This week, the boys are joined by their good friend Gerald Morgan to talk about video games, skateboards, and more. Plus, a special guest joins the boys for a game of "Who's Got the 5th Step?"
00:01:53.000So I went to Plattsburgh, and that's how you know your country is a horrible place to live, when you go to Plattsburgh, New York, to buy the cool sh**.
00:02:10.000How much, uh, by the way, hold on a second, let me, okay, half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond, quarter black Garrett, audio Wade, Gerald Morgan, uh, Gerald Morgan, eh, um, what were we saying?
00:03:07.000But it was so expensive, and we had so little money when I was a kid that I knew, like, that's the video game I'm going to get for the year, and I want to kill myself with it.
00:03:15.000And we didn't have Google, so I would have to ask Jeeves how to kill myself with an N64 game, and he was no help.
00:05:00.000Because they charged us another restocking fee right there at Zeller's.
00:05:04.000And so when Walmart came in and closed them down, I thank the Lord above for the United States of America.
00:05:11.000Lord baby Jesus Sam Walton, thank you for your return policy.
00:05:16.000And for those of you who don't, who are not Mug Club members, we're going to read your chat, but this is something we do.
00:05:23.000There are a lot of shows that we do and a lot of jokes that don't quite make air on Thursday or what you see on YouTube, or sometimes they don't even make air behind the paywall for Mug Club at all.
00:05:33.000And they just find their way, and I should be clear, some of them are because they're way too offensive.
00:07:12.000So, keep in mind some of these obviously may not seem topical anymore because some of them are very old, but a couple of weeks ago, Madonna made a video from her bathtub telling us that we should all be a little more like the coronavirus.
00:07:26.000That's the thing about COVID-19, it doesn't care about how rich you are.
00:07:34.000Does it care about the fact that even though you're a woman, those look like man tits?
00:07:37.000And what's terrible about it is what's great about it.
00:08:23.000While his trial was going on, see originally this was written, hey, this is in the news, but it's not in the news anymore.
00:08:30.000While his trial was going on at some point, Harvey Weinstein, there it is, said he once read a 546 page book about Winston Churchill in one day.
00:08:40.000His lawyers are calling it the smart rapist defense.
00:11:19.000I meant, like, in the future, not immediately on the spot.
00:11:22.000By the way, if you want to know, did Audio Wade contribute to that show map, nine times out of ten, it's a joke that includes the words, hot, hairy ass s***.
00:11:46.000Did you remember that one time we had the joke?
00:11:48.000Who was it who said this is their daughter coming out?
00:11:52.000Yeah, it was Elizabeth Smart, who was, I believe, kidnapped and sexually abused for several years, and it was a story about her dad coming out as gay.
00:12:02.000That's right, and she was talking about how difficult that was.
00:12:06.000So we don't really have a live studio audience, but we have, I don't know if we can, can we even show with that camera?
00:12:10.000We have about eight seats there where either producers sit or sometimes family members of the crew, and so the joke there was Elizabeth Smart, I think, saying, my dad's gay?
00:12:19.000This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
00:12:28.000Which didn't surprise me because she's gay, it surprised me because most lesbians have no senses of humor and she was the exception to the rule.
00:15:32.000So, Michaela Spielberg, daughter of... No, actually, and of course I love Jordan Peterson, and his daughter will actually probably be on the show.
00:15:37.000It's just the carnivore diet, you know.
00:15:39.000I just... It just wasn't good for my stool.
00:15:41.000Michaela Spielberg, daughter of Steven Spielberg.
00:15:44.000She announced that she is attempting to become a sex worker.
00:15:48.000Maybe this could have been avoided if her father spent a little more time raising his kids, a little less time executive producing cats.
00:15:56.000Which is not so much a joke as it is trying to highlight the monstrosity of his cats.
00:16:01.000This is one of those things where the joke is too on the nose, right?
00:16:05.000Like literally everyone regrets his time with cats.
