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Unless it was. I guess it was because

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Harrison, I had to open an episode about

2:56

a terrible, terrible piece of voice acting history

2:58

with some horrible voice acting of my own.

3:00

It was the only right way. That's true.

3:02

It's true. There has been some really bad

3:04

voice acting going around lately. Yes.

3:09

Oh boy. So do you know what we're going to

3:11

talk about today? Robert? We're going to talk about

3:13

the South Park of X.

3:16

And I know what you're all wondering. What the fuck

3:19

is X? Did you guys? Is that

3:21

a placeholder? Did you like type in a

3:23

placeholder because you forgot the name of

3:25

what this is the South Park

3:28

of or whatever? No, no, no. We're talking

3:30

about Twitter. We

3:32

are talking about the first

3:34

animated sit slash com on

3:37

X slash Twitter titled The

3:40

New Norm Show. Not to be confused

3:42

with the 2022 low budget movie The

3:44

New Norm. This is a

3:46

new animated project from the great minds

3:48

over at Dave

3:51

Rubin Incorporated. Yeah. That

3:53

was so bad, but also so insightful

3:56

that I did

3:58

a whole bunch of drugs and wrote. about

4:03

this project and uncovered some kind of

4:06

shocking things that we will slowly get

4:08

into. I first want to just go

4:10

over the mini pilot itself because

4:12

right now the only thing that's out is like

4:15

this three minute or so little mini pilot. And

4:18

we'll get into why this is the only thing that's out right now. But

4:21

I first just want to do kind of like a short

4:23

play by play and it will be short because again it's

4:25

only three minutes. Yeah. Of

4:27

what what happens in this

4:30

new perspective animated sitcom that

4:32

they want to air on

4:34

twitter.com now known as X. Yes.

4:37

So I think the first thing

4:39

you need to know about it, you

4:41

know, besides, you know, the Dave Rubinness

4:43

of it all, it looks like early

4:45

2000s flash animation. Like really bad early

4:47

2000s flash animation. It's not good. It's not good. None

4:50

of the characters can like really

4:53

express things and the

4:55

perspective is always a little bit off. Yeah. It

4:58

looks like something like a moderately

5:00

competent person could have animated in this course

5:02

of an afternoon if the people paying them

5:04

did not actually want anything that looked very

5:06

good. Well, and I think that is kind

5:08

of what happened. They posted one video showing

5:10

the animating process and it does look like

5:12

just one person did it in like a

5:14

day. So anyway,

5:16

it starts with an older man sitting in a

5:19

living room chair scratching at an ankle monitor. He

5:22

reaches for a beer only to find

5:24

that it's been woke a fight with

5:26

rainbow packaging. The man reacts in horror

5:28

and his more liberal daughter remarks progress.

5:30

It's the new norm and

5:32

then a pandering country music theme song plays,

5:35

which we will play for you later just

5:37

because it's so bad. We're going

5:39

to have to. I want to start just

5:42

because this is the first shot of the

5:44

episode and it was the first thing in

5:46

the episode that made me very angry and

5:48

it's how small his feet are. Like,

5:52

especially if you're going to have them rob.

5:55

Rob Liefeld feet. He's got the field

5:57

feet and it's this is particularly. particularly a

6:00

problem because the ankle monitor doesn't look like

6:02

it's going to be a one-off joke because

6:04

he doesn't just have an ankle monitor. He

6:06

has like an evil Amazon Alexa

6:08

that looks a little bit like it's got some

6:11

HAL 9000 DNA in it. That

6:13

every time he says something that's not woke

6:15

enough, it yells at

6:18

him, right? It yells offensive, offensive,

6:20

yeah. Yeah,

6:22

the fantasy progressive government that

6:24

is in charge in this

6:27

cartoon world has forced him

6:29

to wear an ankle monitor because he's not woke enough.

6:32

And so I'm guessing that's going to be

6:34

a recurrent bit. And if the fact that

6:37

he has the sentient ankle monitor is a

6:39

recurrent bit, his feet shouldn't look like the

6:41

ankle monitor should always be falling off of

6:43

them. No, it's so loose. It's really bad

6:46

animation, right? Like, I'm not even

6:48

saying that's a good bit, but if that's

6:50

your bit, you have to actually design the

6:52

characters to sell the bit, as opposed to

6:54

me constantly thinking, how is that fucking ankle

6:56

monitor staying on his goddamn ankle? The

6:59

character is not designed with the ankle monitor in

7:01

mind. That was a later edition. So anyway, after

7:03

the theme song, the man addresses

7:05

the audience. He says, I'm the

7:07

old norm. I want normal beer. God

7:11

damn it. I

7:13

just want to point out, this is like the only character

7:15

that gets an introduction. We

7:17

don't really learn almost anyone else's names except

7:19

for one other character, which

7:22

is just great for like a pilot.

7:24

Anyway, so he steps towards his front

7:26

door and the ankle monitor starts beeping.

7:28

He blames his liberal daughter for being

7:30

put on house arrest for quote unquote,

7:32

threatening the school board, which he

7:35

says he did because the school was quote, brainwashing

7:37

kids into thinking girls aren't girls and men aren't

7:39

men. His daughter

7:41

says, sometimes they're neither or both

7:43

or dressed like dogs. Anyway,

7:47

his wife comes home. Oh God.

