It's Cultural Appropriation Month, and Not Gay Jared is here to honor the great, though simple, continent of Africa. He's dressed in traditional African garb, and he's joined by Andrew Klavan, Matt Skaggs, and Matt George to honor Rachel Dolezal.
00:00:35.000It's the fourth week in June, which marks Louder with Crowder's fourth installment of Cultural Appropriation Month.
00:00:48.000Join us each week as we travel the globe, informing and illuminating you on such diverse cultures that make up the wonder that is humanity.
00:00:56.000This week, the ancient and mysterious culture of Africa.
00:02:55.000It's the fourth week in June, which marks Louder with Crowder's fourth installment of Cultural Appropriation Month.
00:03:03.000Join us each week as we travel the globe, informing and illuminating you on such diverse cultures that make up the wonder that is humanity.
00:03:11.000This week, the ancient and mysterious culture of Africa.
00:03:34.000We had a bit of a false start for those watching online.
00:03:37.000Not Gay Jared got a little bit uncomfortable.
00:03:39.000I am your host, Stephen Crowder, producing with me in video studio as always.
00:03:44.000Even the week where we are honoring the great, though simple, continent of Africa, on Lotta Ruth Crowder, Not Gay Jared.
00:03:52.000You can follow him on Twitter at Not Gay Jared.
00:03:54.000I fulfill my legal obligations, draw my own conclusions.
00:03:56.000I am dressed in traditional African garb, and Not Gay Jared is honoring one of the greatest spokespeople for the NAACP that has been Rachel Dolza.
00:04:06.000Yeah, she's a great woman, model for everyone, really.
00:06:08.000I've followed Joe Rogan for a long time, or like Adam Carolla.
00:06:11.000It takes too much time away from what we do here at Ladder with Crowder, so I can't go to a satellite studio or fly across the country.
00:06:18.000So my policy is I don't do any media unless I can do it straight from this studio that we've built, which is actually nicer than most of the studios that a lot of these other people.
00:07:06.000Well, let me explain to you why I actually have a fatwa on my head because I've drawn Mohammed.
00:07:10.000So that's my reason, and I would never assume to actually copy-paste my reason or know the motive for any person who might need their basic fundamental human right to self-preservation.
00:07:20.000Why do you need security guards there in the studio?
00:07:22.000I haven't got security guards here in the studio.
00:10:11.000With cameras, with a safe pass system, where you have a card that you swipe to go on in, with, of course, probably bulletproof glass, with, of course, armed guards, whether they're downstairs or not.
00:10:43.000Most of us Americans don't have the money or the ability to afford a key card entry system and armed security guards and cameras everywhere and an entire fleet of security so we can say, well, I've never carried a gun.
00:12:14.000These are government officials are throwing a fit because they don't have the ability to remove your fundamental right to protection at will.
00:12:23.000That's what will happen with the no-fly list.
00:12:25.000There have been stories of politicians using it against – you have tons.
00:12:40.000And people have alluded to the idea that there have been political opposition.
00:12:43.000They've been doing it to screw with them.
00:12:44.000Well, can you imagine what they can do to you, a citizen, these politicians?
00:12:48.000So on its surface, it sounds good, but this is what's so important.
00:12:50.000They will use the word automatic weapon, assault rifle, which isn't defined, to pivot, to push legislation that has nothing to do with those things.
00:13:00.000And of course, we'll get into the homicide stats, the gun-related violence stats, the overall violent crime rate stats, which we did in the Sky News interview.
00:17:54.000It's the world's most populous continent with the largest reserves of precious metals as well as 30% of the world's remaining mineral sources.
00:18:44.000Speaking of culture, hey, something that leftists certainly don't appreciate about the United States is that our culture is that of freedom.
00:18:51.000Our culture actually includes the right to bear arms.
00:18:54.000Open-minded, tolerant liberals, they'll be fine with Muslims.
00:18:58.000Part of their culture is rape and women not being afforded due process and their testimony not counting as much and being able to beat their wives and, of course, mistreatment of gays.
00:19:07.000And this is a long and storied part of Islamic culture in the Middle Eastern countries.
00:19:12.000And we're saying, well, these are cultural differences.
00:21:16.000It's important because if the gun store owners didn't speak out, people would have just heard the story like, oh, they're getting really scared and you're locking it down.
00:21:22.000If they know you're a liberal, they won't sell it to you because they want to operate in the dark and sell guns illegally.
00:21:27.000I was actually at a gun store one time.
00:21:45.000He said, ah, the fact that he told me he's not in state and he wanted to buy one, he's like, I can't sell to you either because there's a chance that you could buy it and give it to him.
00:21:53.000So he's like, so I can't, I'm not going to sell any of you any firearms today.
00:21:55.000If I was going to, I would draw probably that same logical conclusion.
