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Kat Radley

You're listening to Comedy Central.

Desi Lydic

Can you believe 30 years of lying about being a daily show when in fact we only shoot four episodes a week? We've been lying this whole time. Can you believe we've gotten away with this?

Kat Radley

We're being exposed as big fat liars.

Desi Lydic

It's about time.

Kat Radley

Hello, and welcome to the Pre Cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to recap some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next. I'm Kat Radley, a writer at the show, and I'm joined today by your host this week, the brilliant, the lovely, the funny and talented Desi Lydic.

Desi Lydic

Stop it. Get out of here with your compliments. You're brilliant and funny and talented.

Kat Radley

Oh, my God, really? Thank you.

Supporting Voice

Yeah.

Kat Radley

All right, so this week is a desi hosting week, which is always so exciting, very fun, and we like to start this podcast by kind of looking at what happened recently in the news that maybe we missed or maybe still might trickle into the next week of shows and the Biggest story from over the weekend that has been being hyped for months now.

Desi Lydic

Right.

Kat Radley

Was the release of the Christopher Nolan film the Odyssey.

Sponsor Voice 1

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Kat Radley

And we haven't looked at the box office numbers yet. I assume it was huge.

Desi Lydic

I think. Okay, I don't want to get this wrong, but I think it was something like 287 million worldwide.

Sponsor Voice 2

Wow.

Kat Radley

Okay. Awesome.

Desi Lydic

Does that sound hyper specific?

Kat Radley

Like, I.

Desi Lydic

Okay, Allen's fact checking. No fake news here. That was a lot.

Kat Radley

Yeah. 264 million globally.

Desi Lydic

264 million.

Kat Radley

Okay. Yeah. All right.

Desi Lydic

Massive weekend. I have a confession to make to our listeners. I just want to get ahead of this because I feel like this could get me in trouble. I did not see the movie the way that it was intended to be seen. And you know this because you were kind enough to be my plus one. Kat. I failed us. I got us tickets to see the Odyssey over the weekend. We went. We were 14 minutes into the previews before we looked up and realized this is not the IMAX theater.

Kat Radley

We were both like, is this imax? I don't think this is imax.

Desi Lydic

This doesn't look big enough to be imax.

Kat Radley

I don't.

Desi Lydic

I don't think this is the way Nolan intended us to watch this movie.

Kat Radley

And we also. We had, like. Because everyone was like, oh, it's sold out forever. And we looked behind us. There were, like, empty seats behind us. And I was like, oh, well, there are seats. Like, people could have gotten tickets to this. And we were both excited to get, like, snacks and popcorn. And I was just like, oh, we gotta get there early, because, like, the concession line's gonna be crazy.

Desi Lydic

By the way, I offered to buy you the Trojan horse bucket.

Kat Radley

You did? You did.

Desi Lydic

I wanted to be able to get you at least a popcorn bucket out of this deal. And do you remember what you told me?

Kat Radley

That I don't have room for it in my apartment.

Desi Lydic

No, you said, I'm not falling for that.

Kat Radley

Oh, yeah. Also, I think the Trojan horse bucket holds less popcorn than the large popcorn.

Desi Lydic

That's the whole point.

Kat Radley

It's so. I was like, I'm gonna eat a whole large popcorn. This movie is three hours long. I'm not gonna get that tiny horse out of my face.

Desi Lydic

Yeah.

Kat Radley

Get it.

Desi Lydic

Get it the out of here.

Kat Radley

Yeah. It was still great, but it was like, we didn't realize. I mean, I knew there was IMAX and then what I call regular.

Desi Lydic

Yeah.

Kat Radley

But apparently there are, like, four or five different ways to see the Odyssey, and Desi and I are still not sure which one we saw.

Desi Lydic

Couldn't tell you.

Kat Radley

All we know is it was not imax.

Desi Lydic

It was not the way the gods intended.

Kat Radley

So I'm sorry, Christopher Nolan, film bros out there who might think this is sacrilegious.

Desi Lydic

We'd like to apologize.

Kat Radley

I'm sure you'll let us know how you feel in the comments.

Desi Lydic

Hollywood is cutting off our passports. We are no longer able to travel to Los Angeles. We've been blacklisted. We did not see it the right way.

Kat Radley

We're hiding out in New York City. They don't even want us here anymore.

Desi Lydic

No, they don't. They definitely do not.

Kat Radley

However, it was still great.

Desi Lydic

Incredible.

Kat Radley

Yeah.

Desi Lydic

Still processing the movie. I'd like to go see it again.

Kat Radley

Yeah. In imax.

Desi Lydic

In imax next time.

