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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello and welcome to the Daily Show Ears Edition. This is Josh Johnson and I am here with Grace Kuhlenschmidt and Daily Show writer Scott Sherman. We're headed to Chicago for the DNC this week, so this is an extra Chicago-y episode of the Ears Edition. We all came up in the Chicago comedy scene at different times, so we're going to get into Chicago comedy stories and obviously some intense food debates. But first, we're

I'm curious because we're about to go to the DNC. It's going to be my first DNC. I feel like, am I right that all of us have not been to a convention since we've been here? Yeah. I mean, my...

into almost going to conventions. We were almost going to go and then COVID hit and then Milwaukee. Yep. Yeah. Are you excited, Josh? I'm... Here's the thing. I am excited for the event. I wonder what it'll be like now that the...

takes might be harder to come by because everyone's like excited and having a good time. I'm not saying that to do good jokes about a thing you have to be like trashing it but it is a bit more particular of an angle you have to find when everyone is just happy about whatever topic you bring up it becomes harder to find the angle to make things even more funny you know so I guess I'm looking to insight from you because you went to a Kamala rally in Philly. Yeah. What was that like?

Okay, so we know Tim Walz is white, but is he white enough to win all 19 electoral votes from Pennsylvania? Have you guys seen him play hacky sack? Have you seen him at a Dave Matthews Band concert? Have you seen him eat yogurt?

Have you seen him say, I love yogurt? I love eating yogurt. And I'm a white guy. Have you seen him say that? Is he white enough? He's close to lily white, I think so. You think so? When it comes to white, he's right. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, cool.

I mean, before Kamala was the nominee, I was not expecting this much positivity around her just because, I mean, the way that VPs work, they're like not in the spotlight. Right. It's so interesting to me the way that like memes are such a big part of politics these days and just like trying for parties to pull in anything that will get in like a younger vote is interesting. Yeah.

From like the music that was being played, going from like I'm coming out by Diana Ross to a Chapel Roan song, you know, like they're really trying to just like get every factor that they can. But genuinely, the excitement that I saw there was pretty incredible. Yeah, I think there's an element where there's some comedy in everything.

How strange these new feelings for Democrats are. You know, the race is changing. Things are happening to their bodies that they don't. They're not. It's a new kind of experience. They're feeling emotions they haven't felt before. And, you know, they think Democrats need to like.

Start to explore these new feelings of joy and optimism. Yeah. So the last question I'll ask before we get into just straight up Chicago talk is like I'm sharing with you all now because I've been thinking about for a couple of days and I feel like to your point, Scott, like.

It doesn't feel normal to not be running around neurotic, worried. Oh, why did they say that thing? Or like, oh, this person's problematic. And I feel like it's almost as if Democrats are like in their sort of MAGA bag. Like this is how I imagined Republicans felt in 2015 when they were like, let's go to this rally and it'll be fun. And this guy's funny. Like watching Tim Walz like make jokes. Yeah. And people not just laugh, but be like,

Oh, that's crazy. Oh, he said the couch. He did the couch. It's like, you know, seeing more of almost like wrestling event type energy is it's something we've seen before. But do you all think that it's like in in the same line of excitement or am I like off with that? I think you're making a good point. And I think.

The branding behind Kamala Harris and Tim Walz right now is I think it's really smart. And I think that they're pulling in people that they weren't going to get when Biden was there. And I think it is so much about like PR and how they've been branding themselves. Got you. Yeah. I mean, I think a good example.

Hopefully healthy balance that I think it would be good to strike is remembering that this is still a statistical tie that we're talking about here. Yeah. And, you know, the enthusiasm is great, but you got to remember, like, voting is the thing that actually matters. And then, you know, keeping up the work after that. And you've never voted, right? No, no. No.

Yeah, I... So you a convict? You out here? We're not recording this, right? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Formally incarcerated. This is just the three of us hanging out. No mics. Yeah. Tell us what you did. Well, I'm going to speak for all of us right now. We're very excited to be back in Chicago. We all got our starts doing comedy there. Scott, you did sketch and improv at Second City. Grace did I.O. and was big in improv there.

the entire time you were in Chicago and then I did annoyance and stand up the entire time I was there. Do you feel different when you go now based on like how you felt when you were like starting there? I feel like it's such a different thing to be this like comedy baby and then go back with like a real career, you know?

