Louder with Crowder - #204 TRANS TROOP BAN, OH NO!! Blaire White and Alex Epstein | Louder With Crowder

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00:02:37.000 Edward, wish you were doing his job instead of putting up signs.

00:02:37.000 Hey, sound guy.

00:02:39.000 Hey, produce with me in video studio as always.

00:02:41.000 It's Jared, who is not gay.

00:02:42.000 Follow him on Twitter at notgayjared, me at scrowder.

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00:02:50.000 I'm good enough.

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00:02:55.000 Staglin, Booth, Bella Oaks, Cabernet, and a big middle finger! 0.99

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00:02:58.000 Maybe you can join the military now. 0.99

00:03:00.000 Hey, so we have a lot to get to.

00:03:01.000 We have Blair White as a guest today. 0.93

00:03:03.000 We have Alex Epstein.

00:03:04.000 Why?

00:03:05.000 Tranny's in the military, and we also have Inconvenient Truth coming out.

00:03:09.000 Two, Inconvenient Truth, the sequel.

00:03:11.000 I hate all the things.

00:03:12.000 So this is a rough week.

00:03:14.000 We will get to, a little bit down the line here, rights versus commodities in the wake of the healthcare vote.

00:03:20.000 Ah.

00:03:21.000 Vice President Mike Pence broke a tie.

00:03:23.000 Those are synonyms, right?

00:03:25.000 Synonyms.

00:03:26.000 Anything that I want, hint, that's not a right.

00:03:28.000 And we'd love for you to send along what you think should be a right versus what is a...

00:03:32.000 What are synonyms?

00:03:33.000 Can I get through just the intro?

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00:03:35.000 All right.

00:03:36.000 We'll also...

00:03:38.000 Okay.

00:03:39.000 A lot has happened this week.

00:03:40.000 Go watch the show if you're not a Mug Club member. 1.00

00:03:42.000 Otherwise, you're a cheap bastard. 1.00

00:03:43.000 But big thing that everyone is still talking about, President Trump reversed the Obama decision on transgenders in the military. 1.00

00:03:51.000 So, of course, everyone is outraged about this.

00:03:53.000 Of course.

00:03:54.000 Do you even follow this?

00:03:55.000 We'll talk about it with Blair White.

00:03:57.000 He just tweeted it out.

00:03:59.000 I think he caught some people by surprise.

00:04:00.000 When he just tweeted it out.

00:04:01.000 Yeah, when he did.

00:04:02.000 It may not be the best idea.

00:04:03.000 Okay, Jared, no opinions?

00:04:04.000 No opinions.

00:04:05.000 I just don't understand why he has to announce everything on Twitter.

00:04:07.000 I feel like he's kind of overstepped possibly the purpose of Twitter.

00:04:11.000 I get the idea of bypassing media, but like...

00:04:14.000 Some things maybe could use, like, a formal letter.

00:04:17.000 Yeah, some things could use a second draft.

00:04:18.000 Yeah.

00:04:19.000 And listen, there's a lot to, I understand, that there are different sides to this issue.

00:04:24.000 It's not just an issue that requires one blanket statement.

00:04:27.000 Especially, but I can understand, when you're dealing with a suicide rate, when you're dealing with the issue that obviously plagued the transgender community, you can get into the nature and nurture arguments, but they won't be allowed in the United States military. 1.00

00:04:37.000 In other news, the ISIS suicide bombing brigade wants you to know that they're open-minded and hiring.

00:04:45.000 There's a place to go.

00:04:47.000 Some real dark humor starts the show.

00:04:48.000 Sadistic joke right off the top.

00:04:49.000 Yeah, real sadistic. 0.98

00:04:50.000 Suicide joke. 0.78

00:04:52.000 Blair's going to be thrilled.

00:04:53.000 Now, here's something that people don't realize.

00:04:54.000 We'll talk about this next week more.

00:04:56.000 Sven Computer, one of our interns, talked about this.

00:04:57.000 In Germany, there's affirmative action, effectively, in the military for more sexual diversity.

00:05:03.000 Among the troops in their hiring.

00:05:05.000 Also, they're hiring more disabled people, but they're going out of their way to find more transgenders.

00:05:11.000 What could go wrong?

00:05:12.000 This is the issue when you deal with the identity politics that becomes a problem.

00:05:15.000 The slippery slope argument is a perfectly valid argument, and this doesn't really come as a surprise, though, if you've been following the rhetoric, the heated rhetoric of Germany's newest fuhrer. 0.84

00:05:24.000 And I tell you, great citizens of Germany, as our country rises like a phoenix from the ashes, we shall be a lesson to all of Europe as we come into our own as a new nation, reborn of great economic, military, and above all else, progressive might!

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00:05:46.000 Baby Hitler needs his strength. 0.98

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00:05:49.000 Well, I shouldn't have been surprised.

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00:05:59.000 Ben and Jerry now face a boycott.

00:06:02.000 Well, the threat of a boycott.

00:06:04.000 I love how that's how lazy we've gotten.

00:06:06.000 Rather than do something, we're just going to do a boycott.

00:06:10.000 And then when people didn't want to do a boycott because they liked things, we're going to do a...

00:06:14.000 Can I do a boycott?

00:06:16.000 And now they're threatening boycotts, but they're threatening Benatarians with a boycott because a new study uncovered that a major ingredient in herbicide, weed killers, was a 9 out of 10 of their ice cream.

00:06:29.000 But it was below EPA levels, I guess.

00:06:34.000 Which makes you wonder what the EPA levels are.

00:06:36.000 Yeah, well, I don't really care.

00:06:39.000 If it still tastes good and it's not going to kill me, I'm good.

00:06:41.000 I don't even like ice cream, but I make an exception for going...

00:06:44.000 I will tell you what, yeah, I will never do the Ben and Jerry's Boycott.

00:06:47.000 No.

00:06:47.000 It's one of those things, listen, I can't go with you there.

00:06:49.000 Target, I can.

00:06:50.000 They kick out Salvation Army Santa, so I can get that stuff at Walmart, but there's just only one place to get ice cream that has happened.

00:06:57.000 And if you try and say Brahms, no.

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00:07:01.000 Bluebell.

00:07:01.000 They've been under question though for...

00:07:03.000 Yeah, yeah.

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00:07:08.000 I'll take some...

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00:07:09.000 You blend them together.

00:07:10.000 It's great.

00:07:10.000 I'll take GMOs over just death.

00:07:14.000 It's like the angel of death.

00:07:15.000 That's what Listeria is. 0.95

00:07:16.000 It's horrible.

00:07:17.000 Like three times with Bluebell.

00:07:18.000 Yeah.

00:07:19.000 We'll just get a letter from the lawyers.

00:07:20.000 Sorry.

00:07:20.000 So there's been accusations for a long time I've been in Jerry's with the GMOs.

00:07:24.000 This isn't a first time for kind of a granola company.

00:07:26.000 And the tests were actually prompted, a lot of people won't realize this, of the products upon the release of a few new flavors, which, looking back, could have been suspicious.

00:07:36.000 Monsanto Mania and Run DDT. It almost seems like that was a canary in the coal mine.

00:07:42.000 That's bad marketing.

00:07:44.000 Sometimes you gotta really just check the labels on the shelf, folks.

00:07:47.000 It's like that Skullcap from Walmart again, you know?

00:07:50.000 Yeah, I'll put that back on the shelf.

00:07:52.000 I don't want to harm any birds' eggs.

00:07:54.000 So, okay, we're going to talk with Blair White about the transgender issue in the military.

00:07:59.000 This is something that I think is important that ties in because what we're talking about today with transgenders in the military is not at all the same conversation that we had yesterday or tomorrow.

00:08:07.000 The changing rulebook.

00:08:08.000 And a perfect example is this was on The View.

00:08:10.000 One of their hosts went and had an LGBTQAIP panel to prove how beautiful and how we should all be open-minded to the developing community and that these folks are people to be...

00:08:25.000 It's the opposite of that.

00:08:26.000 Roll the clip.

00:08:26.000 I mean, when I first came out to my mom, I came out to her as a lesbian originally when I was like in 11th grade.

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00:08:36.000 And then she was like, oh, so you can be with men then?

00:08:39.000 And I'm like, yeah, but I don't like men romantically.

00:08:43.000 So like, sorry, mom.

00:08:44.000 I took pleasure in disappointing you, mother.

00:08:48.000 But you can't be with men romantically?

00:08:51.000 But does that mean just men sexually?

00:08:52.000 Yeah.

00:08:54.000 Okay, so...

00:08:56.000 Look at this guy.

00:08:56.000 He's like, I got this.

00:08:57.000 Let me explain it as though he understands.

00:08:58.000 So I identify as pansexual homoromantic?

00:09:00.000 First of all, do you all...

00:09:02.000 Now, do you all... 0.99

00:09:04.000 Pansexual homoromantic. 0.56

00:09:07.000 Do you all understand this?

00:09:08.000 Here's the part where they all lie.

00:09:11.000 Okay, so basically it means I like men sexually, right?

00:09:15.000 But I don't like men romantically. 0.99

00:09:18.000 You're a user!

00:09:19.000 This is a great, this is horrible! 1.00

00:09:21.000 Can you imagine if a guy said, you know, I just like, I like bitches for sex. 1.00

00:09:25.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:09:26.000 That's about it. 0.99

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00:09:29.000 This is a horrible, this is a horrible human being. 0.98

00:09:32.000 And this is the kind of hypocrisy that we allow to slip by. 1.00

00:09:36.000 It would be the most horrifying statement on television, would have millions of plays on YouTube, if a guy just flat out, it would be hilarious, but if a guy just flat out said, I only like women for sex! 0.98

00:09:45.000 I don't want to buy them flowers for dinner. 1.00

00:09:46.000 I just want to have sex with them. 1.00

00:09:48.000 But they're like, oh, wow, this is beautiful. 1.00

00:09:50.000 It's all different kinds of love.

00:09:51.000 And here's the deal.

00:09:52.000 People will say, why are you picking on the fat land whales? 0.99

00:09:54.000 Well, listen, I know we're supposed to feel bad for her here because she's fat and she's ugly, right? 1.00

00:09:58.000 But first off, half of those are choices, let's be clear. 0.98

00:10:01.000 But here's the deal.

00:10:03.000 They were maybe bullied at some point.

00:10:04.000 I understand that.

00:10:05.000 But we are not bullying people when they are trying to determine exactly how we can speak and what we can think.

00:10:11.000 That's the point to this panel.

00:10:12.000 Guess what?

00:10:13.000 We're no longer bullying when you just got done objectifying men saying that they were nothing more than a hump stick. 1.00

00:10:19.000 You're a bad person. 0.96

00:10:21.000 Also, here's something else that I find funny. 0.99

00:10:22.000 When I think of discrimination or prejudice, I think of the world that doesn't understand people and judges.

00:10:30.000 But what I've learned is that some of the harshest critics of these identities and pronouns are the LGBTQ plus community.

00:10:41.000 Is that an accurate statement?

00:10:44.000 Most definitely.

00:10:45.000 Now, it's funny, we used to be accused of strawmanning when we'd write down LGBTQAIP, and then we'd just start writing LGBTQ+. Yeah, it's possibly 5RT, negative, silent Z. A silent Q somewhere in there. 0.56

00:10:57.000 So we were accused of strawmanning, and even here it has become so wide, the umbrella term here.

00:11:01.000 There's LGBTQAIP, there's LGBTQAIP. Q can mean queer.

