The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Michael Kosta on the Iranian Ceasefire-ish Situationship, Losing the Meme War, and Earth Day

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

This week's host Michael Kosta is joined by Daily Show writer and producer Matt O'Brien to recap the latest news, and preview what's to come. They cover the confusing nature of the US-Iran ceasefire and accompanying meme war, the price hikes for World Cup train tickets, President Trump's executive order to accelerate psychedelic drug treatments for veterans and the animal rights activists storming a beagle research facility like the beaches of Normandy. Looking ahead they discuss how we're letting the earth down for Earth Day, and the absurdity of the Trump tariff refund portal. -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That's me. I'm Michael Costa. Welcome to the pre-cap. And of course, we have a sidekick joining us today, Walter Costa. Walter, everything good? Great. Great. Walter gets the vibe of a pod.

Don't overthink it. Yes, he's everyone listening right now. All right. Well, welcome to the pre-cap, everybody. So what we're going to start off with, Michael, the way that the pre-cap works. Okay. Is we start off with stories we missed last week. So when we start out, I mean, this is an ongoing story.

It was developing all last week. of course iran the strait of hormuz it was there was a ceasefire it was open now we're attacking ships again it's closed they're rushing to have talks that iran is saying they may or may not attend things may have already progressed beyond this by the time people are listening to it right so this entire back and forth that we're about to have could be futile but let's do it because it's going to be fun but also the Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz, we blocked, but then we unblocked, we meaning America. Yes. And now Iran is back in control of it.

The straight that's been open and accessible for decades. Right. That we shut down. Right. We've managed to somehow pry open. I do think it's worth reminding everyone that the straight was open before we bombed them. I was not even aware of the state of Hormuz. Correct.

Correct. We are. But as someone who tries to be up to date on political events, because partially I'm interested, partially it's my job, I don't actually know if we're in the middle of a ceasefire or not. I know there's a deadline looming of a ceasefire, but I also know bombs are being dropped. It's like a ceasefire, but we're dabbling in some fire. Yes. You know, it's not a hard ceasefire. It's like monogamy, but when I'm away, it's a, it's a, right. It's a polyamory.

French ceasefire. French. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Maybe it's unspoken. I mean, cease.

And correct me if I'm wrong, anybody. Cease means to stop. Correct. So stop. Walter, cease. Cease. Yep. Okay.

So, yeah, that is typical of our day and age, but even the label of ceasefire is an ish. It's an is. It's an is. Isse fire-ish. And it's weird, I can't, I mean, you know, not that there's not vagueness when you're fighting a war. But I don't, you know, in terms of political posturing and grandstanding, it feels like the political posturing is happening so quickly. Yeah. That they contradict, they grandstand and then they contradict that grandstand with, it's open for business.

Iran has agreed to our. ceasefire and then it's 12 hours later like we're going to blow all of this up right right uh the whiplash the lag of them arguing with themselves almost is pretty insane it is one of Trump's um strategies and I don't even know if it's deliberate but he just talks so god damn much I'm going to say that it's not deliberate I does it feels like he's not yeah doesn't feel yeah he says everything he says everything on the wheel he says he says he says everything on the wheel he says he says everything on the wheel that you don't even know what the hell is going on. You have to almost look at the actions, Matt. Someone should have a phrase about how actions say more. They're more voluminous

than verbal cues. That's not that doesn't have the same ring, but there is a vibe that I'm talking about. Yeah. I wish we had talked about this before the show because we could have had something phrase. It would have been a shorter, more concise way to express it. This last. week on the show sound sound off in the comments this the last week on the show on Thursday I did a fun chat about the meme war the me more right and that was interesting because Iran is putting out funnier more elaborate higher produced more truth bombs in my opinion yes then the trolley internet president that we have.

