On this episode of The Muck Club, the boys discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the B.O.V. scandal, and why Brian Stelter is such a bitch. Plus, a look at how much money the Chinese are getting from the White House and why it s a good thing it s not enough.
00:00:10.000That is good water, but I will say that it's coffee.
00:00:12.000No, the reason why is I have my coffee before the show.
00:00:16.000I'm just like, caffeinate, caffeinate, caffeinate.
00:00:17.000And then when I'm on the show, well actually I will say this, the caffeine already kicked in.
00:00:21.000Remember when we have a coffee and it's like, this whole show, I'll be talking with you, it'll be fun, it'll be friendly, but the whole time I'll be thinking... So, if you see my face go...
00:03:07.000This is virtue signaling at its finest.
00:03:09.000They received a $10 million loan, which means they went through the loan process thinking it was a good idea to get the money in the first place.
00:03:14.000They have $100 million in the bank, their latest SEC filing showed, and now they've got public pressure to give it back.
00:03:20.000They can never lay anybody off again because then they'll be screwed either way.
00:03:42.000It used to be White Castle, and we all knew it was a shack.
00:03:45.000But now they say Shake Shack, and we all know it's got the new sconces on the wall and that weird horizontal wood pallet that you see at every single church.
00:06:12.000When people talk about privilege, I recognize that I am actually privileged in the sense that this does not affect me nearly as badly as someone who has lost their job on a manufacturing line, who lives in a small apartment.
00:06:39.000In setting up the context as to why, and I feel like I pick on him a whole lot, to the point where it borders on bullying, but I don't care.
00:09:30.000That's why I hope you can relate to this as well.
00:09:32.000Like someone's walking in with emails, like there'll be physical letters, like someone's walking in, we have all these letters for Brian Stelter!
00:09:38.000Throw them on the table with a Santa Claus sack.
00:11:39.000And what's amazing is we have nothing to compare this to.
00:11:41.000I was just watching, and it's a little heavy handed, the plot against America, which is, you know, if Lindbergh had won instead of FDR.
00:11:47.000And I can see all the implications that, you know, Donald Trump in America first, and he must hate the Jews, even though his son-in-law is Jared Kushner.
00:11:53.000Anyway, it's still a pretty good show.
00:11:55.000But I was sitting there going, when people talk about how this is unprecedented, right, the new normal, do you really think, and I get it, I get it, we need to take precautions like we've talked about, we've always encouraged you to wash your hands, sanitize, masks, I just think we need to be accurate about the numbers, but it is remarkable to me to compare this to, say, how do you think Americans felt when you're talking about fear, or really anyone across the globe, when France surrendered and there was the blitzkrieg in London?
00:12:19.000You don't think that was a little bit scarier, watching the Nazis march through Europe, knowing that we are next, unless we enter into, possibly, the bloodiest war of all time?
00:12:49.000We always have to say this, because if you don't say it, you don't make sure there's 30 seconds of context where you talk about all the heroes and the first responders and lives lost.
00:12:55.000People say that you don't care, but the fact is, we all know that, right?
00:12:58.000Let's move on in being accurate about the numbers.
00:13:01.000But to act as though you hit a wall, because this is the hardest moment in American history, It's not even the hardest moment in our lifetimes when you compare it to 9-11.
00:13:08.000Well, did he hit the same wall in 2009?
00:13:10.000I'm sure we can go back and see coverage of that when 60,000 people died from the swine flu that year.
00:13:16.000I'm assuming he hit the same wall because he said, I'm gutted by the number of people that died.
00:14:06.000This is also a guy, too, when you're talking about privilege, who somehow got his foot in the door by selling something that wasn't worth anything and working at CNN.
00:14:15.000There needs to be some kind of talent.
00:14:17.000I get that at least Chris Cuomo was telegenic.
00:14:20.000I've been often told that I myself have the gift of gab, though I would prefer it were welding.
