is it's yeah this is this is what's tough it's the most American thing I've ever said but I'm like I shouldn't have to know what this is you know well here's another very American thing that

people keep saying especially like whatever Manosphere people I'm probably going to get the quote wrong, but it's like, uh, what's it? Hard men make soft times. Soft times make hard men. Yeah, me like the cyclical thing. Uh, and I feel that way about information where it's like, when you are informed, things are usually bad. Oh yeah. You become informed so that you can hopefully fix the bad thing. As soon as things are good again, you're like, I don't need to know any of this stuff. Yeah. What could be the, what's the worst? that could happen if we bomb around. Oh, everything bad. That's the crazy part to me is that we admit, or like Trump admitted, the government admitted that they caught us off guard. Like, he will be in the Oval Office. It's like, they started bombing infrastructure. I didn't think they'd do that. I was like, because I'm against this war, but I'm also, there's that part of me who is just still American. I'm like, do not tell them. It's like, you got me. It's like, don't tell them that. Well, it's like his, it's like his post where he's like, you're like, you. Y'all have four eight hours before I strike your, your biggest energy plant.

Y'all know which one. Y'all know which one's the biggest, don't you? It's like, you might as well send the coordinates to the world. Like, they know which one's their biggest. And there's like, I guess we'll defend that one. Yeah. Okay. And then he's like, meanwhile, my plan is to attack the smallest.

Which is like, okay, that hurts us a little bit, but it's not that bad because it is the smallest. It's just, it's a, it's. yeah I think I think one of the things that I find most terrifying and exhausting about it is how far removed we are so it doesn't feel like there's real consequence and it's a thing that if you live in long enough

or grow up in the United States you are so far removed from consequence of what the United States does to other countries, that everything feels like an idea. Like the, and I'm not speaking for everyone

when I say this, I'm just saying our attitude on the world stage is very main character energy treating the rest of the world like extras. Like we do not treat other countries with the respect that they are real people and that they have like a sovereign nation that they're representing.

And so you can only get away with stuff like that for so long. And I think that this thing and the way that Trump is probably worried about bricks, the way that people don't really want to be on the petro dollar anymore, and the way that people would love to move away from any sort of dependence on the United States, not just because of Trump, but just in case we elect another Trump, because they don't know what we'll do. Yeah. They look at like, like when I track.

travel, people from other countries look at us like versions of Trump because we elected Trump. Which is fair. And so then when we say, oh, it's just this one guy. I promise there's just one guy. It's like, yeah, but there's probably another guy. We are truly like a like a crack addict in the sense of, it's like, you know, we go and we relapse and then we're back. And it's like, no, I'm good now. You can trust me.

It's like, yeah, but you keep smoking crack at three. Like you'll be nice for a few months, but then you go back. And they're like, we don't know if you're going to go back or not. Yeah, and so it's just safer to be done away with the relationship. And I know that we have enough money right now and we have enough influence that they maybe can't openly say it, but you look back at Carney and Carney gave a very like, not a... It was scathing in the Canadian sense, and it was, like, pretty blunt in the way of people who still have decorum about how they speak. Yeah. It was, like, ripping us apart.

Because he said, what, the old word order is dead, and we're going to have to form new relationships. I'm like, that's bad. That's very bad. There are next door neighbors. And that's how a president says it. Yeah. That's how a president actually says it, not like. Like, he can't say, we're so used to the, yeah, the vulgar.

of our politics. Yeah. Well, he didn't say fuck y'all, so we're good. He's like, no, he can't.

He didn't go up there. Nor does he want to, but the message is the same. He didn't go up there and say your economy's dying like a dog. Yeah. That's like the only thing

we hear now for like, oh, that seems disrespectful. Yeah. Just like, yeah, civil, like noble, I'll smack you with my gloves, sir. That means nothing to us now.

Yeah. It has to be like full level 10. Do you, do you then think that there's any real how do I put this do you think there's any real

comeuppance for like the unpopularity of ICE and then just giving them more public exposure because the other issue that that Trump is going to have on his hands that the GOP are going to have at large is that a lot of the people who support ICE don't have to interact with them at all and so now

if you're out here and you're Cuban American and they're looking at your ID and they're like, where are you really from? And you're like, no, I'm from Michigan. No, where are you really from? You know what I mean? Like there's a thing in that where as Republican as you may be outside of the airport or as, because once again, you've put ice in these places.

