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Adventures in HellwQrld Presents: The New Norm Is Very Bad

Mike and Haley discuss "The New Norm" and why it's terrible and why all right wing comedy is bad. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello, everybody.
I am Mike Rains, a.k.a.
PokerInPolitics, and welcome to a special episode of Hellworld.
I believe we don't have a name for none of this stuff.
We don't ever plan for anything ahead of time.
We're incredibly stupid here.
But we're going to start digging into right-wing content, like right-wing stuff that's being created.
Maybe we'll get into the new smash hit, Am I Racist?
by Matt Walsh.
Oh, no.
I don't know how much I can handle that, but we should.
Several more finally on HBO if you want to make that piece of shit.
Oh, what kind of American are you?
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, that's a dumb quote from the movie.
But yeah, so what we're going to talk about this week is the new norm, which is allegedly a terrible bit of Quote-unquote comedy that may or may not produce an episode for X anytime in the near future.
Apparently it died a death and now it's been resurrected.
There's been a bunch of posts on the New Norm's Twitter feed where they got, like, alpha-jawed, big-handed Trump hanging out with the cast of the New Norm and, like, telling people, like, please stop shooting at Trump.
It's making us sad.
That is not even a joke.
It's literally, it just says, stop.
And it's a photo of Buff, Chisel Jaw Trump, and Norm.
And then the post says, stop shooting the president.
That's it.
Yep, that's it.
It's not a piece of media that should be studied for generations.
It's very strange, the show, in the sense that it's obviously supposed to be some sort of bizarre riff on All in the Family.
And the character of Norm is Archie Bunker, only in our telling of the story, Archie is right about everything.
And The character of Meathead is not played by JFK conspiracy theorist and oddjob nutball Rob Reiner, but is instead played by a incredibly dispassionate David Rubin, who... I thought about maybe just ripping the whole trailer and then making audio clips of it, but really...
The only thing you'd learn from that is the laugh track is relentless and horrifyingly annoying.
So we're just going to do that to you through our own show.
So anytime me or Haley says anything, we're just going to pause and put the laugh track in there because You'll get the feel for the vision, the mentality of the new Norm.
I mean, it's so hilarious, the joke.
His name is Norm, because he's normal, and now the world's going crazy.
Why can't we just go back to the old norm?
Here.
Beer.
What?
That's what he said.
He's just like, beer.
Beer.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
The beer.
The whole opening of this thing, everything about it is so bad, but Haley went on an adventure.
So I'm going to throw this over to investigative reporter Haley to uncover like the nuts and bolts of the new norm and where this all came from.
Um okay so we will be talking about obviously that three minute trailer that dropped that everybody has seen it has like tens of millions of views but we know some of the other inside sauce about the new norm because I went on a journey Um, where, uh, I found the what new norm is based off of.
So, the new norm is based off of this comic series called, which you can't really call it that.
It's, it was like, it was like maybe six, seven panels that they did.
That was just like right wing maybe humor?
I'm not 100% sure because there's no jokes in these comics.
There's like one comic where the Grinch is just saying you want to cancel me, right?
I don't get that one.
I don't get it.
It's the characters looking at him.
There's one where- there's several with Gina Carano.
She seems to be a reoccurring character in the comic series.
But she has different animation than the new Norm.
This is like a constant theme is that their other media seems to have probably, I'm assuming, stolen art from people who have animated these characters because a lot of the non-Norm main cast is just animated and they're all different.
Yeah, there is this very weird like quote-unquote second episode where Norm and Elon Musk are brought before a house committee and it's all AI art instead of the regular art and AOC is the supreme evil and she's in a high throne almost like the president instead of just being the chair of a committee where they're all on one dais.
And it's not in the art style at all of the show.
It's so weird.
I don't understand it.
It's very like cutesy Disney AI kind of style.
And it's basically just a plot where AOC is getting sexually harassed by elon musk and it's very like ulu style it's very disturbing um grimes also makes an appearance in that well she's holding the baby and like it's so weird when We have to- briefly, we're just going to talk about that one while we're talking about different art styles.
Because, like, that episode is technically, like, I think the planned second episode.
Uh, because Elon also seems to be a reoccurring character.
Um, and, like, basically, Norm makes his first po-
Where he calls AOC hot and Elon says true and she's not that bright and she brings him forth upon this committee and there's a scene where Elon's like oh all my baby mamas saw the post and it does a shot with Grimes and a bunch of women holding babies and then he's like AOC says she doesn't want to have his baby.
It's not a good, it's not a good, it's not a good scene but through this like rabbit hole that I went down we found old media so there's that and then another one that does like a trans swimmer plot with one of the side character's sons um and then we found the comics and the full names of all the cast because that isn't even revealed in the three minute episode
Because the daughter is just daughter in the pilot that's released to the public, but her name is Chloe.
So that's some of the background info on how we got extra stuff.
But the first episode is, we'll get into it.
Yeah, so, and we've never, there hasn't been a full episode released yet that I know of.
It's literally just a three and a half minute trailer for the first episode.
And I originally sort of looked at it.
A little peek behind the curtain for our audience here.
Me and Haley recorded this like a week ago.
And then if you listen to the regular pod, you realize my microphone didn't sound great last week.
So we then realized it sounded even worse when I recorded with Haley.
So I bought a new microphone cord, plugged it in.
I think we can fix this.
If I haven't, I'll be really frustrated.
But the gist of it is we decided to do take two on this, and when we did take two, I decided to get way into the weeds about this trailer.
I decided to get obsessed about it.
This is incredibly unhealthy, and this is why I'm on Twitter and permanently online and fighting for a world I'll be unfit to live in.
But the first thing I did was I went over The amount of laugh track and audio clips that were used in this trailer.
And again, the trailer is three minutes and 46 seconds, but this is even underselling reality because the last 30 or so seconds are the country singer who does the song for the show, which I believe people have said is an A.I.
singer.
Yeah, it's A.I.
Yeah, the song is completely generated by AI.
So all the laugh track that I'm talking about is really done in the span of about three minutes.
