Louder with Crowder - #383 MEDIA’S MCCAIN REVERSAL! Raz0rFist, Dennis Prager, Remy Munasifi Guest

00:00:04.000 So, I'm going to go ahead and get my camera.

00:00:25.000 I'm going to go ahead and get my camera.

00:00:51.000 I'm going to go ahead and get my camera.

00:01:06.000 You That's called the captain's chair because I've been watching River Monsters lately.

00:01:12.000 And I've gotten to the last season and he's no longer in rivers.

00:01:15.000 He's just in the ocean.

00:01:15.000 It's like you're just fishing for sharks.

00:01:17.000 Pointless.

00:01:18.000 In the Atlantic Ocean, the bull shark.

00:01:20.000 That's not why I tuned in!

00:01:21.000 I wanted to see River Monsters in fresh water.

00:01:23.000 Really excited.

00:01:24.000 Huge show.

00:01:25.000 We have Razor Fist on the program.

00:01:26.000 Yeah.

00:01:27.000 Boom.

00:01:27.000 We have Dennis Prager on the program.

00:01:29.000 Oh, wow.

00:01:29.000 We will be talking about the media's double standard with John McCain.

00:01:32.000 We'll, of course, be talking about the Facebook walkout.

00:01:35.000 I got winded from doing the captain's chair.

00:01:36.000 Yeah, that's a workout up there.

00:01:38.000 By the way, I should say that, like in Jaws, a captain is where you're bolted in to hunt sharks.

00:01:42.000 Well, you don't want to be... Bolted in is dangerous though, right?

00:01:44.000 No, otherwise you go overboard!

00:01:46.000 What if he takes the boat over?

00:01:48.000 You're like bolted and you're going down with it.

00:01:49.000 I've been watching too many shows.

00:01:50.000 That's Jaws!

00:01:51.000 You just said Jaws!

00:01:52.000 I know, but it wasn't the chair's problem.

00:01:54.000 Alright, what we have producing in the show is Quarter Black, Garrett.

00:01:56.000 You can follow him on Twitter.

00:01:57.000 You're Quarter Black, right?

00:01:58.000 Yes, I am.

00:01:58.000 Which quarter?

00:01:59.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:01:59.000 On your dad's side?

00:02:00.000 What's that?

00:02:01.000 That's the hoodpass equivalent to us being murdered in the streets.

00:02:06.000 G. Morgan Jr., sommelier.

00:02:08.000 Apparently that's a real thing.

00:02:09.000 Wine of the day.

00:02:10.000 I got a Suduri Pinot Noir, my friend.

00:02:12.000 A what?

00:02:12.000 You see, it's almost like a naked lady on the bottle there.

00:02:15.000 No, it's not almost like that at all, Rorschach.

00:02:17.000 And in the third chair with us today is actually ISIS communications director and senior public affairs official Mahmoud al-Mahmoud.

00:02:26.000 How are you, sir?

00:02:27.000 Doing well, Stephen.

00:02:27.000 Good to see you again.

00:02:28.000 I'm glad to see you as well.

00:02:30.000 You're sounding a little bit loud to me with your microphone, but that's OK because our sound guy's going to get it there.

00:02:34.000 You were breathing into it.

00:02:35.000 It was a little loud for you earlier.

00:02:37.000 You know, I'm used to that desert wind.

00:02:40.000 Great!

00:02:40.000 I'm surprised you, honestly, were here with us today.

00:02:43.000 Oh, you know, I just want to put on a good face for ISIS.

00:02:46.000 You know, we want you to see the softer side.

00:02:48.000 That's okay.

00:02:48.000 Well, you know, you can look at me.

00:02:49.000 You don't have to look at the camera.

00:02:50.000 You're like Oprah, where she can't not look at herself.

00:02:52.000 I know you're... I went to media school, you know, so...

00:02:57.000 He's a professional, Steven.

00:02:58.000 I've seen quite a bit of your work.

00:03:00.000 And question of the day, put bluntly, how do you remember John McCain?

00:03:04.000 Not what do you feel you have to remember, not what do you think everyone wants you to say you remember, how do you view him and his legacy?

00:03:10.000 Comment below.

00:03:10.000 We'll get into the media's flip-flop comparing McCain to Nazis before to hailing him as the second coming of Christ in a minute.

00:03:15.000 But our top story, these recently took over a hot dog stand in Times Square, New York.

00:03:22.000 This comes to us from an actual publication.

00:03:24.000 The bees engulfed the food carton were carefully removed from the umbrella while some stray bees made their way to the facade of a nearby cafe.

00:03:31.000 Unfortunately, the swarm actually proved to be fatal as some just looking to enjoy a New York hot dog were taken from us far too soon.

00:03:37.000 Let us pray in silence.

00:03:42.000 He can't see without his glasses, you know this.

00:03:57.000 I'm the mood, so you shouldn't think that was unnecessarily dark.

00:04:00.000 How did my mom let me watch that when I was seven?

00:04:02.000 I'm surprised she let you watch anything from the West, in fact.

00:04:06.000 Yeah, I turned out okay.

00:04:08.000 You know, what I'm really surprised is that the bees survived the hot dog water from those things.

00:04:12.000 I mean, come on.

00:04:13.000 The only ones who survived the hot dog water are people like Al Mahmood on the street corners in New York.

00:04:18.000 It's good water!

00:04:19.000 It's not good water.

00:04:21.000 A Facebook employee is now starting a movement against the company's intolerant liberal culture, as he puts it.

00:04:26.000 And a lot of people have joined.

00:04:27.000 The engineer Brian Amerige, I think is how it's pronounced.

00:04:30.000 Amerige?

00:04:31.000 I don't know.

00:04:31.000 It's one of the things I've only read about.

00:04:33.000 It happened again!

00:04:34.000 ...in media, only online on sites that we read, alleges that colleagues attack, often in mobs, anyone who is not left-leaning.

00:04:41.000 He says they tear down Trump posters and demand that HR investigate anyone who criticizes Islam's human rights records.

00:04:47.000 Amen, brother.

00:04:48.000 Oh, come on.

00:04:50.000 So this is where we are.

00:04:52.000 Liberal tech bloggers are concerned that this is going to allow conservatives to claim big tech is biased against them, while conservatives are concerned about big tech being biased against them.

00:05:00.000 By the way, Jeeves was the original whistleblower.

00:05:02.000 Try to ask Jeeves.

00:05:03.000 You can't because he was murdered!

00:05:05.000 Nope, yeah.

00:05:06.000 It's tragic.

00:05:06.000 For voting for John McCain.

00:05:07.000 Oh, of course.

00:05:08.000 Whom we all love dearly!

00:05:09.000 Of course.

00:05:10.000 Now!

00:05:12.000 By the way.

00:05:13.000 You know the original investigator who covered the whole thing was Tom from MySpace?

00:05:17.000 Oh, yeah, I remember.

00:05:18.000 Yeah, but we had him burned in a cage.

00:05:20.000 Yes, well, it just surprised me.

00:05:22.000 It tends to be the method that you guys use.

00:05:24.000 What's going on there?

00:05:25.000 It's a bit cliche.

00:05:26.000 It's getting cliche.

00:05:27.000 I will agree.

00:05:30.000 And look, don't worry, we're going to give you the update story when they summarily fire him for sexual harassment later on in the week, so don't worry about that.

00:05:37.000 It's going to be a random case from five years ago.

00:05:39.000 Yes, and the HR department was just copy-pasted from Fox News.

00:05:43.000 The point is, someone's getting wiener pics from a co-host or someone who shall remain nameless.

00:05:47.000 You guys pioneered the burning in a cage, really.

00:05:52.000 Why the cage?

00:05:52.000 It seems incidental at that point.

00:05:54.000 The burning should be bad enough.

00:05:55.000 Unnecessary, right?

00:05:56.000 I don't know.

00:05:56.000 It's kind of theatrical, you know?

00:05:58.000 There's something about a cage that evokes something.

00:06:01.000 I don't know if it's primal.

00:06:03.000 I don't know that it works.

00:06:05.000 It just works, right?

00:06:06.000 I don't know that it works.

00:06:07.000 What about the acid attacks?

00:06:09.000 Why that?

00:06:09.000 Because, you know, this is one thing I've never understood.

00:06:11.000 You know, you shoot someone, you stab someone, we understand it's war, you're trying to take somebody out.

00:06:15.000 The acid attack, I mean, you know you're not going to kill them, it's just unpleasant.

00:06:19.000 You know, it's in the kitchen of your mom.

00:06:20.000 You have acids in the kitchen of your mom.

00:06:23.000 And you know, you make do.

00:06:24.000 You know, this is a... Right.

00:06:26.000 So it's like the Bart Simpson's Little Bastards Toolkit.

00:06:29.000 Yeah, it's the foundation of many art forms, really.

00:06:31.000 Yeah, I don't think so at all.

00:06:33.000 I think you're entirely mistaken.

00:06:34.000 But, you know, listen, Cultural Differences.

00:06:36.000 Turning to Canada, speaking of Cultural Differences, Toronto is going to be opening its first sex doll brothel.

00:06:41.000 Oh yeah.

00:06:42.000 In a nondescript shopping plaza.

00:06:44.000 So, the company's marketing director said that there will be no human staff in the brothel section and goes on to say that for men who have these dark, violent fantasies, they can do something like this which is safe for everyone.

00:07:00.000 Trust us, you don't want to bark up that tree, said Tonka, the famed toymaker of the early, ill-fated 90's f***ing buddies.

00:07:09.000 Henry, will you please see what those boys are up to?

00:07:11.000 Introducing... ...Buddy.

00:07:14.000 Buddy's from Tonka.

00:07:15.000 Bump him, bop him.

00:07:17.000 Buddy's a look of erection.

00:07:20.000 Hey, fellas, what's going on?

00:07:21.000 Nothing, Dad.

00:07:22.000 Dropkick!

00:07:24.000 Who do you think you are?

00:07:25.000 Dad's... ...Buddy's wanna be your buddy.

00:07:30.000 Henry, what's going on up there?

00:07:32.000 Nothing, dear.

00:07:34.000 Buddy's new from Tonka.

00:07:36.000 He sold separately.

