The boys are back with a brand new episode of Rumble! This week, the boys are joined by their good friend and long time co-host Gerald A. Adams to talk about the new season of the show, the upcoming tour dates, and much, much more.
00:05:51.000Uh, this is actually an exciting thing.
00:05:53.000I got all peppy about it, but a guy who I have met who was one of the nicest people I've ever met and one of the funniest people.
00:05:59.000Yesterday, the legendary, and I do mean legendary, Gilbert Gottfried passed away at the age of 67 due to complications from myotonic... Why would you put this in the map like I can read?
00:06:42.000Yeah, so we wanted to take a second and just talk about what, you know, obviously what a talented guy he was, but let's also look at him on The Apprentice.
00:06:50.000What did you think of Geraldo Gilbert as your project manager?
00:06:54.000I thought he did a great job, unless you thought he did a bad job, in which case he was terrible.
00:07:14.000I thought at first he was going to be like Mr. Magoo, kind of like blindly bumping into walls and, you know, going in, phasing in and out of character.
00:07:22.000But I must say, when push came to shove, Gilbert Gottfried really stuck up to the play.
00:09:12.000Well, there was a post, and I don't know if I saw you like it or not, but like retweet it, not like, you know what I mean, but where I think Gottfried said that, you know, these two people being in the picture, Saget and Louis dying, and said it's sad.
00:09:26.000And then somebody actually posted, like, this is really sad now because all three people in the picture, because Gilbert was in the picture with those two guys and saying, oh, it's sad that I lost my friends, and that wasn't that long ago.
00:10:08.000That he could be anything and like one of the best bits ever is on the Norm MacDonald Show when he's talking about what he would do to Angelina or not.
00:11:00.000It's hilarious because Bernie is like this angry sounding guy and what he's saying a lot of times and it just it works but it yeah it was such a great character.
00:11:08.000Honestly, I didn't know that that was a character.
00:11:11.000I didn't follow like comedy like you guys followed comedy.
00:11:14.000I just thought that's how the guy sounded most of the time.
00:11:16.000And it's like, oh no, that's something a little different.
00:11:18.000Like, you obviously would have been able to see that if you had done any paying attention, which I didn't, but I was like, oh my gosh, that makes it even better for me.
00:11:24.000How do you keep your voice doing that all the time?
00:11:27.000And he was just the filthiest comic imaginable.
00:11:30.000That's probably why I didn't watch him as much.
00:11:32.000You loved it, I was like, I'll go back and watch Bill Cosby because he's moral.
00:11:36.000He's one of those characters that, like, I knew him because I was a kid at the time from, like, Aladdin.
00:11:40.000That was the only thing I knew him from.
00:11:55.000Yeah, we got cancelled on a roast because it was right after 9-11 and he said, I'm sorry I'm late, I had a layover at the Empire State Building.
00:12:34.000And yeah, it's just tragic and yeah, rest in peace, man.
00:12:38.000On a happier note, Cam Newton was still getting mobbed on Twitter yesterday after his appearance on the podcast Million Dollars Worth of Game.
00:12:49.000My parents have been together for 36, 37 years now.
00:12:52.000Oh look, it's Snoop Dogg if he had white parents.
00:12:55.000I grew up in a three-parent household.
00:12:57.000My mom, my father, and my grandmother.
00:13:20.000You know, and it's a lot of... Danger.
00:13:22.000...women who are bad bitches, and I say bitches in a way not to degrade a woman, but just to go off the aesthetic of what they deem is a boss chick.
00:14:40.000I'm trying like hell to not give oxygen to Cam Newton and his comments because they're so blatantly ridiculous.
00:14:47.000But I keep coming back to the fact that they're so, or that they're also dangerous because they contribute to a culture that believe it's okay to demean and devalue women.
00:14:57.000Gotta do better, Cam, said reporter Jim Trotter.
