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Costa, are you ready?

I'm ready.

I'll take my own cue.

Okay.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the precap.

Thank you for that.

We're going to be doing this every Monday,

sitting down with the week's host to hear what they're excited to cover on the show,

what they wish they could cover, but will probably get surplanted by something crazier or something more terrifying, and maybe stories that they're sad they didn't get to cover in previous weeks.

They

didn't get a bite at that apple.

My name is Matt O'Brien.

I'm a writer and producer on The Daily Show.

Can you believe they got me?

What a get.

It's nice for me to finally hear what your title is.

That was news, honestly, to Comedy Central.

Right.

Anyway, after a contentious negotiation, they nailed me down, and here I am on the precap, a true highlight.

And I'm sitting here with this week's host, the great Michael Costa.

That's right.

Thanks, Matt.

Thanks for watching.

Michael, welcome to the pre-cap.

Yeah.

Which is a preview.

Preview.

And a recap.

That's correct.

And it could have been the view,

the pre-view.

It could have been the view review.

The review.

Yes.

Well, we're going to go with pre-cap this week, but what did you call it?

The

review.

The cap view.

The cap view.

The cap view.

Welcome to the cap view.

That's so good.

We'll cut that out.

Yep.

All right.

So the pre-cap.

What did we miss?

We've been off the air for a month.

Okay.

I wasn't sure that was public, but yep.

Most people are just now releasing.

That was scheduled.

That was scheduled.

Okay.

It's not like something happened and we went off the air for a month.

It was a scheduled off the month.

A long scheduled break for the show to go off the air for a month

to refuel our brains.

Right.

Now, it didn't help that it was two weeks after

Colbert.

Colbert just got canceled.

So it didn't help.

Yeah.

But it was nice to have a month off of work.

We took a month off during the most precarious time in television history to be a late-night show.

That's true.

So that people could forget that we were a show.

All right, but we're back and now people are so excited.

The millions of people listening are so excited to have us back.

So why don't we just talk about some of the biggest problems?

You know, Matt, People do actually tell me that they miss the show when we take a break.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm being serious.

I get messages saying we need the show back.

Okay.

That's good.

I feel like those are people that just want to feel like they're contacting a celebrity

to have some,

you know, to feel something.

Like, oh,

you're on the show.

Nobody says anything to me.

Right.

No one ever says anything to me.

Okay.

No.

I respond to every direct message I get.

Every direct message?

Just

a series of bots telling you.

Oh, 100%.

We miss show.

No, that's fantastic that people reach out

and notice that the show's gone.

Yes.

All right.

So you've got a big week coming up.

So some of those stories that we missed.

Yeah.

And maybe we can just weigh in on them now.

Yeah.

Because there's nothing better than weighing in on things long after they've happened.

Putin and Trump, they they met in Alaska, of course.

I thought that was

the only one where on vacation I was like, oh, it'd be fun to run that through the Daily Show Machine.

Yes.

There was a lot of fun stuff there.

I mean, a complete upending of that entire historical relationship in one

tarmac moment.

The shaking of the hand and then reaching over and putting his hand on Putin's hand.

I mean, it was really wild to see.

Also, the president flew seven and a half hours.

It was still in the United States.

I mean, Putin's travel was way less.

Yes, that's true.

So

any diplomatic advantage was taken away, even though it was a home game for America.

It was an away game.

It's like when

baseball teams would go play in like Puerto Rico.

You know, it's like it's not, and it's a home game, but it's not a home game.

They're sleeping in their childhood bedroom.

Is that that what you're saying?

No, but I thought that would be a fun one to talk about.

Yep.

Because then the next day, I think Trump had everybody fly to him in D.C.

I don't know.

I thought, you know, I was like, hey, that'd be fun to.

Not to mention the entire thing was sort of, I mean, it was this big event, but then it was

very cryptic.

