The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Ronny Chieng - It's Always Epstein Week

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

This week's host Ronny Chieng joins Daily Show writer Nicole Conlan to recap the biggest headlines and preview the week to come. They look at the government reopening and bringing Jeffrey Epstein's emails with it, celebrate the death of the penny and the life of a fancy French teen detective, and wonder what's worse: unprovoked war with Venezuela, or Mr. Beast's new theme park. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit http://hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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See app for details. You're listening to Comedy Central. Welcome to the pre-cap, where we sit down with this week's daily show host to preview what's coming up and recap some of the news that we might have missed. I'm Nicole Conlin. I'm a writer at The Daily Show, and I have joined today by Mr. Ronnie Chang. Hi, Ronnie. Hello. How are you? I'm okay. Thanks for asking. Thanks for doing this. Oh, this was easy for me. I didn't even have to leave my apartment. Oh, okay. Well, then no thank you for doing this. Okay. I'm in Miami right now.

Ooh. Are you doing shows? Yeah, doing some shows, trying to get with my MAGA people and, you know, overthrow the government. Okay. Perfect. Well, let me know how that goes. Sure. If I succeed, I'll let you know. Yeah. Are you excited about hosting the show this week? Yeah, always. Always excited to host. I think it's the best job in comedy. Daily show. Absolutely. A dream. Miami. What an interesting city, by the way.

I've never been. Oh, you don't been to Miami? You got to talk. It's great. What are you doing while you're there aside from comedy? Nothing. Just doing two shows. And then the older I get, the less I'm able to maximize my time in a city before a show. Now it's all I can do to just do the two shows and get out.

Miami is an interesting American city. And this is coming from a place of ignorance on my part. So I'm not saying I'm an expert in Miami. But my impressions of Miami as someone who watched Scarface and Cocaine Cowboys, the documentary, sure is that this was always a kind of city where it was wealthy and developed but also had this kind of shady side to it and underbelly yeah and that's kind of never changed it's always been like this weird extremes you know it's like a city of immigrants but it's also a city of maga it's also a it's a city of law and order and like institutions banking and you know financial institutions

and it's a clean kind of developed city, but it's also cocaine cowboy slash Scarface slash Godfather Part 2, you know, like they all kind of... You're like a documentary filmmaker who goes to a new culture and you're like, Miami is a land of contrasts. Yeah. You know, but I mean, it fits, right? Because I only became American this year.

So for me, I still view America like, it like, you know, the way national geographic. It's anthropological for you. Yeah, it's anthropological. It is. Let's talk about some of the stories that we might talk about this week on the show. Please. Okay.

The big one is that the Democrats caved and the government is reopening after its longest shutdown ever. Yeah. They should be good. I feel like most Americans are kind of apathetic when it comes to politics. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but my general thing is apathetic. So they never see any real world consequences to the stuff that you and I look at on the news. Right.

You know, because we're deep into it, right? So we'll be like, oh, this legislation, oh, this congressman. And for the day-to-day person, I feel like they rarely ever see the effects of this. Whereas for this shutdown, I mean, like, because they're shut down, we couldn't fly to do our, to tell our dumb jokes, you know. Airports are insane. So I hope, my hope is that people actually felt the pain, the kind of consequences of elections a little bit, you know? I'm not sure if they did. And Democrats caving, the moderate position is that it is a painful position to hold

because you are withholding genuine kind of food benefits, you know, there could be some real suffering involved. And so can you blame people for caving? I don't know. you know on the on the other hand it's like if you're winning why did you let your foot off the off the pedal you know yeah it feels like a classic democrat move of like that like get it you're trying to be compassionate and you're doing the right thing but you did the you had the worst of both worlds of like if you came immediately nobody would have lost any food yes and it and by

caving right now you also don't win anything yeah it's the worst of both yeah it's the democrat motto is all pain, no gain. But I'm very curious to know genuinely asking, like, how much of this shutdown is, for people who did care about the shutdown, who are angry about the shutdown, how many of those people would blame Republicans or Democrats? I am genuinely curious because it's not clear to me, because Republicans control every branch of government, but yet this shutdown seemed to be a Democrat thing. So I don't know, you know.