00:14:30.000I don't get what Brian Stelter brings to the table and now it just seems like this is what I just I hit a wall like what are you running the Boston Marathon?
00:15:30.000You notice within a few days of Cuomo kind of having a break and speaking honestly about his feelings about CNN and their hyper-partisanship, etc., you also have Stelter saying, I'm hitting a wall, I can't do, you know, this coverage, all this crap.
00:16:24.000Meanwhile, some states are already starting to ease restrictions.
00:16:27.000In Florida, very popular beaches like Jacksonville, Neptune Beach, and Atlantic Beach, they're open today.
00:16:33.000Governor Ron DeSantis gave the green light despite the growing outbreak, but those beach mayors specify they're open for exercise purposes only and not for tanning nor gathering in large groups.
00:16:43.000I'm looking at a fat guy on that beach who's clearly not exercising.
00:16:47.000I don't know who is Stelter's Double, who they had to...
00:17:21.000And I know some people aren't necessarily obeying them.
00:17:23.000But this is, to me, entirely reasonable.
00:17:27.000It's amazing to me that people are saying, these people protesting going out.
00:17:30.000First off, they're not really protesting going out to the beaches anymore, just to be clear.
00:17:32.000They're actually going out there and obeying the law.
00:17:34.000But it is amazing to me that people are upset that the beaches are open, but not upset over the fact that in New York City, the subways have always been open!
00:17:44.000The subways are rolling Pringles tubes of farts!
00:19:39.000By the way, Radiohead, I don't know if you ever listened to OK Computer, but I always felt like it kind of gets me a little bit disoriented.
00:19:45.000York said that was the design of OK Computer was to make people kind of nauseous.
00:20:09.000So when you compare the subway to Florida, there's also—remember Donald Trump was mocked for saying that, you know, this could go away in April?
00:20:15.000Now we know that sunlight actually seems to be killing COVID-19, according to some new studies.
00:20:22.000That heat, humidity are bad for it, and specifically direct sunlight can kill it very quickly.
00:20:26.000Now, this isn't entirely definitive, but every study that we have available to us says that it is helpful So that's a good thing, especially if you look at the numbers between sort of southern states and where it spread more rapidly.
00:20:36.000I think the average temperature, we'll talk about this a little bit later tonight, I'll do a little bit more of a deep dive, I think it's like, it's very low, and this very low humidity.
00:20:44.000So there is a trend, there is a correlation, they looked to see if there was a causation by studying this virus with UV light directly, and it turns out The sun kills it.
00:20:51.000So, if anything is going to be open, the New York subway, where people relieve themselves on a regular basis in the pit of filth and sadness that is New York City.
00:22:58.000That's actually a really good one because I didn't know a whole lot about the actual evidence of the case and that Niphon, Niphon, Niphon, the guy who was prosecuting, how he actually withheld evidence and actually lied about DNA evidence.
00:23:09.000The guy who actually was prosecuting, yeah, completely disbarred, like very quickly.
00:23:14.000So the problem with that, right, is that it does a huge disservice, as we've always talked about, to women who are the victims of a horrible crime like rape, right?
00:23:21.000It's okay to not be okay when there is something that makes you not okay.
00:23:25.000But to simply say you're not okay because of the coverage that you have peddled out there to try and make people think that it is hopeless, that's not an excusable reason.
00:23:34.000And this is something, this is really true.
00:23:37.000My therapist just laughed The other week, because we had some kind of going through and I was talking about how, listen, as men, we don't always get to, we have to control our emotions.
00:23:49.000They can cry and men can cry, but I said, you know, like the thing is, I know that me being really emotional would make my wife feel less stable.
00:23:57.000I can be sad, but I can't fly off the handle.
00:23:59.000So a lot of the times men, they're like a dog who has to go off into the woods to die.
00:24:02.000We go and we sort of cry by ourselves.
