The Precap | Michael Kosta on Trump's Nobel Snub, and Proper Protest Attire

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week's host Michael Kosta joins Daily Show writer Zach DiLanzo to break down all the news they missed, and preview the week to come. They dig into Trump's Nobel Peace Prize campaign fail, Time Magazine's unflattering flattery, the short deployment of overweight Texas National Guard troops, what to wear to a protest, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:17.7	All right.
0:18.4	Hello and welcome to the pre-cap where we sit down with this week's daily show host to preview what's coming up and recap some of the news we might have missed.
0:27.9	I'm Zach Delanzo, a writer here at the show, and I'm joined by Michael Costa.
0:33.2	I forgot your name for a second.
0:34.4	Michael Costa, this week's daily show host.
0:37.6	It's exciting, and I'm here with my co-host.
0:41.3	Co-host for the week.
0:42.2	Walter.
0:42.9	Walter, your dog, Walter.
0:44.2	But he, the subway ride in stressed him out, so he's asleep.
0:48.9	Yeah, he's chilling.
0:50.8	He's chilling.
0:52.0	He's one of our beloved office dogs. He is. And he's at times a grump. No, 100%. But when he does show you affection, that sort of, it feels so special. You know, I grew up with golden retrievers, and I always thought they were the best breed. But they're really sluts. You know what I mean?
1:11.4	Everybody.
1:13.2	They'll let anybody pet them.
1:15.4	Walter, you got to earn it.
1:16.8	Yeah.
1:17.4	And even if you've earned it, he sometimes is mean.
1:20.4	Like we had wine and dine him.
1:21.7	You got to wine and dine him.
1:22.9	We had some family friends staying with us and they made a lot of leeway with Walter and he was laying on their laps and letting him. The next morning it was like reset. He, he bit one of them and they're like, but we hung out yesterday. Yeah, it's like it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. No. It's like the daily show. Every day. You start as a new day. New day. And I truly can't remember what we did the previous day. Correct. It doesn't matter. Um, which is actually freeing. It is. Hey, feel free to write a terrible joke. Yeah. Because it, hey, feel free to perform a terrible joke. Tomorrow you'll be doing this shit again anyways. And I feel so strongly when I do write a joke that this is a good joke. And then I'll sometimes look at previous jokes and I'll be like, oh man, I understand why you didn't go with that one because it wasn't very good. Right now we're in a working dark week, which is like a rare thing we do occasionally a few times of year where we're coming into the office but we're not doing shows
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