The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Michael Kosta on White House Event Planning Fails, Spencer Pratt's Crystals, and Tennis Grunting

Episode Date: June 1, 2026

This week's host Michael Kosta sits down with Daily Show writer Nicole Conlan to recap the latest news, and preview the week to come. They dig in to the White House America 250 Concert Series dropouts, and UFC fight's massive gnat problem. They stop off at Colorado Corner to unpack the release of unrepentant election denier Tina Peters and leading gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx's surprising answers to questions about his experiences with exorcism and murder. Looking ahead Kosta puts his tennis hat on to preview Serena Williams' return, and the upcoming French Open finals, as well as digging in to Spencer Pratt's emergence in the LA mayoral race, and the surprising effects of the New York Knicks appearance in the NBA Finals --To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow -- The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Stream full episodes on Paramount+ Follow TDS: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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take a look at this week's news and talk about what we missed from last week. My name is Nicole Conlin. I'm a writer at the show, and I am joined today by the incomparable Michael Costa. Hi, I'm Michael Costa. I'll be the host this week. So exciting. Fun to be sitting here with you, Nicole. Fun to be sitting here with you. And of course, Walter. Walter, what's your role this week? Besides host emotional support. For those of you that do want to know, this is a very dog-friendly office. And Walter is here almost every day that every day I'm here. Walter's here. Yes. It's as grumpy as he seems now. He has actually warmed up to me considerably. It's only taken six years of you working at the deal. He is slow to warm up, but in a weird way, I kind of like it, because I

feel like maybe in my life, I warm up too quickly to people. Sure. So maybe he's like, he's a good balance. He's a good balance. Right. A good balance. Right. Well, Walter, if we get any facts wrong, I'm going to need you to fact check us on this episode. Or take a nap. Either way. Let's start with what has happened in the world in the past week. We have been off for a week. Yeah. We were on break. I was in Ireland. It was awesome.

Yeah. Isn't it fun when you're in a different country kind of, one of my favorite parts about traveling abroad is you almost inherently see how other people see us? Yeah. Because you see their news. Yes. And it's always like, oh, shit. Yes. I will say everybody in Ireland was still very friendly to me.

There's such good people. Which was good. They're such good people. They're so nice. Now, I will say, having been there for a week, I fully checked out of the news. And so missed a lot of what happened this week. But it seems to be that one of the running themes from the past week is this White House 250 celebration and all of the event planning debacle surrounding that.

So the biggest news, I think, was they were having this big concert with a bunch of acts that everybody knows and remembers. And then one by one, they slowly started dropping out. as people got mad at them. Right. So some of the acts who dropped out were Brett Michaels. Sure. From the band Poison. Yep.

And like several VH1 reality shows, I think. That's true. That's true. Martina McBride. Okay. Morris Day and The Time. Oh, yeah. Classic.

Sure. The Commodores. Yep. Wow. Easy like Sunday morning, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay.

Young MC. Which the only song that I believe he's ever sang. I only know the one is wait I used to know it and you're gonna know it but do I remember it? Leave it in the comments down below

Believe it or not I know every word to that song Young MC What is it called? This here's a jam for All the fellas Try to do what those ladies tell us There we go yeah

Bust a move Bust a move Yeah when I heard that Young MC was on the docket I go of course he is Because Sylvester Stallone Is at the Kennedy Center Of course

Yeah this is how you prolong your career. Yeah. Okay. Now, this, my card here says the original vocalists of Millie Vanilli, but then on the poster, it was a, it was a picture of one of the guys who did the lip syncing. So I don't know which is correct. And I'll tell you what, I don't even know if the current generation even knows or understands

what Millie Vanilly is, was. When I said Millie Vanilly, our YouTube views dropped like 5,000 people. These were two with two singers with a number one hit. Two of them, right? Yeah, blame it on the rain. Yeah.

And another one I can't remember. Did you see her? That sounds right. Yeah. Tell me, have you seen? But they were not the singers. No, they were lip syncing.

They were lip syncing the entire thing. And they also didn't even, it's not like they were lip syncing their performances. They were not singing. Like the, the, the, the, the, the, the, it was like, they were like two young, hot guys. guys. And then the actual singers were, as far as I can remember, like, middle-aged, like, normal-looking, like, studio musicians. Correct. And the songs that were recorded were not

their voices. That's what I want people to know. Yes. Okay. Yes. And now they are also not performing at the White House. Freedom Williams. Even though they were never performing, even when they were performing. Correct. Although I do think one of them after the reveal of the lip syncing did try to launch his own singing career. But then it's like, well, then why didn't you just do that in the first place. Freedom Williams of C&C Music Factory. Okay. This is old school.

