March 7, 2025 • 29 mins
Michael Kosta on Trump doubling down then ditching Canada and Mexico tariffs, the GOP pretending the plunging stock market is normal, and the president pissing off China. Plus, Josh Johnson takes inspiration from Trump flip-flopping on tariffs.
Desi Lydic heads to Michigan to get to the bottom of the state's "buy back" initiative that turned out to be refurbishing guns instead of destroying them.
Bestselling author and culinary expert Antoni Porowski talks to Michael Kosta about hosting his new National Geographic show, “No Taste Like Home,” which uses a dish significant to each guest as an entry point to a journey through their family and ancestral history. They discuss the extensive research process that goes into the show, some of the most emotional moments of the season, and why food is so important to Porowski and how he connects with his own family.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is the Daily Choke with your host My Gold Costas.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Welcome, Welcome together.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
So I'm Michael Costa. We've got so much to talk
about tonight. The US economy is down bad, apparently America
likes guns, and Trump broke a campaign promise.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So let's get into it.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I'm gonna comedy, I'm gonna come. Being president comes with
a lot of pretty cool powers.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You can write executive.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Orders, you get one free checked bag on Air Force one,
and even you even get an uncensored feed.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Of c Span which.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
But for Donald Trump, the power he enjoys the most
is the power to impose tariffs.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Tariffs are easy, they're fast, they're efficient, and they bring fairness.
We're going to bring so many things back to our country,
and the thing that's going to get.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Us there is tariffs.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
We'll take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs,
and we're going to make our country so strong and
so rich. It will never be so rich. Tariffs. It's
a beautiful word, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Tariff. It's a beautiful word.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's why I name my daughter Tiffiny. This guy's so
horny for tariffs, isn't he. I love any word with
big natural double f's. According to Donald Trump, tariffs are
great and also on our country to be rich without
any negative consequences. So let's see how he's imposed tariffs
(02:06):
on Canada in Mexico, and let's sit back and let's
watch that economy roar baby.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Not Today the stock market dropping more than six hundred points.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
US stock markets plunged for the second day in the row.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
We've seen consumer confidence tank.
Speaker 9 (02:19):
Layoff numbers across the US are the highest they've been
since twenty twenty.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
The R word is back, thanks in large part to tariffs.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But the R word has been.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Tariffs brought back the R word, So I guess I
can say it.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Wall Street banks are starting to raise a red flag
that recession ads have become unsettlingly high, right right?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That our word? Of course, That's that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I can be such a recession sometimes, by the way,
is recession an our word?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Who thinks the word recession is offensive? Finance bros? Did
they get woke before we discuss the impending our word.
We begin by acknowledging that we are on the ancestral
grounds of capital grill where Chad was unjustly removed by
the bartender before he could get a chance to cheat
on his wife's sub Chad. So basically, Trump said the
tariffs are going to be a quick and painless way
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to get rich. And now that it turns out we're
not all shitting gold, Republicans have moved into their new
talking point.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Hey, nobody said this was going to be easy.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Trust the process will.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
There'll be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
There's going to be a little bit of pain going
into this.
Speaker 10 (03:33):
It is going to be painful, and if I have
to pay a little bit more for something, I'm all
for it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We're going to have to suffer through some bad news.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
There's going to be a short period of time where
there'll be some higher prices on certain products. It's not inflation.
That's nonsense.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, nonsense. It's not inflation, people, It's just higher
prices on food and cars and gas and every other
product we can pour from our biggest trading partners. But
do you know what we might be in for some
hard times? But tariffs are Donald Trump's whole thing. And
if there's one thing I know about Donald Trump, he's
a man who sticks to his guns.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Huh, breaking news in to see and President Trump's officially
delayed tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Boo, after all that tariffs are now on hold. Trump
just backed away from those tariffs like it was a
long time friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. So so tariffs are on,
they're delayed, they're off. Who knows if they'll come back
or when or for how long. Look, I'm not a
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big business guy, but quick question, does anyone know if
businesses need to make decisions more than four hours in advance?
So it appears the only silver lining in this pointless
trade war is that at least we're only fighting with
Canada and Mexico. You know, if you're gonna pick a fight,
pick a fight with two sissy countries, you can beat
right right right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
The Chinese embassy of the US, tweeting earlier.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
This week, quote, if war is what the US wants.
Speaker 11 (05:09):
Be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any
other type of war, We're ready to fight to the end.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh shit, China, China, don't play. They're like, if you
got beef, we got broccoli. Bitch, let's go listen, Donald,
Canada and Mexico are one thing.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But please don't piss off China.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I know you wrote the art of the deal, but
they wrote the art of war. And I think a
trade war with China might lead to at best a
devastating economic depression or at worst nuclear destruction of our
most of American cities, or, as Trump might.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Say, may there'll be a little disturbance.
Speaker 12 (05:52):
Hell.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Look for more on Trump's tariff policy and it's economic effects,
we go live to the White House with Josh Johnson.
Speaker 13 (06:01):
Josh, what exactly, what exactly is going on with these
tariffs costa.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
This is nothing we haven't seen before. These economic decisions
are smart. So everyone should stop.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Throwing around the R word, oh, recession.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Okay, everybody should stop.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Throwing around both our words.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
All right.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
In fact, these tariffs are going to help out all
my in words, you're you're my net gains costa.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Right, of course, your net gains ay.
Speaker 10 (06:39):
Ay, you're not an economist.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That's not your word to say.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
Okay, The point is these tariffs are necessary. I've been
talking to President Trump, and I can speak exactly to
his intentions on tars. I mean, come on, y'all heard
Donald Trump. He said during the campaign, We're doing this.