Kat Radley

So in October, we will go. When we can get tickets, we will go see it in imax. I think we did it right, though, because I think if you're gonna see it twice and only once in imax, think seeing it first, not in imax. You can kind of follow the story, know the characters, take on. Take in, you know, the narrative and then having that familiarity go in and just, like, enjoy the IMAX experience, so.

Desi Lydic

Totally agree.

Kat Radley

We totally did it on purpose.

Desi Lydic

The way we wanted to do it. We did it. Yeah. We knew exactly what we were doing.

Kat Radley

Yeah. But we saw it in a. I don't know, laser, 70 millimeter.

Sponsor Voice 2

Dolby.

Supporting Voice

Dolby.

Kat Radley

Maybe Dolby Surround.

Desi Lydic

Maybe someone put it on a projector from their iPhone and just dropped it in a cup for audio. It could have been that. I couldn't tell you.

Kat Radley

We were impressed either way. Oh, yeah. This was the AMC website. We were trying to figure out what kind of movie we saw. There's the imax, which we didn't do that extraordinary ways.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, we did not do that.

Kat Radley

Dolby Cinema at amc. Completely captivating. We were both captivated.

Desi Lydic

I was captivated completely.

Kat Radley

70 millimeters greater detail and depth. I saw detail and depth. Could have been that one picture a better world. Laser at amc. I mean, I spend a lot of

Desi Lydic

time picturing a better world. Most of my time is spent picturing a better world. So could have been laser.

Kat Radley

A big theme of the movie was picturing a better world. So all I know is that neither of us got up to pee once, which we're both very proud of ourselves.

Desi Lydic

Proud of us. That was our biggest accomplishment.

Kat Radley

We were really prepared. We were like, I wonder, like, what part we should try to go pee probably, like, at different times. And I can, like, Tell you what you missed. You can tell me what I missed. Yeah. And the movie came. We were like, hey, neither of us

Desi Lydic

got up to pee. We did it. That is a true testament.

Kat Radley

And if that isn't a good review for the movie from two women in their 40s not getting up to pee for a whole movie.

Desi Lydic

That's right.

Kat Radley

Women who have given birth before.

Desi Lydic

Yes.

Kat Radley

That is a huge compliment. So two pelvic floors up, even though they're down in reality.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, let's be honest. Kind of up. Two Kegels up.

Kat Radley

Two unprolapsed pelvic floors. Oh, this is the Odyssey review that all the bros have been waiting for.

Desi Lydic

Exactly. Yeah. We're living up to expectations here.

Kat Radley

So the Odyssey was great. And because Elliot Page is coming on

Desi Lydic

the show this week, his performance is unbelievable and I think perhaps the heart of the entire movie.

Kat Radley

Right? Yeah. We won't give too much away, but it is a very crucial aspect. It's not like the hugest role in terms of screen time, but it is in terms of story.

Desi Lydic

And his character has such an impact.

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Desi Lydic

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Kat Radley

So Odyssey was a big story in the entertainment world this weekend. Then of course, the big story from the sports world. The World cup finals. We had Spain defeating Argentina 1 to nothing in extra time.

Desi Lydic

Here's my hot question. Did you get up to pee once during the World cup game?

Kat Radley

You know what? I was peeing the whole time because I didn't watch it.

Desi Lydic

You were too busy peeing to watch it?

Kat Radley

Yeah, I was letting out all that pee I've been holding in.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kat Radley

Did you watch it? What was your.

Desi Lydic

I was on a road trip. We were in the car, so I was listening to it, which I have to admit, it wasn't. It wasn't nearly as exciting as being able to watch it. Yeah, we were tapped in because it

Kat Radley

was a pretty uneventful game. It was 00 for the whole game until they scored an extra time.

Supporting Voice

Yes.

Kat Radley

From what? My. My husband was watching it, like, on his phone and filling me in and so he was like, giving me updates and he was like, still zero. Zero? Yeah. Why was he watching on his phone? Not because he bet money on it. Did he just. He put, like $20 on, like, random stuff and he was like, I don't know what I bet on, but we'll see what happens.

Desi Lydic

Let's hope for the best.

Kat Radley

Yeah. I don't think he wanted anything.

Desi Lydic

Damn.

Kat Radley

Yeah.

Desi Lydic

Son of a bitch.

Kat Radley

But it was Spain versus Argentina, and some of the big news, obviously Trump was there. It's being hosted in America, and he insisted on presenting the trophy to the winners. And Spain versus Argentina, as far as he knew, it was Mexico versus Mexico.

Supporting Voice

Yeah.

