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Timcast IRL #244 - Grammys Push Pro BLM Riot Performance, Call For Accomplices w/RuckaRucka Ali

Timcast IRL

Timcast Media

News, Society & Culture

4.57.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Ian, and Lydia join musician, YouTuber, and podcaster Rucka Ali to discuss the Grammy's performance, cultural enforcement of ideas, Trump as a man without principle, the Teen Vogue editor being cancelled, and Bill Maher's thoughts on woke culture.

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0:00.0

Last night, I think it was last night was the Grammys and I don't really know if it was last night

0:04.7

I think it was because I don't care about the Grammys

0:06.5

I don't watch the Grammys and I don't think anybody here did watch the Grammys anybody. No, nobody watched the Grammys

0:10.8

Nobody watched the Grammys nobody cared to watch the Grammys, but there was something interesting

0:14.0

That's either either a sign of the expansion of the extremism that we see in the mainstream

0:20.4

corporate media or it's a sign that they're becoming so utterly desperate that they're willing to cling on to any

0:25.9

narrative that they think will make them money because this rapper performed a song where he actually depicted riots and

0:33.1

They did a very propagandized version of the Rayshard Brooks incident and then activist Temeca Mallory who's considered to be particularly

0:39.8

controversial

0:40.9

Notably when the New York Times called her out for anti-Semitism

0:44.0

Came out and gave a speech essentially where she said we don't need allies. We need accomplices

0:48.7

Which could be seen as like

0:50.7

Advocating for crime and calling for people to do more and it's kind of crazy to mainstream program that Grammys would do something like this

0:58.4

I guess the ratings are in the trash so probably

1:02.0

Probably nobody really wants to watch and they were hoping that people like me would call them out to generate some kind of buzz for their failing program

1:09.8

Which is a part of the conversation as well?

1:11.6

So we have a lot to talk about in this culture war space

1:15.8

We also have now Teen Vogue right they tried to hire this editor-in-chief lady and

1:21.5

Employees at Teen Vogue tried to cancel this new hire so they ended up losing a seven figure add deal backfiring

1:28.4

Canceling themselves and we're gonna talk about this because we have one of the best people to actually talk about music and

1:34.9

Comedy as well as what maybe viewed as offensive performance and things like that. We are joined today by Ruka Ruka Ali

1:42.1

Do you speak up a little back? I couldn't hear you

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