March 8, 2024 • 28 mins
Ronny Chieng dives into the CDC’s decision to drop COVID isolation guidelines, how the U.S. dodged blockades they funded to aid Gaza, and the TSA’s plan to make airport security even more annoying with self-service checkpoints. Plus, Troy Iwata reports from the New York subway system, where National Guards are conducting bag checks for some reason? And Eagle Pass, Texas has become the epicenter of the national immigration debate, but who are the real "invaders" of this community? Michael Kosta talks to residents of Eagle Pass who have had it with the right-wing media, politicians, and fearmongering Trump supporters taking over their town and jacking up their hotel prices. Plus, actor and comedian Awkwafina stops by to talk with her friend Ronny Chieng about the projects they’ve worked on together, including her latest film “Kung Fu Panda 4,” what it was like working with Jack Black, and her family’s place in the culinary history of Queens. Ronny even gives Awkwafina the chance to interview HIM about his iconic role as “Fish” in “Kung Fu Panda 4.”
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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This here's the Daily Too, with.
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Speaker 4 (00:38):
I'm Ronnie Shang. We've got a great show for you Tonight.
The TSA is going DIY. The COVID vaccine meets its
biggest fan, and we sent Michael Casta down to the
border and unfortunately he came back. Plus, my friend Aquafina
is joining me on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So let's get it done.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Let's begin with the pandemics. Yes, remember that next week
will be for you. Since the day we started to
take it seriously because Tom Hanks got it. Oh no,
not Tom, take chat instead.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But everything's fine now.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
The CDC just issued new guidance saying that you don't
even have to isolate if.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You get COVID anymore. That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You can go ahead and keep coffee into people's faces
as long as you feel a little bad about it afterwards.
It really feels like no one's trying to avoid COVID anymore, well,
almost no one.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
A German Man has puzzled scientists after he deliberately got
more than two hundred COVID nineteen vaccinations two hundred and
seventeen to be exact, over two and a half years.
That's a shot every four days roughly.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Of course, scientists are wondering what the effect was on him.
First of all, he didn't report any vaccine related side
effects at all. Secondly, his immune response did show an
increase in immune cells, but not necessarily a better or
worse immune response. And finally, guys, he never got sarskob too,
the virus that causes COVID.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Sorry, two hundred and seventeen shots, an approach also known
as the immune system bukake. If you laugh at that,
you are disgusting. I mean, I mean, I know anti
vaxxers are stupid, but let's not overcorrect here, all right.
I will say this. Though a lot of people did
their own research, this man became his own research. That's
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commitment and also a nice change of pace to see
Germans doing human experiments on themselves.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And also, hey.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm glad that he didn't suffer any major side effects.
But sadly for this guy, doctors still haven't found a
cure for being weird. As let's move on to the
ongoing crisis in Gaza, where the United States is taking
extreme measures to solve a tiny fraction of the problem.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
The United States has conducted another air drop of aid
in the Gaza Strip. The mission delivered six thousand meals
in the north but it's still far below the amount
of a needed for the around three hundred thousand Palestinians
who remained in the Northern Strip after the Israeli invasion.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Air drops are probably the least efficient and most expensive
way to deliver ate, but it's a last resort with
Israel blocking critical supplies on the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
America managed to air drop food around a blockade that
Israel built with weapons America gave them. That's good, but
wouldn't be better if the United States just told Israel
just move move by the way we gave you that
we'll trying to help people go away.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, it just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It just seems a lot less efficient that uber eats
drop food from a thousand feet off or yelling hey,
don't forget to give us five stars.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
America should just invent weapons that only fire food and
send those to Israel.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
That way, when you go there, use the tank.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It just fires burritos, efficient and delicious.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Move on to some domestic news.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Here in America, the TSA is testing out a new
way to make airport security even more annoying.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
This could be the future of airport security. At the
TSA's Innovation Checkpoint at Las Vegas, international travelers are testing
new self service.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Technology for the first time. The idea is it's supposed
to be like a regular.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
TSA checkpoint, except fewer TSA agents and hopefully streamlined.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Do you have everything coming into inside your bit?
Speaker 10 (04:28):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Here, passengers are greeted by a virtual agent.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
If you have a question, it's really easy just to
talk to the camera, get a very.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Quick answer back.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Really agent, real person.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right who doesn't have to physically be in the checkpoint
with you.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They're still performing the function that we've asked them to perform,
but in a different location.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
What the is this shit?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So it's a regular TSA line, but you added a
zoom meeting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So hey, I.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Said, I don't have a bomb, I don't have a bum.
What what You'll mute it? You'll mute it?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I can't. Oh wait, sorry, I'm muted. I'm muted.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Okay, This isn't gonna work, guys, okay, because we all
know what it's like to work remotely. TSA is gonna
be pretending to look for bombs, but they actually have
poorn opening another tack, right, and even if they do
catch someone, what they're gonna do order us to tackle ourselves. Hey,
I got a solution for you, TSA. It's a new
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form of technology called open another lane.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Just open another lane.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
In fact, in fact, it doesn't even matter what TSA
is doing, okay, because the problem is the people. There's
always a guy in line holding everyone up, trying to
bring a full sort of armor through the X ray machine.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I'm sorry, it's this metal. I'ma but look.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Now, this even really matters because once you get through security,
there's a good chance the door will fall off your
plane anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So, and finally, while the TSA is trying to reduce
the number of security agents, the New York City Subway
is getting a shit ton more.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The controversial new plan to addrests crime on the subway.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
A thousand members of the National Guard and the State
Police will join forces with transit cops to conduct backchecks
and patrol hundreds of subway stations.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
The move by New York's governor follows a reported forty
five percent spike in transit crimes in January.
