Trans Military Ban, J6 Pardon Aftermath, Sports War: Super Bowl Swifties | Lil Rel Howery

Published Jan 29, 2025, 8:30 AM

Michael Kosta checks in on the latest Trumpworld news: new press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the banning of trans people in the military, and the aftermath of pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Troy Iwata sets up an elaborate sting for J6 sex offenders. Plus, Sports War: Kosta and Ronny Chieng on Super Bowl Swifties, Philly celebrations, & NHL nachos.

Comedian and actor Lil Rel Howery chats about starring in the new animated film “Dog Man,” how therapy has benefited his life and his comedy, and the “Get Out” tagline that follows him at every T.S.A. checkpoint.

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With your host Michael Costa.

Welcome, Joe.

I'm Michael Cotta. We've got so much to talk about tonight. New press secretary who this Taylor Swift is going to the super Bowl, and the January sixth ers have.

A new hobby.

But first let's get to the latest news and the Trump administration. In another edition of the Second Coming of Donald J.

Trump, I'm gonna comedy.

Today was the first press conference for Donald Trump's Press secretary, Caroline Levitt. And if you assume she was a pretty white lady with a noticeable cross necklace, you were right. And of course she was Trump's press secretary during the campaign, but that was all about trashing Joe Biden. Now she's in an elevated position representing the White House and she's here to talk about what the administration is going to do moving forward.

When Joe Biden was in the Oval office or upstairs in the residents sleeping, I'm not so sure.

Oh shit, didn't you see that coming?

Did Joel Man Huh mailed your sleepy ass, but seriously, you get one, all right, So let's move forward today. Everyone wants to know about the federal spending freeze the Trump's been doing.

So what's that about.

We've seen the Biden administration spend money like drunken sailors.

Oh boom, trunken sailors.

Everyone knows they spent so much money. All right, that's two digs at Joe Biden. Get it out of your system, all right now, I don't want to hear anything else about Joe Biden.

Biden administration in the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than one hundred million chickens.

My god, one hundred million chickens. Do you even know how many chickens that is. We've got to bring this man to justice. If you see a man in aviator sunglasses driving a Corvette fifteen to twenty miles an hour, that man is Joe the chicken butcher Biden. The police have issued an APB for his arrest and to save time, a silver alert. Now, Biden's gonna say he killed those chickens because of bird flu. But that is no excuse, okay, And it's not okay to just kill chickens unless you.

Bred them, fry them, put in between two pieces of white bread, put two pickles on top. That's lunch. What was I talking about? Let's move on.

Let's move on, because while the press was attending the roast of Joe Biden, Donald Trump was busy getting our military in shape so he can finally fulfill our country's month old dream of conquering Greenland. And first we're gonna need to have as many troops as possible.

President Trump has signed several executive orders to reshape the military, including directive banning transgender service members.

Okay, did I say as many troops?

I mean fewer troops, right, you know what they say in the army, less is more.

Look, maybe they don't say that. I don't know, but that's Look.

I don't have a problem with transgender soldiers. As someone who peaes himself anytime he hears a loud noise, I think we should be grateful to anyone who's willing to put their life on the line, so I don't have to. But hey, yeah, okay, but I'm open mind? Id it about being closed minded? So what's the issue here?

President Trump signed an executive order calling transgender people.

Unfit to serve.

One part says being transgender is quote.

Not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.

Another says being trans conflicts with quote an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life.

Yeah, well, look, you know it makes sense that the military has to be honorable, truthful, and disciplined.

You know, sure, this is your.

Secretary of Defense. But that's all the more reason, that's all the more reason that the rest of them have to have their shit together. It's like how every Beatles album had to be packed with hits to make up for that one song that Ringo wrote about wanting to an octopus or whatever. I gotta say. The military sure has a lot of ethical rules for their mission of killing people. Hey, you want to blow some guys head off, you better say please and thank you. But to be fair, Trump had another argument against trans soldiers as well.

They specifically cite readiness with transition surgeries. If you have a transition surgery, the recovery time and the narcotics that you have to be on as part of the process could affect your readiness for up to twelve months.

Oh up, to twelve months. Do you know how long our wars last.