Well, thank you for saying I have a real career. That's nice. Yeah, I mean, I think the beauty about the Chicago comedy scene is it is really like a formative time for people and it's not New York and it's not L.A. And you feel like you can like actually hone your craft there and take it seriously.

Without feeling like, you know, the pressure coming from being one of the larger entertainment capitals of America. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, I definitely had that feeling when I visited L.A. It would be like a last minute spot. And then someone in the green room would be like, oh, this person's in the crowd. I'm like, who? Because I don't know who anyone is. And I'm still like young and doing stand up. And they're like, no, it's the casting director. They book people.

And it's like, all right, now I got to think about that. I was just trying to have like a good show. Whereas in Chicago, I feel like everyone was trying stuff. And the fact that industry there like was or is small is like your amounts of times that you have to feel that way. Like it's just more freeing, which I think yields better work, you know? And you don't want people to see you when you're like,

You don't always want people to see you when you start wanting things. Right. Like you may not be ready. You may just know things exist now. And I think that's part of it's indicative of being very acutely aware of like industry versus like having a sort of acumen towards comedy yet, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, nobody comes out fully formed. Yeah. You need that time to grow. So, yeah, and it's a perfect place for that. Not the least reason is because it's cheaper than New York and LA. Yeah, right. So you can actually afford. Afford your rent, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, that's part of what I loved about my time in Chicago was I'm almost 100% sure I'd never performed in front of a producer ever when I was there. I was performing like six nights a week in front of maybe some paying people and mostly other comics. And there's something so special about that. And I think I was able to develop more of my own voice because of that, because you get to try things out with like zero pressure.

And I had like a really collaborative, fun community there who really was just...

there for like the love of comedy. We weren't even, I never thought about like my, what my career would be when I lived there. Yeah. Um, it wasn't until like the pandemic where I started posting stuff online that I started thinking about where comedy would take me. But I really was just like blindly, like I love doing what I'm doing right now. And it's such a special place for that. Yeah. I think especially in comedy, especially in the arts, if you're not

enjoying the slog of getting to where you want to be you're not going to enjoy it when you're there yeah yeah yeah and chicago is a really good place for that um especially with like the diversity of places io second city annoyance yeah um all the stand-up clubs i mean you can like enjoy

the difficulty of like finding your voice as a performer, as a writer, without having to worry about the just like basic prep,

Yeah. Yeah. There's such a sense of presence. Right. And I'm sure like obviously you had a sense of presence because you were doing improv and everything. But even for stand up and even for some of the shows that I would go to that were sketch or something like that, you really did get this feeling of like this thing is never going to happen again.

Yeah. Like this show. Yeah. This is never going to happen again. We'll do the show again and it'll have the same name and it'll run at the same time. But this thing's never happened. If you weren't here for this, then it's just over. You know, like I don't know if they still had upstairs gallery when you were there in like 2017. That sounds familiar, but I don't know if I just heard of it. But OK. A good example is is shithole. Yeah.

Shithole's a venue, by the way, not us disparaging a venue. It's what they called it. But like shows at Shithole were just these like... Yeah, those were like once in a... Yeah, yeah. And I mean, do y'all feel like... Is there anything from starring in Chicago that you take with you now in what you create? Whether it's like performance or writing or anything? I mean, not being precious is a thing that you have to kind of learn as a...

As a performer, especially in improv and sketch, and then you got to take that to late night, too. This feeling of like, I'm doing it. It's femoral. Like, it's going to be gone the next day, but I'm going to get to do it again.

I think for me going with your gut comedically because you you aren't really getting much external validation or I wasn't I'll speak for myself I wasn't getting much external validation while I was there I wasn't getting paid for really any of the shows I was doing until maybe like the last three months that I lived there and you know there's no like jobs that I was getting in entertainment or anyone I knew was getting an entertainment I knew some people doing like commercial work.

But, you know, you have to just go based on I think I did a great job last night. I'm going to try and just like make myself laugh again. And, you know, I think a lot of people in New York have been

like who started out here can get stuck on like, well, fuck, like I know people who have got jobs when they were like 22, just going to a show at Union Hall. And I think that because Chicago doesn't have that same pressure, you're able to listen to yourself more. Yeah. Yeah. Like I, I, I lived on the South side for most of the time, but then I lived on the North side really close to IO for a year.