And whatever amount of laugh track you think is in this thing, you are wrong.
There's no number you could name.
Because just imagine this yourself.
You're like, three minutes, how much laugh track would they put in?
There is 24 laugh track hits of the regular laugh track and then seven more of the slightly quieter laugh track.
They sneak in in other spots when they need to.
So again, three minutes of content and we've got over 30 hits of the laugh track to let people know what the jokes are.
And then there's What'd you say?
It's so fucking funny.
Oh, it's so fucking- everything's a knee slapper.
Every- everything they say is a rib tickler.
It's all just abs- every- everything they say absolutely kills.
Uh, it like- uh, and then what's really funny is that none of the jokes are actually Gut busters?
Almost all of the jokes are actually like a setup for a sting, not for an actual laugh.
I mean, there's very few attempts at an actual joke.
Most of it is just Norm being offended at what's happening around him, and then we're supposed to laugh.
Because the absurdity of the situation is so funny that we should laugh at how crazy it is.
Like, so when Norm is told he has to take the non-binary federal agent, basically, that is going to be policing him, he's like, I gotta bring that thing into my house?
And the response should not be a laugh track, it should be a sting.
Like that should be what the laugh track would be so much better if literally it was the sting every time instead of laughs because there's so little that that goes here that is laugh based.
It's really It's really funny how just the whole thing is just characters say things, laugh track plays.
Characters say more things, more laugh track.
There's even a lot of times where they just don't even bother letting the laugh track finish.
They just have the next character start talking while the laugh track is playing over them.
So you don't even get to hear what they're saying cleanly.
Because the people who made this were just like, more audio is good.
The less quiet we have during the trailer, the better it is.
We need 3 minutes of constant noise.
No silence.
Ever.
So what is this brilliant plot of episode 1 spewing?
spewing.
Okay, Okay, so our trailer opens up, and Norm is on the Archie Bunker chair, and he's using a back scratcher to scratch his ankle where his ankle monitor is located, and he's growling like a feral animal.
Like, he has, like, a very weird growl.
It's not like a human growl, where he's like... He's like a dog that's, like, frightened.
And then Norm looks at his beer can and is horrified that it has a gay pride flag on it.
And it literally says, this is the line, he goes, ah!
And then the laugh track plays because Norm's screaming in horror that his beer is woke.
It's funny!
And Norm then says, what's that?
And he says that, and the laugh track is still playing over him.
And then the daughter says, progress, it's the new Norm.
And then smash cut to credit screen happens, and the singer, the AI singer pumps in and goes, the new Norm ain't the same as the old Norm.
And then Norm- It's very true.
It's the like, it's every standard country kind of singer.
Like, the norm ain't the same as the old norm.
It's really bad.
They went through so many voices to find generic country singer mid-90s.
It was just really dull.
Also, to know the thing about Daughter, who is real name Chloe, She is the woke wannabe.
So she is half woke.
She is turning woke.
Norm is an old father.
He's drawn as an old man.
And he has a teenage daughter named Chloe.
Yes.
You would look at the two of them and think that Norm is the grandfather given that he is Archie Bunker.
And the daughter is much younger than Meathead and Meathead's wife from the original series.
Chloe is not even 18.
She's a kid.
She's a kid, is the point of this.
And we also are going to get that when we get to Chaz, the non-binary federal agent of re-education, or whatever Chaz's deal is.
is and then um norm they've been doing like a so they threw up the credit scene or they threw up the title scene screen then norm breaks the fourth wall and rips down the title screen and like crumples it into a ball and throws it away
And this gets a weird amuse-bouche, a weird mix of a laugh track plus applause.
The crowd's laughing at the visual gag, but now they're cheering that the show is starting properly.
And then Norm says, I'm the old Norm.
I want normal beer!
Laugh track, immediate laugh track, because that's really funny.
He just said that.
Oh my God.
And then after that happens, uh, he goes to the front door and then his, uh, there's an Alexa that is connected to his ankle monitor.
I, that, that's basically how the joke is explained to us.
They don't explain the robot.
It's just there.
Is there a robot for some reason?
Yeah, he just has his ankle monitor is connected to his Alexa and it is omnipresent.
And the Alexa is a character in the show.
Because the characters, they need more characters than they have for some reason.
Because the Laugh Track is a character and the Alexa is a character.
They were just like, you know, we need more characters.
And this makes me wonder if they ever do a full show.
Is the show going to be structured where we get A-plots and B-plots?
Because, like, The Simpsons and other shows that have a large cast will often have an A-plot and a B-plot in an episode.
But this show feels so aggressively Norm-centric, I can't see how any of the plots could not involve him.
So the show is going to be just one 23-minute A-plot revolving around Norm.
Um, I feel like beer is also a central character to the show because obviously there's the whole, like, I want normal beer!
And it opens up.
And, like, on the website that they're currently actively promoting, they have another one, that it, the beer thing is, they're really obsessed with the Dylan Mulvaney drank a beer once kind of thing.
So like, there's a section on the website that goes, those were the days when girls were girls and men were men.
And it's got a photo of all in the family.
And then it says, these are the days when girls aren't girls and men aren't men.
And it has Dylan Mulvaney drinking a Bud Light.
And then it says, now is the time for the new norm.
and its norm.
Right, they're so upset about the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light thing, and they also think that you, the viewer, are still going to be outraged about it years after the fact.
Like, the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light thing is apparently just a bottomless content mine for them to harvest from.
It's incredibly strange how they think that everyone cares about this.
Also, I think that a reason a lot of the jokes feel very like, wow, we're still talking about that years later is because they did, like, animate this first episode
in 2022 because we found a privated, unlisted YouTube video that is the first episode and it was posted two years ago and it's clearly posted by like the guy who funded The New Norm because it's his middle name and there's just nothing on there but this unlisted New Norm episode.
So that's why they're doing old memes.
So releasing it, I hope they release it soon so they can get these really timely jokes out there.
Yeah, they're so topical and so awesome about everything.
It's just so silly.
