Speaker 1: Also media.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that wasn't the opening of the podcast, okay,
Speaker 2: or unless it was. I guess it was because we
Speaker 2: were recording Welcome to It could happen here, Harrison. I
Speaker 2: had to open an episode about a terrible, terrible piece
Speaker 2: of voice acting history with some horrible voice acting of
Speaker 2: my own.
Speaker 3: It was the only right way.
Speaker 4: It's true, It's true, but there has been some really
Speaker 4: bad voice acting going around lately. Yes, oh boy, So
Speaker 4: do you know what we're going to talk about today, Robert.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk about the South Park of X.
Speaker 2: And I know what you're all wondering, what the fuck
Speaker 2: is X? Did you guys? Is that a placeholder? Did
Speaker 2: you like type in a placeholder because you forgot the
Speaker 2: name of what this is? The South Park of or whatever? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: we're talking about Twitter.
Speaker 4: We are talking about the first animated sit slash calm
Speaker 4: on X slash Twitter, titled The New Norm Show. Not
Speaker 4: to be confused with the twenty twenty two low budget
Speaker 4: movie The New Norm. This is a new animated project
Speaker 4: from the great minds over at Dave Rubin Incorporated. Yeah,
Speaker 4: was so bad but also so insightful that I did
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of drugs and wrote about two thousand
Speaker 4: words about this project and uncovered some kind of shocking
Speaker 4: things that we will slowly get into. I first will
Speaker 4: just want to go over the mini pilot itself, because
Speaker 4: right now the only thing that's out is like this
Speaker 4: three minute or so little mini pilot, and we'll get
Speaker 4: into why this is the only thing that's out right now.
Speaker 4: But I first just want to do kind of like
Speaker 4: a short play by play, and it will be short
Speaker 4: because it's again it's only three minutes of what happens
Speaker 4: in this new perspective animated sitcom that they want to
Speaker 4: air on Twitter dot com now known as x SO.
Speaker 4: I think the first thing you need to know about it,
Speaker 4: you know, besides you know, the Dave rubeness of it all.
Speaker 4: It looks like early two thousands flash animation, like really
Speaker 4: bad early two thousands flash animation. It's not good.
Speaker 3: It's not good.
Speaker 2: None of the characters can like really express things, and
Speaker 2: the perspective is always a little bit off. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: looks like something like a moderately competent person could have
Speaker 2: animated in this course of an afternoon if the people
Speaker 2: paying them did not actually want anything that looked very good.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think that is kind of what happened.
Speaker 4: They posted one video showing the animating process, and it
Speaker 4: does look like just one person did it in like
Speaker 4: a day. So anyway, it starts with an older man
Speaker 4: sitting in a living room chair scratching at an ankle monitor.
Speaker 4: He reaches for a beer, only to find that it's
Speaker 4: been woke afied with rainbow packaging. The man reacts in horror,
Speaker 4: and his more liberal daughter remarks progress, it's the new norm,
Speaker 4: and then a pandering a country music theme song plays,
Speaker 4: which we will play for you later just because it's
Speaker 4: so bad.
Speaker 3: We're going to have to.
Speaker 2: I want to start just because this is the first
Speaker 2: shot of the episode and it was the first thing
Speaker 2: in the episode that made me very angry. And it's
Speaker 2: how small his feet are, like, especially if you're going
Speaker 2: to have rob Lyfield. He's got the rob Lyfield feet.
Speaker 2: And it's this is particularly a problem because the ankle
Speaker 2: monitor doesn't look like it's going to be a one
Speaker 2: off joke, because he doesn't just have an ankle monitor.
Speaker 2: He has like an evil Amazon Alexa that looks a
Speaker 2: little bit like it's but it's gotten some howl nine
Speaker 2: thousand DNA in it that every time he says something
Speaker 2: that's not woke enough, it it yells at him.
Speaker 3: Right offensive?
Speaker 4: Offensive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, the the the fantasy progressive government that is
Speaker 2: in charge in his uh in this cartoon world has
Speaker 2: forced him to wear an ankle monitor because he's not
Speaker 2: woke enough. And so I'm guessing that's going to be
Speaker 2: a recurrent bit. And if he has this sension, ankle
Speaker 2: monitor is a recurrent bit. His feet shouldn't look like
Speaker 2: the ankle monitor should always be falling off of them.
Speaker 3: No, it's so loose.
Speaker 2: It's so really bad animation, right, Like, I'm not even
Speaker 2: saying that's a good bit, But if that's your bit,
Speaker 2: you have to actually design the characters to sell the bit,
Speaker 2: as opposed to me constantly thinking how is that fucking
Speaker 2: ankle monitor staying on his goddamn ankle anyway, whatever.
Speaker 4: The character's not designed with the ankle monitor in mind.
Speaker 4: That was a later edition, so definitely. After the theme song,
Speaker 4: the man addresses the audience. He says, I'm the old norm.
Speaker 4: I want normal beer.
Speaker 3: God damn it.
Speaker 4: I just want to point out this is like the
Speaker 4: only character that gets an introduction. We don't really learned
Speaker 4: almost anyone else's names except for one other character, which
Speaker 4: is just great, great for like a pilot. Anyway, So
Speaker 4: he steps towards his front door and the ankle monitor
Speaker 4: starts beeping. He blames his liberal daughter for being put
Speaker 4: on house arrest for quote unquote threatening the school board,
Speaker 4: which he says he did because the school was quote
Speaker 4: brainwashing kids into thinking girl aren't girls and men aren't men.
Speaker 4: His daughter says, sometimes they're neither or both, or dressed
Speaker 4: like dogs. Anyway. His wife comes home.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, there's a real furry obsession in this show.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll talk about that later too.
