Trump Pauses Tariffs, Crashes the Stock Market & Threatens China | Antoni Porowski

Trump Pauses Tariffs, Crashes the Stock Market & Threatens China | Antoni Porowski

March 07, 2025 29m

Michael Kosta on Trump doubling down then ditching Canada and Mexico tariffs, the GOP pretending the plunging stock market is normal, and the president pissing off China. Plus, Josh Johnson takes inspiration from Trump flip-flopping on tariffs.

Desi Lydic heads to Michigan to get to the bottom of the state's "buy back" initiative that turned out to be refurbishing guns instead of destroying them.

Bestselling author and culinary expert Antoni Porowski talks to Michael Kosta about hosting his new National Geographic show, “No Taste Like Home,” which uses a dish significant to each guest as an entry point to a journey through their family and ancestral history. They discuss the extensive research process that goes into the show, some of the most emotional moments of the season, and why food is so important to Porowski and how he connects with his own family.

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it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Kosta.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Daily Show.

I'm Michael Kosta.

We've got so much to talk about tonight.

The U.S. economy is down bad.

I'm sorry. Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Daily Show.

I'm Michael Kosta.

We've got so much to talk about tonight.

The U.S. economy is down bad.

Apparently, America likes guns, and Trump broke a campaign promise.

What?

So let's get into it.

I'm going gonna come. I'm gonna come.

Being president comes with a lot of pretty cool powers.

You can write executive orders,

you get one free checked bag on Air Force One,

and you even get an uncensored feed of C-SPAN, which...

But for Donald Trump, the power he enjoys the most is the power to impose tariffs. Tariffs are easy, they're fast, they're efficient, and they bring fairness.
We're going to bring so many things back to our country, and the thing that's going to get us there is tariffs. We'll take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we going to make our country so strong and so rich it will never be so rich.
Tariffs. It's a beautiful word, isn't it? Tariff.
It's a beautiful word. It's why I named my daughter Tariffiny.
This guy's so horny for tariffs, isn't he? I love any word with big natural double Fs. According to Donald Trump, tariffs are great.
And I also want our country to be rich without any negative consequences. So let's see how he's imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
And let's sit back and let's watch that economy roar, baby. Tonight, the stock market dropping more than 600 points.
U.S. stock markets plunged for the second day in a row.
We've seen consumer confidence tank. Layoff numbers across the U.S.
are the highest they've been since 2020. The R word is back, thanks in large part to tariffs.
Wait, the R word is back? Tariffs brought back the R word? So I guess I can say it. Wall Street banks are starting to raise a red flag that recession odds have become unsettlingly high.
Right, right, that R word. Of course, that's what I was thinking.
I can be such a recession sometimes. By the way, is recession an R word now? Who thinks the word recession is offensive? Finance bros? Did they get woke? Before we discuss the impending R-word, we begin by acknowledging that we are on the ancestral grounds of Capitol Grill, where Chad was unjustly removed by the bartender before he could get a chance to cheat on his wife.
Sup, Chad? So basically, Trump said the tariffs are going to be a quick and painless way to get rich. And now that it turns out we're not all shitting gold, Republicans have moved into their new talking point.
Hey, nobody said this was going to be easy. Trust the process.
There'll be a little disturbance, but we're OK with that. There's going to be a little bit of pain going into this.
It is going to be painful. And if I have to pay a little bit more for something, I'm all for it.
We're going to have to suffer through some bad news. There's going to be a short period of time where there'll be some higher prices on certain products.
It's not inflation. That's nonsense.
Yeah. Yeah.
Nonsense. It's not inflation, people.
It's just higher prices on food and cars and gas and every other product we import from our biggest trading partners. But you know what? We might be in for some hard times, but tariffs are Donald Trump's whole thing.
And if there's one thing I know about Donald Trump, he's a man who sticks to his guns. Breaking news into CNN.
President Trump's officially delaying tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Wait, wait, wait.
After all that, tariffs are now on hold? Trump just backed away from those tariffs like it was a long-time friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. So...
So tariffs are on. They're delayed.
They're off. Who knows if they'll come back or when or for how long?

Look, I'm not a big business guy, but quick question.

Does anyone know if businesses need to make decisions more than four hours in advance?

So it appears the only silver lining in this pointless trade war

is that at least we're only fighting with Canada and Mexico.

You know, if you're going to pick a fight, pick a fight with two sissy countries you can beat. Right? Right? Right? The Chinese embassy in the U.S.
tweeting earlier this week, quote, if war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end.
Oh, shit. Uh, China.
China don't play. They're like, if you got beef, we got broccoli, bitch.
Let's go. Listen, Donald, Canada and Mexico are one thing, but please don't piss off China.
I know you wrote the art of the deal, but they wrote the art of war. Okay?

