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Yo, yo, yo, what up, Daily Show listeners?

It's your boy Ashton Womack, and right now you are tuning into the precap, the show where we talk about what we missed this week and what's coming up next week.

I'm here with Daily Show legend, stand-up comedy legend, my boy Josh Johnson, everybody.

Give him a round of applause.

Oh, legend's a strong word.

Listen, man, I'm going to gas up my friends, dog.

Don't even,

if I'm a, if I'm going to talk about my friends, if I get to bring up my friends and host, I'm going to,

I'm going to say you save kittens and shit like that.

All right.

So,

Josh Johnson, the legendary man.

How you been, man?

How you living?

You feeling good?

I'm doing all right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Doing good.

Good day so far.

Yeah, I'm jealous.

You get to work from home.

Some of us

some of us don't get that luxury uh you're seeing you know your boy had to come in

on his work from i do i do see you in and i specifically remember i think you're supposed to be working from home that is i'm glad you see thank you thank you for remembering that this is what i do for the show guys i just want the daily show listeners to show how to know how much i give to this uh uh show so i just showing up

you know the basic job requirement coming to work.

But that's not, we ain't here to talk about me.

We're here to talk about some of the things we may have missed this week.

One thing we couldn't have missed was the government shutdown.

Josh, how are you feeling about this shutdown?

Is this

a government job, so I'm not feeling it the way that people who do are feeling it.

But

I am genuinely worried about a lot of the people.

It's somewhere in the ballpark of 750,000 jobs.

Jesus.

And that's only because it used to be closer to a million.

My numbers might be wrong here, but I think that since

the Trump administration started, they've cut anywhere from like 250,000 or a little bit more in jobs.

That was through Doge.

And now

the 750 left are affected by the shutdown.

That's an insane number.

750,000, you said.

That's an insane number.

And I'm hearing that number, and I'm trying to think, like, are there any more black people left to fire in the government?

How will this affect us?

I feel like they got rid of us already in the government.

I'm pretty sure TSA is government, and that is

the Atlanta.

That is government NBA.

That's hilarious.

No,

actually, you about to get on a plane, which that's the real thing.

When I think of the government shutdown and I think about the TSA agents or not even the TSA agents, them air traffic controller.

Bro, the air traffic controllers got to go to work while not getting paid.

That's that to me is one of the scariest things.

No, bro.

If I was an air traffic controller and I had to go to work and I wasn't getting paid, do you know how petty I would?

I need everybody on that plane to Vimo me $40 if y'all want to land.

All right.

This is.

That's

wild.

This is why I couldn't.

This is is why I'm a joke teller.

I would just do ransom in real time.

Yeah,

that spirit flight has been.

Oh, yeah, I know y'all ain't got no money.

Y'all about to be up in the air for a minute.

Yeah, I would be holding people hostage in the skies until I get paid.

Do you have anybody in your family that works in government?

Yes, my brother's mom, which I know is a ghetto sentence, but my brother's mom, she works in for the, actually,

my brother's mom and my sister's mom, which I understand that's probably confusing for a lot of people, but just go with it.

They both work in the government.

They both work for the VA,

the Veterans Administration, or the VA.

Veterans Affairs, yeah.

Yeah.

So they

were already, like my sister's mom was already screwed over big time whenever Trump decided to start, stop, tell people they couldn't work from home.

Government employees could no longer work from home.

She had a work from home job for literally a decade before Trump came into office.

She was already working from home.

He forced everybody to come into office and she didn't have a local office.

So she would have to go from Chicago to California and to like for like two months until they figured out some uh situation for her.

But yeah, man, he's like definitely affecting very per uh close people in my life.

So how about you?

Um

I have I have a a cousin that I believe still works at the um

the Fed

um

But yeah,

I don't have too many family members that work in government.

And I didn't think about that.

That is a crazy thing to like, there are some jobs that were sort of always remote.

And then he's like, you have to come in.

And they're like, where?

That's literally what happened.

And they were like, how about California?

And she was like, I live in Illinois.

Well, that's going to be a crazy commute.

See you Monday.

It's also crazy that for every state, because the government's in every state

so you would think that for whatever state you are in they'd be like oh yeah we have an office there they did have an office but there were no positions so they're like the closest the closest office we have for you is is Callie luckily she eventually figured it out.