The amount of culture war nonsense, the whole show is culture war nonsense, but the weird reaches they make in the culture war nonsense, you have to be so in the weeds to get these references and understand them.
Like the villains on the phone that we'll get to at the end of this.
There's almost no way you would know these people unless you were unbelievably pilled.
You have to be so internet poisoned to get these jokes.
I didn't even know who the dog-faced soldier was until I had to look it up.
Yeah, I remember that going around, and when you look it up, he's just a random general that retired that was in a puppy mask.
photo with his uh like military garb on and like yeah it was a colonel it was a random colonel i what i was what i looked up and it was and they didn't even like name him or anything they were just like the and the army just came out with this whole thing we're like we're not really cool about this person wearing this mask and wearing the uniform it's this isn't great so uh we're gonna have to tell them to knock it off but like that's the level of uh like internet poisoning
you have to know in order to get the jokes in order to understand the references that this show is going for and And so after Norm gets angry about the fact that he just wants normal beer and he gets his ankle monitor to go off, the Alexa that's connected to his ankle monitor says, warning, warning, perimeter breached.
And that's the last thing that the ankle monitor says besides offensive.
Every time the ankle monitor speaks, it is preceded by a klaxon going, which is super annoying.
And the klaxon gets in the way of the laugh track a lot.
It's just noise, as I can't stop saying.
They just put so much noise into this thing that they don't want you to have a moment to catch your breath at any time during the trailer.
It's just joke, joke, noise, noise, joke, joke, noise, noise.
And after he gets yelled at, Norm grunts again, and his grunt again triggers the laugh track.
And then he says to his daughter, it's your fault I got house arrest, laugh track.
And then she says, you're the one who threatened the school board.
Laugh track.
And then Norm says, I gently suggest it.
And the laugh track is still playing while he says that.
And then the daughter says, yelled.
And he says, did they stop brainwashing my daughter that girls ain't girls and men ain't men?
And this gets an audience approval track of like clapping and cheering.
Because they're so scared you won't know what to laugh and cheer for.
They have to prime you for it.
And it's just so funny that Norm basically looks at the camera and says, there are two genders.
And then the people making this were like, Do you think the audience is going to get it?
Do you think they're going to understand that Norm's the protagonist?
And they're like, oh shit, punch it up.
Have like some audience cheering because they're acting like this is being filmed in front of a studio audience or acting like this is actual live action all in the family.
And there's an audience being hit with laugh noises and applause signs and all that stuff.
And it's so silly.
Because this is animated.
You're adding this stuff in because you want to.
There's no audience.
What are you talking about?
Yeah, there's even a point where the audience goes like whoops when Elon walks in.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, when Charlie, our black co-protagonist walks in, the crowd gives him the Kramer.
The crowd gives him the whoo!
The wacky character showed up!
Yay!
Yeah, we should talk about Charlie because he's an interesting character all around.
He's the boss.
He's Norm's boss.
Norm is still working in his elderly years.
Thanks, Obama.
Yeah, thanks, Obama.
And he's just a workman.
The boss is the black neighbor who's voiced by Larry Elder, and his name's Charlie, and he's a big fan of a sports team that I will not name.
Oh, the Wachman Race Explorers.
That's their name.
And this is the thing that makes Charlie so insulting to your intelligence, is that Charlie is black because they have to make Norm have a black friend to make Norm a good guy.
And the black guy that's his friend gets it and votes for Trump and understands that Trump's trying to make America great again and isn't a racist.
And when Charlie walks in to Norm's house, He's wearing the old logo of the Washington football team on both his shirt and his hat.
Because we gotta let the audience know that this black character is actually a good guy.
And the way they visually represent this is by having him wearing racist iconography that is something you can get by the censors of social media even though this is on x the free speech platform i mean in all honesty they would they would have charlie just wearing swastikas if they thought like that would be a little too unsubtle but um they're going for it okay they do make a pretty there's a joke um in the un so charlie is
He hates the trans character.
The trans character, number one, does not understand how Norm has a black friend.
And number two, the black friend, Charlie, does not like the trans character because they're all turning his son into a girl.
And he gets incredibly violent in one scene towards the trans character because of this.
Um and then the second episode that it or like the it's like the technically like the fourth episode the one that's animated to have the trans swimmer plot that is on it's unlisted it's not it's not one that's actually like been it's on the website in gif form right now uh they recently added that but like
The full animated version is unlisted on the YouTube.
It's also really weirdly drawn.
There's clearly sketch lines still left in some characters.
Every character in this is drawn differently.
There's an incredibly frightening Joe Rogan.
There's Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro and Ron DeSantis, and they're all drawn differently.
I'm pretty sure this is stolen art.
And his son is in this one as an incredibly buff person, and it's the trans swimmer arc.
So that's Carly.
Yeah, so what Hayley was talking about is the fact that Charlie and Norm are on the couch, and Charlie says, I come here to get away from Woke.
And before Charlie came into the house, we then got introduced to Chaz, who is our evil femme boy, non-binary, like, sent by the government to break Norm and to make him a liberal.
He's literally a monster is the way they describe him to us.
He's a thing.
Oh, yeah.
They call him that and it.
There's a lot of insults.
What's really funny is at the open when Norm calls Chaz that, Chaz responds, that's one of my pronouns, along with I, me, I, them, and he or me.
And that's the one time Dave Rubin tried in this trailer.
It is the one time Dave Rubin looked at a line in front of him and said, I'm going to try to put some pep into it.
I'm going to try to I'm gonna try to breathe life into Chaz.
I'm gonna try to make Chaz a character.
So, Chaz is...
Every stereotype of a shitlib piece of shit that the conservatives hate.
Chaz is wearing a mask.
Chaz has a shaved head.
The sides of Chaz's head are shaved.
And they have like a flowing sort of off-colored mohawk.
For some weird reason, their eyes are a different color.
I don't know why that is a thing they went with, but they really wanted to make Chaz just different and weird.
And Chaz is also wearing very baggy clothes to Give us that Billie Eilish androgynous look.
