Love Heather McGee: she’s brilliant, and I agree with your take on the topic, but… Your dismissal of the issues of men in general, as if they have no complaints, was, I think…bad? yeah, bad. mostly bad. Because I think everyone is kinda dumb, and most people are dumber than that, and I believe boys/men are growing up with WAY too much blame on them and the idea that they are inherently immoral, while they are still burdened with huge expectations to succeed as a “man.” Jonathan Haidt has taken this on in response to imbalanced success among men/boys in education and in the blue collar success/opportunity. While the Right is taking this legitimate frustration/phenomenon and using it to make men more red-state, the Left is making fun of it, calling it ridiculous: no wonder we’re losing men. We need MORE Tim Walzs, Doug Emhoffs, and maybe a few guys like The Rock to represent us, but we also need a recognition that we offer the best kind of life for the best kind of men. We need to convince them that we care about them, even if you think men are so privileged. And may I compliment you on your recognition that privileged is a charged word. Thanks

Jon always has the most informative interviews and he does the background work to make the interviews this way. He’s genuine and doesn’t hold back, regardless of party lines.

As a former federal employee and the spouse of a 30 year career professional I truly appreciate the message that Michael Lewis is getting out there and Jon’s conversation with him and recognition of the importance of career federal employees. My husband could have gone into the private sector and done anything he wanted to but chose a career in public service because he believes in the mission of his agency. Watching DOGE and the Trump administration berate federal workers and destroy agencies with a sledgehammer is so sad. These workers do not deserve the treatment they are getting and the irreparable damage that is being done is disheartening.

Not sure how I survived after he retired from the Daily Show. This weekly podcast brings me sanity and I am grateful every time I listen. Thank you!

We need more, Jon. Can you live stream all day long?

Each interview is better than the last. Informative and enjoyable. Wonderful guests and an informed gracious host. Thank you Jon!

Great episode with Michael Lewis. Please start a spin off podcast on stories of government employees and the impactful work that they’re doing!

This is the smartest conversation…Every Week! More consistent than my boyfriend. John Stewart puts words to what you are actually thinking about the state of the country and the conversations with his guests are Riveting! I’m happy to get it once a week but wish it would be every day (also still better than my boyfriend gives me!)

Jon and Michael Lewis should be a regular show - terrific!

informative conversation and thx for identifying the demonization of the working class

Below is from The Secret List -Firefighters Close calls. Don’t know how else to contact Mr. Stewart. He has done great advocacy for WTC survivors and this is part of the article. Please pass along to Mr. Stewart, It just came out today (April 2). I am a firefighter and cancer survivor. Thank youAs DOGE continues to take action against what they perceive as waste or unnecessary programs, the fire service feels another measurable cut. It appears the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (and other firefighter programs, discussed below) has died in the line of duty. (Scroll down for the latest NIOSH LODD reports that have been released) As of 0500 hours this morning, hundreds of employees have been terminated (or told to expect it), including Firefighter LODD investigations (the Cincinnati office which handles medical LODDs, the Morgantown WV Office which handles traumatic LODDs, and the Pittsburgh office which houses the PPE section), WTC health, and National Firefighter Registry Cancer programs. The union employees get 90 days pay plus severance-non union troops 60 days plus severance. Created by Congress in 1970 to protect workers, NIOSH studies how to keep workplaces safe. NIOSH is part of the CDC and oversees several firefighter health and safety programs, including the registry to track cancer in firefighters and a health program for people affected by the 9/11 terror attacks. We thought that the WTC 9/11 health program was re-funded and stable but it appears it may not be. While all of these cuts are measurably impactful, the WTC one is especially upsetting as so many continue to suffer the impacts of America being attacked in 2001. There is a long history of the fire service strongly supporting the voluntary LODD investigation program and a long history of us fighting to get it properly staffed and funded. NIOSH was created to protect workers.

Jon Stewart brings on fascinating guests and holds discussions with them that challenge the viewpoints of listeners on all sides and help us to better understand what’s actually happening in government in an entertaining and accessible way. Everyone should listen to this podcast! Just turn it on!

