Has America Learned Anything From Its Biggest Disasters? Not Really.
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jon talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, whose book Five Days at Memorial is the basis for the Apple TV+ series of the same name. They discuss why our healthcare system is always ill-equipped for disasters—and whether there’s something else coming our way that we should panic about. Writers Robby Slowik and Maria Randazzo also stop by to talk about the Trump raid, the oddest menu items at Mar-a-Lago, and the scourge of lanternflies
CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Robby Slowik, Maria Randazzo, Sheri Fink
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray, and Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Engineer & Editor: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Frederika Morgan
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Marjorie McCurry, Lukas Thimm
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, and Cassie Murdoch
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem with Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Something on my mind lately has been these crazy land turnflies. |
| 0:04.2 | Have you guys seen them? |
| 0:05.8 | Absolutely. They're all over Jersey. |
| 0:08.4 | By the way, beautiful. |
| 0:10.7 | They are so pretty you don't want to kill them, but unfortunately, you have to. |
| 0:15.8 | Can I tell you something? |
| 0:17.4 | Their beauty makes me want to kill them more. |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, because I am jealous. |
| 0:23.6 | I am, I look at them and I say, how dare you walk this earth with such grace? |
| 0:32.0 | They're like if a ladybug took Ayahuasca. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, welcome to our end of summer. |
| 1:02.4 | Probably podcast with me John Sterb, we got our writers, Robbie Sloughigan, Maria Randazo. |
| 1:06.3 | Let's see. We have a television show. It's on Apple TV. |
| 1:09.2 | Plus, it's, you know, they gave us a new premiere date, I believe, for the second season. |
| 1:14.4 | October 7th, the show comes back on Apple TV. |
| 1:18.1 | Plus, and in a bit we're going to be talking to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, |
| 1:22.7 | Dr. Sherry Fink, and that is not to suggest Robbie and Maria. |
| 1:25.8 | They neither of you are worthy of the Pulitzer Prize in journalism you are. |
| 1:30.1 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah, we keep applying. |
| 1:32.8 | Summer for me is always bittersweet. |
| 1:34.5 | It's when I have to bring all my classified documents back home from my, |
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