And again, the basis of this character is that Norm has been offered probation and he doesn't have to go to jail.
He just gets to wear his ankle monitor and have house arrest.
So long as they have Chaz in the house re-educating Norm.
So this is literal liberal re-education program and Chaz is the avatar of this.
And we signed because Norm stormed a school board.
Yeah, Norm attacked the school board because he was mad about them talking about how transgender people exist and are real.
And again, the whole point of this is that Norm is right, and the world is wrong, and Chaz is an avatar of evil.
And what Haley said before is sort of the weird, like the climax of this trailer, and it's very strange, Because Charlie, who is our protagonist's sidekick, and at this point kind of his enforcer, like Norm is the mafia boss and Charlie is his hitman, this is a very weird scene structurally.
When you try to understand that in this little bit of commentary, this little bit of dialogue that we're having, Chaz is the bad guy, and Charlie is the good guy.
And the point of this is, is that Charlie and Norm are talking, and... Oh, this is very funny, this is a very little funny thing I wanted to bring up real quick, is that they...
Make the shot of the inside of the house so tight that when it's Janice who is Norm's much younger wife, age gap discussion here, it's Janice, Norm, Chloe and Chaz and they're all like next to each other because it's a two-dimensional thing so you can't have depth really.
When Charlie opens the door to get into the room they don't have space for him and Chaz has the The model for Chaz has to be moved over a little to get Charlie in the room.
Like, they just, like, didn't block out an animated shot, which is the easiest thing to block out because you're drawing it.
And they were just like, nope, you know, this is fine.
We'll just have to unnaturally move Chaz out of the way for Charlie's entrance.
But anyways, and just, if you watch the, if you watch the trailer, you'll just, you'll see that and get a laugh out of it because it killed me when I saw it.
So, after Norm and Charlie talk shop about how Charlie's son is going to transition, and they're very upset about it, Norm grabs the beer and says, hey, pronoun, this Bud's for you.
And then the Klaxon buzzes and the Alexa says, offensive, which is all it says.
And then Chaz says, I can't drink.
I'm not 21.
And then they have the crowd sort of react, like, offended and upset.
Like, how dare you?
How dare you not accept a beer from Norm, you piece of shit?
How dare you not break the law?
It's at this moment that Charlie gets up and starts like walking towards Chaz aggressively, like invading his space to the point where Chaz has to backpedal away from him.
And Charlie says, y'all influenced my boy to cut off his junk, but you draw the line at beer?
And then the laugh track hits.
No, the cheering track hits.
So the crowd is in favor of Charlie and Norm peer-pressuring someone to underage drink?
And we're supposed to be like, yeah, get him!
Make that underage person chug a beer!
Woo!
Get him!
Get him, Charlie!
You do it!
And it's like, what are we talking about?
What is going on here?
This is so strange.
The morals are very confused in the new Norm.
It's also funny that Janice, who is the wife, has no- she is not a character.
Of all the characters in this, she is the least character.
She- even in the, like, unlisted episode that, like, introduces, like, kind of all their bylines where Chaz is the woke warrior, and Chloe is the woke wannabe, and, like, Charlie's the boss, She's Norm's wife.
She's Chloe's mom.
That's all you need to know about her.
She's not important.
The only thing she does in this episode really is, it seems to be almost another episode within the episode at the very end where she's like, I got tickets and we're going to Disneyland!
And it's like, it says Deez Nuts on the tickets and it looks like Mickey Mouse has balls instead of the ears.
and then it's just like it shows them going into like a tunnel that is kind of looks like it's supposed to be um it's a small world and then it cuts into the country riff and that's the that's one of that it cuts i don't get that i don't get why it kind of just like had an additional little brief disneyland scene Yeah, there are going to be tickets that sting at the end to leave us wanting more.
Like the first episode is going to be the Wacky Family's trip to Disney.
Which, okay, why?
And how did this come about?
And obviously Charlie's going to be a part of it because Norm needs his sidekick to go along with him.
And so I guess Charlie gets a ticket or whatever.
Um, previously, on the New Norm website, it did have episode synopsis for like 10 episodes.
And there is a Disney episode, but it's episode 3, so I don't know why it's in the one that's clearly pilot, which...
The pilot is what we're watching, but episode 3 is described as Woke Disney World and it says, Norm's family trip to Disney World becomes a comical journey into the wokest place on earth.
The Hall of Presidents is reimagined by Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton.
With black woke presidents.
Tomorrowland is a flaming climate apocalypse featuring an animatronic Greta Thunberg and the finale, it's a woke world after all, mashes up big woke stories with tiny dancing puppets.
This was definitely written by an AI.
Oh, 100%.
It's the fact that they don't have any creativity in their bodies.
It's all just venom and anger at their enemies.
I don't even understand.
Again, Greta Thunberg.
Oh my god, what a topical reference she is.
I mean, who isn't mad at Greta now?
Oh my god.
Also, you can tell it was written years ago because they're mad at her about climate change and not the Palestine stuff, which is now the new Why We Hate Greta Thunberg on the right.
Right.
It's just another example of how fucking old these jokes are.
Yeah.
Now, the one thing I wanted to bring it back on the whole Charlie versus Chaz confrontation, which is so weird, is the thing that is so interesting to me about that is that Chaz is our villain.
Chaz is the bad guy, but they can't give Chaz any gravitas.
They can't give Chaz any power because If you're doing a real show where you have characters that are supposed to develop or grow, or there's supposed to be tension or drama, Chaz should be threatening Norm with jail if he doesn't comply, because that's the whole point of Chaz.
The only reason why Norm's not in the big house right now is because Chaz is here to re-educate him.
So when Charlie goes at Chaz, Chaz should be like, buddy, you coming at me?
I guess you want to see Norm in lockup then, because I'm the one who decides if Norma's allowed to be free or not.
But these people making this show can't give Chaz power because that would just outrage their audience.
Their audience would be furious if the woke trans character actually had power and authority and was able to Put their foot down and be able to make the good characters have to toe the party line and be somewhat obedient to them in order to not suffer consequences.