This is Make America Great again. This is what Trump believes music is. Yes. Make America 1992 again. When Bill Clinton was president? I don't know. It's all very strange. Yes.

Now, there are still two performers in, Vanilla Ice. Classic. Because obviously, and Flo Rida. That's funny. Yeah. I don't know why Flo Rida is still doing it. than I don't know he's a swing state you know are these artists getting paid I think so because at one point Trump tweeted sorry he truthed yeah that the the the artists are getting the

yips which is a golf term I guess a sports term for when you get nervous like Charles Barclay has the yips real bad although I heard he fixed it yeah but the artists are getting the yipped the yips and they were overpriced and they were overpriced and anyway. So they must have been getting paid. Because I can say as a performer myself, one way to really make sure that an artist doesn't pull out is to pay that money, a lot of it. So my guess is like the public image cost of this was way higher than what they were getting paid. But I promise you watching all my friends go to Saudi Arabia to perform, they were making

enough money that they were. There's an amount of money where it doesn't matter. There's amount of money where they're going like, I don't care, you can hate me. I'm going to Saudi Arabia. So I would guess knowing Trump, he was probably paying them poorly. Yes. And it wasn't a smart move for them. People are going, what are you doing this for? Yeah.

Right. Yeah, yeah, right. You don't need this. Freedom Williams of CNC Music Factory. Speaking of Vanilla Ice, when I was in college, an episode of The Apprentice, Donald Trump, Celebrity Apprentice shot a challenge on campus where they had to make pizza for all the students. And Vanilla Ice was one of the guys. Oh.

Yeah. No, I'm wrong. Mark McGrath. Cut that. Alan, cut that. Cut that. Cut it. I do not know vanilla ice is real name.

Me neither. Yeah. Interesting. We may never know. For all I know, it is vanilla ice. Here goes. Real name. Real name.

It's going to be like Cody or. Oh, Robert Matthew Van Winkle. That's a great name. Yeah. Why did he change it? Robert Matthew Van Winkle. Robert Matthew Van Winkle? I feel like that vanilla ice is a downgrade from that.

Yeah. Maybe somebody answered his riddles three and then he had to change it. I mean, it is kind of hard to understand what a big moment that was. Yeah. When Millie Vanilli was caught. Right. Or even it was revealed because I don't understand why they didn't think or, you know, that was just like for me when I was nine or 10, you know, I just thought things were what they were. Right.

And then that's when you kind of learn like maybe this little box that sits on your living room. dresser doesn't always give you the truth or things are produced. So this was a big moment. It was a big moment. Yeah. And now they have the, and now the lip-sinkers have too much integrity to perform in the wife house. Right, right, right.

But they said yes at first. Yes. Yeah, right. Look, they were getting paid. Yeah. If you were putting together an America 250 concert, who would you pick? Um, you know, I am, you know, you know how the Daily Show has the Facebook. Yes.

that has everyone's, it says like, what's your favorite TV show and your favorite music? My answer to my favorite music is I'm not really a music guy. Okay. And people think I'm joking

because it's like who isn't a music guy. I mean, I love the Beastie Boys. Pick the Beastie Boys. I think that's a perfect answer. I love the Beastie Boys and I've met them and I've gone to their concert. It's the first concert I ever went to.

But like after that, I get real, real thin on who, who I would have. I think the Beastie Boys is a great answer. You know, R-I-P-M-C-A. But I think they would be a perfect choice because they are so Brooklyn.

Like, New York City is so rarely represented when we're talking about, like, this is what it means to be American. It's the biggest city in the country. Well, why I love the Beastie Boys is, you know, and a lot of musicians are like this, the best in my opinion. But you really watch them evolve as people through their music. Yeah. Like, it's very safe to say you can go, oh, I love this band because of their last album.

You listen to their new album. You're like, who is this band? They're evolving. They're progressing. Guess what? So are we. So is this country, hopefully. And so much of what this administration encapsulates is him trying to fight, in my opinion, how this country is growing up.

