Best Of: Comic Ronny Chieng / Writer Miranda July

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🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

After Trevor Noah started anchoring The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Ronny Chieng as a field correspondent who could offer a global perspective. Now Chieng is one of the show's anchors. He's third generation Chinese Malaysian, and grew up in Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. He has a new Netflix comedy special.

Also, filmmaker and writer Miranda July talks about her novel, All Fours. It's about a 45-year-old married woman, her erotic affair with no actual sex, perimenopause, and the related fears of losing her libido and getting older.

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0:23.3	From W.H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:29.8	This is the Daily Show with your host, Ronnie Chang.
0:35.0	Today we hear from Ronnie Chang. After Trevor Noah started hosting the Daily Show in 2015,
0:41.3	he brought on Chang as a field correspondent who could offer a global perspective. Now Chang is one of the show's hosts.
0:48.5	He's third generation Chinese Malaysian and grew up in Malaysia, Singapore, and the U.S.
0:53.5	He has a new Netflix comedy special.
0:56.3	Also, filmmaker and writer Miranda July talks about her novel
0:59.9	All Fours. It's about a 45-year-old married woman, her erotic affair with no actual sex,
1:06.5	beginning perimenopause, and the related fears of losing her libido and getting older.
1:16.3	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:20.9	Lately on the NPR Politics Podcast, we're talking about a big question.
1:25.7	How much can one guy change?
1:27.9	They want change.
1:29.3	What will change look like?
1:30.5	Or energy.
1:31.7	Drill, baby drill.
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