00:07:39.000 I don't know why.

00:07:39.000 That was not a good idea.

00:07:42.000 I have no idea.

00:07:44.000 Oh my gosh.

00:07:45.000 Come on, man.

00:07:45.000 I heard about those sex dolls, though.

00:07:48.000 A buddy of mine bought 72 of them.

00:07:54.000 Yeah.

00:07:54.000 Did he put it on eBay afterwards?

00:07:55.000 Slightly used?

00:07:56.000 Loves them.

00:07:57.000 Yeah.

00:07:57.000 I don't know.

00:07:58.000 In terms of service, I think there was a little flag about it.

00:08:00.000 Yeah, I can imagine.

00:08:02.000 You're the worst job in the world.

00:08:04.000 The IT guy at that Emporium.

00:08:07.000 What does it have?

00:08:08.000 A virus?

00:08:09.000 They're all viruses!

00:08:13.000 One thing, we know there's the level of depravity with sex dolls, right?

00:08:16.000 We know that we've reached that level of depravity.

00:08:17.000 But now we've also, we've created this ungodly amalgamation, this combination, this symbiotic relationship of the sexual depravity and laziness.

00:08:27.000 They're not even earning the sex dolls now.

00:08:29.000 It's a lease!

00:08:32.000 It's a rental!

00:08:33.000 I wouldn't want to be the guy that has to go in there with the squeegee and the wet wipes on each one of those.

00:08:37.000 Yeah, what's a janitor job like that?

00:08:39.000 But we seem to have created a real live Westworld, thank God.

00:08:41.000 We needed one of those, right?

00:08:42.000 This worked out so well in the show!

00:08:44.000 I don't think there are any Evan Rachel Woods in there.

00:08:46.000 I think it's much sadder than Westworld.

00:08:47.000 This is definitely like Westworld Season 2 where it sucks at the end.

00:08:50.000 There's no getting to the center of the game.

00:08:52.000 This would make a good Dirty Jobs.

00:08:58.000 That would be awesome.

00:08:59.000 Do you guys get there where you are?

00:09:00.000 In your lair?

00:09:02.000 Pirates in TV?

00:09:03.000 You get dirty jobs in your lair?

00:09:04.000 Big fans of the micro?

00:09:05.000 Oh yeah, we have the satellite.

00:09:07.000 Hey, he's drinking from the infidel's mug over there.

00:09:10.000 He must be a fan.

00:09:11.000 Well, it was part of the contractual obligation.

00:09:13.000 I don't even know what's in here.

00:09:15.000 Sleep tight.

00:09:15.000 Finally, there's new data, by the way, on New York City subway masturbators.

00:09:21.000 The NYPD fielded a total of 376 reports of public lewdness or exposure of a person last year, and they logged 24 complaints at stations served solely by the F train.

00:09:34.000 Of course.

00:09:34.000 More than any other of the NK data shows, which actually finally gave authorities the evidence needed to arrest Thomas the Serial Public Masturbator Tank Engine.

00:09:41.000 So they were really I knew that grin.

00:09:47.000 It was like Al Capone.

00:09:49.000 They caught him on something else.

00:09:50.000 You know what they caught him on?

00:09:51.000 He went off the rails.

00:09:52.000 That's what happened.

00:09:54.000 He was contorting himself.

00:09:57.000 It's a memory here coming down the... I think I can.

00:10:00.000 I think I can.

00:10:00.000 I think I can end rape.

00:10:02.000 And if you think that's bad, you should have seen the D train.

00:10:06.000 Oh my gosh.

00:10:06.000 Nobody wants to see the D train.

00:10:08.000 Never caught the D train.

00:10:08.000 Nobody.

00:10:11.000 I thought you had something you were about to say there, Gerald.

00:10:13.000 Nobody wants to see the D-train.

00:10:15.000 Speaking of loneliness, by the way, because that train is... Do you remember Shining Time Station?

00:10:19.000 Am I the only one out there?

00:10:20.000 Please, comment.

00:10:21.000 No one else remembers Shining Time Station?

00:10:23.000 Did you ever watch Shining Time Station?

00:10:24.000 No.

00:10:24.000 It must have been a Canadian show.

00:10:26.000 So, this is Thomas the Tank.

00:10:29.000 Is it Thomas the Tank?

00:10:30.000 It's Thomas the Train, I thought.

00:10:32.000 Thomas the Tank Engine.

00:10:33.000 Thomas the Tank Engine.

00:10:34.000 It's disturbing that you know that.

00:10:36.000 I had no idea.

00:10:38.000 You must study one's opponent.

00:10:41.000 Namely six-year-old boys, apparently.

00:10:43.000 So in Shining Time Station, tell me, I don't know if this was a Canadian thing, it was like a Mr. Rogers neighborhood, only it was at a train station.

00:10:51.000 And Pinkie, whatever her name was from Greece, she was the lady who ran the train station.

00:10:56.000 And there was actually a little conductor, a little mini conductor on the table.

00:10:59.000 People are going to think I'm on acid.

00:11:00.000 I'm not, I swear to you, this is an actual show.

00:11:01.000 You are on acid.

00:11:01.000 And that mini conductor was George Carlin.

00:11:04.000 And then he would say, have you never heard the story of my friend Thomas the Tank?

00:11:08.000 All aboard!

00:11:09.000 And it would go to smoke, and it would go to a story of Thomas the Tank Engine, and that's where it started.

00:11:14.000 So I know, I see the Thomas the Tank Engine stuff everywhere, but I'm wondering if people know... We don't call it that, though.

00:11:18.000 Because it's a train, it's not a tank!

00:11:20.000 Shining Time Station was the show, and they replaced George Carlin, like, in the third season with Ringo Starr.

00:11:24.000 I know people think I'm on drugs!

00:11:26.000 Probably because George Carlin woke up one morning and said, I'm George frickin' Carlin!

00:11:31.000 I think you're high.

00:11:32.000 I know.

00:11:33.000 This may have been a dream you had.

00:11:34.000 This is not a dream I had.

00:11:36.000 It's possible.

00:11:37.000 Canadians out there, Shining Time Station.

00:11:39.000 I hadn't missed her dress up yet.

00:11:40.000 I wonder.

00:11:41.000 It sounds like a complex pedophile ring.

00:11:44.000 You would have experience with that, wouldn't you, sir?

00:11:46.000 Oh, sorry.

00:11:48.000 I did watch it in the bottom of a pizza parlor.

00:11:50.000 So I feel very lonely.

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00:13:21.000 You don't really have that many big people where you come from, because it's not feasible.

00:13:30.000 I've cut people's heads off, but that was disgusting.

00:13:37.000 I give some miracle advice for you.

00:13:40.000 Get your fat ass to the gym, put the Cheetos down, you're welcome.

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00:13:43.000 You know, here's the thing.

00:13:44.000 There are people, obviously, who have genetic inclinations to be more overweight.

00:13:48.000 I understand that.

00:13:49.000 But that's not 40% of the population.

00:13:51.000 No, but if there's a drug that works, God love them, I guess.

00:13:54.000 We keep coming up with all these complex ways to kill you.

00:13:57.000 It's been carbs the whole time.

00:14:01.000 And we get pissed off at you for burning people.

00:14:03.000 It's ironing.

00:14:04.000 We do it to ourselves.

00:14:05.000 We should all be burning the calories.

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00:14:41.000 Okay, so back to the story.

00:14:43.000 This has dominated the news this week.

00:14:45.000 Here's what really bothers me about the McCain issue.

00:14:49.000 There's a pattern as it relates to both McCain and President Trump.

00:14:52.000 The media, of course, they excoriate any conservative, any Republican, on a national platform no matter who they are.

00:14:57.000 And what they always do is they use that to enact as though they only have a problem with recent extremism.

00:15:01.000 Right, yeah.

00:15:02.000 They did it all the time and a lot of people just forget about it and go like,

00:15:04.000 oh well yeah I guess, I guess so, no I guess they were pretty fair with George W. Bush,

00:15:07.000 I guess they were pretty fair with McCain, I guess they were pretty fair with Romney,

00:15:10.000 it's just, it's just Donald Trump that they don't like.

00:15:12.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:13.000 Do they have to, like, make up for it in the end?

00:15:15.000 They're like, alright, we were really jerks for this guy.

00:15:17.000 Oh, he's dead.

00:15:17.000 Let's, like, do an hour's worth of good coverage.

00:15:19.000 That evens it out.

00:15:20.000 When everyone is Hitler, no one is.

00:15:22.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:23.000 Let's look at John McCain.

00:15:24.000 The media's been pumping out hero stories of McCain, obviously, since his death.

00:15:27.000 And most of them, obviously, well-warranted.

00:15:29.000 The guy was a war hero.

00:15:31.000 But the media completely despised him.

00:15:33.000 For the longest time, just because he was a candidate against Barack Obama.

00:15:36.000 If you need any proof, you need any examples, I haven't seen anyone put this side-by-side.

00:15:40.000 So I want you to see the exact same people what they said pre- and then post-McCain death.

00:15:45.000 Because all I want is consistency here, and I'll get to my opinion on them in a little minute.

00:15:49.000 It's going to sound harsh, but I'm not going to lie to you.

00:15:52.000 So let's go to Exhibit A. Late-night hosts, left-wing pundits.

00:15:54.000 Let's look at how they felt about McCain while he was alive.

00:15:57.000 I would like to say one thing to Senator John McCain.

00:15:59.000 Listen, listen, Senator.

00:16:01.000 You don't show up for me, America doesn't show up for you.

00:16:06.000 Thanks, Senator McCain, but we like Obama because, ooh, he can lift a basketball.

00:16:13.000 And Obama can bite into an apple, and he's on the internet, and he's on my face.

00:16:20.000 This just doesn't smell right, because this is not the way a tested hero behaves.

00:16:24.000 You, sir, are responsible for a phalanx of individuals who are shouting fire in a crowded theater.

00:16:31.000 Why does the left always go to fire in a crowded theater?

00:16:33.000 What is it with the free speech?

00:16:34.000 And it was the same thing with McCain.

00:16:36.000 Everything bad is like, oh, I can't.

00:16:37.000 I'm going through my mental Rolodex here.

