The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Michael Kosta on the States of Hockey, Space Sex, and the Union

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

*This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 26, before military action began in Iran. This week's host Michael Kosta sits down with Daily Show writer Randall Otis to recap the latest news, and preview what's coming up. They discuss their frustrations with Trump's latest State of the Union address, the NYPD's overreaction to a New York City snowball fight, and the political fallout from the USA Men's Hockey team's politicized victory lap through congress and the White House. Plus Kosta unpacks his visit to sexy space camp. Looking ahead, they turn their gaze on the upcoming Texas senate primaries, and the buildup toward war in Iran. 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, if you're a fan of the credit section of the show, a writer. And I'm joined today by our host this week, Michael Costa. Hi, I'm Michael Costa, if you're a fan of the beginning part of the show. Yeah, mine's more fun. At least that's what my mom says. Do they still roll credits?

I don't watch the show. I mean, I recently was watching a different show And I wanted to see who wrote on it And I paused it, but I could never just time it right Oh, I just, I don't know Maybe they just assume everyone just will Google it Yeah, that's what the credits say is just just fucking Google it Because I love a good credit

I like when there's stuff I do miss I was watching older I was watching Honey I Shrunk the kids And I remember I'm like I miss blooper reels That'd be very fun to bring back No, they stopped I feel like they stopped in like the mid-2000s I really like older movies How they I mean really old movies You haven't started the movie for five minutes. They're rolling the pre credits

Directed by written I love that yeah as of the characters like walking like I love that like show me all the people it takes to create art I love that yeah and it's just so you know this isn't like a YouTube video I worked hard on this With a lot of motherfuckers were about there's six wardrobe consultants on this thing yeah and we fired five yeah but uh let's see what's what's been happening this week I guess technically the big thing was the state of the union. Did you watch? Did you watch live? I did not watch live. I tried to and I got so frustrated at just what, what is this?

What are we listening to? The lies, the non-news. And I, so I disengaged. And then I felt like, shit, I'm supposed I should be engaged. This is how we got here as a country. We're not paying attention. Yes. I don't know.

I feel multiple ways about it. I guess I feel like if I were a Democrat, and some of them didn't, but I wouldn't show up at all. I wondered if why there was even a Democrat contingency there. And then I read that like 14 did boycott. But I feel like it's kind of the thing you're talking about where it's like I feel as though I should. This is just what we do. This is tradition. Right.

But we live in a time where. Yeah. So many traditions and norms are just being thrown out the wind there. That to adhere to them still feels really silly to me. I was like, why are you going to get yelled at for two hours? Right. It feels very doms up. Yeah, it does feel doms up.

My biggest complaint of the Trump era is how people say, but we've never, he's doing a thing we've never done before. And I'm kind of like, we have to get over that. Yeah. That's what he does. Like grow up. Yeah, grow up. So I agree with you.

It's happened every year we've had this discussion of what is the state of the union addressing and do we need it? Well, I was listening to what's his name, Jamel Bowie, New York Times columnist, and he was talking about that how we haven't done this forever. Right. Like, I think it was before Woodrow Wilson. There wasn't a giant state of the union. They were just, the president would just send a letter to Congress. It was like, all right, here's how I feel things are going. I want to drop this on you.

The Gettysburg address was 272 words. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, I have a dream speech, is roughly 1,600 words. Trump's State of the Union was over 10,000 words. I mean, it's, it is, he speaks so much. much, it's almost meaningless. Yeah, but that's my thing, too, is like, because I try to approach, well,

actually, I have a brother, and he's a smart guy, but he is very, I kind of use him as a barometer of, like, the median voter. Like, if he talks to me about something, I'm like, oh, this is breached containment to the mainstream, or like, this is how people feel. My brother in Michigan is the same. Oh, you're upset about this?

That's the general voter. Yeah. And I was like, what did you think of the state of the union? And he was like, oh, It was boring, which I feel like if you're Trump or you're this administration, that's kind of the worst possible thing because most people are here for the show. Yeah. And if the show is boring and bad, then it's like, what is the purpose of you? And nobody was at the Gettysburg Address and walked away saying, you know what? That was boring.

Weren't most of those guys like shot? It's got to be the word. It was right after the battle. Right. And it was also like, somebody had to type it up and print it and then send it out, which took like three years at that point. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I've never thought about it.