I think they'll have you back back in the game in no time. Vietnam War eleven years, Afghanistan War twenty years. Even our storage wars last fifteen seasons. First of all, transgender people make up point one percent of the military, So Commander in Chief, you're ruining the lives of people who are dedicated to serving America while doing nothing to affect the larger military. I don't see why a transition surgery should affect readiness more than any other surgery. Trump is acting like they're doing transition surgeries on the front lines.

Medic I need a medic over here.

We got to get this gaby a stat Also, what do you mean readiness? Modern war is just telling a drone to drop bombs. I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter what your sex is to go like this. That's how they dropped bump. But Trump isn't just doing bad things to good people. He's also doing good things to bad people. It's been a week since he pardoned everyone who had a normal tourist visit to the Capitol on January sixth, and I'm sure they're making the most of their second chance, right.

A man pardoned by President Trump for his role in the January sixth riot was shot and killed by an Indiana deputy during a traffic stop.

Okay, well except for that guy. I mean, that guy really wasted a presidential pardon. Look, if I ever get a presidential pardon, I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

What I'm not gonna do. I'm not gonna get shot to death. So what exactly happened there? Leisa?

The deputy tried to arrest Matthew Huddle on Sunday, but he resist and the deputy shot him. Investigators say Huddle had a gun.

Hmmm, a routine traffic stop ending in the police shooting a man they claimed had a gun. Ordinarily, this is the kind of thing Liberals would cry police brutality.

But if it's a January six er, you know, I've.

I have a feeling they're going to be like, oh, look, we need to back the blue on this one. Liberals are getting so much whiplash trying to decide if this cop is bad or good. Rachel Maddow is going to be in a neck brace. But aside from the ones who are dead, all the rest of the January sixth riders who Trump released from prison must be so happy.

Right now, Houston authorities are trying to find a man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in the January sixth riots. Andrew take is wanted for our twenty sixteen charge of a solicitation of a minor.

Okay, well, well not that guy.

Also stop, but look, any group as large as the January sixth crowd is going to have one sex screep in it. You know there's probably one in our audience right now, raise your hand if you're a sex screep. That guy in the plaid shirt, that woman, sir, Come on.

The point?

Is all the rest of the partners are. They're fine, They're doing fine.

A Mint Hill man who pleaded guilty to his involvement in January sixth, is possibly facing other charges. Court document show David Daniel is facing child pornography charges.

Wait, wait what?

I'm starting to worry that the people who broke into the capital and took a shit at Nancy Pelosi's desk are not upstanding citizens, you know what.

Forget about those two pedophiles. Andrew Kyle Grigsby of Louisville, who was pardoned for spraying Capitol police with bear spray. Is currently incarcerated in a Kentucky prison for two counts of child pornography.

Jesus Christ, at this point, it might have been better for them just to stay in prison, you know.

At least then they were heroes.

Now they're all going to individual prisons for child pornography.

Like, so, uh, do you guys have a choir?

So I'm all on the fallout of these January sixth pardons, we turned to Troy Iwata.

Well, it seems like it seems like a lot of these people.

Who got pardons have other problems with the law.

Yes, Michael, I don't want to overgeneralize, but it does seem like one hundred percent of them are sex criminals.

Okay, that does seem like an overgeneralization.

It does, doesn't it.

You know, that's like saying all trans people are unfit to serve in the military.

It's ridiculous. Okay, Okay, Well, how are.

Well how are the police going to recapture these people wanted for sex crimes?

Oh?

I don't think the police would waste their time on these silly predators. But hey, random, did you know they're certifying Joe Biden as president again right in the Capitol building over there. It would be a shame if any January sixers stormed in there to stop him from taking power.

That looks like a prison. No, no, no, this.

Is This is the US Capitol, obviously, and they are about to certify Joe.

Biden right over there.

Just pass those heavy barn doors of the Capitol that lock from the outside.

Troy, Is this an elaborate sting to catch the child predators that did January sixth.

Shut the cup costa? This is a very real thing that's happening.

Ooh ooh.

Look look there's Mike Pence just walking around with his neck fully exposed. And oh no, a whole bus just broke down and it's full of junior cheerleaders.

Will no one help them?

Come on, Troy, Troy, they're not gonna buy that.

