The Precap | Desi Lydic on Trump's Billion Dollar MLM

This episode of the Precap was recorded on Thursday, January 22nd, prior to the ice shooting in Minneapolis this weekend. You're listening to Comedy Central! Hello and welcome to the Precap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host to preview what's coming up And what we missed the week before. My name is Devan Delacwanti. I'm a writer at The Daily Show and today I am joined by this week's host Desi Lydic. Oh, Dev! I'm so happy to be here with you. I'm so happy to be here with you. Sitting all cross-legged and such. You look very comfortable. I feel very comfortable and I know I'm putting my shoes on the furniture and I just want to apologize. We can throw that furniture out It's fine, it's not stress. It is in my rider. That's good. It's in my contract. Every piece of furniture I sit in it gets thrown out afterwards. I want a new chair next time. That's very good. Come by our studio, see a pile of chairs, take them. Classic New York City furniture on the streets. A celebrity sat on and got her grimy shoes on this faux leather. So what's going on? It was a big week. Oh, God. I guess we'll start Oscar nominations. Oh, yes. Those were the big things of last week. Please. Some fun, light, exciting news. Oh, it's so exciting. Well, I mean, I will say I was a little disappointed that I didn't get the nomination that I was expecting. Were you in any movies last year? Mm-hmm. No. All right. Well, that's probably the first problem. Well, you would think, but if there's one thing that Trump taught us, it's that whoever does win the Oscar, I can just invade their territory and take it from them. Or you can get them to give it to you because you deserved it. That would be good. Manipulation. Yes. Yes, and bribery tactics. Mariana Carina Machado. Mariana Carina Machado wins an Oscar. Wins that Oscar. I deserve that Oscar. And then she's like, I would like to present you my Oscar in honor of your acting. Oh, me? Who me? I hardly thought about it. I'd love to thank my agents. Sure. My entire cabinet that supported this move. Very good. So flattered. So, so deserving. Yeah. Yeah. What was your, what were you most excited about of the nominations that came out? What were you like, oh, that, that, that person deserves it. It was nice to see sinners break the record for nominations, I think. Huge. You know, that movie was so kind of unexpected and, you know, I feel like the Oscar movies are always like end of the year, but like it just, I remember when it came out, everyone's like, oh, you got to go see it and see it in the theater. Yeah. And Michael B. Jordan's so great in it. The music is so great. Like all the musicians who were a part of it are phenomenal and very like genre bending unexpected. So it's nice to see a film like that celebrated one battle after another. Also great. I'm glad so many of the performers in that got nominations and Paul Thomas Anderson. So, yeah, I was excited about all that. And K-pop demon hunters. I mean, I mean, come on. Listen to that soundtrack a hundred thousand times in my car with my kids. So even though your kids keep begging you to turn it off, you just won't do it. They are bops and I will learn. They have to learn to respect them. Catching music. Those songs are da-gone catchy. What do you say? Well, also just celebrating people getting back into the theater, putting butts in seats, seeing movies the way that the directors intended people to see them. So important. Yeah. And what movies did you see in theaters this year? Not a one. I have not seen one yet. But I have a very good excuse. And that was that I've been crying in my shower since September. So. Wow. That's fair. But I think the headline here is that potential Oscar winner, Desi Lydic, has not been in a movie or seen a movie this year. So, yeah, it's going to be. If anyone can pull it off, Dev, I will find a way. I'm scrappy like that. Yeah. So, you know what? Good luck to all the Oscar nominees. I hope all of them win. I hope all of them win. I hope all of them win. Yes. Speaking of very prestigious boards, making very consequential decisions, Davos was last week and Donald Trump announced the Board of Peace, which is a new. MLM. No. That's one way to look at it. Yes. It sounds like an MLM. What is his intention with the Board of Peace? Did he say what his. So, initially it's to oversee the Gaza ceasefire, but now ambitions have ballooned. The unlikely roster of countries so far includes Belarus, Hungary, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Argentina, and Paraguay. Okay. A little dictator heavy. A little bit. Yes. So, yeah, that's what it is so far. The way you can join is, the first, you can get on for three years and that's free, or you can get a lifetime membership for $1 billion, which feels like you've got to have an ad tier in there somewhere. One or the other. Yeah. Yeah. Well, three, like I'll go with the free option. Yeah. That's one