In a beautiful world, I am a powerful illusion. I have plain, simple feelings. And I simply have to let you know. I slain thee, then I, I, slain thee and complete what? I'm a fool. I've slain thee. I slay thee. Then I, slain thee then I slain and complete what?
00:38:32.000So tomorrow, also, Good Morning Monk Club, that's every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, right?
00:38:35.000Okay, we're done with the announcements.
00:38:37.000Question of the day, before we move on, is where do you think the balance is between worrying about health with the country, with the globe, as well as taking into account economic viability, particularly as it relates to the working class?
00:38:49.000And when do you think it's time to start turning the economy back on?
00:38:53.000Who thought that the greatest act of rebellion one could undertake is wanting to work?
00:40:32.000First off, he's put on the makeup, he's looking really hip, and Chinese people can't act.
00:40:38.000So, to add all of that up, like, I don't think they have, like, they don't, they don't like the comedy of something played so straight-laced that it's embarrassing.
00:41:07.000Leading the news, Bernie Sanders, of course, has suspended his campaign.
00:41:13.000By the way, I should say we'll be talking about the World Health Organization in a little bit because everyone else has been sort of tearing a page from our book.
00:41:18.000But Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign.
00:44:30.000So on Wednesday, President Trump was asked, I'm going to try and continue like I'm not entirely distracted by my throbbing It looks like Fred Flintstone after he screwed up the bowling at the Water Buffalo Lodge.
00:45:53.000Do people think, like, someone, I'm not a, you know, I'm not a very good liar.
00:45:56.000Do people like that who lie, because his whole head is a lie, do they feel comfortable lying, like, like, even though just a stiff wind will blow it all, the lid off the whole thing?
00:48:15.000Plus, frankly, between you and me, I think... Okay, I would never say this, but people are saying this, that she may have offed her husband.
00:48:25.000I consider that bitch to be one of the biggest terrorists... You know who that broad reminds me of?
00:49:28.000Did this man run an illegal underground tiger breeding ring along with two husbands who were not even homosexual and he hired a hitman to kill an animal rights activist?
00:49:49.000So wait, he's married to... because I feel like Trump would like the guy who is married to four wives than the guy who's married to two husbands.
00:52:07.000Being Quarantine, a pornography company, they're helping performers safely shoot videos at home.
00:52:13.000On Monday, I want to make sure I get this right, Vixen Media Group announced that it plans to make this transition easier for some performers by sending them customized packages, including cameras, ring lights, toys, and lingerie, so they can more easily work from home.
00:52:27.000In total, the packages will be worth $250,000 in an effort to combat coronavirus.
00:52:33.000Still no word, however, on the incurable AIDS.
00:58:43.000Did you guys see his most recent gaffe?
00:58:46.000It's a case where we cannot let this, we've never allowed any crisis from the civil war straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around 16.
00:58:56.000We have never, never let our democracy second fiddle.
00:59:02.000that we can both have a democracy and elections and at the same time, correct the public health.
01:00:53.000So, if people haven't been following, you know, they've been actually trending this week as people, they've been celebrating the anniversary of the World Health Organization's, I guess, founding, I guess it's a celebratory thing, but this is what they do.
01:01:04.000It was on 7th April 1948 that WHO came into being.
01:01:12.000Because I want my ambassador to be Neil deGrasse Tyson had sex with a Somali pirate from Captain Why, Neil?
01:02:04.000And I just don't think they understand that they have a blind spot, that the World Health Organization, who, I'm sorry, I just don't like abbreviations.
01:02:23.000You hate America, so you want to link arms.
01:02:25.000How about the fact that you cannot boycott the Gap and support an organization that excludes Taiwan and supports the most severe abuses of human rights of any modernized country?
01:02:36.000Yeah, and they do it under the guise of world health, right?
01:02:38.000So they're obviously there just to help us through this, you know, great wing, and you start digging in a little bit, and this kind of freaks you out.
01:04:34.000Listen, if your country is one big giant Petri dish and they're lying about it, I think that putting a stop on leisurely vacations is a good start.
01:05:27.000I hate the Chinese government, and by proxy, who, because I empathize with the Chinese people who are abused and kept under the thumb of the Chai Kums.