Speaker 11 (06:21):
The NYPD reminds people it is worth taking their long
standing advice on how to stay safe, watch your things,
and at least lower the volume on those headsets that
you wear, or take them out entirely.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I'll shut up, mom, I'm definitely not lowing the volume
on my music. Okay, you think I want to be
a loan with my thoughts on public transport, I'd rather
get stabbed. And look, look, I'm not saying crime isn't
a problem in the New York subway.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
A forty five percent spike in transit crimes in January
alone is actually kind of impressive. I mean, New York
criminals are the only ones keeping the New Year's resolutions.
But getting the military to search bags for weapons isn't
gonna solve it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Okay, because New.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yorkers can make a weapon out of anything, a bottle
of vape, a day old bagel. It's prison rules down there, Okay.
Anything can be a shave if you stab hot enough.
Drawing up invasion plants for the sea train just feels
like you're playing off people's fears. All right, My mom
lives in Singapore. She's already worried for me here. She
thinks of New York subway is a fist fight to
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the death every day, when really it's only a fist
fight to the death only once or twice a week.
For more on this story, let's go to a New
York City subway station with Troy IWAA.
Speaker 12 (07:42):
Troy, Troy, Troy.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
What's the mood down there?
Speaker 13 (07:46):
It's great, Ronnie. Everyone feels super secure. There's sixty soldiers here,
fifty more police. The coast Guard has a dinghy floating
in that gross puddle over there.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It is it is.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Down, Okay, glad to know that people are feeling safe.
What are the long term plans for addressing the root
causes of subway crime?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Long term?
Speaker 13 (08:08):
Those are big words, don't I don't follow.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I don't like mental health, treatment of affordable housing?
Speaker 13 (08:16):
Oh oh, does sound like really nice expensive things?
Speaker 12 (08:19):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We just don't.
Speaker 13 (08:20):
We don't have the money for that.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Okay, but how much did all that national God stuff costs?
Speaker 13 (08:26):
Don't worry about that. That's military spending, so it doesn't
doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
What do you mean it doesn't count? It costs money.
Money is money.
Speaker 13 (08:37):
Money is money except money for the military. You know,
you know how like calories or calories, except when it's
your birthday or you're sad. Military money it just appears
when it's needed, you know, like a fairy godmother with
a rocket launcher.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I don't think that's how the military works. But even so,
shouldn't we invest in a long term solution to help
people get around safely?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (09:02):
Yeah, I guess we could have the military bring people
to work. You know, have you ever been air dropped
into your office? It hurts, but it's fast.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That sounds like it will cost like a trillion dollars.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
A trillion military dollars, not my personal dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Where do you think money for the military comes from.
Speaker 13 (09:24):
The war prize? When we win the war, you get
the war prize?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And okay, you know what, Troy, just just get the train.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Back to the office.
Speaker 13 (09:35):
Oh, there are delays which we cannot fix because we
are broke.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's a CONUNDRUMA Troy want everybody when we come back.
Speaker 14 (09:48):
Michael, cos I go to a border, so don't go away.
Speaker 12 (10:07):
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
The Boril crisis is a major issue in this election cycle,
but Michael Costs, though, went down to Eagle Pass, Texas
to discover another invasion.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Eagle Past, Texas has become the epicenter of the national
immigration debate, as over the last year, an unprecedented number
of migrants crossed here to apply for asylum, and for
many observers, this complex issue can only be summed up
in one word, invasion.
Speaker 12 (10:34):
We are being invaded.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
We are being invaded.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
We're being invaded.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We're being invaded, just like it's a military invasion. But
how are the locals coping with this? Relentless onslaught?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
They've come and taken over the town.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
It's our land, and there's just people coming.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
In causing you know, havoc and craziness. There's chaos.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Shouldn't you be welcoming?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Don't you have any empathy for the journey they've taken together.
Speaker 15 (10:59):
They're not welcomed the hell out of our place.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You can't move around seeing them.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You can't get a meal in a restaurant, can't get
a hotel room unless you're going to pay four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Wa Wait, who are you talking about right now?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The State Guard from Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Idaho.
Speaker 16 (11:14):
Oh, what you'd need to be afraid of is some
of these convoys of people.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They're talking about Central American caravans.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Oh, no, we're talking about the people that are invading
the country here, not the Mexico.
Speaker 15 (11:25):
The invasion here is from Governor Abbot and the Trumpers
and the Maga people.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yes, Eagle Pass has been overrun since Governor Greg Abbott
declared a crisis at the border and sent in the
Texas National Guard, attracting a flood of Republican governors, congressional
delegations in even billionaire weirdos.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
This is our.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Tax payer dollars being put to use by coming.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Out to Eagle Pass.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
And what's happened is it's jacked up the hotel prices.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Our room is three hundred and seventy dollars and they
don't even have any handlations understood understood. What is your
message to the people that want to come down here
and don't come?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, but be more clear, please don't come.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It's not just cool guys and scarves that are being
victimized in this conflict, but also local small business owners
who resemble Sam Elliott.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Right now, the only people that are going into the
water are individuals from the press that can want to
see how ugly it is out there.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The governor of Texas is here disrupting your job, and
you wanted to port them.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Get them out because I mean, I'm expected to follow
federal law, local law, state law. I would expect the
same thing from our leader of our state.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Sam Elliott and his mustache's concerns were justified because when
America sends its people to Eagle Pass, they're not always
sending their best. Some I assume drove countless hours to
sit outside a fence.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But why this is my land.
Speaker 16 (12:57):
I'm from Texas. I'm glad to support those people who
are fighting for me, Ma La my land. Do we
have guts enough to defend ourselves?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Do we now?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Are?
