Jun 4, 2025
Fox News Host Gets Owned By A Fitted Sheet
Fox News host Lawrence Jones couldn't handle folding a fitted sheet. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
- 8 minutes
Oh my God.
I don't think men should do this.
My hands are too big for this.
Okay.
I don't think men should do this.
My hands are too big for this.
The. This being folding.
[00:00:16]
A folded or fitted sheet.
And so this reminded me of how men
can never find anything in the house.
They'll open the fridge.
The ketchup's
right in front of their face.
But they engage in this weaponized
incompetence because they want the women
[00:00:33]
to do everything for them.
So they'll be like,
babe, babe, where's the ketchup?
It's right in front of you.
It's right in front of you.
Anyway, I just wanted
to vent about that for a second.
- Not really a story.
- It's more apparently.
Frustration.
Yeah, I just like that you threw
that in there.
[00:00:49]
I'm like, wait, where's this going? Okay.
Well, because, Jake,
I do get irritated when I get asked
where things are around the house.
- And I think.
- Yeah.
I finally, like,
stopped to ask myself why?
Why do I get triggered by that?
[00:01:06]
And I think it's because,
by the way, I love my husband.
He's a wonderful husband, and I know that
this isn't unique to him, but I think that
culturally, even now, even with women,
like going out there into the workforce,
earning money in some cases, even being
the breadwinner in the household,
[00:01:22]
they're still expected to do a lot of
the cleaning and a lot of the traditional
female coded stuff around the house.
On top of their jobs,
on top of their career.
And so we know where everything is
because we do everything,
[00:01:38]
like you get what I'm saying?
And it frustrates me, especially
when I get asked to do something
that's super easy to do because it's
like literally right in front of you.
You get what I'm saying?
Like, it's just it's just very common.
[00:01:53]
And I see it happen in pretty much every
relationship, in every household.
Yeah.
So I'm going to defend
guys here a little bit.
And I'm going to disagree with you
on the catch up and and get.
Brace for impact on your wrath.
But, first off,
my hands are too big for this.
[00:02:12]
I know.
Come on, brother, you got to come up
with a better excuse than that.
Okay.
Oh, I can't read all of this.
My eyes are too big for it.
- What is this?
- It's, like, the lamest excuse I've ever.
Oh, I don't know
how to fold hands too big.
[00:02:31]
Is this some sort of weirdo
genital reference or something?
What's with the hands being too big?
Okay. Anyways.
So. Okay. On the other hand.
No, Jake weaponized incompetence.
That's what that was.
Because if you just say I don't know how
to do this, I need the woman to do this.
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The woman will come in and do it
because it needs to be done.
- It needs to be done.
- Yeah, yeah.
So I love your phrase
weaponized incompetence.
And that does exist.
But my defense is
that it's not purely men, okay.
Because my grandmother used
to have weaponized incompetence.
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It's kind of a funny thing, right?
Because like grandmas,
you expect to be like, oh, take care of.
You're like, my mom's a grandma now.
And she's like the prototypical grandma
who's taking care of things and etc.
But not my grandma.
She was let's be honest, I loved her,
but she was a little bit lazy.
[00:03:18]
Okay?
So like she would go, I.
Love your grandma so much.
I love her so much. Okay, continue.
So like we'd be setting the table
and like I'm 6
or 7 at the time or whatever, right?
And she's like, oh, I can't reach.
The glasses are too high.
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I'm like, yeah,
that's because you're not reaching.
You didn't even lift your arm.
If you reached,
you would actually raise it.
So now, as a seven year old,
I got to figure out how to climb
on the kitchen cabinet to get the glasses
because grandma is too lazy to do it.
- Okay.
- What a hero.
[00:03:52]
Okay.
No. Okay. You know what you just did?
You just did relationship therapy for me.
Because you're right.
I didn't stop to think about how the
other side weaponises incompetence.
So my weaponized incompetence
has to do with my car.
Anything car related? Oh, no.
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The change oil light is on. What do I do?
- See.
- See?
Caught you.
Caught you. Spend time at Jiffy Lube.
- You do it.
- Okay.
No. But.
Okay. Now back to the catch up, though.
I'm going to lose you again. Okay.
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Because, look,
when you ask for the Jiffy Lube or I ask
for the ketchup, there and I. Okay.
There's a reason.
Okay. There's a reason.
And so, look, if I'm at home
and I ask my wife for something,
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that means I. I think if I already know
where it is, I'll go get it.
I know where the mayo is.
I know where the cheese is.
I know where all those things are.
Why am I going to waste my time, let
alone your time to ask you for a thing?
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I know where it is if I'm asking you.
That means, by definition,
I don't know where it is.
And I think there's a chance
that you do know.
So instead of me looking around
for 12 minutes, you'll just tell me
and we'll both save a lot of time.
No, we want you to look around
for 12 minutes.
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- That's what we want.
- We want you.
- Caught you again.
- Hold on.
Let me let me reframe that. Rephrase that.
Because we don't want you to,
like, struggle for 12 minutes.
But like, I think the problem is
that there's no effort to find it.
None at all. Ever.
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It's just, why am I going to bother
even looking for this?
Like, I'm gonna I'm gonna inconvenience
my wife to to just hand it to me.
But, you know.
Anna, are you a car expert?
You're not a car expert, are you?
Maybe.
Okay. No, you're not a car.
So that's why, like, if Christian's
better with the cars, then he should.
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Yeah.
It's okay to ask him
to take care of the car.
Right. And if and if.
- And if.
- He knows how to rev my engine.
- So. There you go.
- Okay.
And if you know where the ketchup is
and he doesn't get him the damn ketchup
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or tell him where the ketchup.
- Listen.
- You look Fine.
We just want to see
a little bit of effort.
But to be fair,
I don't really put any effort in my.
I literally do nothing
for my car to my car.
It'll be like just it's always
super clean inside
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because I care about cleanliness a lot.
But the outside of it like, who cares?
It's just filth.
And sometimes it'll get so bad
that Christians like,
take your car to get a car wash.
Now it's like, thank you.
I'm not going to waste my time doing it.
- Yeah, well, look so fair.
- So fair.
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Right.
So, You're welcome. Christian.
First of all, okay.
And second of all,
my wife does the same thing with the car,
so it's just everybody's different.
Like, after I don't wash it for about
three months straight, she's like,
all right, I'll take it to the car wash.
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Jesus Christ, Jake.
So, so to each his own. To each his own.
And for Lawrence Jones.
Sorry, Mrs. Jones, whoever you are,
his hands are just too big.
His hands are too big.
And he's like, Fox news is like finding
different ways to be dumbass bros.
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- Like, well, no.
- Actually, let's.
I didn't even stop to think of like,
what is this segment like?
What's going on? Like, why.
Why are we folding Fox.
News Channel
and you guys are folding fitted sheets?
I mean, okay, sure.
Remember when they did the segment with
Pete Hegseth and in the same exact place
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outside and they were throwing the ax,
and then Hegseth throws it over the target
and nearly murder someone.
- Yeah, I remember.
- Our current secretary of defense.
Sometimes they do these
like today show kind of segments.
They're like, here, this is
where we fold sheets for dumbasses.
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And here this is where we accidentally
murder people with an ax.
Right.
And where are all of our male hosts
show weaponized incompetence?
So you know what?
Now that I remember the ax,
I'll take the sheet problem.
I'll take. Yeah.
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Go back to the sheets, not the ax.
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