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