Yeah. You know, that to me is what Trumpism is like, no stop. No Spanish. No different people. no different cultures and languages and diversity. He's trying to stop all that. So it's all... Yeah.

You know, here we go. You ask Donald Trump, please, but he still says no. Nice, Nicole. Thank you so much. I think I would pick the chicks, formerly the Dixie Chicks, particularly because they were like the, not like, they were the ones who stood up to Bush and said, he's not, our president, this doesn't represent us. And then they were the ones who really suffered a career setback from that.

and didn't I wasn't fully aware that they that they had a career setback because of that. They did. I mean, they used to play like arenas. Right.

And then they still had a career. They're still very talented musicians, but it was definitely going from, you know, playing MSG to playing Terminal 5. Well, and it's funny you say that because the Beastie Boys

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The other event planning sort of hiccup that has happened this weekend is, so they're building this big UFC arena on the lawn of the White House for a big fight on Donald Trump's birthday. Is it an octagon? I have to assume it's an octagon, but it also has sort of, you know that thing outside of L.A.X that has like four legs coming off of it? It looks a little bit like that. It'd be funny if Trump didn't know how. How many sides were on an octagon? I have the best octagon.

It has 12 sides. Everyone knows it. Other octagons have eight. I said, let's get 12. I think I said this on the podcast with Desi, but I have, between Colbert and here, I've been talking about Donald Trump for 10 years now, and my impression of him has only gotten worse. I think it's great. Thank you so much.

You know, I, there's a part of me that doesn't mean. mind that this is happening. I actually agree. I don't think that there's, you know, a reason that there can't be a big event on the White House lawn. Yeah. You know, if I think about, oh, if it was, you know, President Bernie Sanders and he was like, let's do a big celebration of America on the White House lawn with whoever he would pick. Bernie Sanders would have a farmer's market, which, by the way, I would love. Yeah, that would be great. That would be great. I think that would be The great use of the lawn. And so I don't necessarily mind the idea of a big spectacle on the White House lawn.

It is stupid. Yeah, I mean, it's, I don't mind, you know, it's beautiful imagery, the White House. I hope people get excited about the White House. I hope people, I hope people watch this and get more curious about our government. They won't. But the thing that is most on brand for Trump is that this is violent and mean. spirit, you know, it's fighting. I mean, it's like, and, and I would say these fighters have incredible, uh, integrity

and sportsmanship because they've, you have to play by the rules in particular in fighting, which is very funny because I don't feel, feel Donald Trump is that way. But, you know, it is just so on brand for him to have it be where people are kicking the shit out of each other. Right. Yeah. Right. And it is also for the benefit of the UFC, which is a private corporation also.

And Dana White has been in his pocket from. day one. Absolutely. One of the issues that they're having is that Dana White thinks there's going to be a massive gnat problem. Oh yeah. He, I guess, was at an event at the Rose Garden and he was like, this is something we got to figure out because there's moths everywhere, there's gnats everywhere, the fighters are going to be out there dealing with the gnats, which I guess would be a problem. But it is also like you're beating the shit out of each other. Yeah, but it would suck if someone's like trying to get a fly out of their face and then they get their nose broken. But yeah, I mean, this is, hey, this is why the sport of tennis is so wonderful because you have to play outside and you have to deal with those conditions.

Yeah. And while you're dealing with those conditions, you aren't getting your optical bone broken. You guys are tougher and braver than UFC fighters. I've long said that. Yes. And even though we play in a rectangle, they play in an octagon. Yeah. That you do what they do with half as many sides. But less, yeah, it's kind of funny to think that maybe different athletes are just people who.

do different things on different shapes. Yeah, they just like different shapes. Baseball is a diamond. Yeah, diamond. Basketball would be, what's a pool? It's a square with water in it. Anyways, cut that. Some of them are kidney bean shaped. Yes.

I don't think they do a lot of events in those, though. Joe Rogan also said he doesn't like that it's outside. And I think it's just, they want to, I mean, if it rains or something and it gets slippery. But, I mean, I've seen 300. They were out there rolling around in the mud. Perfect reference. Thank you.

Fighting, fighting, when you are fighting somebody, conditions would be very important. Yeah. I get that that's a thing. I mean, what's funny is we all want Joe Rogan to say, I don't like this, I don't like this administration. But the reason he doesn't like it is because it's outside. Yeah. So it's not, the fights will be worse. It's bad for his, the fight.

