Jon Talks Racial Injustice & Inflation
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
We’re doubling up the content—and the problems. Jon talks with Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about racial injustice in America today. But first, alongside staff writers Henrik and Kasaun, Jon welcomes inflation expert Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, to discuss greedy CEOs jacking up prices.
CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Kasaun Wilson, Henrik Blix, Lindsay Owens, Bryan Stevenson, Maria Randazzo
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Designer & Audio Engineer: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Kwame Opam
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Haley Denzak
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, Anne Bennett, Deniz Çam, Harjyot Ron Singh
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 | Who plays you in your biopic, John? |
| 0:02.0 | In my biopic? |
| 0:03.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.1 | Chuck Schumer is probably the winner. |
| 0:06.8 | I was, I'm on the daily show. |
| 0:12.6 | It's a wonderful program. |
| 0:15.2 | Come on. |
| 0:18.4 | It's time Chuck Schumer got his big acting break. |
| 0:22.6 | Also, I'm gonna like when they have to in the biopic |
| 0:25.2 | redo big daddy featuring Chuck Schumer. |
| 0:33.7 | Can you do the whole Brian Stevens interview like that? |
| 0:36.0 | Please, uh, you're working in Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 0:45.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:46.1 | Stop throwing me off. |
| 0:47.1 | Here we go. |
| 1:07.9 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:09.9 | The problem, uh, which John Stewart, which we all know is, is enormous. |
| 1:13.7 | Henry Blix case on Wilson, are joining us there. |
| 1:17.3 | Two of our, our finest writers, the, the podcast today, uh, we're, we're, we're, we're |
| 1:22.0 | covering an awful lot. |
| 1:23.0 | We're, we're doing it in a slightly different way. |
| 1:24.6 | We're gonna be bouncing around. |
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