The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Claims Iran War Is Won, But Hegseth’s New Recruitment Standards Say Otherwise | The Kid Mero

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

Josh Johnson covers updates on the situation in Iran: Al Roker forecasts “haboobs” developing in the Middle East, Tehran defiantly refuses a ceasefire agreement, and Trump declares the war over and “won” while Pete Hegseth’s loosened enlistment requirements say otherwise. Desi Lydic highlights the politicians striking out on social media in both short-form and long-form as they try to garner Gen Z's attention ahead of the midterms. From short cringey TikToks to long cringey podcasts, Desi is begging politicians to connect with young people by talking like actual human beings. Comedian, writer, and host of "Mornings with Mero," The Kid Mero, joins Josh to discuss making radio sound like New York again. They talk about evolving from a lifelong listener of HOT 97 to their newest host, connecting to listeners who call with open confessions, advocating for unhoused youth with Covenant House, and Mero shows Josh how to tie his Timberlands the New York way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for new. This is The Daily Show with your host, Josh Johnson. I'm Josh Johnson. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Politicians somehow make podcasts even worse. Pete Hexseth has a thing for older men, and Trump declares victory prematurely, so now Iran's got to pretend to finish two. So let's get into the latest updates on the war in Iran.

Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. The war in Iran is everywhere. It comes up in financial news because of its effect on oil. It comes up in celebrity news, like when Chappellon's bodyguard made the Aitola cry because he looked at her. And now, the war is a lot of the war. is even creeping its way into the weather. Our eyes right now, weather-wise, are in the Middle East because they have an unusual system that's developing, going to be bringing heavy rain, possible tornadoes.

They could be looking at some haboobs developing there. Excuse me, Al, what did you just say? Haboobs? Habobs are developing? Be a professional, all right? Call them by their scientific name, hebrestices. Am I the only one who does?

doesn't know what he's talking about. And that's your latest weather. To be clear, I just learned something new. What exactly is a haboob? Thank you, Craig Melvin. Very brave to admit on live TV that you've never seen a haboob, let alone felt one.

I'm right there with you, brother. All right, so what is it? It is a massive dust storm. If you remember, Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise, running running after that storm, ahead of that storm, that's a haboob. See, now I get what you're talking about. I would understand the news a lot more

if they told me what Tom Cruise movie it pertains to it. I need them on the news like, what America is doing here is like an impossible mission, like Tom Cruise in the movie Magnolia. So now we all understand. Haboob means sandstorm, so you can keep your minds out of the gutter. And just so you know, after the Haboob, there will be a bucocchi of rain coming in there.

These are all weather terms. But okay, aside from this dust storm developing into a voluptuous woman, how's the war going? President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday said he's already won the war. Well, I think we're going to end it. I can't tell you for sure. You know, I don't like to say this. We've won this. This war has been won. You don't like to say you won a war? Isn't that why you fight a war? Be proud of yourself, Mr. President.

You ended another war. And this is the one that you started. It's like double points, you know? But you heard the man, we won this war. I bet Iran's begging for a ceasefire right now. Breaking news, Iran's state-backed media now says Tehran will not accept a ceasefire. Iranian officials quote is that Iran will end the war when it decides to do so, when its own conditions are met.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't end the war. We ended the war. All right? You're trying to start another war? Because I'll fight you, and then I'll stop fighting you when I feel like it, because the war is over. You heard the president we won.

We're bringing the troops home. More than a thousand additional troops from the 82nd Airborne Division are heading to the Middle East. They'll be joining thousands more, Marines, sailors, and other American troops already on their way. Oh, shit. We're sending more troops. That doesn't sound like the war is over. This is very confusing. Should I or shouldn't I go to Times Square my sailor outfit to kiss random women?

Mr. President, I thought we won. We've won. Let me say we've won. Of course we won. Those troops are obviously going there to help set up for the victory party, you know? You ever try to set up a bouncy castle with just a thousand troops? Now, that's an impossible mission, like Tom Cruise and Jerry McGuire. And besides, 1,000 troops isn't even that many.

actually the lowest thousands of troops you can't have. If this war was really ramping up, the Army would need a lot more people than that, you know? They'd probably be trying to get new recruits. The U.S. Army making some changes to try and draw more recruits. The Army just increased the maximum enlistment age to 42. That's up from 35. Oh, shit. We're letting 42-year-old sign up for the military now.

They're going to have to change. the name from Operation Epic Fury to Operation Why is My Back Hurt? I must have slept on it funny. Because the likelihood of a 42-year-old being great at war is like any person being great

with nunchucks. Some people will be good, but most are going to hurt themselves immediately. Bruce Lee? Incredible. My uncle? Concussion. Are we sure we won? It's not even a little close?