Which is understandable. The other funny thing about the UFC fight at the White House is that the White House is trying to get soldiers to attend the event. Yep. But they have to pay their own. way. And also they have to meet height and weight restrictions. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. High restrictions? Yeah. So you can't be too short.

Right. I mean, I guess if you are too short, then you can still buy a ticket, but they'll put you in the nosebleeds or something. But if you want to be in the stands near the front, in the, you know, section of honor or whatever, then you have to, you, no fatdies, first of all. And you can't be short. You have to look like what they want our soldiers to look like. Yes. Even though probably the most skilled drone pilot operator might not be a six foot four. I suspect that the most skilled drone operator probably looks like he's playing Warcraft in his basement. Correct.

20 hours a day. I agree. And it's just this whole, look, the whole world is more focused on optics now. But Trump in particular, that is the game. Optics is the game. Optics is the game. Yeah. And we know he loves a beautiful man

because he never misses an opportunity to be like Look at you, look at this wet glistening off your skin It's like, all right. Although the optics standing behind him at his rallies Are also lots of non-beautiful men Let's just put it that way. Okay, now we're going to do a new segment That probably won't be, I hope won't be a recurring segment

But because I am from Colorado originally There's been a few weird news stories coming out of Colorado and the first one. What's the state motto? Boy, I should know it. Is it like, it's the centennial state? Centennial state. Yeah, because we were, oh, so this will be our 150th anniversary in Colorado.

What can you tell me about its flower? Nothing without providence. I don't think I've ever heard that. It's flower is the Columbine. Oh, wow. And when I was in Ireland, we saw some Columbines. And I didn't know that they grew there. This is only interesting to people from Colorado.

Can you tell me. and don't look at the screen. Can you tell me about the flag at all? The flag is like very iconic. It's just got a big C on it. With the center I think is supposed to represent the sun. Yeah. And it's if you're from Colorado, 50% of the people,

you know, have that flag tattooed on them. Oh, really? Well, because it's a good, it's an easy tattoo. It's beautiful. You know, I am just a huge fan of the state of Colorado. It rocks. It just has so many different things going for it. It rocks.

Although I will say, do you know Caleb Heeran? There's a comedian named Caleb Heeran who's very funny, who has a joke that I will paraphrase worse than when he does it. But he has a joke that's like, I know a lot of people who've moved to Colorado, and for every single one of them, it has been a cry for help. I do feel like there is a large contingent of people in Colorado who are like, well, I'm 35 and my life isn't working out. I'm going to go.

Yeah. Denver's blown up. Yes. I could not, I could kind of tell you a little bit. about the state flag of Michigan, but not as, you know, you really knew what you were talking about there. Well, it's because it's a...

It's iconic. It's iconic. And it's also, you know, a child could draw it. Yeah. There is a... Alan, pull up the state flag of Michigan. It's just got a... It's just got the state seal on it.

It's blue with the state seal. But I don't know... You know, it needs a rebrand. Because Colorado looked like fun. Looked they want to go to that place. The, uh... You got some stags and an eagle. It's not awful, but it's just kind of...

of formal to me. Circumspice. It's formal, whereas Colorado looked approachable. Yeah. You know? Yeah, absolutely. The Denver City flag is also very good. It has three triangles for mountains. It's great. But anyway, good talk. Yes, shout out to everybody from Colorado. Okay. Colorado Corner.

A few stories from Colorado Corner. The first one is that Tina Peters, famous election denier. Yes. Our governor, Jared Polis, has been talking about commuting her sentence for a long time, and she has officially been released from prison. For those of you who don't remember, Tina Peters was in the news around, I think it was the 2020 election, right?

For she was behind a lot of the voting conspiracies. She got arrested because she was promoting all of these voting conspiracies and saying that there was subterfusion. The election was stolen. And so she's finally been released. And she immediately went on Steve Bannon's podcast and started doing it again the second she was released. I know that the Democrats are going to cheat. And no one's really addressing the problem that I spent my time in prison as retribution for. And that was exposing the election machines that allow the votes to be flipped.

All right. Well, just and just remember that Fox lost a $800 million lawsuit. Yes. Claiming that the election machines had been compromised. Yes. They kept saying they were compromised. in the election machine company sued and won $800 million. Yes.

