The Fumes of an Empire: UK Chaos and the U.S. Midterms
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The midterms are two weeks out and chaos just keeps building. The UK is cycling through prime ministers faster than James Bonds as their economic crisis continues. Meanwhile, election deniers in the U.S. are whipping themselves into a frenzy. Jon is joined by British journalist Gabriel Gatehouse to break down what’s happening in the UK, plus what his QAnon and election-conspiracy reporting might tell us about our democracy’s post-election fate—if this election ever ends. Writers Tocarra Mallard and Robby Slowik are also here talking Ye and Adidas, antisemitism, and the conspiracy earworms that have infected us all.
Stream our newest episode, “Midterms: This Is What Democracy Looks Like?,” starting October 28 on Apple TV+.
CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Robby Slowik, Tocarra Mallard, Gabriel Gatehouse
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Engineer & Editor: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Freddie Morgan
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Marjorie McCurry, Lukas Thimm
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, Cassie Murdoch Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem with Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I had always been convinced that this country would absolutely lose its shit. |
| 0:06.9 | Can I say that? |
| 0:07.7 | Well, let's say that. |
| 0:08.8 | You can say whatever you want. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:11.2 | I was convinced that this country was going to lose its fucking shit. |
| 0:16.2 | Whoa, okay. |
| 0:17.1 | Gabriel, take it easy. |
| 0:18.0 | Please. |
| 0:19.5 | Sounded really intense. |
| 0:20.8 | This isn't the BBC. |
| 0:22.0 | We have standards here. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:45.1 | My name is John Stewart and welcome to the podcast of The Problem. |
| 0:48.9 | The show is back on Apple TV Plus. I think we're, I don't know if we're three episodes in or four |
| 0:53.2 | episodes in. I don't watch it. I don't care for it. I find it very pedantic. |
| 0:58.0 | But it's on right now. |
| 0:59.2 | And then we got a little sum up on YouTube. There we got the attorney general of Arizona, |
| 1:03.2 | Mark Burnovitch, little conversation we had for our election show. |
| 1:07.1 | And that is, I believe it's up online now. |
| 1:10.1 | You can watch it. |
| 1:11.2 | And you can comment about it and how pleased you are that the investigations into the 2020 election |
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