7:49

Yeah, there's a real furry obsession

7:51

in this show. I

7:53

guess we'll talk about that later too. Because

7:56

this was birth years ago. This is not

7:58

like a modern current take on wokeism. But

8:01

his wife comes home and with her is

8:03

someone wearing a COVID mask Sporting

8:05

a pink mohawk and here I'm gonna play

8:07

our first clip Actually

8:13

that is one of my pronouns

8:15

also they them and How

8:22

do you know that word I learned it

8:24

in school that's why I'm locked up norm

8:26

the judge agreed to Conditional

8:29

parole what condition

8:32

Where is my room That's

8:35

staying here Chas

8:37

is part of a new government

8:39

program to reeducate homophobic transphobic

8:43

racist Charlie

8:45

finally someone normal. I I

8:48

don't understand you're black Did

8:52

that just black whisper? You're

8:55

his friend and boss So

8:57

something that isn't fully conveyed just through the

9:00

sound is that when the daughter finds out

9:02

that this new person is non-binary She gets

9:04

like big big like lovey eyes Yeah,

9:07

and the black boss

9:09

character. He is played by

9:11

failed politician at Larry Elder

9:13

and he's my god. That's Larry Elder

9:18

Yes, oh that's funny

9:20

that's so funny He's just

9:22

there to show that black people

9:24

like Norm right?

9:26

Yes exactly that the progressives actually are racist

9:28

for not liking norm because the only black

9:30

person They're going to put in this show

9:33

thinks that he's rad It's just a normal

9:35

thing that you do if you're a right-wing

9:37

hack making a low-budget cartoon

9:40

He is wearing by the way a

9:42

Washington Redskins hat and shirt and shirt

9:46

Just continued four years ago Yeah, and

9:48

his first his opening line in the

9:50

show is him coming in and saying

9:52

I come over here to escape woke

9:55

Yes, yeah, I what thing I do think

9:57

is interesting is that both this

9:59

character? Because Larry Elder makes a

10:01

note that his son is about to transition

10:03

and is at least non-binary. They don't really

10:05

know what any of this means, so a

10:08

little bit of the script is unclear as

10:10

to what these kids actually, how they identify.

10:13

And obviously Norm's daughter is, I

10:15

don't know if she's non-binary or

10:17

just into generally queer,

10:20

but that is the impression you're

10:22

left with. And again, if you

10:24

actually were someone who was

10:26

conservative or conservative sympathetic, like Mike

10:28

Judge making a cartoon, you could

10:30

actually get some mileage out of

10:32

the accepting the idea that, okay,

10:34

you've got these curmudgeonly older people

10:36

and you've got their kids who

10:38

are way more open

10:41

about this kind of stuff. And

10:43

there's room for plots, as King of

10:45

the Hill did pretty well, that

10:47

kind of lampoon the culture

10:49

in general, but it

10:51

requires a little more self-awareness. Like again,

10:54

if there was a little bit, you might wonder like, what

10:57

are we saying if we're the people

10:59

making this right wing piece of propaganda

11:01

that all of the young people feel

11:03

very differently about gender than their parents?

11:06

Yeah. That's why Norm

11:08

keeps saying, I'm the old Norm I want to

11:11

be here. And the show is called The New

11:13

Norm, not to be confused with the 1999 ABC

11:15

sitcom, the storing

11:17

Norm McDonald called it The Norm Show. It's

11:20

literally in the name. It's about

11:22

how these people cannot accept

11:24

that times change and they

11:27

slowly get outdated social beliefs. Anyway,

11:29

every single time that Norm addresses the

11:32

non-binary character, referring to them as pronoun

11:35

or that, his

11:37

little AI Amazon assistant just bleeps

11:39

out offensive, offensive. Chaz

11:43

is here to re-educate Norm.

11:46

In non-bonery studies. I'm

11:50

allergic to dogs. It's

11:52

okay. Billy is an emotional

11:54

support dog and non-binary. Oh,

11:57

okay then. Good dog. Just

12:00

amazing voice acting in that clip and with

12:02

a helpful laugh track So you know what

12:04

is a joke and when you're supposed to

12:06

laugh which is so embarrassing for

12:09

an animated sitcom To put

12:11

on a laugh track like oh my god.

12:13

Oh my god It's

12:16

max of desperation because nobody

12:18

really liked nobody misses laugh

12:20

tracks Laugh tracks are

12:22

like if you have a live studio audience, you

12:25

know a laugh track kind of like makes sense

12:27

This is this is an animated sitcom. It's like

12:29

if there's a laugh track on like Rick and

12:32

Morty or like The Simpsons Like what the fuck

12:34

are you doing? Yeah, anyway, the two men sit

12:36

down to watch sports and Larry Elder laments

12:39

that a non-binary person is present in

12:41

the room and starts complaining about his

12:43

child I Come here to

12:45

get away from woke trouble

12:47

at home My boy

12:50

or whatever it calls themselves

12:52

now is thinking about transitioning

12:56

Try Regina transitioning

12:58

to what Whatever

13:01

it calls themself now amazing

13:03

pronoun usage another fumble now

13:05

norm tosses the gay beer

13:07

to Chas the non-binary character

13:09

Chas Chas

13:11

Chas fumbles the catch and

13:13

says that's not even that's

13:16

not a gay zoomer name Chas is

13:18

like something a Like

13:21

that's that's very Gen X Chas

13:24

totally. Yeah, well again, it's just not because

13:26

this is all made by Gen X people.

13:28

Yeah, exactly Yes, Chas fumbles the catch and

13:31

says that they can't drink because they're not

13:33

21 and Larry Elder replies Y'all

13:35

influence my boy to cut off his junk but

13:37

draw the line at beer and then

13:40

Chas hides behind the couch To

13:42

call upper-level government operatives who

13:44

are advising them on this

13:47

reeducation assignment I

13:49

got it before we get into this I

13:51

want to start with what doesn't make sense about

13:54

that bit Which is that if Chas was

13:56

straight edge, right and they were kind of

13:58

sure if they actually knew anything about about the

14:00

real sort of cultural kind of divides that are

14:02

coming in around Gen Z and Gen Alpha,

14:04

they could have made a point that like,

14:06

yeah, this generation of kids doesn't

14:08

get drunk and do drugs the

14:10

way millennials did. And that's an

14:13

actual cultural cleavage point. But Chaz

14:15

is not straight edge. Chaz is

14:17

just saying, I cannot legally drink

14:19

beer. Right? No

14:21

gay person has ever said. Which no gay, but

14:23

it like the fact that the- Unless they're straight

14:25

edge, yeah. Larry Elder then comes in and says

14:28

like, oh, this is a characteristic,

14:30

but it wasn't like a characteristic of you

14:32

queer Gen Z kids. But the

14:34

queer Gen Z kid did not express that

14:36

as like a characteristic of his identity. No.