00:11:06.000 Sometimes there's two Qs because it can mean queer and questioning. 0.97

00:11:08.000 I've seen it a multitude of different ways.

00:11:09.000 Yeah.

00:11:09.000 I'm not making it up.

00:11:10.000 Asexual, intersex, asexual. 0.86

00:11:12.000 Asexual, intersex, allies, queer, or questioning, depending, pansexual.

00:11:16.000 It is exhausting.

00:11:18.000 No, these are all actual things.

00:11:22.000 And here you even just see them trying to cover themselves.

00:11:24.000 Listen, I know some people out there, you always get some smart ass in the comment section.

00:11:26.000 Keep commenting.

00:11:27.000 I want to see your comments below.

00:11:28.000 If you think this is as important as I do, because a lot of people will say, well, look, we're talking about a budget.

00:11:34.000 There's a budget about to be passed, and you're talking about a case.

00:11:37.000 You know why?

00:11:38.000 Because this is a fundamental attempt at a re-transformation of society.

00:11:42.000 This, in tandem with...

00:11:44.000 ABC, NBC, CBS, every single mainstream newspaper, Take Late Night, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Conor, every single person, when they're trying to push this agenda, which completely breaks down the barriers of biology and even, yeah, heteronormative tradition, which has been the bedrock of society since the beginning of time, I think it's important.

00:12:04.000 I think culture is upstream from politics, and that's why we're talking about it.

00:12:08.000 Here's something else funny.

00:12:09.000 When you're queer, it almost becomes like a second nature to spot like, okay, who is safe and who is not? 0.98

00:12:15.000 Because when I walk down the street and I see other feminine people with shaved heads, we immediately make eye contact. 1.00

00:12:21.000 I'm like, I know exactly what is up with you.

00:12:22.000 I got you.

00:12:23.000 If anything happens, I'm right behind you.

00:12:27.000 Call it a, your guess is as good as mine's, intuition.

00:12:30.000 No, sweetheart.

00:12:31.000 When somebody else is walking down the street with purple lipstick and looks like the girlfriend from American History X, that's not second nature.

00:12:37.000 That's just using your eyes.

00:12:38.000 I know you.

00:12:39.000 I got you.

00:12:40.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:12:41.000 Aren't you just, what do you mean?

00:12:42.000 You're right behind them.

00:12:42.000 Well, you're going to be right, if they're a man, right behind them with a strap on to peg them because that's all they're good for?

00:12:47.000 This is a bad person. 0.98

00:12:48.000 This is a person who happens to be ugly and fat, so you want to feel bad for them. 0.99

00:12:51.000 But this is a bad person who uses people, also has very little to offer intellectually. 0.97

00:12:56.000 You need to understand what intuit, what a second, what did she say?

00:13:00.000 Sixth sense.

00:13:01.000 Sixth sense.

00:13:02.000 I don't know what it is, but anyway, let's continue.

00:13:05.000 Can we go back to the hypotheticals?

00:13:06.000 Can you go back to hitting on me and trying to tell me you love everyone?

00:13:08.000 So if I told you I was a bisexual, would that change something for you? 0.64

00:13:15.000 I'd want a negative HIV test first.

00:13:18.000 I am very open to a woman who says she's bisexual.

00:13:20.000 I'm like, oh, I get it. 0.88

00:13:21.000 When a man says that, I'm like, so you're gay.

00:13:27.000 It's my own hang-up, and I know it's a double standard, but I don't know why my brain goes there.

00:13:32.000 I think that just all comes back to toxic masculinity.

00:13:36.000 You have to be very masculine, very aggressive.

00:13:40.000 And this is why it matters.

00:13:41.000 It's blame it on toxic masculinity, which is a huge irony because the left likes to blame, this includes feminist, LGBTQ, AIP, social justice warriors, and the mainstream platform, including Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton of the DNC. They blame things on toxic masculinity while perpetually trying to make men out to be toxic.

00:14:00.000 Yes.

00:14:00.000 Being demonized men.

00:14:01.000 You know, toxic masculinity. 0.76

00:14:02.000 What do they mean by that?

00:14:03.000 We'll do a whole, I think, in-depth video because we expect men to be masculine, yes.

00:14:07.000 We expect them to be aggressive.

00:14:09.000 No, that's incorrect.

00:14:09.000 But when people like this who are perpetual victims see any kind of man who is authoritative, a man who knows what he wants, a man who is able to make decisions, a man who can lead, they see that as aggressive.

00:14:20.000 Well, we need to define words like aggressive, and they just file that all under toxic masculinity.

00:14:25.000 By the way, no, if you want to talk about, there is one aspect of masculinity in society that's probably become toxic.

00:14:29.000 It's the pickup culture of tweeting women, well, tweeting women sometimes, teaching women and treating women. 1.00

00:14:36.000 There, that was the word I was looking for. 0.96

00:14:38.000 Anthony Weiner, he's tweeting women, but treating women as though they're nothing more than sex objects, which is what Little Mrs. 0.98

00:14:43.000 American History X is a purple lipstick. 0.98

00:14:45.000 Yeah, she is the only toxically masculine archetype there. 1.00

00:14:50.000 Oh, my God.

00:14:51.000 Which is the irony of the entire panel.

00:14:54.000 Alright, so anyway, they go back to the view.

00:14:56.000 We'll talk about this with Blair White.

00:14:57.000 I just thought it was a perfect date.

00:14:58.000 They go back to the view on the, what do you call it?

00:15:01.000 Panel.

00:15:02.000 Yeah, this is on location.

00:15:03.000 This is their package.

00:15:04.000 They added it, brought it back in.

00:15:05.000 Can't say that.

00:15:06.000 They're going to do it here with the panel.

00:15:07.000 And this is the part of the show where the black progressive hosts realize that they are not as progressive as they thought they were, and they're very confused. 0.89

00:15:16.000 I'm very confused.

00:15:19.000 I'm very confused.

00:15:21.000 I don't understand the woman that said, I'm bisexual.

00:15:27.000 This gets so bad.

00:15:28.000 No, I'm pansexual.

00:15:30.000 She's not a woman. 1.00

00:15:31.000 It's they.

00:15:32.000 She actually doesn't identify with a gender.

00:15:36.000 Well you just said she. 1.00

00:15:37.000 I got your back you psychopath. 0.99

00:15:40.000 But she talked about men and women in those terms though. 0.99

00:15:44.000 Because that's the only way she can explain her sexual attraction.

00:15:49.000 - It's confusing. - It's confusing. - Not confusing!

00:15:51.000 - Ah! Ah! Ah!

00:15:54.000 Ah! - So put it on her, you kid. 0.82

00:15:56.000 There's no way she is trying to be the most helpful.

00:15:58.000 Listen, I got...

00:15:59.000 She literally looks... 0.92

00:16:00.000 It goes from, hey, hey, virtue signal to, hey, no, it's not she, it's they, because she doesn't like to be called... 0.64

00:16:07.000 Using she, and then goes... 0.90

00:16:09.000 I got your back!

00:16:11.000 Then someone else says, no!

00:16:12.000 I hate all the things!

00:16:13.000 That's offensive!

00:16:14.000 I can't believe you would do this!

00:16:16.000 She apologizes! 1.00

00:16:17.000 You know, oh my gosh, I did, I just, I said I got, but I meant to say they!

00:16:22.000 It's like a Simon Says toy from hell!

00:16:24.000 At some point, it's just, hey, you know, what are your preferred gender pronouns? 1.00

00:16:30.000 F*** you, that's your pronouns! 1.00

00:16:33.000 Okay? 1.00

00:16:33.000 You changed it eight times within a span of this video package! 1.00

00:16:38.000 It wasn't even the show that was the view!

00:16:41.000 It was the video package!

00:16:43.000 They changed their opinions on what they want to be called, and this is why it's okay to make fun of them.

00:16:49.000 It doesn't matter how unattractive they are.

00:16:52.000 It doesn't matter how much they were bullied because at some point we all become adults.

00:16:56.000 And now they want to bully everyone.

00:16:58.000 That was bullying right there.

00:16:59.000 You can't say this.

00:17:00.000 You have to say that.

00:17:01.000 Then someone goes, you can't say that.

00:17:02.000 No, you can't say that.

00:17:04.000 It gets worse from there.

00:17:07.000 Oh, that's awesome.

00:17:08.000 And you wonder why we have a problem with this?

00:17:10.000 Really?

00:17:11.000 If you look like a guy, I'm calling you a guy. 1.00

00:17:13.000 If you look like a girl, I'm calling you a girl. 1.00

00:17:14.000 Deal with it!

00:17:14.000 Sorry!

00:17:15.000 Even if we don't simplify it that much, it is so exhausting.

00:17:20.000 Could you picture this on the battlefield?

00:17:23.000 On the front line?

00:17:24.000 Sir, no.

00:17:26.000 Seal Team 6.

00:17:27.000 Alright, he has a clear shot.

00:17:28.000 I prefer Z. Alright, sorry.

00:17:30.000 What does Z mean?

00:17:31.000 It's gender neutral and Bin Laden got away. 0.85

00:17:33.000 Take him out.

00:17:33.000 How do you know he identifies as a he?

00:17:36.000 And this is the thing.

00:17:37.000 It's the ever-changing language, and it is used as the ultimate bully pulpit.

00:17:41.000 And all great, you know, authoritarian regimes have done that throughout history.

00:17:44.000 I'm not comparing Little Miss American History X redux there to Hitler.

00:17:48.000 I'm not.

00:17:49.000 What I'm saying is that every authoritarian regime has used language first and foremost as its most effective political weapon.

00:17:55.000 Yep.

00:17:55.000 And that's why I wanted to do this segment.

00:17:57.000 Because in the wake of the healthcare, the dust stop, see?

00:18:01.000 The dust stop.

00:18:02.000 This week with Pence coming in, it was 51 to 50, and there's a facial emotion. 0.86

00:18:06.000 Kill the bill. 1.00

00:18:06.000 Kill us. 1.00

00:18:07.000 As this was done on the Senate floor, people came in and screamed out, kill the bill, don't kill us. 0.88

00:18:12.000 And this is, again, why language matters so much.

00:18:15.000 So let me ask you this, since you guys seem to have two-syllable phrases today.

00:18:19.000 What does that mean?

00:18:22.000 When someone says, don't kill us, what does that assume? 0.97

00:18:24.000 That assumes that if it goes through, it's going to kill them. 0.66

00:18:27.000 Thanks for the insight. 0.96

00:18:28.000 No, no.

00:18:30.000 A very literal translation.

00:18:31.000 What it means is that someone is responsible for...

00:18:33.000 How is someone responsible for killing you?

00:18:35.000 It must mean they are proactively taking an action to kill you.

00:18:38.000 Oh, you wanted the existential answer.

00:18:39.000 So it assumes, yes...

00:18:43.000 It assumes that healthcare paid for by other people is a right.

00:18:48.000 And this is what's so ironic.

00:18:49.000 The left doesn't care about the rights of people who were paying for their own healthcare beforehand.

00:18:52.000 They only care about the other big giant voting bloc of non-contributors who weren't paying for healthcare.

00:18:58.000 My dad's a cancer survivor.

00:19:01.000 He couldn't afford his health care.

00:19:04.000 He needs not Obamacare.

00:19:06.000 He needs the opposite of that.

00:19:08.000 So when we say, you're killing me because you're not creating legislation or maintaining legislation that favors me, it assumes what, like Bernie Sanders always says, that it's a human right.

