Humor and Hypocrisy in Politics

Speaker 3
She's ruining our country. Here's my one comment on Doug Imhoff. If for whatever reason Kamala Harris becomes president of the United States, I just wanted to keep the title second gentleman because I think it's the funniest title ever. It's like the name of like an umpire and cricket or something. Or like the guy who hands you the saber in fencing. The second gentleman, and he probably wears a tuxedo. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. I just think it's such a funny name. It is a great name. But I mean, I think Wolf puts up the best argument. I mean, look, I
Speaker 1
kind of agree with you, and then like, why don't we care about Doug Imhoff here? But like, the nanny thing was a little bit of a curve ball. But I think the most important part, the only reason you should care about it is because this is the guy, the lead spokesperson for the for the entire administration on what constitutes toxic masculinity.
Speaker 4
He's like,
Speaker 1
Oh, boy, we really, we really need to rein in toxic. First of all, I don't even know what the fuck that is in today's age. But he's the good guy, support a husband. I'd like a little bit more toxic, toxic masculinity, my own household, to be honest with you. But this guy's preaching everybody about how that, you know, this is a real problem and he's wailing on the nanny. I mean I don't know, look, I don't know what the definition is. Feels like that might be it. That feels toxic. It feels a little toxic. If that's not it, I don't know what it is. We're fun. You gotta hear this. So when we started Ruthless, there was a natural comparison that many in the media sort of short-handed, which we didn't consider at all. We do what we do regardless of what anybody. But off the left-hand side there's been this group of Obama bros forever that have done a podcast and they started a media company, Crooked Media. They immediately signed HBO deals and they were backed by George Soros and like they had a whole lot. Hey, we don't have a benefactor. Where's our sugar
Speaker 2
daddy? If you're a left-winger and you start a podcast, it's like today's episode presented by Coca-Cola and George Soros. But
Speaker 1
Pod Save America is the name of this outfit and they've got a bunch of different stuff going on. Well, it turns out there's trouble in paradise here. Progressive staffers rebel at Soros funded media company launched by ex-Obama aides. This is a New York Post article that said a media company founded by aides to former president Barack Obama and partly funded by George Soros that produces the influential Pod Save America podcast have been beset by internal turmoil between its progressive staffers and their moderate bosses. That's funny by the way.
Speaker 4
Yeah moderate.
Speaker 1
Yeah, you know those moderate Obama folks Just center of the road people no question about tension at Los Angeles based crooked media has been fueled by staff Disagreements about the war in Gaza. Oh, yeah anger over co-founder dating an employee who was promoted? hilarious again the toxic masculinity. It's all over the place. Grooling 12-hour work days. My god. 12 hours. Holy cow. Grooling. Groola
Speaker 4
takes a lot of time. If four white guys taking credit for the first black president, it takes 12 hours. It takes 12
Speaker 1
It's a full-time job, no question about it. And resentment over pay disparity and the celebrity status of the hosts, according to Bloomberg News. More than a dozen current and former employees of the company told the outlet there's a divide of more progressive staffers whose views are left to the mainstream Democratic Party, the co-founders and podcast hosts who veer towards the middle. Again, we're talking about the middle of what? Yeah. The middle of communism? I don't know. I mean, this is like, if you... I'm not recommending you try this. We've tried it, and so we can tell you, if you listen to like a part of their stuff, there's
Speaker 2
nothing middle about any of it. I mean, we're communist, we're not Marxist.
Speaker 3
It's just never left wing enough for this like next generation of radical left wing activists. Like, think about what happened at the New York Times when they tried to publish an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton and there was a revolt in the Slack channel. Like that's what this is. Yeah. Like there's more in here about how they, you know, the staffers were changing their emoji to a watermelon in Slack. Yeah. As they're like silent protest and for Gaza or whatever. I don't do it. It's just passive aggressive weirdos, dude. I changing
Speaker 2
your emoji. Yeah. and you're what
Speaker 3
a stand so
Speaker 2
should be heavy egg. Can I say my favorite part of this story? After the George Soros check came in One of the lead guys John Favreau by a 10 million dollar house and it was featured online. I can't do that cribs Something like that like and the staffers are like what the hell and
Speaker 3
then they had layoffs Faz Faz get that money What a great hustle you earned it you wrote speeches for the most gifted politician in modern history who can speak eloquently? I'm sure it was well written in crayon No, seriously, I mean he
Speaker 2
could like write read a Dr. Seuss book.