00:22:00.000And I don't even know that it wouldn't necessarily be illegal, depending on the states, but anyone who's bought a firearm, and that's why I've always said, hashtag gift a gun.
00:22:09.000The second someone has purchased a firearm, the second someone has gone through the process, the second someone has done a gun safety training course, guess what?
00:22:16.000They're going to know that all of this is BS. They're going to know that the automatic weapon thing is BS. They're going to know that the gun stat crimes are BS. They're going to know the semi-automatic myth, the no background check, the loophole myth.
00:22:37.000Now, I don't even know where he came up with his number because I was looking for it and I couldn't even find it from the most left-leaning sites.
00:23:28.000I didn't want to come out with something because even on the furthest left sites, I couldn't corroborate the 40% are bought without background checks anywhere that seemed like I could comfortably substantiate it.
00:25:25.000No, I was in California doing a video for PragerU and did the Adam Carolla show.
00:25:31.000And then Andrew Claven was there, but he gave me like a window of like, well, if you're here between 11.45 and 11.57, I can find some time.
00:26:48.000At what point is it okay to just say, you know what, some religions really suck, and some cultures really suck, and the ones who kill 49 gays in a nightclub, why are we somehow talking about an AR-15 rifle that wasn't even used in this attack?
00:27:21.000Suddenly, suddenly on the left, ideas stop mattering.
00:27:25.000You know, David Brooks, the New York Times knucklehead, the guys on their op-ed page, he said, there's not terrorism because Muhammad came down and there's a religion called Islam.
00:27:34.000As if, like, the formative idea, the idea that shapes a culture, suddenly has no effect whatsoever.
00:27:40.000You know, it's like everything we think, everything we believe has to do with Christianity.
00:28:06.000If you're a Muslim, they sit around and they talk about, like, executing gays as if it were, like, you know, kind of a positive thing for the gay person, you know?
00:29:03.000And then you can look at even wherever Muslims gain any sort of power, non-Islamic countries, like the UK, like you see in Sweden, right?
00:29:09.000Anyway, in the United States, there's such a minority...
00:29:12.000And we have such a system of checks and balances.
00:29:14.000They haven't been able to get to be as unfettered as they are in the UK. But in the UK, 100% of Muslims think homosexuality is unacceptable.
00:29:21.000Well, what does Islam teach you do with unacceptable sin?
00:30:17.000But, you know, it was almost as if, and when I say almost as if, I'm being ironic because it was truly as if they were saying to you, it's not that you don't know it's there, but you shouldn't know.
00:30:31.000You know, the right thing to do, the moral thing, the virtuous thing is to lie.
00:30:35.000And I think that that's what's driving people crazy.
00:30:38.000When you look at these kids on college campuses and they riot, if somebody comes on and talks to them and says ideas they don't believe in or they, you know, they just go crazy.
00:30:48.000If somebody says anything that is out of their wheelhouse, that's induced mental illness.
00:32:10.000The music festival where they got groped and raped.
00:32:12.000Where these girls were getting raped on the way to school and molested on the way to school and didn't want to say anything because they didn't want to seem to be anti-refugee.
00:32:21.000These girls are being molested and they themselves won't say it because...
00:32:29.000It's virtuous not to say that I am being attacked and assaulted because if I say it, then people might think that refugees attack and assault people.
00:32:37.000Well, obviously, that's the case, since you're the one being, you know.
00:32:40.000And so I think when you look at college campuses in America and you see the level of hysteria that's going on, it's the hysteria of somebody being told, no, you're not being contacted through your teeth by an alien civilization.
00:35:05.000I've always gone out shooting, but I never owned a gun because I had kids and it made me and my wife nervous, you know, so I just didn't own one.
00:35:12.000But I've always been a guy who likes to go out to the range and shoot.
00:35:15.000Well, you have grandchildren now, though, right?
00:35:31.000They come from countries where, you know, what they consume to sustain them is not necessarily nutrient dense, so they're relatively frail.
00:35:38.000But, you know, I would love for you to videotape, because I have planned to do this with my children, with your grandson, obviously, with his father and mother's permission.
00:35:46.000I'm teaching him the firearm and I mean four or five getting it with him out at the range showing him the safety of course never giving him a loaded gun and teaching him okay this is what you don't do with a gun this is what you never aim it this way and getting your hands around his hand just like not gay Jared had this when he was young and having him fire that weapon at the range and I mean this as young as four or five because every single person I know who's who's done that that child has always respected firearms and it's never been a problem.
00:36:13.000Well, obviously, I mean, this is this weird thing that these people who know nothing about guns are constantly preaching to us about guns.
00:36:23.000And, you know, there was a wonderful column this week.
00:36:26.000I wish everybody would read this by Bill McGurn, my pal at The Wall Street Journal, who wrote about the fact that in New York, they had a system for taking the guns out of the hands of bad guys.