Chaz cannot be empowered because that's, while the character of Chaz should be empowered, they can't be.
Because Chaz is supposed to be a spineless, shitty, weak liberal who can't stand up to confrontation, can't handle any pushback, can't handle Charlie coming at them and saying, you're telling my son to cut his junk off but you won't drink a beer?
And Chaz's reaction to that line is to cower before Charlie and then faint.
And then after he faints, Uh, Chaz gets on the phone and, uh, contacts woke Biden administration, which is, uh, the non-binary person who stole the luggage.
Uh, McG- Mc- uh, McAlliston.
I can never remember that name and I'll have Haley correct me in a moment about that.
And the dog faced person.
Who is the name of the, the, the lady with the long hair that they hate that's on the phone?
Rachel Levine, oh god, I call them McGallison or something, I'm so bad at this.
She's the trans woman who is like the health and human secretary.
Oh yeah, yeah.
They can't stand her, they're obsessed with the non-binary luggage person who was just somebody who worked in like They just had, like, nuclear access.
They were like a nuclear fuckin' engineer or something.
There were some low-level mook who had Q-level clearance, which gets these people all hot and bothered, because that means they're a secret agent, because Q-level clearance is serious business.
But yeah, they act like these are, like, the highest-level ranking people in the Biden administration.
Just, like, the great puppet, the big hand.
Right.
And so this is, and this is the thing is that Chaz calls them up and says, I can't do it.
And then Levine says, find a way to break him.
Maybe we can save the country.
And the thing about this is, again, So Chaz is just like a foot soldier.
Chaz is just the lowest of the low when it comes to the Deep State operatives that Chaz has to get on the phone and cry to his, cry to their bosses.
Oh, I can't do it.
I can't break Norm.
Him and Charlie are too strong and powerful for me.
And it's just, it's just so sad because again, They have to make it such that we understand that Chaz sucks.
They can't make the character actually a legitimate threat and a legitimate villain.
And I don't know how that really plays for the show, because I don't know if that's really the sort of...
The tone you're trying to set with that character.
I mean, because comedies can have serious villains and they have to be outwitted and debunked.
And then comedies can also have buffoons who you dunk on constantly.
And so, but I just, the Chaz character is designed to be weak and useless because that's the stereotype of liberals, that they're weak and useless and they have to be defeated.
So that's what they're going for.
We failed to mention a character.
When Chaz arrives, they're so weak and scared that they're scared of the dog that Chloe has.
Chloe has an emotional support dog and the only reason that he Are they?
What is there?
Is it Chaz's They Them?
I would assume Chaz's They Them because they're so into the fact that Chaz is non-binary.
They had Chloe do the puppy dog eyes.
She's like, you're non-binary!
She just falls in love with Chaz because Chaz is non-binary.
...are scared of the dog.
They don't like the dog when they see it, when they first get there.
But the dog is transgender, so they like it now.
That's the joke.
Again, I want everyone to know this.
I did not tee Hayley up to say any of that, what she just said.
But this is so perfect, because this is the moment in this trailer where Dave Rubin does the laziest line read you have ever heard.
And he obviously told everyone involved, no, you're not getting another take out of me.
No, it will not get any better than this.
This is how I'm going to... Again, you're playing this character of Chaz, and there's so much more you could do with this, but this is... And again, I didn't want to cut up all the clips of this because all you'd hear is the goddamn laugh track, but this is Chaz's reaction to the dark.
This is how lazy David Rubin's line rate is.
I'm allergic to dogs.
It's okay.
Billy is an emotional support dog.
And non-binary.
Oh, okay then.
Good dog.
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Oh, okay then.
Good dog.
Just absolute no emotion, no effort, just head down in front of the microphone reading the words off the page.
Oh, okay then.
Good dog.
And the rest of the room was like, Ruben nailed it!
Boom!
Way to go!
And again, you heard that?
All the fucking noise!
The coliseum!
The light traffic!
There's not a moment of quiet in the entire thing.
It's noise all 13 seconds long.
It's so annoying.
Yeah, uh, it's like, it's so, it's just like, you could tell he was texting while he read that.
He was like, oh, it's my line.
Yeah, yeah!
Oh, it's my time to read a line?
And that's what's so ridiculous.
It's like, Larry Elder, who again is not a voice actor, Larry Elder actually tries with Charlie.
And the rest of the cast is having a go at it.
They're, they're talking the way their characters would talk.
But you can just tell that David Rubin is just, they, I'm sure they pitched the idea to him.
And he thought it was funny.
But then once he got in the studio, he was like, I don't want to be the villain.
I don't want to be the, like, just weak, dunked-on loser on this show.
So he's literally recording Chaz against his will.
He's just absolutely narrowing it in for the check.
Whatever they're paying him on the new norm, whatever money Vladimir Putin's funding him for the new norm, not worth it for David Rubin.
He is just He's just over this shit yesterday.
It's funny because, we'll get into it later, of who funded this thing.
I think a lot of people did think it was like, tenant media related, but it's actually much funnier.
The Woke World comic, which is hidden lore because this account only has 8 followers, There seems to be an ongoing beef with Charlie and Chaz.
Chaz, for some reason in this panel, is doing high school karate or something.
Yeah, karate.
And he has to fight Charlie, who is the new student at school, or to fight.
He said he's identifying as a 17-year-old, so he can fight Chaz, so.
So that's the plot with Charlie.
He's a normal guy.
Him and Chaz have a normal relationship.
They're clearly going to have ongoing beef.
In the episode 2 where there's like the trans swimmer subplot, uh, like, I don't get it.
His son's name must be Brandon because for some reason Norm is cheering, let's go Brandon.
I don't get the joke.
I assume that that's just the fuck Joe Biden thing, and they're just going for that.
Because again, topical!
In the trailer, they bring up the fact that his son is named Reggie, and he's like, try Regina, and he gets all angry about it.
And that's one of the little moments in the trailer where you see Chloe, the daughter, being the woke wannabe.