14:39

He was just stating, this is illegal, right? I

14:41

can't because it's illegal. Yeah, very funny. Yeah, anyway,

14:43

anyway. When Chaz has

14:45

his conference calling with this upper level

14:47

government, we have this general in like

14:50

a kink dog mask who barks. And

14:53

there's a trans woman admiral who says, find

14:55

a way to break him. Maybe we can

14:57

fix the country. I

15:00

believe the admiral is

15:02

a really transphobic character of

15:04

US assistant secretary for health, Rachel Levine.

15:06

And it's not even a good character.

15:08

It's just that. No, it doesn't look

15:11

like her at all. There's also another

15:13

character, which

15:15

Robert identified as a possible hate crime

15:19

and tasked me with locating who this person

15:21

is. And I believe with about 100%

15:23

certainty that this

15:25

is a character of Sam Brinton,

15:28

who was appointed the deputy assistant secretary

15:30

of spent fuel and waste disposition in

15:32

the office of nuclear energy. Are you

15:34

kidding me? Department of energy. Now. These

15:37

people are so fucking conservative social

15:40

media brain. What are you fucking?

15:43

Come on. Brinton may be well

15:45

known to some of our listeners

15:47

as being let go in late 2022 after

15:50

being linked to a series of airport

15:52

luggage thefts. One of the

15:55

funniest things that's ever happened. This

15:57

person could not stop stealing

15:59

luggage. from airports so

16:01

much that they got fired from the Department of Energy.

16:04

That's amazing. This goes back to

16:06

like 2018 years. God,

16:09

that's funny. Years of airport luggage theft.

16:11

It's so funny. But again, if this was a

16:14

good comedy thing, they would have some kind of

16:16

bit like maybe they would be holding like

16:18

a collection of luggage. But

16:21

no, they're just standing behind the

16:23

Progress Pride Flight. Like that's it. Like it's

16:25

not funny. Again, because the actual

16:27

funny thing about this would be to have

16:30

like your government character be someone at the

16:32

Department of Energy who got taxed with this

16:34

through some sort of incoherent DEI narrative. And

16:36

also a character trait is they

16:38

are always stealing luggage. And like you could

16:40

actually build bits around that over time. But

16:43

they just, they threw all these people in

16:45

knowing that like the 200 people who are

16:48

as right wing online as them would get

16:50

who all these were as opposed to doing

16:52

the thing that you would do if you

16:54

were actually making a show for mainstream consumption,

16:56

which is like make fun of people that

16:58

the audience will recognize. Throw

17:01

a Joe Biden in there, right? Like

17:03

obviously you're doing this in 2024. Like

17:06

where is anyone that someone

17:08

who's not completely lost their mind to

17:11

this stuff will recognize? And

17:13

this is the climax of the pilot. It's

17:17

so bad. After

17:19

Chaz has this little phone call, the

17:22

fake camera zooms back to show

17:24

a fake animated studio audience and

17:26

the bad country theme song plays

17:29

once again. And now I will

17:31

play it for you because this

17:34

section is both so pandering, but

17:36

also oddly genuine towards the end.

17:39

And there are more of me,

17:41

same as the old norm. Everything's

17:46

changing and I don't know

17:48

when. This

17:51

whole nightmare will end, thank God

17:54

for you on those. And

17:56

this shit most means, it's

17:59

just the whole. free

18:01

speech. When

18:03

the song goes, thank God for

18:05

Elon Musk and his shitpost memes

18:07

and says the home for free

18:09

speech an unvoiced

18:11

animated Elon Musk pops through

18:13

the door for no reason.

18:17

And he's, someone on Twitter took a

18:20

screen grab of the Elon Musk and said they

18:22

gave him that Insmouth look and he does look

18:24

like one of the fish

18:27

people from Insmouth. It's not a flattering

18:29

caricature. I think it's meant to be. It is.

18:32

Because like, it's, I don't know. This

18:34

is a really interesting moment because this is where it gets

18:36

like kind of

18:39

like genuine. Jess Hawken wrote,

18:41

the part that blows my mind about this video

18:43

is the Elon Musk cameo where

18:45

the bitterness and resentment of the

18:47

video melts away into still believing

18:49

in Santa Claus. And

18:52

it gets just so weirdly genuine with this,

18:54

with this kind of heartfelt saccharine

18:56

Elon Musk ending. Well speaking

18:59

of genuine garrison, the main

19:01

thing that's genuine is our love of

19:03

these sponsors. This

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morning of November 13th, 2022, four

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University of

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Idaho students killed. Police

19:35

have no suspect and no murder

19:37

weapon. A nationwide manhunt captivates

19:40

the world. Moscow

19:42

PD saying today they're now looking for

19:44

a white hondai alantra. Then a shocking

19:47

arrest. There is now a

19:49

suspect in custody. This is a

19:51

PhD student in criminology. This is the guy.

19:55

Will he be found innocent? He claims he

19:57

has an alibi. Or

19:59

faced. death. Listen

20:02

to season 2 of the Idaho massacre on

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the I heart radio app Apple podcast or

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wherever you get your podcasts.