Actually, I haven't asked, I didn't inquire any further, but I just assumed she figured it out.

So

I should be a better family member.

But no, yeah, the

government shutdown is crazy.

I didn't realize 750,000 people were

being affected by this.

I knew a lot of people, but

you would think, like,

the bright side, I look to this is like, you know, maybe like

the guy

whose job it is to put crack in the black community, maybe he won't get paid this week.

And maybe there's pluses to this.

Yeah, I mean, there's definitely some job

that is.

I'm trying to think of what it would be.

Because this doesn't affect like

police or firefighters to my knowledge.

This is not like, these are like all federal jobs.

So I'm trying to think of like, to your point, who in

the CIA that was like working undercover.

Imagine being undercover and not getting paid.

You might blow your whole cover, be like, I can't believe they're shutting down the government.

And it's like,

you're part of one of those like Ruby Ridge, we're going to take the government down.

You've infiltrated.

That's hysterical.

I need.

Yo, wait, I'm about to topple this government.

All I need.

Wait, I'm not getting paid?

Oh, no.

Wrap this up.

I'm going home.

You are like on the verge of destabilizing some South American country, but you know what?

The paycheck don't clear?

I'm coming home, dog.

Yeah, that's.

I feel like very few people are doing espionage for the love of the game.

Yeah, 100%.

It's truly only.

That is actually hilarious.

Like, imagine there's, there's like,

there's, like, actually an agent

somewhere right now, finger on the trigger, scope,

red dot, dude.

Like, that is truly ready to pull the trigger, and then they get a notification on their phone.

And they're like, you know what?

Not again.

That is, that,

or, like, fucking, imagine if James Bond, he's like, shaken, not stirred.

And they're like, sir, your credit card is declined.

All right.

I know James Bond is British, but that's that's.

Yeah, do take cash.

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Speaking of government shutdown and people not working, let's talk about people working

in Saudi Arabia, to be more specific.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival.

I don't know if people have heard about it, but it's the great comedy festival put on by some royals

in the Middle East, and it's caused a little bit of a controversy in

kind of a lot of communities, specifically the comedian communities, where people are looking at the comedians on the festival and the flyer as sellouts.

It's a little controversial.

I have my opinions.

I'm sure everybody has their own opinions, but let's hear what Josh Johnson's take on the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

I mean, this is why it's very important to read every email from your agent thoroughly.

Imagine you said, like, like, just imagine for a second you said, Yeah, not even really know what it was.

Dude, I say,

then you're on the poster, and now people are mad at you, and you're like, What did I do?

You know what I mean?

You killed Jamal Kashogi.

I didn't, but

yeah, it's also different when like a government is doing something versus

a company.

Like,

corporate gigs are

like, you know,

I think it depends on how much you agree with or what kind of work

the company does.

But company projects are kind of like

here or there as far as how the public feels about them.

You know what I mean?

Like, if you did a corporate show for

Nestle,

I think a lot of people would see see that as like, oh, whatever entertainment,

like whatever entertainment head or party planning committee decided you were funny, brought you in.

I don't think they hold then the

opinions of the CEO of Nestle at your feet, right?

But when something is put on by government and you are you are

becoming a, how do you put it

you're you're in in a sense becoming a tool of

propaganda for a government I think there are just different expectations and it also all depends because

not everyone on that poster is being critic criticized equally so it all depends on what you usually do as an act what you say in your life and what your fan base expects from you and I think that some of those people's fan bases are diametrically opposed to like everything

that

the government has done and that the every policy that they have.

Meanwhile, there are some comics on that poster who actually have like a fan base in the area.

So, and have done shows in the area before.

So

it is like a really

interesting debate to watch people go back and forth forth on.

I,

how about this?

I'll put it this way:

they didn't contact me,

and that's the group, that's

they did not contact me, so I didn't have to weigh doing a show for however much money versus like any sort of

business that I stand on.

So, that's a that's like not my cross to pay.

No, yeah,

like it's like that's one of those things where I'm like, all right, if you, if, if you're the type of person who is over here being like, um,

we need, um,

we need to talk about the

situation in all these countries or

just talking about human rights, and then you go, people are going to look at that sideways.

Yeah, I know.

I mean, I think Bill, uh,

you know, not to, I mean, I am going to say names, but like Bill Burr, he's getting his flack because people look at him.