00:37:01.000And I just think it's an amazing thing that these guys, the stupidity that comes out of their mouths about guns, about these this term assault weapon that nobody can.
00:37:09.000I think I'm giving them too much credit.
00:38:05.000But we're going to bring you back after the break.
00:38:06.000So before the break, let me give you dailywire.com, the Andrew Klavan show, because he's going to have a heart attack if I don't give him his plugs.
00:38:12.000And we'll be back to talk more about firearms and Muslims.
00:39:21.000Andrew Klavan, thank you for being with us, sir.
00:39:23.000Sorry, I went on a rant before, which shouldn't happen with a guest.
00:39:27.000But do you think, I'm out of line, that it requires an entirely uninformed voting base with these gun measures they're trying to push through?
00:39:35.000Well, it requires an uninformed voting base over the entire spectrum.
00:39:39.000It's not just uninformed about guns, about what guns do and what kind of guns there are.
00:39:44.000It's also why we're supposed to have guns.
00:39:47.000I've gotten into this conversation several times with liberals where I explain to them, we're supposed to have guns so that we can kill the police, so that we can kill the soldiers.
00:39:57.000They keep saying, well, why do you have guns?
00:40:00.000You say, well, why do you need an automatic weapon to hunt?
00:40:15.000What I want is to be able to defend myself from bad people, and if the government should become actually oppressive, to join with others in a militia to defend my rights.
00:40:27.000And, you know, when you look at – you only have to look at Europe, where they are sitting with, like, slack-jawed apathy while really an invasion takes place, an invasion of people who do not share their values, who despise them, who really want to change the entire nature of European culture.
00:40:45.000They don't understand that it's up to them.
00:40:47.000It's not up to the guy at 10 Downing Street to defend them.
00:40:53.000It's up to them to defend themselves, but they don't understand that because they've been disarmed, and they've been told that the government is going to take care of them, and this is 2,000 years of kings ruling over people, and now socialism ruling over people.
00:41:33.000But you're right, and you know, they have much higher violent crime rates right now, record high rape rates, and I guess while they sit there and they're being mounted by a refugee with no respect for law, and they have gangs running rampant and stabbings at an all-time high, they can say, well, gee, at least it didn't happen with a gun.
00:42:58.000It's like the thing that says, look, I'm never going to get shot by a woman who doesn't want to be abused, because I'm never going to abuse a woman.
00:43:05.000But if some guy does, and she blows him away, it's like, hey, to me, that's like comedy.
00:43:12.000I agree with you, and I wouldn't feel bad about it.
00:43:17.000I think there are two different reactions.
00:43:18.000You know, you find out someone who carries always with them, and I know many people in my direct friends and family who carry everywhere, and you go, oh, wow, okay, that's great, good for you.
00:43:29.000And I generally think, oh, I know the kind of course they've had to go through because I've had to go through.
00:43:32.000They're probably a very responsible citizen.
00:49:39.000I could never say it when I was on Fox News, because you're not supposed to say it, although almost everyone who works there, the guy is an ass of epic proportions.
00:49:49.000And it's like now if someone goes, I know someone who I know who's watching the show will probably go tell him, because I've spent some time with him, not a lot, like in a room with him.
00:49:59.000And if Bill O'Reilly called me up right now, I'd be like, uh, are you one of the folks who, uh, called me an ass?
00:50:44.000So it's no secret that we've done a lot of work on Islam here at Lotto with Crowder.
00:50:49.000And the biggest YouTube Islamic channel, I've actually done a lot of research, some really interesting affiliations with this channel and group or organization.
00:51:33.000Okay, so he does this spoken word poetry thing, which is for people who can't do stand-up comedy or music, and does this rap about Islam and Muhammad to try and clarify some myths.
00:51:45.000Now, his aren't really super substantiated, so we're going to try and not only use chapter, verse, Quran, Hadith, but provide as much context as possible.
00:51:55.000So let's go through this piece by piece.
00:52:31.000The first one was, For that cause we decreed for the children of Israel, that whoever killeth a human being, other than man, slaughter, or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind.
00:52:39.000And whoever saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he has saved the life of all mankind.
00:52:42.000Our messengers came unto them with clear proofs of Allah.
00:52:44.000But afterwards, lo, many of them became prodigals of the earth.
00:52:47.000Corruption in the earth can mean anything that comes into conflict with Islam.
00:52:51.000Corruption in the earth can mean anything that comes into conflict with Islam.
00:52:56.000We'll keep circling back to this, but this is important.
00:53:51.000There was also a group of rabbis who laughed at Islam and Muslims, and Muhammad not only ordered them ejected from the mosque, they were yanked out by their hair and their head.
