Louder with Crowder - #494 DEBUNKING 'UNIVERSAL INCOME' SCAM! | Anthony Cumia Guests | Louder with Crowder

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00:00:04.000 and hopper Who's the head honcho around here?

00:00:25.000 Who are you?

00:00:26.000 Hello sir, my name is Steven Crowder and these here are the Mug Club Z's from Light Earth Crowder, a late night comedy of salvation to salve the soul.

00:00:33.000 And we hear you might have a platform for us to upload our videos to.

00:00:36.000 Well that all depends.

00:00:38.000 You boys do conservative videos?

00:00:41.000 Sir, we are, uh, that's all except our half-Asian lawyer standing in the corner over there. 0.99

00:00:50.000 Well I really don't do conservative videos.

00:00:53.000 I'm looking for more SJW socialism material.

00:00:56.000 Well, we just started featuring five Young Turk videos every day.

00:01:00.000 Deplatforming everybody else.

00:01:02.000 So thanks for stopping by.

00:01:04.000 Sir, my club and a lot of the crowd have been steeped in socialism. 0.99

00:01:07.000 Heck, you're silly with it, ain't you, Z? 1.00

00:01:08.000 Hell, I know. 1.00

00:01:09.000 That's right.

00:01:09.000 We ain't really conservatives.

00:01:11.000 I'll accept that half-Asian lawyer standing in the corner over there.

00:01:17.000 I have a show in constant sorrow.

00:01:23.000 It's seen trouble all its day.

00:01:30.000 I've been shadow demonetized.

00:01:36.000 Notifications won't work for days.

00:01:42.000 Notifications won't work for days.

00:01:48.000 For three long years I've been in trouble.

00:01:55.000 Shadowbanned and don't subscribe.

00:02:01.000 For Susan Wojcicki dinged our content.

00:02:08.000 Classified!

00:02:11.000 It's classified!

00:02:13.000 It's classified!

00:02:17.000 Then I hired a man who was half Asian.

00:02:27.000 He practiced law, that's what they say. 1.00

00:02:33.000 Now he sticks it to those big tech bitches. 1.00

00:02:40.000 He puts the lips in litigate. 0.99

00:02:46.000 Must have the angel in the gate.

00:02:50.000 And demonetized.

00:02:57.000 Demonetized.

00:03:04.000 I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this.

00:03:12.000 I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this.

00:03:19.000 You're a strange animal, that's what I know. 0.88

00:03:30.000 You're a strange animal, how come you follow? 1.00

00:03:37.000 On your disability screen. 0.99

00:03:44.000 That's called a... I actually had a full-grown male friend who would eat with a spoon like this.

00:03:48.000 No one had ever taught him this because his parents were in prison.

00:03:52.000 It's nice to meet you, Josh!

00:03:54.000 We have Anthony Cumia.

00:03:56.000 You won't be getting gifts for Christmas.

00:03:58.000 Anthony Cumia on the show today.

00:04:00.000 Ted Cruz will be back later in June.

00:04:01.000 He had to reschedule.

00:04:02.000 We apologize.

00:04:04.000 We have a 7 plus 1 today.

00:04:05.000 We have a bunch of news to get to.

00:04:07.000 We'll be discussing universal basic income.

00:04:08.000 So before I introduce everybody, let me ask you this.

00:04:11.000 Are you worried about automation technology killing jobs?

00:04:15.000 What's your biggest employment concern going forward?

00:04:16.000 That'll determine, hopefully, kind of where you line up in universal basic income.

00:04:19.000 And how old are you?

00:04:20.000 We realize we have enough people watching this that we could do actual polls with legitimate sample sizing.

00:04:24.000 That's true.

00:04:25.000 Quarterback Garrett is doing the overlaid.

00:04:26.000 We have Audio Wade.

00:04:27.000 Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman is here because we're gonna get copyright struck anyway, so I'm ready to have him around. 1.00

00:04:32.000 It's just really just like a speed dial in person.

00:04:35.000 Penn Tellis is here.

00:04:36.000 Two Drink Minimum podcast.

00:04:38.000 Happy to be back.

00:04:38.000 Glad to have you.

00:04:39.000 N.G. 0.71

00:04:39.000 Morgan Jr. 0.71

00:04:40.000 Wine of the Day.

00:04:40.000 Wine of the Day is Palermo.

00:04:42.000 Palermo Cabin.

00:04:43.000 Yeah, this guy on the front has universal basic income too.

00:04:45.000 What is that?

00:04:45.000 I don't see.

00:04:46.000 He's kind of dead.

00:04:48.000 Kind of like your bit.

00:04:49.000 We should cancel Wine of the Day.

00:04:52.000 There's no reason for it anymore.

00:04:54.000 We should just cancel business.

00:04:55.000 How much does this guy drink?

00:04:56.000 They're always empty when he brings them.

00:04:57.000 That's true.

00:04:59.000 Don't hate.

00:04:59.000 I saw him behind the studio just chugging.

00:05:02.000 Which also makes it even more uncomfortable because that means he re-corks it.

00:05:05.000 How is that potential?

00:05:06.000 There's a cork on there.

00:05:07.000 That's a completely empty bottle!

00:05:08.000 Good business.

00:05:09.000 We're like that Asian guy in Sour Grapes. 0.89

00:05:11.000 How dare you say all Asians.

00:05:13.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:05:14.000 I don't know.

00:05:15.000 I don't trust them.

00:05:16.000 Don't use that word.

00:05:17.000 Sorry, sorry, Bill.

00:05:18.000 I only trust the good half.

00:05:19.000 Kind of like one of the Olsen twins.

00:05:21.000 Just the way stuff, right?

00:05:22.000 Just the way stuff.

00:05:22.000 Alright, leading the news, Democratic frontrunner, of course, Joe Biden.

00:05:26.000 He was speaking to the American Federation of Teachers and he forgot his pledge to apparently respect personal space.

00:05:31.000 Oh no.

00:05:32.000 You ought to go back and talk to them.

00:05:36.000 And by the way, that's one of the things that is a dangerous idea.

00:05:39.000 You know, as these guys will tell you, I'm not always their favorite subject.

00:05:42.000 It's like a Swedish pursuit with a biracial child. 0.96

00:05:46.000 We actually obtained exclusive audio as intercepted by Vice President Biden's earpiece, and it seems things only got worse for the control room.

00:05:55.000 I'll bet you're as bright as you're good-looking, I tell you.

00:05:57.000 Okay, Vice President Biden, that's great.

00:05:59.000 Turn on the camera.

00:06:00.000 Camera number four.

00:06:00.000 I can't get the shot.

00:06:01.000 I can't see.

00:06:02.000 It's too far away.

00:06:03.000 Journalism?

00:06:05.000 Oh! 0.60

00:06:07.000 Okay, Joe, it seems like if she's a college student, that's great.

00:06:09.000 We really need to pick up the college vote, please.

00:06:11.000 Let's get a clear shot of her. 0.99

00:06:13.000 Camera number four.

00:06:14.000 I'm telling you, I can't.

00:06:14.000 I'm fixed on a tripod.

00:06:18.000 Okay, great.

00:06:18.000 Joe, bring her to where we can see her on camera.

00:06:20.000 And, oh, s***. 0.98

00:06:22.000 Okay, well, she's a little girl, let's... Joe, get off of it, get off of it, let's get off, just, no, don't, don't touch her, don't touch her, uh, don't... He's f***ing touching the kid. 0.99

00:06:31.000 Okay, camera number four, get off of this, get off. 1.00

00:06:32.000 I can't, I have to, this is news, it's my job, I have to cover it.

00:06:34.000 Camera number four, so help me God, I will send you back to film school.

00:06:38.000 Joe, don't mess up, camera number four... This is news, I have to cover it.

00:06:41.000 F*** you, Joe, let go, please, get her off, Joe! 1.00

00:06:44.000 Joe, get her off! 1.00

00:06:45.000 That was unnecessarily uncomfortable.

00:06:48.000 It's like he can't control himself.

00:06:50.000 He's like, I know I shouldn't do this, but she's so fly. 0.99

00:06:52.000 Like, I can't help it.

00:06:54.000 Oh my gosh.

00:06:55.000 What's he over under on how many times he's going to do this?

00:06:57.000 Like, the guy knows every camera in the room is on him, and he still can't help himself. 0.99

00:07:02.000 Every six-year-old girl, just understand, he wants to put y'all back in chains in a sex dungeon. 1.00

00:07:06.000 It is disgusting. 1.00

00:07:07.000 Dang. 0.96

00:07:09.000 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG as they call her on Netflix, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she came out the other day and said that pregnant women are not mothers. 1.00

00:07:18.000 Oh wow.

00:07:19.000 Yeah.

00:07:20.000 In Ginsburg's dissent on Box v. Planned Parenthood, Indiana, Kentucky, she wrote, quote, A woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a mother. 0.69

00:07:28.000 This is in response to Clarence Thomas.

00:07:29.000 You probably know this.

00:07:30.000 They're a half-Asian bill.

00:07:31.000 You're probably a fan of Clarence Thomas.

00:07:33.000 Following the laws.

00:07:34.000 Yeah, you would think so.

00:07:35.000 When reached, actually, for further comment, the Justice couldn't provide any because she's dead.

00:07:40.000 Oh, my.

00:07:41.000 CNN's Jim Acosta.

00:07:44.000 That's not slander libel, is it there, Bill?

00:07:46.000 That could mean so many things.

00:07:46.000 Oh, no.

00:07:48.000 Wait, she's actually dead, right?

00:07:50.000 I'm quite certain.

00:07:51.000 I think so, yes.

00:07:52.000 I like how she looks.

00:07:53.000 She looks like a cartoon snail librarian. 0.98

00:07:57.000 That's what she's hiding under the robe is a large shell.

00:08:00.000 Yes, exactly.

00:08:01.000 What's this large appendage?

00:08:02.000 It's remarkably specific.

00:08:05.000 That's what I think of when I see her.

00:08:08.000 A snail librarian.

00:08:10.000 Someone's been making a trip to Colorado's Magic Mushroom District!

00:08:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:14.000 He doesn't need to, he's in Montreal.

00:08:16.000 Those things come out of vending machines.

00:08:17.000 It's everywhere.

00:08:18.000 The little rooster egg.

00:08:20.000 Roosters don't lay eggs. 0.97

00:08:21.000 I don't care.

00:08:22.000 Show's already gone off the rails!

00:08:23.000 That's too late.

00:08:24.000 CLN! 0.99

00:08:25.000 Jim Acosta.

00:08:26.000 He's now declared that media neutrality is no longer a possibility under President Trump.

00:08:30.000 This comes from his new book, The Enemy of the People, A Dangerous Time to Show the Truth in America.

00:08:35.000 I'm still laughing at the snail letter.

00:08:38.000 When reached for comment, the head of CNN's Pakistan Bureau was being beheaded, so that wasn't necessarily on the news.

00:08:44.000 And he admitted Acosta.

00:08:45.000 He admitted to grandstanding and showboating.

00:08:48.000 By the way, contradicting literally everyone in the media who's defended Acosta.

00:08:53.000 President-elect Trump today told CNN's Jim Acosta that his organization amounts to fake news.

00:09:00.000 It is our observation that its correspondents follow journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalist should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States.

00:09:16.000 Go ahead, Peter.

00:09:18.000 actually went to Cuba on Cuban soil and pressed Raul Castro about the human rights violation.

00:09:23.000 This is what he does and this is what every great reporter does.

00:09:27.000 He speaks with power and he asks those questions.

00:09:32.000 In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him. 0.97

00:09:34.000 He's a diligent reporter who busts his butt like the rest of us. 0.57

00:09:35.000 Well, I'm not a big fan of yours either. 0.97

00:09:36.000 See?

00:09:37.000 Oh.

00:09:38.000 It's a good thing.

00:09:40.000 It's like the chicken or the egg.

00:09:42.000 Does he now say that he needs to grandstand and lie, or does he always do that? 1.00

00:09:46.000 Or is he just doing it now because the president basically called him a pussy? 1.00

00:09:49.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:09:49.000 I think he's a little pissed off about all this. 1.00

00:09:52.000 You know, look, the unbiased truth would help here just a little bit, right?

00:09:55.000 If that's what we were getting.

00:09:56.000 We're not saying that this is Nazi Germany and you can't have an opinion.

00:09:59.000 We're just saying that you're very biased.

00:10:00.000 Yeah.

00:10:01.000 Although Helen Thomas would like it to be Nazi Germany.

00:10:04.000 Send the juice back.

00:10:06.000 No.

