Louder with Crowder - #614 AOC'S SOCIALIST MELTDOWN | Jocko Willink Guests | Louder with Crowder

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00:00:34.000 Good luck picking a VP!

00:00:37.000 Experts are now saying that binge-watching online content makes climate change worse.

00:00:42.000 Hardest hit by the news, actually, is Greta Thunberg, who just signed a new $15 million Netflix deal for her stand-up debut.

00:00:49.000 So she's not going to.

00:00:50.000 Yeah.

00:00:51.000 How dare you?

00:00:53.000 Tough love! 1.00

00:00:55.000 My sister-in-law, somewhat frequently, probably every 10, 20 minutes or so, reaches down and scratches her lady business. 1.00

00:01:03.000 Should she just like out scratch it a minute?

00:01:05.000 That's what I would do.

00:01:08.000 I would be like a spider monkey picking ticks.

00:01:11.000 I think that they pile on this guy like he's done nothing right. 0.93

00:01:14.000 He walked into politics and he d*** slapped the entire system.

00:01:19.000 And he spoke to politicians in a way they've never been spoken to. 0.99

00:01:23.000 And all of these elitists that thought, if you voted for Trump, you're a racist.

00:01:28.000 Well, dumbbells, that's why he won, because he misread by most people.

00:01:32.000 Hold on a second.

00:01:33.000 Dumbbells? 0.99

00:01:33.000 That's right next to cornball. 0.99

00:01:35.000 Certainly, at Dumbbells, there's always good coming out.

00:01:38.000 Ha ha ha!

00:01:39.000 Ha ha ha!

00:01:58.000 Thousands of women and their allies have flooded the streets across the U.S. 1.00

00:02:02.000 Hundreds of people in downtown Dallas today for the fourth annual Women's March.

00:02:05.000 What's going on now in our national government?

00:02:09.000 We're going back to the 50s.

00:02:12.000 The Dallas Women's March and marches all over the country are not about Trump.

00:02:16.000 Donald Trump has got to go!

00:02:18.000 Four years in, the Women's March target hasn't changed. 0.99

00:02:22.000 Ah, f***ing A! 0.96

00:02:28.000 One, two, three! 1.00

00:02:30.000 Abortion! 1.00

00:02:31.000 Hello, ladies. 1.00

00:02:34.000 That's not me!

00:02:35.000 Hello ladies! No, debate is a trap! 1.00

00:02:43.000 That's a film you piece of s***! 1.00

00:02:46.000 Men need to respect women! 1.00

00:02:52.000 So you should respect women. 1.00

00:02:53.000 I am a woman, so f**k you! 1.00

00:02:55.000 F**k you! 1.00

00:02:56.000 I didn't say that. 1.00

00:02:56.000 I am a woman! 1.00

00:02:57.000 I just became a woman! 0.82

00:02:58.000 Excuse me.

00:02:59.000 Excuse me, where are you going?

00:02:59.000 You need to get out of the way.

00:03:06.000 I need you to get out of the way.

00:03:08.000 I need you out of the way. 0.99

00:03:19.000 You're a strange animal. 0.99

00:03:21.000 That's what I know. 1.00

00:03:23.000 You're a strange animal. 0.98

00:03:25.000 I got to follow. 0.88

00:03:27.000 I'm a species that's not a part of you.

00:03:49.000 Yeah.

00:03:51.000 Ah, that's a show...

00:03:52.000 This is called the only dance I can do because I've injured my lower back.

00:03:56.000 It's a limited dance.

00:03:57.000 I wonder if that's who invented the dust your shoulders off. 0.99

00:04:00.000 It's just a lazy quadriplegic.

00:04:02.000 Well, I guess it would be paraplegic because otherwise it would just be injured.

00:04:05.000 You can't be able or you can't even do that part.

00:04:06.000 It's still there!

00:04:08.000 It's still there!

00:04:10.000 Oh, the horror.

00:04:11.000 We have Jocko Willink on the show.

00:04:13.000 I'm sure he'll be thrilled after that.

00:04:14.000 Jocko Willink on the show.

00:04:16.000 We'll be talking about AOC's recent, I guess we'd say, interview from MLK Day and everything you need to know about impeachment.

00:04:22.000 I'm sorry, we do have to get to it.

00:04:23.000 But first, question of the day.

00:04:26.000 AOC, as we'll get to.

00:04:28.000 She recently said that the Democratic Party is not left enough, that there is no actual left party.

00:04:33.000 that they're merely centrists. Do you think that the DNC today is moderate?

00:04:37.000 And specifically the self-professed centrists out there? I want to hear from you.

00:04:41.000 If you're a centrist or a moderate, where do you feel the most comfortable

00:04:44.000 on today's political spectrum? Also, why are you such a fence-sitting pussy? 1.00

00:04:48.000 That's what I would like to know. 1.00

00:04:49.000 Other question of the day for a friend that I have.

00:04:53.000 Do you believe that someone can truly be an Ozzy Osbourne fan and not at all familiar with Ronnie James Dio's catalog? 0.99

00:04:59.000 I think he's a liar. 0.52

00:05:00.000 Let me know. 0.94

00:05:03.000 My half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond is here.

00:05:04.000 Thank you, sir, for being here.

00:05:09.000 I don't like that at all, Audio Wade.

00:05:13.000 Too cute, Manny.

00:05:13.000 G. Morgan Jr., Gerald A., what's the wine of the day?

00:05:17.000 Wine of the day is Red Schooner, Stephen.

00:05:19.000 And actually, it's a wine of the world.

00:05:20.000 Red Schooner.

00:05:21.000 It comes from Argentina, but it's made in California.

00:05:23.000 Not to be confused with Red Spooner, your nickname, at the local benefentry.

00:05:26.000 There's 20 more minutes of story.

00:05:28.000 Just goes and does conjugal visits to put a smile on their faces.

00:05:32.000 He does his part.

00:05:33.000 So generous.

00:05:34.000 A lot to get to, but first, well, this clip had to be first. 0.99

00:05:39.000 F*** the patriarchy. 1.00

00:05:40.000 F*** Donald Trump. 1.00

00:05:41.000 F*** Mike Pence. 1.00

00:05:44.000 F*** white supremacy. 1.00

00:05:46.000 Racism. 1.00

00:05:48.000 Misogyny.

00:05:49.000 Homophobia.

00:05:51.000 Transphobia.

00:05:53.000 Capitalism.

00:05:54.000 Classism.

00:05:55.000 Transphobia.

00:05:56.000 She doesn't even look like she's passionate about it.

00:05:58.000 She just looks like she's rattling off a list. 0.99

00:06:00.000 Like it's her grocery list of f***s. 0.99

00:06:04.000 I'm here in front of the White House. 0.99

00:06:07.000 I am not here for polite protest, because patriarchy is not polite.

00:06:11.000 I am not here for quiet protest, because patriarchy is not polite.

00:06:15.000 Why is she flipping her friend off, the cameraman there?

00:06:19.000 So rude. 1.00

00:06:19.000 F*** the patriarchy in Cairo, Egypt, where I'm from. 1.00

00:06:22.000 F*** the patriarchy across the world. 1.00

00:06:24.000 F*** the patriarchy in every time zone. 1.00

00:06:27.000 And f*** the patriarchy in every universe. 1.00

00:06:30.000 Oh, hmm. 0.99

00:06:32.000 People in Pacific.

00:06:33.000 Got it two hours late.

00:06:34.000 Yes.

00:06:34.000 What?

00:06:35.000 What? 1.00

00:06:35.000 F**k me? 1.00

00:06:39.000 She's the reason for the Arab Spring. 1.00

00:06:41.000 Did you catch?

00:06:41.000 What was that last part?

00:06:43.000 F**k the patriarchy across the world. 1.00

00:06:45.000 F**k the patriarchy in every time zone. 1.00

00:06:47.000 and f*** the patriarchy and reach the end of us. 1.00

00:06:51.000 I should be able to... 0.99

00:06:53.000 ...

00:06:59.000 Shouldn't have gone with the Toll House!

00:07:02.000 Oh man, you gotta go with Spunkmeyer, man.

00:07:04.000 It's no question.

00:07:06.000 Oh, right.

00:07:08.000 I hate that this is my life.

00:07:10.000 I hate that this is my life.

00:07:12.000 Kicking things off, by the way, the New York Times has endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic primaries.

00:07:22.000 This is a quote from them.

00:07:22.000 The contest is between moderates and progressives.

00:07:25.000 And the paper felt the two were the most effective advocates for each approach.

00:07:28.000 And some, by the way, even feel that a joint ticket with the two women could bring sort of these two rivaling factions in the DNC together.

00:07:36.000 Is that correct, Blackbeard?

00:07:37.000 I'm getting word that actually the two are holding a surprise joint press conference on just that now. 0.97

00:07:43.000 Is it just me, or did she pop a t***y? 1.00

00:07:48.000 I think I saw... I thought t***y go to weed, I thought t***y go pop! 0.93

00:07:56.000 Is it just me or did she pop a t***y? 1.00

00:07:58.000 I think I saw, I thought t***y go to Wheeler could've t***y go pop!

00:08:02.000 SeaSpan is good with the live censoring. President t***y's Club Bouchard. 0.97

00:08:09.000 Which, by the way, would explain the initially confusing recent endorsement from Julian Castro.

00:08:14.000 He does gusto.

00:08:17.000 Julian Castro gustas what he gustas.

00:08:20.000 Makes sense now.

00:08:21.000 Was that outside of a Walmart?

00:08:23.000 But they don't even taste like apples.

00:08:24.000 We eat what we like!

00:08:28.000 Was that only a Canadian commercial?

00:08:30.000 Probably so.

00:08:33.000 Don't bring that Canadian noise. 1.00

00:08:35.000 You know what?

00:08:35.000 It's good that he dropped out when he did because he gustas them tits too much to be trusted with a finger on the nuclear codes.

00:08:41.000 Too much. 0.92

00:08:43.000 I don't know.

00:08:43.000 I feel like it would be positive for him.

00:08:45.000 I don't know.

00:08:45.000 I feel like he'd be easily distracted.

00:08:46.000 Be like, all right, Putin. 0.99

00:08:48.000 Is that them tits though? 1.00

00:08:51.000 Sorry, we have to launch now! 0.89

00:08:52.000 Speaking of the 2020 race, of course, people, you out there, most likely know this.

00:08:56.000 If you don't, Tulsi Gabbard is now suing Hillary Clinton for defamation.

00:08:59.000 Oh, good.

00:08:59.000 Yeah, as she should.

00:09:00.000 It comes from NBC News.

00:09:01.000 The suit states that Clinton falsely stated Tulsi is a Russian asset in a deliberate attempt to derail her presidential campaign.

00:09:08.000 And Hillary Clinton actually has responded more recently.

00:09:11.000 I want to make sure I get this right because, you know, lawsuits.

00:09:13.000 She said, this is just another absurd attack in a long line of plit, plit, plit, plit, burr, plit.

00:09:20.000 And she had another seizure.

00:09:23.000 She had a seizure which you would think she wouldn't write plepleber while seizing.