They're putting out concise, satirical, cutting memes. And we're just vomiting. Vomiting SpongeBob and crappy. I mean, it was really strange to stand in the side studio there and have the Iranian war memes play for the American audience. And people are laughing and clapping. They're kind of like, I got to give it up. I mean, that's American audience. Well, for the most part, minus the German.

cruise ship that always seems to show up here. Laughing and clapping for Iranian propaganda and I got to admit they're they're funny. Now, just to back it up, just a hair. You're proposing that our live audience that they unload a German cruise ship

and they walk over to the studio to fill the studio. I just know that when I bike to work there is a crossing guard with a hold that holds a stop sign and I have to wait sometimes on the West Side Highway while like 7,000 fucking German tourists across the street. Everybody in our crowd has zinc oxide and a towel around their neck and flip flops.

Exactly. Oh, this is funny. But the memes don't help deta... They do help, excuse me. The memes really help detach emotionally what war is. From what's happening. Yeah, which is really... Yeah.

It's hard to also think, like... And maybe that's even what war is now. It's like a bunch of unmanned drones shooting each other. So it is also easy to go like, do I care? Yes. It's not like we're sending in our boys over there. It's like we have, there's no boots on the ground yet, right? It does seem to me that Iran.

I mean, they're coming down to how Trump communicates. For sure. So how do we, it's not releasing, uh, well worded, concise statements that's going to get under the president. It's not sending the diplomat over to really work the bowels of American government. And by the way, he's responding to the... Correct. It's working. He's speaking.

They're speaking on his level. The Democrats should be doing this also, but it's like we have this unwritten rule that we're not going to go low with him. But Iran is like, oh, we'll make a Lego meme where the rocket says loser on it and it shoots the Epstein files or whatever. You know, it's like unbelievable. Who is making those? Who in the Iranian government is making those? I love to think that there's like a 16-year-old that they've dragged out of Tehran. Right.

And they're just standing over him. Right. You want to keep those hands? We'll chop them off. You don't pump out a couple of memes. All right. So Iran, of course, a lot happening last week. and I'm sure inevitably we'll cover this week.

Yeah. Because the ceasefire ends Wednesday. Wednesday. And as we discussed, did it ever really begin? Right. But I can't wait to see us all celebrate once the ceasefire ends and the war is over. Right. And resolved.

Oh, one quick story about the war before we move on for that is there is a report in the Wall Street Journal that Trump is musing about giving himself a medal of honor. Oh. I guess for his military accomplishments in this war. Not surprising, but in a war that's devolved into memes, I just bring it up because it feels like that's the cherry on top. If they're, you know, him posting montages of him walking to a dire straight song and quickly dashing off contradictory military orders,

you've got to hang the Medal of Honor around his neck. He's done an outstanding job. My first thought was all the people that have that medal. Yes. That earn that medal and what, you know... With grave sacrifices often. I mean, it's just even hard to put to words.

Yes. How disrespectful is. disrespectful that is yes yes yes I cannot agree more I mean look I vote and once he hears this he'll say you know what they're right I vote for myself every year in the funniest daily show employee office pool yes but that doesn't have the same that is such a tense week that's a tough when John goes around and puts the metal around the yes who won the fun yes but all the the the back channel jockeying yeah you're always stopping my people's office Sending people cinnamon rolls.

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$150 train ride. Normally that would be $7, $14. Maybe a little, yeah, that's a good question. Maybe $10, $12 each way. 10 to $15 to go from Manhattan to... It's a very quick ride, maybe 15, 20 minutes. You're not even deep in New Jersey. No.

You're in East Rutherford. No. That, obviously, a lot of outrage, and understandably so, because for $150, I wonder what a cross-country train ticket costs. That's a good question. Probably more than $150. But the World Cup starting to think may not be the pure and just tournament that we've run by ungreedy and idealistic people.

I don't know exactly why it costs $150. New Jersey said it has something to do with FIFA taking over the whole parking lots. But one thing I will say is I like the idea of getting soccer fans, drunk soccer fans pissed off before they even get to the stadium to put them in a really, to get put them in a riotous mood before they even sit down. It should be stated that there's not, you can't get to the stadium any other way. That's correct. I mean, that's also the issue here.