00:10:06.000 Do you not remember that?

00:10:07.000 No one remembers this?

00:10:07.000 I do remember that.

00:10:08.000 I don't remember.

00:10:08.000 Helen Thomas, you don't remember?

00:10:09.000 She said, they should go back to Poland! 1.00

00:10:11.000 You're like, oh, you crazy old windbud. 1.00

00:10:14.000 It's just amazing to me the indignance of these people. 1.00

00:10:16.000 It's like saying, hey, I think your neighbor might be a pedophile. 0.92

00:10:19.000 It's like, how dare you? 0.98

00:10:20.000 I mean, he sleeps with kids.

00:10:22.000 I mean, there is that.

00:10:24.000 I mean, it's literally like you watched Leaving Neverland, which I think is like a quote from that movie.

00:10:29.000 Pretty much.

00:10:30.000 I like that he wrote a book, though, because he has no career.

00:10:32.000 He's so unfunny.

00:10:34.000 It's like if Plywood wrote a book.

00:10:38.000 Look at the grain of the wood.

00:10:39.000 It's a 2x4.

00:10:40.000 Does Plywood have a grain?

00:10:41.000 All right, switching to international news.

00:10:43.000 A church offered to cover up a cross in the image of Jesus for Ramadan.

00:10:47.000 Going back to the original reasons for church, to appease the guy who said that Christ lied about pretty much everything.

00:10:59.000 There's a right way and a wrong way.

00:11:00.000 Yeah, you would think so.

00:11:01.000 The plan was to, quote, invite men from a nearby mosque to use the church as a place of prayer.

00:11:06.000 This happened, of course, across the pond.

00:11:08.000 I think joining us on the line right now is the Church of England pastor, Reverend Nigel Smith, to discuss it.

00:11:13.000 Reverend Smith, are you there?

00:11:14.000 Yes, Stephen, thank you for having me.

00:11:16.000 I appreciate you.

00:11:16.000 Sure, yeah.

00:11:17.000 Would you mind for a moment just keeping it real?

00:11:18.000 I'm just going to be trying to... Oh my God!

00:11:23.000 Oh my God!

00:11:28.000 Oh my God!

00:11:29.000 That went off the rails pretty quick.

00:11:31.000 Yeah, that didn't take much time.

00:11:33.000 Should have seen it coming.

00:11:33.000 Couldn't have landed any other way.

00:11:35.000 Nope.

00:11:37.000 No problem.

00:11:37.000 I was doing the math in my head.

00:11:38.000 There was no other way that I could have guessed it.

00:11:41.000 Shame on you for thinking so.

00:11:43.000 Finally, this is our final story.

00:11:44.000 We'll bring us to 7 plus 1, then talk about universal basic income, which I'm sure a lot of you support because you're millennials.

00:11:49.000 And even though you're conservative, your desire for free stuff supersedes it.

00:11:53.000 I put you in that exact same bucket.

00:11:55.000 I'm definitely in the bucket.

00:11:57.000 Wow.

00:11:57.000 Right there.

00:11:58.000 Well, yeah, it's true.

00:11:58.000 The yang gang.

00:12:00.000 Finally, uh... We need a street gang, Bill!

00:12:03.000 Yes, yes, it's true.

00:12:05.000 It's amazing.

00:12:06.000 They're the best and most dangerous dumplings.

00:12:08.000 They're in a street gang, and the initiation is voting for somebody who gets 0% of the Democratic nomination.

00:12:19.000 Also stealing a Gran Torino.

00:12:20.000 I don't know why they had all those kids to act in that. 0.98

00:12:22.000 That is proof positive that Asians can't act. 1.00

00:12:24.000 Sorry, Bill. 0.98

00:12:26.000 Wait, is that a question?

00:12:27.000 No, I don't think it's a question.

00:12:28.000 I think it was a statement.

00:12:29.000 Recently, did you see this video where they did this parody of Aladdin and hoping for a diverse cast, hoping for more Asian actors?

00:12:35.000 Oh.

00:12:35.000 And they're going like, listen, at a certain point, there has to be a meritocracy.

00:12:39.000 Your Oscar-nominated films, and that's a really shadow category with foreign.

00:12:43.000 It's still embarrassing.

00:12:45.000 It wasn't a parody.

00:12:46.000 It came out last week.

00:12:48.000 It's in theaters, yeah.

00:12:50.000 It's real.

00:12:51.000 I want to take this, just a real quick point, however.

00:12:53.000 Keanu Reeves is part Asian. 0.67

00:12:55.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:12:56.000 Do not even talk about it.

00:12:57.000 Do you know what his favorite film is?

00:13:01.000 Who?

00:13:01.000 Bill Richman?

00:13:02.000 Bill.

00:13:02.000 Half Asian lawyer Bill Richman?

00:13:03.000 No.

00:13:03.000 I'm proud to say, it's Constantine.

00:13:05.000 Oh no, I do know this!

00:13:06.000 That's actually pretty good.

00:13:07.000 I'll back that up.

00:13:08.000 I like it.

00:13:08.000 It's a good movie, but I didn't expect that.

00:13:10.000 No, your number one is The Prestige.

00:13:12.000 Oh yeah.

00:13:13.000 And number two is Constantine.

00:13:14.000 Top five is Constantine, Truman Show.

00:13:16.000 Number one, Prestige, why?

00:13:17.000 Explain your rationale.

00:13:18.000 Ooh, Hugh Jackman, man.

00:13:20.000 He is amazing.

00:13:21.000 He's a Jackman.

00:13:22.000 Just the writing is great.

00:13:22.000 He had like a thing for him?

00:13:23.000 Oh, I mean, I liked him in The Greatest Showman.

00:13:25.000 He had quite a voice.

00:13:26.000 Okay, and then explain Constantine.

00:13:28.000 About Wolverine.

00:13:28.000 I mean, it's just, I don't know, it's whack.

00:13:30.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:13:31.000 Yeah, you just have horrible taste.

00:13:33.000 I think that's people are going to get upset.

00:13:34.000 Clearly established.

00:13:35.000 I was not.

00:13:36.000 Clearly established.

00:13:38.000 Okay, we have to get to another church story.

00:13:40.000 A church, they agreed to host Drag Queen Storytime after the city library cancelled the event.

00:13:48.000 This is where Ryan Hart comes in.

00:13:50.000 He's the pastor of a church that decided to rent out a room at the library for the event.

00:13:55.000 I thought, well, why can't our church just host it?

00:13:57.000 My reasoning and the reasoning of Open Cathedral and having this event is to keep kids safe.

00:14:02.000 And kids are safer when they know that they can love themselves.

00:14:06.000 We should point out the event was cancelled after Drag Queen Storytime in Houston was found to have hired registered sex offenders. 0.98

00:14:11.000 Holy s***! 0.95

00:14:12.000 Yes. 0.99

00:14:12.000 Ooh, safe in the arms of the Joe Biden. 0.99

00:14:15.000 Whatever happened to a potluck?

00:14:16.000 You have to cover up Jesus and invite people for Ramadan and drag queen story time. 0.99

00:14:21.000 Can't you guys do a Bible study?

00:14:23.000 Jeez, come on.

00:14:25.000 Anyway, that brings us to this week's 7 Plus 1.

00:14:27.000 You forgot Stefan in the chamber.

00:14:34.000 They always forget the one in the chamber.

00:14:35.000 This week is 7 plus 1 Top Drag Queen Story Time Books.

00:14:40.000 The most popular stories that they read to children at these events.

00:14:43.000 We'll all have a chance.

00:14:44.000 Number 7, Harry Potter and the sex prisoner of Azkaban.

00:14:47.000 Yeah, that seems...

00:14:48.000 Look at him!

00:14:49.000 Oh, jeez!

00:14:51.000 Tiny prisoner.

00:14:52.000 That's terrible.

00:14:53.000 Number 6, Bi-Curious George.

00:14:55.000 Which...

00:14:56.000 Oh, no!

00:14:57.000 There's a theme!

00:14:58.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:14:59.000 Hungry.

00:15:00.000 Penn, tell us...

00:15:01.000 Why don't you begin us with number 5?

00:15:02.000 Again, top drag queen storybooks for children.

00:15:05.000 Yeah, all the places you'll go hmm.

00:15:07.000 Just don't tell your parents.

00:15:09.000 Yes!

00:15:11.000 Oh my gosh.

00:15:13.000 That's so terrible.

00:15:15.000 I love how my lawyer takes a sip of his water at that point.

00:15:17.000 He's not in this.

00:15:18.000 It's not water.

00:15:18.000 You know what?

00:15:19.000 Let's all get our hands dirty. 0.99

00:15:21.000 Number four, half-Asian Bill. 0.96

00:15:22.000 The Grooming Tree.

00:15:24.000 Oh, that was it.

00:15:25.000 Oh, wow.

00:15:27.000 That makes a lot more sense.

00:15:28.000 That was so accurate.

00:15:30.000 See, I thought it was the original title, but no.

00:15:32.000 Number three, in case we hadn't lost the remaining half of you. 0.98

00:15:39.000 If you give a mouse a butt plug. 0.86

00:15:41.000 Yeah, this is not our It's the Drag Queen Story Time. 0.88

00:15:46.000 This is not us.

00:15:47.000 That's perverse!

00:15:48.000 Who would do that?

00:15:49.000 Reporting.

00:15:50.000 You're letting us in your church?

00:15:52.000 Gerald, give us number two.

00:15:53.000 James... his giant... Gerald!

00:15:59.000 Dude!

00:16:00.000 Dude, that's like a Georgia O'Keeffe painting right there. 0.71

00:16:02.000 It's because we're going on a theme.

00:16:04.000 And the number one Drag Queen Story Time book, Penn, tell us.

00:16:08.000 The little engine that could keep his mouth shut.

00:16:14.000 Oh, gosh.

00:16:16.000 And of course, the plus one is Berenstain Bears.

00:16:18.000 Yeah, that seems almost all that makes sense.

00:16:21.000 All that makes sense to people who are watching that listen interestingly.

00:16:23.000 That concludes this week's 7 Plus 1!

00:16:25.000 You forgot to burn in the chamber!

00:16:31.000 I apologize for putting you in that situation there.

00:16:34.000 It was them.

00:16:35.000 It was not us.

00:16:36.000 We just have to tell you guys.

00:16:37.000 You know, these aren't the books that are getting banned at local libraries, right?

00:16:40.000 No, these are the ones that are there.

00:16:41.000 It's definitely not these.

00:16:42.000 Not from the local Costco.

00:16:43.000 That was hilarious.

00:16:44.000 The guy was like, no, children are safer when they can turn.

00:16:47.000 You serious?

00:16:48.000 I was gonna say, what?

00:16:50.000 ♪♪♪ Okay, you ready?

00:16:58.000 Oooh.

00:17:01.000 ♪♪♪ Sorry, you were about to say something there, Half-Asian

00:17:10.000 Bill, before that necessary break.

00:17:13.000 That was an amazing break.

00:17:14.000 Epic.

00:17:14.000 Witchcraft.

00:17:16.000 It's all ball bearings now, Clark. 1.00

00:17:19.000 Women out there, if you're dating a guy who uses a fidget spinner, kill him. 1.00

00:17:25.000 With a fidget spinner. 0.99

00:17:27.000 Again, question of the day is, what's your view on universal basic income?

00:17:30.000 I know some conservatives have actually supported this, but I think it needs to be understood contextually as to why some might.

00:17:34.000 I will say this.

00:17:35.000 There is a scenario where I could be on board with it.

00:17:38.000 But back to you guys.

00:17:40.000 The question, I want to hear answers from you.

00:17:42.000 How concerned are you about automation?

00:17:44.000 And how old are you?

00:17:45.000 What's your biggest concern getting into the job market?

00:17:47.000 That seems to be why this is gaining a lot of traction.

00:17:49.000 Universal basic income.

00:17:51.000 Of course, you have the Yang Gang. 0.99

00:17:52.000 Bill knows.

00:17:53.000 And Cortez talking about it recently.

00:17:57.000 When you were here today, you heard something like this.

00:18:09.000 There's an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone a thousand dollars a month.

00:18:13.000 Bill?

00:18:15.000 Universal basic income is a policy where every citizen in a country gets a certain amount of money to meet his or her basic needs, no questions asked.

00:18:22.000 So in my plan, the Freedom Dividend, every American adult would receive $1,000 a month starting at age 18.

00:18:28.000 You know you're robotic when they spruce your interview up with a xylophone.

00:18:34.000 What do we do?

00:18:34.000 Does someone have a recorder?