of those ways we're like. $1 billion. Yeah. Yeah. This is giving me MLM vibes. Yeah. That's one of those where when you put your credit card in, you need to remember to cancel like on two years and. Oh my God. You put your credit card in, you immediately cancel. You just immediately go in. Join my MLM for $1 billion. And then you can get other countries to join and then they'll be in your downstream. It's all, it's, this is sounding very scammy to me. It sounds like a very good business decision. It sounds like a good way to raise a billion dollars from every country. To put in an account in Qatar. Yeah. That's it. Okay. So, one thing that I found interesting about the Board of Peace, the chairman of the Board of Peace has the power to invite member states, break any ties in a vote, decide how frequently the Board meets and create or dissolve any subsidiary entities to the Board. So, Desi, I am going to put you on the spot. Quick Daily Show Podcast Pop Quiz. Who will be the chairman of the Donald Trump Board of Peace? Scrooge McDuck. No. Oh. Incorrect. Shoot. You get five more guesses. I'll give you only five more. Who is the chairman of Donald Trump's Board of Peace, who has all of the power vested as the chairman of the Board of Peace? Oh, God. I'm going to go out on a limb. Go ahead. And I don't think this is right, but I'm just going to say it out loud. Donald J. Trump. It's correct. Oh my God. What do I win? An Oscar? Do I win an Oscar? Oh, thank God. I get that Oscar in here. Whoever's it is, bring it to Desi. That is the prize. Yeah, I found that. This is my favorite fact about it. In three years when his second term is up, the chairman does not have to pass to the next president. Of course not. So he can just be the chairman of the Board of Peace when America's moved on to whatever other president we've got. Well, it's just like the presidency, unfortunately. We will have to look back and see how that plays out. Oh, God. Do you have high hopes for the Board of Peace? Oh, I mean, I think we all do, don't we? It has peace in the title. God, this is, yeah, not surprising, exactly. I don't know what the billion dollars, why that helps. Well, I think it helps line his pockets, right? Does it help literally anyone else? Yeah, I'm probably overthinking it. Now that I really say it all out loud, it's probably, yeah, it's money and he likes money. Yeah, that's probably it, isn't it? I'm really a galaxy brain myself there, didn't I? The other thing I found interesting is people are talking about it like it's sort of a rival to the UN Security Council. Right. And it reminds me of this time when I'm in some parent groups on Facebook to just learn about things in the neighborhood. And there was a point at which one of the parent groups got very contentious and so then a second parent group was set up like a splinter. And I'm like, that's what this is, but for the UN Security Council is like a separate Facebook group. Well, that's so funny that you say that because I feel like we have gender swapped here because my mind, it's like this thing already exists. And he has to just blow it up and dismantle it and say, no, no, no, no, I'm going to do this other thing here. My mind went to he couldn't get into the fraternity that he wanted to get into. So he was like, fuck you guys, I'm going to start my own fraternity. And guess what? I invented fraternities. I went to parent Facebook group. You go to parent Facebook group. I go to Frat House. This is our dynamic. Subverting expectations. That's what we're all about here. This is what the listeners want. Yeah. Oh, another fact about it that I heard is a lot of the Western Europe allies haven't joined France. Yeah. Who hasn't joined yet? So let's see. I have here that France has not joined, Sweden has not joined, Norway has not joined. And that the president said that if France doesn't join, we will hit them with a 200 percent tariff on wines. Oh, God. Of course. Yeah, that sounds right. Like, why am I paying more for wine? It's like, well, peace. Peace. World peace. It's a small price to pay for peace. Small price to pay. Yeah, it does feel weird to try to blackmail someone into joining the board of peace. Yeah. Anyway, we'll keep our eyes on the board of peace. We will keep our eyes on the board of peace. Do you think it's going to fizzle though? Like, do you, this is, this, is this something that he comes up with and makes a big splash with it? And then it all just fizzles away and doesn't actually happen. I don't know. I can't predict anything anymore. It's impossible to know. Yeah. Oh, here's another thing that I found interesting. Venezuela, not on the board of peace. Wow. It seems like something's going on with them. They're preoccupied. They do have quite a bit on their plate right now. Yeah. That's. But didn't he say we run Venezuela? I think it's on his Wikipedia page. Why, it is the Wikipedia page. So why wouldn't we put ourselves on the board of peace? You would