Kat Radley

It's just the irony of him presenting the this trophy to two Latino countries or one of two Latino countries, in light of everything happening with immigration, detention centers, ICE raids, etc.

Desi Lydic

Tariffs, all of the things.

Kat Radley

So I think that caused a lot of controversy. But another big controversy was the photo.

Desi Lydic

Yes.

Kat Radley

So we can probably pull up this photo. He presented the trophy, but when it came time for the team photo, he, like, refused to get out of the way. So in this photo, you can kind of see it's a team photo. He managed to get pushed off to the side awkwardly. You can still see his right shoulder popping into frame. When this is really just meant to be the team photo. Like, historically, this has always been just the team. No coaches.

Desi Lydic

Yes.

Kat Radley

No managers, no coaches. And he just wouldn't get the fuck out of the photo.

Desi Lydic

Which tracks.

Kat Radley

And then the Spanish team didn't just crop him out. You can see here he is just fully airbrushed.

Sponsor Voice 2

Yes.

Kat Radley

Photoshopped away. It's kind of funny. You can see, like, little gold sparkles, like, where his body was. Almost like. Like a magician poofed him. Disintegrated into gold specks. Exploded into gold sparkles. So of course he made it about himself. But kudos to the Spanish team for just four photoshopping the. Out of him.

Desi Lydic

The footage of him being shooed away is so funny to me. It is so classic. Like, every family. Every family photo I've ever taken where my cousin's just like, keep. Yeah, no, in the back. Just keep going. Keep going a little further.

Kat Radley

Like no one wants him. Yeah.

Desi Lydic

He has no idea what's going on.

Kat Radley

Or like, when someone brings someone to a wedding, but you know they're not, like, they're gonna break up, like, and we're like, don't put them in the wedding photos because they're not going to be around in a year and this is going to be lasting forever. It really had that energy.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, it definitely did.

Kat Radley

Like, I've got your creepy boyfriend out of here.

Desi Lydic

Someone's going to come in with one of those, like, cartoon old timey canes and just pull him off the stage.

Kat Radley

Then he'd be like, oh, is this cane for me? And just take it. But it was very awkward and funny watching him get shoed by yet another, like, old man. Like, even he knew. He was like, dude, get out of the frame.

Sponsor Voice 2

Yeah.

Kat Radley

So it's very awkward and funny and just in a very appropriate close to the whole event, because as the host country, there's a lot of anticipation going into the World cup of we don't have the infrastructure for it, we don't have the public transportation. And also there's going to be ice presence, there's going to be a lot of foreign travelers and visitors, and it's just not going to be good for just the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants and even foreign travelers right now. How do you think it went overall?

Desi Lydic

Well, also just thinking about the fact that this is the greatest moment of their lives, so many people's lives, and it's happening in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Kat Radley

I know. A little bittersweet. I know.

Desi Lydic

Is it the way we'd write it up? No, probably not.

Kat Radley

Like, imagine these Spanish footballers selling their kids. The greatest day of my life. First, the day you were born. And then second, happened in New Jersey. I don't think anybody's ever said that sentence before.

Desi Lydic

I don't think so. But now they will.

Kat Radley

Yeah.

Desi Lydic

And so it is history making in that sense. No, I think I'm gonna be very, very sad to see all of the World cup tourists leave when they wake up hungover next week. I think it's gonna be a real bummer. The energy has been great around here. I have to say. I do think that Yamal and Messi should have to rec create the bathtub photo, though.

Kat Radley

It's only fair.

Desi Lydic

It's only fair. How sweet. How wild is that?

Kat Radley

I mean, the odds of both of them becoming the incredible All Star players that they did and to be facing off against each other, I mean, that's just stars aligned.

Desi Lydic

It really does feel like a destiny thing. Like it is. It was so meant to be in every way. So can we get Annie Leibovitz to recreate this photo for us? I mean, they could swap places.

Kat Radley

It could be in the locker room shower or just fill a tub and. Yeah, but it's very adorable. There's also Yamal's little brother, who I think is maybe like one or two years old. There's also been videos of the little brother going viral for dancing his younger half brother at dancing with, which is also pretty adorable. Oh, my God, this kid is so cute.

Desi Lydic

Oh, my God.

Kat Radley

So it's just kind of funny. Like there's pictures of him as a baby. And he's also been going viral for hanging out with his baby brother. Just a very adorable World cup overall. Oh, my God, he's so cute.

Desi Lydic

I don't understand why my dancing videos don't go viral like this. I'm doing it all wrong.

Kat Radley

It's cause you're not wearing a diaper.

Desi Lydic

That's what.

