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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Big Pharma

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ask your doctor if this podcast is right for you, as The Daily Show takes a look back at the American pharmaceutical industry. Jon Stewart hulks out on the frustrating lack of progress in lowering health care costs for regular people. Trevor Noah looks at the Sackler family legacy of spreading opioids .Michael Che digs into the world of pharma danger and intrigue. Jon interviews Mark Cuban about his low cost pharmacy initiative. Chelsea Handler weighs in on the social risks of hoarding your Ozempic. Trevor unpacks Trump's quest to end drug addiction via the death penalty, and/or bad commercials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:17.0

But see, this is where the real money is.

0:19.6

The real money, the money our free market-ish system uses to prop up corporate profit at the expense of the taxpayer.

0:28.8

Pharmaceutical companies get everything from our government.

0:31.3

Tax breaks, research grants, patent extensions worth billions of dollars.

0:35.5

And what do we the people get for it?

0:36.8

The highest drug prices in the Western Hemisphere.

0:40.8

And for some reason, the possibility of an infection in our perineum.

0:48.8

Why would you take a drug that would give you an infection in your paroneum?

0:52.3

And why are they telling us about it at dinner time?

0:59.9

But you know what's so horrible about our system now?

1:03.5

And the corruption that laid went in it,

1:05.8

we're so f***ing numb to it.

1:07.5

We actually tout tiny cracks in that exploitation as victory.

1:13.6

President touting the first ever negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to lower the cost

1:18.3

of 10 drugs.

1:19.4

And today, I'm proud to announce the Medicare has reached agreement with all manufacturers

1:23.9

on all 10 drugs selected in the first round of negotiation.

1:28.4

Oh, can it be?

1:30.4

The companies we subsidize with billions of dollars are allowing us the privilege to negotiate

1:36.4

the price of 10 of their drugs, and 10 is all of them, right?

1:41.1

It would be embarrassing if it was a small drop in the bucket and that the American people didn't expect that we

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