His audience looks at him as like this

more like a more have a higher moral, they hold him to a higher moral standard, and it's because he's spoken about things.

He seems to know better.

I don't think Kevin Hart gets the same flack for going over there because they see him as a, more of a commercial act who would,

he's never, he's never positioned himself like the, as some like...

super moral authority on like, don't work for governments that kill people.

You know, so I definitely think you're right in the sense of about, it just depends on the comic.

I do think it's like

I don't know, you're right, it is easy for especially a guy like me to say, be like, Yeah, I would never go to Saudi Arabia.

Well, they also would never offer me uh a fucking contract, but yeah, yeah, I mean, it's it's one of those things where it's like there's

this one that I was talking about it with friends over the weekend,

and

one of the things about it that I think people are forgetting.

I don't know anybody's contract, contract.

I don't know the number or anything.

But, you know,

word gets around.

You know, some of these people being paid in the millions, right?

And so then, you know, one of my friends made a really good point where he was like, look,

if somebody offered me life-changing money, I might go.

And we were all at the table kind of like,

what do you mean?

I mean, like, everyone's got a different number, right?

But he was like, Look,

the way I see it, if I go and then I give that money to people who need it,

then I'm literally taking money from something I don't like, don't believe in, then giving the money to causes that I do and helping people that I care about.

And once again, that's also a thing that you believe

you would do or

can say when the thing is not in front of you right now,

which I, which I, which I am not doubting his

conviction to do that type of stuff because I've known him to be like a charitable person, even without like lots of means and everything.

Yeah.

But that is, that's like the most charitable possible thing that you could do.

Okay, but in that moment, will you do it?

You know, come on, bro.

Even in that context, it's like he's essentially saying, look, if I take the money, that's like taking money out of the next 9-11 budget.

That means they won't do it again.

Look, I'm actually stopping

the next 9-11 if I take the money.

It's like, okay, that's like...

I mean,

that's a much better

defense than anything I've heard.

I'm actually a national hero for going over there.

Because the other defenses you hear are pretty much like, uh, look, you pay me enough.

I'll do what I do.

No, yeah.

I mean, right now I'm watching, I'm like all my way over here.

I was watching Instagram stories of comics that are over there.

And they're like, now they're just being ironic about it and like being like, oh, they keep saying I'm a sellout.

They keep saying I'm this.

And then they'll like, how can I sell out?

And the camera will pan to the Rolex they just bought.

And I'm like, yeah, I guess that's one way to respond to criticism.

I ultimately, I don't, what I think this like comes down to, for real, if I'm having like an actual, serious, genuine thought.

I don't like how sometimes comedy gets used to launder people's images and states' images.

We had the roast of every horrible person when Comedy Comedy Central was doing Trump, fucking Tiger Blood Guy, what was his name?

Charlie Sheen, you know, Justin Bieber, a little less controversial, but they use comedy to cleanse, to image cleanse.

Like, that's what we get used for sometimes.

And this is just happening on a governmental scale for

untold amounts of money.

And it's like,

man, I don't know.

I get that comedians have a powerful voice and we can like,

I think comedians really should recognize their power and like if we are they keep labeling us falsely as like these arbiters of truth and these these these philosophers and it's like if you just look people are we it really sometimes feel like the other end like we're just we're kind of selling people out for our own money but but hey that's

that's the re-ad comedy festival folks we'll move on let's to something actually funny I feel like as a comedian, I feel like as a comedian, it's tough to admit this, but trump keeps posting these ai videos of of uh jeffries of hakeem jeffries and sombreros

and i think we're supposed to be mad

but i i can't stop laughing dog

here's the thing here's what i'll say

he is fully immersed in like the grandpa ai obsession

I wish my grandpa was this funny with AI.

When the sombreros thing kept popping up, I was like, ah, fuck.

Okay, damn.

Have you seen the, like, there are lots of grandpas that are into AI, and a lot of them are mostly into the,

how do I put this?

A lot of them are into like

the most questionable versions of the AI.

What you mean?

Because I imagine grandpas with AI is going to get real perverted real fast.

So what are you talking about?

Oh, yeah, like lots of like fake bodies twerking.

Yeah.

And so any grandpa getting a hold of AI,

not every, but any, could be a bad thing.