00:16:39.000 I've already used Nazi and fascist to make fire in a crowded theater?

00:16:42.000 Can't do it.

00:16:43.000 Does that apply here?

00:16:44.000 I have no idea.

00:16:46.000 But what do your folks, how do they feel about the McCain?

00:16:49.000 Oh, you know, they have a lot of respect for John McCain.

00:16:52.000 You know, he stood up the torture, you know, Vietnamese torture.

00:16:56.000 He could handle that.

00:16:56.000 I mean, to be honest, I can't even put up with Vietnamese hospitality.

00:17:02.000 Their torture was positively, it was child's play compared to what you guys do now.

00:17:07.000 But then, here's the thing, but then as soon as McCain just became a little bit of a bother, a little bit of a thorn in Trump's side... My favorite person in politics, in American politics in the 21st century is your father.

00:17:19.000 Okay?

00:17:20.000 I appreciate that.

00:17:22.000 What?

00:17:23.000 And Megan's breasts by the look of the eye line there if people didn't go back.

00:17:26.000 My favorite person is your father.

00:17:30.000 Not awkward at all.

00:17:31.000 I think he made John McCain the worst person in the world several times!

00:17:36.000 And now he's his favorite person.

00:17:38.000 It's how disingenuine people are that bothers me.

00:17:40.000 Love McCain.

00:17:41.000 Hate McCain.

00:17:41.000 I couldn't care less.

00:17:43.000 Just be honest about it.

00:17:44.000 And Keith Olbermann, obviously.

00:17:45.000 Well, hopefully he pays you guys a visit sooner.

00:17:48.000 You pay him a visit.

00:17:49.000 Yeah, that would be great.

00:17:50.000 I like the anger.

00:17:51.000 Yes, exactly.

00:17:53.000 I like angry Keith.

00:17:55.000 Angry Keith, yeah.

00:17:55.000 It's much better than I've got a thrill running up my leg, Keith.

00:17:57.000 That wasn't Keith, that was Chris Matthews.

00:17:59.000 Chris Matthews, sorry.

00:18:00.000 Oh, good lord.

00:18:00.000 All white guys look alike, John.

00:18:02.000 Well, look, I don't understand, you know, when somebody dies, like, you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead.

00:18:06.000 I don't know, I think that originated in like 600 BC somewhere, and they, I don't know why, it's not like you've accomplished a feat.

00:18:12.000 This is exactly what Freud said.

00:18:13.000 We give you special consideration as though you've done something really difficult.

00:18:17.000 Death has a perfect record, except for, you know, that one guy.

00:18:19.000 Yeah.

00:18:19.000 So why in the world do we not just tell people the truth?

00:18:22.000 And even with that one guy, death had a no contest.

00:18:24.000 Well, that's true.

00:18:25.000 We didn't necessarily take it as an L. He still disputes that.

00:18:30.000 But what they did with McCain is exactly what they're doing to Trump.

00:18:34.000 Because he's dead now, you cannot delineate at all.

00:18:38.000 They use every single leftist strategy in the book.

00:18:41.000 Nazi, mentally unfit racist, white supremacist, Satan, homophobe.

00:18:45.000 All of that sound familiar?

00:18:47.000 Does any of that sound like the kind of nomenclature we're hearing today?

00:18:50.000 You hear this, obviously.

00:18:51.000 Where you are, you hear these words thrown at Donald Trump.

00:18:54.000 You know, they do seem pretty common.

00:18:57.000 I think it's because they're effective.

00:18:58.000 We do some of the things.

00:19:00.000 Also, rocks.

00:19:01.000 Yes!

00:19:02.000 You do throw those around a lot, too.

00:19:04.000 Rocks are pretty effective, too.

00:19:05.000 You know what's more effective than rocks?

00:19:07.000 The IDF.

00:19:09.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:19:12.000 That's awkward.

00:19:13.000 No, I call it like I see it.

00:19:16.000 No nonsense.

00:19:17.000 You're very honest.

00:19:17.000 I appreciate that.

00:19:18.000 I hate that he has the address to our studio.

00:19:20.000 But I love that the left now is like, well, at least McCain wasn't a Nazi.

00:19:25.000 Right.

00:19:26.000 Like Trump.

00:19:27.000 Yeah, because that's only a recent spear.

00:19:28.000 Except, remember this?

00:19:30.000 Yeah, there's something on here.

00:19:31.000 Huh, that's weird.

00:19:34.000 I mean, listen, obviously that's a comedy show, but it was commonly... People were getting their cars, their windows broken for McCain bumper stickers.

00:19:41.000 My brother had someone tear off his sign!

00:19:44.000 Well, because if you were for McCain, you were a racist and a Nazi against Barack Obama.

00:19:48.000 Yes!

00:19:48.000 It had nothing to do with the efficacy of him or not, right?

00:19:51.000 Well, that was... Remember, back then, racist was even bigger than now.

00:19:53.000 Oh, yeah.

00:19:53.000 Because it was Barack Obama.

00:19:54.000 And then when it was Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it was sexist.

00:19:56.000 And they tried to throw the whole transphobe thing in there because it kind of fit under

00:20:01.000 the umbrella of gender.

00:20:02.000 And you realize, hold on a second, everyone went from racist to...

00:20:06.000 No, she's just a b****.

00:20:09.000 It's a pretty straightforward thing.

00:20:10.000 As a matter of fact, you kind of have to be to lose to Donald Trump at that moment in

00:20:13.000 time.

00:20:14.000 I know, right?

00:20:15.000 How does it feel?

00:20:16.000 People will not appreciate just how unlikely it was for Donald Trump to win if anyone else

00:20:20.000 outside of Hillary...

00:20:21.000 Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that it happened.

00:20:23.000 But I mean, you guys even had it.

00:20:24.000 Did you have a dog in that fight at that point?

00:20:26.000 I wagered hard on Hillary.

00:20:28.000 on the...

00:20:29.000 Of course.

00:20:29.000 On the in-trade.

00:20:30.000 Yeah, you were looking for the reset, weren't you?

00:20:32.000 Yeah, I had put it all on.

00:20:34.000 I can imagine.

00:20:34.000 Everyone was.

00:20:35.000 Remember, it was at New York Times when we were doing the live election?

00:20:37.000 We had a 98% chance.

00:20:38.000 It was ridiculous.

00:20:39.000 And we just watched the numbers go down while we did that stream.

00:20:42.000 And their face.

00:20:43.000 Yeah, it was fantastic.

00:20:45.000 I love the tears still.

00:20:46.000 I see them.

00:20:47.000 The point is, this isn't unique to McCain.

00:20:49.000 Let's look at specifically the person right after McCain.

00:20:52.000 Remember Obama mocking Romney?

00:20:55.000 For what now?

00:20:56.000 What was Obama mocking?

00:20:58.000 Enemy number one now, Russia!

00:21:00.000 When you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.

00:21:05.000 Not Al-Qaeda.

00:21:06.000 You said Russia.

00:21:07.000 And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.

00:21:11.000 By the way, Quarter Black called.

00:21:12.000 He wants his melanin back, you fake black bastard.

00:21:15.000 I know, right?

00:21:15.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:21:16.000 Right?

00:21:16.000 So yeah, he says... I want the birth certificate just to see if you're more than a quarter black.

00:21:20.000 I don't think... I'm still not buying it.

00:21:23.000 What are the other three quarters?

00:21:26.000 You guys won't let him live either way, so what does it matter to you?

00:21:31.000 It might be nitpicking, I don't know.

00:21:32.000 It's all below the belt.

00:21:36.000 So March 2014, Russia annexes, politely steals back a country from Crimea.

00:21:41.000 It's no big deal, Russia's not a problem.

00:21:43.000 And then July 2018, Trump meets with Putin and all of a sudden it's collusion in Russia!

00:21:48.000 Yeah, it's like... Are you serious?

00:21:49.000 Trump, you do realize that we armed Ukrainians.

00:21:51.000 They killed over a hundred Russian soldiers.

00:21:54.000 You're aware that our policy is actually a lot more harsh on Russia outside of President Obama.

00:21:58.000 That's the thing, now everyone is concerned about Russia.

00:22:00.000 Back then we were...

00:22:02.000 Russia, whatever.

00:22:03.000 He thinks Russia's a threat.

00:22:06.000 And how many times have you heard people say that?

00:22:07.000 Even Bill Maher said, well, at least Mitt Romney was a decent person.

00:22:10.000 They change their stance once the person is no longer a threat.

00:22:14.000 And it's the same playbook, by the way, that's been used over and over and over.

00:22:17.000 Not just one or two every now and then.

00:22:19.000 McCain was no exception because it's been used on every single conservative or Republican ever.

00:22:25.000 Even the seamless mutuality of government and big business.

00:22:28.000 Come out and say it.

00:22:29.000 There is a dictionary definition.

00:22:31.000 One word that describes that toxic blend.

00:22:33.000 You're a fascist.

00:22:35.000 The biggest threat to America today is not communism.

00:22:37.000 It's moving America toward a fascist theocracy.

00:22:40.000 George Bush doesn't care about black people.

00:22:43.000 We put that one in just because I know everyone's on the Kanye train.

00:22:46.000 He can't see that.

00:22:47.000 He's still an idiot.

00:22:50.000 That's awesome.

00:22:50.000 Best part of that, you don't see the rest of the clip, is Meyer's reaction.

00:22:54.000 I don't know if you remember that.

00:22:55.000 Oh yeah.

00:22:55.000 George Bush does not care about black people.

00:22:58.000 Oh boy.

00:23:02.000 Can we get Jerry Lewis in here?

00:23:05.000 What the hell is going on?

00:23:07.000 You put me next to the touched black guy who thinks he's Freddie Mercury for some reason.

00:23:11.000 Oh, what a crappy gig.

00:23:14.000 Listen, obviously, my thoughts and my prayers, of course, go out to the McCain family.

00:23:19.000 Losing a family member, and listen, for better or worse, whatever your opinion, a national icon, yeah, it's always a tragedy and there's a time for mourning.

00:23:25.000 But all I'm talking about here is a little bit, just a modicum of consistency.

00:23:29.000 How do I remember McCain?

00:23:31.000 Okay.