00:54:20.000As you see here by this verse, O believers, fight them, believers who are near to you, and let them find in you a harshness, and know that Allah is with the God-fearing.
00:54:28.000Again, we're going to continue to provide more and more context as we build here.
00:54:33.000Here's some more, where he specifically called for the deaths of Christians and Jews.
00:54:55.000They say you're not Arabic, so you can't use it.
00:54:57.000So other Muslims were allowed to travel there.
00:54:58.000This is important historical context, just not as an armed group.
00:55:02.000Since Muhammad had declared war on Mecca prior to his eviction, the Meccans were also acting in defense of their religion.
00:55:09.000Since it was Muhammad's goal, he was planning on destroying their idols, establishing Islam by force.
00:55:13.000Hence, this part of the verse is so critical.
00:55:17.000Because in the verse 839, where it says, religion is only for Allah, meaning that the true justification of violence was unbelief of the opposition.
00:55:28.000The justification for violence against them was simply unbelief.
00:55:32.000Muhammad further explains in the Sirah, Allah must have no rivals.
00:55:36.000So again, we're coming back to, there is no innocent non-Muslim, particularly if you resist Islam.
00:55:44.000Not just being non-Muslim, but if you say, you know what, no, I'm going to be a Buddhist, I'm going to be a Christian.
00:57:14.000He got increasingly mad, and he became increasingly violent.
00:57:18.000And it's clear in the Quran, Muslims are taught, if Muhammad says something later on in his life that contradicts an earlier teaching, it supersedes it.
00:57:30.000And it's a central principle from Islam.
00:57:33.000So this is important, because we're talking about the Christians and Jews and subjugating them in violence, because this chapter was one of the final revelations from Allah, and it set in motion, really, a tenacious military expansion in which Muhammad's companions' followers managed to conquer two-thirds of the Christian world in the next hundred years.
00:57:48.000Because Islam intended, always, from its inception, from Muhammad, to completely dominate the world and subjugate everyone.
01:04:17.000Tolerant, liberal atheist, who thinks that you are appreciative of Islamic culture.
01:04:23.000I have an Islamic, I don't have it up here, but they talk about how the 30th sin, which is mentioned as one of the greater sins, is not helping the oppressed people.
01:04:29.000To defend the oppressed is to ward off evil, according to Islam.
01:04:33.000And not performing such a task is considered shirking a great duty, which Allah has made incumbent upon Muslims.
01:04:40.000So, anyone who is engaged in evil is an oppressor, according to Islam.
01:04:47.000Anything non-Muslim or against Islam is evil.
01:04:52.000Ergo, anybody who fights for the freedom to engage in evil is an oppressor.
01:06:05.000Big fan of the foliage and protected the oppressors.
01:06:08.000The reality is that Muhammad was a sex slave owning, wife beating pedophile who made it expressly clear that all non-Muslims by definition cannot be innocent.
01:06:16.000And that all non-Muslims who refuse to subject themselves to Islam are by definition oppressors.
01:06:22.000Who were ordered by Muhammad to be fought and killed.
01:06:25.000Read the Quran if you're listening to this.
01:06:29.000Check the references at louderwithcrowder.com.
01:09:36.000The reason we do this with Islam and the Quran and drawing Muhammad is so hopefully more of you do because they can't catch us all.
01:09:43.000And the more you do it, the less power they have.
01:09:45.000The more you shine a light on this, the less power they have.
01:09:47.000The less individuals they can pick off because if just a mob of people are drawing Muhammad and a mob of people are opening their criticism, guess what?
01:10:34.000Hi, this is Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times, and I was just calling to see if I could come on in there and, for a story that I'm doing, purchase a machine gun.
01:10:44.000Well, we in fact do not sell machine guns.
01:10:49.000You will be hard-pressed to find anybody who can.
01:11:25.000Do you mean to tell me that you work for a major publication, Like the Chicago Sun-Times.
01:11:32.000And your level of understanding of current firearm technology is so limited that you genuinely do not understand the difference between a semi-automatic and a fully automatic machine gun.
01:12:46.000The couple was at a Michael's hobby shop, for those of you who don't know.
01:12:50.000And an Islamic woman, basically, when the mother looked away, and I'll have the man explain it for us in a second, lifted the child, tried to take the child out of the cart, tried to unbuckle the child, and they went to the police.
01:13:03.000And then, next thing you know, it's a whole new story, and people thought they were being Islamophobic.
01:13:49.000So if you ever want to know what it's like to be famous, just buy a Great Dane, go for a walk.
01:13:55.000So we're used to people coming up to us.
01:13:58.000That's an important point because that sets the tone where it's not like this is something out of the ordinary, people coming up commenting or wanting to look at your little ones.
01:15:06.000And so she notices something going on behind her.
01:15:11.000She turns to see a woman hunched over And she's lifting up our son Briggs out of the cart.