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From the writer of Amazon Prime's

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red white and royal blue comes

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mystery does this murder make me

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look gay. I still want to

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stand that it's probable that whoever

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room. Lock her up. Lock

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her up. You killed your daddy.

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You don't get anything busy. I

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mean the Monroe estate and I

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23:33

after watching this pilot, there's a lot

23:36

of questions to be asked. Why is

23:38

there a fake animated studio audience? You

23:41

know, pretty bad. My friend, Ellie Ehrman,

23:43

pointed out, like, why is the protagonist

23:45

so unpleasant, even in their perfect fantasy

23:47

world? And also, why is the word

23:50

sitcom hyphenated in the title? Something

23:52

that you don't do. Just a lot

23:54

of baffling things. So there

23:57

was a mix of reactions to this. You

23:59

know, some of the blue. checks on Twitter

24:01

were kind of lapping this stuff up. One

24:03

person with the username AmazingGainingProductions wrote, I know

24:05

some people are critiquing it, but my fiance

24:07

and I laughed at a couple points. It's

24:09

a good start. I hope you continue to

24:11

work on it. We need all of the

24:13

indie material we can create. And

24:16

included in this tweet is a picture

24:18

of a

24:20

very poorly drawn avatar saying,

24:23

Hi, my name is Indie

24:25

David. I'm here to fight

24:27

Goliath mainstream. Oh my God.

24:29

Amazing Gaming Productions is a

24:31

gamergate2 themed gaming company who

24:33

wants to create anti-woke games

24:35

they've done in nothing. They

24:38

just post really bad artwork. And

24:42

I cannot overstate how bad

24:44

this cartoon is. Why

24:46

is the next so wide and so

24:48

long? For how bad the TV show's

24:50

animation is, this reply was just so

24:53

bad. I had to point it out.

24:55

Just incredible. Now, Dave

24:57

Rubin, the possible alleged

24:59

potential most likely creator of the

25:01

show, does air his work on

25:04

Blaze TV by Glenn Beck. And

25:09

even other Glenn Beck employees

25:11

could not help but point out

25:13

how terrible this is. Logan

25:15

Hall, writer for Glenn Beck's The

25:17

Blaze wrote, quote, TV shows on

25:19

leftism, the cringiest, most unwatchable, nauseating

25:21

trash ever created. TV shows on

25:24

conservatism, somehow even worse. And

25:27

one of the most brain poisoned conservative cartoonist, George Aksopolos,

25:32

basically like a discount stone toss, wrote, quote,

25:34

South Park had edge. This has as much

25:36

edge as uncooked sourdough. Between this and the

25:38

Daily Wire's limp cartoon, they may as well

25:40

be flushing money down the toilet. He then

25:43

went on to say, give me a small

25:45

team, a million dollars and total creative

25:48

control and we will make a cartoon pilot that will

25:50

melt faces. So again, he just wants to take

25:53

to get his own his own TV

25:55

show. But a whole bunch of these,

25:57

you know, kind of right wing cultural.

26:00

critics were not enthused with this

26:02

outing because it's really bad. So

26:04

I want to get into kind

26:06

of who is behind this. Now

26:09

the full, I hesitate to say

26:12

creative team, but the

26:14

people behind the new Norm show, not to

26:19

be confused with the Fox two season documentary show, the

26:21

new Norm, have been largely

26:23

kept secret possibly out of fears

26:26

of humiliation. Yeah, that's

26:28

how you know it's a good show. But we

26:30

at least do know some of the

26:32

voice cast, right? Larry Elder plays the

26:34

token black conservative who only exists to

26:36

affirm that the main character isn't actually

26:38

racist. Now I doubt Larry Elder has

26:40

much involvement beyond lending his voice. And

26:43

the other two confirmed voice again,

26:45

I hesitate to use the

26:47

word talent or even actor, but the other

26:50

two voice contributors are Dave

26:52

Rubin and JP Sears. Now I

26:54

believe these two could

26:56

be could be much more critical to

26:58

like what makes up the comedy of the new

27:00

Norm show, not to be confused with the Oatly

27:02

oat milk series of online puppet shorts titled the

27:04

new Norm and Al show. Now

27:07

I assume most people listening to this are

27:09

familiar with Dave Rubin. Like

27:11

many of these right wing influencers, he's a

27:13

failed comedian turned political podcaster who's been positioning

27:16

himself further and further to the right over

27:18

the course of the last decade. Now

27:20

JP Sears was a quote unquote

27:22

holistic life coach who turned

27:24

kind of into like a YouTube skeptic

27:27

type satirical comedian. And while trying to

27:29

parody new age, woo and conspiracy theories,

27:31

JP was peddling his own pseudoscience and

27:33

adopting more and more conspiratorial beliefs. Over

27:37

time, JP and his comedy began moving further

27:39

and further to the right, but the COVID-19

27:41

lockdown was kind of the breaking point where

27:43

he went all in on anti-vax COVID-19 and

27:46

January 6th conspiracy theories. But

27:49

I think there, there has to be at least one other

27:51

contributor, you know, behind like the art and design of the

27:53

show. And I can't, I can't figure out

27:55

who that is. I, I scrolled through all of the tweets to

27:57

try to find out if this count had another I

28:00

can't find out who exactly this

28:02

other person is. There is one

28:04

mystery, one mystery component. But one

28:06

interesting thing I did uncover is

28:09

that the New Norm show, not to be confused with

28:11

the 2012 TV show The New Normal, has

28:14

been in production in some form

28:16

for over four years. They've

28:19

been working on this for over

28:21

four years. There is one frame

28:24

from a video titled Character Sketch

28:26

Evolutions posted on September 19th of

28:28

last year. And this shows

28:30

project files stretching all the way back to

28:32

January of 2020. They've

28:35

been working on this since January of

28:37

2020. Early sketches of the daughter feature

28:40

an antifa and transgender tattoo on her

28:42

left arm. Also, she

28:44

has a kefiah and posters that

28:46

read vegans for Palestine all in

28:49

2020 artwork. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

28:51

Wow. Great. That's kind

28:53

of fascinating because the

28:56

daughter character in the published pilot is just

28:58

wearing like a hoodie and like a beanie.