it's actually not as it's more evenly split than i thought it looks like 52% blame trump and or congressional republicans and 42% blame congressional democrats yeah see i don't think that i think that's still equal i don't think that's a heavy and the other thing that's interesting about the shutdown was that they had a chance to remove the filibuster and they didn't yeah so the last semblance of institutional um kind of traditional government politics which is the filibuster you know, even in this day and age of complete disruption of politics, the Republicans didn't get rid of it when they could have. Like if you're playing pure, if you're purely trying to win the system,

you would have gotten rid of it, right? Because now's the time you can. So the fact that they didn't, I feel is also kind of a little interesting, right? That someone somewhere was like, oh, we can't do that. You know, to pass legislation, you need an overwhelming majority. Right. And so if you get a filibuster, you're saying that you just need a 51% and we can pass any legislation. And even Republicans were scared to do that.

You know, they were scared to do that. I guess, you know, I mean, for me, that's kind of like a sign of holding on to the vestiges of, you know, some semblance of the institutional democracy of America. Yeah. But at the same time, it, it feels on brand to me that the, the vestige that we're holding on to is also the most, like, annoying, drawn out longest part of the American democratic process. Yeah. I mean, I read somewhere like a long time. ago that America's government is inefficient by design so that no one person can quickly seize power and destroy and take over everything and I got to say I think there's some

wisdom in that so obviously the downsides we see it every single goddamn day in America this kind of gridlock inefficiency but I think the positive side of it is that it's just too hard to take over every single part of government you know just because it's just so inefficient. It's hard. It's hard. To change the constitution is hard. I would like to ask a lawyer, though, whether the Republicans could get rid of the

filibuster pass legislation and then re- And then reinstate the filibuster. Before they get our office, I mean, if you're just purely gaming the system, wouldn't that be the play? Yeah. It's, look, you should write to, I don't know, Mitch McConnell and tell him. My Johnson. My Johnson.

Yeah. I got a great idea. Great idea, yeah. Another thing about the shutdown is, do you think it's time that they just make it so that fucking air traffic control is an essential service? Yes, I think so. I mean, the damage was done to air traffic control in the 80s when Reagan fired everybody, and it feels like they've just been, like, trying to catch up since then. And so I think they need to, first of all, staff way back up, and second of all,

probably make it an essential service. Yeah. I mean, this sounds, look, the environmentalist in me is like, oh, they stop all the flights. Oh, that's, that's good, you know, good. The only thing I can stop, you know, capitalism from destroying the environment is, I guess. Grounding all of our planes. Yeah, free market capitalists. Yeah, like grounding all of it.

But, um, uh, so that was good. I thought, you know, everyone chill out. Don't fly unless you have to, you know, but then also. But do you know anybody who actually canceled a flight? flight for it? It's too hard to say because some people, maybe they didn't cancel. Maybe they just didn't book. So I don't know.

I don't know. But I, as someone who was flying freaking regularly during the shutdown, dude, it was, it was like, you know, book five flights and see which one goes. Really? You noticed a big difference. Yeah. Because I was touring for, you know, I was trying to do these dumb jokes all over the country. And so we had to book five flights and then we see which one goes. And then you try to book the first flight out the next morning and the whole time, you know, you're squeezing your asshole because, you know, you're clenching your butt because it's like, I'm not going to make this show in time in Chicago. And, you know, but. Did you make it to all of them?

I did. I did make it to all of them. So it, but not, you know, it was definitely like swimming uphill to, you know, try to get these. Because they would, every flight would get pushed back by seven hours and then you would get there and then they would push it back another three. hours. And then you were scared the whole time, you know. Wow. Well, hopefully that's over and you will get to all of your shows on time. Sure. That's the most important thing. Not clenched. I'm a single issue voter. You're a single issue voter. Get me to my shows on time. Get me to my shows. I can tell these racist jokes. Which party will enable that. According to the National Institutes of Health, as many as 30 million men in the United States experience erectile dysfunction. It's more common than a bad night's The good news, HIMS makes getting access to treatment simple so you can feel like yourself again without the stress or awkwardness. HIMS offers access to erectile dysfunction treatment options ranging from trusted generics that cost 95% less than the brand names to hard mints if prescribed.