It's an economic street fight. So you better get on
board because the pain is worth it to bring back manufacturing,
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even if it leads to higher prices. We are not
backing down, okay, but the.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
American people don't like higher prices.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Then forget the whole thing. Tariffs all all right.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
I don't even know who suggested it, Trump did.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
He said they're necessary to bring back America's economy.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
And they are, which is why they're back on.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
So we are doing tariffs, damn right, we are.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
I scared shit.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Not even more expensive housing.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Tariffs are all okay, but that will increase the trade deficit.
On again, but what about the price of breakfast off in.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
The morning, on at night?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
But Canada is retaliating.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Off with Canada, on with China.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
We'll go to war with child and give Josh, China
has nukes.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
No tariffs are on China.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
In fact, we're part of China.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Now all hail President g You're the snake mother.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Get on board, Josh, Gosh, how can Trump run this
country like this? Tariffs no tariffs. We're Chinese, We're not Chinese.
It's unsustainable.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Get off his ass, Costa. All Trump's trying to do
is stand firm on his principles, even though he doesn't
know what they are yet, no matter the costs, although
costs really shouldn't be a single dollar, and what anybody thinks.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
But please, nobody get upset, Josh, Josh, be realistic. Part
of being a leader is knowing there are traded offs
to every decision. It's not possible for everyone to have
a net game.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
Well I thought I told you, Costa, that's our word. Okay,
me and my economists are gonna fuck you up.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I'm sorry, Josh Johnson, everybody, Josh Johnson.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
When we come back, we get guns off the.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Still runk all way.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I met Dames.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
There are millions of guns in America, but one forty
year old virgin is trying to change that.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Daisy Lidik has more.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
It's no surprise America has a gun problem. In fact,
even if our legislators could pass comprehensive gun reform, there's
already over four hundred million guns in this country. A
number of statisticians call really high and being huge. But
one brave Michigander is taking action into his own hands,
and it's not someone you would expect.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
I think it was confused about a priest since I
binged fleabag. How does a priest get involved with getting
guns off the streets?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
In America, it's a lot easier to get a gun
than to get rid of a gun. There is this
sense that in churches, we're just going to pray for
this gun problem.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
But church people are sick of thoughts and prayers too.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
You know, it's bad when a priest is sick of
thoughts and prayers. I mean, that's your bread and butter.
And just as Jesus turned water into wine, Father Yeah
turned prayers into action and started a gun buyback program.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
The gun buy back program is aimed at reducing gun violence.
They're popular, and that's because it gets your choice to
turn in your gun.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
And because this is America, people are more willing to
part with their guns if they get something.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Out of it. The first buy back we did, we
had five thousand dollars with the gift cards, and the
line was two miles long, and we gave away the
gift cards in twenty minutes.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
What kind of gift cards are we talking about here?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Usually target Target.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
I'm not allowed in target anymore.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
I had a bit of a run in with the
law involving an incident with a cheese grater.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Do we want to save that for later? We'll take
care of that in confession.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
And what happens to the guns once they're collected? Do
they go to that farm upstate with all the dogs?
Speaker 10 (11:12):
After guns are processed, Michigan State Police sent them to
a company in Missouri called gun Busters, and they destroy
parts of the guns.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
The state Police then was contracting with a company called Gunbusters,
who has a gun pulverizer.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
The pulverizer.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
That was my signature move when I was on the
amateur wrestling circuit.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
No, no, it's it's it. These things destroy weapons.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
A deadly machine that destroyed deadly guns. Problem solved.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
This machine called the pulverizer can turn this into this.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Most of the metal left behind can be recycled.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
I love a name that says exactly what it is,
busting guns.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
No deception there, But they weren't busting them. Come again,
we found out they are not really destroying them.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
They were salvaging most of the gun and reselling the
parts on the internet.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
People can make their own ghost.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Guns, So gun Busters is actually contributing to making more guns. Yeah, Jesus, sorry, shit,
sorry Jesus. Turns out they were using the pulverizer more
for evil than good doing. Only partial destruction means that
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the guns can be born again, and not in the
jesus y way. I reached out to speak with Gunbusters,
but much like the fate of their guns, they ghosted me.
If I can't find answers to this gun problem in
God's fancy buildings, maybe I could find some in the
state's fancy buildings. Michigan State Representative Natalie Price. How the
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is it legal for Gunbusters to get away with this?
Speaker 12 (12:56):
Because of the Gun Act of nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Sure as nineteen sixty seven Gun Act nineteen sixty sixty
eight Gun Act, the Act of.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
When we only destroy that narrow part of the weapon,
a receiver and a frame which includes the serial number
the firearm is considered by federal law to be fully destroyed.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Yes, receiver in the frame. So, just to reiterate, under
this old timey law.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
The Gun Control Act of nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
The receiver or the frame by itself is considered to
be a firearm. So if Gunbusters tells you they've destroyed
the firearm, technically they only have to have destroyed that
one tiny piece, leaving the rest to be potentially used
for ghost guns.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
There's no good way to keep track of how many
there are. From twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, there
is over one thousand percent increase in ghost guns.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Holy shit, a thousand percent. That's like four ghost guns
for every ghost Luckily, Michigan has a solution.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
I can't tell you what we are doing here in Michigan,
which is partnering with state police and a company that
will fully pulverize and destroy the complete weapon.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Right here in Michigan, women get shit done. So it
deemed the only way to stop a bad guy with
a gun is a good guy with a pulverizer. But
this time Michigan has their very own state run pulverizer,
ensuring that the guns that they receive are completely destroyed.
I went back to the church to spread the good
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word to Father Y'ah, only to discover he had taken
it upon himself to fulfill his own prophecy.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
There's more that needs to be done.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
We're planning to actually destroy the weapons ourselves with chopsaws.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That sounds dangerous. I can take you.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
To a place where we're practicing and you can watch
it happen.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
All right, sure, just follow a priest. I just met
to the set of the movie Saw. But for guns.