Now I'm thinking about the audience at the Gettysburg Address. I don't know. If I was a soldier, I don't know how my mind would go. In one hand, I'd be like, wow, thank God. Like our presidents here, the leader of our nation as we try to reunite this union. But I feel like another part of me would be like, brother, I just did all the hard work. Yeah. What?

Fuck you. How are your boys doing? It's like, oh, now you show up. It was probably short because they were bleeding to death. Yeah, and probably everyone's sick back then. It's like short speech. I do have dysentery. Yeah.

And I need, it's either I'm using the bathroom, I'm using the hole or I'm using my hat. I need to go eat a sandwich also where we shit. I also have speed dating with my cousin later. My wife is famously insane and I'm trying to get out of this. I, my fear with the state of the union is that it becomes so political and, overblown, which it's already has, that the average American does not pay attention, but I also feel like

it actually isn't of much value. So I'd rather you pay attention when you vote than the state of the union. Yeah, well, that's the thing, because also I feel like most presidents don't tweet or talk directly to us or aren't on the news all the time. So with the state of the union, I'm like,

okay, what have you been up to, what you've been thinking? But I'm watching the state of union. I'm like, I read this tweet, yesterday. He's going to say like he really should have been discussing Iran Epstein but instead he just tweets about all that stuff and doesn't even talk about it. Well what I thought was interesting too was he didn't talk about Minnesota right right and he did talk about an immigrant that killed a woman even though that immigrant was born in

North Carolina. Really? Yes. Oh. Let me talk to you about general bad driver. I mean, you're from Michigan. I feel like that would be the worst to talk about. It's like, we're talking about drunk drivers. We're going to start with Michigan. Then by April, I think will be done talking about them. But yeah, no, he didn't really talk about Minnesota, which I thought was interesting.

Yeah. Because he never shies away from anything. Yeah. Like, even if it's like one of the worst, something that seems like a bad look, he'll defend it. But I am surprised he didn't try to defend this at all. He was just like we're not going to address it. We're not going to address ice. Yeah, he didn't give it any oxygen.

Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know what the average voter thought. Local news, we had the great NYPD snowball fight slash. I haven't seen this. You haven't seen it? I want to see it. Not at what was supposed to be a fun scene in Washington Square Park.

It quickly took a turn when a massive snowball fight started targeting NYPD officers. The department says several of these officers ended up with cuts to their faces. And the NYPD commissioner, Jessica Tisch, says detectives are now investigating this. The mayor, though, today said, while people should treat officers with respect, he stopped short of saying that those involved should face charges. This was an organized snowball fight. Yeah, it was like planned on social media. So then why are cops walking through it? Well, that's what I mean, I mean, wait, let.

Didn't everybody get hit with a snowball? Everyone did get hit with a ball. Right. Like if I walked through, I would get hit with a snowball. Yeah. For sure. And then there was like two sides and they walked down the middle of both sides. Were they there to keep the peace? I guess someone called the cops because they're like, I don't like this snowball fight.

And yeah, you could see kind of rolling through Beastie Boy style. Yeah. I mean, this is a wonderful discussion about what is a snowball fight. Is it fun? Is it a weapon? If you're throwing ice, is that different than if you're throwing soft pack snow? Is this assault? Is this New York City where cops don't do anything anyways?

So fucking maybe we've been trained that, I mean, this is hilarious. Well, my thing is... Oh, this guy's actually pissed, huh? Oh, yeah. The guy with the beard is furious. And then, like, they really, they escalate. Because right now, they're just kind of getting hit generally. Yeah.

It's like, yeah, you're in the middle of a snowball fight. but then later on at least from the video I've seen they're I guess they've already done it here they're like were throwing people to the ground oh shit because they were mad they're getting hit by snowballs and so then now everyone's targeting them but it's like

that guy was gonna grab his fucking taser yeah I mean I was let's let's say all the things these guys should not have been sent into the middle of a snowball fight no right so that did not set them up for success if anyone he's still getting hit if anybody has ever been

in Washington Square Park, it is mayhem at all times. Yeah. I mean, I don't even, when I'm waiting for a, when I'm waiting for a spot at a comedy show, I don't even like to go to Washington Square Park because I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to get hit with. Yeah, like this is where a pigeon man lives. If you guys don't know pigeon man, as you can expect, is a man who has, um, seems powers over hundreds of pigeons that come.