00:18:16.000They've also announced their summer tour alongside Run KFC, Shake Shack Mafia, and Southwest Chicken Salads with Attitude.
00:18:25.000Just because I know that Wade has no idea as to what it feels like to want to swallow a knife when you have a joke that bombs Giving him air support.
00:18:38.000I appreciate it was awesome Wait the voicing was great on that.
00:18:45.000Yeah You're a nice guy director Anything else you want to get out of your system here with Scrapyard before we go to any kind of live chat?
00:20:29.000Yeah, so MJ says, have any of you, Steven, Garrett, Bill, Wade, taken the, and Gerald, Gerald's here too, taken the political compass quiz, and would you be open to doing a segment on it like you did with the white privilege and microaggressions quizzes?
00:20:42.000Uh, you know, I think, didn't Ben Shapiro do that?
00:21:10.000You know what, maybe if we see enough people in the comments section who want me to do the political compass quiz, sure.
00:21:14.000My guess is I'll probably be considered a basic bitch traditional conservative.
00:21:18.000Libertarian, I think people are often surprised, like, people are often surprised because I just say, the weed thing is what people get upset.
00:21:24.000Like, listen, I actually think states should be able to legalize weed, and I think it's silly that it's a Schedule 1 substance, and I think that CBD shows a lot of promise.
00:21:32.000I just think that people aren't responsible when they tell kids, like, it's less than a beer.
00:23:10.000Make it exclusive for people who are Mug Club members, so that way Mug Club members don't have to pay anything, and you can just download it on the site, but I have no idea how to do this.
00:23:17.000Seriously, every time we end up doing parodies, I would buy a CD of our best ones.
00:23:22.000I would have it on, it'd be hilarious.
00:23:24.000You'd put it next to your Batman soundtrack, an all-for-one debut album, and nothing else on the shelf?
00:23:29.000Yes, but I would actually probably ask, I'd be like, hey, since I'm on the show, can I get a free copy, like a bootleg?
00:25:43.000So, here's my question today before we move on a little bit, and I know people will be upset and it's controversial and yeah, I don't really care.
00:25:49.000At what point Do you think that we need to consider reopening the American economy?
00:25:56.000One, do you think the ill effects of staying shut down could be worse than the virus itself?
00:25:59.000By the way, everyone here cares about every single life lost, okay?
00:26:02.000None of us hate old people, none of us think the virus is... Just want to be clear about all that.
00:26:05.000That being said, I do think there is some bullshit afoot.
00:26:10.000Past week, Donald Trump has been talking about, and by the way, I'd just love if you didn't watch the presser yesterday.
00:26:15.000I'm thinking, let me know what you think.
00:26:16.000I'm thinking about just running the Donald Trump press briefings on this channel or on Crowder Bits live because CNN cut out to do the job that the media won't do.
00:26:24.000Did you see him present that video last night?
00:26:26.000He presented, he came in with a video of his timeline.
00:26:30.000And a lot, just to be really clear, because a lot of people saw the video.
00:26:32.000They didn't see the feed of him presenting the video to the room.
00:26:46.000At one point he's playing a montage like we'll do here that indicts the media where they're saying you should be more worried about the flu this is not a concern and Nancy Pelosi saying you know I'll come down to Chinatown and at one point there's someone from CBS who says you should worry more about the flu and he goes that's right.
00:28:34.000But the media reacted as you would expect them to react, as though that, which was a pretty, I think, measured response, saying at some point we need to balance lives and livelihoods, but the media has reacted a...go.
00:28:49.000I mean, there's no way we can even start to think about opening things back up unless we've got a few things in place.
00:28:55.000The former reality show star tells a story about American resilience.
00:29:01.000What he lacks in empathy for the dead, he makes up for in his insistence that the country will come back stronger than ever.
00:29:14.000President Trump's new date for getting the country back to work is May 1st.
00:29:20.000I see no chance that's going to happen.
