Louder with Crowder - #666 NYC'S BUNGLED COVID RESPONSE! | Ben Shapiro Guests | Louder with Crowder

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00:00:04.000 And Betty! 1.00

00:00:06.000 This is one of the most astonishing acts of disinformation we've seen from a White House since the Vietnam era.

00:00:14.000 Active misinformation.

00:00:15.000 Disinformation briefings.

00:00:17.000 And Trump makes me feel scared.

00:00:19.000 The press needs to do a better job.

00:00:21.000 They need to unplug this stuff.

00:00:22.000 We're going to avoid airing any more of this White House briefing until it returns to what it was supposed to be. 0.95

00:00:30.000 You're so disgraceful. 0.97

00:00:31.000 You're a terrible reporter. 1.00

00:00:33.000 You know you're a fake. 1.00

00:00:34.000 You know that. 0.99

00:00:35.000 Your whole network, the way you cover it, is fake.

00:00:40.000 CNN's coverage of the President's COVID-19 briefing has been indefinitely halted to prevent disinformation.

00:00:45.000 Do not watch Lauderworth Crowder's livestream of President Trump's briefing on Tuesday, April 21st around 5pm.

00:00:53.000 And definitely do not follow S. Crowder on Twitter for updates regarding it.

00:01:00.000 In 2019, a crack late-night show was demonetized by YouTube's Community Safety Court for a crime they didn't commit.

00:01:06.000 Today, still wanted by YouTube, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

00:01:10.000 If there is a leftist no one else will make fun of, and if you can find them, you can hire the LWC team.

00:01:16.000 The LWC team will be the ones to make fun of you.

00:03:01.000 WHAAAAAAAAT?

00:03:03.000 That's called the uh... mortal uh... 0.80

00:03:05.000 AGHH AGHH AGHH This is a mask, by the way.

00:03:07.000 Origin Maine, wonderful mask.

00:03:08.000 Finish it! 0.99

00:03:10.000 If you guys want to get them, because people... Now the CDC's saying wear masks!

00:03:13.000 I thought it was a fashion statement.

00:03:14.000 I thought people were wearing masks!

00:03:16.000 Turns out we were right two weeks ago when we said masks would help.

00:03:19.000 But I was thinking about Mortal Kombat, because you kind of look like a Mortal Kombat character.

00:03:23.000 Remember when you used to get hit in Mortal Kombat?

00:03:25.000 They would go like this, they'd go...

00:03:26.000 Yeah, I love it.

00:03:28.000 Well, yeah, more proof that your people can't act. 0.99

00:03:31.000 Even the people with all the little censors in the video games, like the Gollum guy, like, hey, how would an Asian, how would a Chinese person who shoots ice out of his hands react if he got hit?

00:03:40.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:03:43.000 But walk back, not actually fall.

00:03:45.000 Says the guy who's following my people's advice to wear a mask all the time.

00:03:49.000 It's true.

00:03:51.000 Your people were right.

00:03:51.000 I was wrong about that.

00:03:53.000 We have Ben Shapiro on the show today, by the way.

00:03:56.000 And I will let you know that was a pre-tape because Passover and he doesn't want to trick the Lord.

00:04:01.000 Can't trick him.

00:04:03.000 Hashtag Mug Club Quarantine.

00:04:04.000 Everything is free this month.

00:04:06.000 We are doing shows in the morning.

00:04:08.000 What was I going to say?

00:04:09.000 Good Morning Mug Club.

00:04:10.000 Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

00:04:12.000 You get $30 off because YouTube doesn't pay us anything.

00:04:16.000 We'll be talking about the Blasio, why everything is...

00:04:18.000 Bad.

00:04:19.000 At this point, honestly, we've blamed the World Health Organization.

00:04:24.000 Some people have.

00:04:25.000 Some people have blamed Donald Trump.

00:04:26.000 Some people have blamed China.

00:04:28.000 Who do you think is most at fault here?

00:04:32.000 I'm actually really curious.

00:04:33.000 My half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond is here.

00:04:35.000 How are you, sir?

00:04:35.000 I'm great.

00:04:36.000 I blame my mother.

00:04:37.000 Really?

00:04:37.000 Yeah.

00:04:37.000 Well, that's an entirely different issue.

00:04:39.000 Every night when you guys leave the studio, she comes in and coughs on everything.

00:04:42.000 Does she?

00:04:43.000 Yeah.

00:04:43.000 I just thought she committed gross abuse and negligence as a mother.

00:04:47.000 No.

00:04:47.000 No, that's part and parcel of it.

00:04:48.000 Well, okay.

00:04:51.000 And Court of Black Yard is here.

00:04:52.000 What's up?

00:04:52.000 It is the Latin King's Fisherman Friends outfit.

00:04:56.000 You gotta catch those fish, man!

00:05:00.000 Am I thinking of the Lakers?

00:05:02.000 Just wear taupe if you're in Skid Row.

00:05:05.000 Hey, I can't be.

00:05:05.000 I need to button the top button.

00:05:07.000 Really?

00:05:07.000 I'm in the Latin Kings.

00:05:11.000 So that's where George Lopez gets it.

00:05:12.000 Too Cute Maddie and Overlays. 0.99

00:05:14.000 Gerald A., Gerald Morgan Jr., what's the wine of the day?

00:05:16.000 The wine of the day is Keenan Cabernet Franc.

00:05:18.000 Wow, and I love how you brought it in half full so it looks like an old Worcestershire bottle that you find in the fridge.

00:05:24.000 I may have consumed half of this bottle last night.

00:05:28.000 Yeah, that's a shame.

00:05:28.000 You know what makes coronavirus worse?

00:05:30.000 What?

00:05:31.000 Nothing.

00:05:32.000 Okay, so we're going to get to a whole lot today, but we're going to be talking about de Blasio because, my gosh, when you get into it, he's done absolutely everything wrong.

00:05:41.000 But first, it appears that Joe Biden Running for president, of course.

00:05:45.000 Still has his work cut out for him. 1.00

00:05:46.000 They've essentially made us all morons. 1.00

00:05:48.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:05:49.000 With this Joe Biden thing.

00:05:50.000 Democrats!

00:05:51.000 Please don't make me vote for Joe Biden!

00:05:59.000 I don't want to vote for Joe Biden!

00:06:02.000 We won't.

00:06:04.000 We won't.

00:06:04.000 You don't have to.

00:06:06.000 Stop shaking the Advil.

00:06:07.000 We won't.

00:06:08.000 Don Quixote swinging at windmills.

00:06:11.000 Stop making me vote for... No one is saying that. 1.00

00:06:14.000 You're a crazy person. 1.00

00:06:18.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:06:19.000 I think we have to trot someone out at convention.

00:06:21.000 I could do better.

00:06:21.000 I don't know.

00:06:22.000 We have to talk about the Blasio.

00:06:23.000 I wanted to talk about Whitmer because my heart is in Michigan and she is so awful and it's so clear she's auditioning for the role of Vice President right now. 0.65

00:06:33.000 I'd be less surprised if they trotted out John Kasich than if Joe Biden were the nominee.

00:06:37.000 I can take away civil liberties, too! 0.70

00:06:39.000 Look at me!

00:06:40.000 Right.

00:06:41.000 She's walking the line.

00:06:42.000 You know, it is interesting that, you know, you're hearing a lot about Democrats who were, you know, one, they were sad that Biden's even there, but now they're actually starting to even talk amongst themselves about the question of, you've got to pick a vice president because they might have to step in for Biden six days in if he wins.

00:06:58.000 Exactly!

00:07:00.000 Six months ago, you didn't hear that at all.

00:07:01.000 Really interesting.

00:07:02.000 And then now they're like, well, okay, well, we don't like civil liberty.

00:07:04.000 So Whitmer.

00:07:05.000 That's, I think, pretty much what they said.

00:07:07.000 Leading the news.

00:07:09.000 I don't know how to pronounce this.

00:07:10.000 Sue.

00:07:14.000 A little boy named Scalped.

00:07:18.000 A Sioux City woman was arrested after asking police to check her drugs for COVID-19.

00:07:25.000 She approached the officers, was very nervous, and asked them to try and test Yeah.

00:07:30.000 Her drug paraphernalia and her drugs for COVID-19.

00:07:32.000 And it should be noted upon further examination, the samples, while they tested negative for COVID-19, did test positive for crack.

00:07:41.000 You're going to want to wait on that one.

00:07:44.000 So also in pandemic news, tested positive for crack.

00:07:51.000 That's more time in jail.

00:07:53.000 My wife really liked that one.

00:07:55.000 That's strange.

00:07:57.000 I want to apologize for it.

00:07:58.000 A man discovered... Gerald's silence is almost like an affirmation of the joke sometimes.

00:08:06.000 You really don't know how to play it off of me.

00:08:09.000 It's true, I don't.

00:08:10.000 It's like I'm trying to bounce it off a backboard and it just goes over a fence.

00:08:14.000 Well sometimes it comes back, sometimes it doesn't.

00:08:17.000 It always doesn't.

00:08:19.000 I'm joking.

00:08:20.000 He's a brilliant man.

00:08:21.000 I'm going to drink the rest of this bottle.

00:08:23.000 Yeah, I know.

00:08:24.000 Enjoy your wars, sir.

00:08:26.000 A man discovered his girlfriend buried.

00:08:29.000 She buried his stockpile of beans in the woods in case, quote, the coronavirus gets bad.

00:08:35.000 She's just a prepper. 1.00

00:08:36.000 Jokes on her as the Giants, too, are in quarantine.

00:08:40.000 So there's nowhere safe.

00:08:41.000 Why would you say that?

00:08:43.000 Bury something in the woods if it gets bad.

00:08:45.000 I don't get it.

00:08:47.000 I mean if it's a corpse going bad.

00:08:48.000 Well that, yes.

00:08:49.000 That's a good point. 1.00

00:08:50.000 Stupid idea. 1.00

00:08:50.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:08:51.000 Shallow grave.

00:08:52.000 Checking in with our, by the way, elderly.

00:08:54.000 The elderly folks because they're really important here.

00:08:57.000 And also Elderly in Spirit, our guest tonight, Ben Shapiro.

00:09:01.000 Elderly before his time.

00:09:03.000 Yes.

00:09:03.000 There's a 93-year-old Pennsylvania woman.

00:09:06.000 Pennsylvanian woman? 0.82

00:09:06.000 Pennsylvania woman. 0.82

00:09:08.000 She went viral this week after she had this message about her beer during the outbreak pandemic.

00:09:14.000 93-year-old Olive Veronesi held up a Coors Light can and a sign that said she needs more beer while doing her part to stay home and safe. 0.98

00:09:23.000 A relative snapped this picture and posted it online.

00:09:25.000 Since then, folks have been sending some brews her way.

00:09:28.000 I have a beer every night.

00:09:29.000 I got some in there now.

00:09:30.000 Do you want one?

00:09:31.000 Some to relax, you know?

00:09:35.000 Yeah.

00:09:36.000 She made me relax.

00:09:37.000 Looks like a Christopher Guest, Ed Begley Jr.

00:09:40.000 character.

00:09:42.000 That is an actual human being.

00:09:44.000 And the news... I want to know what story lost out to this.

00:09:48.000 When you're asking the taxpayers to bail out local news and you're running Ed Begley Jr.

00:09:54.000 This is what they go to.

00:09:55.000 It's not even decipherable what she's saying.

00:09:59.000 I thought she looked like the KFC Colonel Sanders' wife with those glasses. 1.00

00:10:03.000 Or the Six Flags guy.

00:10:05.000 I'm not familiar with his wife.

00:10:06.000 By the way, by the way, while we're talking about this, this is a blind spot that we've

00:10:10.000 all had.

00:10:11.000 Privilege, privilege much?

00:10:13.000 This is as good of a time as any to point out that COVID-19 disproportionately, you

00:10:17.000 know, it's a nice little special, but it does disproportionately affect marginalized classes.

00:10:21.000 This virus is taking a toll on all of us, but one man decided to ask for a helping hand.

00:10:27.000 Yeah, this thing's really affected our community, but people really stepped up, and I appreciate

00:10:32.000 It's good to know that some people still care.

00:10:39.000 Yeah, I'd take some crack.

00:10:41.000 Tested positive for crack.

00:10:45.000 Look at him.

00:10:45.000 He looks so mellow now.

00:10:47.000 He actually cuts his crack with three quarters meth.

00:10:51.000 He got to.

00:10:52.000 I mean, it's by law.

00:10:53.000 It's a proprietary blend.

00:10:55.000 He's really more so pixie dusting the crack into his meth.

00:10:59.000 Yeah.

00:10:59.000 Well, I have more respect for him.

00:11:00.000 At least he didn't ask for s*** beer. 0.96

00:11:02.000 Right. 0.98

00:11:02.000 So I'm fine with her. 0.98

00:11:04.000 I don't even know what that means, but I do know that he loves both meth and s*** crack. 1.00

00:11:08.000 Can't get that biracial monkey off his back. 1.00

00:11:13.000 Wait, let's go with something like, can't get that biracial fish off his back. 1.00

00:11:16.000 We didn't imply that. 0.86

00:11:17.000 We should never say monkey.

00:11:19.000 Internationally, China is... Isn't that just so bizarre? 0.99

00:11:25.000 Who was it who got fired because they were talking about someone really strong in the NFL and said, that guy is just like, he's strong like a silverback gorilla. 0.97

00:11:30.000 And they go, because he's black. 0.95

00:11:31.000 You can say that about anyone who's crazy strong. 0.99

00:11:34.000 Yes, you could.

00:11:35.000 It's totally fine.

00:11:36.000 I made the mistake of using it to refer to Precious though, so that was on me.

00:11:42.000 I can't get it right.