01:05:50.000Do join Mug Club Quarantine, $30 off, because we very well may not be here.
01:05:54.000So they were praising China, and it matters as far as the timeline, because all along the way, China, they were destroying evidence of the virus when it was first discovered.
01:06:08.000This is something very important to keep in mind.
01:06:10.000While everyone wants to blame Donald Trump, and I understand if you want to have the argument that it wasn't the ideal response, of course.
01:06:16.000But that's been nearly everywhere, particularly China, when you see unbiased studies show that if they'd have used the proper mitigation techniques, rather than focusing on keeping up appearances, love, and the who doing their dirty work, 95%.
01:06:34.000I mean, how does the rest of the world not lay that at, like, not the Chinese people, like, okay, can we all get past that, but not lay that?
01:08:32.000Yeah, and in 2003, so just for a comparison, right, so we're calling them out on their response right now, saying, oh, China did this, and they're like, oh, no, no, that's not a big deal.
01:08:39.000In 2003, China responded the same way they always respond to these kinds of things.
01:08:42.000They hid this information, they didn't say anything about it for the SARS outbreak, they were blasted by the WHO.
01:08:47.000The WHO actually had leadership that stood up to China and said, that's not okay.
01:09:13.000So the people were getting it, and were like, well, I can't get any treatment, so I might as well just stay home with my family.
01:09:19.000And then they spread it to all of their family members.
01:09:21.000It wasn't until organizations like Samaritan's Purse and faith organizations came in and said, hey guys, you can get treated for this, that they actually were able to turn that back.
01:09:28.000But Franklin Graham doesn't believe that Muhammad's preachings that Jesus was a fraud is correct.
01:09:33.000Therefore, he's a hate monger, and their work with Ebola doesn't matter.
01:10:03.000You're on my side now. Yeah. Oh, I never was against it.
01:10:06.000Okay. I just think it's invasive, but I like a little invasiveness So here's another claim that was made by the World Health
01:10:11.000Organization They repeated China's lies about how coronavirus was spread
01:10:15.000and they said that there was no evidence No evidence of human to human transmission on January 12th
01:10:20.000Now here's I want to be clear and hold them to the same standard that we hold everyone people can make mistakes
01:10:24.000Right people can be wrong For example, the Trump administration thought that it
01:10:29.000wouldn't be as severe as it would and that is true, right?
01:10:32.000They declared an emergency same time timeline But they didn't think it would be as severe because they
01:10:35.000were given information from the World Health Organization From China and the World Health Organization corroborated.
01:10:40.000So, I'm not mad because they said no evidence of human-to-human transmission on January 12th because they made a mistake.
01:10:46.000I'm mad because Taiwan directly gave WHO evidence of human-to-human transmission in December.
01:10:52.000They provided them with proof of doctors getting sick from the coronavirus patients.
01:10:57.000It was clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.
01:11:00.000So why would the World Health Organization not listen and also go out and tell everyone else the exact opposite?
01:11:06.000Yeah, and that's one of the key reasons I said it just a second ago.
01:11:11.000Tedros was elected in 2017, the day after he came out and affirmed China's One China policy, meaning that Taiwan is not separate from us, they are a part of us.
01:11:21.000He was backing their play up, essentially saying they don't get a seat at the table.
01:11:25.000There's so many horrible things in that phrase, you just threw One China, One Child policy in like it was a baby in a bathtub in China.
01:13:08.000So, here's the thing, too, that really does matter with Taiwan.
01:13:11.000Obviously, they deny Taiwan sovereignty, so they continue to block Taiwan from membership because China doesn't recognize them.
01:13:17.000And this is important because of the reason for Taiwan being a separate state, and that's because, specifically, it applies to the gross abuses of human rights.
01:14:53.000I love how he had the balls to go, I didn't hear your question, and she goes, oh, I'll repeat it, and he goes, no, no, no, let's move on to another one.
01:15:00.000Well, you don't even know what that one was.
01:15:55.000We depend on an organization like this to be able to go into a country that isn't necessarily going to be honest and be the honest voice, the adults in the room that say, look, this is really serious.
01:16:04.000Everybody needs to get prepared so that we can all do this.
