The Young Turks - TYT's TURKS & JERKS 2022 - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 30, 2022

Hour 2: Join Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, and David Shuster as they name the best and worst people of 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's nothing but twists here. One of the twists is that after an hour of talking about our picks, the actual Turk and Jerk of the Year are decided by the audience. So we are going to go to the audience picks. And then we're going to have a crazy twist at the end where it's a host versus the audience. Who's going to settle that? Well, you'll get to that in a second as well. But first, to reiterate the nominees, the audience nominated for Turk of the year, John Fetterman, Starbucks workers, Zelensky, and Anna Kasparry. You should note real quick why they nominated me, because like it's for a specific reason.

Her fadeaway jump shot. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Finally, I get the recognition I deserve. Butter, like butter. I don't even know what that is. Is that basketball? Yes.

It's basketball. Okay, Anna, I would love to do that except I don't know why they picked it. No, you do. You do, come on. For the speech. The Bible thing. I don't care what the Bible says. I thought they just generally felt like, oh, Anna kind of kicks ass.

That too, that as well. Wouldn't have made the speech possible without the baseline kick assitude. Yeah, I hear you. So Anna's speech about your Bible shouldn't rule us all, And we want to live in a free country. As I mentioned earlier, as last we checked, had a 58 million views, probably a lot more than that by now on TikTok and other platforms, mainly on TikTok. And that's partly what got her on the list. Yeah, and they factored in how good my hair looked in the video.

Oh, my God. Look at the body of butter. That looks better. That's her secret. That's awesome. And ambrosia. Actually, coconut butter as a facial moisturizer in the wintertime, especially during the dry month. months. That's a winner. Just a little beauty tip for you all.

Anna, I cannot tell you how many emails we got about coconut butter and how big a factor that was in this decision mean. Okay, anyways, now the audience nominated for jerks, Elon Moss, Marjorie Taylor Green, Scotis, and Putin, okay? So, so, but who did they pick? So for Turkey in the year between the four candidates, they picked Zelensky. Oh my God. Oh, almost had a heart attack there. Thought for a second, Anna might win. But Anna, look, it's an honor to be nominated and you lost to a historic figure. And so I think you should take that with pride. Let me just say, nominating me was crazy. So like, I was really hoping I wouldn't win because that would be even crazier. This is good. It's good. I would be devastating.

I was just doing my job. You did deliver a better speech. Your speech this past year was better than his. Unfortunately, he had to defend his country against an invasion. Last I checked, Southern California, hasn't been able to yet. The man won Ukrainian Dancing with the Stars. Does he not have enough? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, look, he gave among many hero speeches, but you remember the one when Russia was first invading, and they were in the streets, and they're like, and he said, and he named the cabinet ministers that were with him. And he said, come for us, right? And you know what he said right after that? We're all out here and we're not at all parched because of cocoa butter. So that's the thing that unites you guys together.

But anyways, Zilleski, Turk of the year! Yay! There he is. There he is. Okay. And Teddy Cannon. Good, Patty. in the middle of a war.

Confetti broke out. By the way, that confetti, that confetti, slightly more effective than the Russian army. Okay. I now, yeah, all right.

I'm going to try not to get poison. All right. So Zelensky, we didn't even have on our list. That's our fault. Audience, you are all wise, you're correct. He's a jerk of the year.

Now, among their Turk of the Year nominee, I'm sorry, Turk of the Year, among their Jerker of the Year nominees, Musk, Marjorie Taylor Green, SCOTUS, and Putin, who'd they pick? Well, this is even further controversy because the TYT.com audience and the YouTube

audience split. What? So the YouTube audience picked Putin and the young Turks starts t.yt.com slash, well, it's not slash join it. It's just t.yt.com audience picked SCOTUS. Now, there are more voters in the YouTube audience. We're being honest about that, okay?

And we did, and we didn't need an accounting firm. to determine that, we just looked at the numbers. Okay, but I think, look, if you're a core member that's been with us and you're at tYT.com and you've been there the whole time, I think you deserve a little extra weight. So I made the executive decision to go with the tyt.com's audience pick when it was a tie. So we're going with SCOTUS, jerk of the year and a study upset. Yeah, I agree with that. Wow. Yeah. Especially because we didn't imagine it. No, I mean, like out of those two, Out of those two. Where's blue skies?

Where's that confetti coming from? So there's this odd situation where we have confetti for the Supreme Court that holds the church row. Love it. But for winning jerk of the year. By the way, this speaks to the wisdom of the crowd and why we should have democracy in the first place. They picked two sets of folks, Supreme Court and Zelensky that none of us had on our list. and that we now all agree in hindsight, oh, they're going to get banks and probably correct.

So way to go with TYT audience. I'm going to go ahead and make a right-wing point in response to that. We really shouldn't be supportive of the tyranny of the majority, okay? Good point. In fact, I'll see. And you know what? This is not a democracy. It's a republic.

It's true. Deweeps. If we can keep it. Platform's rights. Yeah, look, I'm thinking maybe a monarch. A CEO dictator is the way to go here. In this case, I'm the CEO. That sounds pretty good.

But nonetheless, we went with the audience anyway, unprecedented times, especially in late state chappelism. The CEO has lost the audience as won. But the audience did deliver some shout in Freud to Kanye, who was your pick for jerk of the year, because by picking Zelensky, Jewish, at least half Jewish. You know, Kanye's going crazy right now, assuming that he's still around.

No. It is surprising twist. It is show full of twist. He's thinking, see, I knew they ruled a world. Yeah, that's the worst. That's the worst part of anti-Semitism. They're like, whenever you actually do demonstrate that there are consequences for being horrible, they're like, well, you're pulling those puppet strings again.

