The Problem With War: Veterans Day Episode
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s Veterans Day, so we're talking to some vets. Jon is joined by Staff Sergeant Wesley Black, who sadly passed away shortly after this episode was recorded, and Sergeant Isiah James. You may remember them from the Apple TV+ episode we did on burn pits—if you didn’t see it, you really should. Jon also catches up with his friend, Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Israel Del Toro.
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CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance:
Isiah James, Israel Del Toro, Rob Christensen, Robby Slowik, Kris Acimovic, Tocarra Mallard, Wesley Black
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound designer & audio engineer: Miguel Carrascal Senior Digital Producer: Kwame Opam
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Chelsea Devantez
Elements Producer: Kenneth Hull
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Haley Denzak
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you imagine what would happen if LeBron James |
| 0:03.6 | Kim Kardashian what if they let their voice to this cause right now? |
| 0:07.0 | What if they just tweeted about this shit right now? |
| 0:09.1 | It would reach people who don't even listen to you 15 to 16 and 70 year old who don't know who fucking John's through this |
| 0:14.7 | Why don't they care if those people treated right now that shit would make national news |
| 0:19.4 | Right now Mickey Menada tweeted about some nice testicles that shit was on the news for three weeks |
| 0:25.5 | Let me tell you |
| 0:27.5 | That's what the news cares about |
| 0:31.4 | But if the news would come on and just educate |
| 0:35.8 | Instead of insight we'd live in a different world |
| 0:39.7 | They're interested in views and clicks and engagement and testicles |
| 0:44.6 | Sell |
| 1:04.9 | Hello everybody welcome to the podcast |
| 1:08.1 | Today is November 11th. It is Veterans Day |
| 1:11.6 | So we have a Veterans Day special program for all of you discounts. No my friends |
| 1:19.9 | We will be talking to veterans. There's also a new episode of the Apple TV Plus show. It's about gun control |
| 1:25.4 | And we'll do that on next week's podcast, but today is all about talking with some veterans |
| 1:31.7 | We actually did a TV show on the topic of veterans health and burn pit exposure if you haven't watched that episode |
| 1:37.0 | There is a link to it in this podcast episode description and of course did a couple of podcasts episodes on the topic as well |
| 1:43.6 | If you watch the show that we did on burn pits you actually might remember two of these folks |
| 1:49.1 | Wesley Black and Isaiah James were getting some updates from them, but first I'm gonna talk to my friend retired air force |
| 1:57.3 | senior master |
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