If they were saying you want to take the train, it's going to be $150 and there's three other ways. Yes. We'll have buses. Yeah, or whatever. I mean, this is the way you got to go. I liken this to just how expensive it is to live in New York City and other people who don't live in the city, they think you're meaning like cute, expensive.

They think this is going to come out. It's going to be, you know, $32. It's like, but it's grossly expensive. But also I wondered how many New Yorkers are even going to the World Cup final. Isn't this mostly a tax on people coming in? People coming in. Probably. I don't know the answer to that.

In which case, they're going to get on the wrong train anyways. They're going to go, what the hell am I doing in Long Island? Oh, God. Why am I in Hudson? The World Cup in Massapequa. Yeah. That's true. Yeah.

A lot of New Yorkers may not, I remember being here when the Super Bowl was here and it was in MetLife, I think. And I mean, a lot of New Yorkers didn't even know it was here. Yep. You're right about people think, oh, New York's cute, expensive. No, it sort of beats people into submission. Yeah. Into spending, you're almost to live here. you have to just submit to it because otherwise it would be agony.

$150 for a train ride? Okay, I just have to get through my day. My dad used to say, don't think, just pay. That is exactly it. That's what this is. Because the only thing I know for sure is those trains will be packed with people. Yeah, and it's not like these are sweet trains. That's true.

You know, there's no like, yeah, this is a free beer on the train. That's another good point. Yeah. These are the NJ transit trains. trains caked with that commuter grime that they could never possibly get off. I always wondered, when L.A. won the Olympic bid and I was living there, I always just wondered, like, who really wants this? I don't think anybody. It's not the local residents ever.

No. And, you know, obviously, as it gets closer and closer to people in L.A. are saying, how are you going to do this? How are we going to do this? I do love the World Cup. It's the best. I love watching Ireland play Egypt, and they all have the names that you would think they do. And it's exciting that it's going to be in the U.S. That's crazy.

It's awesome. Very, very long time. Or it's just the first time ever, no, it's not. We had it in 94. We had it in 94. I went to the U.S. opener, and it was the big, it was in Detroit, I believe. My dad took me. It was like the introduction of soccer to America, and I think it was as a big.

zero-zero tie. It might have been one-one. If only there was a way to find this is going to get you hooked. This is going to get you hooked on the game, son. I think that if you compare in 1994 to now, soccer has become significantly more popular. MLS is a thing. Yes. I mean, it wasn't even.

I can't even believe it made it. The only jersey my son owns is a messy jersey. Yeah. So. Lionel Messi. Not it's not filthy. It's not messy. No, no, no.

Correct. It's not stained. Right. Lionel Messi. Right. That's exactly. Right. Thank you.

Thank you for. You're welcome. Clarifying. Man, I would have gotten dragged in the comments. All right. So what do you think about Trump signing this executive order to accelerate access to psychedelic drug treatments? Let me tell you what my first thought was. Please, go ahead.

Hey, man. You got us in a war no one wants. And this is like throwing a bone to the military, maybe kind of. And I think it's not even accelerating access. It's just maybe allowing them to test it or something. I forget. It feels like not enough. Just don't send us to war.

Right. So and when you come home with PTSD. Right. And your catatonic will have different types of ketamine and acylsibin ready for you. Right. I've got, I think, is the one. And I've had, I've had some. What is it? What's the one?

Ibo gain is a big one. Uh-huh. Right, right. I liked how you said that as if you weren't familiar with it. What's the name of that drug? We had many, a couple Michael Costa hosting weeks ago. We had some Marines on who went to Mexico to take this drug to help them. We had them on the show. It's called In Waves and War.

Anyways, highly supportive of it. I think it's a great... Listen, whatever works. Whatever works. Whatever helps these guys. that are putting their lives on the line, their emotional health on the line for us, it just is awfully ironic that we are in a war right now that no one wanted or asked for. That would be the, let me say this.

