My name is Jason Ross and in the spring of 2009, I was a writer at the Daily Show with John Stewart.

And we had a big problem because we had to make comedy about the financial crisis.

And that was hard, much harder than writing jokes about something horrible like the Iraq war.

Everybody understands war. Nobody understood the financial crisis.

It didn't help that we couldn't even trust the experts because they're the ones who got us into this.

In 2009, nobody had any credibility. The media didn't have credibility because they let it happen

under their watch. Wall Street didn't have credibility. They created it. Washington was creating

something called a money bazooka so they didn't have any credibility with us.

So we were kind of in a bind with some of these guests because we didn't trust them 100%

but we also didn't have the expertise to challenge them with much credibility. So we had some

limited options and it was always a lot of work. But on April 15th 2009, we had a guest coming on

who would really give us the goods. I thought, what am I doing here? This is a really bad idea.

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Senator.

Right there. Yeah. There's your hot water. Got it. So thank you for making time for us.

I'm delighted to be here. Let's just jump in. My colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin,

so financial columnist at the time who's written a lot about your career, told me about what feels

like a turning point moment for you back in April of 2009. So that's where I want to start this

conversation. It's the height of the financial crisis and you get a call from the Daily Show

with John Stewart. What do you remember thinking when you got that call? Really? I mean, here I am

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