What could go wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And that goes in the disposal here three.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Guns down now just three hundred and ninety nine million,
nine ninety thousand, nine and ninety seven more to go.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Let me come back to Anthony Parovzi will be joining
in the shows you don't go about.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Welcome back to the very show. My guest tonight is.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
The best selling author, culinary expert, and host of national
geographics No Taste Like Home. Please welcome Anthony Parovski. Nice wow,
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Thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
This show is amazing. It made me hungry, It made
me emotional.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It made you hungry for testicles, made testicals.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
For those of you that are unaware, maybe watching online,
there was a clip before this that testicals yep.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It's always good to have a little bit of yep.
But look, we're all hungry for testicles.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Did you know that this show would get as elevated
emotionally as it does.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
Yes, and no, I mean the original it's look, it's
National Geographic, which for me, I've been reading the magazine
since I was a kid. We had a subscription. It's
like the iconic, you know, yellow rectangle. But I think
once we started going down and each episode is a
little different, but once it does get personal and you
kind of everyone's just trying to answer that question of
why I am the way I am, and and learning
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that we're all standing on the shoulders of giants and
we have all these like people in our lineage that
we can kind of like explain why we are the
way we are. I think it's sort of so I
would say it was like a mix. I think with
you know, someone like Aquafino was very emotional because she
was going back to South Korea. It was the first
time since she'd been there since her mother passed away
when she was four years old. And then we had
a bit of like a bromance with Justin in Italy,
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So it kind of like ran the gamut a little bit.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Explain to those that haven't seen it about how you
start at home with this family dish, a favorite dish,
and you trace it back to the origin and not
only that but through Jeens as well.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Right, yeah, no, all of it.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
So it starts out with like a dish that shaped
the guests, and it could have been something that was
enjoyed during like a special family occasion or a birthday
or for like James Mars and it was chicken fried
steak that his mom was making in Oklahoma City as
a single mom, just to like feed the kids. And
then we go to their country of origin, we explore
what was going on culturally, politically, socially, and then we
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kind of break down the dish the elements while introducing it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's a lot going on.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
No, it was introducing like two different key members of
their family, and we meet genealogists and historians and it's
like it's a whole journey.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I love that In that episode, James is with in
his family's skitch, his mom's cook and he says, Oh,
that's the smell that brings me back to my childhood.
Fast forward to you guys in an outdoor kitchen in
Bavaria and they're making you're making schnitzel, right, and he goes,
it's that smell.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
It's the same smell totally.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
That's when I started weeping.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, but it's it's Knitzel. Yeah, I'm crying over Schnitzel.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
It's yeah, because it is an emotional thing, and I
mean like it's it's you know. I I go, like,
the most emotional episode of all of them is is Aquafinea.
And they're all really special for different reasons. But hers
actually started out with joh Jungman, which is a completely
different dish.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But we were.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Making this seaweed soup that this this woman who had
a PhD infermentation, which they do that in Korea because
food is truly healing there and it's like unesco protected
and she's making the soup and Nora Aquafina remembered this
smell that her mom. It was a one smell she
remembered of her mom when she was around and she
was making this soup. Wow, And we learned that in
Korean history, women make this for their daughters after they're
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born because they're depleted of iron. It's something that's very healing, right,
and it's passed on from mother to daughter. So for
her to learn like, oh my gosh, that smell is
literally the soup that my mother was trying to use
to heal herself and also to to to make sure
that that her daughter was okay. Like it's and it's
and it all like it's never it's so much more
than the dish. It's like when you look back on it,
there's always a story, there's knowledge of history.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
And it's I'm thinking there could be a spinoff called
no Smell Like Home and you Smell like your grandparents,
Boxers or something.
Speaker 12 (19:52):
And then.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
I mean, you know, there are a lot weirder things
that are making it to streaming services these days, so
I feel like we should definitely pitch it. Also, it's
after hours.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Yeah, you also don't have to respond to that. So
so talking about parents, you know, this is a cookbook
that my wife made after my father passed, and it's
of his favorite dishes. And talking watching this made me
think of this recipe for this Eastern European soup that
my dad made called stroutchki. I mean, look at this thing,
(20:26):
how can anybody read that?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
But was he a physician? No, he was not a physician.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I mean, by the way, when I was watching your show,
I was thinking of this, and then I'm thinking of
my dad's handwriting, and then I'm thinking of him in
the kitchen with the apron on.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Now I'm crying.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's not even about your show, it's about my dad.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But that's exactly no.
Speaker 11 (20:46):
But genuinely, that's what I want. I want people to
watch the show and like, while I understand that not
everyone has a national geographic historical team that can do
three to six months of research for each episode.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, I want to hear about.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
It, but I think it's like an important it's an
opportunity to start having these conversations with people in your
family or like maybe even like the awkward uncle, and
like learning those family stories because we have to pass
those things on for our children, for our chosen family,
for whoever it is. And sitting around the table is
like being raised the way that I was raised. That's
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when we share those stories. There's a universal thread there,
and I think God knows we're living in a time
and place where like we need to figure out how
we can relate to each other as opposed to the opposite.
Not that there's anything wrong with this country right now,
but you know.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yeah, look, it's great if our favorite dish has a
lineage back to the origin of country. But what sometimes
happens and I wonder, you know, my dad made the
super as every Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No one in the family liked the soup, and.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
It was a sad soup and you don't mess with
it exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
At one point we said to his mom, my grandma, like,
dad's been making street ski and she goes, well, we
don't need.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
That shit, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
But there's also something fun about your show when you
go backwards find out stuff that maybe isn't so complimentary
of the family or of the lineage.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
How do you process that that isn't complementary of the family.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I mean, there was the one with James where it's like, oh,
my great great great grandfather.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Was in prison. Oh yeah, you know, they didn't really
know why. And there was a moment there where it's like,
what did he do well?
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Because he was like a political activist, it was a rebel.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah it turned good, let's talk about the history.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I mean, this is actually research, right, this is oh
one hundred percent.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
I mean it's not like I love Queer Eye, but
that's like a different unscripted show where I can say
whatever I want, and it's a very different editing process here.