Kat Radley

Well, I've been telling you you need

Desi Lydic

a diaper that you know of. I actually was during the Odyssey, and that's why I never got up to be you just had no idea.

Kat Radley

Well, I'm wearing one because I have cyclospora diarrhea right now. Oh, my God. Thanks, Taylor Farms. Yeah, that's another story we missed, which we can touch on. Last week was the big diarrhea week, which doesn't seem like it'll creep back up into the news unless the outbreak spreads even more. There's hoping there's been some stuff with Taylor Farms, which is one of the farms accused of being the cause of it, is now saying they got an apology from the fda. It's kind of a whole big clusterfuck, kind of shady story.

Desi Lydic

Smell right with that. And it's not just diarrhea.

Kat Radley

Smells like a bribe. Will this week be another diarrhea week? Stay tuned to find out.

Desi Lydic

By the way, this podcast is brought to you by Taylor Farms, Taylor Farms.

Kat Radley

You'll explode with pleasure. So we have entertainment news from the Odyssey, big sports news from the World Cup. Yes, our show is also about politics, in case you didn't know. What Daily show covers politics.

Desi Lydic

Since when?

Kat Radley

Occasionally, just occasionally. We're mostly diarrhea, but sometimes politics.

Desi Lydic

I'm out.

Kat Radley

And Trump gave his big speech last Thursday, so we film our shows Monday through Thursday, and his speech was Thursday night, so it didn't make the cutoff for our show last week. So it's something that probably be talking about this week. And the speech was about election integrity. And this week is when Trump is trying to push members of Congress to pass the Save America act, which is, he's claiming, supposed to make our elections more secure, hence his speech Thursday, when really it's a voter suppression bill. Right. And Congress is about to go on yet another recess next week. So this is their week to do it. And I'm just so happy for them. They've been working so hard. They need a recess.

Desi Lydic

They really do. Three days of hard work, showing up and pretending to get things done.

Kat Radley

And they've been working, I think, for three weeks since their last recess. And poor babies.

Desi Lydic

Starting to sound like our schedule.

Kat Radley

I know, but it's okay. Cause we're a comedy show. We're allowed to take breaks.

Desi Lydic

It's so crazy to me that Trump is talking about election fraud from six years ago. Like to still be talking about this six years later. By the way, I have some incriminating evidence about my prom queen election in high school stolen by the Chinese. I'm convinced of it.

Kat Radley

We should get into that.

Desi Lydic

I think we're going to need to get into that.

Kat Radley

It's important to find out.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, we'll be getting into that this week as well. Also, like, okay, so he's saying that there was election fraud that happened when he was, in fact, president, but when Obama and Biden were president, the elections went just fine because he won. So is this Trump who cheats Trump? Is that what he's saying? Trump cheats Trump?

Kat Radley

That's the thing. Yes. And he doesn't even. He's not smart enough to even know that that's what he's saying.

Desi Lydic

And this is the entire moral takeaway from the Odyssey, only maybe we didn't interpret it correctly because we didn't see it the way it was intended to be seen.

Kat Radley

We'll know better once we see it in imax.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, yeah.

Kat Radley

And it is wild, too, because in his speech Thursday, they were saying, okay, we're releasing some documents and some evidence. They did release some stuff, I think, on the DOJ website.

Desi Lydic

Right.

Kat Radley

And the one thing that they did release that did show that there was perhaps foreign interference in the election was in the election in 2016 or 2020.

Desi Lydic

It probably happened in both, I'm pretty sure.

Kat Radley

Both by Russia. But for him to benefit Trump in his favor. So there was election interference to his benefit. And it's like he doesn't even realize that that goes against what he's trying to argue.

Desi Lydic

He just bit himself in the ass by outing himself. And this is what happens when you're so caught up in lies that you can't keep track anymore.

Kat Radley

Yes. So.

Desi Lydic

And also really trusting that the American people are not going to read the terms and conditions. It's like just, I just want to watch Widow's Bay. Just.

Kat Radley

Yeah, yeah.

Desi Lydic

Yes. Except.

Kat Radley

And the. So the voter ID laws, the Save America act would make it harder to vote overall because it would require people to, I believe, have at least two forms of id.

Desi Lydic

Right.

Kat Radley

And so this would particularly hurt married women who have changed their name for marriage because their birth certificate wouldn't match whatever their current ID is, assuming their new married name is on it. So married women would be a disadvantage and probably not able to vote if they can't get their IDs updated in time. It would benefit Democrats and that more Democrats have passports than Republicans do. And a passport is a good, acceptable second form of id. So it's just, it would be a clusterfuck, but it would just suppress votes overall. And they're going to try to push it through this week to and try to attach it to a spending bill. Thinking, just giving you guys a crash course real quick. Thinking that tying it to a spending bill would make it harder for the Democrats to vote against because that would mean the Democrats would be voting for a shutdown.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, shut down the whole government.