And that's when TJ and Dave were performing there all the time. And TJ and Dave was like absolutely legendary improv duo. And I got to see these two guys every week, the absolute pinnacle masters of their craft about what they were doing. And then what they would do would just be gone. And then they would do a whole new thing the next week.

And I'm like, well, if these guys don't care about preserving every word of their performance every week, why should I care? Like, why would I not just be like, I did that thing. Now I'm going to grow from that and move on to the next thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I was just going to say I've thought about that with stand up a lot recently. Actually, I did a show maybe like a month ago and I like improvised a couple lines and I was like listening back. I was like, oh, God, that was so good. And so then a week later, I tried redoing those improvised lines I did and it did not land because it was like what was funny about it was that it was off the cuff and the audience was cued in that it was off the cuff.

And it brought me back to like an improv thought of like, you don't you don't just need to redo something you just did. Like if something was improvised, let it be improvised and live there. Yeah. Yeah. And I I think that as as as much as I've had these like amazing experiences that I take with me from Chicago, I also have things that I hope that I never forget.

repeat again in life. I've had shows that were so bad and like part of it was that I was bad. So it's like when you are not good at comedy, your chances of having a good experience are very slim. But like I performed...

at places where I was like, I would walk in and be like, oh, this isn't going to be good. Like, like you can tell. And then it, it went exactly as I, and not even a self-fulfilling prophecy as in for my set. I mean, the actual show was like horrific, you know? And, uh, I'm trying to think of one right now where there was like, oh, okay. So I did this show, um,

It was very awkward because it was a bar show, but there was no stage, which is also fine because as long as people are sitting and you're standing, you still kind of maintain that distance. But some of the people were standing up because the room was so small that you it really did just look like.

Anyone performing was about to get jumped because there wasn't enough room between like even where Scott is to where I am. I know there wasn't that much mics like that. Yeah. And so I'm just standing there like doing the set. I think I did fine. And then this guy went up after me and you could tell that he was good. He was good. But everyone was so drunk that like it wasn't hitting and he was doing magic.

And so it was like it was he was doing magic and he goes up and he's trying to do like a card trick. But the person he picks out of the audience is like very drunk woman. And he was good looking. This was like this was a hot man. Right. And so as he's trying his like pattern in between the joke and he's like showing the cards to everybody, she's like, oh, he flexing.

Are you flexing? And he's like, no, I'm not. I'm just trying to, but his arm is bent and he does have muscles. And so then at one point he's like, is this your card? And she straight up just bit his bicep. Like she was just having a different experience, right? And so I finally, I'm like, yeah, there's nothing. This is just gonna keep making me sad. Like I got them at their least drunk. So I can't even be like, oh, I did the best on the show. It's like the show just hadn't gone downhill yet.

And so I leave. The next week, I hear about that show from someone else. And they're like, yeah, the host...

I guess he just like lost it and he had a taser and he just started tasing people who were like actively heckling. Oh my God. See, that's what you can do in Chicago that you cannot do anywhere else in this country. You guys see what we mean about it being a magical place? Yeah. That's why we need to preserve Chicago as a comedy institution, capital of the world. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. Because you need that. You need that threat. Yeah. Of a taser. Of a taser that someone does not you. He wasn't a cop. It's like this dude just has a taser on him. Yeah. Yeah. Did did you all have any experiences that were like especially early days like either I'm not having my best night or this is like a properly.

properly terrible experience. I wasn't on stage for mine, so I started doing improv and sketch at my college, which was started by the founders of Second City. I had been directing a show down there, and one of my friends came to the show, and I had to physically restrain him because he was so drunk, and he was heckling my crowd. But then...

I was out of college and I was just like trying to find a job. And I interviewed for a job to be an usher at the Blue Man Group. Wow. And the guy interviewing me was like, it seems like you have tons of experience. This is great. Every once in a while we get a rowdy crowd. How can you deal with that? I was like, well, I only had to physically restrain someone one time. He was like,

Yeah, we don't allow that to happen here. That's awesome. So, like, I couldn't get a job...