Speaker 15 (13:10):
You're shutting your head?
Speaker 16 (13:11):
You don't really, I'm not practical.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
You're wearing a suit.
Speaker 16 (13:14):
You've been successful in the New York media. You know what,
you sold your soul to the devil.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
If I sold my soul to the devil to be
successful in news media, I would be more successful. I
wouldn't be sitting here in an Eagle Past, Texas. You
think I want to stay at a Marriotte town plaza
with no body lotion.
Speaker 16 (13:30):
That sounds like something the devil would site.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yes, Dan's fashion fatigue hurt and his outlook was very confrontational,
so I decided to talk to the chairwoman of the
county Republican Party for a more measured view.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
So we've had this invasion and it's fully turned this
town upside down.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You mean from Governor Abbott, from the thirteen out of
state Republican governors, news media such as myself.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
No, I'm talking about the illegal.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Wetbex And I'm sorry, what was what did you call them?
Speaker 12 (14:03):
Wetbas?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Wetbax man, I haven't heard that word in a long time. Okay,
Now that you'd gotten that out of her system, I
was ready for a more nuanced conversation.
Speaker 12 (14:12):
We just want them to come legally through the front door.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Calling them wet backs to me is not a we
welcome you here.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
I want them to come legally.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's what I want.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
So they aren't wet backs, so they don't have to
swim the river.
Speaker 12 (14:28):
They wouldn't be wetbax if they didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Obviously, there's some disagreement about whether we should let people
from other countries seek refuge here, and whether we should
refer to them with vintage racist slurs, but as militarizing
the border actually worked to keep anyone out. I asked
Magali or Beanup whose pecan farm borders the Rio Grande.
Speaker 15 (14:47):
I asked them to several times, please don't put the
wire up.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
We don't want it.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
It's liability.
Speaker 16 (14:52):
Yeah, and they just came in and they put it up.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Anyhow do you think the fencing and the buoys and
the razor wire do you feel.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Like that's working?
Speaker 15 (14:59):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 16 (15:00):
The governor's just pushing them out to New Mexico, Arizona,
to California.
Speaker 15 (15:05):
But guess what, they're still coming in.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
So if they haven't solved the migrant crisis, could there
be another purpose for the thousands of state guards, miles
of barbed wire, and throngs of sunburned politicians and Eagle.
Speaker 15 (15:16):
Pass I would have to say it has to do
with the fact that it's an election here.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A narrative is being told that creates chaos, scarce people.
Speaker 12 (15:25):
It's what's going to win them the election.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Do you think this issue at the border has a
lot to do with Donald Trump's reelection.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 16 (15:33):
Trump is concerned about the welfare of the people made
this country. He's not worried about trying to look good
so that he can get a leg.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Guy with a golden toilet and a spray tan isn't
worried about looking.
Speaker 15 (15:47):
Go it's a political stunt. The Republican been there, of course,
who don't get a.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Band I might have been Spanish, but I forgot ten
days than in politician.
Speaker 15 (16:01):
Well, it's kind of a heavier word than idiots. Not
as heavy, not as heavy as prayers, but heavier than idiots.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Stupid, somewhere between mother Becker an idiot.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I would say so as I'd come to understand. The
border is a complex issue that affects people's real lives.
It's so much more than a photo op. But before
I left town, there was one more thing for me
to do.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
When we come back, I'll Wafino be joining me on.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
The show, So don't go away.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hey, welcome back to the Heavy Show.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
My guest Tonight is an Emmy nominated actor and comedian
who starts in the new film Kung Fu Panda four.
Please welcome the one and only aquafina.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Right, all right, all.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right, thanks thanks for comments comment. It's good to see
you guys. Yeah, good to see you again. It's great.
So what's this one?
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Is?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
What come Fand when you came out? Yeah they did.
It was even louder when I came in. So come
Fu Panda four?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Right? Yeah, yeah, good movie, great movie.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I agree. I think it's amazing. Yeah you know I'm
in that movie too.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh yeah, right, yes, you are in that MOVI. Yes,
you are in that movie. Yeah, I'm in that movie too.
So in that movie. You are in that movie? You
you uh, you know what do all this press for it? Yeah?
I've been doing a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
No one's asking me any questions about that movie. Why
do you ask me some questions about this movie? I'm
in the two? Ask me some questions about you want
to ask you? Okay, yeah, okay, So we're doing good. Okay,
I'm gonna go out. You're introduced you as a guest.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Okay, just read that and you can ask me some questions.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
All right, you're gonna go out, Yeah, just read from that. Okay,
just read that, come all right, and then interview me
about this movie.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, guess wait, okay, go, okay.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Wow, that's so nice, My guests tonight is a towering
figure in comedy and icon for all Asians, a colossal
acting talent who deserves his own action franchise, and my
personal hero who I'm honored to even breathe the same
air with. Please welcome Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, how can you hear that? Traders? Okay, there we go.
I prepare some questions for you in case.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Your voice acting is so realistic?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Did you go to Juilliard or something? Oh? I'm glad
you asked that.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
You know, I just think that sometimes with voice acting,
you want to you know, yes, natural as you can.
So I'm kind of proud to say I didn't have
any formal training in it. I just, you know, I
just think authenticity is the key to a good animal
uh animation?