Yeah. And by the way, when you win, you lose in this weird, weird, awful stereotype. They're like, oh, the Jews are so good. I did something good. Aha! What? Look, he beat the entire Russian empire. And you're telling me Jews aren't powerful?

So anyways, okay, in the real world, Zelensky's a hero, he's wonderful. And yes, I like that. That rubs a little bit of salt in Kanye's wounds. So now here comes the twist to end all the twists, which is host versus audience. Who wins? Well, how are we going to decide who wins? I've already made a lot of executive decisions. and I've been yellow carded out of making any more.

So for that, we turn to our Twitch audience. Since we have announced the winners, we have been running a secret poll. I told you there to be secrets and surprises, okay, on Twitch between our selection and their selection. So for a jerk of the year, we had Putin and they had Supreme Court. Asher, are the final results tabulated? Do we have an answer? Okay, I don't have it. So you're either going to have to say yourself or you're going to have to text it to me?

Got my coming. God Mike in. Oh. To Putin. Jerk of the year. Oh, wow. And you know what? This is a little bit fitting because that's another portion of our audience voting against a

a different portion of our audience, but backing another portion of our audience on YouTube and the host. So when you've got three out of four, Putin in a twist comes back around the jerk of the year. But what's official? We're going to come back to that at the end.

Is this thing now a mess? Oh, wait. So the Twitch audience did or did not choose Putin? No, Twitch chose Putin. Okay, I just want to thank the Twitch audience, It's not because Putin was my top pick, but because with Putin officially winning, it makes me think about how much the gray zone folks are losing their minds over it. And that makes me happy.

So thank you for that. That's rubbing salt in the gray zone wounds. Yeah. We love our daddy, Putin. Oh, but Putin, Putin, McCarthy, and Spears. No, the real jerk, Zelensky. Anyways, so right now, both Kanye West and Aaron Mote are going, damn it! So anyways, Asher text me who won Turk of the Year, because now Twitch had to decide, our audience on Twitch had to decide between Zelensky and Fiero for Turk of the Year, okay?

The host picked Fierro, the audience picked Zelensky. we've already like we seem to have almost conceded on Zelensky that's what it felt like but did that actually happen it didn't technically happen so now the Twitch audience has picked Fierro did not oh thank goodness we're not useless host not useless I see you twitch audience I see this really is a win for Anna Casperian it really is about where the audience is going and who they're following and who's leading them? This is Anna's night. I'm having a good night.

Everything worked out exactly how I wanted it to. Michael sure lost. The real winners me. Anna had her way and Michael would stop before he makes such great ice. Confetti canon, that's my truck of here. It is messing with my mind to know that she's right there. See confetti there, but not flying in front. Yeah.

All right, look, does that mean there's yet another twist or Anna then comes out of the nominees and wins Turk of the year? No, that would not, then my night would not go the way I wanted to. It went exactly how I wanted it to. Let's leave it here. Okay. And hold on your seats. If Anna wins Turk of the year, does Michael win Cherk of the Year?

No. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. We went too far. We went too far. Reel it back in. Real it back in. All right, look, guys, there's the two minutes that we have left. We got to tell you. So who's the, God damn it, who's the official winner? Okay. And so lately, and this has changed over the years, and it's not supposed to change. And back when I thought this was the most serious thing in the world, like as in half a day ago,

I'm not sure I would have even shared this with you guys. But sometimes the host picked and sometimes the audience picked in different years. And we have decided that the audience picks. So the Twitch thing was a fun little thing at the end. And maybe that becomes official one year. But under the technical rules of the Turks and Jerks International Rules Setting Committee, the audience picks are the official Turks and Jerks of the year this year. So we go back to the official winners being Zelensky for Turk of the year.

and the Supreme Court for a jerk of the year. Are you just making up rules as you go along? It seems like that's what's happening right now. Am I the only one who's just really happy knowing what each audience likes and dislikes? I like the utility. There's a Venn diagram in all of this. There you go.

And Anna's at the very center of the Vendai. Am I making up the rules as we go along? I told you didn't get to see the sausage being made. And that's why you don't want. want to see the sausage being made because when you see how people actually make decisions, you're like, wait a minute, is this thing official or not? Okay. I'm really glad we didn't go with jerk spelled with a you because then people wouldn't take

this seriously. See? I like, I personally as a producer-minded person, I like what, I like everything except what happened at the end. Yeah, me too. I like knowing here's what the Twitch audience liked. I like that they came in with the like, bam, here's what we think, because we didn't get a poll yet. I like that we asked the audience and the audience gets a Turk and jerk of the year on all their, you know, the most of the audience chimed in this way.

I like that the, you know, the, that we chose our Turks and jerks of the year and got to battle it out in front of each other. And I like having the host chosen Turk of the year and the audience Turk of the year. I like all of that year. And I like the Twitch audience being the tiebreak. But Jank messed that up. So thanks, Jane. And I like Brett and I being in the bottom box. Yeah, it's really weird. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, guys, good news. Yellow cars for all of you! I make the rules! Dang, they're taped to the... All right, guys, we are out of time. And this one is going to go in the record books for the most controversial turkin jerk of the year ever. And people are going to be left scratching their heads. Who actually won?

It'll be debated for the rest of time. Well, just as we would have it. All right, Brett Ehrlich, David Schuster, Adikasperian, J. Huger. Happy holidays, everybody. And now you know the Turk and jerk of the year. Kind of. We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening to the full episode of the Young Turks.

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