You know, we have every single thing that I say
has to be corroborated by three independent sources, which is
like kind of wild. So we're dealing with places like
Germany where you know they have the infrastructure and the
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places that you go to to get these documents, they
give it to you like within the hour, because the
Germans have it all figured out.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
In Italy they.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Take like two to three weeks, but like they'll get
it as well, like they take their time. If you're
in Senegal, if you're in where we went with East
or if you're in Borneo where we went with Henry Golding,
they don't have that.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's oral history.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
So the team has to go there a few months
prior speak to village elders, and if the three village
elders are saying the exact same thing, they consider it
a fact.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
If anything is like eighty I've.
Speaker 11 (23:13):
Done voiceover for narration on the show and had to
go back to the studio after because our show runner
Robin was like, we're not one hundred percent sure, we
can't say it.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We got to like go back.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I watched your show and I said, wow, TV studios
do have money.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Let's be honest. Let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You're in a lot of foreign places, You're eating a
lot of food using your hands.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Did you mark off a.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Day for traveler's diarrhea for.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You and the crew? I mean did.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Interestingly?
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Knew it.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I knew something would happened.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Interestingly, So I mean, well, the thing is like, I'm
not like if I eat something and it's good, I
just keep on eating it. I don't have like, I've
never believed in a spitbucket. It's not in my DNA
to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
But I was.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
It didn't happen onset, but I happened to be. We
were filming in Italy and then I had ten days
off before I had to be in South Korea, and
I was like, I'm already sort of on that side
of the world, so like, why don't I go to
Bali for ten days?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Like what's the worst that could happen? Right?
Speaker 11 (24:12):
And I went to this market and there was a
beautiful piece of tuna and I just wanted like a
light seer on it, and I picked it out and
they gave it to me, and it was like also
the food and Bali was like it was exceptional on
all fronts. This is not to like put any like
negative beef there or at tuna there. And so they
serve it to me well done, just draped in a
cream sauce.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And I ate it.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
And I felt a little weird, but I was like,
I'm sure, I'm fine. I ended up with double ivs
at the exact same time the night before my Red
Eye two soul, and I was facetiming my dad, who's
a physician, and he was like, why do you have
two ivs at the same time.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I've never seen this. There's a language barrier.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
I have nurses there that the hotel sent because like
people get this thing called bali belly. But the crazy
thing that happened because I'm an optimist at heart. I
can eat ghost peppers now and they don't like, they
don't kill me. I can eat spicy things.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm a Polish guy. We don't do heat, yea. You
even said that in the Laysian episode.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
You're like, I don't really do heat, but now you
can do heat.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
I can do heat now, which is great, and I
hope it lasts for a long time. I get food
poisoning once or twice a year because of the things
I put in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's just it's far. It's par for the course. En
you're all grown ups. There are no children here.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
So I find your personal history so connected also to
this show because of your parents. Explain a little bit
to your family history, and yeah, it's relevant.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
I mean, so I'm you know, my parents were both Polish.
My father was born in Brussels because his family fled
there after the war. But like I'm like, I think
I'm like eighty percent Polish, and growing up that was
the first language we spoke at home. We were only
allowed to speak Polish. Had all the food, cabbage rolls
for lunch, the whole thing. And then there was a
period of sort of growing up when I was in
(25:58):
my teens, like thes like Oasis Richard Ashcroft just to
paint a picture where I wanted nothing to do with
my identity. I moved to the States. I was in
West Virginia. I wanted to assimilate, change my name, the
whole thing. And then there came a point when I
was in university back in Montreal and I started working
at a Polish restaurant.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I met like young Polish.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
People who had super polish names, and I was like, Wow,
you're actually proud to be who you are. And it's
kind of like that whole idea of like, well, like
this is in my DNA, so why am I trying
to fight it? And now it's kind of inspired me.
Even as a result of the show, I had conversations
with my dad. I was like, why do we have
so much cabbage in our culture?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What's the deal with progi's? Where did those come from?
Speaker 11 (26:35):
And it's like we realized there's so much that we
don't know. And so it's kind of sparked conversations within
my own family.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
So you might have answered it, but it's so clear
in this show that the guest really sees how important
this dish is, how important this food is.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
To their family.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
For you personally, you know, we don't get to do
this show with you with your dish, But why is
food so important to you?
Speaker 11 (27:00):
My face just got warm because I think I don't know.
I mean, I think it has to do with if,
to quote my my therapist, if it's hysterical, it's historical,
and growing up in my parents, I adore them and
they did the best with the tools they were given,
but it was a really dysfunctional household. And the one
time where we all got along was when we were
(27:20):
sitting at the table and gossiping and just like talking
shit and having like the best time, and like that's
when everybody had a smile on their face. And so
it's personal to me, and it's I feel like everyone
kind of has their own their own version of that.
Like at any single gathering that my parents would have,
everyone always ended up in the kitchen, and I feel
like that's the case with so many people.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And so it's it's food is there for you.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
When you're depressed, when you're really happy, when you're celebrating
life's achievements, when you're celebrating or celebrating dealing with loss.
Sometimes people celebrate loss, but I but it's it's it's
just it's the it's the it for me, it's it's
my whole family is just as obsessed, if not more
than I am, about food, Like it's just it's in
our DNA.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
The show's great, it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
You kind of do what the Daily Show does, which
is you trick us by entertaining us. And then somehow
we've learned something and there's a message been presented. So
I really loved it. Thank you so much for making
a new episode and.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
More tests like na Sundays on Master.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Geographic and all episodes are streaming now on Disney's Plus.
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And you are little Anthony Varaski.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
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Speaker 1 (28:31):
Back after this, King that that's our show for tonight.