I think they were paying like $5 an hour or something like that. I couldn't get a job because I, because I had to tell this guy stupidly that like I had to restrain my drunk friend. Yeah. But I mean, I like, I like your level of conviction to the making sure that the blue man show continues uninterrupted. Yeah. Like sitting them down being like, Hey, if you need me to bust up any, any kid that needs it. Yeah. I got,

I will rock them in the back of the head. If there's somebody, if there's a middle-aged couple from Naperville coming down and they start to mess up with the timing of the drum set.

Not on my watch. Hey, not on my watch. Hey, these kids can get kicked in the chest. All right. Believe that. Because you don't want the blue men to actually say their first words ever on stage. Like, shut the fuck up. Yeah. You don't want that. Yeah. Yeah. Because that just breaks the fourth wall. Let me do that. Let me take care of it. Right. Give me a taser. Yeah.

Yeah. Did you ever have anything that you were like you look back on as like maybe maybe either the worst show or just like, oh, man, this is a this is like a rough experience for me personally. I mean, definitely the first few open mics I did in Chicago, I was like, oh, my God. Just like simply being one of maybe three girls out of like.

60 guys was like sure sure shocking yeah and like the comedy you would see that you know it's like is that comedy yeah was so crazy but this is like slightly off topic but I just was reading an old journal the other day and like wrote in my journal like just did an amazing improv show and

And after the show, Garrett came up to me and complimented my set. Can you believe that? And now this guy Garrett is one of my closest friends. And it just like reminded me, I like forgot about like when you're up and coming in comedy and you see someone for the first time who like maybe is a year older than you and you just kind of like immediately idolize them and then...

This transcends just Chicago, but like how quickly comedians can become friends, too, in a way where it's like, oh, this person used to be like a god to me. And now it's even better. They're one of my close friends. I thought was just cute. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, when would you say, cause there's a real sense when you're there that the, that the city or the people, like as far as audiences or like fellow comics will tell you when you're like ready to leave. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Did you, did you either feel like you listened to that or what, like, or if that affected you and if it did, when was the time that you felt like ready to leave? I mean, I was at, I was working at second city, um,

What were you? I was like working for the producers, but then I started doing everything. I started like doing all the archives. Cool. And then they very unwisely put me in the accounting department. That was hilarious. Huge mistake. That's so funny. But one day, the sort of producer emeritus at the time, she's gone now. Rest in peace, Joyce Sloan. Incredible.

woman who's like coaching tree from her is just out of control. She kind of pulled me into her office and she was just like, I'm ready to make a phone call for you. Whoa. And she did. And, you know, it was still like a long road between that phone call and anything else happened. But, you know, she she kind of knew like I'd been paying my dues and she was like ready to do that for me. But you had to work for it, you know.

And that was the moment I was like, well, if Joyce thinks I'm ready for the phone call, maybe I'm ready. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like. OK, so I got to Chicago in 2017. And when the pandemic hit, I felt like I was really finally like hitting a really cool stride. I was on an improv team, a house team at IO that I was really proud of. And I just started performing at the hideout doing stand up stuff.

And then the pandemic hit. And at that point, I think I had like 300 followers on Twitter, which I just want to say I did think was a lot. I was like, this is crazy. There are people I don't know who follow me.

But a friend of mine was like, you should post start posting videos on Twitter. So I did. And I feel like maybe like a month in things started really jumping for me. So then my lease ended in Chicago in June.

I had friends with an open room in New York and I just started making money on TikTok. So I had like a different, I feel like I never really got. Can you show me how to do that? Yes, of course I can. Thank you. You're going to be huge, Scott. I think I'm exactly what TikTok is looking for. And I know you can dance and that's all you need to do.

I never really got like a goodbye from Chicago because I kind of just like sanitized a U-Haul steering wheel and drove across to get to New York. But yeah, I think without the pandemic, I probably would have stayed another year or two. But I don't know where my career would be now, I guess. So in a way, I feel lucky that I figured out social media because I think it is hard.

For a lot of like I know a lot of people who were in Chicago that I think are so insanely talented who have like essentially given up on comedy because there's not that many roots. You know, if you can't find one, an open door when it's open. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Welcome back. Okay, so I am curious because everyone talks about the best pizza or compares Chicago pizza and New York pizza. I want to start off a little bit differently. Let's get a little bit differently. I want you to tell me about the worst food experience you had in Chicago, right?