00:23:32.000 How do you remember McCain, you guys?

00:23:34.000 I remember McCain as somebody who... I hate to say this again.

00:23:37.000 He became a pansy, politically speaking.

00:23:39.000 He just didn't stand up for anything anymore, and it seems like he switched to try to just gain popularity.

00:23:44.000 Exactly.

00:23:45.000 Okay, so I remember him as... Yeah, you were gonna say something?

00:23:47.000 Well, the only thing I remember him like, honestly...

00:23:50.000 Oh, it's terrible.

00:23:51.000 He was at a Vietnam war camp.

00:23:55.000 You try a quarter of a black carrot.

00:23:57.000 Plus they're also racist.

00:23:59.000 So all of a sudden you'd be like Peter denying Christ three times before the rooster crows denying your blackness.

00:24:03.000 They're not fond of you guys.

00:24:06.000 I think that McCain is a good... I don't know if that's true at all, Washington.

00:24:10.000 We love the color!

00:24:11.000 Why do you say that?

00:24:13.000 We love negro!

00:24:15.000 Um, that's probably the term.

00:24:16.000 I don't know what they say.

00:24:17.000 They haven't gotten the memo of people of color yet.

00:24:19.000 I still read NAACP flyer!

00:24:21.000 No, look, cut our people!

00:24:22.000 You screwed up!

00:24:24.000 You want me to change that?

00:24:25.000 Now African-American?

00:24:26.000 What if you're from Jamaica, live in Canada?

00:24:28.000 You stupid.

00:24:30.000 So I don't remember John McCain.

00:24:31.000 Good man.

00:24:31.000 Yeah, I absolutely remember he was a good man and a candidate that I didn't like, but voted for because I had to.

00:24:36.000 I had no choice.

00:24:37.000 And someone who, despite his unbelievably impressive military pedigree, surprised me, yeah, with some of his caving to political peer pressure in Washington.

00:24:44.000 And by the way, you know what?

00:24:45.000 Nearly everyone out there listening right now watching feels the exact same way that we just mentioned about McCain.

00:24:51.000 You just don't think you can say it.

00:24:52.000 That's it.

00:24:52.000 Almost everyone you talk to goes, like, yeah, McCain.

00:24:55.000 We kind of screwed the pooch with McCain.

00:24:56.000 Listen, you don't have to love the guy because he's dead now.

00:24:59.000 I think the guy is worthy of more respect than some people out there, like Ted Kennedy, who killed a girl and left her!

00:25:05.000 I would honor John McCain before that, but it doesn't mean that I love everything about the guy, and none of that changes.

00:25:09.000 By the way, when I die, please, the people who hate me, don't change your tune.

00:25:14.000 Shout it from the rooftops like the Ricola guy, okay?

00:25:17.000 And as far as what you do with my body, sweetheart, I don't care.

00:25:19.000 I don't care if she asks me if it's open casket, because French Canadians do that in cremation.

00:25:22.000 Just leave me out for the trash on Tuesday.

00:25:24.000 I'm not using this!

00:25:26.000 Yeah, it's done.

00:25:27.000 You want someone to put on the burning heap?

00:25:30.000 Noted, David.

00:25:33.000 That's a willing beheading, post-mortem, nonetheless.

00:25:36.000 So the one thing that's beyond dispute, I think, here with the passing of McCain is that it proves to us time and time again, how many times have you heard us say this, that appeasing crocodiles is futile.

00:25:43.000 Yeah.

00:25:44.000 It doesn't matter how moderate you are.

00:25:45.000 It doesn't matter how much middle ground you try to find or concede.

00:25:48.000 That's why I say I couldn't care less about middle ground.

00:25:50.000 I couldn't care less about finding common ground.

00:25:52.000 I care about truth.

00:25:53.000 Once you're at the top of the heap for the Republican Party, or even seen as any kind

00:25:56.000 of a conservative representative, you will get the same playbook played again.

00:26:00.000 Nazi, racist, homophobe, bigot, war hawk, liar, dummy, take your pick.

00:26:05.000 So live your life and be exactly who you are.

00:26:07.000 Be your right-wing self to the fullest.

00:26:09.000 Because the only time the left will ever treat you with any respect or civility, that's the term of the day now, right?

00:26:13.000 Civility?

00:26:13.000 The only time they'll ever give you any respect or civility is when you can be used as a political pawn once you're dead.

00:26:19.000 Raise your fist.

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00:27:46.000 Yeah, but how many sandwiches as well?

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00:27:57.000 Don't listen to him.

00:28:10.000 Uh, I don't know what that means.

00:28:11.000 I don't know what that means when people say, it's fly, or when people say in Canada, they used to say, it's jokes.

00:28:15.000 Yeah.

00:28:15.000 That was when they would say, this could be a Canadian thing.

00:28:18.000 Like, it's funny, but they would say, it's jokes.

00:28:21.000 Doesn't make a whole lot of sense with their adverbiage over there.

00:28:23.000 Someone who is very eloquent in the way he speaks, and he also has a new merch store up, I believe.

00:28:28.000 I didn't even know that.

00:28:29.000 It's always hard to plug him because, well, we'll just go with that.

00:28:33.000 We'll continue with that.

00:28:34.000 I'm sure I'll have something to say there.

00:28:36.000 It's TheRageaholic on YouTube, but then RazorFist on the Twitter with a zero.

00:28:42.000 So most of you will get that wrong.

00:28:43.000 Mr. Fist, how are you, sir?

00:28:46.000 I try to make it as confusing as buying a PS4.

00:28:50.000 That's my goal here.

00:28:51.000 I'm not inside baseball with the gamer stuff, but I assume it's difficult to purchase a PlayStation 4, yes?

00:28:58.000 There's about 50 different versions now.

00:29:01.000 Or any console, really.

00:29:02.000 It's not just PS4.

00:29:04.000 Pretty much anything.

00:29:05.000 See, I didn't know.

00:29:06.000 The last time I was playing was Goldeneye and Nintendo 64, and then I had an Xbox, which my mom traded for a television set for her kitchen, unbeknownst to me.

00:29:16.000 I guess you're not going to many Madden events in the near future.

00:29:21.000 No, I am not.

00:29:21.000 OK, so as a gamer, I did want to get your take on this.

00:29:23.000 You know, he's been he's been dubbed the Madden shooter.

00:29:26.000 I'm sure you've heard this.

00:29:27.000 What are your thoughts on this?

00:29:30.000 I have to stop you.

00:29:31.000 Like when I heard there was a John Madden shooting, like who among us didn't hope?

00:29:36.000 You know what I mean?

00:29:37.000 Like who among us?

00:29:41.000 I don't know.

00:29:43.000 For a joke to work, it has to be relatable.

00:29:46.000 I don't know that that many people have a deeply seated hatred for John Madden.

00:29:49.000 I think it might just be you, Mr. Rage.

00:29:52.000 I love John Madden, but come on.

00:29:57.000 It is one of those issues, kind of like the trans stories.

00:30:00.000 It's very difficult to read.

00:30:02.000 You go, well, it's a he to she, because they never want to show you their cards.

00:30:05.000 They're like, oh, just assume this is actually a man or a woman.

00:30:08.000 Like, well, who's winning the state wrestling titles?

00:30:10.000 I can't tell.

00:30:12.000 Same thing can happen.

00:30:13.000 Some people, when they read the Madden shooter, thought, oh no, what happened to John Madden?

00:30:16.000 But what's your take on this, that this has been kind of a part of the vernacular?

00:30:21.000 Yeah, it's turned into a facet of the gun control argument, basically.

00:30:26.000 And only now it's video game control, basically.

00:30:30.000 Who thought when you start banning inanimate objects that they wouldn't stop at guns?

00:30:34.000 Who would have thought?

00:30:36.000 How do they do it when it's no longer an inanimate object?

00:30:38.000 It's no longer a CD-ROM, it's no longer a cartridge, it's just a game that's downloaded on an iPad.

00:30:44.000 Nebulous cloud somewhere, basically.

00:30:47.000 Alongside Jennifer Lawrence's breast pictures, yeah.

00:30:52.000 So basically, because some barely-ass functional, you know, sperg decided to turn Madden into a first-person shooter, we're back on the, you know, blame video games bandwagon.

00:31:02.000 Yeah.

00:31:02.000 You know, never mind.

00:31:03.000 And if you look at it statistically, video game adoption, is it an all-time high?

00:31:07.000 While violent street crime, is it an all-time low?

00:31:10.000 or is that like a 40 year law or some such?

00:31:12.000 Nevermind that the two numbers are basically arcing in opposite directions.

00:31:17.000 Let's blame Luigi for Columbine, you know what I mean?

00:31:21.000 It just doesn't make any sense at all.

00:31:23.000 And the real problem, no issue exposes the cognitive dissonance

00:31:29.000 of sort of the slacktivist left today, like the dichotomy between reflexively defending video

00:31:37.000 games as inanimate objects that lack destructive agency,

00:31:40.000 as I'm sure we all agree, while calling for the regulation

00:31:43.000 or outright ban of firearms in spite of the very same.

00:31:46.000 Like, Eddie, if you want hours of entertainment, just point out the self-evident contradiction and just watch them lock up like Obama without a prompter.

00:31:53.000 That being said, after the incredibly disappointing launch of the GameCube with Luigi's Mansion, I did want to blow my brains out.

00:31:59.000 So I'm sure there's some runoff there.

00:32:01.000 He's not entirely clean.

00:32:03.000 He's not a spotless lamb, as it were.

00:32:05.000 Yeah, it is odd that they go Madden.

00:32:07.000 You know, remember when we were growing up, it was Doom, and Duke Nukem, and then GoldenEye, and then Call of Duty.

00:32:15.000 Madden?

00:32:15.000 Yes!

00:32:19.000 No kidding.

00:32:20.000 And that's the thing.

00:32:21.000 It's like they want to...

00:32:23.000 They want to have the government ban certain things.

00:32:26.000 They just want to cherry-pick, is basically the long and short of it.

00:32:29.000 Basically, they're learning, you let the government slide just the tip in, they'll be up to their elbows in your a-hole, by the way.

00:32:35.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:37.000 It's not difficult to plug, because he's plugging everyone else.