They were very careful about.

giving these sort of ambiguous

reviews as to what went down, that kind of thing.

There was not, it felt like this huge moment, and not much changed after it.

It was completely performative.

They did release the menu.

They did.

And then they didn't eat it.

They didn't do the dinner.

Was that one of the things that was left in the printer at a hotel?

Was the menu?

Yeah, so there was a menu and it was halibut.

Of course, it was.

You'd think actually it'd be salmon, but

they flew in halibut from South America to Alaska.

Meanwhile, yeah.

So they left something in the printer, which really does summarize a lot of this administration.

And I bet you other administrations left things in the printer, but for whatever reason, it just really fits with the Trump administration.

It's

another moment of a long line of classified information being mishandled.

Yes.

And whether it's

a group chat on Signal or a rogue printer behind a holiday inn desk.

And I guess they chose not to eat dinner.

I just, you know, I was thinking, look,

I was thinking about the the chef.

I was thinking about the sous chefs.

I was thinking about the person who sourced the fish.

I was thinking about the fish.

The poor fish.

Those fish were raised their whole life to be eaten by

high-level.

Yeah.

And then instead it was eaten by like

ground into slurry to be sprinkled.

Right.

And, you know, they've been turned into omega-3 fatty

tablets.

Tablets.

Tablets.

This pot is crushing.

So far,

we've covered a lot.

You take that, the daily.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, of course, got engaged.

Yeah.

I don't care.

Yeah.

That is a piece of meat that's been picked over a lot.

Yeah.

And yeah, who cares?

And

I don't even have a take.

Yeah.

Other than I don't care.

Is it because

did

did you ever care?

You know, I mean, at first it was, I mean, it's been a big story now for a few years.

Does anybody else feel like once Taylor Swift

started to date an NFL player,

I felt like that was

that hurt her with me?

That hurt her with me?

With me, that

lessened my...

When Taylor Swift started dating an NFL player, for me, her likability went down.

Well,

it always made me laugh because the, what do they call Taylor Swifts, the Swifties?

Yeah.

They were, they've always been hysterical about,

you know, her deserving the best.

And they had always rooted for her to be with Prince Charming, just this perfect,

you know, Eric from the Little Mermaid guy.

And she started dating Grog.

Yeah.

And they kind of had to get behind it.

Oh, yeah, he's the one we were talking about.

Prince Charming.

It was always an odd match.

And I think if Swifties had

had their way, that was not who they would have matched her up with.

And she should have checked with her fans before falling in love.

That is true.

Every celebrity, and this is, I do, I've done this

as a celebrity.

You need to check with your fan base before you make any life decision and make sure it's cool with them.

Yeah.

It's very important.

A poll on Instagram.

I was going to say,

you've already told people that you will respond to any and every DM.

So

I think things are going to get a lot busier for you online.

Okay, we had Trump.

There was a rumor, of course, that he was dead and that he had died.

Really?

Trump online,

there was a big,

that was one of the big online conspiracies is that he was dying or his health was failing quickly.

That J.D.

Vance was behind the scenes moving to assert his power because

it was possible that Trump was going to die.

There was a lot of rumors that he wouldn't stray far from Walter Reed.

And it was really just because he hadn't been seen in public for three days.

Do you remember when he was shot?

Of course you do.

I find it interesting that the first thing he said after eight bullets whizzed past him was, can you get my shoes?

I've always wondered what's going on there.

Yeah.

A lot of people online think he wears lifts.

Guys, let me get my shoes.

Yeah, like I've faced death.

This is scary.

I don't really know what happened.

You know, you've been in a car.

Think about after a car accident.

There's noises.

It's scary.

Have you ever said, like, oh, where's my book bag?

That was strange.

An assassination attempt, but you will not make me walk barefoot across that lawn.

Correct.

And a lot of people online think he was wearing lifts.

Oh.

I don't know.

Interesting.

I don't know.

And that's what he was trying.