Speaker 4: Because this was birth years ago. This is not like
Speaker 4: a modern current take on wokeism. But his wife comes
Speaker 4: home and with her is someone wearing a COVID mask
Speaker 4: sporting a pink mohawk. And here I'm going to play
Speaker 4: our first clip.
Speaker 3: What's that warning?
Speaker 5: Actually, that is one of my pronouns. Also, they them
Speaker 5: and me?
Speaker 3: Your non binary? How do you know that word?
Speaker 5: I learned it in school.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm locked up.
Speaker 4: Nor the judge agreed to conditional parole?
Speaker 3: What condition? Where is my room? That's saying? Here?
Speaker 4: Chaz is part of the new government program.
Speaker 5: To re educate homophobic, transphobic, racist Charlie.
Speaker 3: Finally someone normal. I don't understand you're black? Did that
Speaker 3: just black whisper? You're his friend and boss.
Speaker 4: So something that isn't fully conveyed just through the sound
Speaker 4: is that when the daughter finds out that this new
Speaker 4: person is non binary, she gets like big, big, like
Speaker 4: lovey eyes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the black boss character, he is played by failed
Speaker 4: politician Larry Elder, and he.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's Larry Elder. Yes, Oh that's funny,
Speaker 3: that's so funny.
Speaker 2: He's just there to show that black people like norm right, yes, exactly,
Speaker 2: that the progressives actually are racist for not liking Norm
Speaker 2: because the only black person they're going to put in this.
Speaker 3: Show thinks that he's rad.
Speaker 2: It's just a normal thing that you do if you're
Speaker 2: a right wing hack making a a low budget cartoon.
Speaker 2: He is wearing, by the way, a Washington Redskins hat
Speaker 2: and shirt, and his shirt discontinued four years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and his first his opening line in the show is
Speaker 2: him coming in and saying, I come over here to
Speaker 2: escape woke.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. One thing I do think is interesting.
Speaker 2: Is that both this character because Larry Elder makes a
Speaker 2: note that like his son is about to transition and
Speaker 2: is at least non binary. They don't really know what
Speaker 2: any of this means, so a little bit of the
Speaker 2: script is unclear as to what these kids actually how
Speaker 2: they identify. And obviously Norm's daughter is I don't know
Speaker 2: if she's non binary or just like into a like
Speaker 2: generally queer, but like.
Speaker 3: That is the impression you're left with.
Speaker 2: And again, if you actually were someone who was kind
Speaker 2: of conservative, conservative sympathetic, like Mike Judge making like a cartoon,
Speaker 2: you can actually get some mileage out of the accepting
Speaker 2: the idea that like, Okay, you've got these curmudgeonly older people,
Speaker 2: and you've got their kids who are like way more
Speaker 2: open about this kind of stuff, and there's there's there's
Speaker 2: room for plots as King of the Hill did pretty
Speaker 2: well that kind of lampoon the culture in general, but
Speaker 2: it requires a little more self awareness. Like again, if
Speaker 2: there was a little bit you might wonder, like, what
Speaker 2: are we saying if we're the people making this right
Speaker 2: wing piece of propaganda that all of the young people
Speaker 2: feel very differently about gender than their parents.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's why Norm keeps saying I'm the old Norm.
Speaker 4: I want to year And the show is called The
Speaker 4: New Norm, not to be confused with the nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: nine ABC sympcom storing Norm MacDonald called it the Norm Shows.
Speaker 4: It's literally right, it's literally in the name. It's about
Speaker 4: you know how these people cannot cannot accept that times change,
Speaker 4: and they slowly get outdated social beliefs. Anyway, every single
Speaker 4: time that Norm addresses the non binary character, referring to
Speaker 4: them as pronoun or that his little AI Amazon assistant
Speaker 4: just bleeps out offensive. Offensive Jazz is here to re
Speaker 4: educate Norm in non bonary studies.
Speaker 5: I'm allergic to dogs.
Speaker 3: It's okay. Billy is an emotional support dog and non binary.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, then good dog.
Speaker 4: Just just amazing voice acting in that cliff and with
Speaker 4: a helpful laugh track, so you know what is a
Speaker 4: joke and when you're supposed to laugh, which is so
Speaker 4: embarrassing for an animated sitcom to put on a laugh track,
Speaker 4: like oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2: It smacks of desperation because nobody really liked nobody misses
Speaker 2: laugh tracks.
Speaker 4: Laugh tracks are like if you have a live studio audience,
Speaker 4: you know, a laugh track kind of like makes sense,
Speaker 4: this is this is an animated sitcom. It's like if
Speaker 4: there's a laugh track on like Rick and Morty or
Speaker 4: like the Simpsons, Like what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Anyway, the two men sit down to watch sports, and
Speaker 4: Larry Elder laments that a non binary person is present
Speaker 4: in the room and starts complaining about his child.
Speaker 1: I come here to get away from woke trouble at home.
Speaker 1: Oh my boy or whatever it calls themselves now is
Speaker 1: thinking about transitioning.
Speaker 3: That's try Regina.
Speaker 4: Transitioning to what another humble whatever it calls themself now,
Speaker 4: amazing pronoun usage, another fumble now. Norm tosses the gay
Speaker 4: beer to Chaz, the non binary character of Jazz Jazz.
Speaker 4: Chaz fumbles the catch and says, that's.
Speaker 3: Not even that's not a gay zoomer name.
Speaker 2: Chazz is like something like, that's that's very gen x jazz.
Speaker 4: Totally Yeah, well again, because this is all made by
Speaker 4: gen X people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, yes.
