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The Young Turks

Part 1: TYT's 2020 Turks & Jerks

The Young Turks

TYT Network

Government, Politics, News

45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Part 1: Turks & Jerks: It's that time of year, when the TYT Supreme Court weighs in on the past year's heroes and goats, stars and flameouts, hunks and lunks - or as we call them, Turks & Jerks. Yes, 2020 has been a big steaming pile, but we'll still find some bright lights who shone, while also identifying the year's biggest stinkers.

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to the 2020 edition of our annual Turks and Jerks celebration. I'm John

0:11.8

Adarola joined by Jank Eugur and J.R. Jackson, although we'll have some other awesome guests.

0:17.7

We're going to be joining us along the way. Jank, I definitely want to talk a little bit about

0:23.9

the history of Turks and Jerks, but for people who might be watching this for the first time,

0:28.2

this is effectively like in the political context, our lighter take on the next. We get to talk

0:34.2

about the worst people and eventually the best people and make a little bit of a game out of it.

0:39.3

In this year, we've really tried to involve the audience as much as possible. We had rounds of voting

0:44.6

on all of these different potential jerks and Turks. And so we're going to be going through some

0:49.5

of those brackets, but really fast before we get into all of that, how did you originally come

0:54.4

about the idea of doing this and how long has it been going on? So that's an excellent question

0:59.2

for how long it's been going on. I don't remember. I've looked that up, but it's been a long time.

1:09.2

And I think that Ben and I came up with it when we were talking about, it must have just come

1:17.2

out organically when we were talking about, hey, we should probably, this is totally made up. Let me

1:24.6

preface it that way. Wouldn't it be great if Fox News started a second of that way? This is totally

1:29.6

made up voter fraud in Georgia. It's unacceptable. Yeah. So my non-regulation, but assumption based

1:41.3

on how the show used to go back in the day is that Ben probably said at some point

1:45.7

that guy's amazing. He should be like Turk of the year. And then we're like,

1:55.1

because as soon as you think of Turk of the year, you immediately think of Turk of the year.

1:59.2

So to this day, Ben is still furious that we don't spell Turk of the year, J-U-RK.

2:05.2

He's like, what's the point of this segment if you're not doing it with a U?

2:09.9

Well, I mean, alternatively, it could be T-E-RK, but one of those two things definitely should have been done.

2:15.8

There was a breakdown in the system. Yeah, coming up with that as usual with anything with

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