00:29:22.000I don't think there's any likelihood of states such as New York and California saying fine.
00:29:27.000We'll just send everybody back on May 1st because they're worried we would just have another outbreak again and the hospital systems would be overwhelmed all over again.
00:29:53.000Let's look and see if there is even a case remotely for reopening the economy, or when that case should be made, or if we can, contrary to what Rachel Maddow says, think about it.
00:30:54.000And then I think one person, when I tweeted out an article that was removed from Medium, they said, well, why are you saying the per capita numbers matter more than total?
00:31:00.000Because if a country has 30 million people and a country has 330 million people, the per capita numbers kind of matter.
00:31:20.000The deaths per capita, per one million, and you can go to Worldometer and hit this, use this metric to list them, I think is what's most important.
00:31:31.000We don't necessarily know how accurate the antibody tests are.
00:31:33.000The death rate, the mortality rate, of course, is based on a percentage of how many will die versus how many people test positive.
00:31:39.000So what is concrete that is undeniable is how many people have died from the virus, and then specifically, to put into context, how many people per capita.
00:31:47.000So you don't see that number covered a whole lot from the media.
00:32:21.000There's the same distance between 1 and 10 as 10 to 100.
00:32:25.000Now, I understand why that's necessary if you have a graph where the number is so exponential that it would all of a sudden end up off the graph.
00:32:35.000And by the way, that presentation, of course, favors smaller countries.
00:32:38.000It masks sort of the contrast between the United States and smaller countries.
00:32:40.000Look at the exact same numbers, and our brilliant researcher, Reg, created a sort of properly spaced linear y-axis, counting, again, while we're talking about response time, which is what the media is talking about, from the day of the first death, since that's what matters as far as response time.
00:34:12.000That wasn't in the absence of social distancing, that was taking into account social distancing.
00:34:15.000Some more examples, this matters, because just like climate change, Florida's supposed to be gone, we aren't supposed to have some kind of a rainbow fish, I don't know.
00:34:56.000Less than 10% of the ventilators they claim they needed, and he was saying, we should keep them here so we can send them to states who need them, not give them as a stockpile with no pre-existing terms to barbell nipple.
00:35:10.000Hey, I thought they were both barbells.
00:35:18.000Well, and it's like if you question any of the information, so states can say, oh my god, there's going to be a panic, and say, I need a lot more than you actually need.
00:35:25.000Well, we're seeing now, like, no, he was right on all of these points.
00:35:27.000Well, to be clear, he didn't say it was right.
00:35:29.000de Blasio said, yeah, we didn't, we're good.
00:35:31.000No, de Blasio said that, but my point now is that when Rachel Maddow and company come out and say, well, we can't possibly reopen the economy, I mean, how could you ever possibly?
00:35:37.000It's like, well, guys, you haven't I haven't been right on anything yet.
00:35:40.000Donald Trump doesn't care about dying patients in New York because he wants some ventilators.
00:35:44.000He was saying, I don't think you need all of these ventilators right now.
00:35:48.000And right now they have a federal stockpile of over 10,000 ventilators.
00:35:51.000So in other words, they would have sent their entire stockpile to New York without the ability to send them to other states who might need them.
00:35:59.000Some of these are anecdotal, but these are things that you heard in the media, and then when they turn out to not come to fruition, they just move on.
00:36:12.000They set up an emergency 250-bed sort of army field hospital for the surge.
00:36:17.000Never saw a patient packed up and left after nine days.
00:36:20.000Now, I want to be clear, that's not saying that no surge could happen, but it was predicted concretely that unless you get them what they need, unless 40,000 ventilators, unless we open up extra hospitals, people will die.
00:36:31.000Why don't you care about people dying?
00:37:04.000Well, and Benjamin Button, at the end of that last video, the guy with the bow tie and the bathrobe, said, if we open this economy back up on May 1st... Did you really feel the need to specify that?
00:37:45.000And so they're not necessarily ready to handle this load, but it doesn't mean that all of the beds are filled and they need another hospital.