Speaker 4: Chaz fumbles the catch and says that they can't drink
Speaker 4: because they're not twenty one, and Larry Elder replies, y'all
Speaker 4: influence my boy, and I cut off his junk but
Speaker 4: draw a line at beer, and then Chaz hides behind
Speaker 4: the couch to call upper level government operatives who are
Speaker 4: advising them on this re education assignment. I got it.
Speaker 2: Before we get into this, I want to start with
Speaker 2: what doesn't make sense about that bit, which is that
Speaker 2: if Chaz was straight edge, right, and they were kind
Speaker 2: of again, if they actually knew anything about like the
Speaker 2: real sort of culturals kind of divides that are coming
Speaker 2: in around gen Z and gen Alfa, they could have
Speaker 2: made a point that like, yeah, this generation of kids
Speaker 2: doesn't get drunk and do drugs the way like millennials did,
Speaker 2: and that's an actual like cultural cleavage point. But Chaz
Speaker 2: is not straight edge. Chas is just saying I cannot
Speaker 2: legally drink beer.
Speaker 4: Which right, no gay person has ever said, which nogay,
Speaker 4: But it like the fact that unless they're straight edge. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Larry Elder then comes in and says like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is a characteristic but it wasn't like a characteristic of
Speaker 2: you queer gen Z kids. But the queer gen Z
Speaker 2: kid did not express that as like a characteristic of
Speaker 2: his identity.
Speaker 3: Who's just stating this is.
Speaker 4: Illegal because it's illegal? Yeah, very yeah. Anyway, anyway, when
Speaker 4: Chaz is conference calling with this this upper level government
Speaker 4: we have, we have this general in like a in
Speaker 4: like a kink dog mask who barks, and there's a
Speaker 4: trans woman admiral who says, find a way to break him,
Speaker 4: maybe we can fix the country. I believe the admiral
Speaker 4: is a really transphobic character of US Assistant Secretary for Health,
Speaker 4: Rachel Levine. And yeah, it's not even a good character.
Speaker 4: It's just it's just doesn't look there is there. There's
Speaker 4: also another another character which Robert identified as a possible
Speaker 4: hate crime and and tasked me with locating who this
Speaker 4: person is. And I believe with about one hundred percent
Speaker 4: certainty that this is a character of Sam Brinton, who
Speaker 4: was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and
Speaker 4: Waste Disposition in the Office Nuclear Energy. Are you kidding
Speaker 4: Apartment of Energy? Now?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 2: This people are so fucking conservative social media brain, what
Speaker 2: are you fucking come on?
Speaker 4: Brenton may be well known to some of our listeners
Speaker 4: as being let go in late twenty twenty two after
Speaker 4: being linked to a series of airport luggage thefts. One
Speaker 4: of the funniest things that's ever happened. This person could
Speaker 4: not stop stealing luggage from airports so much that they
Speaker 4: got fired from the Department of Energy.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: This this goes back to like twenty eighteen years. God,
Speaker 4: there's funny years of airport It's so funny. But again,
Speaker 4: if this was a good comedy thing, they would have
Speaker 4: some kind of bit like maybe maybe they would be
Speaker 4: holding like a like a like a you know, like
Speaker 4: a collection of luggage. But no, they're just they're just
Speaker 4: they're just standing behind the progress Pride flight Like that's it.
Speaker 4: Like it's not funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because again because the actual funny thing about this
Speaker 2: would be to have like your government character be someone
Speaker 2: at the Department of Energy who got taxed with this
Speaker 2: through some sort of incoherent DEI narrative and also a
Speaker 2: character trait as they are always stealing luggage and like
Speaker 2: you could actually bear it. It's around that over time.
Speaker 2: But they just they threw all these people in knowing
Speaker 2: that like the two hundred people who are as right
Speaker 2: wing online as them would get who all these were
Speaker 2: as opposed to doing the thing that you would do
Speaker 2: if you were actually making a show for mainstream consumption,
Speaker 2: which is like make fun of people that the audience
Speaker 2: will recognize. Throw with Joe Biden in there right, like
Speaker 2: obviously we're doing this in twenty twenty four, Like where
Speaker 2: is anyone that someone who's not completely lost their mind
Speaker 2: to this stuff will recognize?
Speaker 4: And this is this is the climax of the pilot.
Speaker 4: It's it's so it's so bad. After after Chaz has
Speaker 4: this little phone call, the fake camera zooms back to
Speaker 4: show a fake animated studio audience, and the bad country
Speaker 4: theme song plays once again, and now I will play
Speaker 4: it for you because this section is both so pandering
Speaker 4: but also oddly genuine to it's the end newly same as.
Speaker 1: Everything's changing and I don't know this woven Marilyn, thank
Speaker 1: God very longlast and his ship those means makes sister
Speaker 1: all free speech.
Speaker 4: When the song goes, thank god for Elon Musk and
Speaker 4: his ship, post memes he's the home for free speech,
Speaker 4: and unvoiced animated Elon Musk pops through the door for
Speaker 4: no reason.
Speaker 3: And he's someone.
Speaker 2: Someone on Twitter took a screen grab off the Elon
Speaker 2: Musk and said they gave him that in Smith look,
Speaker 2: and he does look like one of the fish people
Speaker 2: from insmuth. That's not a flattering caricature. I think it's
Speaker 2: meant to be.
Speaker 4: It is because like it's it's I don't know. This
Speaker 4: is a really interesting moment because this is where it
Speaker 4: gets like kind of like genuine. Jess Hawkin wrote, the
Speaker 4: part that blows my mind about this video is the
Speaker 4: Elon Musk cameo where the bitterness and resentment of the
Speaker 4: video melts away into still believing in Santa Claus and
Speaker 4: it gets it gets just so weirdly genuine with this,
Speaker 4: with this like the kind of heartfelt, saccharine Elon Musk
Speaker 4: ending Well.