00:09:28.000 Yeah, but she was trying to get the message out.

00:09:30.000 You know what?

00:09:30.000 Maybe she was more committed than I thought.

00:09:32.000 Maybe it was code.

00:09:33.000 Throw your hat in the ring for 2020, Hillary. 1.00

00:09:37.000 Please don't.

00:09:39.000 Hillary and Klobuchar.

00:09:40.000 Anyway, but now we have a transition from that to actually sad news.

00:09:43.000 Sad news, Diego, a famous 100-year-old tortoise, who was instrumental, by the way, in preserving species from extinction.

00:09:50.000 He was father to over 800 tortoise babies, has died, unfortunately.

00:09:56.000 800 babies.

00:09:58.000 He was a busy tortoise.

00:10:01.000 And in preparation for the public funeral, where people can pay their respects, the coroner has said that he's worked incredibly long hours, citing 10 hours to have Diego stuffed, 12 hours polishing his shell, and 20 hours required to wipe the smile off his face.

00:10:15.000 And there he is!

00:10:17.000 Wow.

00:10:17.000 Look at him.

00:10:18.000 It's a tortoise.

00:10:19.000 National hero.

00:10:21.000 He didn't die.

00:10:22.000 He's just retired.

00:10:23.000 Oh, he's just retired.

00:10:24.000 Oh.

00:10:24.000 But that didn't work for that Photoshop.

00:10:26.000 No.

00:10:27.000 So we lied.

00:10:27.000 Way to bring facts to the story.

00:10:30.000 I know a lot about tortoises, or torti.

00:10:32.000 I don't know.

00:10:33.000 Not so much about porpoises.

00:10:35.000 I know they're entirely, porpoises, porpoises, it's basically a dolphin?

00:10:38.000 Yes.

00:10:39.000 It's a different type.

00:10:40.000 Is it a dolphin?

00:10:41.000 It's a mammal.

00:10:41.000 It's not a dolphin.

00:10:42.000 It's not a dolphin?

00:10:43.000 No.

00:10:43.000 So it's a sea mammal.

00:10:44.000 Is it a whale?

00:10:46.000 It's more of a whale than a dolphin, yes.

00:10:48.000 You know what?

00:10:49.000 This isn't going to work.

00:10:50.000 Someone in the comment section who undoubtedly exists and knows a lot about porpoises, please let me know.

00:10:57.000 It's already down there.

00:10:59.000 You didn't have to ask for that one.

00:11:00.000 We'll send you a free bag of Black Rifle coffee because we accidentally double ordered.

00:11:04.000 We're going to have 30 pounds of coffee very soon.

00:11:08.000 Do porpoises?

00:11:09.000 They can't have coffee.

00:11:10.000 It's probably like dogs.

00:11:10.000 It's toxic.

00:11:11.000 It's clear none of us know what porpoises are. 1.00

00:11:16.000 We are porpoise ignorant. 0.94

00:11:20.000 A public relations executive with ties to Jeffrey Epstein has now claimed that the bad press she's gotten is just like the Holocaust. 0.97

00:11:31.000 Direct quote, lest you think I'm making this up.

00:11:32.000 Like, we did, he retired, the tortoise didn't die.

00:11:35.000 But this one's real.

00:11:35.000 Trust us on this one.

00:11:37.000 According to the PR powerhouse Peggy Siegel, I'm getting on that train and I'm going to the camps.

00:11:42.000 If I had been in Nazi Germany, it could not have been worse. 0.73

00:11:47.000 Of course, historians dispute her claims, pointing to the most obvious factual discrepancy in that Hitler actually killed himself.

00:11:56.000 Could not have gone worse, except for all the murder, the genocide, and in German. 1.00

00:12:02.000 By the way, can we be on the lookout for a follow-up story?

00:12:04.000 I'm pretty sure after this gets out, it's going to be worse.

00:12:06.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll probably get worse.

00:12:07.000 I think her life is going to get a little worse now.

00:12:09.000 Well, I don't know.

00:12:10.000 She's probably just the kind of person who blissfully walks through life comparing things to the Holocaust. 0.95

00:12:14.000 That's true.

00:12:14.000 My long line at McDonald's.

00:12:16.000 That's the Holocaust, and that's the Holocaust, and that's the Holocaust. 0.85

00:12:18.000 Well, I'd just ask you to pick some swatches.

00:12:19.000 Not that one.

00:12:20.000 I like the Holocaust one. 1.00

00:12:21.000 Why is everything a reference?

00:12:23.000 Is your scale the Holocaust? 0.86

00:12:25.000 That's it.

00:12:26.000 It doesn't apply in everyday life.

00:12:27.000 I believe it does.

00:12:28.000 You should have levels.

00:12:29.000 The Nell Holocaust. 0.86

00:12:31.000 Hey, by the way, congratulations are in order for Tim Tebow, who married former Miss Universe, Demi-Lei Nell Peters.

00:12:39.000 Yeah, so good for him.

00:12:40.000 By the way, you hear that, parents?

00:12:43.000 Don't homeschool your kids, or they, too, might grow up, become a millionaire, and bang Miss Universe.

00:12:50.000 That's a cautionary tale.

00:12:51.000 Starts in the home.

00:12:53.000 Starts in the home.

00:12:54.000 You gotta play to have proper influence.

00:12:56.000 Your child.

00:12:57.000 Yeah, but he throws like this instead of like this.

00:13:00.000 Okay, you sleep in a race car.

00:13:03.000 Exactly.

00:13:04.000 He also played in the NFL and Major League Baseball.

00:13:07.000 Look at Gerald taking it seriously.

00:13:11.000 Mrs. Gerald Morgan Jr. 0.55

00:13:13.000 was not the first choice.

00:13:14.000 No, it was Tim Tebow.

00:13:15.000 Leave Tebow alone!

00:13:21.000 Well, let's go to international, I guess.

00:13:23.000 Hong Kong Express Airways recently had to apologize for forcing a passenger to take a pregnancy test before the flight.

00:13:30.000 I know you think that probably doesn't make any sense.

00:13:31.000 It probably won't, but I'll explain it anyway.

00:13:34.000 This is from Sky News.

00:13:34.000 Many Hong Kong mothers have actually been traveling to give birth where their babies can be eligible for the United States citizenship, and the woman in question wasn't actually pregnant, but when she told the airline, they didn't believe her.

00:13:48.000 The good news is that she will still be featured on the cover of this month's Deceptively Fat Asians Monthly. 0.99

00:13:53.000 So she is going... Congratulations.

00:13:56.000 Beautiful and brave.

00:13:57.000 I want to see even Brendan's search history for that one.

00:14:01.000 I was like 50% sure that was going to be me in Photoshop, so I'm glad that it wasn't.

00:14:08.000 Thank you.

00:14:08.000 Asians are very slender, typically speaking, but their leaders are all portly.

00:14:12.000 Yes, they are.

00:14:13.000 The privileges of winning.

00:14:16.000 Is that what it is?

00:14:17.000 Winning?

00:14:18.000 You know what's something, Charles?

00:14:20.000 The rich are different.

00:14:22.000 They have food.

00:14:24.000 All right, so I guess you'd call this entertainment news, and we'll be talking more about AOC and impeachment, which I really don't want to do, but we always have to touch on impeachment because that's the only thing.

00:14:32.000 The singer, I don't feel like I need to describe Madonna.

00:14:35.000 Do I need to say singer or Madonna?

00:14:37.000 Not really.

00:14:38.000 The artist, formerly known and currently known as Madonna, Madonna's cancelled upcoming tour dates after announcing that, of course, she's fallen ill. 0.98

00:14:47.000 To be clear, doctors say that it's nothing serious and that soon Madonna will again be, to her old self, a wrinkly old whore. 0.98

00:14:57.000 That's the clinical outlook. 0.99

00:14:58.000 It's fairly descriptive.

00:14:59.000 You're right.

00:15:00.000 Did we send her that cookie bouquet? 0.77

00:15:03.000 Is it?

00:15:03.000 No, I think we... Did we send her the Cherries Berries?

00:15:07.000 Is that what it was?

00:15:07.000 Cherries Berries.

00:15:08.000 Cherries Berries.

00:15:09.000 We do not have them as a sponsor, and I doubt that we ever will.

00:15:11.000 No. 1.00

00:15:12.000 Wrinkly old whore! 1.00

00:15:14.000 Cherries? 1.00

00:15:15.000 You love me?

00:15:15.000 You love me not?

00:15:17.000 It's an interesting flavor. 1.00

00:15:19.000 Liar whore! 1.00

00:15:20.000 Liar whore! 1.00

00:15:21.000 And you know it! 1.00

00:15:22.000 Name that movie line.

00:15:23.000 Finally, KFC is apologizing for a recent advertisement that was accused of being sexist.

00:15:27.000 We'll give you that one.

00:15:27.000 Did someone say KFC?

00:15:28.000 It's D- Okay, I'll give you a hint. It's De Niro.

00:15:30.000 Finally, KFC is apologizing for a recent advertisement that was accused of being sexist and we'll give you that one.

00:15:38.000 Did someone say KFC?

00:15:48.000 I don't care! I love it!

00:15:51.000 I get the complaints.

00:15:56.000 That one, I understand it.

00:15:59.000 I don't think you have to be a feminist to say yeah. 1.00

00:16:02.000 By the way, big fan of this commercial though, believe it or not.

00:16:05.000 Julian Castro.

00:16:06.000 Did someone say KFC?

00:16:06.000 Oh.

00:16:15.000 I don't care!

00:16:16.000 I love it!

00:16:18.000 Oh my god.

00:16:20.000 He's just so on message, I really...

00:16:22.000 He gustas what he gustas!

00:16:24.000 He's consistent, that's what I love about him.

00:16:25.000 Take him or leave him.

00:16:27.000 You know, you see politicians, they flip, they flop.

00:16:29.000 I know!

00:16:29.000 He doesn't.

00:16:30.000 I often feel like politicians are too often trying to hide the fact that they gusta dem titties.

00:16:34.000 He stays right in the middle. 0.89

00:16:35.000 And we all gusta dem titties.

00:16:38.000 We all do!

00:16:40.000 Trivia winner, I think you have it there, Court of Black Garrett, is Phil Bates on Twitter, who correctly answered that I was psychoanalyzed by Jordan Peterson.

00:16:50.000 So you will get something in the mail.

00:16:52.000 I have no idea what it is.

00:16:54.000 OK.

00:16:55.000 So, first we have to hit on impeachment.

00:16:57.000 I'll try and hit this really quickly because not a whole lot has changed, but there are some processes that you should probably know about.

00:17:02.000 It's just a lot of theater.

00:17:03.000 The impeachment proceedings, of course, they've been brought against President Donald Trump.

00:17:06.000 They're continuing.

00:17:06.000 Last week, after a delay from Pelosi, the House managers delivered the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

00:17:13.000 Wow.

00:17:14.000 Do we need to play by play?

00:17:15.000 From him?

00:17:16.000 Really?

00:17:17.000 We gotta let him?

00:17:18.000 We gotta write?

