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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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While President Trump weighs a bailout for farmers hurt by the trade policies of (checks notes) President Trump, take a listen to The Daily Show's coverage of farms and farmers through the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine a delicious patty nestled between two buns with cheese and ketchup.
0:04.7	It's not a burger.
0:05.6	That patty is actually sausage, which makes this a sandwich.
0:08.6	A breakfast sausage sandwich, the new 199 sausage sandwich from McDonald's.
0:12.8	Made with RSPCA at short pork.
0:15.6	Until 11 a.m.
0:16.6	Price and participation may vary.
0:17.8	Up charges and fees apply to delivery.
0:19.2	Subjects for availability.
0:20.8	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:40.3	Farmers march on Washington. Demand return to agrarian-based economy.
0:42.3	Either that or trucks of money.
0:44.3	Farmers from across the United States marched on Capitol Hill Monday,
0:49.3	hoping to repeal a 1996 law that gave major corporations an advantage over family farms.
0:55.0	The protesters carried placards with slogans like,
0:58.0	Wait a minute, what about the farmer?
1:00.0	And chanting, hey, hey, ho!
1:03.0	Farming requires hay and a...
1:05.0	Ho!
1:09.0	The freedom to farm law removed most federal controls on what farmers grow, letting them shift from crop to crop to better meat market demands.
1:16.6	Unfortunately, most farmers are still unable to grow DVDs and drawstring cargo pants.
1:21.6	Here's one man who is down on the farm.
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