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The Precap | Jordan Klepper on Good Dogs, A Movie Premiere, and Trump's Monument Obsession
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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello and welcome to the Pre Cap, a daily show podcast where we sit down with this week's host host to preview what's coming up and recap some of the latest news. I'm Zach Delando. I'm Zach Delanzo.
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That's what you stumble over.
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Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm playing the character of Zach, right?
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Yep.
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And I'm right at the show, and I'm joined by Jordan Klepper. If you couldn't recognize his voice chiming in there.
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Yeah, that's the dulcet tones.
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Yeah. How's it going, Cleoper?
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I'm doing good. I'm excited about the big week.
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Yeah, you had a big week. You were at the Melania premiere in D.C. at the Trump Kennedy center. As it goes by now.
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It feels weird to say it, right. It's funny. If you go there, it says Donald Trump, John F. Kennedy center on the outside.
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Yeah.
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Which it's not until you gaze on that giant, beautiful marble wall to see just how ridiculous it is to have two people's names on top of the center. And then you look at all of the other signage around that area. Like, there's vans that take people to and from. None of them have the Trump on it. It's so trumpy and in nature that it's like, just. Just slap that name up there. It's like, do we need to fix all the other things? Like, ah, it doesn't matter. As long as I get my picture at this thing, it's fine.
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Well, that was with, like, the. Them wanting to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. It's actually, like, requires billions of dollars to, like, print new business cards or what? I mean, I don't know. I don't know if the Department of War has business cards, but, like, there's.
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So much sign been bombed by the Department of War. Call us if you have any issues.
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Yeah, yeah. Let us know how it's going. We would love to grab a cup of coffee.
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Yeah, Any feedback is great. We'll be around. We'd love to just grab some. Just, just, just. Let's get a chin wag after you guys rebuild this area here.
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I remember when I first started working here, it was like you got a box of business cards and you felt very cool. And at the time, business cards were still a thing. But then I think I still have ones in my wallet that say, like, Zach Dwan's a production assistant from when I first started.
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So I still have. I think I still have the box that I got as well.
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Yeah.
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Which was. It was like you get like a thousand of those cards. I earnestly handed out maybe four. I think for fun, handed out maybe seven. And I still have a box of like 900 some odd, right? Yeah. Like, it feels weird to throw these.
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Yeah, yeah. Use them as kindling down the road or something. Yeah, but, yeah, but yeah, it's. It's at least they like, it's centered. You know what I mean? They took the time to like. It's not like when you're like a kid and like doing bubble letters and you run out of space and have to squeeze in a field. They at least, you know, did a nice job getting the font to match.
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The craftsmanship is nice as far as it goes. It is true, I think of the Hurricane Sharpie drawing.
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Right, right.
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Which is.
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I mean, all of these things in retrospect, what beautiful comedic moments that it really was. It was like, you have. You could send this out to Kinko's or you are the President of the United States. You could have Kinko's or somebody who.
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Works in some sort of last minute Sharpie.
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And this one. Yes, they hired somebody who. The actual lettering looks lovely. It's gotta give. It's the reading of the lettering that.
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The jarring the substance of the.
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When you put these letters together and read it, it is jarring too, to hear.
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And as we pointed out of the show, it is like a living memorial to a man. So it is sort of like throwing your name on someone's gravestone in some regard to be like, hey, I'm also a guy that you can remember.
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Zach, do not give this man ideas. Are you kidding? Donald Trump hears this. He's suddenly like, give me an Uber to Arlington with a chisel.
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Donald Trump presents the Donald Trump presents.
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The heroes of World War II.
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And then you were also at. Which was not a field piece, but I just know this because we were talking. You were at the Westminster Dog Show.
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Indeed.
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Where a dog named Pen and I have a dog named Penny who does not compete. But it was a big win for Dogs named Penny everywhere.
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I think dogs named Penny were very excited about the Doberman who pulled in the cup.
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Yeah, great. Great specimen of a dog.
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Good looking dog.
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What was. Yeah. What's the experience of being in that? Is it at msg?
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It's at msg. Madison Grass Square Garden, which it's been most years, they had a year. I've gone four or five times. I love it as a New York experience. It really is an antidote to the world around us right now.
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Yeah.
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Which feels very chaotic. But then to walk into Madison Square Garden, to see all these dogs prance around and the people who are holders and owners and breeders, they all wear ill fitting tuxedos and they all sit and they cheer and I go. And it's. There's something so intoxicating about specific passion.
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Yeah. Oh yeah.
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And so you see the people who are there, who are coming from all over America and to be able to perform at Madison Square Garden is such a treat and exciting thing to see. I still don't fully understand the rules of how you win the Westminster Dog show, but to be a part of it, to watch it, to cheer it on, is. It's such a New York experience. We actually, the first time I think I went, I hosted a show called the Opposition that filmed out of the Penn Hotel, was right, right next to Madison Square Garden. And so our offices were in this Penn Hotel, which was not a good hotel. It was a cheap hotel next to Penn Station.
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I mean, if there, if there's a.
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TV studio, this hotel was, was so bad. It was a TV studio that like Maury used to be at, we filmed at. This hotel was so decrepit and old. I was watching a document, an Errol Morris documentary about old CIA mind control tests that followed a person who got like drugged with LSD and then committed suicide and jumped out a window. And as I was watching, I was like, oh, that was at this hotel.
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Oh yeah. There was a Netflix show about that.
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Yes, yeah, yes. That all took place at this hotel. This weird, strange hotel that also happened to be next to Madison Square Garden. Which also means if you're there for the dog show, you're probably staying at this hotel. And I remember going out on a lunch break and all of these dogs who are performing at msg, they're all staying at this hotel and all the owners have brought them out into 6th Avenue and there's no place to shit. Oh, no. And so there's all these gorgeous dogs panicking, running around, shitting in the middle of 6th Avenue. 7th Avenue.
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Oh, no.
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They're like, where is green? You're like, there's no greenery for another half. You gotta get up to Central park and you're not gonna make it. Let the Doberman pitch one out here.