00:11:42.000 Can't fry it yourself.

00:11:44.000 So China, you know what I'm talking about, they're signaling that they're planning to officially ban the eating of dogs after the species was recently, now they're excluded from a list of animals approved for human consumption.

00:11:56.000 So dogs are now excluded for human consumption in China.

00:12:01.000 Still included, the Taiwanese.

00:12:06.000 Donald Trump don't trust China! 1.00

00:12:07.000 China is an a**hole! 1.00

00:12:09.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:12:10.000 Prophetic. 0.98

00:12:11.000 Love that man.

00:12:12.000 He's the Buddha we need.

00:12:14.000 He is.

00:12:15.000 But you don't hate the Taiwanese though.

00:12:17.000 You sympathize with them.

00:12:18.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:12:18.000 The Taiwanese, they fought, they fled, they're still fighting, they're still hanging out there.

00:12:22.000 Still playing. 0.99

00:12:23.000 They're just, you know, kind of one American look away from getting nuked by China, which sucks. 0.99

00:12:30.000 Here we are.

00:12:30.000 You know, I realize I know about Taiwan and I know about obviously the controversy, but I don't know a whole lot about the actual fight.

00:12:37.000 Well, Taiwan is there.

00:12:39.000 They're on an island.

00:12:40.000 They consider themselves a nation.

00:12:40.000 They fled.

00:12:42.000 Anyone who recognizes Taiwan goes on China's s**t list. 0.97

00:12:45.000 Not good. 0.97

00:12:45.000 Yeah. 0.97

00:12:46.000 Seems really odd, though, that they could actually, you know, be on an island that close to China and still alive.

00:12:52.000 Right.

00:12:52.000 You know what I mean?

00:12:53.000 It seems very weird to me.

00:12:55.000 Like, could you imagine if Rhode Island was like, we're leaving! 1.00

00:12:58.000 F**k you! 1.00

00:12:58.000 We're taking it! 1.00

00:13:00.000 And we just said, well, I mean, there's nothing we can do.

00:13:02.000 It's Rhode Island.

00:13:02.000 They said they're taking it.

00:13:03.000 What do we do?

00:13:05.000 Yeah, you feel like the Chinese could have taken care of this.

00:13:07.000 I'm glad they didn't, but... You sound like you're in favor of my people's plan to take over Taiwan.

00:13:11.000 I'm not!

00:13:12.000 I'm not at all, in fact.

00:13:13.000 He sounds like he's in favor of hand-sacking Rhode Island.

00:13:16.000 He wants to just go into Providence.

00:13:19.000 Who among us is not?

00:13:20.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:13:21.000 You just have annoying accents.

00:13:23.000 I don't know if it's Rhode Island or Maine.

00:13:25.000 Which one's bad?

00:13:26.000 They're both bad.

00:13:26.000 I don't think there's anything redeemable about Rhode Island.

00:13:29.000 Finally, with COVID-19 news, and tomorrow we have Good Morning Mug Club, I think we have Brian Callan on the show?

00:13:34.000 Or Dr. Choi is going to be on the show, so that'll be good.

00:13:36.000 Today we have Ben Shapiro.

00:13:37.000 A police officer got his hand chopped off with a sword while enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures.

00:13:45.000 This comes from Newsweek.

00:13:46.000 It happened while the officer patrolled outside a vegetable market in northwestern India.

00:13:51.000 Got his hand chopped off with a sword.

00:13:53.000 To be fair, the officer in question did try to steal an apple.

00:13:57.000 Arabian nights like Arabian days. 0.90

00:14:05.000 Oh, cultural differences.

00:14:09.000 You say justified punishment, we say barbarism.

00:14:16.000 We say an amazing Disney classic.

00:14:18.000 He's never going to steal with that hand again.

00:14:20.000 Can you imagine when they said they were going to turn Aladdin into a real live action film, I thought it was going to be like You know, grizzly.

00:14:26.000 I thought it was going to be, you know, gritty and it was going to be like, you know, it would actually be in Saudi Arabia.

00:14:31.000 And instead it was just, it was Will Smith doing the genie light.

00:14:34.000 Like, I was like, well, hold on a second.

00:14:35.000 Where are the four witnesses?

00:14:36.000 Where's the stoning of Soraya M?

00:14:38.000 Yeah, where's all the dustiness that's too clean? 0.98

00:14:41.000 I want to, I mean, if we want it, Princess Jasmine should be buried up to her head with honey poured on her noggin until the Red Army ants eat her alive. 0.99

00:14:48.000 I want to see the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight version of each Disney movie.

00:14:52.000 Right.

00:14:54.000 I want to get down in the dirt.

00:14:56.000 It's like, here's the Lion King, only it's non-sequential.

00:15:00.000 What?

00:15:00.000 What's happening?

00:15:01.000 Time.

00:15:02.000 Look, Simba's alive.

00:15:04.000 Now he's in the womb.

00:15:05.000 Now we're back.

00:15:06.000 What are you doing, Nolan?

00:15:07.000 Did you ever meet a gimmick you don't like?

00:15:10.000 But you pulled them off very well.

00:15:10.000 No.

00:15:11.000 Yeah, he did.

00:15:12.000 He pulls them off very well.

00:15:13.000 The prestige?

00:15:14.000 Those were bits of his soul in that box.

00:15:17.000 Memento?

00:15:18.000 It was backwards.

00:15:23.000 Also backwards, spoiler alert.

00:15:24.000 I should say.

00:15:25.000 That was a big thing when I was in film school.

00:15:27.000 Have you watched Memento?

00:15:29.000 Have you watched it in reverse?

00:15:31.000 I was like, why would I do that?

00:15:33.000 It's life changing.

00:15:34.000 Okay, I'll play.

00:15:36.000 How did it change your life?

00:15:39.000 Well, it was cool.

00:15:40.000 All right, now I understand you with the Wes Anderson t-shirt.

00:15:46.000 So, let's go to, and I do want to hear from everyone out there who you really blame with this coronavirus.

00:15:52.000 I will say this, and I'm thinking about doing a super video with this.

00:15:55.000 I was again at Quick Trip this morning.

00:15:58.000 Please, just become a sponsor.

00:16:00.000 It is remarkable to me.

00:16:01.000 And I don't make a dime. 1.00

00:16:03.000 Racetrack sucks. 1.00

00:16:05.000 Racetrack is trash. 1.00

00:16:07.000 7-Eleven? 1.00

00:16:07.000 I would rather blow my brains out all over this wall than use a public stall on a 7-Eleven. 1.00

00:16:13.000 I will give you that. 0.99

00:16:13.000 It's like an episode of f***ing Lockup. 0.99

00:16:17.000 And I don't know why they don't take notes from Quick Trip. 0.88

00:16:19.000 And Quick Trip, I don't know why you aren't taking notes from me.

00:16:23.000 I will sell everything you have at Quick Trip.

00:16:26.000 I'm going there.

00:16:27.000 I'm going there.

00:16:27.000 You still have water.

00:16:28.000 You still have Topo Chico.

00:16:29.000 Everywhere else has a shortage.

00:16:31.000 You need me.

00:16:35.000 And I need you.

00:16:36.000 You.

00:16:36.000 Honestly, yeah.

00:16:37.000 It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

00:16:40.000 My wife never understood why Quick Trip was such a big deal to me.

00:16:43.000 I was like, we didn't have this in Montreal.

00:16:44.000 Did she ever walk into a Quick Trip though?

00:16:46.000 She has, but she had never walked into a Couche-Tard or an Ultramar. 1.00

00:16:50.000 She has no idea what I grew up with.

00:16:51.000 The cesspool of filth and sadness where the hardcore pornography in Montreal was placed right next to the sour Skittles.

00:16:57.000 That's what I grew up with.

00:16:59.000 You make the same face when you look at them.

00:17:01.000 Not all cultures are the same. 0.97

00:17:01.000 I get it. 0.97

00:17:02.000 Look it up.

00:17:02.000 Allopolis.

00:17:03.000 Allopolis started the tabloid journal that combined violence and pornography and they would put it right next to the Smarties. 0.87

00:17:11.000 Wait, that's a Canadian thing.

00:17:12.000 Smarties?

00:17:13.000 We have Smarties.

00:17:14.000 You have Smarties?

00:17:15.000 Of course!

00:17:16.000 It's the candy, right?

00:17:17.000 No, Smarties in Canada are chocolate.

00:17:19.000 They're basically M&M's.

00:17:19.000 Never mind.

00:17:20.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:17:22.000 Never mind.

00:17:22.000 It's a horrible place.

00:17:23.000 White is black. 1.00

00:17:24.000 Black is white. 0.99

00:17:25.000 No, we just don't really have many blacks. 0.85

00:17:27.000 Unless they're Haitian. 1.00

00:17:29.000 Why do you have to be racist? 0.83

00:17:31.000 To invade Canada.

00:17:32.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:17:33.000 Chocolate Smarties.

00:17:34.000 Compare Taiwan, Canada.

00:17:36.000 Why don't we just take it?

00:17:38.000 We could.

00:17:38.000 We very well could.

00:17:39.000 What do you think about Buc-ee's, though, if you're a big fan of QT?

00:17:42.000 Anyone who puts a Buc-ee's bumper sticker on their car... I didn't ask about that. 1.00

00:17:47.000 ...should be boiled with their own turkey on a stake of holly, driven through their heart.

00:17:51.000 Yeah.

00:17:52.000 Steak of Holly?

00:17:53.000 It is so good, Lord.

00:17:54.000 So specific.

00:17:55.000 Audio Wade, help me out here.

00:17:56.000 Yeah, Dickens, come on.

00:17:57.000 God!

00:17:58.000 No, I got it.

00:17:58.000 I'm just being sarcastic.

00:18:01.000 What? 1.00

00:18:03.000 Pretending to be stupid is sarcasm. 1.00

00:18:06.000 Who said I was pretending, Wade? 1.00

00:18:10.000 In the comments below, if you'd like us to try a steak through Gerald A., please.

00:18:13.000 No, no, a steak of Holly.

00:18:14.000 It has to be a steak of Holly.

00:18:16.000 I get into the biggest arguments with Wade, and here's why, Audio Wade.

00:18:20.000 He is the friendliest-seeming person.

00:18:22.000 When Audio Wade is frustrated, the kind of insults that he delivers are the kind of gut punch that would render an entire bloodline barren.

00:18:32.000 Like it is so brutal and it'll say I'll say say it on air.

00:18:34.000 He's like my dad's watching.

00:18:35.000 I'm like, I don't care, right?

00:18:37.000 This is funny.

00:18:38.000 I'm glad we have the meat segment left.

00:18:40.000 I'm just waiting for his next He does it to me. 1.00

00:18:43.000 It doesn't matter if you're saying the back of the check or fronts of checks, he's a dick. 1.00

00:18:47.000 Either way. 0.99

00:18:47.000 All right, well at least it's equal opportunity. 0.99

00:18:49.000 I love you guys.

00:18:51.000 He likes that they clear so Here's the thing.

00:18:56.000 I want to talk about New York because I think not only is New York obviously leading the United States in coronavirus, Wu flu, Kung flu, Chinese virus, whatever you want to call it.

00:19:05.000 Cases and deaths.

00:19:06.000 And it's not lost on me that the idea of per capita, that's something the media does, by the way, right?

00:19:10.000 They say, we have more infections and deaths than any other country, but then all of a sudden when they say, we don't have enough testing, they use the per capita scale?

00:19:19.000 Well, hold on, shouldn't we apply it to both?

00:19:21.000 It should be.

00:19:21.000 Because per capita deaths, we're not even close to the countries that you praised.

00:19:24.000 Belgium, France, Sweden.

00:19:26.000 Not Sweden. 0.85

00:19:27.000 Belgium, France, Spain, Italy.

00:19:29.000 Definitely China. 0.58

00:19:30.000 Countries that are insignificant on a global scale as it relates to medical research.

00:19:32.000 Interchangeable, really.

00:19:34.000 And for some reason they go back and forth, so keep an eye on that because that does matter.

00:19:37.000 Sometimes you'll see even in the same article, they'll reference infections.

00:19:40.000 Right.

00:19:40.000 and deaths total and then in the very same paragraph they will reference the testing not being up to snuff.

00:19:47.000 We have more tests than any other country. We don't have the best number of

00:19:50.000 testing per capita but it's actually a significantly better number than

00:19:54.000 you look at the difference between the total of deaths versus per capita.

00:19:57.000 There's a wider gap with those.

00:19:59.000 Pretty much anything that they can do to make Donald Trump look bad or make the situation look worse than it is, they'll do.

00:20:04.000 That's the general rule, I think.

00:20:05.000 Has anyone else noticed that Donald Trump stopped dyeing his hair?

00:20:08.000 Did he really?

00:20:09.000 His hair was grey in the last pressers.

00:20:11.000 I didn't see it, no.

00:20:12.000 Or, depends which phraseology, natural?

00:20:15.000 You know what's funny?

00:20:17.000 I bet he's dyeing it grey.

00:20:19.000 I bet you they're probably like, you have an age!

00:20:21.000 I need a stronger orange!

00:20:22.000 I need to look like this is stressful for me.

00:20:25.000 I need to look like it's been hard on me too.

00:20:27.000 I need to look distinguished.

00:20:29.000 Could we do just, I don't know, how about a touch of gray?

00:20:31.000 No, olive gray!

00:20:33.000 Olive gray.

00:20:34.000 He goes all in.

00:20:35.000 Can I get some sideburns?

00:20:36.000 You can't grow them.

00:20:36.000 You're fired.

00:20:38.000 And he's going to stop tanning too, probably, so.

00:20:41.000 Do not reference my pube burns.

00:20:45.000 I have no idea.

00:20:45.000 I get the sense that he could not grow sideburns.

