Hi, everyone from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is on with Kara Swisher, and I'm

Kara Swisher. My guest today is an extremely funny man and a real joy to be around,

comedian Josh Johnson. You might know Josh as one of the regular correspondents on The Daily

Show. He's the guy often doing the person on the street interviews about everything from

terrorists to Trump to Black History Month. But if you're really smart, you know him from social

media where he's really built up his

following and has been blowing up of late. Josh has over a million followers on Instagram,

over one and a half million subscribers on YouTube and two million followers on TikTok, and he's

incredibly prolific. He's built a following by regularly posting bits of his stand-up routines,

which are long philosophical

journeys, where he connects news, politics, and pop culture to everyday struggles. I think he's

just a real treasure and someone who is incredibly thoughtful. And one of the best parts of it

is I was introduced to him by my son, Louis, who's 20 years old, who's been listening

to him for a long time and really enjoys his really thoughtful takes on lots of things,

and I think that's a good sign for our youth. Josh is currently on tour around the country,

the Flowers Tour. I spoke to him on Monday in between gigs at a live event at the

Great Hall of the Cooper Union

for the advancement of science and art. Cooper is a private college in New York City, offering

degrees in architecture, art, and engineering, and the Great Hall has been the site of civic

discourse and free public programming since 1859. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Barack Obama have spoken here, and now

me and Josh Johnson. I also gave a commencement address for Cooper Union a couple years ago,

and it was fantastic. And in this one, it was equally so. We had a packed house at a really

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