Speaker 2: Speaking of genuine, Garrison, the main thing that's genuine is
Speaker 2: our love of these sponsors.
Speaker 4: Okay, we are packed. So there after watching this pilot,
Speaker 4: there's there's a lot of questions to be asked. Why
Speaker 4: is there a fake animated studio audience? Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: pretty bad. My friend Ellie Erman pointed out, like why
Speaker 4: is the protagonist so unpleasant even in their perfect fantasy world?
Speaker 4: And also why is the word sitcom hyphenated in the
Speaker 4: title something that you don't do? Just a lot of
Speaker 4: a lot of baffling things. So there was there was
Speaker 4: a mix of reactions to this. You know, some of
Speaker 4: the blue checks on Twitter were kind of lapping this
Speaker 4: stuff up. One person with the username Amazing Gaming Productions wrote,
Speaker 4: I know some people are critiquing it, but my fee
Speaker 4: on saying I laughed at a couple points. It's a
Speaker 4: good start. I hope you continue to work on it.
Speaker 4: We need all of the indie material we can create.
Speaker 4: And included in this tweet is a picture of a
Speaker 4: very poorly drawn avatar saying, Hi, my name is Indye David.
Speaker 4: I'm here to fight Goliath Mainstream Oh my god is
Speaker 4: a gamer Gate two themed gaming company who wants to
Speaker 4: create anti woke games. They've done in nothing. They just
Speaker 4: post really bad artwork and I cannot overstate how bad.
Speaker 3: Why his next so wide and so long?
Speaker 4: For how bad the TV show's animation is this? This
Speaker 4: reply was just so bad I had to pointed out
Speaker 4: just incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, Dave Rubin, the possible alleged potential most likely creator
Speaker 4: of the show, does air his work on Blaze TV.
Speaker 4: You know by by Glenn Beck, and even even other
Speaker 4: Glenn Beck employees could not could not help but point
Speaker 4: out how terrible this is.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Logan Hall, writer for Glenn Beck's The Blaze wrote, quote,
Speaker 4: TV shows on leftism the cringiest, most unwatchable, nauseating trash
Speaker 4: ever created TV shows on conservatism somehow even worse and
Speaker 4: one of the most brain poisoned Conservative cartoonists George Acxipolos
Speaker 4: basically like a discount stone Toss wrote quote south Park
Speaker 4: head ed, this has as much edge as an uncooked
Speaker 4: sour dough. Between this and the Daily Wires limp cartoon,
Speaker 4: they may as well be flushing money down the toilet.
Speaker 4: He then went on to say, give me a small team,
Speaker 4: a million dollars and total creative control, and we will
Speaker 4: make a cartoon pilot that will melt faces. So again
Speaker 4: he just wants to take to get his own his
Speaker 4: own TV show, But a whole bunch of these, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of right wing cultural critics were we're not we're
Speaker 4: not infused with this, with this outing because it's because
Speaker 4: it's really bad. So I want to get into kind
Speaker 4: of who is behind this now the full I hesitate
Speaker 4: to say creative team, but the people team, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: team behind the New Norm show, not to be confused
Speaker 4: with the Fox two season documentary show The New Norm
Speaker 4: Have been have been largely kept secret, possibly out of
Speaker 4: fears of humiliation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how you know it's a good show.
Speaker 4: But we at least do know some of the voice cast. Right,
Speaker 4: Larry Elder plays the token black conservative who only exists
Speaker 4: to affirm that the main character isn't actually racist. Now,
Speaker 4: I doubt Larry Elder has much involvement beyond lending his
Speaker 4: voice and the other two confirmed voice Again, I hesitate
Speaker 4: to use the word talent or even actor, but the
Speaker 4: other two voice contributors are Dave Rubin and jpc Now,
Speaker 4: I believe these two could be much more critical to
Speaker 4: like what makes up the comedy of the New Norm Show,
Speaker 4: not to be confused with the Oatly Oat Milk series
Speaker 4: of online puppet shorts titled The New Norm Anal Show. Now,
Speaker 4: I assume most people listening to this are familiar with
Speaker 4: Dave Rubin. Like many of these right wing influencers, he's
Speaker 4: a failed comedian turned political podcaster who's been positioning himself
Speaker 4: further and further to the right over the course of
Speaker 4: the last decade.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: JP Sears was a quote unquote holistic life coach who
Speaker 4: turned kind of into like a YouTube skeptic type satirical comedian,
Speaker 4: and while trying to parody new age WU and conspiracy theories,
Speaker 4: JP was peddling his own pseudoscience and adopting more and
Speaker 4: more conspiratorial beliefs. Over time, JP and his comedy began
Speaker 4: moving further and further to the right. But the COVID
Speaker 4: nineteen lockdown was kind of the breaking point where he
Speaker 4: went all in on anti VAXX, COVID nineteen and January
Speaker 4: sixth conspiracy theories. But I think there has to be
Speaker 4: at least one other contributor, you know, behind like the
Speaker 4: art and design of the show, and I can't I
Speaker 4: can't figure out who that is. I scrolled through all
Speaker 4: of the tweets to try to find out if this
Speaker 4: account had another name. I can't find out who exactly
Speaker 4: this other person is. There is there is one mystery,
Speaker 4: one mystery component. But one interesting thing I did uncover
Speaker 4: is that the New Norm show, not to be confused
Speaker 4: with the twenty twelve TV show, The New Normal has
Speaker 4: been in production in some form for over four years.