And I think a trade war with China might lead to, at best, a devastating

economic depression, or at worst,

nuclear destruction of our most

of American cities. Or as

Trump might say,

there'll be a little disturbance.

But look, for more on

Trump's tariff policy and its economic effects, we go live to the White House with Josh Johnson. Josh.
Josh. What exactly is going on with these tariffs? Costa, this is nothing we haven't seen before.
These economic decisions are smart, so everyone should stop throwing around the R word. Oh, recession.
Okay, everybody should stop throwing around both R words. All right.
In fact, these tariffs are going to help out all my N words. Your, your...
My net gains, Costa. Right, right, of course.
Of course, your net gains cost of right right of course your net gains hey hey you're not an economist that's not your word to say okay point is these tariffs are necessary i've been talking to president trump and i can speak exactly to his intentions on tariffs i mean come on y'all heard don Trump. He said during the campaign, we're doing this.
It's an economic street fight. So you better get on board because the pain is worth it to bring back manufacturing even if it leads to higher prices.
We are not backing down. Okay, but the American people don't like higher prices.
Then forget the whole thing. Tariffs off.
All right. I don't even know who suggested it.
Trump did. He said they're necessary to bring back America's economy.
And they are, which is why they're back on. So we are doing tariffs? Damn right we are.
I ain't scared of shit. Not even more expensive housing? Tariffs are off.
But that will increase the trade deficit. On again.
What about the price of breakfast? Off in the morning, on at night. But Canada is retaliating.
Off with Canada, on with China. We'll go to war with China.
I don't give a f***. Josh, China has nukes.
No tariffs on China. In fact, we're part of China now.
All hail President Xi. You're the snake, mother f***ing.
Get on board. Josh, Josh, how can Trump run this country like this? Tariffs, no tariffs.
We're Chinese, we're not Chinese. It's unsustainable.
Get off his ass, Costa. All Trump's trying to do is stand firm on his principles, even though he doesn't know what they are yet.
No matter the cost, although cost really shouldn't be a single dollar, and what anybody thinks. But please, nobody get upset.

Josh, Josh, be realistic.

Part of being a leader is knowing there are trade-offs to every decision.

It's not possible for everyone to have a net gain.

Well, I thought I told you, Costa.

That's our word, okay?

Me and my economists are going to you up.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Josh Johnson, everybody.

Josh Johnson, when we come back,

we get guns off the streets.

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There are millions of guns in America, but one 40-year-old virgin is trying to change that. Desi Lydic has more.
It's no surprise America has a gun problem. In fact, even if our legislators could pass comprehensive gun reform, there's already over 400 million guns in this country.
A number statisticians call really high and f***ing huge. But one brave Michigander is taking action into his own hands, and it's not someone you would expect.
I've been just confused about a priest since I binged Fleabag. How does a priest get involved with getting guns off the streets? In America, it's a lot easier to get a gun than to get rid of a gun.
There is this sense that in churches, we're just going to pray for this gun problem. But church people are sick of thoughts and prayers too.
You know it's bad when a priest is sick of thoughts and prayers. I mean, that's your bread and butter.
And just as Jesus turned water into wine, Father Yah turned prayers into action and started a gun buyback program. The gun buyback program is aimed at reducing gun violence.
They're popular, and that's because it's your choice to turn in your gun. And because this is America, people are more willing to part with their guns if they get something out of it.
The first buyback we did, we had $5,000 worth of gift cards and the line was two miles long and we gave away the gift cards in 20 minutes. What kind of gift cards are we talking about here? Usually Target.
Target? I'm not allowed in Target anymore. I had a bit of a run-in with the law involving an incident with a cheese grater.
Do we want to save that for later? We'll take care of that in confession. Okay, thank you.
And what happens to the guns once they're collected? Do they go to that farm upstate with all the dogs? After guns are processed, Michigan State Police send them to a company in Missouri called Gunbusters, and they destroy parts of the guns. The state police then was contracting with a company called Gun Busters who has a gun pulverizer.
Ah, the pulverizer. That was my signature move when I was on the amateur wrestling circuit.
No, no, it's, it's, it, these things destroy weapons. A deadly machine that destroys deadly guns? Problem solved.
This machine called the pulverizer can turn this into this. Most of the metal left behind can be recycled.
I love a name that says exactly what it is. Busting guns.
No deception there. But they weren't busting them.
Come again? We found out they're not really destroying them. They were salvaging most of the gun and reselling the parts on the Internet.
People can make their own ghost guns. So gun busters is actually contributing to making more guns? Yeah.
Jeez. Sorry.
Shit. Sorry.
Jeez. Jesus.
Sorry. Shit.
Sorry. Jesus.
Turns out they were using the pulverizer more for evil than good. Doing only partial destruction means that the guns can be born again, and not in the Jesus-y way.
I reached out to speak with gunbusters, but much like the fate of their guns, they ghosted me. If I can't find answers to this gun problem in God's fancy buildings, maybe I could find some in the state's fancy buildings.
Michigan State Representative Natalie Price. How the f*** is it legal for gunbusters to get away with this? Because of the Gun Act of 1968.
Sure. The famous 1967 Gun Act.
1968. 1968 Gun Act.
The act of? When we only destroy that narrow part of the weapon, a receiver and a frame, which includes the serial number, the firearm is considered by federal law to be fully destroyed. Yes, receiver in the frame.
So just to reiterate, under this old-timey law, the gun control act of 1968, the receiver or the frame by itself is considered to be a firearm. So if Gunbusters tells you they've destroyed the firearm, technically they only have to have destroyed that one tiny piece, leaving the rest to be potentially used for ghost guns.
There's no good way to keep track of how many there are. From 2016 to 2021, there was over a thousand percent increase in ghost guns.
Holy shit, a thousand percent? That's like four ghost guns for every ghost.