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It's a memoir about my life and how failing at
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now here. It is your moment of zen, sir.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
This tariff war is heating up, isn't it?
Speaker 11 (29:12):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean look when Trump says tariff is my favorite
word in the English language.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I don't quite believe him. I didn't Gold and one
or two other things.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is the Daily Choke with your host My Gold Costas.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Welcome, Welcome together.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
So I'm Michael Costa. We've got so much to talk
about tonight. The US economy is down bad, apparently America
likes guns, and Trump broke a campaign promise.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So let's get into it.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I'm gonna comedy, I'm gonna come. Being president comes with
a lot of pretty cool powers.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You can write executive.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Orders, you get one free checked bag on Air Force one,
and even you even get an uncensored feed.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Of c Span which.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
But for Donald Trump, the power he enjoys the most
is the power to impose tariffs.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Tariffs are easy, they're fast, they're efficient, and they bring fairness.
We're going to bring so many things back to our country,
and the thing that's going to get.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Us there is tariffs.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
We'll take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs,
and we're going to make our country so strong and
so rich. It will never be so rich. Tariffs. It's
a beautiful word, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Tariff. It's a beautiful word.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
That's why I name my daughter Tiffiny. This guy's so
horny for tariffs, isn't he. I love any word with
big natural double f's. According to Donald Trump, tariffs are
great and also on our country to be rich without
any negative consequences. So let's see how he's imposed tariffs
(02:06):
on Canada in Mexico, and let's sit back and let's
watch that economy roar baby.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Not Today the stock market dropping more than six hundred points.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
US stock markets plunged for the second day in the row.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
We've seen consumer confidence tank.
Speaker 9 (02:19):
Layoff numbers across the US are the highest they've been
since twenty twenty.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
The R word is back, thanks in large part to tariffs.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
But the R word has been.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Tariffs brought back the R word, So I guess I
can say it.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Wall Street banks are starting to raise a red flag
that recession ads have become unsettlingly high, right right?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That our word? Of course, That's that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I can be such a recession sometimes, by the way,
is recession an our word?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Who thinks the word recession is offensive? Finance bros? Did
they get woke before we discuss the impending our word.
We begin by acknowledging that we are on the ancestral
grounds of capital grill where Chad was unjustly removed by
the bartender before he could get a chance to cheat
on his wife's sub Chad. So basically, Trump said the
tariffs are going to be a quick and painless way
(03:15):
to get rich. And now that it turns out we're
not all shitting gold, Republicans have moved into their new
talking point.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Hey, nobody said this was going to be easy.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Trust the process will.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
There'll be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
There's going to be a little bit of pain going
into this.
Speaker 10 (03:33):
It is going to be painful, and if I have
to pay a little bit more for something, I'm all
for it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We're going to have to suffer through some bad news.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
There's going to be a short period of time where
there'll be some higher prices on certain products. It's not inflation.
That's nonsense.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, nonsense. It's not inflation, people, It's just higher
prices on food and cars and gas and every other
product we can pour from our biggest trading partners. But
do you know what we might be in for some
hard times? But tariffs are Donald Trump's whole thing. And
if there's one thing I know about Donald Trump, he's
a man who sticks to his guns.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Huh, breaking news in to see and President Trump's officially
delayed tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Boo, after all that tariffs are now on hold. Trump
just backed away from those tariffs like it was a
long time friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. So so tariffs are on,
they're delayed, they're off. Who knows if they'll come back
or when or for how long. Look, I'm not a
(04:38):
big business guy, but quick question, does anyone know if
businesses need to make decisions more than four hours in advance?
So it appears the only silver lining in this pointless
trade war is that at least we're only fighting with
Canada and Mexico. You know, if you're gonna pick a fight,
pick a fight with two sissy countries, you can beat
right right right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
The Chinese embassy of the US, tweeting earlier.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
This week, quote, if war is what the US wants.
Speaker 11 (05:09):
Be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any
other type of war, We're ready to fight to the end.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh shit, China, China, don't play. They're like, if you
got beef, we got broccoli. Bitch, let's go listen, Donald,
Canada and Mexico are one thing.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But please don't piss off China.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I know you wrote the art of the deal, but
they wrote the art of war. And I think a
trade war with China might lead to at best a
devastating economic depression or at worst nuclear destruction of our
most of American cities, or, as Trump might.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Say, may there'll be a little disturbance.
Speaker 12 (05:52):
Hell.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Look for more on Trump's tariff policy and it's economic effects,
we go live to the White House with Josh Johnson.
Speaker 13 (06:01):
Josh, what exactly, what exactly is going on with these
tariffs costa.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
This is nothing we haven't seen before. These economic decisions
are smart. So everyone should stop.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Throwing around the R word, oh, recession.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Okay, everybody should stop.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Throwing around both our words.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
All right.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
In fact, these tariffs are going to help out all
my in words, you're you're my net gains costa.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Right, of course, your net gains ay.
Speaker 10 (06:39):
Ay, you're not an economist.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That's not your word to say.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
Okay, The point is these tariffs are necessary. I've been
talking to President Trump, and I can speak exactly to
his intentions on tars. I mean, come on, y'all heard
Donald Trump. He said during the campaign, We're doing this.
It's an economic street fight. So you better get on
board because the pain is worth it to bring back manufacturing,
(07:04):
even if it leads to higher prices. We are not
backing down, okay, but the.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
American people don't like higher prices.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Then forget the whole thing. Tariffs all all right.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
I don't even know who suggested it, Trump did.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
He said they're necessary to bring back America's economy.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
And they are, which is why they're back on.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
So we are doing tariffs, damn right, we are.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
I scared shit.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Not even more expensive housing.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Tariffs are all okay, but that will increase the trade deficit.