And that's what we'll cover this week on The Daily Show.

I don't know.

I just thought that was very, very interesting.

Of course,

the CDC is a bit of a mess.

Yeah.

You know,

people are being hired and fired within a week.

I don't find those topics as fun to cover on The Daily Show.

I find those topics should be covered by real journalists.

Sure.

Whereas The Daily Show,

we like to cover a story, but are we looking for the joke all the time?

Right.

Putin meeting with Trump, Trump saying,

you know, to me, that's a funnier thing to put through the Daily Show machine than, hey, a bunch of people who are out there to protect our lives and our children's lives were fired.

Yep.

Go, writers.

Well, sometimes we'll pivot to say how the media is covering it.

I think that's the spin on it.

That's

that's what our job is.

Sort of the shameless spin

coming from both sides of the aisle.

Yes.

That happened with, I mean, Putin and Trump.

Not only was that a pretty remarkable footage to look at, but the spin that happened afterwards,

certainly on the right and left, the left, you know, obviously saying it was a sign of weakness, the right spinning it as a sign of strength

and cherry-picking all these little things.

I feel like that's something we would have latched on to

is

the stark division between how it's covered, of course.

Same with RFK.

But you're right.

I mean, there's nothing inherently funny about the CDC director.

resigning

a month after

being hired.

Sometimes you got to cover it if you're hosting that day and that's the news.

But I will say,

when I saw that story,

I said,

I'm happy we don't have to cover that.

Okay, and of course,

the most, I think,

prominent story that we missed was the Burning Man Orgy Dome was destroyed by a dust storm in the desert

after many, many, many years of service.

Is that true?

Has the Orgy Dome been around for a long long time?

It's been around, yes.

It's a long-standing tradition of Burning Man.

I've never been to Burning Man, but

my understanding and from the footage I've seen

is it's been around for many years.

The thing that I liked about that story personally is there was a

argument that happened on social media.

Some people argued it was climate change that destroyed the Burning Man Orgy Dome, but other people are arguing that it was God's wrath.

I was going to say, 100%.

God's wrath.

Yeah, Yeah, there's always going to be a Christian element.

Yeah.

So

you had to kind of choose a side.

Yeah.

Is it nature or

is it climate change or is this just smiting?

I love, love, love when nature just subtly reminds us that

I'm in control of this.

And people underestimate wind.

I don't know if you have a rooftop in Brooklyn and you try to maintain a garden up there,

but wind is no joke.

Wow.

Yeah, that's a pretty big brag.

Wind is tough, and I have never been to Burning Man.

I have been to many orgy domes.

And

a dome in the desert, you got to deal with wind.

Yes, this is something they should have anticipated.

Correct.

Yeah, you're right.

You'd think after years and years that

they were fortified.

They should make it an aerodynamic

fixture, but I guess that's the point.

Like an orgy pyramid.

A pyramid.

Yes.

But I guess they're probably really locked into

a dome thing.

You got to imagine there's probably many horny engineers that would be willing to come in pro bono and fix the orgy dome design.

Architects.

100%.

Also, one thing that I liked about the article

about the orgy dome is they're talking about how you go in and you have to sign a release.

Oh, wow.

And then you're given, a lot of people bring rubber gloves.

And it just, it felt like

one of the least erotic things is all the paperwork and sterile rubber gloves that go into a desert orgy.

It just, to me, it took took some of the hotness away from the desert orgy was the legal paperwork you had to go through before entering

the orgy dome.

All right, we'll move on from that.

No, that is true.

And it sucks to think that Burning Man, which is this, I believe, celebration of free spirit and nature and

breaking conventions,

has the terms and conditions

that

the legal department came up with.

And just reams and reams of paperwork.

Paperwork file.

You know, it's like an old school doctor's office.

Let me pull your file and see

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The precap.

Let's see here.

This is the precap, guys.

Just reminding you, this is the precap.