This guy's, this guy's really pissed. God damn, he's really mad. Oh, there's still, now, I think people are present. I think people are like charged with this shit, man. Yeah, there's like four. Four people, I think, have been charged with assault, like 20-year-old future Timothy Shalames. Right. I will say when I feel unsafe in the subway and I look at the cops and they're all looking

on their phones, I kind of want to hit them with the snowball. Yeah. But also, I would also say they did not get set up for success here. It kind of does perfectly exemplify as Mom Dottie's point. Because during the election, he was like, I don't think every single 911 call needs a police officer. Right. People are like, absolutely not. It's like you'd never know when the danger's going to come out.

I'm like, yeah, this is a snowball fight. This is a perfect example that if they would have sent three plain clothes officers unidentified just to suss out the scene, nothing would have happened. They could have like deputized pigeon man. Where I feel, because I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of the police officers. Where I would be like, I don't want anyone to know this happened. I would find this incredibly embarrassing. Please do not have five-minute HD footage of me. getting mad at 18-year-olds for throwing snowballs at me,

especially because you're a New York City police officer. Like, we've had police, we have police officers still alive here who are like in 9-11. Yeah, right. And so now I have to go and be like, dude, same. Right. About a snowball fight. I went to Washington Square Park doing a snowball fight. I totally get how you felt that day.

I will say, so I'm hosting this week, one of my guests is this director of, the Netflix documentary, which uses body cam footage, called The Perfect Neighbor. Did you see this? I haven't seen it. It's kind of this very confrontational, very paranoid white woman who keeps calling the cops on kids trespassing her property.

They're just playing. Where she live? Florida. Okay, of course. Long story short, very, very, very sad very sad there's not a funny thing long story short one of the kids moms approaches the woman because there's a confrontation and she she shoots and kills her the woman the parent of a woman shoots the mom correct and it's a white woman with a gun shoots a black mom and it's it's very sad very very sad i was crying yesterday watching it we'll get into the documentary when we have the guest

but i will say this i think every american should watch what it's like for a cop to go into a scene that you don't know anything about. You don't know what the violence level is. You don't know who's there. I mean, it's terrifying. Like to watch them, the cops, have to approach this woman's home. They don't know if she's home. They know that a shot, I mean, it's insane.

Like, what we put cops through is nuts. And I get the kids wanting to hit him with snowballs because that would have been, that's me too. But I do think there's a disconnect between what the average American thinks. cops do and when the shit really goes down we need them to enter that room and but most

probably most New York it's probably a testament to how safe the city is really that most New Yorkers just feel like hey let's throw snowballs at the cops because my life is pretty good I don't know but that's where I feel from the PR side of the police department

I'd be like obvious there must be like real things that happen every day just film that right film that yeah don't film the yeah why are you said why are you sending the 824 crew to record that snowball fight also we do need to decide as a society is a snowball fight is it all fun in games when does it change what type of snow are we packing i you know if you did a snowball fight to the previous blizzard we had that shit would hurt yeah and it is snow that's collected in new

york so it's got lead it's got biological weapon yeah exactly it's like look i'm already gonna yeah I'm already going to die. Let me just throw this final snowball. I feel bad that those cops got sent there, but I feel worse if real young men and women are now being prosecuted for that. Yeah. That sucks.

It does suck. And I guess, yeah, yeah, it sucks for those kids. Yeah. Well, that's what you get for not accepting me to NYU. Just kidding. I didn't even apply. Yeah. Let's see what else we got.

Oh, Epstein files. Well, yeah. Let me just say this about Epstein files. buddy. And then I don't say anything and I die. You get shot. We both die. I mean, yes, the media should be addressing

that anything about Trump has been redacted or removed or not there in the first place. This is the problem when the executive chief is also in charge of the DOJ and uses Doge to slash everybody that would question him. So yes, but I hope we as media

can dig in more and point this out. Yeah, it does suck that there is no one you can turn to because it's the the cover-up goes to the top of law enforcement. It feels like the closest we get is like asking other countries to look into it for us. Because I feel like people in Europe are getting in trouble. Yeah. The Prince. Yeah.

