The Importance of Out of Context

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I think that if one of our listeners ever bothered to make a super mix of the crazy shit we've said that that alone would be way more offensive but there's something about talking about all of this stuff in one episode that you know no I know. There's no if you hear it out of context that's not going to tell you anything you have to, he says. You have to know what was going on in that class for the semester to be able to judge whether you know what I said or what somebody else in the class said was offensive or not rightYeah I know and that's the thing is that that as as we live our life in public more and more the chances of

In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage.

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