It's not a close battle. They're totally defeated. I don't know what it is about you saying it a third time, but I believe you, all right? We've got to be winning this war. You wouldn't lie nonstop. You're the president. Look, according to People Magazine and apparently the U.S. military, 42 is the new 35, right? And that's probably all the soldiers we're going to need anyway.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced an extension to bring back service members who refused the COVID-19. vaccine. We're extending this to make sure anybody that wants to take advantage of it has additional time to take advantage of it. Maybe you were waiting to see whether we meant it or not. We do. Oh shit. That doesn't sound

good. When the Secretary of Defense is telling you, I know you didn't want to take the COVID shot, but what about getting gunshot? So you gave people a deadline to reenlist and they didn't take it and now you're still extending the deadline to get them back.

You were not the one with power. I've been through this entire thing before. My ex left me, and I told her she'd be back in a week. And sure enough, a year later, I got a wedding invitation. So just to recap, the military is now trying to recruit middle-aged people and anti-vaxxers who don't even want to come back. As long as they're not trying to bring in anybody else, maybe we're winning this war. The Army also changing some regulations that let people enlist without a waiver if they have a single conviction for possession of marijuana or drug paraphernalia. Okay, this is bad.

This is bad. We've been at war a month and you're already down to stoners. This is like that Harold and Kumar movie, Mission Impossible Four, Ghost Protocol. We must be desperate because I've never seen a pothead take a puff and then be like, I want to fuck somebody up. I wouldn't even trust a stoner with any mission unless that mission is you need to locate the Iatola and tell him the greatest movie ever is interstellar. I'm starting to think the war isn't won, and if we're still fighting, the Army's recruitment videos are going to get a lot more desperate. Great news, America, the president says we won the war. And now, for completely unrelated reasons, the U.S. military is lowering its standards because we need a f*** a ton of troops.

18, we'll take you. Under 16, you're in. 13 and Jewish, you're a man now. Mazel tov. Your grandpa will be so proud, and he'll be right with you because we're taking the olds now, too. Drug conviction? No problem. Just gave birth? We'll take you both. Two lazy eyes? You can be a pilot. Why not? Uncle Sam needs literally anyone. Disney adults, carnies, trekkeys, Canadians, those grown men who are into my little pony. We'll take you, no questions asked. Even the So we have tons of questions. We'll even take stoners. Whoa. How can it be middle and east?

So head to your local recruitment center. In fact, screw it. Just go straight to that base in Qatar. And be all you can be. Or fuck it, just be. We'll take it. This time of year, the school calendar really starts to fill up. Spring activities, testing season, and that final push toward the end of the year.

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Yes, sir. And we got here, Tater, his boy was with us. You got turkey. Did their boy green bean casserole have a scheduling conflict? I have so many questions. What is going on here? Okay, why is the guy in the suit in the lawn chair? And Tater and Turkey are in the high back leather chairs.

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Number two, talk like a real human being. You can do that. Now is the time. for my Kentucky accent, where I talk about things that are going on that just aren't right or in my accent, that just ain't right. New people thought Kentucky didn't have robot technology.

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Yeah, you are an absolute, like, powerhouse institution of talking in my ear. My kids say that too, man. Really? Yeah. Everybody. My mother, my spouse, everybody is like, you talk too much. Oh, I wasn't thinking that. I'm more just being like...

You enjoy it? Yeah, I love it. My man. I love it. Thank you. I need to hear that sometimes. Yeah, 100%. No.

I'm a huge fan of it. Sometimes I'll even hope that when I say the thing in my head, it sounds like you. Like when I'm feeling extra confident, I sound like you. Yeah. In my head. Yeah, what up? Yeah, I'm Josh. What's good?

I'm saying? That's perfect. That's it. From New York. So I'm wondering, with Hot 97, with you taking over this show, there are a lot of people that are saying that it feels like New York radio again, you know? Yeah. But what do you think it is that you're bringing that makes it, like, feel re-New Yorkified?

You know what it is? I think growing up, listening to it as a kid, you know, growing up in the Bronx, listening to Hot 97 every day, you know, I'm an elder millennial. You know what I mean? This is, you know, it's just. Yeah. That didn't, you didn't have an iPod. You had an MP3 player.

You know what I'm saying? And, you know, since I didn't have MP3 player money, you know, we were listening to the radio, which was a cultural, you know, touchstone. And going from being a kid listening to it in the back of a car, doing things as a teenager that my mom would not approve of, that's why we're not saying it on the air. To then being the guy on the mic is crazy.