00:20:47.000 No.

00:20:48.000 I cannot confirm or deny that.

00:20:49.000 That's why he surrounds himself with people who can.

00:20:51.000 Brutal.

00:20:51.000 So you all know that New York, obviously, New York, they've added a tremendous, in a terrible way, a tragic number of deaths and cases, right?

00:20:59.000 They just passed everywhere else, of course, in the country.

00:21:01.000 They didn't just pass them, but we just had a surge.

00:21:03.000 But here's what also matters.

00:21:05.000 They just added 3,700 deaths, which sounds really bad because you hear, oh wait, hold on, we've crested, we've hit the peak, right?

00:21:12.000 We're flattening the curve.

00:21:12.000 And then they go, more deaths than ever in New York.

00:21:14.000 Well, actually, these deaths had never been tested, just to be clear.

00:21:18.000 We can bring that up from the New York Times.

00:21:19.000 These are 3,700 deaths that they added saying, ah, mark them down as COVID.

00:21:24.000 Wow.

00:21:24.000 That seems a bit strange.

00:21:25.000 And so think about that for a second.

00:21:27.000 When you look at the total deaths, I don't know at the time of this broadcast, it's somewhere between 28,000 and 29,000, I believe.

00:21:31.000 Something like that, yeah. 3,700.

00:21:36.000 Could be a guess.

00:21:37.000 Your guess is as good as mine.

00:21:38.000 That matters, especially when you go, okay, let's say 30,000.

00:21:42.000 Let's round it up.

00:21:43.000 Let's take away people who are over the age of 80. 1.00

00:21:45.000 Let's take away people who have diabetes or have serious heart conditions.

00:21:48.000 Let's take away all the ones that are just, meh, mark it down as COVID.

00:21:51.000 And guess what?

00:21:52.000 You are left with an unbelievably small number of deaths.

00:21:56.000 Doesn't mean that those deaths don't matter, but it does matter in us gauging the response and the accuracy of the kind of aftermath that we'll have from this disease.

00:22:04.000 You know what's the unintended consequence of this, of these reclassifying?

00:22:08.000 It's going to skew the concerns that we have about these other types of deaths, right?

00:22:11.000 So, the flu numbers.

00:22:12.000 People are saying, oh, there's no flu deaths anymore.

00:22:15.000 Really, our problem is just COVID.

00:22:16.000 It's all COVID.

00:22:17.000 It's COVID all the time, right?

00:22:18.000 But then you think about, okay, so what does this mean?

00:22:20.000 These statistics will be repeated ad nauseum.

00:22:23.000 People who are studying the flu, research into the flu, research into these other areas, Preventative measures into all the other things that people are still dying from.

00:22:31.000 Right.

00:22:31.000 We'll lose out, not just today, not next month, but next year when the budgets come up and everyone goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:22:37.000 Give the bonus to the COVID.

00:22:39.000 Give all the research to the COVID.

00:22:40.000 Wait, who's giving a bonus to COVID?

00:22:42.000 No, no, no.

00:22:42.000 People who are like, if your research has done its job well, who knows?

00:22:47.000 Good job.

00:22:48.000 We negotiated a great contract.

00:22:50.000 CNN, virus owned.

00:22:52.000 The Wuhanese Biological Warfare Unit gets bonuses, okay?

00:22:56.000 Well, we don't have enough research on that, but it does seem like your theory was correct, and it did come from Alaska.

00:23:00.000 I think I said it, too.

00:23:02.000 Yeah, I know, I just can't say it because I get sued.

00:23:04.000 Well, that's true.

00:23:05.000 You know what was awesome?

00:23:06.000 I just whispered it to Gerald while he was asleep, and then he's now saying it.

00:23:10.000 It's like, inception, yeah, you planted it.

00:23:12.000 Christopher Nolan, back again.

00:23:13.000 Yes, exactly.

00:23:15.000 Let's be clear here.

00:23:16.000 Governor Cuomo, as much as I can't stand his brother, I'm still able to have a cage match with him.

00:23:20.000 He's actually been getting along pretty well with Donald Trump.

00:23:23.000 Just like Gavin Newsom, where they've both been praising each other. 0.97

00:23:26.000 Aside from the barbell nipples, but come on. 0.82

00:23:29.000 These are mundane details. 0.98

00:23:30.000 Barbell nipples are not a mundane detail, Michael! 0.99

00:23:35.000 But the New York City mayor, and it's often easy to forget because Giuliani was great, and then you had Bloomberg, who was hysterical, and then you have de Blasio, who's just an assbag. 0.98

00:23:44.000 So a lot of people forget that he's the mayor of New York City. 0.87

00:23:47.000 He's done the opposite of Cuomo.

00:23:49.000 He has tried to pin all of this on Donald Trump.

00:23:51.000 And I understand that there does need to be some blame somewhere.

00:23:55.000 The buck needs to stop somewhere so we know how to fix it moving forward.

00:23:58.000 But he's even gone so far as to insinuate that Donald Trump has killed people.

00:24:03.000 Here you go.

00:24:04.000 Chuck, the president of the United States is from New York City and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown.

00:24:11.000 And I don't get it.

00:24:11.000 Chuck, I can't be blunt enough.

00:24:13.000 If the president doesn't act, people will die who couldn't have lived otherwise.

00:24:18.000 What is the adjustment for members of families and we can't get action from the president of the United States? 0.96

00:24:25.000 By the way, did anyone else just love that Chuck Todd used this as an excuse to grow a sh**ty beard? 0.70

00:24:30.000 We can't get haircuts! 0.98

00:24:32.000 You never heard of Norelco, you punk?

00:24:36.000 You still have a trimmer.

00:24:37.000 Go for it.

00:24:37.000 They don't let him have scissors.

00:24:42.000 Let's go through the timeline here because I do think that this matters.

00:24:49.000 Keep in mind, Donald Trump, restricted travel from China, travel ban, whatever you want to call it, January 31st.

00:24:55.000 Of course, it didn't really take long for New York progressives to spin it as racist, and then you had city officials telling people to attend the Chinese Lunar Parade.

00:25:04.000 Oh my gosh.

00:25:05.000 Smart!

00:25:06.000 It actually gets a lot worse there.

00:25:07.000 She actually tweets right after that when she said, hey guys, go out and attend this Lunar Parade.

00:25:10.000 She's like, live your lives as usual.

00:25:12.000 Don't discriminate.

00:25:14.000 That was a quote.

00:25:14.000 Don't discriminate by not going to Chinatown.

00:25:16.000 Are you talking about Nancy Pelosi?

00:25:17.000 No, no, no, the lady in that first tweet.

00:25:19.000 She was one of the health officials in New York City saying, go out there, don't discriminate by not going to Chinatown, was what she was saying.

00:25:27.000 I discriminate by not going to Chinatown every day of my life.

00:25:30.000 Well, you should, but it's not discrimination not to go to a place that could have people that just came from a country that has an outbreak of a virus.

00:25:36.000 That's not discrimination.

00:25:37.000 Well, I don't go just because, primarily, I don't like it.

00:25:40.000 And the lack of refrigeration.

00:25:43.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:25:44.000 That's a big one for me!

00:25:46.000 What, am I going to store my tilapia in barrels of salt?

00:25:53.000 So anyway, de Blasio, not only this, you see those tweets, de Blasio himself encouraged people to eat in Chinatown in late February, and then you have Pelosi even stopped by to promote, like, Let's be honest, you don't just stop by in Chinatown.

00:26:08.000 They decided to stage a photo op after the travel ban in Chinatown to gather and eat in public, in case you think I'm lying.

00:26:17.000 Should not stop you from going about your life.

00:26:19.000 Should not stop you from going to Chinatown and going out to eat.

00:26:22.000 I'm going to do that today myself.

00:26:23.000 Come to Chinatown. 1.00

00:26:25.000 Here we are.

00:26:26.000 We're again, careful, safe, and come join us.

00:26:31.000 Wow.

00:26:33.000 Sentences.

00:26:34.000 Three things.

00:26:35.000 Did anyone else know they were all six inches from each other right there?

00:26:39.000 But if it's for purposes of a photo op, it's fine.

00:26:43.000 I have done this show, seldom am I at a loss for words.

00:26:47.000 Yeah, it's as bad as it gets. 0.96

00:26:49.000 I feel like Chris Hansen when he showed up and that pedophile was naked at McDonald's for the second time. 0.98

00:26:55.000 I was just trying to get something to eat! 0.96

00:26:56.000 And he just looks at me and goes, what?

00:27:01.000 He knows he's getting arrested!

00:27:05.000 They were encouraging people to eat in Chinatown.

00:27:08.000 Eat in Chinatown! 0.97

00:27:11.000 Eat in Chinatown! 0.97

00:27:14.000 That's enough!

00:27:15.000 Without the virus!

00:27:17.000 Eat in Chinatown! 0.97

00:27:19.000 Let's keep this in mind here!

00:27:21.000 Most Chinese Americans don't want to eat in Chinatown! 0.96

00:27:28.000 You're safe, come on down!

00:27:30.000 So this is what really matters to me too, is you can go back and say that sure, Donald Trump could have taken actions earlier in some specific instances.

00:27:36.000 Understood.

00:27:37.000 Certainly not a perfect handling.

00:27:38.000 But... EAT!

00:27:43.000 In Chinatown, long after the travel ban, you can go back and say, well, they didn't get the supplies.

00:27:48.000 You obviously weren't worried.

00:27:50.000 You were telling everyone that they should just go about their merry way, that it's no worse than the flu, and that they should all take the opportunity to eat!

00:28:02.000 In Chinatown!

00:28:03.000 But the Chinatown Restaurant Tourist Association is like, Pelosi, here's some money.

00:28:07.000 It's like, Nancy, eat in Chinatown, Pelosi.

00:28:09.000 That should be her name from now on.

00:28:11.000 Billy Joel can't write a song about that?

00:28:14.000 Scenes from a Chinatown restaurant?

00:28:16.000 It'd be horrific!

00:28:17.000 It'd be NC-17 Billy Joel B-sides, and no one wants that.

00:28:22.000 So, then, a few days later, after encouraging people to eat in Chinatown, first case occurred, and the spread began in Manhattan. 0.62

00:28:29.000 So, let's keep that in mind.

00:28:31.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:28:32.000 We should have learned from history a little bit here, right?

00:28:33.000 So, they take everybody, go to this Lunar New Year thing, which is just teeming with people. 0.79

00:28:38.000 The same thing happened- It's also silly. 0.95

00:28:40.000 It is very silly, I understand. 0.74

00:28:41.000 But they get to do it, it's fine, it's a big deal. 0.80

00:28:43.000 But the same thing happened in Philadelphia.

00:28:45.000 It's a big deal for them.

00:28:47.000 I'm sorry.

00:28:48.000 Even for me, that was too much.

00:28:49.000 That was very disparaging.

00:28:52.000 See, I stepped into that door knowing there's a little bit of racism here, and he was just wandering around the gondola.

00:29:00.000 It's a big deal for them!

00:29:01.000 It's not a real New Year, but it's ours.

00:29:03.000 Anyway, no, look, that should have been a lesson they learned.

00:29:06.000 You don't call people in the midst of a pandemic, you don't call people into mass gatherings on the street.

00:29:11.000 That's what happened in Philadelphia with the Liberty Parade, and that's when the virus exploded.

00:29:14.000 They should have known to cancel that.

00:29:17.000 It was an easy call.

00:29:18.000 It's also why the Liberty Bell is correct.

00:29:20.000 Well, it was a Liberty Bond parade, so they were trying to sell bonds.

00:29:23.000 No, I'm pretty sure there was a Chinatown in Philly and someone ate it and then uncontrollably vomited on the Liberty Bell. 0.99

00:29:29.000 I do know that it was transported using sorbethane, which is an anti-vibration technology that we use underneath this microphone.

00:29:34.000 Listen to this.

00:29:35.000 Well, it didn't work because it's cracked.

00:29:37.000 That's really not that bad.

00:29:38.000 No, they transported it to preserve the crack.

00:29:43.000 After the crack.

00:29:44.000 Because they wanted to keep the same crack.

00:29:46.000 They didn't want the crack to extend.

00:29:48.000 Tested positive for crack.

00:29:54.000 I felt like I was drowning a little bit.

00:29:55.000 Now someone tossed me the floaties.

00:29:58.000 You know what I'm talking about.

00:30:01.000 And here's something else, too.

00:30:02.000 After the first case, it feels so much better after yesterday morning.

00:30:08.000 It really does. 0.63

00:30:09.000 I feel like I'm banging all sinners. 0.73

00:30:11.000 There are people in here. 0.93

00:30:12.000 I got the eaten Chinatown bit. 0.99

00:30:14.000 I can say it whenever I want.

00:30:16.000 You can dine out on that for a while.

00:30:17.000 And the funny thing is, I don't even have to write a joke.

00:30:19.000 No, you can't. 0.94

00:30:20.000 It's just shitty advice from Nancy Pelosi that I can repeat. 0.90

00:30:24.000 And it's a material! 0.94

00:30:25.000 Well, and de Blasio, don't take him out of the equation.

00:30:27.000 He said the same thing.

00:30:28.000 Good call.

00:30:28.000 I don't want to take him out of the equation.

00:30:29.000 I want him back in the equation.

00:30:31.000 So, let's bring him back.

00:30:32.000 On March 2nd, while we're talking about timelines here, de Blasio tweeted, I want to make sure I get this right, since I'm encouraging New Yorkers, March 2nd, to go on with your lives plus, the symbol plus, I assume he ran out of characters, plus get out on the town despite coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions.

00:30:50.000 Beyond eating in Chinatown. 1.00

00:30:53.000 Here's the first, through Thursday, uh, is this, I'm trying to see, March 5th?