Speaker 1
I know like yeah that's that's great If I got
Speaker 2
a check from some billionaire and fired a bunch of lefties, I'd be like mission accomplished well, dude So you have nothing to feel shame for
Speaker 1
so it says that it received millions of dollars from pro-democratic donors Which is I also I find hilarious, again, no matter fact, it's certainly worthless for any program writer. It ain't that you're seeing and hearing me. It ain't bought and paid for, I can guarantee you that. But I'd be willing to be. Yeah. Jeff, Jeff, yes, if you're listening.
Speaker 2
Just yes, please. Look
Speaker 1
what they're getting. I've
Speaker 2
seen what you've done for others, Jeff, yes, and I want that for me. It's our favorite stuff. If you know
Speaker 1
how much work has gone into what it is that we do, you'd have a far more, uh, shall we say sympathetic view of how we've come to the conclusions that we've come to. Um, they even gave George Soros a board seat. Did they really? Yeah. Wow. George Soros! George Soros. George Soros! I mean, come on! That is so wild. Do you imagine, first of all can you imagine having that dude on your board I'd be terrified oh scared
Speaker 2
hit list first of all
Speaker 3
this is like this is a guy who like made his fortune tearing down companies yeah
Speaker 2
he
Speaker 3
broke the Bank of England he's
Speaker 2
essentially just trying to do like a human experiment on the globe with his left-wing bullshit, but like, I mean, when the wire hit it would feel great though. Well, that's how
Speaker 1
you get the house. So according to Bloomberg News, a faction of workers demanded a more forceful pro-Palestinian stance from the company, including open discussions about the death toll in Gaza, as well as support for the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses. Staffers tried to get management to change their tune on the Israel-Gaza war by posting links to news stories about the conflict in the internal slack. It's always what you say. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2
It's the internal slack, bro.
Speaker 1
They must always... What you say, the internal slack is the death of every left-wing organization in this country.
Speaker 4
These guys take themselves way too seriously.
Speaker 1
An internal slack. Our internal slack by the way, it's not this.
Speaker 3
No. I can assure
Speaker 2
you it's not this. It's typically like is Africa actually showing up to work today? No he's in Florida bro, he's golfing.
Speaker 1
You should see what I have professionally and seriously refrained from putting in Slack this week, because I had a bunch of stories that wanted to go in here, none of which you'd been comfortable with. Well,
Speaker 2
the thing is, is that like our Slack, if we're being completely honest, is like, if it were to ever leak, we'd come off as the most boring people in the game. Right. And for them to have a Slack that they are like a multi multi-million dollar organization funded by George Soros just hot fire And they're all in there with their like it's time to attack Israel today How does that happen
Speaker 1
We need to get we need to arm the rebellion yeah leak the slack if you're one of the left He's listening leak the slack. So uh, love it was known. this is one of the three dudes, Love It. Is there four? Yeah. Yeah. Well, originally three and then... They added Pfeiffer? I think so. Pfeiffer. Yeah, Pfeiffer. So, Love
Speaker 4
It.
Speaker 1
And they're contemporaries. Like, we've, I, at least was when I was doing this in government, like, knew of them. I don't know if I ever
Speaker 2
met any of them, but
Speaker 1
they know who we are. They've been, they've said stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2
they tried to attack us and we always hit them back and they shut up. They said stuff. I mean, I guess when you're getting a check
Speaker 3
from Soros, you can't be like, oh, hold on. Guys, stop talking shit. I want to get an invite to Fav's house. Sounds like it's really nice. It actually sounds super fat and we can definitely help with the labor relations. Yeah.
Speaker 1
We will break that union's map, bro. So Lovett was known to be dating a staffer who has promoted at least three times in the last two years. That is so good. The best part about this is it's in the backdrop of me too. It's the left thing and they're like, well, I'm going to be promoting
Speaker 4
my girlfriend again. Everything Dems and the Libs attack Republicans about, you can be sure they're guilty of themselves. Because
Speaker 1
it's an insecurity that they have in their own lives. Like the rest of us, I don't know, like I'm sure we do things that are not perfect in our lives. And we sort of grapple with it as our lives. And you just try to do the right thing. Any time you see the left out in unison for something, it's because they are the worst.
