Rep. Katie Porter Can Explain Anything: Inflation, GO!
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re talking to Rep. Katie Porter, the Democratic congresswoman from California’s 47th district, who wields her whiteboard like a weapon. She explains (in plain English!) what we’ve got wrong about inflation and why Congress isn’t jumping at the chance to fix it. She updates us on the midterm elections, breaks down the hypocrisy of Republican rhetoric on crime, and blows our minds about why political ads never show members of Congress doing actual work. Plus, we’ve got writers Jay Jurden and Alexa Loftus here talking about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Stream our newest episode, “Allies: Friends Without Benefits, ” starting November 4 on Apple TV+!
Credits:
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Jay Jurden, Alexa Loftus, Rep. Katie Porter
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Engineer & Editor: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Freddie Morgan
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Margorie McCurry, Lukas Thimm
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, 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 | I really do believe that though about like everybody's like, |
| 0:02.6 | oh, Twitter's so horrible now and you're like, |
| 0:04.4 | wasn't it always? |
| 0:05.8 | I think it's just slightly more hate speech buzzwords, right? |
| 0:09.9 | The fact that Elon Musk has it now, |
| 0:11.8 | he basically, to me, he bought a toilet. |
| 0:14.1 | And you said the problem with this toilet is people |
| 0:16.5 | don't shit enough in it. |
| 0:18.1 | And you're like, what? |
| 0:39.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome once again to the podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | It's called The Problem with me, John Stewart. |
| 0:44.1 | Uh, the show's currently on Apple TV plus season two. |
| 0:46.4 | We are joined as always by a couple of our writers today. |
| 0:49.4 | We've got Jay Jerdin and Alexa Loff. |
| 0:51.0 | This are going to be joining us. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello. |
| 0:53.0 | Today we're going to be talking to Congresswoman Katie Porter, |
| 0:55.0 | California of the podcast, who is just such a clear and concise |
| 1:00.7 | and effective communicator. |
| 1:02.4 | Here I say a star. |
| 1:03.7 | A star. |
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