00:30:58.000 Okay, it's March 5th, I couldn't, yeah.

00:31:00.000 March 5th, to go see The Traitor at Film Inc.

00:31:03.000 I don't even know what that is.

00:31:04.000 If The Wire was a true story, plus, symbol again, set in Italy, it would be this film.

00:31:10.000 Okay, the first thing is, it's nonsensical.

00:31:13.000 That's a horrible tweet.

00:31:14.000 That's an anti-plug.

00:31:15.000 You know what, de Blasio?

00:31:17.000 Look at what I just did for Quick Trip.

00:31:21.000 Go to school on that.

00:31:21.000 You did the opposite of that.

00:31:23.000 If I were as bad at espousing my love for Quick Trip, everyone would go to Racetrack.

00:31:29.000 You don't want that.

00:31:30.000 And I don't want that because I love Quick Trip. 1.00

00:31:32.000 Yeah, the people who made the movie were like, okay, so the mayor of New York did tweet our movie, but also he's an idiot. 0.95

00:31:40.000 Also, now everyone thinks that we're broadcasting in Chinatown and we're terrorists. 0.98

00:31:46.000 Only Chinatown. 0.99

00:31:47.000 Our mayor is the worst. 0.96

00:31:50.000 Broken windows theory. 1.00

00:31:52.000 How about retarded mayor theory? 0.98

00:31:54.000 When does that come in?

00:31:56.000 Malcolm Gladwell's writing a book about it right now.

00:31:58.000 I think it was mentioned by Hayek somewhere.

00:32:01.000 And of all the things, by the way, keep in mind, a movie theater is the worst place to go to outside of eating in Chinatown. 0.96

00:32:06.000 It almost seems like that goes without saying.

00:32:09.000 Unfortunately, that was exactly said.

00:32:12.000 So it almost goes without saying when you say the worst place to go during a pandemic with a virus that stems from China, outside of eating in Chinatown. 0.99

00:32:19.000 And people are like, You wasted some syllables there.

00:32:21.000 Yeah, didn't have to say that.

00:32:22.000 Could have spelled out plus.

00:32:23.000 We got it.

00:32:25.000 But no, I have to say it.

00:32:26.000 Don't eat in Chinatown, in case the message hasn't been cleared. 1.00

00:32:29.000 Theaters, movie theaters, are the worst place to go to because you cannot manage distance at all.

00:32:34.000 Or 7-Eleven bathrooms.

00:32:35.000 7-Eleven bathrooms, but that's always, even without pandemics.

00:32:38.000 Right, that's a natural occurring.

00:32:40.000 Their plumbing is less efficient than the Romans. 1.00

00:32:46.000 History dig.

00:32:49.000 Got him, Roman! 0.98

00:32:51.000 Roman's, yes!

00:32:54.000 Yeah, I like it.

00:32:55.000 A little aqueduct to yourself.

00:32:59.000 It's about time.

00:33:00.000 But let's go through the timeline, because I always go through the timeline trying to make it seem like Donald Trump did nothing in De Blasio.

00:33:04.000 March 8th.

00:33:05.000 That's after March 2nd.

00:33:07.000 So you think March 8th... It is.

00:33:08.000 Did he improve?

00:33:09.000 No.

00:33:10.000 In case you didn't know the arc of this segment where it's going... He said that... And here's something that, you know, I'm not a pedemologist.

00:33:21.000 Epidemiologist. 1.00

00:33:22.000 See, that's pretending to be stupid. 0.92

00:33:24.000 So, I'm not an epidemiologist, but even then, when a virus spreads, when there's like a virus out and we don't know a whole lot about it, I would say, well, I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that, since a lot of people don't get it, like, you know, it could be transmitted through contact, or you should clean surfaces. 0.94

00:33:38.000 You have to hedge just a little.

00:33:39.000 Right.

00:33:40.000 You don't need to be a doctor to understand that.

00:33:42.000 Right.

00:33:44.000 The thing is, de Blasio is not a doctor, and he also doesn't understand that, because he said that COVID disappears from surfaces in minutes, like it was a ShamWow commercial, and that it couldn't be transmitted through casual contact.

00:33:58.000 Watch.

00:33:58.000 You need to really have some direct contact.

00:34:01.000 You need to have the kind of exposure that you wouldn't get casually on the subway, for example.

00:34:06.000 This is a disease that does not live long on a surface.

00:34:10.000 Certainly on most surfaces, like metal, plastic, you know, a desk, a kitchen counter, a subway pole.

00:34:17.000 It's only a matter of minutes before the disease dies. 1.00

00:34:22.000 And the interpreter I never saw, he was saying, this asshole. 1.00

00:34:26.000 Followed by toxicity of our city. 1.00

00:34:31.000 He was so, like, emotive when he was doing those things.

00:34:37.000 De Blasio's like, alright, Kyle, are you done?

00:34:39.000 NO!

00:34:40.000 RIDING ON THE WALL!

00:34:41.000 HE'S RIDING ON THE WALL!

00:34:43.000 Alright, stop it.

00:34:44.000 WAKE UP!

00:34:46.000 WHY DON'T YOU PUT ON A LITTLE MAKEUP?! 1.00

00:34:47.000 What?

00:34:48.000 I just, I'm riding this, I'm milking this for all it's worth.

00:34:50.000 I'm not gonna be here in a year.

00:34:54.000 I think Bill's in pain.

00:34:56.000 Didn't he?

00:34:57.000 Didn't he?

00:34:59.000 A little bit?

00:34:59.000 And I usually try not to take aim at that singer from System of a Down because he's been through enough with Cenk denying.

00:35:06.000 To clarify, because this is a silly show, but let's get serious for a second, and only one second, coronavirus does remain on surfaces for a very long time.

00:35:18.000 It's really bad.

00:35:19.000 It's a bad thing.

00:35:20.000 That's different than minutes.

00:35:22.000 Almost held it together.

00:35:23.000 I think the worst is, if I'm not mistaken, is like cardboard.

00:35:26.000 It can be on cardboard for 48 hours.

00:35:28.000 Plastic, I believe, is three or four days.

00:35:30.000 Wow!

00:35:30.000 Plastic was much longer on the chart that I saw.

00:35:33.000 Right.

00:35:33.000 I'm sure.

00:35:34.000 It'll stay for weeks and weeks inside of a vacuum-sealed vial that I carry in my... Oh, wow.

00:35:40.000 So you!

00:35:41.000 All right.

00:35:42.000 It'll stay sealed in the envelopes that I've mailed to the mayor's office.

00:35:49.000 Joke!

00:35:49.000 It's totally a joke.

00:35:51.000 Of course not.

00:35:52.000 I want nature to run its course and de Blasio to have a slow deterioration so that five years from now we can see him on the Biden train.

00:35:59.000 That's what would be best for America.

00:36:01.000 Not stringing sentences together to save their life.

00:36:03.000 We can heal over his early onset dementia. 0.98

00:36:08.000 I'm a horrible human being. 0.90

00:36:09.000 That is terrible! 0.98

00:36:11.000 Not only can it be transmitted by casual contact... By the way, you're not doing a whole lot for helping the negative stereotype that Chinese people are sadists. 0.81

00:36:19.000 You're laughing too hard at my murder joke.

00:36:21.000 Hold on, let me just say something.

00:36:22.000 Look, I've seen folks who are out there and they're talking about, oh, there's anger at Asian Americans and people are...

00:36:28.000 You know, look, racists are going to racist.

00:36:30.000 They were going to racist before Corona.

00:36:31.000 If they're doing racist stuff now, it's just coming out.

00:36:33.000 That's fine.

00:36:33.000 I want to see you and call you out for who you are.

00:36:36.000 But no one is actually doing it in real life.

00:36:40.000 Well, I'll tell you what, that's why I've tried to make it a really important point to delineate between the Chinese government and the Chinese people.

00:36:46.000 Because I will tell you this.

00:36:49.000 We did this yesterday, actually, and I only realized it that night.

00:36:52.000 You guys saw when we were talking about it.

00:36:53.000 ABC News was breaking while we were doing Good Morning Mug Club.

00:36:55.000 You can go back and watch it.

00:36:57.000 And a Chinese representative responded to the United States defunding Hu.

00:37:01.000 And I think we brought up a source from ABC News.

00:37:03.000 And then after at night, I was tired.

00:37:04.000 I said, wait, hold on a second.

00:37:05.000 Hold on a second.

00:37:06.000 Did I just read a quote on air from that Li Jianzao guy?

00:37:10.000 The guy who actually created and spread the conspiracy theory that American troops created coronavirus?

00:37:16.000 Then I searched it on New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg.

00:37:18.000 All of them quoted a Chinese propagandist!

00:37:22.000 To try and express disappointment with Donald Trump.

00:37:24.000 So when I say, hey, I think the media are actually commie sympathizers, that's not hyperbolic.

00:37:30.000 I mean it.

00:37:31.000 It is absolutely.

00:37:32.000 And I will say, the more that I see this, when I see, you see the voices echoed of the worst Chinese people in the world, because it's always foreign ministers, people who work for the government. 1.00

00:37:40.000 So I will say this, guys, you do need to guard your heart. 1.00

00:37:43.000 Because I have, when I read, I'm like, these sons of bitches. 0.99

00:37:45.000 And then I realize, but not Chinese people, but the Chinese government. 0.98

00:37:48.000 You do need to make it very clear that there is no one who is targeted and marginalized and oppressed and frankly violently actually, you can talk about assaulted and murdered by the Chinese government and the Chinese citizens.

00:38:00.000 So it's easy to hate the Chinese government.

00:38:04.000 Do not apply that to people like my wonderful half-Asian lawyer here. 0.76

00:38:08.000 Couldn't afford a Jew! 1.00

00:38:10.000 No.

00:38:11.000 Someday.

00:38:11.000 Not at all.

00:38:15.000 I do have to say though, everyone in the Chinese government is Chinese.

00:38:19.000 So just, you know, whatever.

00:38:20.000 Yeah, but everyone in San Francisco is American.

00:38:24.000 Yeah, they are.

00:38:24.000 That wouldn't stop me from a little biochemical surprise.

00:38:28.000 They're doing it to themselves.

00:38:29.000 They're pooping on the streets already.

00:38:31.000 And to see now, months into this, that people are finally going, I think we should take those statistics with a grain of salt.

00:38:39.000 Even just a month ago when they were saying we should believe China.

00:38:42.000 Yeah.

00:38:43.000 China is correct. 1.00

00:38:44.000 They've always had a history of honesty and forthrightness.

00:38:47.000 Amazing.

00:38:47.000 And what's crazy to me is they will quote a Chinese propagandist, this Li Jianzhao.

00:38:51.000 Well, actually, we might need to call some journalists, actually, this week and call them and see if they knew that they were quoting a Chinese propagandist because Alex Jones got banned, deplatformed for less.

00:39:01.000 And I don't agree with Alex Jones on a lot of the conspiracies.

00:39:04.000 I obviously don't.

00:39:04.000 The false flag stuff?

00:39:06.000 But none of that is as severe as blaming the American military for creating the coronavirus as a weapon, I think in November is what he said.

00:39:06.000 No, I don't agree.

00:39:16.000 That's every bit as bad and worse Plus, there is a little bit of context that you should be Team America if you work for the American media.

00:39:25.000 It's unbelievable to me, the double standard here, and it's immensely disturbing.

00:39:29.000 Let's go back to here.

00:39:30.000 I want to be clear, provide you with some information.

00:39:32.000 Of course, coronavirus can be transmitted just through casual contact.

00:39:36.000 We had Dr. Choi, my Korean doctor, on the show, I believe, two or three weeks ago to talk about it, and he did have this to say.

00:39:44.000 It is by contact.

00:39:45.000 If we shake the hands of another person who has a virus, or if we actually touch the surfaces, soon after somebody who has a virus touches the surface and then we touch our face with it.

00:39:58.000 Because it enters through our eyes, our nose, our mouth.

00:40:01.000 So it's a respiratory virus.

00:40:04.000 But We can also get it, it can be airborne.

00:40:07.000 It's typically not, it can be airborne or droplet.

00:40:10.000 So if somebody coughs at us, and then we can actually inhale that, and we can get the virus infection.

00:40:16.000 By the way, he's also a part-time signer.

00:40:18.000 Oh, wow.

00:40:19.000 Viruses go in head, shoulders, knees, and toes.

00:40:24.000 Eyes?

00:40:25.000 Ears?

00:40:29.000 Mouth and nose.

00:40:31.000 I love Dr. Troy, by the way.

00:40:32.000 He's going to be on soon.

00:40:33.000 He's the best doctor I've ever had.

00:40:35.000 He cares so much.

00:40:36.000 And I will say this, he has given me advice off air that he can't send in because he doesn't want to be sued.

00:40:40.000 He's going, hey, listen, these are some things that might help, might help your immune system, might prevent an overreaction.

00:40:47.000 He's a doctor who's willing to talk with you and not just worry about liability.

00:40:50.000 This isn't necessarily proven, but these supplements might be a good idea.

00:40:54.000 I've never had a doctor do that before.

00:40:56.000 So, good to have on your team. 0.99

00:40:59.000 Yeah, well, we're talking about all the crap that the Chinese government does. 0.99

00:41:02.000 He's not Chinese, he's Korean, so, you know. 0.97

00:41:04.000 But he does a lot of good stuff.

00:41:07.000 He really is a fantastic doctor.

00:41:08.000 By the way, hit the notification bell.

00:41:09.000 We have Ben Shapiro coming up in a minute.

00:41:11.000 Hit all notifications, because subscriptions don't necessarily mean a whole lot.

00:41:14.000 There's also Crowder Bits now, where you can watch some segments.