01:15:22.000And what happened was the woman was startled because our son was strapped in.
01:15:28.000And when she noticed that he was strapped in, actually what happened was my wife noticed what was going on, put her hand up and said, what are you doing?
01:15:36.000And the woman, at that moment, put the boy down, goes to unbuckle him, And try to pick him up again.
01:15:45.000And that was the moment that my wife was like, whoa, stop!
01:18:35.000I can't substantiate this as a statistic.
01:18:37.000We would always have, like, Yusuf, Munam, Muhammad.
01:18:41.000There were always a ton of Muslim kids who were missing.
01:18:44.000And we did have a woman on here who left Islam, and she did say, well, culturally that makes sense because she had to leave and go into hiding because the woman has no rights to her children.
01:19:06.000Well, we heard two different stories from the police.
01:19:10.000When this first happened, the cops were like, yeah, this is a really scary thing.
01:19:17.000My wife actually took a picture of the couple, and we had debated about posting the couple on social media, and they actually had a child.
01:19:25.000And the police at that time, very early on, said, yeah, you should post it on social media, and you should not blur out the child, because there's a very good chance that child was kidnapped, too.
01:19:49.000We're now being told they're from Afghanistan, and immigration has told us, you know, we're just trying to work them into the system.
01:19:56.000And my whole point is, and yet another example of government agencies working spectacularly well, let's say this is just all a perfect, let's say it was all innocent.
01:20:08.000Then immigration is failing these people, big time.
01:20:24.000So there's nothing really to do moving forward.
01:20:27.000You just seem to have sympathetic police officers, from what I understand, mostly, but an unsympathetic, I guess, sort of liberal contingency of the media.
01:20:58.000So if they're admitting these are cultural differences, then isn't it perfectly valid for you to be concerned with an Islamic person approaching your child because you're not comfortable with it?
01:21:18.000And at the bottom line, even if you were to take everything out of it, take the cultural, the appropriation out of it, whatever, the fact that this woman didn't even look at my wife has raised so many red flags for us that we're just...
01:21:53.000And the police came back to my house to tell me that the husband, it was all a big mistake, that there was no intention to kidnap the child.
01:22:04.000And I looked, there was a 30-year veteran and a 15-year veteran.
01:22:09.000I looked at the 30-year veteran and I said, we were told by immigration that this is a common occurrence.
01:22:15.000How many times have you had to deal with this kind of thing?
01:22:50.000But at a certain point, they're grabbing people's children, unbuckling someone's...
01:22:55.000And I hope that anyone who's a leftist or social justice warrior would at least put themselves in your shoes, because I watched the interview.
01:23:01.000We have it up on the website where your wife said, like, we're used to people coming up to us.
01:23:43.000What I want to know is, if he's so apologetic when the cops came over, this is entirely, listen, I'm speculating Monday quarterback, that's fine.
01:23:49.000But if he was so apologetic to the cops, why did he turn to that woman and say something in what we think was Arabic without acknowledging you in the moment?
01:23:59.000Why didn't he turn to you and say, I'm so sorry, and explain it?
01:24:28.000And it could be a big mistake, but I'm just wondering, you know, for me, right away, like, you know, you have overly sensitive parents where I'll be like, and lying, and the parents, how dare you?
01:24:38.000And I'm just like, I'm just, your kid was smiling, and sorry, you know, and I'll just clarify, hey, I'm sorry, your kid was making a face.
01:25:54.000I know we're supposed to be tolerant of everybody, but I don't have a lot of tolerance for people who go around just snatching up kids with no eye contact.
01:27:14.000We've been trying to really plan these shows a little better, a little tighter, and so sometimes it gives me a little less room to just sort of do the free flow.
01:29:41.000He was the one who used the word debate.
01:29:43.000And let me just give you his final correspondence here, and then we'll get into the digging that we've done.
01:29:49.000He said, I'm willing to essentially do your challenge, but as you should as a good person, attempt to raise the donations for the youth attempting to be a good citizen.
01:29:55.000In good fun, not for you to come and be nice here and talk crap publicly.
01:30:17.000But I would never be so pompous as to try and leverage this program, which is a decently viewed, listened to program for sure, onto Joe's program, which is a mammoth program.
01:33:26.000With my left knee pinning his nuts to the concrete, right knee pinning his left arm down, left hand holding his head up, and right hand crushing his esophagus.
01:34:17.000Welcome to episode 349 of the Game of Thrones Fandom Podcast.
01:34:42.000I wanted to take this opportunity to use a platform that Eugene and I have created and influenced we have to send a direct message to George Martin, the brilliant and prolific creator of Game of Thrones, as well as its original inspirational content, the fictional series of a song of fire and ice.
01:35:01.000George, your fans are crying out to you.
