Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Saturday
Speaker 1: Zight Fever. I am Jack and that short show title
Speaker 1: is courtesy of Johnny Davis short show title Spice Sst. Spice,
Speaker 1: as he is affectionately known, and I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined by our writer, mister J. M mcnow. Hello. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me, Oh, thank you for being here, Jam.
Speaker 1: What a time the oscars happened last night. We're all still,
Speaker 1: you know, just getting over the mayhem. You know, the snubs,
Speaker 1: the flubs. We'll talk tomorrow about the in memorium section,
Speaker 1: leaving leaving out some big names. The big viral moment
Speaker 1: didn't even happen during the ceremony, happing on the red carpet.
Speaker 1: I did catch it live. It did cause me to
Speaker 1: turn to my wife and exchange a look of concern.
Speaker 1: What just happened? Why is this person behaving? Thus Lee
Speaker 1: and I am talking, of course about Hugh Grant, who
Speaker 1: was I think the technical term is an asshole on
Speaker 1: the red carpet. So Ashley Graham was working the red
Speaker 1: carpet interviewed Hugh Grant and it was just one of
Speaker 1: those awkward you kind of get the sense that she
Speaker 1: was told two minutes before that that's who she was interviewing.
Speaker 1: These are chaotic events where you're just trying to grab
Speaker 1: anyone famous who's walking by. She chose Hugh Grant and
Speaker 1: to quote the old guy at the end of Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones at the last Crusade, she chose unwisely. It did
Speaker 1: not go well. So he described the event as a
Speaker 1: vanity Fair. She thought he was referring to the Vanity
Speaker 1: Fair after party, which is totally a totally acceptable misunderstanding
Speaker 1: since that is there at the Oscars and that is
Speaker 1: the main after party and it's the thing that people
Speaker 1: are talking about. Oh yeah, for sure. But he took
Speaker 1: that as an opportunity. She was like, oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair afterparty, Like great time, are you looking forward
Speaker 1: to that type thing? And he took that as an
Speaker 1: opportunity to be like, uh, I'm dealing with a moron,
Speaker 1: and like she asked what he was wearing and he
Speaker 1: said my suit, which is like that is a question.
Speaker 1: You know you are going to be asked on the
Speaker 1: red carpet. So yeah, after that point, all bets are off.
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny to give like funny answers, like
Speaker 1: I remember I think it was like bobcat Goldthwaite went
Speaker 1: with Robin Williams to an award show once and someone
Speaker 1: asking him who he was wearing, and he said sears like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. Fun my suit is a fine answer, but
Speaker 1: he was giving nothing, like I don't know my tailor's name.
Speaker 1: It was. It wasn't quite Billy Bob Thornton on that
Speaker 1: Morning Zoo Talk interview where he's mad at the person
Speaker 1: interviewing the whole time for acknowledging that he's an actor,
Speaker 1: but it was bordering on the dark matter level energy
Speaker 1: that Billy Bob Thornton gave off. It was just like
Speaker 1: I have completely left my body and now you will
Speaker 1: be forced to interview the husk of Hugh Grant. So
Speaker 1: I would say, like, I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: he was being a dick with the whole my suit thing.
Speaker 1: But then I think like she tried and you know,
Speaker 1: to be fair, Like like I said, she was given nothing,
Speaker 1: so she had to quickly pivot to a new quest
Speaker 1: totally and she chose a bad player. Yeah yeah, which
Speaker 1: is also again something I totally identify with. I had
Speaker 1: what my first job out of school was being a
Speaker 1: Butler at the Soho House in New York City when
Speaker 1: it had just opened up and they didn't know what
Speaker 1: they were doing. First I was poolboy. Then I worked
Speaker 1: my way up to Butler, which is basically a British
Speaker 1: way of saying Matri d um or not Matri d uh.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the person who works at the front
Speaker 1: desk and like helps you with your bags and bellhop
Speaker 1: occasional murderer um. And I had to make conversation with you, Grant,
Speaker 1: and he really yeah, yeah, one time I helped him
Speaker 1: to his room with his bags, and he has one
Speaker 1: mode which is charmingly befuddled. And I'm glad that I
Speaker 1: was not on national television having to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so New York, huh, crazy weather. I had to actually
Speaker 1: holding an umbrella over his head. That a lot was
Speaker 1: made by his team of you know, protecting him from
Speaker 1: the paparazzi, which I think was more of a problem
Speaker 1: for him at that time. But he probably like tested
Speaker 1: you with some old literary reference you got, so he's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be nice to see you. I'll allow it. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyways, she then said like, oh, it must have
Speaker 1: been fun. To work on glass Onion, which you were on. Um.
