TDS Time Machine: Resident Expert John Hodgman
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
You're welcome, problems. Consider yourselves solved, thanks to The Daily Show's Resident Expert. Take a listen to some of our favorite visits from John Hodgman.
Observe as John solves climate change, then explains executive privilege and unpacks the popularity of mixed martial arts. Next he breaks down recession indicators and fixes the economy. Finishing up, he tackles health care, and fixes once and for all the problems with the Catholic Church.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to shift gears just a little bit and talk about another pressing issue that's been in the news, global warming. |
| 0:18.9 | There've been some recent disturbing reports on that front coming from the Arctic Circle. With more, we turn to our resident expert, |
| 0:25.9 | John Hodgman. John, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it. |
| 0:32.2 | What is the general picture today concerning global warming? |
| 0:38.3 | Well, the consensus position among most scientists is it's getting hot in here. |
| 0:44.3 | So take off all your clothes. |
| 0:47.3 | Right. But why specifically do the scientists think that? |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, specifically. Well, new findings reveal that in the past five years, the glaciers around Greenland have melted at twice their previous rate. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, this map shows the contours of the Arctic glacial masses as they exist today. But at this rate of glacial retreat, within only three |
| 1:11.5 | generations, the seas could rise as much as a meter, changing the map dramatically. |
| 1:18.1 | When you say dramatically, you were talking about the change of the water level or... |
| 1:22.6 | No, that explosion between the two of them. |
| 1:24.6 | The maps. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | It was very dramatic. That was a dramatic change. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.3 | The arrows on that chart, is that wildlife migrating? |
| 1:33.3 | No, those are unfrozen cavemen moving from place to place. |
| 1:37.3 | We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. |
| 1:43.3 | Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem. |
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