Because when Charlie brings up the fact that his son is transitioning, both Janice and Chloe say, Reggie!
To let you know that Chloe's still straddling the two worlds of the old norm and the new norm.
She wants to be hip, but Reggie transitioning is weird to her still.
Um, you talked about this when we first recorded that just like the daughter character, it's just like, there's no lessons to be learned in this show.
It's just all the characters are who they are, you know?
Norm is never going to change his position.
Chaz is never going to change their position.
There's never any, uh solutions in this show uh a character's mind will never be changed in this show it exists only so you can hear your grievance uh repeated by characters and then a laugh track happens Well, this was a point that I made about why right-wing humor doesn't work.
And I've heard a lot of people talk about, well, right-wing humor punches down, right-wing humor involves a lot of cruelty.
There's a lot of reasons why right-wing humor sucks.
But the main reason why a show like The New Norm can't work is that there's no growth for any characters.
No characters can actually change who they are.
When you have a sitcom, and the sitcom generally, when the husband is like the lead character of the sitcom, Right-wingers always complain about how the husband's played as the butt of the joke, how the husband's there for laughs and get dunked on by the smarter wife and the kids make fun of him.
But the whole point of the sort of like doofus dad character is that he can learn, he can adapt, he can change.
And this is what they're all about, is that you have the doofus dad, and then he encounters a gay person, or a trans person, or a woman in crisis because something happened and she might need an abortion, or some other societal issue comes up.
And the doofus dad character reacts to it poorly, but over the course of the three acts of our sitcom, eventually the doofus dad learns to accept the LGBTQ plus character, or they understand why the woman is making the painful decision to terminate her pregnancy, or whatever is the case.
The point is, is that that character grows and develops and changes a little as a person and We're supposed to see that and kind of give them a little pat on the head.
Now, you can do this in reverse.
You can have the doofus dad character be kind of like, I don't understand why I haven't drag queens read, like, Fairytales to children is bad and over the course of 23 minutes you can red pill him so he can understand why we do need to protest the drag queen story time.
Why we do need to go like harass women at abortion centers.
You can tell that story but The audience for these things doesn't want that archetype.
They don't want Doofus Dad to become Pilled Dad.
They want Pilled Dad to put his foot down and tell the world that he's right, the world's wrong, and they can all fuck right off.
And that's not a very interesting character.
That's a character that is going to become so stale by the third episode that there's no reason to watch them, because you know what you're getting.
That's all they are.
I mean, even characters that, like, don't really change that much, the point of the character that doesn't change much is that they're there to be mocked and laughed at.
I mean, this is basically the difference between Homer Simpson and Al Bundy.
Homer Simpson is the doofus who learns.
And has been learning for like 40 years at this point, because the Simpsons will never die.
But that's the point of his character.
Whereas Al Bundy never learns, but he's the butt of the joke, and you're supposed to just laugh at him for being a dumb, like, troglodyte who hates women and is a misogynist piece of shit.
And basically what these people want is Al Bundy but right, which doesn't work.
That's not the main character of a show.
It can't, it doesn't go anywhere.
It doesn't progress.
It doesn't attract anybody.
And the other thing is, is that If you did Red Pill Homer Simpson, the problem with him is that whatever character steered Homer to the right path, whatever character got him to understand that the right is right and that we need to make America great again, That character would become the star of the show for right-wingers, because they'd be sick of Homer being the dumb normie that constantly has to get pilled every new episode.
They would just be a fan of the Piller, whoever it was.
Pilling Flanders would become the hero of the show within five episodes, if that was the archetype of the show, because They don't want a character that's journeying and trying to explore and find their way.
They want the fully formed character that already hates the left, hates woke, and all the rest of it.
And that is a character that is deeply uninteresting.
If we had a left-wing version of that show where you just had the militant leftists It would suck just as much!
Because not seeing a character change and just be rigid in their ideology isn't entertaining.
There's nothing to do with it.
The only thing the character can do is grow or get laughed at.
And you don't want either one of those things.
Both of those things would piss you off.
Which is why this audience will never get a show catered to them.
Because it's not good comedy.
It's not good content.
Um, so we have forgotten one of the other characters in the show.
I briefly mentioned it because he's in the AI episode, but Elon makes an appearance in that opening clip and it's the worst thing I've ever seen.
The whole three and a half minutes is really hard to watch.
It's like I'm not normally like that, I can usually watch basically anything, but I was just like, wow, this is really cringe to find.
And when the Twangy Country song for New Norm comes up...
It drops a line that's like, and thank you.
You'll know it exactly because you have been trying to correct me.
So this is what happens.
This is the outro of the trailer.
So Charlie basically bullies Chaz into fainting.
Chas calls up the Divine and the other evil liberals in the Biden administration.
They tell Chas to buck up and defeat Norm.
And then after The funniest thing about this big payoff of this whole scene is that Norm throws the beer at Chaz.
Chaz does not catch it.
The beer hits off of the table where the Alexa that is connected to the echo monitor is located.
It falls off that table and rattles around on the ground for a while.
So any character with any understanding of reality would be like, oh shit, that beer is incredibly shaken up right now.
I should not crack it open.
But because Norm is a moron, Norm picks the beer up and says, I just want normal, grabs the beer open, gets showered in beer, because that's the joke.
The laugh track plays over him.
And then he, after being drenched with beer, he then says, beer, and then the laugh track hits again.
And then they do this weird thing where the camera changes from being just a regular television camera filming the show to now it having like lines on it and a circle and it looks like it's an old school camcorder or something.
And like Norm is being recorded maybe by Chaz, but that doesn't even make any sense because a smartphone wouldn't have all those lines on it.
And Charlie jumps into the shot and gives Norm a little elbow and says, you know, there'll be jokes, which is what on earth are we talking about?
And then, boom, it goes, the country music kicks in.
It goes, the new norm ain't the same as the old norm.
Everything's changed, and I don't know when this woke nightmare will end.
Lyrics that just flow off the tongue.
Just, again, when you're doing karaoke, just think of those words, and think of how easily they flow off the tongue, how easy it is to get your mouth to roll those lyrics through.
