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2021-01-07

With the help of historian Douglas Brinkley, this "Slow Burn" parody unpacks in painstaking detail what it was like to live through Barack Obama's "Latte Salute," the greatest scandal in presidential history. Originally aired January 27, 2020.

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calculated history of Obama's latte, salutes from the people who lived through its. This is slow. Burma. Lauren Mills is a barrister at the pits coffee on eighth and K in Washington DC in many ways. She's a typical barrister. She wears a lotta camouflage, she knows a weird amount about bolivian politics. She style heron deadlocks, despite being white spiritual. I just. Feel jamaican. You know on September, twenty third, two thousand fourteen Lorn got to work and she did what she does every day she made coffee a large drip with cream and americano with four. groups of sugar and then at seven nineteen. I M Lord. Saved. In order for a Lahti It was impossible to know it at the time Lauren
Was brewing a beverage that would change the course of presidential history This is the daily show presents slow bomber, a about What is the greatest american political scandal of the twenty first century. Everyone is talking about the disrespect away. The president saluted marine yesterday with as latte in his hand, can arrange after Marine one man in New York with a cup of coffee and have found that back off what many are calling President Obama's lumpy someday MILAN painfully and followed by a lotta, may serve as a useful metaphor for his entire administration, irish tiring. How does it feel weak up every morning, knowing the president's secluded, a marine, with a lot of what was it like to live through? That work has Erica, ever truly recovery
episode. One, a cup of shame, September, twenty third, two thousand fourteen Barack Obama is halfway through a second term as President Vice to New York for a meeting the United Nations and the White House releases, a video of Obama getting off the helicopter smiles at a small crowd, walk down the Stairs marine salute. Him Obama salutes back a typical seen, except something isn't right. the White House posted this video on Instagram on Tuesday shows President Obama stepping off Marine one here in New York, saluting Marines, with a coffee cup in his Some are now calling this disrespectful, but how did the video reach the today show? One reason is Tom, Stoneman, Thomas, a writer for shout pundit, or he blogs about politics and alpha male testosterone pills Tom? Is your typical conservative blogger has five at seven
lives in a bomb shelter and has never eaten a vegetable always kept at present, rocks. Who say: oh bungler, the man was corrupt and he was also. This is based on my own reporting on a lady Obama's two terms in office had already been defined by scandal. You probably remember the big ones he used Who pond instead of regular mustard? I hope you enjoy that an seem burger. Mr President, he wore a tan suit to oppress briefing president. My decision to weary light tat suit. At yesterday's news conference, you drove the wedding or you worse, drew. strike in Yemen that missed its target. He even used selfie stick in the White House. Here's a later. The world, the guy, we trust with a button for the nukes acting like a twelve year old candles kept piling up and there were steady calls for impeachment from arrogance, with AOL email addresses, which is why internet slew
like Stoneman we're on high work for more mishaps with coffee cup and have had, I couldn't believe it he might as well, not only american flag and wipe it with the gas, the Persian stolen and many other conservatives on the internet. Where sensed the video was soon posted at all. The major rightwing blocks. Patriot, shriek brainpower, American NEWS, red anger, rising storm surge. The angry church, wife, anger, man's angry blog angriness today, the. the report with Doktor MIKE Angry, the right wing radio host Mark Levine included a segment about the Lahti salute during his afternoon, show it's about damned time almost the key- is in office did you show our men and women and military some respect, which you do not When you get off that, damn helicopter you sallow and use
with respect a nice grasped right hand salute got it now. Here something you have to understand about America in two thousand forty. This was a different time different place, a different country. there were only six fast in the furious movies. Donald Trump was: yet the commander in chief, still allowed mouth businessman with reality, show where he pretended to fire and see hammer. So there's no telling What are the story would break into the mainstream and then This is a fox news. Alert on Cresswell Buckley churns worth. Is your typical fox news in turn, his father is a GEO p a donor and his mother is not allowed to talk at parties in September twenty fourteen, he was a seventh year sophomore at Dartmouth, he's taking off the fall semester You do a drunken disorderly charge, had a banana bread and found an internship at Fox NEWS.