29:00

There's none of that stuff. She's got like

29:02

some bracelets that have like a, there's at

29:04

least one of her bracelets has a rainbow

29:06

on it, which I think is the only

29:08

queer signaling or like kind of really

29:11

signaling of any kind that we get. And she

29:13

has an Apple watch because LOL jin Z. But

29:16

yeah, the otherwise her design is completely

29:18

boring. Like there's nothing going on. And

29:22

I found this other, this other thing that

29:25

is maybe a little bit, you know, behind

29:28

the scenes look at what this may have been. So

29:31

last March, this

29:33

account posted a little comic strip saying,

29:36

I'll look at how it began as

29:38

a comic strip. So possibly this may

29:40

have originated as not being an animated series,

29:42

but instead an online webcomic, which might explain

29:44

a few things. And also that I assume,

29:47

I assume the mystery contributor that we don't

29:49

know, probably was working on the webcomic and

29:51

then it kind of roped in more and

29:53

more people. Yeah. One would assume. Series, but

29:56

I am going to read out this webcomic

29:58

just cause it is fascinating. Fascinatingly

30:00

bad. Oh My

30:02

god. Oh my god Norm

30:05

says for 20 years our address

30:07

was seven Columbus Ave now. It's

30:10

Colin Kaepernick Drive that's his

30:12

daughter saying that and Everyone

30:14

thinks I feel so the mom says

30:16

fancy the daughter says woke and

30:18

Norm says sick And

30:21

then a whole bunch of news crews show up

30:23

at Norm's front door They say what's it

30:25

like to live in the most woke address in town? And

30:27

Norm says I refuse to call it

30:30

Colin Kaepernick Drive It's Columbus Ave the

30:32

news media says any last words before the

30:34

angry mob shows up Should we call a

30:36

fire department for you and Norm says I

30:39

thought you snowflakes defunded them, too It's

30:41

not even a which no no one was

30:43

talking about defunding the fire department. Not true.

30:46

Anyway, it's it's like it's just not even

30:48

a joke right like that that

30:50

there's not like a Release of

30:52

tension or anything with like the the end

30:55

bit being like him saying why would we

30:57

call the fire department you defunded? That's not

30:59

it's like it's not a joke. No, like

31:01

the last series of panels are even more

31:03

disconnected Yeah, they are back

31:05

inside the doors closed Norm says Chloe,

31:07

which I guess is his daughter's name

31:09

never said in the pilot Chloe, why

31:12

must your generation change everything and

31:14

then the doorbell rings delivery The

31:16

mom answers the door and says sorry wrong

31:18

address. This is now Colin Kaepernick Drive Ben

31:21

Affleck Boulevard is two streets down where

31:23

James Woods Parkway used to be my

31:26

god That's the one is that

31:28

even that is that even Do

31:31

you really like is it? Okay,

31:33

James would get fallen. They replaced

31:36

it with Ben Affleck Boulevard If

31:39

you could if you were someone who was

31:41

like kind of conservative But not completely brain

31:43

poisoned You could actually get some good bits

31:45

out of like they changed the name of

31:47

this street from Columbus Avenue to Colin Kaepernick

31:49

Drive Now the smart way to play off

31:51

of that would be to make it very

31:53

clear that the town Has a bunch of

31:55

existing issues with inequality and racism that they

31:57

have not dealt with in lieu of changing

31:59

that name of a single street and pretending

32:01

things are better. And you could actually,

32:04

like, there's things you could do with

32:06

that where you actually making comedy. But

32:08

like the fact that the escalation is

32:10

rather than sort

32:13

of like examining this world and

32:15

like why shit like this gets

32:17

done just to kind of like

32:19

make these like performative gestures.

32:21

Instead it's like, and next they're

32:23

gonna replace James Woods with Ben

32:26

Affleck. Very good.

32:28

Do the jinzy kids, do the

32:30

progressives like Ben Affleck? Does anyone

32:33

feel all that strongly about Ben

32:35

Affleck? No, we had to start

32:37

naming streets after Ben Affleck. Also, why

32:40

would there be a James Woods Parkway? Anyway, whatever.

32:43

Yeah, who's naming a street after, name

32:45

a thing James Woods has been in.

32:48

Like. Oh my God. So the

32:51

marketing of this pilot is even,

32:53

is almost as baffling as the pilot

32:55

itself, right? There is a few slogans

32:58

they like to use. First of all, the South

33:00

Park of X, which is already just brilliant. Oh,

33:03

it's heartbreaking. Legalize humor, very, very

33:05

funny. And Make America Funny Again.

