• Guest Spotlight: Celebrating Women and Finding Connections Through Farming | Preparing for Broadway on a Week’s Notice
    May 19 2024

    Emmy Award-winning actor, Nick Offerman, and farmer and author, Helen Rebanks, join Desi Lydic to discuss how Helen's new book "The Farmer's Wife" highlights the work done by women that often gets overlooked. Also, Desi sits down with Oscar and Tony-nominated actress, Amy Ryan, as she breaks down her last-minute process to prepare for her Broadway role in “Doubt: A Parable.”

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    19 mins
  • ICYMI: Jon Stewart Explains Legal Corruption in Congress and Desi Lydic Covers Biden’s Feisty Debate Challenge to Trump
    May 18 2024

    Jon Stewart calls out NJ Senator Robert Menendez for not using his position in government to make bank on the stock market like all his fellow lawmakers. Plus, Desi Lydic unpacks Biden's presidential debate challenge to Trump.

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    26 mins
  • VA Schools Reinstate Confederate Names | Nick Offerman & Helen Rebanks
    May 17 2024

    Desi Lydic provides an update on Trump’s criminal trial, where his lawyers’ attempts to discredit Michael Cohen turned into a roast of the former president. Plus, Sen. Menendez throws his wife under the bus at his corruption trial, and Josh Johnson weighs in on Virginia schools reinstating their Confederate namesakes. Turn your anxiety about the 2024 election into a toned bod with Joe Biden’s Build Bods Better, the only full-body workout that utilizes the stress of watching the President speak to help you burn calories. Farmer and author Helen Rebanks and her farmhand, who happens to be Emmy Award-winning actor Nick Offerman, discuss Rebanks’s book “The Farmer’s Wife,” which celebrates the often-invisible work carried out by women around the world. They chat about the origins of their friendship, their favorite recipes, and how Offerman reconnects to his roots on the farm.

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    29 mins
  • Biden Challenges Trump To Debate | Amy Ryan
    May 16 2024

    Desi Lydic tackles Biden & Trump’s feisty calls for a pre-election debate without worm-ridden opponent RFK Jr., Michael Kosta proposes we use the presidential debate as a geriatric fitness test, and King Charles sees red in his first portrait as king. Then Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng host a new segment called "Sports War," where they debate the hottest sports news including Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut, Olympic organizers dealing with a literal river of shit in Paris, the KC Chiefs kicker's misogynist commencement address, and Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter going to trial for embezzling from the LA Dodgers star. The only rule of Sports War? You're not allowed to agree on anything. And Academy Award and Tony-nominated actress Amy Ryan joins Desi to discuss receiving her third Tony Award nomination for playing Sister Aloysius in “Doubt: A Parable,” and having only one week to prepare for the Broadway role. Ryan also alludes to a major plot twist in her Apple TV+ series, “Sugar,” and how the show puts a spin on the classic noir detective narrative.

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    23 mins
  • Desi Lydic Covers the Thirsty VP Contenders Crashing Trump's Trial | Miranda July
    May 15 2024

    Desi Lydic reports on the latest updates from Trump’s criminal trial, which has turned into a who’s-who of wannabe vice presidents and political ass-kissers. Also, an art installation connecting New York and Dublin turns into utter chaos and ChatGPT debuts a flirty new voice to answer users that might just have Ronny Chieng and Josh Johnson sold on AI. Plus, Desi takes a look at how New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, became the clean-living, hard-partying, deep-thinking man he is today in The Daily Showography of Eric Adams: Philosopher King of New York. And filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist Miranda July shares how her new novel, “All Fours,” is a coming-of-age story for any woman in her 40s who has “secret desires and anxieties about those desires, and is wondering what’s going on with her body and her marriage, and just her whole self.” She discusses how many of the topics covered in the novel, like perimenopause, traumatic childbirth, and female sexual freedom, often go undiscussed, and she explains the difference between a “driver” and a “parker.”

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    27 mins
  • Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Menendez a Lesson in Legal Corruption | Ilana Glazer
    May 14 2024

    Jon Stewart digs into the trial of comically corrupt Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and in a new segment called "How Dumb Is You?" asks the senator how he got caught engaging in such obvious illegal corruption, while government officials like Nancy Pelosi, Richard Burr, and Roy Blunt have been getting away with legal corruption for years. And "Babes" actor and writer, Ilana Glazer, discusses how her new film provides a much-needed and accurate portrayal of pregnancy and motherhood. They talk about her bond with co-star Michelle Buteau, the struggle to get the film made, and how she spent Mother's Day as a new mom herself.

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    30 mins
  • Jon Stewart Spotlights Fox News's Anti-Poor Narrative | TDS Time Machine
    May 13 2024

    On this day in 2015, President Obama calls out Fox News for misleading coverage of America's poor being 'sponges' and 'leeches' and Jon Stewart brings the receipts.
    Plus, Jordan Klepper travels to the U.K. and finds in their recent election that only the least successful candidates campaigned on the fringe platform of xenophobia and breaking from the European Union. And religious scholar, Reza Aslan, discusses the state of Islam and how the interpretation of religion relies comes down to the character of the individual.

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    21 mins
  • Guest Spotlight: Embracing Cancel Culture | The Harm of Growing Up On Digital Media
    May 12 2024

    Jordan Klepper sits down with author Lexi Freiman to unpack how her new book, "The Book of Ayn," helps readers understand narcissism through the lense of satire, and how ego deaths can lead to enlightenment. Plus, NYU professor and author, Jonathan Haidt, discusses his latest book, "The Anxious Generation," and how the shift from outside play to the internet and social media has negatively affected young people's mental health and development.

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    28 mins