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Especially the snow. It snowed a lot in New York. And then it froze, and it hasn't melted. And as someone with a dog, we're running out of, like, anywhere that's not already covered in dog poop. Oh, my God. Yeah.
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So a month from now, that was St. Bernard deuces, you know what I mean? They're gonna be unveiled to all the lovely people of Midtown.
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It'll be so fun to stay in that hotel and just see a lot of dog. If you're from, like, you're sort of like a behind the scenes thing.
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It's a behind the scenes thing. Unfortunately, that hotel was demolished last year.
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Oh, no.
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It no longer exists. D. So you missed your chance. This is another example of, like, if you've been sitting there being, like, at one time, I want to stay at the Pennsylvania Hotel. See these dogs take crabs in the street. You missed it. You know, take your shot, America. Take your shot. See those dogs poop at a hotel. When you have the opportunity, you got.
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One life, and you got to make it count.
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You got to make it count.
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That's so fun. Yeah, I. Yeah, I did a lot of reading about it, and I guess I. There was a New York Times article that was like, what. What is this event? Like, what? And just the generals of, like, I guess, the American Kennel Club, I guess, is that who runs it?
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I think it's the. Technically, I think it is the Westminster Kennel Club.
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Westminster. They have certain criteria for, like, each breed of, like, this is what a golden retriever should look like. This is what a Scottish terror should look like. And so, like, I guess they're trying to. I guess these breed. I guess they're breeders of dogs that are trying to, like, get it to be that.
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Yeah, the perfect version of that, from my understanding, which is also.
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And then training the dog.
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You train the dog. Like, again, I'm very loose on what the rules of it are. We're both talking out of our ass. We have no idea. There are people who are listening right now who are like, they have. We care about this. This sport. Do we call it a sport? Do we call it a pageant?
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Some. Somewhere in between?
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Yeah.
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Hobby gone deeply wrong. Yeah, no, it's. It's. It's. It's a great thing. And like, I. Yeah, it is such a quirky, American, seemingly wholesome thing that is, like, just a great thing. And that. It comes to New York, I really do have to go to it.
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Dropped in the middle of Manhattan. And then it's interesting to see, like, an audience respond to these dogs because now they've been more often than not, the golden retriever is always beloved and you can feel the audience, but doesn't.
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Win off very often, never wins.
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You see, you feel the populism in there and they're like, we're not listening to you. A pug comes out and you're like, yes, I love the pugs. And they're like, we don't give a shit about the pugs. And so one, they care about very, very niche breeds. So you're like, I don't exactly know what is being judged here. The Doberman was fairly beloved in the room.
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Can you feel like, oh, are there people like, look, look at people that don't know things about anything about dogs or blame dogs.
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That's me. You get a sense. And some of that has to do with grooming where you're like, oh, that is the puffiest dog I've ever seen. I don't know if that technically means anything to me. Like, look how puffy that dog is. There was like an old English sheepdog that was super puffy and I think that worked to its benefit at the end. And when you get the best in show, which is the final ones picked from each round, you see them, they are, they are beautiful dogs and they are well trained. You can, you can tell all of that. They also give sort of a breakdown of what these, what these dogs were bred for. A little bit of the history of these dogs as well as like whether or not they're good pets and what have you. There's a little bit of editorializing which is always interesting to see the announcer editorialize or not. What's sort of interesting about the Doberman is built into the history of the Doberman that they kept repeating. Essentially. I believe it's like a German dog that was raised for like militaristic means and a sort of like a herding, almost like essentially it sounded like a police dog.
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Someone said that it was on the news that it was like created by, I guess bred by a tax collector who like wanted to have a scary looking dog with him.
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In some ways I was like, oh, this is the most icest ice dog. This is the ice dog out of all.
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It is like a. Yeah, not that.
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Everything has to be political. In fact, that's kind of went there like, oh, I can get away from the politics. I was like, but if ice were to pick a dog, it would probably be this one.
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No, they are scary and very. Yeah, they probably would make a. For no fault of their own. A good dog to attack a Protester. I can.
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I could feel you getting into the end of that sentence and unsure if you wanted to go.
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No. Was. And then I was like, maybe I'll lighten it. But then I actually went for a harder version of it, so we'll have Alan cut that. But this dog seemed like a great dog.
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Seemed like a great dog. And no shade on this dog. It was a beautiful dog. They all were. It's. People were so excited to see it, see it win, like, it's five stars. Go to the Westminster Dog Show. If given the chance between a millennium premiere and a Westminster Dog Show. Go to the Westminster Dog Show.
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All right, Good to know. I'm curious if, like, dogs in the past year or dogs in the past 10 years have been, like, have been picking up on the stress. Cause I feel like dogs are very intuitive like that. And I do wonder if they are, like, what the hell? Every time this guy opens up his laptop, he's. There's something in the air that's interesting.
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If there is, like, essentially a palpable anxiety that has been bred into these dogs, given the state of the world that we're in.
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Yeah. And it just is this. Like, we. We have office dogs, which is, like, a great perk of working here. But I feel like. And part of what. What is great about it is that, like, stressful, horrible news coming in. And then you just sort of, like, go spend some time with the dog. And it sort of is pure in this way that, like, takes your mind off things. But I wonder if that dog is like, man, I'm just, like, sick of, like, 40 people, like, putting their shit on me every day.
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Yeah. Everybody. Nobody really understands, like, oh, have a dog. A therapy dog. It's really going to relieve your stress. It's like, perhaps, perhaps it's like, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It's just handed to this gosh darn French bulldog who was like, I have the anxiety of an entire office on my body right now.
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A therapy dog. How, like, therapists are supposed to be in therapy. It's like, we need to get our therapy dogs therapy dogs, because shit is not going well in our country.
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Yeah. It's like little Penny is nuzzling up against little Chow Chow over there because, oh, well, Penny just needs a break. Penny's been. They've been over in the editing bays, and it's been a stressful week and a half. So give Penny a chance to just decompress. And now suddenly there's little dogs that are getting on planes with little other Little dogs carry on. And now they have papers to get on the plane.
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The Melania premiere was that. You didn't see the film, did you?
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I did not see the film and I'm glad you call it a film and not a movie. I think that's a.