33:07

They will often just tweet these

33:09

phrases out with no context and

33:12

sure, why not? The homepage

33:14

on their website reads, quote, the

33:16

new norm, not to be confused with

33:19

the ongoing podcast series, the new norm, is

33:22

an animated sitcom for our woke

33:24

world, an edgy, yet family friendly

33:26

comedy that shines a funny light

33:29

on today's most divisive issues and

33:31

gives Americans a safe space to

33:33

come together and laugh. Just

33:36

fantastic stuff. Great,

33:38

great. I love, again,

33:40

I made a comment about this, but I

33:43

love that they're calling this the South Park of X

33:46

because like the South Park

33:48

guys would never put a cartoon or anything

33:50

else on X because they

33:52

actually make things that are commercially

33:54

successful. And so real companies will

33:57

buy their shows. Whereas

33:59

if you... putting something on X it

34:01

means that there's no money in what you're

34:03

doing it means that you your show is

34:06

going to be monetized alongside those ads for

34:08

games that don't exist that just show like

34:11

boy like little action

34:13

cartoon characters leaping into the legs of

34:15

like very horny drawings of Gorgons and

34:18

shit and actual straight-up

34:20

pornography because there is no money

34:22

on X family friendly so

34:25

funny now there are a few reviews

34:27

that they post on the

34:30

new Norm website Bill Maher says

34:32

brilliant Dave Rubens has beautiful Larry

34:35

elders has relevant timely and funny

34:37

I'm in and Kevin's literally in

34:39

he's one of the voices so

34:43

it's Dave Rubin and Kevin Sorbo

34:45

says all in the family for

34:47

our time Wow Robert

34:50

well what is all in the family

34:52

cuz I am a zoo I need

34:54

to explain a couple of things all

34:56

in the family was a groundbreaking sitcom

34:58

show from like 15 or

35:01

20 years before you were born even

35:03

longer than that I mean it was like it was like the 70s

35:05

right yeah oh shit it was

35:07

like 30 or 40 years before you were born

35:09

yeah it's way way before my time it's

35:11

before your time yes yes

35:14

it is and Kevin

35:17

Sorbo do you know who Kevin Sorbo was

35:19

even Robert I grew up watching

35:22

Christian movies I am intimately familiar

35:24

with Kevin Sorbo okay okay but

35:26

I know I actually got famous

35:28

he will we're killing yes in

35:31

a show that again predates your

35:33

existence and is now just a

35:35

deer's bad Christian actor now yeah

35:38

these reviews are funny not only because two of these

35:40

people giving reviews in the site are literally in the

35:42

pilot but also let's

35:44

look at the Bill Maher quote brilliant

35:48

do you think Bill Maher has seen this pilot

35:51

no I don't yet no no do you

35:53

know why course because underneath the

35:55

text that says in quotes brilliant

35:58

it says brilliant Bill

36:00

Maher, HBO real-time host, and then

36:02

in much smaller text, it says,

36:04

Speaking of the show creators' previous

36:06

work featured on HBO, he's

36:09

just talking about Dave Rubin being

36:11

interviewed on his show. At

36:14

some point, Bill Maher said brilliant to

36:16

Dave Rubin, and now they're using this

36:18

as a quote, endorsing the

36:20

show. Man, I kind

36:22

of, I feel like, so like,

36:26

15 years or so ago, back when

36:28

he was still alive, Roger Ebert shared

36:30

one of my articles that I wrote

36:32

for Cracked. And I kind of want

36:34

to take his feedback on that and

36:36

claim that like, like dressing up as

36:38

feedback for our podcast. Roger Ebert loves

36:40

the show that was made 10 years

36:43

after he died. Well, he doesn't, but

36:45

he said something nice about something else

36:47

I did a long time ago. So

36:49

I think he would support this show creators' previous

36:52

work. It's amazing. And

36:55

I, we will return to the

36:57

Kevin Sorbo quote about all in the family for our

36:59

time. Um, because again, like this isn't

37:01

even just a parody of like all in

37:03

the family. They're, they're taking certain, they're, they're,

37:06

they're taking certain elements, but, but

37:08

not like actually satirizing them. They're just kind

37:10

of doing them again. And do you know what we're going

37:12

to do again, Robert? A

37:14

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37:16

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we are back. I have a few images

41:58

from the from the marketing of

42:01

this that you're going to love, Robert. Back in

42:03

September, the new Norm shows

42:05

Twitter posted this picture to

42:07

the very bad cartoon. Oh my

42:09

God. Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson and

42:11

Joe Rogan. What are

42:13

these? It has one like and

42:16

Textra says, who is your fave? I

42:19

love how small they made Ben Shapiro

42:21

and Joe Rogan. Oh,

42:26

and there is another

42:28

another image of Norm,

42:30

the titular character, saying, thank you,

42:32

Chaya Rychek and Elon Musk for

42:34

the freedom to say Amen. Now

42:36

that the word Amen was was

42:38

un demonetized. So most of their marketing kind of

42:40

look kind of looks like this. It's just

42:42

it's talking about other more popular right

42:44

wing content creators or just praising Elon

42:46

Musk. That is most of the marketing

42:48

for the show. It

42:51

seems their primary marketing strategy seems to be

42:53

sucking up to Elon Musk to attract from

42:55

him and his fan base. Now, I

42:57

haven't seen anyone else talk about this

42:59

yet, but the new Norm show, not to

43:02

be confused with the new Norm McDonald show, actually

43:04

released their first video project

43:06

last March. It

43:08

was titled Elon Musk

43:11

XAOC AI animation. Unquote.

43:14

What? With show creator Dave

43:16

Rubin saying the future of animation is

43:19

AI. The

43:21

video starts with an image

43:24

of Elon Musk in a

43:26

black suit with voiceover of

43:29

Norm addressing Musk saying, hey,

43:31

check this out. We

43:34

cut to a congressional deposition where

43:36

AOC is creating a small they made

43:38

Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan. And

43:44

there is another another image of

43:47

Norm, the titular character saying, thank you, Chaya,

43:49

right? Check an Elon Musk for the freedom

43:51

to say Amen. Now that

43:54

the word Amen was was un

43:56

demonetized. So most of their marketing kind of look kind

43:58

of looks like this. It's talking

44:00

about other more popular right wing content

44:02

creators or just praising Elon Musk. That

44:04

is most of the marketing for the

44:07

show. It seems

44:09

their primary marketing strategy seems to be sucking

44:11

up to Elon Musk to attract attention from

44:13

him and his fan base. Now, I haven't

44:15

seen anyone else talk about this yet,

44:17

but the new norm show, not to be

44:19

confused with the new norm McDonald show, actually

44:22

released their first video project

44:24

last March. It was

44:27

titled Elon Musk XAOC

44:29

AI animation. What?