So these people aren't at a protest. I think that's a really good point. And it's ties in, I think that in Iran are similar. in the way that you were talking about we don't experience consequences of the decisions we make, right? And not that having to pay an enormous amount of, for oils good,

like I prefer if none of this was happening, but it's like, okay, gas prices are higher and I keep seeing people complain about it, people make TikToks about it, but it's like that's the only part of the war, at least right now, that is directly affecting us. And even just that, like, the entire Middle East is getting bombed,

and we're just having to have higher gas prices. at least for now. And that's enough to make us go, I don't know if I want this. And I do think it's a good point. Yeah, with ICE, it's like, it's mostly, like they operate in secret,

they move very quickly, but to have them at all airports, and having to actually face what this is in reality, that could backfire huge. Because I just, I don't know if ICE is going there to help BTSA, or if they're going there to do ice things and shake things up because it does it does trump no good to actually fix the problem at the airports with ice agents it does it does him no good to have ice go there

be perfectly pleasant and not hassle anybody not give anybody a hard time not arrest anybody and then he basically solved the the airport crisis for the democrats who are holding up his is DHS funding. It's like that, that to me doesn't track. And it didn't seem like what he was saying he was trying to do with the threat of, if they don't do it, I'll send ICE. Yeah, but that's where it's confusing to me, right? Because on the one hand is like you want, you don't want to solve the crisis

so you can pass the blame on the Democrats. But ICE, it doesn't feel like, it feels like having a kind of like a rabid dog, right? Like you're putting it somewhere and you don't know exactly what they're going to do. These are highly untrained people. So if things pop off, but then the anger goes from long lines to ice, now the anger is just at you. No, I don't think it's a smart plan because I also think, like, tourism's cratering. I think if you now announce to the world and you deploy ice to airports, now there are people who would come to visit the U.S. that just hoped that they weren't in a place that, like, okay, I'm going to go visit the U.S.

but I'm going to, like, New York. I won't be in Minneapolis, so hopefully I won't encounter ice. Yeah. Now, ICE is at the airport. Yeah, there's like one guy in Vegas now. Yeah, it's like, it's like, why would you? Germany, didn't Germany already put out a travel advisory on us? Really?

I'm, it was either Germany. I mean, I believe it. No, but let me see. I don't want to be wrong about it. But there's a couple countries that have already basically put out a travel advisory. on us the way that we used to do to like Afghanistan Yeah yeah

Several countries have issued travel advisories for the U.S. Generally advising caution due to crime, security, and entry requirements. And so those are entry requirements before ICE is at the airport. Yeah. So they're like you may go there and run into something or they may try to, you may have a legal visa and they may jam you up or whatever. Now ICE is at the airport. It doesn't even matter if ICE does.

does anything. It's literally the threat of like, imagine if I told you, hey, I'm having a party on Friday, police going to be there. Come through. Come through, dog. Go on have a good time. You mean like they're your friends? No, no, no. They're on duty. No, no, no. They're working.

But, oh, and they're mad. And they're not getting paid. So they're extra mad. No, cops are getting paid. The security of the door is not getting paid. And he is not trained. He doesn't. And he, He's got a bone to pick.

Yeah, it's just, it's, that stuff is like. Which means the only foreigners we're getting are like crazy motherfuckers who don't care about anything. We're like, I've been waiting to be nice. Yeah, I can't, it's like in the purge when they visit America to take part of it. It's like, I've just wanted to see some crazy shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I just, I feel like it is a remarkable misstep at a time where, look, I say he can't afford missteps because I'm still treating him like someone that is tied to logic and reason and consequence

and he never has been so I guess I I'm like yeah I guess I'm applying the wrong things to the situation but I just don't see how this could in any way be good because disgruntal travelers that's like a they're the best of us yeah you don't know how to they voted. You don't know what they, but you over here telling me that now y'all are here to help and I still miss my flight.

Well, that's the crazy thing. It's like, remember, especially during COVID, all those videos with people on planes, like getting into fist fights and stuff, all those people are in ice now. Like, those people are in ice. All the viral videos, they're just outside Southwest.

And I'm like, bro, this is going to be a shit show. That's crazy. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. But then every single thing that happens is like at your feet. Because once again, you announced to the world, I'm sending ice to the airport.

Well, that's the, I think that Trump's entire strategy is banking on the fact that people don't read. And so it's like, I did see, I said it, but I typed it. So they're not going to read it. They'll hear it through someone else who's going to filter it and remove all the stuff that I need removed. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, also, I think that there are some people who are so coded to what works for him. They're just so, like, they're so, like, brained, I don't even know how it would put this. But they, I think there are genuinely people that if they got roughed up by ice at the airport and didn't do anything would be like, I'm just sorry I let the president down.

Yeah. Trump moves in mysterious ways. Yeah, because you see even with the gas prices or even with the things that they voted for him on when they aren't coming to fruition, they're like, they're either saying give him time or I'm willing to take the pain now for the better promise of tomorrow. Like that's the thing that makes religion scary to me. Yeah, yeah. Where I'm like, he didn't even promise you a better tomorrow. He said he would fix it day one. We're far past day one.