00:17:19.000 Couldn't this have been B-roll?

00:17:20.000 Why is Trudeau in a Capitol building?

00:17:22.000 We got a left, we got a right.

00:17:24.000 This has been B-Rolled.

00:17:26.000 ...process that has been filled with rancor.

00:17:28.000 There's like 18 cameras.

00:17:30.000 Why is Trudeau in the Capitol building?

00:17:32.000 It was apparently directed by Michael Bay.

00:17:36.000 We need another angle.

00:17:38.000 I want to get this, and I want to have a swooping shot that goes Nancy's pantsuit. 1.00

00:17:38.000 Another angle, please. 1.00

00:17:42.000 And then I want it to come up, and then for some reason Ben Affleck's in it, but we don't know.

00:17:46.000 By the way, what is Lester Holt?

00:17:48.000 Can we, no one's really, what is, is he, is he biracially, he looks like a, he looks like a very stylish Muppet.

00:17:53.000 That's always what I see.

00:17:55.000 He just, very, very stylish.

00:18:00.000 He's dashing.

00:18:01.000 It's almost like we hadn't had prepared.

00:18:03.000 Who knew?

00:18:05.000 I spent so much time combing over.

00:18:07.000 Like if Dolce and Gabbana made a Muppet, it would be Lester Holt.

00:18:12.000 I actually don't dislike him.

00:18:14.000 I think he's pretty good at his job, but stylish Muppet.

00:18:17.000 Let me go through the timeline here, which McConnell, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, has released.

00:18:21.000 Yeah, we have an overlay for impeachment.

00:18:22.000 So, 24 hours for opening arguments.

00:18:25.000 Then there's going to be 16 to question legal teams.

00:18:27.000 Four hours of argument as to whether bringing in witnesses or not.

00:18:31.000 Then there's the vote.

00:18:32.000 Two-thirds majority, of course, are needed.

00:18:34.000 That means 20 Republicans will have to join 45 Democrats and two Independents to convict.

00:18:37.000 Now remember in the House, three Democrats voted against impeachment and one voted present,

00:18:43.000 which means...

00:18:44.000 Is Lester Holt Ethiopian, do you think?

00:18:54.000 I don't know, just a little lighter.

00:18:56.000 Because they're surprisingly light.

00:18:58.000 They are.

00:18:58.000 A lot of Americans misconstrue Ethiopians with Kenyans.

00:19:03.000 Ethiopians lighter, Kenyans good at marathons. 0.99

00:19:06.000 Very good.

00:19:07.000 Helpful.

00:19:08.000 Okay, so we've covered impeachment.

00:19:10.000 I've I don't want to.

00:19:11.000 You know what?

00:19:11.000 I've realized this.

00:19:12.000 I'm pretty much not happy at doing my work unless I'm either creating or learning.

00:19:16.000 Right.

00:19:17.000 And teaching, by the way, as well as learning.

00:19:18.000 When I have to do research to go through some of these meat segments, or deep dives as people call them for you guys, I learn as well, so it's exciting.

00:19:25.000 Impeachment, nobody's learning anything.

00:19:28.000 It is political theater, and so if people say, well, why don't you talk about it?

00:19:31.000 I just, I just, I don't care.

00:19:35.000 There's no news. 0.99

00:19:36.000 I'd rather talk about Gusta-ing them tits. 1.00

00:19:40.000 You and the media. 0.99

00:19:41.000 All right.

00:19:42.000 So let's get to actually I think this is more important because kind of like with the 2016

00:19:47.000 campaign everyone was focusing on Hillary Clinton and we focused on Bernie. 0.97

00:19:51.000 You can go back and watch those videos.

00:19:52.000 We have the most viewed videos on Bernie Sanders in that 2016 period and we thought okay Hillary

00:19:57.000 Clinton is it's going to be effectively a coronation right with Hillary Clinton but 1.00

00:20:00.000 Bernie is the movement candidate.

00:20:03.000 That's the one that you have to dissect and ridicule so that people see the absurdity for what it is.

00:20:08.000 Same thing here, if people are just focusing on Klobuchar or Warren, and I understand they're way further left, I think it's important to still recognize that Bernie and now AOC, these are the movement candidates that you need to be more concerned with.

00:20:20.000 So, that being said, at an event that was commemorating Martin Luther King Jr., Yes.

00:20:26.000 One of them nailed a thing to the door of the church. 0.91

00:20:28.000 One of them, black guy. 0.98

00:20:29.000 Different one.

00:20:30.000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave an interview with author Tenehisi Coates.

00:20:36.000 Tenehisi Coates.

00:20:38.000 Well, here he is.

00:20:38.000 T. Coates.

00:20:39.000 Another thing that I've been really thinking and sitting with today is that there's this gun rights protest that's happening down in Richmond.

00:20:39.000 Yeah.

00:20:49.000 On MLK Day.

00:20:50.000 On MLK Day.

00:20:52.000 But here's the image that has struck with me the most about that.

00:20:55.000 Is that when we go out and march for the dignity and the recognition of the lives of people like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner, the whole place is surrounded by police and riot gear without a gun in sight.

00:21:14.000 And here are all of these people flying confederate flags with semi-automatic weapons and there's almost no police officers at that protest.

00:21:25.000 Which, by the way, I know you're thinking, is this old from last year?

00:21:27.000 No, no, it's the same MLK event.

00:21:29.000 Same host, and she's like the Ricky Gervais of MLK Day events. 0.99

00:21:36.000 And I just, and this guy just, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, right.

00:21:40.000 And by the way, by the way, okay, MLK Day, before we get into the facts, some of it is a scam.

00:21:44.000 Do you realize that the trash didn't come? 0.93

00:21:46.000 My trash comes on Wednesday.

00:21:47.000 They have yet to come because of the holiday of MLK Day. 0.89

00:21:50.000 Hold on a second, because of MLK Day, you can't do your job on Wednesday?

00:21:56.000 They pushed everybody back.

00:21:57.000 And so I understand everything MLK Jr.

00:22:00.000 stood for, but you know what? 0.87

00:22:02.000 I'm going to throw the baby out with the bathwater, because I have overflowing trash at this point.

00:22:05.000 I don't even know what to do with recycling.

00:22:08.000 Hope you enjoy your voting rights!

00:22:10.000 Is it worse than the Holocaust? 0.97

00:22:11.000 I'm just checking in.

00:22:13.000 Okay, by the way, she says a couple things.

00:22:15.000 We'll get to the facts.

00:22:16.000 Remember the guy says on MLK Day, Well, guess what?

00:22:19.000 are. Martin Luther King Jr., by the way, applied for a concealed carry permit to defend himself

00:22:24.000 and was denied despite qualifying. MLK was not anti-Second Amendment at all, and that

00:22:29.000 should point us to the dangers of giving over that authority and autonomy to the government,

00:22:34.000 because at that point, the government didn't provide equal rights to blacks and they had 0.83

00:22:38.000 their justifications. Well, guess what? That can change at any point if the government

00:22:43.000 is in charge of granting and recognizing rights as opposed to it being granted by a creator,

00:22:50.000 So you remember when we were down doing the Change My Mind?

00:22:52.000 It's the exact same reason for people are like, oh, Second Amendment doesn't apply to me, right?

00:22:55.000 Oh, no, no big deal.

00:22:56.000 I don't care about guns.

00:22:57.000 The same argument was made with the First Amendment.

00:22:59.000 We would hear from people who would say, well, I think the government should decide what's appropriate to be said or what's offensive.

00:23:04.000 And I said, oh, OK, great.

00:23:05.000 So you want Trump to decide?

00:23:07.000 No, not that government.

00:23:09.000 But that's exactly the point.

00:23:11.000 Yeah.

00:23:11.000 Well, KK Mile, you're going to go to Pence, right?

00:23:12.000 Pence is just going to be dipping them back into shock therapy like Electoral Island.

00:23:18.000 And that's when you come down, you look at the Second Amendment, you go, who do you want to decide?

00:23:21.000 Do you want the government to decide who can defend themselves and who can't?

00:23:24.000 At a certain level, we know that there are restrictions under the Second Amendment, but not the kind of restrictions that are being pushed by the left.

00:23:30.000 And it's almost as if, you know, she forgets, like, guys, every time you guys get together and march, a town usually gets lit on fire and looted.

00:23:35.000 So maybe we need a few more people there to keep you under control. 1.00

00:23:39.000 And by the way, you guys does not mean stupid people like AOC. 0.99

00:23:41.000 It has nothing to do with the race. 1.00

00:23:43.000 It's all stupidity. 1.00

00:23:44.000 Yes, exactly. 1.00

00:23:45.000 And by the way, something else that's also based on a false premise.

00:23:47.000 She said, oh, and there is not all these guns and not a police officer inside.

00:23:51.000 There were three different police forces working overtime.

00:23:56.000 And like Gerald said, the event was peaceful, unlike the Black Lives Matter protest, which by the way, she didn't mention Ferguson.

00:24:01.000 Hands up, don't shoot.

00:24:02.000 Started with Mike Brown.

00:24:03.000 Little word of advice, don't try to punch a cop or pistol whip him with his own gun, just for starters.

00:24:10.000 So in Ferguson, you had rioters.

00:24:11.000 That cost the city millions of dollars.

00:24:13.000 Dallas, 12 officers were shot.

00:24:15.000 Five were killed.

00:24:16.000 So, again, which side would really need more police at their events?

00:24:19.000 Not to mention the little fact that an Antifa member tried to firebomb an ICE facility after being inspired by AOC's concentration camp rhetoric.

00:24:27.000 And I want to be really clear here.

00:24:29.000 It wasn't like some guy in Christchurch then mentioning, oh, Candace Owens as a troll job.

00:24:33.000 This person believed that there were concentration camps going on at ICE.

00:24:38.000 It's really more like a Pizzagate comparison.

00:24:40.000 Oh my gosh.

00:24:42.000 Well look, and this is the same event that right before this, right before we played that clip, they were praising the work that was done in Ferguson and also by Antifa.

00:24:50.000 Yeah.

00:24:50.000 These two groups, I'm like, are you serious?

00:24:52.000 Of course we're going to have protection from these people. 1.00

00:24:54.000 These people again, these stupid people. 1.00

00:24:56.000 I lit a Duraflame under a Walgreens. 1.00

00:24:59.000 Who would have known?

00:25:00.000 It's like a, what's it, what do you mean?

00:25:02.000 No, no, it's like a fire starter, like a log wrapped, I know what Duraflame is! 0.99

00:25:07.000 Why would you put it under a Walgreens?

00:25:08.000 And then the gasoline.

00:25:09.000 Then I steal your cars!

00:25:13.000 And that, by the way, could be a Puerto Rican gentleman.

00:25:16.000 No idea.

00:25:17.000 Next clip. 1.00

00:25:17.000 It was also stupid. 1.00

00:25:19.000 We don't have a left party in the United States. 1.00

00:25:21.000 The Democratic Party is not a left party.

00:25:23.000 Did you add the mmms for him?

00:25:25.000 He's just doing that?

00:25:27.000 The Democratic Party is a center or center conservative party.