Speaker 3
They're telling on themselves.
Speaker 4
They are the worst. Just look at Doug Imhoff wailing on the nanny. And then like, oh toxic masculinity is a problem in our society. It's a perfect
Speaker 1
example,
Speaker 4
right? And I don't know, I don't know, love it. He could be a terrific
Speaker 1
guy. Seems like there's at least elements in here that I appreciate. You know what? I actually think he's, I
Speaker 3
think he's actually kind of funny.
Speaker 1
Well, I've seen him on stuff where I actually do find him funny. I mean, he's got a comedic timing, which I appreciate. And of course, because you're a left wing guy, you get to go on all the late night shows and whatnot. Can you imagine if they put the four of us on? Fucking... In
Speaker 2
30 seconds, they're going commercial break, and we're gone. And they'd be like, that's it, then fire the
Speaker 3
producer. They'd cancel us faster than Shane Gillis. Totally.
Speaker 1
She had a rapid rise through the ranks that left other workers embittered due to the difficulty of getting a promotion at the company, according to the report. So all of that was in the run up to a story that happened yesterday in Variety. There's more? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my god. The workers left. Oh yeah, this is the workers story. The workers of union workers at crooked media the progressive media company that produces the popular podcast pods save America are participating in a one-day walkout on August 5 intended to spur the company to reach a Contract. Yes. Oh, so so for
Speaker 3
you know people familiar with DC and stuff and for people who don't this is really funny but every time there's one of these Union protests around DC they always bring this giant inflatable rat. Yeah. We gotta get the inflatable rat to POD Save headquarters because that is like that would be funny. That would be very funny.
Speaker 1
Well so there was a discussion a few years ago about whether you would unionize, which nobody even can see. It's like I don't know they're soers-funded so maybe they have like a large enough thing where you need to work, worry about things like collective bargaining. But anyway they decided to unionize. Well it's turned out to be problematic for them because the work stoppage comes after more than a year of negotiations between WGA East Affiliated Union and crooked media's management
Speaker 2
according to the Union this so not great Bob going back to this bullet point where it says The fabric was reported to have recently bought a 10 million dollar home in Los Angeles which wrinkled staffers who thought it went against progressive ideology That is the core of progressive. Like you look at Soviet Russia, the folks at the top were doing great.
Speaker 3
Go ahead and Google the houses of some of those leaders of BLM. Go check that out. Multiple houses. Yeah. That's the way it works. Is they get all the suckers below them
Speaker 2
to do any kind of work, and the folks at the top cash in it. That is just, that's actually how it works. Like look at Venezuela. Look at, I mean, look at Hamas. Like the dudes at the top cash in, everyone else is a sucker, and they're like, that's not progressive. He's like, bro, this is the playbook.
Speaker 4
Everybody's got a different way of organizing. We here at the Ruthless Variety Program know that if we were to do something wrong in the eyes of Nicky Spaghetti, we'd be under the new parking garage at the Metal Age. He doesn't need a union.
Speaker 1
He just comes and breaks our knees. No, no, and that's the thing that's part of the beauty of when you get somebody is called truly diverse is spaghetti. Yeah. You handle these things in your own way. And he's's taking a vacation so he's rested ready and tanned Yeah, his tanned is a half Italian half Irish guy can get which by the way you got a little more Irish than Italian in your tanning capabilities, but you look great and we love to have him here And you're gonna be taking care of Union negotiations from here on out Union works for you. Drink, drink a piss out of the fucking water fountain. All right. So a thing that popped up that you may not have seen that we had. And then I like, I want to do just a moment on it because it's fantastic. So RFK is trying to get ahead of a story that's apparently coming out in The New Yorker and he takes time to try to explain this negative connotation that's coming out on him to what looks like Roseanne Barr. That
Speaker 4
I think it is Roseanne Barr. Yeah
Speaker 1
it looks like Roseanne Barr. Anyway let's play clip three. A woman in
Speaker 4
a van in front of me hit a bear and killed it. a young bear. So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear. And it was very good condition and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator. And you can do that in the orchestra if you can get a bear tag for a roadkill bear. And at the end of the dinner, it went late and I realized I couldn't go home. I had to go to the airport. And the bear was in my car and I didn't want to leave the bear in the car. That would have been bad. So then I thought, you know, at that time, this was the little bit of the redneck in me, there'd been a series of bicycle accidents in New York that they had just put in the bike lanes. And I said, I had an old bike in my car that somebody'd ask me to get rid of. I said, let's go put the bear in the Central Park and we'll make it look like he got hit by a bike.