Oh, my God. And you're now saying there's a promised land past this moment where things are going the opposite of how he said that'll be even better than when he just wasn't in office. And it's just, yeah, it's so funny to me too because I've been hearing, it's like, it's just a little short-term pain. It's like tariffs with Iran. It's just, I've been hearing, it's just a little short-term pain for long-term gain. But I'm like, okay, I've been hearing short-term pain for like over a year. And when you stack up a lot of short-term pain, that just becomes. comes long-term pain.

Yeah. It's like, bro, we're getting, at best, long-term pain for long-term gain, which is not happening. So we're just having long-term pain for something. We're getting something. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing I can guarantee you.

We're going to get something. Is it going to be good? Probably not. But we're getting something. So we got stuff coming up this week. We have the big Save America. acts of drama going on in Congress. Is there a vote this week?

At minimum, I think they are doing floor debates. I'm not sure if the votes this week or later on. But it feels kind of all over the place in terms of what Republicans are trying to get out of it. Because last week I was listening and John Thune was saying, He was talking as if it's definitely not going to pass, but we just want to get Democrats on the record of not supporting voter ID or all these other things. But now Trump wants it to pass,

and so it seems like they're actually working to get it passed, which personally, I don't know how that's possible because you need 60 votes or blow the filibuster, which it feels like they're not willing to do. Well, okay, you'll have to help me out because this is going to sound very dumb now. how did the big beautiful bill pass that was under budget reconciliation and so with that you don't need 60 votes you only need a majority and so they could just get that through without having to care about democrats at all but this i feel is not under some special rules because it's new yeah something with the schedule or something like that but yeah this one i'm pretty sure needs 60 and so they got all the Republicans, I'm assuming, and then Federman. The thing about restricting votes, it's like, maybe they've done the math on this,

and they figured out that, like, all these people not being able to vote makes us come out on top. And I, obviously, there's always the thing of, like, targeting, like, minorities and sometimes women as well in general. Like, that's one of the critiques of the SAVE Act is the whole, um, your ideas. D won't match your birth certificate because you got married and you changed your name. So like if you change your name, it's going to make it really hard to get the type of identification you need to be able to register to vote and everything. And my thing, though, is that I think a lot of these things, maybe they're not worried about this, but I think a lot of, a lot of these tactics dismiss or at least underestimate, like,

poor white people and and like poor white people who are voting Republican. I just, I do not see a world where like I grew up in Louisiana. And so there are a lot of people where no matter what sort of like segregation you tried to, you tried to implement throughout the state, whether it's like in the school system or just in the sort of makeup of of neighborhoods, a lot of these neighborhoods, have like pretty not even incomes but some of these places

that are segregated to the point of just being white are also struggling very hard so then there are these black and brown areas where people are not doing well but then you can point to like five areas

where it's almost all white people and they are very broke and so the idea that they will once again with the pressure cooker on them of gas prices of the general cost of living that now they will find the time off work and they'll also be able to afford the extra even if it's like 60 bucks it's like processing fees the processing fees of like hey i need to get a duplicate of my birth

certificate or i need to i basically need to go get a passport well that's why i feel like i must be missing something because i'm like the passport whites are democrats right I don't know. I don't like I can't pretend to know. I feel like the last time I saw this is like people with passports are like most likely to be white, college educated. Maybe. We're all Democrats. But this is the this is also the thing with the, um, gerrymandering that they did in, was like Texas was definitely. I think it was Texas and it was where it started. Where they did this gerrymandering where they accidentally made a like a blue district. Yeah, they might have done that like a ton of places because they were banking on. Latinos voting the same way they did in 2024 and then I don't know what happens just for some reason

Latinos don't like Republicans this year something might have happened I don't know Yeah I'm not not sure what it is Lots of things definitely happen But yeah I just I don't know Once again if it's a smart idea to tie Any legislation because didn't Trump say

He doesn't want to pass anything until the Save Act is passed? Yeah. But also it makes me wonder how many things get past anyway. This is the least productive Congress, I think, in history. Yeah, so it's like how many things are getting passed in general? So then it's not that much of a threat. It does feel like if somebody was just struck out every time they're at bat

and then they get up to the plate and do the Barry Bond's point, and it's like, what are you pointing at? What are you pointing at? Are you waving at someone? Is that where you wish the ball went? Yeah, yeah. Or it's just like, yeah, there's like someone with E.D. being like, you're not getting any of this good love it tonight. I didn't even think that was an option.