00:18:37.000 Andrew Yang!

00:18:39.000 Is that a vuvuzela?

00:18:41.000 A xylophone!

00:18:42.000 That's a great word!

00:18:44.000 So for people who don't know, universal basic income, as Andrew Yang is proposing, is $1,000 a month for every American citizen, period.

00:18:50.000 That's the idea, funded by the taxpayers.

00:18:52.000 Cory Booker, Kamala Harris have been pushing similar plans.

00:18:54.000 And then, of course, the wonderful NowThis News.

00:18:58.000 They recently published a video explaining why it's a great idea.

00:19:01.000 Spoiler, I disagree.

00:19:03.000 But let's go to the tale of the tape from NowThis.

00:19:07.000 I believe we need a universal basic income in the United States.

00:19:10.000 A universal basic income is a direct cash transfer.

00:19:12.000 That is, we give people a set amount of money per month, no strings attached.

00:19:16.000 People will be free to buy groceries, diapers, pay rent, save for an emergency, pay for medical care, or simply take their family to a movie.

00:19:24.000 Crack, heroin, methamphetamine, illegal firearms.

00:19:27.000 Sky's the limit!

00:19:28.000 Anything.

00:19:30.000 You can't get a tax deduction, which would essentially be putting cash in your pocket, but you can use cash instead to buy drugs.

00:19:37.000 This would not be a good day, actually, for Asians. 1.00

00:19:40.000 You have first Yang, and then that guy.

00:19:42.000 I'm the yin, they're the yang.

00:19:44.000 Is this how it works?

00:19:45.000 On the other side of the coin.

00:19:49.000 Careful.

00:19:50.000 Gerald's going to try and get in on that action and say something funny.

00:19:53.000 So before we get to the untenable economic undergirding for the argument, let me ask you a few questions here, OK?

00:20:00.000 Because the economics, again, they don't provide any statistics or data.

00:20:03.000 We'll do our best to try and fill in the blanks.

00:20:05.000 Thanks, NowThis, like 50 billion plays on Facebook.

00:20:08.000 It's just claims.

00:20:09.000 There was nothing in that claim.

00:20:10.000 It was like Gerald's wine bottles.

00:20:11.000 That was a completely empty claim.

00:20:15.000 So let's just walk you through the logic trail first, okay?

00:20:18.000 I have a couple of questions.

00:20:19.000 Socratic method.

00:20:20.000 You give everyone $1,000, no questions asked, okay?

00:20:23.000 Do you think that would make most citizens more or less likely to save?

00:20:29.000 Do you think that would encourage people to be more or less likely to plan for retirement?

00:20:34.000 More or less likely to strive for a better job and achieve some kind of social mobility?

00:20:39.000 These are the first questions you need to answer.

00:20:41.000 Yeah, and by the way, you can never, ever, ever end it.

00:20:45.000 Government programs are notoriously hard to get rid of.

00:20:47.000 Who are you, Taylor Swift?

00:20:48.000 You can never, ever, ever, ever end it.

00:20:52.000 You can't end it, right?

00:20:53.000 And it's more likely to increase.

00:20:54.000 So let's say we started $1,000.

00:20:55.000 The next guy is going to come along because I want to get elected by giving people free stuff.

00:20:59.000 Let's give them $1,200 a month.

00:21:01.000 I'm better than that guy.

00:21:02.000 Imagine that, instating $1,000 for every single person, and then Bernie at the tiller of that ship. 0.92

00:21:07.000 The $1,000 a month universal basic income has not increased with inflation, sh**.

00:21:12.000 Now he's here.

00:21:13.000 Yes, exactly.

00:21:14.000 It's like Fight for 15.

00:21:15.000 This would happen.

00:21:16.000 I have an idea.

00:21:17.000 What if, you could tell me if this makes any sense.

00:21:19.000 It doesn't.

00:21:21.000 What if instead of giving people random money, like $1,000, what if you would just lower taxes in these big areas so that they would have $1,000 more at the end of the month instead of giving that money to the government?

00:21:32.000 You just cut off our future, now this clip at the knees.

00:21:35.000 You should have watched it first!

00:21:38.000 Because they address that in full.

00:21:39.000 Well, they don't want to do that.

00:21:40.000 They don't want to cut taxes.

00:21:41.000 Well, they address it very effectively.

00:21:42.000 Your argument is moot.

00:21:45.000 Moot.

00:21:45.000 It's moot.

00:21:46.000 I know it's moot.

00:21:46.000 I accidentally said moot, okay?

00:21:48.000 Get off my back! 1.00

00:21:49.000 It's moops.

00:21:50.000 By the way, hit the notification bell because subscriptions don't mean anything apparently.

00:21:55.000 Bill thinks his client is very unstable right now.

00:21:57.000 Half-Asian Bill. 0.89

00:21:58.000 No more than normal.

00:22:00.000 He did grow up with a half-Asian mother.

00:22:01.000 And by the way, bookmark the page.

00:22:03.000 And ModClub.

00:22:03.000 LottoSpider.com slash ModClub because we are being hit with the false copyrights.

00:22:07.000 iTunes, leave us a rating.

00:22:08.000 All right.

00:22:09.000 Point number two.

00:22:09.000 This is one of the premises that they base the Universal Basic Income on.

00:22:15.000 So instead of point, let's say these are kind of the tenants of what they believe here.

00:22:19.000 By the way, I didn't say tenants as in renters.

00:22:23.000 Okay, I understand it's moot.

00:22:25.000 Oh, good lord.

00:22:26.000 Fake news.

00:22:28.000 The last thing I want is to be on a salon headline, you know.

00:22:31.000 He said, moot! 0.81

00:22:32.000 I am being vilified while the pedophile gets a parade four times.

00:22:35.000 I've already commented about your moot-mute. 0.96

00:22:38.000 Literally.

00:22:39.000 Bill will clean it up in a release after.

00:22:40.000 Trust me, you're in good hands.

00:22:42.000 Okay, they make the argument that work doesn't pay.

00:22:47.000 One, work doesn't pay.

00:22:48.000 People often work one, two, or three jobs and still live in poverty.

00:22:52.000 In fact, work pays so little that a majority of Americans don't have a thousand dollars in the bank for an emergency.

00:22:58.000 95 million Americans live in poverty and one in three parents can't afford diapers for their children.

00:23:02.000 First, we have to recognize that work doesn't pay.

00:23:05.000 No matter how long and how much people work, they're not getting by and they're certainly not getting ahead.

00:23:10.000 So first, you have to listen to me when I repeat these completely empty claims.

00:23:16.000 Right.

00:23:17.000 For step two, see step one.

00:23:19.000 Correct.

00:23:19.000 But they claim Americans work two, three jobs, 95.

00:23:22.000 Again, there's nothing in that claim.

00:23:24.000 I could not find any statistic that reflects 95 million Americans living in poverty, working multiple jobs.

00:23:31.000 It's demonstrably false.

00:23:32.000 The number is 39.7 million, according to the ultra-biased US census.

00:23:37.000 I want to make sure you understand.

00:23:38.000 Exactly.

00:23:39.000 This is the modern day Herod head count. 0.53

00:23:44.000 Oh, you hit your light there.

00:23:45.000 I thought you had something to say.

00:23:45.000 I didn't.

00:23:46.000 I didn't hit anything.

00:23:46.000 You're just drunk.

00:23:47.000 I didn't.

00:23:47.000 It was the lawyer.

00:23:48.000 And this is something else we need to understand.

00:23:49.000 When we talk about poverty, again, it's 39 million.

00:23:51.000 It's not 95 million.

00:23:53.000 Again, this changes it, right?

00:23:54.000 If you think someone's working three jobs, and 95 million people working three jobs are in poverty.

00:23:59.000 Well, the number's actually under 40 million.

00:24:01.000 And by the way, the standards of poverty net, they have multiple vehicles, air conditioning, widescreen TVs, internet.

00:24:07.000 I understand it's widescreen.

00:24:08.000 I said widescreen.

00:24:10.000 Get off my back! 1.00

00:24:13.000 By the way, it was nice that they didn't have any kind of tag.

00:24:16.000 I even looked at the very bottom.

00:24:17.000 There was no source listed for the 95 million.

00:24:19.000 Of course not.

00:24:20.000 It's now this.

00:24:20.000 And you go, wait, can you have a source for this?

00:24:21.000 Now that.

00:24:23.000 Look over here.

00:24:24.000 It's like the prestige.

00:24:25.000 Yes.

00:24:26.000 We have a quarter of Asia.

00:24:26.000 Now the prestige.

00:24:28.000 No sources.

00:24:31.000 By the way, it's not about just material goods.

00:24:33.000 You wouldn't have any of those things if you were the wealthiest person on Earth 80 years ago.

00:24:36.000 People say, oh, that doesn't, so you're saying because they have an iPhone it's not hard?

00:24:39.000 No.

00:24:40.000 I'm talking about the kinds of opportunities afforded to everyone because of advancements in technology.

00:24:44.000 I've used this example before.

00:24:45.000 Imagine if you could go back into the Civil War.

00:24:47.000 Did you ever have this fantasy as a kid?

00:24:48.000 Like, I could go back with an M16 and grenade launcher.

00:24:51.000 OK, bye, Hopper.

00:24:52.000 I think I spilled some water on him a little bit. 0.98

00:24:55.000 Jerk. 0.99

00:24:55.000 Imagine. 0.99

00:24:56.000 No one would be able to stand a chance.

00:24:58.000 Oh, now he's back.

00:25:00.000 He's going over to Bill.

00:25:02.000 Hopper, don't go over to half-Asian Bill. 1.00

00:25:04.000 They serve you.

00:25:06.000 I will protect you, Hopper.

00:25:07.000 This festival is dedicated to you.

00:25:08.000 This show is not a good one.

00:25:10.000 This is great, Stephen.

00:25:13.000 What are you talking about?

00:25:15.000 The worst part is, we'll be able to see it in our analytics.

00:25:17.000 That's the portion that everyone will rewind.

00:25:20.000 Doesn't matter how much work we put in.

00:25:24.000 Dogs and monkeys.

00:25:24.000 People love them.

00:25:28.000 Imagine if you could travel back, let's just go a little bit more recent, 25 years with an iPhone.

00:25:34.000 You could be more productive than Bill Gates, along with the entire staff of Bill Gates.

00:25:38.000 You could be more productive than all of them.

00:25:41.000 It's not that you have a cell phone or a microwave, but you have access to technology that gives you more opportunities and more abilities to make efficient use of your time and advance your financial, your social, your educational status.

00:25:51.000 That's the point that we're talking about here.

00:25:53.000 Yeah, and all of this is built on this false premise that all work is equal, right?

00:25:57.000 He's saying, oh, this work doesn't pay.

00:25:58.000 Well, some jobs don't pay very well.

00:26:00.000 They're meant to be entry-level jobs for you to work up to other jobs.

00:26:03.000 If you don't like it, go out and get the skills that are required to get to a different job.

00:26:07.000 If that requires you to work two jobs, sometimes you have to do that.

00:26:09.000 I understand that.

00:26:10.000 But not all work produces the same.

00:26:12.000 And you know what else is important?

00:26:12.000 They're trying to say, oh, that's because you're an elitist.

00:26:14.000 No, no, hold on a second.

00:26:15.000 No. 0.96

00:26:16.000 Trash men jobs pay better. 1.00

00:26:18.000 You think it's beneath you. 0.99

00:26:19.000 Right.

00:26:20.000 Exactly.

00:26:20.000 Being a shift manager at a fast food franchise pays better.

00:26:24.000 You think it's beneath you.

00:26:25.000 We're telling you there's a job surplus.

00:26:27.000 A lot of them, but they don't all pay super well.

00:26:29.000 Not all of them, but some of them do.

00:26:31.000 Yeah.

00:26:32.000 The whole premise is that if you produce something, and they're going to argue with this left and right, if you can produce something valuable with your time, then I will give you my money that I have earned to do it for me.

00:26:42.000 And they go on to make that point that many Americans don't have a thousand dollars in their savings account, right?

00:26:46.000 And this is evidence of work not paying.

00:26:48.000 This is emblematic of the leftists at NowThis because, like many of the proposed tax plans and economic plans coming from the left, it doesn't take into account- What?

00:26:56.000 What?

00:26:57.000 What, men? 0.56

00:26:58.000 What?

00:26:58.000 I think we lost half-Asian Bill.

00:26:59.000 What?

00:27:00.000 I'm playing with the dog.

00:27:02.000 I licked my lips.