00:25:31.000 Seriously, every time they go to that guy, his mouth is open like this.

00:25:38.000 Hold on a second.

00:25:38.000 There is no left party.

00:25:39.000 after and then anybody how do you go I can't go it's just he's got his own

00:25:44.000 soundboard that's my wife probably a DJ hold on a second there is no left party

00:25:52.000 the Democrat establishment they're they're moderate do you mean like do

00:25:56.000 you mean on immigration where you guys are for reasonable immigration reform

00:26:00.000 Oh no wait, hold on a second.

00:26:01.000 You are for not only completely open borders and no wall, but against not deporting, we're not talking about dreamers or children, you are against deporting serial violent felons, provided that they currently live in sanctuary cities, and you're against sending back criminals who are in our prisons illegally?

00:26:19.000 Oh, okay.

00:26:19.000 Well, you must mean the Democrats are more, what, they're more moderate on abortion, say, for things like limitations that most Americans, even who identify as pro-choice, like 20-week limits, I don't know, maybe the First Tribe.

00:26:30.000 Oh, wait, no.

00:26:31.000 Oh, you mean the entire Democratic Party, with the exception of Tulsi Gabbard, support abortion up until the baby crowns?

00:26:40.000 So I don't know, maybe they're the Democrats.

00:26:41.000 Let me think.

00:26:41.000 They're centrist on firearms, right?

00:26:43.000 Where maybe they're just talking about making sure that violent felons don't get firearms.

00:26:48.000 And wait, no, Holland, that's already the case.

00:26:49.000 Oh, no, no, no.

00:26:50.000 You're talking about the dissenting opinions in Heller v. D.C.

00:26:52.000 and the entire Democratic Party who want to make all semi-automatic firearms illegal?

00:26:58.000 Hold on a second, do you mean Democrats are moderate on taxes and they believe in a progressive tax code where, I don't know, maybe like 37% in the top bracket or maybe our corporate tax should be comparable to other nations like Sweden?

00:27:10.000 Oh no, wait, you're okay with a 90% tax and you want us to have the highest corporate tax in the industrialized world? 0.98

00:27:15.000 I just, I think there's a disconnect, you crazy, horrible human being. 0.99

00:27:21.000 Sounds center conservative. 0.98

00:27:25.000 They were just talking about there in that clip right before it too, that you can't, she's like, I don't believe that you can capitalism your way out of these problems.

00:27:31.000 We have to get Medicare for all onto the floor for at least a vote.

00:27:33.000 We need to be able to do that.

00:27:34.000 I'm like, that's not a centrist policy.

00:27:36.000 To give everybody, it'd be fantastic, give every American a million dollars right now, they would probably be better off, but we would also be broke.

00:27:43.000 I don't know.

00:27:43.000 So, have you run the numbers?

00:27:44.000 Don't do stuff like that.

00:27:45.000 Don't you bring your info on my show without a reference.

00:27:47.000 That's true.

00:27:48.000 Well, I do like the fact, you remember she was kind of lambasted for the amount she spent on Uber black SUVs driving around in the campaign.

00:27:55.000 Yeah, it sounds like capitalism did her bad. 1.00

00:27:57.000 Yeah.

00:27:57.000 Yeah, it sounds horrible.

00:27:58.000 Well, we go there, what, through abortion, guns, taxes, immigration?

00:28:02.000 Mouse say what?

00:28:03.000 Okay, next play.

00:28:04.000 The story that's not told is the impact on our collective psyche on the island.

00:28:11.000 What is this?

00:28:11.000 Sounds like the turtle humping a work boot.

00:28:17.000 Treats them as, treats us as full citizens because the United States doesn't.

00:28:23.000 You know, my own family, it's like they had all of these emergency backpacks ready to go with torches and MREs and rations because they knew that no one was going to come.

00:28:36.000 And that's the psyche.

00:28:40.000 And to know that a society does not care for you has a profound impact on one's psyche.

00:28:47.000 Remember how we talked about ascribing intent?

00:28:49.000 Yeah.

00:28:49.000 So not only did she just ascribe motive and intent knowing they don't care about you, but then also attributed non-existent policy to it.

00:28:57.000 Or actions.

00:28:57.000 This goes back, lest you have forgotten, all the way back to 2017 with San Juan Mayor.

00:29:03.000 He was claiming that Trump was withholding relief aid.

00:29:05.000 I don't know if you guys remember that.

00:29:07.000 But if you recall, actually it was the mayor who hadn't attended any meetings, and Puerto Rican officials had, they completely failed to coordinate delivery of the supplies, so even those that they had received remained completely unopened.

00:29:18.000 Look, in that picture right there, that's a press conference in front of unopened supply boxes!

00:29:25.000 That's like Donkey Kong Country's banana hoard!

00:29:30.000 Where whenever could these supplies be? 0.97

00:29:33.000 It must be because Americans hate Puerto Ricans.

00:29:37.000 Of course, and the supplies actually sat so long that some of them you couldn't be used anymore.

00:29:40.000 Oh yeah.

00:29:40.000 Because they didn't distribute them.

00:29:42.000 Right.

00:29:42.000 Well now, okay, so with the recent earthquakes, this is obviously what we're talking about, thoughts and prayers of the people of Puerto Rico.

00:29:46.000 Of course.

00:29:47.000 Puerto Rican government has repeated the same cycle with loads of supplies remaining in warehouses, not being distributed to those in need.

00:29:54.000 I guess time to blame America.

00:29:56.000 It's America's fault!

00:29:59.000 51st State, fingers crossed!

00:30:02.000 Right.

00:30:03.000 Because AOC was down there, right?

00:30:04.000 She was the one finding the warehouse that had this supply.

00:30:07.000 Well, she said us.

00:30:08.000 She said us.

00:30:09.000 You bartended in Brooklyn for like three decades.

00:30:14.000 Since she was one.

00:30:15.000 Early start.

00:30:16.000 Very early start.

00:30:19.000 Oh my gosh.

00:30:20.000 He just came out suckling on a bottle of Jack.

00:30:23.000 I think one of the problems that we see in cases like this, it's much more fashionable and politically expedient to bash Trump and say that this people group is against you than it is to actually go out and do the work of distributing supplies.

00:30:33.000 Well, no, I think what's really important here, and yes, you're right, but the problem with Puerto Rico is not the United States.

00:30:39.000 It's not our conservatism.

00:30:40.000 It's not free enterprise.

00:30:41.000 It is the bloated bureaucratic government that You, AOC, view as the solution to all problems.

00:30:48.000 When you talk about taking out big businesses, when you talk about fair distribution, when you talk about more centralized regulation, who are you talking about?

00:30:56.000 The exact kind of people, government officials, mayors, governors, I don't know the entire, maybe it's a part, Puerto Rico, I don't know exactly.

00:31:04.000 I have no idea.

00:31:04.000 I know important people.

00:31:05.000 The point is, you want them to be in charge of these disasters, exclusively.

00:31:10.000 You want them to be in charge of medical aid.

00:31:12.000 That's also why you want to Take away taxes and status from churches, who, by the way, provide an overwhelming amount of relief to a lot of these foreign countries.

00:31:22.000 We did it here with Hurricane Harvey at one point, and they don't want us to.

00:31:26.000 Because, by the way, lest you forget, the argument is, well, you just did that so it's a tax deduction.

00:31:30.000 Right, right, right, right, right.

00:31:31.000 Yeah.

00:31:32.000 We raised several hundred thousand dollars for Hurricane Harvey because we would pay a few thousand dollars left in taxes. 1.00

00:31:38.000 You moron. 1.00

00:31:40.000 You googly-eyed demon. 1.00

00:31:44.000 That's a new one.

00:31:46.000 I always wonder about those arguments because then it's the argument that we should discourage charitable donations by taking away that small, tiny, de minimis incentive.

00:31:56.000 Because that's going to encourage more.

00:31:59.000 The whole idea is take it away, tax more, put in the game for the government so that they can sit on the supplies.

00:32:04.000 But I thought the government was the one that wasn't sending the aid correctly.

00:32:07.000 That's just because you were raised in the era of Mao.

00:32:09.000 It's confusing for you.

00:32:11.000 It's confusing.

00:32:13.000 In his mind it's still always Tiananmen Square.

00:32:15.000 He diverts back always.

00:32:16.000 It is.

00:32:17.000 But he's rooting for the bad guy.

00:32:18.000 Unfortunately.

00:32:20.000 He's saying full speed ahead in the tank.

00:32:21.000 It's like Payback with Mel Gibson.

00:32:23.000 He wants the bad guy to win.

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00:32:51.000 All right, I think we have more of this broad.

00:32:52.000 Next clip.

00:32:53.000 You didn't make those widgets.

00:32:56.000 You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern-day slave wages, and in some cases real modern-day slavery, depending on where you are in terms of food production.

00:33:14.000 Not in this country.

00:33:15.000 You made that money off the backs of undocumented people. 0.99

00:33:19.000 You made that money off of the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage. 0.95

00:33:25.000 You made that money off of the backs of single mothers. 1.00

00:33:28.000 Single mothers? 0.99

00:33:29.000 And all of these people who are literally dying because they can't afford to live.

00:33:36.000 And so no one makes a billion dollars.

00:33:38.000 I like her hype man.

00:33:39.000 He's smoky.

00:33:40.000 You take a billion dollars.

00:33:43.000 Laying on your couches with the jokes on you, I was on a daybed!

00:33:49.000 It's a convertible.

00:33:49.000 It's a futon, OK?

00:33:49.000 By the way, do you notice how right away she feels like, oh, it's Americans exploiting black and brown people, paying them slave wages?

00:33:56.000 Let me ask, how about the brown people paying brown people? 0.75

00:34:00.000 What's their going rate, sweetheart? 1.00

00:34:03.000 Let's get into the fair trade bullshit. 0.99

00:34:05.000 I'm sorry. 0.98

00:34:05.000 This thing bothers me so much. 0.98

00:34:06.000 You see this all the time.

00:34:07.000 People talk about, like, coffee or whatever it is that they're buying at the store. 1.00

00:34:10.000 Cacao, which is a stupid term. 0.99

00:34:12.000 It's cocoa. 1.00

00:34:14.000 You just haven't roasted it.

00:34:15.000 Stop saying cacao.

00:34:15.000 It doesn't change what it is.

00:34:16.000 Cacao.

00:34:17.000 So you see this fair trade label on there.

00:34:19.000 And what happens?

00:34:19.000 They tell you a story, right?

00:34:20.000 They go, well, it's fair trade because if you don't pay fair trade, these people in these countries, we don't realize they're being exploited.

00:34:26.000 And they're only making $1 a day.

00:34:27.000 And you don't ask them, well, what are they making with your fair trade cocoa?

00:34:31.000 About $1.50.

00:34:31.000 It goes further there.

00:34:34.000 They don't provide the context.

00:34:36.000 For example, I think we have a source here.

00:34:37.000 Ivory Coast agricultural workers make on average $4 a day.

00:34:40.000 Those who work for fair trade certified companies see it boosted to a whopping $6.

00:34:45.000 Ooh.