The best way to avoid veterans needing any treatment at all is to keep them home. Correct. Yes. Yes, not to mortgage their psychological well-being. I'm sure we'll find out down the line that Eric Trump has a $500 million investment in ibo what is it ibo gain ibo gain futures there's also there's some like uh drug that they pull from the frogs gland or something really crazy shit really who's fucking first doing this usually native people and then we copy

yeah anyways that's the reason i keep walter around just in case scientifically he's ever serves a purpose to see maybe his glands uh will solve your depression oh oh now you're up Walter Whatever, bro Come on Come on Back down Walter Walter back down

Back to sleep What if he just Fucking lunged out You'd be great Oh he's up That would be You know what Even though I would be

Hurt and Panicked It would be a great moment It would be a nice clip Oh that'd be a great clip Think of the clicks Hey Alan Think of the clicks on that

What do you think about These hundreds of people I'm leading the conversation Okay Jesus Christ. Anywho, hundreds of people tried to storm a Wisconsin Beagle research facility. Do you have footage of this, Alan? Oh, there we go.

Oh, my goodness. Holy shit. Rubber bullet. They were met with rubber bullets and pepper spray. I kind of respect, you know, obviously, I'm a dog lover. Sure. But the animal rights people, you know, they go hard in a nonviolent way as far as I'm concerned. I don't know if there might have been.

And they are speaking up for a species that doesn't have a English-speaking voice. Yes. And we talked about this briefly. Look at this. Yeah. Certainly PETA and animal rights activists have a reputation of being aggressive and forceful. And it does seem like that might be necessary because I don't think people are going to really. listen to a passive animal rights organization.

You kind of need this streak to you. Yeah. Now, I would wonder, what were they testing the beagles? What if it was which piece of bacon tastes the best? Well, then let them have their, let them eat. This would be an overreaction to the bacon testing lab. Yes. My guess is, it was something more sinister.

I know, that is the. But also, who is, now were the. researchers, the ones with the rubber bullets, or is just straight up cops? Cops. Cops, got it. It would be, I have to say, a nice twist if the animal researchers came out with rubber bullets. Rubber bullets and pepper spray. Well, what the fuck is going on at this facility?

Can somebody tell me? Huh? I'll do my own research. They're testing different types of manure for moats. I always support people who stand up for what they believe in. As long as it's in a nonviolent way. I agree. And again, unless there was some really noble thing happening with these dogs, my guess is it was.

It's like cosmetics. Probably. I don't know. I'm speaking without reading the original, which I should have before this. I just wanted to play it off the cuff and see what came to me about animal cruelty. I want it to yes and animal cruelty through this whole thing. Welcome aboard via rail. Please sit and enjoy.

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Let's start with, speaking of something that you're passionate about, Earth Day, which is on Wednesday. That's a special day to you, a cause that you like to get behind and talk to me a little bit about it. I do, Matt. Even from a young age, you know how you pay attention to what your kids are into? I'm thinking about that now. Even as an eight or nine-year-old, I really enjoyed the idea that we acknowledge and hopefully care for our planet. particularly when the signs, the feedback that it's giving us is that we are not.

And I should remind all of us, I think in the end, Earth wins. I don't think there's, I think Earth is going to win this thing. Everybody can agree on that. I think Earth is going to win. Everybody can agree on that. It is incredibly hard living in New York City and attempting to care for the Earth because the waste that you see, the plastic use, the radiators that are pumping heat out.

And I... Little tiny pocket parks that almost feel like formalities. Right. We just had to break up the asphalt momentarily with a few benches and a patch of grass. And I... You know, I asked the people, yourself included, who help create the shows every day

as a team of 200 people that work in this room and the host definitely has a nice say and what's covered. Sure. But there's a lot of people involved. I said, hey, can we look at some Earth stuff on Wednesday? Sure. And it is so hard to not be negative all the time.

So maybe we can find some nice Earth stories that will be funny. Of course, we're on Comedy Central. Sure. But yeah, Earth's, you know, much like my birthdays, I feel like I'm feeling worse and worse. I think Earth would say the same. And it's not a very earth-friendly administration.

No. In fact, it may be violently anti-environmental. Maybe the worst ever. I'm sure there was some, yeah. I don't know. I mean, I just love going to the museum and seeing the dinosaurs. And I'm like, wait, what do you mean this was 600 million years ago? Yep.