On again, but what about the price of breakfast off in.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
The morning, on at night?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
But Canada is retaliating.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Off with Canada, on with China.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
We'll go to war with child and give Josh, China
has nukes.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
No tariffs are on China.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
In fact, we're part of China.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Now all hail President g You're the snake mother.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Get on board, Josh, Gosh, how can Trump run this
country like this? Tariffs no tariffs. We're Chinese, We're not Chinese.
It's unsustainable.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Get off his ass, Costa. All Trump's trying to do
is stand firm on his principles, even though he doesn't
know what they are yet, no matter the costs, although
costs really shouldn't be a single dollar, and what anybody thinks.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
But please, nobody get upset, Josh, Josh, be realistic. Part
of being a leader is knowing there are traded offs
to every decision. It's not possible for everyone to have
a net game.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
Well I thought I told you, Costa, that's our word. Okay,
me and my economists are gonna fuck you up.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I'm sorry, Josh Johnson, everybody, Josh Johnson.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
When we come back, we get guns off the.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Still runk all way.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I met Dames.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
There are millions of guns in America, but one forty
year old virgin is trying to change that.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Daisy Lidik has more.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
It's no surprise America has a gun problem. In fact,
even if our legislators could pass comprehensive gun reform, there's
already over four hundred million guns in this country. A
number of statisticians call really high and being huge. But
one brave Michigander is taking action into his own hands,
and it's not someone you would expect.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
I think it was confused about a priest since I
binged fleabag. How does a priest get involved with getting
guns off the streets?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
In America, it's a lot easier to get a gun
than to get rid of a gun. There is this
sense that in churches, we're just going to pray for
this gun problem.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
But church people are sick of thoughts and prayers too.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
You know, it's bad when a priest is sick of
thoughts and prayers. I mean, that's your bread and butter.
And just as Jesus turned water into wine, Father Yeah
turned prayers into action and started a gun buyback program.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
The gun buy back program is aimed at reducing gun violence.
They're popular, and that's because it gets your choice to
turn in your gun.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
And because this is America, people are more willing to
part with their guns if they get something.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Out of it. The first buy back we did, we
had five thousand dollars with the gift cards, and the
line was two miles long, and we gave away the
gift cards in twenty minutes.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
What kind of gift cards are we talking about here?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Usually target Target.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
I'm not allowed in target anymore.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
I had a bit of a run in with the
law involving an incident with a cheese grater.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Do we want to save that for later? We'll take
care of that in confession.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
And what happens to the guns once they're collected? Do
they go to that farm upstate with all the dogs?
Speaker 10 (11:12):
After guns are processed, Michigan State Police sent them to
a company in Missouri called gun Busters, and they destroy
parts of the guns.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
The state Police then was contracting with a company called Gunbusters,
who has a gun pulverizer.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
The pulverizer.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
That was my signature move when I was on the
amateur wrestling circuit.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
No, no, it's it's it. These things destroy weapons.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
A deadly machine that destroyed deadly guns. Problem solved.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
This machine called the pulverizer can turn this into this.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Most of the metal left behind can be recycled.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
I love a name that says exactly what it is,
busting guns.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
No deception there, But they weren't busting them. Come again,
we found out they are not really destroying them.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
They were salvaging most of the gun and reselling the
parts on the internet.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
People can make their own ghost.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Guns, So gun Busters is actually contributing to making more guns. Yeah, Jesus, sorry, shit,
sorry Jesus. Turns out they were using the pulverizer more
for evil than good doing. Only partial destruction means that
(12:30):
the guns can be born again, and not in the
jesus y way. I reached out to speak with Gunbusters,
but much like the fate of their guns, they ghosted me.
If I can't find answers to this gun problem in
God's fancy buildings, maybe I could find some in the
state's fancy buildings. Michigan State Representative Natalie Price. How the
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is it legal for Gunbusters to get away with this?
Speaker 12 (12:56):
Because of the Gun Act of nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Sure as nineteen sixty seven Gun Act nineteen sixty sixty
eight Gun Act, the Act of.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
When we only destroy that narrow part of the weapon,
a receiver and a frame which includes the serial number
the firearm is considered by federal law to be fully destroyed.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Yes, receiver in the frame. So, just to reiterate, under
this old timey law.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
The Gun Control Act of nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
The receiver or the frame by itself is considered to
be a firearm. So if Gunbusters tells you they've destroyed
the firearm, technically they only have to have destroyed that
one tiny piece, leaving the rest to be potentially used
for ghost guns.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
There's no good way to keep track of how many
there are. From twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one, there
is over one thousand percent increase in ghost guns.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Holy shit, a thousand percent. That's like four ghost guns
for every ghost Luckily, Michigan has a solution.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
I can't tell you what we are doing here in Michigan,
which is partnering with state police and a company that
will fully pulverize and destroy the complete weapon.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Right here in Michigan, women get shit done. So it
deemed the only way to stop a bad guy with
a gun is a good guy with a pulverizer. But
this time Michigan has their very own state run pulverizer,
ensuring that the guns that they receive are completely destroyed.
I went back to the church to spread the good
(14:31):
word to Father Y'ah, only to discover he had taken
it upon himself to fulfill his own prophecy.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
There's more that needs to be done.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
We're planning to actually destroy the weapons ourselves with chopsaws.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That sounds dangerous. I can take you.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
To a place where we're practicing and you can watch
it happen.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
All right, sure, just follow a priest. I just met
to the set of the movie Saw. But for guns.
What could go wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And that goes in the disposal here three.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Guns down now just three hundred and ninety nine million,
nine ninety thousand, nine and ninety seven more to go.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Let me come back to Anthony Parovzi will be joining
in the shows you don't go about.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Welcome back to the very show. My guest tonight is.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
The best selling author, culinary expert, and host of national
geographics No Taste Like Home. Please welcome Anthony Parovski. Nice wow,
(16:07):
Thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
This show is amazing. It made me hungry, It made
me emotional.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It made you hungry for testicles, made testicals.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
For those of you that are unaware, maybe watching online,
there was a clip before this that testicals yep.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It's always good to have a little bit of yep.