00:24:41.000All across the board, that being said, to say that you hit a wall and you were crying because of your coverage of COVID-19 is a gross disservice to when a man needs to cry in front of his wife because, you know, his bulldog died or because they have something going on with the cancer.
00:24:56.000Or even something happening... yes, a real issue.
00:26:29.000The only one, and we'll talk about it later, the only one that didn't was a Brazilian study where they used far too much of a dose.
00:26:33.000And what's remarkable to me is, you know, you see young Turks on CNN and ABC going, well, this is what we were afraid of, when they're talking about chloroquine.
00:26:39.000This is what we were afraid of, because there was no evidence that it was effective.
00:26:42.000And now, and they cite one small study in Brazil, the only study that I know of that used significantly over the recommended dose, by the way, they used a high dose and a slightly low dose.
00:26:51.000They had to cancel the high dose, and they continued with the low dose, because it actually, from what we know, could be pretty effective.
00:27:08.000What about all the other studies that were peer reviewed?
00:27:10.000What about all the other studies that use the appropriate dosing and actually sort of eliminate for these other co-factors that could contribute to one's health?
00:27:18.000Obviously, you don't conduct a study if you're looking at people who have heart disease or high blood pressure.
00:27:21.000We know that you shouldn't be using that.
00:27:23.000So, there was no evidence whatsoever, and then you have one study from Brazil that used too much, and they canceled half of it, and you go, now we know for sure what would happen to the whole evidence scenario.
00:27:32.000You know that in the pitch meeting for that, when that came across, hey guys, look at what I found.
00:27:35.000Like, everybody's face just lit up, like, the grinch, like, with a smile that goes all the way up, like, yes, he was wrong.
00:29:02.000Um, Trump also named his council to reopen America.
00:29:05.000Uh, it includes, uh, Dak Prescott and Zeke Elliott, Chris Cuomo, Lady Gaga, 90-year-old woman who said she was out of beer, former WWE wrestler is a revival.
00:29:21.000Then there's the Treasury Secretary, the Commerce Secretary, and what you just talked about, as a matter of fact, I'm quite confident, those were just people who happen to be trending on Twitter.
00:30:04.000Wait, are you talking about the clip from... No, Brodigan, that was actually... That was a clip that we did on... Is he talking about the thing we did in the show?
00:33:22.000You took pictures of actual displays and put them up, and this is a museum?
00:33:26.000And it's sad, because Gerald Ford actually seemed like a supremely decent man, but he was just known for the pardon, so there's a little bit of time on the pardon, and then Elvis.
00:33:38.000It's not a very interesting museum, is my point.
00:33:42.000Alright, here, let's go to this story.
00:33:45.000Obama, Barack Obama, right, this turned out, and you were right about this, Bill, the lab in Wuhan, and I didn't want to peddle any conspiracies because I know that we'll get snoped here on the YouTube, we have to be really careful about that, even though it wasn't necessarily a conspiracy.
00:33:58.000Turns out that Barack Obama actually The NIH, under his rule, they funded the Wuhan virology lab that ultimately leaked coronavirus to the world.
00:34:12.000So we know that there was a lab going on right now.
00:34:15.000We know that it may not have just come from a wet market.
00:34:17.000That it could have come from a lab and gotten to the wet market, but we do know that the lab has something to do with this.
00:34:23.000Let's go first to President Trump's response.
00:34:26.000The Obama administration gave them a grant of $3.7 million.
00:36:27.000The Obama administration, this is something else that is really disconcerting to me, they funneled $340 million to the UN Population Fund that of course helped with China's one-child policy, where of course women were hogtied and forced to abort.
00:36:39.000So people don't know this, the one-child policy is basically a policy in China where they say you can only have one child because of population control.
00:36:45.000I was at the Cancun Climate Summit, this is back when it was called the Kyoto Protocol as opposed to the, is it the Paris Agreement?
00:36:52.000It was the Montreal Agreement, Kyoto Protocol, and now it's the Paris Accord.
