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00:01:46.000All right, we have so much to get to today, but yes, we told you about it, you were asking about it.
00:01:51.000Tickets are on sale now at loudearthcratter.com slash tour, the fall tour, with both Dave and I, and these are some big-ass venues because we've had to do two, three shows everywhere else.
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00:03:52.000So we'll be talking today about quite a few things.
00:03:56.000So first off, there's stuff happening with Saudi Arabia.
00:03:58.000I don't know if you know this, we can't produce oil here in the United States, but we'll beg Saudi Arabia for it at the same time while Disney panders to hopefully get Saudi Arabia as one of their markets.
00:04:11.000Yeah, have your, have your splash cards ready.
00:04:13.000And, uh, we'll be talking about, uh, as well, I'm trying to think of what else are we, oh, Ohio teachers are allowed to carry firearms now.
00:07:04.000And just to be clear... Yeah, she's talented.
00:07:06.000Yeah, just to be clear, I mean, she does too much running.
00:07:09.000You know, it's like, ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay- Gotta rub her the right way.
00:07:18.000It doesn't appear there's a wrong way, Christina.
00:07:20.000Take a note from Celine Dion or Carpenter.
00:07:47.000Is there anything else we need to say about that?
00:07:48.000I mean, look, this is, remember they would say, we'd say, look, hold on a second, we just don't want you hyper-sexualizing our community with children.
00:07:54.000Like, oh, why do you think that we're gonna do that?
00:07:57.000Because you were on stage with a 12-inch rubber cock open to all ages?
00:09:26.000Like if I was like seven or eight years old in the crowd as a kid, I would be crying laughing and it's not- that's not something you should see.
00:09:34.000No, also I'd grow up never feeling like a real man because that was a very generous rubber apparatus.
00:09:37.000Well yeah, how are you ever gonna live up to that?
00:09:40.000You're never going to live up to the size of Christina Aguilera's penis.
00:09:48.000Speaking of size, and trust me, we'll get to more serious news in a second, but you know what?
00:09:51.000This does matter because this is how they open the door to then have drag queen story hour for your kids, to then market to your children, to then say that children should transition, and then we get to the point where parents are disallowed from not permitting transition of their children, right?
00:10:06.000And now you have Child Protective Services.
00:11:10.000Or like the sound that no man ever makes when they see Lisa.
00:11:14.000That would be called... So she changed the lyrics to her song Girls after being confronted online and so she walked it back about, and not for the reasons you think, a problematic slur in the song.
00:11:29.000Lizzo is listening and taking action following backlash to the lyrics of her new song Girls.
00:11:34.000The three-time Grammy winner responds to the criticism on Instagram after being called out for including a word that's considered to be an ableist slur.
00:11:43.000She adds, I'm proud to say there's a new version of Girls with a lyric change.
00:11:48.000As an influential artist, I'm dedicated to being part of the change I've been waiting to see in the world.
00:11:53.000Now, here's what's so funny about that trigger warning for all of you who think that you're adults but aren't.
00:11:58.000They try and avoid the slur, so you're sitting like, oh my gosh, what was it?
00:14:00.000She tweeted out, My disability, cerebral palsy, is literally classified as spastic diplegia.
00:14:08.000Your new song makes me pretty angry plus sad.
00:14:11.000And even worse, she followed it up with a tweet that read, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz We're not going to be issuing any retractions where this isn't the Today Show.
00:14:26.000We tried to space it out, but you wouldn't have understood it.
00:15:03.000So Lizzo, she put out a statement saying, it's been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song, girls, no I. I feel dumber just having read it.
00:15:14.000I never want to promote a derogatory language as a fat black woman in America.
00:17:31.000And they'll always compare it to civil rights.
00:17:34.000Just like with gay marriage, they would say, well, are you against interracial marriage?
00:17:36.000Hold on a second, I don't believe that someone who's born with a different shade of skin and has been actually the subject of oppression, of torture, of wrongful treatment, of actually foregoing their civil rights, I don't think that should all be compared to your preference of friction!