00:19:18.000 Health care.

00:19:19.000 So I think it's an important distinction to make.

00:19:22.000 And this is why the left cannot come to agreements.

00:19:24.000 This is where we can't find common ground.

00:19:26.000 We can't see eye to eye if we're not even starting with the same premise as to what a right is.

00:19:31.000 And we'll go through a few examples.

00:19:32.000 And I would like to see your comments here on YouTube or send us your tweets at escrowder, at notkjared, with what you think are actual rights versus commodities.

00:19:44.000 Understanding the difference.

00:19:45.000 So what is a right?

00:19:47.000 Let's define this first.

00:19:48.000 It's a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral, according to dictionary.com.

00:19:54.000 Now, in the USA, the beauty of that is it's prescribed by the Constitution.

00:19:58.000 So we'll say, well, how is it...

00:19:59.000 It's legal prescriptive, so it can be different, but human rights, they're based in natural rights.

00:20:03.000 In the USA, they're prescribed clearly in the Constitution.

00:20:06.000 Okay, what's a commodity?

00:20:07.000 Now, to clarify, I know some people say a commodity tends to be a raw sort of resource, like iron ore or gold.

00:20:11.000 We're using a broader definition here, the economic commodities.

00:20:14.000 Okay, economic commodities and services.

00:20:16.000 In economics, a commodity is a marketable item produced to satisfy wants or needs, and it can comprise of either goods or services.

00:20:23.000 All right?

00:20:24.000 Marley is dead to begin with.

00:20:25.000 Pretty good.

00:20:25.000 Do you understand her?

00:20:26.000 I think we're good.

00:20:26.000 So this is where I think we have some disconnects.

00:20:29.000 Let's go through some examples of things that people assume are rights.

00:20:33.000 Human right to health care.

00:20:35.000 Health care.

00:20:36.000 Okay.

00:20:37.000 What's your right?

00:20:38.000 You have the right to take any legal measures you deem necessary to ensure your own personal health.

00:20:42.000 That includes access, ability to purchase services of your choosing.

00:20:45.000 No one should be able to impede you from seeking the healthiest life possible.

00:20:49.000 There you go.

00:20:50.000 What's a commodity?

00:20:51.000 Well, a drug.

00:20:53.000 A treatment or services created at the risk or investment of a business owner, like health insurance programs based around the concept of an aggregated risk pool balanced with offsetting costs and premiums or deductibles.

00:21:03.000 The average annual cost of health care is about 10,000, I think, something, 10,000 something dollars.

00:21:09.000 I don't have the stat in front of me.

00:21:10.000 That's a commodity.

00:21:12.000 Hey, I have a right to health.

00:21:13.000 Sure, you have a right to be healthy.

00:21:15.000 I have a right to your Advil.

00:21:17.000 No, you have to pay for Advil.

00:21:18.000 Why?

00:21:19.000 Because someone paid to create that Advil. 0.96

00:21:21.000 That's a commodity.

00:21:23.000 We need to understand what rights actually guarantee.

00:21:25.000 And there's a fundamental difference, and we'll get to some of the rights that conservatives fight for in a bit.

00:21:30.000 But education, that's declared a right often from the left.

00:21:32.000 Okay, what's your right?

00:21:33.000 Sure you have a right to educate yourself.

00:21:35.000 I think we can all agree on that.

00:21:36.000 To learn, to be unimpeded in pursuing your higher education thereof, or your personal education.

00:21:40.000 That's your right.

00:21:42.000 But what would be a commodity?

00:21:44.000 A degree, maybe, from a university whose cost is determined based on a quality of teaching, track record of a graduate, their viabilities, the flexibility of the services offered by the school.

00:21:53.000 The average annual cost in public state college is somewhere around $25,000.

00:21:57.000 I think a private college is close to $50,000.

00:21:59.000 So, again, that costs somebody something.

00:22:03.000 It cost the professor.

00:22:04.000 He had to get a degree.

00:22:05.000 He had to get training to become highly specialized to teach at Harvard.

00:22:08.000 You have a right to educate yourself.

00:22:10.000 Go to the library.

00:22:11.000 Read on the internet.

00:22:13.000 Use Bing if you want.

00:22:14.000 Whatever your preference is, you don't have a right to force somebody else to teach you for free.

00:22:19.000 Right?

00:22:19.000 Commodity.

00:22:20.000 Okay, let's go to internet.

00:22:20.000 We just had Thomas Hazlitt to talk about net neutrality, so this one seems to be confusing to people.

00:22:25.000 Let's go through remedial.

00:22:26.000 You have the right, sure, with the internet to be unimpeded in the purchase of internet access, and I would even say including protection from dishonest inhibitory actions from an internet service provider.

00:22:36.000 Good thing is, those are already protected.

00:22:38.000 We have these with monopoly laws in the government right now.

00:22:41.000 So, that would be your right to go get the internet that you want, the internet plan that you want.

00:22:45.000 That is your right.

00:22:46.000 What's a commodity?

00:22:47.000 The internet or broadband access packages themselves.

00:22:51.000 Now, a key term in economics is excludable.

00:22:53.000 That means non-paying consumers can't access it, and rivalrous means that additional consumers increase the cost significantly.

00:22:58.000 That's why net neutrality matters.

00:23:00.000 These terms, excludable, rivalrous, tend to reoccur when it comes to dealing with commodities.

00:23:05.000 You mean I don't get HBO for free?

00:23:07.000 Yeah, you don't get on there for free.

00:23:08.000 You don't get HBO Go for free.

00:23:09.000 Is everyone tracking any questions?

00:23:11.000 I'm tracking.

00:23:12.000 It's pretty clear.

00:23:14.000 Contraceptives.

00:23:14.000 This is a new one, but contraceptives.

00:23:16.000 It's a right, right?

00:23:16.000 It's a human right.

00:23:17.000 Contraceptives.

00:23:17.000 Okay, well, let's even go with this.

00:23:19.000 You have the right to access and purchase any contraceptives of your choosing.

00:23:22.000 I'll agree.

00:23:22.000 No one should bar you from buying one.

00:23:24.000 Buying a rubber at a truck stop or an IUD. I don't care.

00:23:28.000 Or free ride.

00:23:30.000 Right.

00:23:30.000 Or just free ride it.

00:23:32.000 What's a commodity?

00:23:33.000 The contraceptive.

00:23:35.000 Birth control pills, condoms, IUDs.

00:23:38.000 They don't just fall out of the sky.

00:23:40.000 Someone invented them.

00:23:41.000 Often a man.

00:23:44.000 So a right protects your ability to pursue something.

00:23:48.000 A right almost never guarantees or forces somebody else to provide you with something.

00:23:53.000 Yes.

00:23:53.000 That's important.

00:23:54.000 And I know we've gotten off the beam now with contraceptives. 0.91

00:23:56.000 Well, that's only the extreme leftist social justice warriors.

00:23:58.000 So, okay, let's go to one that almost everyone seems on board with.

00:24:02.000 Water.

00:24:03.000 People know what should be the most basic human right is water.

00:24:05.000 Okay, sure.

00:24:06.000 You're right.

00:24:07.000 What is your right?

00:24:08.000 Do you have the right to consume or utilize any non-privately owned water?

00:24:13.000 I don't think anyone should be barred from accessing water.

00:24:18.000 The antelope can go get water.

00:24:20.000 He risks being torn apart by a lion, and that makes for great TV, but it's his right.

00:24:24.000 Now, what would be a commodity?

00:24:26.000 Well, maybe water itself, if it's filtered, sanitized, pumped directly into your place of dwelling through an intricate system of pipes and technology.

00:24:34.000 It didn't happen for free.

00:24:35.000 You have the right to water.

00:24:37.000 You don't have the right to force somebody to pay to clean and sanitize your water.

00:24:44.000 Do we understand this?

00:24:45.000 And here's something that's a fundamental...

00:24:46.000 This is what I wanted to wrap up with.

00:24:47.000 A fundamental difference in worldview.

00:24:48.000 People say, oh, if you're an ideologue.

00:24:50.000 It matters because everyone has some kind of a lens through which they see the world.

00:24:54.000 The ism matters. 0.97

00:24:56.000 And if you look at actually on the flip side, rights that conservatism fights for, rights that right now conservatives are fighting for most actively.

00:25:03.000 I think we would probably agree conservatives, when you're talking about rights, they're most actively fighting right now for probably freedom of speech and guns.

00:25:09.000 Those are two big issues.

00:25:11.000 Guns and protection of life.

00:25:12.000 I would say, yeah, protection of life.

00:25:13.000 Okay.

00:25:14.000 So let's start with freedom of speech.

00:25:16.000 All right.

00:25:16.000 So conservatives are actively fighting for that right.

00:25:19.000 Well, okay, first off, how do you know it's your right?

00:25:21.000 Where is that prescribed?

00:25:23.000 Amendment number one, right?

00:25:25.000 Freedom of speech, it's in the Constitution.

00:25:26.000 It actually talks about free speech.

00:25:28.000 Now, here's something, too, that's important to note.

00:25:30.000 When conservatives fight for freedom of speech, even if you see the controversy with YouTube having censored some of our content or Facebook, you'll see a lot of conservatives say they actually have the right to do that.

00:25:38.000 And we agree with that.

00:25:39.000 They just don't have the right to lie to consumers about it.

00:25:42.000 Bad business practices.

00:25:43.000 That's a different issue.

00:25:45.000 But conservatives understand that we have the right to speak freely and are fighting.

00:25:48.000 It's a right that the left doesn't believe in.

00:25:50.000 They don't believe in it.

00:25:51.000 Professors don't believe in it.

00:25:52.000 Now, I'm not just talking about in specific areas or instances.

00:25:55.000 They don't believe in a generalized, absolute right to free speech.

00:26:00.000 We do.

00:26:00.000 When we're fighting for it, we're fighting for the right to speak freely, fully understanding that we are not going to be paid to speak freely.

00:26:06.000 Look at guns.

00:26:08.000 Okay, we believe that we have the right to keep and bear guns.

00:26:10.000 It's a right that liberals don't believe in, right?

00:26:12.000 So this is important.

00:26:13.000 Stay with me here.

00:26:14.000 We believe that we have the right to own and keep guns.

00:26:16.000 Well, where'd you get that from?

00:26:17.000 Well, it's amendment number two!

00:26:19.000 So right now, we're just going through number one and two, sweetheart.

00:26:23.000 Bill of Rights!

00:26:24.000 Are you still trucking, sweetheart?

00:26:25.000 Okay, so there's at least...

00:26:26.000 We're making the declarative statement, we have the right to keep and bear arms.

00:26:30.000 That's the right we fight for.

00:26:31.000 And like freedom of speech, we're just fighting for the ability to have them.

00:26:36.000 We're not protesting Smith and Wesson to give us free guns!

00:26:40.000 And that's a fundamental difference in worldview because we look at the rights that then liberals declare that they're rights.

00:26:44.000 Healthcare, education, water, shelter, basic universal income.

00:26:48.000 You say, well, hold on.

00:26:49.000 How do you know those are rights?

00:26:50.000 Uh...

00:26:51.000 We'll just file it all under the General Welfare Clause.

00:26:54.000 It's nowhere in the Constitution.

00:26:55.000 The ones that we describe are there by name.

00:26:59.000 Theirs don't even exist. 0.97

00:27:00.000 But let's even go with it.

00:27:01.000 Okay, you put it under the General Welfare Clause.

00:27:03.000 Sure, okay, you have the right to pursue healthcare.