Other business leaders of products I don't know about. It's cute. It's cute that other countries still, it's not cute. It seems cute to us, but they still have like a moral standard. Yeah. And we just seems like have fucking lost it. And it's very frustrating. And, um, but if you're Donald Trump, I mean, first of all, they didn't release the files when they were supposed to.

They took extra time to redact all this shit. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Let's not, let's not keep talking about Epstein. Sounds very, sounds cool. Okay. There's a lot of ice, uh, news. You mean like actual like, oh, like, like, like it's cold.

It's cold. Yeah. There was the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, it's the, the, it's the U. hockey gold celebration slash fallout controversy the men's team mostly only pretty much I have a controversy you'll take

you ready for it I believe that if the president had called the women's team right after they won and said I'm going to invite you to the state of the union and I probably got to invite the guys team

also I bet you they would have laughed I bet you they would have laughed I bet you they would have laughed Now, let me backtrack. President Trump probably didn't even know we had a women's hockey team, right? He certainly had not called them. But I'm giving the men in the locker room a little more leeway here because they had just won the gold medal in overtime, sudden death against their heated rival. Another hockey reference.

Canada I will not give President Trump a pass for like calling the men and trying to be like alpha with them by belittling women that's awful I just my take is more like

I don't know what people thought hockey players yeah well my other thing was going to say I think like the sad part about all this and I'm a huge tennis guy and it kills me every time I find out my favorite tennis player is probably Republican But in general, sports, high-level athletes lean to the right, for sure. Yeah, it's just like hockey players are a collection of the most resilient and talented alcoholics we have in America.

That's true. I don't know. I just maybe, well, one, I'm not a woman, too. I don't watch hockey. But also, it's just like my expectations were already like at the floor. So when I saw them kind of mocking the women's hockey sheet, and I was like, yeah, that's what they do. It's like seeing a dog shoot outside.

I'm like, yeah, that's kind of what I expected. I do feel bad for the women's team in the sense of, I would be annoyed that I have to spend my time just talking about the men's team. I was like, I just want to gold medal. I know. It's like, what do you think about this? I don't even want to talk about it. I just want to celebrate and party.

and hang out with Flav of Flav. Yeah. He invited the women's team to, like, his own celebration. And I didn't know this, one of our other writers, Nicole told me about this. Apparently Flav of Flav of Flav is a huge

supporter of female athletes. Wouldn't have known it. Like, he gives money, he'll travel, he'll hold celebrations for them. Like, Flav of Flav is like, he's into Title IX. Glorious Dinem. Right.

Of women's sports. I, I said this on my, podcast, the Tennis Anyone podcast with Michael Costa. But of course Trump co-opted the men's team. They're all white and they won.

I mean, this is like his dream. Yeah. This is like you project confidence and you be white and you win. I was, it was so pure when they won. It was so enthusiastic. It was so miracle on ice.

I was so excited. I was watching with my family. And then they interviewed Jack Hughes afterwards. And I don't know if you picked this up, Alan, and I'm curious what the Canadian and the booth thinks about this. Did you hear how many times he said the word brotherhood? I did not. I turned the TV off immediately after you. Because you're Canadian and probably in Canada, you got what? You had to walk all the way to the television and like press the button in, right? Because that's how old school your tech is there in Canada. Oh! Jack Hughes wins. He's 24 years old. He's an amazing hockey player. He's probably

an amazing guy. I don't know him. But he kept talking about the American hockey brotherhood. And every time I heard that word, I was just wondering if it was a little coded. If it was a little maga. I wasn't sure. Is that a thing? I don't know. I just wasn't

sure. And maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I've been living in the political sphere too much. I know Navy Seals talk about the brotherhood. And I, you know, I can tell you if on my collegiate tennis team, we didn't use the word brotherhood. What is this? Oh shit. So what is this from? This is Rafi's Instagram. Rafi, the children's musician. Yeah, I know. Rafi sings baby Balooca. He goes hard on

