The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap with Jordan Klepper

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

On this week's Daily Show Precap upcoming host Jordan Klepper sits down with writer Nicole Conlan to unpack the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and describe working on Thursday's special "Government Approved" response episode. They also look ahead to what might be in the news next week, including the UN General Debate, New York Climate Week, and what they're watching to get their heads out of the news. If you want to think critically about the news you consume, check out Ground News through our link: http://groundnews.com/ears You’ll get 40% off their Unlimited Access Vantage Plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello, and welcome to the pre-cap, which is a real word. We're going to make pre-cap happen. My name is Nicole Conlon, and I'm one of the writers at The Daily Show, and this is the podcast where we kind of look forward to next week's episode of the show. and we meet next week's host. We're going to look forward to the big stories. We're maybe going to talk about a little bit what's happening this week, which is crazy.

And the host that we're going to meet this week is the one and only Jordan Klepper. Yes. You know, looking forward, it's such an optimistic term. Yes. We are technically looking forward as to what could happen next week. We are looking forward, but are we looking forward to it. That's a more complicated question. Yes, it's hard to say.

So, Jordan, before we get into any of that, we've got to address the big thing for our audience, you got hacked. Yes, this is, yeah. That's the number one thing the audience is thinking about this week. That's what they care about the most is your Twitter account that you haven't posted on in six months

got hacked. It did get hacked this week. You know, it's the internet providing more misinformation for the internet, which is, again, if you've ever needed a reminder not to believe the things you read,

this provided yet another one. Yeah. It was a strange experience, though. Yeah, I got a bunch of text messages midweek that I had been hacked. when you get hacked what is fascinating it does put a litmus test on which friends of yours

what they expect of you and what voice they expect you to have online Jordan's always selling laptops So I did have the friends who are like Oh I can tell on Twitter you've been hacked Somebody's saying some horrendous things But then there's the other tier of friends Who are like hey man what's up on Twitter

Which seems like a kind thing to say And in most cases it was But against a bunch of other friends who are like, oh, I know for sure this is not you. Yeah. There were a handful of people who were like, oh, well, is this you? And to be clear, I'm not probably or usually the kind of person who tweets really revolting things about the news of the day. But that's what happened.

Yeah. Well, I'm glad that it wasn't you, and I'm glad you're going back to not posting on Twitter for six months at a time. Or maybe ever. Or ever. I probably never again. I mean, it does speak to, I mean, what actually happened was. somebody hacked it and they tried to say terrible things about the Charlie Kirk situation. And in doing that, I assume trying to get me canceled or some sort of punitive response,

which I think speaks to not only the bullshit of the internet and don't trust what you read on Twitter, but beyond that, like, the discourse has gotten to a place where, like, there are people out there who are like, oh, if we can manipulate somebody into having a bad take or a bad opinion, that's the kind of thing that can be with consequences and silenced or at least fired in some sort of way which seems like a bonkers assumption to be had

years ago perhaps maybe even months ago this week but this week makes it seem like a pretty good assumption yeah we move now that's now a tactic that is being used

on a platform that as far as I can recall the whole purpose of that platform was to be a champion of free speech yes I remember the term was free speech absolutist That was the term, wasn't it?

Yes. A free speech absolutist. So on the very flat platform that was meant to celebrate all opinions, it was an attempt to weaponize it to take those down. Yes. But that's a tiny encapsulation of the wild week in free speech that we've had. Yes. And speaking of free speech issues, let's talk about the enormous elephant in our office, which is the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah.

that's yeah it's it's Thursday right now yes so normally we would be we'd be prepping today's show which is happening right now and as host for next week started thinking about that but this this news broke last night and so we're all sort of here digesting that trying to craft a show of it try to craft a point of view around all of that um but pretty scary slash outrageous news to awaken to absolutely it's i saw it right before i went to bed which is the worst possible time to find out about news that might throw your own job into jeopardy. Sure. Yeah, what was your first feeling when you heard about it?