It feels like an automatic, no, no.

Yeah.

If you can't, if they took away your license to drive, you're not allowed to have AI.

I feel like.

They also

believe too much of it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because

their minds aren't updated to the software that's out right now.

My mind isn't updated to TikTok.

My sister brings me shit and I become a grandpa.

I'm immediately like, oh, I don't recognize this.

So I can only imagine the order of magnitude that increases when it comes to actual grandpas with this insane new technology, the AI of AI, which is doing numbers on all of us.

Which is crazy, too, because it's like, if they even understand

one

of the

text-to-image models, their life is

their life is ruined.

Dude, dude, dude.

I can't even, my mind can't even, I need AI to even imagine the shit that grandpas are going to be coming up with.

It's just such a, like, like,

this is my thing.

It does feel more and more every day

like

Trump is actually

the president for where people are.

at the moment

because it's like

yes

he does things and says things or whatever, and it's like funny, but there are enough funny people, and this dude could accidentally kill you.

Yeah.

You know, when you.

Jimmy, like a baby with a gun is technically funny.

Yeah, a little.

It's like, it's like, it's like funny until it's not funny because the baby accidentally pulls the trigger and now it's just shot someone in the neck or whatever.

100%.

A safer example of that, my little cousin, when he was a baby, he used to have, you know, his big Tonka trucks, like those Tonka trucks, he would pick them up and just threaten to throw them.

And you'd be like, hey, that's funny, but stop.

Don't throw the Tonka truck.

And then when he would do it, it wouldn't be funny no more.

You'd be like, I hate this baby.

This baby just threw a Tonka truck at me.

Fuck this baby.

But before he threw it, it was hilarious.

So I totally that's what the entire presidency feels like, both terms.

Yeah.

Because he'll do something that's insane.

Yeah.

Like, this is the thing about government shutdown.

People,

like, I'm not trying to be an alarmist when I say this, but, like, it's very plausible that people will be impacted for the rest of their life off of this shutdown.

There are things that happen that, like, whether

it's the back pay situation, because, like, look,

there is no, to my knowledge, there is no, like, government protection for housing while you are waiting for back pay.

So if this shutdown goes for long or just, or just too long for any one person, and they are behind on their rent, They're behind on their bills.

They're behind because they're expected to pay.

Somehow the government isn't expected to pay.

No, your bills don't stop.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And so that, like, there are people that are going to experience homelessness.

There are people that are going to be,

you know, just in a, in a, in a place of, like,

financial turmoil because of this, because most people.

that you talk to,

most people that we know can't go a whole week without being paid yeah you know what i mean of course and so so it's like in the face of that in the face of that happening where people even from his own base are going to be hurt he's like isn't this funny yeah isn't this great i'm gonna tell and it's like in theory it is if if if it was if it was just you as a grandpa posting it okay let's have a chuckle but you This is your fault.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Those memes aren't going to feed your kids.

It's funny.

I hope you like belly laughs because your ass won't be eating anything in your belly.

That's the only thing that's going to be in your belly is fucking laughs.

Thanks to this,

our president, Lol, our lol cow troll president.

Yeah, yeah.

People are laughing their way into their own,

voting against their own self-interest.

And, oh, no, I almost fell for it.

Thank you for pulling me out, Josh.

No, look, look, look.

When I saw it, I was like, guys, this is crazy as fuck.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

I do.

I'm not saying let's sit here and pretend things aren't funny.

Yeah.

I'm saying that, like, in what context is it actually funny?

This would be funny if I was able to watch this from home and it was a movie.

And I'd be like, oh,

this is a funny president.

Like, oh, this is funny.

Like, story.

There's a crazy president.

This is a story about a crazy president who's like doing everything a president shouldn't do.

That's a funny premise for a movie.

Except when I pull back, it's not a movie it's just cnn and i'm like oh this is real i thought this isn't on hbo max this is this is oh yeah

yeah no it's rough man

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All right, well, that's what we might, that's what we missed for this week, but let's move on to what might be coming up.

What will we be getting into?

Possibly New York Comic-Con?

New York Comic-Con's beginning next week.

Easily.

You know what is crazy in my life is that I've had a big week of my life, every week of Comic-Con, every year I've lived here.

That's hilarious.

You're too successful.