00:20:26.000Remember when he tweeted out, turn it up, when Guardians of the Galaxy 2 came out, because the soundtrack was great, or 1, whichever one it was, in the deaf community?
00:20:33.000Like, just went after him and he had to sign an apology.
00:20:37.000I was like, guys, why have you given an inch?
00:20:40.000Like, people, listen, I get it if you don't like it, fine.
00:20:43.000Don't listen to Lizzo's songs, they're not good anyway.
00:21:35.000Here's the thing too, look, remember these were the same people who attacked Christian conservatives for saying, you know what, we just think that kids shouldn't have access to this.
00:21:42.000For example, I actually sat in on a speech from Matt Stone, and he was talking about, he said, actually Christians didn't want to ban South Park, they just didn't want us to be on early in the day, and we agreed with them.
00:21:51.000I remember him then saying, but then when we decided, we mocked.
00:21:54.000Jesus repeatedly, we mock Christians repeatedly, and rightfully so.
00:21:56.000He said we were an equal opportunity offender.
00:21:58.000When we did it with Islam, all of a sudden Comedy Central wouldn't produce it.
00:22:00.000They wouldn't allow us to create this program.
00:22:03.000These people who said that you were hateful for having standards saying, if you don't like it, change the channel, now are telling people That you can't use the word spaz.
00:22:11.000That you can't say a biological man is a man.
00:22:14.000These were the same people who thought that you were just a prude if you thought that people actually having sex on stage and on floats shouldn't be in front of children.
00:22:23.000So it's not the issue of double standards.
00:22:25.000It's the issue of entirely artificially created standards.
00:22:28.000You were blamed for having standards at all.
00:24:28.000Now, not because she's... but because she's advocating that your children be... Now, they want to make sure that your children, by the way, get called into the principal's office if they say, hey, hey, Eric, stop being a spaz.
00:24:38.000But, Lizzo can tell your children to eat whatever they want and all body types are the same.
00:24:45.000They're equal as it relates to health.
00:25:34.000Like, Miss Lizzo, look, I know that you think all bodies are healthy, but you need to lose, you need to lose, uh, you know, about 200 pounds or you're gonna, you're gonna lose your foot.
00:26:58.000So now there have been several countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, who've banned the release of that film, Lightyear, surprise, due to the inclusion of a same-sex kiss.
00:27:08.000Pixar's Lightyear has been banned in the Middle East over a same-sex kiss scene featured in the Toy Story prequel spinoff.
00:27:15.000The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the film is banned in various Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
00:27:22.000The scene in question involving the female character Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba and her partner, was originally cut from the film but reinstated following the uproar surrounding a statement from Pixar employees claiming that Disney had been censoring overtly gay affection and Disney CEO Bob J. Peck's handling of Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:27:41.000The UAE's media regulatory office announced June 13th that the movie, due for release June 16th, was not licensed for public screening due to its quote violation of the country's media content standards.
00:27:54.000First off, who'd have thought the country that doesn't allow women to drive by themselves might have a problem with queer kissing in children's movies?
00:29:03.000So here's what he's saying now about this.
00:29:05.000And keep in mind that the Middle East is not a huge market for Disney, it's not like China.
00:29:10.000And also Chris Evans is there because why?
00:29:12.000Tim Allen was too offensive because, keep in mind, Tim Allen endorsed John Kasich.
00:29:19.000He's the one... I knew that he existed, but now you know John Kasich's fan was Tim Allen.
00:29:25.000So this is not a MAGA ultra-right, as the left wants to label them, you know, conservative.
00:29:30.000Tim Allen was slightly more conservative.
00:29:32.000You won't find anything wildly offensive from Tim Allen, you'll just find him leaning more toward the right, and so he was removed and Chris Evans was put in.
00:29:40.000But now, and you can never please anyone because appeasing crocodiles is futile, Chris Evans had some words to say about the Middle East ban.
00:29:49.000It's great that we are a part of something that's making steps forward in the social inclusion capacity, but it's frustrating that there are still places that aren't where they should be.