01:35:05.000There has been a noticeable decrease in quality on the Game of Thrones show and your fans who have been loyally supporting you.
01:38:18.000We issue corrections on this show very often, but we really do try, and that was one of the stories where I felt disappointed from the right and the left.
01:38:24.000Okay, speaking of truth, we have a new segment here on Louder with Crowder.
01:38:29.000We're going to be doing them more regularly because a lot of people have asked to sort of boil some arguments in a way that's succinct and shareable.
01:38:35.000So this week in the new segment, top five crappiest, top five crappiest myths surrounding gun control.
01:39:33.000When we talk about this, we're taking the most generous stats we can give to the left because you can find stats that say well over 90% are handguns.
01:39:40.000Most mass shootings are carried out with handguns.
01:39:46.000This idea, you're talking single-digit numbers as far as percentage points of people who are using the scary rifles, like an AR-15 that wasn't even used in Orlando.
01:40:37.000Or a state-comparable ID. Anyone who's not had a driver's license, generally speaking, a state-comparable ID is harder to get than a driver's license.
01:40:44.000You typically just use a driver's license because it's the easiest.
01:40:46.000A lot of people in New York, they'll just do kind of the driver's license, do the test, because it's the easiest still thing to get.
01:40:52.000You don't really want to go down to Secretary of State and do a state-issued IDs.
01:41:43.000And that's why it's harder to get a driver's license, which you need to get your gun or state comparable ID, than a gun in some ways, in the sense that you have to jump through some hoops to get a driver's license to show that you can drive the car.
01:41:58.000On the flip side, when you get a driver's license, have you had a criminal background check?
01:43:32.000We have Uber drivers, a guy in Cincinnati, a customer carrying a concealed weapon shoots suspected bank robber, a firefighter off-duty, cops off-duty.
01:43:41.000There are so many anecdotal stories, okay?
01:44:23.000That means that at the absolute lowest figure, there are at least as many incidents of defensive uses of firearms as there are bad guys using them against good people.
01:44:34.000And if you use the highest figure, it's many times more the amount of times a gun is used defensively from the good guy.
01:44:41.000And this is from the CDC. These are undeniable statistics that people don't want to tell you.
01:44:45.000So not only anecdotally do you hear about these things all the time, but yes, guns are used defensively in millions of cases.
01:44:54.000Now, correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation, but if you look at concealed carry, as it has gone up, violent crime has steadily gone down.
01:45:01.000Does it mean that that's because of concealed carry?
01:45:03.000But it does prove, verifiably, that an increase in concealed carry certainly does not result in increased crime.
01:47:06.000It's something that works without infringing on any law-abiding citizen's right.
01:47:10.000What's required is to find the illegal gun so a crime is being committed, as opposed to the no-fly list where you could not have even been accused of a crime, have never been involved with terrorism, and simply have your Second Amendment rights stripped of you.
01:47:25.000Project Exile requires proof that you are currently committing a crime because that gun is illegal.
01:47:30.000So it infringes on your rights, none whatsoever.
01:49:17.000We went to our evil corporate overlords.
01:49:19.000I'm getting loose in the shoulders here.
01:49:20.000So, okay, historically you said that you were, I guess, sort of free speech, but more fiscally liberal.
01:49:27.000I remember watching a video where, I'm not going to lie, I was a little disappointed because you said, I think that the Democratic Party does more for the poor.
01:51:07.000You started out doing gaming stuff, and now you've come out and you've obviously been sort of in support of this freedom of speech movement, anti-social justice left.
01:51:49.000The games I played, Call of Duty and stuff, that got a little bit stale.
01:51:52.000The games got I started dabbling in social commentary stuff.
01:51:57.000What really got me going last year, the big standout incident that I made a name for myself on was the Nicole Arbor incident where she committed the high crime of making fun of the overweight people.
01:52:35.000And that's when it really, all this stuff kind of really started standing out to me because there was this big movement to, you know, false flag her off YouTube, get her, I don't know, put her to the death penalty, whatever.
01:52:48.000There was this whole pitchfork nation against her.
01:53:06.000If I could pinpoint any point where I started to...
01:53:09.000My eyebrows started to raise with my former political friends, it's moments like that where it's like, okay, we can have...
01:53:18.000Disputes about what's tasteful and what you want to watch for entertainment or you don't, but I'm not going to sit here and start thought policing you.
01:53:25.000I'm not going to sit here and tell you what you can and can't watch or what can or can't be posted on the internet.
01:53:31.000Yeah, well, that's a good point, and it's a cultural censorship, too, even if it doesn't happen officially, right?
01:53:36.000They try and downvote it and downflag it so people like Nicole Arbor, whoever it is, We're not just talking about the First Amendment, right?
01:53:49.000We're talking about people actively trying to culturally just eliminate voices.