It's, I was like, well, I thought that maybe they had just, like, taken down the episode, the one episode in question, and it took me, like, a little while of scrolling through stories to be like, oh, no, wait, his show is off the air indefinitely. And I have a couple friends who write there, so I texted them, and they were like, we're finding out all of this at the same time as you are. they're obviously not pumped about it so bizarre that it happened so suddenly

and everything is still up in the air and it's coming off the heels of the Colbert cancellation which at least had the fig leaf of it being for business reasons whereas this one seems to be much more explicitly for political reasons it's pretty darn clear

even I think the response Trump has had since then has been like great one down Seth and Jimmy next. So it's, you know, he's showing his hand right there. It's, it's not about anything that was said. I think you've got to squint pretty hard to see what line was crossed other than being somebody who's outspoken and not standing up for the, the narrative that the Trump administration wants, and then you have the FCC, flagging people down about how the administration feels about

this and business leaders lacking any kind of spine and cowtowing. I think it's, it's shocking, it's incredibly frustrating. It's scary to me how spineless so many people are at the higher levels, the CEOs. Totally. We expect the sort of attitude from the administration, but you have an entire political party who is based so much of their identity on being free speech absolutists, being anti-cancel culture. At the very least, you'd hope the parts of the Constitution that uphold the ability to have

whatever opinion you want, those things should be protected in many different ways. And to see this happen, not completely surprising. But I think the swiftness of it has caught a lot of people off guard. I spent some time in Hungary. We did a special in Hungary. I think we've gone from zero to Budapest faster than a lot of people expected. Yeah. That means we're going to get some great baths, though.

Budapest, beautiful public baths. Wonderful baths. Yeah. Let me tell you. And like heavy stews, I think. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, so get ready. So, yeah, we are going to have, okay, speech is going to be limited.

There's going to be state-run media. That's just around the corner. You know, rights are going to be restricted. but baths better stews thicker yes and that seems like a fair trade to me I do like a thick stew yeah one thing that's been frustrating about this whole thing to me is that both with the Colbert thing and with this new Kimmel thing is like I as a regular consumer of media or like me trying to explain like what's going on to my parents or my friends who are not in television or anything at all is like so much of this is motivated by like mergers and businesses and then I

have to explain like now it's like okay I got to know who the parent company of the local affiliate station in Florida is and it's it it isn't it I think on Trump's level it is very much about like I don't like what I don't like him I don't like what he said but then like explaining it from the business interest side is like it's it's stupid in a different way that is much harder to like articulate to people who aren't like okay so the way that ABC works is ABC is this the network but then there's the affiliates and it's I think you've got to cut to the chase. You can be like, here's the deal.

The world is made up of billionaires who are assholes and only care about themselves. They pretend to have a morality that they speak with and they use their platforms for a certain truth. But in the end, they're soulless capitalists who only care about a bottom line. And in the moments where they could stand up for themselves and be a voice for good and reason, they instead retreat, become nameless, faceless beings who only care about their bottom line and will allow a country to disintegrate and democracy to evaporate, because they want to buy another beach house. I'm going to have our editors clip that,

and then I'm just going to send that out to anybody. Send out to anybody who's like, what's going out with the mergers? It's like, oh, billionaires want more money, and they don't give a fuck about what people have to say or are democracy being strong anymore. They just want more money. Yeah. So they haven't officially canceled Kimmel.

He's on indefinite hiatus, and now it seems like if he is ever to get back on air, Sinclair just released a thing that was like, he needs to issue a formal apology and donate to turning Point USA. And I feel for Kimmel in this situation because he's in the horrible position, and I don't think he would ever go for that. But he now has to decide between like standing up for what he believes in and protecting the jobs of 250 people who work at his show. And that is just an impossible situation to be in. Yeah. You know, I have such respect for all of these

folks who are in this late night sphere. I think they, during the strikes, so many hosts took care of their staves in this time where we are seeing faceless, spineless people who are being threatened and punished by an administration, like continuing to back away. I think people like Kimmel, like Stephen, like so many people are standing up to an administration saying the things that they believe in, taking care of their staves, and are consistently put in these positions. I have no doubt that Jimmy will handle this with an amount of grace and fire, as is his right. It makes me very proud of the people that we call colleagues in this industry, but really frustrated with the positions they get put in.

Yeah. Well, that's it for the comedy podcast for the television. Anyway, yeah. So I have to do that stupid-ass job next week, and hopefully we don't get attacked by the FBI. Oh, God. I guess we'll see. What is this? I just want to do bits again.

Nicole, do you remember when, oh, we just were doing bits? Bits. Bits were so fun. Bits were so fun. We went to Chicago last year and we did a whole video about the bean. That's right. I hung out with Governor Pritzker and I just drank Malort for an afternoon. Yeah, never again. Never, never again.