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Yeah, yes, yes, one hundred percent that I mean. This
year we saw actors take on some incredibly challenging roles
with Stilian Revie or Killan Revie and As Oppenheimer, Bradley
Cooper as Leonard Bernstein, and Ronnie Chang as Fish in
Kung Fu Panda four.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
How How do you? Yes? Yeah, I keep it going,
keep it going, keep it going. How do you prepare
to take on such a big role.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, you know, I've been kind of eating fish my
whole life, so I feel like I knew what this
character would really tastes like, and I kind of, you know,
I channeled that into I tried to put a little
bit of fishiness into.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You live inside a bird? Yes, and spoiler alert, yeah,
I live in a bird character.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You know, it's actually the second marine character developed your
in a Kung Fu Panda franchise.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Really take it what.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
Figure figure?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It's not to uh, it's had to show on the
aquatic animals on land.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
But while we figured it out.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
This is this is the fourth project you've done with me.
How does it feel to always be below me on
the call show?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You know what? I didn't forget that what he says?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
All right, anyway, this is the fourth project we've done together.
We have We've done so much cool stuff together. We have, yeah,
done crazy occasions, We did shang ches together, we did
Come Fu Panda Panda. It was the other one, that's true.
You were on my show, yeah, Noah from Queen's on
(21:42):
Comedy Central.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Whoops, I was on that.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I forgot that was on that show that was on
my own network. Yeah, yeah, thanks for having me on that,
by the way, thank you for Yeah. Yes, such a
cool icon, you know from New York City, worn and
raised queens.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah. What's your what's your connection to New
York City? What do you mean? I mean?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I was from here? Yeah, raised here. I love I
love you know, bagels and pizza.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
Oh no, but.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Sorry, watch you up asked a question, Bet, I meant like,
you know, you had your family restaurant here.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Right, oh yeah, right, yeah, my yeah, we had the
first Chinese restaurant in Flushing was called Lums. It was
my great grandpa, my great grandpa, Jimmy Lum came over
in the nineteen forties and and then it kind of
went out of business and in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah yeah, great Riagonomics and then but what was you
You grew up in that restaurant? I didn't.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
I grew up in a restaurant because then they had
an offshoot. After Lums closed, my grandma opened a new one,
and so I grew up like in the restaurant, so
like I would eat that would.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, yeah, so very much. In the in the in
the kitchen, in the kitchen.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
I ate like a scoop of MSG one time, like
just like literally literally, I it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It was crazy. It's like a crazy it's not okay,
Maybe I just try that sometime to.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
This yeah this yeah, yeah, well this this new I got.
I got spent at least something I got talked talking
about this movie a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You're you play a.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Collac Okay, sorry, Corsack, call sack fox.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You're mispronouncing it is that real.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
Animal animal, beautiful Asian fox.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, you play a beautiful Asian fox in yes, yes.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's what you look like over there.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
And I don't know if I spoil it, but it's
a pretty important role in this because not only are
you the second lead, you know, something happens in this
movie that you know, really it really will change the
franchise whatever I think. Yeah, I don't know if you
can talk about that, but you want, you want to.
You can't say what's gonna the spoiler alert?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah yeah, ok, well, well.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
I think I think the movie is just this one.
I watched it a lot. I was a fan of it,
and I'm a huge fan of Jack Black, who's you know,
like kind of reprising this role. And yeah, I mean
like he's he's really the real deal. And and so
I think it's now speaking to I think the adults
that that kind of watched it and you know, them
moving on and stuff like change and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, that's great. Okay. Should we kind of really lost
steam in this one after Yeah, once we started being
too sincere we got lost. Yeah, okay, when we're doing
the bid, it was do you mean to be lessons here? No? No, No,
it's okay, Well, what all this out of the way,
Well we'll go from well ed. Well, okay, I'll give
(24:40):
you I'll give you something for YouTube. Just ok So,
what was it like working with Jad Black?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It was so good?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
I love.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I love I love him. Are you really asking? No,
We'll use it to say we'll cut all the stuff
that's bad.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Only these people will know. Yeah, okay, cut everything. Well,
start an interview from here. Yeah, So what was it
like working.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
With Jack Black? Working with Jack Black? Is I mean,
are you kidding?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 12 (25:08):
No, do it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Just do the press thing so we can go home.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Do the press thing, do the Yeah, just say Jack
Black's great, movies great, and you know, I was like, yeah,
just just go just going to press mode, going to
press mode. Okay, what's it like working with Jack Black?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You know what, Ronnie, it was.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
So good and I and Kung Fu Panda for you
especially so good in it.
Speaker 14 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I hope we can hope we can sell a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Animals in that thing.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
I don't know because you would be in because you
have to open the whole bird's mouth.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah, my stuff animal is actually like two figures in one.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Also, you know Jack Black interesting his mom. His mother
was one of the women who contributed to the NASA
Polo program. She coded the programs that let yeah man
go to the moon. Yeah, so you know, way to
go Jack Black's mom.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, not just not just a physical genius.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
No, I got to meet him at the premier because
I'm not famous enough to hang out with you guys
in the studios.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
Well you were in the TikTok with them, you got
in the.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Tech No, the premier. Yeah, I met him at the
first prem at the movie premier.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
It was very nice. It was nice to see you there.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, you were nice to see me. Yeah. And he's
just such a ball of energy, you know, he's like
a physical genius. It's very hard to keep.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Up with him. Like, I mean, he's so funny.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah, he's super funny, very energetic. Also a bunch of
other Asians in this movie. Yes, James Hong, No, I
meant that sincerely. James Hong's names. Yeah, legend legendary, James Hong.
He's like ninety four. I think he's still in that.
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Yes, I mean he's he We were at the grove
and we went up the trolley and he and he
like I can think he was doing a bit, but
he was like, oh no, there's stairs. But then he
I think he was jokingly ran up them. Oh yeah,
he's like so rightly, so much energy.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Yeah, yeah, unlike some presidents I know. Yeah, yeah, he's
still going going, very strong. And when you hear his
voice acting in the movie, you're like, this dude doesn't
sound on you for all. This guy sounds like you know.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I think he was the best.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
I think he was the best other Asian actor other
than in the movie.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Other than yeah, other than.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, is incredible.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
All right, Okay, you know what, let's send this so
we can go home. No, no, it's really good to
see you.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
You'll honestly the best. I've known you for so long.
