It's Cultural Appropriation Month, and we're kicking it off with a trip to Japan! Join us as we travel to the land of sushi, waifus, and animated depravity. This week's guest is none other than our good friend, comedian, writer, podcaster, and all-around great guy, Mark Cuban.
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00:02:32.000🎵 Outro Music 🎵 It's June, which marks Louder With Crowder's sixth annual Cultural Appropriation Month, where we take you across the globe to learn and appreciate all the diverse cultures this planet has to offer.
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00:03:53.000So, look, before we get into anything, I don't know if it's just my headphones, I'm hearing a little bit of echo, it's probably because it's going through 16 layers of fur.
00:05:31.000So you can watch this show, everything that's free on YouTube will still be free, even if it's not on YouTube, you're not a member of Mug Club.
00:05:38.000Go to Rumble, and right now it's being uploaded because we can't live stream there in Archive, but we're being told from Rumble that that'll be available in the next couple of weeks.
00:05:47.000And I don't know them personally, seem like good guys, we've been assured that we will not be censored, we won't be throttled.
00:05:53.000Look, I think it's important for us to be on all of these big tech platforms because people complain about an echo chamber and then they continue to create an echo chamber.
00:06:42.000When a transgender individual threw a homeless man's lunchbox at me.
00:06:46.000That was considered a violation, not the aggravated assault and, well, first off, the felony theft in stealing a homeless man's lunchbox, and then throwing it at me.
00:06:55.000These are the kinds of infractions that we've experienced.
00:06:58.000We don't know what all these strikes are.
00:07:01.000So, it's stressful, we're back, we're here with you, and hopefully we're here for many years to come, but if not, don't let us lose touch with you.
00:08:42.000It actually ends up being a conversation, but right now we have to make sure that the algorithms work, because we need to ensure that in the future for us, they continue to not work.
00:09:27.000Because this is the only... It's not a conspiracy.
00:09:30.000When you look through the emails, and you look at the public policy, and you look at the policy of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, It all lines up to the letter that they were working.
00:09:40.000The term colluding doesn't necessarily mean something nefarious.
00:09:46.000Look, you had emails being exchanged between Zuckerberg and Fauci, international virologists and Fauci.
00:09:52.000You had him saying one thing on air and discussing something else in email.
00:09:57.000So we're going to put it together to you.
00:09:58.000Not only the emails, you've probably read those, but a timeline that shows you exactly what he was saying publicly while these emails were going on.
00:10:05.000That's what matters, because what he told you, he didn't necessarily believe.
00:10:22.000Japan, I don't know if you know this, has more than 50,000 centenarians with the island of Okinawa, which Okinawan's ancestors are from, containing the highest concentration of centenarians in the world.
00:11:18.000In the film, this is something that's really... You like this.
00:11:20.000In the film, Mr. Baseball, Tom Selleck, of course, you know, is an American League baseball player who gets traded to a Japanese team, the Dragons.
00:11:26.000The team ends up living on the streets.
00:12:12.000He just did it to poke his finger in their chest like Rahm Emanuel in the shower, but he does reverse mortgages, so you give him, you know.
00:12:20.000The good Tom Selleck giveth and taketh away.
00:12:49.000um but then he really struggled so he gave you that and then he really struggled to remember
00:12:54.000how many off how many months he'd been in office so this brings us to this week in biden
00:12:58.000if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or trump and you ain't black
00:13:02.000in the spirit of meeting people where they are we'll also be working with a black coalition
00:13:08.000against covid and other organizations to launch a new initiative called shots at the shop
00:13:16.000barber shops beauty shops are hubs of activity information in black and brown communities
00:13:21.000particular but in many communities across the nation Local barbers, stylists, they become key advocates for vaccinations in their communities.
00:13:31.000Since January 20, and we're talking now about 15 months ago, the average daily cases are down from 184,000.
00:13:40.000If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
00:13:46.000Remember when we thought Dan Quayle was silly?
00:15:15.000So this is one thing I want to discuss really quickly.
00:15:19.000The violations that we were told here on YouTube, before we move on to Fauci, we didn't really get clear answers.
00:15:24.000So you guys know about the one where we praised the cop for defending a life with Mackay Bryant.
00:15:29.000But the other ones, we were told that we went, from what I understand, it wasn't specific, against either World Health Organization guidelines or the CDC.