But look, we're all hungry for testicles.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Did you know that this show would get as elevated
emotionally as it does.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
Yes, and no, I mean the original it's look, it's
National Geographic, which for me, I've been reading the magazine
since I was a kid. We had a subscription. It's
like the iconic, you know, yellow rectangle. But I think
once we started going down and each episode is a
little different, but once it does get personal and you
kind of everyone's just trying to answer that question of
why I am the way I am, and and learning
(16:59):
that we're all standing on the shoulders of giants and
we have all these like people in our lineage that
we can kind of like explain why we are the
way we are. I think it's sort of so I
would say it was like a mix. I think with
you know, someone like Aquafino was very emotional because she
was going back to South Korea. It was the first
time since she'd been there since her mother passed away
when she was four years old. And then we had
a bit of like a bromance with Justin in Italy,
(17:21):
So it kind of like ran the gamut a little bit.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Explain to those that haven't seen it about how you
start at home with this family dish, a favorite dish,
and you trace it back to the origin and not
only that but through Jeens as well.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Right, yeah, no, all of it.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
So it starts out with like a dish that shaped
the guests, and it could have been something that was
enjoyed during like a special family occasion or a birthday
or for like James Mars and it was chicken fried
steak that his mom was making in Oklahoma City as
a single mom, just to like feed the kids. And
then we go to their country of origin, we explore
what was going on culturally, politically, socially, and then we
(17:59):
kind of break down the dish the elements while introducing it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's a lot going on.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
No, it was introducing like two different key members of
their family, and we meet genealogists and historians and it's
like it's a whole journey.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I love that In that episode, James is with in
his family's skitch, his mom's cook and he says, Oh,
that's the smell that brings me back to my childhood.
Fast forward to you guys in an outdoor kitchen in
Bavaria and they're making you're making schnitzel, right, and he goes,
it's that smell.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
It's the same smell totally.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
That's when I started weeping.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, but it's it's Knitzel. Yeah, I'm crying over Schnitzel.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
It's yeah, because it is an emotional thing, and I
mean like it's it's you know. I I go, like,
the most emotional episode of all of them is is Aquafinea.
And they're all really special for different reasons. But hers
actually started out with joh Jungman, which is a completely
different dish.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But we were.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Making this seaweed soup that this this woman who had
a PhD infermentation, which they do that in Korea because
food is truly healing there and it's like unesco protected
and she's making the soup and Nora Aquafina remembered this
smell that her mom. It was a one smell she
remembered of her mom when she was around and she
was making this soup. Wow, And we learned that in
Korean history, women make this for their daughters after they're
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born because they're depleted of iron. It's something that's very healing, right,
and it's passed on from mother to daughter. So for
her to learn like, oh my gosh, that smell is
literally the soup that my mother was trying to use
to heal herself and also to to to make sure
that that her daughter was okay. Like it's and it's
and it all like it's never it's so much more
than the dish. It's like when you look back on it,
there's always a story, there's knowledge of history.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
And it's I'm thinking there could be a spinoff called
no Smell Like Home and you Smell like your grandparents,
Boxers or something.
Speaker 12 (19:52):
And then.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
I mean, you know, there are a lot weirder things
that are making it to streaming services these days, so
I feel like we should definitely pitch it. Also, it's
after hours.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Yeah, you also don't have to respond to that. So
so talking about parents, you know, this is a cookbook
that my wife made after my father passed, and it's
of his favorite dishes. And talking watching this made me
think of this recipe for this Eastern European soup that
my dad made called stroutchki. I mean, look at this thing,
(20:26):
how can anybody read that?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
But was he a physician? No, he was not a physician.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I mean, by the way, when I was watching your show,
I was thinking of this, and then I'm thinking of
my dad's handwriting, and then I'm thinking of him in
the kitchen with the apron on.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Now I'm crying.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's not even about your show, it's about my dad.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But that's exactly no.
Speaker 11 (20:46):
But genuinely, that's what I want. I want people to
watch the show and like, while I understand that not
everyone has a national geographic historical team that can do
three to six months of research for each episode.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, I want to hear about.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
It, but I think it's like an important it's an
opportunity to start having these conversations with people in your
family or like maybe even like the awkward uncle, and
like learning those family stories because we have to pass
those things on for our children, for our chosen family,
for whoever it is. And sitting around the table is
like being raised the way that I was raised. That's
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when we share those stories. There's a universal thread there,
and I think God knows we're living in a time
and place where like we need to figure out how
we can relate to each other as opposed to the opposite.
Not that there's anything wrong with this country right now,
but you know.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yeah, look, it's great if our favorite dish has a
lineage back to the origin of country. But what sometimes
happens and I wonder, you know, my dad made the
super as every Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No one in the family liked the soup, and.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
It was a sad soup and you don't mess with
it exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
At one point we said to his mom, my grandma, like,
dad's been making street ski and she goes, well, we
don't need.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
That shit, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
But there's also something fun about your show when you
go backwards find out stuff that maybe isn't so complimentary
of the family or of the lineage.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
How do you process that that isn't complementary of the family.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I mean, there was the one with James where it's like, oh,
my great great great grandfather.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Was in prison. Oh yeah, you know, they didn't really
know why. And there was a moment there where it's like,
what did he do well?
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Because he was like a political activist, it was a rebel.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah it turned good, let's talk about the history.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I mean, this is actually research, right, this is oh
one hundred percent.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
I mean it's not like I love Queer Eye, but
that's like a different unscripted show where I can say
whatever I want, and it's a very different editing process here.