Kat Radley

What do we think about another government shutdown?

Desi Lydic

Why the hell not? What else are we doing?

Kat Radley

I know.

Desi Lydic

Shut down. Not getting anything done.

Kat Radley

I know.

Desi Lydic

Would we know a difference? We're all killing ourselves over explosive diarrhea these days.

Kat Radley

The government right now is up and running and the FDA is in full swing and everyone's still getting diarrhea. So shut it down.

Desi Lydic

Shut it down.

Kat Radley

Let's see what happens.

Desi Lydic

What could change.

Kat Radley

Yeah.

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Kat Radley

So we're gonna see how that plays out. Might be some interesting moments in Trump. Trying to persuade and influence Republicans in Congress. See what Mike Johnson has to say.

Desi Lydic

I do think that if they're going to expect people to show more forms of id, they need to get better at taking ID photos. Because I will tell you, every single one of my ID photos looks like Jimothy.

Kat Radley

Oh, Jimothy. We're getting into Jimothy today.

Desi Lydic

Are we going to talk about Jimothy?

Kat Radley

Yeah, but yeah, that's a really good point because ID photos are always fucking terrible.

Desi Lydic

Why are they so bad?

Kat Radley

The lighting. It's. And then you try to smile and they're like, don't smile, don't smile.

Desi Lydic

So then you end up doing a half smile. Yeah, they're like, no, no, no, you're facing the light. We want you directly under fluorescent lighting.

Kat Radley

Yeah, yeah.

Desi Lydic

We want your skin to look green.

Kat Radley

Yeah. We're gonna backlight you and put a shadow over your face and we're gonna take off your makeup. So I agree. All right, fine. We'll do two forms of id, but we get to do glamour shots.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, please. Can we please bring back glamour shots? Right, I'm just gonna pop into the mall, grab a going out top from 5, 7, 9, and pop up, put

Kat Radley

on my mom's lipstick and go for it.

Desi Lydic

Those are the good old days.

Kat Radley

I used to borrow my mom's lipstick all the time. And it was always. She only had this one weird orange color.

Desi Lydic

What did she wear? What was her color?

Kat Radley

It was like this orangey. And she doesn't wear makeup really at all. So she's had it for special occasions. And it was just like this. The tube was probably 20 years old because she wore it like three times a year. So it was like this orangish reddish lipstick. And I just like, oh, yeah, Peak beauty right here.

Desi Lydic

Do you know the 90s, like the, the 90s, early 2000s, it was all about Revlon Coffee Bean as the color. Do you remember Revlon Coffee Bean? I'm aging myself. Let me tell you. It was not a good color. It's not a good color on me.

Kat Radley

Brown shade.

Desi Lydic

It's like a brown, like a. Oh, okay. Alan's looking it up. Thank you, Alan.

Kat Radley

Oh, I do remember seeing girls wear This I was not really like.

Desi Lydic

I think it went away and then it came back. It cycled through a few times, but it looks great on many people. I am just not one of them. But it didn't stop me.

Kat Radley

When you're like in seventh grade, nothing stops you from looking terrible.

Desi Lydic

No, no, no, no.

Kat Radley

I could see you pulling that cover off, that color off.

Desi Lydic

No, no, no. I'll show you some photos.

Kat Radley

All right.

Desi Lydic

Definitely not.

Kat Radley

So this is my driver's license photo. Yeah. So we'll see if women lose the right to vote this week.

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Kat Radley

That should be fun.

Desi Lydic

Real nail biter.

Kat Radley

Really fun.

Desi Lydic

Everyone grab your Trojan horse popcorn buckets. Let's see how this plays out.

Kat Radley

I'm going to need three Trojan horse popcorn buckets, please. I'll go through one an hour. One thing that the house did accomplish is they passed the daylight saving time bill to make dating sail.

Desi Lydic

You could say that.

Kat Radley

Daylight saving time.

Desi Lydic

Daytime save life time.

Kat Radley

And you can't say savings because last week was a cost a week. And we were talking about this bill a little bit.

Sponsor Voice 3

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Kat Radley

And every time someone said savings, Costa would be like, it's not savings. It's saving daylight saving time. Is it though? Daylight saving time.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, it's daylight saving time. That's right.

Kat Radley

But nobody cost us crazy. Only nerds care about that. So daylight saving time.

Desi Lydic

Daylight save light time.