00:15:38.000And I want to admit fault with something.
00:15:41.000This is just me being totally transparent.
00:15:43.000We issue retractions, we issue corrections.
00:15:45.000I feel like I have to do this before we move on with the show.
00:16:21.000We said masks don't necessarily help you from inhaling the virus, but it may prevent others from becoming sick.
00:16:26.000So at the point when the CDC said, no masks, they're more dangerous than not wearing masks, I did go against their guidelines and say, in some cases, masks can be appropriate in a limited capacity.
00:16:39.000And here's a tale of the tape back then.
00:17:23.000Look, these were the guidelines that conducted these studies!
00:17:26.000And that was, no, no, no, don't wear a mask, because at the time, it wasn't about whether they work, it was about shortages for healthcare workers.
00:17:32.000So keep in mind, during that moment, we said, ah, maybe masks can help.
00:17:37.000No, I don't know how I got it right and Fauci got it wrong, but again, this is what matters.
00:17:41.000When you say, number two, where did I go against the CDC, really the World Health Organization, which is impermissible.
00:20:11.000And he turns, he goes, this thing have high beams, and they turn on the high beams on the car, and Godzilla, you know, this prehistoric monster's like, oh, it's bright!
00:22:05.000The New York Times, Maggie Haberman writes, quote, Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he'll get reinstated by August.
00:22:14.000New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman joins us now.
00:22:17.000She's a Washington correspondent for The Times and a CNN political analyst.
00:22:20.000Maggie, I have to say, when you wrote that, My eyes popped.
00:22:31.000So, John, what he's doing is echoing things that are being said by Sidney Powell, who was his lawyer, although, you know, he distanced himself from her at certain points over the final months of the administration, but she was helping advise him on these efforts to overturn the election last year.
00:22:45.000Let it never be said that social distancing holds no value.
00:25:28.000Yeah, and Maggie's basically what she's pushing out there.
00:25:30.000She's saying, okay, well it's dangerous enough on its own, but what CNN and everybody else is doing is saying, thank God Trump is not on Twitter or Facebook because this is a call to violence.
00:25:51.000Don't you try to drill down knowing you won't get a name necessarily because it's anonymous, but you're like, I want to make this as solid as possible, no questions whatsoever!
00:25:58.000It's just as silly as QAnon, where someone who they believe is close to the president, you just quoted someone who we know was close to the runner-up president!
00:26:06.000And you even had to say, this all came from Sidney Powell, right?
00:26:09.000Sidney Powell is echoing this, and that's probably where Donald Trump got it, and she had to say, Yes, he distanced himself from her, but they've got to still be close, right?
00:30:10.000The emails paint a disturbing picture.
00:30:13.000A disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci from the very beginning worrying that he had been funding gain-of-function research.
00:30:20.000And he knows it to this day, but hasn't admitted it.
00:30:22.000But really, there's a lot of evidence that he has a great deal of conflict of interest.
00:30:26.000And that if it turns out this virus came from the Wuhan lab, which it looks like it did, that there's a great deal of culpability in that he was a big supporter of the funding.
00:30:35.000But he also is a big supporter to this day of saying we can trust the Chinese on this.
00:30:54.000So the very paper that he puts in the email, he says, oh my goodness, we need to read this paper because it looks like we are actually funding gain-of-function research, which is where we juice up these viruses, take them from animals and infect them into humans.
00:31:25.000It's always funny when you have a side-by-side of Rand Paul and Fauci, because you have one guy who deserves to be swirly, and one guy who looks like a toilet brush.
00:32:58.000It's not only that what Fauci said, flipping and going back and forth, is that people lost their livelihoods because they disagreed with him.
00:33:05.000And he knew that those things that we've talked about, and we'll get into details on each, that they were possible, that they were still in process, the investigations were ongoing, and he didn't stand up and say anything.
00:33:15.000Let me show you what Dr. Fauci was saying.
00:34:24.000If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, It's very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
00:34:40.000The way the mutations have naturally evolved.
00:34:44.000A number of very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then jumped species.
00:34:57.000Now, I'm not saying that that is not true, but you said not possible at that point.
00:35:01.000He kind of couches words, but at one point he said not possible.
