The Precap | Ronny Chieng - It's Always Epstein Week

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week's host Ronny Chieng joins Daily Show writer Nicole Conlan to recap the biggest headlines and preview the week to come. They look at the government reopening and bringing Jeffrey Epstein's emails with it, celebrate the death of the penny and the life of a fancy French teen detective, and wonder what's worse: unprovoked war with Venezuela, or Mr. Beast's new theme park. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit http://hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:18.3	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 that we might have missed.
0:26.0	I'm Nicole Conlin. I'm a writer at The Daily Show, and I have joined today by Mr. Ronnie Chang. Hi, Ronnie.
0:31.3	Hello.
0:32.3	How are you? I'm okay. Thanks for asking. Thanks for doing this.
0:36.5	Oh, this was easy for me. I didn't even have to leave my apartment. Oh, well, okay. Well, um, then, then no thank you for doing this. Okay. I'm, I'm in Miami right now. Oh, are you doing shows? Yeah, doing some shows, uh, trying to get with my mega people and, you know, overthrow the government.
0:55.4	Okay, perfect.
0:56.7	Well, let me know how that goes.
0:57.4	Sure.
0:59.3	If I succeed, I'll let you know.
0:59.9	Yeah.
1:02.0	You excited about hosting the show this week?
1:02.8	Yeah, always.
1:03.7	Always excited to host.
1:07.2	It's always, I think it's the best job in comedy, daily show.
1:07.9	Absolutely.
1:08.5	A dream.
1:30.2	Miami, what an interesting city, by the way. I've never been. Oh, you've not been to Miami? You got to come. It's great. What are you doing while you're there aside from comedy? Nothing. Just doing two shows. And then the older I get, the less I'm able to maximize my time in a city for a show. Now it's all I can do to just do the two shows and get out.
1:32.8	Miami is an interesting American city.
1:35.7	And this is coming from a place of ignorance on my part.
1:37.2	So I'm not saying I'm an expert in Miami.
1:43.7	But my impressions of Miami as someone who watched Scarface and Cocaine Cowboys, the documentary,
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