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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Daily Show Podcast Universe Episode 3: Slowbama

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Introducing The Daily Show Podcast Universe, a five-episode miniseries, each episode a parody of a popular podcast or podcast genre. Subscribe HERE or search for "The Daily Show Podcast Universe" to hear them all. With the help of historian Douglas Brinkley, this "Slow Burn" parody unpacks in painstaking detail what it was like to live through Barack Obama's "Latte Salute," the greatest scandal in presidential history. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

MTV's official challenge podcast is back for another season and this time the competition is coming from all over the world in the challenge world championship.

0:09.0

We are bringing you episode recaps, interviews with competitors and exclusive behind the scenes looks from the season.

0:16.0

We'll be witnessing the competitive journeys of global MVP's from Argentina, Australia, the UK and the USA teamed up with your favorite challenge legends.

0:25.0

Join us in the climb to finding the first ever world champion.

0:29.0

Listen to MTV's official challenge podcast on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:42.0

Hi there podcast listener. This is Desi Lightick from the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

0:47.0

Letting you know that Slow Bama is just one episode in the Daily Show podcast universe, a new mini series from the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

0:55.0

To hear all five episodes, search for the Daily Show Podcasts universe on Apple Podcasts.

1:02.0

Most people remember where they were when President Obama saluted a Marine while holding a latte.

1:10.0

It's considered by many of America's step-uncles to be the biggest scandal in presidential history.

1:16.0

The Daily Show Podcast universe is proud to introduce the most definitive, most caffeinated history of Obama's latte salutes from the people who lived through it.

1:26.0

This is Slow Bama.

1:34.0

Lauren Mills is a barista at the pizza coffee on 8th and K in Washington, DC.

1:39.0

In many ways, she's a typical barista.

1:42.0

She wears a lot of camouflage vests. She knows a weird amount about Bolivian politics.

1:47.0

She styles her hair in dreadlocks, despite being white.

1:52.0

Spiritually, I just feel Jamaican, you know?

1:55.0

On September 23rd, 2014, Lauren got to work and she did what she does every day. She made coffee.

2:03.0

A large drip with cream, an Americana with four scoops of sugar, and then, at 7.19am,

2:11.0

Lauren received an order for a latte.

2:16.0

And though it was impossible to know it at the time, Lauren Mills was brewing a beverage that would change the course of presidential history.

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