00:32:41.000 Here's the deal, though.

00:32:44.000 The NRA came out and blamed video games, too.

00:32:46.000 That's what really bothers me, is when people on the right try to do this as well, to obfuscate the issue, because, oh, hold on, we want to get them off the scent of guns.

00:32:52.000 You don't need to.

00:32:53.000 You have the Second Amendment, guys.

00:32:55.000 You don't have to blame Medal of Honor.

00:32:57.000 By the way, no one plays it anymore.

00:32:59.000 But you talk about banning things selectively.

00:33:01.000 You know, we were just talking about this before.

00:33:04.000 He wanted to ban mixed martial arts as human cockfighting.

00:33:06.000 You know, John McCain was somebody who was very selective in what he wanted to ban, when he wanted to be big government versus small government.

00:33:13.000 And I know we're not supposed to talk about it.

00:33:14.000 Like I said, I remember John McCain.

00:33:16.000 Senator John McCain is a guy I kind of had to vote for.

00:33:19.000 Decent man, waffled to the Democrats when he didn't have to, and was kind of a politician.

00:33:25.000 That's about how I view him, as almost everybody does, but no one feels they can say it.

00:33:28.000 As someone who spent a lot of time in Arizona, likely more than McCain before his political career, what are your thoughts on this right now?

00:33:38.000 Sorry, I was holding a moment of silence for the tumor.

00:33:44.000 Look, I am in Arizona.

00:33:47.000 Disclaimer, he's my senator.

00:33:48.000 I'll say all the things you want to say but can't.

00:33:53.000 Here's the thing.

00:33:55.000 There are some people who dislike him on the Trump side.

00:33:57.000 That's not why.

00:33:59.000 Upholding Obamacare, for example.

00:34:01.000 It still pisses me off.

00:34:02.000 Alive or dead.

00:34:03.000 That doesn't change.

00:34:04.000 I mean, I did do a video the day Ted Kennedy died.

00:34:07.000 A sketch of the ghost of Ted Kennedy.

00:34:09.000 So I have no problem with it.

00:34:10.000 I just want people to be consistent and honest.

00:34:13.000 That's my favorite thing, by the way, about Mitt Romney criticizing Trump for lacking decorum.

00:34:19.000 Oh no, criticizing him for corruption over the campaign funding gate.

00:34:25.000 It's like, you're from Massachusetts, my friend.

00:34:27.000 Your state bird is an Oldsmobile in a lake, and you're going to talk to me about corruption Come on.

00:34:35.000 But no, look, I'm in Arizona.

00:34:37.000 He's my senator.

00:34:39.000 He still is, actually.

00:34:40.000 We don't have an appointee, so I guess his corpse is my senator.

00:34:44.000 I literally have not had a senator for the last two years because John McCain was too busy playing politics from his deathbed to resign, you know, while Jeff Flake went on safari to avoid voting on shit, basically.

00:34:55.000 That's my primary issue, is the obfuscation and the BS around his condition, his ability to actually work, the fact that For the last year, we basically have not been represented at all in the Senate.

00:35:09.000 And another thing, you'd think dying of brain sickness would take a bite out of your spite, but apparently not so much.

00:35:16.000 He was uninviting people from his funeral to the bitter end.

00:35:18.000 He uninvites Trump.

00:35:20.000 He uninvites Rand Paul, calls him a Russian agent.

00:35:23.000 He uninvites Kalen, the woman he ran with in 2008!

00:35:28.000 I know, I know.

00:35:28.000 It is one of the... You'd like to think he wouldn't be a bitter old person, but it really seemed, when you look at that list, for people who haven't, it actually, it gets worse.

00:35:37.000 I think if you look down the list, there's some that are strikingly personal.

00:35:40.000 Somebody was explaining it to me, because you can't know necessarily everyone on this non-invite list.

00:35:43.000 It's like a book I used to read as a child.

00:35:45.000 It was called Hooper Humperdink, not him.

00:35:46.000 It was just about people who weren't invited to the party.

00:35:48.000 They were mostly losers and fat people.

00:35:49.000 It's how I learned my ABCs, not a joke.

00:35:54.000 This is important that someone from Arizona has come on the show to talk about this, because we were talking about the left, and the left obviously now is saying, well listen, he was one of the greatest American heroes.

00:36:02.000 They called him a Nazi back then.

00:36:03.000 We just ran a clip from Family Guy where they showed the SS with a McCain-Palin sticker.

00:36:08.000 This is what bothers me about the left, but we're not hearing a lot of folks on the right talk about some of these issues as well.

00:36:14.000 There's the inconsistency issue which we've dealt with, but I think that some of your comments, barring the others, that I cannot condone.

00:36:21.000 are illuminated.

00:36:22.000 Right. And the thing is, like, you, I think part of it is, number one, she associated

00:36:28.000 too closely with Trump. And two, I think he kind of always blamed her for losing the election.

00:36:33.000 Or talking about Palin, yes.

00:36:34.000 He, like, even if he had invited her, he would have had to pull her out from under the bus

00:36:38.000 first. You know what I mean?

00:36:40.000 And here's the thing.

00:36:42.000 If you go back through that campaign and really look at the high points and low points, I can pinpoint the precise moment McCain cratered that election.

00:36:50.000 And I can do it in exactly one sentence.

00:36:52.000 Are you ready?

00:36:54.000 Change is coming, my French.

00:36:57.000 Change is coming, right?

00:37:00.000 I bet at that exact moment, Obama was coming.

00:37:03.000 Yeah, there's the quintessential archetype for progress and change, you know, a haggard old Jim Henson creature shop character who looks like he's about to brew a potion in the dark crystal, like a dude who's kept alive with Egyptian magic.

00:37:16.000 Let's put him on stage next to the young, handsome, smiling black dude.

00:37:20.000 There's, you know, there's a recipe for Republican victory.

00:37:23.000 Positioning himself as the candidate of change, Well, see, that was the Illuminati sleight of hand that just occurred right there.

00:37:29.000 John McCain is so white, you didn't realize that President Obama doesn't even pass the brown paper bag test, so he's really not that black.

00:37:36.000 It was just a contrast.

00:37:37.000 The Illuminati, by the way, they meet on Tuesdays.

00:37:39.000 No, I think you're right.

00:37:41.000 And also, this is important.

00:37:42.000 A lot of people don't realize, when we talk about finding common ground or reaching across the aisle, we were just talking about the video game issue.

00:37:48.000 A lot of people don't remember this.

00:37:49.000 They thought it was Republicans and conservative Christians who wanted to ban South Park.

00:37:53.000 I was at UT and I spoke actually with Traystone or Matt Parker, Tray Parker or Matt Stone.

00:37:58.000 Matt Stone.

00:37:59.000 And he said, Christians never actually wanted to ban us.

00:38:02.000 They just wanted us at a later time slot, which we were fine with.

00:38:04.000 If you go back to the censorship in the 90s, it was spearheaded by Tipper Gore.

00:38:08.000 That's something a lot of people don't remember.

00:38:09.000 The rating systems and the warning labels.

00:38:12.000 And it was something that John McCain, I don't remember exactly, not entirely, but a lot, a lot of steps along the way, got on board with this.

00:38:19.000 And that's just not a conservative thing to do.

00:38:22.000 Regardless, if you're a libertarian, if you're a populist, if you're a traditional conservative constitutionalist, you're not on board with silencing what people can and cannot actually.

00:38:31.000 Yeah, and he would usually jump on those issues when they became populist ones.

00:38:36.000 Right.

00:38:37.000 The great misnomer about John McCain is this idea that he was a maverick.

00:38:41.000 Really, he was a politico.

00:38:44.000 He was a guy who would blow with the wind.

00:38:46.000 Whichever direction the breeze was blowing, he would blow there, and then afterward, when it was unpopular, he'd say, sorry guys, I'm a maverick!

00:38:54.000 Yeah.

00:38:55.000 That's kind of the issue with John McCain consistently.

00:38:57.000 Talk to me, Goosh.

00:38:58.000 What?

00:38:58.000 I don't want to talk to you.

00:39:00.000 Right?

00:39:00.000 And his issue with, just don't let him take off from the aircraft carrier.

00:39:04.000 But anyway, no.

00:39:06.000 It's difficult.

00:39:07.000 The big problem, like, at the end of the day... This is a horrible segment.

00:39:10.000 I hope you realize this.

00:39:12.000 I hope you understand that this might work in the gaming community.

00:39:15.000 This will not go over well, but I'll allow it.

00:39:18.000 Right, I'll allow it.

00:39:20.000 There you go.

00:39:22.000 That's entirely your fault.

00:39:23.000 No, I do agree.

00:39:24.000 The Maverick thing, this was, it was branding.

00:39:27.000 It was branding.

00:39:27.000 It wasn't really consistent with the guy's values.

00:39:30.000 And I just, you know, I don't think that I dislike the guy as much as you do, largely probably because I'm not from Arizona.

00:39:36.000 And spending time, you know, in Michigan or spending time, you know, in Texas where a lot of people are really happy with Ted Cruz.

00:39:42.000 There's a big contrast, right?

00:39:43.000 You look at the general and Donald Trump was calling him Lion Ted and people in Texas were going, okay, we get this as a general, it's like pre-fight hype, but we want this guy in that Senate seat.

00:39:52.000 He's actually done a pretty good job.

00:39:54.000 It's the exact opposite with small government voters in Arizona with McCain.

00:39:58.000 I think that's a story that needs to be told.

00:40:00.000 Yeah.

00:40:01.000 And yet it's bizarre because like, it's crazy.

00:40:07.000 This state, I don't know what he did.

00:40:10.000 Like at the end of the day, God voted him out of office before we did.

00:40:15.000 No, no, I mean, I said that somewhat humorously, but at the end of the day, like, you know, The entire electorate he called the crazies during the 2016 election.

00:40:27.000 He called his entire electorate the crazies.

00:40:30.000 I know.

00:40:30.000 I don't understand.

00:40:31.000 I never understood the McCain situation, but your video, I know that you put up on the subject.

00:40:36.000 Term limits.

00:40:36.000 That is an issue.

00:40:37.000 You are talking about a guy who's a career politician.