Speaker 1: Hell she also she was like, oh I love glass Onion.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. It must have been so
Speaker 1: much fun to make. Like right, but he'd seen it,
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't in it hardly. He's barely in
Speaker 1: and so and that was what he told her. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm barely in it, I mean about three seconds. And
Speaker 1: she was like all right, well and you can see
Speaker 1: the earwig in her ear being like stretch, stretch, stretch,
Speaker 1: and she's like anything else, also, what else? Like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he could have made a joke out of it. He
Speaker 1: could have been like, well, everyone else was having fun.
Speaker 1: I opened a door, you know, something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't need to openly question whether she's seen the movie.
Speaker 1: So anyways, and then he proceeded to, like, in the
Speaker 1: actual awards ceremony, compare his face to a scrotum, which
Speaker 1: is lovably self effacing. I just think, just stick with
Speaker 1: the self effacing even when you're not on stage. Maybe
Speaker 1: just I get it, Like the red carpet thing is
Speaker 1: not great. It's not my cultural like the thing that
Speaker 1: I am excited about. But it just felt like I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's another human being up there with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like she's just doing your job. Also, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was. I mean, he was just
Speaker 1: kind of a dick about it, like he didn't have
Speaker 1: to be. But on the other hand, like you agreed
Speaker 1: to be a prison there at the Oscars, you agreed
Speaker 1: to walk the red carpet, Like there are certain hoops
Speaker 1: you just kind of agree to jump through. If that's
Speaker 1: the gig. Yeah, one of them is making shitty, dumb
Speaker 1: small talk, yes, and interviews. So absolutely the other moments
Speaker 1: that leapt out from the ninety fifth I believe Academy
Speaker 1: Award Lady Gaga had this like wildly emotional performance of
Speaker 1: the top Gun song and her preamble she said, I
Speaker 1: wrote the song with my friend blood pop in my basement.
Speaker 1: I thought she said blow pop. And I was reeling
Speaker 1: from that point forward and didn't take much in. But
Speaker 1: people seemed to be very taken with her performance, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, not necessarily taken, but just like the seriousness,
Speaker 1: the gravity the preamble where she said, it's deeply personal
Speaker 1: to me. We need a lot of love to walk
Speaker 1: through this life, and we all need a hero sometimes
Speaker 1: there's heroes all around us and assuming places, but you
Speaker 1: might find that you can be your own hero, even
Speaker 1: if you feel broken inside. And then here's the song
Speaker 1: from top Gun. But yeah, it's like she kept talking
Speaker 1: about how personal the song was, Like I saw top Gun.
Speaker 1: I just assumed this song was about Tom Cruise, like
Speaker 1: they came to you or like we need a new
Speaker 1: power ballot about Tom Cruise's dick from the twenty first century. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can you write something? That's what I assumed. But according
Speaker 1: to her, this was this was she made it into art.
Speaker 1: You know, she came fully made up, like knew the
Speaker 1: assignment for the Red Carpet looked amazing and all sorts
Speaker 1: of Lady Gaga on the Red Carpet what you would expect,
Speaker 1: just you know, amazing makeup and dress. And one photographer
Speaker 1: was so blown away by her beauty that he fell
Speaker 1: over and she even tried to help him up, which
Speaker 1: was a nice little momentum. And then then it looked
Speaker 1: like he kind of like gropture. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I did not, certainly, like I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was an accident or not, but she certainly like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Red Carpet is an awkward place. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: turns out but yeah. And then she showed up on
Speaker 1: stage looking fully scrubbed of makeup, in a T shirt
Speaker 1: and ripped jeans, and then appeared later on in the
Speaker 1: ceremony I believe back in makeup, and her dress was
Speaker 1: kind of an amazing magic trick that she pulled off.
Speaker 1: She was it was like a superhero, but instead of
Speaker 1: a superhero costume, she changed into like one of the
Speaker 1: Sonic Youth band members would wear. Right. Yeah, but knew
Speaker 1: the assignment had a very clear vision. I mean, she
Speaker 1: sounded great, obviously, as always. The songs were actually some
Speaker 1: of the most exciting. Usually, you know, the songs are
Speaker 1: like songs no one cares about and it's a chore
Speaker 1: to get through. But we had Lady Gaga and Rihanna
Speaker 1: and David Byrne. And it's not Rihanna. It's Rihanna, which
Speaker 1: I had read. No, you said it correctly, and I
Speaker 1: assumed that people were saying it incorrectly last night. But
Speaker 1: the pronunciation on that was something that I think I
Speaker 1: believe I was getting wrong all along, and now I
Speaker 1: know that it's Rhianna. Brendan Fraser one best actor gave
Speaker 1: a extended metaphor whale based like nautical themed acceptance speech.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it just seemed overwhelmed by the moment, and
Speaker 1: I appreciated the effort. So he opened it by saying
Speaker 1: that only whales can swim at the depth of his
Speaker 1: co star Hang Chow, and then ended the speech by
Speaker 1: thanking his children and his best first mate, his partner
Speaker 1: gene Ganne Moore Gene and then at the very end
Speaker 1: he set it's time for me to sham move out
Speaker 1: of here exactly. It was a strong commitment to the bit.