00:29:59.000So no condemnation of Islam or Saudi Arabia at all.
00:30:01.000No condemnation of the ideology that would have a problem with homosexuality.
00:30:05.000And by the way, they have the right to have this problem.
00:30:07.000You know what, sometimes I look at it and say, ISIS wasn't all wrong.
00:30:23.000Who knows if you're gonna be thrown off a rooftop.
00:30:26.000The point is, the condemnation isn't... It's frustrating.
00:30:29.000It's frustrating that Christians are being burned alive in cages.
00:30:32.000I know it didn't happen in Saudi Arabia.
00:30:33.000I'm just saying if the outrage matched the intensity of the offense, if you actually wanted to look at Islam, but you don't because they, you know, the most extreme of their ilk blow stuff up.
00:30:43.000So he's had no trouble though when you look at the intensity and ripping into Republican leaders who are obviously more hateful than advocating the death penalty for homosexuals.
00:30:51.000To Lindsey Graham, Chris Evans said, Hey Smithers, remember when you said this?
00:30:55.000You know how you make America great again?
00:31:08.000Wow, hey Republicans, are you listening to this come-to-life toilet spew complete lies about the integrity of our democratic process?
00:31:14.000Hey, hold on a second, that sounds a little bit more passionate than It's kind of frustrating that in Saudi Arabia they murder anyone with a lisp.
00:31:39.000There's a lot, though, in the Arab countries, because I know that from even being in... Of course!
00:31:44.000Because my friends would work at, like, Harmony House and, you know, Sam Goody, and they'd come in and be like, uh, yes, I have a special order for John.
00:32:41.000He doesn't believe what he's saying, or certainly he doesn't have, you know what, he doesn't have the balls that Christina Aguilera has to actually stand up for what it is that he's saying.
00:32:49.000When faced with actual adversity of thought.
00:32:52.000So, by the way, speaking of Saudi Arabia, former Vice President Joe Biden is going to be visiting the, I use the term kingdom, I use it, I use it ironically.
00:33:04.000He's gonna be visiting the kingdom next month to beg for oil.
00:33:09.000Now, keep in mind that Saudi Arabia, again, the place that kills gay people, the place that, you know, doesn't have equal rights for women, and they always try and trot this out, like, well, we have plenty of female representatives in our- okay, sure, can they drive?
00:33:19.000They also kill reporters that are critical of the regime.
00:33:26.000Well, yeah, but that's not as bad as Donald Trump saying that, you know, fake news.
00:33:30.000How much money do you want to bet that Chris Evans is like, I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal?
00:34:16.000Wouldn't it be better for us to, I don't know, let's even take an extreme example.
00:34:20.000Hey, wouldn't it be better to get oil even from West Virginia around all those crazy conservative rednecks?
00:34:26.000Wouldn't you still rather get oil from there than the place that forces gays to be professional crash test dummies in Saudi Arabia?
00:34:33.000Wouldn't you just, I'm just saying, let's take the most extreme area of the right here in this country.
00:34:39.000Are they advocating for the execution of all gays, by the way, without an actual judicial system?
00:34:45.000So during his campaign, though, back then, former Vice President Joe Biden made a promise to render Saudi Arabia effectively a pariah.
00:34:53.000He said, we're going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.
00:34:58.000There's very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.
00:35:02.000Now he's calling them an important partner, saying the United States must engage to advance its interests, including trying to bring stability and peace to the Middle East.
00:35:13.000Do you think after that first quote, they're like, uh, sir, that's where we get all our oil?
00:35:39.000When do you ever stand- the only stand up for your morals, the left, when you're standing up against someone who's not going to fight back, and unfortunately that is Republicans, that is conservatives, but I also mean that they're just- they're not actually calling for execution, for all of this misinformation or all of this grandstanding that Donald Trump was a fascist and his supporters want us- typically fascists don't want you to have more access to guns and lower your taxes, just to be clear.
00:36:02.000They're not typically ardent defenders of the First Amendment, just to be clear.