I mean, just, I don't know.
Like, uh, compare this to any pop song lyrics you're currently listening to or anything and just see how smooth this sounds.
But again, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, maybe I was bad that last time.
I'm gonna do another take.
The new Norm ain't the same as the old Norm.
Everything's changing.
I don't know when this woke nightmare will end.
Thank God for Elon Musk and his shitpost memes.
X is the hope for free speech.
You're dying, it killed you, you can't get it out even.
That's it, I'm dead!
- And Elon walks in at that moment and like waves the camera and the audience is like, "Woo!" And you can tell that Elon's gonna be a central character in the show because he does appear in that AOC episode.
And it kind of does a similar, like, we're going to joke about X because that's something that people love to joke about.
And so after he's like sexually harassing AOC at this This, this hearing, um, and she's like, I don't want to have your children, Mr. Musk.
And he, uh, she's like, and I'm boycotting you.
And he's like, well, you can go X yourself.
And that's supposed to be the joke.
Um, so this is the kind of really high-end Elon Musk humor that we'll be getting in the new norms.
Yeah, it's the fact that the thing ends with this like whole, oh thank god for Elon giving us free speech!
And there's an X on the new norms little sign that's not the font of the X for the Twitter.
So Elon rips the wrong X off.
And then he takes the right X off his shirt and puts it on the New Norm sign to give New Norm the official Elon seal of approval.
And it's just so weak.
It's just so sad that this is what we're doing.
And that's the other question about this for me, is that it seems very obvious that the show is aggressively cameo-based, where we've got Joe Rogan, we've got Gina Carano, we've got Tucker Carlson, we've got Elon.
What is the point of this?
There's- okay, because the show obviously got shit on by like literally even right-wingers.
Like Tim Pool said it had to be like an op.
There was a lot of people that said- like the Groepers called it a Jewish op, you know?
People are like, this is mocking us, even on the right.
Except for people that are a part of the show because they still have to hype it up.
So like even on the website right now you have this TikTok embedded of Officer Tatum, Officer Brandon Tatum, who was a Tucson cop who now is like a Turning Point USA influencer and it's him reacting to the new norm and he like can't even fake
that he likes it even though he's trying to hype it up like he's kind of like laughing along with it like how this is funny this is really funny hey wouldn't it be even funnier if like i appeared in this wouldn't it be funny if like there was a cop in this show and like i voiced him would that be funny whoever made this show is a real smart man and that's like his good review of it like he can't even be asked to like to
To give a good review, because it's that dog shit.
But the thing about that is, what are we going for with this show?
Because the whole premise of the pilot, up until Elon walks onto the stage, and the country singer's like, and I want to suck Elon's dick in a non-homosexual way, because free speech is great and he's giving it to me the way I want to give him head.
Like, that weird thing, it's just, the point of the show is that it's a weird everyman story.
It's just Norm's living in the new Norm, he's dealing with his daughter who wants to be woke, and now his weird evil federal agent in his house that can send him to jail if he doesn't comply, and he's got his buddy who's black but loves the Washington racial slurs, and But then immediately the show pivots to just Joe Rogan, Elon, Tucker, Gina Fiorento, and
Like, is Norm just gonna be super famous?
Is he just gonna be right-wing Homer Simpson where he hobnobs with every famous person on Earth?
Because especially with the AI bullshit, like, Norm's gonna be dunking on AOC in this show.
If the show ever gets new content, he's gonna be giving shit to Kamala Harris.
I mean, He's gonna go from being, I'm just a normal guy on house arrest because I attacked my school board, to literally being the hype man for Donald Trump at the RNC.
Like, give it up for Donald Trump, man!
Fight for our freedom!
It's like, What is Norm's relationship to this world?
Is he famous?
Is he a nobody?
What is he?
But they don't know how to answer that question.
Because they haven't even thought of that question.
That question's stupid.
People who want internal logic think of those questions, and fuck internal logic.
This is a dumb right-wing cartoon.
Can I get into the long rabbit hole of how we found all this hidden content?
Yes, absolutely.
My god, that's what I live for.
Okay, this is so funny because they seem to actively be trying to hide Woke World, which was the webcomic that they, if you even want to fucking call it that, that they briefly were producing.
They took it down, they requested it to be taken down way back machine and it is no longer archived on there.
Um, but there is remnants of Woke World on the internet because their digital footprint is vast and they don't seem to be very good at scrubbing it.
Um, so the Woke World Instagram is actually still up and it literally, I'm not fucking kidding you, has eight followers and like one like on the posts that they made.
Um, the art is dogshit.
The comics are dogshit.
They make no sense.
Uh, Gina Carano is like fighting tweets in one of them?
And Chaz gets sad because one of the tweets was his?
I don't know.
The Woke World Instagram actually still has wokeworld.com in the informational, and when you click on that, the website is defunct, but it redirects to the person who financed, if you want to call it that, the creator.
It goes to a website called agncgroup.com.
And this is the person who created the new norm.
He seems to have paid a group called Pitch Dev Studios to do at least the initial animation.
Um, and this guy is how you find the YouTube, the hidden YouTube.
His full name is Michael Akiva Prell.
The YouTube that has the unlisted episode is called Akiva.
That's his middle name.
Um, he is, um, a right-wing, like, he worked with, like, the Tea Party Patriots and was an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, which is so fucking funny to me.
Like, the Ben- Benjamin Netanyahu advisor created the new norm is- it sounds like a shitpost, but is actually, uh, seems to be the reality here.
He also wrote a book called Underdogma, How America's Enemies Use Our Love for the Underdog to Trash American Power.
Now, underdogma is a word that I had never previously heard before, but the New Norm Twitter can't stop fucking tweeting this word.
I sent, like, a screenshot of just, like, how many times this guy has been like, read this book, underdogma.
Underdogma, that's a concept called underdogma, and it's under the New Norm account.
Like, Norm is just pilled on underdogma, so.
You have something, Mike?
No, no, no.
I was just going along with you.
I was just laughing.