So this week, let's talk about some of the things we could maybe get into this week.

Now, all of this certainly could get easily preempted or

knocked out by something crazier because that's just how the news works.

Yep.

All right.

The U.S.

Open, you're a big, of course, a former semi-professional tennis player.

Sure.

Yeah.

Was that fair to say?

Well, the semi-s unnecessary.

Okay, you're a former professional tennis player.

Sure.

I like that.

You are a former professional tennis player.

It was how you made a living.

Ranked.

864 in the world was my high.

864th in the world.

Yeah.

You know,

the highest I got.

That's if you, relative to the number of tennis players, that's got to be top 1%.

I think it's higher than that.

Probably.

You're right.

You're right.

No, you're right.

All right, so I'm here with the 864th best tennis player on the planet.

25 years ago.

25 years ago.

Yeah.

Michael Costa.

So, yeah, the U.S.

Open finished this past weekend.

Any thoughts about the tournament?

Anything you saw?

I know you won a few nights.

Yeah, I mean, when you're there, do people say, hey, it's professional tennis player?

They certainly don't say, hey, it's professional tennis player.

They sometimes say, they point at me and they say, hey, that's that guy we hate.

I actually stole that from a Robin.

Robin Williams had a funny story about that.

He was walking through Central Park and a dad and his son saw him and the son turned to the dad and said, hey, dad, look, it's that guy we hate.

Like, what a beautiful, like, this is how we bond hating this person.

I wonder what stage in his career that was.

Was it after awakenings?

Yeah.

You know, was it?

So

I,

you know what?

I love the sport of tennis, and I love watching the sport of tennis.

But I always am afraid to bring tennis into my comedy world, the other world.

Sure.

But what's interesting about tennis, in particular the U.S.

Open,

is

because it's a global sport, I mean, you get real geopolitical stuff.

And that I do think is relevant

in the TV show world.

Real cultural tension.

Absolutely.

Like when a Russian player plays a Ukrainian player and the Ukrainian player refuses to shake your hand after,

that's fun to me.

I mean, it's not fun.

It's sad, but that is like real.

And I think tennis

raises the stakes.

For sure.

Yes.

Beyond just the wins and losses.

Correct.

Correct.

There's larger representation of your country,

culture,

pride.

Yelena Ostapenka telling Taylor Townsend, a black American, that she was uneducated.

You know, a white Eastern European telling a black American woman, you know, that immediately gets saucy.

On her home turf.

Correct.

In America.

In America.

At the U.S.

Over.

Right.

So that gets very saucy very fast.

Yep.

The Polish...

construction CEO

stealing the hat from

what looked like a wealthy young boy

gets real saucy real fast.

You know, I mean,

I don't know if you remember, everyone was criticizing the Polish construction man.

He immediately lashed out and said, I don't apologize, and I will sue anybody who criticizes me.

You know, immediately this tiny little tennis thing became like a political

clip's everywhere.

By the way, the internet hunts him down

in a half hour.

That is terrifying.

That is terrifying.

No one is safe.

It is terrifying.

And also, I hate how I end up defending this asshole all the time on the internet because the internet went too far.

What he did was terrible.

The guy's a prick.

But now it's like

you have his home phone number and his address.

And it's like, so now I'm going, look, the guy's an idiot.

But

this is now a cataclysmic event in his life.

Yes.

Correct.

Correct.

That sucks.

If you don't remember what happened, a player tried tried to hand a hat to a boy that was

waiting for an autograph, and the Polish CEO grabbed it from him before the boy could get it.

Before the boy could get it.

And it's one of those beautiful.

The player didn't notice.

He was just signing autographs.

Who was the player?

I forgot.

I forget.

But it was a fun, it's one of those perfect viral cold play dancing moments where we love to weigh in, but we don't really feel any stakes.

Is it also,

and I imagine this can happen at any tennis tournament, but it doesn't feel like something that would happen at Wimbledon.