Kat Radley

Daylight save light save, save tonight and fight the break of dawn Save the axe come tomorrow. Who is that? Is that eagle eye cherry? Who did I just quote?

Desi Lydic

I have no idea.

Kat Radley

Tonight fight the break of dun.

Desi Lydic

Come tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll be gone safe.

Kat Radley

Is that tonight? Lenny Kravitz. Eagle eye cherry.

Desi Lydic

Eagle eye cherry.

Kat Radley

Did I say that? Yeah, you did.

Desi Lydic

1997.

Kat Radley

Eagle Eye cherry.

Desi Lydic

Prime Revlon coffee bean years.

Kat Radley

Yeah, that would be prime coffee bean years.

Desi Lydic

By the way, the only people listening to this pod right now are people right in my age.

Kat Radley

Are our mom saying you were beautiful back then. The eagle eyed cherry dating Salite time bill is. Did get passed, but it still like faces hurdles to actually, I don't know, become law. But they're trying to make daylight saving time, which is what we're in right now.

Desi Lydic

Yes. Because we have sprung forward. We have yet to fall back, right?

Kat Radley

Yes. So we would just never fall back. We'd be springing forward forever. Forever. Which fall back is the fun one, because that's when you gain an hour of sleep. Remember how fun that'd be when you were actually like, like going out, you know, to like, bars. Close at two and be like, yeah, bars close at three tonight, technically. And like, that was so exciting.

Desi Lydic

And now. Now we're just springing forward all the time.

Sponsor Voice 3

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Desi Lydic

Keep moving forward, Never fall back.

Kat Radley

And so that's a bit controversial because people are being like, oh, it hurts farmers and perhaps kids going to school because it'll be still dark in the morning. Then it won't be dark at 4 fucking 30.

Desi Lydic

Yeah.

Kat Radley

So it's got pros and cons.

Desi Lydic

Yeah. I have to say, as a. As a parent, I'm thrilled to not have to deal with my son's sleep schedule. Yeah, that. Cause that's a bitch, trying to get your kid on a good sleep schedule and then having to mess it up with daylight saving time. As a woman who enjoys psychologically messing with her husband, I'm gonna really miss him trying to change the clock on the oven.

Kat Radley

Yeah. Just watching him, like, do it for 20 minutes. Yeah. And be like, by the time you did it, it's like, well, now it's not that time anymore, so you got to do it again. You're doing this at 9:20. It's now 9:45, honey. So start over.

Desi Lydic

Which is why I think we should all leave our clocks at 12. Just all the time. All the clocks just leave it on 12 and let the alarm go off at random times.

Kat Radley

Yeah.

Desi Lydic

It's just easier that way.

Kat Radley

That sounds like a great way of life, Desmond. Is that why you're late to everything all the time?

Desi Lydic

Don't ask too many questions. Okay. It might be why I messed up and got the wrong tickets to the Odyssey.

Kat Radley

We're going to 3:30 show a.m. so I'll see you there.

Desi Lydic

You know, I do feel like it's not a great omen that the second this bill passed, the skies filled with ash, the sun was blocked out, and we were smelling fire. That can't be. I feel like the time gods are

Kat Radley

upset with us being like, don't do

Desi Lydic

this, don't do this.

Kat Radley

Yeah. This weekend was also plagued with terrible air quality. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires.

Desi Lydic

It was along the East Coast.

Kat Radley

All along the East Coast. New York City. It was really bad. Thursday night into Friday, we were like in the two hundreds of air quality. And it came back again Saturday in the form of, like, rain. It was like, rainy and smoky.

Desi Lydic

Yeah.

Kat Radley

So it was just kind of like a hellscape of a weekend. Yeah. And Trump is, of course, blaming Canada for sending us their smoke. And he wants to tariff them. Right.

Desi Lydic

Brilliant idea to tariff them. As though our smoke doesn't Affect Canada in any way. Yeah. Because we're so good at closing the border.

Kat Radley

They could be so lucky to have our smoke. I would love anything from Canada. I mean, smoke is not really what I was hoping for. I was hoping maybe for their universal health care or parental leave, but voting rights.

Desi Lydic

Yeah. Meanwhile, don't their firefighters come down and help us put out our fires?

Kat Radley

Yes. Yeah.

Desi Lydic

Lost lives.

Sponsor Voice 3

It's.

Desi Lydic

It's all.

Kat Radley

They're a very good friend to us, and we are a very bad friend to them.

Desi Lydic

Canada, we love you.

Kat Radley

Yeah, we're not mad at you. Canada.

Desi Lydic

Most of us are not like that. We love you dearly. We are so grateful for you. Except Allan Allen. You know what you did. Our producer, Alan, is. Get out of here.

