Gutfeld! Monologues - Do You Prefer Friends That Are Digital Or Ones In Real Life That Are Miserable?

Episode Date: December 14, 2022

As seen on Gutfeld!, Author and Journalist, Andrew Doyle, Turning Point USA Contributor, Rob Smith, and Co-hosts of the Tyrus and Timpf Podcast Tyrus and Kat Timpf discuss the SEC charging the CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried with wire fraud and money laundering. Later, the panel weighs in on the rise of online communication over in-person interactions. Follow Greg on Twitter: @GregGutfeld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Yeah. Fox News contributor, catch him. And his opponents end up like the three wise men, seeing stars. My massive sidekick in the NBA World Heavyweight Champion, Tyrus. So Andrew, congratulations on the successful great. new book. If you're not familiar with Andrew Doyle, he was on the forefront of satirizing woke culture. You were one of the early people there on Twitter. I won't say what you did because there are some people who don't know what you know. It was who I was. I invented a

character called Titania McGrath, who was like one of those sort of very posh young female intersectional activists who's really, really rich and has got everything in the world, but thinks she's really oppressed. Right. You know. Like every woke person. Like pretty much all of them, exactly. And there's something funny about that, isn't there? People going online and complaining about being oppressed when they go back to their mansion at night. Yeah. And all the rest of it. You know, she thinks she's the new Martin Luther King. Right. Exactly. You know, she's better. Yeah, she's better. Yeah, she's better. Because she knows that it's not about the character. It is about the color of your skin. And also he had toxic masculinity,

didn't it? Yes, he was. He was a man. You know what? What do you make of this whole situation? It's a strange group, isn't it? This whole, like, bizarreo, culty. Well, I've been reading into the backstory. I mean, for a start, I don't trust him. I don't trust anyone who doesn't own a hairbrush. Yes. I have no interest in that. I think it's because he does he have a hobbity kind of doesn't you? Yes. Vagely middle earth or something about. But the thing is, if you look into his background as well,

so they were all living together, all these FTX executives. Yes. They were living together in this luxury penthouse in the Bahamas, but they were all having sex with each other. Right. So no wonder they lost the money. They were distracted, right? They were doing all this kind of stuff.

Yeah, exactly. And they said, well, this is because, you know, we're into polyamory, which is what we used to call cheating. Yes. Yeah. Which, and I think that's great. I mean, what a great kind of genius rebranding. You know, because if your partner catches you in bed

with another person, you could say, no, I'm not cheating. and polyamorous. And that's my identity. That's who I've always been. And, you know, if you file for divorce, that's a hate crime. Anywhere I thought polyamorous meant you had sex with birds.

Oh, Polly want a cracker. Got it. Thank you. And I am a cracker. So there you go. I know. I can say that. Rob, happy holidays.

Happy holidays, happy holidays. It looks like Christmas exploded all over me. Just the thought of this group of people having sex with each other is like some amount of like National Geographic. So when I'm listening to the story and I'm thinking about it, the thing that's the most offensive to me

is just their looks. First of all, I mean, this guy looks like a cross between Norman Bates and somebody who can't be within 100 feet of a playground. Yeah. So which is weird. And then the girl, It's like, imagine you're the actress that gets the call to be her in the Hulu

Limited Series. Yes. You go in the mirror and be like, oh, is this what I look like? I mean, you know, this chick is at the bar at 5 a.m. And the last two guys decided to go home with each other. I love how there's like billions are being swindled, but we are not going to let go of their looks. It's like, we'll leave that for FBN. Let Fox Business handle the money stuff.

Why are they so weird looking? I don't know. If anything, it kind of gives hope to really ugly people. You know, they can be like just as manipulative as the rest of us. It's true. That is true. That is true. Oh, I just, I never looked at it that way.

No, you did. Do you have any other insights into what's going? Do you know that he was denied bail because they consider him a flight risk? That's a piece of news. Yeah. I don't normally give news. I'm so proud of myself.

The lawyer tried to argue for it saying that he has ADD and depression and insomnia for the past 10 years. And I'm like, am I supposed to be getting stuff for those? Because I also have anxiety, and my ADD is combined type and was so noticeable that it was diagnosed

like 30 years ago. And, you know, I'm doing fine. You're doing great. Really am. Yeah, good for you, young lady. Thank you. Yes. She thinks she's on a TV show.

We do this for therapy. Tyrus, do you feel bad for the celebrities that were scammed by this guy? Do you feel bad for anybody in this whole scenario? Anybody who was scammed by sugar d-de-you, I'd be a little upset. But it was his looks and their looks that made them be able to pull off what they did. They were unassuming, unthreatening. They were the exact opposite

of what the progressives hate the most. People who look like me. Men, they looked the exact opposite. So when he comes and says, I'm giving the charity, even his horrible stepbrother-esque video that he made still did make no sense. And he ran out of ideas

because if you're saving the planet, then the animals are kind of included. So he then went back to that. And when he opened his fridge, everything in his fridge, I don't think ketchup and mustard and relish are big on the vegan list. But it is big. We eat a lot of hot dogs. And he looks like he eats a lot of hot dogs.

It is serious about the money. I mean, am I right and thinking, you correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he the second biggest donor to the Democrats in the last election cycle? Yes. Which might, you know, give the impression that Democrats aren't great at handling other people's money, right? You know, I don't know. It also means he might get Epsteined out. In the middle of the Bahamas.