Never again. They have literally sent the National Guard into Chicago since we've been there. That was last summer, Nicole. Yeah, it was less than a year ago. Oh, my God. Oh, boy. But looking forward to next week, forward to next week. Yes, let's look ahead.

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where we're just doing pure North Korean state-run media but in America. Yeah. It's obviously the script's not done or anything yet, but I think it's going to be really fun. It has certainly been like

a incredible show to be a part of. Yeah. I mean, I love the pure satire of it all. It does feel like a fun way to attack this. I will say even just getting the call

this morning that it's an all-hands-on-deck type show where everybody's coming in, the other hosts are coming, in correspondence. John's coming in. John is coming in. One of the things I love about working on this show is in the chaos of these days. When you feel scared and upset and frustrated at the news and you're staring alone at your phone or at your TV,

like to be able to go into to work and do something with that. Yeah. I would much rather be here today than not here. A hundred percent. So I'm excited to craft that. I think like it is so fun. It's I think like a classic way of looking at something. And quite frankly, something like a show only like The Daily Show can kind of do.

This truly is a new satire. It can use that parody and the tools of satire to kind of speak to some of these things and hopefully find some bits in this dark, strange time. It's also an opportunity as a writer. I get to write like new kinds of jokes that are not the typical kinds of jokes that we do on the show. And so it's a, I don't know, it's the one silver lining of this horrible situation is like, well, at least we get to do like new creative stuff with it. So I'm excited to see how it turns out.

I'm excited to see if we have shows next week. Now, as someone who had a separate show for a year, which was completely satirical, taking on the point of view of a far-right... Kind of like you're going back to the opposition a little bit. What's scary is that show is no longer on television anymore. So this might be a terrible tactical move by The Daily Show. I wish they would have consulted me first, but going full satire, you know, careful guys. you know, there's an appetite for it, sure, but maybe not the appetite that you were once

promised for it, but who knows? Good, good luck, everybody. Yeah, well, at least I think our merger's already finalized, right? Is the eight dry? I hope so. Fingers crossed. I guess we'll see. It is so fun, though, writing from that perspective, right? Yeah. In some ways, I remember working on the opposition, like, in some ways it was so freeing because you could go, you could go to, everything was at 120%. You could go, you could go big, you could go wild, you saw something that made you angry and you were adopting that and taking it to the crazy point, which often became difficult in this era to heighten something that already felt so heightened, but at the same time, you could get silly in a way that felt playful and fun. And then at the same time, you're also

trying to make a point by making the opposite point. So there's a little two-step that could sometimes get complicated, but opened up new avenues for comedy and playfulness. So I think that's something that I think will be a gift to the show to be able to write in a voice like that. Totally. When a wonderful senior writer, Lauren Sarvermeans, was walking us through the show today, she was like, the first act is going to be fun. It's we're not approaching it from a like, how dare you, sir, perspective. It's like we're going to, I mean, it's horrifying, but we're going to try to have as much fun with this kind of show as possible. Yeah. And I think it's also, we haven't seen the set or anything, but I've heard they're like going to redo the set and they're

going to make it like all gold and stuff. And so I think it also like speaks to the technical prowess of our crew to like be able to completely turn that around in three, four hours before the audience comes in. It is, it is amazing. I'm always shocked at what the show can do that quickly. Yeah, in one day. And I think like it speaks to like this moment. We've, we've had to get better at responding to news that breaks constantly, but that you can show up in the morning and decide something completely different than everybody is in there. Like, are we're going to make this? These are the points we want to make. This is the world we want to create.

We have a couple hours. Let's make that thing happen. Yeah. And then I go home and I stare at the pile of laundry that I haven't done for two months. And it's like, how can we do all this in one day? And it takes me this long to get through my little chores at home. It's a lot hard. I think you need a, you need a staff of 150 people to make that happen.