Did everyone want you know that? She looks good for being in prison, though. I know. She looks great. Whatever they're doing in the Colorado State Penitentiary appears to be working. So that's one weird story. There is a weirder story, which is that the frontrunner, the Republican frontrunner for governor is a guy named Victor Marks, and he gave an interview with Denver newscaster Kyle Clark, who's awesome. I would assume this, the governor is.

is Republican? He is, our current governor is ostensibly a Democrat, but this new guy who's running as a Republican, Victor Marks, just gave this interview and he has a couple wild quotes that I'll have you watch. You perform exorcisms, commanding demons to come out of people. Stop. Can you explain to me how that works? When you say I perform exorcisms. Yeah. You described yourself as a quote unquote reluctant exorcist.

I believe the Word of God that I can pray for people and see people set free from whether it's demonic oppression. I never call it possession. I believe there's levels of demonization or people are suffering because of evil. But could you explain to folks who have never witnessed this? Don't understand how it works. I've heard you describe it a number of times. You've got the two angels with the swords. You've got the circle of judgment.

I can't tell if this guy's taking the piss out of it. So I think it's real. And I think what Kyle, I think Victor Marx here is trying to be like, well, I mean, when I, when I said exorcism, I meant it metaphorically. And Kyle Clark's like, no, you don't. Right. But then he also says, but I do believe. But then he also said, I, that's a joke. I don't believe that.

But I can pray it out of people, which is what you said. So, oh, you know, religious, semantics, words. Yes. So that wasn't the only part of the. interview there was also this one your claim that your abusive stepfather forced you to kill a man when you were seven years old is that the only person you've ever killed oh stop this is such a long pause for the question yeah did you kill did you kill somebody this Alan has not paused the video by the way I would say as a as a child yes what does that mean as a child as a child

did you kill anybody as an adult I've only killed yeah yeah I mean that that that's wild It's truly wild And he's probably going to be The Secretary of the Interior Within our lifetime Well people do forget though Because of Boulder And because of the ski culture there

Of the money And the private flights And Beaver Creek and Vale People forget that Colorado also is like Wild Country Oh yeah People forget that rough and tough men Who love Jesus

Are a enormous part of the state. Definitely. It's easy to forget that. Everything past the airport is basically like West Kansas. Correct. Yes. And then you go, you know, like far to the southeast and it's cowboy country.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Ranchers and yeah. And it is easy to forget that. But he is a nice reminder. Yeah. He really is. Yeah.

Now, Casa, I would love to get your take on this headline, which I saw, which is that Serena Williams is returning to pro tennis. Wild. Wild to me. She is she tied for all time? No, she's second place for all time Grand Slam. She's at 23. And I believe Margaret Court, who played like 100 years ago has 24. And definitely, definitely, definitely, Serena Williams is considered the greatest of all time. But she doesn't have that record. So that could be driving this. You think maybe she's trying to get one more grand slam. She definitely is trying to get one more grand slam or if not too. Now, this doesn't fare well for any gender when you leave the sport and then you come back.

I mean, do me a favor, Alan, and Google Bjorn Borg returned to tennis 1981. Here's a great example of this. 81 downfall. Bjornborg, you know who Borrumborg is? I know that he is a legendary tennis player. Very beautiful Swedish tennis player.

Played with this wooden racket called the Donne. He left for four years. The whole sport moved to aluminum tennis rackets. That's a big jump. Metal. Everybody.

Bjorn Borg comes back playing with wood. He had to pay Don A to make wood rackets. My whole point is, I hope Serena has been paying attention. The sport has evolved considerably since she left.

What are some changes that have happened since she left? Movement. You know, when Serena played, she was the only one that could serve. Okay. A lot of women now can serve. And they can move, they move unbelievably. So I'd be curious to see. I mean, Serena Williams is one of our generation's greatest athletes.

If anyone could do it, it could be her. But 44, you took four years off. Maybe you started to have a piece of chocolate cake every once in a while. Do you know what I mean? this is going to be tough but hey I'm rooting for her yeah it's I mean look as as a woman approaching middle age I am always looking for examples of like see she can still do it totally and and she's a bad motherfucker yes so she's also like a genetic free yeah which is if you're the top athlete at any sport you have to be you have to be and also her sister has been playing her sister retired and

came back how long did venus take off do you know I don't know how long but also Venus hasn't want a match in like three years, but she's still playing. Yeah. Good job, Venus. Can I ask you a tennis question? Absolutely. Well, it's, you're, you're going to be disappointed with what the question is. But I rarely play tennis.