01:16:08.000And if they're going to have a bias towards anybody, $900 million versus $90 million.
01:16:12.000Why in the hell are you picking the guy that gives you $90 million a year and the one that gives you 10 times that much you don't do anything for?
01:16:18.000And why the hell are they so focused on oppressing a nation that just wants their independence?
01:16:23.000Like, listen, leftists out there, you root for the underdog.
01:16:26.000I mean, that's the only way that you could justifiably sort of go into bat for Palestine when they're launching rockets from grade schools is just because they're really bad at war so you feel sympathy for them.
01:16:47.000The Chinese are not your friend as you go out there and bitch about sweatshops with Nike and then say trust the World Health Organization who's complicit.
01:16:53.000And again, this matters because people have made mistakes, I will say, across the board.
01:16:59.000But there is a stark contrast between the approach of the media China, the World Health Organization, and it's important to remember that they've all acted as one and the same right now, and President Donald Trump.
01:17:23.000And the truth is, too, while we're talking about Taiwan, why it matters, first off, it's reprehensible to not listen to a country simply because you want to assist in their oppression because you like China.
01:17:32.000That being said, from a pragmatic point of view, Taiwan handled the coronavirus better than almost any other country.
01:18:05.000Also, keep in mind, incredible population density.
01:18:08.000We're not just talking about, like, spread across Wyoming here.
01:18:12.000Now, how did they pull this off, Taiwan?
01:18:14.000And World Health Organization, I hope you're listening because you might want to take some notes.
01:18:19.000They started inspecting passengers from Wuhan all the way back in December.
01:18:22.000They banned Wuhan residents and suspended tours to China in January.
01:18:26.000Then they banned all Chinese visitors February 6th.
01:18:29.000Again, you look at South Korea, what they did, they didn't have a full quarantine.
01:18:33.000Now, granted, they doxed their citizens, which you can't do here in the United States, and I don't think we want to do it here, but they acted early on, and they were immediately skeptical of any information being fed to them from China.
01:20:10.000By the way, let's go back to South Korea.
01:20:11.000Keep in mind, they began moving to create testing kits January 16th.
01:20:17.000And again, they worked with private industry two weeks before the World Health Organization actually declared COVID an emergency.
01:20:23.000So this is important to note that Donald Trump values Taiwan's approach.
01:20:27.000So if you want to talk about the International Committee and you want to talk about who's supporting people in the... Why is it racist for someone, for example, to mention BATSUP?
01:20:35.000Or to mention the Chinese Communist government?
01:20:37.000But you don't recognize that Donald Trump actually is supporting the people, the Taiwanese people, who've been oppressed by China!
01:20:45.000And the World Health Organization doesn't even want to recognize them, doesn't even want to talk!
01:20:47.000about recognizing. Won't even let them in the room because they're afraid of offending China.
01:20:51.000Right. That's incredible to me. I don't understand. We do have to get to Anthony
01:20:54.000Kumiya and of course it's youtube.com slash StuDoesAmerica show. That's right. Horrible
01:20:59.000name. Yeah, no. Good name for the show. Horrible URL. Okay.
01:21:34.000I'm going to actually try and recognize you and support you, just like I support the steel mill worker in Pittsburgh.
01:21:39.000And the World Health Organization says, no, no, no, no, no.
01:21:41.000We want to stand with the government who oppresses its people and then lies to the working class people across the pond, ensuring a pandemic when 95% of it could have been mitigated had we just done our job.
01:21:55.000I don't think we need to be funding the World Health Organization At all.
01:21:59.000If you want to find someone to blame, you don't need to shift the blame from Donald Trump to World Health Organization.
01:22:04.000You just need to keep it squarely where it always was.
01:22:08.000Chinese government and the World Health Organization.
01:24:13.000You should use a VPN, if nothing else, after coronavirus in South Korea, and you don't want your location to be revealed to your neighbor, because here in this country they could be Antifa, you should use a VPN.
01:24:24.000If you're still not convinced, There is no co- th- th- th- you know?
01:28:24.000When I was on Fox News one time, so they actually, because they want to make it seem more international, it was either Doug Schoen or Lonnie Davis, you know, one of those stuffed suits.
01:28:33.000And so we were in the same room, but they put us in separate boxes because they were saying, we want people to feel like you're in different cities.