00:38:21.000So Sweden is still actually doing better than many of the surrounding countries, despite not having a lockdown.
00:38:25.000And I know that it's tough to compare all countries, because it's tough to compare their healthcare systems, and Sweden is actually more free enterprise-based than a lot of places out there.
00:39:56.000Small businesses, right, who say that their business will still be intact, still exist, if the crisis lasts six months, as that young man, Rachel Maddow, was suggesting.
00:40:04.000Other than grocers, for some reason they're excluded, 33% say they'll be in business when it comes to hotels, 27% of personal services, 22% of restaurants and bars, 15% of other, and to be clear, there is a plus or minus variance of 4% because of untoured massage parlors.
00:40:43.000These aren't just hypothetical numbers.
00:40:45.000These have real world impact, and I don't know why we are not taking into account when every other day of the year, you can tune into Vox, you can tune into CNN where they talk about food deserts, and they talk about poverty, they talk about unemployment and how that leads to mental illness, and all of the other auxiliary effects, right?
00:41:02.000Severe unemployment leads to, whose phone is that?
00:41:31.000It's not a racial thing when they try to say it's about oppressed classes.
00:41:34.000No, but severe unemployment, poverty, it leads to increased burglaries, suicides, homelessness, overall poor public health in the long run.
00:41:41.000People who are poor, more likely to have heart conditions, more likely to be obese, more likely to have diabetes, which means that you will have far less resistance to the actual contagion-like bug that we've been told is coming around the corner.
00:41:51.000Yeah, and when economies crash, Stephen, we've got this throughout world history, when economies crash, people do really stupid things, right?
00:41:57.000They allow people like Adolf Hitler, who years before was already put in jail because they rejected his ideas, to get out and come into power.
00:42:03.000They allow people like Mussolini to come in and say, we're gonna restore Italy to the prominence that it once had, and say, well, alright, things are really bad, maybe this guy can do it.
00:42:10.000They do really stupid things, so you don't take that for granted.
00:43:03.000Because of this pandemic right now and because of the fact that they have predicted these surges and they've tried to prepare for them, hospitals are now furloughing or laying off workers.
00:43:12.000So this economy is directly affecting healthcare workers because there aren't enough jobs to go around.
00:43:17.000And then this is another one that is to me, and I'm not taking any pleasure in this, what I'm saying is that when you just throw out hypothetical numbers and you tell everyone that they have to beat to the beat of your drum, they have to dance to the beat of March to the D, I'm very tired.
00:44:13.000And I do think that it's ironic, considering that you told everybody else who said, maybe we should look at reopening the economy, that they were effectively Hitler reincarnated.
00:44:22.000And now you're saying, hey, that the economy has affected you, you should be bailed out at the taxpayer expense.
00:44:48.000Well, I thought that the Democrats were against bailing out big corporations, and now they're trying to bail out these journalistic... No, no, no.
00:44:55.000They're only against bailing out useful corporations.
00:45:06.000Unless the government stepped in and said, shut down your corporation.
00:45:08.000Nobody Nobody pitching this corporation, well then fine.
00:45:11.000Yeah, no, no, this is a totally different situation.
00:45:14.000But they were saying the money should just go directly to the people and not through businesses that provide jobs to the people, unless it's this.
00:46:02.000It's just amazing to me that they want the economy to stay closed for thee, but not for me.
00:46:07.000And by the way, this doesn't help healthcare workers.
00:46:09.000It doesn't help healthcare workers, and this is one thing too, it doesn't help healthcare workers who are honestly at the front lines trying to do a good job for some other nurse to go out there and take an Instagram picture of the bags under her eyes and say, we're all at death's door.
00:46:23.000When you have other healthcare workers saying, no, no, no, we don't want to waste resources.
00:46:26.000We don't need 40,000 ventilators, someone who's not trying to politicize it, because that actually would be more inventory than we could take care of right now.
