TDS Time Machine | The Constitution
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Take a moment with The Daily Show to consider the constitution, while it still exists.
John Hodgman joins Jon Stewart to fix the constitution. Michael Kosta meets the man responsible for getting the 27th amendment over the finish line. Old Timey Jon Stewart checks in on Mississippi, the last amender, in 19th Century News. Trevor Noah hears Trump's argument to terminate the constitution. Author A.J. Jacobs joins the show to talk about his Year of Living Constitutionally.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1. |
| 0:09.1 | Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil. |
| 0:13.7 | I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known. |
| 0:18.5 | At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer. |
| 0:21.0 | Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9th on the I Heart |
| 0:25.7 | Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.3 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:39.5 | Welcome back. |
| 0:46.4 | The national immigration debate is more contentious than ever, |
| 0:48.9 | with growing fears of these anchor babies we talked about earlier. |
| 0:49.7 | Terror babies. |
| 0:51.9 | Muppet babies coming to our shores. |
| 0:56.0 | By the way, you should check out the new Muppet character, Anchor Me Terror Baby. Adorably destructive to our country. |
| 1:00.0 | The trouble stems from the Constitution itself, specifically the 14th Amendment's promise of birthright citizenship. |
| 1:05.0 | The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to, quote, |
| 1:08.0 | all persons born or naturalized in the United States to protect newly freed slaves and their children and guarantee their rights as citizens. |
| 1:17.5 | Last time I checked, I don't think we're having that problem anymore. |
| 1:20.8 | I don't think the founders understood when they did the 14th Amendment. |
| 1:26.0 | It would create a circumstance where people could fly |
| 1:29.0 | into America all over the world and have a child, and that child would have dual citizenship. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, two things real quick. |
| 1:36.2 | A, the founders didn't write the 14th Amendment, that happened in the 1860s. |
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