You're right, Michael.

The people who thought the election was stolen can't be tricked. Oh my god, Nancy Pelosi's desk just walked by, and it's looking clean. It would be a shame if someone re shat on.

It, Troy. Her desk just walked by.

It did, alongside Hunter Biden and the whole cast of high school musical, the musical, the series, and all of them want to try this Mike's hard lemonade.

Fun.

You better get down your patriots because their parents won't be home until morning.

Good luck, Troy, Troy, Awanta, everybody.

When we come back, we go to war with sports. They don't go away. Welcome back to those show.

I think I speak for everyone when I say politics rules, but sports rules. For full recap of the biggest stories in the world of Jackson Straps, we turned to Sports War.

Ready for bed, He's time.

Talk to you about camp. This cool responsibility is till I'm nuts time right yet?

And I'm Michael the rob Dog Costa And this is Sports War, the show where we are legally not allowed to agree with each other.

That's right.

So if I say football games should only be played indoors, then.

I say every game should be played like that scene in top Gun, shirtless on the beach and in slow motion.

All right, let's get to the biggest story in sports right now.

We gotta NFL Super Bowl rematch for the ages.

Philadelphia Eagles was as the Kansas City Chiefs, and that means all of our tension will be on one thing.

Taylor Swift.

The Kansas City Chiefs are headed to their third straight Super Bowl after defeeding the Buffalo Bills.

As the confetti found Taylor Swift joined in on the celebration, sharing a kiss with boyfriend Travis Kelcey.

Sports betting sites they're already coming up with proc best like how many times will you see her? What else that will we have on at the bo's some gutsier ones like well, Travis.

Kelsey propose, Hell yeah, love is in the air and I just spent all my heart medication money on it.

Now.

If Travis doesn't go down on one knee, he'll break two hearts. If Travis pops the question, I'm popping bobbles. In fact, I'm doubling down on a pregnancy parlay in November.

Okay, Hey, you don't know a thing about love cost That's why it's so easy for me to catfish you into thinking I was a busty twenty five year old from Ukraine.

Wrong again. I knew it was you the whole time, and I'm in love with you. What we have is real.

Besides, I needed something to bet on since the NFL rigged the game for the Chiefs.

Okay, Look, the NFL is not rigged for the Chiefs.

It comes down to talent.

Okay, it's like calling this show rigged just because I win every argument. Okay, I got the brains of Bill Belichick, and you look like the son of Force Gump.

Well, mama always says, Ronnie Chang's a huge piece of shit, Which brings us to our NFL Big Game bet of the week. Now, legally we can't say the name of the Big Game in a bet or the NFL will sue us, but I can present you my Super Bowl spelled differently better the week. Well, the NFL declared the Chiefs winners before the start.

Of the second quarter, brought to you by gambling. Gambling.

You don't even have to know a shady Italian guy to do it anymore.

Now, look, the.

Game won't all be a about stupid love stories. The Chiefs will be taking on the Eagles, and Philly is already practicing for victory celebration.

Philidelphia is Eagles fans spilled onto the streets celebrating their big win.

This was the scene as tens of thousands packed Broad Street.

Philadelphia's Mayor Charrell Parker tried to fire up fans, he let a chant spelling the team's name Eagles.

Let me hear you.

All saying hee oh heeee.

Yes, you're out of the spelling bee.

Now step aside and watch an Indian kid crush your dreams.

This kind of behavior is exactly.

Why the Eagles don't deserve another championship. Their fans don't even care enough about the team to spell their name right.

Even Ronnie can.

Spell Eagles, and he can't even speak English.

I wish I didn't speak English. My life would be so much better if I could not understand you.

Right.

This is exactly why I love the Eagles. Even their fans have CTE.

The last time the.

Eagles won the Super Bowl, a fan voluntarily ate horseshit to celebrate, even though no one asked them to do it.

Okay, Meanwhile, the.

Streets of New York City are filled to the brim of horseshit because it's been so long since either New York team won a Super Bowl. So please win already, so Costa can start licking these streets clean, which brings us.

To the Ronnie soup or bull bed of the.

Week, which animals feces can I trick costa nay eating brought to you by gambling.

Gambling.

Home ownership is a burden, all right, stop laughing.