Speaker 4: They've been working on this for over four years. There's
Speaker 4: one frame from a video titled Character Sketch Evolutions posted
Speaker 4: on September nineteenth of last year, and this show's project
Speaker 4: files stretching all the way back to January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: They've been working on this since January twenty twenty. Early
Speaker 4: sketches of the daughter feature and Antifa and transgender tattoo
Speaker 4: on her left arm. Also, she has a kefia and
Speaker 4: posters that read vegans for Palestine, all in twenty twenty artwork.
Speaker 4: Wow yeah, yeaow. That's kind of fascinating because the daughter
Speaker 4: character in the published pilot is just wearing like a
Speaker 4: hoodie and like a beanie. There's there's none of.
Speaker 2: These act like some bracelets that have like a there's
Speaker 2: at least one of her bracelets has a rainbow on it,
Speaker 2: which I think is the only queer signaling or like
Speaker 2: kind of it really signaling of any kind that we get.
Speaker 2: And she has an Apple watch because lo ol gen z.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the otherwise her design is completely boring, like
Speaker 2: there's nothing going on.
Speaker 4: And I found this other, this other thing that is
Speaker 4: maybe a little bit you know, behind the scenes, look
Speaker 4: at what this may have been. So last March, this
Speaker 4: account posted a little comic strip saying, all, look at
Speaker 4: how it began as a comic strip so possibly this
Speaker 4: may have originated as not being an animated series but
Speaker 4: instead an online webcomic, which might explain a few things.
Speaker 4: And also that I assume the mystery contributor that we
Speaker 4: don't know probably was working on the webcomic, and then
Speaker 4: it kind of rope in and more people in the series.
Speaker 4: But I am going to read out this webcomic just
Speaker 4: because it is fascinatingly bad.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Norm says, for twenty years our address was seven Columbus Ave.
Speaker 4: Now it's Colin Kaepernick Drive. That's his daughter saying that,
Speaker 4: and everyone thinks I feel so. The mom says fancy,
Speaker 4: the daughter says woke, and Norm says sick. And then
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of news crews show up at Norm's
Speaker 4: front door. They say, what's it like to live in
Speaker 4: the most woke address in town? And Norman says, I
Speaker 4: refuse to call it, Callin Kaepernick Drive. It's Columbus Ave.
Speaker 4: The news media says, any last words before the angry
Speaker 4: mob shows up. Should we call a fire department for you?
Speaker 4: And Norm says, I thought you snowflakes defunded them too.
Speaker 3: It's not even a no.
Speaker 4: No one was talking about defunding the fire department not
Speaker 4: true anyway.
Speaker 2: It's it's like it's just not even a joke, right,
Speaker 2: like the there's not like a release of tensionarying with
Speaker 2: like the the end bit being like him saying, why
Speaker 2: would we call the fire department you defunded that it's
Speaker 2: not it's like it's not a joke.
Speaker 4: No, Like the last series of panels are even more disconnected. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they are back inside. The doors closed. Norman says Chloe,
Speaker 4: which I guess is his daughter's name, never said in
Speaker 4: the pilot, Chloe. Why must your generation change everything? And
Speaker 4: then the doorbell rings delivery. The mom answers the door
Speaker 4: and says, sorry, wrong address. This is now Colin Kaepernick Drive.
Speaker 4: Ben Affleck Boulevard is two streets down where James Woods
Speaker 4: Parkway used to be. My god, that's what that even
Speaker 4: that is that even do you really like is it?
Speaker 4: They were okay James would get fallen. They replaced it
Speaker 4: with ben Affleck Boulevard.
Speaker 2: If you could, if you were someone who was like
Speaker 2: kind of conservative but not completely brain poisoned, you could
Speaker 2: actually get some good bits out of Like they changed
Speaker 2: the name of this street from Columbus avenue to Colin
Speaker 2: kaepern to drive. Now, the smart way to play off
Speaker 2: of that would be to make it very clear that
Speaker 2: the town has a bunch of existing issues with inequality
Speaker 2: and racism that they have not dealt with in lieu
Speaker 2: of changing the name of a single street and pretending
Speaker 2: things are better. And you can actually like there's things
Speaker 2: you could do with that were you actually making comedy.
Speaker 2: But like the fact that they the fact that the
Speaker 2: escalation is rather than sort of like examining this world
Speaker 2: and like why shit like this gets done just to
Speaker 2: kind of like make these like performative gestures instead, it's like,
Speaker 2: and next they're going to replace James Woods with Ben Affleck,
Speaker 2: which very good? Do the gen Z kids do the
Speaker 2: progressives like Ben Affleck? Does anyone feel all that strongly
Speaker 2: about ben Affleck?
Speaker 4: No, we had to start naving streets after ben Affleck. Also,
Speaker 4: why would there be a James Woods park Way anyway? Whatever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's naming a street after name a thing James
Speaker 3: Woods has been.
Speaker 4: In Like, oh my god. So the marketing of this
Speaker 4: pilot is even is almost as baffling as the pilot itself. Right,
Speaker 4: there's a few slogans they like to use, first of all,
Speaker 4: the South Park of X, which is already just brilliant.
Speaker 4: It's hard legalize humor, very very funny, and make America
Speaker 4: funny again. They will often just tweet these phrases out
Speaker 4: with no context, and sure, why not. The home page
Speaker 4: on their website reads quote The New Norm not to
Speaker 4: be confused with the ongoing podcast series. The New Norm
Speaker 4: is an animated sitcom for our woke world, an edgy
Speaker 4: yet family friendly comedy that shines a funny light on
Speaker 4: today's most divisive issues and gives Americans a safe space
Speaker 4: to come together and laugh. Just fantastic stuff.