00:20:37.000No, I think we lose that because there are complementary roles and we talk about men and women as being interchangeable now.
00:20:43.000Like that there's no difference between them and that's not, that's never true in these situations.
00:20:47.000It doesn't mean that you don't have the same dignity, it doesn't mean that you don't have in some cases the same abilities, but it does mean that you're going to be better at certain things than the other role, the other gender is.
00:22:44.000My dog solves mysteries you want to get in Part of a show kid triple-decker sandwiches in here Disney he folded his sandwich like a deck of cards and then molested all right Said it was a mystery.
00:24:02.000You know, maybe people would die if there was a subway in Detroit.
00:24:05.000When I was a kid in Detroit, if you drove a foreign car, they were waiting in the overpass with either a bowling ball or a piece of concrete to time to go right through your window.
00:24:13.000Yeah, now they're just doing it to any car.
00:33:16.000It went from the nice, like it went, I shouldn't say nice, it went from a decent area though to where I would have to play like feces hopscotch to walk to the train.
00:33:25.000Because there was just crap everywhere.
00:33:29.000You know, and it was like, then you do that to get to the train.
00:33:32.000And then on the train, it's like, you're either getting some guy who's screaming, it's what he thinks is the Bible at you in a different language, next to a guy who's like playing keytar with his dick out.
00:40:08.000No, hey, yeah, I'm trans and I'm a millionaire apparently.
00:40:13.000It's a Hail Mary, because after all this controversy with Disney, one of their CEOs came out and said that two of their kids are gender non-conforming.
00:40:23.000And then another CEO that's running the MCU came out and we're at the GLAAD Awards saying, oh we need more representation in kids films, more representation.
00:40:33.000And now they're doing, we're gonna roll our trains out, look at them.
00:40:40.000And then they had Bob Chapek, the CEO of Disney, come out and do a big apology tour going, I'm so sorry I wasn't a good enough ally to you.
00:42:03.000Cora, who told the Times that they don't have much experience with public speaking or advocacy, lamented that they don't do very much to help.
00:42:13.000Yeah, because using plural words... There's nothing that works.
00:42:17.000We understand all the words individually, but in the syntax there, it just doesn't fit.
00:45:05.000Anywho, speaking of security, there's some exciting news in airport security.
00:45:11.000The Dallas Lufffield Airport has a robot named Scott who watches passengers to ensure they're wearing masks and not loitering in their cars.
00:51:43.000One is all you have to look at and go, this is just horrific.
00:51:46.000And I'm just waiting right now for the NBA, maybe Apple, maybe some of these other companies that are over there right now, Disney, to speak out against this and to say, hey, this is a humanitarian crisis, right?
00:51:57.000Well, then they just made Dumbledore straight, right?
00:53:01.000Yeah, if someone welds you in your house, it's not because they're going to open the door again.
00:53:05.000I don't think they're going to come back around and swing around.
00:53:08.000Yeah, that's a very final move, so you might want to get out.
00:53:11.000They don't have a lot of torches to come and cut you out.
00:53:14.000They've got a deal on welders, though.
00:53:16.000Yeah, you might want to break off a leg of a chair or something, whittle it down, make a spear.
00:53:20.000How broken can you be, like such a Stepford wife, by your own government, too, that you'd be willing to do that to another human being, no questions asked?
00:53:27.000And you're right about the NBA and everything else, but it's like, of course, they go where the money is.
00:53:31.000I mean, there's no doubt that it's just a soulless, heartless org.
00:54:06.000Instead of making people wear masks to Dallas Mavericks games and to Lakers home games and to the Nets not letting Kyrie Irving play because he wasn't vaccinated in the city.
00:54:15.000How about standing up for something that actually matters where people are dying, you assholes?
00:55:07.000When they shut down cell service and the internet pretty soon, you're going to know they're When I swore a minute ago, I was actually quoting one of my favorite people because he knows how Donald Trump feels about China.