00:36:13.000Fauci forwarded a Science Magazine article titled, Mining Coronavirus Genomes for Clues to the Outbreak Origins, to immunologist Kristen Anderson and British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar.
00:36:23.000Fauci wrote, This just came out today.
00:36:55.000We'll get to the policy of big tech in a second.
00:36:57.000This is what was sent back to Fauci from a qualified virologist or immunologist or bio... I don't know.
00:37:04.000On a phylogenetic tree, the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggests that bats serve as the reservoir.
00:37:10.000The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome, about 0.1%, so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features potentially look engineered.
00:37:22.000We have a good team lined up to look very critically at this, so we should know more by the end of the weekend.
00:37:57.000What you did is you had Fauci coming out and saying, it looks most likely like this, and they used that to ban people.
00:38:02.000And keep in mind, and this is why we're not going to live in a culture of self-censorship, of fear anymore, we were warned Okay?
00:38:10.000And so we weren't allowed to talk about this back then, but Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have changed their official policy where it's no longer a conspiracy.
00:38:18.000We're allowed to have these discussions now.
00:38:20.000If we had this discussion three months ago, hard strike or a ban.
00:38:23.000And I gotta tell you, I need some new conspiracy theories.
00:39:03.000Yeah, and uh, by the way, let's, I've talked about this again, I haven't been on YouTube, but I think, let me ask you this, and you guys can comment, I'm gonna move on down the list here with a whole lot of crap that many of you may not know.
00:39:14.000If this virus, if we knew what we know now about this virus, that it potentially leaked from a lab, and again, I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar that it does.
00:39:36.000It's because they have to get out in front of something.
00:39:39.000So, Donald Trump launched an investigation, he said, leaked from a lab, Joe Biden said that was racist, Fauci said no way, we had an election, and now we're saying, seems more likely than not, or at least as likely, that it leaked from a lab.
00:39:52.000Do you think that if Americans knew that, That changes the election?
00:39:58.000I think it's the difference in a narrative going into the election, disregarding the Hunter Biden story, which would have caused 12% of Biden voters to switch their vote.
00:40:06.000It's a narrative that switches from Donald Trump mishandled the pandemic to a declaration of war.
00:40:11.000No, the other side of that coin, though, could be that, you know, people were worried that it was because of Trump that China had that, you know, wanted to come after us.
00:40:18.000Trump was saying don't trust China, Biden saying China, all is good, same thing with
00:40:37.000Well, I don't think it was deliberate.
00:40:39.000No, but I'm saying if there's any potential whatsoever, it could have also changed where it does change the election even more in Biden's favor, so why the cover-up?
00:40:49.000Well, I don't think it would, because again, Donald Trump was just, he wasn't saying this was deliberate, he was saying, look, this is a leak and now they're trying to cover it up.
00:40:56.000I'm just trying to stay on the channel.
00:41:00.000I don't believe what I said either just now.
00:42:19.000He replied, all the sources available at lateralisproject.com.
00:42:21.000He replied, the paper you sent me says the experiments were performed before the gain-of-function pause but have since been reviewed and approved by NIH.
00:42:29.000Not sure what that means since Emily is sure that no coronavirus work has gone through the P3 framework She will try to determine if we have any distant ties to this work abroad to which Fauci applied.
00:42:39.000Okay, stay tuned, but we weren't tuned.
00:42:41.000I guess it wasn't the same Fauci time or channel.
00:43:10.000We don't know that he knew gain-of-function.
00:43:13.000But we do know that money from the United States went to this institute, which of course conducted, very likely, gain-of-function research.
00:43:20.000It's like saying money that goes to Planned Parenthood doesn't go to abortion.
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00:44:43.000I don't, you know, the thing is, I'm just, the only thing that bothers me is he was dressed like a ninja turtle from the third movie in China.
00:46:07.000Okay, this is another thing that people are talking about, that he claimed masks were effective publicly at blocking even larger COVID particles.
00:46:20.000We usually say, well, you know, regular particles that are from, you know, coughing and sneezing, they're greater than five micrometers.
00:46:29.000They tend to fall to the ground within six feet.
00:46:33.000Then we find out from the aerosol particle scholars that say, you know, there are larger particles than that that stay floating around a lot longer.
00:46:44.000So you shouldn't assume they all go to the ground, which adds weight.