I've been to Comic-Con once.

You want to go?

Only got to be there for like an hour and a half.

That's hilarious.

And, oh, this motherfucker's too successful for Comic-Con.

Ah, shit.

I got to host a daily show.

I can't dress up like Storm this week, guys.

I apologize.

I was going to look good, too.

No, that's hilarious.

the idea that you would pick storm

is so crazy

storm's fucking awesome uh but

is storm no listen i've gotten into comic books for real for real in my uh advanced stage uh like re-gotten back into them storm is low-key like she's She's a storm.

She's badass.

But wait, I didn't know you were such a big comic.

You actually wanted to go?

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

What year did you go?

I went in 2016 to do a segment for the Tonight Show.

So you went for work.

The one time you did go,

you didn't even go because you

also still were technically busy, but it just so coincided.

Wow, that's hilarious.

If you did go, who obviously not Storm, but who would you dress up as?

I don't like, admittedly, I don't even know if I would dress up.

It's like the panels I want to go to, the people that I hope to meet.

Like,

man.

I agree.

I mean, Comic-Con is something I always definitely, I'm like, for show a nerd.

Definitely always wanted to go to Comic-Con.

Wasn't it San Diego Comic-Con?

San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con.

Would love to go to both.

I, for one, am not busy.

I'm not hosting the show, so I can take my black ass on.

Enjoy it for the both of us.

I will.

I will be there dressed up as Storm

for both of us.

But we will, let's move on.

We did a piece, if you saw, if you watched the show this last week,

we did a piece about the government shutting down and the parks

no longer had employees.

So that caused an influx of shit.

It hasn't happened yet, but this is a thing that happens consistently whenever the government shuts down.

Park employees no longer work there, and shit fills up the parks because the bathrooms are closed.

And we did a wonderful segment about this on the show.

And

do you think the parks will still be covered in shit when we come down?

Do you think if this shutdown keeps going, will the parks be covered in shit?

It depends on how many days.

If it's two days, that would be weird.

But they're projecting this thing to be at least 10 days.

Oh, this shutdown?

That's how long they're thinking?

10 days?

That's how long people are taking bets on cowshi or whatever.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Okay.

Maybe I should get on his bets.

That's 10 days is enough to fill a park with shit.

10 days enough.

My park don't even shut down, and it gets filled with shit on a regular basis.

The one by my house.

So I can only imagine

what 10 days would do to the national park.

Also,

can anybody place a bet on those betting apps?

Yes.

Yeah.

So you can just make up a bet.

Do you have to bet everyone against yourself?

Or are you making the bet for the benefit of the platform?

And then betting.

I think the way it works is

anybody can make a bet.

Like, I'm not quite sure if it works in the sense of, like, you make a bet and they automatically take it and, like, oh, I bet that there's a thousand jelly beans in

this little container.

I don't, I, I, I don't.

Honestly, I don't know how they choose what what is a bet that stays.

But they be having some random ass bets on there.

So it feels like you can bet anything.

People bet anything.

But

hoping this government doesn't shut down.

I'm hoping the government doesn't last longer than 10 days.

I'm terrified of air traffic controllers and the TSA not getting paid.

10 days of air traffic controllers and fucking TSA agents not getting paid might destroy the country.

So let's hope this doesn't last too long.

But Josh, one thing I did want to ask you, this Comey.

You know, Comey, our boy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's

facing an arraignment.

Trump is, you know, his boy is coming after him.

The guy who got Trump elected is now on the run from the FBI.

The head of the FBI is now on the run.

Any thoughts on this?

Wait, Comey got Trump elected?

Yeah, because remember, right before the election, he

came out and was like Hillary, he was the head of the FBI, and he was like, Hillary might, he exposed Hillary's emails right before the election.

Oh, I see.

I see.

You could genuinely say Comey was like the first domino to Trump being elected.

And now Trump has turned his back even on him.

I don't know if you had any thoughts on that.

It's just crazy.

It's very dangerous to do Trump a favor.

For real, bro.

For real, dog.

That is

not even be a friend.

Yeah.

Like, just.

Dog.

Dog.

Can I crash on your house?

No, man.

I feel like that's going to end to my demise.

I just.

Yeah.

Also, it sucks that

Trump would

do

or say anything that might make me speak up in defense of

the FBI director.