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Yes. And it is a combination of, like, him recording, like, incriminating evidence that he could use against people, but then also just like ideas that he had. Bits. His eclames of bits. He was like, oh, this could be good. Yeah, Jeffrey Epstein waking up the night after emailing himself being like, what did I mean by that?

Yeah. What was it? Yeah. Yeah. So the emails are out, but again, it's like, does this, is it crazy enough to stop anybody? Because it seems like the American public has either high tolerance for nonsense now or a low trust of what's in it. Like, they won't believe it if they see it.

So, you know, and it's also the, the, the, what is crazy is that, I mean, Trump was known to be a friend of Epstein for decades because back in the, back in, like, the 80s and 90s, it was like the world that Trump traveled in. He was like, you know, the playboy, um, uh, fun loving rich guy in New York. So when he was womanizing in New York It was seen as like a It was like a cool thing Right

Look at this womanizer dude So he openly Talked about womanizing With Jeffrey Epstein So all this is on the record You know He would be like yeah The only person who loves women

More than me I think is Jeffrey Epstein You know And we both love beautiful women And then now it's like Oh not only were you womanizing You are straight up You know

In this It's very dark sex trafficking world So that's what I don't understand Like there's no dispute of that So why is Why would the emails make a difference? Oh, no, why do his followers, will this move the needle? Is what I'm, I don't even know, you know?

I feel like nothing moves the needle anymore. Yeah, it's, it is frustrating because it, like, they released some of them, just release all of them. Why are we waiting? Just release all of them. Oh, there's more, okay. Yes, there are more, which is also like, does motherfucker send a lot of emails? Sure. Yeah, I mean, that tracks right in the 90s, it wasn't.

text messaging, it was emailing on your BlackBerry. So you would be kind of emailing everybody. You wouldn't, yeah. I mean, every time we think we pull up something, which is totally disgusting, and we're like, this should be it, right? Like, this should sink anyone's political career, if not outright land them in jail. And it never happens. So, I don't know, what, what are we going to see this week, you know, in emails? Can we, you know, for all these disgusting emails that has been one weird element of this whole thing is like

I'm I used to wait for like a new album from my favorite band and now I'm like oh I can't wait for that new Epstein drop I know it's so gross I can't wait to read what these old perverts are talking about it's never good

it's never good it's never profound it's always just profane and just just makes you sick. Everything comes up. It just makes you sick. Yeah. Well, on that depressing note, let's move on to the next story, which is that the beloved penny, the unit of currency, is no more. RIP. RIP, the penny. They're done minting them. Ronnie, how do you feel about the penny going away? I'm surprised that conservatives are okay with this, but I guess they're okay with anything that guy does. But, I mean, objectively speaking, I'm totally down.

Get rid of the penny. I personally, I moved to America in 2015. I have not used a single coin in 10 years. Wow. I round up and I, you know, I tip. I round up and tip. I have not touched a coin in 10 years. So I'm all for, let's get rid of the penny, you know.

Yeah. I think it's fine. My question is like, if we're not making them anymore, is everything just going to be like in units of five now? Yeah. Like what if you pay for something with cash and it's like 1997 or whatever? Do you just not get those three cents back? Yeah, you don't get it.

Great question. I think they should just stop making things in, you know. Yeah, denominations of coins. Just five cents. Just do it. In Singapore, they did that like 20 years ago, I think. Really? They got rid of the one cent coin.

So everything was five cents minimum. Like in increment. Did that have some weird impact where, like, it made a bunch of people, like, gain or lose money as a result? Or did it not matter at all? Singaporeans are some of the most, like, they complain the most about bullshit. And even they didn't complain that hard about this. Okay. And they were, they're like the Karen's.

They'll complain about everything. And I don't remember anyone being outraged over it just because it was like, it's, So it was actually convenient for the citizen. Right. I think this might be convenient for Americans. I don't know. Do you use coins? No, almost never.