00:27:05.000 Of course, yeah, we believe in the right to...

00:27:07.000 Access to water?

00:27:08.000 Sure, you have the right to purchase birth control.

00:27:10.000 No, they are taking rights that don't exist, filing them under a term that was not meant for that, and then fighting for the right to force you and I to pay for it through our tax dollars.

00:27:19.000 That is a fundamental worldview difference.

00:27:22.000 The rights that are outlined and prescribed as per legal documents, they don't even believe exist.

00:27:28.000 What about freedom of speech?

00:27:29.000 It's hate speech!

00:27:31.000 What about the Second Amendment?

00:27:32.000 Ah, Ruger makes too much money! 0.99

00:27:35.000 Oh! 0.60

00:27:36.000 Oh, so you don't believe those are rights?

00:27:38.000 No!

00:27:39.000 I think I should have a right to a 25-cent rubber at a truck stop, and you should pay for it.

00:27:42.000 This is something that matters so much, because if you start off from a point where you don't even understand the difference between a right or a commodity, it just gets to, you replace right with something I want, well then rights would be ever-changing, and guess what?

00:27:56.000 Things that rights would infringe on other rights, because everyone has different things that they want.

00:28:01.000 When I was a teenager, I wanted Ellen McPherson in my wall poster to come to life, but it wasn't my right.

00:28:06.000 Guess what?

00:28:07.000 For her, she'd feel like her rights were infringed upon.

00:28:11.000 As she should.

00:28:12.000 As she should.

00:28:13.000 That is important.

00:28:14.000 You can send some other examples if you think that I'm wrong.

00:28:17.000 Rights versus economic commodities.

00:28:19.000 Anytime someone just says some things are right and they declare it, call them on it.

00:28:23.000 Well, where do you find that?

00:28:25.000 And how do you justify it?

00:28:26.000 Most of the time, they can't.

00:28:28.000 Alright, we'll be right back.

00:28:29.000 Speaking of this with Blair White.

00:28:30.000 Ooh, that'll be fun.

00:28:31.000 Oh, it just isn't done that well.

00:28:37.000 The Soto of the Queen. 0.58

00:28:38.000 The Lairbag.

00:28:39.000 The New York's going.

00:28:40.000 And let history show, as the world will look back on the history of Germany and its people, that at this point, we do not let this bullshyzen that at this point, we do not let this bullshyzen and violation of human rights stand that every man, woman, and child of Germany understood. 0.95

00:29:06.000 as a brave parable in the book of Hathor once said, that men can have their periods, though!

00:29:17.000 Look at it!

00:29:18.000 All right, glad to have our next guest.

00:29:43.000 Return guest.

00:29:44.000 We're two return guests today.

00:29:45.000 So you can follow, well, on Twitter, Miss Blair White.

00:29:49.000 Of course, at Miss Blair White.

00:29:50.000 I need to say at.

00:29:51.000 I don't know if we need to use the at anymore.

00:29:53.000 I think it's assumed.

00:29:54.000 And then on YouTube.

00:29:54.000 Is it Miss Blair White X Blair on YouTube?

00:29:57.000 No, it's just Blair White X on YouTube.

00:29:59.000 Blair White X. Edward Soundcott, give me some more juice so I can hear Blair.

00:30:02.000 I don't know what his deal is over there.

00:30:03.000 How are you doing?

00:30:04.000 This is obviously a time where all this exploded.

00:30:07.000 We had you booked before the whole military trans deal, and here you are. 0.96

00:30:13.000 Yeah, it's been crazy.

00:30:15.000 There's lots of meltdowns, lots of people with a lot of different opinions.

00:30:17.000 I have mixed opinions.

00:30:20.000 I woke up to it, and of course...

00:30:23.000 Every social media I have was just blowing up media requests, like talk about this, talk about this.

00:30:28.000 And like I said, my feelings are a bit mixed.

00:30:31.000 I can totally understand how gender dysphoria would be something that would greatly affect performance. 0.98

00:30:38.000 Then I also think, you know, on the other hand, who am I, like this prissy trainee in California, to tell anyone that if they, like, pass the requirements and, like, go through the psych evaluations, basic training, whatever it is that you guys do, because I'm not a military expert, who am I to sit here, like, in this apartment in L.A. and be like, you can't fight for me?

00:30:56.000 I don't know.

00:30:57.000 It's mixed feelings for sure.

00:30:58.000 I understand, and I think that's actually a pretty balanced approach.

00:31:01.000 But hey, let's bounce back to that because you used the word meltdown.

00:31:04.000 I thought, perfect segue.

00:31:05.000 Meltdown, we were originally booking you to talk about this, your debate on YouTube with Onision.

00:31:10.000 Do we have this clip?

00:31:11.000 Quick clip. 0.95

00:31:12.000 Did you or did you not collect photos of underage girls to put in your videos, to rate or to call fat or skinny or acne, any of that s***? 0.94

00:31:19.000 Did you or did you not?

00:31:20.000 Let me look up the definition of collect.

00:31:23.000 Onision!

00:31:24.000 Did he really just say that?

00:31:25.000 Yes, I just said that. 0.99

00:31:27.000 So I will say, this is probably the best, most convincing transgender argument to people who aren't in the know, I would say, because no straight cis male can get that bitch. 1.00

00:31:36.000 That was unbelievable. 0.99

00:31:38.000 It's like you turned him into a high school pegboard.

00:31:41.000 It was so, if you haven't seen it...

00:31:43.000 Oh, it was so...

00:31:44.000 I will tell you this.

00:31:45.000 I've seen you, you know, have really well kind of, like, I know you don't like this guy because it devolved pretty quickly.

00:31:52.000 He wasn't answering questions like, you clearly are not buddies with Onision, right?

00:31:58.000 No, no.

00:31:59.000 And, you know, the thing is, like, in the title of the video, I put in quotation marks because I knew it wasn't going to be some formal, like, pleasant, you know, debate or any type of, like, real substance to it.

00:32:10.000 I knew it was going to be me, like, just talking s*** to Onision, and it was a lot of fun. 0.97

00:32:14.000 Well, it's weird because, like you said, this prissy tranny in California, and you're debating this... 0.99

00:32:19.000 I don't know, pseudo-emo social justice warrior liberal who's telling you that you're intolerant. 0.97

00:32:25.000 It's like, what cosmic wormhole did I fall into?

00:32:28.000 I think people feel that when they're watching this.

00:32:30.000 The roles have reversed so much, it's hard to make sense of.

00:32:35.000 Right, and what happens so often with these male feminists is they're so contradictory. 1.00

00:32:40.000 Because if you look at Onision in particular, his behavior, the way he's treated women and underage girls is absolutely just like...

00:32:48.000 Like, it's horrible.

00:32:50.000 Made videos rating bodies of like 12-year-old girls in sports bras.

00:32:54.000 It's horrible.

00:32:55.000 So it's just totally contradictory.

00:32:57.000 Yeah, I know.

00:32:57.000 And he went after me for being a chauvinist because I wrote about how my wife and I didn't have sex until we were married.

00:33:02.000 I'm like, you rate 12-year-olds!

00:33:04.000 What?

00:33:04.000 Yeah, I know.

00:33:05.000 He's the definition of chauvinist.

00:33:07.000 I know, I know.

00:33:08.000 It is awful.

00:33:08.000 Okay, we'll go back to trans in the military.

00:33:10.000 Just for people who haven't seen it, it's very entertaining.

00:33:12.000 And I've seen Blair have conversations that are productive and that are, I would say...

00:33:18.000 This probably wasn't that, but I think you would probably...

00:33:21.000 Yes.

00:33:22.000 But it was entertaining because this is a guy who...

00:33:24.000 It was entertainment.

00:33:25.000 Yes, it was entertainment.

00:33:26.000 Okay, so military issue, the trans issue.

00:33:29.000 We were talking about this a little bit off air.

00:33:31.000 I've always been against women in the front lines in combat roles. 1.00

00:33:34.000 I've been against the idea of lowering standards, period, whether you're male or female.

00:33:40.000 And we have.

00:33:41.000 We've lowered physical training requirements.

00:33:43.000 I mean, just as simple as pull-ups or push-ups, I don't think we should be doing that.

00:33:47.000 We've also lowered the threshold for what drill sergeants can do with new recruits in the military because people can be traumatized.

00:33:54.000 It's become a much more politically correct environment.

00:33:59.000 I don't think Trump handled this very well, the way it was just kind of rolled out, general blanket statement.

00:34:03.000 But as someone who very possibly wouldn't pass the psych evaluation to go into the military, I would say that's very similar to not passing the PT requirements.

00:34:15.000 Would we agree there's some validity here to, obviously there is some emotional volatility with the trans community or psychiatric volatility, and that needs to be shielded from the military on those grounds. 0.55

00:34:29.000 I would say yes and no.

00:34:30.000 I think that what needs to happen is people need to be evaluated individually because there are people who say they transitioned earlier and they don't have any gender dysphoria really at all left.

00:34:41.000 It really should be individual case-by-case basis.

00:34:44.000 And so I do agree that the way it was handled, like the blanket statement, is weird.

00:34:48.000 And immediately when this happened, my mind didn't go to like future trans people trying to join the military. 0.93

00:34:55.000 It went to people who are already there.

00:34:58.000 It went to the number.

00:34:59.000 It's so hard getting numbers on trans people.

00:35:01.000 It's so hard.

00:35:02.000 But I think the estimate was 7,000, 8,000 currently enlisted.

00:35:06.000 And so that's a lot of individuals that I'm concerned about losing their pensions, losing their GI Bill.

00:35:12.000 That's where my mind went.

00:35:13.000 And that currently is unclear if that's going to happen.

00:35:16.000 That's true, and that's a valid point, and I think that's a real problem with, basically, you know, when I went and entertained the troops, and they weren't allowed to speak on the record, but Barack Obama, the social justice warrior in chief, turned the military for the first time into a social justice sort of petri dish, an experiment, whereas the military was always supposed to be devoid of that for a long time.

00:35:34.000 And so he rushed things quickly that maybe they weren't necessarily ready for, and now, like you said, it's like, hold on a second, we've run into some issues.

00:35:42.000 Something we were talking about, obviously we've talked about this in the show, The trans suicide rate being higher.

00:35:47.000 Well, there is an issue, not Gay Jared brought this up, that someone in the military, right?

00:35:51.000 I have it right here.

00:35:52.000 Unironically, CNN released a study right alongside the announcement of Trump in the transgender military saying a suicide attempt in an army unit can lead to more study finds.

00:36:02.000 Basically, it says, hey, if one even post...

00:36:07.000 Service.

00:36:08.000 Retired soldiers.

00:36:09.000 If one of those people in the unit commits suicide, there's a very, very high chance of other people from that division not be able to cope with that and also committing suicide.

00:36:17.000 So if we're taking people, I'll let you make the point, but if we're taking people who are from the cis population have these problems, I can only imagine it gets much worse with the transgender population. 1.00

00:36:27.000 And that's why psych evaluations are frequent.

00:36:29.000 And I think that would be a valid conversation to have, but that's not how it was brought up by the president.

00:36:34.000 And it just devolved quickly.

00:36:36.000 Yeah, and the problem, I think you talked about this on your show before.

00:36:39.000 The word transgender has just been so inflated that it includes so many things.

00:36:44.000 And so the problem is, when you use the word now, you kind of also are talking about people who don't have a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

00:36:52.000 And so a lot of these people being kept out could very well be completely stable individuals.