Instagram and this is him coming for the Hughes brothers. First of all, there's so much to unpack here. Rafi goes hard on Instagram? Rafi goes hard on Instagram. I'm excited because I really like his music, especially for my kids. They're great. Is he like a children's? Yeah, he's a children musician. It's good. It's like legit music. So this is like if like Steve from blues blues was correct. Okay, correct. Correct. Correct. So Raffee Music says former Canucks Captain Hughes is now a bad memory. Zero respect. Good people don't get chummy with child sex trafficking rapists. That goes for the rest of the U.S. men's hockey team. I so respect Rafi for his music is not political so there's a lot of people who support

Rafi's music that are like don't say that about Trump I love when an artist goes hard on I like fuck it yeah I love it I hate this guy I think it's fucking and also I will say this it's it's the right play because his music is for kids so of course he's protective because look at this baby beluga is a great song Are you funny? He's like, fuck Donald Trump. I can't tell you how many times this song's been on in my house.

Fuck Trump! That's enough for that. I can't hear it anymore else I'm gonna I'm gonna puk. But yeah, I just, good job, Rafi. It makes me like him even more. I do get really annoyed, particularly now when artists are not speaking out.

Like I think it's playing it's super safe and it drives me crazy. Anyways. I don't know. because you take a picture with the president, just because you go to the White House. I don't know what that means. Sometimes organizations get invited places. I don't know how much to hang my hat on this. I just wondered when I heard brotherhood over and over again. And then they all laughed when Trump made fun of the women. And then you start piecing it together. And I go, I still don't really know where they stand politically. It also shouldn't really matter. But it doesn't. It ruined a lot of my enthusiasm. Let's put it that way. I do think it's like, I don't know, I feel like a bunch of them are probably MAGA guys.

And then the rest are similar. What we were talking about before is like, well, this is just what you do. You get an invite. You take the invite. But I'm like. For sure. And I have less, like, demand and expectations of them as compared to politicians. But I'm like, well, you can't just be like, ah, you know, my dog's going to get sick next week.

I just can't. But, but I think, you know, John Stewart always says this. and I think you're right, you bring up a great point. We're harder on the comedians and the athletes than the actual elected officials. Why do we expect the 24-year-old who's been shaving hockey pucks on his breakfast every morning for the rest of his whole life to be good at hockey,

to have any real political... What's our expectation of that? I feel like it's a couple things. I think it's like, one, as a person who doesn't watch hockey and did see heated rivalry. It's like, oh, I thought you guys were going to just make love with each other and not be politically active at all. And, too, I think it's like you feel like you have such a little control over politicians.

It's like, well, they're not going to listen to me. Maybe this hockey player will. And like my elected official, I don't say like, hey, that's me. But when I watch my favorite tennis player or growing up the bad boys of Detroit Pistons, I'm like, well, no, you guys represent me. even though I'm like, wait, how does Isaiah Thomas represent me? But, you know, it's like that was my team. That's my thing.

So you're right. It's an easier hero to hold on to. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right, good stuff. Thanks for Rafi music. I mean, if anything, I'm going to, I'm going to give him a live follow. Yeah, give it to him.

Right. Also, to Allen, our Canadian fellow, this is another, this is why I'm mad that we threatened to invade Canada is because that used to be such a fun little silly rivalry. had with Canada. It's like we'd beat you at some sports. You'd make fun of us. We'd make fun of you from AbleServe. You'd make fun of us for mass shootings and not having health care. And it was just like a cute thing. And so now I'm just like, yeah, we won. That's right, bitch. I'm sorry, I'm sorry about actually threatening to kill you. Yeah. Just so you know. It's like, it's like kind of taint to this simple, fun thing we used to have. Oh. Well, and their prime minister,

Mark Carney, he's done a nice job defending Canada and economically, you know, Jim Beam was taking a year off from making whiskey because no, their economics is so far down. We went to Canada

to shoot the sex piece, which I think Alan has up. Dude, we tried to order American whiskey after the shoot. Dude, there's no American whiskey. Were they, like, no, we don't have it? Or was there a little extra, We're not serving that. Dude, they go, they literally said this.

They go, and they're beautiful Quebecois accents. They said, do you see that shelf there? And it was just an empty fucking shelf. And they go, that's usually American bourbons and whiskey, and we don't carry it now. And I was like, nice work, Canada. Nice work. So what did I drink? I drink a Canadian whiskey.

And it was good. It was a little, it was weak. Yeah. It wasn't as good. It is bad in hindsight to threaten the people who can only drink as an activity for nine months the entire of the year. It's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, speaking of your space segment, that was something that happened or re-aired last week. That's right.