I love underdogma.
Underdogma is such a dumb, silly thing, and this guy obviously thinks he just absolutely crushed it by being like... People like it when the plucky underdog overcomes the big bad and wins the game.
And that's how people are now making America bad, because America's strong.
So everyone wants the weak people to beat America and boo those people, because America is the best.
Um so the the woke world redirects to uh Prel's website which is this AGNC group.
Norm also has a former website that is actually still like active uh but it's not the one they're promoting that um is newnorm.tv.agncgroup.com so they even have like a norm website through their his own group his creative group or whatever it is it has like the sets Um, for Norm, it has like concept art.
Uh, it's, uh, says America needs the new Norm now.
Um, it allows you to request the scripts of each episode.
Maybe we should do that and do another episode.
Um, like you have to request it.
It says you need to provide your email.
Um, but we will just tell them we're doing a podcast on Norm and I bet they'd hand it over.
But any press is good press for them, Jesus Christ.
Literally.
And then also, as far as the website, there was a lot of jokes when The New Norm came out that it looks like, as if Bill Maher is one of the people that called the show brilliant, but if you read the really, really fine text, It says, Bill Maher, HBO real-time host.
Speaking of show creators, previous work featured on HBO.
Perel also mentions this brilliant, that he was called brilliant by Bill Maher on the AGNC group website.
So this guy loves that Bill Maher called him brilliant one time, which I think is funny because that guy's a piece of shit himself.
Yeah.
and this seems to be like kind of a pattern with this group is that like they called our shit brilliant uh asterisk actually they didn't uh because pitch dev studios who animated at least that first episode uh kind of has like a similar synopsis like bio on their website where it they write it as if they did the visual effects for iron man spider-man 3 fast and the furious
King Kong Pan's Labyrinth but then when you read the fine text it says that the developers actually just worked with some of the studios that would eventually go on to have people that worked on those movies.
So these people like to misrepresent their credentials a little bit which I find to be funny um and just in general I think it's funny that a guy that like once kind of worked with Benjamin Netanyahu as part of this Um, so yeah, that's kind of who, uh, created the new norm.
That's who animated at least one of the episodes.
I'm almost certain that they stole art for the other episode work with like Gina Carano and stuff because it's just not even remotely close to the same animation style.
Ben Shapiro's like uwu, cutesy, like it's a procreate drawing.
And then the other stuff is like, just, the DeSantis art is really creepy.
So yeah, that's kind of my deep dive on Norm.
I also went down a yaoi kind of rabbit hole, which is like Japanese gay, you know, comics.
Because Norm was such a meme for a while, and it's obviously incredibly hateful anti-trans propaganda, anti-LGBTQ propaganda.
Like, a lot of queer artists kind of took Norm and made him into himself a queer character.
And there's like a lot of subculture of yaoi where it's like Chorm, which is Chaz and Norm, the trans character and Norm.
There's Nurchum, which is Norm and Mr. Birchum, the other right-wing show that was Daily Wire shit.
Uh, there's NormNorm, which is Norm and other norms in, uh, like, you know, media.
Uh, so yeah, I thought that was kind of a funny, like, fuck you to, like, oh, you're gonna make hateful content?
We're gonna make your character gay as shit.
So... There is this incredibly weird thing, uh,
They posted a photo of Alpha Jod, big-handed Trump with Norm, and almost all the replies are talking about coming, or edging, or... And I just, truly, I'm an old... I'm an old and I don't understand what these people are going for, but it's so many of the replies.
There's a few replies that are like, your show sucks and it's stupid, but so many of the replies are, Norm, I'm edging so hard, please help me out!
And I'm just like, I guess this is what people do to the new Norm now, is just talk about how it's really helping them on their stroke session, and they're getting so close, but not nutting, because Norm wouldn't want that.
Norm wants you to really earn it, apparently.
And I was like, man, this is very strange.
Uh, so yes, um, I think we've like fully broken down Norm.
I really actually do want these transcripts now.
Yeah, get them, get them, email for them, yeah.
But I mean, again, it's a really poorly made show.
The trailer
is wild in the way it portrays all the characters because in the charlie chas confrontation norman charlie are obviously the bad guys chas is obviously right but no we're supposed to believe that making the underage person drink a beer is a good thing it's very strange i don't understand it but again the point is just power dynamics the point is is that charlie could kick chas's ass if it came down to it
And that's what matters, is that the right winger could beat up the cuck left winger if it came down to it.
And that's obviously what that episode where Chaz and Charlie are gonna have a karate match is all about.
It's about Charlie identifying as a teenager and beating the shit out of Chaz.
Which, I thought that was the whole reason why those people were so upset about men and women's sports, is that you identify improperly so you can assault someone who can't fight back, but when it's our guy doing it to their guy, it's okay then.
So, whatever.
Bully on them.
So yeah, so that's the new norm.
It's not the same as the old norm.
And I would try to sing that song again, but I will probably once again begin gagging and throwing up.
Which was not a bit!
I actually just got too much spit in my throat and I couldn't handle it.
It doesn't go off the tongue.
No!
It's so bizarre!
Like, you...
There's no flow to these lyrics.
The new norm ain't the same as the old norm.
Everything's changing and I don't know when this woke nightmare will end.
Thank god for Elon and Musk and his shitpost memes.
X is the home for free speech!
It's like, that last line is like so stapled on to the rest of it with a nail gun.
It's just, we gotta get in a plug for X at the end here.
Just, it has nothing to do with anything.
Like, oh my god.
It's just, imagine like, my wife left me and my dog ran away, but thank god for the guy who runs Ford.
Buy an F-150 everybody!
It's just, What are we doing?
I mean, just like, oh my god.
Yeah, so, the new norm sucks.
We're gonna talk about that, and hopefully Haley gets those transcripts, and then we will think of something else to bother.
Mr. Bertram, am I a racist?
Our cup overfloweth with right-wing bullshittery to talk about.
Recommend stuff.
Yeah, recommend stuff to us, and we will talk about it.
So, until then, we will catch you later.
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