You're right.

Right.

I mean,

it's a little rowdier at the U.S.

Open.

At Wimbledon, that guy would have been sniped from a long distance once he did that.

No, no, New York.

He would have been banned for life.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a private club.

No, New York is rowdier.

It's got that, it's got that reputation.

And

yeah, that was a.

What I find interesting about that

is the fact that that man refused to apologize.

I don't know, that's in the zeitgeist a lot now.

And I think it is the Trump

permission to not apologize.

Correct.

Yeah, that is very much relevant in all subjects of our life now.

And

it's an interesting conversation about.

Dig in and just let it pass.

Yeah.

Yep.

Which, you know, I would have, if that was me being caught stealing from a young child, and by the way, I have done that many times.

Yeah.

But when I get caught, I would say, whoops, I shouldn't have done that.

Here's the hat back.

But I'm kind of aware of that.

Do you want to go into some of the things that you've stolen from children?

Or

that'll be for the next precap.

You got to leave them wanting more.

There's got to be an arc to this.

But also, Matt, I have been a young boy.

Of course.

Waiting for an autograph from someone.

Yvonne Lendel.

Yana Novatna.

Okay.

Sure.

And not gotten what I wanted, but the people around me have.

That's a thing.

It's a life lesson.

Yeah, it's a life lesson.

Yep.

And it does make you think about stuff.

Foul balls, hello.

Hey, that was in my hand.

And then someone, so maybe

this is how American.

It bounced right past me.

Yeah.

Maybe this is how American kids get some great things.

That kid goes on to do great things.

Correct.

You know.

Or opens fire in public.

We're not sure.

But we'll wait to see.

Well, the the internet will track him down in 10 years as well and see what hell he's going to do.

He will not apologize.

Oh, God.

It'd be interesting to see if that stays in.

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All right.

So a few things here.

Epstein List, of course, is making a comeback.

The victims are speaking out.

Trump immediately calls it a Democratic hoax.

I mean, literally, while they're still on the White House grounds, he comes out and says that the Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax.

It's funny that he says Democrat because it really seems like it's the Republicans that are really

fixed on this, who are not voting to release the files.

It's pretty clear-cut.

But he's just, he's holding the line.

He's towing the line.

You know, there's nothing particularly funny, and it's more tragic, particularly when you're humanizing and seeing the victims on the White House

property.

What's interesting about this topic from day one is that

it feels like Trump has done so many things that should bother people, but this is the one that his own party is really

fixed on.

And hey, I'm all good if they want to get fixed on this.

Good.

But they should also get fixed on the other stuff, like sending federal troops in to enforce local law.

That's kind of fucked up.

Well, let's talk about that, of course.

Let's talk about that.

The National Guard is in multiple cities.

Yeah.

D.C.,

although L.A., it was just ruled illegal.

And so posse comitatus

is coming up a lot, which is a law that

basically keeps a separation between the military and local law enforcement.

Basically,

a law from 1878.

Rutherford Beeh.

I knew that.

I didn't write it down.

From 1878

that basically says that the military cannot enforce the law.

It keeps troops from out of our streets, essentially.

Yeah, I mean, let's think about it.

It's pretty cut and dry.

Let's think like,

do you want

the leader of a world to use

the

military to enforce his beliefs?

Yeah.

And that is what separates

this country from a lot of other countries.

Of course.

It seems like a fairly

bit, that's one of the basic principles

that they founded it on, right?

And from what I can tell, he's kind of doing this knowing it's illegal, but just hoping to slowly desensitize us to this idea that federal troops are

and just selling it as a true improvement to the quality of life.

It's funny to me to hear him brag.

There was no crime.

There's zero murders in D.C.

last night.

Well, the National Guard has been deployed.

So yeah,

that should be the case.

Wasn't there footage of some of these National Guard like picking up trash?

Yes.

So that would be another thing is

these troops who have been trained.