Speaker 3
What? Sorry.
Speaker 1
So we added that down a little bit for time, but I'm confused by a bunch of it. So like you could tell by the audio what happened is there was an incident with a bear or there was roadkill, he put it in his car, he ultimately decided to put it in Central Park and stage it like it had been hit by a bike. The problem is it became like a very big news story in New York, amazing, right? Let's talk about that in a second. And then it became a liability for him because it was like, who would do such a thing? This is evidently a liability in liberal circles. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I mean, I was like, halfway through, I was like, I'm with him on his thinking. He was like, I want to take the bear home and skin it. I mean I agree. You see a bear get hit by a car and it's dead. That's a free rug. It's
Speaker 3
very funny though that his first thought after seeing the bear get hit by a car was that bear is in good condition.
Speaker 1
You know he said it's in good condition. Let's load it in the back. I want to load it in the back. Don't waste it.
Speaker 2
They didn't hit the head so you could still get the kick-ass rug off the
Speaker 3
bed. Dude, I just saw all... This whole thing is like clearly like a setup. Like he's just trying to get ahead of the story and so he puts in this very tight narrative of
Speaker 1
what, oh he just happened to have the old bike. And there's a photo of, oh so it was a bear cub.
Speaker 3
Yeah. Bear cub.
Speaker 1
Yeah, he's pretending like it's biting him in the back of the thing. But he's not
Speaker 2
getting like a real living room rug out of this guy. No. But is it just me? I can't think... Maybe a bath mat. Yeah, it bath mat bear?
Speaker 3
Like a bath
Speaker 1
mat bear. It's a bath mat bear. Feet
Speaker 4
are always gonna be dry when you step out
Speaker 1
of the shower. Well, it's the kind of thing you'd be embarrassed to put in your home. You shot a baby bear bro? No! It's
Speaker 2
not
Speaker 1
choked that maybe that's how we got the brain worms because you know they
Speaker 2
get the brain worms. They have worms. Yeah they have the worms. I think you had the brain worms first if you try to stage as a bicycle accident. But the funny thing to me is
Speaker 1
like how is this a liability in the first place? Like he's oh I gotta get out in front of this like he they killed a bear on the road he loaded it into his back and then they had a funny joke in Central Park with a bike and like to me I would put then an ad yeah that's funny but I could look at my look at my goofs look at what a look at what a hilarious goof I am I've got a sense of humor nope but
Speaker 4
you know it all came from a New Yorker article that somebody was writing for that magazine and it proves once again, fellas, that if they are attacking a Democrat, it's in service of another Democrat. So what must be happening is RFK is pulling more vote out of Kamala's column than we really know.
Speaker 1
Well, it's down now but but here here is all you need to know about that. The reason why RFK is part of the news cycle is exactly what you just said. In that they want this to be a binary choice because they know Trump is at 48. Look at every single poll. I don't care if it's Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada or Arizona. Look at every one of them. It's 48. know what a binary choice, you're going to get to 100%. You got to control what the turnout looks like a little bit, but they're convinced that they've reestablished a liberal base with Kamala Harris. And so if you get to a point where he's stuck at 48 and it's a binary choice, they like their chances. It's the same reason why they wanted to nominate Donald Trump to begin with. It got crazy on him, would slip sideways when Joe Biden turned out to be an invalid. And it got even more sideways when he couldn't like literally put two sentences together in a debate. But now that that's come back together, the same theory applies. But you've seen Democrats go from 15 on RFK down to three. This is what they're trying to do. Now three may not get the job done. But like that's what they're trying to do with the New Yorker. And so he gets out in front of it. My whole thing is, don't think this guy's some like right leaning dude because he put a bear in the back.