00:36:58.000 So it's so messy, and it's so hard.

00:37:01.000 It's because of a lot that it's kind of confusing. 0.89

00:37:02.000 Yeah, I think, honestly, people wouldn't have nearly as big of an issue if it weren't for, sorry, Jared, censor button, if it weren't for the social justice warrior bullshit that comes along with it.

00:37:10.000 Listen, the last, I mean, you know, having a conversation with Onision is exhausting, right?

00:37:14.000 We can have a conversation and it's fun.

00:37:16.000 There's some levity.

00:37:16.000 We can have some disagreements.

00:37:17.000 We can agree.

00:37:18.000 But having a conversation with a social justice warrior who's all about pronouns and LGBT is exhausting.

00:37:23.000 Put them on the front lines.

00:37:24.000 People don't need that at the front of their mind. 0.99

00:37:26.000 I think that's the big issue now is because the trans people, the people in a trans community who are asshole-ish scream the Absolutely and that's the part that I struggle with and maybe you do as well. 1.00

00:37:38.000 It's like trying to decipher if it's really the majority of them or if it's just we're so involved in these conversations on the internet that it really seems that way because when I think about it I have met most trans people I've met disagree with most if not all of like the crazy activist stuff and that gives me hope and in fact Interesting story. 0.70

00:37:57.000 The first trans person I ever met and who kind of helped me find my way was actually an ex-Marine.

00:38:05.000 And it was a transgender man, and he served for a very long time.

00:38:09.000 And he was like the most badass person I ever knew, the most amazing person I've ever met.

00:38:13.000 And so that's another part of me that's like, well, it's so hard to say.

00:38:17.000 You can't do it.

00:38:18.000 It's like, so much of it is arbitrary is the problem.

00:38:18.000 You can't.

00:38:22.000 So much of it is arbitrary because you think like, what if they're not on hormones?

00:38:25.000 What if they don't have dysphoria?

00:38:25.000 What if they are?

00:38:27.000 It's so hard.

00:38:28.000 Well, that's where a disagreement we had where if people watch contextually my interview with a psychiatrist where I said, you know, today's trans have more in common with transvestites of Europe.

00:38:28.000 Yeah.

00:38:36.000 Like that was really insensitive.

00:38:37.000 I said, well, hold on a second.

00:38:38.000 I was talking with a psychiatrist talking about how they have to label anyone who puts on a dress and says I'm trans.

00:38:44.000 That skews the statistics because they have to label it that way.

00:38:46.000 And I said, well, what's the difference between that and a transvestite? 0.99

00:38:48.000 She said, well, nothing, but they're all labeled the same in the umbrella.

00:38:53.000 And like you said, that's why it's so hard to get numbers.

00:38:55.000 Okay, moving on with this to talk about this.

00:38:57.000 We were just talking about this clip from The View.

00:39:00.000 And this is a great example where the black progressive realizes she's not super progressive. 0.99

00:39:04.000 She's like, okay, so this... 0.91

00:39:07.000 Uh, woman is, uh, the woman identifies, by the way, as pansexual homoromantic. 0.52

00:39:14.000 I saw that.

00:39:14.000 Yeah, and everyone says, yeah, we understand it.

00:39:16.000 Like, this is, no, no, you know, people in the trans community don't understand.

00:39:20.000 This is made up as we go along.

00:39:22.000 And as she gets corrected by someone on The View, she says, it's not she, it's they.

00:39:26.000 The black lady says, well, but they use men and women. 0.98

00:39:30.000 That's because it's the only way she can describe her preferences.

00:39:33.000 Then someone turned to her and say, not she, they.

00:39:35.000 And they're like, oh, she's like, ah! 1.00

00:39:36.000 Could you imagine this out there on the battlefield?

00:39:39.000 Like, that's, I think, the issue people are concerned with.

00:39:43.000 Right.

00:39:43.000 I will say, though, I highly doubt those people are getting in and, like, passing any type of performance.

00:39:49.000 I will say that.

00:39:50.000 They wouldn't five years ago.

00:39:52.000 They wouldn't a while ago, but it's getting more now.

00:39:54.000 I mean, you lower requirements, you keep lowering them, and you politicize the military.

00:39:59.000 Now it's like a lot of people want to go in sometimes to prove a point.

00:40:02.000 I do think that's a good point.

00:40:04.000 People who are in now, they shouldn't lose their pension.

00:40:06.000 They shouldn't, you know, if they're a part of that.

00:40:07.000 They shouldn't be screwed and left out in the cold because of some political football.

00:40:11.000 That does...

00:40:13.000 That does concern me because it's like, regardless of how anyone feels about anyone's lifestyle or whatever, I'm sure there's plenty of people in the military whose lifestyles I don't agree with.

00:40:22.000 Maybe they're like some...

00:40:23.000 I don't know.

00:40:27.000 I still are like red blooded Americans who put their lives on the line and potentially are willing to make like the ultimate sacrifice giving up their lives for their country.

00:40:35.000 So the idea of them losing their benefits and everything that they deserve is is troublesome to me.

00:40:40.000 That's really the only thing.

00:40:41.000 And that is that is pretty crappy.

00:40:43.000 I do think.

00:40:44.000 Yeah.

00:40:44.000 And you're able to often discuss this and recognize it, especially in the military, it really is about the health of the unit.

00:40:50.000 So that's where, how the unit functions does matter.

00:40:54.000 And that's why some people, who doesn't mean they're bad people, doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed in other realms of society, are not an effective part of the military unit.

00:41:01.000 A lot of things people don't understand about the military with women on the, the retreat rates are higher because women on the front lines with men, men typically went to war to protect women.

00:41:10.000 To protect the ovulators.

00:41:12.000 And now you put them on the battlefield, so the unit becomes very protective of the woman and acts in a way.

00:41:18.000 We, as men, are not as effectively violent with women present.

00:41:22.000 That's a huge factor.

00:41:24.000 And I think it's not just trans now.

00:41:26.000 We were talking about this with The View, trans and genderqueer.

00:41:29.000 If you say, okay, trans, like you said, you're male to female, fine, you're in the male restrooms. 0.99

00:41:33.000 But you have people going in who don't want that.

00:41:34.000 They go, no, hold on.

00:41:35.000 I'm actually fluid and genderqueer.

00:41:37.000 Well, that matters when the rest of the unit is going, come on, we don't know the rules here, Sarge. 0.94

00:41:41.000 I mean, I just want to be able to take a dump without being watched by this person who's a lesbian today and straight tomorrow. 1.00

00:41:48.000 Absolutely. 0.99

00:41:49.000 And the difference between like sexual and gender person.

00:41:53.000 Because the word transsexual still actually means something very specific.

00:41:55.000 Right.

00:41:56.000 The word transgender is so inflated.

00:41:57.000 And you and I are right there with like women on the front lines as well.

00:42:00.000 But good news is I can't be drafted now.

00:42:02.000 So thank God.

00:42:03.000 You know what I mean?

00:42:04.000 Is that because of the legal change?

00:42:07.000 Yeah, thank God.

00:42:08.000 Yeah, well, thank God for unequal rights. 0.98

00:42:11.000 Jeez, think about that for a second.

00:42:13.000 That's one of those things, it's just, when women talk about certain things they don't have, or now it's even sillier, we're like, gosh, I had a guy open the door for me, I had someone catcall me. 0.77

00:42:20.000 Like, guess what, okay? 0.95

00:42:21.000 We die.

00:42:22.000 We're the first ones who are literally called against our will to die.

00:42:25.000 End case, okay?

00:42:27.000 There's some give and take. 0.66

00:42:29.000 I get shot at.

00:42:30.000 Absolutely.

00:42:31.000 There's give and take, and it's like, Honestly, this brings you back to my old like MRA days when I was like 18, but it's like men have Every disadvantage, and women have none. 0.77

00:42:42.000 It's kind of crazy, actually, when you really think about it.

00:42:45.000 Especially legally, you know what I mean?

00:42:46.000 More prison time for the same crime, etc.

00:42:49.000 Yeah, and then prison time is distinctly less pleasant for men when we go to prison.

00:42:56.000 Right.

00:42:56.000 It's not orange is the new black.

00:42:57.000 No, it is not.

00:42:59.000 There's no lower pre-pond.

00:43:00.000 Let me ask you this.

00:43:01.000 How would you ideally see this scenario play out?

00:43:03.000 Because we've seen the outrage there on both sides.

00:43:07.000 I How would this ideally move forward, do you think, in a way that's fair but also conducive toward the most effective fighting force on Earth?

00:43:15.000 I think just...

00:43:18.000 It's so hard to say because I know people with severe acne can't even join the military because that has other side effects psychologically, which is crazy.

00:43:27.000 But I think that individuals should just be screened individually.

00:43:30.000 I think that if you can pass the test, you can fight.

00:43:32.000 However, what are your thoughts on trans people serving in other capacities?

00:43:37.000 Because to me, it seems like... 0.99

00:43:38.000 Well, damn, you can't even be like a cook in the canteens or you can't even be like a nurse. 0.99

00:43:42.000 You know what I mean? 0.99

00:43:43.000 What are your thoughts on that?

00:43:44.000 The gays make some great coffee and dishes.

00:43:46.000 Yes, yes. 0.98

00:43:47.000 Well, you know what?

00:43:48.000 Yeah, I would tend to say in that point, I have no problem with women doing those jobs as well. 1.00

00:43:55.000 So I think...

00:43:56.000 It's a discussion that I think still needs to be entertained because, again, of the dynamic of a unit.

00:44:01.000 And I do think that with the military, it comes down to purely a numbers game.

00:44:05.000 In other words, if this makes this unit 12% less effective at fighting, I think it's totally fine to be discriminatory in the military in those capacities because these people are going out to die.

00:44:14.000 But like you said, it's hard to find those numbers.

00:44:16.000 That being said, I'm fine with a woman doing a job in the military that she can do as well or better than a man. 0.98

00:44:21.000 We just know that's not fighting at the front lines.

00:44:24.000 So that would tend to be my position on it, but we would need to see.

00:44:28.000 This is why the military is not meant to be a social experiment. 0.92

00:44:31.000 The only goal of it is to kill people as effectively as possible.

00:44:36.000 Whatever does that, to me, is the most important role in the military. 0.89

00:44:40.000 Right, yeah.

00:44:41.000 I guess everyone's just so focused on, like, the combat part, and I'm kind of thinking, like, well, what about other positions?

00:44:46.000 But, I mean, it is all about, you know, effectiveness.

00:44:50.000 But I think you're right.

00:44:50.000 I don't think the president thought that through before the announcement.

00:44:54.000 That's the issue.

00:44:54.000 I think it was too blanketed, and it didn't allow for a conversation that should happen.

00:44:58.000 No, and it kind of sucks because, like, I'm a Trump supporter, and I voted for Trump, so, like, I'm more willing to, like, give him the benefit of the doubt and, like, look into things past just the tweets, but it sucks that, like, The rest of the country just sees tweets and they don't really look further and it becomes more ammunition against him. 0.61

00:45:14.000 So that's frustrating. 0.53

00:45:15.000 And it's not been the greatest week for him with Jeff Sessions and stuff.

00:45:18.000 Because there's only so much you can be like, hey, this guy's great.

00:45:20.000 And then your supporters go, hey, this guy's great. 1.00

00:45:21.000 And you're like, this guy sucks. 0.99

00:45:22.000 It's like, well, hold on a second. 1.00

00:45:24.000 Okay, it's tough to keep track.