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Put some respect on it. Put some respect.
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You spend that much money on it. It's a film.
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I do, I mean I've read review that part of it sounds like the room where it's just like her robotically talking to her assistants about plates and stuff. It's like I do kind of want to see it for the ironic, bizarre spectacle of it existing. Or maybe now's not the time. Maybe like five years from now with some distance from all of this.
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But yeah, no, indulge in what I've heard described as an hour and a half long perfume commercial.
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Yeah, I mean the trailer of it is like. And I mean just the idea of like it's 20, she's gotta plan the inauguration in 20 days as if that, as if like I, those are stakes for me. That I'm like, oh, how is she gonna pull this off?
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Oh, I wonder how it's gonna happen. It is curious though. I'm sure there's an analysis of what this is. It's a $40 million Jeff Bezos bribe so that Amazon can get what they want out of this.
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And didn't they lock up some sort of huge cloud computing contract with the government?
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I believe they got a G contract soon thereafter.
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So I mean, well played you.
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Yeah, I mean that's a friggin investment right there. But what's curious is I believe Melania had final cut over this, which is also interesting when you talk to people at the Melania event, where so many people are like, I want to know who she really is. It's like, oh, yeah, you want like, an objective look. We talked to somebody, didn't even make the final piece. I just want an objective look. I'm Melania Trump. It's like, right. And she did have final say. And they're like, exactly. And she has to. So she could speak her mind. But that's not the subjective.
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No, no. Yeah.
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But there is something about how somebody wants to be presented. And I'm sure Melania, I'm sure she wasn't all in on the edit bay very often on this, but I do.
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Love the idea of Melania giving notes, though, like, let's. Let's just divide here, push in. Yeah.
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But I don't doubt some of the critics have talked about how it's like a commercial, it's propaganda. There's not a lot of depth. And I think there's a curiosity of. I would not imagine many people in the Trump administration would desire creating a three dimensional character that has weaknesses or nuance, like the film critics who approach films from an artistic standpoint. Great literature or film often paints a picture of a human being who is three dimensional, who is complicated, who has weaknesses and strengths. And therefore, like the human experience, is one of balance between frailty and confidence, ability and the inability to achieve the things which you want. That, I think, from an artistic standpoint, it tends to be a gold standard of how you articulate the human experience. It would be curious to watch this film which is being articulated by someone who I would imagine has no interest in achieving that gold standard, and only an interest in a two dimensional robot of success, which I think speaks to an entire administration that should be one of empathy and understanding, but only has a kindergarten's view of what cinema and art is, which is reflective of a human view of, like, not understanding that human beings have to balance failure, fear and success all at once, but not just constantly pretend that you're killing them.
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There could be a version of this movie that's very interesting because her life and their relationship is so unique and strange. And I feel like maybe there'll be like a. You know how there was that, like, Beatles documentary that they had the footage of, and then Peter Jackson, like, use the footage to make a whole other documentary. I feel like maybe 20 years from now, Peter Jackson will make, like, the. Use the footage, use all the raw footage and be like. And we'll. We'll have a Little more perspective. I don't know.
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It's in. That's the. To me, the thing that is always most relatable to me about any kind of art or person is, like, the difficulty and the failure that they have. Like, you are right. Like, that is a marriage that has to be hard. If you were able to show, like, the difficulties in being married to somebody who has this job and is a fascist authoritarian, it's probably a compelling story. And that's probably a difficult thing to actually also parent a child. Within all of that, if you're able to open up on the things that are difficult about that, you might become a human being that I would want to express empathy towards. But you probably missed that opportunity.
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There was that wiener documentary. Remember that?
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And it was like, Anthony Weiner just. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, no, I was. Not that.
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You sent me that link to that wiener documentary, right? Is that what you're calling it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's when they found it, when HR Was like, zach, come in here. I hear you're sending a wiener documentary pics to Jordan again. It was a video. Yeah, I know it was a video. You can't send those to Jordan.
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Come on. Yeah, but that documentary. Well, first of all, he, like, shouldn't have. He should have got final cut because I think it just made him. Well, that guy had a lot of other problems, but, like, there is, like, the access of, like, where there was a Roger Stone documentary where there is, like, a glimmer into this, like, crazy person's world and you still get their perspective. But there's also, like, other story there other than, like. And I did really good at decorating or whatever. So, yeah, I. Yeah, I probably won't see it in theaters, but, you know.
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Maybe you'll click on it when it pops out on Amazon because you haven't canceled your Amazon yet. So therefore, you know, why not?
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I can't buy toilet paper in person. That's embarrassing.
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You are right. Like, you need this many paper towels. I'm sorry. You're a lunatic.
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You're disgusting. Some other things from the past week somewhat related to the Kennedy Center. He has plans to. I think you maybe were one of the last people to see the Kennedy center in its current form because it's getting gut renovation. Two to $300 million.
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That's. I mean, what a tactical move. We all saw it coming.
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Yeah.
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But, yeah, nobody was going to the Kennedy Center. Everybody's dropping out of the Kennedy Center. Philip Glass was like, I'm out.
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Yeah.
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When you lose Glass when you lose glass, you know, when you lose glass, you're out.
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Yeah, that's what they say. That's a little showbiz Insider baseball thing.
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You know, Trump just didn't want to have to deal with, like, a year and a half of constantly hearing people like, you know, nobody's showing up to the Kennedy Center. You gotta do this battle. And so, yeah, he's like, oh, closer renovation. I'm gonna make it the greatest.
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Michael, was it like. Is it a. Does it have anything to do with the government, the people that previously ran it? Did he just insert himself into a somewhat. Could he just do that for Brooklyn Steele? Could he be like, I run Brooklyn Steel now?
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I mean, from my understanding. Which. God bless. Do you think he would go in there? He wants to. No more LCD sound system shows.
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Yeah, those residencies are. Come on.
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That's it.
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He's like, are they even putting out new stuff?
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No more LCD sounds. Yeah. Donald Trump's gonna do a Latigre. Wow.
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That could be cool.
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It would be cool.
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I do love the idea of, like, indie rock Donald Trump, where he has hard opinions about Panda Bear and.