Speaker 1: And then Jimmy Kimmel, I don't know sure, this was
Speaker 1: my response to his overall performance. Yeah, l ron hubba hubba.
Speaker 1: That worked for me. But I mean, yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not a huge Jimmy Kimmel fan, but what sorry, But
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't dislike him. He's just like I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's why they picked him. He's a guy
Speaker 1: most people are like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Benstein's money guy. Okay, sure we know who that is. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, Like, some things he did really
Speaker 1: annoyed me. Some things he did I thought were funny.
Speaker 1: He was mostly I guess his steady hand keeping things moving,
Speaker 1: which is what they wanted. Yeah, knew the assignment. I
Speaker 1: would say also for him, it's a corporate gig, you know,
Speaker 1: like comedian to corporate gigs yea. And they're like, we
Speaker 1: want you to understand that you are telling jokes to
Speaker 1: a bunch of C suite Bank of America, get employees,
Speaker 1: and uh, just do do that and don't offend. And
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like he's the peak corporate gig comedian.
Speaker 1: It feels like, yeah, yeah, totally that. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good comparison. I mean, I thought the awards themselves
Speaker 1: like we're pretty good but predictable, Like it seems like
Speaker 1: everything that happened was pretty much predicted by all the
Speaker 1: guild and right, yeah, it seems like kind of a
Speaker 1: straight sporward. Yeah, there weren't really any surprises. But that
Speaker 1: being said, like all the things, not all the things,
Speaker 1: but a lot of things. I wanted to win one.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to shout out Sarah Pally
Speaker 1: for winning for screenplay as a Canadian and Torontonian, we
Speaker 1: love her. There you um and and like I said
Speaker 1: on a last week's show, like everything everywhere, all at once.
Speaker 1: It was it was the movie of the year and
Speaker 1: definitely showed out at the Oscars, which was cool to see.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back. And apparently something happened with
Speaker 1: a bank or something on Friday and the government's gonna
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was too busy focusing on like
Speaker 1: what everybody was gonna wear for the Oscars. But there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I skimmed this article for Hugh Grant's name and
Speaker 1: it didn't appear once. So between noon Eastern time on
Speaker 1: Friday up until six on Sunday, people were wondering if
Speaker 1: the government was going to bail out this bank, Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley Bank. That there was a run on the bank.
Speaker 1: It failed, it was taken over by the government, and
Speaker 1: people were wondering if the people whose money was uninsured
Speaker 1: being held by the bank, we're going to be made
Speaker 1: whole by the government. The government ultimately did what they
Speaker 1: do and bailed out the people who lost their money.
Speaker 1: I'm not an economist, but this basically sounds like the
Speaker 1: plot of It's a Wonderful Life, Right, am I wrong?
Speaker 1: Bunch of well, I think the with corporations and corporations
Speaker 1: and banks, basically the villains getting paid back. The Biden
Speaker 1: administrations pushing back, saying that the bailout will not be
Speaker 1: paid for by taxpayers. But ultimately, I don't know how
Speaker 1: does that work. I don't know. I'm paying for it
Speaker 1: with my own money. I'm serious, man, I'm serious. I'm
Speaker 1: using that money I made appearing in Carmen San Diego
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six. Did you hear in Carmen San Diego. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a cameo. He probably didn't get paid, and
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm sure PPS didn't pay that much,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just wanted to drop that reference in
Speaker 1: because he was he was like they called them up
Speaker 1: for help looking for like one of those villains who
Speaker 1: steals monuments. Wasn't that what always happened? Yeah? Again, I've
Speaker 1: steered this story about complicated economic problems into a discussion
Speaker 1: of who of, which is definitely much closer to what
Speaker 1: I'm qualified to talk about than complicated economic matters. But also,
Speaker 1: I'm just getting over COVID and all my family members
Speaker 1: have COVID and who aren't sleeping and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: look after them, So I'm extra dumb, Yeah, which brings
Speaker 1: you right to the perfect level to be on this
Speaker 1: show with me. They complete idiot. All right. The billionaire
Speaker 1: bailout debate has begun. I think, don't bail out the
Speaker 1: people who have all the money already, um with the
Speaker 1: money given to you by taxpayers. But what do I know?