I think so. Well, tell you what, if the show's canceled, we can all come to my apartment and finally do my laundry. You know what? I think that's the silver lining, right? We're going to live in a land with plenty of thick, hearty stews and a roving band of 150 people doing laundry from house to house. Yes, perfect. Let's talk a little bit about what next week looks like,

assuming that we're still on the air next week. Fingers crossed. What are some things you want to talk about? Well, we talked about there's a lot happening at the UN next week, which means traffic is going to be bad. So I'm sure I'm just going to be upset about traffic for most of the... It'll mostly be a traffic report. Yeah, I think if you're watching this, you're like,

I think they're talking about important climate change issues, but all this show does is bitch about how difficult it was to get to work today. So I'm imagining there's a lot of anti-traffic bits all week. Yes, that'll be fun to be had. One of the Ben and Jerry's founders has departed from Ben and Jerry's. It's sort of like when, I mean, you can't have Holland Oates without oats. Can't have Ben and Jerry without Jerry? Was it Jerry who quit?

I think it was Jerry. Yeah. It was interesting thinking about next week. We've learned at the show that you can't pre-plan to, far ahead because the world shifts. Yes. I'm sure we're going to be covering whatever the fallout of the decision around Jimmy Kimmel is. I think there's a big conversation about free speech in America right now.

Trump is over in England right now touting our free speech wears. It seems like it's ripe for irony. Yeah. So I wouldn't be surprised if that carries over into the weekend. And so we're always going to keep our eyes on that. I think the UN week will be fascinating. It's always compelling when all eyes are on the UN, or at least the people who follow those kinds of things. So a few eyes are on the UN.

I didn't realize that they have the, so it's the UN general debate, and I didn't realize that they have themes for the debates. And this year's theme is Better Together, 80 years and more for peace development and human rights. See, now, better together sounds like a slogan. The Kamala campaign came up with. I know. I know. Next year's theme, Under the Sea. You know what? one. I think that's a good one for the climate change week. Yeah, yeah, there you go.

Yeah, under the sea, perfect. Yeah, 2080, under the sea. Yeah, but I don't know what better together, 80 years and more for peace development and human rights it's going to be. Well, I think it's optimistic. Yeah. I like the idea. If we could work as a globe

to become better, great, lovely idea. I'd like to hear that's communicated. I think whenever it is UN week, you know, it sort of puts the U.S. up against what other countries are doing. We don't tend to stand up as well as I think we could perhaps

stand up. And this year especially, I think maybe not. Boy, but you know what, I think we'll probably cover Donald Trump realizing that he's a member of the global community and that we are better together and kind of coming to his wits and therefore articulating off the cuff at a very

robust and articulate way like the ways in which we can bind ourselves together as a human community and move past our differences become a better world because that's what a leader does. And so I can only assume that's the type of thing we would be covering next week. He's going to say the words that will heal the nation. I think so, yes. I think so. Unless he wants to like attack Rosie O'Donnell again. In which case, perhaps that will take up all of the energy. Well, I can't see that happening. No. Next week is also

Climate Week in New York City. Wow, UN Week and Climate Week. You're a climate fan, right? I love the climate. Big into climate. Big into climate. And I'm actually doing two two events at Climate Week. I'm doing one at the Solutions House on Tuesday night. That's like a panel of late night writers to talk about how we talk about climate change. And I'm also doing on Wednesday night at Caviot, the Climate Town Live Town Hall with my podcast co-host and host of the show Climate Town, Raleigh Williams. And I would love to see people at one or both. Do you still have faith that we can turn this thing around? I think we do. Yeah. I'm I am less confident. Look, this is a whole other podcast, but I'm less confident that the United States is going to

do anything and more confident that the entire rest of the world is just absolutely laughing us on climate action. So it's, I'm putting my faith in that. See, you know, that's when suddenly we become jealous of what other people do. I think that's, that's America at its best. We feel like, oh, are we being embarrassed by other people? The French are doing something better? I guess we better get our shit together. We're not so good at being leaders, but we are good at being jealous and therefore using our jealousy to get better. Maybe that's a path forward. I do feel like in my career, spite has been my strongest most. If I see somebody who I'm like, that fucking gang at this job is not funny at all, then I work 10 times harder.

So if we could do that but for climate change, I think we'll be in a really good position. Now I'm sensing some optimism. I like this take. Yeah, optimism through pessimism. Now, if there's one thing that we have seen the past week, it's that our incredibly competent FBI leaders are right on the pulse of the crime happening in America and they know exactly how to handle it. And I feel like so much has been assassination news that we missed another example of the FBI doing a really good job, which is that in Montana, yeah, in Montana, they found a bunch of methamphetamine, and I believe they found it at a local animal shelter, and they were like, great, meth is bad, we must destroy this. Let's set it all on fire. And so they just set it on fire inside of this animal shelter, and they had to evacuate all of the FBI. personnel, all of the staff of the animal shelter, and all of the animals, because they were all exposed. Now, we're sure this is FBI? This is not a Christie Gnome project? I mean, it might be.