Speaker 3: Great, great, I love again.
Speaker 2: I made a comment about this, but I love that
Speaker 2: they're calling this the South Park of X because like
Speaker 2: the South Park, guys would never put a cartoon or
Speaker 2: anything else on X because they actually make things that
Speaker 2: are come martially successful and so real companies will buy
Speaker 2: their shows, whereas if you're putting something on X, it
Speaker 2: means that there's no.
Speaker 3: Money in what you're doing. It means that you your
Speaker 3: show is going to.
Speaker 2: Be monetized alongside those ads for games that don't exist
Speaker 2: that just show like boy like little action cartoon characters
Speaker 2: leaping into the legs of like very horny drawings of
Speaker 2: gorgans and shit and actual straight up pornography because there
Speaker 2: is no money on X family friendly so funny.
Speaker 4: Now, there are a few reviews that they post on
Speaker 4: the new norm website. Bill Mahers has brilliant, Dave Rubins
Speaker 4: has beautiful, Larry Elders has relevant, timely and funny. I'm in,
Speaker 4: and Kevin He's literally in. He's one of the voices,
Speaker 4: so is Stave Ruben, and Kevin Sorbo says All in
Speaker 4: the Family for our time?
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Uh, Robert, well, what is All in the Family? Because
Speaker 4: I am a zoom I need you explain a couple
Speaker 4: of things. All in the Family was a groundbreaking sitcom
Speaker 4: show from like fifteen or twenty years before you were born.
Speaker 4: Even longer than that.
Speaker 2: I mean it was like it was like the seventies, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh shit, it was like thirty or forty years before
Speaker 2: you were born.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's way way before my time. It's before your time.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes it is. And uh Kevin Sorbo do you
Speaker 3: know who Kevin Sorbo was?
Speaker 4: Even Robert I grew up watching Christian movies. I am
Speaker 4: intimately familiar with Kevin Sorbo.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but I know why he actually got famous. Yes,
Speaker 2: in a show that again predates your existence.
Speaker 4: But it's now just your bad Christian actor.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: These reviews are funny, not only because two of these
Speaker 4: people giving reviews on the site are literally in the pilot,
Speaker 4: but also let's look at the Bill Maher quote brilliant.
Speaker 4: Do you think Bill Maher has seen this pilot?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I don't. He doesn't. No, do you? Of course, because
Speaker 4: underneath the text that says end quotes brilliant, it says
Speaker 4: brilliant Bill Maher, HBO Real Time Host, And then in
Speaker 4: much smaller text, it says, speaking of the show creator's
Speaker 4: previous work featured on HBO, he's just talking about Dave
Speaker 4: Rubin being interviewed on his show. At some point Bill
Speaker 4: Maher said brilliant to Dave Rubin, And now they're using
Speaker 4: this as a quote endorsing this show.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I kind of I feel, like, so fifteen years or
Speaker 2: so ago, back when he was still alive, Roger Ebert
Speaker 2: shared one of my articles that I wrote for Cracked,
Speaker 2: and I kind of want to take his feedback on
Speaker 2: that and claim that, like like dressing up his feedback
Speaker 2: for our podcast, Roger Ebert loves this show that was
Speaker 2: made ten years after he died. Well he doesn't, but
Speaker 2: he said something nice about something else I did a
Speaker 2: long time ago, so I think he would support.
Speaker 4: Show creator's previous work. Amazing. And I we will return
Speaker 4: to the Kevin Sorbo quote about All in the Family
Speaker 4: for our time. Yes again, Like this isn't even just
Speaker 4: a parody of like All in the Family. They're they're
Speaker 4: taking certain they're they're taking certain elements, but but not
Speaker 4: like actually satirizing them. They're just kind of doing them again.
Speaker 4: And do you know what we're gonna do again.
Speaker 3: Robert, good ads.
Speaker 4: We're gonna we arena, we are gonna go to ad.
Speaker 2: We're going We're going to transition, which the people who
Speaker 2: make this show would really hate.
Speaker 4: Okay, we are back. I have a few images from
Speaker 4: the from the marketing of this that you're gonna love.
Speaker 3: Robert.
Speaker 4: Back in September, the New Norm shows, Twitter posted this
Speaker 4: picture It's a very bad.
Speaker 3: Cardome, Mike God, Ben.
Speaker 4: Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3: What are these?
Speaker 4: It has one like and textra says, who who is
Speaker 4: your Favett a small they made Bit Shapiro and Joe rokan.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: And there is another another image of norm the titular
Speaker 4: character saying thank you Chaya, Rycheck and Elon Musk for
Speaker 4: the freedom to say amen. Now that the word amen
Speaker 4: was undemonetized. So most of their marketing kind of look
Speaker 4: kind of looks like this. It's just it's talking about
Speaker 4: other more popular right wing content creators or just praising
Speaker 4: Elon Musk. That is most of the marketing for the show.
Speaker 4: It seems their primary marketing strategy seems to be sucking
Speaker 4: up to Elon Musk to attract attention from him and
Speaker 4: his fan base. Now I haven't seen anyone else talking
Speaker 4: about this yet, but the New Norm Show, not to
Speaker 4: be confused with the New Norm McDonald Show, actually released
Speaker 4: their first video project last March. It was titled Elon
Speaker 4: Musk xaoc AI Animation unquote what, with show creator Dave
Speaker 4: Rubin saying the future of animation is AI. The video
Speaker 4: starts with an AI image of Elon Musk in a
Speaker 4: black suit, with voiceover of norm A dressing Musk saying, Hey, Elon,
Speaker 4: check this out. We cut to a congressional deposition where
Speaker 4: AOC is questioning Elon Musk, who's wearing a spacesuit about him,
Speaker 4: replying quote unquote true to a meme posted by Norm
Speaker 4: saying that AOC is hot but not smart, mister Musk.