Kat Radley

Alan. All right. He's ready for us to move on to coming up next.

Desi Lydic

Yes, that sounds right. Yes, we should do that.

Kat Radley

All right. So we mentioned. Oh, big news for us personally at the Daily show this week. Yes. This week marks The Daily Show's 30th anniversary of being on the air. Can you believe it? July 22nd is our birthday.

Desi Lydic

We look great for 30 cat.

Kat Radley

We really do, don't we?

Desi Lydic

It's almost as though we never wore Coffee Bean Revlon lipstick and got glamour

Kat Radley

shots of them all. We will find those pictures. The Daily show anniversary is on July 22, which is this Wednesday. And we're gonna be doing a special podcast celebrating the 30th anniversary. And you're gonna be a part of that podcast?

Desi Lydic

I believe so. I think I am. Yeah. We're gonna talk about Daily show history, all of our favorite field pieces. We're gonna pick our favorite correspondence. It's gonna get ugly. People's feelings are gonna get hurt. Tune in.

Kat Radley

I can't wait.

Desi Lydic

All sponsored by Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg.

Kat Radley

It will be filmed from the toilet. Individual toilets all in one room. It's gonna be lovely.

Desi Lydic

Can you believe 30 years of lying about being a Daily show when in fact we only shoot four episodes a week? We've been lying this whole time. Can you believe we've gotten away with this?

Kat Radley

We're being exposed as big fat liars.

Desi Lydic

It's about time.

Kat Radley

We're not gonna change, but it's gonna be a fun week. There's also gonna be stuff, I think, out on expansion, looking back over the past 30 years of highlights and packages and the different guests we've had, and I mean, the correspondence that have been on the show alone. You guys will touch on this more on the podcast. But, I mean, some of the greatest comedic Actors and performers in history got their start at the Daily Show.

Supporting Voice

Yeah.

Kat Radley

Find out who later this week.

Desi Lydic

Now I did a full series rewatch to prepare for talking about this. Did you do that as well?

Kat Radley

Yeah, yeah, I watched all 40,000 hours of the Daily Show.

Desi Lydic

I got a lot of time on my hands.

Kat Radley

I'm only up to the Rob Riggle years. You got a little more? Yeah, no spoilers. So we mentioned this earlier, Jimothy, the latest kind of social media, viral, I guess we'd call it a feel good story.

Supporting Voice

Yes.

Kat Radley

Is this little raccoon, he's like, says who? I know.

Desi Lydic

Feel good for.

Kat Radley

Who is Jimothy the raccoon who is spotted in the Seattle area, I believe. Sure. And, oh, he's kind of a little spherical box like raccoon. And he's just been creeping around yards and people are really into him. He's pretty cute.

Desi Lydic

Look how sweet Jimothy is.

Kat Radley

You know, when your world is a hellscape shit show and a funny looking raccoon comes on the scene, America can't get enough.

Desi Lydic

This is like this. The way that this has taken off tells you exactly how America's feeling right now. It's how thirsty we are for something that feels good.

Kat Radley

Yeah.

Desi Lydic

So crazy. I thought my son was the only one with that name. What are the odds?

Kat Radley

Timothy? Named after your grandfather, right?

Desi Lydic

Yes, Jim.

Kat Radley

Ithy Senior, but surprisingly not. Jim for short. Ithy.

Desi Lydic

Ah, that's a cool way to go. Yeah, no one's gonna forget that name. So wait, so he's part raccoon, part meatball. He clearly has better representation than I do. This guy's getting so much press he's gonna be on subway takes.

Kat Radley

It's true. He does have millions of views on his videos.

Desi Lydic

Crazy. You know what? Get Jimothy on this show.

Kat Radley

Can we talk to her? I got a surprise for you. Ladies and gentlemen. That fucked up little fur ball Jimothy.

Desi Lydic

Is Jimothy hosting this week?

Kat Radley

I've been tagged out.

Desi Lydic

God damn it.

Kat Radley

No, no, you guys aren't co hosted.

Desi Lydic

Oh, okay. All right, fine. I'll share the desk with him.

Kat Radley

Well, no, he gets the desk. You have to sit on the floor.

Desi Lydic

No problem. Yeah, no questions asked.

Kat Radley

So keep your eye out for Jimothy jokes. We'll see. I have a feeling the writers are gonna be writing a lot of Jimothy jokes. Trying to like, shove it in there.

Desi Lydic

Here's hoping.

Kat Radley

So we're gonna. Hopefully the best will rise to the top. We'll see.

Desi Lydic

We'll find out together.