You've always been really cool to me. Kays in theaters
nationwide on Everybody.
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The TSA is going DIY. The COVID vaccine meets its
biggest fan, and we sent Michael Casta down to the
border and unfortunately he came back. Plus, my friend Aquafina
is joining me on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So let's get it done.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Let's begin with the pandemics. Yes, remember that next week
will be for you. Since the day we started to
take it seriously because Tom Hanks got it. Oh no,
not Tom, take chat instead.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But everything's fine now.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
The CDC just issued new guidance saying that you don't
even have to isolate if.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You get COVID anymore. That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You can go ahead and keep coffee into people's faces
as long as you feel a little bad about it afterwards.
It really feels like no one's trying to avoid COVID anymore, well,
almost no one.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
A German Man has puzzled scientists after he deliberately got
more than two hundred COVID nineteen vaccinations two hundred and
seventeen to be exact, over two and a half years.
That's a shot every four days roughly.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Of course, scientists are wondering what the effect was on him.
First of all, he didn't report any vaccine related side
effects at all. Secondly, his immune response did show an
increase in immune cells, but not necessarily a better or
worse immune response. And finally, guys, he never got sarskob too,
the virus that causes COVID.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Sorry, two hundred and seventeen shots, an approach also known
as the immune system bukake. If you laugh at that,
you are disgusting. I mean, I mean, I know anti
vaxxers are stupid, but let's not overcorrect here, all right.
I will say this. Though a lot of people did
their own research, this man became his own research. That's
(02:28):
commitment and also a nice change of pace to see
Germans doing human experiments on themselves.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And also, hey.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm glad that he didn't suffer any major side effects.
But sadly for this guy, doctors still haven't found a
cure for being weird. As let's move on to the
ongoing crisis in Gaza, where the United States is taking
extreme measures to solve a tiny fraction of the problem.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
The United States has conducted another air drop of aid
in the Gaza Strip. The mission delivered six thousand meals
in the north but it's still far below the amount
of a needed for the around three hundred thousand Palestinians
who remained in the Northern Strip after the Israeli invasion.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Air drops are probably the least efficient and most expensive
way to deliver ate, but it's a last resort with
Israel blocking critical supplies on the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
America managed to air drop food around a blockade that
Israel built with weapons America gave them. That's good, but
wouldn't be better if the United States just told Israel
just move move by the way we gave you that
we'll trying to help people go away.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, it just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It just seems a lot less efficient that uber eats
drop food from a thousand feet off or yelling hey,
don't forget to give us five stars.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
America should just invent weapons that only fire food and
send those to Israel.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
That way, when you go there, use the tank.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It just fires burritos, efficient and delicious.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Move on to some domestic news.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Here in America, the TSA is testing out a new
way to make airport security even more annoying.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
This could be the future of airport security. At the
TSA's Innovation Checkpoint at Las Vegas, international travelers are testing
new self service.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Technology for the first time. The idea is it's supposed
to be like a regular.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
TSA checkpoint, except fewer TSA agents and hopefully streamlined.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Do you have everything coming into inside your bit?
Speaker 10 (04:28):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Here, passengers are greeted by a virtual agent.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
If you have a question, it's really easy just to
talk to the camera, get a very.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Quick answer back.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Really agent, real person.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right who doesn't have to physically be in the checkpoint
with you.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They're still performing the function that we've asked them to perform,
but in a different location.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
What the is this shit?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So it's a regular TSA line, but you added a
zoom meeting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So hey, I.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Said, I don't have a bomb, I don't have a bum.
What what You'll mute it? You'll mute it?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I can't. Oh wait, sorry, I'm muted. I'm muted.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Okay, This isn't gonna work, guys, okay, because we all
know what it's like to work remotely. TSA is gonna
be pretending to look for bombs, but they actually have
poorn opening another tack, right, and even if they do
catch someone, what they're gonna do order us to tackle ourselves. Hey,
I got a solution for you, TSA. It's a new
(05:22):
form of technology called open another lane.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Just open another lane.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
In fact, in fact, it doesn't even matter what TSA
is doing, okay, because the problem is the people. There's
always a guy in line holding everyone up, trying to
bring a full sort of armor through the X ray machine.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I'm sorry, it's this metal. I'ma but look.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Now, this even really matters because once you get through security,
there's a good chance the door will fall off your
plane anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So, and finally, while the TSA is trying to reduce
the number of security agents, the New York City Subway
is getting a shit ton more.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The controversial new plan to addrests crime on the subway.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
A thousand members of the National Guard and the State
Police will join forces with transit cops to conduct backchecks
and patrol hundreds of subway stations.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
The move by New York's governor follows a reported forty
five percent spike in transit crimes in January.
Speaker 11 (06:21):
The NYPD reminds people it is worth taking their long
standing advice on how to stay safe, watch your things,
and at least lower the volume on those headsets that
you wear, or take them out entirely.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I'll shut up, mom, I'm definitely not lowing the volume
on my music. Okay, you think I want to be
a loan with my thoughts on public transport, I'd rather
get stabbed. And look, look, I'm not saying crime isn't
a problem in the New York subway.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
A forty five percent spike in transit crimes in January
alone is actually kind of impressive. I mean, New York
criminals are the only ones keeping the New Year's resolutions.
But getting the military to search bags for weapons isn't
gonna solve it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Okay, because New.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yorkers can make a weapon out of anything, a bottle
of vape, a day old bagel. It's prison rules down there, Okay.