This was a wonderful interview, and my first thought was how to get Dems in Congress to hear it. Jon Stewart they’d read your emails sooner than mine.

The show is always informative and entertaining. The discussion with Ezra Klein regarding his new book Abundance was brilliant. The deep dive into the bureaucracy holding the US back from reaching our goals was mind blowing!

Listening to democrats’ process for bringing a well intentioned plan for broadband to life reminds me of every single non-profit grant making process I’ve ever been a part of. Thanks for this interesting perspective. Liberals. We’re not quite nailing it. Yet.

Try to get anyone from the administration or people like Andresson. I want to see the “small” tech big tech guys interviewed or this is all the same song and dance from the last 12 years. New blood, challenging guests.

I’m with you, Jon: just love being home. I’m an introvert living in an extrovert world (Great interviews on this podcast & ❤️seeing you on Monday nights)

It’s good, but just be aware he can sane-wash some real nightmare ideologues.

What a brilliant, wise, courageous, and joyful warrior. I, too, was encouraged and uplifted after your discussion with her even though you were talking about some pretty heavy stuff. Her energy and enthusiasm is infectious.

Deep, broad, rich interviews of incredible guests who are helping make sense (yes sense) of today's Bizarro world

I am so grateful to Jon and his staff for bringing clarity in this time of heavy fog in our country where it is hard to see the truth or sanity! I feel drawn to hearing Jon and his guests! Thank you!

I really appreciate the different perspectives Jon brings on the show and the depth of the interviews, as well as welcome critiques of the Democratic Party. I consider myself educated but not super informed about world history or politics, and the episode with Maria Ressa was fantastic. One note - can you please define more uncommon terms that you use on the show? The word “illiberal” was said maybe 30 times on the last episode without explanation. Similar to the “analog democracy in a digital world” phrase, I think Jon sometimes has a tendency to make characterizations without explaining them, and I’m not sure if the average American gets what he’s saying? Or maybe I’m just not an astute listener

Love this podcast! Maria Ressa’s episode was great. Hearing her perspective made me feel like we can survive the next 4 yrs.

Get Gary Stevenson! Either as an individual guest or to debate Jason Furman (from the Sept 19, 2024 episode) regarding Economics. He’s out there discussing inequality, an element of the economy that is not even included in the modeling and math taught in Economics studies. He’s made millions linking that missing element to his predictions in the market.

Jon Stewart is really impressive always to get perspective from.

You’re our only hope

I’ve always loved this pod. The ep with Maria Ressa made me love it even more. HOW do we make this pod become a brain worm in all of us?! Her ability to connect the dots with facts and history is incredible. This ep is so important.

Thank you so much Jon for really stepping it up after the election. I appreciate all your critiques of the Democratic Party, and what they need to do if they want to win another election. Your most recent episode with Maria Ressa, the Nobel prize winner who had a strong message about how the US is headed towards a dictatorship like in the Philippines, was very eye-opening. You’ve taken a strong approach towards getting depth and perspective from different voices into the mix. The first episode you did after Trump was elected was really helpful in putting this moment in perspective. Maybe you could do an episode on some of the psychology of the moment? How do we change peoples minds in the moment that we’re in? How do we tackle the problem of social media? Are there people working on these solutions? I know these are difficult questions and you’re doing a lot to answer them. I like what Maria Ressa said, make it Funny!

Please get Chris Murphy on, thank you :)

But don’t we still have segregation honestly, like funding for schools go by the district or the county. Private schools there’s funding for that. It’s not shared with public schools. So basically you have wealthy neighborhoods, wealthy communities counties they get their funding versus the inner city funding. So don’t we still have segregation? Yes, we do. The Jon Stewart I love your show. I love to hear you express your thoughts ideas get us thinking you provoke us to ask questions, use our brain, consider others, consider the whole big picture. And sometimes I just laughed so hard when I’m watching your show at night in my face hurts thank you so much.