00:36:13.000Disney is just allowing Chris Evans to sort of, you know, issue this milquetoast response because they don't make any money in the Middle East.
00:36:20.000So like, all right, we'll allow, just say you're frustrated.
00:36:24.000Whereas Biden, of course, stands to make a lot of money and he's trying to rescue his presidency, former vice presidency, from, you know, the jaws of hell.
00:37:46.000Not because I've said we don't need to do our own And just to be clear, before people try and fact check us, they'll say, well, actually, we're tapping into more reserves now than, okay, yeah, sure, I understand what you're talking about right now, but it doesn't actually compare to what leases would have been made available.
00:37:57.000And by the way, it's an incredibly speculative market.
00:37:59.000People say that the President doesn't control gas prices.
00:38:02.000I understand that it's more complicated than that.
00:38:04.000But when you are dealing with a market that is highly speculative, The rhetoric of someone saying, we are going to shut down oil and gas.
00:38:11.000The rhetoric of someone saying, hey, I am anti-oil.
00:38:14.000You watch, I'm going to end fossil fuel companies.
00:38:17.000The rhetoric of someone saying, we need to transition to technology, green technology that isn't quite there yet, right?
00:38:22.000And then not to mention putting a moratorium on new drilling.
00:38:45.000You could change the price of gas tomorrow with a few key statements and maybe a fraction of the executive orders that he signed going the other direction.
00:39:00.000You say we are going to use every single possible resource that we can so that if something like Russia invading Ukraine, who could have predicted that, If that happens, we won't be dependent on OPEC.
00:44:59.000The more I think about it, the more I passionately defend the idea of teachers being able to carry firearms, teachers who are qualified, teachers who want to.
00:45:09.000I don't believe in forcing any teachers to carry firearms.
00:45:13.000But I thought about it and said, yeah, it seems pretty reasonable.
00:45:14.000Now I think it's actually the only reasonable first step at this point.
00:45:19.000When people say, oh, you think they're going to be more effective than the cops?
00:45:23.000How many more stories do you need of people who aren't cops being more effective than the cops?
00:45:28.000You know what's more effective than the cops?
00:46:25.000So teachers sure could carry firearms, but they had to undergo the same Minimum training that it takes to be a police officer.
00:46:32.000Here's from the Ohio Supreme Court ruling.
00:46:34.000It was no public or private educational institution shall employ a person in which such person goes armed while on duty who has not received a certificate of having satisfactorily completed an approved basic peace officer training program unless the person has completed 20 years of active duty.
00:47:32.000And then they try and paint my point of view, your point of view, right?
00:47:36.000Here's their claim now that they're making.
00:47:38.000The claim that they just made this morning on CNN, and I didn't have time to read the bill in full, so I was listening to CNN and right away my BS meter went up, and I'll give you the truth right after.
00:47:47.000They say that this law does not set a new minimum, which used to be 700 hours, of range training for teachers.
00:48:02.000Well, 24 hours maximum training on this bill and what it doesn't set a minimum.
00:48:09.000So it could be as little as four hours of training that we're seeing in this bill.
00:48:13.000And it doesn't talk about how long you spend at the range.
00:48:16.000What is the minimum amount of time that, say, a teacher who might be armed could end up spending at the range to get their qualification for this, as you see it?
00:48:29.000Yeah, I mean, it doesn't really say in the bill.
00:48:31.000I mean, what it talks about is four hours of training and scenario-based Incidents.
00:49:40.000And apparently the fact checkers looking out for you and the ones who YouTube and Facebook and Twitter use to label misinformation haven't read the godforsaken bill.
00:50:08.000This is where we should find common ground, right?
00:50:10.000When people say, well, you should have to have some kind of training.
00:50:13.000First off, you shouldn't have to have training to carry a firearm yourself.
00:50:16.000To have a firearm yourself, to own a firearm.
00:50:17.000I know people don't like that, but the fact that you have the right to keep and bear arms, it doesn't say after a minimum course.
