Short Stuff: The Best Episode Since Sliced Bread

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  Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at the Daily show, which means he's also back in our ears on the Daily Show Ears Edition podcast.

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  Join late night legend Jon Stewart and the best news team for today's biggest headlines, exclusive extended interviews and more.

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  Now, this is the second term we can all get behind.

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  Listen to the Daily Show Ears edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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  Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff.

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  I'm Josh and there's Chuck.

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  And Jerry's here sitting in for Dave.

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  So this is an official bonafide short stuff.

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  That's right.

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  Big thanks to historyofbread.com history.com our old prince@howstuffworks.com and the surprisingly instructive goldmetalbakery.com I.

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  Also want to shout out Mental Floss and Zachary Crockett on Priceonomics.

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  Great.

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  Because this is about sliced bread.

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  You've heard the term, of course, the best thing since sliced bread.

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  And oddly enough, well, not oddly, but sliced bread has been around less than 100 years.

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  Even though bread has been around for tens of thousands of years.

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  Yeah, I think in either a bread episode or a beer episode, we explored whether or not bread was created to make beer portable, a beer starter portable.

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  But regardless, it's been around for a very, very long time.

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  And yet.

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  What'd you say, 30,000 years?

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