think he could just do that. Yeah. I mean, he did everything else. Yeah. So, yeah, that's very strange. It's very odd. It's an odd omission. We should look into that. Maybe one day. Yeah. Maybe their application is waiting. They could use some of the board of peace, if anywhere, you know. Yeah. Not been. To intervene against us. Yeah. Yeah. Not been a peaceful month. If anyone. Certainly not. Yeah. Anyway, another big thing this week. Everyone on Instagram online posting 2016 pictures. What was that all about? What was the point of going back to 2016? Because in my recollection, 2016 wasn't a great year. No. A lot of high profile people passed away. Yeah. David Bowie, Prince. Oh my God, yeah. So many others. Yeah, it was a. We had a new president. It was very chaotic. It was the election year. It was the election year. It was the election year. Yeah. 2016 was a horrible, horrible year. It was the white and gold dress of years. But in hindsight, was it so bad? We were 10 years younger. Right? Do you think 10 years from now we'll do a 2026 trend? Will people be wanting to be reminiscing about 2026? How sad is that to think about? I hope not. Because it means, if we're doing that, that means it's worse. Right? If we're projecting, I'll be like, man, 2026. Great. Yeah. But it's immaculate. And they're not. And they're not. So I don't know. Hopefully not. But maybe. Oh, God. But it's also, it's another, I mean, if we're going to be conspiracy minded about it, it's a great way for social media to be like, hey, can I get a bunch of pictures of your face 10 years ago just to figure out how things age and move? They're good at that. Collect that data. They're really good at collecting it. And we are suckers. We are so thirsty for the likes. We all jump on board. Oh, you want to see a picture of me 10 years ago? Here you go. Look at that collagen in my face. Glowing. Put it out there. Yeah. Look at the light in my eyes. Damn. Yeah. You're right. You're right. They're just gathering data. Smart. They're good. They know what they're doing. They know how to, they know how to sucker us into giving our stuff. And we'll give it to them every single time. Every time. Yeah. We're 2016. We're playing Pokemon Go. Great way to know everywhere we were on the map, where we're walking. When will we learn? Never will never learn. The likes are just too great. The rush. We like likes too much. The rush. The validation. Another thing that we, that was going on this week, Ryanair, the airline in Europe, which I've been told is like the Spirit Airlines of Europe. Of Europe. But they're very self aware about it. Sure. Apparently. They don't take themselves as... That's kind of their thing. They're like, we're cheap. Yeah. Don't expect too much. I don't know that I like, like, we're the airline that doesn't take ourselves too seriously. Yeah. That seems risky. Say a prayer. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. We'll just kind of a glorified slingshot. We'll just kind of... They got into an online beef. Their CEO got into a beef with Elon Musk. It started over Wi-Fi and then became, again, maybe this is just a way for him to get data from people who are flying. Probably. Did you follow this story? This is crazy. This is the most Karen-like fight I have ever seen. I think we can pass off the Karen title to these rich white... Well, I should say Elon Musk. Sure. Elon Musk. It's so funny how they get into a back and forth about using Wi-Fi and Ryanair was saying, like, we can't put the antenna on the plane because it affects the air drag. And Elon Musk comes back with a very logical kind of technical argument for why that's not correct. And then it's one exchange away from then Elon Musk coming back and full on calling him the R-word. Okay. Not... Yeah. Sound technical argument directly to the R-word. Yeah. It seems like there's not a lot of nuance into how he's going to be persuasive. Crazy. Yeah. Did Grock break it up or did he try to diffuse it with some, like, bikini pictures of people? What was the... Maybe. Where did it go? I don't know. Works every time. I think it was some sort of sale off of it and then moved a lot of tickets because of it. Oh, hey. Who's laughing now? I guess Ryanair. The people who got discount tickets because the CEO was beefing online. I just feel like there's a point at which you get so rich you can't beef with other people. You have to beef with, like, entire corporations. Right. Right. And they pick a fight with Ryanair. Yeah. Maybe I'll buy you Ryanair. Oh, God. The ego. They just have to, like, old, rich people, just being quiet, sitting on all their wealth, like maybe joining a society or two. Yeah. Now they're all influencers. They don't have to have these, like, huge public spats. Yeah. I wish they could just live alone in a mansion with their pee and bottles around them and none of us have to see them. Like a normal millionaire. That would be great. Bring back the normal millionaire. Thank