Ep. 49 - Jon Stewart (Live)
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
CNN
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your |
| 0:13.0 | host, David Axelrod. |
| 0:30.0 | Can I say this is how Jews meet all the time. |
| 0:59.3 | And people aren't paying attention. |
| 1:01.3 | We sneak into churches and just chat. |
| 1:04.3 | That theme song, by the way, was actually the original John D. Rockefeller theme music. |
| 1:09.4 | So you got to be a rich, the oligarchs, whoop. |
| 1:12.3 | To have your own theme music. |
| 1:14.3 | So John, I have to ask you, were you a bin man? |
| 1:17.3 | Me? |
| 1:18.3 | Yes, there's a lot going on out here. |
| 1:20.3 | I've been in line. |
| 1:21.3 | I was out of line. |
| 1:22.3 | Out front. |
| 1:24.3 | Do you wake up ever and say to yourself that this was some kind of big celestial joke on you |
| 1:30.3 | that you announced your retirement from the Daily Show? |
| 1:34.3 | And I see when you did, you said it didn't appear that there was going to be anything wildly different about this election year. |
| 1:42.3 | You had done four others. |
| 1:44.3 | How's that working for you now? |
| 1:46.3 | Well, I mean, I think we talk about it as though it's something incredibly different. |
| 1:51.3 | But in truth, how different is it? |
| 1:53.3 | Really. |
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