If somebody asks me if I want to go, I'll be like, sure. Sure. But I'm not good at it. But even though I don't play tennis, but once every other year, I do still find myself doing the grunting. Why does that, why does that happen? Well, you know, let's go back to boxing or fighting. You know, one of the first things they teach you when you punch or strike is to blow out or to exhale.

It helps the strike. Yeah. It's the same with tennis. Interesting. And in fact, probably if we miced a pitcher, a baseball hitting, we're all breathing out. Why, I don't understand why tennis is always is sexual sounding. Maybe it's because you have time. You know, you have a little bit of time.

The ball's got to travel 76 feet to the opponent. Maybe there's time. You can't help it. It's. Yeah. And, you know. I've tried. When I don't practice, I barely ever play.

And my body naturally is just like, uh, yeah. Yeah. I, as a former coach, I strongly encourage people to grunt when they hit. Great. What does happen is people start, people add a little, they add a little artistic flare to their grunt. It's like one of the guys in the gym who's lifting really. Gabby goes,

ah! Correct. That's not helping you. What are you doing? Yes. But it is, you know, Venus got in trouble early in her career. People were mad at her grunt. And she was like, this is my grunt.

Sport has a grunt. So it's just, it's been a thing. I wonder why it's, it feels like golf is such a similar emotion. But when I play golf, maybe I'll start grunting when I play golf. I bet you if we mic'd you, there would be some form of an exhale. Yes. But I don't know if it would. be, I mean, Gustavo Quarton from Brazil used to grunt like this.

Buh. I mean, it was awesome. It was like, it was like, what? Anyways. All right, well, maybe when I play golf from now and I'll go, Buh. I bet you Tiger Woods grunted when he crashed his car into that fire hydrant. This is going to ruin the tour.

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And is it ads for everybody or is it his ads are overwhelming? I did see some Spencer Pratt ads. I don't even, you know, I just, when you hear that it's political music. Right. Especially for a place you don't live. It's like I don't know who the city. Dude it out. Yeah.

Sewer commissioner is going to be. But there was even so many that at one point there was an ad attacking an opponent. Then the opponent's ad came on. Great. Then the first person's ad came back on. And it's like, whoa, how much money did we spend on this? Yeah, no, California is really gone mad. And you know what?

They have truly collective trauma from the fires. Totally. And that is why Spencer Pratt has been able to do this. Correct. Because during the fires, he emerged maybe not as a hero, but definitely as somebody who everybody was surprised to be like, oh, right, this guy exists. And he seems to be saying like reasonable and sympathetic stuff

about the fires. And then now that he's running for mayor, not so much. I think we all as a society do not fully understand trauma. Yes. And you can look at COVID with the election of Joe Biden. I mean, you can look, you can, I mean, trauma affects us so deeply that we search for people that can offer some organization of it or just, uh, appreciate, for it and in some strange way Spencer Pratt,

the reality star that everybody hated because he was an asshole, is offering a little bit of that in some capacity. One thing that has emerged from his campaign is that he loves crystals. Oh boy. Alan, will you... Walter, we're doing a pod.

Can you please stop? Thank you. He's all... Talk to me about crystals. Talk to me about crystals. What is the deal with crystals? Do you believe they have powers? I know nothing about crystals. So tell me about it.

Do you believe the ocean has powers? Do you believe the waterfalls have... Do you believe hummingbirds have power? I believe anything God put on this earth has energy. And I respect the earth and the powers of God. And so that's, I don't worship crystals. I think they're beautiful. The ones I collected all went up in value before Mayor Bass let them burn to the ground.

They were investments. There's a museum-grade collection. How would you describe? Do you think they have special powers or you just think they're nice to look at? They're good to collect. Like, how do you explain them? Okay. This watch right here.

It has quartz in it. And it has energy. It's moving. Power. It's also battery powered. Yes. I used to live, when I lived in L.A. I lived in a place called La Crescenta, which is sort of like behind the mountains behind Burbank. La Crescenta, Flint Ridge? Yes. I know exactly where it. Because I...