00:45:27.000 You know, even if you dig a little further, he wasn't super clear on this.

00:45:31.000 Yeah.

00:45:32.000 I think it's important to know exactly where he stands and what the policy is so that the people can know if they actually agree with it or disagree with it.

00:45:38.000 And then certainly for people like you and myself, so that then we can at least argue one side that's definitive.

00:45:44.000 I don't think that's the case.

00:45:45.000 We don't know.

00:45:46.000 You can't down to 140 characters on Twitter.

00:45:48.000 Right.

00:45:50.000 You can't really argue super strongly for or against it because it's like, well, what happens to people that are there?

00:45:55.000 What happens with this?

00:45:56.000 Like, it's all very arbitrary and a lot of it's still not out yet.

00:46:00.000 So it sounds like, would you be advocating, I guess, at least if we were to say blanketed, more concrete, meaning, okay, someone needs to have gone through these stages of transition so we can identify them and know where to put them as opposed to gender fluidity, you know, in the military?

00:46:16.000 Yeah, because I mean, there are a lot of documentaries about trans people in the military and most of them are honestly like trans men who are like on testosterone and like they've completely transitioned and like they're just kind of badasses and it's kind of cool to watch actually. 0.99

00:46:30.000 Sometimes they strangle Ben Shapiro live on air.

00:46:32.000 Right?

00:46:33.000 Still entertaining.

00:46:34.000 Yeah.

00:46:34.000 Nothing more feminine, Zoe Tur, than threatening violence.

00:46:37.000 God.

00:46:37.000 I'm still not over that video.

00:46:39.000 I still watch it sometimes.

00:46:40.000 I just go back to it and I'm like, wow, that's like horrible.

00:46:42.000 You know what I mean?

00:46:43.000 I'm like, this is tragic.

00:46:45.000 Yeah.

00:46:46.000 But yeah, like...

00:46:48.000 Again, I just think individual screenings would be better.

00:46:50.000 And the gender fluid s*** definitely, I think, should just be kept out because you do need a binary. 1.00

00:46:56.000 You do need to know where to put people. 0.98

00:46:57.000 And if you make it complicated, just stay the f*** out.

00:47:00.000 It's not the place for you. 0.65

00:47:01.000 Like you said, it's not a social experiment.

00:47:03.000 Well, especially if we're also going to talk about, you know, we have liberals coming out when it's convenient talking about rape culture in the military.

00:47:08.000 It's like, okay, well, listen, you have a bunch of people who are going out to war who just killed folks, right?

00:47:13.000 Saw pink mist, and they're coming back, and they're amped up, and then you put a woman in their barracks, and they're in their shower, and that's a problem. 0.99

00:47:19.000 And so it's the same thing when it comes to the trans issue.

00:47:22.000 We need to know where to put them because, again, effective fighting military unit, you can't just have someone who's gender fluid who goes wherever they want on any given day Because then you're encouraging, quote-unquote, rape culture. 1.00

00:47:33.000 Which, by the way, is not nearly as much of a problem in the military as the media has made it out to be.

00:47:39.000 Right.

00:47:41.000 It absolutely has to be binary.

00:47:42.000 If trans people are going to be there, it has to be completely binary. 1.00

00:47:45.000 It can't be gray areas and questions, because that's just a mess.

00:47:50.000 Sounds like hate speech to me.

00:47:52.000 Miss Blair White, where is the best place for people to find you here?

00:47:55.000 you here we have to get going uh youtube.com slash blair white x and my twitter is twitter.com ms blair white thank you Well, thanks so much for coming on.

00:48:05.000 It just happened to be, I guess, providential.

00:48:06.000 It was just we were going to talk about Onision, and instead we talked about the most topical issue of the day.

00:48:11.000 Ms.

00:48:11.000 Blair-White, we will have you back soon.

00:48:12.000 We have to go with Alex Epstein, I believe, next.

00:48:15.000 Get it. - That's what I know.

00:48:33.000 Colton, you still watching that Louder with Crowder?

00:48:35.000 I want to watch The Bachelorette!

00:48:37.000 Dammit Josephine am I watching Louder with Crowder.

00:48:40.000 Is it 9 p.m. 0.98

00:48:41.000 Eastern on a weekday? 0.63

00:48:42.000 There's burning like free s**t as the sun rising east? 0.69

00:48:44.000 Of course I'm watching Louder with Crowder! 0.77

00:48:46.000 You know I never miss it!

00:48:50.000 You're obsessed, Colton.

00:48:52.000 It's not healthy. 0.88

00:48:53.000 The hell would you know about health, Miss Forklift with Teeth? 1.00

00:48:57.000 Just a stupid show, Colton. 1.00

00:48:59.000 They don't care about you. 1.00

00:49:01.000 Jimmy, what was that?

00:49:02.000 They don't even know you.

00:49:04.000 That's a lie straight from the pit of hell, and you know it.

00:49:07.000 Take a look right there! 0.76

00:49:10.000 Boom! 0.99

00:49:11.000 From Edward the Sound Guy with a verified checkmark. 1.00

00:49:14.000 I don't want to hear any more of your bullshit lies. 0.99

00:49:18.000 You know he's not a real sound guy. 1.00

00:49:20.000 It's just the character he plays. 1.00

00:49:22.000 Dude, nah, it's that kind of stupid sh** that shows just how ignorant you are, Josephine. 1.00

00:49:26.000 He is a legitimate, qualified sound technician from a trade school, and he's traveling the whole damn world working with sound-related appliances. 1.00

00:49:34.000 If your fingers weren't too fat to operate a tricaster, maybe you could try it every once in a while. 0.56

00:49:38.000 You'd know better.

00:49:39.000 Uh, thirty people didn't show up to work. 0.95

00:49:41.000 That chair's not even gay. 1.00

00:49:43.000 I'd hate it with your lies, Josephine, in back of me, Satan! 1.00

00:49:47.000 Our booker was running down the list. 0.99

00:49:50.000 Satan?

00:49:50.000 Woman, I'm quoting scripture from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

00:49:53.000 Maybe if you put down your soap bags every once in a while for a hot minute, you know better.

00:50:11.000 There you are.

00:50:12.000 It's live read time, which usually happens about once a week.

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00:50:16.000 A lot happened this week.

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00:50:24.000 That's for Mug Club members only. 0.63

00:50:26.000 You miss so much.

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00:50:30.000 Here's the deal.

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00:51:24.000 Come cheer up my nights.

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00:51:28.000 It's better to have loved and lost All right, glad to have our next guest.

00:51:34.000 He's been on the show before, so it's kind of like we always say that when people return as guests, it's sort of like Carson bringing someone over to the couch, except we are not successful like Johnny Carson.

00:51:42.000 That was a horrible comparison.

00:51:43.000 But the origin story is over.

00:51:46.000 Often with superhero films, the origin story is like you've got to introduce the audience to the person, so they have to kind of explain what they're about.

00:51:51.000 His book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, you can follow him on Twitter.

00:51:55.000 Don't call him Stein.

00:51:56.000 It's Alex Epstein.

00:51:58.000 How are you, sir?

00:51:59.000 Epstein.

00:52:00.000 That's actually totally wrong.

00:52:01.000 Is it?

00:52:02.000 Did I get it?

00:52:02.000 What did I just say?

00:52:04.000 It's Epstein, but I definitely don't care.

00:52:06.000 Well, I know, but I was referencing Young Frankenstein.

00:52:08.000 Well, you know, it looks like number two is the final visit for Alex Epstein.

00:52:14.000 It's okay.

00:52:15.000 It's not foolproof anyways.

00:52:16.000 I've been on this program forever. 0.99

00:52:18.000 Still can't explain why I suck. 0.99

00:52:19.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.99

00:52:20.000 We still can't explain it.

00:52:40.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:52:40.000 I used a lot of fossil fuels to get to this move.

00:52:45.000 Like a lot.

00:52:46.000 Because I'm in San Francisco now, which of course I had to use fossil fuels to get there from the D.C. area where I grew up.

00:52:51.000 But even in the near term, I had to go from San Francisco to L.A. and back in the same day, which is a miracle of petroleum.

00:52:58.000 Yes.

00:52:59.000 In order to see this quote-unquote documentary, because I wanted to be able to credibly comment on it in advance, and particularly to write a review of it.

00:53:09.000 So yeah, I'm fully qualified.

00:53:10.000 I managed to finagle my way into a screening full of people who were not wearing I Love Fossil Fuels.

00:53:17.000 Well, you know what?

00:53:17.000 Listen, it's actually pretty easy.

00:53:18.000 If Al Gore is attending the screening, which I would imagine with a red carpet premiere, just walk up to him wearing open-toed shoes, you're golden.

00:53:25.000 You're into the premiere right away.

00:53:27.000 So let me ask you this.

00:53:27.000 We've had Anne McElhinney on the show, specifically because she did Not Evil Just Wrong, where she went through a few key predictions from An Inconvenient Truth, the first one, that were verifiably false, right?

00:53:39.000 I mean, to the point where it's embarrassing.

00:53:41.000 Where does Al Gore go from there?

00:53:43.000 What can we expect to see in this movie?

00:53:45.000 How does he turn that around?

00:53:48.000 It's interesting because one of his prominent quote-unquote predictions was that there would be 20-foot sea level rises.

00:53:54.000 Now, he didn't specify the exact timetable, but we were led to believe that it would be several decades.

00:53:59.000 And even if you look at the UN, which I think relies heavily on climate prediction models that can't predict climate, even they say things like, two feet.

00:54:07.000 Right.

00:54:08.000 So Gore has this ingenious thing, sort of, where he starts out and he quotes a chorus of people whom he later explains to us are either fools or shills from the fossil fuel industry, and they are ridiculing Gore.

00:54:21.000 And one of the things they say is that, oh, you said sea levels would rise 20 feet.

00:54:25.000 And I perked up and I thought, wow, how's he going to get out of this one?

00:54:28.000 Because they definitely didn't and definitely aren't. 0.98

00:54:31.000 And what he did is he just brought up this chorus to bring forward this idea that since an inconvenient truth, Al Gore has been victimized by fools and shills. 0.54

00:54:41.000 That's premise number one of the movie, who claim that he over-predicted these things.

00:54:47.000 Well, first off, even if that were true, it still doesn't answer the 20 feet question, but I'm tracking.

00:54:51.000 Right, but he's sort of, he's making it seem like he's going to.

00:54:55.000 And then he says, then kind of premise two is, well, on the renewables replacing fossil fuels issue, that's totally happening.

00:55:04.000 And he gives a whole bunch of anecdotes, which is distinct from data.

00:55:08.000 He gives a whole bunch of anecdotes allegedly proving that.

00:55:11.000 And then he gives a whole bunch of anecdotes proving climate has gotten worse.

00:55:16.000 But he never quite addresses the 20-foot thing.

00:55:19.000 And then you step back and you think, wait, He never actually proved any of these are trends.

00:55:24.000 He just gave us anecdotes that make us think that the trends exist.

00:55:29.000 Fortunately, professionally, I study the trends, so I know the trends.

00:55:34.000 I found there's not evil just wrong, but it's really evil to manipulate data to make a trend seem like the opposite of what it is.

00:55:44.000 I can elaborate, but the trends In terms of how vital fossil fuels are and how safe we are from climate are the exact opposite of what this manipulative movie says they are.

00:55:55.000 One second, Naki-Jer's going to have a heart attack. 0.65

00:55:57.000 Why are you laughing so hard?