They do seem to amass in my car's cup holders, and I don't know where they're coming from. But we have a bunch. We have like a big change jar in our apartment. And pennies are always disappointing because then you go cash it in. And you're like, all right, I'm going to get something. And then it's like $4.87. Yeah. I know.

So, yeah. IEP penny, I guess you save on metals. Yeah. That you can cop that's copper, right? Yeah. Pennies are copper. So you can, that's a lot of electrical wiring that you could shift the metals to. I don't know.

If anything, this is a move for green energy because we need all of that. Right. To go into our grid. Right. And also, I mean, unfortunately, I mean, I'm not happy about this, but the way the American economy is, like, you can't buy shit for one penny. anyway yeah it's the only thing pennies are good for is when you go on like a road trip and there's one of those machines where you put a penny in and it smashes it yeah those things now you can do it without guilt i always felt guilty doing that because i was like currency yeah also i was always like

isn't isn't this illegal to deface money i think technically it might be illegal and because nobody gives a shit about pennies the government was like it's not worth pursuing yeah because it's legal tender like you're not supposed to destroy money but anyway uh there's a you know you're You know, kids are destroying money by the, by the, by the, um, by the penny and, uh, all these, um, tourist attractions. So I guess now you can go and mint more of those, uh, penny smashing things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Smash your pennies while you can, folks. Yeah, yeah. Um, Ronnie, did you see this fedora detective at the Louvre? Yes, I did. He turned out to be a fancy teenager. He was just a, he's like a 15 year old kid who loves detective stories and dress. He was. He was just a, he's like a 15 year old kid. I know. loves detective stories and dresses up like that every day for school. Can you imagine being a 15-year-old kid who loves detective stories and a heist happens while you are at the loop? Crazy. And I know, what he, right time, right place, you know.

But he didn't solve the crime. No, he didn't solve the crime. But he got a great photo. That's true. And everyone thought he was somehow involved. shout out. Hey, shout out to anyone who's dressing up these days. Like, come on. He looks great. Yeah, bring back some class. The thing with him is he had the whole look. It wasn't just the fedora. He had like the suit.

Because like, you'll see guys wearing a fedora sometime with like cargo shorts and it's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? It's awful. You look like a, look like a total loser. But this dude, he didn't even wear it. It wasn't just a suit. Hey, it was like a full on, uh, like he looked like someone who was. he looked like someone from a Sherlock Holmes like book. Totally. He had the trench coat. He had a fancy umbrella. He had the tie. I think he had a three piece. Yes, I'm looking at him now. He's wearing a waistcoat. Yeah, waistcoat. Yeah. Yeah. So it's hard. I mean, good for him.

And I mean, he was there right when he was there, he was visiting the Louvre when the robbers hit or was he just walk by after? He was visiting the Louvre. Oh, okay. Well, hey, you never know, man. Maybe this guy is involved. Maybe. He's just a freaking, he's just a cover story. He goes, oh, it's just a teenager.

Just hanging out. Oh, wow. His name is, I don't know if we should say this because he's a minor, but the BBC is talking about it. His name is Pedro Elias Garzon del Vaux, which sounds like a detective name. Yeah, it's a detective name. He would be, so, you ever read those young adult, like, detective stories? when you were a kid like the Secret Seven

and the whatever you know all the Hardy Boys the Hardy Boys right this guy would be in the Hardy Boys you know they'd be like a kid who likes to dress up and solve crimes and

except this is just a kid who likes to dress up at solve crimes but everywhere he goes he's like not really where the crime is happening yeah yeah he's sort of just adjacent to crimes

yeah he never solves shit he shows up for the photo op yeah dude if this kid shows up in America it would be awesome. Imagine him if he,

if, you know, he's at some ice raid or like some, you know, what's he doing in, what's he doing in, uh, Chicago? Yeah. He's going to, he's going to solve the Epstein files. He's going to finally get to the bottom of it. Yeah, we got to send this kid in. No, don't send that kid to Epstein Island.