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Yeah, that's the thing. His taste is so basic and bullshit. You know, from the gilded Oval Office to the people that he has up there. That's also just what. It's just such a bummer.
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Yeah.
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It's like, there is such great culture here, and the Kennedy center is a beautiful place.
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Yeah.
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I performed there a year ago, and it's gorgeous. It is an artistic mecca. I don't believe it. I think things are politicized, and I believe there are certain awards that the president can weigh in, like, presidential awards that go to certain people. People get highlighted.
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Mark Twain Prize.
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Is that Mark Twain Prize. But I don't even know if the Mark Twain Prize has a. Has a federal element to it. Does it? It's just. It's held there. This is.
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Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'm thinking of the Kennedy Senate.
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But I think, like, Trump very much wanted to. He put himself on the board, wanted to put his fingerprint on all of it. And therefore. And literally his name on it. And therefore is a part of, like, he. He can't help but be the face of any kind of artistic movement, and therefore, any artist doesn't want to be attached to that face.
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It's such a bold thing to be like, I am gonna be president and also run a theater. And like. And also, like, his taste isn't great. As you were saying, like, it's such, like, an understanding of the world, like, 80s Broadway. Like, this is how you. This is how you. Everything needs to be Cats. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. So the fact that he thought he was going to, like, well, there's no.
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Like, original works that he wants. Right. He wants Kid Rock, who, like, is playing American Badass, which is from my high school era. And then. And then Lee Greenwood, who was there at the inauguration of George Washington, I believe, like, that song was OG and then.
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You're right.
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Cats, Phantom of the Opera. Much respect to the classic musicals, but there's no earnest artistic sensibility towards what is being created now. It's just a man who wants to live in nostalgia.
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Right, Right.
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And not to be challenged with what modern art is supposed to do. If art is supposed to articulate these places, the moments that we are in, and to poke holes in certain narratives, he's only picking the people who have articulated Reagan era art to be put on display.
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Right, right. And I will say I'm a little worried about Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood because they just lean on them. Every performance that they need, like the Republican response to an event that Trump is holding, it's kid rocker Lee Greenwood. And certainly those men need a break every now and then.
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Give them space. Do you think. I mean, do you think they're flying Lee Greenwood first class? Like, is he getting into relaxing, putting them up in decent hotels? You think Greenwood's at the bus? He was definitely at the rallies. He was popping up at most of the rallies. But you're right, like, he's got to go to sound check. He's old. He's got to do a sound check that he's got to be there early. And though the rallies, it's in too much sun. That's a lot for an older man.
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B
And there is. I don't know if he put on the show, but someone made the joke about him being like the guitar player in Mad Max. He's just like strag. Chained, like Trump's tour bus or whatever. Air Force One. But, yeah, those guys are working really hard. Yeah, it's. It's a bummer about the. That, you know, but he, he, he. The man loves to gut. Renovate. I will say he. And maybe it's just like, the more time we can get him doing that, the great.
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C
Yeah, yeah. That's what it's like. Yeah. Do you want to.
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B
Do you want to do my place? I got. Well, we could. We were thinking about, you know, we're.
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C
Thinking about a wall over here. Do you want to spend a month focusing on that and a little bit less on Venezuela. That's a win. Win for everybody.
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B
And then he's also. Well, that along with the Kennedy center, he wants to apparently put up a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House, I guess, or in the White House. I'm not exactly sure which. Just feels like it's just like. Well, he's just recycling controversies at this point of like, what were people pissed at 10 years ago? Let me do that and we can fight about that again. But as an Italian, I gotta support it.
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C
That's really what it is. It's so disappointing from a moralistic standpoint, an American standpoint, but mostly just. It's so derivative and old. Right. It's like. You are right. We are like a week away from him getting mad that they introduced a gay character on Roseanne. It's like, oh, I guess. Yeah, I guess Becky has a girlfriend. Are we mad at that right now? Oh, work on home improvements.
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B
Goth. Do we need that?
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C
I guess we could all be mad about that. And so. All right, fine. Let's give them a statue. Let's build a thing. Oh, we're gonna give them award at the Kennedy Center.
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B
They're giving Columbus an award.
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C
They're gonna give Columbus an award. They're looking at the sitcoms that stayed true. We're gonna give Fraser Crane an award for his steadfast pursuit of truth in the face of an unmarried brother.
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B
Poor Frasier. Guy could never. Guy can't get laid.
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C
He's married to his work. You know, that's the thing with Frasier.
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B
Speaking of Frasier. It is, as we pointed out on the show, it's the Frasier bowl because Seattle is where he lived and then Boston is where he lived in Cheers.
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C
So did we point that out on the show?
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B
I pointed this out in a script and forced it onto the show.
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C
Did it make.
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B
It was a sports war.
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C
Oh, was it in Sports four?
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B
Yeah, it was a sports.
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C
Was there recognition in that? That's. That reference is so deep you had.
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B
I guess it didn't do well.
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C
It's the Frazier ball. Okay.
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B
And then we had two Frasier heads collide and explode, which was which. It was a solid three minutes about Frasier.
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C
How did I miss the sports war? That is a good on you for.
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B
Really? Yeah, I'll send it. I'll send you that in the wiener documentary. I'll email over to you.
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C
Stop sending me wiener documentaries, please.
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B
That was the week. That was Klepper. But we've got some things that are percolating. Percolating or percolating? We got some things in the hopper.
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C
In the hopper. Percolating. Percolating. Percolating. Perka.
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B
What's.
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C
Let's Google it.
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B
Let's Google it.
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C
Percolate.
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B
Percolate.
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C
But it's pronounced perk. It's print. It's spelled pergolate. But it's pronounced percolate.
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B
Percolate. We got some things percolating. Things meaning news. The Super Bowl. We're taping this early. The super bowl has already happened. A team has won the Frazier bowl, as we've established.
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C
The big question is whether Bad Bunny wears a dress or not. Again, these old beefs. These, like, beefs from the 80s where you're like, oh, people are upset. Like, oh, can you believe this guy wears a dress? It's like, oh, really? I'm sure somebody was bitching about that one Kurt Cobain wore a skirt or a dress. Like, it's like, why are you. Come on guys, let's get new hates.