Which was you learning about having the logistics and difficulties of having sex and space. That's right. Because we got to rep-if we're going to go to space, we truly have to, we truly have to learn how to reproduce there. I like, I enjoy the segment very much. My mind was like, can't you just, you know, give it to yourself, put it in like a little jar and then be like, ma'am? I present you with mind sperm. Right. Couldn't you just artificially inseminate?

But I guess they mentioned that. Like, it's also for fun. And so they want it to be fun. And there's also a huge social connection thing when you have sex. I mean, I don't know about for you, but when I have sex, it's actually huge. So this piece, which is called sex and space, um, there's two space sexologists in Montreal who are truly studying. how to reproduce in space.

And if you have, you may have the same questions I have, which is like, well, don't you just do it the same way you do in America? Well, let me tell you a few things. They don't even know

how ovulation works in a zero gravity environment. They don't know how sperm swim in a zero gravity environment or a different gravity environment. I don't think about that. Exactly. We don't think about any of this shit.

We know how to fertilize an egg here on earth with the oxygen levels and nitrogen levels and gravity so this is actually like important shit certainly here at the daily show we are going to approach you with the comedy glasses on but uh it is actually interesting if we're going to burn this earth to death and we want to send people to mars or wherever we need to know how to reproduce there how were the two scientists you talked to they were great because they see they were very i couldn't tell if they were like, I'm playing along, or if they're like, actually, I do take this very seriously.

And they were, they were wonderful. They didn't want to come off as like goofy scientists. So they played it straight, which, you know, only helps us more in some ways. But they were laughing and they were, they were very, I mean, look, what everyone has always remember, these people agree to do the interview. and in a lot of ways, through this podcast, the people watching it, through watching it air, like they do get their message out.

I mean, we are truly studying something interesting here. They were a lot of fun, and we thanked them for them for their time. And they gave me my own sex suit. You got to keep it? It's somewhere in my suitcase, yeah. I think that may be the most I've seen of your chest and stomach. Well, I told this to Stacey Angelese. Here, there's the shot, Alan.

Thank you. I don't know. Some reason about the cut makes it seem like almost painted on. Like I'm wearing a t-shirt of a mediocre body. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. And Alan, please keep this in the podcast. Alan, promise me you'll keep this in the podcast?

I promise. Okay. This is like the fourth fucking piece in a row where my shirt's been off. And I'm just going like, what is going on? Have you been getting in better shape? No, it's not me pitching it. I don't know. Like, who on this staff keeps putting me in my shirt off?

Is that really? It's not like, that's anyways. Yeah. It's a masculine form. Thank you very much. And then I'm going to, I'm going to Oakland to shoot something. And Zach is like, oh, in the end, you're in your underwear. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on here?

Is everybody, is everybody? It does feel like you're being treated the way, like, a female angry would be treated in the 40s. Like, let me. Yeah, yeah. Well, I just show me them. I mean, I guess it says something about the Daily Show how attractive everybody isn't here. If I'm the sex guy. Yeah, you're our, you're our, that's what's going to get us the Emmy is we're just trying to make you as naked as possible.

Stacey always involves me in some gross capacity. I've done pieces with her about male vasectomies, which I think of vasectomy is male. because if it's a woman's vasectomy, it's a hysterectomy. Yes. There go. This was my favorite shot right here. I think they said something.

Yeah, I'm 6 to 9ing on the moon. And I'm wearing this thing that when you jump... So this thing I'm wearing here, it mimicked gravity on the moon. So there is a little bit of gravity on the moon. But there's not that much. So when you jump, you go real fucking high and you come down slowly.

And this thing was cool. So I was just saying how, easy it would be easier it would be to 69 somebody like that on the moon. Well, it feels like you'd only be able to do what on earth would be exotic positions because if you're going like doggy

one thrust, that woman's going around the entire planet. Well, that's why they wear the spacesuit so you can Velcro to each other because otherwise you would shoot them off. Depending on who's thrusting who, of course. Well, now I'm thinking of if you're both thrusting. A very fun loony tune scenario where your behind, you thrust, they go around the planet, they come back around and get you, and so you just

keep orbiting. This is very little too. And it should be noted for any young people that are watching. If you 69 somebody, there is no reproduction happening. Yeah. It's just something to think about. I don't know, maybe in space it can. Also, you see that guy in the red shirt?