God we didn't have, like, Twitter and Instagram back then because you'd have to, like, see and hear all of their thoughts. And speaking of that, speaking of the interpersonal drama, one of the other big stories was the fight between the Beckham family. Again, started on Instagram and came out into the real world. Did you follow this? I love this story. I love it so much. I'm just, because it's like an old school gossip story. It is 100% gossip. There's nothing too heavy. It's not about to put us on the brink of a world war or a societal collapse or no, like, you know, it's just pure gossip. It's like a 2016 throwback. It is. It's a 2016 throwback. In the supermarket, there's the, oh, look at this. Grab the rag. Yeah. Problems at the wedding and you're flipping through and a person is scanning your groceries. I get the 2016 thing. It's good. It's good. Okay. Now I'm going back to 2016. It just feels, the Beckham thing feels like there's not a lot of culture war around it. It's just purely like a family drama and it involves a wedding. Even better. So great. Love drama at a wedding. It's really nice. Who doesn't have a little drama at their wedding? Exactly. So it seems like it's Brooklyn Beckham, the child of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. There was all this drama at the wedding. Victoria Beckham was going to make the wedding dress and then pulled out of making the wedding dress for Brooklyn Beckham's. Nicola. Then fiance, yes. Then there was an issue with where the grandmothers are seated. That's like, we're going to put Nana at this table or not this table. Then the first dance had a whole issue. Oh, was it the grandmothers? I was there. Okay. So I read nannies and I thought it was both of their nannies, like their childhood, like the caregiver, the caretaker. Is that wrong? I don't know. Is it the grandma's? I don't know. Nana could be grandma. Nanny could be like their babysitter. I thought maybe it was their babysitters growing up. We're sitting with them at the wedding table, which was like, okay, that's sending a message. Is it a translation issue from English to English? Yes. Yes. Okay. We need a translator. Isn't Nana also the name of the dog in Peter Pan? Yes. So Nana can also just be a ... Are their dogs sitting at the wedding table? Maybe they didn't know what it meant either. So they're like, are the dog just going to be here eating my, you know, having the chicken of fish? We have a lot of unanswered questions here. That's it. So then the other thing was the ... They had some romantic first dance planned, and then Victoria Beckham came out and did sort of a sultry dance with her son. To which ... And you know, this is what was claimed in the Instagram post from Brooklyn Beckham, and it led to my favorite statement, which was someone who was at the wedding commenting on the story going, I was there, and he is telling the truth. I mean ... Whatever this dance was, got the attention. What was it? What were the moves? I want to know what the moves were. That's a good question. I mean, if you haven't tried to upstage the couple's dance at a wedding, then you're no fun at parties. Yes. My big takeaway from this is it doesn't matter how cool you are or how rich you are, you could be David Beckham and Posh Spice. Your kids will be humiliated by you. Humiliated. You're like, oh my God, mom, stop dancing like that at the wedding with all my friends here. You're like ... I'm a billionaire pop star soccer player. Soccer player all this. Soccer star. I'm Posh Spice. Embarrassing mom, cut it out. It's very relatable, that thing. I feel so much better about my kid being humiliated by me all the time. If Posh and David are embarrassing, then I guess the rest of us have no hope. What's the worst thing that you've done to your kids to embarrass them? What is the worst thing I've done to embarrass my kids? Or are they not old enough to be embarrassed by you? They're getting there now. My son is seven and there are a couple times where I have done six, seven and he's looked me in my eyes and just gone, stop. Stop it. I'm like, ooh, that's tough. Or my daughter will just go tell me that something's not funny and it just kills me in my heart. Oh, that's like a dagger. It's so bad. This is not funny, dad. I'm like, I know, but you didn't have to say it like that. I'm a human being. I know. So, yeah. Oh, God. But the problem is that then it's more fun to humiliate them after that when you're like, oh, I see what, you know, that this is fun. Within reason? Then it becomes the mission. Yeah. You've got to try to humiliate your kid. So my son started fourth grade this year and on his first day, we had queued up as we walked up to the front door of the school. We had the Rocky theme song queued up. Okay. And we played it when he was walking up to the door. Did you tell him you were doing this? No. And he turns around and he's like, oh my God, shut it. We turned it off. We turned it off right away. But