00:27:03.000 You're not playing with him, you're putting on the dry rub.

00:27:05.000 Stop it.

00:27:07.000 It's teriyaki sauce.

00:27:09.000 You know this.

00:27:11.000 It doesn't take into account spending.

00:27:14.000 Now you're getting it.

00:27:15.000 Everyone's understanding.

00:27:16.000 Samsonite.

00:27:17.000 I was way off.

00:27:17.000 Then they go on to make this point.

00:27:19.000 Again, I'll let you know in what scenario I would be supportive of a universal basic income, but it's not based on these false premises.

00:27:26.000 Like right now, I think is it still now this?

00:27:27.000 Yeah.

00:27:28.000 This is now more, unfortunately.

00:27:30.000 We give corporations, they say, free money, but not the poor.

00:27:33.000 But then why are we so reticent to give people money?

00:27:35.000 Well, because in the United States, we wrongfully believe that if we help struggling people and communities, that they'll never help themselves.

00:27:41.000 Instead, we give big corporations and billionaires free money because we believe their wealth creates deservedness.

00:27:46.000 So we keep giving more.

00:27:47.000 What?

00:27:48.000 What?

00:27:48.000 Again, is there any source, any evidence for that claim?

00:27:51.000 None.

00:27:52.000 First off, it's not remotely true that the United States gives nothing to the poor.

00:27:55.000 Currently drop about $1 trillion a year, okay?

00:27:58.000 Stevie, that's nothing.

00:27:59.000 That's nothing.

00:28:00.000 It's a drop in the bucket to you.

00:28:02.000 That's like 1 20th of the new green deal.

00:28:06.000 I mean, yes, that's true.

00:28:08.000 Basically, that's just half a paragraph.

00:28:10.000 That's two lines if you take into account five pages. 0.92

00:28:12.000 That's just a farting cow. 1.00

00:28:13.000 That's it.

00:28:13.000 And they don't explain what they mean by give billionaires free money.

00:28:15.000 If they're talking about government subsidies, loans for giving out money to corporations, I'm against that.

00:28:20.000 Every single conservative I know is against bailout money.

00:28:23.000 Everyone here?

00:28:24.000 Show of hands?

00:28:25.000 Show of hands?

00:28:26.000 No?

00:28:26.000 No one here supports bailouts?

00:28:27.000 Okay, good.

00:28:28.000 We should find some common ground there.

00:28:29.000 Now, that would be a good example.

00:28:31.000 Obama giving $535 million to a solar energy company to declare bankruptcy without actually creating anything.

00:28:36.000 Subsidizing green energy to the tune of $39 billion a year.

00:28:40.000 I think we all have problems with that.

00:28:42.000 The auto bailout.

00:28:43.000 But I think people need to understand that a subsidy is very different from a tax break.

00:28:48.000 From saying, OK, we are going to not punish you as much if you bring these jobs or you conduct this research onshore.

00:28:55.000 Here, that's not the same as giving somebody money.

00:28:58.000 I think we need to understand the difference.

00:29:00.000 And you must deal with that all the time in business law there, Half-Asian Bill. 1.00

00:29:02.000 Well, I mean, you've got to think about what is the theory of if you're going to give someone money versus you're going to, you know, let's say a tax break or something like that.

00:29:10.000 It's almost as if they're saying, well, it doesn't matter what form you give it in.

00:29:13.000 As long as you give it, there's no consequence, right?

00:29:15.000 You just give the money and everything will be fine.

00:29:17.000 But there's no, what is the empirical data to support that this money is going to go in the right place or actually change anything?

00:29:23.000 Right.

00:29:24.000 To drive this point home, by the way, this killed Mitt Romney's campaign, but it was accurate.

00:29:28.000 Almost half of all Americans don't pay federal income tax.

00:29:30.000 And here's something even more that I wish you would have clarified.

00:29:33.000 If you look at income and taxes paid, okay, and you take into account federal transfers, that's a word they used, right, like the $1 trillion in government programs that I mentioned earlier, meaning what you give to people, welfare, food stamps, the bottom 20%, what would you think the bottom 20% in the United States pay?

00:29:46.000 A lot of people say, well, they should pay less.

00:29:49.000 Okay, so you think they're paying too much.

00:29:50.000 What would be fair?

00:29:51.000 Should they pay 20%?

00:29:52.000 15%?

00:29:52.000 10%? 2%?

00:29:56.000 They pay negative 58% when you take into account what they get in the form of transfers.

00:30:01.000 The next income brackets, all the way up to the middle 20%, they all get double digits of a negative tax rate.

00:30:06.000 Wow.

00:30:07.000 People in the top tax bracket, they pay over 30%.

00:30:10.000 And this is why whenever someone says, well, this is a tax cut for the rich.

00:30:13.000 Well, yeah, because they're the only one paying taxes.

00:30:15.000 And by the way, top 20% is something like $70,000, $80,000 in a joint income household.

00:30:19.000 It's not that much.

00:30:21.000 So it's important to understand, this is a tax break for the wealthy.

00:30:24.000 Well, you pay negative 50!

00:30:27.000 What would you like, negative 100%?

00:30:29.000 I don't know, I don't... What do we have to do to make you happy?

00:30:33.000 And you're right.

00:30:33.000 The only people that can pay taxes are the people that are earning an income to do it.

00:30:36.000 Or, I'm sorry, that only can get a tax break are the ones that are paying taxes.

00:30:39.000 So with the corporations, when you look at them, they always paint them as this big evil villain.

00:30:43.000 We shouldn't give them any tax breaks.

00:30:44.000 That's how you compete for their business.

00:30:47.000 They can locate wherever they would like AOC.

00:30:49.000 Thanks for the Amazon.

00:30:50.000 25,000 jobs, billions of dollars later.

00:30:53.000 That's how this works.

00:30:54.000 They didn't pay anything in corporate tax.

00:30:57.000 What about the income tax?

00:30:59.000 There were billions of dollars paid to the government in taxes.

00:31:02.000 Payroll taxes that they would have been paying to New York State.

00:31:04.000 It's one of the biggest lies.

00:31:05.000 Google it, okay?

00:31:08.000 Just YouTube search.

00:31:09.000 Actually, don't YouTube search because it won't show up on YouTube.

00:31:11.000 It's already been removed, I'm sure, demonetized.

00:31:14.000 Where we dealt with the biggest myths of the rich and corporations not paying anything.

00:31:19.000 It's not true that Amazon has paid nothing in taxes.

00:31:21.000 That's billions of dollars annually in the last few years.

00:31:24.000 Alright, another, sort of one of the fulcrums of their argument here is that

00:31:28.000 universal basic income will boost the economy. Here's how they explain it.

00:31:31.000 I believe we can lift millions of people out of poverty with the universal basic income.

00:31:35.000 You're wrong.

00:31:36.000 And give people the independence they deserve with a monthly cash disbursement.

00:31:40.000 Giving people cash will create an economic stimulus.

00:31:44.000 When you give people money, they spend the money, which helps boost small business and government revenues.

00:31:49.000 Recent Nobel Prize winning work suggests that the best way to reduce poverty and help people is to actually give them agency.

00:31:55.000 And this means giving people money.

00:31:57.000 We can afford Universal Basic Income.

00:31:59.000 You give...

00:32:01.000 For perspective, the federal government just passed... No, you know what?

00:32:03.000 Cut it. 0.63

00:32:04.000 Cut it. 0.63

00:32:04.000 I can't do it anymore. 0.63

00:32:05.000 Hold on a second.

00:32:05.000 Give people agency by giving... How about you give people agency by NOT TAKING THEIR MONEY?

00:32:11.000 How about letting them keep their money?

00:32:13.000 That's a good place to start.

00:32:14.000 He's basically talking about... You're gonna say trickle-down economics doesn't work, where the idea is if people would keep more money.

00:32:18.000 We're not just talking about the wealthy, but the idea people don't understand when you look at economists like Art Laffer.

00:32:22.000 The more people keep, the more they will spend.

00:32:24.000 What you are saying is take, take, take.

00:32:26.000 Don't let them keep.

00:32:27.000 And then give them money to spend. 0.97

00:32:28.000 You acknowledge that if people have more pocket change they'll spend it, that's good for the economy, but you believe that you give people agency by taking their sh** and saying, by the way, here's a little bit of your sh** back? 0.96

00:32:39.000 You should be happy with that.

00:32:40.000 By the way, let's change it from universal basic income.

00:32:42.000 This is wealth redistribution, period.

00:32:44.000 That's all it is, is taking from somebody else that has a lot and giving it to someone who doesn't.

00:32:48.000 That's it.

00:32:49.000 It doesn't take into account human nature and the work incentive.

00:32:52.000 It's not even a new idea.

00:32:53.000 From 1968 to 1990, the U.S. 0.68

00:32:55.000 actually led a few trials.

00:32:57.000 I think they called one of these programs a negative income tax.

00:32:59.000 There's some clever wordplay there.

00:33:01.000 What it is.

00:33:01.000 And what did they find?

00:33:02.000 You guys know what they found?

00:33:03.000 They found that if you gave people free money, surprise!

00:33:06.000 They worked dramatically less.

00:33:07.000 Among men, 43% less and they were far more likely to be unemployed.

00:33:12.000 And the buffoon said, he actually said, we'll collect more of this money and give it to the government.

00:33:17.000 But the government's already giving this money out. 0.94

00:33:19.000 What are you talking about?

00:33:21.000 We want more money.

00:33:24.000 Hey, there was something true he said there, though.

00:33:26.000 What?

00:33:26.000 Hello.

00:33:27.000 They're going to give the money, and then it's going to boost small businesses.

00:33:29.000 And drug dealers are small businesses.

00:33:31.000 This is true.

00:33:32.000 That is true.

00:33:32.000 We've got people playing the lottery.

00:33:35.000 Every $1,000 check coming out.

00:33:36.000 And there's a magic mushroom shop owner in Colorado going, I'm freaking out, man.

00:33:40.000 This is my ticket in.

00:33:41.000 Too much.

00:33:42.000 Why is that librarian so slimy?

00:33:46.000 Oh my god, she's dead! 0.93

00:33:51.000 She's dead! 0.99

00:33:53.000 She shouldn't be sitting on the bench! 0.54

00:33:58.000 The idea that they claim that the only way to make people independent is to give them money.

00:34:01.000 It makes people more dependent.

00:34:03.000 I just don't understand. 0.99

00:34:04.000 So, okay, in order to wean your son off of solid food, you're going to keep your t*** in his mouth forever? 0.99

00:34:10.000 That seems like a plan. 0.99

00:34:13.000 I want him to start eating peas.

00:34:14.000 We're really hard to get him on the path. 0.97

00:34:16.000 Just my t***. 0.87

00:34:18.000 That doesn't seem like that's the most productive route. 0.98

00:34:20.000 I just put a pea on the bread.

00:34:21.000 No, okay.

00:34:22.000 And by the way, the argument they often bring up, I hear this a lot as gang gang, you know, you know what I'm talking about there, half-Asian dog. 0.96

00:34:27.000 They use Alaska as an example.

00:34:29.000 This is something a lot of people, what about Alaska?

00:34:31.000 I can already see it in the comments section.

00:34:33.000 Hold on, you might want to delete that comment you left four minutes ago.

00:34:36.000 It's a very small amount in Alaska, between $300,000 to $2,000 a year or so.

00:34:39.000 Yeah, and by the way, if we needed any other examples for this, this works really well with the Native American population.

00:34:45.000 Very, very well.

00:34:46.000 Great results, at full employment, everybody's doing well, it's fantastic.

00:34:50.000 Just look at Steven Seagal.

00:34:52.000 I am one.

00:34:53.000 Also black from Brooklyn and a Jew from Detroit.

00:34:56.000 And a police officer.

00:34:57.000 Yes, all of those things.

00:34:58.000 Amazing.

00:34:59.000 And if you look at places that have done it on a larger scale, like Canada, Finland, they actually imamented, uh, implemented, get off my back!

00:35:05.000 Imamented, Steven?

00:35:06.000 Universal.

00:35:07.000 Did you say imamented?

00:35:09.000 Oh, freak it out!

00:35:10.000 He needs to check out more books, but she's hushing him.

00:35:15.000 I don't know.

00:35:16.000 It's a bad program.

00:35:17.000 I like this.

00:35:17.000 It's like SLC Punk.

00:35:19.000 Yeah.

00:35:19.000 Kind of the middle scenes there.

00:35:20.000 In Canada, Finland, it failed.

00:35:22.000 They were set to run a program in Canada, I think, for three years.