00:36:56.000They have to come up with different names each time.
00:36:57.000But back when it was the Cancun Climate Summit, it was the Kyoto Protocol.
00:37:00.000We even did a montage, everyone saying, Kyoto Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, because that was the buzzword of the day, and they all flew to Cancun because they couldn't do Zoom meetings, which now we know they should be doing!
00:37:11.000You know, I do a Zoom meeting in my office, and I go there in a Hummer.
00:37:38.000Of course we should do our best to be good stewards of what we have here on this earth.
00:37:44.000That being said, people take priority.
00:37:47.000And, back with the Kyoto Protocol, when you would have looked at the skyrocketing energy costs, that was the package that I did back then, it would be inconvenient for Americans, and it would thrust third world countries into a plague of death the likes of which they haven't seen in the modern world, because they too deserve Their industrial revolution.
00:38:02.000So Barack Obama supported the one-child policy, funneling in millions, hundreds of millions, what is it, 300, how much money?
00:38:13.000I almost used the rounding error, and then underneath this on the YouTube, it'll say, for all info on COVID-19, go to Washington Post and Snopes.
00:38:55.000And so in this presentation they had a chart and they said here are these different countries population per kind of family right like how many people that they have any kids that they have and what they said is we want to institute policies that push everybody into the bottom left which was near zero right or under one okay and the reason that I'm bringing this up is because that kind of policy led to China having the one child policy thinking it was a great idea but it would have the same effect on everybody else in the entire room I mean, this is how we should end the world, basically, because we aren't going to have enough kids to propagate anybody's culture anymore.
00:39:27.000I think you have to have like 2.4, 2.5 per family to do that.
00:40:18.000One thing I also want to make sure, I'm getting this, he is the only president since Reagan, Barack Obama, to not cut off funding to the United Populations Fund.
00:40:25.000So it's not like, oh, everyone did it and then everyone went along with it and Donald Trump put a stop to it, right?
00:41:36.000My personal doctor, and he talked about COVID-19.
00:41:40.000It was a very, I would say it was a very measured approach and a very balanced approach where we didn't need to panic, but we needed to take the proper precautions.
00:41:47.000So a lot of you said we like him. We would like to see him more. And so this is a new segment with Dr. Choi that we'll
00:41:54.000be implementing. We call it What's Up, Doc?
00:43:41.000To his phone, um, and, uh, QuarterBlackGear, just give him a briefer here, uh, what it is, and we can show it to the audience so they know.
00:43:48.000Well, I'm experiencing some abnormal discharge from my lower region.
00:43:55.000And since this is a big thing now, too, is tele-visits with doctors.
00:43:59.000So we want to see... I'm trying to help it out.
00:44:01.000Also, I'm having some severe burning from Yes, whenever I and dr. Choi you do this a lot on Skype and
00:44:09.000you do tele visits like zoom visits with people Especially during this emergency based on the picture that
00:44:14.000you have there and Garrett listing kind of some of his symptoms
00:46:14.000So your official diet, it seems like you would probably need doctor, you would probably need quarter black Garrett to come in and maybe do a full physical to.
00:46:58.000Well, we have to blur it for YouTube, so they can't see, but we appreciate that.
00:47:01.000And if there are people at home, Dr. Choi, who might be suffering, because this is a big part of the show, you know, we have lots of people watching who might be suffering from something similar.
00:47:08.000What precautions should they take to avoid this?
00:47:11.000And what should they do if they think they're feeling some of the symptoms like cordoblack garret?
00:47:16.000Well, one, Obviously this is sexually transmitted, so if you want to avoid it, abstain from sex.
00:47:24.000If not, make sure you use your protection.
00:47:29.000Birth control pills do not protect you against STDs.
00:47:32.000It's got to be a barrier, a physical barrier, so a condom.
00:53:42.000But Bill Maher, it's very, very clear that you are Team Bill Maher and not anybody else there, provided that they, in fact, are backing up Bill Maher.