Speaker 4
You
Speaker 1
know it's funny, it's funny, but like the constituency that he's catering to by trying to get out in front of that is the same one who he is, which is a left-wing lib, we're like oh my god I can't believe you've handled a bear.
Speaker 4
Mm-hmm. You know, what a nightmare. Yeah, no, until he starts lighting and heating his home with seal oil, he doesn't get the
Speaker 1
pass. He doesn't get that. And we like seal oil here. You gotta club them, right? Renewable resources. Isn't it clubbing in the way to handle
Speaker 4
it? Do you know seals are actually taking over in the Atlantic near Massachusetts? Yeah, they're
Speaker 1
bastards. Can you club them legally? Is there a club license? There
Speaker 4
should be a club season there should be a season on seals I mean, they're absolutely sure I think if no
Speaker 2
one sees you club it maybe it was a bicycle just I think in the back
Speaker 1
Because they come they kind of come quick when they get up and they start. Oh, yeah, you see them. They're bastard animals They can't just babies. They're asking to get club like you gotta be a little bit of an athlete to just yeah
Speaker 2
Dude, it'll be a ball. We got to somewhere that's legal.
Speaker 1
Yeah, if somebody has any idea on where you can club seals, let us know.
Speaker 2
We'll handle it. Last
Speaker 1
thing on the variety program, we've saved the absolute best for last. You've watched the Olympics, we've talked about a little at the top. There was an unfortunate incident where a gentleman was trying to do the pole vault Graphic six if you don't mind. Oh We've done look at look at the tastefulness of spaghettes and wolf here What happened was a gentleman cleared the pole vault, cleared the bar, was tripped up by something. Turns out it was his hog. There is a gentleman who, if you haven't seen the video, we can't put it on here because we get taken down by YouTube. The Olympics are very serious about that. Yeah, they've been doing it left and right. So we tried to do, we've got like a here but the man cleared the entire thing except for one crucial appendage which tipped the balance on the entire thing in the bar. Well I
Speaker 2
don't know what people were expecting. This is why I don't watch the Olympics. You knew it was gonna start with some blue junk
Speaker 1
and
Speaker 2
what'd you get? Blue junk. If you're interested in that thing you watch the Olympics and you get what you pay for.
Speaker 1
Dude we really pixelate out I mean I guess we really are a family fit friendly operation. Was it pretty graphic? Wolf is saying it was extremely graphic.
Speaker 3
It
Speaker 1
was extremely graphic.
Speaker 3
He may not have won gold but he was certainly blessed in
Speaker 1
the genetic Olympics.
Speaker 4
That's exactly right dude. That's exactly right. He lost the event, but he won the game of life. For crying out loud, this guy is a hero. Well, I think that's an
Speaker 1
additional question today's YouTube comments. If you're going to lose the Olympics, how would you like to lose them? Because I can't improve upon that joke. Oh, no.
Speaker 3
I'm so embarrassed. Oh, so sorry. So sorry. That was broadcast in 126 countries. His
Speaker 4
buddies are never gonna let
Speaker 1
him know. All the judges are like, but look at the size. Think
Speaker 4
about the guys in his friend group who have like changed his profile picture on their iPhone to that. Just to that. He's
Speaker 1
got to be having a good week no matter what. For sure. That'll be damned.
Speaker 4
Yeah. That'll be
Speaker 1
damned. All right, so remember our question of the day that we'd like your responses to is the economy in trouble or is it a blip on the radar? We're going to look at all of that in the context of where you're from, so make sure you include that. And like and subscribe while you're at it. We've got some merch items up. I think, you know, it's time to probably refresh. We're busy here at the Variety Program, but we should do a little election push. Maybe you can look at some of that in a post-Labor Day. And I've
Speaker 3
heard from a lot of people they want the Titleist hats back or the rope hats. This hat? This hat that I'm wearing? And that's the titles, yeah. this hat that i'm wearing. So we got to get the team on on that. I I heard it when I was in sarah sona People are they're mad. They can't get it. They're clamoring.
Speaker 1
Yeah,
Speaker 3
the people call out. Okay.
Speaker 1
Well, we have to get on that But with all that fellas, I think we did it. I think so absolute banger of an episode
Speaker 2
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