44:33

With show creator Dave Rubin saying the

44:35

future of animation is AI. The

44:39

video starts with an AI image

44:41

of Elon Musk in a black

44:43

suit with voiceover of norm addressing

44:45

Musk saying Hey Elon,

44:49

check this out. We

44:51

cut to a congressional deposition where

44:54

AOC is questioning Elon Musk who's wearing

44:56

a space suit about him replying quote

44:58

unquote true to a meme posted by norm

45:01

saying that AOC is hot but not smart.

45:03

Mr. Musk. Call

45:06

me Elon. There's

45:09

a slow motion love heart sequence of Elon

45:11

and AOC staring at each other and

45:13

Elon says I have a hands

45:15

on approach to the world's population crisis.

45:18

You'll never get your hands on me. I'm

45:21

boycotting you. Then go yourself.

45:25

God, he looks like a cherub in

45:27

that space suit. What is so yeah

45:29

here's here's here's a AI norm and

45:31

AI Elon Musk sitting in this

45:33

courtroom. Now, norm

45:36

says that it's because of Elon's reply

45:38

quote that millions of people saw my

45:41

post. So in

45:43

this in this like little to no effort AI short,

45:45

they straight up lay out their intentions

45:47

behind all of this clamoring for Musk's

45:49

attention and approval. Right. Their

45:52

goal is that if Elon Musk can

45:54

see their stuff, maybe he'll spread it and

45:56

it will be popular. That's the entire intention.

46:00

Oh, yeah, he does.

46:02

He does look like cherub Elon Musk. Absolutely.

46:04

Yeah But this

46:06

is their entire strategy, right? It's to make content

46:08

that they hope Elon Musk will see and

46:10

then boost so that people will give them money

46:13

That's that's the entirety of the bit in the

46:15

replies to this AI short film everyone who like

46:17

expressed that they liked it saying Like so funny

46:19

or just like a laugh emoji The

46:22

norm account replied to every single one

46:24

of these tweets with a thumbs up

46:26

emoji. That's it. That's that's it like

46:29

Sometimes with a flaming thumbs up sometimes

46:31

with the regular thumbs up emoji but

46:34

replying to every single tweet They just did a thumbs

46:36

up. It's so it's so lazy

46:38

like like content goes out That's some

46:40

intern who's getting paid by there in

46:43

like Or if

46:45

they're getting paid or whatever however, they're getting evaluated

46:47

They want to be able to claim that they

46:49

were doing lots of work. So yeah, they're just

46:51

going through and thumbs upping every post That's my

46:53

wild on it. So This

46:56

is all kind of reminiscent of the Daily

46:58

Wire's own animated comedy mr. Burcham, right now

47:00

mr. Burcham We talked about in our in

47:03

our in our daily wire episodes earlier this

47:05

year But it was it was pitched to

47:07

Fox like over a decade ago They

47:10

even made a 10-minute animatic Fox passed

47:12

and so did every other network and

47:14

streaming service Also declined to

47:17

pick up the project and

47:19

until until it came across Jeremy boring's

47:21

desk a few years ago And

47:23

Jeremy boring said Adam Carolla. That's who the

47:25

kids love these days So,

47:29

yeah, they they greenlit the show and is

47:31

now airing on the Daily Wire Plus But

47:34

most of the jokes are super outdated

47:36

because again, this was pitched 10 years

47:38

ago over 10 years ago So

47:40

there's a whole bunch of just like vegan jokes

47:42

like it's it's jokes Maybe would have

47:44

been transgressive in 2011. Yeah, you know, of course There's

47:47

like there's like a few updated jokes thrown

47:49

in there, but like not many So

47:52

in terms of the new norm show

47:55

not to be confused with the many other projects with the

47:57

same title Only the three-minute pilot

47:59

episode is out right now, right? They

48:01

are soliciting more money. And

48:03

that's the main drive of putting out

48:05

this pilot is that they are spreading

48:07

around this donation link like crazy. They've

48:09

explicitly said, when does the first episode

48:12

drop? Soon, but sooner if y'all give

48:14

here with the donation link. Yeah.

48:17

Two other tweets read, quote, support

48:19

this show to animate the first

48:21

season and support this show and

48:23

help fight the woke mind virus

48:25

with laughter, unquote. I don't think

48:27

this will actually ever get made because no one's gonna support this because

48:29

it's garbage. This is like that

48:32

red ape family and FT cartoon. Exactly. Which I'm

48:34

still heartbroken about. All that they're doing is

48:36

trying to get, like unfortunate souls

48:38

to donate money to this. And

48:41

I don't think the right wing billionaires

48:43

are gonna be funding this the same way they

48:45

fund other daily wire projects. So

48:48

this seems kind of dead in the water.

48:50

This seems like not much thought was put into it.

48:52

It's lazy. It's also completely

48:54

stealing a Simpsons joke from

48:57

1999. This

48:59

is the big thing I discovered. So

49:01

I've been trying to watch more 90s

49:03

Simpson lately. Good for you.

49:06

Good for you. Solid move. And as I

49:08

was watching this three minute pilot, something

49:10

started to feel a little bit familiar.