01:28:40.000And at the end of the segment, I said, whether it was Doug or Lannie, I'll go with Doug Schoen.
01:34:27.000still on the on the fence about whether it was purposefully put out there by
01:34:32.000the virus I don't buy someone or something I don't know I don't know as
01:34:36.000much as anyone else does it know so what am I gonna just take someone's word for
01:34:40.000it but the thing is whatever however this thing spread yeah There are certain people in government that are using it way to their advantage.
01:34:48.000I think this is a test to see how far we can be pushed and bent over before we say, hey, enough.
01:34:55.000And boy, we literally spun around, shoved our own heads up our asses because we're just taking it.
01:35:04.000I'm trying to think of the physicality because you're very flowery with your language, but I don't think that spinning around would assist in putting your head up your own ass.
01:35:11.000You would have to invert more so, right?
01:35:14.000Wouldn't you have to go through the legs?
01:35:36.000I said this early on that I won't be shamed into panicking, and it's a real virus, obviously, and people need to take precautions, but a long time ago I said, listen, when we look at the actual mortality rates and we look at the deaths, and One thing, too, your state, by the way, is just registering anyone who dies who has coronavirus as a corona death.
01:35:54.000And that's not even the standard in influenza season, meaning if someone has leukemia and is undergoing treatment and they have a life expectancy of three months and they get influenza, they don't just list it as an influenza death.
01:36:05.000But that's what they're doing with COVID-19.
01:36:17.000Um, yeah, it's a I think if you got into a car accident at this point, yeah, and died of massive head trauma, and they somehow figured out you had Corona, they would list it as a Corona death, right.
01:36:29.000And that's why New York State has these unbelievably high numbers.
01:36:34.000It's all going to turn out to be a money grab once this is all said and done.
01:36:40.000They're gonna go, now we're putting this bill out there to prepare for the next pandemic.
01:36:45.000And it's just gonna be everything under the sun on the bill.
01:36:50.000It's gonna be an influx of cash that's unbelievable.
01:36:54.000And by the way, there will be no preparation for a pandemic.
01:36:57.000It'll go in cronies pockets and these crappy bullshit programs like-
01:37:08.000We just signed another stimulus, and now every time we sign a stimulus, your eyebrows go, I don't know, there's no causation, it's not correlation!
01:37:16.000Was the death due to the slight air pockets?
01:37:20.000No, I think it was the Subaru on the overall chest cavity.
01:37:24.000But it's interesting that you say money grab.
01:37:25.000Have you seen this new conspiracy now where they're saying the reason Donald Trump, and they're really going hard after chloroquine.
01:37:39.000Now they're trying to say that someone who is a partial owner in one of the companies that will be obviously creating more hydroxychloroquine tablets visited Trump's golf course.
01:38:21.000They've been saying that if he said it was a horrible drug, a bad drug, never use chloroquine, it would be all over the place and the media would be saying, oh my god, I can't believe he's against this miracle drug.
01:38:56.000It's so ridiculous how they try to tie everything in to this guy passing up, leaving his job as one of the richest guys in America, a successful businessman, Donald Trump, going into the presidency where he's not making any money.
01:39:11.000He's giving it away and trying to make it sound like this was his scheme to get rich.
01:39:19.000His scheme all along was to make, to ensure that China continued their wet markets in a country that he hates, to ensure that a disease comes over here, where he will receive a very small, not quite sizable, but significant kickback from a company that would be one of many to print out a generic, unprofitable drug.
01:39:46.000And just to watch people argue, it was nice to see that somebody in Michigan, in politics, did admit, who was on the Democratic side, that her life was saved by that medication.
01:41:20.000Yeah, they find it in her, you know, they're like, oh, well, she's clearly not a murderer.
01:41:26.000You ever see those cases on forensic files where the spouse, the significant other, is stabbed 82 times, which absolutely goes back to the significant other.
01:41:38.000No one robs you and then stabs you 82 times.
01:43:32.000Speaking of, by the way, I don't even know what we're speaking about, but guidelines, I think we have this tweet we can bring up that you posted about the NYPD, or at least it was there and you commented on it, I don't remember exactly the original source, of a police officer telling a man that he was going to fine him if he didn't put the distance between him and this lady, and he said, well, she's my wife.