00:55:58.000 It's like a really bad episode, a typical episode of Alaska State Trooper where a bunch of cool stuff, really cool stuff, almost happens.

00:56:04.000 Oh, yeah, you see, coming up!

00:56:06.000 And you're like, oh my gosh, I'm going to shoot a grizzly bear!

00:56:08.000 And I'm just like, whew, thank God we didn't run into a grizzly bear!

00:56:10.000 Next episode!

00:56:12.000 A few predictions, obviously.

00:56:14.000 The sea rise.

00:56:14.000 Okay, it doesn't seem like that's answered.

00:56:16.000 What about the catastrophic drought?

00:56:19.000 And then, of course, another one was this proliferation of disease and natural disasters.

00:56:23.000 Did he address any of those specifics?

00:56:27.000 Because a part of me did think with the first inconvenient truth, like, hey, this is kind of ballsy to put out predictions that you can be called on, but not if you just don't actually answer people calling you on it.

00:56:40.000 I think there's a great lesson in the movie because it feels like he's addressing them because he gives you anecdotes that if those anecdotes were generally the case, would vindicate him.

00:56:51.000 And you don't know in the movie that those anecdotes aren't generally the case.

00:56:54.000 So let's just take severe drought or something like that.

00:56:58.000 So he'll show a drought in Syria, then he makes a whole bunch of bogus foreign policy connections.

00:57:02.000 But we'll leave that aside.

00:57:05.000 So what you're led to think is, oh, drought-related deaths are getting worse, right?

00:57:09.000 More people are dying from drought.

00:57:11.000 And this is actually untrue, completely untrue.

00:57:14.000 Drought-related deaths in the last 80 years are down 99.98%.

00:57:18.000 They're virtually non-existent thanks to what?

00:57:22.000 Thanks to industrial development that turns droughts into not a problem.

00:57:27.000 So this is just a complete misrepresentation.

00:57:30.000 And if we took away everyone's fossil fuels, droughts would become a huge problem again because we would de-develop.

00:57:36.000 What about like Ebola and Zika?

00:57:38.000 That seems like it's the result of global warming, climate change.

00:57:41.000 I mean, this is, I talk a little bit about the history of some of these immoral case for fossil fuels because they act like, oh, these things have never crossed any borders before.

00:57:49.000 Malaria is a disease of just the cold.

00:57:51.000 And historically, these aren't true.

00:57:53.000 We have records showing people dying of these things all over the place.

00:57:56.000 And guess what?

00:57:57.000 When you have more travel, you're going to have Potentially more transferring of these things.

00:58:01.000 So again, your friend is industrial development.

00:58:04.000 That's what keeps us safe.

00:58:05.000 That's what allows us to make progress.

00:58:07.000 So the idea that we should de-energize our society, restrict people's fossil fuels, and then disease will get better, that's the opposite.

00:58:14.000 Disease deaths are on the decline, but only as long as we continue industrial development.

00:58:18.000 Well, what if they say, okay, we understand that, that disease is on a decline or deaths are lowered now because of technology with drought, but it's a ticking time bomb.

00:58:27.000 We can only do this for so long before we run out of resources.

00:58:30.000 Hence, you know, I know Al Gore makes a strong, well...

00:58:33.000 Al Gore makes a passionate argument for replacing everything with wind or solar.

00:58:38.000 Now, we've talked about in our program Germany and having to sell off energy at net negative prices because solar is so unreliable and having energy droughts themselves.

00:58:47.000 But if he says, okay, yeah, technology, the industrial revolution has let us out.

00:58:52.000 For example, we have cures for polio.

00:58:55.000 You know, you don't need to worry about tuberculosis.

00:58:56.000 But now we're at a point where we're running out of resources.

00:58:59.000 It seems that he could make that case.

00:59:01.000 Does he?

00:59:03.000 Well, no, he definitely doesn't make that case.

00:59:05.000 It's interesting with fossil fuels that people have two arguments.

00:59:09.000 One is that we're using too much, and one is that we won't have enough, which is a little bit of a contradiction, right?

00:59:15.000 Because nature would take care of the problem if we were running out, and they should be happy.

00:59:19.000 So what you can tell is you're just always finding a way to oppose fossil fuels without any kind of coherent narrative.

00:59:25.000 And right now, because of the amazing technological achievements of the oil and gas Do you remember peak oil?

00:59:37.000 A lot of people watching this who are younger don't even know that.

00:59:40.000 That was the term, peak oil.

00:59:42.000 It was a cover of time.

00:59:44.000 It seemed like every other day there was something on the Nat Geo channel or Discovery channel about peak oil.

00:59:50.000 I haven't heard peak oil in years, Alex.

00:59:55.000 Yeah, I was writing about oil when I was ridiculed for believing that peak oil is bogus.

01:00:02.000 Really, if you understand economics, this whole issue of depletion and replacement is just what the whole question is, what's the best form of energy right now and in the foreseeable future?

01:00:12.000 And we have this amazing thing called freedom and a market, which allows us to decide that.

01:00:16.000 And then if we start to run low on something or if the price goes up, then we start to replace it.

01:00:22.000 But Gore is not an advocate of superior replacements because he's against nuclear power, he's against hydropower, he's against fracking.

01:00:29.000 He's in favor of inferior replacements, the so-called solar and wind renewables, which are properly called unreliables.

01:00:35.000 So he gets no credit for progress.

01:00:37.000 It's improperly called unreliable.

01:00:39.000 You know, it's funny because that just shows us how some issues are politicized specifically with the national borders.

01:00:45.000 An example we used was this idea of suppressors, silencers on guns.

01:00:48.000 You know, here in the United States, they're opposed by the anti-gun lobbyists because they say, you know, everyone's going to be an assassin.

01:00:53.000 Everyone's going to be a Corleone going around killing people in their face falling in spaghetti and meatballs.

01:00:57.000 Whereas in the UK, where they have much more stringent gun laws, it's considered rude in many parts to not hunt with a suppressor.

01:01:04.000 It's funny you mention hydropower.

01:01:05.000 I'm from Quebec, a socialist province of Quebec, where there is no conservative, right?

01:01:09.000 There's liberal and liberal separatists.

01:01:10.000 They're on board with every single piece of climate change legislation that exists.

01:01:13.000 Our electric bills, people always said, your hydro bill.

01:01:17.000 I remember when people would visit, they'd say, hydro bill, your water bill.

01:01:19.000 We'd say, no, no, electric, because it's almost all hydroelectric power in Quebec.

01:01:24.000 So I guess I wasn't even aware of this until the last few months.

01:01:28.000 That's been politicized where that's considered not green enough.

01:01:32.000 Oh, yeah.

01:01:33.000 Yeah.

01:01:33.000 Now, why is that?

01:01:34.000 Because, again, we've been doing that for a while.

01:01:35.000 It seems like it couldn't get more renewable than using the energy of running, falling water.

01:01:41.000 Right.

01:01:41.000 So the idea of green is to minimize impact on nature.

01:01:46.000 And if you really want to minimize impact on nature, then you really just shouldn't do anything.

01:01:51.000 We should have never built New York City.

01:01:52.000 You should never have a child.

01:01:55.000 And, you know, North Korea is a much better country than South Korea because they've done very little impacting of nature.

01:02:04.000 So they haven't created any blowing up phones.

01:02:05.000 So I'll give that's one for North Korea. 0.97

01:02:08.000 So if you look at – you made me lose my turn of thought.

01:02:13.000 Hydro!

01:02:13.000 We were talking about hydro.

01:02:14.000 If you look at hydro, they'll say, well, look, we can't dam a river.

01:02:18.000 And then they look at nuclear.

01:02:19.000 We can't split an atom.

01:02:20.000 And you say, wait a second.

01:02:22.000 Isn't CO2 supposed to be the catastrophe of the century?

01:02:25.000 You're not willing to dam a river to stave off the catastrophe of the century?

01:02:30.000 You're not willing to risk a meltdown to stave off the – And what you find is that, no, because the environmentalism has only supported one form of energy in its entire history, and that is imaginary energy.

01:02:42.000 They only support sources that don't work as long as they don't work, because every source of energy has a major impact.

01:02:49.000 So as soon as solar becomes practical, they'll say, oh my gosh, it's destroying our countryside.

01:02:53.000 We can't allow that.

01:02:54.000 Yeah.

01:02:55.000 Well, that's also a great point to even think about.

01:02:57.000 Again, because hydropower was electric power where we were in Quebec, particularly on the south shore of Montreal.

01:03:02.000 It's a great indicator of if we did have these catastrophic floods, a 20-level sea rise, that they're not going to come to humans' aid.

01:03:08.000 It's like, hey, hey, hey, there's a sea rise. 0.97

01:03:10.000 Can we damn this? 0.99

01:03:11.000 No! 0.98

01:03:12.000 Yeah.

01:03:13.000 No, there's rainbow trout in there.

01:03:15.000 What, are you out of your mind?

01:03:16.000 Get the hell out of here! 0.92

01:03:17.000 Alright.

01:03:17.000 Okay, Alex, we have to get going.

01:03:19.000 We'll have you back.

01:03:20.000 Hopefully, if there's...

01:03:21.000 We'll see if there's some follow-up.

01:03:22.000 Honestly, I haven't really seen a whole lot of buzz for An Inconvenient Truth.

01:03:26.000 Do not watch it.

01:03:28.000 By the way, the people who were screening it said...

01:03:30.000 They asked Al Gore how they could help.

01:03:32.000 He said, screen my movie, which isn't really...

01:03:34.000 But because we want as many people to watch it as possible, so please do not watch it.

01:03:38.000 It's a really bad movie by a bad person.

01:03:41.000 Uh...

01:03:42.000 I won't say pirate it, but that's one thing you can do to help the world.

01:03:46.000 I've heard you haven't seen it because the promotional material and budget really has gone into 2031 when they're releasing and giving it True 3.

01:03:53.000 Yes, yes, exactly.

01:03:54.000 So that's probably why I haven't seen much.

01:03:56.000 Yeah, and he's spending a lot of time on the board at Apple.

01:03:58.000 Al Gore has his interests are split these days.

01:04:01.000 All right, Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

01:04:05.000 You can read it.

01:04:06.000 You can find it.

01:04:07.000 I highly recommend it.

01:04:08.000 Sharp Man.

01:04:09.000 Alex, we'll have to have you back soon with some follow-up on this.

01:04:12.000 Alright, good to be here.

01:04:13.000 Thanks, Stephen.

01:04:13.000 Thank you, brother.

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01:06:28.000 Alright, thanks to Alex thanks to Alex Epstein.

01:06:55.000 Epstein, get it right.

01:06:56.000 Always a good way to get in the good graces of a host.

01:06:58.000 Correct him, first thing off the bat.

01:06:59.000 Do you realize, honestly, nobody takes a bigger steaming fecal pile on our show than us.

01:07:06.000 Something I find funny is when you look at people actually, the way they attack our show and our joke writing or us dressing as women, they're taking insults that we wrote against ourselves with the Hitler sketch.

01:07:15.000 It's like, we wrote this.

01:07:18.000 Anytime you see a bit where I'm getting insulted or hurt or embarrassed, I wrote it.

01:07:24.000 Yeah.

01:07:24.000 Half the time when you see me doing really embarrassing stuff, for some demented idea, I came up with that.

01:07:30.000 Yeah, you wrote it.

01:07:31.000 You wrote it.

01:07:32.000 I don't know.