01:53:54.000And I always get enjoyment out of people who say, Well, we're not talking about the government censoring you.
01:55:39.000So for me, it's going to be, do I want to vote with a middle finger to the social justice left and watch their heads explode, or do I just want to abstain?
01:55:50.000I think Trump joins him in a lot of ways.
01:55:52.000I mean, you're talking about a guy who wants to increase libel laws, a guy who is pro-using whatever bathroom you want and spoke out against people who disagree with it.
01:56:01.000Like, he's not really a freedom of speech guy.
01:56:02.000He pisses off the right people, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
01:56:51.000I mean, to me, as someone who enjoys watching political theater, and I like watching the debates in the same way people like watching their, you know, whatever Netflix show or things like that, but to me, Trump seems like a candidate you should be able to hit hard and defeat when pressing him on issues.
01:57:08.000If you nail him down on these inconsistencies in the debate, or if you're a reporter and you ask him the tough questions, he should be fairly easy to expose that way.
01:57:19.000We're talking about these low-hanging fruit that maybe it sticks with some people, but for people who can see past that, I don't know that it does too much.
01:58:40.000We went to our evil corporate overlords.
01:58:42.000I'm getting loose in the shoulders here.
01:58:43.000So, okay, historically you said that you were, I guess, sort of free speech, but more fiscally liberal.
01:58:50.000I remember watching a video where, I'm not going to lie, I was a little disappointed because you said, I think that the Democratic Party does more for the poor, something along those lines.
01:58:58.000I want to know, has that changed or has it stayed the same and why?
01:59:04.000Well, you know, I will say that historically, and maybe wrongly or rightly, it seemed to me that the Democratic Party was speaking more to the issues of working people, whether you agree with that or not.
01:59:16.000And they also spoke more to, you know, I would also like to be an advocate for responsible public investment.
01:59:22.000I think there are good things that the government can achieve, and there are good things for the government to invest in.
01:59:37.000So, you know, I'm not a policy expert on these things, but that's the way I've leaned.
01:59:43.000And to me, it's become, with reference to what you were just describing, in that particular video, it's like, yeah, you know, I've leaned this way.
01:59:53.000But if you're going to put more foundational ideas as the cost to supporting those types of policies, I'm not with you.
02:00:01.000If we don't agree on free speech, if we don't agree on due process, if we don't agree on a lot of constitutional principles, I don't care about debates about economics or investment or foreign policy if we betray those foundational values.
02:00:15.000And to me, it seems like it's becoming a choice between those things.
02:00:33.000And now a lot of them have come around because they realize the only people who are really in their corner with freedom of speech are conservatives, Christian, atheist, agnostic or not.
02:00:41.000There is no major contingency of the left today.
02:00:46.000Like these Bernie people, they think so.
02:00:48.000They come on our channel and they're so mad.
02:00:50.000And the reason I ask you, and I think you answered my question, is because I have talked with Gadset about this, I think Sargon about this.
02:00:57.000You know, economic authoritarianism is still authoritarianism.
02:01:01.000And if you look at them in their verticals, you know, obviously constitutionalism, conservatism, whatever you want to call it, Has always, regardless of the name you give it, has always leaned in the direction of freedom, whereas socialism, democratic socialism, as though that changes it, big government, has always leaned toward control and security.
02:01:23.000I think a lot of people are kind of taking the step.
02:01:25.000You are not to assume where you are, but I think I've seen some people and talked to them behind the scenes who fancy themselves fiscally liberal going, I just...
02:01:35.000I don't know if I can reconcile this with my other beliefs, because freedom is freedom.
02:01:41.000Well, there are too many sacred cows on the left, too.
02:01:44.000And every time there's a debate, you and I might be a certain distance apart when it comes to what we think appropriate tax policy is or what we think appropriate public investment is.
02:02:57.000Well, man, this is really frustrating, and I've spent a few videos, the last couple videos on my channel talking about this, because...
02:03:04.000As someone who has been kind of on the left as a voter for the last few years, you hear the things that they say, and they talk about common sense regulation and all these things.
02:03:14.000And to someone who's not necessarily as informed on the issue, like, oh yeah, it makes sense that people shouldn't have machine guns, right?
02:03:19.000But this is an issue where the more I dig into it, the more it seems clear that there...
02:03:33.000It is an issue that requires an uninformed voting base who don't know what a semi-automatic is, who don't know what the no-fly list is, and who don't know that an assault weapon doesn't exist, and you can't get a machine gun without a background check.
02:03:47.000It requires those people in order to be pushed through.
02:03:50.000Yeah, and when you look into these quote-unquote common sense regulations, the less common sense they make.
02:03:56.000Like, the common sense regulation right now is, hey, if you're on one of the two lists, you're not going to be able to get a weapon.
02:04:02.000So we're going to deny you your Second Amendment, right?