00:46:34.000Unfortunately, everyone's afraid to speak out.
00:47:01.000I just don't believe that the COYOTE Protocol, the Montreal Agreement, COYOTE Protocol slash Paris Accord, is going to fix the issue of climate change.
00:47:10.000And we certainly shouldn't try and deal with climate change at the expense of human life or human beings who create industries that innovate, which is ultimately what will solve our energy problem in the long run.
00:47:29.000What we are saying, and I've been saying this all along, and I see a lot of conservatives now sort of walking it back, and they're saying, this is something we need to get ahead of.
00:47:36.000Of course we need to be ahead of this, and I think we've done a pretty good job.
00:47:39.000But we've always been saying, and I maintain this, I won't be shamed into panic, we need to, and people don't like saying this because there are lives at stake.
00:47:49.000That being said, when you make maneuvers in war, there are lives at stake.
00:47:53.000When you decide who goes to the lifeboats first, you still have to make a risk assessment call with lives at stake.
00:48:02.000And in this case, when we know the ramifications of the kind of unemployment and crippling economy that Could be seen for generations to come.
00:48:10.000There does need to be a balance between saving lives from a virus, none of the models have proven to be accurate, versus the livelihoods of everyone who will be alive, which is 99.999999.
00:48:19.000I don't even have a calculator that goes that far.
00:48:23.000I was too busy spelling boobs upside down.
00:48:25.000So fun. 99.9999. I lost my train of thought. People who will still be around after this virus,
00:48:32.000and what I think is most important is anyone out there and people who've been feeling this
00:48:35.000for a long time, I want you to speak out about this. I want you to speak out with everyone that
00:48:38.000you know in your personal lives. Any platform you have, just try and present it from a compassionate
00:48:44.000point of view and with balance, and when these people like Rachel Maddow talk about Donald
00:48:48.000Trump or Brian Stelter literally, say that Donald Trump has no empathy for the lives lost,
00:48:51.000or they say, you know what, if you believe that you don't care about the country.
00:48:54.000No, no, no, I'm talking about all of the people out there who are scraping for a job.
00:48:58.000They are clawing and biting to try and preserve their livelihood.
00:49:01.000Don't say that when I say we need to take their lives into account, their livelihoods, that I don't care about the country.
00:49:06.000They are the country, and that's the point.
00:50:45.000But he's older because he has white hair.
00:50:47.000Glenn Beck on the Twitter, and of course you know him, The Blaze.
00:50:50.000He has his shows that are there, both his radio show and his television show.
00:50:53.000His new book is Arguing with Socialists, which, I don't know why I don't have the book, because I didn't get the link for it until recently, so I don't have a physical copy.
00:53:03.000And here's the thing, I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it if he didn't hide it.
00:53:08.000Like if someone nipple rings Folsom Street Fair, let your freak flag fly, but you're trying to act like the kind of person who would be at a Barnes & Noble cafe, but you have the nipple rings.
00:53:48.000So, how are you saying he's hiding them?
00:53:51.000Well, because, in other words, if he just lifted it, said, hey, look at my nipple ring, big deal, and moved on, but they're in a golf shirt, I think he just made the mistake, he made the mistake of wearing the wrong fabric golf shirt.
00:54:01.000Like, if he'd have worn the traditional sort of Raycloth cotton, but he wore the peak cotton, so it's very sheer.
00:54:06.000So, I don't think he intended that, and then, you know, he didn't answer.
00:54:09.000He needs to answer for his nipple bar.
00:54:11.000If he would have answered, then it would have been fine, but it still would have been creepy and I don't want to think about his nipple rings anymore.
00:54:17.000Well, I'll be sure to bring it up later in the interview because it's a spite topic.
00:54:22.000And then the other thing is a lot of people don't know you have a lot of tattoos.
00:54:25.000Right, so no nipple rings, but you do have tattoos.
00:54:37.000Well, I remember you showing it because we were at Fox and I was kind of like, I guess sort of subbing.