Let's move on from the NFL to a story none of you have seen because it's about hockey.

The Washington Capitals escaped with a three to two road win over the Oilers last night, in a game the Capital's goalie Logan Thompson might argue should not have been so close.

That's because Thompson says he.

Was distracted by a tray of nachos on the ice as he gave up a in the third period.

Two among us.

Really, the nachos, having been tossed onto the ring by a fan, did not interfere with Oilers players as they skated into the Capitol zone and took the shot from a few feet from the discarded snack.

Wow, these athletes have become so soft they're getting the ass with by nachos. Hey, let hockey fans be pile of the game and throw whatever they.

Want on the rink.

Okay, popcorn, divorce papers, their most aerodynamic children get you brought them to a hockey game.

You already a bad father. Now shut your pucking mouth.

Ronnie All right, These nachos created a dangerous situation for players who should have been focused on beating.

The teeth out of each other. Plus, it's really.

Hard to do your job when a stupid, annoying piece of trash is in your peripheral vision. In that analogy, Ronnie, you are the wet, cold trash nachos. Boom, the raw dog is killing it tonight. How's that raw.

Dog costa caso? Taste it?

Which brings us to our micro causa is super Bowl bet of the night? How many people would mourn if Ronnie slipped and drown in a vat of nacho cheese? As always brought to you by gambling? Gambling? Your mom's atm.

Pen is probably your birthday?

All right, Well, that's all the time we have for today. Join us next week when we debate if a tie really is as bad as kissing your sister.

Well, I can tell you from personal experience it's not nearly as hot.

How would you know that kiss?

Welcome back to the Dall Show.

My guest tonight is a comedian an actor who stars in the new animated film dog Man.

Please welcome, Lil Rel, Howray.

Look at us, We're looking good.

Now you look great. I look cold.

No, this movie's fun. This movie is fun.

I mean you've been performing for everybody for many, many years, but this is a kid's film.

Yeah.

Tell me about knowing they're going.

To be listening and watching you change up your strategy at all.

All I did was not curse.

Same energy, same So in that clip when the police chief is walking around with his hand and doing are you doing that in the booth?

Am?

I like like taking my hand? Yeah, that's weird. No, I don't do it.

I don't book a lot of animation.

I said in all my auditions, and I'm going like this, why did you bring craps? Yeah, but you were told to bring some crazy extra noises.

I mean that's what any of this stuff.

Because kids, you gotta like be very very very very animated.

Yeah.

And my kids pick on me because they so, I guess as a dad, I'm usually pretty chill like this. My kids say I got a performance voice, and so it's really irritating it Like dad, you you know, around the house, she's like, hey, what's up?

But they you on TV?

Like, hey, I'm around everybody up.

Are your kids? It doesn't matter what we do are kids.

Kids are so mean.

Yeah, it's unbelievable.

I kissed my daughter this morning and she says, get away from me with your pooh poop breath, little rel.

She's thirty one years old. Are your kids proud of dog Man? Are they older? Uh? Thank you? Thank you? Are they are? They? Are they proud of dog Man? Do they care? Yeah? They well, I read the books to them.

They're teenagers now, so, like you know, they always excited about all the projects I do, but they're really excited because like the chief character. Once again, my kids are bullies, you know what I mean? So cheap is a lot like me because I'm always irritated. So my kids love laughing at me being irritated. So like we go to dinner and somebody like messing my order and not gonna start making my face like here you go Like so like, yeah, I'm a lot chief character.

Because of that.

Yeah, they like when you get mad.

They love me being annoyed. It's so it's annoying how much? And then they're telling their friends. I'm like, got these group of teenagers all laughing at me, waiting on me to be annoyed, righty, it's really these are me like thirty one year olds out it say you have poopy but right terrible.

I can't believe it. Uh you read these so I was unfamiliar.

But I love this movie very made me laugh a lot of little Easter eggs for adults as well in the But you read the book to some kids in the Bronx, Yeah, I did tell me about that experience, and how did they react that.

We have a couple of pictures of that. I think, So, look at you. Yeah, that's pretty great. He can read amazing reading.

No, that's but you know what I'm laughing at because so I just turned forty five.

