TDS Time Machine | Civil Unrest
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In Los Angeles and around the country, people are taking to the streets in protest of government overreach. Take a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of protest, counterprotest, and the role of law enforcement.
Jon Stewart unpacks the Occupy Wall Street movement. He covers the protest, politicization, and backlash rising from the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and the death of a peaceful protester in Charlottesville, VA. Trevor Noah speaks on the persistence of police brutality during protests in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:11.4 | We begin right here in New York City. |
| 0:13.1 | There was a march on Wall Street today, |
| 0:14.7 | sponsored by the group Occupy Wall Street |
| 0:16.2 | and, oddly enough, Sunny D. |
| 0:19.5 | For extreme protest thirst. |
| 0:22.7 | The Occupy Wall Street movement has basically been a four-week downtown Manhattan live-in, |
| 0:28.2 | which has spread to cities all around the country, causing the media to move its coverage |
| 0:32.6 | dial from blackout to circus. |
| 0:39.0 | It's too bad. Those are the only two settings |
| 0:41.4 | it has. Intrepid reporters from all the major networks |
| 0:45.5 | and CNN went down to talk with the protesters. |
| 0:49.2 | Of course, the reporters changed into their undercover |
| 0:51.6 | 21 Jump Street outfits. |
| 0:54.3 | What's up, protesters? |
| 0:57.6 | Mind if we chillax with you in HD? |
| 1:01.8 | Because the aspect ratio on the shot's going to be bad ass. |
| 1:08.3 | Why are the protesters there? |
| 1:11.2 | Well, the answers ranged from extremely earnest college roommatey to powerful and cogent. |
| 1:16.5 | What do you guys want? |
| 1:17.9 | Bring attention to the pervasive influence that corporations have in the political process. |
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