00:35:24.000 I should just look at the overlay.

00:35:26.000 Had to be shut down after 15 months.

00:35:27.000 So fast!

00:35:29.000 So fast it was shut down.

00:35:30.000 I didn't get any of it.

00:35:31.000 Your check is in the mail, sir.

00:35:33.000 Sorry.

00:35:33.000 In Finland, the program didn't help people get back to work.

00:35:35.000 You have a direct quote from the Finnish.

00:35:37.000 I don't know how to do a Finnish accent because they're insignificant on a global scale. 0.99

00:35:40.000 No one cares about you.

00:35:44.000 When compared to a control group who were not receiving the basic income, the test subjects, given the money, were not significantly more likely to have gotten back into employment.

00:35:56.000 Also, by the way, unfortunately for them, the people at the end of the study were murdered by everyone in the control group.

00:36:02.000 Oh, wow.

00:36:03.000 That would affect it.

00:36:04.000 The people who had their autonomy actually violated with their stuff taken, they killed them.

00:36:09.000 That seems reasonable, though.

00:36:11.000 Finland, I guess you have a new thing to be known for, so it's not that bad.

00:36:15.000 The next point, this is one that's really big, and it's not ill-founded, completely.

00:36:18.000 Automation.

00:36:20.000 Many Americans, even those with six-figure incomes, are living check to check.

00:36:23.000 And third, gains in productivity aren't being realized by average Americans.

00:36:27.000 They're being hoarded by a few people at the top.

00:36:29.000 Automation and artificial intelligence will only accelerate this trend.

00:36:32.000 I love how they just toss in automation and artificial intelligence.

00:36:35.000 Like, hold on a second.

00:36:36.000 We've seen automation really going back to the agricultural revolution.

00:36:39.000 Right.

00:36:39.000 Do you want people plowing fields with spoons?

00:36:42.000 Right?

00:36:42.000 There's always been some level of... We can do that.

00:36:43.000 And then you can look at the industrial revolution.

00:36:45.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:36:46.000 But then he just throws in A.I.s.

00:36:47.000 You're like, what?

00:36:48.000 Alexa?

00:36:50.000 SkyNet.

00:36:51.000 And it was listening in on me, man!

00:36:53.000 I mean, the argument there is to say, well, yeah, if you want to just create jobs and artificially create a market, just start destroying all computers.

00:37:01.000 You know what we should also do?

00:37:02.000 No electric grid.

00:37:03.000 Yeah.

00:37:03.000 Candle makers, man, that industry is going to Boom.

00:37:06.000 I mean, but you can artificially create that, or you can set up a system that deals with important education items, encouraging people to actually work, and to be able to have the kind of persistence going to earn them the type of money that they're interested in.

00:37:17.000 And that's not to say that we can entirely eliminate poverty, but how is going to give this additional money to people who are definitively, based on the studies, not going to do anything to change their circumstance, going to change anything?

00:37:28.000 And that's what's lacking in the entire field.

00:37:30.000 That's a valid point.

00:37:30.000 Can't automate this.

00:37:31.000 Counterpoint.

00:37:32.000 They would like to see WhiteHouse.gov be a storefront for Etsy.

00:37:37.000 T-Tree oil soap.

00:37:41.000 Here's something else that people don't talk about.

00:37:42.000 Despite automation, there's more probably than ever.

00:37:45.000 Unemployment at its lowest in 50 years.

00:37:47.000 Record number of workers entering the workforce.

00:37:49.000 We have a high labor force participation rate.

00:37:51.000 We have a job surplus.

00:37:52.000 And the hard data shows us that the digital revolution has created far more jobs than it ever destroyed.

00:37:57.000 Think about it.

00:37:58.000 You have entire businesses that just create apps.

00:38:02.000 No.

00:38:02.000 And then you have entire businesses that just help them code those apps.

00:38:05.000 And now you have entire businesses even just taking into account Amazon.

00:38:08.000 People think it's this one Leviathan.

00:38:10.000 No.

00:38:11.000 Well, it is, but there are a lot.

00:38:12.000 It's basically a main portal as a digital storefront for all kinds of third-party sellers.

00:38:16.000 It's sort of become the new General Store.

00:38:18.000 It all comes full circle.

00:38:20.000 This is what people don't take into account.

00:38:22.000 Now I understand that some people will lose jobs in a shifting economy.

00:38:26.000 Yeah.

00:38:27.000 And we shouldn't be insensitive to that.

00:38:28.000 Of course.

00:38:29.000 But like you said, we can't solve it by just being inefficient or giving people something

00:38:32.000 that they haven't earned.

00:38:33.000 But Stephen, what about the laser disc manufacturers?

00:38:35.000 Yes.

00:38:36.000 Exactly.

00:38:37.000 Right.

00:38:38.000 No one here is crying about the track.

00:38:39.000 And you know, your plan doesn't address those vintage, amazing, historic past.

00:38:46.000 Well, how far is selfish?

00:38:47.000 How far do you take it?

00:38:48.000 It's like, okay, what about the key grips on Route 66?

00:38:51.000 They've probably been out of work for a while.

00:38:53.000 Where's the soda fountain guys?

00:38:57.000 Nobody jerked a soda like Patrick. 0.99

00:39:00.000 Also, turned out he was a pedophile. 0.98

00:39:01.000 That surprised us. 0.98

00:39:04.000 Soda means little student.

00:39:05.000 Came out of nowhere. 1.00

00:39:06.000 Came from that snail bitch at the library. 1.00

00:39:07.000 Always left a trail when she went into the non-fiction section, I tell ya. 0.99

00:39:12.000 Another consistent trend, by the way, is that get off my back.

00:39:16.000 Dangerous, low-paying jobs have decreased, while safer, high-paying jobs increased.

00:39:21.000 So not only more jobs overall, also a better quality of life with the new jobs.

00:39:25.000 And it's a reasonable conversation to happen, but the problem is that technology, you can't stop it, right?

00:39:30.000 People, I just thought of this, Pol Pot had this idea in the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

00:39:35.000 No, his idea was full labor.

00:39:39.000 Everybody go out in the fields.

00:39:40.000 Every smart person in the country was killed.

00:39:42.000 Teachers, people who had glasses, lawyers.

00:39:44.000 Sorry, Bill, you guys are usually the first to go.

00:39:45.000 People who had glasses?

00:39:46.000 I work on that.

00:39:46.000 They were considered smart!

00:39:48.000 Is that because you wore glasses?

00:39:49.000 Somebody called him four eyes in France where he was in school, and he's like, oh, they must be smart. 0.96

00:39:53.000 No, that's because of their masturbatory behavioral patterns. 0.97

00:39:56.000 He's like, look, genius is like this, right? 0.93

00:39:59.000 They basically pushed everybody out into the rice fields to have them just make an agriculture economy that would rule the world, essentially, and it miserably failed.

00:40:08.000 Millions of people died because you tried to do that.

00:40:10.000 That's putting everybody at work.

00:40:11.000 That's full employment.

00:40:12.000 This idea has been floated before.

00:40:14.000 Just check history.

00:40:15.000 Yeah, well, you know, I was using Canada and Finland as sort of benchmarks there.

00:40:19.000 You went straight to Pol Pot. 0.93

00:40:20.000 I did.

00:40:20.000 And he said, I was just thinking about this right now.

00:40:23.000 Yeah, I know.

00:40:23.000 Every time Gino says, I just thought of this, it's like, don't.

00:40:27.000 Yeah.

00:40:28.000 I've seen it.

00:40:29.000 I've been in those fields.

00:40:30.000 I've been in the high school where they killed people.

00:40:32.000 It was crazy.

00:40:33.000 You've probably been to Asia more than half-Asian Bill Richmond's been to Asia. 0.99

00:40:36.000 Gerald is a sex tourist. 0.59

00:40:38.000 I've been to a different... I am not. 0.99

00:40:42.000 I'm just wondering why my mom recognized me.

00:40:46.000 I actually helped set up a center to fight trafficking.

00:40:48.000 He has Thailand pre-check.

00:40:50.000 No.

00:40:51.000 Just Thailand, yeah.

00:40:52.000 No.

00:40:53.000 Oh, welcome back, Mr. Gerald!

00:40:54.000 Welcome back, Mr. Lawson!

00:40:56.000 See how this is?

00:40:57.000 I actually helped fight human trafficking and you guys say I'm a trafficker.

00:41:00.000 I did!

00:41:01.000 I helped set up a program in Siem Reap.

00:41:03.000 Now I feel bad.

00:41:04.000 What's it called?

00:41:05.000 Siem Reap was the city in northern Cambodia.

00:41:08.000 And Sihanoukville, too, over on the coast.

00:41:10.000 Siem Reap was actually the name of the ladyboy.

00:41:11.000 No, it was not!

00:41:13.000 Ah, no, Siem Reap, not what you like!

00:41:15.000 He's mispronouncing it. 0.99

00:41:16.000 See him rape. 0.99

00:41:18.000 No. 1.00

00:41:19.000 Gosh.

00:41:20.000 I can't get anywhere with these people.

00:41:21.000 I'm so sorry.

00:41:22.000 No, you're fine.

00:41:22.000 G. Morgan Jr.

00:41:23.000 I understand the appeal, by the way, to small government conservatives.

00:41:26.000 This is one thing.

00:41:27.000 So if you were to make this argument, and I've heard conservatives, I think even if you go back, I think Friedman might have talked about this or Hayek.

00:41:34.000 Yeah.

00:41:35.000 If you were to say, let's do away with all welfare programs, all social safety, let's do away with EBT, let's do away with Social Security, let's do away with Medicare, Medicaid, let's do away with welfare, let's do away with all of it and just put a thousand dollars into every American's pocket regardless of income, I understand the appeal because at that point it would save us money and you wouldn't have the kind of government incentives that create baby mamas. 0.92

00:41:55.000 At that point, you actually have a government incentive to have a joint household.

00:41:58.000 Okay, a mom in the house, $12,000.

00:42:00.000 A dad and a mom, $24,000.

00:42:02.000 I understand the appeal to it, but that's not what any Democrat is proposing.

00:42:07.000 This is very important to note.

00:42:09.000 They're just saying, we want to give people money, and by the way, if they're getting more in benefits already, we're going to let them keep those benefits.

00:42:15.000 That's a problem.

00:42:16.000 Yeah, nobody's going to make that change.

00:42:17.000 And by the way, this program would cost, you would have to raise, right, additional $3 trillion per year if everybody over 18 received $1,000 a month, no matter their income level.

00:42:27.000 And that's what the proposal is.

00:42:30.000 I would sign up for the Green New Deal much faster.

00:42:32.000 That's much more plausible than doing that.

00:42:33.000 There's no way.

00:42:34.000 $3 trillion per year.

00:42:37.000 Yeah.

00:42:37.000 That sounds like a lot.

00:42:38.000 And it will grow as the population grows.

00:42:40.000 I would like to have Yang on the show.

00:42:42.000 I bet you we could probably get him.

00:42:43.000 Hold on.

00:42:43.000 Let me make sure I understand.

00:42:45.000 I just assumed that this plan wouldn't be so stupid as to say, we're going to take $1,200 from a bunch of people, and then we're just going to give them $1,200 back. 0.86

00:42:54.000 Like, I'm pretty sure that's just like a check floating scheme. 0.96

00:42:59.000 All we're doing is just keeping the interest along the way.

00:43:02.000 Now, I get it.

00:43:03.000 They're going to take more from a higher, you know, there's a higher tax rate, and then it's going to redistribute.

00:43:07.000 But ultimately, again, look at that figure.

00:43:09.000 $16,000 to $18,000 of benefit already, right?

00:43:12.000 And so you add on top of that.

00:43:14.000 So you have to say that I'm going to increase by this kind of single or maybe low double-digit change, and that's what's going to make a big difference.

00:43:21.000 And you just don't see the evidence for it.

00:43:22.000 No.

00:43:23.000 And what they say is, well, we would count it as a credit.

00:43:24.000 So in other words, if someone gets $12,000 a year, it's $1,000 a month.

00:43:26.000 dollars a year, it's a thousand dollars a month. If someone gets a thousand dollars

00:43:28.000 a month, twelve thousand a year, and they only get sixteen thousand dollars of transfers,

00:43:31.000 well now they would only get four thousand dollars of transfers. But that's not, it's

00:43:34.000 not like that's a wash.

00:43:36.000 It's just worse!

00:43:38.000 You just have them getting the transfers and now a bunch of people who don't need the $1,000 getting $1,000.

00:43:42.000 And this is, by the way, but we do have to get going.