Anything can be a shave if you stab hot enough.
Drawing up invasion plants for the sea train just feels
like you're playing off people's fears. All right, My mom
lives in Singapore. She's already worried for me here. She
thinks of New York subway is a fist fight to
(07:27):
the death every day, when really it's only a fist
fight to the death only once or twice a week.
For more on this story, let's go to a New
York City subway station with Troy IWAA.
Speaker 12 (07:42):
Troy, Troy, Troy.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
What's the mood down there?
Speaker 13 (07:46):
It's great, Ronnie. Everyone feels super secure. There's sixty soldiers here,
fifty more police. The coast Guard has a dinghy floating
in that gross puddle over there.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It is it is.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Down, Okay, glad to know that people are feeling safe.
What are the long term plans for addressing the root
causes of subway crime?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Long term?
Speaker 13 (08:08):
Those are big words, don't I don't follow.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I don't like mental health, treatment of affordable housing?
Speaker 13 (08:16):
Oh oh, does sound like really nice expensive things?
Speaker 12 (08:19):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
We just don't.
Speaker 13 (08:20):
We don't have the money for that.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Okay, but how much did all that national God stuff costs?
Speaker 13 (08:26):
Don't worry about that. That's military spending, so it doesn't
doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
What do you mean it doesn't count? It costs money.
Money is money.
Speaker 13 (08:37):
Money is money except money for the military. You know,
you know how like calories or calories, except when it's
your birthday or you're sad. Military money it just appears
when it's needed, you know, like a fairy godmother with
a rocket launcher.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I don't think that's how the military works. But even so,
shouldn't we invest in a long term solution to help
people get around safely?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (09:02):
Yeah, I guess we could have the military bring people
to work. You know, have you ever been air dropped
into your office? It hurts, but it's fast.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That sounds like it will cost like a trillion dollars.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
A trillion military dollars, not my personal dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Where do you think money for the military comes from.
Speaker 13 (09:24):
The war prize? When we win the war, you get
the war prize?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
And okay, you know what, Troy, just just get the train.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Back to the office.
Speaker 13 (09:35):
Oh, there are delays which we cannot fix because we
are broke.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's a CONUNDRUMA Troy want everybody when we come back.
Speaker 14 (09:48):
Michael, cos I go to a border, so don't go away.
Speaker 12 (10:07):
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
The Boril crisis is a major issue in this election cycle,
but Michael Costs, though, went down to Eagle Pass, Texas
to discover another invasion.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Eagle Past, Texas has become the epicenter of the national
immigration debate, as over the last year, an unprecedented number
of migrants crossed here to apply for asylum, and for
many observers, this complex issue can only be summed up
in one word, invasion.
Speaker 12 (10:34):
We are being invaded.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
We are being invaded.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
We're being invaded.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We're being invaded, just like it's a military invasion. But
how are the locals coping with this? Relentless onslaught?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
They've come and taken over the town.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
It's our land, and there's just people coming.
Speaker 12 (10:48):
In causing you know, havoc and craziness. There's chaos.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Shouldn't you be welcoming?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Don't you have any empathy for the journey they've taken together.
Speaker 15 (10:59):
They're not welcomed the hell out of our place.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You can't move around seeing them.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You can't get a meal in a restaurant, can't get
a hotel room unless you're going to pay four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Wa Wait, who are you talking about right now?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The State Guard from Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Idaho.
Speaker 16 (11:14):
Oh, what you'd need to be afraid of is some
of these convoys of people.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They're talking about Central American caravans.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Oh, no, we're talking about the people that are invading
the country here, not the Mexico.
Speaker 15 (11:25):
The invasion here is from Governor Abbot and the Trumpers
and the Maga people.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yes, Eagle Pass has been overrun since Governor Greg Abbott
declared a crisis at the border and sent in the
Texas National Guard, attracting a flood of Republican governors, congressional
delegations in even billionaire weirdos.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
This is our.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Tax payer dollars being put to use by coming.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Out to Eagle Pass.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
And what's happened is it's jacked up the hotel prices.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Our room is three hundred and seventy dollars and they
don't even have any handlations understood understood. What is your
message to the people that want to come down here
and don't come?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, but be more clear, please don't come.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It's not just cool guys and scarves that are being
victimized in this conflict, but also local small business owners
who resemble Sam Elliott.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Right now, the only people that are going into the
water are individuals from the press that can want to
see how ugly it is out there.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The governor of Texas is here disrupting your job, and
you wanted to port them.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Get them out because I mean, I'm expected to follow
federal law, local law, state law. I would expect the
same thing from our leader of our state.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Sam Elliott and his mustache's concerns were justified because when
America sends its people to Eagle Pass, they're not always
sending their best. Some I assume drove countless hours to
sit outside a fence.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But why this is my land.
Speaker 16 (12:57):
I'm from Texas. I'm glad to support those people who
are fighting for me, Ma La my land. Do we
have guts enough to defend ourselves?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Do we now?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Are?
Speaker 15 (13:10):
You're shutting your head?
Speaker 16 (13:11):
You don't really, I'm not practical.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
You're wearing a suit.
Speaker 16 (13:14):
You've been successful in the New York media. You know what,
you sold your soul to the devil.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
If I sold my soul to the devil to be
successful in news media, I would be more successful. I
wouldn't be sitting here in an Eagle Past, Texas. You
think I want to stay at a Marriotte town plaza
with no body lotion.
Speaker 16 (13:30):
That sounds like something the devil would site.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yes, Dan's fashion fatigue hurt and his outlook was very confrontational,
so I decided to talk to the chairwoman of the
county Republican Party for a more measured view.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
So we've had this invasion and it's fully turned this
town upside down.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You mean from Governor Abbott, from the thirteen out of
state Republican governors, news media such as myself.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
No, I'm talking about the illegal.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Wetbex And I'm sorry, what was what did you call them?
