Jon Stewart Makes the Case for Dems Holding the Line in Trump's Shutdown Warfare | Tristan Harris

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jon Stewart dives into the emerging effects of the government shutdown, the battle over healthcare that has Republicans and Democrats pointing fingers, and Trump's delight in using the shutdown to continue steamrolling Democrats and the Constitution. Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology Tristan Harris sits down with Jon to discuss how AI has already disrupted the workforce as current iterations of the technology have dropped entry-level work by 13%, tech companies prioritization of their first-to-market stance over product and human safety, and how reliance on AI is stifling human growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
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0:13.9	This is The Daily Show with your host, Sean Duhra.
0:18.1	Thank you. John Stewart! Oh, my God, my, my, my, my, my, my, my! Hey, everybody.
0:45.9	Welcome to the show.
0:46.9	My name is John Stewart.
0:48.2	Man, man.
0:49.6	And I say this a lot.
0:50.6	And this time, though, seriously, I mean it.
0:52.4	I haven't meant it in the past.
0:55.6	We've got a great show for you tonight.
0:57.5	We truly do.
0:59.0	Tonight we do.
1:02.0	Later on, we'll be joined by technology ethicist Tristan Harris.
1:05.8	He co-founded the Center for Humane Technology, which involves the free-range raising
1:11.9	and also unfortunately slaughtering of iPhones.
1:18.1	But first, let's get into our ongoing coverage of shut down, showdown, 2025.
1:26.4	Locked up,
1:27.9	locked down, and closed
1:29.2	the business.
1:31.8	Yes.
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