00:43:46.000 This is based on Marxist theory, which is all about the abuse of the worker at the hands of the capitalist bourgeoisie.

00:43:50.000 See?

00:43:51.000 You don't need to get on my back on that one.

00:43:52.000 That's because French Canadians. 0.99

00:43:54.000 Let me ask, what do you think the result of having policy is where those who work and contribute have their money taken from them and it's given to those who don't?

00:44:02.000 How would that not eventually start a civil war?

00:44:05.000 Honestly.

00:44:06.000 You know who's going to win that war?

00:44:07.000 The ones who've been contributing.

00:44:09.000 Also, because they're the ones who have the guns, you would assume, not only because they can afford them, but they're the kinds of people who would purchase guns.

00:44:15.000 This is important.

00:44:16.000 It's predicated on the idea that the wealthy don't pay enough, meaning people who have over $70,000, $80,000.

00:44:21.000 They do.

00:44:21.000 They pay far more.

00:44:22.000 People in the bottom 20% pay a net negative.

00:44:25.000 And this idea is that it would provide some kind of more autonomy.

00:44:27.000 It doesn't.

00:44:27.000 It creates slaves to the government who can then decide what you do and when you do.

00:44:32.000 With your money.

00:44:33.000 I'm not on board.

00:44:35.000 We have one more story.

00:44:39.000 Lena Dunham actually posted this photo encouraging people to love themselves.

00:44:43.000 I think we have, yeah, yeah, Gary. 1.00

00:44:45.000 Oh, fuck. 1.00

00:44:45.000 Quarter black. 1.00

00:44:46.000 What, what's happening?

00:44:48.000 Uh oh.

00:44:48.000 Oh, oh no, oh no.

00:44:50.000 Uh.

00:44:51.000 Oh, oh no, oh no.

00:44:52.000 Oh, God.

00:44:54.000 If he wasn't wearing pants the whole time.

00:44:56.000 I'm Robin, I'm Dark Horse Pimp, I'm Robin.

00:45:01.000 This always happens.

00:45:02.000 I'm listening to it and then I forget.

00:45:04.000 Alright.

00:45:04.000 There's no man.

00:45:05.000 ♪ I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man ♪ I'm listening to it and then I forget. All right.

00:45:13.000 Sh**! 0.99

00:45:16.000 There's no man, it's just a show. 0.99

00:45:17.000 It's just a show.

00:45:18.000 Oh, my God.

00:45:22.000 I'm bouncing.

00:45:25.000 I don't like that.

00:45:28.000 You're there.

00:45:30.000 I'm gonna cry.

00:45:31.000 Okay, now what am I doing?

00:45:32.000 Guns.

00:45:33.000 What do you need besides a miracle? Guns. Lots of them. I'm Trinity.

00:45:41.000 New York, New York, New York, New York.

00:45:44.000 What do you need besides a miracle?

00:45:46.000 Guns. Lots of them.

00:45:49.000 I'm Trinity.

00:45:58.000 No, you're Pantelis.

00:46:00.000 Cut! 1.00

00:46:00.000 No, in this film he is playing Trinity. 1.00

00:46:03.000 You're Trinity.

00:46:04.000 Is that all you need?

00:46:06.000 Yeah.

00:46:11.000 This is the new Walther all-steel frame Q5 match.

00:46:14.000 Red dot ready.

00:46:16.000 It is all I need.

00:46:18.000 The all steel Walther Q5 match.

00:46:19.000 It has good balance and a 5.6 pound trigger pull.

00:46:21.000 steel walter q5 match it has good balance and a 5.6 pound trigger pull try the walter

00:46:31.000 apparently this was popularized by justin bieber Did you know that?

00:46:48.000 Oh.

00:46:48.000 Yeah.

00:46:48.000 Fellow Canadian there.

00:46:49.000 Yeah.

00:46:50.000 So there you go.

00:46:51.000 Celine Dion and Justin Bieber.

00:46:52.000 And you work, actually, for... with... do you work for our next guest?

00:46:55.000 Yeah, I do, actually, yeah.

00:46:56.000 I work for him, yeah.

00:46:57.000 It's not insulting for me to say that you work for him.

00:46:58.000 Why would I?

00:46:58.000 No, no, no.

00:46:59.000 That you are his subordinate, that you are his Greek Montreal subordinate. 0.79

00:47:03.000 You know him from Compound Media, that's where you can watch Two Drink Minimum.

00:47:06.000 And right now there is a promo code, actually, Compound20 for 20% off.

00:47:10.000 You can follow him on Twitter at TheKoumyaShow.

00:47:12.000 Anthony Koumya, thank you for being back, sir!

00:47:15.000 Thank you, Mr. Crowder.

00:47:17.000 Always a pleasure to do your program.

00:47:20.000 Right off the bat, I've got to talk about the Walther.

00:47:22.000 I love the Walthers.

00:47:24.000 Yes.

00:47:25.000 And that one, I have a PPK-S, and I've noticed one thing.

00:47:31.000 In my situation, I tend to date girls that are a little, what's the word, insane. 1.00

00:47:37.000 Yes.

00:47:39.000 This has been well documented in the press, by the way.

00:47:41.000 This isn't gossip.

00:47:43.000 It really has.

00:47:44.000 And I've noticed that the Walther PBKS, they can barely pull that slide back.

00:47:51.000 So it's a good gun to have around if you don't want them shooting you.

00:47:55.000 Right.

00:47:56.000 It's the equivalent to Steve Martin's cork on his fork in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

00:48:02.000 The first thing you do with a girl when you first meet a girl and start going out with her is hand her various pistols that you have and ask her to rack it.

00:48:10.000 The one she can't rack is the one you carry around with you.

00:48:14.000 That's also why, by the way, everyone needs to avoid the Walther CCP.

00:48:18.000 That was one of its design patents, because it's a gas-delayed blowback.

00:48:22.000 So that's what my mom has.

00:48:23.000 It's really easy to rack.

00:48:25.000 So I stay away from her when she's upset.

00:48:28.000 First question, Anthony, do you dye your hair?

00:48:31.000 Because I'm going gray here, and you've got the Elvis Presley jet dark black it looks like going on.

00:48:38.000 I usually go to this place in New York City called John's Sahag.

00:48:42.000 Very classy joint.

00:48:44.000 But I decided to try a new place out on Long Island, and I get the cut, and yes, I do get it colored, but usually at John's Sahag they're a little more subtle about it.

00:48:55.000 This one was, she just gave me the 1977 Tony Manero.

00:49:02.000 So, you know, after a little while, it starts growing.

00:49:05.000 I get a few Paulie Walnut wings going here from the Sopranos. 0.91

00:49:08.000 Well, that's not bad if it was between that and the Rich Little.

00:49:11.000 By the way, how's your Reagan impression?

00:49:13.000 Yes, well, I... Mommy, I had to have my hair done.

00:49:17.000 It's... well... That's actually better than Rich Little and not as sad.

00:49:24.000 Yeah, Rich Little.

00:49:25.000 We, uh, me and Jim Norton, uh, call, uh, Liam Neeson dyes his hair for all of his Taken movies, and it looks like he literally just dipped his head in soy sauce.

00:49:36.000 That's definitely what I got this time around, was the soy sauce.

00:49:40.000 Well, it looks good, and it's, you know, it's high, not high and tight, but tight.

00:49:43.000 But I knew a guy at church one time who, he had fully gray hair and then came in and it was bright blonde.

00:49:49.000 And the weird thing is, you know he had a decision to make at some point where he's going, I'm just gonna have to cross over and hope no one will notice.

00:49:55.000 Because he wasn't going just for mening and then, no, it was just gray, blonde. 0.85

00:49:59.000 And we had to act as though we didn't notice.

00:50:02.000 Yeah, that's like Elton John did with his wig.

00:50:05.000 He was bald, and then one day he just put this rat on his head, and he's had it ever since.

00:50:10.000 And we kind of got used to it, so.

00:50:12.000 Yeah, or like Steven Seagal with hair plugs.

00:50:14.000 Oh my goodness.

00:50:15.000 You can watch his early movies.

00:50:16.000 You're like, we've seen the film.

00:50:18.000 Sometimes they just paint it on.

00:50:19.000 They just paint the edge right on.

00:50:20.000 It doesn't require any digging.

00:50:22.000 And it also changes based on what ethnicity he's claiming that day.

00:50:25.000 So like when he's saying, I'm Native American, you know, he gets the widow's peak, then he's like, I used to hang out with the blacks in Brooklyn.

00:50:30.000 And then he gets a perm, and you're like, Steven, I guess people have gotten the hair plugs or transplants or whatever you want to call it early on because they go bald earlier in their life and then everything else falls out except for where they put the plugs in.

00:50:47.000 Like, if you're in your 40s or something, and you're thinning and want to get it taken care of, that's not a problem.

00:50:53.000 If you're that guy that in high school started going bald, just accept it.

00:50:57.000 Yeah, I know.

00:50:58.000 That's a rough start.

00:50:59.000 When you think about it, they're taking a gamble like Bosley, when you're basically a walking billboard.

00:51:03.000 Because if you go out, they don't have control of whether you lose your hair or not.

00:51:07.000 And you tell everyone, like, yeah, this is Bosley.

00:51:10.000 Everyone, it's forever more hair toddlers.

00:51:12.000 So I really, I would be very selective.

00:51:14.000 It would be like the college combine.

00:51:16.000 For people to come in if I gave them plugs.

00:51:18.000 I don't know.

00:51:20.000 You got a great head of hair on yourself there.

00:51:22.000 Thank you.

00:51:22.000 It's getting the Mr. Fantastic going gray.

00:51:24.000 So that's why I was asking, you know, my wife doesn't like the gray, but I feel, you know, I'm thinking like battle scars.

00:51:29.000 It's the liberals doing it to you.

00:51:31.000 It's the liberals making your hair gray.

00:51:33.000 It turns gray overnight.

00:51:34.000 Speaking of which, now we have to get back on track.

00:51:37.000 What do you make of Mueller's press conference here this week?

00:51:40.000 I know you've been talking about that quite a bit.

00:51:41.000 This guy, we all had this amazing kind of preconceived notion about him, that he was the man behind the curtain, the intelligent man in the cave on the hill or something.

00:51:55.000 Because we didn't hear- Wait, wait, wait, hold on a second.

00:51:57.000 Where do you come from that intelligent men live in caves on hills?

00:52:01.000 Is this Dark Crystal?

00:52:03.000 It was a Twilight Zone episode.

00:52:05.000 Oh, that's right!

00:52:05.000 Okay, yes.

00:52:06.000 It turned out to be a computer.

00:52:08.000 And Muller turned out to be the guy in the wing, just- Yeah, and the guy that used to do the Schlitz commercials broke it or something.

00:52:17.000 Anyway, it was a great episode.

00:52:18.000 But yeah, we thought he was this guy of wisdom, because he didn't say anything during the entire investigation.

00:52:23.000 You didn't see an interview with him, nothing. 0.99

00:52:25.000 And then he comes out and you're like, oh no, he's just another one of these idiots like you see in Congress and paraded in front of us to give these interviews. 1.00

00:52:34.000 And he's like, all right, here's what it was all about. 1.00

00:52:39.000 We didn't find him guilty.

00:52:40.000 We didn't find him not guilty.

00:52:43.000 All right, take it easy.

00:52:44.000 No questions.

00:52:44.000 I'm out of here.

00:52:45.000 I quit.

00:52:46.000 Right.

00:52:47.000 First question, isn't that your job?

00:52:50.000 Yeah.

00:52:52.000 And people don't seem to understand what a prosecutor's job is, especially during an investigation like this.

00:52:58.000 It's not a trial.

00:52:59.000 He is just getting information so the prosecution can present a case.

00:53:04.000 There's no rebuttal from a defense attorney or rebutting any of this evidence that he has.

00:53:10.000 So in all of that, in all those two years, he couldn't find anything.

00:53:14.000 He didn't find anything. 0.60

00:53:16.000 But yesterday he had to pump out a little bit of crap in his speech about Trump and the fact that he wasn't exonerated, which means nothing in our legal system. 0.69

00:53:27.000 But to try to tell liberals what the legal system is about is a whole other thing. 0.86

00:53:32.000 Well, because Trump sent out a tweet.

00:53:35.000 Yeah, they don't even understand the most basic of rights that we have in this country.

00:53:39.000 Never mind understanding prosecutorial ethics and rules, whatever you're supposed to do.

00:53:49.000 And then my favorite part of this whole thing is watching the Clowns, the candidates for the Democratic nomination that are saying, well...

