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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Precap | Michael Kosta on Trump Accounts, Social Media's ICE Freeze, and a Hot Winter Olympics

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week's Daily Show host Michael Kosta is joined by writer Kat Radley to recap the news of the week, and preview what's to come. They dig into the new Trump account for newborns, the possible suppression of anti-ICE content across social media, and check in on what the FBI is up to now. Looking ahead they preview another potential government shutdown, and a weirdly sexy Winter Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Ninja Lux Cafe, the three show podcast where we sit down with this week's host,

0:32.2

and we preview what's coming up, recap some of the news we missed on the latest news.

0:36.9

I am Kat Radley. I am a writer here

0:38.7

at the show and I'm joined today by our host for the week, Michael Costa. I'm Michael Costa. I'm the host for this week. Let's precap it. Let's get pre-capped. Pre-capped. You've been at the show a long time and we've worked together on so many different things. So many things. And I love working with you. You're very fun to work with and really fun to write for. I think writing for you's

0:57.2

very fun because we can get a lot

0:58.6

of, get away with a lot of jokes we can't for others that are just a little more goofy, a little more

1:04.6

dark, which is like comics, you know, we love being able to write some dark stuff, but still very

1:10.5

funny.

1:11.0

Thank you.

1:11.9

And I'd say your acting chops are really good, and they really sell the shit out of the jokes when we bring you down, like, dark spirals.

1:21.1

Well, those are very fun to do.

1:23.0

I could just warn. I think I saw tears in your eyes for one of them.

1:26.8

It's possible, but I had, I was just, I never told anybody of this, but I was actually fired before that. No. I don't usually access tears when I'm hosting the daily show, but it doesn't mean I'm not feeling emotions. This is my dog, Walter, everybody. You want to come up here, buddy? You want to come? Come on. Get up here, you big shithead.

1:45.1

Get up here right now.

2:00.1

This is how we talk to the staff. No, but it's great to be here on the pre-cap with Cat Radley. Have we ever done a pre-cap before? No, but we've done when we used to do kind of like deep dives into pieces. I feel like we did a few of those.

2:18.4

I think we probably talked about water or whatever the shit it is usually like to talk about. Yeah. I love water. Yeah. And I use it every day. I've started dabbling in it. Yes. What was the last field piece that we made have worked on together? Oh, man. I feel like. You get called in a lot on some of like favorite pieces. And I feel like it's been... Did you do haunted dolls? Yes. I did some haunted dolls. I did. I mean,

2:25.6

one of the prepper pieces you did. Yeah. Yeah. Um, psychic pets. Yep. That one just got, that one just

2:33.5

aired. It just aired, right? Where he had his mind read. That was a fun one because I posted a clip of that thinking everyone would be like hey you're being mean to this pet psychic but just like the internet always surprises me half the people were like good job Costa you got her and got her. And the other half was like, she's a wonderful psychic.

2:53.6

She read that dog's mind.

2:54.6

It's like, okay, yeah, everyone just sees what they want to see.

2:56.6

Do you think that she got Walter, right?

2:58.6

I don't believe in psychics, but I believe, I do believe, though,

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