he remembers stumbling on Tom Stones Blog posts we caught up with Buckley at his favorite New York City BAR Mc sugars. Yeah so I was reading are gone. Epic Bro moves darkened and inadequate. My eyes. It was a link to a sharp pointed story. I ll never forget the headline, unbelievable Rocco boner. Does it again, given Muslim salute, while carrying cup of indonesian coffee. I immediately so my boss or atolls someone's gonna break up does that there and suddenly scandal, was on
member states do not salute when carrying articles with both hands or being otherwise so occupied ass. The next saluting impractical lobbying ill thought out inappropriate, talus, selfish and disrespect. His heart was in April. We gotta check, swollen golf planned basketball. Trash talk in leading from behind. I got no strategy. Asylum in London is dead. Gm is alive. A community organizing commander in chief had this risk. There are a lot of drinks. You can order at a coffee, shop, latte, espresso, Americano, Marquis Otto, but what Bronco bomber received
That was a large steaming proclaim o after the threeg. President Obama faces the biggest Whitehouse scandal since William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub Everyone, if your enjoying slow bomber, consider subscribing to slow bomber plus nine. Ninety nine a month, you'll get exclusive access to extra features. Like a bonus for our interview with the dry cleaner to press for October, I must answer. We ve also got free podcast, where we ve moved all of the union's eyes and from all our episode and for Slovakia plus subscribers. The answer to this week's trivia question was once again Leon Pilot and now, after the package.
Do you remember where you were when you first heard about the Lahti Salute for many Americans? It's like the moonlighting, except the Lahti Salute actually happened and people were angry. America had already been burned by the serious finale of lost, and now the hoping means President saluting Marines with coffee. We know that anger on the right was high, but what about the left? I was on that helicopter with the present by failing to stop her memory with a lotta myself greatest regret, not just of the above. Our presidency.
but my entire life Jones ever is in many ways your typical former aid to Barack Obama. He hoped to hit podcast. He sends a hundred thirty tweets per day and he is unable to make eye contact for more than three seconds without looking at his phone and even now, five years later, he can't stop. Thinking about the Lahti salute sometimes late. At night I heard a voice whispering underwent its my rose by my while its whatever timber Johnny Depp obsession. Looking back, it's hard to believe that Barack Obama would salute a marine with a latte, but remember this was two thousand fourteen. Are I time now for the ice bucket challenge? the things we enjoyed in two thousand fourteen seem ridiculous today, like the walking dead matter more, but another thing it's hard to believe is something John Brown,
that no one on the helicopter stopped the president, and it made us wonder, was it Really possible for job or anyone on the plane to stop the Lahti summit to find out We rented a helicopter with the exact dimensions and configuration of Marine one ran a little experiment. Ok, so I'm here with my producer in the helicopter and what are we doing lacking so I'm seated where President Obama would have said I am holding a latte that we got from the right of the helicopter door has opened walking down the stairs. Lifting my hair
ok? So what do you think? I don't It was possible to stop it. back in the studio we call John Fabric. John, it's met from Slow Burma. We just got back from the airfield and we determined pretty conclusively that no one would have been able to stop the Lahti saloon. Thank you. Thank you. So much for an interim by me. skin semi letter in adult risen a serial texting release. You never had a scandal that is holding a couple saluting the marine and to know that I couldn't have prevented that saloon. Thank you, you're a real friend thanks June sure thing. You don't really wonder how a cop nine, my private, what do you mean by Mr Rehn? I was actually in the plant with Obama left the. Why does a year before that?
Clearly the trauma from the Lahti salute had left John Fabric confused. After all, this was a confusing time in american history. On a hot, remember, For both the left and the right, I hang out was heartily acres in context. There's plenty more ahead after the short break storm. Slow Burma is sponsored by we unease. We undies is the first ever unity, underwear sharing programme ever wonder. Why like to walk a mile in someone else's giddies We only sends you and other members underwear, along with a photo and brief biography of the owner. We wear their underwear and and send him back when you feel like you ve gotten yourself. If you're like me, you probably still have a ton of questions about the Lahti Salute for example. What drove President Obama to salute with a latte did
in Obama ever salute a marine beholding, another food or beverage like a bottle of Snapple or a turkey leg. has President Obama ever been to the renaissance? Fair? But mostly, I think about that Marine Imagine you list for the: U S Marine corps. Train dear pushups, shake your head. You run lapse of shouting about her, but you are and then, during the defining moment of your military career reading, the presidential helicopter you get saluted with a lotta. We tracked down the Marina President Obama saluted. His name is Lieutenant Chris Wheel and he retired from the court in two thousand and seventeen he agreed to sit down with the end. In an emotional conversation, we talked about how it felt to be on the receiving end of the lot.