It feels like taking out an entire animal shelter is spot on right there. I just don't know that she's, well, maybe she was smoking them out to give her a clearer line of sight. That's, oh, you think she likes the sport of it. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, perhaps that you're right. I think that's part of it. I think that's part of it. Smoke them out with a bunch of fentanyl fires. No, no, no, no, it's methamphetamine. Because here's the thing. Famously, if the FBI is in contact with a, grain of fentanyl, they immediately overdose and die. That's the thing that they have

promoted happening to them. And so I guess they decided it was much safer to be exposed to methamphetamine gas in an enclosed space. God bless. At least we have the best people. They have the best people on this. So I'm glad they're smoking something out. Yes.

Where's the ATF at all of this? I don't know. This feels like this is classic ATF. Yeah. Like I get lost in the acronyms at times, but it feels like this is an ATF joint. Yeah. Is the ATF part of the FBI? I have no idea. Oh, boy, I got to Google that. And then there's also the DEA. Oh, yeah. The DEA should be in there too.

Yeah, eventually we'll get the whole alphabet. Get everybody there around this animal shelter and keep the flames away, for God's sakes. Yeah. It's smoking meth is the main way of doing it. Yeah. Which you'd think they would have realized before they set it on fire. It's the main thing.

It sounds more like a party that it does sort of a crackdown. Yeah. I mean, maybe maybe they just hotbox the animal shelter and they were like, oh, we burned it because we hated it because we didn't want to do it. We're so good at their jobs. That's why. We're soaking in their jobs. Yeah, so that is one funny but also horrifying story that happened this week.

Isn't that sort of all of them now? Yeah. It's no longer like, we found a water skiing squirrel. It's like the water skiing squirrel was exposed to methamphetamines by our corrupt FBI. It's like, all right. Great. So much for human interest stories. And one final note from our producer.

who's just informed me that actually the FBI found the meth somewhere else and they brought it to the animal shelter to use their crematorium at the animal shelter, which I guess is the easiest way to destroy the meth. Boy, I want to unpack that. Okay, that's, I mean, I guess if you need a crematorium to burn meth in, which it does seem like there has to be a better way. There must be. We got a whole, I know you love the oceans.

I know you love climate. But we've got a big plastic island out there. You can't throw a little meth in that island. Yeah, throw some other than the plastic island. Let's throw it there. It's probably fine. But it's, I guess, better to go to an animal shelter crematorium than, like, a human crematorium? I don't know.

I don't know why the animal shelter crem-maybe. Maybe it was closer. Is Miss Manners still a thing? Is she answering questions? This is a query for her. Where do we burn mass quantities of meth? Yeah. Well, hopefully we'll cover that next week.

Yeah, okay. We'll look into it. Okay. Now we're going to do a segment called The Daily Show Show. and tell, which is just where we talk about something that is not political that we've watched or read or listened to or argued about or just been on our mind, sort of a pallet cleanser from what has been sort of a frightful week. Yes, it has.

Yes. Have you been watching or reading or anything non-political that you'd like to talk about? You know what? We were back and forth in Los Angeles for the Emmys recently, so I've watched a lot of movies on the plane, and I watched The Ballad of Wallace Island. Do you know this? I have seen the posters. I haven't seen it.

It is wonderful. Really? Tim Key is so funny. I love Tim Krois is in it? No, it's, it's... Cut that out. Edit that part out. There's no Ryan Gosley.

Well, you're pro or con. He's not in this. Don't expect Gosling. Kerry Mulligan is in it. Okay, maybe that's who I was thinking. Yeah, I'm sure. That's just, yeah. The most classic.