00:41:17.000 And, of course, do consider joining Mug Club, because that's all we have. 0.80

00:41:23.000 That's it.

00:41:24.000 I don't have anything else to say.

00:41:25.000 It's very sad when I think about it.

00:41:26.000 If you don't join up, we're dead.

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00:41:41.000 Here's something that I wanted to... While we're talking about Donald Trump, I don't resent you, but the fact that I have to plug all that, and at the end of it I have to say, just Eight o'clock.

00:41:52.000 That's all.

00:41:53.000 That's all we get out of you.

00:41:55.000 A part of me wants to say, earn this!

00:41:59.000 But he won't say it.

00:42:00.000 He won't say it.

00:42:00.000 I won't say it.

00:42:01.000 I am very tired and I'm mad at everything because we're still dealing with coronavirus.

00:42:04.000 And I will say, again, I went back to the Quick Trip thing.

00:42:07.000 There is something remarkable going on right now.

00:42:10.000 Every person I've spoken to in real life, every single one, thinks that this is an overreaction.

00:42:14.000 I was at Quick Trip.

00:42:15.000 There was, I think she was like half Latina, a girl in there. 1.00

00:42:17.000 There was a young black gentleman in there.

00:42:20.000 Certainly, I wouldn't imagine Trump's base, is my point.

00:42:22.000 And I went in with a mask and they looked at me like this.

00:42:25.000 They did that.

00:42:26.000 And I was like, what?

00:42:29.000 Did you not get the memo?

00:42:30.000 And they're like, oh yeah, we're all supposed to wear a mask.

00:42:31.000 I said, well, hold on a second.

00:42:32.000 Has anyone here gotten sick?

00:42:34.000 Like, meaning all of Quick Trip.

00:42:35.000 And they said, not only not here, I don't think anyone in the franchise.

00:42:39.000 The black guy said, man, it comes down to basic hygiene. 0.65

00:42:44.000 Wash your hands and don't touch your nose. 0.96

00:42:47.000 That's very true.

00:42:48.000 And these people, though, when you think about it in the media, their reaction to just saying, hey, you know what?

00:42:53.000 We do think that we need to balance the idea of reopening the economy, understanding the risk, making an assessment, and allowing Americans the ability to make a living.

00:43:00.000 If anyone says that, it's like you're a Holocaust denier.

00:43:04.000 But the vast majority of Americans, and I don't even think it's represented in polling, because I think people are afraid to even tell someone in a poll that we should reopen the economy.

00:43:13.000 Everyone I talk with Including many police officers go, yeah, this is really around the bend.

00:43:18.000 Well, I mean, we've gotten to the point where finally people feel comfortable saying that initially, and still some people that I know that are close friends feel like I have to do my part.

00:43:25.000 There's very much this propaganda, there's an enemy, we have to be afraid, and if your neighbor's not doing their part, they're extending your pain and suffering, so report them.

00:43:34.000 Finally people are going, well, wait a minute.

00:43:36.000 I don't think that's actually true.

00:43:37.000 Yeah.

00:43:38.000 Here's the thing.

00:43:39.000 Do your research.

00:43:40.000 Don't be shamed into panicking.

00:43:41.000 No.

00:43:42.000 Let's look at the difference though between President Trump and Mayor de Blasio.

00:43:46.000 Again, he's the mayor of New York City.

00:43:47.000 It's easy to forget.

00:43:48.000 So the media, they said that Trump downplayed this whole thing.

00:43:51.000 Let's be honest.

00:43:51.000 Lately, he's really just been trying to give Americans hope.

00:43:54.000 He's been saying, hey, we might be past the peak right now.

00:43:56.000 There are things that we're doing.

00:43:57.000 There are treatments that might be working.

00:43:58.000 We're on the road toward a vaccine, right?

00:44:00.000 Hey, maybe we'll be open by Easter, he said.

00:44:03.000 He didn't open everything by Easter.

00:44:05.000 Let's be really clear.

00:44:06.000 Now let's contrast that with de Blasio, who was telling people to get out there and attend public gatherings, along with eating.

00:44:15.000 In Chinatown.

00:44:17.000 Delicious.

00:44:18.000 This entire time.

00:44:19.000 So compare, like, hopefully it would be a beautiful timeline if we could be open on Easter.

00:44:24.000 Can you believe this guy?

00:44:25.000 I know.

00:44:25.000 And the other guys eating, you know, rat on a stick.

00:44:28.000 This is delicious down here in Chinatown!

00:44:30.000 Chin-Chate! 1.00

00:44:31.000 Mayor of New York!

00:44:35.000 But I don't understand why people get mad at the president for saying, hey, I'm hopeful that we can do something like this.

00:44:40.000 The local government is the one who's going to have to make the decision on whether they reopen a city or a part of town or not during a pandemic or a crisis like this.

00:44:48.000 So in New York... You don't understand because you're not a communist.

00:44:51.000 I know, that's true.

00:44:52.000 But in New York, I mean, seriously, like, they just throw it up the ladder?

00:44:56.000 Like, what, does he blame Cuomo?

00:44:57.000 And then Cuomo's like, well, hell, I couldn't do anything.

00:44:59.000 Here, let's blame Trump.

00:45:00.000 We have to blame the next rung up?

00:45:01.000 I don't think that's how it works.

00:45:02.000 But in New York City, as the mayor of a city that is incredibly large and densely populated, you know better.

00:45:08.000 You have to know better early, right?

00:45:10.000 You don't have to know it in Schenectady, right?

00:45:12.000 But you do in New York City.

00:45:13.000 Hey, that's the city I make fun of.

00:45:16.000 It sounds like a funny name.

00:45:17.000 I don't know.

00:45:17.000 Fun to say, horrible to live in.

00:45:20.000 It's where dreams go to die.

00:45:21.000 Well, they do.

00:45:22.000 The Amtrak doesn't even stop in Schenectady anymore.

00:45:25.000 I think it just goes straight to Poughkeepsie.

00:45:26.000 They say, everyone wait to Schenectady!

00:45:28.000 Punch it! 0.98

00:45:28.000 They toss you off. 0.98

00:45:29.000 Let a tear just roll down your cheek because people have to live with that all year.

00:45:34.000 The novelty's nice for you on the Joe Biden Express.

00:45:36.000 They live there.

00:45:37.000 It's like when my wife at six years old, her dad took her to Tijuana so she would appreciate what Americans have.

00:45:41.000 That's what we should do with Schenectady.

00:45:43.000 This really matters because it also, not only does it show the blame game is just totally playing politics, whereas people say, we don't have time for politics, like Governor Whitmer from Michigan.

00:45:52.000 I don't have time for politics, and she puts on that hat that says, that lady from Michigan, you don't have time for politics. 1.00

00:45:58.000 Just time to audition for Joe Biden's vice presidential candidate, so that hopefully, you know, people don't think he's actually retarded. 0.97

00:46:07.000 They're not going to buy it, by the way.

00:46:08.000 So this matters because you need to contrast the reaction time, but also a fundamental misunderstanding, misinterpretation of the role of government, and this directly relates to the Constitution.

00:46:17.000 So let me explain this really quickly.

00:46:19.000 Yes, we know that they all hate Donald Trump, the media, and we're talking about the media right now, and I'm not his biggest fan, but I think that the pettiness, the childishness, this is karma.

00:46:27.000 If karma were a thing...

00:46:29.000 So good.

00:46:29.000 This is what they deserve.

00:46:31.000 But, again, they freaked out in misrepresenting him saying that his authority in allowing states to reopen their own economies is absolute.

00:46:41.000 As John King was just saying, he's claiming that he has authorities that he doesn't have.

00:46:45.000 The Constitution does not give the President of the United States total authority.

00:46:49.000 David, is the President's power total in this?

00:46:54.000 Clearly it's not total.

00:46:55.000 Yeah, let's get our advice from a three split view with Axelrod and the Octomom.

00:47:02.000 He's a voice that's needed, Steve.

00:47:06.000 So, that, can you believe this?

00:47:08.000 He's a dictator, authoritarian, and he's saying that his authority in allowing states to reopen is absolute.

00:47:12.000 Now, let's compare this to, after all the downplaying, after all the, it's not an emergency, go eat!

00:47:18.000 in Chinatown, New York City, shut everything down after all this and de Blasio claimed that he has

00:47:24.000 the power, the absolute power, to permanently shut down any church or synagogue that disobeys his

00:47:32.000 orders. Everyone has been instructed that if they see worship services going on, they will go to the

00:47:40.000 officials of that congregation.

00:47:42.000 They'll inform them they need to stop the services and disperse.

00:47:46.000 If that does not happen, they will take additional action up to the point of, uh, fines and potentially, uh, closing the building permanently.

00:47:55.000 closing the building permanently.

00:47:59.000 Wow.

00:47:59.000 I mean, I think he's heard of religious liberty, right?

00:48:02.000 I don't maybe not.

00:48:03.000 Well, I think he's like a hyphen. 0.67

00:48:04.000 That was like Armenian comedy jam.

00:48:06.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:48:07.000 I mean, they tell us, you know, stay six feet apart and we saw

00:48:10.000 the thing in Kentucky where they were in their car and there's 0.99

00:48:12.000 a golf course and this is so stupid right by where I live that 0.99

00:48:16.000 pulled it's a public place. 1.00

00:48:17.000 You don't have to touch or talk to anyone to play on it.

00:48:19.000 They pulled the pins and put signs up says closed.

00:48:21.000 Yeah, like walking through a park would have been safe.

00:48:23.000 Move into that to keep in mind to the de Blasio is this is the

00:48:26.000 guy who's concerned that a Christian group might be helping and that they may not be allowed to because they're anti-gay 0.95

00:48:30.000 and Islamophobic by the way. 0.92

00:48:32.000 Did he mention anything about Islamic places of worship being shut down permanently? 0.76

00:48:37.000 Just the Jews, right? 1.00

00:48:38.000 Just the Christians and the Jews? 1.00

00:48:40.000 Odd that he chose to mention Christians and Jews.

00:48:43.000 Anti-Semitic much?

00:48:44.000 I don't know.

00:48:44.000 All of that goes over very well in the Upper West Side.

00:48:48.000 This is remarkable to me for a few reasons.

00:48:50.000 Yeah, the park thing.

00:48:51.000 There was a guy who got fined for kissing his wife in a park. 0.99

00:48:53.000 You do realize I'm going to go have sex with her right after this, right? 0.99

00:48:59.000 She's my wife. 0.99

00:48:59.000 If it's going to get a bit, it's going to happen. 0.99

00:49:01.000 It's ridiculous.

00:49:02.000 Do people, do they actually think that we're social distancing at home? 0.90

00:49:05.000 No.

00:49:06.000 I've been trying.

00:49:07.000 I keep putting my kid in a different room.

00:49:12.000 My wife's like, he might drown. 1.00

00:49:15.000 Social distance.

00:49:15.000 Yeah, come on.

00:49:17.000 Not sexually with your wife.

00:49:19.000 We're not trying to do this.

00:49:20.000 No, because listen, even, I don't care what the virus is, you could bring back SARS-1, I'd get mine, Larry!

00:49:27.000 I can't believe that they find someone in a public park, but this to me shows a fundamental incapability of understanding the role of government.

00:49:35.000 Okay, I think Donald Trump was wrong in saying he has absolute authority.

00:49:38.000 Now, I think in context, it's not nearly as severe as people make it out to be, and if you look at his actions, they've actually been pretty measured.

00:49:45.000 Don't take my word for it.

00:49:46.000 Take Cuomo.

00:49:47.000 Take Newsom's word for it, right?

00:49:49.000 He didn't open things at Easter.

00:49:50.000 He was hoping that we could open things for Easter.

00:49:52.000 He hasn't reopened the entire economy now.

00:49:54.000 He's hoping that we can.

00:49:55.000 He hasn't signed some kind of an executive order.

00:49:57.000 What he's saying is that he can end, effectively, a national ban on commerce that is happening and allow states to reopen.

00:50:04.000 He has absolute authority to defer it to the states.

00:50:07.000 That is important.

00:50:08.000 Compare that with de Blasio, who is there, on camera, expressly communicating a violation of the First Amendment, saying that he will shut down churches permanently After you just said, go down and eat in Chinatown. 0.90

00:50:23.000 So churches are going, I guess it isn't that big a deal.

00:50:25.000 We can go in social distance.

00:50:26.000 It's not as bad as Chinatown. 1.00

00:50:28.000 He is saying that he would shut down churches permanently.

00:50:31.000 Let me be really clear.

00:50:32.000 Separation of church and state is a term that's thrown around.

00:50:33.000 It's not actually a real thing.

00:50:34.000 It's not an actual real wording.

00:50:36.000 It's written from Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist, taken out of context.

00:50:39.000 But when you look Right.

00:50:39.000 at the First Amendment. The spirit of it is very important because it's about keeping

00:50:43.000 the government out of the church running business. Why?

00:50:47.000 Precisely to preserve the church because they believe that for a free society you had to have a

00:50:52.000 moral society. So they saw the importance of the church and did not want to have a Church of England.

00:50:57.000 That's why it exists.

00:50:58.000 And here you have a mayor not saying he has the absolute authority to defer to states in reopening their economies as they see fit, but you have a mayor of the biggest city in the country saying, hey, I am going to use my church to step into the church running or synagogue business and shut them down permanently if they don't take my granted conflicting advice.

00:51:23.000 That is absolutely authoritarian.

00:51:26.000 That is absolutely a violation of the spirit of the Constitution and basic American rights, and it's actually a violation of the letter of the Constitution and basic American rights.

00:51:36.000 So if we want to play the game and try and go back and forth with semantics, no, no, no, no.

00:51:41.000 You're the party of the guy who said, eat in Chinatown, and then the next week said, I will shut down churches permanently unless you follow my every order. 0.93

00:51:47.000 You have no leg to stand on.