just for the look in his face, it was so worth it. It was so worth it. Wow. Now all those classmates are like, hey, the Italian's here in the home room. He made it. They don't get it. They don't know the reference. That's very good. How else is he going to get the eye of the tiger? Listen, you got to build character in these kids early on. And if they're not getting bullied at school, you had a bully on at home. Very good. It's a good lesson to all you parents out there. See, this is how a mom group splinters. Yes. You give advice like this. You're like, you know what? We need a board of peace. I'm starting to see the cracks here. Yeah. So I, you know, I wish the Beckham's all the best. I hope they do it. But I'm very grateful that this is something that is like, there's no politics in it. There's nothing like Trumpy about it or anything. It's just a pure like, our families got some issues. You're like, okay, I hope you work it out. Yes. I'll be here with a tub of popcorn, reading every story, combing every detail, clicking through every Instagram story over and over. Put it into my veins. I can't get enough. That's all I want. I hope they resolve it. I do too. Eventually. But give us a little time with it first. In due time. Yes. Yes. Yeah, that's, those are some of the big things from the week. I think the week that's coming, you will be hosting. I will be hosting if we're not snowed in. That's true. We've got a very big winter storm coming. Yeah. We should acknowledge we are recording this before Monday. This will drop Monday. Yes. You're listening right now. It is Monday. You did show up with provisions. You have a giant bottle of water. I did. If we have to write out the snowstorm in this podcast studio, it does look like you're ready. I've got flares in the back. I already filled up the bathtub. Very good. I'm prepped. We're ready to go. I've got those, those, those film, the, the warming blankets that you put on after a marathon. I got a few, few of those in my office. I don't have any of that. So. Well, I'll take care of you. Are you sure? Yeah. First to be eaten, I feel like, is the position that I'm in very much that. See, it's okay. I am prepped enough for the both of us. We're good. All right. No one else though. Don't tell anyone else. I won't tell anyone else. Writing it out. Yes. Alan, I don't have enough for you, Alan. I'm sorry. I don't. That's fine. Our producer, Alan. Is he giving the thumbs up? So right now. Medium arm. Monday. Thumbs up. Are we, it's Monday. It's Monday right now. Are we snowed in? Is it going to be a big storm or is this going to be a. Supposed to be a big storm. Yeah. One of the other writers said that one of the models said 45 inches of snow. 45? That's not right. This is not. This can't be right. No. Because I've heard everything from like a foot. Like these last year, doze just cut every wire. We don't know how much snow is going to be. There's no telling. There's no way to know. We'll never know. But that's fun, isn't it? Fun to like just be like, well, okay, it could be a blanket of snow. It could be nothing. We could walk outside. There'll be a wooly mammoth walking down the street. We'll be like, what do you know? What do you know? We've got a brand new ice age. Nothing surprises us anymore. Fun surprise. Aliens, please come and save us. That's good. It's a throwback to 2016. B.C.E. That's right. That's it. That's right. Why not? Yeah. We're going to put in another thing. There could be a government shutdown. We don't know. There's that whole negotiation. The 30th, right? Yep. Yeah. I feel like we just went through the last one. And big news. Tell me. Melania Dock. Melania Dock. Melania Dock drops. Yeah. Now this is, this is tricky. Do we have the trailer? I think we do. Do you, would you like to watch the trailer to the Melania Dock? Can we watch the trailer? All right. I'm getting my headphones out. Here we go. Here we go again. Here we go again. Everyone wants to know. So here it is. Hi, Mr. President. Congratulations. Did you watch it? I did not. Yeah. I will see it on the news. She said I did not. What is it? An Oscar movie? I did not. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. trailer. Totally. So it's weird seeing Melania be like, here we go again, Mr. Bond. And I'm like, yeah, it feels, I expect something else. And then she's always talking to the troops about AI is like the robots are coming and we must choose if they are friend or foe. And I'm like, but that's, are you going to kill James Bond in this movie? The MGM lion makes me expect that he will be there. You have to have the, it's very, it's crossing wires in my brain when I watch it. Only it was just a Bond movie. I would just, when, when, if we all just woke up from a dream and it was all just a Bond movie, wouldn't that be wonderful? It would be great. Yeah. That would be very good. Desi, I have to ask you, you champion of the movie theater, the cinematic experience, will you be seeing