I get them mixed up all the time. Everybody gets Gosley to Mulligan confused. This is, it's a lovely small British film starring Tim Key, who is in a bunch of the Alan Partridge. Steve Coogan Projects is so. funny and it's it's essentially about like a rock star who comes to play a private show for one guy okay and and then also he brings his his former collaborator and wife to the island as well and it's lovely and charming and funny and when I get so cynical about the world I put that out I was like oh my god this has all of the

beautiful lovely things that British comedians can do and it made me it made me it made me I mean I was on a plane so crying on a plane happens almost all the time well you were on a Spirit Airlines flight most of that was because yeah we were going I was there was certain death on on every shake yeah

but two big thumbs up are the ballot of Wallace Island ballot of Wallace Island okay I'll watch it what about you my thing is there's a there's a guy on Instagram named Evan Mulrooney I think his Instagram handle is like Mulrooney first of his name or something and he is

he's a comedian and he's a just a big, strong, buff guy. He's like, what, are you familiar with the character of Puddy from Seinfeld? Of course. He's like, I think if Puddy, you yes, and did everything he did. Or like, also Patrick Warburton character like Kronk from the Emperor's New Groove, but if he were like a big gay idiot on Instagram.

He's so funny. It's my friend, Andrew Farmer, showed his page to me and was like, it's always interesting when you discover a gay guy in a new font. and that's what he feels like he's so funny I think his content's really really good Oh I will check What's the day

What is it what is the handle? The handle I think is Mulrooney first of his name But we'll have producer Alan Double check Look up Evan Mulrooney And his handle is Roon Dog first of his name

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Robert Redford passed away. Do you have a favorite Robert Redford film? You know, my, I don't know if it's my favorite, but the one that I think about the most is later in his career, I want to say I saw it in like 2015, somewhere around that era. He did a film called All Is Lost. which is the screenplay for it is like 45 pages or something

because it's it's just him in the movie on a boat and the boat capsizes it gets hit by a Maersk shipping container that has fallen and then the movie is just about him surviving the horrors of the ocean and there's almost no dialogue in that film I think not I think he might say ah shit or something at one point but there's no dialogue it's just him and one of the things that I think is so interesting about it is you get almost no backstory on this guy at all. You can kind of pick up

little pieces from like set decoration, but he's clearly a guy who has been at sea in a sailboat for a while, and he just has to survive, and that's all you need to know. It's like, yeah, he's in the ocean and he's trying to drown. That's it. And it's really good, and it's like masterfully acted by him. It's

great, and I don't, I mean, he has such a incredible uvra that it's impossible to pick one, but that is the one that I saw most recently that I was like, wow, this is amazing. That guy, that guy, he's a movie star. It was funny. You get to ask the question. I'm sure you get asked a lot when you're in this industry and in this world of like, what do you do to rinse off? How do you step outside

some of the chaos of politics? And I found over this last year, I've gone back to some Paul Newman and Robert Redford films. There's just like a comfort. It's just a love. I love butch casting the Sundance Kid is one of my old time favorite movies. It just has kind of everything in it. It's so funny. It's so sweet. The chemistry is great. Musical sequences. Tragic. It's smart. It's so charming. They're the two hottest men who've ever lived. I love, let me say, two hot men talking for a while. I could, you know, and the sting, I could watch those, I could watch those two guys. The sting is amazing. That might be my favorite.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that is so utterly watchable, so fun. It is true. Like, I'm like, oh, as I get older, I get more cynical about, like, the trappings of Hollywood or the cliches you fall into, but there's still something about, like, that classic movie star energy where you just watch some people up there on screen who are just so captivating. Yeah. It does take you out of things. I feel like Redford was definitely one of those, especially those Newman movies. They're lovely.

Redford also, in addition to being the handsomest man who ever lived and a prodigious actor was a big climate guy. He was a big climate activist. And part of that is because when he was younger, before he was. He became a movie star. He worked in oil fields, and he was like, oh, this is awful. Like, it's awful for the people who work here, and it's awful for the planet. And so this climate week, I'm dedicating to Robert Redford.

I love it. Thank you. Nobody put me in charge of Climate Week, but I'm going to do it. It is dedicated. Be better. Be best. Is that this week in climate? Yeah, be best.

Be best. Thank you, Robert Redford. Okay. I think that's it. That is this week pre-capped. Next week, pre-capped, I guess. Either way, I would like to thank our. host for next week, Jordan Klepper. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your

actual authentic, non-hacked thoughts with this audience. As far as I know, we haven't been hacked in this room. I don't think, yeah, something felt weird halfway through, but I think I stand by all these words. Okay, great, wonderful. And if you would like to watch Jordan Klepper host the show next week, if we're still on the air, you can catch us on Comedy Central or Paramount Plus. Great. Thanks, Nicole. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus.

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