736 - Work Will Set Your TV (5/30/23)
We take a look at Barack Obama’s new Netflix series “Working: What We Do All Day,” in which the former president examines the various trials, indignities and inequities of American work life and avoids asking: did I do that?
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I sometimes wonder if Obama has plenty of self awareness and does this stuff as a bit
they should watch the Factory documentary the chines just roast the American worker the whole time.
Honestly I could see the elites replacing robots with slaves if only because their is a distinct (non-pun intended) human element that is missing from the AI Utopia, namely the unbelievable high that comes from dominating another human being which no doubt they will come to crave. Otherwise, I think they will just end up cannibalizing themselves in their Elysium since for their to be "winners" there has to be "losers" and if all the losers are dead than the title of winner ceases to have meaning--you need people to point at.
You can hear Matt crack a Bang energy drink at 7:20 in a futile attempt to cure his mental ailment
I thought American Factory was pretty good but also sort of frustratingly agnostic
Inspired by Terkel? Obama can eat a bag of dicks.
sinner!!
A straw in a Budweiser for a bedridden person is some Harmony Korine shit lol, right up there with the boy eating spaghetti in a dirty bath tub.
You talkin bout prof?!?!
I fucking hate Obama so much
he is so gross
Where is psycho-sonic!?!?!?
way the future--way of the FUTURE way of the FUTURE
We're basically paying these guys to watch TV/movies and then regurgitate content to us for sustenance like a mother bird.
And they're doing gods work
Felix on fire
Tony Scott's "Biederman on Fire"
LOL - Obama’s creating content for today’s young people, thank god!
I will laugh until I die at Hillary saying "So Amy Schumer, I just heard about your AMAZING battle with endometriosis!"
one of my comfort episodes
Also another job that was born during the Obama presidency: PODCASTING. So….
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Will… “alf” ?
Visit my Metaverse World and watch Secret Alf Milking Videos
I'd buy that for a holodollar
I would cut my own foot off to see Obama, and The Puerto Rican Rattlesnake together.
I am kind of surprised they didn't touch on this weird thing where Obama brings people food in like every episode. There is an incredibly long and boring montage where Obungler brings these office ladies lunch in these sad looking styrofoam clamshells. And the clocks on the wall shows it's like after 2 pm. Here's the President bringing you your sweaty lunch at 2! It's fucking weird.
Davis Guggenheim also directed several eps of Deadwood, so it’s complicated. Tho he also put the Edge in It Might Get Loud, so idk maybe you’re right
Chris with the best joke of the episode 👑
obama is so fucking boring, why would you ever talk about him?
So you don't want to see the Seinfeld 9/11 episode?
The best podcast would be Obama interviewing Will, Matt, and Felix about their jobs.
At the Austin TrueAnon live show they made a joke about Chapo only doing movie eps
Godammit I Love When Chris chimes in!!!!
If you showed the AI-extended Mona Lisa image to Leonard da Vinci, I bet he would have loved it. But he was from medieval times, so he would have also been impressed by the dancing baby from Ally McBeal.
Obama saying "I'm in the future" is so goddamn funny to me
15 years later and Choom is still funny
mise en scène, everything that exists within a piece of art was put there for a reason and has a purpose, this is what AI art is killing, same for paintings and for those video game things they’re rolling out where every character can converse with you endlessly.
Graven images were a mistake
It's risky to make fun of Obama because he's such a nothing, which is worse - or at least less interesting - than evil. It's like MST3K trying to lampoon Manos: The Hands of Fate: if I recall correctly, after an unusual stretch of silence from the seats, one finally commented, "I give up."
Obama dressed in a clown suit with giant red hands would have made the series better.
Naw American Factory is cool, the filmmaker said “workers of the world unite” at the Oscars. Impossibly based move.
They also seem to imply that Obama made it when that’s not true lol. He did have like an interview thing with them tho
Have you ever considered that driving trucks and the Mona Lisa are both overrated
Driving trucks, the Mona Lisa, and AI are all what I assume Mona Lisa Overdrive is about.
Man, Felix has so much energy when it's time to shit on the Obungler, you love to see it
It’s sinner, man!
Is Will aware there is a crazy panoramic backdrop to the Mona Lisa already? The techniques used to create it are part of what made the Mona Lisa so popular in the first place. The Mona Lisa is actually a lot more than just the portrait.
Shut up nerd
did u guys move to LA so you can sit in your houses and watch tv all day?
Starting to seem like that's the case. Skipped the grill pill and went right to the boob tube
I'm not getting Patreon notifications for Chapo anymore. Wha'happined?
shadow government lockdown
This episode reminds me Felix’s commentary on respecting Hilary’s people more than Obama’s because hers were at least true believers. Don’t think anyone in human history has been as self obsessed and unaware of themselves like Obama in here
Documentaries are Obama's version of Bush's watercolours.
Ah fuck, gottem!
Oh yeah the way the nursing home industry works now is, you sell a nursing home, the buyer cuts the budget and makes things worse for everyone in it, then sells it to another guy who does the same thing, lather rinse repeat forever. Pure fucking evil
it is really funny that all of Obama's underlings were shouting that Trump was The New Fascism and literally a month before Trump's inauguration Obama was passing laws that lifted restrictions on who Special Forces teams could target etc "Uhh yeah he sounds like trouble, anyways navy SEALs can now tie liberals to the hoods of their cars"
"these poor managers get beaten up by their employees every single day. truly the noblest profession"
I adjust fatality auto accident claims and I’m ready for the day humans don’t drive as much or at all. I’ll find something else to do if it means no more pictures of dead kids and crying mothers holding blue tarps in the road
Goddamn that’s awful.
These art extensions are the exact same logic behind the Disney Star Wars extended universe- “where did Han Solo get his boots”?
From the store
According to Ralph Nader, in an interview with Briahna joy Gray some months ago, self driving cars and trucks cannot be made safe for driving with other cars, or in bad weather conditions. But corporate America really wants the reduced labor costs of shipping without human drivers, so it seems obvious to me they're gonna try to get human drivers removed from major highways.
Have they heard of fucking trains?
Water weed dune hair
The 700s episodes starting to feel like the 500s run
I gotta admit “CEO’s are icons now” is TheDeath of Coolness writ large…
Obamna
Doo doo do do
Saw Felix's twitter posts...ngl kinda scared to listen to this that's how much I hate Obama. Fun fact: Patreon auto correct changes Barfsack O'Crumbo to Bareback O'Crumbo lol lmao
Warren Zevon "I was born in '63. Got a little job the factory. I dont know much about Kennedy. I was too busy working in the factory."
Sinnerman, Where you gonna run to?
Uhh, Cape Cod. That's where , folks.
At least W gave his victims a free portrait.
It's gonna be funny when Obama inevitably tries to crush the WGA strike after finding out Netflix can use the work stoppage to cancel his $60 million deal.
felix is very phlegmy for a podcaster
Needs some Mountain Dewcinex
Awesome, so he’s like Paris Hilton but doesn’t say “that’s hot”. Suits him well!
This is gonna be uplifting
Beautiful
New York Ass Times or Stavros having a bbq with anime girls for this weekends' Taylor Swift concert outfit?
The Stav shirt’s vibes would fit better imo. The New York Ass Times is something you wear to the opera
Obungler? eyy, I hardly know her.
Would have had so much more respect if we got a Dirty Jobs version of this where instead Obama is in that episode with the veal farmer and he has to impregnate a cow
I would watch that
Memorial Gay
Happy Father's Day
GrabMyButtSticc 4eva