00:51:49.000 It's done.

00:51:50.000 We're not listening to you.

00:51:51.000 Let's look at the pluses and minuses and get back to starting this economy.

00:51:54.000 Alright, let's have Ben Shapiro on after this.

00:51:56.000 See what he thinks about the synagogue.

00:51:57.000 I know.

00:51:57.000 Terrible.

00:51:59.000 That explains the trouble that I'm always in.

00:52:06.000 Okay.

00:52:13.000 Made it.

00:52:14.000 Excellent.

00:52:16.000 Now all you have to do is access that fascist computer mainframe. 0.54

00:52:22.000 This will be too easy. 0.99

00:52:24.000 Smash the fu- Oh my non-conforming, genderless, non-binary, two-spirited god. 1.00

00:52:33.000 What's happening? 0.98

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00:52:35.000 They have no search history.

00:52:36.000 Abort! 0.99

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00:53:55.000 Tonight on CBS... You're watching a very special social distancing edition of The Late Show.

00:54:00.000 As I now call it, The Lather Show, with Scrub and Colbert.

00:54:05.000 Steven debuts some hilarious new sketches.

00:54:08.000 I mean, just close your mouth!

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00:54:13.000 Watching stuff on Hulu.

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00:54:17.000 I'm not gonna do it.

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00:54:41.000 First, Andrew's, next time...

00:54:44.000 Hey.

00:54:46.000 What's up?

00:54:48.000 I need some beer.

00:54:50.000 Super.

00:54:52.000 Hey! 0.99

00:54:53.000 What the hell are you doing? 0.98

00:54:55.000 What are you talking about, man? 1.00

00:54:56.000 I need six feet of fucking distance! 1.00

00:54:58.000 What the heck, man? 0.99

00:54:59.000 I didn't do nothing, man! 0.97

00:55:00.000 I don't know what you're talking about!

00:55:01.000 Watch this and more at our other channel, Crowder Bits.

00:55:05.000 And that lists the bits.

00:55:07.000 That song reminds me, it sounds like a gallop, you know that clack thing.

00:55:20.000 And I started after Janky doing a live stream playing Red Dead Redemption 2,

00:55:24.000 because I really liked Red Dead Revolver on Xbox, and I've come to the realization that I'm just done trying

00:55:30.000 to pretend like I'm even interested in video games.

00:55:33.000 There's so much work.

00:55:34.000 It's like, hold the left trigger to talk to this guy where he's going to tell you about how he lost his daughter in the wildfires.

00:55:40.000 It's immersive.

00:55:41.000 And then hit this button to get the horse and tie up the horse.

00:55:43.000 But you have to eat a packet.

00:55:45.000 But don't smoke a cigarette, because it'll enhance your health, but it'll decrease your stamina.

00:55:49.000 It's like, if I put this much work into work, I could get a lot of stuff done, almost like a show.

00:55:56.000 Hey, you know who has a show, is our next guest.

00:55:59.000 Oh, that was good.

00:56:01.000 Only a 58 second segway.

00:56:03.000 And the good thing is the segway wasn't even necessary because we came back from a break.

00:56:07.000 That's true, but it was well done.

00:56:09.000 I just want to keep him waiting so that, you know, it's asserting dominance like the body language experts say.

00:56:14.000 He has a show, you know him, you love him, he's a favorite of the show, The Ben Shapiro Show, editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.

00:56:20.000 You can follow him at Ben Shapiro, and just to be clear, Lord, this is pre-taped because it is Passover, and Ben, I wanted to make sure that clarified so you don't get in trouble with the Lord.

00:56:30.000 Well, it's not really with the Lord.

00:56:32.000 I think God knows.

00:56:32.000 It's all of the people who are the not-good Jews watching your show who will then email me and pretend they are good Jews because I'm on your show.

00:56:40.000 Oh, okay.

00:56:41.000 That's the way that would have to work.

00:56:42.000 I get tons of emails.

00:56:44.000 Every time I do a pre-recorded podcast and then it appears sometime on a Jewish holiday, people be like, oh, so finally you've shown your true colors. 0.96

00:56:52.000 And it's like, well, you were listening, weren't you?

00:56:53.000 Yes, exactly.

00:56:54.000 Yes.

00:56:55.000 And I'm sorry for Nicodemus's incessant emails.

00:56:58.000 They seem very unnecessary. 0.98

00:57:00.000 He's a pious prick! 0.95

00:57:02.000 But I do know that, obviously, Passover's so pre-taped for people who don't necessarily know. 0.96

00:57:06.000 Ben Shapiro, first off, how are you doing right now with the quarantine?

00:57:09.000 I mean, you're still doing your show, a lot of content.

00:57:12.000 Yeah, a lot of content happening.

00:57:14.000 I have three kids under the age of seven, including a newborn, and we're locked in the home and my kids don't have school.

00:57:19.000 And so I'm on the edge, my friend.

00:57:22.000 I mean, I'll tell you, listen, I'm a lot luckier than a lot of other people.

00:57:26.000 I still have a job.

00:57:27.000 We still have a business.

00:57:27.000 People are still working here.

00:57:29.000 And so I don't want to make it sound as though I am in the bottom quadrant of sufferers.

00:57:33.000 I am not.

00:57:33.000 I'm in the top quadrant of sufferers.

00:57:35.000 But with that said, small children, no place to go. 0.96

00:57:38.000 Our ridiculous mayor has shut down every park in the city. 0.97

00:57:42.000 And so, yeah, I mean, everybody's going a little bit nuts. 0.91

00:57:45.000 My kids have basically turned this thing into Lord of the Flies.

00:57:48.000 They're running around, and they're holding a pig's head on spears and stuff, and it's wild.

00:57:53.000 I mean, all of your restrictions on media and how much TV they can watch a day have gone completely out the window.

00:58:00.000 Basically, TV is now the third parent, because that's just the way it has to work.

00:58:03.000 Well, you shouldn't have sat them in front of Lord of the Flies, if that wasn't your goal.

00:58:08.000 Yeah, that's fair.

00:58:09.000 I probably shouldn't.

00:58:11.000 I should definitely have some different viewing.

00:58:12.000 Yeah, throw some Baby Einstein on there. 0.96

00:58:14.000 Once you've seen them use Piggy's glasses to build a fire, you've pretty much seen... So the one thing I've just learned there is Ben must really, really can't stand his kids.

00:58:24.000 That's what we've learned.

00:58:25.000 Dude, I mean, kids are mediocre in the best of times.

00:58:29.000 And then you're locked in the house with them for long periods of time,

00:58:32.000 and they start to lose their minds.

00:58:34.000 Like, you have to understand that everything that you and I feel as adults

00:58:37.000 is magnified in small children.

00:58:39.000 So, like, if you locked me in a house with a person I love,

00:58:42.000 you locked me in a house with my wife for like a month on end,

00:58:44.000 we're gonna start to get, you know, a little bit crotchety.

00:58:46.000 We're gonna start to be like a little mad with each other and a little bit abrasive.

00:58:49.000 And you do that with like a three-year-old child, and within seven minutes,

00:58:52.000 they're tearing things off the walls.

00:58:54.000 They're trying to beat you to death with a toy hammer.

00:58:57.000 There is no wall.

00:59:00.000 Just to be clear, pre-quarantine, was Ben Shapiro not abrasive, correct?

00:59:04.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:59:06.000 You never experience abrasion like this abrasion.

00:59:09.000 But you know what's funny?

00:59:10.000 My wife and I, we had kind of a breakthrough a little, not long ago, but we always love spending, we're both quality time people, that's our love language.

00:59:16.000 But we don't have to be talking or doing everything together.

00:59:19.000 And so we can be in the same room, I can be watching a movie, she can be reading her book about polygamy or some recent like North Korean camp.

00:59:27.000 She's really into all like the true crime podcast.

00:59:30.000 She's like, it's okay!

00:59:31.000 If half the time we live like we're single, so long as we don't cheat.

00:59:36.000 I mean, I think that works.

00:59:37.000 Reasonable.

00:59:37.000 You will see, like, when you have lots of kids, the problem becomes that that time does not exist.

00:59:42.000 Right.

00:59:42.000 It just doesn't exist anymore.

00:59:43.000 So the kids wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning, and then they go to bed at, like, 8 o'clock at night.

00:59:48.000 And then you look at your wife, and you're like, I am just dead tired.

00:59:51.000 I can't do anything.

00:59:52.000 My brain is not functioning at this point.

00:59:54.000 And then we have the newborns, and the newborn's up in the middle of the night.

00:59:57.000 So basically, I've seen my wife, like we've been home with each other and pretty much nobody else for a month, and I've seen my wife for a combined total of 72 seconds.

01:00:04.000 I mean, when we're not... It's odd that you've been keeping track like that.

01:00:08.000 Let me ask... I want to make sure I'm meticulous about this thing.

01:00:11.000 Yes, yes, exactly.

01:00:13.000 Sweetheart, 72 seconds, that's not enough for a man to feel fulfilled.

01:00:18.000 Signal.

01:00:19.000 I don't know where you come from, Crowder. 1.00

01:00:23.000 You know exactly where I come from, because you were at my house while I was waterboarded, and my wife came in and served you a beverage while I was being waterboarded by special forces.

01:00:31.000 She couldn't be less surprised or concerned.

01:00:33.000 That's true.

01:00:33.000 It's one of those times when we used to actually be within breathable distance of other human beings.

01:00:38.000 It is amazing to watch TV shows and films now, and you just are seeing people eat at a restaurant, and you're like, ah, good times, good times.

01:00:47.000 Like, ah, Bennigans!

01:00:48.000 To be at Bennigans!

01:00:51.000 So you wrote an article, obviously, at Daily Wire, talking about some key questions that need to be answered before we reopen the economy.

01:01:00.000 And I think one of your questions was, we need to determine the accurate fatality rate.

01:01:04.000 I want to first get to what your questions are, what you think are the most necessary questions.

01:01:08.000 And then I will say this.

01:01:09.000 I don't know if we have a disagreement.

01:01:10.000 I think that the overall deaths per capita are really the only reliable metric at this point because the fatality rate is so dictated by infection rates and accuracy of testing and them not lying in China.

01:01:21.000 So I think that that is true, but I think the problem is that that number only goes up.

01:01:25.000 What I mean is that if you're looking at the fatality rate, if you're looking at the number of fatalities per million, then all that's going to happen is that the presumption is that when we all go out of quarantine, if we infect each other and tons of people die, well then that number is going to go up.

01:01:38.000 So that does not give you a good indicator of exactly where the number is going to go, whereas the case fatality rate theoretically should give you an idea of how far things are going to go given a certain number being infected, right?

01:01:47.000 The only two statistics that really Matter are the ones that we have no numbers on.

01:01:51.000 One is the transmission rate.

01:01:52.000 We assume that it's somewhere between 2.5 and 5.

01:01:54.000 Right.

01:01:55.000 And the other one is the case fatality rate, and we have no clue there because we don't know what the denominator is because we know that tons and tons of people are asymptomatic.

01:02:03.000 There was a New England Journal of Medicine piece that just came out, would have been when people watched this yesterday, that looked at a number of pregnant women who were brought into New York City hospitals All of whom were screened for COVID because when you come in they screen you for COVID apparently.

01:02:17.000 It was like 211 women, 29 of them tested positive for COVID, only four were symptomatic.

01:02:23.000 Which suggests that for everybody who is symptomatic, there are at least seven people who are asymptomatic.

01:02:27.000 If you actually applied that statewide to New York State right now, New York State has a 5% case fatality rate.

01:02:33.000 It's something like 10,000 dead people and 195,000 positive tests.

01:02:37.000 Well, take that bottom number, that 195,000, multiply it by 7.25, and now it's looking a lot more like 1.4 million.

01:02:44.000 So your actual case fatality rate is 0.7%, which is significantly higher than the 1.5%.

01:02:49.000 So I see what you're saying in that the number, the case fatality rate will go down because as testing is more accurate, it'll be a smaller portion of the overall infection rates.

01:02:57.000 And that makes a difference because if we all go out and infect each other, then it makes the overall number of deaths that we expect a lot lower.

01:03:05.000 As far as overall numbers that we expect, what I am saying is I think the most accurate metric as far as what we should be using for people to sort of assess their risk, because a lot of this was, oh my gosh, we're seeing at one point a 10% mortality rate, then a 5% percent, then a three percent, and now like well we don't

01:03:19.000 know the mortality rate but they predicted 2.5 million deaths, and then a minimum with

01:03:23.000 social distancing which wasn't supposed to have kicked in 100,000 to 240,000, and then 60,000.

01:03:28.000 The overall, and I think especially when comparing it across countries, the most accurate that

01:03:32.000 we have is the per capita death rate.

01:03:33.000 Here's why, because you eliminate more variables in the sense that, all right, you go to per

01:03:38.000 So that matters because you can't just go by a total rate.

01:03:41.000 And then testing efficiency is very different, for example, let's say in Belgium and France, Spain or Italy, compared to the United States.

01:03:48.000 And then overall, when you look at how many people per million residents or inhabitants of this country have died, it's the only one that we have that's a constant now.

01:03:57.000 I know it'll only go up, but I don't think it's going to only go up for the United States.

01:04:00.000 As a matter of fact, even as it goes up in the United States, the gap widens between places like Well, it depends, right?

01:04:07.000 I mean, because the one thing that's not taken into account is the actual lockdown measures, right?

01:04:11.000 So what we're watching, for example, right now in Sweden is Sweden's rate continues to go up.

01:04:16.000 Will it surpass Switzerland?

01:04:17.000 Probably not.

01:04:18.000 Will it surpass Italy?

01:04:19.000 Probably not.