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B
I mean, I think it's like, can we. There's plenty of Birth of Rock and Roll. People have been like, this is too sexy. And so I think, yeah, it is like a 70 year old argument we're having. And then there's also the Turning Points USA halftime show. The alt halftime show which is hosted or being played performed by Kid Rock.
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C
Get the man of Gatorade.
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B
You know you're a Detroit guy, right?
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C
I'm a Michigan guy. So Kalamazoo with a lot of Detroit love.
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A
Yes.
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B
And. And it's weird because he's like, he somehow has made himself like I'm the Detroit guy. As well as being.
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C
Bullshit.
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B
As well as being a cowboy, which it doesn't really seem to a lot.
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C
He tries to own cowboy stuff and Detroit stuff, which in this world. I'm gonna take Eminem over Kid Rock any day. And you know, or even ICP at this point.
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B
Wow, is icp?
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C
Yeah.
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B
Oh, I didn't know that.
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C
Oh, let me tell you, there's a like rap, rock, white guy genre that lives in like a 30 mile radius of Detroit. Eminem, Kid Rock, ICP. That's a kind of Detroit area there.
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B
Speaking of like subcultures that are sort of strange, like the Westminster Dog Show. I feel like ICP is like sort of this. Like sometimes I see these people like interviews or like vice pieces with these guys. I'm like, these guys seem like. It seems like a great hang. I mean, I think there's maybe a fair amount of like strange drug use, which sounds great.
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C
Face paint, strange drug use, but a.
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B
Real sense of community.
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C
A bunch of soda.
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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C
Weird, terrible tattoos they have like. What is it? The gathering of the Juggalos is the event that they all do in a field.
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B
I think, I think you didn't go to that.
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C
I didn't go to that.
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B
There was a field piece at, I think, where they were asking people about during the election, maybe what we went through.
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C
I want to say like they. There was a lawsuit that maybe went all the way to the Supreme Court. That had to do with icp. They've been. Yeah, the Juggalo vote. Here we go. Troy. Troy Iwata did a piece with the good old Juggalos. That's where it just shows you the time we are in right now. You can't be apolitical. Even ICP is being brought into the cultural conversation.
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B
There Was that classic. I feel like SNL made fun of it, where they had a song where it was like, magnets. How does that shit work? They had a song about magnets. But now Trump has done that multiple times where he's been like, he talks about how magnets in water don't work or something like that. So, yeah, whoever won the super bowl, congrats on behalf of Jordan and I. We're proud of you.
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C
We knew you were gonna do it. Yeah, we always knew you were gonna do it.
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B
There's a. Well, there's a lot of ICE reform that's being talked about on Capitol Hill.
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C
I don't know if, as of now, Thursday. I think it's funny when we think about what we're going to cover next week on the show, because as we know with the world today and the show, more often than not, the thing that we're going to cover, we think we're gonna cover the night before changes by the morning. And we sort of take the whole.
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B
Other world that, like where it's like, oh, okay, this is the week we're maybe going to invade Greenland. This is the week where we are doing something in Venezuela. Yeah. So there's usually news that happens on Friday or Saturday that sort of changes everything.
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C
But I know there's talk right now about what kind of funding they're going to approve for ice, and there's. The Democrats have their requests and whether or not the Republicans give into that. I think that's sort of a two week process right now. So perhaps we'll get some feedback on that next week to understand where that is. There's a real good chance, I think, that the Republicans and Democrats find like, you know, a thoughtful solution that is both humane to the federal employees and to the people of America, and that we kind of can move forward in an optimistic way.
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B
I'm loving the optimism. I can't tell if it's sarcastic. I mean. Well, I feel like there has. It's hard to know because, like the. I'm still seeing horrible footage.
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C
It was. It was sarcastic.
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B
Okay. Yeah.
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C
Yeah. You know that.
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B
No, it's.
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C
So that. That will not happen.
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B
Okay.
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C
No, there is.
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B
This is.
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C
It is just a political football that is going to be wielded to make somebody else pay. The conversations to actually better our police force or homeland security. Those aren't happening.
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B
That's not priority. No, I feel like, well, there has been like, I guess Trump said that he could be using a softer approach. They have said that maybe 700 ice people are leaving Minnesota, so. But it does seem like the tiniest bits of progress could be happening. But then I still. But then anytime I see a video from in Minnesota, it's horrifying and so we'll see. I'm sure they'll figure it out.
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C
As you said, I'm sure I have nothing but the utmost respect for the elected officials and their ability to put their partisanship aside and not be good for Great.
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B
And speaking of ice, check out this transition.
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C
I'm excited the Winter Olympics are starting.
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B
Actually, I wish I didn't do that one either.
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C
Really didn't want that one.
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B
I didn't feel anything with ice. Doesn't feel particularly funny, but. Well, I'm sure we'll have to cover it on the show, so.
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C
Yeah.
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B
But yeah, the Winter Olympics are starting. That's the other big thing is I don't know when the official. Is today. Is tomorrow the official start or like the opening ceremonies.
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C
What are we doing with that? We're doing it. We got to be doing those things that you can check on your phone what happens in the morning. But are you gonna watch it at night? Is that sort of the dance? That's the dance we've been doing the last few years.
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B
Well, last time for the Summer Olympics, like Peacock, I feel like not. Not we're a Paramount plus show Peacock, this other lesser streaming service, but I feel like you could actually sort of watch whatever you wanted in real time. So, like, I think we had a hiatus during the Summer Olympics and I was just watching like the straight, like table tennis at like six in the morning or whatever.
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C
Really?
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B
Yeah. So I hope that it's similar to that. But yeah, usually then usually at night they do like. Yeah, like NBC will have like three hours of like the best stuff edited together. So. Yeah, I feel like the Winter Olympics are another thing that's like full of sort of strange hobbyists doing like. But the yeah, there's always like. I always think of that cross country skiing with a gun event is classic.
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C
That is a favorite. Yeah, it's like maybe we have too many sports, but that's happening. Really? Could these be separate also? The gun one. Do we still need the gun one?
