The Daily Show: Ears Edition
The Precap | Josh Johnson on the Government Doing Comedy, and Doing Comedy for a Government
06 Oct 2025
This week's host Josh Johnson sits down with Daily Show writer Ashton Womack to preview the week to come, and recap the headlines they missed. They break down Trump's fake videos, the real pain of a government shutdown, the ethics of performing comedy for foreign governments, the anticipation of a Bad Bunny half-time show, and Cardi B's latest beef with Nicki Minaj. 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
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, Daily Show listeners? It's your boy Ashton Womack, and right now you are tuning into The Precap, the show where we talk about what we missed this week and what's coming up next week. I'm here with Daily Show legend, stand-up comedy legend, my boy, Josh Johnson, everybody. Give him a round of applause.
Oh, legend's a strong word.
Listen, man, I'm going to gas up my friends, dog. If I'm going to talk about my friends, if I get to bring up my friends and host, I'm going to say you save kittens and shit like that. All right. So Josh Johnson, the legendary man. How you been, man? How you living? Feeling good?
i'm i'm doing all right yeah yeah doing doing good good day so far yeah i'm jealous you get to work from home some of us uh some of us don't get that luxury uh you're seeing you know your boy had to come in on his work i do i do see you in and i specifically remember i think you're supposed to be working from home that is
I'm glad. Thank you. Thank you for remembering that. This is what I do for the show, guys. I just want the Daily Show listeners to know how much I give to this show. Showing up. You know, the basic job requirement.
coming to work but uh that's not we ain't here to talk about me we're to talk about some of the things we may have missed this week uh one thing we couldn't have missed was the government shutdown josh how are you feeling about this shutdown is this um i i don't have a government job so i'm not feeling it the way that people who do are feeling it but that's fair
I am genuinely worried about a lot of the people. It's somewhere in the ballpark of 750,000 jobs. Jesus. And that's only because it used to be closer to a million. My numbers might be...
wrong here but I think that since the Trump administration started they've cut anywhere from like 250,000 or a little bit more in jobs that was through Doge and now the 750 left are affected by the shutdown that's an insane number 750,000 you said that's an insane number and I'm hearing that number and I'm trying to think like
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