00:53:51.000like Essie Cutler, then it makes a point that reiterates like what Bill Maher said, okay,
00:53:55.000you're allowed to clap because she effectively was re-communicating Bill Maher's point, but
00:54:14.000Bill Maher has this, where he does the hand, and that's the cue for you to laugh.
00:54:18.000That's his cue, because when he does this, when he says, you know, and when you look at Republicans, really, they're all closeted homosexuals, these people.
00:54:38.000And it doesn't work, and so I also think maybe it's been hurting his confidence?
00:54:42.000Because he had Dan Crenshaw on the show, and Representative Dan Crenshaw, who's a friend of the show, and of course I want to be very clear, Representative Dan Crenshaw, very nice man, cordial, I don't agree with him on everything, but cordial, respectful, and of course, not a homosexual, but you would be confused from this clip because it's tantamount to rape.
00:55:08.000If Oz had taken heart like an upstate Maine, whereas two whiter guys.
00:55:14.000So here is Dan Crenshaw talking with Bill Maher.
00:55:18.000And to be clear, the context here, I don't know if we have it in the clip, Bill Maher said, I want to talk about the issues and stop covering tweets and stop covering social media.
00:55:25.000Let's talk about what's actually going on.
00:55:27.000The second that Dan Crenshaw decided, All right, let's play by these rules.
00:55:32.000Bill Maher tries to zigzag and faster than Gerald can die in a hill.
00:57:09.000Is the goal to make Trump look bad or is the goal to get to the truth?
00:57:13.000Because there's two different sets of answers for that.
00:57:15.000Well, without the audience, I don't know how to answer that.
00:57:19.000By the way, that is a legitimate eyepatch, Bill Maher.
00:57:22.000He didn't buy that at a novelty sex shop.
00:57:23.000I know you think that he may have after that, that it was just to, well, you know, because of the rape.
00:57:28.000So my point is, it was as thorough of a debunking as you can...
00:57:34.000I will say this, Dan Crenshaw is not always that way.
00:57:36.000He's been on our show and I felt like sometimes he didn't necessarily give the answers that I would have liked to have heard, but this was incredible because I think this is a perfect example when you see Bill Maher here with Dan Crenshaw.
00:59:01.000Well, then they try to slip it, and they go, well, that's just because we didn't have testing.
00:59:04.000Okay, the point is, when you say, well, why didn't we shut things down earlier?
00:59:07.000Because there were only 100 cases, or maybe at this point, depending on what you're talking, the timeline, no deaths, or even if there are a couple hundred cases, even if there are a thousand cases, you think that the American public would have stood for a shutdown?
00:59:19.000And then they respond with, well, that's because we didn't have enough tests.
00:59:22.000That's irrelevant to the point that you were saying we should have shut down when we only had 100 cases that we had tested for.
00:59:27.000Sure, would have been nice had we had tests earlier.
00:59:29.000Would have been nice had we partnered with private industry earlier as opposed to relying on the CDC.
00:59:33.000Would have been nice if we had private industry stepping up and making masks and protective gear and ventilators like they're doing now when the government has screwed up so the private sector is picking up the slack.
00:59:41.000Would have been nice for all of those things, absolutely.
00:59:44.000You said, Why didn't they start a quarantine or stay-at-home order earlier because there were only 100 cases, at which time your folks were saying, go on down and eat cat and a stick in Chinatown?
00:59:55.000Yeah, and right after President Trump did the travel ban, Nancy Pelosi introduced a bill that would have prevented him from introducing any more bans.
01:00:07.000Well, and keep in mind, too, again, they're playing politics with this, where they thought they could seize upon the travel ban from China, trying to compare it with the Muslim ban, which, by the way, was from seven countries designated by Barack Obama.
01:00:17.000We made this sound like a Muslim ban, when really it was a temporary moratorium on people coming from these countries that were hotbeds for terrorism.