Don't send him there. Send this kid in to solve, uh, this guy, you know, Cash Patel should recruit this guy. Yes. Honestly, he, I trust this 15. year old kid from France to do the job way better than Cash Patel could do it. No, totally.

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I guess it's Epstein Week. It's Epstein Week. It's never Infrastructure Week, but it's always Epstein Week. always Epstein week. Will they vote to release it? Yeah, I think it sounds, it feels like to the credit of the Republicans, it feels like momentum is voting for releasing it, right? Despite it being weirdly against party agenda to release it.

It feels like the House Republicans are actually like we should release this. Yeah. And there's several very prominent Republicans. particularly like Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, who are, who are very vocally, like, we must release the files. Right. But I mean, again, not, I don't, I think it's fair for me to say in general, the Republicans for the last eight years have been released the Epstein files, right? Like they've been at the forefront of releasing Epstein files. I think so. But then it's, I think there's divide within the party, right? because Republicans have spent the past, you know, 10 years cultivating the Q&N type person who legitimately believes, like, all of this and has thought there was a pedophile cabal in Washington from even before we knew about Epstein.

And then there's also the regular Republicans who only care about, like, power and getting their agenda put forward and, like, lowering taxes and regulations as much as possible. And I think that is sort of like the divide we're seeing. Yes, but but I feel like the party has always been the very vocally anti-pedophile party. Like, what a messaging L for the Dems that they didn't get to be the vocally anti-pedophile party. Exactly. It's just a weird thing where like everyone's anti-pedophile, but then Republicans are like, that's our number one agenda issue. Yeah, that's our brand. they kind of that's a brand and so it's weird to be against it now i guess but i mean i'm not i'm not saying anything revolutionary in terms of pointing out some weird hypocrisy i mean if you you know

if you want to be even handed about it like the funny thing about the democrats is that they they were they want about that they didn't focus this hard at epstein files until now it's you know like what where were they why why is this taken so long to release these files like They've been, you know, they've had them since for at least what, at least five years now. Like when Biden was in office, this was never a agenda priority. But anyway, if it's, if it is as bad for Trump as it seems like it would be, it's crazy that the Democrats wouldn't have released them. Sure. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. So here we are in 2025 and now it's again, top of the priority. So, but whatever, you know, I'm not complaining. Like, go for it. I hope they release it.

So, and so sorry, to answer your original question, it sounds like they have the numbers and the political will to release Epstein Fowles this week, vote to, right? I think. I hope so. I mean, we'll see. They seem to always, like, find a way to get out of doing it. So I wouldn't be surprised if it falls through somehow. Insane. Just how hard it is to agree on any issue in America.

Like, can we agree on releasing Epstein while? No, we got to fight. We got to fight. This is a, you know, it becomes a partisan. issue like what just release it there's no other non-partisan issues left yeah in congress well one very partisan issue that i feel like even a lot of republicans should be against is it seems like trump might be trying to drum up a war with venezuela oh yeah yeah so extrajudicial uh killings like a tom clancy novel shooting missiles shooting missiles at boats coming in from venezuela uh so again to be

handed okay uh i guess um no even then i can't even i can't even i can't even i'm trying to play devil's advocate here i don't even know how you justify extrajudicial killings i arrest them and then you know yeah go to court or something i don't know i don't know ronnie i think the fact that you can't justify extra judicial killings makes you a good person if you can't yes and the extra judicial i'm trying to yeah i'm just trying yes and the best um yeah so it's back i think you need you need congressional approval to declare war so technically it's not a war it's just a killing i don't know what i don't know anymore but now um so trump and pete higseth have talked about like going into venezuela and pete higseth vowed to

purge the americas of quote narco terrorists so wow it it seems like pete higseth is like as our secretary of war is quite hungry for war And even Maduro, who is the president of Venezuela, is like, he was like, it's going to be like Afghanistan for you guys all over again. And you're going to be here for 20 years, which is like a crazy thing for the leader of another country that you're talking about to say. Yeah, I don't get. Yeah, I'm trying to think of like the best argument you can make for this. As in to justify what they're doing, because the gut instinct is to, obviously, what they're doing is pretty insane.