00:50:22.000But I do understand that with teachers in those scenarios, I understand that it's a different situation contextually, but when they say there should be some kind of training, 20 hours?
00:51:13.000So, even the governor of Ohio, he said what this... I hope it's bigger this time.
00:51:19.000He said what this legislature has done, I've done by signing it, is giving schools an option based on their particular circumstances to make the best decision they can with the best information that they have.
00:52:09.000And if you do that, if you claim that number, where's the substantiation that there's a big difference in the number of someone safely operating a firearm between 20 hours and 30 hours?
00:52:48.000If 20 is so offensive that you lie about it and say there is no minimum on CNN, the most trusted name in news, said James Earl Jones, then give me a number.
00:52:57.000They won't do it, but there's also an alarming trend because this ruling is not saying that every school district has to allow this.
00:53:03.000This is basically what he said in his quote is, I gave them the option to do that.
00:53:08.000In Cleveland, they actually said, and by the way, Cleveland, I wouldn't lead the way on this.
00:53:13.000They said, we're not going to allow any of our teachers to carry any firearms.
00:53:16.000Can you imagine, like play this scenario out and God forbid if this happens, I hope it doesn't.
00:53:21.000Some cities say yes, they arm their teachers, they never experience an issue.
00:53:24.000If they experience an issue, they're able to take care of it and protect their children.
00:53:28.000Other cities say no, we're never going to allow somebody to be armed on our campus who is not a police officer, and a situation happens and you can't get that back.
00:53:37.000Do you think Uvalde would have loved to have had teachers on campus with guns during that?
00:54:04.000A lot of people don't understand that.
00:54:05.000But then you also get to the point, these people claim that teachers are the true heroes, and obviously the police are evil, defund the police.
00:54:11.000By the way, what, you think that teachers Do you think the true heroes are going to be as capable as the evil racist police force we've been vilifying for years?
00:54:25.000I don't think that either of those characterizations are true.
00:54:27.000It's a generalization that I don't agree with on either side.
00:54:30.000But maybe the same teachers who more effectively evacuated students and protected them at Uvalde would have been more effective than the police who did nothing.
00:54:42.000And it's not because all of these policemen are bad people or cowards.
00:54:46.000It's because they had a chief who said, do nothing.
00:54:50.000They heard students getting massacred and did nothing.
00:54:53.000And there were teachers there who were not allowed to have firearms, who were evacuating and bringing other children to safety.
00:54:59.000Oh, and by the way, it was an off-duty patrol agent, border patrol agent, who came in with a gun that he borrowed from a barber who stopped the shooter.
00:55:05.000So, yeah, yeah, I tend to think that maybe some teachers could be more effective than some police officers.
00:55:12.000But, you know, that's just me looking at statistics and the actual situations that we've just faced, which are the catalysts for these laws.
00:55:19.000So, something else, by the way, thank you, Ohio, for moving in the right direction, and congratulations to the 155—we have 155,000 people just in the state of Ohio.
00:55:54.000So we're not forcing anybody to carry firearms.
00:55:57.000And by the way, I don't know if you know this, but concealed carry holders, it's the single most law-abiding demographic that we've studied.
00:56:04.000They commit fewer crimes than off-duty police officers.
00:56:09.000This is the most law-abiding demographic that we have studied to date.
00:56:14.000So yeah, I think allowing these people to carry in a place where, obviously, there's a gun-free zone and people are sitting ducks, I think allowing the people who've already displayed a responsible proclivity to carrying firearms outside of there, I don't know why their rights go away.
00:56:51.000Because I'm going to go into a two-hour completely unrelated side story here about the time I was at a gas pump, and it's like, please, just shut up.
00:57:17.000And we're going to go here to Mug Club.
00:57:19.000By the way, hit that like button, hit the share button, and Dave is going to be this Friday in Grand Junction, Colorado, just to let you know.
00:57:26.000We're both there Saturday in Colorado Springs.
00:57:29.000It's sold out, but I think we put a hold on like 150 or 200 tickets, so if you're there, you can walk up because we still want you to have the opportunity.