00:55:30.000And in a less serious but still creepy video, CNN Shanghai reporter David Culver explains how authorities are keeping people in their homes.
00:55:41.000David, before I let you go, just clarify.
00:55:58.000If I do, physically I could do it, but I would break the seal, and there's repercussions for that.
00:56:02.000You have to have a community worker escort you to pick up food deliveries, if you're lucky enough to get them, and to get the government distributions if they happen to come.
00:59:09.000Well, you know, you remember when we had issues in Texas when Texas kind of froze over pretty much the entire state and everybody was panic buying?
00:59:26.000No, but you saw all the panic buying, so that's what's happening in the rest of the Chinese cities right now, especially those who are starting to get a few cases, because I think what triggered this was something like under a thousand cases that they saw, and they automatically started closing stuff down, while other cities are actually going through panic buying, where stores are starting to be looted, stores are running out of stuff, because they're like, oh, our city could be next.
01:00:11.000And mom doesn't have enough food to be able to produce the kind of milk that she needs to to be able to nourish the baby, so breastfeeding is probably out.
01:01:34.000There's no getting out if they were to dial up the power.
01:01:38.000Well, it was, I mean, New York in a lot of ways was, you know, it's sort of the opposite here in the sense of they removed all the authority from the people that needed the authority over them.
01:01:47.000You know, it's like we gotta let criminals go and do an open door policy, and then we need to attack people that have masks on, that don't have masks on.
01:03:27.000So, can you give us a picture of what it's like in Shanghai right now?
01:03:32.000Like, is it better or worse than the media is showing?
01:03:36.000Well, okay, so I'm fairly privileged, you know, and I'm in a neighborhood with a lot of expats, so we're kind of doing a lot better than a lot of the lower socioeconomic Chinese at the moment.
01:03:57.000So we're able to get a little bit of food delivered every few days.
01:04:02.000A little bit of fruit, a little bit of vegetables.
01:04:07.000We can hunt online to find out who has some food and find someone who's able to deliver,
01:04:17.000who has the very special pass, who's allowed to be on the road
01:04:22.000and pay them an exorbitant amount of money to actually get the food delivered.
01:04:27.000But it's just what is actually available is very, very sporadic, yeah.
01:04:34.000I mean, were you, I guess if you're getting little bit of food you probably weren't that prepared.
01:04:38.000Like, was there any notice given to even want to prepare for anything?
01:05:16.000When they announced that, did you see everybody running out to panic buy, or were people by and large believing that the government was going to take care of them through whatever period of time that this was going to be?
01:05:27.000So everyone started buying as much as they could but most of the the shops had already kind of closed down because in our neighborhood we'd already been told, we'd already before the lockdown, we had already kind of been in a stay at home, don't go to work phase.
01:05:49.000So we'd already been, work had been shut down but we hadn't been locked in our apartment.
01:05:55.000So the local neighborhood shops were already and restaurants were already closed so we couldn't get deliveries.
01:06:02.000Most of us here don't have cars and so we rely on deliveries.
01:06:08.000I mean I've got an electric scooter and we go to the shop and we shop for you know a couple of bags of groceries at a time and so that's it.
01:06:18.000So you get delivery but now you know it's Yeah, it's whatever you can scrounge around.
01:06:28.000Yeah, I didn't know that the stores had been closed down prior to that, so that makes it even worse.
01:06:32.000I mean, it sounds, like, you know, horrifically bad.
01:06:35.000I know you're in a little bit better part of town.
01:06:36.000How do you think people, or do you have any information on how people are faring in maybe areas that are a little bit tougher, maybe a little less... Yeah, are the videos we've seen kind of accurate, that you know of with the suicides and that sort of thing, to be blunt?
01:06:58.000I can just pray for them and pray that the lockdowns are lifted soon.
01:07:05.000We're hearing that some neighbourhoods that have got no cases in the last five days are starting to be lifted, that they can actually go out for essentials from their neighbourhoods.