Mm-hmm. Didn't like my comedy. All right, moving on. He's just, I'm just here to do a job. So that's what stuff that's been going on. Now for things to come, we have the Texas primary election, big election between Crockett and Tala Rico. Do you...

That sounds like the two guys who started Miami Vice. Crocket and Talley. It does sound like a buddy comic this summer. It's rocket, Tala RICO. It seems like Tala RICO's a bit more favored by progressives, but then I just saw a poll. that had Crockett really far ahead of Tala Rico.

And so, because this year also is, well, I don't know, every year Democrats get their hopes of that they can win Texas. Yeah. And they keep getting close. They get closer. I mean, remember Georgia, you know, Georgia was like this for a long time.

You could never, and now it's like purple. So eventually, I, you know, a lot of motherfuckers are moving to Texas, man. And they're breaking, they're breaking records with turnout right now. I know Democrats are like hugely amped up to vote. And, you know, they keep winning all of these special elections. Yeah. But Texas, it really does feel like Lucy in the football to me in a way.

Yes, correct. I'll tell you this. I'm thankful that I know about this Texas primary. I will not hire a babysitter so I can sit and watch the results. Yeah. Yeah, I also don't live there. But Godspeed. Godspeed, Texas.

Keep putting up a good fight. Yeah. Yeah. And then Iran war specula. Okay. I thought we obliterated Iran's nuclear. Remember, we bombed them and Trump said no one's ever been bombed like that before. Of all the people in the whole world, no one's seen such a bombing.

Yeah. Never to be dealt with again. Now they're back. It's very much lazy writing. It's like a new Star Wars movie. He's like somehow Iran returned. It's like, okay. He used the word completely obliterated.

And they're back. I'm just like, I feel like, I understand, well, one, I'm like, I'm like, I'm just, I'm, personally, I'm against military intervention. But I feel like we've, the nations we've fought against in my lifetime, Iraq, Afghanistan, you know, these small countries. I'm like, God, I don't make people know that there's a hundred million people in Iran. I'm like, guys, this is going to be, even if you are the biggest warhawk of the world, it's not, going to be some cakewalk. Right. Like, like, look at, look at Kuwait. Yeah. Kuwait's, I think, the only military intervention in my entire lifetime that went well. Right. And I was like, four. It does seem like, it's like he's picking up just, his whole campaign was to get out of

these foreign wars and make life better for the declining America. You surprised that you didn't keep a promise? Oh, fuck. I'm surprised that at the, at the, level that he hasn't kept the promise. It is very blatant. And it's because, yeah, as we were talking about, the House introduced the bill to rein in the war powers.

But obviously there's a lot of Republicans are against it. But even some Democrats. And even when you ask some Democrats about like, what do you think about the war? A lot of them won't say outright that they're against it. They're like, well, it should be done properly. Right, right. I'm just...

Just fucking come out, mother. I know. Maybe it's an age thing. But it feels like Iran does not have this sense of threat, at least to people of my age, as like it does with older population. It's kind of like when Fox News talks about socialism. And it's like, I understand you live through the Cold War. But this emotionally is a very foreign threat to me. What you're saying is we don't want to fuck with Iran. I don't think it would be a good idea.

Just based off Iraq in Afghanistan. And keep in mind, Trump said we had dealt with it. But right, I'm all for like take all that money. You're about to spend in Iran and open up a fucking government agency that gives everybody a passport. And then they can go travel the world and then realize like, hey, we got a lot we can do better here. The thing I'm surprised about too, I think is the biggest change in terms of war with the Trump administration compared to others is Just they don't try to create a narrative anymore. Right.

It just like, yeah, there was so much pageantry around entry Iraq, so many good lies. Colin Powell. Colin Powell's out there. The weapons of mass destruction. Yeah. Now there's like, we're taking the oil. I don't even know if they brought up a reason for Iran yet.

It's truly, we're, he's just like, I don't like them. We're going. We're going. Yeah, I don't want to pay for this ship. Now we are at the Daily Show and Tell, where you tell me something. that you've watched, read, listen to, argued about, or just been on your mind lately. Has anything been keeping you up?