01:04:19.000 Also when you adjust for population it kind of gives you some weird outliers because some

01:04:23.000 places have only 6 million people or 5 million people.

01:04:26.000 The United States has 330 million people so your sample size is just a lot.

01:04:29.000 Well you can't count like Andorra for example.

01:04:30.000 Like I don't use that.

01:04:31.000 Right exactly.

01:04:32.000 Or Luxembourg.

01:04:33.000 Or Micronesia.

01:04:34.000 There are certain places where one person dies and your actual death per million rate

01:04:39.000 is like 50.

01:04:40.000 Because there's only 10 people in the country right?

01:04:42.000 So that kind of makes it difficult.

01:04:45.000 But it is fair to compare France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the United States.

01:04:48.000 I mean, those are all sizable enough countries.

01:04:50.000 Obviously, the United States is very different in that we're... By the way, also, let's be really clear... But it's not taking into account... Again, the reason I'm not going along with this is just because I think it doesn't take into account the lag time.

01:05:00.000 Meaning that, is France two weeks ahead of us?

01:05:02.000 We don't know.

01:05:03.000 Is Italy two weeks ahead of us?

01:05:04.000 They shut down, like, a week in advance of us, maybe two weeks in advance of us.

01:05:08.000 And so, if you're looking at where the United States is going to be in two weeks, which is kind of what we're trying to figure out as when we reopen, then you want to be looking at something more accurate, like... Well, I will... The reason I'll push back is... Go ahead.

01:05:20.000 The one that actually matters to me more than the case fatality rate is what the case fatality rate looks like for young, healthy people.

01:05:26.000 Because I think this is where we're being completely snowed.

01:05:28.000 Not even that young, but yes.

01:05:30.000 Well, anybody under the age of 45.

01:05:31.000 If you're under the age of 45 and you're healthy, your chances of dying from COVID are exorbitantly low.

01:05:36.000 Very, very, very low.

01:05:37.000 And I'm looking, like, right now, this minute, at some of the New York City health data.

01:05:42.000 The New York City health data, which has revealed the number of positive tests, the number of dead people, and the number of people who have died without pre-existing conditions, according to the New York City Health Department, There were 26 deaths total in New York City among people aged below 45 with no underlying conditions.

01:05:58.000 That's out of over 6,000 deaths and out of over 42,500 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 for New Yorkers under that age.

01:06:06.000 Which means that your actual chances of dying in New York City, and this is again a high-end estimate because it's not taking into account all the people who have not been tested and all the people who are asymptomatic, Even using the number of tests that have come back positive versus the number of people who have died under the age of 45 with no pre-existing conditions, you're looking at a case fatality rate of 0.06%, meaning that 994 out of every 1,000 New Yorkers under the age of 45 who are healthy will not die, and that is probably a low-end estimate as to the number of people who will live.

01:06:35.000 More like 996 or 997.

01:06:38.000 Right.

01:06:38.000 And the biggest, and one thing that has, I don't want to say valuable, because obviously this is a tragedy and we have to hedge all our words, but one thing that has been valuable with this data that we've seen, particularly from New York, is that the greatest determining factor with underlying conditions is diabetes and heart disease.

01:06:51.000 Being obese is the single biggest determining factor outside of age.

01:06:54.000 So even if you're below the age, if you want, if we want to expand that, if you're below the age of 70 and you don't have diabetes or you're not obese, the fatality rate is still exceedingly low.

01:07:04.000 So...

01:07:05.000 And the reason I say that matters is because a lot of the measures that you're being, that are being talked about right now.

01:07:09.000 Let's mass test everybody. 0.83

01:07:10.000 Three million tests a day.

01:07:11.000 Employers testing everybody.

01:07:13.000 Heat checks when you go into a theater.

01:07:15.000 We're gonna give you a temperature check. 0.99

01:07:16.000 Which, by the way, is so stupid because a lot of this is asymptomatic, right? 0.98

01:07:19.000 It doesn't help to actually take somebody's temperature. 0.98

01:07:20.000 Especially when you take into account the antibody test, which isn't yielding the same kind of results as we did from just the COVID-19 testing positive itself.

01:07:26.000 We are finding something.

01:07:27.000 That's right.

01:07:27.000 And we also don't even know the accuracy of the antibody test at this point.

01:07:30.000 It might only be 95% accurate. 0.84

01:07:32.000 You know, given all of those conditions, and given the reality, which is this crap cannot last beyond mid-May. 0.58

01:07:37.000 I mean, it just can't. 0.62

01:07:38.000 People are going to go back to work.

01:07:39.000 People are going to say, I've lost my job, I've lost my livelihood, I've lost my dreams.

01:07:42.000 Like, I'm getting very tired of people doing sort of a one-factor test for how we get out of this, which is, how many people are going to die?

01:07:50.000 I don't know the answer.

01:07:51.000 You don't know the answer.

01:07:52.000 I know how many people have lost their jobs.

01:07:53.000 I know how many people have lost their life savings.

01:07:55.000 Right.

01:07:55.000 I know how many people are now waiting at a food bank who never thought they would have to wait at a food bank.

01:07:59.000 Because the government decided to shut everything down.

01:08:01.000 I'm not saying the government was wrong to shut everything down.

01:08:02.000 What I am saying is, if you are young, and you are healthy, we should be talking right now about how you go back to work, wear a mask, sure, so you don't infect other people, even if you have it, go back to work, socially distance, we probably shouldn't go back to theaters, we probably shouldn't have football games right now, but go back to restaurants, make sure that the tables are six feet apart, basically go sweet.

01:08:20.000 This is what Sweden has done, and Sweden is not wrong to have done it. 0.58

01:08:23.000 And everybody who's saying, well, Sweden spiked, yeah, of course Sweden spiked.

01:08:25.000 Oh, by the way, by the way, also South Korea.

01:08:26.000 A lot of people don't know this.

01:08:27.000 Also South Korea.

01:08:28.000 Of course they doxed their own citizens as well, but they did quarantine the old and the most vulnerable. 0.74

01:08:32.000 And I said this with my doctor, who was Korean, on this show before we went into total lockdown.

01:08:36.000 I said, hey, I know this is going to sound crazy and insensitive.

01:08:39.000 How about just quarantining old and sick people? 1.00

01:08:42.000 And that's what they've done in some countries.

01:08:44.000 And there isn't, as far as we know right now, again, there's a lot of data that hasn't come in.

01:08:47.000 They haven't had worse outcomes.

01:08:49.000 You do, because you can't just get every, you can't nerf the whole world.

01:08:52.000 But you can get people who are older, you can get people of pre-existing conditions to quarantine themselves, and the outcomes are likely better for them if the economy continues, because we all know the long-term health ramifications when people have no jobs, when employers can't go back to their businesses, and we can't continue to innovate or push forward an economy.

01:09:11.000 Long-term, and it's far worse for health.

01:09:13.000 People don't understand.

01:09:13.000 People are poor.

01:09:14.000 They die.

01:09:14.000 They get sick.

01:09:15.000 They get fat.

01:09:16.000 They get depressed. 0.93

01:09:16.000 They commit suicide. 0.93

01:09:17.000 There are more burglaries.

01:09:18.000 That's a big thing!

01:09:19.000 I mean, that is a big thing.

01:09:20.000 I think it is also worth noting that there are a couple of values that, you know, actually matter, and that when we talk, you know, just deaths versus deaths, that aren't taken into account.

01:09:29.000 Like, how about living in a free country?

01:09:31.000 How about living in relative prosperity?

01:09:33.000 Like, these things used to matter, and in fact, do matter for a lot of people.

01:09:37.000 Like, quality of life is still a thing that matters.

01:09:39.000 Yeah, we can live, but it also matters how we live.

01:09:43.000 I mean, it does matter to me.

01:09:44.000 If you don't experience pain, seeing families waiting in a car at a food bank, and you say, well, you know, at least you're alive.

01:09:49.000 Yes, at least you're alive.

01:09:51.000 And also, those people would almost certainly be alive if they were out today, in a mask, at work, and not at a food bank.

01:09:59.000 So you do have to pretend that there are not competing values here, and that we don't have to weigh all of those competing values when we make public policy is really a dirty trick.

01:10:08.000 Hold that thought.

01:10:09.000 Usually this would go behind the paywall, but since it's free Mug Club, Mug Club Quarantine Month, this will be available right here on YouTube.

01:10:14.000 But this is where you would see a commercial break, and then we would be right back with Ben at the Blaze.

01:10:19.000 And go.

01:10:19.000 Ooh.

01:10:25.000 And we're back.

01:10:26.000 Hope you liked the Native American First Nations going, oh! 1.00

01:10:32.000 Ben, yeah, I agree with you on all of that.

01:10:33.000 I still would say the reason that I think the deaths per million, and by the way, of course, it's Ben Shapiro's show.

01:10:39.000 You can download it everywhere.

01:10:40.000 Podcasts are sold or not sold.

01:10:42.000 And he's the editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.

01:10:45.000 The reason that the deaths per million matter is because we largely use the fatality rates for our projections.

01:10:51.000 So I would say that it matters because they use the initial mortality rates as a portion of those tested to predict the 2.5 million, to predict the 100,000 to 240,000.

01:10:59.000 And what I do think matters is that was taking into account social distancing, a minimum of 100 to 240,000.

01:11:04.000 A lot of people missed that.

01:11:06.000 They said, no, no, it's going to be 2.5 million if the social distancing is in effect.

01:11:10.000 And they said it would take, it would kick in after we already saw obviously a decreased rate of death to any degree.

01:11:18.000 They said it'll be minimum 100 to 240,000.

01:11:20.000 So they can change it to whatever they want, and I'm glad.

01:11:21.000 I want that number as low as possible.

01:11:23.000 But people, especially when we are talking about, listen, a balance of lives and livelihood, we do need to understand that none of the data projections have been close to accurate.

01:11:35.000 And I think that kind of goes back to what you've talked about quite a bit, and regardless of how people feel about Donald Trump, the media's vested interest in making people think a certain way, and anyone who disagrees with them, well, you just don't care about Americans, and you're a pariah.

01:11:47.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:11:48.000 By the way, I think that it's actually one of the better things that Trump has done.

01:11:51.000 I think he's done a couple of things that are really good, aside from sort of generalized making sure that the government gets resources where they are supposed to go, and activating, and the China flight, partial kind of flight shutdown, and the European travel.

01:12:03.000 He's done a bunch of good things, but in terms of kind of overall rhetoric, he's been criticized for a lot of his rhetoric.

01:12:07.000 I've done a lot of that criticizing.

01:12:09.000 I don't think that he's been particularly unifying.

01:12:11.000 I think that him fulminating over his ratings is a complete waste of time when everybody is wondering, is mom gonna die tomorrow?

01:12:17.000 By walking outside.

01:12:19.000 Doesn't seem to me that, you know, him comparing his ratings to The Apprentice or to The Bachelorette is particularly... To be clear, by the way, anyone else, your mom is not going to die if she goes out tomorrow unless she's a 75-year-old diabetic with a dry cough.

01:12:29.000 Continue.

01:12:31.000 But the couple things that Trump has done right are he has resisted the calls for nationalization up until this week when he randomly declared himself emperor and And initiated Order 66.

01:12:43.000 Up until that point, he was pretty much on the right track there.

01:12:46.000 And also, he really did resist the idea, again, of sort of a centralized national power against the states.

01:12:52.000 He was saying that the states are the ones responsible.

01:12:54.000 And the media, who are just completely dishonest, they kept saying, okay, so when Andrew Cuomo doesn't shut down his state, and when Bill de Blasio doesn't shut down his city, it's Trump's fault.

01:13:01.000 And then when Trump is like, okay, I'm gonna make them do what I want, they're like, oh, he's a dictator now.

01:13:05.000 Yeah, and by the way, I want to be clear, when he says I have the authority, what he's talking about is, and yeah, sometimes he speaks where his mouth, his brain moves faster than his mouth can catch up.

01:13:13.000 What he was saying is, no, I do have the authority to allow states to reopen.

01:13:17.000 Not all states will reopen.

01:13:18.000 States have the right to remain closed.

01:13:20.000 But if Donald Trump wants to sign an order that says, alright, Kentucky or Texas, if you guys want to start reducing the stay home, I always forget, what is it, home, cover, shelter, whatever the hell it is, I always forget what's shelter in place.

01:13:30.000 That he does have that right to allow states to then make their decisions moving forward.

01:13:36.000 He just can't trump the governors.

01:13:37.000 In terms of, like, if they decide to keep it on, he can't walk in and say, okay, nope, everybody goes to work.

01:13:41.000 Exactly.

01:13:42.000 But with that said, one of the things, so I, you know, there are certain times when you're very grateful Trump is president.

01:13:47.000 I'm very grateful Trump is president for a couple of reasons right now, really.

01:13:51.000 One of them is that because the Democrats have a vested interest in maximizing the power

01:13:56.000 of government, you see this every time we have one of these stimulus package debates 0.99

01:14:00.000 where they're just trying to load it up with crap. 0.71

01:14:02.000 Or whenever you see Joe Biden talk, he's like, oh, this is a great opportunity to push progressive 0.98

01:14:06.000 power.

01:14:07.000 And then he sort of keels over.

01:14:08.000 He can talk.

01:14:09.000 I was saying you're giving him more credit than he's due.

01:14:10.000 But yes, yeah, I mean, his forehead, I was noticing this today.

01:14:13.000 First of all, he's got a real Sam the Eagle look.

01:14:16.000 And the forehead has actually moved all the way back.

01:14:18.000 I've never seen it before.

01:14:19.000 It's actually moved all the way back across the back of his head.

01:14:21.000 His forehead actually begins where normal people's bald spot actually begins.

01:14:25.000 It's pretty impressive.

