Chapter 1: What embarrassing football bet did Jon Stewart discuss?
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Was there ever a moment of empathy that stuck out with you at one of those rallies?
A moment of empathy that stuck out with me?
Something like time.
No, that is a good question. You know what? This last election cycle, I went to a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. And it was terrible weather, and we were talking to people in the morning. And as I was talking to people, there was this guy who dresses in a brick suit suit. It's a bespoke suit that looks like Trump's wall. And he has a handlebar mustache. And he dresses like the wall.
And he's one of the first people in line. And Trump often brings him up on stage. So he's a mini celebrity there.
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Chapter 2: How does Jon Stewart view the labeling of fascists?
And he started hounding us at this rally. And he was live streaming. And he was saying, fuck these guys. Don't talk to these guys. These guys are fake news. And to be fair, he's right. But he sort of trolled us for hours that day. He literally took out a phone and he stuck it into a wall. He's obsessed with walls. to try to capture something.
Our crew was on a smoke break, and he wanted to try to capture something to get them in trouble. And it was a long, hellish day of filming, and it was a snowstorm. And so we rushed to the airport, and we got snowed into Green Bay, Wisconsin for the night, because we usually try to leave. And so we stay in Green Bay. And the next day, we all leave on different flights.
Chapter 3: What surprising encounter did Ronny Chieng have with Bill Murray?
And I go to the airport alone. And I show up at the airport, and my flight is delayed three and a half hours. And who is there? but Brick Suit Man. And this is the Green Bay Airport, so nobody else is there. And he looks at me and he says, do you want to talk? And obviously I'm like, no, I don't want to talk. This is a nightmare. This is before I'm traveling with four security guards.
And Real Talk Security Protocol has changed the story. But I sat down with him. And for the first half hour, we're all sort of feeling each other out. But then once we got past this fear, his fear that I got a camera crew trying to catch him, and my fear that he's trying to have some sort of gotcha moment with me as well. We started talking about shit.
Chapter 4: What insights did Jordan Klepper share about MAGA interviews?
I started to learn about him. He started to learn about me. I asked him about things I thought were BS about Donald Trump. He was open and vulnerable about the things and the weaknesses he saw in Donald Trump. There wasn't a middle ground that we found, but there was a softening in those relations. And I'd like to tell you that, like, Brick Suit Guy was crazy. And he's not. He was a smart guy.
He was an ideological guy. He was a conservative guy, more libertarian, loved to be a shit poster on the internet. But he wasn't an idiot. We talked for 3 and 1 half hours. And as we walk, we literally get on the plane. We walk. We're talking all the way up to get on the plane.
Chapter 5: How did Jon Stewart react to being trolled at a rally?
And I show my ticket to the ticket taker. And she goes, oh, you're in an exit row. And I'm like, oh, and I'm like, she says, do you accept the responsibilities of being the exit row? And I say, yes, I do. And then I turn to Brick Suit Guy and I say, I hope this freaks you out. And then you know what happens? He laughs. And to me, that is the whole thing. Like, he wasn't offended.
He didn't take it personally. He found humor in that moment. And I'm like, I find optimism in that. I don't know how to recreate three and a half hours in a Green Bay airport with a nemesis of yours. But I know that there's a softening when you remove the cameras.
when you move the fear that this conversation isn't just transaction for a got-you moment, but an actual conversation about the things that you care about and things you're unsure about.
Chapter 6: What was the unexpected outcome of the Green Bay airport experience?
I think that kind of vulnerability, that kind of uncertainty is paramount in any kind of situation that you hope to find any kind of humanity or common ground. And so I think that is there. I don't think we live in a media environment that cultivates that situation, but I think we are humans that necessitate it.
And so that has not been erased by Donald Trump, uh, but it has been pushed to the sides of the conversation. And so if we can find a way to allow that conversation to not exist only on the periphery but somewhere in our own lives, I think we're gonna get through that. Cool?
Let's do some Zed.
Now, I'm going to bring out somebody right now who has also been through a lot. He is a correspondent on the show, but he hurt his foot. Yeah, he hurt his fifi. He tripped on a curb. So I'm going to bring him out now very slowly, but I want you to give him encouragement. Michael Kosta, ladies and gentlemen. His crutches are my height.
I'll tell you what I mean how you feel I really did a number on my ankle.
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Chapter 7: What injury did Michael Kosta discuss during the episode?
Do you want to tell them the story? So can I tell? Michael is like an actual real kind of world-class athlete, to be honest. It's kind of unusual for comedy. Like, he has a functioning body and face. So when he came in, I thought this was, Michael was like a world-class tennis player. And so I thought it was that. Yeah.
And it was? I fell off a curb. My wife and four-year-old went skiing. I was in charge of the two-year-old. So I took her to a water park. No one else got injured except for me. I was the only one not doing anything.
Chapter 8: What reflections did the hosts share about empathy in political discourse?
And I fell on a curb and I'm at that age, John.
People ran- I'm at the age where if I had fallen on a curb, I would no longer be working in show business.
Well, and also, selfishly, people came over to check on me. I thought, they're really checking on my child. You had your child with you. I had my child with me. And she was crying, but she was more crying like, how did you fall on the curb? Anyways. It was a cry of disappointment. But you're okay now. I'm okay.
Are you x-rayed?
Is it broken? I'm not x-rayed. I know. It's super swollen. I also have to host this week, and I just, I get annoyed that you get so much attention on Mondays. Yeah. So I wanted to hurt myself. But you... You played collegiate soccer.
I did play collegiate soccer, but I will, not to be self-effacing, it was in the 80s when soccer, I mean, the level of, we could still use our hands. It was really, at that point, American soccer was more like elevated kickball. Most of us know we should take control of our finances, but it's hard to know where to start.
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He's a basketball player for the, we call him the New York Knickerbockers. He's a point guard for our New York Knickerbockers. He and I made a bet about two months ago. His bet was if the New York Giants lose to the Philadelphia Eagles in the regular season, I have to wear a Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey to Madison Square Garden. I accepted this bet even though this bet is an inevitability.
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