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Kat Radley

So now it's time for something we like to call Daily show and tell. And this is where we talk about something that we've watched, read, listened to, argued about, or just something that's been on our minds. Doesn't have to be politics or news related. Can be anything. So, Desi, what is your Daily show until this week?

Desi Lydic

All right, Kat.

Kat Radley

Mm.

Desi Lydic

I've tried talking about this before. I just finished Margo's got money troubles. Can I just say, Daily Show's good friend Nick Offerman is sensational in this show. Have you watched it?

Kat Radley

I've seen the whole thing and I totally agree. He.

Desi Lydic

The performance in this show is unbelievable. He's so funny and vulnerable and heartwarming. And he plays this very complicated guy who's a former pro wrestler struggling with addiction. It goes there. It's incredibly layered and complicated. But his appearance is this very gruff, masculine guy. But he shows such beautiful vulnerability and refreshing communication skills. It's just like, I just think it's such an interesting role in terms of what is masculinity today. What is it supposed to be interesting

Kat Radley

or super hot and sexy?

Desi Lydic

I mean, that too. That too. But I'm being respectful.

Kat Radley

Well, I'm not super hot and sexy. Desi won't tell you, but she's got a huge hard on for this character.

Desi Lydic

Huge hard on for the jinx.

Kat Radley

It is something about like he is because he is so macho. And yet there's scenes like, no surprise in the show, she has a little baby. And the scenes where he just like, holds the baby. And he's just like such a good caretaker and so gentle and loving and something about a big macho guy being vulnerable and holding a cute little baby.

Desi Lydic

Yeah.

Kat Radley

Messi knows what we're talking about.

Desi Lydic

Messi knows what we're talking about.

Kat Radley

But I agree, he's so, like. It's such a good character for him, but so different from what we. The roles we usually see him in because it does have that vulnerability. And he's a very emotionally intelligent character, even more so than some of the women in his life on the show.

Desi Lydic

All the performances are incredible in the show, but he really. I just. I just think he really stands out. Anyway, love and props to sweet Nick Offerman. Yes, Kat, what's your Daily show and tell?

Kat Radley

Mine's also a TV show. Related, because here at the Daily show, we watch TV and read the news and we were talking about whether we watched the World Cup. I did not watch the World cup because this weekend I was catching up on a great TV show, Matlock, the new one with Kathy Bates. And it is excellent. And I love a good show. She's so good in it.

Desi Lydic

She's really good.

Kat Radley

And her co star, Sky P. Marshall, is also great, which I don't. I haven't seen her in anything else and she's amazing. Yeah, it's a great cast. And I'm a sucker for a good lawyer show. Like, my favorite show is like the Good Fight, the Good Wife, Elspeth. I love the Kings. The Kings. Oh, I love the King Warriors. Yes. And this is great because it has a great. You know, there's always a good courtroom scene, a good case that they're working on in each episode. There's also a very interesting through line throughout the whole series, which I don't want to give away, but it's an interesting subplot that brings a whole other layer to the show. Have you watched any of it?

Desi Lydic

Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

Kat Radley

I want to give it away for people who haven't seen it. The pilot episode, right away it reveals kind of. And you learn like, oh, that's what this show is about. So I think it's a good watch and I think Kathy Bates is a star and she's amazing.

Desi Lydic

She's incredible.

Kat Radley

Yeah, yeah.

Sponsor Voice 1

So.

Desi Lydic

And she owns that role.

Kat Radley

She really does.

Desi Lydic

I back you up on this. Excellent, excellent.

Kat Radley

So Kathy Bates and Nick Offerman go do a show together. Actually, I'd watch the shit out of that show.

Desi Lydic

The two of them together, like their characters. Yeah.

Kat Radley

Oh, a mashup.

Desi Lydic

Of the Jinx and Maddie.

Kat Radley

Maddie Mallock and the Jinx. If they had their own little spin off world together, we should get the king.

Desi Lydic

We need credit for it and we would like to be credited as producers if this show comes to fruition.

Kat Radley

Yes. All right. That's all the time we have for the pre cap. I'm Kat Radley. Catch Desi Lydic hosting the Daily show this week on Comedy Central, Paramount and right here in podcast form on the Daily Show Ears edition. Thanks, Desi.

Desi Lydic

Thanks, Kat.

Kat Radley

You're the best.

Desi Lydic

Should we get tickets for IMAX now?

Kat Radley

Yeah, for December. I'll buy them.

Desi Lydic

Aw.

Kat Radley

Only because you'll fuck it up.

Desi Lydic

Yeah, this is true.

Sponsor Voice 2

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Kat Radley

this has been a Comedy Central podcast.

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