00:54:42.000Co-hosting, because you were answering questions with the audience, and so I was fielding questions, and one of them was about your tattoo.
00:54:48.000And I had never known that you had a tattoo, and you showed it.
00:55:42.000Okay, tell me about your book, Arguing with Socialists.
00:55:45.000I remember Arguing with Idiots because I had started my career, that was in 2009, and I really loved that book.
00:55:51.000I remember that book was kind of what put me on the path to learning more, and I use it as a reference in my Detroit video, or I use the references from your book.
00:56:00.000That one specifically addressed the idea of hybrid cars and how they were actually losing manufacturers' money
00:57:47.000But, you know, let's look at what the real arguments are.
00:57:51.000And if you have an open mind at all, You want to serve people the best way you can, so which one works, which one doesn't?
00:58:00.000And I appreciate the self-awareness there that you say we don't have to quote you.
00:58:03.000It doesn't mean that your arguments are illegitimate at all, but I know, for example, that's always why we provide sources here that are usually the New York Times, and we get them from PubMed, because I know if someone says, well, Steven Crowder, I go, don't list me as a source, because I'm an asshole!
00:58:15.000And no one will listen to you, so... Not that you are, but that's why... But you know that people will see it as biased, so you list your original references, which is what really helped me with arguing with idiots.
00:58:25.000Yeah, I remember using them quite a bit, then going online and searching it.
00:58:30.000Yeah, you're a complete idiot if you quote me or you quote you, because the media has done a good job, and quite honestly, I have been very effective at smearing myself as well.
00:58:43.000The media has done a great job on making us losers, or people you can't trust, or just hacks that don't know what they're talking about.
00:58:54.000If you believe we do, well good, get the book, and we've taken all of the facts from the New York Times.
00:59:00.000Anytime I found something from the Heritage Foundation, I went back to the researchers and said, go find it from a source that the left appreciates.
00:59:11.000Something that the left will say, okay, well, all right, it's the New York Times.
00:59:21.000This is important, though, because we've done this, you know, when we prepare for Change My Mind, I sit down with a brilliant researcher, Reg, who's literally more than a mental level IQ and squats like 700 pounds.
01:02:11.000Another term we were just talking about in the morning show this week, the eco-socialism, is something that's also kind of a new buzz phrase.
01:03:34.000Instead, they just Well, I think it's also important to bring up, like you said, the USSR.
01:03:38.000I mean, a big part of that was Sandals Resorts didn't want to share their profits.
01:03:43.000Nobody will ever admit that, but that's the important thing.
01:03:46.000Well, I think it's also important to bring up, like you said, the USSR.
01:03:49.000I mean, a big part of that was Sandals Resorts didn't want to share their profits.
01:03:53.000We have Bernie coming in here on a honeymoon and listen, we eat what we kill.
01:04:00.000It happened the same thing in Canada, to a lesser extent, where I lived there under a universal healthcare system, a socialized healthcare system in Quebec.
01:04:08.000And apparently Quebec is, when I did the video back in 2009, Canadian healthcare, people said, oh, you're biased.
01:04:14.000You just picked the worst hospitals in Canada.
01:04:17.000I said, the Charlemagne Hospital, that's where I went.
01:04:20.000That's literally down the block from where I was.
01:04:23.000That I went to in my municipality, there was no privatized health care at all.
01:04:29.000It was illegal until there was a Supreme Court case in 2005, Chauvi v. Quebec, and I've talked about this quite a bit, where they said it's a violation of human rights to force people into these waiting lines, and if they want to pay for care, and they are at death's door, they have the right to.
01:04:42.000That didn't exist when I was there, so my mother was looking at like, Eleven or fourteen months for an MRI.
01:04:48.000To see a dermatologist was nine months for me.
01:04:54.000And I think a lot of times people take the most severe example, if it's Maoist China, and I go, hold on a second, you don't have to.