If you're trying to stop drugs coming in America, I mean, first of all, the problem is also like, like, hey, how about Americans, you know, stop doing drugs, you know? How about, that's some of that, right? Like, but no, I guess the answer is no. Americans stop doing drugs? No. That's the answer. That's out of the question. That's out of the question.

It's easier to do a 20-year war in Venezuela. That is to get Americans to stop doing drugs. Yeah. So that, you know, also is, yeah, is there, what is the plan to go in and take over the country or to just kill drug cartels? It's not clear. Pete Hegset said the Western Hemisphere is America's neighborhood and we will protect it. Sorry, he tweeted that. And then he said the Southern Command Mission,

would defend, quote, our homeland and secure it from, quote, the drugs that are killing our people. And then this is from The Guardian. And then they say, it is unclear why Hegeseth made the announcement now. Right. I love when, like, serious news sources hear, like, what's going on in our government. And even they have to be like, we don't know what the hell this is. This doesn't make any sense. So I guess the argument in favor is what, like, these countries need help combating drug

cartels, you know, so I guess that's something, but to, to not work with the country to do it, it's pretty insane to just go in and, you know, unilaterally try to end the drug cartels. Like, you probably should try to partner with, right? Like, I don't know. I don't know what the, I don't know what the official policy thing is here, you know? Well, I think the official policy is if we go to war with Venezuela, everybody will stop talking about Epstein. Sure, that too.

And also, you don't know, you don't do, you don't do extrajudicial killings because you don't know who you're killing. I mean, that's just the, yeah, among other reasons. Yeah, like, you don't know who, many reasons not do it. One is, who are you killing? We don't know what, what is going on. Who are these people? What were they doing?

Is it, you know, that's why you kind of need a justice system. Yeah. But, um, yeah, I don't know. You caught me at a law of cynical. This one's too hard for me to. soft. Well, speaking of people putting other people in dangerous situations, Mr. Beast is opening Beast land in Saudi Arabia. Oh, really? Yeah. It's he's opening his own theme park, inspired by his stunts, but there's a catch. And I'm going to scroll through this article to find what

the catch is. We built custom games modeled after our videos that don't exist anywhere else, and we'll have the world's largest prize wall. Wow, it looks like a big, like, laser tag facility? So what? The idea is kids from all over the world can go to Saudi Arabia to play Mr. Beast. I guess.

I don't, I don't, yeah. It's, you're, Ronnie, you're pretty famous. Have you ever met Mr. Beast? No, I've never met Mr. Beast. You know, tats off to Mr. Beast. Yeah.

For all he's built. I now met him. I'm, you know, good luck with everything. One of the, One of the games is called Drop Zone, which positions six people atop trap doors. A button will light up in front of each player, and whoever presses it last will drop. Oh, okay.

It seems dangerous. Yeah, it seems dangerous. Seems like not something you want to do in Saudi Arabia. Yes. He says, I just wanted to mention that we take safety extremely seriously. Every challenge was tested by multiple stuntmen, and we have a full rescue team on stand by with firefighters, EMTs, and divers. What was an ambulance?

Wow. I was, I was, I actually thought it would be pretty safe until he said that. Yes, exactly. It's if, if I went to it in an amusement park and they were like, don't worry, we have a full rescue team, including divers on staff. I'd be like that I'm not going. Yeah. What's happening here?

Divers, firefighters and ambulance and EMTs is. Also, every challenge was tested by multiple stuntmen. Yeah. about just like regular people i'm not a stunt man am i going to have to be able to like dive through a plate glass window you can survive this if you know how to do a somersault in the air uh also like yeah i mean these rides seem to be going through multiple elements here there's like a fire element and then there's a water like why do you need firefighters and and emps and and divers why do you need firefighters and divers those are two opposite

opposite elements yeah so so they got the firefighters they got which is fire obviously they have the divers which is water uh they have uh let's see studman and rescue team i guess arguably is earth they don't have wind maybe they'll have like a a parachute squad yeah and then you and then you have heart and heart is i think what all of the attendees bring yeah i mean it's uh the same kind of it's the same kind of team you wish they had outside the embassies, you know? Just to save. Yeah.