Luckily, Michigan has a solution.

I can tell you what we are doing here in Michigan, which is partnering with state police and a company that will fully pulverize and destroy the complete weapon right here in Michigan.

Women get shit done.

So it seems the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a pulverizer.

But this time, Michigan has their very own state-run pulverizer,

ensuring that the guns that they receive are completely destroyed.

I went back to the church to spread the good word to Father Yaw,

only to discover he had taken it upon himself to fulfill his own prophecy.

There's more that needs to be done. We're planning to actually

destroy the weapons ourselves with chop saws. That sounds dangerous.
I can take you to a place

where we're practicing and you can watch it happen. All right.
Sure, just follow a priest

I just met to the set of the movie Saw. Three guns down.
Now just 399,999,997 more to go.

Thank you, Daisy.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show.

My guest tonight is a best-selling author, culinary expert, and host of National Geographic's No Taste Like Home.

Please welcome Anthony Porowski.

Nice.

Nice. Nice.

Nice.

Nice. Wow.

Thank you for coming. Thank you for having

me. This show is amazing.
It made me hungry. It made me emotional.
It made you hungry for testicles. It made me hungry for testicles.
For those of you that are unaware, maybe watching online, there was a clip before this that mentioned testicles. Yep.
It's always good to have a little bit of... Yep.
You're absolutely right. Look, we're all hungry for testicles.
Did you know that this show would get as elevated emotionally as it does? Yes and no. I mean, the original, look, it's National Geographic, which for me, I've been reading the magazine since I was a kid.
We had a subscription. It's like the iconic, you know, yellow rectangle.
But I think once we started going down, and each episode is a little different, but once it does get personal and you kind of, everyone's just trying to answer that question of why I am the way I am and learning that we're all standing on the shoulders of giants and we have all these people in our lineage that we can kind of explain why we are the way we are. I think it's sort of, so I would say it was like a mix.
I think with, you know, someone like Awkwafina. It was very emotional because she was going back to South Korea.
It was the first time since she'd been there since her mother passed away when she was four years old. Right.
And then we had a bit of like a bromance with Justin in Italy. So it kind of like ran the gamut a little bit.
Explain to those that haven't seen it about how you start at home with this family dish, a favorite dish, and you trace it back to the origin. And not only that, but through genes as well, right? Yeah, no, all of it.
So it starts out with like a dish that shaped the guest. And it could have been something that was enjoyed during like a special family occasion or a birthday.
Or for like James Marsden, it was chicken fried steak that his mom was making in Oklahoma City as a single mom just to like feed the kids. And then we go to their country of origin.
We explore what was going on culturally, politically, socially. And then we kind of break down the dish and the elements while introducing, it's a lot going on.
No, it's a lot going on. Introducing to like, to different key members of their family.
And we meet genealogists and historians. And it's like, it's a whole journey.
I love that in that episode, James is in his family's kitchen. His mom is cooking.
He says, oh, that's the smell that brings me back to my childhood. Fast forward to you guys in an outdoor kitchen in Bavaria.
And they're making, you're making schnitzel. Right.
And he goes, it's that smell. It's the same smell.
Totally. That's when I started weeping.
No, but it's... Schnitzel.
Yeah. I'm crying over schnitzel.
It's okay to cry over food. Yes, yeah.
Because it is an emotional thing. And I mean, like, it's, you know, I go, like, the most emotional episode of all of them is Awkwafina.
And they're all really special for different reasons.