00:40:39.000 Win, lose, or draw.

00:40:40.000 Obviously, it's always a tragedy when someone is lost.

00:40:43.000 Who's an American icon, you know, for better or for worse, wherever people line up, whether it's the left or the right.

00:40:47.000 And I don't know who lines up where now.

00:40:48.000 It seems like the left just absolutely loves John McCain.

00:40:51.000 Uh, and it seems as though many people on the right are horribly- I don't know what to make of it, but it's always a tragedy, but I think we also need to be honest and consistent.

00:40:58.000 Uh, okay, Razorfist.

00:40:59.000 Where's the best place for people to find you?

00:41:00.000 I know it's Rageaholic on YouTube.

00:41:02.000 Where's your new merch store?

00:41:03.000 Let's plug that before we go.

00:41:05.000 That's going to be opening.

00:41:06.000 So I'll have more announcements about that going forward.

00:41:09.000 The best way to find those will be twitter.com slash razorfist with a zero.

00:41:14.000 And of course, there are links to everything else there.

00:41:16.000 So that'd be the easiest way to beard me.

00:41:19.000 There you go.

00:41:20.000 And he will be banned before you know it.

00:41:21.000 Look at you with more plugs than Joe Biden over there.

00:41:24.000 Yeah, well actually significantly more.

00:41:27.000 People don't realize just how bad... One of my favorite stories ever is on the Amtrak magazine.

00:41:31.000 I'm taking the Joe Biden Express and someone clearly put a picture of him when he was young and bald and then a picture of him old with a full head of hair right next to each other.

00:41:39.000 I'm going, I love the senior editor of this magazine.

00:41:42.000 I have to go!

00:41:42.000 at Razor Fist, Dennis Prager next!

00:41:44.000 Bye!

00:41:59.000 Though I never know you at all, I heard you were a POW literally 5,000 times.

00:42:09.000 CNN called you a monster.

00:42:14.000 Even after you had cancer in your brain, they compared you to Hitler.

00:42:19.000 Blitzers spit upon your name.

00:42:24.000 Now the same media said you lived your life like a hero without sin.

00:42:31.000 Only praised you moments after your rigor mortis set in.

00:42:37.000 And they never got to know you, cause you were a Republican.

00:42:42.000 And the only good Republican to the media is dead.

00:42:50.000 Goodbye John McCain, though I never knew you at all.

00:43:03.000 I heard you were a POW like 5,000 times.

00:43:08.000 5,000 times.

00:43:11.000 Good night, sweet prince.

00:43:14.000 Follow along, la la la, we should all talk.

00:43:19.000 Follow along, la la la, we should all talk.

00:43:23.000 my producer Johnny Boy brought this in.

00:43:25.000 I was going, where's the physical copy of our next guest's book?

00:43:27.000 We can just do it on the, uh, the lower third there.

00:43:30.000 But now I've got it.

00:43:31.000 Of course, uh, you guys know Exodus.

00:43:33.000 This is the, uh, the rational Bible.

00:43:35.000 And there's, it's a series actually, as far as I understand.

00:43:36.000 I don't know what's totally available right now, but I highly recommend this.

00:43:39.000 You can buy it wherever books are sold.

00:43:41.000 That's mainly online now.

00:43:42.000 Not a lot of people are.

00:43:42.000 Let's be honest.

00:43:43.000 I went to a Barnes and Noble, uh, it's, it's, it's a cafe.

00:43:47.000 Yeah.

00:43:47.000 It's called Barnes and Noble Cafe.

00:43:49.000 And they also happen to sell books.

00:43:51.000 It's like a quarter of a library.

00:43:53.000 Radio host, author, founder of Prager University.

00:43:56.000 You know him, you love him.

00:43:57.000 Mr. Dennis Prager, how are you, sir?

00:44:00.000 I know you, and I love you, too.

00:44:02.000 And I mean it.

00:44:02.000 Stop it.

00:44:03.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:44:06.000 You do great work.

00:44:07.000 Well, thank you very much.

00:44:09.000 And I was very proud.

00:44:10.000 I was recognized at a cigar lounge not too long ago, and people said, we were watching your interview with Dennis Prager today.

00:44:16.000 It seems like a lot of conservatives hang out at those places, and they really enjoyed the chat.

00:44:21.000 Yeah, well, do you know, by the way, I do a fireside chat every week on Facebook for PragerU from my home, and I smoke a cigar!

00:44:32.000 We were not allowed to promo it last week on Facebook because I smoke a cigar.

00:44:39.000 Yes, of course not.

00:44:39.000 But you can use their weed-finding app.

00:44:42.000 It's very effective.

00:44:45.000 I think they wouldn't allow the cigar aficionado, if I'm not mistaken, or was it a Cigar Lounge Finder app on Apple because it involved any tobacco products?

00:44:55.000 No, no.

00:44:57.000 Yeah, I think it got fixed.

00:44:58.000 I think it got fixed, but it was a long, drawn-out battle.

00:45:01.000 Before we go into something I want to talk with you about, you were just educating me off-air.

00:45:05.000 Fakakta is what I thought it is.

00:45:07.000 It's Yiddish for screwed up, right?

00:45:09.000 Screwed up, basically, yeah.

00:45:10.000 I don't want to tell you literally what it is, but yes.

00:45:14.000 I was going to say, it actually seems like a much cleaner word than it sounds like, but apparently not.

00:45:20.000 So you're turning out, obviously, a ton of videos at PragerU.

00:45:24.000 I shouldn't say a ton.

00:45:25.000 A really good amount of high quality videos.

00:45:27.000 Ton makes it sound like it's a factory.

00:45:30.000 And I know I'll actually be in Los Angeles to do another video with you guys soon.

00:45:33.000 You recently did one where you just specifically Let people in on your history, your worldview, how you came to be who you are.

00:45:41.000 It was unique in comparison to a lot of other PragerU videos.

00:45:44.000 Now, I'm familiar with your history because I used to pirate radio, like I've talked about, from Plattsburgh, New York.

00:45:48.000 We didn't have it in Montreal.

00:45:49.000 Why did you feel the need to do that, though, with PragerU?

00:45:54.000 Well, it was not my idea, actually.

00:45:57.000 I would not have suggested it.

00:45:59.000 But we just had a big birthday party for me.

00:46:02.000 300 folks spent a lot of money to come to a big hotel in Beverly Hills that came from around the country.

00:46:08.000 I don't like that stuff, but it really turned out to be a great evening.

00:46:13.000 and Alan Estrin, my producer and the guy whose idea PragerU was,

00:46:18.000 was made a video to show at this big thing about my life.

00:46:24.000 I didn't even know he did it. I had no hand in it.

00:46:27.000 It's the only PragerU video I didn't edit.

00:46:30.000 And our CEO said, you know what, Pete?

00:46:34.000 Not everybody knows Dennis.

00:46:36.000 And even people who know him don't know anything really about his life.

00:46:40.000 So why don't we just put it up once?

00:46:42.000 And that's how it happened.

00:46:43.000 When you say edit, you mean creatively edit.

00:46:45.000 You're not sitting there with a mouse in Final Cut Pro, exactly.

00:46:50.000 Oh, yeah.

00:46:51.000 Wait, you're talking about the video?

00:46:53.000 I'm talking about both, by the way.

00:46:56.000 Yes.

00:46:56.000 Actually, I don't sit with Final Cut Pro, but yes, I'm the final writing editor of the videos and the final video editor.

00:47:09.000 Yes, that's what I mean.

00:47:10.000 I mean, you're doing the creative edit, just as a director would with a film, overseeing it.

00:47:13.000 Just morally, I have to be, because it's called PragerU, and if it was O'BrienU, then O'Brien would be the final one.

00:47:20.000 Yes, I know, and I remember last time I went in, I had to go through many, many edits, which is why there's this show, and then you see me nice and cleaned up at PragerU, as far as, you know, I shave and I look decent.

00:47:30.000 I remember I walked This is a funny story.

00:47:34.000 Alan, your producer, was there, and it took me a long time to explain to him what the Swedish Bikini Team was, because we were doing a video on Democrats.

00:47:41.000 It wouldn't take a minute to explain it to me.

00:47:44.000 Exactly!

00:47:45.000 He's like, I don't think anyone knows what the Swedish Bikini Team is.

00:47:48.000 I'm like, everyone knows what the Swedish, that's what they're known for, is Ikea and bikinis.

00:47:52.000 By the way, if there is someone in my life who would not know, it is Alan.

00:47:58.000 Alan is as close to sainthood as anyone I work with.

00:48:02.000 He is not a eunuch, that I promise.

00:48:03.000 So he's like your Game of Thrones eunuch.

00:48:05.000 You know that you can trust him around all the women in your life.

00:48:08.000 There's no risk.

00:48:09.000 He is not a eunuch, that I promise.

00:48:11.000 No, but like the guy in Game of Thrones who's bald and he's a eunuch.

00:48:14.000 I'm just playing the game and turning everyone against each other.

00:48:18.000 I can't stand that guy, but my, he is cunning.

00:48:21.000 So listen, any updates on the battle that you've been having with YouTube?

00:48:25.000 I know you've been at the front, a lot of people don't know this, you've been at the forefront of the censorship, the cultural censorship online.

00:48:31.000 Are there any developments you can tell us about?

00:48:32.000 I know legally, you have to be careful.

00:48:33.000 Yes, well interestingly, we had two videos that were, that They were banned, essentially, by Facebook.

00:48:47.000 Oh, there are so many names.

00:48:48.000 Facebook.

00:48:50.000 It's FACACTA!

00:48:51.000 Right.

00:48:51.000 It is, exactly.

00:48:53.000 And we called them on it.

00:48:58.000 And it made world news.

00:48:59.000 There's a big BBC piece on Facebook apologizes to PragerU.

00:49:07.000 But there's also the shadow banning issue, where you think you put it up, but it's not going anywhere, so you're not fully aware of the fact that people aren't seeing it.

00:49:17.000 Look, it has become Importantly, it should be one of the most important two, three issues in the country.

00:49:26.000 Never in the history of the world have so few people controlled all information for humanity as Google, YouTube, Facebook.

00:49:37.000 So if they are politically motivated, Then we're in real trouble.