You know what I mean?

The former FBI director, but still, it's like, it's like, yeah, I mean, everyone's kind of taken aback by this whole thing.

Yeah.

A lot of people don't think it will really go anywhere because

in court, because court is at least still supposed to have some semblance of reality.

In court, Trump loses all the time.

The administration loses all the time, like consistently loses.

And even when they have Trump-appointed judges, there are judges that are like, I honestly can't find any grounds to.

That's always my favorite thing.

There's just no legal

way to do this.

This is just impossible.

You just made up a thing and then hired lawyers to get you to go do it, and we just can't do it.

Yeah, he's constantly losing.

Yes.

That's why it is tough being a black person having to defend the FBI.

That's crazy.

They killed MLK.

That's a crazy position.

He really be putting black people in crazy ass positions.

But

my last question for the pod.

Are we going next week?

This is a personal question that I want to know.

Can we talk about Cardi being Nicki Minaj beefing?

Because this is crazy.

I don't know why we're talking about anything else.

Yeah.

I mean, look, we're going to be talking about it in the hallways, whether or not it makes it to AR.

Yeah, no, that's fair.

That's fair.

Can you update us, though?

Can you update us on the latest?

Yeah, guys, if you don't know, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, our great rappers, are currently on Twitter going,

they're going,

they're having a full fight like Comey and Trump.

They're going back and forth with each other.

The last I saw was

Nicki Minaj tagged the ICE to come and get Cardi B.

So I need to get updated, but she definitely tagged ICE in a tweet to have Cardi B deported.

So this is reaching, it's gotten way messier than Drake.

Yeah, but what happened?

What was the new catalyst?

The new catalyst was Cardi B's album, Am I the Drama?

She dropped the album, started dissing everybody on it.

And then Nicki Minaj came out.

She didn't even mention Nicki Minaj for real, but Nicki Minaj just started tweeting, like sub-tweeting.

They both were just at home tweeting each other.

Both of them just at home.

Ain't got nothing else to do.

Mega Successful Billionaires.

One just dropped an album, but they both still at home.

I hate you.

Bitch, I hate you.

Like, just, they both.

Are there memes yet?

There are tons of memes.

Bro, Nicki.

I'm not going to let you have to pick a side because

I want you to decide who you...

You're Team Jacob, Team Edward, whatever.

I don't want to be influenced that.

But I'm a little...

Right now, I'm Team Cardi.

There's no memes, but Nikki Minaj, she's going full Kanye, bro.

She's going full Kanye.

It's happening.

It's happening, dog.

I should have known when she was like my cousin's brother's testicles, whatever she said that one time.

But

honestly, if next week's show can just be mostly this, I will be a happy employee.

I mean, if the government comes back, we won't.

have much but this.

Okay, all right, all right.

Now you hear that, folks.

We have real reasons to why we want the government to come back.

I know there's tons of people who need to get paid, but also we'll be able to talk about Nikki and Cardi.

So, Trump, damn.

I mean, have you been listening to Am I the Drama?

I listened to a few songs.

I listened to probably like half the album.

Listen, that one song,

Players,

the One Jay-Z song, I wasn't a fan of because it sounds like she's like...

It sounds like she's it's text-to-talk type rapping, and I'm not a fan, but all the other songs, songs, I ain't gonna lie, outside,

I think she got a banger.

People did not believe in Cardi because she took eight years to drop a second album.

So they were like, they wrote her off, and

I think she

met her mark.

She did put WAP on the album, which is kind of like cheating.

She's like, look, I sold a million copies first week.

Girl, that song sold a million copies seven years ago.

How can you put it?

Yeah, but, but, but, I will say that that is a

it's a different type of move because

you, you actually would think if the, if that track is carrying the album, that

it wouldn't be able to do it because it is so old.

Yeah, I mean, it does speak to the power of the WAP.

The WAP is a powerful, powerful tool that's honestly classic.

WAP is timeless.

I think we can all agree.

Josh Johnson quote, WAP is timeless.

I didn't say a word.

That's what I heard.

I do feel like most of any backlash I get from this podcast will be things that you said.

Backlash?

What do we say that?

Yeah.

No, no, no.

I'm just,

I'm just, I think that eventually something is going to be said.

And then it's going to be like, Josh, I can't believe you.

