On this week's episode of Drunk Tank, the crew talks about the Red Wave, the midterms, and how Netflix is ruining the entire internet. Plus, we get to the bottom of what's going on at the Super Bowl.
00:04:47.000I don't know that this one would get removed, but again, if we're not on YouTube, you don't see us, if we haven't told you we're not doing a show, head on over to Rumble, or head on to Mug Club, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
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00:05:45.000So today is actually a good day to start.
00:06:26.000He's actually going to be at the Funnybone in Virginia Beach this Saturday, but him and I are in Colorado Springs, June 18th, Pikes Peak Center.
00:06:35.000We had to add another show, so there are tickets to that second show, June 18th.
00:08:05.000They're now about to add a new documentary, and I thought this was so interesting because maybe they include it in the documentary, but certainly not in the teaser.
00:08:12.000A lot of people don't know the history of Abercrombie and Fitch, but their teaser is a full-on homoerotic tableau.
00:08:43.000There's so many shirtless dudes tackling each other in shorts.
00:08:46.000And you would just think they would reverse it, Abercrombie, like put the ladies in the men's section, put the men in the women's section, but then I was like, oh, your demographics.
00:08:56.000So this is the Netflix teaser for their Abercrombie documentary.
00:12:33.000I'm like 8 years old, and my next-door neighbor, she has a 16-year-old sister, she's getting these catalogs that are like this thick, and it's full of male nudity but also female nudity too.
00:16:50.000I worked at Fox for four and a half years, and the rule was if you gave something to Hannity, you didn't appear on Bill O'Reilly and vice versa.
00:16:56.000So I was a 21-year-old being used like a human ping pong ball.
00:17:37.000And then when they get knocked off, they still think they can behave the way that they could on that pedestal.
00:17:42.000And so he's treating people like crap as he's always treated people like crap.
00:17:46.000Like his producers, like his assistants, like the women who worked for him when he would try and read erotica over the phone and they weren't even willing participants.
00:18:47.000I've been working around the clock on a new book that people will pick up at this very airport, take one glance at, and immediately set back down with no intention of purchasing it.
00:19:20.000And he said on Twitter, and this is why I think it's important to differentiate, because look, we don't have all of the details, and I get that you can get frustrated with airline employees, and I get that they can get a little bit lippy.
00:19:30.000But still, this does seem like it's out of line.
00:19:33.000And let's not conflate this with the kind of cultural censorship, the kind of cultural Marxism that some people refer to as cancel culture, with what's happened here at Bill O'Reilly.
00:19:43.000The character assassins on social media completely lying about my interaction with a jet blue guy who misled passengers during a five-hour delay.
00:21:03.000How do you know he deliberately misled you?
00:21:07.000How do you know that employee deliberately misled you?
00:21:08.000And I will say this, this is why as you go through your day-to-day life, you do have to give people the benefit of the doubt so that when you do react, when there is righteous rage and there is such thing as righteous rage, righteous indignation, then people know that it's appropriate, that you've removed all doubt.
00:21:25.000If you give people the benefit of the doubt, Once you flip the switch, you remove all doubt.
00:21:30.000But Bill O'Reilly just does this all the time.
00:21:33.000I mean, who would have thought that this guy, who would have thought that this guy could ever scream at some lower-level employee to make his point?
00:24:23.000It's always weird, this is the kind of thing with Bill O'Reilly, it's always weird when you talk about something and you know that the people that are watching Because you know the people at Netflix are watching, kind of like with YouTube, when we would get a call, or you know you make fun of some senator, then they're bitching on the floor at some hearing, and you're like, it was a goof!
00:24:40.000I never expected to be this influential.
00:24:44.000So I know that someone at Netflix, just like someone at YouTube, who bought our mystery box years ago, with the banned merchandise, was furious.
00:28:15.000We should have done a better job with this.
00:28:17.000There's also Cuties, and there's also, basically everything is woke, LDGBQAIG.
00:28:22.000I just, I started watching the first episode of the Jimmy Savile documentary on there last night, and I don't think I can go to episode two.
00:28:29.000No, I can't I canceled my subscription.
00:30:53.000So what I would advise is not only cancel your subscriptions, but also have them ship out DVDs and send them immediately back so that there's no way they could keep up with the shipping costs.