Salute lieutenant we'll. I know this must be very difficult for you not really. If you ever need to stop if the pain becomes too great, please just tell me, I really doubt it so how does it feel to get saluted with latte? I told you on the phone. It was fine. Wasn't that big deal. but in another sense it wasn't fine and it was an enormous steel and it seem like American knew how to cope with such an offence. It wasn't like George W Bush had ever made a mistake with the: U S military, but in fact the United States have faced a remarkably similar situation, a cent
we will use presidential historian Douglas Brinkley boy. You know a lot of people forget this, but actually president, just re Arthur got into some salute base trouble of his own a back in eighteen. Eighty three hour after was on a wistful, stop tour and one of those stops Present Arthur saluted some major general while he was holding a bottle a root beer which of course, back in those days, was made a pure uncut mexican cocaine and the scandal became known in the newspapers is Chester. Cheese up. You can open a newspaper with our reading about gestures, cheese up while the back lasted a skin was so ferocious that just art there was the final fall guy, so he fired his Secretary of locomotive affairs and then ended up selling them to the prussian Empire while and you're a real historian. Yes, I am incredible. A real historian with a real story.
No, this is a real. I thought we were doing a joke. Obviously, as reporters were obliged to consider every side of the story, if there's a football game, you talked to the home team and the visitors. If there's a vote on a bill, you talk to Democrats and Republicans woman is accused of being possessed by the devil? You talk to her accuser and Satan by summoning the prince of darkness and a blood sacrifice. That's journalism. and so we knew that before this was over, we had to talk to the Lahti, salute her and chief himself, Barack Obama, because and this is Weird- Obama has never actually talked about. The Lahti salute. Here's the president's press. preparing two thousand fourteen right. As the Lahti salute, scandal was escalating. The President'S- Latte salute or coffee salute when, was getting off of Marine one saluting the marine with a cup of coffee, everyone, s
respond to this I haven't present aware of Besides I haven't, you haven't talked to him about it after five years. Had no one really talk to President Obama about it, so I did what any podcast journalist would do. I requested an interview with Barack Obama and his spokesmen granted the request on the condition that I did not ask. bout. The Lahti salute, I was told, Obama would talk about literally any subject his marriage. What it was like to be born in Kenya, any subject at all, except the Lahti salute. I declined the interview. Frankly, I told a spokesman that some weak tea, or should I say a week, lot tee. I have been reporting a story for five years straight,
In that time. I have lived and breathed the latte salute. I see it when I closed my eyes, I think about it. When I drift off to sleep I tend to talk about it all the time and that tendency has frayed my relationship with the people closer to me, my friends with my wife, with my wife's divorce lawyer with my wife's new boyfriend Dave. But in the end- America needs this story. Because the Lahti Salute is the story of America. Think about it, handle that nearly brought down a president started with a humble cup of coffee, and so I knew tat I I'd go back and talk to warn mills. The burmese stipulate that fateful lot that's more like a poor man- oh god, hello, Lauren, not again Lauren. I just have one question: how does it feel to have made the coffee that kicked off our nations greatest presidential scandal, greatest scheme
No, what about Chestertown Cheese up and in Andrew Jackson like commit genocide? the latter salute Lauren Lahti Salute lot. Diesel I'm gonna have to ask you to leave? Are youth ruling right now. the word scandal is derived from the greek word scandal on which means stumbling block, but What is a stumbling and then there's this wrinkle? How do we even know that the liquid in his cup was allotted? What if President Obama was drinking something entirely did we get the Lahti salute entirely wrong? That's next week. on episode, too of the daily show presents slow bomber.
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