00:34:47.000 So they're not being paid an American minimum wage.

00:34:50.000 You need to provide the scale and the context.

00:34:52.000 And on top of that, this goes back to AOC's false claims, the living wage claims, which doesn't really mean anything because it changes every single year.

00:35:00.000 They were debunked by Washington Post last year, lest you think that it's fake news.

00:35:03.000 The company, of course, that Alexandria Ocasio-Nina Pinto, Santa Maria Cortez, the one that she always takes aim at, is Amazon.

00:35:13.000 for not paying its employees a living wage. These evil billionaires, right? They didn't make these

00:35:17.000 companies. They just sat on their, uh, what was it? Love seat? They just sat on their love seat.

00:35:20.000 Yes. They just really pretty much, uh, they sat on their bean bag. Didn't make these companies

00:35:26.000 where there are now hundreds of thousands of people who have jobs. Right. Amazon alone employed

00:35:32.000 750,000 people in two years.

00:35:33.000 That sounds like a lot.

00:35:35.000 And by the way, you want to know what AOC would do where she's talking about this, if someone like her. 0.74

00:35:39.000 So it's not necessarily about AOC because she probably won't make it to some kind of serious national platform as far as president or something like that because she's crazy. 1.00

00:35:46.000 You can see to the eyes. 0.53

00:35:48.000 Please no.

00:35:50.000 What are you, calling a squirrel?

00:35:52.000 It's my eye.

00:35:52.000 It's the way my eye is.

00:35:53.000 It's the way my eye is.

00:35:53.000 Oh, well, okay.

00:35:54.000 Trying to get the horse to go.

00:35:55.000 Were you dropped?

00:35:56.000 Yeah.

00:35:58.000 Do you want to know what someone like AOC would do if they were in power nationally as they b**** about Donald Trump in one of the most burgeoning economies that we've ever seen?

00:36:06.000 Look at her district in New York, where she gave Amazon the boot despite the overwhelming support of her constituents wanting to bring Amazon in along with its 25,000 jobs at, below a living wage mind you, $150,000 average annual salary.

00:36:24.000 That's more than six, right?

00:36:25.000 But she's for the workers! 1.00

00:36:26.000 Yeah, we should just toss that to AOC!

00:36:30.000 Think about that for a second!

00:36:32.000 25,000 jobs in Queens, gone.

00:36:35.000 $150,000 a year.

00:36:37.000 The point is, if you think that that's exploitation, you just hate companies that aren't government owned.

00:36:42.000 You want to nationalize everything.

00:36:44.000 Don't tell me that it's about $16 an hour.

00:36:46.000 Don't even tell me it's about $25 an hour.

00:36:47.000 You kicked out 25,000 jobs, averaging $150,000 a year.

00:36:49.000 It's it.

00:36:49.000 That's over.

00:36:50.000 You're done. 1.00

00:36:50.000 Nobody likes lying losers with crazy eyes. 1.00

00:36:51.000 $150,000 a year. It's it that's over. You're done. Nobody likes lying losers with crazy eyes next clip. I 0.99

00:36:59.000 Think it's totally fine and human and natural to feel that way

00:37:03.000 Mm-hmm.

00:37:04.000 So my Jordans are okay?

00:37:05.000 I think your Jordans are okay.

00:37:07.000 You know, it's like if you live in it, then like live in it while fighting for a better world.

00:37:17.000 Of all the companies, she uses Nike as an example.

00:37:22.000 Is it me?

00:37:23.000 Is it me?

00:37:24.000 It's a little crazy.

00:37:25.000 The same Nike famous for exploiting sweatshop labor conditions in other countries that we don't allow in our capitalist system, by the way, here in the United States. 1.00

00:37:33.000 But it's okay when it's Nike because they support sodomy and this asshole. 1.00

00:37:37.000 So that's fine. 1.00

00:37:39.000 What is it with the eyes in these people?

00:37:40.000 I don't know.

00:37:40.000 Not these people like the color.

00:37:42.000 Can I get sponsored?

00:37:46.000 Sure, what are you looking for there, Kaepernick?

00:37:49.000 Free Jordans, like, once a quarter.

00:37:53.000 We'll put you on a poster at Dick's Sporting Goods!

00:37:56.000 You know what I do find interesting is, remember when she talks about, you know, on the backs of black and brown workers who are not paid a living wage?

00:38:02.000 Single mothers. 0.99

00:38:02.000 You notice she's not concerned about anyone besides a minority, right? 0.99

00:38:07.000 There's no worry about white workers who may also be exploited.

00:38:10.000 But here's the other part.

00:38:10.000 Is the message here, don't hire single moms?

00:38:13.000 Is the message here, don't hire minorities? 1.00

00:38:16.000 No, of course not.

00:38:17.000 The idea that these companies aren't also contributing, so is she saying that all the social media companies that are making billions of dollars, they're the ones that are the problem, we should break them up and not allow them to have the control they have?

00:38:27.000 I don't know, maybe I agree.

00:38:29.000 Truth.

00:38:30.000 I'm a little confused.

00:38:31.000 Honestly, the Nike thing threw me for a loop.

00:38:32.000 It really did.

00:38:33.000 It's nuts.

00:38:34.000 It seemed like quite the contradiction.

00:38:35.000 Yeah, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.

00:38:37.000 It seems as though it's nonsensical.

00:38:40.000 I think we have... Is this the last clip of AOC?

00:38:43.000 Yes, sir.

00:38:43.000 Oh, thank goodness.

00:38:45.000 Thank you.

00:38:45.000 Okay, let's roll it.

00:38:46.000 To be ethical, if you're a billionaire today, the thing that you need to do is give up control and power.

00:38:53.000 And you're sectional.

00:38:54.000 So I don't want your money as much as we want your power.

00:38:57.000 Oh, boy.

00:38:58.000 We don't want to demand for a billionaire to fund this or that.

00:39:03.000 What we want to demand is to change these systems.

00:39:07.000 Change the business model that has exploited so many people.

00:39:14.000 I wasn't looking at my iPad.

00:39:15.000 I was just looking down because I'm very sad.

00:39:17.000 It's embarrassing for her.

00:39:19.000 We want your power! 1.00

00:39:22.000 I don't really give a shit. 1.00

00:39:24.000 Come and take it. 0.99

00:39:26.000 So someone should make a company, produce something, employ people, add value, and then you... Oh, so you'll steal it!

00:39:33.000 Right.

00:39:34.000 Steven, you're misunderstanding.

00:39:35.000 Billionaires, as she stated before, never make a billion dollars.

00:39:38.000 They take it.

00:39:39.000 They take it, as opposed to what AOC does.

00:39:43.000 That's not taking it.

00:39:44.000 No, it's not taking it.

00:39:44.000 It's repurposing it.

00:39:46.000 Okay.

00:39:46.000 All right.

00:39:47.000 Toss a couple of googly's into the mix. 0.99

00:39:49.000 We're murky on the rule book.

00:39:51.000 I don't want to get into the whole idea of why that is horrible.

00:39:54.000 Jeff Bezos, I don't agree with his politics.

00:39:56.000 We've talked about that quite a bit.

00:39:57.000 But he's not some guy who was raised wealthy with a silver spoon in his mouth.

00:40:00.000 This is a guy.

00:40:01.000 This is the American dream.

00:40:03.000 I keep saying Lester.

00:40:03.000 It's because Lester Holt is in my mind.

00:40:07.000 We have to bring that back up.

00:40:08.000 He does.

00:40:08.000 He looks like a stylish Muppet.

00:40:09.000 He does.

00:40:10.000 In case you've forgotten, Amazon was a bookseller for a long time.

00:40:14.000 It didn't become what it is today accidentally.

00:40:17.000 I don't agree with his politics, but what gives me the right to take anything from Jeff Bezos?

00:40:24.000 This is the concept they want to take from people, AOC, who've actually worked to create something.

00:40:29.000 It would be, to give you a more kind of direct comparison, I think I was talking with a researcher, Reg, who's brilliant, and he's so strong, he squats like 630 pounds, he's like a competitive powerlifter, at 180 pound body weight.

00:40:40.000 I said, imagine this, if we could put on just sort of these helmets, like I think you've seen them in Star Trek, where you switch bodies, and you've done all of this work, and for eight years you've worked to create this total so you can compete on a national level in powerlifting, and all of a sudden I just go, And I suck up your power, because here's the thing.

00:40:56.000 She's talking about giving us your power.

00:40:58.000 Well, we see with Puerto Rico or the government, even the United States.

00:41:02.000 They don't give up the power once they've taken it.

00:41:04.000 The power is going somewhere.

00:41:05.000 You are talking, AOC, about displacing power from people who are beholden to adding value.

00:41:11.000 Lest they lose power, I said it again, versus you, who will have the power subsequently, regardless of having earned it.

00:41:18.000 And we should know this.

00:41:19.000 Anyone who has a serious firearm, a high-caliber firearm, and has never used it, never trained with it, that's a bad idea.

00:41:25.000 Put someone under a 500-pound barbell who's never worked their way up to create that strength.

00:41:30.000 It doesn't end well.

00:41:31.000 These people who want all of the power, as she just said, haven't earned it.

00:41:35.000 It will collapse, and they will fold under the weight, and subsequently, the American people. 0.96

00:41:41.000 And I don't understand why, if someone had to work to create this, let's even go back to Jeff Bezos, I don't agree with his politics.

00:41:46.000 Why is it immoral for Mr. Bezos to want to keep what he's created, but it's not immoral for you or me to want to take it?

00:41:54.000 Again, displacing this power from billionaires, you're going to displace it to people who made Puerto Rico happen.

00:42:00.000 And you know, to people Let's go through this personally, here.

00:42:04.000 I guess this is what you want to say, give up the power, and I'm not a billionaire, but this company would be in the same tax bracket, that's something that people don't tell you.

00:42:12.000 No matter what I did, by the way, not taking a paycheck, not taking a salary, not being paid a dime for this show for two, three, four, five years, building it up, sleepless nights, running it out of my den, then an old massage parlor, in case you haven't watched behind the scenes is what it was, we found out afterwards, we're like, why are there no outlets in here?

00:42:29.000 That's disgusting!

00:42:30.000 I have no idea why we rented this office, now I get why the rent was low, to move to a new office.

00:42:36.000 We went from one employee, to three employees, to five employees, now to fifteen employees, who all make, by the way, significantly above a living wage.

00:42:44.000 But because this was successful, because I built something that actually adds value, it's inherently immoral.

00:42:51.000 Okay, I understand.

00:42:52.000 You know what?

00:42:53.000 Up, I get it.

00:42:54.000 I am going to give up the power.

00:42:57.000 And you know what, Quarter Black Garrett? 0.93

00:42:59.000 I'm going to give the power to you. 0.77

00:43:02.000 To you, the Quarter Black! 1.00

00:43:04.000 Yep.

00:43:04.000 All you have to do is touch that button, and that power is no longer mine.

00:43:08.000 Really?

00:43:08.000 Yep.