I’m not big into politics or specific parties, but with the status of everything at the moment this podcast is an interesting place to hear intelligent conversation about it all.

I listen to your podcast weekly and really enjoy your style of interviewing. I watch you every Monday and enjoy your comedy and your way of making a point. BUT this weeks episode about liberalism went good for me until you reached your Elon Musk portion of the interview. Do I believe in reorganizing the government? YES! But not the way it’s being done. Hearing ANYONE defend Musk at this point is a big turnoff for me, I admit to not finishing the episode because it was going off the rails for me.

Please run for office. We need your eloquence, humility, and empathy.

Serious show but still funny, at times. Stewart is an intellectual and ‘man of the people.’ Has become one of the few podcasts I can still listen to after Trump’s return to office bc it provides more than mere outrage and handwringing.

I just listened His discussion with Psaki. I was quite surprised at the emptiness of Jon’s thinking. I really had high expectations, but to hear Jon talk about what the difference in principles are between the republican and democratic parties was mind boggling. He seems to yearn for the dictatorial approach while the majority of sane folks see the dangers with that. The voters were voting for who they thought was going to help their daily lives ( the ones who didn’t vote for the Dems this time). If they get what they want from the current government, they will continue voting for them. If they don’t, they will either not vote or vote Dems the next time. It is a simple as that. They don’t really care about this efficiency stuff. Psaki was much more thoughtful and willing to consider other thoughts. Jon was truly disappointing

Jon is the best at asking questions most people don’t even think about. Love the comedic side, too,

Mr. Stewart, with state and local politics being so critical why don’t you interview state and local politicians who stand out? You always have nationally recognized leaders. I recommend Texas Representative James Talarico

Really not much here other than a continued dose of TDS. You could get the same information on MSNBC. Hearing Psaki talk about how biased the right wing media is and how the left wing calls “balls and strikes” made me spit my coffee out and fall on the floor laughing. Jon Stewart the comedian is back.

Great podcast. Thank god for the swearing. Intelligent interviewer; would like harder hitting questions to the dems. On a separate note, Jon, I’ve solved the dems problems. I know what to do. We have the Republicans right where we need them….

I wish Jon had more centrist views. I am tired of the polarization. It’s exhausting

remember when jon went away? DO THAT AGAIN!

I switched to Independent / 3rd party. Dems and America needs Jon Stewart as president

Love Jon, but he needs to to have guests from both sides of the political spectrum. Simply having Dems on to whine is boring. Needs to represent both voices of America.

Connecting to the day to day struggles/fears would visually show voters of swing states with simple accomplishments. In states like PA where there are over 18,000 billboards across the state, if they had pictures of local workers standing in front of the road or bridge the Infrastructure bill invested in. People needed to see how the Dems had improved each part of their daily life to make it safer and easier to complete their hard/long days. Ie., their bridge will not fall down and your neighbor had a great job fixing our state’s services.

Informative and fun. Thank you for trying to fight back the dark. 🙏🏻 We MUST end Citizens United. Please keep talking about it! It is how we got where we are now.

So much for speaking truth to power! Im sooooo tired of listening to discourse of how bad Trump is. Psaki was part of the problem with n the summer of 2024, she won’t or more likely can’t see how bad Dems are at this, and how good Trump is. Jon, please get mad and call out these softies or we’re all dead. ☹️

Please don’t forget that democrats and the progressive left were not in unilateral control of the federal government since the 80s. Yes, the party has “stale vibes” today, but it’s also the party that has had to either compromise or take losses from the right on the very key issues you speak about today. Drug prices being high isn’t b/c democrats allowed it to happen, it’s b/c the pharmaceutical lobby persuaded lawmakers to vote poorly!!

could use some new framing. Can’t count how many times we’ve heard “analog in a digital world” or the term “efficacy.”

Hakeem Jeffries has the personality of a radish. Jeez, he has no plan to tackle Republicans, no charm, so so bland. On another note, Jon, please go to Joe Rogan again.

She needs to be the next voice of the Democratic Party.