The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Trump Bails Out Farmers & Sean Duffy and RFK Jr. Pitch Airport "Improvements" | Cory Doctorow
10 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Good day, we show. I'm Roy Chang. We got so much to talk about tonight. Trump pretends to care about soccer. Our national parks just got a little extra nationalist. And RFK Jr. tells you the best way to feed your baby before he gives it measles. So let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off with national parks. You know, that thing you see when you fall asleep in front of your Apple TV.
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Chapter 2: What changes did the Trump administration make to national parks?
What? Everyone at the airport's already exhausted from traveling, all right? We came and walked to the gate. They had to invent floors that walk for us. Also, this is the same guy who wants us to dress up when we fly. So what, now I'm doing pull-ups in a tuxedo before I jump on a 12-hour flight to Hawaii?
Why don't you just throw in a hot yoga room in the terminal so everyone really smells like shit when they board the plane? And weirdly enough, everyone's favorite RFK, RFK Jr., was also at this press conference for some reason. What's RFK Jr. 's genius solution for making airports better?
Another experience that I've had with all these kids in airports is the availability of nursing spaces, nursing pods.
Okay.
You know, that's actually a nice sentiment from RFK Jr. It should be more convenient to nurse in public spaces. And I assume he stopped talking before things got weird.
All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast. There is no better food than what's in God-given breast milk.
Okay, he found a way to make it weird. What's the nipple version of a boner killer? I mean... Nipples are so soft right now. I mean, I'm surprised he didn't stop, sniff the air, and then announce that a nearby reporter was on her moon. If RFK wasn't behind a podium, he would get arrested by airport security. Just yelling in the terminal, praise God for mother's breaths.
Also, why is he saying it like he got an endorsement deal with titty juice? Use promo code BRAINWARM for 10% off your next suckle. Of course, the press conference ended the same way all government press conferences do, with a masculinity contest. Check this out.
It's Bobby Kennedy doing pull-ups at Reagan International Airport in D.C. He and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had a friendly pull-up competition as they were encouraging travelers to exercise while they wait. Yeah, looks good. Yeah. Two, three, four.
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Chapter 3: How is Trump planning to bail out farmers?
Amazing. It's so fun. He picked up that medal with all the grace and dignity of a man holding a used condom on his way to the crash.
That's amazing.
Incredible, incredible. And you know what? He's never used one, so what a natural. This brings us to my favorite part of award shows, the acceptance speeches. Oh! Oh! Especially when the winner thanks her spouse. It is so moving.
I want to thank, by the way, my family, my great first lady, Melania. You're right here, and thank you very much.
That...
Wow. That is so true. She was right there.
She really was. She was right there. Yeah, right there. She was.
Who was right there?
She was. Right there.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's $12 billion aid package for farmers?
You're gonna have a great time because you just listened to music and if Trump is no good, you'll say to hell with him, just listen to the music. I wanna listen to the music, get off the stage. Well, clearly that MRI revealed a funny bone. I can't believe that this is the first time a president has hosted this ceremony.
What were all the other presidents doing that was more important than hosting an awards show?
I don't know. Beats me. Honestly, we'll never know. I guess we'll never know.
Sometimes it's good to not know the truth.
We won't know.
Anyway, this is our last Who Won It Best of 2025. And so before we go, I just want to say, Desi, you are right there.
Oh.
Okay, thank you, Nancy and Troy. When we come back, Cory and Doctor will be joining you on the show, so don't go away. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is a journalist, internet activist, and author whose latest book is called Enshitification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Please welcome the one and only Mr. Cory Doctorow. Thank you. Thank you.
Welcome to The Daily Show. Welcome. So nice. Thank you. You're a legend, man.
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Chapter 5: What airport improvements did Sean Duffy propose?
Well, that's what they're doing. These companies, they bought all their competitors. Google, it's not Willy Wonka's Idea Factory. It's Rich Uncle Pennybags. They buy other people's toys and play with them.
You take away Google's predatory acquisitions, they wouldn't have a mobile stack, they wouldn't have an ad tech stack, they wouldn't have server management, they wouldn't have document collaboration, they wouldn't have navigation. They haven't made a successful consumer-facing product in this millennium. Everything they make dies.
They only have successful products when they buy them from other people and operationalize them. You're talking mad shit. about Google right now, man. But it's not like this fell on our heads or the iron laws of economics dictated it. We decided not to enforce antitrust law.
And the economists who said, oh, no, monopolies are actually good, today when we're surrounded by monopolies, they're like, how do you know it's our fault? This is like we used to not have a rat problem because we used rat poison. And these guys said, you don't need the rat poison. Rats are eating our faces off. And they're like, why do you think that's my fault?
Maybe it's like sunspots that ushered in the time of the rat by making them more fecund than at any time in human history. And yes, it's true, the rats did buy the rat poison factories and shut them down, but we're not using rat poison anymore. That's just Pareto optimal economically rational behavior. So these are not mysterious causes.
You have to have the kind of specific neurological injury that you can only get by paying for an economics degree to not understand how this arose. So your solution is to just increase pressure from regulators? No, I think we have like four levers we can pull on to make the tech platforms work better, and it's what used to make them work better.
Oh, sorry, before we go on to that, I just thought we'd probably forget this, because you're hitting me with a lot here.
How much of this is just this nostalgia play for the old internet? And we've had nostalgia even before internet. We've had nostalgia for the films used to be better. Typhoid used to be better back in the day. So it's like maybe there's this nostalgia play in your head of this older internet that was made by the smartest people on the planet that only the next 10% of smart people could use.
And we had this internet where it was just a very good faith, altruistic thing that people were trying to problem solve. And now we've democratized the internet to a point where anyone can log on from their toilet seat. And so now you have a bunch of morons on the internet. And so, yes, things have gotten shittier, but it's gotten shittier because all the dumbasses have gone to internet now.
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Chapter 6: What was RFK Jr.'s suggestion for enhancing airport experiences?
President Xi asked me that question. He said, really? I had never heard of it.
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