00:53:58.000 It's clear as day that he was saying that Congress now needs to pick up the ball and immediately start impeachment proceedings.

00:54:07.000 Nothing was clear, by the way.

00:54:08.000 No, nothing at all.

00:54:09.000 Nothing in this entire investigation has ever been clear.

00:54:12.000 And don't you think they have a motive?

00:54:14.000 That they want Trump removed because they cannot possibly beat him?

00:54:20.000 It's like every NFL team wanting to impeach the Patriots at the beginning of the season.

00:54:26.000 Of course you're not going to win!

00:54:27.000 So they want to get rid of him. 0.98

00:54:29.000 So when you hear any of these clowns talking about Trump and how he needs to be impeached, there's an ulterior motive here. 0.96

00:54:37.000 They want to at least have somewhat of a chance in the presidential race. 0.97

00:54:41.000 And it could backfire, by the way.

00:54:43.000 If they try to impeach him, it could end up being worse.

00:54:45.000 I know there are different theories on that, but I do wonder, like you said, we really didn't hear from Mueller a whole lot, and so he sort of became this kind of He's kind of a Rorschach test.

00:54:53.000 He sort of became this empty tablet that everyone just kind of copy pasted onto him what they wanted.

00:54:57.000 Well, he hasn't said anything, therefore there's clearly evidence.

00:54:59.000 And like you said, when he came out, it wasn't clear, but 30-something million dollars later, how many subpoenas, hundreds of subpoenas and witnesses? 0.82

00:55:06.000 Do you think he didn't say anything during that time because he was just at his desk going, oh, s**t, oh, s**t. That's what I feel like.

00:55:12.000 And then he's like, I have a press conference to do. 0.51

00:55:14.000 I have to, I don't have anything.

00:55:16.000 It's like you wake up, you haven't studied for the test and it's the day of.

00:55:20.000 And if you go to over two years with an investigation and you put out this report that is supposedly concise and has everything in it that they got as far as evidence and interviews and testimony, everything, why would he have to give the Democrats this little, hey, by the way, guys, I really mean impeach him.

00:55:42.000 Right.

00:55:43.000 Nothing is in the report that says This guy should be impeached.

00:55:49.000 There's nothing in there that says he committed any crimes.

00:55:52.000 Oh, but it doesn't say he didn't!

00:55:55.000 Oh, geez.

00:55:56.000 Again, our legal system doesn't run that way.

00:55:58.000 Your sole job was to determine whether he committed crimes, Mueller, and then pass it along to someone who would be a prosecutor.

00:56:05.000 He's like, oh, punt to Congress.

00:56:06.000 Wink, wink.

00:56:07.000 What is happening?

00:56:07.000 What?

00:56:10.000 Then it becomes some secret code in some nine-minute They're the ones that are now going crazy over everything he said.

00:56:16.000 the Democrats and and all these news channels of fake news fake news seems to

00:56:21.000 you see if they're all back there see if they they're the ones that are now going

00:56:25.000 crazy over everything he said they're they're trying to decode it yeah

00:56:31.000 There's nothing to decode!

00:56:32.000 Read the report!

00:56:33.000 Right.

00:56:33.000 That's all he said.

00:56:34.000 He said the report is my testimony.

00:56:36.000 Right.

00:56:36.000 Well, it's kind of like the great... You know, I don't expect everyone to read 400-something pages with the report, but the Green New Deal is a great example of that.

00:56:42.000 Everyone was talking about it in the media.

00:56:43.000 We just read it on the channel.

00:56:45.000 We just read... It's five pages.

00:56:47.000 And that's, by the way, printed in large font.

00:56:49.000 So we just read it and immediately was demonetized and restricted on YouTube.

00:56:53.000 Just reading the Green New Deal. 0.57

00:56:55.000 And it has like close to a million plays, because we're just saying, we are just going to read it.

00:57:00.000 That's all.

00:57:01.000 And it's so laughable.

00:57:02.000 All right, speaking of laughable, let me ask you this.

00:57:04.000 Howard Stern has been talking about this recently, and I want to get to him in a second, because he's been on some interpreted as an apology tour.

00:57:10.000 But he did sort of lament the change in the media landscape today, from radio, what it used to be with having only callers, and now today with social media, how there's more sort of scrutiny.

00:57:21.000 What's your opinion on that?

00:57:22.000 You know, I did Fox News and radio, but not really.

00:57:26.000 This has always been more so my milieu along with stand-up.

00:57:29.000 You were here for the whole transition.

00:57:31.000 Do you feel there's more pressure?

00:57:32.000 Do you feel there's more freedom?

00:57:34.000 How would you compare it today?

00:57:36.000 When I first got into radio, they would sit you down, the GM, the general manager, the PD, program director, they would sit you down and say, here are the FCC rules.

00:57:48.000 Here's our lawyers.

00:57:50.000 They will tell you what the rules are and you must adhere to them.

00:57:53.000 If you don't and there's a complaint, we have lawyers that will field all the FCC.

00:57:57.000 It was always the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, the government.

00:58:01.000 Those are the people you had to worry about.

00:58:04.000 Nothing else.

00:58:05.000 Oh, you'd get some groups, but for the most part, if you stayed within the lines, you would be okay.

00:58:11.000 But it was always, they wouldn't complain directly.

00:58:14.000 If you upset a gay group or a woman's group or anything, minority group, they would complain to the FCC because that's what they did. 0.94

00:58:23.000 Right.

00:58:25.000 And then you'd have to field that complaint.

00:58:27.000 They were the monster.

00:58:29.000 Now it's everybody.

00:58:32.000 Everyone is now the FCC and can levy a fine on you, if I may use the word fine.

00:58:39.000 Well you can actually, Pantelis knows, Trudeau, Justin Trudeau wants to do that on Twitter.

00:58:43.000 He wants the rest of the world to follow Canada's hate speech guidelines.

00:58:46.000 Right, yeah.

00:58:47.000 Canada's pretty nuts with that whole thing.

00:58:51.000 You leave your First Amendment behind when you cross that border going north.

00:58:56.000 They're proud of it.

00:58:57.000 But it's odd because now the FCC's nothing.

00:59:00.000 When was the last time you heard anybody that got an FCC complaint on the radio?

00:59:04.000 It just doesn't happen anymore.

00:59:05.000 What happens now is people get offended.

00:59:08.000 and they start uh... tweeting and getting in touch with sponsors and

00:59:14.000 they cut out the entire fcc thing which actually used to litigate with

00:59:18.000 the station lawyers and what not and uh... they would actually discuss

00:59:23.000 first amendment and things like that you're done and if you uh...

00:59:27.000 get some heat and people enough people bitching complain you're done you lose your career so you think it's a good

00:59:34.000 it's worse now than the age of trust your radio it is so much worse

00:59:39.000 can't play some of the things we did regular fm radio back in the late nineties

00:59:46.000 uh... on satellite radio We weren't allowed to play it because it was too offensive.

00:59:51.000 Wow.

00:59:51.000 On regular radio, you know.

00:59:53.000 You know, the last time I got in trouble with the FCC, it wasn't really the FCC, but this was a terrestrially syndicated, when it was a podcast, to, I don't know, like 20 something stations.

01:00:01.000 Not many.

01:00:02.000 And we were putting on the podcast fake tornado warnings, you know, that...

01:00:06.000 But we'd have, like, Lena Dunham warnings and Volusia Raptor warnings.

01:00:10.000 So it was just, like, fake sketches, because we had to fill commercial breaks on podcasts.

01:00:14.000 We were sort of bridging this gap.

01:00:15.000 And we got an email, and someone from the station said, yeah, they're not sure.

01:00:19.000 They know it's illegal if you do it on air and radio, but you only inserted this into the podcast portion.

01:00:24.000 But they want to see if they need to treat it like another syndicating network.

01:00:28.000 And then I never heard back from them.

01:00:31.000 So that was my first and only experience with them.

01:00:34.000 Yeah, they get upset with the emergency announcements, and I think that's what the FCC's only handling now, what they were initially supposed to handle.

01:00:44.000 Are you broadcasting on the right frequency?

01:00:46.000 Is it the right power coming out of the transmitter?

01:00:49.000 Because they don't care about content anymore.

01:00:51.000 And I think that has to do with traditional terrestrial radio stations.

01:00:55.000 Don't put jocks on anymore that do anything that could get them in trouble.

01:00:59.000 They're so petrified of personality-driven radio now that they just say, shut up, read the liners, play the music, and that's it.

01:01:08.000 So you're not getting that kind of controversial radio anymore.

01:01:11.000 Yeah, I auditioned once for a national morning radio show.

01:01:14.000 This wasn't that long ago.

01:01:15.000 It was in Ben Shapiro's old house, actually, in his apartment.

01:01:19.000 And they said, we don't want you to inject any personality.

01:01:20.000 Just read the news briefing.

01:01:22.000 It was the worst audition ever.

01:01:25.000 I was so bad.

01:01:26.000 I walked out, and I remember my head was low.

01:01:27.000 I said, I didn't get it.

01:01:28.000 And Ben, I'm quite certain that I embarrassed you for putting me up.

01:01:31.000 I'm so sorry.

01:01:32.000 You didn't get it, but Ryan Seacrest did.

01:01:33.000 Yes, Ryan Seacrest did.

01:01:35.000 Oh, we do have to get going.

01:01:37.000 Let me ask you this, because this is some controversy.

01:01:38.000 I'd like to have you back to talk about it.

01:01:39.000 Howard Stern, his newest book is out.

01:01:41.000 Some people have said it's kind of an apology tour, where now he's saying, and I shouldn't use words like, retarded. 0.88

01:01:46.000 And he was a shock jock.

01:01:47.000 Do you think it's a natural evolution of a guy who's no longer 28?

01:01:51.000 Or do you think it's really more so based on acquiescing to what's needed to survive, like you were just talking about?

01:01:57.000 There is absolutely a growing phase that you go through, and I think when you hit your 50s, I guess, you really start thinking, well, everything I did is fine, but if I did it now, it would be pretty creepy.

01:02:11.000 Right.

01:02:11.000 Especially where girls are involved.

01:02:13.000 He did a lot of sexual stuff, and he was mean to a lot of celebrities, but it was hilarious for the listeners.

01:02:19.000 But I understand growing out of that and wanting to change your show maybe and personality or whatever, but you can't disavow what you did.

01:02:28.000 And you can't take people like Gilbert Gottfried who were amazing on your show and kind of built you up.

01:02:34.000 He had a lot of cast of a lot of players that Built him up to be the Howard Stern he became.

01:02:40.000 And then to just say, well, no, we'll never have them on again.

01:02:43.000 We'll never replay it.

01:02:44.000 We'll never acknowledge we did that.

01:02:46.000 He was on The View the other day, and it was hilarious just that he's on The View.

01:02:50.000 And one of the one of the Yentas sitting next to him said something to the effect of, can you believe Howard Trump rates women from 1 to 10?

01:02:59.000 And Howard's sitting there, I'm watching, going, have you watched his show over the course of the year? 0.98

01:03:04.000 Where he took a laser pen and had a nude woman standing in front of him, put it on her hip and went, well, you're a little fat here, honey. 1.00

01:03:11.000 That's a good Howard.

01:03:12.000 You lose a couple of pounds there, honey.

01:03:16.000 They have no idea, and he doesn't want anyone to really know that's who he was.

01:03:20.000 I don't even think they know that Donald Trump rated women on his show! 1.00

01:03:23.000 It was on his show that Donald Trump rated women! 1.00

01:03:26.000 Right!

01:03:27.000 It was on his show, so I think he is doing this apology tour.

01:03:29.000 If you get a chance, watch his appearance on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show.

01:03:35.000 At the end, he wants to give away a book and they show the camera open on Times Square and he's able to talk to them on the big billboard.

01:03:42.000 He led them in a sing-along and dance-along of the Hokey Pokey with zero irony.

01:03:48.000 I was mortified watching this growing up with Howard since he came to NBC in 84.

01:03:55.000 Watching that was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

01:03:59.000 I guess you could change, but oof.

01:04:01.000 That was kind of like me with David Letterman in about the last four years,

01:04:04.000 where I would tune in and go, oh man, this is it's no longer funny.

01:04:07.000 He's really, really angry and so far left that I can't do it.

01:04:11.000 And it doesn't mean that he doesn't mean he was not hilarious and groundbreaking.

01:04:14.000 Right. I just was saying this is a season where I'm going to have to ignore it.

01:04:18.000 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

01:04:21.000 I don't know, maybe if it happens slowly.