Yeah. It's like, watch a Superman save somebody in then being like, yo, Superman's like, yeah, yo, this cake. Yeah, yeah. You're the guy now. So now, knowing what you know, do you get on the rail sometimes like, stop doing that in the back seat? I'll leave you little hidden messages, man.

I'm like, yo, stop, stop that, stop doing that. Don't talk to your mother like that. So now in this era that is so podcast heavy, what is it that you think radio provides for the listener that podcast doesn't? I think podcast is just like, it's very vibey. You know what I mean? It's just like a vibe fest.

It's just like if I just went up there and sat next to one of y'all and was just like, hey, what's up, man? How you doing? What'd you have for lunch, man? You know what I mean? Let's talk about it. And it's just, there's kind of like

no real structure, unless it's Victory Life, baby. We have madden structure over there. Okay. But, you know, it's kind of like this where it's like, you know, you have a meeting, there's production that goes into it.

There's structured. You know, I thought it was going to be four hours of me up there being like, yo, traffic on the FDR's bad. Yo, here's... Yo, here's some new French Montana. I'm a kid Merrill. And it's not like that at all.

Actually, podcasting is probably a little bit more exhausting because they're just going straight through. Whereas radio, you know, you got a couple breaks here. You know, an insane caller that you got to dump, you know. You know, local law commercials, you know, things like that. Top dog law! Yeah. It's like, great of my brain.

That he's crazy. Top dog. Now, do you, when you're doing the show, are there calls that we haven't heard because they're so insane. Oh, bro. Can you tell us about one of them? I had a lady call in and say,

she said, Merrill, I love the show, man. I love the energy that you bring in. My name is Casey. I'm from Brooklyn. But if I hear that motherfucker, Kendrick song one more time, I swear to God, I'm going to do something crazy. I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What do you mean by that?

Like, you know, when you say something crazy, what does that mean? Are you gonna mix mayonnaise and ketchup or are you gonna murder somebody like this you know But yeah no there's been a lot of like and then also just people that like the earlier it is the weirder it is Because like the 6 a.m. callers are not like the 9 a.m. callers. No, that makes sense. That makes sense because for them it I think there's a reasonable amount of time that a person will stay awake and there's a reasonable amount of time a person will wake up and I feel like the people who wake up super early

It's for three reasons. They either have to. They're on that made-up billionaire schedule. There's no way billionaires are actually... Like, I just don't believe... You have all the money in the world and you get up early? No, that's not true.

That's not true. That is a lie. So it's either they have to for their shift at their job, they're billionaire, or they might be psychopaths. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

It's usually the latter. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? If you're calling into hot 97 at 6 a.m. So when you... So when it's 602 and you see the call button... I'm like, y'all pick it up. Let's see who it is.

Hey, this is John from Brooklyn. I'm blind in one eye. The weather is terrible. Who you vote for in the midterms? I'm like, yo, my man, we're on the radio. Like, this is everybody who's hearing this. This is not just... We're not pen-powered.

Do you think it's because you, like, bring people in so well that they feel like they're just talking to you? even when they're on the radio? I think so, man. I think so. And I think, honestly, like, it comes from having strict parents and having to spin out of trouble,

you know, by being charismatic. Making people feel comfortable enough to tell you, you know, yeah, yeah, I smoked crack before I got here. And I'm like, wow, you did not, you didn't need to tell me that. That was between you and your provider. Yeah.

You know? It's a lot of you just taking sort of open confessions. Listen, I went to Catholic school. I was kicked out. But now I know what the other side of the confessional booth feels like. And they went to, like, seminary. You were just being yourself. I was just out here, yeah.

I went to the bodega. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so with Hot 97 being such an institution, when you come in, do you feel like there's a lot of new stuff that you want to do? Or do you feel the sort of responsibility to uphold what people are expecting? A little bit of both, you know, because there is, you know, people, like you said, like, oh, Mary, you made New York sound like, radio sound like New York again. And I'm like, thank you guys.

But there's also, you know, it's New York. Yeah. It's a very eclectic city. So, you know, you got rappers that are, you know, mainstream, and then you got some that are not. I was trying to just highlight New York as a city. You know what I mean? Have, you know, people, like designers, Shata Thadde de Harfa, like, just New York City kids. Because I'm a New York City kid.

So it feels good to me to kind of like uplift other people from the city and like kind of showcase something because there's a lot of talent out here. Yeah, absolutely. You can. You being a New York City kid, right? And me having made 10 years living in New York. That means you get free health insurance travel. Oh, that's good to know. Yeah, yeah.

