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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Daily Show jumps in our time machine and heads back to this day in 2013: the nation is in the middle of a Republican-caused government shutdown and the Democrats have just botched the nationwide rollout of Obamacare. Host Jon Stewart recaps the failed launch before diving deep into HealthCare.gov’s glitches and issues with John Oliver. Stewart then celebrates the legalization of same-sex marriage in New Jersey, recapping a wedding ceremony officiated by a very excited Cory Booker. Alan Greenspan then joins Jon to discuss his new book "The Map and the Territory" and the lessons learned in the years since the Great Recession. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Devon Simone and I'm Tori Diel and we've got some very exciting news for
0:05.6	our fellow challenge fans. The challenge USA is back for a second season featuring fan favorite
0:11.9	contestants from your favorite CBS shows. Yes, so join us on MTV's official challenge podcast
0:17.3	as we watch CBS reality Titans compete against challenge legends for the title of America's best.
0:23.8	Listen to MTV's official challenge podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts,
0:28.5	or wherever you get your podcasts. You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:39.6	October 21, 2013. On Comedy Central's world news headquarters in New York,
0:47.6	this is the Daily Show with Khan Stewart.
1:17.6	Can't believe we have a picture for that. That's all the Democrats have to do to gain like an
1:36.8	80% to 20% advantage in this country. All that stands in their way is a mildly competent
1:44.2	implementation of the healthcare policy they battled so hard to keep. Let's take a look.
1:48.9	The word glitch has been used by the White House. That sounds promising.
1:56.1	Let's hear more. Healthcare.gov has been plagued by glitches,
2:00.5	riddled with glitches glitches glitches glitches glitches glitches glitches glitches glitches
2:03.7	of snafu the bugs the kinks whatever you want to call this a glitches.
2:07.8	Yes, apparently the healthcare.gov website has 99 problems but a glitch is all of them.
2:17.6	Which let's me introduce our new segment spinning beach ball of healthcare.
2:28.7	So what are we talking about here a few page freezes?
2:31.9	Many who want to sign up or having trouble just getting on to the website logging on.
2:38.0	Okay, so the first step doesn't work.
2:47.6	Well, I have a feeling after that it's wrong information on Medicaid eligibility
2:54.3	and long delays in timeouts.
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