01:07:17.000And the neighbourhoods are very small, by the way.
01:07:24.000The stores are all closed and the ones that even are allowed to be open have no stock because there haven't been any deliveries from trucks and things like that.
01:07:32.000We were able to, just before the big lockdown happened, we were, a group of friends of mine, able to order a delivery from Costco.
01:07:41.000There is a Costco here now and there was very limited deliveries available Yeah, well, if you guys had bought something other than ketchup and mustard, that would have been a great idea.
01:09:42.000Are you worried about your kids with the policies?
01:09:44.000I mean, obviously you are, but I mean, what is the scariest aspect of that?
01:09:48.000I mean, and I don't mean to ask that personally, but you mentioned having them.
01:09:52.000Yes, so the biggest worry, especially in the early days, were if a kid turned up positive and the parents weren't, the child was taken from the parents and put into these quarantine camps and without the parents and without an advocate and no one in these camps, these quarantine facilities, whatever you night-black want to call them, it
01:11:01.000And I guess being being from Australia, like how would you compare your situation now to what was going on earlier in the pandemic?
01:11:09.000Well, that's just disgusting as well, what was happening in Australia, especially the state of Victoria.
01:11:16.000But even at the height of the pandemic in Australia, in Victoria, you were allowed within five kilometres of your home, and you were allowed to go to the shopping centres and get groceries, and there were groceries at the shopping centres.
01:11:31.000You were just, you know, shot with rubber bullets if you tried to peacefully, you know, march and protest against the lockdowns.
01:11:39.000Yeah, here it's you can't leave your apartment. Shanghai is a city of 26 million people. So,
01:11:58.000unless you are a multi-millionaire, you've got a small apartment. And so, we've got four of us
01:12:05.000living in this small apartment. And my son's 11 and he loves to play soccer and basketball and
01:12:12.000run around and he's jumping out of his skin. Yeah, I can imagine. So, we're
01:12:18.000The reports that we get talk about the cases that are happening right now, but they don't necessarily give us, like, death totals, because we know that with Omicron, thankfully, it was much, much, much less deadly, and the symptoms, I was reading that most people won't even know that they're sick, and this was from an article, I think, on CNN, so lest we get in trouble from this.
01:12:37.000They were saying that most people are asymptomatic, and that they wouldn't even know that they were sick, in China specifically talking about this.
01:12:42.000This is the Omicron variant going around right now, and a lot of people may be getting sick, but do you see any numbers on people dying?
01:12:50.000Like, was there this mad run-up to, like, people are dying everywhere, we have to lock this thing down?
01:12:56.000When the school got shut down with my kids, I think there was 96 cases in Shanghai at that time.
01:13:04.000And it's just, it's really confusing because they want to scare the absolute crap out of the population about the virus.
01:13:15.000By you know to keep them everyone in there in their apartments.
01:13:20.000They've got megaphones on drones They've got megaphones on robotic dogs Very creepy and You couldn't have partnered with Bose to build a speaker in like I had to tape a megaphone onto it geez Yeah, well doesn't look dystopian that way gonna make it look terrifying Oh Yeah, they don't shoot them when you get tested positive for Omicron.
01:13:55.000But, you know, it's, it's, where were we?
01:14:26.000I will not have the Pfizer mRNA vaccine because of what I've heard with the mRNA technology, but I have, and I've kind of had to, but I've had the Chinese vaccine because it's pretty much like just saline solution anyway.
01:15:53.000But apparently, I mean, I haven't heard of anyone dying from this wave, but I mean, as you know, the information here is so filtered.
01:16:04.000Our main method of communication over here is an app called WeChat, and that is 100% monitored and edited and scrutinized by the CCP at all times.
01:18:25.000So apparently getting to almost 70% fully vaccinated and having Omicron come through and basically After people getting that, you know, getting some kind of ability to fight this thing off a little bit, that's not enough.