01:01:37.000I remember talking about, because at the time I thought Red Eye was a great show and talking about how I really wish that it had more viewers and had more kind of promo behind it.
01:01:44.000This person was talking about how they thought Chelsea Handler was really funny.
01:01:46.000I said, well, you know, the reason comedians don't really respect Chelsea Handler, and not only comedians, but actual hosts out there and entertainers, is because she would tape, you know, an hour and run a half hour.
01:01:55.000Um, and it's the same thing with Bill Maher.
01:01:57.000He will tape and then he'll edit it down.
01:01:58.000And so I do think that everybody out there, if you're going to do a mainstream show, particularly in front of a live audience where you don't have control over the cameras, you should have some kind of a recording device.
01:02:06.000If you're in a state where it's legal.
01:02:07.000Because they do try and catch you and change the context.
01:02:12.000And he can't do that when he's on Skype.
01:02:14.000And I think he probably would have wanted to do it, but had he done it, he probably knows that it's not all that hard for Dan Crenshaw to hit screen record.
01:02:22.000Even with the depth, obviously, challenges.
01:02:29.000By the way, don't you love that we got in trouble for, uh... Can I say that we got in trouble for saying that Dan Crenshaw looked like an angry pirate?
01:03:30.000I mean, I think some people, again, this is because of the presentation of the left.
01:03:33.000They've tried to make it sound as though it's a total reopening or a total shutdown.
01:03:37.000No, what you're seeing happening is beaches where people can go for exercise.
01:03:41.000They still need to practice social distancing.
01:03:43.000I mean, read the three-phase plan out there that you can see.
01:03:47.000It's a very, very reasonable approach.
01:03:48.000And you're seeing this in quite a few states where they are easing some restrictions for businesses and then gradually moving to, rather than determining what is an essential business, determining what is non-essential.
01:04:18.000The day that people will start opening up other businesses.
01:04:21.000There's no question that it's going to be, I mean, first of all, you've got a lot of different states that have a lot of different, you know, kind of political purposes and what they're going to do in different economies that are affected in different ways.
01:04:30.000But not only that, you have a vast diversity of, you know, areas within the states themselves, right?
01:04:36.000And when you look at the more rural areas, there's no reason why, just given the nature of those areas, they can't ease the restrictions a little bit more.
01:04:45.000There's nothing sexy about saying, OK, here are certain areas that we're going to do and here are certain businesses and certain locations.
01:04:51.000None of that is going to be headlines.
01:05:29.000Zach from Michigan, just talking about Governor Whitmer.
01:05:32.000He said he's just curious if I take my fishing boat out and receive a fine, is this something that they can actually do, or is there any legal action that could be taken for denying my constitutional rights slash freedom, considering we do live in the USA?
01:05:56.000Every county has their own rules, and if the rules are there, and they're written, and they're clear, and they're being communicated, you should follow those rules.
01:06:06.000You're gonna go hire a lawyer and fight for, you know, spend $50,000, $100,000, $200,000, $50,000 litigating your right to go out in a boat?
01:06:16.000But that's the practical reality and the impact of these laws is, you know, they'll have governors and You know, county commissioners and mayors will just go, well, let's just go ahead and write this law.
01:06:26.000We're going to write a three-page law, and we're just going to say, nobody can go out and do this thing without actually thinking about what the practical impact of that is.
01:06:33.000So in that situation, you should follow the law.
01:06:36.000And even if you think it's unconstitutional, you're probably going to have a bigger problem just disobeying it.
01:06:52.000When they decide to go and a sheriff says, I'm not going to follow the governor's rule because I think it's unconstitutional, they are putting their dicks on the line right there in that moment and saying, we're not going to prosecute it in this county, which is fine.
01:07:06.000We're not going to arrest people in this county.
01:07:21.000They're human beings like any other profession.
01:07:22.000But the kind of cops who you want taking that oath are the kind of police officers and sheriffs that you see in Leelanau and Manistee County.