Speaker 4: There's a slow motion love heart sequence of Elon and
Speaker 4: AOC staring at each other, and Elon says, I have
Speaker 4: a hands on approach to the world's population crisis. You'll
Speaker 4: never get your hands on me.
Speaker 3: I'm boycotting you.
Speaker 4: Then go yourself.
Speaker 3: God, he looks like a cherub in that spacesuit.
Speaker 5: What is so?
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's here's Ai Norm and Ai Elon Musk sitting
Speaker 4: in this courtroom. Now. Norm says that it's because of
Speaker 4: Elon's reply quote that millions of people saw my post.
Speaker 4: So in this, in this like little to no effort.
Speaker 4: Ai short. They straight up layout their intentions behind all
Speaker 4: of this clamoring for Musk's attention and approval. Right. Their
Speaker 4: goal is that if Elon Musk can see their stuff,
Speaker 4: maybe he'll spread it and it will be popular. That's
Speaker 4: the intention.
Speaker 3: A nine year old boy, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: He does. He does look like like cherub. Elon Musk
Speaker 4: absolutely yeah, But this is this is their entire strategy, right,
Speaker 4: It's to make content that they hope Elon Musk will
Speaker 4: see and then boost so that people will give them money.
Speaker 4: That's that's the entirety of the bit. In the replies
Speaker 4: to this AI short film, everyone who like expressed that
Speaker 4: they liked it, saying like so funny or just like
Speaker 4: a laugh emoji. The norm account replied to every single
Speaker 4: one of these tweets with a thumbs up emoji. That's it, got,
Speaker 4: That's that's it, like sometimes with a flaming thumbs up,
Speaker 4: sometimes with a regular thumbs up emoji, but replying to
Speaker 4: every single tweet, they just did a thumbs up. It's
Speaker 4: so it's so lazy, like like.
Speaker 3: Content goes out.
Speaker 2: That's some intern who's getting paid by there in like
Speaker 2: or if they're getting paid or whatever, however they're getting evaluated.
Speaker 2: They want to be able to claim that they were
Speaker 2: doing lots of work. So yeah, they're just going through
Speaker 2: and thumbs uping every post.
Speaker 3: That's my wild So.
Speaker 4: This is all kind of reminiscent of The Daily Wire's
Speaker 4: own animated comedy Mister Burcham. Right now, mister Burchram, we
Speaker 4: talked about in our in Our in Our Daily Wire,
Speaker 4: episodes earlier this year, but it was it was pitched
Speaker 4: to Fox, like over a decade ago. They even made
Speaker 4: a ten minute animatic. Fox passed, and so did every
Speaker 4: other network and streaming service also declined to pick up
Speaker 4: the project until until it came across Jeremy Boring's desk
Speaker 4: a few years ago.
Speaker 2: And Jeremy Bowring said, Adam Carolla, that's who the kids
Speaker 2: love these days.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they they greenlit the show and it is
Speaker 4: now airing on The Daily Wire Plus. But most of
Speaker 4: the jokes are super outdated because again this was pitched
Speaker 4: ten years ago, over ten years ago, so there's a
Speaker 4: whole bunch just like Vegan jokes, Like it's jokes that
Speaker 4: maybe would have been transgressive in twenty eleven. You know.
Speaker 4: Of course, there's like there's like a few updated jokes
Speaker 4: thrown in there, but like not many. So in terms
Speaker 4: of the New Norm show, not to be confused with
Speaker 4: the many other projects with the same title, only the
Speaker 4: three minute pilot episode is out right now right, they
Speaker 4: are soliciting more money and that's the main drive of
Speaker 4: putting out this pilot is that they are spreading around
Speaker 4: this donation link like crazy. They've explicitly said when does
Speaker 4: the first episode drop? Soon? But sooner if y'all give
Speaker 4: here with the donation link.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Two other tweets read quote support this show to animate
Speaker 4: the first season, and support this show and help fight
Speaker 4: the woke mind virus with laughter unquote. I don't think
Speaker 4: this will actually ever get made because no one's gonna
Speaker 4: support this because it's garbage.
Speaker 2: This is like that reddap Family an FT cartoon exactly
Speaker 2: which I'm still hard.
Speaker 4: What they're doing is trying to get you know, like
Speaker 4: unfortunate souls to donate money to this, and I don't
Speaker 4: think the right wing billionaires are going to be funding
Speaker 4: this the same way they fund other Daily Wire projects.
Speaker 4: So this seems kind of dead in the water. This
Speaker 4: seems like it, you know, not much thought was put
Speaker 4: into it. It's lazy. It's also completely stealing a Simpson's
Speaker 4: joke from nineteen ninety nine. This is the big thing
Speaker 4: I discovered. So I've been trying to watch more nineties
Speaker 4: Simpson lately, Good for You, Good for you, solid move,
Speaker 4: And as I was watching the Strea minute pilot, something
Speaker 4: started to feel a little bit familiar. And then I
Speaker 4: read the Kevin Sorbo review All in the Family for
Speaker 4: Our Time, and I realized something, This whole show is
Speaker 4: just stealing a cutaway gag from a nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 4: Simpsons episode about a fake sitcom called All in the
Speaker 4: Family nineteen ninety nine, in which a new, more woke
Speaker 4: and inclusive version of the original show is airing on TV.
