The Problem With Jon Stewart

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The issues we tackle on The Problem With Jon Stewart are Too Big for TV™—so they spill over into the brilliantly titled The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast. Jon is joined by the staff and expert guests for nuanced discussions, updates on action items, and airing of grievances from writers over jokes that didn’t make the show. The Problem With Jon Stewart is an Apple TV+ podcast produced by Busboy Productions.

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The Problem Isn’t Biden or ...

01.25.2023

The media is chasing the classified documents fiasco like it’s spy vs. spy, Trump vs. Biden. But on this week’s episode, we’re breaking down the absurdity of a national security system that makes it so darn easy to hoard classified ...

The Problem With Jon Stewart episodes:

01.25.2023 The Problem Isn’t Biden or Trump. It’s How America Keeps Secrets. The media is chasing the classified documents fiasco like it’s spy vs. spy, Trump vs. Biden. But on this week’s episode, we’re breaking down the absurdity of a national security system that makes it so darn easy to hoard classified ...
01.18.2023 The Far Right Is Going Global: Anne Applebaum on the Decline of Democracy Brazil’s insurrection is just the latest in a series of attacks on democracy around the world. So we’re talking to Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the book Twilight of Democracy, about why autocracy is ...
01.11.2023 A Nuanced Conversation About COVID Vaccines (Yes, Really!) It’s 2023 and we’re coming in hot with a conversation about COVID vaccines! We’re joined by Dr. Gregory A. Poland (director of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group), Dr. Saad Omer (director of the Yale Institute for Global Health), and Zeynep ...
12.19.2022 Mark Cuban, Maria Ressa & Julia Ioffe Join Our 2022 WrapUpFestPalooza The year is almost over and we’re going out with a bang! Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is here. Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa is here. Whip-smart journalist Julia Ioffe is here. Come on, you can’t beat that lineup. Join us ...
12.14.2022 Our Education System Is Broken. We Asked the Secretary of Education How to Fix It. This week we’re joined by Miguel Cardona, the U.S. Secretary of Education. We cover why schools aren’t evolving fast enough to keep up with current challenges, how the shifting roles of schools and teachers are leaving many educators without the ...
12.07.2022 Why the FTX Crypto Scam Is a Tale As Old As Time “Whatever fun name you wanna put on it, it’s the same damn thing we’ve seen over and over again.” David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, joins us to discuss the spectacular rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX ...
11.30.2022 This CEO Wants a Fountain of Youth for Dogs. Can We Be Next? Please? Jon turned 60 this week, which had him asking: “Can I live longer?” So we’re talking with Celine Halioua, the founder and CEO of Loyal, a biotech start-up with a mission to extend a dog’s lifespan. She believes that if ...
11.18.2022 Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice Discuss America’s Role in the World You know it’s a must-listen episode when we’ve got not one, but TWO former U.S. secretaries of state as our guests. Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice are here for a fascinating discussion about American power, whether spreading democracy has actually ...
11.11.2022 I Was Kidnapped by the Taliban: Safi Rauf on Rescuing Afghan Allies This week’s guest is Safi Rauf, an Afghan refugee who came to the U.S. as a teen and is now the president and founder of Human First Coalition. Also a veteran, he tells us about his work in Afghanistan helping ...
11.02.2022 Rep. Katie Porter Can Explain Anything: Inflation, GO! This week we’re talking to Rep. Katie Porter, the Democratic congresswoman from California’s 47th district, who wields her whiteboard like a weapon. She explains (in plain English!) what we’ve got wrong about inflation and why Congress isn’t jumping at the ...
10.26.2022 The Fumes of an Empire: UK Chaos and the U.S. Midterms The midterms are two weeks out and chaos just keeps building. The UK is cycling through prime ministers faster than James Bonds as their economic crisis continues. Meanwhile, election deniers in the U.S. are whipping themselves into a frenzy. Jon ...
10.19.2022 Why Does Fighting Inflation Have to Hurt So Much? Jon is joined by Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, for a chat about why we find ourselves in this current inflation disaster and how we might get out of it. They get into whether ...
10.12.2022 SEC Chair Gary Gensler Answers Your Questions SEC Chair Gary Gensler is back! Jon throws him some of the thousands of audience questions we got, and they dive into the issue of whether the SEC is doing enough to ensure market transparency, why there’s not more accountability ...
10.05.2022 Rep. Elissa Slotkin on Governing in an Era of Extremes Rep. Elissa Slotkin (MI-08) joins Jon to describe the frustrating circumstances that led to her fiery speech on the House floor last week, when several Republicans tried blocking a bill for veterans before ultimately voting for it. Later, they explore ...