00:43:09.000 It's yours. 1.00

00:43:09.000 Oh, idiot. 1.00

00:43:12.000 Oh, geez. 1.00

00:43:13.000 He fell for it again.

00:43:16.000 All right.

00:43:16.000 Couldn't handle it.

00:43:17.000 Jocko Willig, coming up after this.

00:43:18.000 Boom.

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00:45:55.000 Oh, hi.

00:46:02.000 Hey.

00:46:02.000 I haven't seen you on the board.

00:46:04.000 Do you guys have Black Rifle coffee here?

00:46:08.000 No, I'm sorry, we only carry good small-batch coffee here.

00:46:12.000 Well, it is great small-batch coffee.

00:46:14.000 Well, that really can't be unless it's fresh-roasted.

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00:46:20.000 I don't think you know what that means.

00:46:23.000 You know what this is?

00:46:24.000 This is Masa Lekua Pique, which, of course, in the Indonesian language, it's weasel coffee.

00:46:34.000 You just made that up.

00:46:34.000 No, it's been passed through their digestive tract.

00:46:37.000 That's disgusting.

00:46:37.000 And then it's nature's wet processing.

00:46:39.000 Yeah, but is it good?

00:46:41.000 I mean, it's alright.

00:46:45.000 Are they investor philanthropists?

00:46:48.000 Do they support good causes?

00:46:49.000 Yeah, tons of causes.

00:46:51.000 Veterans' causes and first responder causes.

00:46:53.000 But it doesn't matter because they make good coffee.

00:46:56.000 So that's what I'm wanting.

00:46:58.000 Do you have any?

00:46:59.000 You know what?

00:47:00.000 Actually, I'm just gonna order it and make it freshly roasted.

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00:48:12.000 You like a dingle dine?

00:48:13.000 Friends for friends to hear D-d-d-dingle dine 1.00

00:48:15.000 D-d-d-d-dine Oh! You like a dingle dine?

00:48:17.000 We all get up and dine You feeling good there quarterback here?

00:48:21.000 No, man.

00:48:21.000 Okay.

00:48:22.000 Well, chip her up, because I will tell you this, our next guest is usually very serious.

00:48:26.000 Very stoic.

00:48:27.000 Very stone-faced.

00:48:28.000 Stoic, you know, I guess it would go back to Marcus Aurelius.

00:48:30.000 Was he the creator of stoicism?

00:48:32.000 I have no, I have absolutely no idea.

00:48:33.000 The point is, he was very chipper before we came on air, which makes me think he's done, he's used some illicit substances.

00:48:40.000 But you know him and you love him.

00:48:43.000 You can follow him, of course, Jocko Willink on the Twitter, jockopodcast.com.

00:48:47.000 I do not have his newest book yet, but it is Leadership Strategy and Tactics, a field manual.

00:48:53.000 And Origin USA has a supplement company.

00:48:55.000 They do all kinds of American clothing now.

00:48:56.000 I hope I've gotten all those in correctly.

00:48:59.000 Mr. Willink, how are you, sir?

00:49:01.000 I am doing outstanding.

00:49:02.000 Thank you for having me back on your program.

00:49:05.000 Thank you very much.

00:49:06.000 Why so formal?

00:49:07.000 What does that mean?

00:49:08.000 First off, here's the thing.

00:49:09.000 You're such a studly guy, but that sounded so bitchy on your program. 1.00

00:49:13.000 What is this, Mean Girls? 1.00

00:49:16.000 It's just that your whole intro thing kind of made me say to myself, all right, he's taking himself way too seriously.

00:49:22.000 Let's just attack him.

00:49:23.000 Out of the gate. 0.98

00:49:23.000 That's what we're doing. 0.98

00:49:24.000 That's absolutely fine.

00:49:25.000 It'd be like when you're rolling and right away you just snatch a Kimura and crank it for dear life.

00:49:30.000 I didn't know!

00:49:30.000 Alright, we'll talk about that during the break a little bit, some stories on that, because of course people who don't know Jocko Willink.

00:49:36.000 Not only highly decorated military background, but an accomplished jiu-jitsu fighter as well.

00:49:43.000 Alright, so, Jocko, first off, tell us about your new book, which you did not send to me, and how it differs from these, you know what, let's just Yeah, there you go.

00:49:53.000 We'll put in digitally the new book.

00:49:56.000 How does it differ from the previous books?

00:49:58.000 Because I've read them, and I will have one of my producers here who's a huge fan.

00:50:01.000 He's read everything.

00:50:02.000 But obviously, you know, you read one leadership book, you think, like, I got it figured out.

00:50:06.000 Yeah, well, unfortunately, that's what people think all too often.

00:50:09.000 And so here's the deal.

00:50:10.000 I have the leadership consulting company, Echelon Front.

00:50:12.000 I go around all the time talking about leadership, talking to companies, talking to business leaders.

00:50:16.000 I have a podcast where I talk about leadership all the time.

00:50:19.000 And I take questions.

00:50:20.000 In both those situations, I take questions from people.

00:50:22.000 And I would get asked the same questions over and over and over again.

00:50:25.000 And what I realized is that People might understand the principles, but they're not quite sure of how to actually apply them.

00:50:34.000 And so I would get asked the questions.

00:50:37.000 I took all those questions down over the years and I eventually wrote down all the leadership strategy and tactics that I used Wrote them down in a book so people can open up the book, see the problem that they have, and then find a solution to that problem.

00:50:50.000 So it's very granular.

00:50:52.000 You know, it's called a field manual.

00:50:53.000 The reason it's called a field manual is in the military, there's field manuals for just about everything that you do.

00:50:57.000 For how you shoot a gun, for how you clean a gun, for how you use a compass.

00:51:01.000 There's a field manual for everything.

00:51:02.000 They're very simple, very straightforward, step-by-step.

00:51:05.000 That's what this is.

00:51:06.000 It's for leadership, and it's simple, straightforward, step-by-step, how to improve your leadership capabilities.

00:51:12.000 Well, let me ask you this, because you say that you've gotten a lot of questions.

00:51:14.000 And I ask this because your books are pretty clear.

00:51:16.000 I mean, they're pretty in-depth, the ones that I've read before.

00:51:19.000 So, do you find, especially being seen as someone who's relatively intense, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn, are people afraid to ask you questions in real life? 0.98

00:51:26.000 Do they feel, are they worried that it might be a stupid question? 0.73

00:51:29.000 And how do you usually react? 0.99

00:51:30.000 Someone like you who's been specific in your instruction, what kind of questions come back to you?

00:51:35.000 I get questions all the time.

00:51:36.000 Okay, so the first book, called Extreme Ownership.

00:51:38.000 You know, someone might say, and the premise is, if you make a mistake, or if a mission fails, or a project fails, then you actually take ownership of it.

00:51:46.000 So I'd get this question all the time.

00:51:48.000 They'd say, hey Jocko, what if I take ownership of the problem, and I say it's my fault, and then the team looks at me, and they say, yeah, you're right, it is your fault.

00:51:57.000 What do I do then? 0.99

00:51:59.000 You shoot him. 1.00

00:52:00.000 Well, no, actually. 1.00

00:52:02.000 It's multiple choice.

00:52:04.000 What you say to the team is, yes, I just said it was my fault.

00:52:09.000 And now you're saying it's my fault.

00:52:10.000 That's what I said.

00:52:11.000 It actually is my fault.

00:52:12.000 I'm taking ownership of the problem.

00:52:14.000 And these are the things I'm going to do to make sure that we get this problem solved and it doesn't happen again.

00:52:18.000 Because what happens is when people say, you know what?

00:52:21.000 This was my fault.

00:52:22.000 I take ownership of it.

00:52:23.000 They think now, OK, cool.

00:52:24.000 Now I get a free pass because I said it's my fault.

00:52:27.000 Well, that's not the reality.

00:52:28.000 You still have to take ownership of the problem, you have to figure out what the solution is, and you have to implement that solution.

00:52:33.000 So, those are the kind of things that I answer these questions all the time, and I put them all in this book.

00:52:38.000 How do you deal with someone that has a negative attitude on your team?

00:52:41.000 What do you do with them?

00:52:42.000 How do you deal with rumors running rampant?

00:52:45.000 Just all of those problems that people experience in leadership positions, I tackle them.

00:52:51.000 Yeah, well, what happens if everyone says it's their fault? 1.00

00:52:54.000 If it's like, I'm Spartacus, but everyone's just like, I'm an idiot! 1.00

00:52:58.000 I'm a moron! 1.00

00:52:59.000 I screwed up! 1.00

00:52:59.000 I mean, whose fault is it? 1.00

00:53:02.000 Yeah, well what happens is, what you end up with is...

00:53:05.000 Interlocking fields of fire.

00:53:07.000 So what that means is on the battlefield, yeah, you and I are supposed to cover an area.

00:53:12.000 Well, we don't take one little section and say, okay, everything to the right of that, I'll cover, everything to the left of that, you cover.

00:53:18.000 No, we actually say, we open it up so we have a little bit of overlap.

00:53:22.000 So on a team, when multiple people are saying, well, okay, the supplies didn't get here on time.

00:53:27.000 Yeah.

00:53:27.000 and the supply person says, yeah, you know what?

00:53:29.000 I didn't set up the logistics right.

00:53:31.000 And then me, I say, you know what?

00:53:32.000 You didn't set up the logistics right, but it's actually my fault

00:53:34.000 because I didn't order the materials early enough.

00:53:37.000 Well, now what we both do is, now I start ordering them earlier

00:53:41.000 and the supply person starts cleaning out the logistics train, and now that problem is solved

00:53:46.000 from two different directions.

00:53:47.000 So it's never gonna happen again.

00:53:49.000 So yes, when you're on a team and people start taking ownership,

00:53:52.000 everyone will take ownership.

00:53:53.000 It's awesome.

00:53:54.000 They'll all get the problem solved.

00:53:55.000 But sometimes it's awkward if you say, I didn't get the logistics right.

00:53:59.000 And the other guy just say, yeah.

00:54:04.000 Should have done that.

00:54:06.000 Then it's even less comfortable.

00:54:07.000 Well, that's the thing.

00:54:08.000 And what kicks in is people's ego.

00:54:10.000 When they go, I didn't get the logistics right, and they want people to go, no, no, no, no, you did great, no, no.

00:54:15.000 People are like, oh, yeah, yeah, you actually didn't get them right, because that's why it took so long.

00:54:18.000 And then their ego goes, wait a second, it wasn't my fault.

00:54:21.000 I should have, well, actually, it was your fault.

00:54:23.000 That's the thing about extreme ownership.

00:54:24.000 Extreme ownership isn't just lip service, like, well, if I say it's my fault, Everyone will ignore me and give me a pass.

00:54:30.000 That's not what happens, and it shouldn't happen that way.

00:54:33.000 So it sounds like this book could, I mean, part of it could be substituted with just being married.

00:54:39.000 You just say, it's my fault, and your wife says, absolutely, and then you go on your merry way and avoid making her cross. 0.90

00:54:46.000 So people align these things, and I know you said it joking around because you're the comedian and all this stuff, you're supposed to be funny.

00:54:52.000 Well, I don't have the cleft.

