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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Daily News, Comedy, News

4.2 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What goes up, must come down. Take a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of some of Wall Street's worst days. Jon Stewart an Wyatt Cenac unpack the start of the 2008 stock market crash. Jon further reports on the Clusterf#@k to the Poor House. Resident Deranged Millionaire John Hodgman joins to shill for beryllium investment. Trevor Noah arrives to report on two more recent market meltdowns. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:09.3	October 13, 2008.
0:13.7	From Comedy Central's World News headquarters in New York.
0:17.4	This is the Daily Show with John Stewart.
0:19.5	Thank you. This is The Daily Show with John Stewart.
0:40.3	Welcome to the Daily Show. My name is John Stewart. I hope everybody had a great weekend there.
0:42.3	For a second, I thought everybody was leaving.
0:44.3	Tonight on the show, we got a good one. Author Amity Schlaiz is going to be joining us.
0:48.3	She has written a book on the Great Depression, or as it's soon to be known, the first Great Depression.
0:59.5	G.D.1.
1:02.3	Now, it might seem strange to be discussing an economic downturn today
1:04.7	as the Dow Jones Industrial was up nearly a billion points.
1:09.6	It was up 1,000 points on rumors that money does, in fact, grow on trees.
1:15.3	That's what they were spreading around.
1:17.6	It was very exciting.
1:18.5	Everybody was excited for one day to see the stockbrokers jumping up into their windows.
1:29.5	Tomorrow, of course, the Dow will be down 500 because we are being f***ed with.
1:35.6	But no matter what happens,
1:37.2	there's still good fun to be had
1:38.4	during these tough economic times.
1:39.7	I know it's rough, the economy,
1:41.1	but there's going to be an amusing tidbit
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