La Ceyna Flint Ridge is like next to La Crescenta. Exactly, because I would go up to the Angeles National Forest. Yes. Yes, through there. And when I first moved to there, somebody described it to me as the kind of place where somebody in a MAGA hat would try to sell you a healing crystal. And that is exactly the vibe there. Also, keep in mind, the placebo effect is like 30% effective. Totally. So if you have a surgery and you put a crystal next to your bed, you think it's going to help you? Hey, if you feel like crystals help and also you're following your doctor's orders, go with God. That's great. I'm thrilled for you. I just wish they would call it the placebo effect crystal, not the this crystal that it'll sell to you.

Yes. Yes, absolutely. So the other big news is that the Knicks are in the finals. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's huge. I'm, again, I'm from Denver. I'm a Nuggets fan. We were eliminated this year.

so I don't really have a horse in this race but I'm very excited for all of my friends especially at the show including your friend in mine, John Stewart, who are all very excited about the Nick Spurs finals. Trump has said that he a plan, Trump has said that he plans to attend,

but let me tell you why we don't want that. Okay, it seems like a logistical night. It is. He came to the U.S. Open Tennis Final and everybody has to get there at 8 a.m. for a.m. for a. 5 p.m. final. To go through security screen. Not even just like the metal detectors, like if you're a journalist, the security background. It's a nightmare.

But hey, don't be afraid Trump to say something nice about New York City. For once. I mean, it was your home. Yes. Forever and ever and ever. For your entire life. I mean, I think no one really knows for certain, but I think your wife and kids still live here. I would love for him to name one Nick in the history of the Nick. Also, resale tickets for the finals are already like most nosebleed of nosebleed seats are over $5,000 or something. I can't imagine what it would be like if Trump also

was there. It's fun for me when other people in this country see how expensive shit actually is in New York. Like when my friends in Michigan are like, why are tickets $5,000 to a next game? I'm like, because you don't even understand how much a hamburger costs you.

You don't understand how much rent is. I watched a TikTok yesterday of a guy who was like This is part, you know, 12 or whatever of my realistic search for an apartment in New York City that I'm affording independently without a guarantor or anything. And he said his budget for a one bedroom was 2,100, maybe 2,300. And everybody in the comments was like, you're wasting money. That's crazy. And I was like, I don't know if he's going to be able to find a place for $2,100.

But okay. Crazy. Yeah, everything's so expensive here. The other big news about the NBA finals is that a lot of like political age. I Slop has come out of it. Yes. So Governor Greg Abbott of Texas just posted this insane photo of himself, who is in a wheelchair, dunking on Kathy Hockel, who is in a Nix jersey, and Donald Trump has court side seats and is laughing. It's so weird. It's awful. You know, I... I also like that they gave

him crazy guns. He's so jacked in this photo. But also, you just used... AI machine that's sucking our fresh water out of lakes to make this thing. Also, how do I, how do I tell my daughters to be nice to people and to say, please and thank you and be respectful of everybody in your classroom, even if they're different than you? And then like our elected officials, I know this is jokey, but it also just pisses me off. Yeah. It's, I, boy, it's, I guess because I don't have kids, I've never thought about how when I was

in like third grade, I got in trouble for like, drawing a mean photo of a classmate and now it's very strange like yeah depending on the age of your kid they do start to see this stuff on the news yeah and they're like well that's mean what dad you say don't do mean stuff and I'm like you're right I do say that and I try not to do mean stuff but then the person who's in charge of this country or whatever you know it's tricky when you become the president you can do it mean stuff um but yes the nicks yeah are not the only big sporting event that we're looking forward to because the French Open

is it already happening? Is it just the finals? It's happening. The thing that's most exciting to me about the French Open is the top two men's players, Yannick Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz who have been winning everything.

They're out. So Yonick Sinner retired with, well, he lost, but he had heat stroke essentially. Well, there was a crazy heat wave in France this week. I mean, he literally, couldn't move. It was very sad to see

how you become number one in the world and you can't handle playing in a 92 degree heat. I don't know. Carlos Alcraz is out with a wrist injury. So we're going to have a new Novak Djokovic is out. We're going to have like a new champion. That's fun. Yeah. That's fun. Do you have any predictions? I believe this Brazilian Fonseca Is this the Buh? That's not that guy. That's Gustavo Quarton.

Okay. Who was at the matches, by the way. Okay. I like him, but it's just, yeah, so I don't know who's going to win, but it's a lot of fun. Do they play on clay? They play on red clay. Red clay. Red clay.

Yeah. Very French. Very French. And my favorite thing about the French Open is they, of all the other tournaments, the umpires speak English because it's like the language everyone understands, but of course the French is like, we're speaking French. So they give, you know, But you can hear him.