00:46:51.000So I'm trying to get some of those people to talk a little bit more to us about it.
00:46:54.000consider it is something we need to re examine. So I'm trying
00:46:59.000to get some of those people to talk a little bit more to us about it. The one thing that it does. It's important is
00:47:06.000that you really better wear a mask, bro.
00:47:09.000Okay, so in February, he wrote to American University President Sylvia Burwell, and I understand science changes, but he didn't give a reason as to why his science changed.
00:47:18.000He gave a very emphatic explanation against masks, and then that's kind of, but now we think, uh, we think it maybe worked for some stuff.
00:47:24.000So this is what he wrote, masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.
00:47:36.000And then she responded, Fauci, you are such an infection.
00:47:46.000The typical mask you buy in the drugstore is not really effective in keeping out the virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.
00:47:54.000It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keeping out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you, as I am prone to do when sitting in the middle seat in coach.
00:48:05.000I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location.
00:48:11.000He recommended someone at the pandemic, the pandemic had already started, who was getting on a flight not to wear a mask and in depth explained why it didn't work.
00:48:42.000Your wife was a nurse and she said, look, the reason that there's a shortage is because you can't use the mask more than once.
00:48:48.000You use it once and then you have to basically touch it with hands and be disinfected, take it off, throw it out, a disposable mask, and we didn't have the ability to sanitize the kinds of masks.
00:50:35.000So I'm hoping that you can tell us a bit more... Oh my gosh, if you were an alien geneticist and this was the first thing you saw... You could just go to your home planet and say we don't want it.
00:50:44.000They'd be like, oh, we've already colonized.
00:50:46.000Yeah, I mean, obviously when you're dealing with something that's changing in real time, Mark, that's really the nature of science.
00:50:56.000You look at the data and the information you have at any given time, and you make a decision with regard to policy based on that information.
00:51:04.000As the information changes, then you have to be flexible enough and humble enough to be able to change how you think about things.
00:51:12.000And I think, you know, one of the important things that we're emphasizing right now... What a humble czar.
00:51:18.000Look at his haircut, he's a billionaire.
00:51:22.000...is our insistence now on wearing masks.
00:51:25.000Okay, so the truth is that if you look at the emails, the changing science, look, Fauci said masks don't work.
00:51:33.000Then he changed his mind from something directly taken from Chinese scientists, who, by the way, of course, work under the Chinese Communist government.
00:51:42.000Fauci doesn't talk about those people.
00:51:43.000The World Health Organization doesn't talk about those people.
00:51:47.000He only trusts the people who are under the thumb of the CCP.
00:51:50.000So, March 16th, 2020, the email was sent from Michael Liu and included advice from Dr. Zhang, Director of the Infectious Disease Department at the Huishan Hospital.
00:51:59.000The email said, I STRONGLY SUGGEST AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD WEAR MASKS LIKE CHINESE, SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLE, ETC.
00:52:07.000BECAUSE EVEN CHINA'S HIGHEST LEADER, MR. XIN PING, WEAR MASK.
00:52:11.000To which Fauci replied, Thank you for your note.
00:52:14.000We indeed have learned much from our Chinese colleagues.
00:52:18.000I appreciate you bringing these issues to our attention.
00:52:20.000Look, we have learned some things from our Chinese colleagues, okay?
00:52:25.000NOT in how to deal with pandemics or medical ethics.
00:52:28.000Well, no, I would like to ask a very specific question, and this really pisses me off, because he said, oh, the science has changed, you have to be humble.
00:54:25.000If they sleep with their wife, once they've been married for a long time, because it's considered like a familial relationship, like a sister.
00:54:45.000Yeah, but they just separated the beds for television.
00:54:47.000You know, once it went to the security cameras, oh boy.
00:54:51.000And they'll call him Dick for nothing.
00:54:55.000So, Fauci in April 2020, he denied the possibility, this is another one, that the virus could have come from a lab, which is what we're talking about now.
00:55:03.000There was a study recently that we can make available to you where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there.
00:57:17.000He thanked Fauci, which seems weird, again, in writing.
00:57:21.000In writing, what you're about to hear is something that if you just said, like at a cocktail party, you know, where Fauci would be carrying around the hors d'oeuvres.