01:43:54.000He said, I don't care, I'm going to fine you.
01:43:55.000I mean, if I'm that man to respond with, OK, I'll fine your wife, officer, I just can't believe that this is what's going on right now.
01:44:01.000You're going to fine a man for being next to his wife?
01:44:04.000That's what's happening in your state?
01:45:06.000Believe me, every ticket that you get in New York City for double parking and speeding and red light cameras, all those things are all about money.
01:45:20.000You're taking away people's ability to make a living and then you're charging them for it and then putting them on Who would have thought that the biggest act of rebellion we could think up in the year 2020 would be wanting to go to work and have sex with your wife?
01:46:32.000I said, have you had any, any, like, have you had any young people were just out of the blue or, you know, they're on, Like, are you running out of ventilators or people who you would never, you know, you'd never see it coming?
01:46:40.000He said, no, not, not so much with young people.
01:53:36.000Uh, and for people who are confused, Anthony Comea, we went so- the timer stopped working, and we did pre-tape this because he's on the East Coast and he didn't want to go super late.
01:53:43.000Um, we taped like 40-something minutes, so it is available for- we're just uploading that full interview separately.
01:54:06.000And then the producer called me a piece of shit, which actually popped off.
01:54:09.000Be that as it may, I have no problem with someone calling me a piece of shit.
01:54:13.000I just am curious as to why you think I'm a piece of shit.
01:54:19.000So we'll be talking about that more a little bit tomorrow, and probably another Mass... I think another Mass Monday is warranted their way.
01:56:06.000I don't want to make this as uncomfortable as possible, because I'm about to read something earnest.
01:56:13.000You know, we do these things, we do this Life Advice, or whatever it is, Mass Monday, and it's separate from the pomp and circumstance and the jokes that we do.
01:56:21.000And sometimes I'm talking to a brick wall, right?
01:56:23.000I'm advised not to read the comments, always, because you'll get lost in it, and usually the people who hate you the most are the people who comment first.
01:56:30.000So everyone else kind of gets to sort of chip in and enjoy some of the feedback.
01:56:35.000I don't always get a pat on the back, and I would like to know what you guys would like to see more of here with Mug Club Quarantine Month, now that we're halfway through, because we've done some experimental streams, video gaming, you know, Masked Monday, life advice.
01:56:48.000We told you that not everything's gonna... they can't all be gems!
01:56:51.000But we are trying different things to see what it is that works and what it is that connects us with you the most effectively.
01:56:58.000Let us know what you'd like to see more below, and I'll have Garrett read them.
01:57:02.000But same thing with reading these Life Advice emails sometimes.
01:57:05.000They come through the website at lifeadvice.lodworthcrowder.com, and the gentleman wrote me another letter, and I wanted to read it.
01:57:10.000It says, A lot of the crowd are family.
01:57:13.000I don't know if you remember me, but I was a young man who emailed into The Life Advice almost exactly a year ago where I talked about my blindness and the subsequent struggles with my mental health that it caused.
01:57:46.000Again, I cannot thank you enough for both the advice and the kind gesture of the Mug Club subscription you gave me.
01:57:50.000Well, I appreciate that it meant that much to you.
01:57:52.000I'm not exaggerating when I say I legitimately believe those simple acts saved me from myself.
01:57:57.000The main reason I'm emailing you is because I wanted to share where I am now from where I was a year ago.
01:58:01.000I'm back in school like I planned, and I'm about to finish my junior year, so I only have one more year left for my bachelor's degree.
01:58:07.000However, I'm actually considering going to law school because I've found myself more and more interested in pursuing that career from watching the legal struggles you all have had as well as being captivated when Mr. Richman, that's half Asian, Mr. Richman to you, buddy.
01:58:20.000Listen, that hall, ooh, but I'm blind shtick, may work with the professors, but not here.
01:58:26.000When Mr. Richman has discussed his profession and the law more generally, not only do I find the subject incredibly interesting, I want to be able to help fight the good fight like Mr. Richman.
01:58:35.000Yes, I completely understand and laugh at the daredevil comparison, so don't feel bad about laughing at it too.