You know, we have every single thing that I say
has to be corroborated by three independent sources, which is
like kind of wild. So we're dealing with places like
Germany where you know they have the infrastructure and the
(22:45):
places that you go to to get these documents, they
give it to you like within the hour, because the
Germans have it all figured out.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
In Italy they.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Take like two to three weeks, but like they'll get
it as well, like they take their time. If you're
in Senegal, if you're in where we went with East
or if you're in Borneo where we went with Henry Golding,
they don't have that.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's oral history.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
So the team has to go there a few months
prior speak to village elders, and if the three village
elders are saying the exact same thing, they consider it
a fact.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
If anything is like eighty I've.
Speaker 11 (23:13):
Done voiceover for narration on the show and had to
go back to the studio after because our show runner
Robin was like, we're not one hundred percent sure, we
can't say it.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We got to like go back.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I watched your show and I said, wow, TV studios
do have money.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Let's be honest. Let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You're in a lot of foreign places, You're eating a
lot of food using your hands.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Did you mark off a.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Day for traveler's diarrhea for.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You and the crew? I mean did.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Interestingly?
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Knew it.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I knew something would happened.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Interestingly, So I mean, well, the thing is like, I'm
not like if I eat something and it's good, I
just keep on eating it. I don't have like, I've
never believed in a spitbucket. It's not in my DNA
to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
But I was.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
It didn't happen onset, but I happened to be. We
were filming in Italy and then I had ten days
off before I had to be in South Korea, and
I was like, I'm already sort of on that side
of the world, so like, why don't I go to
Bali for ten days?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Like what's the worst that could happen? Right?
Speaker 11 (24:12):
And I went to this market and there was a
beautiful piece of tuna and I just wanted like a
light seer on it, and I picked it out and
they gave it to me, and it was like also
the food and Bali was like it was exceptional on
all fronts. This is not to like put any like
negative beef there or at tuna there. And so they
serve it to me well done, just draped in a
cream sauce.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And I ate it.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
And I felt a little weird, but I was like,
I'm sure, I'm fine. I ended up with double ivs
at the exact same time the night before my Red
Eye two soul, and I was facetiming my dad, who's
a physician, and he was like, why do you have
two ivs at the same time.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I've never seen this. There's a language barrier.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
I have nurses there that the hotel sent because like
people get this thing called bali belly. But the crazy
thing that happened because I'm an optimist at heart. I
can eat ghost peppers now and they don't like, they
don't kill me. I can eat spicy things.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm a Polish guy. We don't do heat, yea. You
even said that in the Laysian episode.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
You're like, I don't really do heat, but now you
can do heat.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
I can do heat now, which is great, and I
hope it lasts for a long time. I get food
poisoning once or twice a year because of the things
I put in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's just it's far. It's par for the course. En
you're all grown ups. There are no children here.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
So I find your personal history so connected also to
this show because of your parents. Explain a little bit
to your family history, and yeah, it's relevant.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
I mean, so I'm you know, my parents were both Polish.
My father was born in Brussels because his family fled
there after the war. But like I'm like, I think
I'm like eighty percent Polish, and growing up that was
the first language we spoke at home. We were only
allowed to speak Polish. Had all the food, cabbage rolls
for lunch, the whole thing. And then there was a
period of sort of growing up when I was in
(25:58):
my teens, like thes like Oasis Richard Ashcroft just to
paint a picture where I wanted nothing to do with
my identity. I moved to the States. I was in
West Virginia. I wanted to assimilate, change my name, the
whole thing. And then there came a point when I
was in university back in Montreal and I started working
at a Polish restaurant.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I met like young Polish.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
People who had super polish names, and I was like, Wow,
you're actually proud to be who you are. And it's
kind of like that whole idea of like, well, like
this is in my DNA, so why am I trying
to fight it? And now it's kind of inspired me.
Even as a result of the show, I had conversations
with my dad. I was like, why do we have
so much cabbage in our culture?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What's the deal with progi's? Where did those come from?
Speaker 11 (26:35):
And it's like we realized there's so much that we
don't know. And so it's kind of sparked conversations within
my own family.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
So you might have answered it, but it's so clear
in this show that the guest really sees how important
this dish is, how important this food is.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
To their family.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
For you personally, you know, we don't get to do
this show with you with your dish, But why is
food so important to you?
Speaker 11 (27:00):
My face just got warm because I think I don't know.
I mean, I think it has to do with if,
to quote my my therapist, if it's hysterical, it's historical,
and growing up in my parents, I adore them and
they did the best with the tools they were given,
but it was a really dysfunctional household. And the one
time where we all got along was when we were
(27:20):
sitting at the table and gossiping and just like talking
shit and having like the best time, and like that's
when everybody had a smile on their face. And so
it's personal to me, and it's I feel like everyone
kind of has their own their own version of that.
Like at any single gathering that my parents would have,
everyone always ended up in the kitchen, and I feel
like that's the case with so many people.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And so it's it's food is there for you.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
When you're depressed, when you're really happy, when you're celebrating
life's achievements, when you're celebrating or celebrating dealing with loss.
Sometimes people celebrate loss, but I but it's it's it's
just it's the it's the it for me, it's it's
my whole family is just as obsessed, if not more
than I am, about food, Like it's just it's in
our DNA.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
The show's great, it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
You kind of do what the Daily Show does, which
is you trick us by entertaining us. And then somehow
we've learned something and there's a message been presented. So
I really loved it. Thank you so much for making
a new episode and.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
More tests like na Sundays on Master.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Geographic and all episodes are streaming now on Disney's Plus.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And you are little Anthony Varaski.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
I'm gonna take a clo play the right.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Back after this, King that that's our show for tonight.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
But before you go, if you're looking for a fun read,
my new book, Lucky Loser comes out this Tuesday, March eleventh.
It's a memoir about my life and how failing at
professional tennis led me to.
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Be a comedian. What the is that? Please?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
If you know how to read, please preorder it now
now here. It is your moment of zen, sir.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
This tariff war is heating up, isn't it?
Speaker 11 (29:12):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean look when Trump says tariff is my favorite
word in the English language.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
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or two other things.
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