01:07:30.000I know there were a few in northern Michigan.
01:07:32.000Those are the kinds of police officers you want because they're saying, hey, listen, I don't want this authority.
01:07:36.000I shouldn't, I'm not granted this authority to tell people that they can't use their fishing boat.
01:07:40.000I'm not going to fine them because I am here to uphold the constitutional law of the United States.
01:07:45.000It's a horrible position to put those kinds of officers, the kinds of officers and sheriffs who we want out there in when you demand that they enforce unconstitutional regulations.
01:07:56.000And that might discourage people from becoming police officers in the future who you want being cops.
01:08:01.000You end up with nothing but mall cops and rent-a-cops who are on a power trip.
01:08:06.000We want sheriffs who say, I don't want to exercise this authority.
01:08:09.000And you know, we call this the Batman investigation rule.
01:08:13.000For anyone who follows comics, there's this running joke in the comic books that they would have a Batman task force and it would be like the most junior, blind, deaf Helen Keller detective in a room without any lights.
01:08:27.000And they're like, alright, go get him!
01:08:56.000And there's a prosecutorial discretion even at the attorney, the DAs and that kind of thing.
01:09:00.000So you know what I like about this is America finds a way to have common sense even when the politicians and the media America finds a way.
01:09:12.000I think that's what you do as a citizen in these situations.
01:09:14.000You find out, no pun intended, the hill to die on, right?
01:09:16.000I choose really bad ones, you should probably choose better ones.
01:09:19.000At some point this becomes something where you go out on the lake in a boat just to protest, right?
01:09:24.000But I don't think we're at that point yet.
01:09:25.000I think what they did in Michigan was great where they drove into the capital and they just basically locked everything down.
01:09:31.000They were still social distancing from one another, but they did something in protest, saying, hey, this isn't right.
01:09:36.000And also, they pushed back and said, look, we don't like what you've done, and guess what?
01:10:30.000Thank you guys, everyone out there, of course, who is... Oh, by the way, do follow me on the Instagram at ladderwithcrowder because I'll be giving away a $1,200 stimulus check.
01:10:48.000Now, we are all in this together as a country, meaning that we should be doing everything we can to move forward and support our fellow American.
01:10:58.000If I were an 80-year-old diabetic nightclubber, it would be much harder than someone like me who, when I'm done with work, I pretty much just go home and I watch my shows.
01:11:08.000That being said, I will tell you this, when people say we're all in this together, and they talk about, well, the people who are most affected, and they talk about race, and they talk about people who might have less money, all that is true.
01:11:18.000Different demographics are affected differently.
01:11:19.000But there is one that I think is being overlooked, and this is something that is pretty important because I think it shows a lack of Scale.
01:11:28.000A lack of actually understanding kind of how the economy works and how it affects people.
01:11:32.000The big divide, this is, we are not all in this together.
01:11:40.000But there is a business owner out there.
01:11:42.000We went through some numbers, you know, like 36% of non-restaurant, or sorry, non-grocery retail-related businesses don't think that they're going to last.
01:11:49.000These people out there, they obviously, they worry about their livelihood just like you.
01:11:53.000I think some people think that business owners have stockpiles of cash.
01:11:59.000Clearly not the case even with Shake Shack, right?
01:12:01.000They don't have stockpiles of cash upon which they can simply fall back.
01:12:04.000They're going to lose their living too, but they also have the compression of trying to ensure that they can provide for 10, 15, 50, 200 people, right?
01:12:12.000They've built something up so that they can make a living, but all of you make a living.
01:12:16.000And so when people say, hey, I want to get mine right now, Now, hey, we're all in this together.
01:12:25.000Most of them are certainly not millionaires.
01:12:27.000Most of them actually aren't making much more than an upper middle class family.
01:12:30.000And by the way, they should be wealthy if they create a business that adds value to people's lives.