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B
Well, the thing is. Yeah. Remember that Turkish gun guy from the Summer Olympics who was really cool and very casually dressed like, you know what?
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C
I remember that. And I'm also now remembering the breakdancing, which we're not gonna get for the winter. And I don't think. I think they kiboshed it. Didn't they kibosh the breakdance completely.
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B
It certainly seems like they should have because there was that woman, Raegun, who maybe scammed her way into being Australia's winner. That gotta represent that country.
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C
I loved the breakdancing. I watched the whole thing. Ray Gunn made me laugh. There were some very talented breakdancers. I hope they give it another go throw to the Winter Olympics. Add some ice to it. It might add. It might make it more fun of.
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B
People doing it on ice. Yeah. It felt like as someone who like watched a lot of MTV in 2002, it had totally had that vibe. But at the Olympics where it was like, I was like, is Carson Daly here? Because he's great.
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C
But the story that I, I have liked so far in the Olympics is this Minions story.
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B
Oh yeah. There's this ice figure skater who.
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C
Spanish figure skater who has a routine dressed as a minion to a minion solo.
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B
Yellow shirt, overalls.
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C
I recently watched the entire Minion canon.
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B
Wow. I've never seen a minion movie.
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C
Love the Minions. I will say the Minions are really fun. Back in the day I caught a despicable Me without having children. Really fell for the Minions. Yeah, they're very funny, very physical, sort of Three Stooges type comedy. Great comedy rhythms. And my wife and I went to the premiere of the Minions movie and we were the only adults without children there.
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B
Wow.
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C
Yeah, very funny. And now, now with a kid just reached the age where he seems to be interested in Minions and we put it on and we watched all of them really quickly.
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B
Wow, that's great.
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C
Very fun. So you, you've never seen.
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B
Well, I've never seen because I think I just missed like the window. I was sort of too old and I guess I didn't have. I just, I never went.
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C
You weren't a 39 year old hitting that 39 year old sweet spot of looking for those cartoons.
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B
I love, I love a lot of animated. I've seen a lot of Pixar movies as an adult. I guess I just never. And. But it's not. I. There's a lot of children's content that I was like, I'll just watch this when I have kids because I'll probably have to watch some of the things a hundred times.
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C
Yeah.
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B
So that was despicable me and the miniature. But they do seem very fun. All this to say, this guy got the rights to the music finally. So he could.
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C
This to me is like, there's a lesson here. He was shot down by the Universal Corporation. And then he was like, I can't dance to The Minion songs, because they've said no. And the world came out. And through collective action and bitching, Universal was like, we will give you the song for the Olympics.
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B
Wow, that's great.
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C
See, so it's like you can. Guys, as a group, we can move mountains and. Or let a Minion skate at the Olympics.
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B
That is great. Yeah. And I'm like, wondering if he. Does he. Do we think he's doing it ironically or do you think he just genuinely loves minions or is he. Where is his head?
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C
I think in the world of figure skating, I'm guessing. I think we're genuinely loving minions here. No disrespect, but it doesn't feel very tongue in.
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A
Cheeky.
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C
No, Feels playful. You know what I would say Minion's the type of property that is like, oh, this is a. This is a. Let's call it cheeky is my guess. It's like a cheeky way to move through it.
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B
All right. Yeah. I wonder. I mean, at that point, they should just have everybody be like, sort of like IP related. Imagine if there was a Miss Piggy ice skating. Imagine if there was a Pikachu.
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C
Oh, my God.
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B
Imagine if there was a Melania.
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C
Oh, a Melania ice skater. Oh, my God. Just the hat.
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B
Big glasses.
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C
She flips and they spin with that hat. Oh, my God. Suddenly they're like, what are the scores? And there's like, instead of tens, they all get 40 million dollar paychecks. And Jeff Bezos is up there with a big smile and thumbs up. It's like, way to go.
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B
That would be great. Yeah, I'm looking. I'm pulling for him. Unless anybody has better ip.
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C
I was gonna say. Yeah. I don't know what soundtracks they're using. Like, if somebody does the Inception soundtrack, like, that is a really moving one. And maybe they.
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B
Wasn't there a guy that. Yeah. I think the music choice is actually pretty huge.
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C
Yeah.
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B
Trying to remember from the last Olympics. I feel like there's maybe.
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C
Do they tend to use movie soundtracks? Can they.
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B
I don't know. What, what, what. What would be your song? Not to put you on the spot. Probably Kid Rock. Because you're from Detroit.
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C
I love. I would love Kid Rock. No, I would do that. I would do the Tenet soundtrack. Just a lot.
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B
Just like the wall.
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C
Wall. A lot of that. A lot of skating backwards. People be very confused what is going on here? Why is this person on the ice? What's happening?
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B
Right. Were you ever being a Michigander? Were you. Was winter sports ever in your.
- [42:47]
C
This is what I. This is what I fucking love about being the Michigander here in New York City. Everybody. Everybody treats me like I'm from. I'm from the North Pole.
- [42:54]
B
When is it like. What is your maple syrup? Every year.
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C
I was. There's. We got a lot of. We got skate culture, a lot of hockey in Michigan. For sure. My sister was a skater.
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B
Oh, nice.
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C
She did like synchronized skating.
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B
Oh.
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C
Which was.
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B
You're with.
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C
You're with like 13 other people dressed the same skating. The same.
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B
Wow.
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C
What was it called? It was called, Sorry, Casey, if I'm. I'm. Yeah. But it's a team based skating sport.
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B
Wow.
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C
So I watched a lot of. A lot of skating as a kid.
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B
Yeah.
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C
Yeah. I could not skate. Still can't skate. I'm too tall. I'm like a giraffe out there.
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B
Yeah. Not ideal. Yeah. I feel like I've. I wear like in Prospect park, they. They'll have like those little. Hey. We put up a little ice rink. And I did that for the first time years ago when it was not great. And there's lots of just. There's so many kids that are just flying into you who are skating for the first time. So it's like. It's dangerous, but fun.
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C
You. I. You kind of have a. You got a hockey. A hockey body.
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B
I. Thank you.
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C
Yeah, that's. That's very hot right now.
