The Precap | Josh Johnson on Speedrunning the End of an Empire
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Hello and welcome to The Precap, a Daily Show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to preview what's coming up and recap some of the latest news. I am Nicole Conlon. I'm a writer at The Daily Show and I am joined today by the one and only Josh Johnson. Hi, Josh.
How's it going?
I'm good. How are you?
I'm doing my best. How are you?
I'm good. It's been obviously like a crazy week. So I'm feeling a little insane. But I mean, I'm fine.
Yeah. It's a very honest answer.
Thank you. It's well, people are always like, oh, how's the Daily Show going? How is it? And it's like the show is great. The milieu of the news in which we work every day is very bad.
Yeah.
So it is there is a contrast between the my my job is great, but the focus of my job not great.
It's also not even is not even just bad. It's like, yeah, I don't know who it's good for. There are some times where you look back, especially if you take it back to like, I don't know, Bush era. And there could be people who are like. oh, I just don't think about politics that much or I don't get into politics. And there was more than politics to talk about. The politics just seemed to seep its way into everything else. And then there would be things that happened that... you could take a real side or stance on. And it feels like more and more there'll be something that happens where I'm like, look, maybe it's my biased opinion, but this is starting to seem objectively bad. I don't know how you could be like, oh, well, that's good.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah. Speaking of objectively bad, let's talk about some things that we missed. We were so preoccupied with the impending civil war at home that we haven't really talked a lot on the show about how there's a whole impending war with Greenland as well. Yeah. And now European troops have arrived in Greenland to boost the Arctic island security. And these are troops from France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Yeah, I mean, one, I have to commend you on having such great presentation and voice that as you deliver lines that are clearly dystopian, you actually do it with the cadence of like a sci-fi post-apocalyptic opening. Thank you.
I did go to acting school for one year. So that's paying off now.
How do Josh Johnson and Nicole Conlan view the current news cycle?
Because you were like, instead of this Civil War, there could be another Civil War.
Yeah.
So yeah, I think that's part of what I was talking about when I'm like, that seems very bad. That seems very bad that your other, what, NATO allies are like, we may have to shoot you. That's one of those things where I don't know who feels good about this. Maybe I don't know enough people, but I feel like I don't know anybody that's like, this is actually phenomenal.
There is one guy who's a one issue voter for Trump who was like, we got to get Greenland.
We got to get Greenland because I've only been once. And I think I'd like to be in a shorter line.
Yeah. I did not like the exchange rate.
I didn't love the exchange rate. And when I landed, I just the line with your passport, it'd be easier if it just said you have a U.S. passport.
Yes. So I know that everything they say is a lie and this is not why they're doing it. But the reason that Trump keeps giving is we need it for security. We need it for security. We need it for security of both our security and Europe's security. But the thing is, like the whole point of NATO is like we can kind of delegate that so we don't have to do all the security. So you're sort of just making more work like Greenland was secure. Yeah.
It was secure. I don't know what the... I try to never enter any argument that the administration makes as if it's a good faith argument.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:18
2
How do Josh Johnson and Nicole Conlan view the current news cycle?
3:18–10:00
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What are the implications of Trump's actions towards Greenland?
10:00–16:10
4
What are the upcoming Oscar nominations and their significance?
16:10–21:48
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How can individuals contribute positively in challenging times?
21:48–55:21
Speakers
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