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Oh, I read, I recently read the book 1776. Oh, shoot. What's his face? Mitchell? David, David, not David Mitchell. David McCullough. David McCullough. God, if David Mitchell of that Mitchell of Well, Evelace wrote a book about 1776. I would absolutely read it. Yeah. But you read the David McCullough book.

Yeah, 1776. It told me 10 years. I start and stopped it every, you know, every couple of years. And finally I went through the whole thing. By the time you finish, it was 1786. Yeah. And I tell you what, it took me until I was 40 years old to be able to appreciate it. Yeah. But it's a real page turner once you get into it. It's pretty crazy. The America, First of all, I finished the book and I thought, oh, this is going to cover the whole American Revolution. It literally covers one year, 1776. Wow.

The book ends at the end of the year. And that was a crazy-ass year for America. Did you probably not, because you didn't grow up here. Did you ever watch the movie 1776? No. It's a musical. The guy who played Mr. Feeney and Boy Meets World was in it. And it was very much, he was, I think he was John Adams, but it was very much the kind of movie that like when your teachers were like, I don't want to do anything today, they would just roll in and play as 1776. I don't know if that's based on the book or not. So you tell me if this is news to Americans, because this was news to me, how you feel about this. So in 1776, they, not everyone in America wanted to separate from England. It was very much majority wanted to separate, but not by, by,

means are overwhelming majority. So you have people, so most of this book takes place in New York City. And it's, it's kind of, there's people who are, who are with loyalists to the British, people who are rebelling. When the rebels in America said that they wanted to declare independence and separate from England, England sent everybody to invade New York. So within the, within a couple months, they sent ships into New York City. And apparently from Manhattan, you could see the New York Harbor just fill with British ships. And everyone was scared shitless because they sent the Amada to shut down this rebellion. And it was a bunch of part-time soldier farmers led by George Washington versus the superpower of its time, England. And they were fighting in New York and they were going

from New York to Brooklyn, back to New York, and they would go upstate, and the British had the best ships, so they're trying not to fight. The U.S. had no ships. They had no Navy, and the British had every ship. Yeah. And so it was just like, it was, it could not be more one-sided. And Washington was like running back and forth from New York to Brooklyn, and they managed to make some key victories, but they fought to a draw. They lost a lot of people. The U.S. soldiers had no shoes. It was like, it was just a mess. You don't want that, especially not in New York City. You kidding me? No, imagine tennis. My takeaway from the book was this idea that like, you know, what, what is that? 250 years ago in New York City, the people, the concerns of the

people in America are totally different to what the concerns are right now. Yeah. And so whatever moment we live in that we think is the most important thing that's happening and this is crazy and you know in 50 100 years it's going to be something else completely you know that's my takeaway from it well ronnie i'm going to put you in touch with my dad and then you guys can talk about this book oh he's a u.s historian oh yeah big time oh yeah i love to talk about it to some time um okay i'll do my show and tell i'll keep it quick you so you brought up David mitchell on accident but i'll bring him up on purpose because he's in a he's in a he's in a show called Ludwig, which is like a detective show. It's a mystery show. And he plays a guy

who makes puzzles. And his twin brother is a detective who goes missing. And so he has to take his place and pretend to be his own twin brother to solve his own disappearance. And it's on, I watch it on Brit Box, but I think it's also on Amazon Prime and maybe like the Roku channel. And it's really good. He's really funny in it. If you've ever, you know that sketch that's like, Hans, are we the baddies? That's David Mitchell. But he does a really good, like, dramatic performance in this one. So if anybody out there is listening. One of the all-time greatest satirous, David Mitchell.

Yeah, he's amazing. He's also, I watch What I Lie to You a lot, and he's on that show, and he's so funny. It's unbelievable. Okay, everybody, that is everything that happened in the world so far. So to see what happens next, catch Ronnie hosting the Daily Show this week. I've been Nicole Conlin. Thank you for listening to the precap. Thank you, Ronnie.

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