Saying yeah, thank you brever y nice.

And so as you can see, I have my glasses off because I'm at the age where like anything too close I can't see it because I got I do have the glasses where he got the near sighted at the top and the farre sighted at the bottom. And I was trying to be cool in front of the kids, so I wore like the ones that just the one prescription, and so I was like, dang, I gotta read and.

Right it's nothing is So I fell off a curb two days ago.

I ran my ankle.

I took Oh, yeah, you're gonna crutch it.

Yeah. I took the book out and I couldn't see it.

So I had to tell you that it is crazy when you got to explain something about being forty five to seven year olds you don't care. I was like, oh, yeah, you know, because I got to take these off because I'm forty five years old and I can't see. I could see, Okay, what chapter are we on?

Right there?

They didn't care?

Who so this? You don't have to answer this if you don't want to.

But I did think about this when I was watching the film because dog Man is half dog, half man?

So who does he does?

He? Does?

He does?

He?

Humans? Does he? Dogs? And I promise you no other press is going to ask you this.

Oh you guys didn't think, you know, not as nobody thought about.

Right, Why are y'all blig because I'm gonna really answer this question?

Oh you really want to help? That's just a thought.

First of all, you said there with the news anchor Faith, I know what's the answer, right, but it's weird because that's a that's a great, really dark question.

And you're a stand up comic and so you appreciate yeah, because I'm like, yeah, yeah.

I'm scared.

Well, I can't say what I want to think because we're still doing press for this movie.

But but your stand up you've been doing stand up specials, and in this last special, well you've talked openly about how vulner you've become in some of your stand up and you spoke openly about some of the therapy you've tackled.

Oh yea, I love therapy.

Tell me about it.

I love give it up with therapy.

You get therapy, and you get therapy.

You get therapy.

Talk to me about the love of therapy, because it's nice to have two men openly talking about therapy.

And those are the women that are trying to bring us down.

You know something, It's it's changed my life in so many ways. I think it's made me a funnier comic because not everything from a very dark place anymore. And maybe like just pretty much talk about anything. But therapy has been so beautiful. Like I'm at the happiest I've ever been because I've been able to impact things over time.

So, yeah, you're.

You're a busy guy. Are you doing Is it like phone therapy? Is it zoom?

Are you in a you know, on set, like and this is the way it made me feel, and you know that type of thing.

I do both back.

It depends on what my scheduling is, because I do like going in person.

It's just in person is always.

So crazy because like, especially if you've been crying a little bit, it's like awkward when you leave, Like you could tell the therapist want you to go because it's time. They keep doing this.

Yeah yeah, but you like this, and so they're like yeah, so uh.

I get the.

I get the Zell request for payment. As I'm like shutting the door behind, I'm like, it's that transactional. I have to tell you that whenever my wife and I travel and something happens to one of us at TSA, I had a little pocket knife and they took it or the bubble of water Wait wait.

Wait what you brought a pocket knife?

Yeah? Yeah, I didn't know it was there. I'm always armed. I got a bunch of crazy people. No I had.

I had a little knife I bought upstate New York that I loved, and then I left in my backpack and I got That's not the story here. The story here is that whenever TSA interrupts us. We always say your line from get Out, which is to the TS mother, they handle shit, and I just want to know that you're in my life, You're you're in my marriage.

I mean, that's weird, but you know what, you know what I mean. I love that film.

Tell me a little bit about get Out for the Get Out.

Fans and that character and it's it's.

You know, I'll say this, especially having a tag line, it's not too many times you could do a movie or you have something like this was my yippiek mother, So that had TS mother A is still like one of my favorite. But I hate when you I do go to the airport and I always thought I have favorite the doing a movie like oh yeah, look out for me, and he'll be like, oh yeah, TS mother.

Take your shoes off, thank you very much for coming. Dog Man will be in the theaters everywhere.

It's thirty five.

Alright, let me take you Qick regull be right back after this got that's a show for tonight now here. It is your moment of zem.

And now they're resorting to what telling us that Trump supporters can't eat Mexican food if.

You voter for Trump.

You are not allowed in Mexico.

No tacos, no and chill outs.

None of that for you.

Oh yeah, what are you gonna do? William?

Come take it out of my ham.

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