this in movie theaters? I will not. Really? I will not. But, but I do feel conflicted a little bit. Like I don't want to contribute any of my money towards this film. Okay. But at the same time, I don't know, like, are people going to go see it? Because liberals do love a problematic ice queen. Okay. They really love being entertained by problematic ice queens. A devil's wear, the devil wears, a devil wears Prada kind of. Devil wears Prada, Elizabeth Hall, you know, even just those, you know, what's the other one? As much as we love an MLM. We love a problematic ice queen. So there's part of me that really wants to see this. Okay. I'm just curious about it, but I don't want to pay for it. I feel like the way you're talking about this, you're going to show up with the glow in your eye of Nicole Kidman in the trailer. And a three-piece pinstripe pantsuit. Yeah. The magic of the cinema in your eyes as you sit down to watch the Melania doc. Desi, what are you doing here? That's it. Popcorn all in the air. Yeah. You paid for the ticket. Was it me? Yeah. In a long trench coat. Just wearing a mustache. Running away. Oh man. We'll see. So tempted, but I'm not, I don't, I can't do it. I can't do it. All right. Maybe a movie night. If we're all doing a daily show screening for work, for research purposes, just so we can comment on it. A fun movie night. Order dinner. Yeah. Sit around. Yeah. The finest Slovenian delicacies as we watch. In the middle of a snowstorm. It'll be good. Because if there's one thing America wants right now, it's a movie about an immigrant story. That is, this is a very DEI woke documentary about Melania Trump who came to this country with a vision and went all the way to the halls of power. Oh God. Do you know? Do you think by this time next year she will be nominated for an Oscar? I mean, it's not impossible. She could again just have an Oscar handed to her because she said she deserves it. She solved eight movies. She solved eight theaters. Solved eight theaters. She opened eight theaters with it. It's possible. This is what it's coming to. Okay. You could do it. Best documentary. Meet us right back here this time next year. And we'll find out. We'll find out. It's very exciting. So yeah, premieres at the Kennedy Center. Of course it does. Of course it does. Who's attending this screening? I'm so glad you asked. When you think of the Hollywood Creme, Delacreme, when you think of the cultural influencers in America, I assume your first thought is Wayne Gretzky and his wife, Janet. Oh, and Janet will be there too? Janet will be there coming down from Canada, I assume, unless they live here now. Hollywood royalty. So Wayne Gretzky, the great one will be there. And I think that's the only person that's been announced is that Wayne Gretzky is very excited to see it. Speaking of people who like things cold as ice, Wayne Gretzky. Cold as ice. There we go. When the president was asked about it, he said about Melania's documentary, it's a very hard ticket to get. I can tell you that everybody, Wayne Gretzky and his wife, Janet, beautiful wife, great wife, they said last night, gee, I want to go too. A lot of people, everybody wants tickets to it. So there you go. A lot of people want to go. Wayne Gretzky, Mrs. Wayne Gretzky. You can't argue with fact. You can't. That's it. You can't argue with it. I know. Please stop there for the gap. Another morning, another reminder, there's a gap to be careful of. But maybe it's time to bridge the one between your nine to five and your dream of living life on your own terms. At HSBC, we know ambition looks different to everyone, whether it's retiring early or leaving more for your family. We can help because when it comes to unlocking your money's potential, we know wealth. Search HSBC wealth today. HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. HSBC UK current account holders only. All right. So before we go, in addition to the Melania doc, it's time for a segment we call the Daily Show and Tell, where we talk about something that you've watched or read or listened to, argued about, something that's on your mind that you want to discuss, recommend, not recommend, however you feel. So, Desi Lattic, the floor is yours. This is a bit of a deep cut, but I just heard the story about this woman who's on TikTok and went viral. Everything went crazy because she went on TikTok and said that she only showers once a week. Okay. And people were up in arms about it. Okay. How often do you shower, Devin? You're really putting me in the spot. But you have to be honest. I feel like it depends on the week. I feel like I'll go, I think it's three times a week if I'm doing the math in my head. Okay. More in the summer. So you would have, would you have judgment on this woman for showering once a week? No. I mean, we're all doing the best we can. We're all doing, that's what I said. It's like, here's the thing. If you're getting out of bed and showering one day a week, you're