The Precap | Josh Johnson on Airport Freakouts, Betting Scandals and What to Do With a Billion Dollars
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Everyone, welcome to The Precap, where we sit down with this week's Daily Show host to preview what's coming up and recap some of the news we might have missed. I'm David Angelo, a writer on The Daily Show, and I'm joined today by the Josh Johnson. Josh, coming to us from La Quinta Inn Business Center.
Yeah, yeah, I'm doing my best. I would have loved to be there in person, but the business center called.
Well, we understand. Be careful with those computers. They've got more viruses than the Wuhan Institute of Virology. All right, we're coming out hot. So, Josh, you're hosting The Daily Show this week.
I think that's the... Yeah, I think that's the whole reason we do it.
That's why we're doing it. And... You'd spend four or five weeks since you've hosted, right? And a lot has happened since. You've recorded at least 84 new hours of standup comedy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I do my best. And a lot of other events have taken place. So the question is, what did we miss? What has happened? Was there a time when you were sitting on the sidelines not hosting the last five weeks where there was a big story that came out and you said, geez, you know, I wish I could sub in. I wish I could come Mariano Rivera this thing.
I feel like I have really lucked out that there were weeks where things happened and I was not hosting. And then there are things that happened while I was hosting. Like I actually could not have asked for a better set of events. So there, there hasn't really been a thing that happened where I was like, Ooh, if only I was hosting this week, I would, I would talk about it. I feel like we've done a good job of carrying into the news of the day, the thing that happened that I'm at least interested in. Like, I remember the NBA thing is, it goes deeper and it is crazier than I think a lot of people give credit for.
It's the craziest.
We just don't care for some reason. How is it possible? People don't care. I don't know, man. I'm like, I am so shocked that this isn't a bigger scandal.
It should be the only news story in America right now. For all these years, they've been rigging games, right? I mean, that's like huge. We're still talking about 1919 with the White Sox. A hundred years later, they'd rig one game. We can't get over it. And then the NBA comes out and they're like, oh yeah, no, by the way, everything has been fake the whole time. And we're just like, all right, cool.
There's that. And I don't know if you saw the fights. There's all of this speculation now with a lot of different fights that they've been fixed. So it's just the sports betting was already insane. I can only imagine what it's going to be now that, like now bets will have to be even more insane so people just don't think it's all being rigged all the time.
I mean, I must, I don't know if you sports bet, but I don't, but if I had lost a bet that was a rigged fight, I'd be down, I'd be at small claims court today.
Yeah, yeah.
How do people not get upset about that?
I don't know, man. I mean, I guess if you are gambling a lot, you probably have other problems other than the bets you lost that were fixed fights.
There's a terminal sadness to that.
I do think, so I don't bet at all because I don't, whatever sport I watch, I would like to enjoy the sport. I don't want to watch the sport. I mean, imagine to me, you know, I've always loved mixed martial arts. I've always loved boxing. And so I know boxing has its own long history with fixed fights and everything like that. But I said all that to say that if I were watching that sport, I want to watch it to watch what I think is going to happen and if it happens. If there's money on the game, we're having a totally different conversation.
It takes some of the fun out.
It takes all the fun out.
I lost a $50 bet on how to pronounce Hoist Gracie. Remember Hoist Gracie? Yeah, yeah. The fans listening really love the Hoist Gracie stuff. But what you were saying, you're following mixed martial arts.
Oh, no, I'm just saying I imagine it feels like watching your your child's dance recital, but with money on it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–8:17
2
Why isn't the NBA betting scandal getting more attention?
8:17–11:43
3
How does sports betting change the way we enjoy games?
11:43–27:47
4
What would Josh do if he won a billion dollars?
27:47–36:24
5
Which comic books and creators does Josh collect and recommend?
36:24–40:25
Speakers
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