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19, 20! >> whew! >> whew. >> i'm falling out. meet meg stewart. i'm calling out young john oliver and i'm calling out my beloved metropolitans. give them 20. >> joining us now is sid goodfriend, the founder and chairman of american corporate partners and don valdez an iraq war veteran and participate in the daily show veteran immersion program. tell us how you found out about the program and how has it worked for you? >> oh i was searching online and i saw an ambiguous posting about an immersion program for veterans.

And you had to write an essay. apparently there were thousands of people that signed up for this program and i happened to be chosen for it. >> sid, jon stewart has said this is ready to franchise. please steal our idea. you helped them get this started. how would people steal this idea? >> the veteran immersion program could be used in a wide variety of companies, different industries. jon started it for the media industry in part because we didn't have a lot of media mentors in our mentoring program. but it could be used by banks, it could be used by energy companies, big companies, small co...

J&j launched there are program. what we're trying to do is ask americans to use this period between memorial day and labor day, focusing on july 4th to spend a moment and think about those that serve the country, give them 20. our tag line is to thank them, salute them and give them 20. >> sid goodfriend and don valdez, thank you so much. >> lawrence, let me ask you a question before we go. >> we're so out of time. go ahead, quickly. >> will you give them 20 for the troops? >> do they have to be consecutive? these push-ups? all right. i've give them close to 20. >> they can be sit-ups if you l...

>> and, don, what was it like in the boot camp in those -- is it classes? is it a classroom environment? how does it work? >> well, it's over several weeks, about five weeks. and the first week you get a whole day at the "daily show" from like 7:30 in the morning to the end of taping and you get to see a whole approach about how the show is actually taped. and in the remaining weeks, you have access to jon's staff and he bricks in executives from different entertainment companies. you get to ask the writers, production, the crew questions of anything that caught your interest. and the culminat...

To that boot camp before i started this show. sid, what is this give them 20 campaign that we saw jon stewart participating in there on the individual joe? >> we launched the program over memorial day. jon's video was played on monday. it's received almost a million views in the last couple of days. al scorszi, the chairman of the j&j launched there are program. what we're trying to do is ask americans to use this period between memorial day and labor day, focusing on july 4th to spend a moment and think about those that serve the country, give them 20. our tag line is to thank them salute the...