I had a request for it. At Penn Station, though, at Penn Station. Oh, health insurance at Penn Station. Yeah, from a random guy who's going to... There's no health insurance at all. You're ensuring the opposite of your health. I have a special request. I'm 10 years in New York, and I've never owned Tim's before.

Never? Never. Yeah, never. Not even in this, in this, what would they call it? A bomb cyclone? Yeah, yeah. No, Tim's and a Bomb Cyclone? I bought some Tims, and I'm hoping that you can show me out of time in the New York way.

Yes, absolutely. 100%. Yes. Okay, boom. All right. So you see how you have all of these, I believe they're called islets. Okay.

You know what I mean? Yep, yeah. You would think I have to use all of these. You don't. You know, you just go across the first row like that. Okay, let's see. First row. All right.

You hold it up, make sure it's even, right? Okay. And then, you know, give me a number from one. through four one through four yeah three three right so let's go on the third islet it's gonna third one okay another one around okay all right and now so now we're just gonna follow that pattern we're gonna skip oh we're just gonna skip okay got you wow well if I had said four you know me then you know

then it you know because realistically you're not even supposed to tides you know what I mean you're not you're not you're not demo in a house You know what I mean? You're just standing in front of the building. So, you know, and the tongue has to be very elongated. You know what I'm saying? The less neat, it looks the better. Oh, really?

Okay. Yeah. Okay, one second. Because they're supposed to buy them tight. It's how you show that you're a wealthy person in New York City. Okay. I buy one of these every season. And then the tongue, is it true that the tongue's like...

Kind of like, you know. Okay. You know, you know, when you're like, when you're in the back of an Uber, you're real f*** up. And you're, like, are you breathing through your mouth? You're like, that's what you're, that's what the tongue should look like. Very relaxed. Got you.

So the... Because the Uber thing hasn't happened to me per se. Not yet. Yeah, yeah. Let me see. Okay, so really, really, like, lay back. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

And this always stays on. You would probably think that this comes off and does not. It's a badge of honor. Okay. You know what I mean? You could, you write free whoever you know that's in jail. Oh, right. Whoever, your girlfriend's name, you know, your dog.

If I write my girlfriend's name, will they think she's in jail? Bonus, bonus points. And I also, shout out to you because you got actual Tims, the double-sold Tims, okay? Oh, yeah. Yes. That is very important. You know, you don't want to have the boneless Tims out here, you know? Why are they called boneless?

Because they don't have the, this is the bone right here. Got you. You know what I mean? And then this is just breading. Oh. So if I. got the other ones, they'd be like nuggets. Yeah, they'd be a, it would be a McDonald's chicken nugget.

Okay. With no sauce. Oh, geez, so dry. No, yeah, very dry. Don't do the single soul teams, y'all. If you're here, if you came here to watch Josh do his thing and you're on vacation in New York City. And he said, no, Kim Marrow said, buy some Tim's.

Don't do the single bingles, okay? Get the double soul. Thank you so much. And so when I actually step into them, it's okay to just have the tongue out, let people see some, let people see some ankle, show it off a little bit. Yeah.

Roll your jeans up a little bit, you know? So this is about showing foot. Oh, yeah. Okay. It's very lucrative. Yeah. I didn't realize that. It's very lucrative.

No, there's a lot of money in showing off feet. Listen, I got five stars on Wiki feet, y'all. Thank you so much for this. This is, I got the knowledge now and everything. So you are a powerhouse advocate for Covenant House of New York and New Jersey. Can you tell people what Covenant House does? So Covenant House, shout to Pam Sandinato. Covenant House is a charity that works with unhoused youth.

So kids who are on the street, you know, have no place to go, essentially, you know, homeless, you know, really. I said unhoused because that's like the new cool way to say. homeless, but, you know, homeless seats, basically. And growing up, you know, having friends who were in shelters, who, and then being a teacher later on in life, you know, having students who would come in every day, and I'm like, damn, why are you so tired, bro? Like, why?

And it's like, oh, I didn't sleep last night. You know, I slept in a shelter, like, or I slept in a dangerous situation. Or I didn't sleep at all. So, you know, that kind of hits home to me. So them helping kids and teens kind of like get their feet under them, get housing, get education, get food, get the things they need to, like, you know,

become productive members of society. You know what I mean? It's amazing, you know. So I do whatever I came for them. Yeah, absolutely. Anytime, whatever they need, I got. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you so much for being here with me.

Thank you, Mr. Friday through Friday, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Hot 97. The kid mirror. We'll take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. This time of year, the school calendar really starts to fill up, spring activities, testing season, and that final push toward the end of the year. It's a great moment for kids to stay focused and build confidence in what they're learning. That's where IXL comes in.

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