01:14:26.000 But with all of that said, if you had a Democrat in charge right now, and Democrats were pushing for massive radical change, you know, Rahm Emanuel, never let a good crisis go to waste kind of stuff.

01:14:38.000 The level of pushback against the lockdown orders would be a hundred times magnified. 0.90

01:14:42.000 People would be saying, this is all bullcrap.

01:14:44.000 This is all, this is all being done for a purpose.

01:14:46.000 The fact that Trump keeps saying, I want to open up, is actually one of the things that's allowing the country to give it a chance to breathe for a second.

01:14:53.000 Because everybody knows that Trump doesn't want to be in this situation, right?

01:14:56.000 People like you, people like me, we're like, okay, we understand Trump wants to get out of this.

01:14:59.000 We understand that there are a bunch of Republican governors who want to get out of this, and they're not using this.

01:15:04.000 Crisis, as an opportunity to maximize the power of government.

01:15:07.000 If Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden were president right now, my great suspicion would be that they were attempting to do a bunch of very politically driven things in order to manifestly change the relationship between citizens and government, and I'm not cool with that.

01:15:19.000 I will say one thing on that note, and then we do have to go, that has been really disconcerting for me.

01:15:23.000 You know, when we've talked, people often make the argument where they say, oh, you think that if you have guns for the Second Amendment, you think you're going to fight off the government who has tanks?

01:15:29.000 Like, well, yeah, because obviously, unless you want to blow up your whole country, You want to preserve the resources.

01:15:34.000 And then there have been some people who've said, and mostly rightfully so, but listen, most police officers and national, they're not going to come in and violate people's rights.

01:15:42.000 I think that's mostly true.

01:15:43.000 Unfortunately, I do think that we've seen it only takes a couple of bad apples.

01:15:47.000 When you have officers fining people or zip-tying husbands because they're kissing their wives in a public park, you do see that there are some police officers out there who are willing to abuse that authority and say, these orders are coming from higher up and it really makes me uncomfortable.

01:16:02.000 Oh, yeah.

01:16:02.000 I mean, the pedotyranny that can be unleashed when people feel power is really dangerous.

01:16:09.000 And that's why I'm sort of hoping that one of the things that happens is in the aftermath of all this, there's a bit of libertarian moment because everybody just says, God, that was really terrible. 0.98

01:16:16.000 Like, everybody was on our ass all the time. 0.98

01:16:18.000 Right. 1.00

01:16:19.000 We just need everyone to leave us alone.

01:16:20.000 And I think that I think there is the potential for something like that.

01:16:23.000 Yeah, and that's why the left has been really brilliant, and that's why I think it's important to bring up, no, no, no, with social distancing, minimum 100 to 240,000.

01:16:30.000 Because after this, when the number is inevitably lower, compared to what they claim, they will say, well, you don't know how much of this, how much of this is from social distancing.

01:16:36.000 No, no, no, we know what you claimed would be possible with social distancing, and it's not even close to that.

01:16:42.000 The man is Ben Shapiro.

01:16:43.000 The show is The Ben Shapiro Show.

01:16:45.000 He's on the Twitter at Ben Shapiro.

01:16:47.000 Noticing a theme here.

01:16:48.000 And Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief at Daily Wire.

01:16:50.000 All right, sir.

01:16:51.000 I thank you very much.

01:16:52.000 I believe mensch is a complimentary term, not insult.

01:16:55.000 Enjoy your Passover.

01:16:56.000 Good!

01:16:56.000 Good, you mensch!

01:16:58.000 You filthy mensch! 1.00

01:16:58.000 We'll be back. 1.00

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01:18:56.000 What?

01:18:57.000 I don't really drink coffee.

01:18:59.000 I'm a nerd.

01:19:01.000 I'm a nerd.

01:19:02.000 Hope you enjoyed it!

01:19:06.000 Thanks for watching!

01:19:11.000 See you next time!

01:19:16.000 Bye!

01:20:46.000 Snagging is illegal.

01:20:47.000 Court of Black Garrett.

01:20:48.000 It's a fishing term.

01:20:50.000 People aren't familiar.

01:20:51.000 Thank you so much, Ben Shapiro.

01:20:52.000 I know it's a long show today, but you know what?

01:20:55.000 Hold on, let me change my headphones here.

01:20:56.000 We figure, why not?

01:20:59.000 You guys are lonely and sad.

01:21:02.000 You don't know that I can actually look through your webcam.

01:21:05.000 Should have used a sticky note.

01:21:08.000 Tomorrow we have Good Morning Mug Club, of course, at 9 a.m., right?

01:21:13.000 9 a.m.

01:21:13.000 Wait, 9 a.m.

01:21:14.000 or 10 a.m.

01:21:14.000 Eastern?

01:21:15.000 10 a.m.

01:21:16.000 Eastern.

01:21:16.000 I get the times all wrong.

01:21:18.000 And I think we'll be talking a little bit more about Michigan and Whitmer, because that's a little close to my heart.

01:21:21.000 Sometimes it gets a little nerdy where I'm talking about something regional, but Michigan is pretty important.

01:21:26.000 Kind of like Detroit is the perfect example of leftist utopia for the entire country, Michigan right now is an example of, if unfettered, what the left would do with the entire country.

01:21:38.000 And I want to see this broad, uh, ousted. 0.97

01:21:40.000 I want to see her given the boot. 1.00

01:21:42.000 Figuratively.

01:21:43.000 Don't hit women.

01:21:45.000 Um... God, I'm almost as uncomfortable as the Gary Shandling impression yesterday, where it was like, uh, Governor Whitmer! 0.94

01:21:54.000 Every time I see her, I, uh, pee myself.

01:21:58.000 My pants look like a Rorschach test!

01:22:02.000 And even again! 1.00

01:22:03.000 Son of a bitch! 1.00

01:22:03.000 You did it to yourself! 1.00

01:22:05.000 I did it to myself.

01:22:06.000 Nobody appreciates a good channeling.

01:22:07.000 Nobody appreciates a good channeling.

01:22:09.000 Not like this guy.

01:22:11.000 A couple things I wanted to talk about, and I'll keep this brief.

01:22:15.000 Listen, there have been some rough things that have gone on personally, separate from the whole quarantine thing, that I won't get into.

01:22:21.000 But the truth is, I am amazed when you see a lot of these celebrities out there, even influencers, I guess to use the term now, basically people who sell tea and have big asses, talking about how hard this is.

01:22:34.000 And it is remarkable to me.

01:22:37.000 They do this to try and act as if they're being selfless.

01:22:40.000 Like, I'm with you.

01:22:41.000 And I understand this, by the way, where I've talked about my struggles, whether it's, you know, depression or mental health issues or physical issues or whatever it is that we're going through as a company, so that hopefully you don't have to go through it alone.

01:22:53.000 I understand the value in that.

01:22:55.000 That being said, no one is concerned about having to walk through the valley of the shadow of mansions with indoor pools.

01:23:06.000 It is just egotistical materialism.

01:23:10.000 These people who are on Instagram, these celebrities are out there, whether it's Josh Gad or whoever it is, saying, I know how hard this is.

01:23:16.000 Oh, we're just longing for connection.

01:23:18.000 No, that's not why you're doing it.

01:23:21.000 You're in a wonderful house with everything you could possibly imagine.

01:23:26.000 This idea that this quarantine, too, people talk about this.

01:23:29.000 Now, I don't like the quarantine because I think that I think certain people should be quarantined.

01:23:34.000 I think we should be able to open certain segments of the economy, blah, blah, blah, blah, so that you don't accuse me of hating old people here, okay? 1.00

01:23:39.000 You understand what I'm saying.

01:23:40.000 But the problem that I have With the quarantine is not this idea that it's eliminated emotional connection, because people who say that and who post this and so, they're just looking for emotional connection in the wrong places.

01:23:52.000 Like, I have not suffered, I don't know about you guys, I have not suffered from a lack of connection with the people who matter most during this quarantine.

01:23:59.000 I see my wife, I see my family, there's literally no one else I would rather be with.

01:24:06.000 What am I longing for the people on Instagram or Twitter who I've never seen before?

01:24:09.000 I still get to interact with you, I still get to do this for you?

01:24:14.000 Am I going to become suicidal because I have to forego the cigar lounge for another quarter?

01:24:19.000 It is remarkable to me.

01:24:20.000 I think the tone deafness that bothers people is not that these folks are wealthy.

01:24:23.000 I don't begrudge anyone for being wealthy.

01:24:25.000 But this self-important crying on social media and, I know how hard it is!

01:24:30.000 I just want to!

01:24:31.000 You just want to what?

01:24:33.000 You just want to what?

01:24:35.000 What is it that makes you happy that is so missing in your life right now that you are beside yourself?

01:24:41.000 You know, everything that matters is right there.

01:24:43.000 I was just thinking about this the other day.

01:24:45.000 You know, I can't think now there's some things I would like to do.

01:24:48.000 I'd maybe like to go out to a movie.

01:24:49.000 I'd maybe like to go out to dinner.

01:24:50.000 Absolutely.

01:24:51.000 But there is no place that I am happier or more grateful or at peace than when I'm at home with my wife.

01:24:58.000 You know what?

01:24:58.000 Let me give you specifically.

01:24:59.000 At home with my wife, we've had a good dinner, maybe some family over, which we still do.

01:25:04.000 Sorry, I'm a rebel.

01:25:05.000 I guess I'm not obeying the law.

01:25:07.000 Yeah, sometimes my mom and dad come over.

01:25:09.000 Occasionally a sibling.

01:25:10.000 Ho ho! 1.00

01:25:12.000 Billy the Kid.

01:25:14.000 After a good meal with family, and I sit down and either read or watch some television or a film with my wife.

01:25:23.000 Betty's over there, my wonderful large dog, and she puts her head on my shoulder and her snore is like a metronome.

01:25:28.000 It just puts me right to sleep.

01:25:29.000 It's very soft.

01:25:30.000 I'm sitting there going, what do I have to be upset about?

01:25:35.000 I couldn't possibly summon up the tears to do an Instagram selfie video.

01:25:43.000 Based on the life that I've been living.

01:25:45.000 And I've got to imagine there are a lot of people out there like that.

01:25:47.000 Now, I'm not talking about losing your jobs is a real concern.

01:25:50.000 That's not what these people are talking about.

01:25:52.000 Not being able to go forward, not being able to go forth and provide a livelihood for your family, that's a real thing.

01:25:57.000 And we are fortunate enough here that no one here has to worry about that.

01:26:01.000 We had this conversation.

01:26:02.000 What's an acceptable risk?

01:26:03.000 What's not?

01:26:03.000 We're going to continue to create content for you.

01:26:06.000 But when people out there act as though something has been removed from their lives that has caused them to be depressed and sobbing, It means that something has been removed that has been put on an important pedestal where it never should have been and this kind of comes down to a lot of it you know but someone asked me this the other day there was this you know I don't do really a whole lot of press and maybe I'll start doing that maybe I won't I don't know but someone asked me okay how do I want to be remembered and it's

01:26:33.000 Like, on a selfish level, everyone wants a legacy, right?

01:26:36.000 But listen, this time, I'll tell you exactly how I want to be remembered, and how most people should seek to be remembered.

01:26:43.000 At this point in history, this month, these two months, this quarantine, this COVID pandemic, I don't want you to remember me.

01:26:52.000 I want you to hopefully remember that I was here for you.

01:26:58.000 What I want you to remember is that everyone here worked hard for you.

01:27:03.000 Not that we are XYZ.

01:27:05.000 Not that we had to struggle with ABC.

01:27:08.000 Don't seek to be remembered by what you did or what you accomplished.

01:27:13.000 Strive to be remembered by what you did for others.

01:27:17.000 That's how you cement a legacy worth having.

01:27:20.000 And I think that until Hollywood gets this, there's going to be this out-of-touchedness that occurs when you have Gal Gadot sobbing in her own private orchard about how hard this has been on her.

01:27:31.000 That's because someone is looking to cement a legacy that is all about themselves.

01:27:36.000 And that is not a way to live.

01:27:38.000 I think that this coronavirus pandemic, if nothing else, has really highlighted people's narcissism.

01:27:45.000 Everyone's thinking about, how can I relate to people?

01:27:47.000 How can I relate my experience to someone else? 0.99

01:27:50.000 Hey, asshole, how about you ask someone about their experience? 0.98

01:27:53.000 If you can, like right now, I don't get to talk with you, but I've tried to at least empathize with your experience, tried to put myself in your shoes. 0.98

01:28:01.000 Everyone at this office has, and said, oh, OK, rather than sharing our experience, let's try to make yours better and more livable.

01:28:10.000 And celebrities don't do that anymore. 1.00

01:28:12.000 And the left isn't doing that right now. 0.85

01:28:14.000 So I wish this could be a little more inspirational, but I'm kind of pissed off, and I didn't know why I was so pissed off seeing all of these videos and selfies until I realized these people don't give a rat's ass about anyone else or the country. 0.63

01:28:25.000 They only care about being seen by the country so that it makes them feel good about themselves.

01:28:31.000 Anyone out there seeking to cement a legacy, or if you're asking me how I want to be remembered, I will tell you this.

01:28:36.000 This is important.

01:28:37.000 At this point in history, I want you to look back at this time in your life and remember that everyone here was here for you.

01:28:45.000 That's it.

01:28:45.000 That's how I want to be remembered.

01:28:47.000 Hopefully we can do it.

01:28:48.000 We'll still be here for another two weeks.

01:28:49.000 We will see you tomorrow.

01:28:51.000 Good morning, Mug Club.

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Louder with Crowder - April 16, 2020

#666 NYC'S BUNGLED COVID RESPONSE! | Ben Shapiro Guests | Louder with Crowder

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