I can't even on the same planet. It's incomprehensible. What? Yes. And they were made out of bones. I know. It's strange. It's strange.

And they were right there in that museum. I know. That's where they live. That's where they live. Oh, God. So anyways, happy Earth Day. For anybody who's listening, think about that day. Just, I don't know.

Think about our planet. Think about what you can do. Any small behavior does add up. And one thing I'd like to lodge you for is, and this is really, a pretty sweet glimpse behind the scenes at the Daily Show. Michael Costa got us to switch from plastic water bottles

to aluminum water bottles. So we're not, we don't drink 1,000 plastic pollen spring water bottles. We drink out of, what is it, open water it's called? Did they send us free stuff now that I mentioned it?

I hope so. I should also note Ronnie Chang was behind that as well. And I should also note that we asked the executives here if we could look into possible solutions and thankfully for them we did. Yes. But could we do more? Yes. We don't need to

get into that right now. Well, I will say this. You came up with the, let's just say you came up with the aluminum water containers. Ronnie introduced the bamboo what is it? The bamboo eating utensils that we have a dispensual. Everybody hates that. Everybody hates that. So that, does not reflect well on Ronnie. But I think people really enjoy the, you know, I guess you're kind of a hero.

I'm a hero. And he's further hated. But I should also state everybody that we do have to change some of our behaviors. And change is hard at first. And then it's not. And that's not. Anyways, I think that if you look at, let's bring it back to the oil issue that, that we're dealing with.

Oh yeah, you had a great point about that. I was talking about how the conversation, every talking point, the conversation is centering around, how do we bring gas prices back down? Right. How do we get oil flowing again? Right. It's not just our economy, the entire world.

Correct. And I have not heard a ton of talk of, hey, maybe we should give a second look to electric cars. And maybe the entire economic balance of the planet, maybe it should not depend on this small waterway remaining open. But that doesn't seem to be. Yeah, you don't hear a lot of like, hey, let's use less oil. Where is the use less oil conversation right now?

It just seems to be, I'm not saying that it's not happening, but it really does not, it is not at the forefront of what we're talking about right now. So I thought of that when you said changing behaviors, even the smallest behaviors. You know those things in the airport that they've now instilled where, excuse me, those things at the airport that they've now installed where you fill up your water bottle. My favorite part of that thing. Oh, I think I know where you're doing. Is where it says water bottle saved. Right. Right?

And the counter goes up. I use a biking app. And on the app, there's an opportunity to say, was this going to be a car ride? And you chose to do the bike. and you just sit, you know, and you slowly see that these things add up. For sure. I like that.

That's very clever to see. It puts a value on that machine, which is pretty nice. Yeah, I do agree. All right. So the tariff portal is open, which is, I guess, a website, the tariff portal. Walter, what do you think of the tariff portal?

Yep. That's the right answer. That's the right answer. He's like, guys, you had it in the bag. Why are you going to the tariff portal story? Oh, my God, he really is asleep. It's fantastic. That's great.

Oh, God. I'm so envious. So the tariff portal is open, which is a website that businesses can go on to apply for, because these tariffs, a lot of these tariffs that Trump kind of unilaterally imposed have now been found to be unconstitutional and illegal. Liberation Day, I believe, was? Liberation Day. Remember he was on, we are now unliberating ourselves.

And so businesses can go on this tariff portal and try to get Costco and Target can go on. It's a little weird that Costco and Target have to log on to a website and create an account to get there. Some of Costco is like, what was our password? I'm going to try to get our $250 million in tariffs back, but someone needs to tell me the hint. is, you know, my home street address as a child. Favorite history teacher? We're talking about $130 billion.

Yeah, Matt. That's a lot of money. I mean, Trump basically came in, broke everything, and then a justice said, you can't do that. And now he's having to attempt to fix it, which is this really going to happen? It does philosophically line up with what they do. Of course. Just go in, destroy it, and then it's too late.