Speaker 12 (14:03):
Wetbas?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Wetbax man, I haven't heard that word in a long time. Okay,
Now that you'd gotten that out of her system, I
was ready for a more nuanced conversation.
Speaker 12 (14:12):
We just want them to come legally through the front door.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Calling them wet backs to me is not a we
welcome you here.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
I want them to come legally.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's what I want.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
So they aren't wet backs, so they don't have to
swim the river.
Speaker 12 (14:28):
They wouldn't be wetbax if they didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Obviously, there's some disagreement about whether we should let people
from other countries seek refuge here, and whether we should
refer to them with vintage racist slurs, but as militarizing
the border actually worked to keep anyone out. I asked
Magali or Beanup whose pecan farm borders the Rio Grande.
Speaker 15 (14:47):
I asked them to several times, please don't put the
wire up.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
We don't want it.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
It's liability.
Speaker 16 (14:52):
Yeah, and they just came in and they put it up.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Anyhow do you think the fencing and the buoys and
the razor wire do you feel.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Like that's working?
Speaker 15 (14:59):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 16 (15:00):
The governor's just pushing them out to New Mexico, Arizona,
to California.
Speaker 15 (15:05):
But guess what, they're still coming in.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
So if they haven't solved the migrant crisis, could there
be another purpose for the thousands of state guards, miles
of barbed wire, and throngs of sunburned politicians and Eagle.
Speaker 15 (15:16):
Pass I would have to say it has to do
with the fact that it's an election here.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A narrative is being told that creates chaos, scarce people.
Speaker 12 (15:25):
It's what's going to win them the election.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Do you think this issue at the border has a
lot to do with Donald Trump's reelection.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah you do.
Speaker 16 (15:33):
Trump is concerned about the welfare of the people made
this country. He's not worried about trying to look good
so that he can get a leg.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Guy with a golden toilet and a spray tan isn't
worried about looking.
Speaker 15 (15:47):
Go it's a political stunt. The Republican been there, of course,
who don't get a.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Band I might have been Spanish, but I forgot ten
days than in politician.
Speaker 15 (16:01):
Well, it's kind of a heavier word than idiots. Not
as heavy, not as heavy as prayers, but heavier than idiots.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Stupid, somewhere between mother Becker an idiot.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I would say so as I'd come to understand. The
border is a complex issue that affects people's real lives.
It's so much more than a photo op. But before
I left town, there was one more thing for me
to do.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
When we come back, I'll Wafino be joining me on.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
The show, So don't go away.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hey, welcome back to the Heavy Show.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
My guest Tonight is an Emmy nominated actor and comedian
who starts in the new film Kung Fu Panda four.
Please welcome the one and only aquafina.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Right, all right, all.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right, thanks thanks for comments comment. It's good to see
you guys. Yeah, good to see you again. It's great.
So what's this one?
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Is?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
What come Fand when you came out? Yeah they did.
It was even louder when I came in. So come
Fu Panda four?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Right? Yeah, yeah, good movie, great movie.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I agree. I think it's amazing. Yeah you know I'm
in that movie too.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh yeah, right, yes, you are in that MOVI. Yes,
you are in that movie. Yeah, I'm in that movie too.
So in that movie. You are in that movie? You
you uh, you know what do all this press for it? Yeah?
I've been doing a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
No one's asking me any questions about that movie. Why
do you ask me some questions about this movie? I'm
in the two? Ask me some questions about you want
to ask you? Okay, yeah, okay, So we're doing good. Okay,
I'm gonna go out. You're introduced you as a guest.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Okay, just read that and you can ask me some questions.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
All right, you're gonna go out, Yeah, just read from that. Okay,
just read that, come all right, and then interview me
about this movie.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, guess wait, okay, go, okay.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Wow, that's so nice, My guests tonight is a towering
figure in comedy and icon for all Asians, a colossal
acting talent who deserves his own action franchise, and my
personal hero who I'm honored to even breathe the same
air with. Please welcome Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, how can you hear that? Traders? Okay, there we go.
I prepare some questions for you in case.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Your voice acting is so realistic?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Did you go to Juilliard or something? Oh? I'm glad
you asked that.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
You know, I just think that sometimes with voice acting,
you want to you know, yes, natural as you can.
So I'm kind of proud to say I didn't have
any formal training in it. I just, you know, I
just think authenticity is the key to a good animal
uh animation?
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Yeah, yes, yes, one hundred percent that I mean. This
year we saw actors take on some incredibly challenging roles
with Stilian Revie or Killan Revie and As Oppenheimer, Bradley
Cooper as Leonard Bernstein, and Ronnie Chang as Fish in
Kung Fu Panda four.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
How How do you? Yes? Yeah, I keep it going,
keep it going, keep it going. How do you prepare
to take on such a big role.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, you know, I've been kind of eating fish my
whole life, so I feel like I knew what this
character would really tastes like, and I kind of, you know,
I channeled that into I tried to put a little
bit of fishiness into.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You live inside a bird? Yes, and spoiler alert, yeah,
I live in a bird character.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You know, it's actually the second marine character developed your
in a Kung Fu Panda franchise.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Really take it what.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
Figure figure?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It's not to uh, it's had to show on the
aquatic animals on land.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
But while we figured it out.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
This is this is the fourth project you've done with me.
How does it feel to always be below me on
the call show?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You know what? I didn't forget that what he says?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
All right, anyway, this is the fourth project we've done together.