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B
Run that by hr. Yeah, no, I. I grew up playing a lot of roller hockey.
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C
You did.
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B
But never. Never got to. I was. I mostly focused on soccer. I was a big soccer player, but I. I could have. Yeah, But I'm also not tall enough. See, we. We should combine bodies again. This is getting.
- [44:17]
C
You have to stop these texts. Enough with the wiener documentaries and the combined body pitches. That doesn't play.
- [44:24]
B
We should just combine bodies. How come you can't tell a coworker that anymore?
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C
HR? Is HR here? Alan, can you get HR on the phone, please? Alan?
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B
HR's out today. Don't bother. Speaking of Alan, our podcast producer, Alan. We are trying a new segment because there's so much awfulness happening in our country. Alan is Canadian, and so we're gonna check in with Alan just to see what news is happening north of the border. Alan.
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F
Hi, guys.
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B
Hey.
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F
So, yeah, north of the border, you know, people are stressed out. They're looking south. My mom's not happy. We picked a headline for this today that combines some of the stuff you guys have been talking about. We got the culture wars. We got the Olympics spilling over into pop culture Tate McCrae. Pop star Tate McCrae that you guys are both very familiar with.
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C
Tate McCrae.
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B
We're both McCraniacs.
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C
Yeah, Tate McCrae. Sounds like something a 14 year old would say to me about something wild that happened. They wouldn't understand. Oh, it's like a. Oh, that's Tate McCrae.
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B
That's totally Tate McCray.
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C
Oh, yeah, it's totally Tate McCrae. Oh, that person is Tate McCray.
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F
She participated in a Olympics commercial for NBC, for Team USA. And Canada has branded her a traitor despite being Canadian.
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B
That's stolen valor too. So I'm pissed now. I don't know. I'll pile on Tate McRae. You shouldn't have done it, Tate.
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C
Wait, what?
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B
Everybody's mad at her and I'm piling on.
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C
Okay, I'll get angry at her. Why not?
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B
Why not?
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C
Yeah, sure. Yeah, Come on. Yeah. You know what? Why are you doing that? Tama Cray? You're the Canadian. You need to love the Canadians. I'm sure. What, you're gonna do this for a paycheck. Is that what everybody does now? Anything for a paycheck.
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B
Sell out their own country.
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C
True patriotism. You do it because you love your country and the things your country stands for. And it's crazy to do it for America.
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B
It's David Gray to do it.
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C
Boy, that is Dave McCrae. Wasn't Catherine O' Hara Canadian?
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F
Yes, she was.
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B
Rest in peace.
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C
I was gonna say we lost like a great Canadian. Some of the greatest comedians of all time. Martin Short, all of the SCTV people. There was at the Westminster Dog Show a moment where they showed clips and thank you for Kathryn o', Hara, which was heartbreaking to hear that.
- [46:43]
B
Yeah, that's one of the funniest movies of all time. She's one of the funniest people of all time.
- [46:48]
C
Yeah, I think she's a comedy actors. Mount Rushmore, right? Yeah, right. I think that's. I mean, she is up there.
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B
Totally. And she's. Yeah. Just seemed so lovely and came out of nowhere. So gutting, really.
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C
Do you have a favorite Catherine o' Hara movie?
- [47:04]
B
I mean, best in show is a. I mean any of the Christopher Guest movies are. And I, I mean I did. I saw Beetlejuice for the first time like a few years ago. Like, it's just like unbelievable. That movie A was made and be like had all these stars in it and was a like really big hit. It's. It's such a. It's such a strange movie. But. But she's like so Incredible in that. I don't know any, any big ones for you?
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C
I mean, I. Yeah, I love them all. Schitt's Creek, it's such a like perfect distillation of like, like that's just her hitting home runs. Yeah, that's. That's like right over the plate for her, which was always so fun to see. I watched Home Alone with my family a bunch this holiday and she's just such the glue there. That scene with her and John Candy is just, just perfect and lovely and knowing that they knew each other but like, it's just, it's just so simple.
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B
That is such a classic.
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C
I love my all time favorite though. I mean, Waiting for Guffman is one of my all time favorite comedy movies. And again, her and Fred Willard are so funny in that. But there's that. There's the classic audition scene that makes me laugh so hard and I watch that, I watch that every year a few times. But the scene where she plays drunk at dinner is one of the best comedic drunk scenes I've ever seen. It's so funny. She's had too much to drink. She can't stop talking about how Fred Willard had a penis reduction and Eugene Levy is so awkward at it. It's just, oh, I could sit in that scene forever. She is a. She's on the Rushmore. She's so, such a wonderful, hilarious, beautiful person.
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B
Yeah. Best in Show. I need to rewatch some of her movies.
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C
Go to the Westminster Dog Show. Rewatch Best in show. This world is going to the dogs and that's. That can be a good thing.
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B
Home Alone is just like one of my favorite Christmas movies of all time. I think it's played on TBS 24 hours a day for a reason. When you watched it as a little kid and you're like, I just want to be home alone so I can booby trap my house and like hurt, hurt robbers. I remember watching that as a kid and like that being the thought. But then you watch it as a parent, you're like, you can kind of like you. She humanizes it in such a way of like, okay, like I made this really bad mistake and I will do anything I can to like help my son. It's so beautiful.
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C
It is a wild thing to watch as a, as an adult. It is still such a beautifully made film and it's so funny and it resonated with my son so much. It was really fun to watch like a five year old watch a movie well laid out and then the last third of that movie is so funny and such.
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B
Yeah, it is such like a Bugs Bunny thing at the end.
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C
It's so well done. It's so funny. But after I showed Home Alone to my. My son for the first time, we. He got in a little fight with me the next day and he made the home alone wish, like kind of under his breath, which is what I think is like, I want to be.
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B
Alone or I wish my family would disappear.
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C
I wish my family would disappear. He made that wish. He threw it out there. I was like, whoa, whoa. And I let it dangle. I was like, okay, all right, I hear you. I hear you did part of.
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B
You want to like, hide the next morning?
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C
No, I think out of sheer fear that if I hid the next morning and he was so happy, it would, it would break me for the rest of my life.