00:49:45.000 By the way, did you see?

00:49:47.000 This was amazing.

00:49:48.000 The New York Times even had a piece on this.

00:49:50.000 100 people.

00:49:52.000 I believe it was Facebook.

00:49:55.000 Yes, that's a big deal.

00:49:56.000 That is a big deal.

00:49:57.000 Hey, wait a minute.

00:49:58.000 We're not a left-wing group.

00:50:00.000 We're supposed to be neutral.

00:50:02.000 Yeah, well, I don't know how familiar you are with my history with Facebook, but my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, who's now in retainer and a part of the show, the way I met him was there was an article at Engadget or TechCrunch, one of these tech sites, with a list that was released, it was leaked, a list of people to throttle on Facebook, and it was, you know, Ted Cruz for President, Chris Kyle Foundation, Breitbart, and Steven Crowder, yours truly.

00:50:23.000 It was actually on a manual list to throttle, and so I called up this guy who I didn't know at the time.

00:50:28.000 I was told would be a good lawyer for this, and he said, yeah, this looks really bad.

00:50:31.000 And we settled out of court with them, and they effectively admitted that this was happening.

00:50:36.000 Though all the while, right before it was leaked and discovered, everyone was told it's just algorithmic.

00:50:41.000 Well, now we know it's an algorithmic.

00:50:42.000 So you've caught them lying before.

00:50:43.000 It's really hard to know.

00:50:46.000 Stephen, forgive me, do you know what the most depressing part of this is?

00:50:50.000 Or equally depressing?

00:50:51.000 It's not more depressing.

00:50:53.000 By the way, I just want to restate 80, I didn't state this, so I'm stating it for the first time.

00:50:58.000 I'm restating it from previous visits with you.

00:51:00.000 80, it is now up to 80, the number of Prager University videos that are restricted on YouTube.

00:51:09.000 Yeah, I think ours is about 12 to 15 that are not restricted.

00:51:13.000 That's it.

00:51:14.000 Everything else, I think it's close to 1,000 pages.

00:51:16.000 It's terrible.

00:51:18.000 Now the equally depressing news.

00:51:21.000 The New York Times today, in an opinion piece, says this is an entirely manufactured lie on the part of the right that there is any censorship being done on the internet.

00:51:34.000 CNN just had a similar piece. I tweeted it. I tweeted the CNN piece.

00:51:40.000 Yeah. I said, for those of you who do not believe, excuse me, who do not believe that the media

00:51:48.000 have earned the title fake news, look at what CNN No, that's exactly right.

00:51:58.000 And we just did the change my mind at the White House and people started quoting Donald Trump saying he said that the free press is the enemy of the people.

00:52:05.000 I said, hold on a second.

00:52:06.000 He said fake news is the enemy of the people, if I'm not mistaken.

00:52:08.000 That's right.

00:52:09.000 That's a good example.

00:52:10.000 And the thing is, the lady actually said, well, I only know what I read and I watch.

00:52:14.000 And sure enough, it was all the leftist sources.

00:52:16.000 And that's what is concerning.

00:52:17.000 I don't know if they necessarily believe in regulating them like public utilities, but

00:52:21.000 it's funny.

00:52:22.000 We talk about net neutrality, right, and ISPs.

00:52:25.000 You have far more options, most people, as far as Internet service providers, than you

00:52:29.000 do in search options right now.

00:52:32.000 There are three main sites.

00:52:33.000 Google, Facebook, Twitter.

00:52:37.000 Google includes YouTube.

00:52:38.000 I can probably pick from about five or six different internet service providers in our area.

00:52:42.000 And it's something that no one, not no one, people are starting to talk about.

00:52:46.000 But it's every bit as much of a monopoly, duopoly, I don't know if tripopoly is a word.

00:52:50.000 My concern is with the dishonest business practices.

00:52:53.000 Because you know, your business and mine lives and dies with Understanding the rules and free exchange.

00:52:58.000 Right.

00:52:59.000 And for people who argue, well, you know, it's private enterprise, they could do what they want.

00:53:03.000 And that is a conservative argument.

00:53:05.000 Right.

00:53:06.000 But let's talk reality.

00:53:09.000 And I always give this example.

00:53:10.000 If Delta Air Lines said, if you walk on our plane with the Wall Street Journal, I'm sorry, we don't want you on.

00:53:17.000 You can walk on with the New York Times, but not with the Wall Street Journal.

00:53:22.000 After all, it's free.

00:53:24.000 It's an independent company.

00:53:27.000 They should have the right to do that.

00:53:29.000 But it's more severe on the internet.

00:53:32.000 If you don't fly Delta, you can fly American or United or some other airline.

00:53:38.000 But if you don't go via Facebook, what are you going to do?

00:53:43.000 It's a good point, though.

00:53:44.000 I don't know where my loyalties would lie, because they have those delicious sugar biscottis on Delta that you don't get anywhere else, and I don't know where to find them.

00:53:52.000 I've looked at home goods.

00:53:53.000 I cannot find those cookies.

00:53:54.000 They are fantastic!

00:53:55.000 Damn you, Delta!

00:53:56.000 All right, we do have to get going.

00:53:57.000 I know you have a hard-out today.

00:53:58.000 It is Exodus, God's Slavery and Freedom, the Rational Bible.

00:54:01.000 Of course, PragerU, please go and support the fight that Dennis Prager's fighting right now.

00:54:05.000 He's been at the forefront for a while.

00:54:06.000 Mr. Prager, thank you so much for spending the time, and I'll see you soon doing PragerU.

00:54:10.000 Looking forward.

00:54:11.000 We'll be back!

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00:55:27.000 There are many different types of products.

00:56:11.000 That's a combo dance.

00:56:12.000 That's called the nonchalantly dying Drounder.

00:56:16.000 Drounder?

00:56:17.000 Drown-ee?

00:56:18.000 And in combination with the Halloween 2.

00:56:20.000 For people who don't know, in Halloween 2, a guy died in the car and he had before Adam the Horn.

00:56:26.000 You know, you really can't not hold your breath.

00:56:29.000 No, it's a really stupid mistake to make.

00:56:31.000 I think before.

00:56:33.000 I'll not hold my breath.

00:56:34.000 I'll just pretend.

00:56:35.000 And you always hold your breath.

00:56:36.000 You have to.

00:56:37.000 By the way, there was also a third part to that dance.

00:56:39.000 I was concerned because I didn't know if you could actually swim.

00:56:42.000 Can you quarter knot swim?

00:56:45.000 Sometimes I just doggy paddle.

00:56:47.000 Seriously though, are you not a good swimmer?

00:56:49.000 No, I can swim okay.

00:56:50.000 Okay, but people on your dad's side, are they not good swimmers?

00:56:53.000 No.

00:56:57.000 By the way, thank you so much to Dennis Prager and to Razorfist for being on the program.

00:57:03.000 And next week I'm going to be, I should let you know, I'll be in Los Angeles actually doing a Prager University, doing a fireside chat with Dennis Prager, and I'll be doing the full hour show with Ben Shapiro.

00:57:12.000 Full week next week.

00:57:12.000 And then we'll be back here Thursday, so we'll have some clips there.

00:57:15.000 We'll have the John Stossel for people who are not Mud Club members up on Saturday.

00:57:18.000 That's a good one.

00:57:19.000 And then we'll also, we might have Daniel Cormier in third chair next week, as far as I know.

00:57:24.000 Because, by the way, raise your fist, his dad has actually been sick, and I asked him off air, he said I can talk about that.

00:57:29.000 So that's why he hasn't been in third chair, and so we appreciate Mahmood coming in and filling in on short notice.

00:57:35.000 It's a very long flight for him to make.

00:57:37.000 Just for that.

00:57:38.000 On short notice.

00:57:38.000 But yeah, Daniel Cormier might be in third chair, so I don't want to put him in a compromising position.

00:57:44.000 I have to trot him out to apologize on ESPN.

00:57:47.000 So busy, really looking forward to it.

00:57:49.000 And, you know, obviously there have been some changes that we're making here to Gorilla that we've talked about.

00:57:53.000 We're moving into a new studio.

00:57:54.000 You've been seeing us do more super videos than ever.

00:57:56.000 To give you an idea, Quarter Black was there in Washington, D.C.

00:58:00.000 And it was, you know, for us it was a four-hour flight out there.

00:58:05.000 It was a couple hours to set up, scope it out, get set up there at the White House.

00:58:09.000 104 degree heat, I think, with the heat index.

00:58:12.000 Is it called heat index?

00:58:13.000 Is that what it is?

00:58:14.000 A heat index?

00:58:15.000 Really hot index.

00:58:16.000 Yeah, it felt really really hot.

00:58:18.000 We were out there taping for about three and a half hours, tear down, and then go have lunch, write down our notes.

00:58:23.000 Everything you saw actually was taped and was actually uploaded within 24 hours.

00:58:29.000 Went there, traveled to D.C., taped it, edited it, cut it.

00:58:33.000 That's redundant.

00:58:33.000 Edited it, cut, cut is a part of editing, and got it up within 24 hours because we know that people are really looking forward to it.

00:58:38.000 And thanks, by the way, to the Reddit, the subreddit forums, I think, the Conservative subreddit and the Donald subreddit, people who really enjoyed it.

00:58:44.000 But man, it was a lot of work.

00:58:46.000 You were probably pretty spent when you came back, too.

00:58:47.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:58:48.000 I crashed.

00:58:49.000 Yeah, I can imagine.

00:58:50.000 Not in the plane.

00:58:52.000 No, otherwise it would be a John Denver situation.

00:58:54.000 But it's a lot of work, and to give you an idea, the reason it's worthwhile, and sometimes I've kind of struggled with this, and I know I've talked about this before when we did SMU.

00:59:06.000 Let me kind of rewind.

00:59:07.000 There was a day actually where I had to go back out to D.C.

00:59:09.000 Not long ago, I did this exact same thing to do the YAF, Young America Foundation Conference.

00:59:14.000 And at this point, some things had changed where we were just

00:59:16.000 working through the week.

00:59:17.000 So this was a Friday.

00:59:18.000 So we were taping a show that day, taping some kind of a big sketch set.