And I'm like, that one wasn't.

That was Ashton.

I take all, listen.

If you're listening, you all, everybody knows I'm the one who said all the wild insane.

I don't even think nothing insane was said, but I am the reckless speaker.

I do.

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Josh, you got anything on your mind?

Uh, okay.

I will say one thing that's been on my mind quite a bit

is the reaction to Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl.

It's going to be a crazy day.

It's going to be awesome.

It's going to be awesome.

Y'all, football,

football,

American football,

they aren't ready.

They aren't ready.

We thought

with Kendrick making it, you know, making it America, making it black.

Ooh, we thought people's heads were spinning.

Bad Bunny, just by existing.

Y'all,

you're not, you're not, you don't understand

what is happening or what's going to happen.

You think rappers are beefing right now?

You think, no,

no.

That is what I mean.

You will be beefing with reality

after you get done watching Bad Bunny do the Super Bowl.

Because Bad Bunny has hits that, like, this is also what happens as an American.

That's a huge mistake that we do.

We really think we're the center of the universe, right?

Now,

I don't want to paint it as if Bad Bunny is not

a U.S.

citizen.

He's Puerto Rican, right?

But

in the sort of like mono culture of like

that, that like, I don't know, leave it to beaver style of American entertainment,

the idea that like our Hollywood is where all stars are born and

created.

The idea that we hold the corner market

on culture and understanding performance.

And then, meanwhile, you have the rest of the world making incredible music, incredible music in Brazil, phenomenal performances

in Africa with Afro beats and everything.

You have people like Bad Bunny.

You have people all over the world.

As americans sometimes we think that like shakira is ours like we no we made shakira and shakira is like and it's like no shakira's the world right bad bunny's the world and so it's like

you you see a lot of like

faux american exceptionalism exposed in real time by not understanding that like Bad Bunny doesn't get to do the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl gets to have Bad Bunny.

Yeah, 100%.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, no, it's crazy that we aren't like he's not universally celebrated because he represents what like this time we're my favorite part about the music era and just time we're in now is that we're global it's uh uh universal and everybody loves it enjoys it and you would think this super bowl is this opportunity to celebrate the universality of music and the and the the just the culture of the world but instead it's become this uh uh hyper talking point of like of hate and like will ice be outside they already said like ice would be outside of uh the super bowl and it just it it's it sucks that like it's tinged with this much hate but it's also going to be the most awesome ass fucking it's it's just gonna be awesome like uh uh i can't the republicans think that like bad bunny's gonna go do the halftime and then the next half of the super bowl is just gonna be actual soccer they'd be like wait wait no they wait did they no hey that's what they think is gonna happen so i'm excited it's i'm excited for people to have to experience the greatness of Bad Buddy.

Because he's so good that once they watch it,

they're going to start off hateful, but then be like, all right.

All right.

I had a nice little jig.

That was cool.

I liked it.

I hope.

Might have to crack open some Rosetta Stone.

No, yeah.

No, Duolingo is definitely going to be

popped open.

Yeah, the Duolingo downloads are going to be insane.

That's crazy.

But Yeah, I'm hyped for that.

That's probably the only reason why I'm watching the Super Bowl.

Honestly, the Super Bowl performances are the main reason I kind of watch the Super Bowl now.

Like, Kendrick's Bad Bunnies.

They're definitely going to double down next year and get like Morgan Whalen or something.

Like, you know, they got to cater to.

I mean, we think so.

But who knows?

Who knows?

After Kendrick, we thought, ooh, it's going to for sure be Keith Urban.

There was no way it wasn't.

So them doubling down with Bad Buddy is so,

I love it.

I love it.

All right.

Shout out, Jay-Z.

You thought, it's funny because the Republicans thought kneeling was the worst thing that could happen at the NFL game.

And they're like, wait, no.

Ooh,

wait until those R's get rolled.

No, bring Kaepernick back.

Bring Kaepernick back.

We're sorry.

You won't even recognize yourself.

You won't know your hips.

I'm so excited.

I'm so excited for this.

Jay-Z, you're doing great work at the NFL.

Keep up the good work.

But I think that is a good place to end so we won't have to say anything reckless.

This has been the precap with Astronomack, Josh Johnson.

We'll see y'all next week.

Peace.

Yeah.

We did it.

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