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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Air Travel

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Daily Show enters airplane mode in this look back at the ups and downs of air travel. 

Ronny Chieng takes a look at the worst in air travel trends from fights to live scorpions to dead rabbits. Trevor Noah and Desi Lydic take a look at airplane bathrooms. Trevor takes a look at some of Southwest's shortcomings, the risks of in flight water, and flying with babies, then sheds some light on the worst of airline seating. Finally, Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng see some light at the end of the tunnel with some mandated improvements in the future.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:04.6

Ever since United Airlines got in trouble

0:10.9

for upgrading a passenger to wrestling class,

0:13.3

people have started paying close attention

0:16.2

to how airlines treat customers.

0:18.0

You know, there have been many viral videos

0:19.6

of crazy stuff that's happening on airplanes.

0:22.0

In fact, they're thinking about starting

0:24.0

an airline for World Star Airlines, right?

0:27.6

And basically what happens is

0:28.7

you're just going to choose your section,

0:30.4

first-class economy or McDonald's parking lot.

0:33.0

And then if they have an emergency,

0:35.4

phones drop down from the ceiling

0:36.7

so that you can film yourself.

0:38.5

Ah, World Star!

0:41.7

For more on the trends in travel, we turn to senior travel correspondent.

0:46.2

Ronnie Chang, everybody.

0:47.2

Thank you.

0:47.9

Thank you.

0:50.7

Thanks, Trevor.

0:52.3

Look, flying sucks, right?

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