getting out of bed one day a week. You go girl. Times are tough. Yes. Right? Yeah. So more power to her. That's good. What's your weekly allotment of shower time? I'm going to be honest. I do shower daily. Really? I do shower daily. Every single day. Okay. I do. See, I feel like it depends. There's so many things like natural proclivity to stinkiness, let's say. Some people more, some people less. You got to take care of that. Yeah. Hard when you have kids running around, you got to wrangle them and make sure you find the time and the space. For me, it's like I have a ritual in order to fall asleep every night. I have to do like a sequence of things. I got to dim the lights. I got to make my tea. I have to quiet everything down. Hard drugs. I need hard, super hard drugs, little ketamine, warm shower, crawl into a cold bed. I want it cold. Really? Yeah. I want it cold. Hot shower, cold bed, and then I'm out. So that's like the basic version of like the cold plunge sauna, but in reverse. Put in reverse. Sana cold plunge straight to bed. Makes sense. Makes sense to me. But no judgment on this woman for showering one day a week. Okay. I say, I say, you do whatever you want with your body, Lindy. What did the internet say? They were all up in arms about it. Really? Very upset. They were very upset with her. Okay. Yeah. What's yours? What's your show and tell? I'll pick this up. I haven't seen it yet, but by the time this air is, I will have seen it or I got snowed in, but either way, I am going tonight to see Oedipus on Broadway, which I'm very excited to see. I've kind of kept myself in the dark. I don't necessarily know the actors in it and everything. I know, I mean, Oedipus is one of the oldest plays, so I generally know the story, but I wore my Broadway finest. That's why I'm dressed like an MSNBC reporter today. You look like you're going right from here, straight to the news desk. That's it. I'm Devan Delacuani and for Jacob Soboroff, and these are your top stories. One more time, but snarkier. I refuse. Never. But yeah. Oh, that's so exciting. I'm very excited to see it. So here, there's a weird story about getting tickets to Oedipus. So every year, my mother, who is very kind, will always, in lieu of like some Christmas gift thing, will be like, do you want to go see a Broadway show? I'll get you and your wife tickets to a Broadway show. And so I was looking at the Broadway shows that were running and I saw Oedipus was playing. I was like, for anyone who knows the plot of Oedipus, I was like, I can't ask my mom to get me tickets to see Oedipus. That's a very weird ask. So then we were trying, we were on speakerphone at one point and like trying to plan like, oh, Christmas stuff. And so something came up about another show. And I was like, actually, I like, my wife was in the room. It was on speakerphone. I was like, you know, I was thinking about asking you for tickets to Oedipus, but I thought that that would be way too weird. And she goes, Oh my God, I thought about getting you tickets to Oedipus, but I thought it would be way too weird. And my wife was like, well, you have to do the Oedipus tickets. We have to go see it. That's it. And I'm like, so once again, Oedipus was fated to happen, but then we were on a collision course and the faith, even as hard as we tried to avoid it, like Oedipus himself, it came to be. So tonight, I am going to see Oedipus wreck. So go see it or don't, but whatever you do, make sure things are cool with your mom. She's getting you the tickets when you do it. Devin. Okay. I have two things I need you to work on. One is to shower slightly more frequently, just a little more frequently. And two, you got to talk to your therapist about what's going on with your mom. Why? Okay. That, the fact that you and your mom both thought about Hey, look, you got to take that to your therapist. All right. I'll take that to your therapist. I'll shower before I go there. And then somehow it will all still feel dirty, Desi. Wow. We really went off the rails here. Did we ever? Just the way we like it. Yes, off the rails. And so with that, I think that's it for this week's precap. Yeah. I mean, I don't know who's not watching the Daily Show after this. Come on. This is what more can you ask for. You're snowed in. What more are you going to do? Put it on. Watch it. I hope they have power. I hope so too. That would be very good. If you don't have power, get one of those generators, plug your phone in, plug it into your TV and make sure you can watch the Daily Show and then heat your food in your water. Yes. After you've watched the show. Get your priorities straight. So yeah, that's the precap. I have been Devon Delacwanti, catch Desi Lydic hosting the Daily Show all this week on Comedy Central and Paramount Plus. Yay. Thanks, Dev. My pleasure. That was fun. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show wherever you get your podcasts. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.