00:33:22.000Elon Musk even mentioned and chimed in on this, what it might be, and he tweeted out, or I believe, yeah, he tweeted, he said, the woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.
00:33:33.000That's a South African environmentalist, folks!
00:33:36.00082 and a half million followers, right?
00:33:38.000That's the problem, is when you start going at social media and thinking that that is the only barometer of what people want to watch, this is what happens.
00:38:04.000Now, let's not act like it's because he's simply delivering the news, because Oliver Darcy constantly delivers the why.
00:38:10.000He constantly paints it with his opinionative brush.
00:38:13.000What happened here today is they didn't really want to get into why, because it might also reflect poorly on CNN, which brings me to, before CNN, Disney.
00:38:21.000Disney, their stock fell 5% today in pre-market trading.
00:38:26.000In six months, 25% is how they've dropped.
00:38:54.000I'm trying to give you six months and today, for Netflix and Disney.
00:38:58.000So you have what the drop was today, and you have a six-month snapshot.
00:39:02.000I think that's important to do, so in the day of Taylor Lorenz and people talking about common journalistic practices, I don't know why consistent metrics aren't included there, but I see it all the time.
00:39:14.000So, you know, we've already admonished him.
00:39:17.000Disney, 5% today, 25% over six months.
00:39:21.000Now, there are many technical reasons for the drop in Disney, but alienating half of its audience, and by the way, most notably, half of that audience being the governor of Florida!
00:39:35.000And they're really pissed off about that, so DeSantis is actually reviewing the special, like, tax status that they have, and that could cost them tens of millions of dollars every single year.
00:39:53.000Yeah, build a Disney World next to Disneyland in California?
00:39:56.000And by the way, people saying, oh, this is inconsistent.
00:39:58.000No, AOC, for example, kept Amazon out.
00:40:02.000The average salary was over six figures, and the citizens overwhelmingly wanted it.
00:40:07.000And she just didn't like them to have tax incentives.
00:40:09.000Yeah, when you're recruiting businesses, you give them tax incentives to make them come there, provide jobs, the local economy grows, everybody makes more money, and they end up paying a bunch of taxes anyway.
00:40:20.000That's how you get businesses to move there.
00:40:22.000In Florida, they gave them this provision, I think, back in the 60s, and if they don't renew it, they're going to just let it expire and start collecting more money and saying, look, if you want to do stuff to destroy our state, to destroy our culture, we're not going to be tax breaks to do it.
00:40:36.000It's also Disney working with companies that are not in Florida.
00:40:38.000Other people, you know, flooding, political money flooding in, being matched by Disney from places like New York, from places like California to try and punish the citizens of Florida who agree with the bill that you shouldn't sexualize, you know, teachings to K-3.
00:43:27.000It's this, just you subscribing for the show, not even including all of you who are there at the blaze, is more than all of CNN's primetime hosts combined doing their CNN Plus.
00:43:39.000So once these people, of course, get salaries of many, many millions of dollars per year.
00:44:45.000Then we went to cable, and everything sort of went down again.
00:44:48.000Then we went to the stream, especially once we hit that point where more people were unplugging, and the big shows that came back were like the Stranger Things, where now you basically had three main networks at one point.
00:44:56.000It was like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime.
00:44:57.000Almost went back to exclusively network TV.
00:45:00.000Now there are so many, we're getting back to the online fracturing, and people value their dollar more.
00:45:07.000So when you get to pay, that's a good thing for you.
00:45:09.000We'll never have another Johnny Carson.
00:45:12.000We'll never have the kind of even, like, well maybe the Super Bowl is one exception, but the Oscars ratings, or a late night show.
00:45:18.000I mean you're talking about a difference between 30, 40 million with Carson, and one of these other late night shows is lucky to get three.
00:47:23.000Do you have an idea how embarrassing it is for me to wake up in a puddle of my own filth and then scrounge through my bomb shelter food for pudding because I just, I prefer, it's delicious.
00:47:40.000So, while we're talking about this, we're talking about, well we'll talk about Johnny Depp with my half-Asian lawyer here, I think maybe next week, and sort of go through that case by case.