00:54:54.000 Okay.

00:54:54.000 Yeah.

00:54:55.000 So people, people bring it up all the time though.

00:54:57.000 How does this stuff apply to marriage?

00:54:58.000 And yeah, it absolutely applies to marriage.

00:55:00.000 So when your wife says, Oh, no one took out the garbage.

00:55:04.000 You didn't take out the garbage this morning on Monday.

00:55:06.000 So now it's going to be sitting in the alley for another week.

00:55:08.000 Instead of being like, well, you should have told me you should have reminded me it was Monday.

00:55:11.000 No, you say, you know what?

00:55:12.000 It's my fault.

00:55:13.000 I'll actually, from now on, I'm going to put a reminder on my calendar.

00:55:15.000 So I remember.

00:55:17.000 Yeah.

00:55:18.000 And your wife goes good.

00:55:20.000 Yeah.

00:55:20.000 And now, you don't let your ego get involved.

00:55:23.000 You actually take ownership of the problem.

00:55:24.000 And now, from now on, you get the garbage out on time, and you don't have a stinky alleyway.

00:55:27.000 So, it actually works!

00:55:29.000 And your relationship will be better with your wife. 0.99

00:55:31.000 Except for when it's near a holiday, and they switch the trash day, and then you have to kill the trash man. 0.98

00:55:37.000 That's what happened New Year's.

00:55:38.000 That's why I've still been laying low.

00:55:39.000 Let me ask you this, and I want to get to... Hey, don't you have neighbors?

00:55:44.000 Well, actually, my neighbor went through my mail, which is a federal crime, so we don't talk much anymore.

00:55:50.000 You can always impose your garbage on your neighbor's trash can if it's really stinking.

00:55:55.000 This is true.

00:55:56.000 I have a very old neighbor who lives in the house with the lights off, and all he does is come out to trim his bushes and sort through my mail.

00:56:02.000 And I said, hey, I love you.

00:56:03.000 It wasn't malicious.

00:56:04.000 I said, great, I appreciate it, but if we're gone for a long weekend, you don't go through my mail.

00:56:09.000 That's not how this works.

00:56:11.000 You know, that's a true story.

00:56:12.000 Yeah, Johnny was bringing it, and he's like, hey, your mail was in so-and-so's mailbox again.

00:56:17.000 I want to get to sort of Iran and soul mania a little bit, because you have some insight there that I'd like to kind of sort of, I guess, I guess, what's the word I'm looking for?

00:56:25.000 I don't know.

00:56:25.000 I had a stroke.

00:56:26.000 But before that...

00:56:27.000 You know, right now we have an incredible economy that's been really doing well the last few years, but we also have 1,300 CEOs who've stepped down in the past year.

00:56:36.000 And as someone who works with a lot of CEOs and people in positions of power, executive power, particularly with businesses, why do you think that is?

00:56:43.000 It's something that I haven't necessarily been able to figure out.

00:56:46.000 Well, when a company's doing bad, then that Blame is going to shift to the CEO, which is where it should shift.

00:56:55.000 When a company, when a team is not doing well, it's the leader's fault.

00:56:59.000 And if the leader doesn't do things to reverse that course and get things on track, yeah, they're going to feel a lot of pressure to step down.

00:57:06.000 That's what's going to happen.

00:57:07.000 And I've seen it over and over again.

00:57:10.000 When you have a bad team, a bad group, a bad company, You can change out that leader and absolutely turn things around almost immediately.

00:57:19.000 I used to see that with SEAL platoons.

00:57:20.000 Occasionally we would fire a SEAL platoon leader.

00:57:23.000 And we're firing the SEAL platoon leader because the SEAL platoon is performing badly.

00:57:29.000 Right.

00:57:29.000 We would fire that guy, bring in a new leader.

00:57:30.000 We'd usually find a leader that had some experience, that was a good leader, put him in there.

00:57:34.000 I'm not kidding.

00:57:35.000 The next mission they would go on, next training mission, everything would be smooth.

00:57:40.000 And that's the impact of leadership, of good leadership.

00:57:42.000 So when you see a company that's not doing what they're supposed to be doing, they're not performing well, eventually the board or the chairman of the board or the investors are going to turn to that guy and say, yeah, we don't want you anymore.

00:57:54.000 Yeah.

00:57:55.000 And they can call it stepping down, but they're getting fired.

00:57:57.000 Oh, is that what... Because I was going to say, that would apply if the economy were doing poorly or these companies are doing poorly.

00:58:01.000 But if you look into it, some of these companies are doing pretty well, like most companies are right now, and CEOs are stepping down.

00:58:07.000 But you think that a lot of that is maybe stepping down?

00:58:11.000 Well, I mean, you know, you might also have people that have done enough and they've grinded it out for 18 years and they're going to take some time.

00:58:18.000 I mean, I don't know what particular cases that you're talking about.

00:58:21.000 Maybe it is people that are just ready to step down and enjoy some other part of their life.

00:58:24.000 That's a possibility, too.

00:58:26.000 I'm talking broadly when I deal with companies and the CEO leaves.

00:58:30.000 Generally, it's because the CEO and the company is doing poorly, and the company is doing poorly because the CEO is not leading well.

00:58:37.000 And that's actually, I only work with, most of the companies that we work with at Epsilon Front are companies that are doing well.

00:58:42.000 Right.

00:58:43.000 And the reason that they're doing well is because they're humble, and that's why they're coming to us asking for help because they want to improve their leadership, and they're humble enough to ask for leadership.

00:58:51.000 When we work with companies that are not doing well, We show up there.

00:58:56.000 The board tells us to go and talk to the company.

00:58:58.000 The board wants us to help them.

00:59:00.000 We show up there, and of course, the CEO and the leadership team saying, we don't actually need your help.

00:59:05.000 We're doing great.

00:59:05.000 It's just that the market's bad, and the competitor did this, and the union said that, and that's why we're failing.

00:59:10.000 But it has nothing to do with us.

00:59:12.000 Yeah.

00:59:12.000 Or like my neighbor who steals my mail.

00:59:14.000 He always just blames it on the Mexicans. 0.59

00:59:16.000 Every time.

00:59:16.000 Which I just, I'm like, I don't understand.

00:59:18.000 I know the guy who does your pool.

00:59:20.000 His name is Let me ask you this before.

00:59:23.000 I actually want to ask you one question on that and then get to your tours in Iraq and then bring in our producer.

00:59:29.000 You touched on something there which I think is important.

00:59:31.000 I've had a lot of fighters on this show.

00:59:32.000 We've talked about this.

00:59:34.000 Some CEOs just realize it's their time to step down and they want to move on to another part of their life.

00:59:38.000 Listen, you're an intense guy.

00:59:39.000 You've obviously accomplished a lot in the military.

00:59:42.000 Now you're accomplishing a lot in the business world.

00:59:43.000 But you get up at 4.45.

00:59:45.000 You do it by choice.

00:59:47.000 I have problems sleeping, so I'm always up at 4.

00:59:49.000 But I also understand that this is not a pace that I've been maintaining for the last couple of years I can do forever.

00:59:54.000 Sometimes the people who are in positions of leadership are the last to know that it's maybe time for them to take on a different role.

01:00:01.000 And it's not because they're incapable, but it's because maybe they're in a different stage of their life.

01:00:05.000 And I ask you this because a lot of fighters are the last to know that they should stop fighting.

01:00:09.000 How do you think people who are successful and disciplined and intense, how do they recognize that it's their time to move on?

01:00:17.000 And how do you think you'll ever have to make that decision, you know, yourself?

01:00:20.000 Because, yeah, you're jack-a-willing now, but at some point you're going to get old and you went gray young, so it works for you, but it's not going to be there forever. 0.82

01:00:29.000 You mean I'm not going to be gray forever?

01:00:30.000 You're going to have nothing there forever.

01:00:32.000 It's going to be Dick Cheney in about eight years.

01:00:34.000 It's just an Instagram app.

01:00:36.000 I think for people, I think a lot of people that...

01:00:40.000 Have my type of attitude.

01:00:41.000 I mean, I'm always looking for something new to do.

01:00:44.000 Right.

01:00:44.000 It's not like I want to stay and do the same thing over and over again.

01:00:47.000 So I think for me, I'll be looking around going, OK, this this this felt pretty good.

01:00:52.000 Let me turn this over to someone else and move on, move on to some other challenge.

01:00:57.000 So it's about you think a big part of it is feeling confident and sort of handing it off to someone who's capable.

01:01:01.000 And that's why it's so important maybe to build up new leaders.

01:01:05.000 Yeah.

01:01:06.000 We used to say we always want to work ourselves out of a job.

01:01:08.000 So I want my The two platoon commanders that are working for me, I want them to both be able to step up and take my job and do a better job than me.

01:01:16.000 Right.

01:01:16.000 Which means then I can move on to the next level.

01:01:18.000 Yeah, I think that's a good way to look at it.

01:01:20.000 Let me ask you this.

01:01:21.000 During your two tours, I believe you did two, right?

01:01:23.000 In Iraq, if I'm not mistaken?

01:01:24.000 Yep.

01:01:25.000 You know, Sole Mania was obviously recently in the news.

01:01:27.000 What is your opinion on that situation and sort of the Irani influence on the war with your direct experience?

01:01:35.000 Yeah, so with my direct experience, especially my second deployment when the Iranians were, so this is now 2006, I was in Ramadi, which is in western Iraq.

01:01:46.000 I stayed in Ramadi in Albuquerque once.

01:01:50.000 We're not pleasant.

01:01:52.000 I moved on down to the Hacienda.

01:01:54.000 Yeah, well, the Ramadi that I was in was not very nice either.

01:01:59.000 Probably comparable, yes.

01:02:03.000 It was a Sunni area, so there wasn't a huge Shia influence other than the military, the Iraqi military was mostly Shia soldiers.

01:02:13.000 So it was Shia soldiers coming into Ramadi with us Working amongst the Sunni populace, fighting against a predominantly Sunni insurgency in that area.

01:02:24.000 As far as the Iranian influence there, it was less.

01:02:28.000 However, during that time, and increasingly through 2007, 2008, 2009, the Iranian influence increased a lot, especially in and around Baghdad.

01:02:39.000 There's a place called Sadr City, you know, it's an awful place. 1.00

01:02:43.000 And all over Baghdad, surrounding areas, the Iranian influence was making these These IEDs, which are called EFPs, which means Explosively Formed Projectile, and where a normal IED would not penetrate the skin of a tank or of an armored personnel carrier. 0.91

01:03:04.000 Those EFPs would absolutely, they would penetrate the armor and they would kill everyone inside or kill or wound people inside.

01:03:11.000 And these, the Iranians, Soleimani, they were specifically manufacturing these, shipping them to Iran, teaching people how to emplace them properly. 0.98

01:03:20.000 And he was accountable for the deaths of, I don't know what number, I think they say 600 Americans, but it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Americans. 0.98

01:03:30.000 This is an evil, human being that needed to die, and I'm glad he's dead.