09.29.2022 The #MahsaAmini Protest and Iran’s Fight for Freedom This week we’re talking about the #MahsaAmini protests in Iran with Rana Rahimpour, an Iranian-British journalist with BBC Persian. Jon is also joined by staff writer Alexa Loftus and our Iranian supervising producer Reza Riazi. It’s a fascinating discussion about ...
09.22.2022 A Former US Attorney on How Trump Politicized the DOJ Jon is joined by Geoffrey Berman, a former US attorney from the Southern District of New York—and author of the new book Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department. ...
09.15.2022 Three Jons and a Tommy: Pod Save America Talks Media, Messaging, and Midterms One Jon is nice—but have you ever heard a podcast with three of them? (Plus, a Tommy for good measure.) The Pod Save America guys are here to discuss midterm elections, the problem with polling, and whether we should look ...
08.25.2022 Has America Learned Anything From Its Biggest Disasters? Not Really. Jon talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, whose book Five Days at Memorial is the basis for the Apple TV+ series of the same name. They discuss why our healthcare system is always ill-equipped for disasters—and whether there’s something ...
08.04.2022 Jon Talks About the Passing of the PACT Act Jon is joined by staff writers Kasaun Wilson and Rob Christensen to talk about his fight to get the PACT Act—which gives urgently needed healthcare to sick veterans—passed in the Senate. He discusses battling Republican misinformation and the behind-the-scenes work ...
07.21.2022 How Brittney Griner Became a Political Pawn: With Coach Dawn Staley Basketball legend and coach Dawn Staley is here with the latest on Brittney Griner—one of the best players in the WNBA—who has been detained in Russia since February after officials allegedly found cannabis oil in her luggage. Dawn and Jon ...
06.30.2022 Limber Up and Pack a Lunch: The Post-Roe Fight Ahead Roe v. Wade has been overturned, so now what the hell are we supposed to do? The hosts of the Strict Scrutiny podcast—law professors Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw—are back to help Jon process the crushing decision. Plus, ...
06.09.2022 The SEC Was in Trouble. Now They’re Screwed. Jon is joined by the hosts of the Strict Scrutiny podcast—law professors Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw—to discuss the Fifth Circuit Court’s recent ruling on the SEC. Could it signal the demise of government as we know it, ...
05.20.2022 Judd Apatow on George Carlin Jon talks to his longtime friend Judd Apatow about his new documentary, George Carlin’s American Dream. They delve into why Carlin’s groundbreaking comedy feels more relevant than ever, Judd’s obsession with cataloging comedy history, and their formative experiences writing together ...
03.31.2022 America’s Caste System With Isabel Wilkerson The season finale of The Problem With Jon Stewart is now streaming on Apple TV+, so we decided to go out with something light and noncontroversial: Race! Who could have guessed that even after a full hour of TV, there ...
03.24.2022 Jon Talks About the Media—And It Talks Back Last week’s episode of our Apple TV+ series was all about the news media. So we invited Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan to talk with Jon about the media sensationalism—and YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! Actually, you will. ...
03.17.2022 Jon Talks Climate Change: It Gets Heated We don’t want to send the message that criticizing us on Twitter is a ticket to the podcast...but that’s what climate reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis did, and now here she is. Kendra had some issues with our climate episode on Apple ...
03.10.2022 Reporter Called Jon Out, So We Called Him Up Last week’s episode of our Apple TV+ show took on the stock market, GameStop, and the Robinhood app. Spencer Jakab, an editor with The Wall Street Journal, took to Twitter to vent his disagreements with it. So we invited him ...
03.08.2022 A Conversation With Adam McKay Jon welcomes his pal Adam McKay to discuss climate change and his film Don’t Look Up…and they barely do either. But! They do take a long stroll down comedy memory lane. From Adam’s start as a Philly stand-up, to his ...
03.03.2022 Jon Talks Stocks and Ukraine We’re back on Apple TV+ with brand-new episode “The Problem With Stocks,” and we’re celebrating on the podcast the only way we know how—by interviewing former SEC commissioner Rob Jackson. (We’re bad at celebrating.) We get his thoughts on why ...
02.24.2022 Jon Referees an Economist Battle When economist and Fed exec Thomas Hoenig told Jon on this podcast that printing money was a bad idea, economists Stephanie Kelton and Rohan Grey took to the internet to start an Economist Battle (it’s more fun than it sounds). ...
02.17.2022 Jon Talks Racial Injustice & Inflation We’re doubling up the content—and the problems. Jon talks with Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about racial injustice in America today. But first, alongside staff writers Henrik and Kasaun, Jon welcomes inflation expert Lindsay ...