Yeah, that. I forgot that was there, actually. You still do that? Yeah. I didn't even think you could do that with yourself. And that is kind of how I feel about the things passing. Maybe I'm just not up on what's been getting through, but I feel like he hasn't signed much in a while. No, because every time he's signed stuff, it was like the big, big.

beautiful bill and everything else is an executive order. Yeah. Yeah. I was not to say not good, but it's probably good that there's not a lot of stuff getting best. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of how I feel about ice at the airport. I'm like, well, I guess they're not terrorizing people in their homes for a while. Yeah.

Because isn't it, like, didn't he say he's deployed like all of ice? I mean, he says stuff. Yeah. But there's a lot of airports. You feel like you need a decent amount of people. Airports are big. There's apparently around 50,000 TSA agents, which if, I mean, yeah, they're quitting in droves, right? Because they just haven't been paid and they have bills to pay and stuff like that.

If I have two shutdowns back to back, I'm like, bro. Back to back. I need money. I don't know. And I feel like there's even less. Can we look up how many ICE agents there are? Like right now? Yeah, especially I have to.

the last because there's not that many 13,000 exactly so it's like you're not that this is why I'm saying it's such a bad idea and I will stop bringing up after this because got you I will stop bringing it up after

this but the other reason this feels like it's not a good idea is because like you said they're not good at their job and then I mean technically they are good at their job if their job is just create chaos but like they are not there as TSA agents. There's no way they got the training

in time. They were probably just like, just look for a bomb. Yeah. And then there's not enough of them to be as much of an aid as you would need to like smooth things over. I know the intention isn't to fix anything, but that just

yeah, 22 is not a lot for as many airports as there are. Oh no. And especially if they're continuing any sort of operations. Like maybe they've halted everything. I don't know. Yeah, I don't I don't know. I know they...

There's just so much stuff to keep track of. It would be nice to have, like, a real April Fool's Day again, where everybody just had a good time, tricking people, pranking people, making people feel silly. Yeah. That'd be great. Did you ever do an April Fool that you were, like, proud of? I'm trying to think of one that I was like, this is amazing.

What, like, what really comes to mind? for me is that it feels like the spirit is lost a little bit because I think now we're so used to the news being jarring and sounding fake that someone telling us a fake thing has no bearing yeah it's like you think it's real yeah you think it's real because I mean it's like I mean all that's really left is like I'm pregnant classic yeah that's classic which we can't do or you can if you're bold enough and you're very convincing but like my thing is if you okay yeah getting uh like a false headline or a big corporate joke or some of the things that we used to do for april fools feels a lot like if jack harlowe made a movie about him being the only white rapper

in a black neighborhood trying to prove himself and it's like well we already have eight mile yeah i was about to say i'm like might watch that i don't know i watch i watch a lot of bad booms i'd watch jack harlowe beefing with i don't even know who's a good young rapper kandrick and i just kentrick bitch slaps him scene one he's like go to school you would oh i you're you're saying who in the movie he would battle yeah maybe like louisie verre louisie Yeah. I feel like Little Uzi would just try to make friends with him. You couldn't do it at any mile with Lil Uzi.

He just starts, like, dancing. Yeah. No one's hard like that. Everyone's like on Xanax now. There's no... Yeah, I guess there's not as much attention. Time for something we call it Daily Show and Tell, where it's something we watched, read, listened to,

or just been on our mind recently that we want to talk about. I've not really been on my mind. mind but I've been playing this video game called Crimson Desert and it's just it's it was hyped up so much to be like the greatest thing ever and it's fine which I think's funny because I don't think people know how to react to fine because online there's like huge arguments of people like it is the greatest game I've ever played now people are like it is the biggest piece of shit that has grace my screen I'm like it's it's okay it's not bad yeah I have it's a decent enough time, but I truly think it breaks people's brain to just be like, oh, you know,

not bad, not great, but you know, I had a good enough time. Yeah. And people's like, oh, so you hate it. I was like, I just think it's okay. Yeah. It's like, so was that bad? I'm like, it's okay. Is it good? I'm like, it's okay. So I have a thing. Um, Samaracen's Project detour came out. Mm-hmm. And it's fire. It's, it's awesome. So I've been, I've been listening to that pretty much on repeat. I should check that out. Yeah, you got to check it out. It kind of ends this, what looks like, a three-part trilogy of projects.

So it is really cool. And the, yeah, both aesthetically and even in like the tone of sound and everything, you're getting something different than what has come out before. And so it's giving different eras, different looks to the overall discography, which I'm, like, excited to watch more of. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I think it's cool to be able to jump into an artist who's, like, pretty well-formed. Instead of, like, I'm growing with them.

I'm like, no, I like a nice polished product. I mean, I think it's a little bit of both because I feel like she's just getting started. But at the same time, it's like there's enough there that you can really, like, dive deep. find some favorites and everything. So, yeah, it's like best of both worlds. Bushwick. Nice. Yeah.

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