49:13

And then I read the Kevin Sorbo review,

49:15

all in the family for our time. And

49:17

I realized something. This

49:20

whole show is just stealing

49:22

a cutaway gag from a 1999

49:25

Simpsons episode about a fake

49:27

sitcom called all in the family 1999, in

49:30

which a new more woke and

49:32

inclusive version of the original

49:35

show is airing on TV. And

49:37

here's a collection of images, Robert, in

49:40

my Google document that shows

49:42

early concept art of Norm looking

49:44

exactly like the main character of-

49:47

Yeah, down with the cigar. It

49:51

literally, the picture of him in the chair

49:53

looks traced. It is the exact same. There

49:55

is a diverse cast- And they've got the

49:57

black friend standing next to him. Exactly. woman

50:00

study major in her Birkenstocks. They've

50:02

got a rabbi in there as

50:04

opposed to the, which is some

50:07

90s diversity comp. But like, and

50:09

I remember that bit too, which is like

50:12

a, it's actually a, cause there were conservatives

50:14

writing on the Simpsons in the 90s. One

50:17

of the, John Swartzwelder was

50:19

like a famous libertarian. Like he's

50:22

a, but he's also like funny.

50:26

So they made a good bit

50:28

about like PC, like the

50:30

rash of like overtly politically correct shows.

50:32

Right? Like it's, it's, it's a, it's

50:35

a fun little aside joke that Swartzwelder

50:37

was enough of a comedian to know

50:39

is good for about six seconds. Exactly.

50:42

And I will play those six seconds right

50:44

now. And at nine 30, all in the

50:46

family, 1999. Oh

50:49

geez, did he got me living

50:51

with an African-American, a semi-American and

50:53

a woman American there. And

50:55

I'm glad I loved you Zool. I

50:58

love everybody. I wish I'd saved my money

51:00

from the first show. Yeah. See there's,

51:02

there's, there's some, there's a couple of

51:04

different jokes there. There's multiple jokes in

51:06

that three seconds or so. It's such

51:09

a good layered joke on the part

51:11

of the Simpsons. It has the parody

51:13

of Archie from all in

51:15

the family, kind of being like offensive

51:17

in an old fashioned way, you

51:20

know, bemoaning that he has to be around all

51:22

these people, but also saying that he loves everyone

51:24

and the way that these kinds of shows like

51:27

to play both sides by showing the main character

51:29

is still good nature to despite his faults. And

51:32

then he flips again, saying he's, he's only come

51:34

back to do the show cause he needs money. The

51:36

bit doesn't overstay its welcome. It lasts only like

51:39

10 seconds. And yet is infinitely

51:41

more funny than the entirety of

51:43

this three minute pilot. And Dave Rubin

51:45

actually thought he could just rip off

51:48

a short obscure Simpsons joke and stretch

51:50

it into an entire show and no

51:52

one would notice. So I

51:54

was really happy to find that this was just a

51:56

stealing an old Simpsons joke really poorly

51:59

too. because I've been watching

52:01

more older Simpsons, I've also realized that a

52:04

lot of the jokes and lady ballers are

52:06

also just completely stolen from Simpsons,

52:08

but ripped of the context that

52:10

makes them funny. So all

52:12

of these right wing cranks, we're trying to

52:14

produce this comedy stuff. They're all

52:16

just kind of going back to old Simpsons

52:19

jokes that people hopefully have

52:21

forgotten and are injecting them

52:23

without the actual humorous context

52:25

into all these anti-woke projects.

52:28

And it doesn't work. It simply doesn't.

52:30

For one, it's plagiarizing and secondly, it's

52:32

just bad. But

52:36

yes, I will post some of these comparison pictures

52:39

on my Twitter, at Hungry Bow Tie, if

52:41

you want to see the

52:43

shocking, shocking comparisons. Solid work.

52:46

That was a fine investigation, Garrison, because

52:48

you're definitely right. This

52:51

is a carbon copy of a

52:53

cutaway gag about all in the family. That's so

52:55

fucking funny. Even the background house is the same.

52:57

Look, they have the staircase in the same, the

52:59

windows are the same, the door, the door, like

53:03

it's identical. Everything is in

53:05

the exact same position. It's

53:07

wild. I know. They

53:09

sent this to an animator. Like they sent

53:12

that screen grab to the animator. That's so

53:14

funny. God, this, The Simpsons

53:16

was such a good show in its

53:18

golden years that people are still trying

53:20

to competently rip it off. And again,

53:22

they compare themselves to like the South

53:24

Park of X. South Park even did

53:26

a much better job of ripping off

53:29

The Simpsons and making that be the

53:31

focus of an episode that like everyone

53:33

rips off The Simpsons because of how

53:36

long they've been going on. Like, yeah, anyone, whatever.

53:38

They were smart enough to remove the cigar

53:40

in the final pilot, but all because they,

53:42

because that would be just so obvious, but

53:44

all the concept art that they've posted on

53:46

Twitter like half a year ago has, has

53:49

him with the cigar wearing a white button

53:51

up shirt. And it looks, it is, it

53:53

is, it is almost traced. It is like

53:55

his, his, his, his arms. They

53:57

threw on the vest. Clearly that distract. It's

54:00

phenomenal. So, yeah, amazing

54:02

stuff from Dave Rubin. He I

54:04

guess shouldn't have quit interning at

54:08

John Stewart back in the 2000s. Maybe

54:10

he could have had a better life. But

54:12

instead, instead we get this. So great job,

54:14

Dave Rubin. I wish

54:16

you only the best in your future creative

54:18

works. Yeah, this is what's

54:20

going to get him that plush writing

54:22

gig on the Rick and Morty season.

54:24

I don't know, whatever the next one

54:26

is. I'm sure he's on the cusp.

54:28

Oh, he's close to breaking through. I can

54:30

feel it. Yeah, yeah. All

54:33

right. Well, I'm good. I'm going to go

54:36

watch some classic Simpsons again. Thank you for

54:38

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