There we go.

Oh, here it is.

They're wearing reflective vests.

Like crossing guards.

Yeah.

By the way,

this is belittling to these armed service men and women not to pick up trash.

People got to pick up trash.

Of course.

But this is not what they're trained to do.

This is not what they signed up for.

It's not what we are paying for.

But

so, yeah, you know, to me, Matt, this has got Daily Show written all over it.

Of course.

You know, a highly skilled, expensive,

well-outfitted, killing soldier machine is picking up trash the way I get leaves off my lawn with a bad back on a Sunday morning.

I'm going to show you the same vest that they give to people directing traffic after a concert.

Yes.

So to me, if I'm China or North Korea and I see this footage, this is like, America,

you are,

you've lost it.

Just drop candy wrappers on our cities.

By the way,

that is a clean-looking walkway.

It does look anything in New York City.

I will say it looks clean, and there are no murders happening during the footage.

So

that's great.

Daily show fodder.

Absolutely.

Will we cover that?

It will probably

not make it because something else will come along.

the forbes 400 list drops this week

um it's something that president trump pays attention to oh yeah

and i could see him complaining about where he's ranked

um

you know uh the liberal media hates him and wants to make him seem less wealthy um that unfortunately is something that

will probably

push out more important issues in his mind mind

this week.

Where he stands on the Forbes 400 list.

It's New York Fashion Week, of course.

I'm sorry I didn't bring this up earlier.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

And you're excited about all those shows, the parties, the big tents that are erected.

What else happens during Fashion Week?

There's Orgy Domes.

There's Orgy Domes.

There's definitely Orgy.

The Bryant Park Orgy Dome.

Sponsored by Paramount Plus.

Will Forbes put Trump as number one as like a little

appease of the menu?

Well, he did just make

$5 billion on paper from crypto.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Which

that drives me pretty crazy.

Yeah.

The fact that Hunter Biden tried to sell some paintings

using his family connections.

And

Trump's made $5 billion

putting his name on a crypto coin that he's deregulated as president.

but the nfl is back yeah

are you uh as are you into the nfl at all no no and you know i stopped wearing any sports looking paraphernalia out in public period

because people would ask me what i thought of the nickel package

defense or hey did you see that detroit traded the relieving pitcher and i would go why am I in this conversation?

Right.

I support athletics.

This is an old Detroit Tigers t-shirt that's at the very bottom of my drawer.

And I strongly believe in the community power of sport and rooting together.

But I don't want to talk about

the off

shooting guard for the Detroit distance third quarter foul

with a stranger.

But as a tennis player, you know, as a, a, of course, football is a big team sport.

As a tennis player, do team sports anger you?

No, I think team sports are awesome because you really do have to rely on your,

you know, you're only as good as that weakest link.

You do have to rely on the person to your left and your, and to your right.

That's also why I chose tennis because I was tired of passing the ball to wide open

Spencer, and then he misses the fucking goal.

Yep.

Give me the rock, Spence.

I'll put it in the back of the net.

It lines up.

It lines up.

Maybe that's tennis, stand-up comedy.

You're relying on yourself.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You will, you'll get all the glory or all the failure.

Let me say this, and this is going to get serious for a second.

I'm happy the NFL's back.

I'm happy people like the NFL.

I'm happy with that.

I'm Paramount Plus.

I'm happy that I walk past a bar in an airport and a lot of people are cheering for whomever.

But

I also think we need to be paying attention

to

America and our government right now.

Okay.

So it might feel like a welcome distraction.

Good.

Go support your team.

Go high five.

Go make the seven layer dip that no one can identify all seven layers ever.

No one even knows what three of the layers are of the seven layer dip.

But I think let's let's as American citizens, and I'm looking at one of these cameras here, let's also pay attention to what's happening in Washington, D.C.

because it is important and it will fuck up the NFL schedule if

we don't.