01:04:23.000 It's almost like the guy you were talking about in church with the blonde hair.

01:04:27.000 All of a sudden Howard, you know, becomes this guy that wants to be loved and apologizing to everybody.

01:04:33.000 It's just a little shocking to his true old-time fans.

01:04:35.000 It's like, I'm not going to use the word retarded anymore to mean minorities. 0.99

01:04:39.000 Like, you had a midget farting on a stripper yesterday! 1.00

01:04:42.000 That was yesterday! 0.99

01:04:43.000 And it was in the afternoon!

01:04:45.000 It was a post-show!

01:04:48.000 Alright, people can catch your show, it's Compound Media.

01:04:52.000 It's compoundmedia.com?

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01:07:52.000 Commando?

01:07:53.000 Did you ever see Commando?

01:07:54.000 Yeah.

01:07:54.000 The movie Commando.

01:07:55.000 Do you remember when Arnold, was that where he was in the swamp?

01:07:57.000 Yeah.

01:07:58.000 And he was breathing through a reed?

01:07:59.000 That wouldn't work.

01:08:00.000 No, but you know how I know it wouldn't work?

01:08:01.000 Because I thought I would do a breathing contest, an underwater contest, hold your breath contest.

01:08:05.000 Smart.

01:08:06.000 With my brother.

01:08:07.000 And I cheated by having a little blade of grass.

01:08:10.000 And I lost the contest horribly.

01:08:12.000 I really thought it would work.

01:08:14.000 Just water immediately just goes straight into that and you drown.

01:08:16.000 We just don't get enough air through that.

01:08:17.000 Was that yesterday?

01:08:19.000 It was more recently than I would care to admit.

01:08:22.000 Yeah.

01:08:23.000 It was post-move to the United States.

01:08:25.000 Okay.

01:08:25.000 I thought I'd put one over on him, and I did not.

01:08:27.000 Thank you so much again to Anthony Cumia.

01:08:29.000 Our apologies.

01:08:30.000 Ted Cruz will be here, I think, was it June?

01:08:33.000 Sometime soon.

01:08:34.000 And we'll keep you updated on the move next week.

01:08:36.000 We have a bunch of stuff coming.

01:08:38.000 I don't know.

01:08:39.000 We have some super videos in the works here.

01:08:40.000 A lot of stuff going on.

01:08:43.000 All right.

01:08:45.000 So this is one that's kind of, uh, I'll get a little personal later on here, which is always tough.

01:08:49.000 It's always tough to be kind of vulnerable in these segments because, you know, it's the internet, like we just talked about with Kumia, and, uh, uh, most of you are terrible.

01:08:57.000 So, we've been talking about this, we had Daniel Cormier on the show, who's the heavyweight champion in the world, and we've had a lot of, you've heard me talk about this, we have a lot of people who are excellent in their field on this show.

01:09:05.000 And we do the Life Advice segments, the Tough Love segments, for those who are Mug Club members, for those who aren't, you know, it's a little bit of a longer show where we just take some of your emails and try and help people out.

01:09:14.000 Most of the time, we don't.

01:09:17.000 But I noticed, I've definitely noticed a common thread and a question that we get a lot is, a lot of people find themselves in a rut.

01:09:23.000 And I'll often ask for the best way to find motivation, the best way to sort of find inspiration to turn things around.

01:09:29.000 So let me tell you, you're not going to like this.

01:09:33.000 Here's the fact.

01:09:34.000 Most, sometimes it's not there.

01:09:36.000 Most of the time, it's not there.

01:09:38.000 And that's not to say that those who find themselves in a rut are hopeless.

01:09:41.000 Far from it.

01:09:41.000 So follow me here a little bit.

01:09:43.000 What I'm about to offer is just the probably the exact opposite of the solution that you were hoping for.

01:09:50.000 but it is a solution. Many people, I think a lot of folks in my experience, I think that successful

01:09:55.000 people are very, by their nature, they're very driven. You know, that's what we're taught to

01:09:59.000 believe. They're driven, they're motivated all the time.

01:10:01.000 That's what makes them elite.

01:10:02.000 When in reality, and I've realized this in talking with people like Daniel Cormier,

01:10:06.000 Thomas Sowell, or Brian Shaw, anyone who's excellent. In reality, these people, just like you,

01:10:11.000 they often don't feel motivated or inspired.

01:10:14.000 Usually, it's the 80-20 rule.

01:10:16.000 Successful people are successful because they get up and they do it anyway in spite of that.

01:10:23.000 And again, I've had the luxury of interviewing the best of the best.

01:10:25.000 Daniel Kremit, heavyweight champion of the world, right?

01:10:27.000 Brian Shaw, four times world's strongest man.

01:10:29.000 Thomas Sowell, I don't know how many books he's read.

01:10:31.000 After the first several dozen, I lose track.

01:10:34.000 And when I've asked any of them what separates them from the pack, invariably they all answer, and it might surprise you, it might not, work ethic.

01:10:44.000 And you know what?

01:10:44.000 Here's one thing we were talking about earlier this week.

01:10:46.000 There's kind of a bell curve with talent.

01:10:48.000 When you're young and you're playing sports, the sort of Determining factor, right, is talent at that point.

01:10:55.000 It's determined by how you grow, how quickly you grow, when you hit your growth spurt.

01:11:00.000 That determines whether you advance in most endeavors.

01:11:03.000 Athletics, academia.

01:11:04.000 They thought I was retarded until I was in the fourth grade.

01:11:07.000 Turns out I just couldn't learn geography and math and French.

01:11:10.000 Thanks Quebec government!

01:11:13.000 They still might think. 0.96

01:11:14.000 My wife still thinks I could be retarded. 0.99

01:11:16.000 I'll get back to that.

01:11:17.000 There is a bell curve, though, with talent, okay?

01:11:19.000 You hear a lot that work ethic only takes you so far, and that's true.

01:11:24.000 But that talent is the great divider is not necessarily true, particularly once you get past a certain point.

01:11:29.000 For example, I'm never going to be able to jump like LeBron James, right?

01:11:33.000 Why?

01:11:33.000 Oh, because I'm not 6'8", with purely fast twitch muscle fibers.

01:11:37.000 This is not LeBron type, okay?

01:11:40.000 You would not cast me.

01:11:41.000 If I saw the character breakdown, it would not say strong, silent LeBron James type.

01:11:45.000 It would be like maybe early James Cromwell type.

01:11:49.000 Early young Richard Jenkins type.

01:11:51.000 That's what I would get.

01:11:52.000 I'd be a character.

01:11:54.000 Side character.

01:11:55.000 So yes, let me get back to the point.

01:11:56.000 There are divisions of talent, okay?

01:11:58.000 That's what takes you to the center of the bell curve.

01:12:01.000 Now, in this case, keep in mind I'm applying the bell curve to professionals, to elites.

01:12:05.000 Then something interesting happens, okay?

01:12:07.000 Once you've weeded everybody out, and you're down to the top 1% of 1%, and that's usually what we're referring to when we mean elite, there's still a gap.

01:12:17.000 There are still the NBA All-Stars, for example, the Dream Team, and then there's Michael Jordan.

01:12:23.000 There are still top-ranked heavyweight fighters in the world who could beat anybody else on the planet, and then there's Daniel Cormier who throws them around like a child.

01:12:30.000 There's still world's strongest men, for example, second through 10th place, and then Brian Shaw winning four years in a row.

01:12:38.000 And the widening of the gap, once you get past that bell curve, is no longer due to talent.

01:12:42.000 It goats back goats.

01:12:44.000 It reverts back to work ethic.

01:12:46.000 And I've only realized this recently in having enough of a sample size of interviewing the elite of the elite.

01:12:52.000 And I would say not only work ethic, but work intellect, working smarter, not just harder.

01:12:55.000 So many people, this is something, we get so many emails like this, you know about this in life advice, they're looking for the skies to part, the light to shine down, God to show you your purpose, or that moment of inspiration, motivation to hit you.

01:13:07.000 Sometimes it does, okay?

01:13:08.000 And that's great when it does.

01:13:10.000 Sometimes it doesn't.

01:13:11.000 There's a lot of variability.

01:13:13.000 I'll tell you where there isn't a whole lot of variability.

01:13:15.000 I'll tell you where there's one constant.

01:13:18.000 While you were waiting for your sign for your motivation, there was a guy or girl who wasn't.

01:13:24.000 There was a guy who didn't feel like it, who wasn't motivated, and he worked at it anyway.

01:13:29.000 He wrote another book.

01:13:31.000 Thomas Sowell.

01:13:32.000 He got another training session in.

01:13:33.000 Daniel Cormier.

01:13:36.000 Let me kind of explain this because I want to preface this.

01:13:38.000 This is something that's pretty personal, but I don't want what I'm about to say after this to seem egotistical.

01:13:44.000 I've kind of alluded to this before, but I've struggled with depression in my life.

01:13:49.000 Clinical depression.

01:13:50.000 It's been something that's just been on my plate.

01:13:52.000 Everyone has their cross to bear.

01:13:53.000 I'm not saying that it's more of a burden or less of a burden than other people.

01:13:56.000 And, you know, I've talked about sort of the fibromyalgia thing.

01:13:58.000 They go hand in hand with the chronic pain.

01:14:00.000 But I tell you this for two reasons, okay?

01:14:02.000 People only bring up, number one, depression or mental health when a celebrity offs themselves or when it's politically expedient to discuss mental health care and needing to de-stigmatize it, which ironically, to me, makes it more stigmatized.

01:14:17.000 And by the way, to a degree it should, in that it's not a good thing.

01:14:21.000 It's not a good thing to struggle with depression.

01:14:23.000 I wouldn't wish it on anybody, okay?

01:14:25.000 But it does bother me when people come out and say, oh yeah, after Heath Ledger, I certainly struggled with it.

01:14:30.000 We need to de-stigmatize it.

01:14:31.000 Well let me ask you this, when things aren't bad, when there isn't some famous celebrity who was taken too seriously, when are you talking about it?

01:14:38.000 Because that makes it seem abnormal to people.

01:14:40.000 And it's not a good thing.

01:14:42.000 People need help, they don't need to be coddled.

01:14:44.000 The second reason I bring this up, not because I'm elite or trying to say, you could be me too!

01:14:49.000 But you know what, in the spirit of objectivity, we do a lot of content here at this show.

01:14:53.000 And I guess by definition, being the top conservative channel ever makes us elite, but that's only because of the dearth of talent on the right.

01:15:00.000 It's certainly nothing compared to people like John Oliver or Jimmy Fallon.

01:15:04.000 We're grateful for everyone who tunes in.

01:15:06.000 If I can toot the horn of the team, that intro that you saw today required days of working on the song.

01:15:11.000 Just writing the lyrics, days of recording the song, mixing it, then performing it with a lip sync on a green screen with a scratch track, hours of wardrobe makeup, then days of editing, comping.

01:15:21.000 All the while, I've still had to host, and we've had to work on a show four days a week, and then some for the last several weeks.

01:15:28.000 And this week we were taping until midnight, out in the middle of the field, covered in blood, corn syrup, with mosquitoes around us, to a Goodfellas parody that you'll see next week, and then the workload starts again.

01:15:37.000 So, am I elite?

01:15:38.000 No.

01:15:39.000 But I'm at least as accomplished as the next guy.

01:15:41.000 And I will say the team here of people, as a unit, I would say they're elite.

01:15:45.000 And that's why the clinical depression is something I've been struggling with for a long time.

01:15:48.000 So I bring it up to show you that, even though I'm nothing necessarily special, what you see is a lot of work, and I've been doing it anyway.

01:15:57.000 So I want you to know, when you wake up and you don't feel like it, understand that's most people.

01:16:03.000 Just do something.

01:16:04.000 Anything.

01:16:06.000 Get out of bed, get out of your head, and the reasons that you're hearing through that noggin telling you why not, why you can't, and just do.

01:16:14.000 Otherwise, you will have to live with, for the rest of your life, knowing that while you were scrolling through Pinterest looking for a motivating quote in posters with kittens that say, hang in there, there was that person out there who was doing it in spite of having no motivation at all.

01:16:28.000 And guess what?

01:16:28.000 That person will be elite.

01:16:30.000 That person, invariably, will be better than the rest.

01:16:33.000 And if you don't follow that kind of a blueprint yourself, that person will be better than you.

01:16:41.000 And you'll have to accept it.

01:16:42.000 And it'll be of your own making.

01:16:44.000 Alright, see you next week.

01:16:45.000 Hope that helps.

Louder with Crowder - May 31, 2019

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