Speaker 4: And here's a collection of images Robert in my Google
Speaker 4: document that shows early concept art of Norm looking exactly
Speaker 4: like the main character.
Speaker 3: Of Yeah, Down with the cigar.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It literally the picture of him in the chair looks traced.
Speaker 4: It is the exact same. There is a diverse cast
Speaker 4: standing next to him exactly.
Speaker 2: The woman's study major in her birkenstocks exactly got a
Speaker 2: rabbi in there as opposed to the which is some
Speaker 2: nineties diversity com.
Speaker 3: But like, and I remember that bit too, which.
Speaker 2: Is like a it's actually because there were conservatives writing
Speaker 2: on The Simpsons in the nineties. One of the John
Speaker 2: Swartzwelder was like a famous libertarian, Like he's a but
Speaker 2: he's also like funny, and so they made a good
Speaker 2: bit about like pec like the the rash of like
Speaker 2: overtly politically correct shows right like it's it's it's a
Speaker 2: it's a fun side joke that Schwartzwelder was enough of
Speaker 2: a comedian to know is good for about six seconds exactly.
Speaker 4: And I will play those six seconds right now and
Speaker 4: at nine thirty All in the Family nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Who geez did he got me living with an African American,
Speaker 5: a semi American, and a woman American there, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Glad, I love Yasul, I love everybody. I wish I'd
Speaker 4: shaved my money from the first show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, there's a couple of different jokes there.
Speaker 4: Ye, there's multiple jokes in that three seconds or so.
Speaker 4: It's such a good layered joke on the part of
Speaker 4: the Simpsons. It has the parody of Archie from All
Speaker 4: in the Family kind of being like offensive in an
Speaker 4: old fashioned way, you know, bemoaning that he has to
Speaker 4: be around all these people, but also saying that he
Speaker 4: loves everyone in the way that these kind of shows
Speaker 4: like to play both sides by showing the main character
Speaker 4: is still good nature despite his faults. And then he
Speaker 4: flips again saying he's he's only come back to do
Speaker 4: the show is he needs money. The bit doesn't overstay.
Speaker 4: It's welcome it lasts only like ten seconds and yet
Speaker 4: is infinitely more funny than the entirety of this three
Speaker 4: minute pilot. And Dave Rubin actually thought he could just
Speaker 4: rip off a short to obscure Simpson's joke and stretch
Speaker 4: it into an entire show and no one would notice.
Speaker 4: So I was really happy to find that this was
Speaker 4: just stealing an old Simpson's joke really poorly too. And
Speaker 4: because I've been watching more older Simpsons, I've also realized
Speaker 4: that a lot of the jokes and Lady ballers are
Speaker 4: also just completely stolen from Simpsons, but ripped of the
Speaker 4: context that makes them funny. So all of these like
Speaker 4: right wing like cranks were trying to produce this comedy stuff.
Speaker 4: They're all just kind of going back to old Simpsons
Speaker 4: jokes that people hopefully have like forgotten and are injecting
Speaker 4: them without the actual humorous context into all of these
Speaker 4: anti woke projects. And it doesn't work. It simply doesn't.
Speaker 4: For one, it's plagiarizing and the second and like secondly,
Speaker 4: it's it's just bad. But yes, I will, I will
Speaker 4: post some of these comparison pictures on h on my
Speaker 4: Twitter at Hungry bow Tie. If you want to see
Speaker 4: the uh, the shocking, shocking hard work.
Speaker 2: That was a fine investigation, Garrison, because you're definitely right,
Speaker 2: like this is this is a carbon copy of of
Speaker 2: a cutaway gag about all in the family.
Speaker 3: That's son fucking funny.
Speaker 4: Even the background house is the same look they have,
Speaker 4: the staircase, the.
Speaker 3: Door, like it's identical.
Speaker 4: Everything is in the exact same position.
Speaker 3: It's wild. I know they said this.
Speaker 2: They sent this to an animator, like they sent that
Speaker 2: screen grab to the animator.
Speaker 3: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: God, this The Simpsons was such a good show and
Speaker 2: its golden years that people are still trying to competently
Speaker 2: rip it off, and again they compare themselves to like
Speaker 2: the South Park of X. South Park even did a
Speaker 2: much better job of ripping off the Simpsons and making
Speaker 2: that be the focus of an episode that like everyone
Speaker 2: rips off the Simpsons because of how how the long
Speaker 2: they've been going on, Like yeah, anyway, whatever.
Speaker 4: They were smart enough to remove the cigar in the
Speaker 4: final pilot, but all because because that would be just
Speaker 4: so obvious. But all the concept are that they've posted
Speaker 4: on Twitter like half a year ago has has him
Speaker 4: with a cigar wearing a white button up shirt and
Speaker 4: it looks it is it is, it is almost traced.
Speaker 3: It is yea his his? Are they threw on the
Speaker 3: vest distract.
Speaker 4: It's it's phenomenal. So yeah, amazing stuff from Dave Rubin.
Speaker 4: He I guess shouldn't have quit interning at the at
Speaker 4: A at John Stewart back in the two thousands. Maybe
Speaker 4: maybe he could have had a better life, but instead
Speaker 4: instead we get this. So great job, Dave Rubin. I
Speaker 4: wish you only the best in your future creative works.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This, this is what's gonna get him. That that plush
Speaker 2: writing gig on the Rick and Morty season. I don't
Speaker 2: know whatever the next one is. I'm sure he's he's
Speaker 2: he's on the cusp.
Speaker 4: Oh he's close to breaking through. I can feel it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, all right, right, well I'm good. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go watch some classic Simpsons again. Thank you for reminding me.
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