00:58:36.000For publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat to human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:58:46.000From my perspective, your comments are brave and coming from your trusted voice will help dispel these myths, blah, blah, blah.
00:58:51.000To which Fauci responded, many thanks.
01:01:31.000They're praising him for this, Steven.
01:01:33.000All we're doing is pointing out inconsistencies here.
01:01:35.000They're praising him, saying that his behind-the-scenes work matched.
01:01:37.000There's a clip somewhere, I don't have it, but someone was saying, I think you passed the test, where, you know, if anyone's emails are released, usually they don't come out with flying colors, but you do!
01:01:45.000He's like, thank you, I appreciate it.
01:02:31.000Donald Trump didn't want the country to panic and devastate our economies and Donald Trump was in fact sounding the alarm vocally Publicly, on China and their untoward actions, and that it was likely a leak, and officially, behind the scenes, in launching an investigation.
01:02:47.000Fauci was saying, all is well, nothing to see here, but we need to shut down all of your livelihoods.
01:04:16.000In the last one, he was reaching up like he was using Ron Popeil's pocket fisherman, and right here, now he's standing up here like he's a samurai warrior.
01:04:52.000March 2nd, 2020, Fauci also wrote, I have been very explicit in stating publicly that I have not been censored or muzzled.
01:04:59.000I say exactly what I want to say based on scientific evidence.
01:05:03.000I have stated this on multiple television programs the past few days, including at a major press conference with many, many reporters, including several TV cameras.
01:07:21.000I don't need to get as specific as military time because I fear displays of force.
01:07:27.000I put on the kid's gangster costume that they sent me so I could have big shoulders in my next talk.
01:07:33.000I meditate while looking at a poster of the Burger King's kids club because it brings me to a simpler time where I wasn't as fearful because I could hide in the ball pit.
01:07:44.000Putting Scott Baio's costume on from Bugsy.
01:09:41.000Keep in mind, CNN, MSNBC, these people we're talking about, we used to think that YouTube, we used to think that new media would allow, and there was a moment in time where this was true, it allowed people like us, like you, to get past the gatekeepers, because you can go directly to your audience.
01:09:57.000But now they, this wasn't the case five years ago, Our consultants, they are on boards.
01:10:01.000We don't really know who's on these boards, but we know Southern Poverty Law Center.
01:10:04.000We know that with YouTube they have community guidelines, advertiser-friendly guidelines, and then borderline.
01:10:10.000And you don't really know who's in charge of any of them.
01:10:13.000We do know that CNN is at least on one.
01:11:26.000And Fauci didn't know what he believed, but it determined policy and probably why you may or may not have been removed from these platforms.
01:12:20.000Hey, we'd really like to help you make sure that you get this information out, because we think it's important for the public to know it.
01:12:27.000I'd be willing to bet my bottom dollar, no.
01:12:29.000But they wanted to put Fauci on your homepage, who said, don't believe these people who are actually, actually risking life and limb.
01:12:38.000These Chinese scientists who have decided to go rogue, who have said this is what happened, and by the way, half of the scientific community with whom I'm communicating behind the scenes, don't trust them, trust what I say.
01:12:50.000And he's got The leaders of the Communist Party on speed dial.
01:12:55.000When you look at this, the leaders of the Chinese government on speed dial because, you know, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
01:12:59.000Did Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Wojcicki, did any of them reach out to people who are more qualified than Fauci who were sounding the alarm?
01:13:33.000YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities or the WHO's medical information about COVID-19.
01:13:47.000We remove content that repeats other false health information primarily about vaccines that are widely debunked by leading health organizations such as the World Health Organization and the CDC.
01:15:25.000If you've been vaccinated, if you think four-year-olds need to be vaccinated, I'm not here to talk about that.
01:15:29.000I'm just asking you, left, right, center, genderqueer, don't you think That we would all be better off if the scientists and the president sounding the alarms, saying, hey, this may be coming from a lab, this may be man-made, and by the way, there are some measures that need to be taken, you guys are going in the wrong direction.
01:15:52.000If they were wrong, how would that hurt?
01:16:00.000Because we now know, without any shadow of a doubt, that it would have helped in the form of millions of lives saved, and potentially an entirely different electoral map.
01:16:10.000So, yeah, that's what, and by the way, I am going to say we're going to play Newest Gender Pronouns.