You hear him a silence, if you please. You know, it's great. So I love the French showbook. That's awesome. I'm going to watch some of it, even though I don't understand what's going on, because it will be a good opportunity for me to practice my high school level French. Yes. And maybe pick up some tennis terms.

Also on the women's side, there's a wonderful player named Marta Kostiak, who's Ukrainian. And here's why I love her, and it's relevant to this show. Three years ago, she said, before she was a big name, when I play anybody from Russia, or Bella Russia or my umpire is from those countries, I will not be acknowledging them or shaking their hand. Because it is my duty to speak up against this war. And I don't like that the other players from other countries aren't doing the same thing.

So she will beat a, she played a tournament where she beat a woman from Russia and there was an award ceremony and she didn't acknowledge her or shake her hand. Now, everyone on tour kind of knows she's going to do that. But I just love the guts to say like, you're bombing my country and this isn't okay with me. And I'm going to make sure everyone knows all the time. Absolutely.

She's still in the tournament and she could win it. When she has a referee umpire? When she has a Russian umpire, I mean, presumably she has to like heed their calls. Yes. I think she acknowledges the calling of the sport. but you're always supposed to shake the hand after a match, and she doesn't do that. Wow.

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All right, it is time for something that we call the Daily Show and Tell. So, Michael and Walter, what is something that you have watched, read, listened to, argued about or just been on your mind lately. Well, it's relevant to Walter. Okay. The guest on Tuesday is the tick guy. Awesome. And he is an expert and a professor who deals with ticks.

And Walter's got a little tick-borne illness. Oh. Walter, do you have Lyme disease? He does not have Lyme disease. I don't know what the name of it is. It's apparently like the one you want to get if you're going to get one. But I find ticks fascinating. They use their mouth to open up your body and then they insert a strong.

draw into our vein and they suck our blood. Kind of crazy. Terrifying. And I think more Americans need to be aware of ticks and understand ticks and feel empowered to know how to handle them because there's more and more coming with climate change. Totally. There obviously are ticks everywhere in America, but there are way fewer in Colorado. And so when I moved here, particularly when I had my big German Shepherd who was so furry.

And we would bring her home from walks and just have to spend like an hour going through her fur. And fortunately, she had like dogs. She had that thing where when she gets a tick, it drinks her blood and just dies immediately. So she was always fine. But one time my husband found a tick on him. He actually just found another one recently. And it was immediately like trying to get doxycycline.

People really freak out about them. And what I'm hoping to achieve with this interview is it's right to be concerned. But the more you learn about it, it's like you don't need to end your life over it. Right. You can figure it out. But it's a thing we need to learn to deal with. There's, I'm excited to see him. And then have you seen, there's a guy on TikTok.

He's part of the Mississippi State Extension Service. He's Dr. Jerome Goddard. He's a bug guy and he has the thickest Mississippi accent that I've ever heard. I'm going to send you a video. He does a lot of videos about ticks. They're great. Can't wait for that guest. Check out Dr. Jerome Goddard also.

What's on your mind? Well, it's the, today's the first, right? So it's the first day of Pride Month and in honor of Pride Month and me just getting back from Ireland. I bought a book when I was there that I thought was very good. good. So the writer's name is Nevena Malone. And she wrote a book called Ordinary

Saints that is about a gay Irish woman who's living in London, whose deceased brother is going to be made a saint in the Catholic Church. Wow. Catholic Church. And it's about how she has to kind of reckon with her own past and her relationship to the church as somebody who grew up very religious and

is gay now. And it's very lighthearted and funny also. And I really recommend it. It is kind of to get in America, but I think you can order it from any bookseller. And I really recommend it. The perfect antibody to screen addiction is reading a book. It makes your brain happy. It makes your emotional health happy. It's just a wonderful thing. Put the phone down and read a book. Truly. And this Ireland trip that I just went on was great because whenever I go to a new place, I try to just pick a few books from authors in that region to read. And Ireland has such a like Like huge literary canon.

They're just churning out authors. So check out any of those and check out Ordinary Saints by Neefnin-Malone. Don't try to spell her name. Just Google Ordinary Saints. And I think that's everything. That is all the time that we have for the pre-cap. I have been Nicole Conlin. You can check out your host, Michael Costa, this week hosting the Daily Show on Comedy Central, Paramount Plus,

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