RFK Jr.’s Fiery Hearing, Rethinking Social Media | Filmmaker Rachel Mason

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Michael Kosta tackles RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing for health secretary, his questionable stances on vaccines and AIDS, and Bernie Sanders's onesie interrogation. The polio virus (Troy Iwata) shares his excitement about returning to work. Grace Kuhlenschmidt asks New Yorkers if they will finally delete their apps now that Trump-aligned billionaires run various social media platforms, Filmmaker Rachel Mason sits down to discuss her new Max docuseries, “An Update on Our Family.” She explains what attracted her to the story of popular YouTube vloggers who shared their overseas adoption online, the ethics of profiting off your children via content, and how she navigates oversharing on her own social media accounts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:06.7	From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central,
0:10.7	it's America's only sorts for news.
0:14.0	This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Costa.
0:18.3	Thank you. Michael Costa.
0:36.2	Welcome to the other show.
0:37.4	I'm Michael Costa.
0:40.3	We've got so much to talk about tonight.
0:43.5	RFK Jr. tries to act normal for a day.
0:46.4	Americans figure out how to live without social media,
0:48.9	and we'll tell you the worst way to kill a mouse.
0:52.5	But first, let's get to the latest news on the Trump administration in another edition of the second coming of Donald J. Trump.
1:00.4	I'm going to cop.
1:09.3	Today is a big day for Donald Trump's cabinet and and the government won, not the one filled with golf trophies he gave himself.
1:16.4	That's because today was the world's weirdest episode of curb your enthusiasm, also known as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health.
1:29.1	And look, we all remember the stories about this guy from the campaign, the dead bear cub he dumped in Central Park,
1:35.9	the time he sought off the head of a dead whale and tied it to the roof of his car, the worm that died after eating part of his brain.
1:46.3	Basically, if there's an animal corpse anywhere in America, RFK Jr. is probably involved.
1:52.7	But what most people are most concerned about when it comes to RFK Jr.
1:57.4	It's this long history of speaking out against vaccines. And I'm not talking your
2:02.9	run-of-the-mill concerns like, should I still get a flu shot if I don't care about getting
2:07.9	other people sick? Or do I need an HPV vaccine if I only do hand stuff? I'm talking about
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