01:58:40.000Context, we made fun of him in context of the daredevil.
01:58:42.000It was a legitimate question if his other senses were heightened.
01:58:58.000I want to show everyone that you can be something other than a far-left progressive ideologue and make it in the entertainment industry like you have Mr. Crowder.
01:59:04.000You mustn't be afraid to aim your sights a little higher, love.
01:59:07.000With regards to my mental health, I'm in a much better place than I was before.
01:59:10.000I'm certainly not saying I'm perfect and I still have moments of weakness, but I do feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel that I am moving toward for the first time since I can remember.
01:59:20.000Maybe the road ahead will still be hard, but I no longer feel like I'm stumbling in the dark.
01:59:25.000Well, as much as a blind person doesn't stumble in the dark when they have a light at the end of the tunnel.
01:59:30.000I appreciate it, because you can make those jokes.
01:59:34.000Thank you again for all the kindness you have shown me, and I hope I can make you all proud.
01:59:40.000Also, I renewed my Mug Club subscription and was able to pay for it myself, which was something that, even though it may seem small, made me incredibly happy.
01:59:47.000I'm glad to support all of you, and being part of this movement is the first time I felt like I belonged anywhere.
01:59:52.000My blindness has always made me feel like an outsider, but now I've found a new home.
02:00:11.000Um, you know, people sometimes in this office hear me talk, and I'm like, you know, listen, sometimes when you're the boss, you don't get a lot of pats on the back.
02:00:23.000That's, that's, when I see that, it makes, it's been a very tiring, exhausting couple of weeks, and not really, I want to be clear, not just, not because I'm doing the Mug Club quarantine in two shows a day, and we have it, you know, we're doing it with a skeleton crew.
02:00:51.000This is why this means a lot to me, and this is not really inspirational so much as it is a thank you.
02:00:55.000And I understand that many of you are in tough times and cannot afford to join Mug Club, so understand that I'm not trying to sell you something that you don't want or can't afford.
02:01:03.000I'm just asking if it's something that you do want and you want the show to continue.
02:01:08.000You make that so, because we can't do it without you.
02:01:52.000Yeah, we do some warm-up games to try and, you know, enhance verbal fluidity and short-term recall, and sometimes we do an alphabet game where we go and every person has to name a word that starts with the letters.
02:02:01.000So, A, you know, it might be, if we're doing animals, it might be like, A, Alph, Albatross, B, I don't even know.
02:02:32.000I've watched Quarterback Garrett be very tired, and then come out with an amazing-to-scale replica of R2-D2, so accurate that when I was like, hey, what's this thing there?
02:02:41.000He was offended at me not appreciating the detail.
02:02:59.000And I always panic before every show, my wife knows this, before every live show, before every performance, and I'm sure the comments section, because you suck, and be that as it may, piece of shit, according to Rhett and Link.
02:03:11.000They always say, well, you know what, when you sit, In the chair, when you go on stage, you're going to go into autopilot.
02:03:18.000And I don't believe that in the back of my mind.
02:03:20.000I don't trust it, so I always over-prepare.
02:03:22.000I over-prepare so that I can sort of be off the cuff and a little more conversational here.
02:03:26.000But I will say that they're kind of right.
02:03:28.000So I will come in, I won't be able to think of an animal that starts with B, as happened today, but then we did that show.
02:03:55.000And so when I see people out there, and I sort of see, it was mentioned this because I think it sort of came a little bit from Rhett and Link where they were doing that interview we did that last Monday and they were talking about how, you know, we try to stay relevant on YouTube and people want you to do things that you don't want to do.
02:04:08.000For me, and I'm not saying this is the case with them, but you hear it from a lot of artists, anyone who is exasperated with their fans doesn't deserve the privilege of performing for them.
02:04:20.000And it is a privilege and I am incredibly grateful, and I know that I only deserve, I don't even deserve this privilege, but I can only earn this privilege by doing what it is that I was designed to do, born to do, because if I'm tired and I can't remember anything else, when I sit here, something happens, and it doesn't really occur to me.
02:04:59.000So for me, when I say like, you don't get a lot of pats on the back as a boss, uh, it's been an exhausting, grueling couple of weeks and I know it will be this month.