00:47:51.000Here's, let me set this up, Ezra Miller, I didn't really know a whole lot about him other than he's on one of those superhero shows that I wouldn't watch.
00:49:06.000So what's the point to this? Uh... gays slash non-binary people, get away with murder.
00:49:13.000Every time that I hear someone say, oh he was bullied for being gay in high school, maybe, if this was 1992, today all that's required is a gay person say, he said a slur and that person's life is absolutely destroyed.
00:49:29.000Ten police calls, two arrests, and guess what?
00:49:33.000He hasn't been fired, whereas Johnny Depp was allegedly falsely accused of abuse with no proof from Amber Heard.
00:49:39.000Proof to the opposite, by the way, that she was actually beaten on him, and he loses everything.
00:49:44.000He loses the biggest role in modern franchise history.
00:49:49.000Let's not act as though the victim class is actually the victim class at this point when you represent disproportionately all of the programming on Netflix and four out of five hosts on CNN plus and they all behave like crap.
00:50:12.000Where the pictures Amber Heard took, where it was like, yeah, he was snorting cocaine with my tampon applicator I put here while he wasn't home.
00:51:35.000They do not have to be held accountable.
00:51:37.000We actually did this as an experiment a long time ago with one of my producers where we were in a mall, and I said the exact same thing as a gay person.
00:51:44.000So I would say, you have a really pretty smile.
00:51:58.000They were about to punch you and mace you.
00:52:00.000Because everyone is afraid to speak out against someone who is more of a protected class than themselves for fear of losing their livelihood.
00:52:11.000Look, if it's a straight white male who's a good guy, And a gay actor on a show that I've never seen, but a prick, you want the straight white male to point it out, regardless of whether this guy likes being a Rump Ranger.
00:52:25.000It could not be less relevant to the behavior.
00:52:28.000This is one thing, too, that, you know, people always say, well, you know, don't judge me.
00:53:40.000Now, I know you want to say sex and gender, but you can't say that anymore because now you have men competing in women's sports, which is separated for biological sex, and you can change your sex and your driver's license.
00:53:55.000There's going to be a 41% chance they attempted it anyway.
00:53:59.000Well, in the reality with suicide, as somebody who's had it in my family and somebody who's, you know, considered it highly, it cannot be blamed on one person.
00:55:36.000Now, let me be clear, and then I want to ask you guys why you think this is, because it could just be that this guy wants his golden parachute with Elon Musk.
00:55:45.000He did step down, by the way, from being CEO, I think it was in November of 2021.
00:56:27.000Which kind of put them in a bind, because then Elon Musk said, and if you don't, then I'll have to reconsider my stake in Twitter, which would cause their stock to take a nosedive, of course.
00:56:34.000So Twitter's board of directors They recently adopted what would be described as a poison pill to prevent Elon Musk's potential takeover.
00:56:41.000Which screws everybody who owns any share of Twitter ever.
00:56:45.000Now, keep in mind, this is also when people say, like, oh, these corporations are just beholden to their shareholders.
00:56:50.000I think there is a problem with that, too, sometimes with publicly traded companies, if they cut corners, right, or if it ends up harming the consumer, if they place the shareholder's value above the consumer.
00:56:59.000That being said, I would certainly rather these companies, right, look out for the best interests of their shareholders than ideologues on the board.
00:57:08.000Kind of like when people say, corporate media, man, I get it, there are problems with it, that's why this is entirely independent, but The alternative, where I was raised, CBC.
00:57:36.000I think one of the people running for Prime Minister, it might have been the NDP, said that if he won, he would give the CDC $100 million more in funding.
00:57:44.000And I think it was Trudeau who said, yeah, but if I win, I'll give you $150 million.
00:58:09.000Look, at least when people point to Fox News, the reason Fox News has all of these great ratings is because it's the only one from that point of view.
00:58:17.000It's the reason we have the ratings that we do compared to other entertainment shows.
00:58:20.000I mean, it's really more comparable to a late night show.
00:58:21.000It was a late night show, but then we realized that most of you actually work, so you watch it in the morning, so it's like late night in the morning.
00:58:26.000But it's because this is the only one that hasn't officially endorsed Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, right?
00:58:33.000That's a good thing to have that competition, at least.
