Did Tony Hinchcliffe Just Save Democracy?

What happens when comedy crosses paths with political upheaval? We unpack how Tony Hinchcliffe's controversial set at Madison Square Garden, as featured on the Kill Tony podcast, unexpectedly resonated with Puerto Rican communities, potentially igniting a political awakening. Through humor and roasts, we probe the delicate balance between being funny and being offensive, especially in the context of Puerto Rico's sociopolitical issues. As fans of comedy, we appreciate the skill of making light of serious matters but recognize the need for context and sensitivity, especially when roasting touches on the lived experiences of marginalized communities.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

asia. Are you familiar with kill tony?

Speaker 2: 0:02

no, tell me more okay, kill tony.

Speaker 1: 0:05

It's an awesome podcast because I am a fan of roasts uh, you know I am. I I feel like this is what we love about norm chad shout out to norm chad, gambling mad with norm chad. He comes from a. He comes from a place where you got to be able to make fun of your everybody. Right, we're still. We're still reeling from, uh, tony hinchcliffe's set and what's been fascinating now, even getting a couple of days removed from it, is that people that don't know what kill tony is his set at madison square garden.

Speaker 1: 0:35

Tony hinchcliffe, uh, I think the net net of it is he might have just woken up the whole entire country of Puerto Rico to get, to get their, their peeps in Florida and in Pennsylvania and everywhere to vote. Bad bunny is putting shooting out the bat signal. So I think roasting this is this is kind of an important thing that I want to talk about. I think roasting and and I understand they say well, the first amendment, and how come you guys are so soft? Now, one thing is that a set when you're there and everybody understands you're there for roasting. It's another thing when you have text 555 to fascism, you know, and to me, that it's a political rally and I think that's where he tweeted out.

Speaker 1: 1:22

You know, you people don't have a sense of humor and I think the sense of it all is exactly what we have. You know, we have a sense of when something's really funny and Don Rickles could come in and mow down a room. Norm Chag could come in and row down a room. He wouldn't stand in front of a podium like that and do what happened at that event. No, and do what happened at that event?

Speaker 2: 1:44

No, and I think that it's all fun and games when you're roasting and there's no like ill intent you know beyond it, yeah, but I think when you're already dealing with an island like Puerto Rico that is already dealing with being treated like garbage and trash, it's not so funny. At that point you know Like it becomes. It's a dagger. And not only that it's one of the most beautiful places on the entire planet.

Speaker 2: 2:08

We have the most beautiful beaches, the most beautiful mountains. Every time I'm there I find a new waterfall, a new magical place with beautiful little cookies and birds, and I'm just like this is paradise. And now I understand why the US loves it so much.

Speaker 1: 2:22

Yeah, sure, yeah, it was a good acquisition back in the day, wasn't it? Yeah, it was smart for the portfolio. I think the one thing that people aren't still talking about enough is it's look, I'm a Tony Hinchcliffe fan too. I like his comedy. I think what he's been kind of put through on the sort of political correct side of things has been not cool in a lot of ways. Political correct side of things has been not cool in a lot of ways. Um, and I think challenging people's, you know uncomfortabilities, is that's what we love. We like, we're kind of lefties that love that. But the what nobody's talking about is the hate that then continued to come out from rudy giuliani, from from tucker carlson, who could? He knows where she's from, he knows where her parents were born. You know the Samoan. It's designed to be ignorant and hateful, right, and that's the part you know. And Grant Cardone, you're just like all these rich guys. They're advocating for their tax rate.

Speaker 1: 3:26

They're not advocating for helping you get ahead. Grant Cardone is one of those guys who just sells these courses. I don't even want to get into it because I actually have a family member that went through that the Grant Cardone course and the experience was horrific and so yeah. But point being, why are these people up there spewing hate and then juxtapose it over kamala, who is talking about look, I'm here to get to work on the to-do list on helping people and this is how we're going to do it and laying out a plan? That's what the other thing kills me. People say she doesn't plan plans all over the place. You just gotta.

Speaker 2: 4:08

You just gotta have to be open to listen to what it is and right and most of it on that side, I think, is all based on self-interest. Right there's because there's no collective interest coming from that side.

Speaker 1: 4:21

Yeah, it's a very yeah it's anything and that I think that's at the crux of it. What is so different? It'd be one thing if it was mitt romney and he was getting people like excited about you know, hey, we're gonna lower your taxes and stuff like that but this is, this is, uh, it's just, it's very hateful calling her names, telling, saying that you know that people, the enemy of the state, are democrats.

Speaker 2: 4:43

It's just, it's just hateful and it's yeah well and and you see the the misogyny and the hatred coming through.

Speaker 1: 4:52

Yeah, yeah, that's the Tucker thing and it's extra because she's a woman and she's mixed, and it's just if they really Never underestimate the misogyny.

Speaker 2: 4:59

Yeah, and if they really wanted to play fair, they would at least come at it with a level of respect to say hey, you know what? We're going to attack her in every single possible way, her policies what she's done as a vice president, but we're going to leave the woman and the mixed part off. But no, no they're just going straight for it.

Speaker 1: 5:20

Well, it's thinly veiled, because the woman hits our attack in her IQ when they know she is an accomplished.

Speaker 2: 5:28

Absolutely.

Speaker 1: 5:28

Crazy. They're scared of her intellect. That's what it is, and so they have to. What do you do when you're a bully and you're scared of?

Speaker 2: 5:37

it.

Speaker 1: 5:39

You say oh, you're ugly right. When it's the super hot girl. Or you say you're stupid when it's a woman that clearly is about to outsmart the pants off of you.

Speaker 2: 5:49

Well, I mean, why don't they just nip it in the butt and everyone takes an IQ test, and then we just have all the scores? Yeah, yeah, you know, let's get grants, let's get trumps, let's get commas. Cat man. We could probably put some animals on there honestly and get some higher IQs.

Speaker 1: 6:05

You remember that cognitive test Trump took and he was like I passed it. You know I got A plus it Woman cat and the same as what An amoeba.

Speaker 2: 6:15

Yeah, anyways, I digress.

Speaker 1: 6:17

Yeah, no, I think we're excited about what I think here in the studio there's next door to the campaign, there's just nothing but good energy and people that are. They're just getting to work. So you know, kind of again, if you want to get involved, we have it all in our show notes and you know, even like lauren was here yesterday doing a hit with, I think, a uk press station, lauren, uh, pure retro, shout out to lauren from our uh episode last week. But all of a sudden we have all these dogs around the office that we're. We have our own wonderland. Yeah, yeah, let's make sure to check out the socials that we have and you can kind of uh see the adventures of all the pets that we have, I mean the dogs that we have going on here.