I'll tell you what. This cool TV show. This documentary, The Perfect Neighbor, is really powerful. It's definitely kept me up. It's not funny. So do what you want with that Canadian corner. Is the Olympics over? Olympics over.

It is? Do they do the closing ceremonies? Yes. Okay. I think I'll listen to... I... You know what? Let's talk about the Alps for a second.

Bring it up. The mountain range of the Alps spans eight European countries. That's wild. I don't know. Because I'm always like, hey, I want to go skiing in the French Alps. Oh, now the Italian Alps are on the Olympics. Oh, there's a Swiss Alps. Oh, there's Austrian Alps.

I didn't know that. And I'm very excited about the opportunity of someday skiing the Alps. The entire... Yeah, I'm going to ski for one... Yeah, it's like... ski in Lake Tahoe from Nevada to California. I want to ski from, and I'm just brainstorming here because I don't actually know, Latvia to Finland

to France, to Italy, all through the Alps. Check on that, motherfuckers. Yes. I mean, that is a worthwhile project. I would like to know the eight. Alan, sorry. Can you Google the eight countries that the Alps exist in? I'm going to guess them.

I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess. Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland. Is Latvia up there? All right. France, Switzerland. I was going to say Germany, but I got the first four.

Germany, Slovenia, Lichtenstein, and Monaco. Whoa, Monaco has the fucking Alps, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Danube. I feel like it would be more fun to end at the sea. Yeah, I feel like I should get like a... I'm going to swim at the end. All right, can you pull up a map? I want to see my route from north to south. I mean, this is definitely the most inventive midlife crisis.

Yeah, so I'm going to start in Austria. Get my way to Lichtenstein through Switzerland. I don't, yep, there's Italy. France, I'll pop into. I see. Wow, it goes all the way down almost to Nice. And we'll finish in Monaco, right? Dude, this is going to be the sickest.

Alps, Monaco, Western Alps, wow Have you been cross-country skiing before? I have been cross-country skiing before. Is it brutal? Cross-country skiing is awesomely hard and awesomely not as much fun as downhill skiing. So why?

Does you understand this is downhill skiing? Oh, I thought this was cross-country. The Alps would be downhill skiing. Oh, yeah. It's just so far. Eventually, we'd have to go back off. I'm sure you'd have to, at some point, cross-country skiing, yeah.

Anyways, what are you watching and showing and what's been on your mind lately don't say the Alps no it's been that new Game of Thrones spin-off oh what's it called it's like a tale of the seven kingdoms or something oh Jesus because I didn't really watch that much I watched a few seasons of Game of Thrones

and I did enjoy it but this one is so fun to me because in the original Game of Thrones it follows these princes and lords and witches like these very powerful people and these leaders but But this one is just about a guy. Okay.

And the only thing especially about him is that he's really tall. He's like seven feet tall. The opposite of Peter Dinklage. He's the anti-Dinklage. And it's just so funny because in the original, you know, they're having these big debates and talks between nations and each other. But he's just some guy. So he'll go up to all these different lords and everyone that sees him is like, why don't

you fuck off? She's just a peasant. And so it's funny to see just how people, the lives. of how people at Game of Thrones, how they're affected by the things they do. Right. And it's just life sucks. Right.

It's like, it'll be a scene where he'll just be like vomiting because he ate bad bread. Yeah, I mean, they must have been sick. A small infection, a cut. The food. He's trying to find, half the time he's like, I'm just, I really need some food. I'm really hungry. Yeah. I mean, the shit, like, yeah, whenever we watch these castle movies,

they never really show us like where people are shitting. Yeah. Oh, for one of the first. scenes. He has diarrhea. It's great. That sounds so good. I can't wait to watch it. There's also fights. The fights are also fun too because, you know, I feel typically when you watch a TV show, like the hero is like skilled and gallant, but he again is just a guy. Right. So he'll go up against the big bad guy and they'll just start whooping his ass. Right. Because they're trained and he's not. Right. And he's just

struggling. I just find him hilarious that he's just It's like a real, it's like what a real person was like. It's like if you were in Game of Thrones. It was like, oh, oh, this is hard and bad. Yeah, this time sucks. I look forward to checking that out. That's the pre-cap. Yeah, so, yes, that is the pre-cap.

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