00:58:37.000So let's just be aware here when people say shareholders, okay?
00:58:39.000Would you rather Twitter screw the shareholders, which is what they're willing to do now, to look out for the ideological preferences of the board?
00:58:48.000Before you answer, most of the people on that board are pieces of shit.
01:02:04.000So, when accused of defending Tucker Carlson, which is unforgivable, Dorsey responded on Twitter, not defending a thing, holding up a mirror.
01:02:13.000And then he followed up with this doozy, which I think is important.
01:02:15.000He said, I know this from being on the streets of Ferguson during the protests and watching them, meaning CNN, trying to create conflict and film it, causing the protesters to chant FCNN.
01:02:28.000And for those of you who don't remember, we ran this on the show, here are the protesters.
01:02:31.000And I remember laughing when it happened because I was saying, what did you think was going to happen, CNN?
01:02:35.000Of course they're going to turn on you.
01:02:37.000Here's the video of that actually happening.
01:03:27.000And by the way, this is the thing that bothers me most about Brian Stelter, and we've talked about this, the reason CNN Plus doesn't work, the reason Disney doesn't work, is because when these corporate overlords aren't telling you what you're supposed to watch, it doesn't work.
01:03:41.000And so these people then reach out and try and ingratiate themselves now to the new corporate overlords, namely five companies who run new media.
01:03:47.000Case in point, if you have never watched Brian Stelter, and that's all of you, on his show, he has this sort of rotating banner behind him.
01:03:55.000And I don't know why, it just is free advertising for every social media company.
01:05:24.000Genuinely, you can comment below because I can't think of any, and there can be some, like I know Bill Maher has, I know Jon Stewart has in the past.
01:05:31.000Have any of the CNN lineup hosts ever taken a stance that might get them in trouble with the companies that he just flashed across that screen?
01:05:40.000I'm judging them by their behavior, judging them by their actions, right?
01:05:43.000The media, the job was supposed to be to look out for the interests of the people, to speak truth to power, to hold power accountable.
01:05:50.000Well, right now, the power is only a handful of companies.
01:05:53.000And these are the companies that are getting free advertising, I guess, on Brian Stelter's show.
01:05:56.000You know, they're not paying for that.
01:06:49.000The whole idea was it was supposed to be about you.
01:06:52.000Back then you didn't have any corporate media on YouTube.
01:06:54.000It was people uploading things, sharing it with their family, and then some people realized that it could be a valuable medium to upload comedy, to upload sketches, news shows, so it sort of started developing.
01:07:04.000But it was always designed to develop its own ecosystem and independent content.
01:07:08.000That's how they sold it, and that's how they specifically sold it to creators like me.
01:07:32.000Once upon a time, YouTube, if you go back and you look, they used to actually have a trending page that was based on what was most popular.
01:07:39.000The tabs existed trending, or most viewed, most commented.
01:07:43.000That's how this channel initially grew, because there was controversy.
01:07:47.000I was the only conservative in 2008, 2009 really on YouTube, and people would comment and argue, and so we'd get to the top of most commented, and guess what?
01:08:55.000Okay, well at least you had the like and the dislike button, and you still had comments, and then YouTube said, you know what?
01:08:59.000We're going to get rid of the dislike button because they didn't like what was happening on these corporate media channels and the White House channel.
01:09:05.000Now again, this isn't them giving some kind of a subsidy, although they did actually produce a show with Vox.
01:09:12.000It's just them creating a new lay of the land to favor these legacy corporations.
01:09:19.000And now you might watch this and at the end, God forbid, it'll play Seth Meyers.
01:09:25.000And so that is what has happened consistently.
01:09:27.000And it's terrifying when you think that they're working hand-in-hand with legacy media who are failed.
01:10:09.000And so they group together and you see it.
01:10:11.000Brian Stelter's just dumb enough to say the smart part out loud, where he's going, I'm ingratiating myself to these new media companies so that that way, please, that way, please kill me last!
01:10:46.000So that's my, this is what's scary about it, is you're going to see these people trying to consolidate more and more power.
01:10:52.000And once upon a time, new media, back then it was referred to as new media, now it's mainly social media, the beauty was that there was no gatekeeper, right?