Episode 573: The Angry Weatherman

Idiots On Parade, the Too Ugly for TV Podcast

This week, comedian Dobie Maxwell joins the idiots for fun and merriment.

00:00 Welcome!

00:32 A Really Smart Comment

04:07 Outrage over the movie The Fall Guy

12:50 Legal Failures

22:32 Influencers

28:49 Rob Marciano, Fired

32:15 New York Times Investigation

The breakdown:

—People are amusing. You can say something plainly, in their native language, it can be a simple concept, and yet they will find a way to be so dumb they miss the point (and the truth) entirely. Basically, Jake and nathan made very clear statements about the idiot college kids protesting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and someone who was either (a) not paying attention, or (b) is too partisan to see reality, took umbrage. Let’s clear things up, shall we?

—It’s one of our favorite topics: the outrage machine! Something (anything) happens, and dumb people react on Twitter. Should they be listened to, or ignored? Ignored, right? And yet, a reporter with no real morals or values knows that clickbait is the most important thing out there, so they round up several tweets by idiots and write the article, “People are Angry!”

Well, no one is really angry, and no one should care about the four people who are.

As nathan states (too many times) in the video: The Fall Guy is a fun movie. Go see it.

(Side note: a quick discussion is also had regarding Elon Musk buying Twitter and then giving it the worst rebrand since New Coke.)

—This one is baffling. Prosecutors had slam dunk cases with both Bill Cosby & Harvey Weinstein…

AND THEY BOTCHED BOTH OF THEM!!

(All caps = serious business.)

Come on… how do you screw up so badly that Cosby gets set free, and Harvey gets a conviction overturned. It’s absurd.

(Side note: discussions of Russell Simmons taking his money and fleeing the country a la Roman Polanski are had.)

—Kim Kardashian promoted a “vampire facial,” where you get your face poked by a needle until you’re covered in your own blood… And that’s supposed to be good for you.

Well, two practitioners contracted HIV, so… Good luck with that.

(Side note: who knew Logan Paul was behind the energy drink, Prime? I mean, it was a horrible drink to begin with, but seriously: if you’re taking advice from Kim Kardashian or Logan Paul, ya kinda deserve anything bad that happens to you.)

—I didn’t know who Rob Marciano was until the story hit that he’d been fired by ABC. Apparently he was a weatherman on Good Morning America, and he had a temper.
A weatherman with a temper.

There is just something so amusing about that.

—Oh, the clickbait headline… Everyone loves it, right? Well, The NY Times had a doozy of one. The clickbait was, “Study shows side effects of COVID vaccine!!!!”

Very scary, right?

The outcome?

.0001% of people have an adverse reaction to the vaccination.

So… Yeah.
“Ooooh, scary.”

Idiots on Parade: we mock the news, so you don’t have to.

Tune in and get your giggle on.

Find Jake at @jakevevera

Find nathan at nathantimmel.com

Angry Man Photo by Photo by Andrea Piacquadio, via Pexels.