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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

In the Field with Michael Kosta

Sun, 06 Apr 2025

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Get out of the office and into the field with the best of Michael Kosta on assignment.  Michael visits Switzerland in a two part special on gun control. Visits Lake Erie to meet the people trying to turn the lake into a person. Finds out why the Proud Boys are so, so frustrated. And finally, learns if he's got what it takes to be a pro gamer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?

09:02 - 09:10 Michael Kosta

Yeah, it's finished. Well said guns and beers. This was an American wet dream, but something was different in this country.

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09:11 - 09:15 Drunk Swiss Roll

We respect arms and if we respect it. It's not the problem.

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09:16 - 09:18 Michael Kosta

Why should I listen to this drunk Swiss roll?

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09:19 - 09:28 Son of Jeremy Scott

I. I was president for five years. You're telling me I'm having beer with the former president of Switzerland? Yes. Cheers.

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00:00 - 00:00 Michael Kosta

Nowhere else could a former president be surrounded by thousands of firearms with no security. How can we get America to feel this safe? That's your problem. That's my problem. Well, that's as neutral as it gets. But he's right. It is our problem. I mean, here they can shoot guns, drink beer, and no one gets hurt. In America, something like this could never happen.

00:00 - 00:00 Michael Kosta

I decided to embrace this culture and hang with the only group that would let me in. Wow. Yeah, you guys got AR-15s here, huh? Meet the Shooting Society of Prez. It was time to show these Swiss fondues how Americans shoot guns. I missed? You missed, yeah.

00:00 - 00:00 Swiss Festival Enthusiast

How did I miss? What do you know? You're 10 years old.

00:00 - 00:00 Skeptical Observer

You probably never even kissed a girl.

00:00 - 00:00 Michael Kosta

You ever take your gun to school? No. No? We don't are American. You're not American? No. OK, well, I can say that, but he can't. These Swiss kids, huh? Even if it is true, because the fact is, for Swiss kids, life with guns is very different.

Chapter 2: How does Switzerland manage gun control effectively?

11:31 - 11:33 Swiss Festival Attendee

I think office.

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11:33 - 11:51 Narrator

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11:51 - 11:52 Narrator

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11:54 - 12:07 Narrator

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1. I just knew him as a kid. Long, silent voices from his past came forward.

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00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement voice

And he was just staring at me.

00:00 - 00:00 Narrator

And they had secrets of their own to share.

00:00 - 00:00 Gilbert King

Gilbert came. I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.

00:00 - 00:00 Narrator

I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.

00:00 - 00:00 Son of Jeremy Scott

Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

Chapter 3: What are the cultural differences in gun ownership between the US and Switzerland?

19:01 - 19:07 Dr. David Lay

Across the alt-right movement, leaders are telling young men not to masturbate. Wait, wait, wait.

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19:09 - 19:28 Michael Kosta

What? Clinical psychologist Dr. David Lay has a theory about why these young men are so angry. They're not strangling their Pepes. They know how to masturbate. They're not going side to side, right? They know it's up and down. I don't think this is a technique issue.

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19:28 - 19:37 Dr. David Lay

They are actually trying not to masturbate. Used to take me hours, now it's like, you know what I mean? Well, I have one hand, so you know, it gets lots of practice.

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19:38 - 19:46 Michael Kosta

This guy masturbates. Dr. Lay explained that the main proponents of this no wank philosophy were the Proud Boys.

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00:00 - 00:00 Proud Boys Representative

Masturbation is lack of impulse control.

00:00 - 00:00 Michael Kosta

The Proud Boys believe that not masturbating increases their testosterone and makes them more desirable to women, which brings up one question.

00:00 - 00:00 Dr. David Lay

Is it working for the Proud Boys? Research actually finds that less masturbation reduces testosterone.

00:00 - 00:00 Michael Kosta

So there's evidence that masturbating makes you a more masculine man.

00:00 - 00:00 Dr. David Lay

A lot of really good things happen in your body and your brain, but also research is finding that people who watch more pornography, they are more feminist, and interestingly, they develop more egalitarian values over time.

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