But hers actually started out with jajangmyeon, which is a completely different dish.

But we were making this seaweed soup that this woman who had a PhD in fermentation,

which they do that in Korea because food is truly healing there and it's, like, UNESCO protected.

And she's making this soup.

And Nora, Awkwafina, remembered this smell that her mom,

it was the one smell she remembered of her mom when she was around and she was making this soup.

Wow.

And I'm not sure. protected.
And she's making this soup. And Nora, Awkwafina, remembered this smell that her mom, it was the one smell she remembered of her mom when she was around and she was making this soup.
Wow. And we learned that in Korean history, women make this for their daughters after they're born because they're depleted of iron.
It's something that's very healing. Right.
And it's passed on from mother to daughter. So for her to learn like, oh my gosh, that smell is literally the soup that my mother was trying to use to heal herself and also to make sure that her daughter was OK.
Like, it's and it's and it all like it's never it's so much more than the dish. It's like when you look back on it, there's always a story.
There's knowledge of history. And it's I'm thinking there could be a spinoff called No Smell Like Home.
And you smell like your grandparents' boxers or something. Yeah.
I mean, you know, there are a lot weirder things that are making it to streaming services these days, so I feel like we should definitely pitch it. It's Nachio after hours.
Yeah, yeah. You also don't have to respond to that, but you're a nice job.
So talking about parents, you know, this is a cookbook that my wife made after my father passed.

And it's of his favorite dishes.

And watching this

made me think of this recipe

for this

Eastern European soup that my dad

made called strucchke.

I mean, look at this f***ing thing.

How can anybody read that?

Was he a physician? No, he was not a physician.

I mean, by the way,

when I was watching your show,

I I mean, look at this thing. How can anybody read that? But was he a physician? No, he was not a physician.
I mean, by the way, when I was watching your show, I was thinking of this. And then I'm thinking of my dad's handwriting.
And then I'm thinking of him in the kitchen with the apron on. Now I'm crying.
It's not even about your show. It's about my dad.
You really me up, Anthony. But that's exactly.
No, but genuinely, that's what I want. I want people to watch the show.
And, like, while I understand that not everyone has a National Geographic historical team that can do three to six months of research for each episode... Yeah, I want to hear about that.
But I think it's, like, an important... It's an opportunity to start having these conversations with people in your family or, like, maybe even, like, the awkward uncle and, like, learning those family stories.
because we have to pass those things on for our children,

for our chosen family, for whoever it is.

And sitting around the table is like being raised the way that I was raised.

That's when we share those stories.

There's a universal thread there.

And I think God knows we're living in a time and place where like we need to figure out how we can like relate to each other

as opposed to the opposite.

Not that there's anything wrong with this country right now, but, you know, yeah. Look, it's great if our favorite dish has a lineage back to the origin of country, but what sometimes happens, and I wonder, and, you know, my dad made this soup for us every Christmas Eve.
No one in the family liked the soup. But it was his dad's soup, and you don't mess with it.
Exactly. At one point we said to his mom, my grandma, like, dad's been making strucci.
And she goes, well, we don't eat that shit. You know? But there's also something fun about your show.
When you go backwards, you find out stuff that maybe isn't so complimentary of the family or of the lineage. How do you process that? That isn't complimentary of the family? I mean, there was the one with James where it's like, oh, my great, great, great grandfather was in prison.
Oh, yeah. You know, they didn't really know why.
And there was a moment there where it's like, what did he do? Well, because he was like a political activist. The guy was a rebel.
Yeah. It turned good.
Let's talk about the history. I mean, this is actually research.
Right. This is.
Oh, 100 percent. I mean, it's not like I love Queer Eye, but that's like a different unscripted show where I can say whatever I want.
And it's a very different editing process. Here, you know, we have every single thing that I say has to be corroborated by three independent sources, which is like kind of wild.
So we're dealing with places like Germany where, you know, they have the infrastructure and the places that you go to to get these documents. They give it to you like within the within the hour.
Because the Germans have it all figured out. In Italy, they take, like, two to three weeks, but, like, they'll get it as well.
Like, they take their time. If you're in Senegal, if you're in where we went with Issa Rae, or if you're in Borneo where we went with Henry Golding, they don't have that.
It's oral history. So the team has to go there a few months prior, speak to village elders, and if the three village elders are saying the exact same thing, they consider it a fact.
If anything is like 80, I've done voiceover for narration on the show and had to go back to the studio after because our showrunner Robin was like, we're not 100% sure, we can't say it, we gotta go back. I watched your show and I said, wow, TV studios do have money.
Let's be honest, let's be honest. You're in a lot of foreign places.
You're eating a lot of food. You're using your hands.
Did you mark off a day for traveler's diarrhea for you and the crew? So, interestingly... I knew something would happen.
Interestingly, so, I mean... Well, the thing is, like, I'm not...
Like, if I eat something and it's good, I just keep on eating it. I don't have, like, I've never believed in a spit bucket.
I'm just, it's not in my DNA to do that. But I was in, it didn't happen on set, but I happened to be, we were filming in Italy, and then I had 10 days off before I had to be in South Korea.
And I was like, I'm already sort of on that side of the world, so, like, why don't I go to Bali for 10 days? Like, what's the worst that could happen? Right, right. And I went to this market and there was a beautiful piece of tuna and I just wanted like a light sear on it.
And I picked it out and they gave it to me. And it was like, also the food in Bali was like, it was exceptional on all fronts.
This is not to like put any like negative beef there. Yeah.
Or tuna there. And so they serve it to me well done, just draped in a cream sauce.
And I ate it and I felt a little weird, but I was like, I'm sure I'm fine. I ended up with double IVs at the exact same time.
The night before my red eye to soul. And I was FaceTiming my dad, who's a physician.
And he was like, why do you have two IVs at the same time? I've never seen this. There's a language barrier.
I have nurses there that the hotel sent. Because people get this thing called Bali Belly.
But the crazy thing that happened, because I'm an optimist at heart, I can eat ghost peppers now. Okay.
And they don't kill me. I can eat spicy things.
I'm a Polish guy. We don't do heat.
Yeah. You even said that in the Malaysian episode.
You were like, I don't really do heat. But now you can do heat.
I can do heat now, which is great, and I hope it lasts for a long time.