01:04:59.000I think to Americans, understanding the reality of socialism lite would be scary enough.
01:05:08.000I think what you don't hear is, for instance, right now under COVID, You don't hear the private sector begging the British government to please let us make masks.
01:05:37.000love the socialist system, watch where the vaccine, watch where the medicines
01:05:42.000come from, because they're not going to be coming from Venezuela, they're not
01:05:47.000going to be coming most likely from Canada, they're going to be coming from a
01:05:50.000free market. Yeah. And we are, we are not even the most free.
01:05:56.000Sweden, when it comes to business, Sweden is more free than we are.
01:06:01.000Yeah, I think a lot of people don't know that.
01:06:02.000Again, from being a Canadian, I remember when Barack Obama was president, Canada, for the first time ever, was higher on the Economic Freedom Index than the United States.
01:06:09.000And they avoided the housing bubble because their Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just said, wait, give loans to people who can't pay it back because racism or something?
01:06:23.000Usually when socialist countries avoid catastrophes that we face here, it's because they're more conservative on that specific issue.
01:06:29.000And speaking of that, I want to go to sort of the COVID topic.
01:06:32.000Obviously, if people look at the death rates per capita, you have to remove like Luxembourg or I don't know, a couple of small islands, but large sized countries, the top four, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium.
01:06:43.000Again, three years ago, these were the countries that were being praised for their socialized healthcare system.
01:06:47.000We would have to multiply our death rate per capita by four times to be close to what they have.
01:07:33.000And I know it's wrong, and I'm okay with it.
01:07:37.000So anyway, the German bank just came out this weekend and said that there is no such thing as a free market because of what the Fed has done.
01:07:48.000What the Fed has done is they're now the largest landowner in the world.
01:07:57.000They're the biggest treasury financiers now.
01:08:01.000They own more of our treasury bonds than anybody else.
01:08:05.000They are going to end up owning everything in the end.
01:08:09.000The market is not free anymore because there is no bottom.
01:08:13.000There's no real pricing on anything except for the average person.
01:08:17.000What they've done is they are using modern monetary theory, which is a socialist dream.
01:08:25.000Chapter 6 is a chapter that we almost didn't put in because I thought, You know, this is kind of far out there because it would really take a real disruption to get there.
01:08:37.000But I tied it into technology and I said, if you get a jobless problem and technology, along with modern monetary theory, you are a 1984-style state, a George Orwell state.
01:09:48.000Are you talking about the place that was like a socialist anarcho-socialist syndicism for like three years, and then they immediately were wiped out?
01:10:40.000And I will tell you, the strategy that China had to beat Russia in a war was take a million troops, march them across the border, and surrender.
01:10:52.000Next day, a million troops, surrender.
01:11:57.000Stephen, they're also, they're also wildly irresponsible, not just with the wet market, but what they're, all of the things that they denied, all of the information they withheld, and now they're going to countries like France, and France send them a bunch of PPEs and masks and everything else.
01:13:57.000I like the fact that he has pushed all of the power back to the states, that he hasn't taken any of the opportunity to nationalize anything.
01:14:09.000I don't like the spending, but I also don't like shutting down the economy.
01:14:13.000constitutional to give money back to people you've taken it from?
01:14:18.000As people who are both against the bailouts and the big stimulus bill,
01:14:21.000when we talk about, you know, 2009, where we started to know each other,
01:14:23.000that is very different from the government stepping in and saying,
01:14:26.000shut down your business. Hey, everybody else, do not go to that business or a church,
01:14:31.000or we will fine you. You prohibit people from making a living. Restitution there
01:14:35.000is not the same as simply paying out businesses that were going to go bankrupt anyway.
01:15:23.000If Bernanke took a steaming dump right in the middle of a Cracker Barrel table, right in the middle of the general store, and then walked away laughing.
01:15:30.000Like, no, no, no, Bernanke, you gotta pay for this.
01:15:32.000You're the one who took the giant steaming crap right here.