00:59:21.000 They don't remember exactly what it was.

00:59:23.000 And then I had to hop on a flight, get out there.

00:59:25.000 I landed at the airport 30 minutes before I was supposed to be on stage.

00:59:31.000 It was an hour drive.

00:59:31.000 So I got up on stage about a half hour late because it was the only amount of time.

00:59:34.000 It was the only way we could possibly make it work.

00:59:36.000 It was the only flight we could take.

00:59:38.000 Did that show for an hour and a half, and then flew back.

00:59:41.000 And I don't say this because it's not that it's impressive in any way.

00:59:45.000 What it is is a lot of people here have been working.

00:59:48.000 Particularly like recently going to D.C.

00:59:50.000 Every time I think D.C.

00:59:50.000 I think exhaustion.

00:59:51.000 To the brink of exhaustion doing these things.

00:59:54.000 And I hope that you guys see these changes we're making.

00:59:57.000 We're really looking to make sure that we honor the dollar you spent with us.

01:00:02.000 We don't take it lightly.

01:00:03.000 We do not take it lightly that not only people who support us at Mug Club.

01:00:07.000 Because we know there are hundreds of Patreons out there for as long as Patreon allows these places to exist.

01:00:12.000 But to actually invest in what we do with Mug Club and watch the daily show and join the CRTV network.

01:00:17.000 It means a lot to us.

01:00:17.000 Not only that, but your viewership.

01:00:19.000 When people come up and... I always ask people if I can read their letter.

01:00:25.000 Sometimes people say no, sometimes people say yes.

01:00:28.000 This was actually a letter that I got while I was at that YAF conference.

01:00:31.000 So that day I was exhausted.

01:00:33.000 I didn't want it.

01:00:33.000 There's a big part of me that, before I got on the plane, I was thinking, is there any way to get out of this?

01:00:38.000 And actually Johnny Boy, the unsung hero, got on a plane with me and went out there.

01:00:44.000 And after I had performed at YAF, and I think you can find the video online, we were taking pictures and we had to catch a flight back, and there was a girl, there were a couple of girls who had some personal messages, one of whom was an ex-Muslim.

01:00:55.000 She hasn't responded, so I don't know that I can use her email, but there was a young woman who was crying.

01:01:01.000 uh... quite a bit and so i know you have to be really respect for not we've got

01:01:04.000 to move this through because i wanted to take pictures we're trying to group

01:01:06.000 pictures but i guess issue is distraught you know some of the shows

01:01:09.000 that people who come up and it's just they want to give you a life story just

01:01:11.000 because they want to take a picture and put on instagram or like that guy in

01:01:15.000 austin with the change of mind remember yellow green okay you're having a

01:01:19.000 representative i don't want to talk to you Back away.

01:01:22.000 Back away.

01:01:23.000 But this lady, young woman, was crying.

01:01:27.000 And so I said, hold on a second.

01:01:28.000 Give me a minute.

01:01:29.000 And I spoke with her.

01:01:30.000 And she sent me an email.

01:01:31.000 So it was just titled, she titled it The Crying Girl.

01:01:35.000 And she wrote, this is why we do what we do.

01:01:38.000 And this is why we're really trying to move as onward and upward as powerfully as possible.

01:01:44.000 We do this show, it really is a lot more than ourselves.

01:01:47.000 It really is.

01:01:47.000 When we saw at SMU these people there, we really do feel like we're a part of something greater than ourselves.

01:01:50.000 And it's always hard to try and juxtapose that with balance, to try and spend time with my family, people here, to try and make sure that we know we're putting out the best product possible, that we've done everything that we can do, but that we're also not spreading ourselves too thin, and that's why we're still hiring more people.

01:02:06.000 And we're growing and moving into new places.

01:02:08.000 This is what she wrote.

01:02:09.000 I wanted to thank you so much for being genuinely kind to me Friday night at NCSC.

01:02:14.000 I feel weird reading any compliments toward me on air from this letter, but you know who you are, crying girl.

01:02:19.000 She said, you don't know how much that meant to me.

01:02:21.000 I thought I should explain a bit of why I was crying that night.

01:02:23.000 I'm terrible with endings.

01:02:24.000 With the realization that the conference was over, I came to a realization that I will never be able to tell my grandfather about any of it.

01:02:31.000 You see, my grandfather was the first one to introduce me to the conservative movement.

01:02:34.000 I got involved in politics, and more specifically, YAF, because of him.

01:02:38.000 He passed away in January of this year, and it has been one of the hardest losses I've experienced.

01:02:42.000 I'm currently a rising senior at the University of blank, I'll withhold that, majoring in public policy, and I don't think I ever would have ended up here without him.

01:02:51.000 I've been attending YAF conferences since I was a freshman in high school, and I always looked forward to talking with my grandfather about all the speakers I'd heard from and the lessons I'd learned.

01:02:58.000 His excitement and smiles every time kept me going.

01:03:00.000 I knew when I went back home, I wouldn't be able to.

01:03:03.000 I was dealing with the realization that my number one influencer in my life and the man I looked up to was no longer here.

01:03:09.000 You've always inspired me and my little brother.

01:03:11.000 She writes some complimentary things about my comedy here, which I'll withhold because they'll feel awkward.

01:03:16.000 But she likes it, so that's good.

01:03:17.000 So one person does.

01:03:19.000 Screw you, YouTube comments.

01:03:20.000 I'd take you more seriously if you weren't dressed like a genie.

01:03:22.000 Don't.

01:03:24.000 Thank you once again for not only stopping for a picture with me, but for being concerned and giving me this opportunity to email you.

01:03:30.000 You have no idea how much my brother and I look up to you.

01:03:32.000 Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to care.

01:03:35.000 God bless you and your family.

01:03:37.000 This is one of those things where you can read this and I know I've seen people read this and then they exalt themselves or you could read this and be incredibly humbled.

01:03:45.000 Now for me this is something I struggle with.

01:03:46.000 We talked about this with Jordan Peterson.

01:03:47.000 I read this and I get anxiety because it puts a face to the fact that we actually have an

01:03:51.000 impact, that we have an influence out there for better or worse.

01:03:55.000 And I've got to take that seriously.

01:03:56.000 And I've got to balance that with obviously trying to be entertaining and obviously trying

01:03:59.000 to deliver what people have come here for while also understanding that people are paying

01:04:04.000 attention and people's minds and hearts are being changed by what we do, not only with

01:04:08.000 Change My Mind, but with every episode that we do.

01:04:11.000 It's a really weird feeling.

01:04:13.000 And you've probably, to give you an analogy that might make sense, you've probably felt

01:04:17.000 this if ever you've had a child or a nephew or even a little cousin who you saw copying

01:04:22.000 You ever do that?

01:04:23.000 You ever do something bad to a little kid and you see them copy you, say a bad word, or do something bad?

01:04:27.000 You're like, oh my gosh, I better really make sure that I tread carefully here because There are copycats.

01:04:34.000 Monkey see, monkey do.

01:04:36.000 Not to that degree.

01:04:37.000 I don't mean that you people are copycats.

01:04:38.000 I want people to be originalists when you go out there.

01:04:40.000 I really do.

01:04:41.000 I'm hoping that there are more people on YouTube.

01:04:42.000 I'm hoping that they don't silence us.

01:04:44.000 That, you know, they can't silence us all.

01:04:45.000 They can silence us, singularly.

01:04:47.000 That's the issue.

01:04:48.000 And I want to see more people out there.

01:04:50.000 I hope there's more competition for conservatives.

01:04:52.000 But this was three weeks ago, going out to D.C.

01:04:55.000 And I was tired then.

01:04:56.000 Everyone here was tired then.

01:04:57.000 So before we went out to do the Change My Mind, I know a lot of people weren't really looking forward to doing it.

01:05:02.000 It was tiring.

01:05:03.000 It was exhausting, it was a lot of work, it was carrying a lot of heavy stuff, it was hot, and I just wanted to say it was entirely worth it.

01:05:13.000 So I'm incredibly appreciative.

01:05:14.000 Crying Girl, as you titled yourself in the email, I really do appreciate it.

01:05:19.000 It's emails like this that really do keep us going, and everything that you see is a byproduct of that.

01:05:23.000 Everything worthwhile doing is hard.

01:05:26.000 If it weren't, everyone would be doing it.

01:05:29.000 I know that sounds like a bumper sticker we've talked about, but it's absolutely true.

01:05:33.000 If it weren't hard, everyone would be doing it.

01:05:35.000 This isn't easy, what we do.

01:05:37.000 Quarter Black's job is not easy.

01:05:40.000 Mahmood's job is not easy.

01:05:40.000 Gerald's job is not easy.

01:05:41.000 Johnny Boy's job is not easy.

01:05:43.000 None of their jobs are easy or everyone would be doing this.

01:05:46.000 We cannot, I say this humbly, we cannot do this without you.

01:05:50.000 People don't join my club.

01:05:51.000 People don't tune in.

01:05:52.000 People don't watch.

01:05:53.000 We don't get people like this who send these letters.

01:05:54.000 Guess what?

01:05:55.000 We go away!

01:05:56.000 It's absolutely true.

01:05:58.000 It's the opposite of a boycott.

01:05:59.000 Your boycott, your support, is what allows us to do this.

01:06:02.000 And that's why you always hear me say we.

01:06:04.000 You hear me say our.

01:06:05.000 You hear me say the team.

01:06:06.000 The team isn't just the people here who work here.

01:06:08.000 It really is you.

01:06:09.000 People watching.

01:06:10.000 People commenting.

01:06:11.000 People liking.

01:06:11.000 People sharing.

01:06:12.000 That's the only reason we're able to do what we do.

01:06:15.000 Believe me, it is not lost on me or anyone here, and that's why we're really hoping to bring you some new and great things this coming year, and hopefully coming years, if you'll have us.

01:06:26.000 Always if you'll have us.

01:06:27.000 See you next week!

01:06:28.000 Daniel Cormier.

01:06:28.000 I'll be in L.A.

Louder with Crowder - August 31, 2018

#383 MEDIA’S MCCAIN REVERSAL! Raz0rFist, Dennis Prager, Remy Munasifi Guest | Louder With Crowder

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