This place may be closed now. It may have been someone else's cooking. Maybe it wasn't a restaurant. - The worst. - Yeah, the worst. - You're trying to get us killed? We're about to go to Chicago. - But this could be a friend. This doesn't have to be an establishment that you're trashing. This could be just an experience that you had. I can go right now if you want me to. - Yeah. - If you want me to lay it down. - You gotta kick this off. - Okay, so-- - So all the hate can go on you. - Yes, yeah. I went over to a friend's place.

And they were kind enough to like, you know, like cook and everything. And I had been warned by another friend that they couldn't really cook. So then eat beforehand so that you won't be hungry. Right. But I was invited as if it was like a house party. And then I got there and it was just me.

So, like, I don't know if everybody else canceled or if they only ever invited me, but it was just me and them and, like, a ridiculous amount of food, right? And so then I was like, I'm going to have to eat quite a bit to even look like I put a dent in it. A dent, yeah. And it was like...

It was them, first of all, trying something. So it wasn't a dish that they make. It wasn't like a have my famous like five layer dip, whatever. It was like I made these these special pork chops in this specific way that I had never heard of before. And I tried it and I it felt like my mouth was.

So they used a lot of vinegar. Okay. And you could tell even though it was cooked meat. As you were eating it, you were like, oh, okay. I didn't know the meal was acid. That's brutal. It's pretty bad. Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like it perfectly sets us up to talk about good things like the good pizza. Yeah. You know? If you know how bad things can get, it makes you appreciate the good even more. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

This is not necessarily a food experience, but the restaurant that I worked at for two years when I lived there, there was one day they had their philosophy was customers always right, which I certainly understand. But boy, is it unfair to all of the employees? Yeah. Yeah. And there was one day where I was working as a host and this woman came in and I guess I like wasn't at the host stand when she walked in.

So when I like walked up to like pass her and she was already headed to a table, I was like, oh, sorry, just come check in with me and eventually got her seated. And then a couple of minutes later, I saw her whispering to my manager and my manager came up to me and was like, hey, this woman wants me to fire you right now. And I was like, what? And he was like, yeah, she said that you were like being rude and I'm just going to pretend that I'm firing you.

Yeah.

It was awful that he had to pretend to a random woman who was going to spend 40 bucks that I was fired. Yeah. Especially... Oh, I guess if it's not, like, that expensive of a restaurant either, it's even weirder. Yeah, I mean, it was like... It's like a, like, healthy, fast... It's not fast casual. It's a chain. That's wild. But, yeah, I mean, a salad is $17. She probably wasn't going to spend more than 50. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, unless she had a table of 22 that she brought in. Yeah. It feels...

It feels like an insane thing to do for no reason at all. Also, just like think about the type of person you have to be to ask a manager to fire an employee who's making $11 an hour. Yeah. If you want someone fired in front of you that you have not met, that you've only had what, like four words of an exchange with, you definitely, not even deep down, you definitely want slaves. Oh, absolutely.

Wow. Like that's a person. That's like, that's the worst type of person. She is evil at the core. I think that that's not even I'm having a bad day. That's an actual demon. I have only bad days. Yeah. And I cause harm. Yeah. This person creates bad days. Wow. I mean, I don't have it in me to ever call out.

a bad dining experience. I just can't do it. I love restaurants too much. I love Chicago restaurants too much. I will take the blame for a bad dining experience at one of my beloved diners in Chicago. But, you know, one of the formative Chicago experiences, I was out really late. I was pretty drunk. Went to Clark's.

Clark's Diner, got my short stack. And then it was like, I'm still hungry. Got the like skillet. I think it was like a chorizo skillet.