Yeah. Although he claims that he also gave money to the Republicans. He said he was giving money to me. He said it was dark money. Yes. And if you think about that, like he kept it in secret, he's more embarrassed about giving money to the Republicans than money laundering and fraud.

Yes. So. Excellent point. Yeah, he's going to get Epstein. Yeah. Thousand percent. All right. Don't go anywhere.

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life and miserable. A new survey finds that seven out of ten Americans find it easier to talk to strangers online than their real life friends. Those without friends had to abstain from the survey. Among the reasons people prefer strangers to pals, 45% say they're more comfortable communicating in written form. So no wonder I have all those restraining orders. Forty-three percent say they can chat longer with virtual friends and 35% feel a strong community when discussing a favorite hobby movie or book. Plus, you get to avoid things you don't enjoy like sunlight.

In other words, you can speak to people you have something in common with, which is a good thing. I only wish they had chat rooms for hot talk show hosts who need their back shaved when I was younger. Bottom line, if you were to believe this survey, your friends don't like you anymore and would rather stay home and do anything other than hang out with you, which exactly what I wrote on Kilmead's Christmas

card before signing at Dana Perino. So, Cad, you spend a lot of time online, but you're also kind of social. Do you prefer being online because you like the adulation of strangers? Well, I think this is

true. Yes. Because I think nothing ruins a person for you like getting to know them. The basket case theory. Everybody's at their best the first time you meet him. And then over time, it just turns out, boy, they're worse than me. I'm so convinced that if everyone on the internet who thinks they hate me could hang out

with me, they'd realize they don't hate me. And if everybody who thinks they love me from the internet could hang out with me, they'd be like, big mistake. It's so true. Fact is, we've gotten lazy, Rob. It's hard to talk to people in real life. You know, it is. And I think for me, you know, I can't really relate to this because I hate everybody,

both in person and online. Yes. In fact, I'm vacillating between hating about 60 to 80, percent of the people on this stage with me right now. It goes up and down. Rob, you're very negative tonight. Something happened on the way over here? Did we not have enough crudite in the room?

No, you did not. There was Romaine instead of a Rougala, so somebody's getting fired. I think that we're spending a lot of time online right now. Sometimes I look at the younger generation, and it's like they don't know how to interact with people in public. Like, you know, you talk to the zoomers, they can't look you in the eye, they don't know body language, they don't how to flirt anymore, so it's, you know. It's a problem.

It's a problem for you. Oh, no, it's not a problem for me. I mean, I don't date the Zoomers. Now, they would like to date me, but I say, no. What's your age bracket? Close to dying. Oh, no, Greg, we broke up. Wow.

Andrew. Ficious today. I know, he's a very angry, angry young man. Do you think, do you think this is really? really good for catfishers and scammers. Everybody's online now, and all you've got to do is be nice. Yeah, but if that's your friendship, all your friendships groups are just digital, you're not really living a proper life. On the other hand, people in real life are annoying, as Rob is pointing out, they are quite annoying, and, you know, you have to... Rob is a perfect

example. Well, exactly. I can't mute, Rob. You know, I can't, you know, I could put a bag on his head, but that wouldn't be helpful. He's used to that. Yeah. Yeah. I just... That's true. That's true. I was back in the 20s. I look a little better now. But I do think there's something in it, you know, just meeting people online and, like, not having those face-to-face. I feel like most of my relationships would have lasted a lot longer if I didn't have to spend time with the person. Exactly. You could have seen them 10 times over 10 years. He said it 10 times over a year and ended disastrous.

But I mean, this is what Mark Zuckerberg wants. He wants us in the Metaverse where we never meet each other. Oh, yeah. Just put those helmets on them. We just speak to avatars all the time. Scary stuff. I mean, you understand it from him because he looks like a computer avatar, doesn't it? Yes, he does.

He does. He does. He looks like the computer avatar. guy that's in jail. Freed. They all look the same, don't they? Tyress, huh? We all look alike. Go ahead. You can say it. William. You can say it. Oh, yeah, you do. I, uh, see, I'm an accountability guy. Yeah. So I don't make friends on the internet. Because surrounding yourself with everyone singing the same old song just makes you a bad

person because then you get called out on something, you fall apart. And we see that today, especially with the woke. They only talk to other woke. And then when you challenge him on something, he's racist or he's hurting my feelings. One of the things I love about my friends is that if I'm making a mistake or doing something bad, no, that's a bad move.

Don't do that. You've got to have friends to challenge you and things like that. And then you can have space, but sitting online, because everyone catfishes now. Everyone sends the picture that they spent 45 minutes taking of the right angle.

You know, you're a biscuit away from 500 pounds, but all your pictures look like you're a swimsuit model, you know, and you're sending them all to your friends and everyone sits around and tells each other how great they are and how boring the next Marvel movie is going to be. That doesn't help you grow as a person. You need challenge. You need friends.

You need to get out there because the internet, nothing good comes from it. But people are so sloppy. Like stuff when they're talking and they smell and, you know, they're just online. You don't have any of the sensory perceptions. It's not there, right? Sometimes you can tell how someone smells.

What? You can tell how someone smells from online. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'd never met that guy earlier. I'm pretty sure he smells. Yeah. All right. We got to move on.

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