Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the weekly show podcast.

My name is John Stewart.

It is, I've told you this April 8th.

I always tell you now the day that we're taping this because of the velocity by which change occurs in this nation,

which is becoming great again by leaps and bounds.

You may say to yourself, okay,

occasionally we take a step or two back,

but clearly in the right direction.

So this comes out Thursday.

So by then, we could be at war with China or more likely,

I think President Trump will do the thing that he always does. And I use this analogy with Rahm Emanuel

on the show, but I think it's instructive to say it again here. I used to have a dog who would eat

things on his own volition. This was not, he was not encouraged to do so.

He would eat grass and sticks and whatever he could find outside.

Inevitably, he had a delicate stomach.

He is my dog after all.

That's how we knew we were each other's soulmates.

The way I process lactose is the way he processed everything that he would eat from the

outside.

He would become nauseous, he would vomit.

And then before I had a chance to get the towels, he would lap it up, clean it up.

And then he would look at me like, hey, huh, buddy?

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