But I get food poisoning once or twice a year

because of the things I put in my mouth. It's just, it's

par for the course.

Enough!

You're all grown-ups!

There are no children here!

I'm here, totally.

I find your

personal history

so connected also to this show

because of your parents,

Mm-hmm. I find your personal history so connected also to this show because of your parents.

Explain a little bit to your family history and how it's relevant.

I mean, so I'm, you know, my parents were both Polish.

My father was born in Brussels because his family fled there after the war.

But like, I'm like, I think I'm like 80% Polish.

And growing up, that was the first language we spoke at home. We were only allowed to speak Polish, had all the food, cabbage rolls for lunch, the whole thing.
And then there was a period of sort of growing up when I was in my teens, like the angsty years, like Oasis, Richard Ashcroft, just to paint a picture, where I wanted nothing to do with my identity. I moved to the States.
I was in West Virginia. I wanted to assimilate, change my name, the whole thing.
And then there came a point when I was in university back in Montreal. And I started working at a Polish restaurant.
I met young Polish people who had super Polish names. And I was like, wow, you're actually proud to be who you are.
And it's kind of like that whole idea of, well, this is in my DNA. So why am I trying to fight it? And now it's kind of inspired me.
Even as a result of the show, I had conversations with my dad. I was like, why do we have so much cabbage in our culture? Right.
What's the deal with pierogies? Where did those come from? And he's like, we realize there's so much that we don't know. Right.
And so it's kind of sparked conversations within my own family. Okay.
So. You might have answered it, but it's so clear in this show that the guest really sees how important this dish is, how important this food is to their family.
For you personally, you know, we don't get to do this show with you, with your dish, but why is food so important to you? My face just got warm. Yeah.
Because I think, I don't know. I mean, I think it has to do with, to quote my therapist, if it's hysterical, it's historical.
And growing up, my parents, I adore them and they did the best with the tools they were given. But it was a really dysfunctional household.
And the one time where we all got along was when we were sitting at the table and gossiping and just like talking shit and having like the best time. And like that's when everybody had a smile on their face.
And so it's personal to me. And it's, I feel like everyone kind of has their own, their own version of that.
Like at any single gathering that my parents would have, everyone always ended up in the kitchen. And I feel like that's the case with so many people.
And so it's, food is there for you when you're depressed, when you're really happy, when you're celebrating life's achievements, when you're celebrating or celebrating dealing with loss. Sometimes people celebrate loss, but I mean, yeah, but it's, it's, it's just, it's the, it's the, it, for me, it's, it's my whole family's just as obsessed, if not more than I am about food.
Like it's just, it's in our DNA. The show's great.
It's, it's beautiful. Thank you.
You kind of do what The Daily Show does,

which is you trick us by entertaining us,

and then somehow we've learned something,

and there's a message been presented.

So I really loved it.

Thank you so much for making a new episode

of No Taste Like One.

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