In the Field with Desi Lydic
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Get out from behind the desk with some of the best of Desi in the field
Investigate the Yelp protection racket and the truth behind daylight saving time. Then take off for a potential mission to Mars scam, and make a hard swamp landing to uncover the origins of the infamous Florida Man.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:08.1 | Yelp, the most popular crowdsourced review forum online, and a vital resource when choosing which waxing place doesn't laugh so loudly. |
| 0:15.3 | But can we trust everything we read on Yelp? One extremely Italian restaurant owner finds Yelp's business practices so |
| 0:22.3 | devious, he's protesting. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:25.0 | So nice to meet you. |
| 0:26.0 | Mw-a-W-Wa-Wa-W-W-W-W. |
| 0:30.0 | My name is Chef David Celetini. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm a chef owner at Botto Bistro, and I give 50% of a pizza if you give me a one star on Yelp. |
| 0:39.3 | Why would you want a one star review? |
| 0:42.3 | Sorry, let me ask you in terms you can understand. |
| 0:45.3 | What's the matter you? |
| 0:46.3 | If you want to have a good rating on Yelp, you need to pay for advertising. |
| 0:50.3 | And I decide to don't pay advertise. |
| 0:53.3 | So what they do, they manipulate your rating in order for you to give up and pay for advertising. |
| 1:01.0 | According to Davide, when he refused to pay Yelp to advertised, he noticed dozens of five-star reviews disappearing from his Yelp page. |
| 1:10.0 | To me, that is extortion. |
| 1:12.2 | Manipulated. |
| 1:13.3 | Extortion. Yes, I'm Italian. |
| 1:15.1 | We invent extortion. |
| 1:16.9 | Well, yeah, I mean, you're not just Italian. |
| 1:19.4 | You're, like, cartoonishly Italian. |
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