David Cross on Useful Idiots

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The infinitely funny and smart David Cross stopped by for a chat and we couldn’t contain our excitement. You know him from Mr. Show, Arrested Development, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (tip from Wilson: the best hidden gem show you’ll find), and his hilarious standup specials. And now you know him as a Useful Idiot. We talk comedy: creating a standup special, using audience feedback to perfect his set, and how he felt when Netflix took down an episode of w/ Bob and David for having a character in blackface. We talk politics: why Bernie would’ve won, why (some) Hillary Clinton supporters were blinded by tribalism, and why Andrew Yang should “fuck all the way off.” And for good measure we geek out about our favorite David Cross roles and bits. Come back Monday for the extended interview where we take a deep dive into his new special “I’m From the Future,” politics, and more. Plus, Joe Manchin and the crackhead daughters, military-grade snow removal, and naked but masked. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And subscribe to hear the ad-free version. Your subscription goes to help the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press and independent journalists everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halber and I'm joined by Aaron Mate.
0:12.0	Now to understand why I'm joined by Aaron Mate, let's go to some breaking news coverage
0:17.6	from our friends at the Vanguard. We've talked about useful idiots in the past. One of our
0:22.6	bigger clips on this channel was when they initially actually got booted by Rolling Stone.
0:27.4	And Useful Idiots was originally a Rolling Stone podcast, but due to still seemingly
0:32.0	unknown mysterious reasons that Katie Halber refuses to tell us, they got, you know,
0:37.9	excise, cut from the platform, you know, probably overstepped a line, had on some guess
0:42.4	that was too controversial or, you know, maybe Rolling Stone just decided they didn't
0:46.6	want, you know, having anything to do with them anymore after Bernie or whatever.
0:49.4	Who knows?
0:50.4	Anyway, I felt only natural to bring you guys this breaking news. It looks like Matt
0:54.4	Taibe is going on book leave for a period of time. So he says, I am indeed stepping away
0:59.4	from hashtag Useful Idiots pod for a while with the excellent and far less senile. Aaron
1:04.8	Mate taking my place while I work on a book about thevery during the pandemic period, which
1:11.0	I am super fucking excited about this. Everybody in our apartment, which is really just me
1:14.7	Gavin and my girlfriend, but we were like, Holy shit. Matt Taibe is writing another book
1:18.4	about fucking finances. Thank God.
1:20.6	As you can see here, Aaron Mate responded and says, I'll be filling in on Useful Idiots
1:25.8	for Matt while he's on book leave, big shoes to fill and not just because he's taller
1:29.8	than me.
1:30.8	See you Monday with Katie Halber and I think he's a natural fit for, you know, to replace
1:35.5	Matt given the fact that they do share a lot of values politically and all that stuff.
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