The Mike Calta Show Featured Cut of the Day
MIKE NEEDS TO MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2026 · 29 min · 15 segments
The Mike Calta Show Featured Cut
The Mike Calta Show Featured Cut of the Day
Oct 21, 2026 · 29 min · 15 segments
The Mike Calta Show Featured Cut
This is an open letter to people that need to stay out of other people's business.
Dear people that need to stay out of other people's business: Seriously? We talked about the HOA that was telling people they couldn't give out full-size candy bars for Halloween.
I get having rules so that people don't have overgrown laws or make it so Claire doesn't have her house painted hot pink with purple polka dots or, God forbid, someone parks their work truck in the grass.
[chuckles] But telling people what candy they can give out on Halloween seems like one step too far.
It's kind of like your gym having rules that says, "You must wipe down your machines after using it.
You also have to vote Democrat in the next election, and your teen son has to get a gender reassignment surgery by next Wednesday." We, uh, have an entire generation of self-appointed hall monitors running around like they've been deputized by the Federal Bureau of None of Your Business.
Everybody has an opinion on what you're doing, what you're eating, who you're dating, what you're driving, and how you should be spending your money.
How about you investigate your own life that looks like a garage sale after a tornado before you're giving out advice? When did everybody become an unpaid supervisor of everybody else's existence? There's people out there whose own lives look like a porta potty after Ozzfest, and they're walking around giving everybody else advice.
You can't even walk outside and get your mail without a neighbor peering through their blinds like a retired CIA operative monitoring a Cuban m- a missile silo.
And social media has turned every idiot with a Wi-Fi connection into the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
People who can't figure out how to reset their microwave clock are now conducting full-scale investigations into strangers' personal lives.
Who's that? Who's that woman standing next to him at Applebee's?" I don't know, Nancy.
And why is there always the person who says, "Well, I'm just concerned"? Are you? That's fascinating, because your concern looks an awful like, uh...
You're bored, and because your personal life is less, uh, active than a Blockbuster Video on a Tuesday in 2026, you feel like you need to be involved in everybody else's personal life.
Instead of worrying about everybody else and what they're doing, why don't you try this? Get a hobby.
This is an open letter to people that need to stay out of other people's business.
Dear people that need to stay out of other people's business: Seriously? We talked about the HOA that was telling people they couldn't give out full-size candy bars for Halloween.
I get having rules so that people don't have overgrown laws or make it so Claire doesn't have her house painted hot pink with purple polka dots or, God forbid, someone parks their work truck in the grass.
[chuckles] But telling people what candy they can give out on Halloween seems like one step too far.
It's kind of like your gym having rules that says, "You must wipe down your machines after using it.
You also have to vote Democrat in the next election, and your teen son has to get a gender reassignment surgery by next Wednesday." We, uh, have an entire generation of self-appointed hall monitors running around like they've been deputized by the Federal Bureau of None of Your Business.
Everybody has an opinion on what you're doing, what you're eating, who you're dating, what you're driving, and how you should be spending your money.
How about you investigate your own life that looks like a garage sale after a tornado before you're giving out advice? When did everybody become an unpaid supervisor of everybody else's existence? There's people out there whose own lives look like a porta potty after Ozzfest, and they're walking around giving everybody else advice.
You can't even walk outside and get your mail without a neighbor peering through their blinds like a retired CIA operative monitoring a Cuban m- a missile silo.
And social media has turned every idiot with a Wi-Fi connection into the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
People who can't figure out how to reset their microwave clock are now conducting full-scale investigations into strangers' personal lives.
Who's that? Who's that woman standing next to him at Applebee's?" I don't know, Nancy.
And why is there always the person who says, "Well, I'm just concerned"? Are you? That's fascinating, because your concern looks an awful like, uh...
You're bored, and because your personal life is less, uh, active than a Blockbuster Video on a Tuesday in 2026, you feel like you need to be involved in everybody else's personal life.
Instead of worrying about everybody else and what they're doing, why don't you try this? Get a hobby.
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