02:04:04.000We're also going to deny you due process, because that's common sense.
02:04:29.000What he said was really important, though.
02:04:31.000What he asked her was, can you name another constitutional right that we would take away and then require you to petition the government to return?
02:04:38.000And of course, that was a question that could not be answered.
02:04:41.000Now, we might have some debate about is the Second Amendment.
02:04:45.000You and I probably wouldn't have that debate, but some people might.
02:06:07.000I rarely go target shooting because I just don't want to buy the ammo, that kind of thing.
02:06:10.000But if someone comes in my home with malicious intent, yeah, they're going to stare down the barrel of that firearm, and rightfully so.
02:06:17.000And a lot of the argument is, well, have you ever needed it?
02:06:19.000Well, I've never needed the majority of the safety equipment in my life.
02:06:23.000I've never been in a car crash that required a seatbelt.
02:06:26.000I've never been in a burning building that required a fire extinguisher.
02:06:29.000I've never needed these things, but I'm happy that they're there.
02:06:32.000And I wouldn't want to surrender that protection to the state because if someone comes in here and I call the cops, I would rather not wait for the cops to get here as fast as they may be.
02:07:38.000When the Tea Party came out and there was this protest and these conservatives, because it seemed like your awakening happened a little later, were you on the side of thinking they were racist, they were rednecks, they were dummies?
02:07:51.000But I often wonder, because that's when I was in school.
02:07:54.000And when I was in college, it wasn't...
02:07:57.000As crazy as it was now, I often wonder how far away was I from becoming a Trigglypuff or something?
02:08:06.000Well, I don't know about two dump trucks.
02:08:08.000I went to a college with, I think there were two people in the college Republicans, and they held a pizza party for their first meeting, so everyone would go, and there was like, you know, maybe 20, 30 people there for that, and then they didn't show up.
02:08:21.000Nobody showed up the next week for the actual meeting.
02:08:26.000Yeah, but as far as the Tea Party question, what I probably saw was the caricature of them, the people holding the signs like, keep your damn government hands off my Medicare and that kind of stuff.
02:08:37.000And so I don't think there was ever a time where I treated them seriously necessarily, but I don't remember a time in my life where I thought, yeah, their motivations are bigotry, or their motivations are hatred for people on account of stupid issues X, Y, or Z. Well, that's important.
02:08:55.000The reason I ask it, the reason it's important is because it's a chicken or the egg thing where I'm wondering, okay, are people like you, were you there and you learned better, or were you people who inherently were thinking critically and willing to hear the other side?
02:09:08.000Because I've got to have hope that someone like Janine Garofalo at some point can become like a Skag 3, but I don't think so.
02:09:17.000So that's why I asked the question to everyone.
02:09:18.000No, I'll tell you how my evolution has happened and is happening and possibly will evolve further.
02:09:24.000And that is because of the assault on the most important value and the most important issue.
02:09:29.000When I see freedom of speech being eroded, either as a legal issue or as a cultural issue, I start listening to people on the other side.
02:09:37.000And I think like, no, there's people who have to be thinking in the same way I am that are worried about this.
02:10:08.000So I'm glad that there are people out there like you who may disagree on some points because we cannot get people to come on here vocally and disagree.
02:10:38.000If I were a betting man, which I sometimes am, but if I could go to Vegas and put money on it right now, I would put the money on Trump even at even odds.
02:11:50.000Well, Matt, thank you so much, but we'll have to have you back and just find something you hate me on and disagree with, and then we can duke it out and have, like, a Bill O'Reilly freakout moment.
02:12:26.000Hi, this is Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times, and I was hoping to visit your establishment and purchase a semi-automatic assault rifle.
02:18:36.000There's one sort of through line here.
02:18:37.000Like with the Sky News guy, why did I stay on the automatic weapons?
02:18:41.000Because I don't think it's a coincidence.
02:18:43.000I don't think it's an error that every single media outlet I watch repeats automatic weapons and then uses it to bring on guests who support legislation with semi-automatic weapons.
02:18:52.000At a certain point, It can't just be ignorance because they have to have someone, Jared will pass me a fact sheet if I'm wrong, go, oh, you know what, you were wrong about that and we correct it.
02:18:59.000I can't imagine people at CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Sky News, BBC don't know that.
02:19:06.000Just like with the Islam thing, with the talk Islam thing, it seems like I'm being harsh when they say, oh, no, no, Muhammad was peaceful to all the innocent.
02:19:36.000The Sky News thing, we talked about it.
02:19:37.000We went from automatic weapons to assault rifles, which was undefined, to why do you need a gun, sir, to why don't you support the no-fly list, to hope you have a safety latch on your firearm.
02:20:19.000Because then you're arguing at a point where you've given them an advantage, they're lying, and they're still going to pivot, and they're going to mislead you anyway.