Adam McKay on 'Coke vs. Pepsi' Politics, Plus Biden vs. Trump, Matt on Congressional Insider Trading

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Acclaimed writer/director/producer Adam McKay joins the show to talk 'Coke vs. Pepsi' politics, making political movies, and more. Matt and Katie play a Trump vs. Biden quote game, field questions from fans, and Matt breaks down his recent piece about congressional insider trading Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Useful Idiots, the existential terror edition on Natta Yubi and...
0:12.5	I'm Katie Halper.
0:14.4	And where are you?
0:15.4	Can you change your background?
0:16.4	Yeah.
0:17.4	So the backgrounds have become very important in this...
0:19.7	They have, yeah.
0:20.9	I'm now in my...
0:22.2	The same house, which is my parents' place away, far, far away, two and a half hours away
0:28.8	from New York City.
0:29.8	I don't know why I keep saying the distance.
0:31.8	Right, it's almost like you want people to find you and break them from your own.
0:34.9	I'm just showing people...
0:36.5	Honestly, it's because I usually say...
0:38.2	I've been told by exactly how much time would it take to get to your doorstep right now.
0:41.8	Well, it's because I usually call this place upstate.
0:45.7	And then some people are like, oh, where's that Westchester and then other people.
0:48.7	So I want to show it's really...
0:50.3	It's not just like, a Marinac or something.
0:53.2	But it's also technically not upstate.
0:55.0	So I feel like this is an honest way to...
0:57.1	I want to speak truth to curiosity.
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