Signing off.

Can we put some inspiring music under

that pan?

Slow motion pan.

A waving flag

as you remind us what's important.

That's right.

It's fourth and one.

You know,

with little time left in the democracy.

You understand.

Yeah.

Yep.

You understand.

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All right,

Mr.

Costa, it's time for a segment that I'm told we're calling the Daily Show and Tell.

I like that.

So what's something,

just off the top of my head, I'll just ask you, what's something you've watched, read, listened to, or argued about or just been on your mind lately?

Anything?

Well,

I mean, August, summer.

Yeah, I mean, you know,

let me just start by saying I do love my children.

Of course.

Okay.

Yes.

It's very important.

I've started so many sentences and conversations like this.

But I

feel that the summer, as a parent, I mean, I don't, I am a camp counselor.

Yeah.

It is.

You were asking me about this new stuff.

I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

I can tell you where the construction paper is in our house.

I can tell you that we need a new color pencil sharpener.

I can tell you.

How much milk is in the refrigerator?

How much milk is in the fridge?

I can tell you that we need more snacks.

I mean, I was at Home Depot multiple times this summer buying thicker gauges of plastic tarp in the painting section.

Okay.

Creating

with some water, creating a slip and slide for my children.

Then I went to a friend's house and their dad, you know, like the better dad version?

Sure.

was like, you got to put dish soap on there.

That's how they really slip and slide.

So not only did I then feel like belittled by this prick,

but then I saw kids really flying at his house.

So

back to Home Depot, you go.

Back to Home Depot, I go.

Now I got to buy a gross of hand soap.

It is like a serial killer shopping list, which is just various tarps and soaps, cleaning supplies.

And, you know,

I guess all of this to say, and this is why having children is great, it makes me appreciate 40 years later that my parents did that.

You don't ever think about that.

If I can just stop you real quick about

going to Home Depot to

buy,

I don't know what

the current cost of a slip and slide is.

That's a good point.

You mean just buy the actual slip and slide?

15 bucks?

I don't know.

What did you spend on tarps?

By the way, they don't ever dish.

Yeah, exactly.

They don't tell you, like, now I have, you know, 900 square feet of tariffs somewhere, something I have to do with.

That was just an example of my summer has been, it's parenting, man.

Summer vacation when the kids are from school, I have two small children, is not relaxing.

No.

It is

24-7 engagement with

which we love.

Of course.

Of course.

Best decision I've ever made.

What's amazing about kids is all they really want is your full engagement, but they know when you're bullshitting it.

Even if I'm looking at you, child, and I'm nodding up and down, she'll go like, dad, dad, you're not paying attention.

I'm like, how did you fucking know?

Yep.

Or

sometimes I'll read almost an entire book

to my son and I'll be zoning out.

Oh, yeah, big time.

And then he's asking questions about the story.

And I have to pretend that I was paying attention to whatever we were reading or listening to.

You're thinking about the Posty Comatotis Act, of course.

Thank you.

Or the Polish CEO.

What's he going to do with that hat?

You can't do that.

I think he stuffed it in another woman's bag.

So let me say that in a non-sexual way.

I think he took the hat and he put it in a woman's bag that was his girlfriend or wife.

So that's also funny that he stole the hat from a child to give to a woman he's courting.

Well, it's a love story.

It's a love story.

So anyways, my big hot take, you heard it here first at the precap, is that summer for parents is exhausting and hard.

It kind of sucks.

Yeah, there we go.

All right, so

that's going to do it for the precap.

And thanks, Michael Costa,

for sitting down and discussing a lot of stuff that we will probably completely ignore by tomorrow morning because

it will be surplanted by something crazier.

And that's just the nature of it.

Have fun behind the desk this week.

And please tune in to watch our good friend Michael Costa behind the desk on the Daily Show this week.

And thanks for listening.

We'll see you on the next precap.

See ya.

Thanks, Matt.

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