Wait to be checked or wait to be, yeah. And certainly the high prices that you and I and all pre-cap listeners paid for those goods and services, that money is gone, of course. Yeah, right. The consumer gets fucked again. Correct. Yeah, right. However, Target can get their money back. They'll have, they can claw their money back, you know.

Won't that be great when Target and Walmart do a, we got our money from the, portal sale back to us. I'll look forward to that. Thank you. We just got $10 billion and we're passing it on to you. And now we will lower prices back to pre-tariff levels. I love that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yes. It's something called Daily Show and Tell. Oh, that's cute. Isn't that? Mm-hmm. It's something we call Daily Show and Tell. Why don't you share with us something that you've watched, read, listened to, argued about, or just anything that's been on your mind recently? Anything you'd like to share with us?

I enjoyed DTF St. Louis on HBO. I enjoyed the weirdness of it. I enjoy the discussion about male friendship and love. Pay attention to everybody who watches that show. How often the men say, I love you to each other. It's quite fascinating and very uncomfortable for whatever reason. Another thing I wanted to bring up was because I have children, I went to a climbing gym yesterday. And I just have a new appreciation for climbing.

For rock climbing? Yeah, it was like that kind of thing. Yes, those indoor climbing gyms. It's what a cool thing that we can climb. Did you as a humus? Did you powder up the hands? You had the sack in the back? No, you wear this harness.

And by the way, still terrified when the heart, you know, is the harness going to catch me? It grips you in a weird way. Yes. But I was just like, you know what? Our bodies are amazing. And save the, put this in. I'm going to look to camera on this. Our bodies are amazing.

The fact that we have two arms and feet and we can climb stuff, it's pretty cool, Matt. It's unbelievable. Walter, what do you think? Pretty unbelievable. All right. So, so that's, that's my daily show. All right, sure. What's yours?

What are you watching? Well, one thing I'd like to say is, so the last time I did the pre-cap was with Desi, and I didn't realize that these go on YouTube. Okay. But someone on staff sent me that, so, of course, people write comments. Right. So people, one comment that a staffer screenshot had it sent to me. was there's a sadness in this guy's eyes. So today I've worn my glasses,

hoping that the light will bend in a certain way, and they're pretty thick lenses. So they'll either hide the sadness or the light will refract in such a way that, wow, he's got very cheerful eyes. It's a brightness to his eyes. And I took some beta blockers and have tried to pet myself up.

I bet if you wrote back to that person. as someone who has done this and said. I bet it was a coworker that probably. Possibly. But I bet if you would have said, hey, thanks for sharing and watching. They would have then wrote back, hey, man, I didn't mean anything by. It's always like, they always say mean stuff. And then you approach them on it and they go, I actually love what you do.

Yeah, of course. Maybe it's a fair note. I don't know. Yeah. But so that's why I wore my glasses today. Great. So that's a daily show and tell. That's a daily show and tell.

I watched that. the Mormon sect, the FLDS documentary on Netflix called Trust Me. Yep. I've saw it on my thumbnails there. It's quite addictive. It's an easy watch. The men in that also say, I love you. But it's a much darker reason, I think, because of, well, the incest and pedophilia going on.

But my point is. there's more than one show on television right now where the men are saying, I love you. Well, for sure, because there was this slew of research that men don't have friends or they're lonely, whatever, but... No, not these men. Not these men. This is a cult.

This is a cult. It's a fringe... Yeah. Oh, yeah. A very small fringe cult sect of the Mormon Latter-day Saints, the FLDS that they call it. If there's a cult out, I mean... But that being exactly,

It's very addictive. Okay. And the filmmaker that made it is really noble. And this woman sort of, who's a cult psychiatrist, and I believe a former Mormon, sort of becomes this Aaron Brockovich figure where she infiltrates the sect and says she's making a documentary. Anyway, I won't. Interesting. It's a really interesting story. If you're a fringe cult out there and you don't have a documentary,

Are you going like, what are we doing wrong? Right. Sure. Sure. This would be, we would be a good binge watch. Do you see how fucked up the stuff we're doing is? Totally. I love this.

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