01:03:35.000 Well, and I know that you've said that, so how would you, and I know you often avoid sort of speaking on politics directly, which I appreciate because you're in a position of leadership where you can influence people of all stripes, but how would you sort of respond, or what's your reaction to a lot in the media and some on certain sides of the political aisle right now portraying Soleimani as kind of a respected Irani military official, and a lot of people have condemned President Trump for the action he took. 0.89

01:03:59.000 So there's a couple things that I've said.

01:04:02.000 First of all, he was not just an enemy.

01:04:04.000 Soleimani was not just an enemy of American troops in America.

01:04:08.000 He's an enemy of his own people, of the Iranian people. 0.84

01:04:11.000 This is a guy they've killed, and again, you don't know what the real numbers are, but In the neighborhood of a thousand, maybe more, maybe less, protesters, people that are standing up against the Iranian regime, have been killed in the last six months.

01:04:25.000 The Iranian people do not want this regime in power.

01:04:29.000 And so when he gets killed, what did we see?

01:04:31.000 We saw the Iranians rising up in the streets and the protests against the downing of the Turkish airline, once again, that they immediately lied about, kind of changed their story.

01:04:42.000 But the Iranians don't want this group in power. 0.99

01:04:46.000 So we killed someone that's an enemy to Americans and an enemy to the Iranian people and you know one of the other things that I said was I said that this was a gamble. 0.81

01:04:56.000 Yeah.

01:04:56.000 That Trump took a gamble.

01:04:58.000 And okay, maybe that's not the right word choice, and maybe I should have explained it for some people that were looking to pounce on everything that somebody says that's positive about President Trump.

01:05:08.000 I think it is a good word choice.

01:05:09.000 I will say, I would defend it because I think you're right.

01:05:11.000 Listen, and I think most people don't understand that's a leadership language.

01:05:14.000 People in positions of leadership, you're always somewhat making a gamble.

01:05:17.000 You're trying to make as educated of a bet as possible because a lot of people don't know this.

01:05:21.000 If you're handed sort of a handbook from an employer, Yeah, so I guess I'm not walking it back, but maybe a better word to use would be, hey, it's a risky move.

01:05:28.000 There is risk.

01:05:28.000 what you have to follow. You have very clear guidelines as to what is the metric for success

01:05:33.000 and what would be failure. If you're in a position of leadership, it is always a little

01:05:36.000 bit of a gamble because you're setting those standards yourself. So I would say don't walk

01:05:41.000 it back, but I appreciate your candor.

01:05:43.000 Yeah, so I guess I'm not walking it back, but maybe a better word to use would be, hey,

01:05:47.000 it's a risky move. There is risk. And then what I said was, hey, kind of what you just

01:05:52.000 said, when you conduct a military operation, I don't care what it is, there's going to

01:05:56.000 There's a gamble.

01:05:58.000 And the other example that I used was Obama getting bin Laden. 0.85

01:06:03.000 Obama gave the order to go into a sovereign country without telling that military that we were going to go in there and kill someone that was there.

01:06:10.000 That's what we did.

01:06:11.000 That is a massive gamble.

01:06:13.000 And guess what?

01:06:14.000 That gamble paid off.

01:06:16.000 It was successful.

01:06:17.000 We're all overjoyed that Osama bin Laden is dead. 0.54

01:06:20.000 And I remember some people on the right, when that happened, and they said, yeah, Obama killed Osama bin Laden.

01:06:27.000 People said, it wasn't Obama, it was the SEALs.

01:06:29.000 I get it.

01:06:30.000 But it was actually Obama that gave the order.

01:06:33.000 And that was a huge gamble for him to take.

01:06:36.000 And it turned out to be very positive.

01:06:38.000 I'm happy that it happened, of course.

01:06:40.000 Soleimani, very similar.

01:06:42.000 This was a big gamble for Trump to take.

01:06:44.000 I would say maybe not as big of a gamble in some ways because he didn't really risk any American lives, but everyone America has been so scared about what the reaction of the Iranian regime would be for 40 years.

01:06:59.000 We've been nervous about it.

01:07:00.000 And he said, OK, well, we're going to find out.

01:07:03.000 And he did it.

01:07:04.000 And their reaction was to throw some missiles into the middle of the desert and say,

01:07:09.000 yep, we're not doing anything else, we're good.

01:07:11.000 And then you got to see the regime getting turmoil against them back in Iran.

01:07:17.000 So overall, a very positive result.

01:07:20.000 And was it a gamble?

01:07:21.000 Yes.

01:07:21.000 Could the Iranians have done some crazy attack back?

01:07:26.000 Or a series of attacks.

01:07:27.000 Sure, they could have.

01:07:27.000 They haven't.

01:07:28.000 They didn't.

01:07:29.000 Well, I think you're talking about a tactical retaliation, but I think we're pretty clear on the fact that, as far as the moral conundrum that's been presented, that it wasn't.

01:07:38.000 It wasn't really a gamble as far as, eh, is he, is he not a good guy?

01:07:42.000 But hey, before we go, wouldn't it have been cool, we're talking about gamble, because it's always a roll of the dice, if someone, right before they shot Osama bin Laden, said, oh, we rolled the dice, it came up six.

01:07:52.000 Seal team six.

01:07:54.000 Blam! 0.78

01:07:55.000 That's a diehard sequel I'd see.

01:07:57.000 All right, listen.

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01:09:31.000 Ahem.

01:09:34.000 What a complete disaster.

01:09:37.000 Excuse me, did you just blow in from dressed like a spazville? 1.00

01:09:42.000 How do you walk around looking like that?

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01:10:03.000 Leave it Oh Oh, gross. 0.98

01:10:23.000 Okay, good.

01:10:23.000 Go get it.

01:10:26.000 So the reason I was kind of showing that, as awkward as it... Okay, Betty, come here.

01:10:30.000 Come here.

01:10:30.000 A lot of you haven't seen Betty a ton, obviously, since the Hoppers.

01:10:33.000 Come on, Betty. 1.00

01:10:33.000 Okay, come on. 1.00

01:10:34.000 Look.

01:10:36.000 She's pulled me off my feet a few times.

01:10:38.000 Come on! 0.61

01:10:39.000 Leave it. 0.95

01:10:40.000 Leave it. 0.95

01:10:41.000 Okay, good.

01:10:41.000 Go get it.

01:10:43.000 The thing I love about this breed of dog, too, I was talking with Jaco about this, and I thought it was relevant to today's sort of, you know, I'll come back here so you guys can see me a little more clearly.

01:10:52.000 All right, Betty, I'll be back in a second. 0.51

01:10:54.000 Talking with Jocko, you know, a lot of times it sort of comes up, this topic of strength or what it is to be a man, and what I love about these dogs, Betty is coming up on close to 100 pounds, we had it with Hopper as well, is a dog that is very capable, but controls it.

01:11:10.000 You see that with Betty, it's very important that we train Betty properly, the same thing with Hopper, because we all live by Betty's mercy.

01:11:15.000 I told that to Cordoblack Garrett, we're like, we're really fortunate that she doesn't just Rip one of our limbs off or our face like a chimpanzee on Xanax and red wine with a clicker might be a dated reference But there's something to be said For and I think this is the way you should live for bridled strength 0.92

01:11:34.000 And that's really important.

01:11:35.000 I think people sort of misconstrue folks like Jocko or like Jordan Peterson or myself when I talk about the importance of masculinity, the importance of being a good man and a strong man.

01:11:46.000 And I think a lot of people misinterpret this idea of meekness.

01:11:50.000 Meekness, really, and I think Jordan Peterson has talked about this, means being incredibly capable.

01:11:57.000 With a sword, for example, but keeping it sheathed and not using it unless you have to.

01:12:01.000 For example, right there, Betty could absolutely tear my hand off if she so wanted, but she lets it go because I request her to. 1.00

01:12:10.000 And that's because there's a relationship of authority and submission, one that's appropriate.

01:12:15.000 Here's the thing.

01:12:16.000 You can't bridle strengths that you don't have to begin with.

01:12:20.000 So when I talk about strength, and when I talk about how important that is, and when I talk about bridal strength, what I am saying is, and I've talked about this before, you know, if you want to have self-confidence, do you know what you do?

01:12:29.000 Get really, really good at something.

01:12:32.000 That's it.

01:12:33.000 There's nothing else that can replace true self-esteem.

01:12:35.000 You can ban red pens all you want so all of your tests are corrected with blue markers and you never get an F. You can equalize all soccer scores all you want.

01:12:46.000 You're never going to have self-esteem until you get really, really good at something.

01:12:52.000 And you're never going to be strong, and I don't just mean physically, though I think that's important too, you'll never be strong or excellent at everything or anything If you don't work at it day after day and put in the reps and grind it out for measurable progress.

01:13:08.000 And you know what's so sad about that?

01:13:10.000 What's really sad, and this goes back to the idea of bridled strength, which I think is the only way to live. 1.00

01:13:14.000 I mean, I'm speaking to men mainly because that's what I know.

01:13:18.000 Is it people who never get excellent at anything?

01:13:20.000 People who never get strong?

01:13:23.000 They never have the opportunity to bridle it.

01:13:25.000 They'll never know what it feels like to be incredibly capable but also in control and not have to use... Betty just nut-tapped the cameraman with the squeaker toy. 0.99

01:13:38.000 Bridle it, Betty! 1.00

01:13:39.000 Bridle it, you silly little bitch. 1.00

01:13:41.000 It's okay, I can say silly little bitch. 1.00

01:13:44.000 I know it's kind of gross. 1.00

01:13:45.000 I don't necessarily anticipate her to lick my face.

01:13:47.000 But I do want you to do this drill here today.

01:13:49.000 I want you to think of an area where you're excellent.

01:13:51.000 I want you to think of an area where you might be an expert or you might be more capable than at least most in your life.

01:13:56.000 For some of you, maybe that could be science.

01:13:58.000 For some of you, maybe that could be physical strength.

01:14:00.000 For some of you, it could be a sport.

01:14:01.000 For some of you, it could be political knowledge.

01:14:03.000 What I want you to do is find an area where you are more capable than other people this week and not lord it over anyone.

01:14:12.000 In other words, find an area where you know you could score points, find an area where

01:14:16.000 you know you would be top dog, and instead make somebody else feel like they're the most

01:14:21.000 capable.

01:14:22.000 Make somebody else feel like they're the smartest person in the room.

01:14:24.000 What I want you to do is bridle that strength and know what that feels like.

01:14:30.000 Because that provides a confidence that cannot be mimicked any other way.

01:14:36.000 And the reason I also want you to do this is because some people out there, you may not be able to do this.

01:14:41.000 Because you may not find an area in which you're more excellent than your peers.

01:14:47.000 What does that tell you?

01:14:48.000 That tells you there's some other work that you have to do.

01:14:51.000 Because it is one of life's most rewarding experiences that you can, and those who haven't experienced it, that you could possibly imagine, is having the ability to utilize strength, to be powerful, and choosing to not.

01:15:06.000 And if you aren't making that decision, that just means you're weak.

01:15:11.000 And that's no way to live.

01:15:12.000 I'll see you next week.

Louder with Crowder - January 24, 2020

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