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B
It would backfire.
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C
Yeah.
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C
Really?
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F
Yeah.
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B
Cold brew, espresso, coffee, and I got a real heart issue because of it.
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C
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B
That's just something I do. Yes. I just have a problem.
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C
Yeah. So we're not besmirching the bread.
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B
My idea for this Daily show and Tell was inspired. I was thinking about super bowl performances. So many great halftime shows over the years. If there is a. But I wanted to broaden it out, so I was gonna. I was. My idea was to ask you what your favorite live music. Like, if we put up YouTube right now, we're like, what's. Let's watch some classic performances. What's a favorite Klepper live music performance? Cause I know you're a big music guy.
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C
That's a great question. You know what I would do? First thing that jumps to my head, I would do Death Letter by the White Stripes under Blackpool Lights. Ooh.
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B
Okay.
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C
I think one of the greatest live shows I've ever seen was a White Stripes show down in Santiago, Chile. It was like. It was incredible. I saw Jack White perform the song Death Letter, which is a Sun House, an old blues cover.
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B
Okay.
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C
And it's this really gritty, great blues standard that the White Stripes does, and they just rip shit with it. It was amazing. And so that sort of lived large in my head as this live performance of this great blues cover. So I always search for. They do it. They used to do it live. Jack White rarely does it, I think, as a solo performer. But the Under Blackpool Lights, I think if I have it correctly, that version of it, to me is gritty and beautiful and awesome. A man gets a letter that this person that he loved is dead, and he goes back to carry her coffin and bury it in the ground. So it's like this deep, dark, blues heavy thing. And it's Jack White singing this on stage with his ex wife. And there's just always a tension and a drama between those two there. So much of that is projected and what have you and performative, but there's just something about, like this is a couple who's performing this raw, dirty blues song on stage together. And there's a dance that's happening and there's Already a dance that's happening with like the blues and garage rock. But Jack White is just in this space performing the song. And there's like a moment where he chooses to vamp. And more often than not, when he did this song live, like in traditional blues culture, you would pull bits and pieces of other songs and throw them in the middle of a blues song. They were folk in that way. They were like. They were temporary and modular in that sense. And so a lot of times he would, in the middle of this song, throw in old blues songs and then turn to Meg and see them. I believe in this one. He uses an old. What's the song? Is it like John the Revelator? I forget what it is, but he basically. He basically takes another blues song, makes it into a spoken rant that he goes from performing to the audience to performing to mega. That's I believe the line. It's so hard to love. It's so hard to love someone who doesn't love you. That he's fucking singing to his ex wife on stage. And he's like. He's like chanting, he's emotional, he's sweaty. And he like drops it and then he like turns. Drops to his knees and then goes into the guitar solo, which is just like. To me, it's kind of everything all in there. Like you can read into it or not, but this is like a couple creating music, borrowing blues and storytelling, like chopping it up and making it about what's happening right here and now. Oh, it's. I love this. One of my favorite rock songs and rock performances, for sure.
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B
Great. I'm gonna. I'm gonna watch this whole version.
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C
I. I love it. All the live versions of this are great, but this is one of my faves. What about you?
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B
The super bowl makes me think of the Prince super bowl performance, which is great. And then also the. There's a like maybe Rock and Roll hall of Fame performance that he does. I don't know if it's the Beatles are in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame or George Harrison, but they do While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Tom Petty.
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C
And that is just often considered the greatest guitar solo of all time.
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B
Yeah, it's like, I feel like I was thinking about it, like, guitar solos can be sort of. So like, can be cheesy and eye rolly, but like. Or they can be the fucking coolest thing you can do. And I feel like that is like. Yeah, that. I mean, that's classic. That's. That's not too much of a Deep cut. But I was at my brother's 40th and we were just deep in a YouTube music sesh and someone put on Letterman performance. TV on the radio. Wolf, like me, I haven't seen that. It's. It's great. That's just like an all time song for me.
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C
And.
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B
And they just perform the hell out of it. And then Letterman comes on and is like, hey, how about that? Like, that kind of thing. But the performance is so good. We like watching like, it was like just like 20 guys drinking beers, nodding their head to this song at this party. It's such a good performance.
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C
I highly recommend there may be no better experience than hanging out with pals and just like YouTube hopping back and forth between, like favorite live song performances. Yes. That to me is, I don't need a Super Bowl. I don't need your fancy tickets. I just need a YouTube subscription. Is that how it works? Maybe a subscription? Yeah.
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B
If you think you need a subscription, you can watch ads with ads.
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C
Yeah, I'll take the ads. You know, I'll be fine. I'll be fine with the ads. I'm not gonna pay extra for it. Just watch me some deep cuts.
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B
That is so good. I don't know if I didn't mean to hijack the Daily show and tell. I don't know if you have any other things that you'd like to plug. Do you have any shows coming up?
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C
I do have a show coming up. I'm doing my show, Suffering Fools in North Adams at Mass MOCA on Valentine's Day. Yeah. So I'm gonna celebrate Valentine's Day with giving people my stories. You know, the thing that I love most about Valentine's Day is getting the validation of live performance in front of you.
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B
That's your real. That's the real relationship.
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C
That's the real relationship. I'm sure my wife will be happy about that choice.
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B
Thanks, Klepper. This Daily show and tell segment was brought to you by Ninja Luxe Cafe. The three in one machine that makes espresso, drip coffee and cold brew. No barista skills required. Okay, that's this week's pre cap and we've had a great time. Enjoyable.
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C
A delight.
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B
I'm Zach Colanzo. Catch Jordan Klepper hosting the Daily show this week on Comedy Central, Paramount plus, and right here in podcast form on the Daily Show Ears edition. Klepper, Have a great weekend. Enjoy the Super Bowl. I'm looking forward to you hosting next week.
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C
Me too, Zach. We'll have fun next week.
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B
All right.
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C
Explore more shows from the Daily Show Podcast universe by searching the Daily Show. Wherever you get your podcasts, watch the Daily show weeknights at 1110 Central on.
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B
Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount.
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C
Plus.
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B
This has been a Comedy Central podcast.
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