We have We've done so much cool stuff together. We have, yeah,
done crazy occasions, We did shang ches together, we did
Come Fu Panda Panda. It was the other one, that's true.
You were on my show, yeah, Noah from Queen's on
(21:42):
Comedy Central.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Whoops, I was on that.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I forgot that was on that show that was on
my own network. Yeah, yeah, thanks for having me on that,
by the way, thank you for Yeah. Yes, such a
cool icon, you know from New York City, worn and
raised queens.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah. What's your what's your connection to New
York City? What do you mean? I mean?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I was from here? Yeah, raised here. I love I
love you know, bagels and pizza.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
Oh no, but.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Sorry, watch you up asked a question, Bet, I meant like,
you know, you had your family restaurant here.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Right, oh yeah, right, yeah, my yeah, we had the
first Chinese restaurant in Flushing was called Lums. It was
my great grandpa, my great grandpa, Jimmy Lum came over
in the nineteen forties and and then it kind of
went out of business and in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah yeah, great Riagonomics and then but what was you
You grew up in that restaurant? I didn't.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
I grew up in a restaurant because then they had
an offshoot. After Lums closed, my grandma opened a new one,
and so I grew up like in the restaurant, so
like I would eat that would.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, yeah, so very much. In the in the in
the kitchen, in the kitchen.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
I ate like a scoop of MSG one time, like
just like literally literally, I it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It was crazy. It's like a crazy it's not okay,
Maybe I just try that sometime to.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
This yeah this yeah, yeah, well this this new I got.
I got spent at least something I got talked talking
about this movie a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You're you play a.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Collac Okay, sorry, Corsack, call sack fox.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You're mispronouncing it is that real.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
Animal animal, beautiful Asian fox.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, you play a beautiful Asian fox in yes, yes.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's what you look like over there.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
And I don't know if I spoil it, but it's
a pretty important role in this because not only are
you the second lead, you know, something happens in this
movie that you know, really it really will change the
franchise whatever I think. Yeah, I don't know if you
can talk about that, but you want, you want to.
You can't say what's gonna the spoiler alert?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah yeah, ok, well, well.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
I think I think the movie is just this one.
I watched it a lot. I was a fan of it,
and I'm a huge fan of Jack Black, who's you know,
like kind of reprising this role. And yeah, I mean
like he's he's really the real deal. And and so
I think it's now speaking to I think the adults
that that kind of watched it and you know, them
moving on and stuff like change and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, that's great. Okay. Should we kind of really lost
steam in this one after Yeah, once we started being
too sincere we got lost. Yeah, okay, when we're doing
the bid, it was do you mean to be lessons here? No? No, No,
it's okay, Well, what all this out of the way,
Well we'll go from well ed. Well, okay, I'll give
(24:40):
you I'll give you something for YouTube. Just ok So,
what was it like working with Jad Black?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It was so good?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
I love.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I love I love him. Are you really asking? No,
We'll use it to say we'll cut all the stuff
that's bad.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Only these people will know. Yeah, okay, cut everything. Well,
start an interview from here. Yeah, So what was it
like working.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
With Jack Black? Working with Jack Black? Is I mean,
are you kidding?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 12 (25:08):
No, do it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Just do the press thing so we can go home.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Do the press thing, do the Yeah, just say Jack
Black's great, movies great, and you know, I was like, yeah,
just just go just going to press mode, going to
press mode. Okay, what's it like working with Jack Black?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You know what, Ronnie, it was.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
So good and I and Kung Fu Panda for you
especially so good in it.
Speaker 14 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I hope we can hope we can sell a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Animals in that thing.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
I don't know because you would be in because you
have to open the whole bird's mouth.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah, my stuff animal is actually like two figures in one.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Also, you know Jack Black interesting his mom. His mother
was one of the women who contributed to the NASA
Polo program. She coded the programs that let yeah man
go to the moon. Yeah, so you know, way to
go Jack Black's mom.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, not just not just a physical genius.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
No, I got to meet him at the premier because
I'm not famous enough to hang out with you guys
in the studios.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
Well you were in the TikTok with them, you got
in the.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Tech No, the premier. Yeah, I met him at the
first prem at the movie premier.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
It was very nice. It was nice to see you there.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, you were nice to see me. Yeah. And he's
just such a ball of energy, you know, he's like
a physical genius. It's very hard to keep.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Up with him. Like, I mean, he's so funny.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah, he's super funny, very energetic. Also a bunch of
other Asians in this movie. Yes, James Hong, No, I
meant that sincerely. James Hong's names. Yeah, legend legendary, James Hong.
He's like ninety four. I think he's still in that.
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Yes, I mean he's he We were at the grove
and we went up the trolley and he and he
like I can think he was doing a bit, but
he was like, oh no, there's stairs. But then he
I think he was jokingly ran up them. Oh yeah,
he's like so rightly, so much energy.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Yeah, yeah, unlike some presidents I know. Yeah, yeah, he's
still going going, very strong. And when you hear his
voice acting in the movie, you're like, this dude doesn't
sound on you for all. This guy sounds like you know.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I think he was the best.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
I think he was the best other Asian actor other
than in the movie.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Other than yeah, other than.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, is incredible.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
All right, Okay, you know what, let's send this so
we can go home. No, no, it's really good to
see you.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
You'll honestly the best. I've known you for so long.
You've always been really cool to me. Kays in theaters
nationwide on Everybody.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That's Over the Night, Your Momental Day.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We heard from Michelle Obama's staff today that she officially
is not running for president.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
If you read between the lines, she's not saying she
wouldn't agree to be drafted at the convention in Chicago,
her hometown. She's saying she's not running for president, so
there is a chance. And I'm not just saying that
to titillate the audience, or maybe I am.
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