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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | 4/20

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

You can put this podcast in your ears, but be careful not to inhale. It's The Daily Show's coverage of marijuana through the years and the legal system. Michael Kosta reports on the eternal battle between weed and alcohol. Desi Lydic reports, slowly, from the first gas station selling legally. Sarah Silverman takes to the streets to talk legalization and weed baristas. Trevor Noah checks in on Canada going legal. Jessica Williams educates Jon on the updates to weed culture. Jon Stewart discusses the road to legalization with Al Madrigal and Wyatt Cenac. Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert go head to head over legalization and wife swapping. Finally, it turns out monkeys know how to party. -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:17.5

We start tonight with the fundamental battle of the ages, not the one between good and evil.

0:23.6

Evil won that immediately.

0:25.6

I'm talking about the fight between marijuana and alcohol. Alcohol has had the upper hand for decades,

0:32.6

but now it appears that marijuana is pulling ahead.

0:35.6

Well, for the first time ever, daily marijuana use is outpacing daily alcohol use.

0:40.3

This is according to a new national study.

0:42.3

Millions of people in the U.S. report using marijuana daily or nearly every day, according

0:47.3

to the national survey on drug use and health.

0:50.3

Those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or near-daily drinkers of alcohol.

0:55.8

That's right.

0:58.3

Daily pot smokers are beating daily alcohol drinkers in the race to see who can escape their sad lives more quickly.

1:05.1

But in some ways, it makes sense.

1:07.3

You know, edibles are just much more efficient than booze.

1:10.0

I mean, have you ever tried to get a trick-or-treater drunk? It's almost impossible. Of course, the rising

1:17.1

popularity of weed is a good reminder to the beer industry that they got lazy. They thought

1:21.8

they could just sit back and relax while Tommy Chong bought every goddamn ad on Twitter, you know?

1:29.3

Congrats, beer companies. You lost to that well-known, super ambitious, type A, hard-working go-getter, Tommy Chong.

1:36.3

Now, weed and alcohol aside, the larger issue is that maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be depending on all these substances in the first place.

1:46.7

You know, life is much better when you're sober and we can really feel everything authentically.

1:53.9

That's an epiphany I had on my weekly ayahuasca voyage.

2:03.1

Let's take a moment to talk about marijuana,

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