Speaker 1: What I can speak about is the ongoing contract diversity
Speaker 1: around boneless chicken wings. Buffalo Wild Wings is being sued
Speaker 1: for using the phrase boneless chicken wings, and it's an
Speaker 1: ongoing controversy. I kind of didn't understand it, but you
Speaker 1: you helped clarify, and this, this Takeout article helped clarify
Speaker 1: that it's all about. That's what I'm qualified to really
Speaker 1: put it. Put things into perspective, and now I am
Speaker 1: outraged about this issue. The argument is that a place
Speaker 1: that sells chicken wings, then selling a product called boneless
Speaker 1: chicken wings would lead you to believe that they are
Speaker 1: the chicken wings product with the bone removed, right, it
Speaker 1: is a different type of meat in the chicken wings.
Speaker 1: Then you would get in these chicken strips, and so
Speaker 1: basically people are like just call them saucy nugs, or
Speaker 1: you know, call them chicken wing, sauce strips, whatever the fuck,
Speaker 1: but it is. I can see how it's misleading. I
Speaker 1: do greatly prefer chicken wing meat to boneless chicken wing
Speaker 1: aka chicken tender meat. If this goes to trial, with
Speaker 1: the journey go all the way to the top the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Yeah yes, but I feel like their defense
Speaker 1: could be the descriptor wild These aren't just regular wings,
Speaker 1: these are wild wings. It's like a wild card, you know,
Speaker 1: like this could be anything. Yeah, right, no idea what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get when you when you sign on to
Speaker 1: the wild when you walk through that door, you're you're
Speaker 1: acknowledging that might be a fried pickle in there. We're
Speaker 1: wild card. Um. But yeah, So the plaintiff claims the
Speaker 1: name boneless wings leads customers believe that the product is
Speaker 1: simply the meat of a debone chicken wing rather than
Speaker 1: what they actually are, which is slices of chicken breast
Speaker 1: meat deep fried like wings. But I don't. He claims
Speaker 1: that this is causing him caused him financial injury. So
Speaker 1: would this just be a series of like nine eighty
Speaker 1: five payouts from Buffalo Wild Wings to anybody who can
Speaker 1: prove that they've purchased boneless wings, which I mean, how
Speaker 1: far did he have to drive to get there? There's
Speaker 1: the gas, that's true point, and there's usually don't they
Speaker 1: usually throw an emotional distress. Well, it kind of seems
Speaker 1: like because there's that guy the same. The article also
Speaker 1: mentions that guy in twenty twenty who went viral for
Speaker 1: talking about this in a city council meeting and how
Speaker 1: he was offered like was it a year's worth of
Speaker 1: chicken wings, right or something? He got some kind of
Speaker 1: dumb like, oh, let's give this viral guy something in
Speaker 1: a speech that seemed like it was specifically written to
Speaker 1: go viral. Yeah, it was like it and it was
Speaker 1: I remember this this popping up on the end or
Speaker 1: because it was like right smack in the middle of COVID,
Speaker 1: like it was schools just kind of reopened. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: it was still like nothing. Everything had kind of ground
Speaker 1: to a halt, and this guy was like, I'm going
Speaker 1: to use this opportunity to go to this like mostly
Speaker 1: empty city council meeting and do this like pre written
Speaker 1: bit chicken wings. Right. But it kind of seems like
Speaker 1: now this guy probably saw that and was like, well
Speaker 1: if I do something similar, maybe I'll get some some
Speaker 1: free chicken wings out of the Yeah. The plaintive also
Speaker 1: cites the fact that Papa John's calls it its version
Speaker 1: Chicken Poppers instead of boneless Chicken Wings. Dominoes calls its
Speaker 1: version Specialty Chicken. So it seems like there is some
Speaker 1: thought in the corporate because boneless wings is definitely a
Speaker 1: better title. But it feels like people are like, they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna see our pants off if we call them
Speaker 1: boneless wings. It's misleading. So I mean, I'm just might
Speaker 1: be some this guy. I'm jealous of how much time
Speaker 1: this guy has that he's like, I know, doing all
Speaker 1: this like this. Otherwise this would just be like a
Speaker 1: thought like huh, these these are more like nuggets. And
Speaker 1: then you move on to anything else. Then you move
Speaker 1: on to what's Hugh Grant been up to? What is
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant take? What is his position in all of this? Well, Jam,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure of having you as always. Where can
Speaker 1: people find you and follow you? You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jam mcnapogan. All right, that is going
Speaker 1: to do it for us this afternoon. We are back
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Fight