02.10.2022 Jon Talks Misinformation With Ev Williams and Dr. Joan Donovan Well, Jon has gone and stepped in it again! So this week, along with writers Jay Jurden and Kris Acimovic, Jon is joined by Harvard professor and misinformation expert Dr. Joan Donovan to discuss RoganGate and how to combat misinformation. ...
02.03.2022 Jon Talks With Dr. Mae Jemison: The First Black Woman in Space Jon is joined by head writer Chelsea Devantez and staff writer Jay Jurden to discuss Joe Rogan and Neil Young, Taylor Swift’s scarf, and how Twitter makes you want to leave the planet. Speaking of which: This episode’s guest, Dr. ...
01.27.2022 Jon Goes Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole With Gabriel Gatehouse Jon talks with (very charming, very British) BBC foreign correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse about his work covering the U.S. elections—which turned into reporting on QAnon, because what’s an election without a global cabal of blood-drinking billionaires? Jon is also joined by ...
01.20.2022 Jon Talks to Thomas Hoenig: Our Economy Is a Delusion You've probably heard that inflation is getting worse—and not just from your grandpa who remembers when soda cost a nickel and movies were movies. Jon talks with Thomas Hoenig, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas ...
01.13.2022 Jon Talks to Mark Cuban: Billionaires, Basketball, and Bitcoin We’re back, baby! We’re kicking off 2022 with billionaire/colonoscopy bargain hunter Mark Cuban. Jon and Mark discuss the American Dream, barriers to entry, and why tying healthcare to jobs makes no sense. And what’s a chat with a tech billionaire ...
12.09.2021 The Problem With Jon: According to Our Listeners We finally checked our voicemail and hereby present our first ever mailbag episode. Jon is joined by Chelsea, Jay, and Robby to engage with your questions, comments, and criticism about the show and Jon’s increasingly fragile appearance. Want to be ...
12.02.2021 Jon Talks With Steve Kerr: The Nicest, Whitest Man in Basketball Steve Kerr thinks he’s here to talk with Jon about his career, speaking out on social issues, and the racial and political dynamics of the NBA. And he does get to talk about those things, but not before enduring Jon’s ...
11.18.2021 The Problem With Guns (and Domestic Abusers) Domestic violence is a predictor for gun violence, yet we have a problem enforcing laws that strip firearms from domestic abusers. Jon talks with head writer Chelsea Devantez about her experiences with these issues, possible solutions...and also, somehow, puppet TV ...
11.11.2021 The Problem With War: Veterans Day Episode It’s Veterans Day, so we're talking to some vets. Jon is joined by Staff Sergeant Wesley Black, who sadly passed away shortly after this episode was recorded, and Sergeant Isiah James. You may remember them from the Apple TV+ episode ...
11.04.2021 The Problem With the NFL: Keyshawn Johnson Explains Fantasy football legend Jon Stewart sits down with real football legend Keyshawn Johnson to discuss coach Jon Gruden’s leaked racist emails and how the power structure of the NFL enables such behavior. Jon is also joined by Kris Acimovic and ...
10.28.2021 The Problem With Our Not-At-All-Free Market In this episode, Jon sits down with Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist with a passion for dunking on Larry Summers. They discuss the American economic system, who gets that sweet government cheese, and why Jon wasn’t as wrong ...
10.21.2021 Jon Talks With Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase In the United States, we pride ourselves on having a free market economy—but we don’t actually have one. Corporations are given endless help while workers often struggle to survive. Jon sits down with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, to ...
10.14.2021 The Problem With Freedom: It Ain’t Free We’re talking freedom and race in America (we know!). Jon, who is famously old and white, is joined by staff writer Kasaun Wilson and associate producer Trey Sherman before talking to Alex Stamos, former chief of security at Facebook and ...
10.07.2021 The Problem With War: You Break It You Buy It Like the annoying guy at a party who won’t shut up about Bitcoin, we have some investment advice: America is not investing enough in our veterans, both emotionally and financially. So today, Jon sits down with some staff who are ...
09.30.2021 The Problem With War: Garbage Fire (Literally!) Jon figured out how to podcast! In our first episode, he's joined by two staff members who happen to be veterans to discuss their experiences. Then, he sits down with Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) to talk ...
09.27.2021 Sneak Peek: The Problem With My Staff The content-stuffed first episode of the podcast drops September 30, so here’s Jon getting mercilessly bullied by his own staff to hold you over. https://apple.co/-JonStewart
08.30.2021 The Problem With Teasers The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast launches September 30. Follow now to get the first episode as soon as it's released. In the meantime, here's this!