01:12:34.000But these people will lose their livelihood, just like you will, and they will no longer be able to provide a livelihood for you moving forward.
01:12:47.000But economically, small business owners out there are so disproportionately affected, the amount of stress that they are carrying right now is not even comparable to someone who is going to receive a stimulus check.
01:13:07.000But, you know, give him a virtual hug.
01:13:09.000Let him know that, hey, you actually appreciate him.
01:13:11.000Because some of this class warfare really alienates people who are automatically assumed to be Daddy Warbucks.
01:13:18.000I don't think they realize that not only Shake Shack, the business, but what do you think about the guy who's running a local Shake Shack franchise?
01:13:31.000He loses his living, and those people lose their living.
01:13:34.000And I will tell you this, most employers, just like most people, most cops are good people, most hosts are probably good people, most government, well, okay, there are some exceptions to the rule, but the point is, most small business owners, or at least a comparable portion of them compared to any other profession, are decent people, and they are concerned of the livelihoods of their employees.
01:13:53.000So to just tar and feather them because they happen to have reached the privilege of running a business, That's not the kind of message you want to send if you want an economy from hereafter.
01:14:04.000And speaking of that, I think you were asking me this the other day, Audie, we were talking about Fox News and how they like Chelsea Handler.
01:15:05.000Apparently she's been doing a really good job.
01:15:06.000She was kind of the person who brought me in there.
01:15:09.000And, uh, showed me the ropes, and was really nice, was really supportive, um, and Bill Shine was there back in the day, I guess he also got caught, uh, embroiled in some sort of sexual, uh, assault scandal, so I, I, I can't speak to all that aside from, you know, listen, there was the leg chair for a reason on these shows, and the Bill O'Reilly thing, he did it, so!
01:15:29.000But I never met Roger Ailes, and this lady would run interference for me.
01:15:34.000And then finally, I was pitching these ideas.
01:15:36.000One of them was to this guy who really liked Chelsea Handler, and they sort of paired me up with a host to create a show similar to this show at this point, but then they wanted to change it.
01:15:43.000At one point, there was a suggestion of Monkey on Roller Skates, which I was like, that's horrible that you came up with that idea.
01:15:48.000I think Monkey on Roller Skates would be funny, but I don't want it on a show.
01:15:54.000And then finally, she just sits me down and goes like, yeah, I know you've been wanting to meet Roger for a while, but it's um... He doesn't like you.
01:16:05.000You know, I was told, he doesn't get you.
01:16:13.000So in other words, I'm not going to meet the person who runs this network, who makes all of these determinations as to who gets to host, as to who's a contributor, because he doesn't like the very essence of who I am as a comedian.
01:16:30.000And then there was, I'm pretty sure you can probably run a search and find this, You know, Dennis Miller, I used to do his show quite a bit, and Norm Macdonald used to do, you know, they're really close friends, and Dennis Miller had a bit on Bill O'Reilly's show called Miller Time.
01:16:42.000And it was just, by the way, Dennis Miller, brilliant, hilarious, and it was just an exercise in what, it's like, Bill O'Reilly, stop speaking!
01:16:48.000You're like, oh, listen, I'm trying to get to some material here, Bill, but if you want to go off and talk about, we can do that, that's the cut of your jib.
01:17:11.000If you can go and search Norm MacDonald filling in for Dennis Miller, and of course he's not Dennis Miller, that was a segment Taylor made for him, but Norm did, he performed as well as he possibly could.
01:17:20.000He never did it again, from what I understand.
01:17:23.000And then I heard through the grapevine that Roger Ailes really, really didn't think Norm MacDonald was funny.
01:17:28.000And that was the greatest compliment anyone has ever paid me, because I was in the same boat.
01:17:34.000Even though I knew that my career was at a dead end at that network at that point, I felt like I had some kind of a link Norm Macdonald was a kindred spirit in that Roger Ailes also detested him.
01:17:46.000So, you find validation in the most unlikely of places.