TDS Time Machine | President's Day
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Get up close with four presidents of the United States discussing some of their most personal causes.
Former President Jimmy Carter sits down with Jon Stewart to explain his efforts to eradicate the harmful Guinea Worm. Former President Bill Clinton talks about his foundation's campaign to combat ebola. President Barack Obama joins Trevor Noah to unpack how to be authentic amidst the demands of the presidency. Then Senator Joe Biden talks to Jon about how he would approach the presidency, and what it means to him.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome back to my guests tonight. |
| 0:10.7 | He was the 39th president of these United States. |
| 0:13.5 | He is here to discuss how his nonprofit organization, |
| 0:15.4 | the Carter Center, has nearly eradicated the guinea worm disease. |
| 0:18.2 | Please welcome back to the program, President Jimmy Carter. |
| 0:20.6 | Thank you. eradicated the guinea worm disease. Please welcome back to the program. President Jimmy Carter. |
| 0:34.9 | Nice to see it. |
| 0:37.2 | Here's what I didn't realize. Okay, so you have this thing that you start |
| 0:40.8 | in 1986. Right. Carter Center goes and they say, this guinea worm is a problem. Explain |
| 0:47.9 | very quickly what it is, because I can't do it justice. Guinea worm, if you drink water |
| 0:52.2 | out of a filthy waterhole, which fills up during the rainy season and then stays dry. |
| 0:57.0 | It doesn't have any fresh water. |
| 0:59.0 | Then you drink the guinea worm eggs, and then a year's time it grows to a worm about 30 inches long. |
| 1:05.0 | And then it stings the inside of your skin, epidermis, and then it creates a sore, a big sore, and it emerges. |
| 1:11.5 | It takes it 30 days to come out, and it destroys muscle tissue and leaves you a cripple. |
| 1:16.5 | And terrible pain. |
| 1:18.0 | Horrible pain, almost indescribable pain, yeah. |
| 1:20.9 | And this is, I have, they, a lot of times when a movie is coming out, they'll send me a little |
| 1:25.3 | something like a Nerf ball with the name of the movie on it. |
| 1:28.4 | Your people sent me a dead guinea world. |
| 1:31.7 | I bet it's dead. |
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