01:07:33.000 No, but that was a non-sequitur, but if you'd have corrected Bill O'Reilly, first, you're gone.

01:07:38.000 Oh, that's true.

01:07:39.000 Yeah, the thing with Bill O'Reilly, like, it's okay, we can talk.

01:07:41.000 But I remember Bill O'Reilly, it was well known.

01:07:42.000 If you didn't mic him in 15 seconds, you didn't work for Bill O'Reilly.

01:07:45.000 It was that kind of thing.

01:07:46.000 Hey, Jeff, it's John.

01:07:48.000 Oh, goodbye.

01:07:48.000 Yeah, you're gone.

01:07:49.000 You're gone.

01:07:50.000 It's Epstein.

01:07:51.000 You're fired.

01:07:53.000 Thanks so much to Blair White, Alex Epstein.

01:07:55.000 We are going to not...

01:07:56.000 Is it Monday we're missing?

01:07:57.000 Monday we're missing.

01:07:58.000 Tuesday we'll be back with our Hawaii special.

01:08:00.000 That's right.

01:08:00.000 We'll be back with a Hawaii special on Tuesday for Mug Club members because we have some work to...

01:08:04.000 Believe it or not, some work to do in Hawaii.

01:08:06.000 I would actually take a homecation at this point if I could.

01:08:08.000 I've been traveling too much.

01:08:09.000 Staycation is a much trendier name.

01:08:10.000 Staycation.

01:08:11.000 That's the term.

01:08:11.000 Is that actually the term?

01:08:12.000 That's actually the term, yeah.

01:08:13.000 Staycation.

01:08:13.000 Yeah.

01:08:14.000 You just couldn't afford a trip.

01:08:19.000 That's so cruel.

01:08:20.000 For some of them.

01:08:21.000 Speaking of cruelty, so this is something, you know, people were talking about the Jordan Peterson test, and I scored off the charts in compassion, but not so much in politeness, which I think some people may have been surprised.

01:08:32.000 I don't think people who are Mug Club members who watch the show with any great regularity...

01:08:36.000 You know this.

01:08:37.000 You know...

01:08:38.000 I hate to ever bully people.

01:08:41.000 And that's why we never take pot shots like the Young Turks or like the left without offering them recourse. 0.96

01:08:46.000 If we go after someone, if we attack somebody, and they say, hey, that's not correct, we want to come on the show, we'll always allow them that platform.

01:08:53.000 It doesn't mean everybody's allowed this platform at any time because you have two followers and an egg avatar.

01:08:58.000 Some of these channels like Young Turks have made an entire career, an entire platform off of punching down.

01:09:02.000 Yeah.

01:09:02.000 It's their thing.

01:09:03.000 Well, punching and then just, okay, well, let's talk about it.

01:09:05.000 No.

01:09:06.000 And that was kind of Onision until Blair White.

01:09:09.000 You know, for a long time, Blair White was a tiny channel, and then he wanted to debate her when she was a bigger channel, when Blair White was a bigger channel.

01:09:15.000 I know, I'm getting...

01:09:15.000 Just stop with the pronouns.

01:09:17.000 People are always going to try and trip me up no matter what it was.

01:09:19.000 Blair.

01:09:21.000 So, here's something that's important to note.

01:09:23.000 And I was talking with Owen Benjamin about this. 0.97

01:09:26.000 I always hated, it was really hard for me to get along with people in the entertainment industry because of how jackass-ish they were, because of how leftist and elitist they were.

01:09:37.000 And then I always felt really pretty lonely with conservatives because of how, when I was at Fox News for four and a half years, because it wasn't necessarily a very creative environment. 0.86

01:09:45.000 It was a numbers game.

01:09:46.000 And I didn't relate to them a whole bunch.

01:09:49.000 Now, the reason I disliked the left when I was in the entertainment industry was because they were bullies.

01:09:52.000 I learned pretty early on being dropped from management for making fun of any, pick the liberal cause du jour, whether it was being banned from a college or getting calls to my management for making a Muhammad joke at the university cultural fair week, or cultural appreciation fair week.

01:10:06.000 I don't know what it was, but I had these run-ins pretty early on.

01:10:09.000 That being said, I was bullied a lot as a kid.

01:10:10.000 I think a lot of people here were bullied a lot as a kid.

01:10:12.000 I know Owen and I were talking about it.

01:10:13.000 Most comedians were bullied a lot as a kid.

01:10:15.000 Most creative types were bullied a lot.

01:10:16.000 Had pretty miserable childhoods.

01:10:18.000 Which is why I hate this narrative that's put out there now that the LGBTQ AIP are the only people who are bullied.

01:10:25.000 And I think that's where some people maybe mistake it as a lack of compassion.

01:10:29.000 I was talking with Jordan Peterson about this.

01:10:31.000 My first instinct, honestly, you know, with the Cenk Uygur thing, when I hijacked his stage, I felt bad about that.

01:10:38.000 I was like, ah, maybe we shouldn't upload this because...

01:10:40.000 We planned on making a joke out of it, but then when there were so few people in the audience, I said, you could pick a show of mine in anywhere USA that wasn't well promoted, and it could look really bad.

01:10:50.000 I don't want to do that.

01:10:52.000 And we're like, yeah, but then he tossed to the audience to make fun of you, and the guy refused to debate.

01:10:57.000 So I kind of had to.

01:10:58.000 I don't plan on ever doing that again, just so you know.

01:11:02.000 But even there, I felt bad.

01:11:03.000 And my first instinct when I see people...

01:11:06.000 Like you see on The View, the Little Miss American History X Little Miss. 0.93

01:11:09.000 It's an ironic nickname.

01:11:12.000 I feel bad.

01:11:13.000 My heart goes out to them.

01:11:14.000 Because, you know, okay, I can see you were probably a misfit at some point.

01:11:17.000 You probably weren't treated very well.

01:11:19.000 And I could see how that would shape your worldview.

01:11:22.000 So some people, they still feel bad because they just look at someone and say, oh, they're fat. 0.99

01:11:26.000 Oh, they're ugly. 0.99

01:11:27.000 Therefore, it's mean to pick on them because naturally you're being the bully. 0.97

01:11:32.000 But they fail to realize that they're watching an entire panel of people on broadcast television who 100% agree with each other.

01:11:41.000 Whoopi.

01:11:43.000 What's her name?

01:11:44.000 Joy Behar.

01:11:45.000 The blonde woman there who was hosting the panel.

01:11:47.000 And an entire panel of people telling you what pronouns you can use.

01:11:50.000 At some point, we're adults.

01:11:52.000 So it's not compassionate just to say, well, I feel bad for this person.

01:11:56.000 And that's a trick that's often used nowadays.

01:11:59.000 And sometimes it's happened with us where we felt guilty.

01:12:01.000 Like, oh.

01:12:02.000 Oh man, this person is kind of a sorry character.

01:12:05.000 I don't want to go after them.

01:12:06.000 But then you realize, hold on a second, this person is actively trying to remove the freedoms of other people.

01:12:10.000 This person is actively trying to remove the freedom of speech of other people.

01:12:13.000 This person, who just so happens to be a land whale, is actively trying to remove your God-given right to self-protection through the Second Amendment.

01:12:20.000 And then you realize, hold on a second, not only are they trying personally, but every single person In the industry that up until recently, thanks to the internet, controlled the entire flow of information, are backing them up.

01:12:32.000 We are now adults.

01:12:34.000 And if you got a swirly when you were younger, you had someone call you a name, and I'm sorry if someone made fun of you because you were gay or you were trans.

01:12:40.000 That's not acceptable.

01:12:41.000 It shouldn't be done on a basis that's cruel.

01:12:44.000 But now we're adults.

01:12:46.000 And just being silent and being intimidated can't be confused with compassion.

01:12:51.000 And the left today, this is what Owen talked about as well, they are the bully pulpit.

01:12:55.000 I wonder if I were born in a different era, if I would have probably gone after maybe the Christian conservatives. 0.71

01:13:02.000 You know, in the Brady Bunch era, I wonder if, because everyone said, this is the way you have to be, I've naturally had a problem with authority, as seen in the personality assessment test with Jordan Peterson.

01:13:11.000 I would have rejected that because they were the bullies at one point.

01:13:15.000 Anytime someone's saying you have to be this way, or when conservatives or Christians were trying to actively censor speech at one point, I would have been fighting against that.

01:13:22.000 But we are in an era right now where the bullying comes entirely from the left.

01:13:26.000 And it does matter.

01:13:27.000 When you look at leftism versus constitutionalism, as we talked about with rights before, language matters.

01:13:32.000 Rights versus commodities.

01:13:34.000 These things matter.

01:13:36.000 Facts matter.

01:13:37.000 Statistics matter.

01:13:38.000 What's going on in our country matters, not just how you feel for one person at a time, because that is what the left is using right now.

01:13:43.000 They're trotting out people.

01:13:45.000 That's why they're trotting out just an absolute circus show of freaks, so that you hopefully stay silent.

01:13:51.000 It's like, hey, hey. 0.98

01:13:52.000 Anyone want to criticize the butch-cutted, chain-gang, BuzzFeed lesbian painting with her period blood with the purple lipstick? 0.99

01:13:58.000 I didn't think so. 0.99

01:14:00.000 They're being the bullies.

01:14:01.000 They're the Corleones who are saying, uncle says hello, and wrapping the piano wire around your neck because you used the wrong pronoun.

01:14:09.000 So don't let that happen.

01:14:11.000 I see a lot of people saying, you know, I just got an email this week, actually a direct message on Twitter saying, you know, I don't want people to think that I'm this horrible person.

01:14:11.000 That's one thing, too.

01:14:19.000 I don't want people to think that I'm this person with a complete lack of compassion.

01:14:22.000 But I also think that these things are, I think men and women are important.

01:14:26.000 I think that the societal norms that have created the bedrock of Western civilization are important. 0.96

01:14:31.000 But I don't want to come across as a dick. 0.76

01:14:32.000 How do you balance it? 0.98

01:14:33.000 The truth is we're at a point where you can't.

01:14:35.000 You can't, and it doesn't matter because you will be seen as the bully, even though, right now, to walk back up to the LGBTQAAIP, to The View, to all of Late Night, all of mainstream media, all of the DNC, YouTube, Facebook, who helped a man get killed, will be killed in Pakistan for blasphemy laws. 0.84

01:14:56.000 These people are the bullies, and you can't, you can't balance that with the perception of compassion.

01:15:04.000 Because the people who have set up the bully pulpit, and I've realized that this week, they have deliberately stacked the cards against you so that if you speak up at all, you will automatically be assumed guilty of a lack of compassion.

01:15:16.000 So at this point, if you know you're compassionate, if you know that you care about people, No guilt.

01:15:21.000 Don't feel guilty.

01:15:22.000 Speak truth and understand that today in 2017, it doesn't matter who the president is, there is a bully pulpit the likes of which we've never seen.

01:15:28.000 They are trying to determine what you can say, what you can do, and even what you can think, and what the rest of us can even think collectively.

01:15:36.000 And I do want to see more people going out there speaking truth than trying to feign compassion.

01:15:40.000 Don't feel guilty about it because I did for a long time.

01:15:44.000 And I'll rightfully admit that was a byproduct of my upbringing.

01:15:47.000 So don't let it happen to you.

01:15:48.000 Don't get caught in it.

01:15:49.000 They're going to vilify you anyway. 0.90

01:15:50.000 Play the heel.

01:15:52.000 See you next week.

Louder with Crowder - July 28, 2017

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