And, uh, let me tell you, Belmont Avenue, I apologize to what I did to you that night. That's amazing. It was not okay. And I feel very bad about it. You should. You're a changed man, though. I do. I was like, never again. Yeah. Until like the next weekend, maybe after that. Yeah. Yeah. No, there are a lot of like amazing places that have, that have closed. Um,

I looked up a few places that I'm very excited about that are still there. So shout out to Thai pastry. And then I'll also be stopping by, uh, JB Alberto's because that's near where I used to live off of the Morse red line stop. And, uh, might get some pizza there. There was a beautiful, uh,

pizza place called Cheeky's that closed while I still live there but they they did like a flatter they didn't do like the Chicago style they did like a flatter pizza that wasn't necessarily super thin crust but it was getting there tavern style kind of tavern style yeah and

Jeez, it was it was like and they would this is how if the dude got bored. Right. I don't know if he was the owner. I don't know if he was supposed to be doing this. But if he got bored enough and people hadn't come in because we would go there to eat. He would make you like a personal pan pizza of whatever.

other stuff that he was just trying to see if he should put on the menu. And I remember eating that and being like, oh, yeah, do this. And I'm like, I remember making a list of everything he said was on it and stuff. And then you'd go and you'd order it because you could build your own too. And I was just like, that place was phenomenal. Do we need to do a go around the room, what's the pizza place? Would love to. Let's do it. Go ahead and start it off. All right, so I have a disclaimer about mine. Okay. Because I don't have...

You're always keeping yourself out of legal trouble. I'm trying to. Yeah, you're a very diplomatic individual. Well, because everybody's going to hear what my favorite is, and they're going to be like, you are trash. You are a garbage person who doesn't deserve to wear that Cubs hat right now. Okay. And I'm going to tell you, there's a reason for it. Okay. It's Giordano's. Gotcha. I know. Here's the thing, though. It was my first.

Okay. And this is why you have to be very careful, kids, with who your first is with. Because it sets a standard. This is a sex ed talk, too. Well, you know, it's a pizza sex talk. I'm going to regret saying that. They're basically the same. It's basically the same.

And so, like, look, shout out to Lou Malnati's, obviously. Shout out to Art of Pizza. Shout out to Pequod's. I'll see you soon. Like, I'm very excited about all these places. But the first time you have that, like, three pound slice. Mm-hmm.

Of deep dish. So is that where you'll be going back to? Like on the Chicago trip, you'll be going to Giordano's. Probably not. Probably not. It's just like memories wise. It's just memories wise. I can totally respect that. Yeah. Yeah. And you pass one and somebody opens the door, you can smell all the cheese that's happening inside. And it's like way too much. It's a lot. Yeah. Like they get soggy. The crust gets soggy. Yeah. Just like cannot take the tensile strength.

It doesn't have the tensile strength that's required to hold that much cheese and sauce. Sometimes the spatula doesn't. Sometimes the spatula that they use gives under the pressure of that much bread, sauce, and cheese. But I'll say to anyone going to Chicago for the DNC for the first time, you know, just be careful.

Just be careful. Yeah, don't hurt yourself. Don't hurt yourself. Yeah. Okay. What about you? My favorite is Pequod's. Yeah. Pequod's? Okay. I think it's just incredible. I cannot wait to have it. It's just so crispy. Yeah. I get it right. Okay. But do you have a favorite?

It's very tough. So you're going to judge me for my favorite potentially. I'm hoping that can slide into home, at least with the people in this room, because of when I would have been eating it. Right. So, you know, where I used to be at all location in Wrigleyville, I used to go to I'll shows the five dollar shows. I used to go there, watch a show and then go to Demos. And Demos was like.

There's a place in Louisiana that I used to go to called CC's Pizza and CC's Pizza... It's a chain, right?

And so my overall first encounter with getting like specialty pizzas or pizzas that don't that you can't get anywhere else because no one else puts mac and cheese on pizza and stuff like that was actually like very bad. And so to go to Demos and have all these different slices be so good and specific to one place, I was obsessed with with Demos and would eat it anytime I got out of a show at

I owe until they moved. And if I got to have a show at under the gun, when that theater was there, I, or like, um, underground village. If I was doing a show there, uh,

It was it was like properly spectacular. I don't know. I would probably just go to Pequod's. Yeah. Well, Grace and Scott, thank you for joining me on The Daily Show Ears Edition. Thanks. Thank you. Be sure to tune in to The Daily Show's coverage all week. And if you're in Chicago this week, we hope to see you at the Athenium Center. Thank you for listening to The Daily Show Ears Edition. We'll see you next time. Bye. See you. Bye.

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